The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Thumpalumpacus]

"They all look the same to me."

By the way, here's the latest pic of Trump:



Fuckin' muppet.

[The Grand Nudger]

Ah, but it's not the racism. We shouldn't throw words like that around so lightly. It's the economic anxiety. There's precisely zero chance that a bunch of white dominionist nuts are engineering perpetual minority control of the majority. It's not even possible in our dysfunctional political system.

I don't even know why people still post shit like that tweet. OFC it isn't racist in america. What's racist is asking if it's racist. What else does she think those fuckers are going to say....?

[Fake Messiah]

There goes $400 million into the wind.

Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention facility to be empty 'within a few days'


In a ruling issued last week, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered Florida and the Trump administration to stop bringing new detainees to the facility and to wind down operations there within 60 days.

In her order, Williams said the plaintiffs had shown that the hasty construction appeared to violate federal law requiring public input, consideration of alternatives and an environmental impact statement.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-552...lity-empty

[The Grand Nudger]

Good money setting it up and good money tearing it down for desantis donors.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Trump now says he wants to stage a full-blown Republican convention just before the midterms.

Ok, but it’s going to crash Grindr again…

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There goes $400 million into the wind.

Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention facility to be empty 'within a few days'


In a ruling issued last week, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered Florida and the Trump administration to stop bringing new detainees to the facility and to wind down operations there within 60 days.

In her order, Williams said the plaintiffs had shown that the hasty construction appeared to violate federal law requiring public input, consideration of alternatives and an environmental impact statement.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-552...lity-empty

It was a political stunt when they built it, and I’m sure they’ll find a way make hay out of closing it.

Boru

[Angrboda]

Trump IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal by appeals court. Tariffs to remain in place until October 14 to allow an appeal to the Supreme Court.

[Angrboda]

“Without Tariffs, and all of the TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS we have already taken in, our Country would be completely destroyed, and our military power would be instantly obliterated,” he wrote on Truth Social.

[Fireball]

Best response to the chump's claim about paying off the national debt was that the tariffs collected, "won't even touch the sides". Forget where I read that, but I was amused enough to remember the phrase. I wonder if he thinks that that is going to mollify those supporters that can't feed their families.

[Fake Messiah]

The ‘self-inflicted injury’ to US tourism that’s making some Americans angry and disappointed

Typically, Canadians will flood the streets of Seattle during the summer, but Koenen, who runs Seattle Free Walking Tours (where people pay what they can), said Canadian tourists are almost gone. Streets look emptier to him.

Brink’s company, Tasty Tours, which guides visitors through food stalls in the historic Pike Place Market, has seen a 50% drop in Canadian customers.

Many Canadians have boycotted taking US trips and buying American products since the spring. That’s when President Trump made false claims and belittling comments about Canada in the midst of a tariff war.

The absence of Canadians has been felt acutely in the United States, especially in cities like Seattle close to the northern border. And Canadians aren’t the only international travelers skipping the US. Some other international travelers have also named recent policies around tariffs and immigration as reasons they’re staying away.

The World Travel and Tourism Council, a global tourism advocacy organization, projected in May that the United States will lose $12.5 billion in international visitor spending in 2025, the only country out of 184 economies the council analyzed that will see a decline this year.

Rob Hawkins, from the United Kingdom, changed plans he and his wife had for a 20-day spring 2026 trip to the US to go to South Korea and Japan instead.

“America to me is rock ‘n roll, NASA, speed, jazz, horses, bourbon, hip hop, dance, MTV (the original), Hollywood, gold medals, innovation, strength, respectful (sic) and apple pie,” Hawkins told CNN in an email. “Not the army on the streets and the extreme division currently on show,” he said, referring to the National Guard presence in Los Angeles during immigration raids and in Washington D.C. to take federal control of the local police force.

“It’s unheard of,” said Didier Arino, general director of travel consulting firm Protourisme in France, about an unprecedented drop in interest for travel to the US.

“It’s happened before in a country at war, in a country where there was a security risk, or risk of health crisis, but in a normal situation, we’ve never seen this kind of turnaround,” Arino told CNN.

Beyond citing fears of being questioned at the border, or general opposition to the Trump administration’s policies, visitors from some countries are now facing an added upfront cost of $250 for a new “visa integrity fee.”

“While other nations are rolling out the welcome mat, the U.S. government is putting up the ‘closed’ sign … This is about growth in the U.S. economy — it is doable, but it needs leadership from DC,” Simpson said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/31/trave...ted-states