The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[The Architect Of Fate]

Screenshots of DOGE.GOV today.  The second screen used to say "no later than Valentine's Day".  All they've accomplished at the site so far is compromising national security.

Well they updated it I think and it's numbers don't work and it sound like they just made them all up

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Screenshots of DOGE.GOV today.  The second screen used to say "no later than Valentine's Day".  All they've accomplished at the site so far is compromising national security.

Well they updated it I think and it's numbers don't work and it sound like they just made them all up

Nothing on there qualifies as a receipt. Colour me shocked.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Trump is still in Florida. He’s spent 17 of his first 30 days on vacation.

Meanwhile, inflation is soaring, and Americans are struggling.

ZERO focus. ZERO leadership.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Trump is still in Florida. He’s spent 17 of his first 30 days on vacation.

Meanwhile, inflation is soaring, and Americans are struggling.

ZERO focus. ZERO leadership.

That’s clearly fake news.

“I’m going to be working for you,” he [Trump] told a campaign rally crowd in August 2016. “I’m not going to have time to play golf.”

More recently:

President Donald Trump golfed on Monday after telling reporters aboard Air Force One that he would likely be too busy to hit the links at the start of the week.

Someone needs to rein in this goddamed liberal media for reporting facts.

Boru

[Angrboda]

[Angrboda]

The Department of Government Efficiency, the federal cost-cutting initiative championed by Elon Musk, published on Monday a list of government contracts it has canceled, together amounting to about $16 billion in savings itemized on a new “wall of receipts” on its website.

Almost half of those line-item savings could be attributed to a single $8 billion contract for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. But it appears that the DOGE list vastly overstated the actual intended value of that contract. A closer scrutiny of a federal database shows that a recent version of the contract was for $8 million, not $8 billion. A larger total savings number published on the site, $55 billion, lacked specific documentation.

The contract, with a company called D&G Support Services, was to provide “program and technical support services” for the Office of Diversity and Civil Rights at ICE. The Trump administration has been purging diversity programs from the federal government.

By examining past versions of the contract listed on the Federal Procurement Data System, The Upshot determined that the federal award, approved in September 2022, had initially listed a total value of $8 billion. But on Jan. 22 this year, that figure was updated to $8 million. According to the database, the contract was terminated about a week later. (For context, $8 billion is nearly the size of the entire budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)

It’s possible that DOGE or someone else in the Trump administration can claim credit for fixing the error in the contracting database, given that the value was downgraded to $8 million two days after President Trump took office. But it is also clear that the government was not spending $8 billion on the contract. In the two and a half years since it was signed, $2.5 million had been spent; the contract appeared set to expire in 2027.

The DOGE website initially included a screenshot from the federal contracting database showing that the contract’s value was $8 million, even as the DOGE site listed $8 billion in savings. On Tuesday night, around the time this article was published, DOGE removed the screenshot that showed the mismatch, but continued to claim $8 billion in savings. It added a link to the original, outdated version of the contract worth $8 billion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upsho...trump.html

[Fireball]

So much winning. 

[Fake Messiah]

It’s only a matter of time before Trump blames Poland for being invaded by the Nazis.

Trump says Ukraine 'should have never started it' in comments about war with Russia

Trump made the remark while deriding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose country was invaded by Russia in February 2022.

“You should have never started it,” Trump said of Ukraine while criticizing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who had expressed concern that his country was not included in talks between the U.S. and Russia in Saudi Arabia.

"I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well. But today I heard, 'Oh, well, we weren't invited.' Well, you've been there for three years," Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort. "You should have never started it. You could have made a deal."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-...rcna192710

[Thumpalumpacus]

It’s only a matter of time before Trump blames Poland for being invaded by the Nazis.

Trump says Ukraine 'should have never started it' in comments about war with Russia

Trump made the remark while deriding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose country was invaded by Russia in February 2022.

“You should have never started it,” Trump said of Ukraine while criticizing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who had expressed concern that his country was not included in talks between the U.S. and Russia in Saudi Arabia.

"I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well. But today I heard, 'Oh, well, we weren't invited.' Well, you've been there for three years," Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort. "You should have never started it. You could have made a deal."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-...rcna192710

No surprise here. Trump called Putin's invasion "genius" and "savvy". Anyone stowing faith in Trump's supposed peace overture is a fool -- and that's why Zelenskyy will not partake any agreement without Ukraine at the table; he knows that Trump is either stupid or in the pocket.

I hope President Z gives both Putin and Trump a big middle finger.

[emjay]

I just cannot believe what I'm seeing from Trump these days... and his cringey lapdog Vance wanting more free speech, presumably for the Far Right, in Europe... I can barely tell him apart from Putin. Is that what counts for "negotiation" in his world, just offer Putin everything he's been asking for all along and more, throwing Europe and Ukraine under the bus along the way... that'll only embolden Russia if it hasn't already. I just truly can't believe what I'm seeing. He wasn't as bad as this the first time round, wtf has changed? We live in terrifying times, now coming from both East and West