The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Paraselene]

After high-profile missteps, Trump seizes on a new feud and a new potential adversary

Whenever Donald Trump is in political trouble, he seeks a fight and a foil.

He will get both on Friday after one of the most misjudged weeks of his two presidencies, after his own choices eroded his political authority over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Trump is embroiled in a bitter new feud with Democrats over national security, provocative rhetoric and presidential power that he deliberately turned nuclear. And at a White House meeting Friday, he’ll go head-to-head with the next mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist he’s planning to brand as the unacceptable “communist” face of the Democratic Party next year.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/politics/...d-analysis

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Judge Rules Against DC Deployment

A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump’s deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., was illegal, concluding he lacks authority to send in troops “for the deterrence of crime.”

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb said that while Trump may be the commander in chief of the Guard, his power is constrained by federal laws that limit how those troops can be federalized and deployed, particularly in Washington, D.C., which is controlled by Congress.

“The Court rejects Defendants’ fly-by assertion of constitutional power, finding that such a broad reading of the President’s Article II authority would erase Congress’s role in governing the District and its National Guard,” Cobb wrote in a 61-page ruling.

That duck is limping.

Boru

[Paraselene]

The Trump administration is under fire for using music from Wicked to celebrate the detention of people by ICE.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/24/w...ty-wicked/

[Paraselene]

Nursing no longer considered a professional degree by Trump administration

https://www.wpr.org/news/nursing-not-con...nistration

[Fake Messiah]

Turns out the deal Trump bragged about, the one where China would buy 12 million metric tons of US soybeans by year end, was only a concept of a deal.

New data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture created serious doubts about whether China will really buy millions of bushels of American soybeans like the Trump administration touted last month after a high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The USDA report released after the government reopened showed only two Chinese purchases of American soybeans since the summit in South Korea that totaled 332,000 metric tons.

That’s well short of the 12 million metric tons that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said China agreed to purchase by January and nowhere near the 25 million metric tons she said they would buy in each of the next three years.

American farmers were hopeful that their biggest customer would resume buying their crops. But CoBank’s Tanner Ehmke, who is its lead economist for grains and oilseed, said there isn’t much incentive for China to buy from America right now because they have plenty of soybeans on hand that they have bought from Brazil and other South American countries this year, and the remaining tariffs ensure that U.S. soybeans remain more expensive than Brazilian beans.

https://www.agrinews-pubs.com/business/2...-by-trump/

[awty]

I am having a difficult time accepting that the Orange One and his clown car cronies are possibly going to continue screwing things up for three more years.

I call for an Etch-A-Sketch undo of everyfuckingthing they have done to this country.

Mentally exhausted and running out of the glimmer of hope I had that someone would grow a spine and put a stop to this madness.  

And for the MAGA faithful - fuck you very much.  I hope these leopards start seriously chomping on your face.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I call for an Etch-A-Sketch undo of everyfuckingthing they have done to this country.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

That's what it will take, I think. We're barreling towards our version of the French Revolution, complete with a monarch who believes "L'etat, c'est moi", and doesn't GAF about poor folk starving.