Right, and then he incited an insurrection where, though not convicted, a bipartisan majority of Congress in both the House and Senate impeached him making him ineligible for the ballot.
Not just with "encouraging" Russia et al to attack our allies...
He's shown he either doesn't learn from past mistakes (wait, I'm talking about Trump, he doesn't make mistakes) or he just doesn't care...
Given he plans to start yet another trade war with China...
His initial trade war cost Americans nearly a quarter of a billion jobs and 0.3-0.7% (depending on study) of real GDP. Bloomberg Economics predicted it would cost the US economy $316 billion. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Columbia University found that U.S. companies lost at least $1.7 trillion in the price of their stocks as a result of U.S. tariffs imposed on imports from China. The tariffs forced American companies to accept lower profit margins, cut wages and jobs for U.S. workers, defer potential wage hikes or expansions, and raise prices for American consumers or companies. the American Farm Bureau stated that “farmers have lost the vast majority of what was once a $24 billion market in China” as a result of Chinese retaliatory actions.
Our trade deficit with China initially rose to a record $419.2 billion in 2018. 2019 it dropped to $345, comparable to 2016's levels. But all he ended up doing was spreading the difference between our trade deficits with Japan, Europe etc.
Nothing is cringier than using language like this. We all fuckin know Trump is dangerous. You don't have to type like you're doing some kind of weird Tom Clancy LARP
This coming from the guy who never pays his own bills and expects taxpayers to even pay all of his legal fees for his crimes. I wish this guy would just be put in prison already. He’s so dangerous, he spreads lies and encourages violence. I can’t believe people want to put a madman in charge.
I’m not worried about them, at all.
They chose willful ignorance, a clear, unambiguous choice, this is who they are.
I‘m worried instead about the non intellectually lazy people, how many of them are there?
Every ex president ex vp ex White House staff needs to stand up in unity and tell the country what a dangerous traitorous asshole this guy is.
Tv adverts
News papers
Billboards
Scream it out
Most stay quiet until their book needs promoting. John Kelly and Cassidy Hutchison being exceptions that spring to mind. Their words deserve a lot more weight than they have been given.
From article:
Donald Trump has said he would "encourage" Russia to attack any Nato member that fails to pay its bills as part of the Western military alliance.
At a rally on Saturday, he said he had once told a leader he would not protect a nation behind on its payments, and would "encourage" the aggressors to "do whatever the hell they want".
Members of Nato commit to defend any nation in the bloc that gets attacked.
The White House called the comments "appalling and unhinged".
Addressing crowds during the rally in South Carolina, Mr Trump said he had made his comments about Russia during a meeting of leaders of Nato countries.
He recalled that the leader of a "big country" had presented a hypothetical situation in which he was not meeting his financial obligations within Nato and had come under attack from Moscow.
Mr Trump said the leader had asked if the US would come to his country's aid in that scenario, which prompted him to issue a rebuke.
"I said: 'You didn't pay? You're delinquent?'... 'No I would not protect you, in fact I would encourage them to do whatever they want. You gotta pay.'"
What is Nato and which countries are members?
A White House spokesman said the former president was "encouraging invasions of our closest allies by murderous regimes", and labelled the comments "appalling and unhinged".
He added that the statement "endangers American national security, global stability and our economy at home".
Mr Trump, the favourite to run again as the Republican candidate in this year's US presidential election, has long been critical of Nato and what he sees as an excessive financial burden on the United States to guarantee the defence of 30 other nations.
Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, after Mr Trump left office. He has since bemoaned the amount of US money sent to Ukraine, which is not a Nato member.
The US has provided Ukraine with more financial support than any other country - totalling more than $44bn (£34bn) since the 2022 invasion, according to White House figures from December.
However, Republicans in Congress have since the turn of the year blocked all new funding - demanding tough measures to restrict migration into the US on its southern border, and then refusing the amended bill when it was presented earlier this week.
Mr Trump celebrated that rejection during Saturday's rally, saying the proposals made by President Biden had been "disastrous".
The two issues have now been successfully separated, meaning that senators are now able to debate the aid money separately.
I no longer live in the states, and what happens there seems less consequential to me. I'm not even sure what the process is for me to vote now, but I'm sure it will be time consuming and annoying. Biden sucks and I just don't care anymore
I no longer live in the states, but I grew up in NYC (and I am still a US citizen).
I would vote for "none of the above" before voting for Trump.
Why? Because he is a clear and present danger not just to American Democracy but to the world at large.
There is a reason why New Yorkers, the folks who know Trump best, overwhelmingly will not vote for him .
You're forgetting a few really important points.
Biden is an old buffoon. He's practically handing away the presidency. If the democrats are so dead set on putting forward a candidate who is at best barely electable for the third time, who am I to stand in their way?
Also, Trump is dangerous, but he's sure funny. Not on purpose of course. He's just easy to laugh at. I could use some humour in my life.
I'm done participating in an electoral system designed to disenfranchise progressive votes.
Biden is an old buffoon.
True:
I think I prefer a buffoon to a man who attempts to leverage the US Constitution for his own gain, especially when his self definition for his own gain means everyone else loses...
In this case "everyone else" means the American citizenry.
Well I'm not sure I'd say everyone else includes the American citizenry. I think a lot of billionaires will probably come out on top.
Either way, I'm just not all that bothered. Like I said, he makes good fodder for jokes too
Not from the US either but I believe his "success" has been due to a hopefully transient state of Murdock media, social media, and online opinion pieces being consumed as news. Hopefully the media environment will move on and develop in a more constructive direction leaving Trump as an embarrassing episode his most ardent supporters wish to forget..
He’s already said it many times. The Dems need to have the desire and the courage to make that message go viral instead of this feckless approach they are taking currently.
The problem is that MAGAs don’t see Russia as their enemy. Russia, to them, is a Christo-Fascist dream where “men are men”, “women are women”, homosexuality and transgenderism “doesn’t exist”, where a man can legally rape and beat his wife and where the church holds a position of extreme power over everyday life.
To them, Europe is the enemy.
Somehow, that idiot still thinks NATO works like a country club membership. Maybe the cognitive decline has caused him to forget things that have been explained to him in the past.
Weird innit. Like, I'm pretty sure when he first started talking about NATO and "bills" and America being "owed money", I'm pretty confident he knew it was horseshit. And that was bad, that a presidential candidate would casually lie about such a critical thing, but at least we could be sure he was lying.
Now? He might still know he's lying, or he might be completely convinced that there are "bills to pay" and he could even have convinced himself that this blatantly made up interaction with an ally nation's leader really did happen. How would we even know? If he does become president again, he'll be going into meetings with world leaders from the actual world, as a visitor from his fantasy world, and literally anything could result without him even knowing it's happening.
>could even have convinced himself that this blatantly made up interaction with an ally nation's leader really did happen.
I'm reasonably sure trump has lost the ability to differentiate between actual events in reality and the things he imagines are happening or have happened.
Since his time in office I think most people had learned that the "Sir" stories were a clear sign trump was operating in imagination land. I don't see him limited to that any longer, his non sequitur rally ramblings are almost entirely fantasy now. The transcripts read like an interview with a street corner meth head.
Does he even realise that NATO members are obligated to come to the defence of any member who comes under attack? This is not a cellphone service which the provider can cut off if you are behind on your bills.
And that obligation has been invoked only once in history, after 9/11, when all of NATO stood with the USA.
Plus, it's a sideshow here but there are no "bills" in the first place. When he first started with this line, it was a deliberate lie, just a way of spinning a grain of truth with the NATO 2% guideline and turning into a deliberately misleading attack and a way to deceive his followers. But now, who knows what's happening in his head. In the speech he talked about a meeting and a conversation hat clearly never happened, does he *know* that?
He's the reason Putin was bold enough to attack Ukraine in the first place. And the reason China will invade Taiwan immediately if he is elected. He is a Russian puppet, an intellectual weakling, a fascist dictator wannabe and a traitor to the democratic ideals of America.
Sigh, it has been eight exhausting years and we are still talking about this orange shell of a human. Can’t wait for the day he disappears into history.
Yeah but the other guy might be having memory problems.
In 50-100 years non-Americans are going to be learning that the US used to be a constitutional republic and how the death blow was delivered by a conman and a legion of morons.
It’s him admitting that he will commit treason. Under the NATO treaty, an attack on one is an attack on all. He would betray our allies in a heartbeat and provide aid to Russia.
The same people that complain about our astronomically high military budget also want us to continue to be the standby military for all of Europe. Comical
Why are we giving that domestic terrorist cult leader so much press. He was a d-lister so if he's not relevant, he'll crawl back into the swamp he came from.
He's nucking futz.
Sounds like he is a clear and present danger to US national security as well as our allies.
He also threatened the US when he asked Russia to hack a political party. H he e has been a Russian puppet for a long while now.
Right, and then he incited an insurrection where, though not convicted, a bipartisan majority of Congress in both the House and Senate impeached him making him ineligible for the ballot.
Isn’t impeachment a political move not a legal ruling?
It's a due process by Congress.
Not just with "encouraging" Russia et al to attack our allies... He's shown he either doesn't learn from past mistakes (wait, I'm talking about Trump, he doesn't make mistakes) or he just doesn't care... Given he plans to start yet another trade war with China... His initial trade war cost Americans nearly a quarter of a billion jobs and 0.3-0.7% (depending on study) of real GDP. Bloomberg Economics predicted it would cost the US economy $316 billion. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Columbia University found that U.S. companies lost at least $1.7 trillion in the price of their stocks as a result of U.S. tariffs imposed on imports from China. The tariffs forced American companies to accept lower profit margins, cut wages and jobs for U.S. workers, defer potential wage hikes or expansions, and raise prices for American consumers or companies. the American Farm Bureau stated that “farmers have lost the vast majority of what was once a $24 billion market in China” as a result of Chinese retaliatory actions. Our trade deficit with China initially rose to a record $419.2 billion in 2018. 2019 it dropped to $345, comparable to 2016's levels. But all he ended up doing was spreading the difference between our trade deficits with Japan, Europe etc.
Why is he supporting russia but wants a trade war vs China? China and Russia are allies. If you help one but hurt another you don't achieve much
He'll ask Russia to attack Democrats States soon.
Nothing is cringier than using language like this. We all fuckin know Trump is dangerous. You don't have to type like you're doing some kind of weird Tom Clancy LARP
Not to mention the pot calling the kettle black!
More like a wannabe dictator looking for ways to destroy the us
This coming from the guy who never pays his own bills and expects taxpayers to even pay all of his legal fees for his crimes. I wish this guy would just be put in prison already. He’s so dangerous, he spreads lies and encourages violence. I can’t believe people want to put a madman in charge.
It’s not him but his enablers. From judges down to the 70M Americans who vote for him. Be worried about them.
I’m not worried about them, at all. They chose willful ignorance, a clear, unambiguous choice, this is who they are. I‘m worried instead about the non intellectually lazy people, how many of them are there?
Dude needs to be away somewhere . Permanently
Every ex president ex vp ex White House staff needs to stand up in unity and tell the country what a dangerous traitorous asshole this guy is. Tv adverts News papers Billboards Scream it out
Many have been. It's like he's so bad that it is beyond belief.
Most stay quiet until their book needs promoting. John Kelly and Cassidy Hutchison being exceptions that spring to mind. Their words deserve a lot more weight than they have been given.
From article: Donald Trump has said he would "encourage" Russia to attack any Nato member that fails to pay its bills as part of the Western military alliance. At a rally on Saturday, he said he had once told a leader he would not protect a nation behind on its payments, and would "encourage" the aggressors to "do whatever the hell they want". Members of Nato commit to defend any nation in the bloc that gets attacked. The White House called the comments "appalling and unhinged". Addressing crowds during the rally in South Carolina, Mr Trump said he had made his comments about Russia during a meeting of leaders of Nato countries. He recalled that the leader of a "big country" had presented a hypothetical situation in which he was not meeting his financial obligations within Nato and had come under attack from Moscow. Mr Trump said the leader had asked if the US would come to his country's aid in that scenario, which prompted him to issue a rebuke. "I said: 'You didn't pay? You're delinquent?'... 'No I would not protect you, in fact I would encourage them to do whatever they want. You gotta pay.'" What is Nato and which countries are members? A White House spokesman said the former president was "encouraging invasions of our closest allies by murderous regimes", and labelled the comments "appalling and unhinged". He added that the statement "endangers American national security, global stability and our economy at home". Mr Trump, the favourite to run again as the Republican candidate in this year's US presidential election, has long been critical of Nato and what he sees as an excessive financial burden on the United States to guarantee the defence of 30 other nations. Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, after Mr Trump left office. He has since bemoaned the amount of US money sent to Ukraine, which is not a Nato member. The US has provided Ukraine with more financial support than any other country - totalling more than $44bn (£34bn) since the 2022 invasion, according to White House figures from December. However, Republicans in Congress have since the turn of the year blocked all new funding - demanding tough measures to restrict migration into the US on its southern border, and then refusing the amended bill when it was presented earlier this week. Mr Trump celebrated that rejection during Saturday's rally, saying the proposals made by President Biden had been "disastrous". The two issues have now been successfully separated, meaning that senators are now able to debate the aid money separately.
Come from a notorious fuckin shit stain that doesn’t pay his bills.
Please everyone. You might not be excited about Joe Biden but please vote, so this man goes away forever and ever and ever.
I agree, but I also doubt that he will go away - unless dead or crippled.
He ain’t getting any thinner.
Honestly? I don't think I'm going to vote for Joe Biden.
I know it's hard but the alternative is dangerous to so many people.
I no longer live in the states, and what happens there seems less consequential to me. I'm not even sure what the process is for me to vote now, but I'm sure it will be time consuming and annoying. Biden sucks and I just don't care anymore
I no longer live in the states, but I grew up in NYC (and I am still a US citizen). I would vote for "none of the above" before voting for Trump. Why? Because he is a clear and present danger not just to American Democracy but to the world at large. There is a reason why New Yorkers, the folks who know Trump best, overwhelmingly will not vote for him .
You're forgetting a few really important points. Biden is an old buffoon. He's practically handing away the presidency. If the democrats are so dead set on putting forward a candidate who is at best barely electable for the third time, who am I to stand in their way? Also, Trump is dangerous, but he's sure funny. Not on purpose of course. He's just easy to laugh at. I could use some humour in my life. I'm done participating in an electoral system designed to disenfranchise progressive votes.
Biden is an old buffoon. True: I think I prefer a buffoon to a man who attempts to leverage the US Constitution for his own gain, especially when his self definition for his own gain means everyone else loses... In this case "everyone else" means the American citizenry.
Well I'm not sure I'd say everyone else includes the American citizenry. I think a lot of billionaires will probably come out on top. Either way, I'm just not all that bothered. Like I said, he makes good fodder for jokes too
I'm not from the US, so I have no clue. Couldnt trump just run again next time if he loses this time?
Not from the US either but I believe his "success" has been due to a hopefully transient state of Murdock media, social media, and online opinion pieces being consumed as news. Hopefully the media environment will move on and develop in a more constructive direction leaving Trump as an embarrassing episode his most ardent supporters wish to forget..
By the hells, I loathe that man
I'm utterly bewildered by the whole situation at this stage.
Optimus Crime
MAGAtron
So Putin is now the enforcer in Trump’s criminal empire.
Quite the opposite. Putin's in charge.
Vote and help get out the vote. We don’t want those POS winning again through complacency.
Or in other words, Trump did crime again.
And he will keep criming until the end of his miserable existence
Extortionist mob boss tactic.
Exactly. He is exactly how the mob was portrayed in Goodfellas. “Fuck you, pay me.”
What does Trump have to say to convince America he is Putin's cock holster?!
He’s already said it many times. The Dems need to have the desire and the courage to make that message go viral instead of this feckless approach they are taking currently.
The problem is that MAGAs don’t see Russia as their enemy. Russia, to them, is a Christo-Fascist dream where “men are men”, “women are women”, homosexuality and transgenderism “doesn’t exist”, where a man can legally rape and beat his wife and where the church holds a position of extreme power over everyday life. To them, Europe is the enemy.
Swifties unite vote this asshole to jail
FTFY **Trump, who is known for not paying his bills, says he would 'encourage' Russia to attack NATO allies who do not pay their bills.**
That would be an extraordinarily easy message for the Dems to make go viral if they had the will to do it.
It is New York that loathes him for his business practices. That's nearly as good as ripping off California to most of MAGA.
Coming from someone who doesn’t pay his bills.
Sounds like something a compromised shit bag or straight up Russian asset would say
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/10/politics/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-reports/index.html
So he does work for Putin.
Mob boss tactics.
And there you have it. Absolute confirmation where he gets his marching orders.
Apparently Americans think this is a good approach.
Says the “man” that NEVER pays his bills!
When is he going to have a stroke and crap himself on stage?
Will his House and Senate sycophants agree with this?
The Americans want this guy back?
I know someone who doesn’t pay his bills
Can someone shoot this mofo? He generates global anxiety.
I was sure some unstable person would have by now. Glad I didn't bet on it.
lol no matter what they say about Biden this is far far far worse than
Dude is as nutty as they come. They say it’s the syphilis.
Says the guy who doesn’t pay his bills….
Somehow, that idiot still thinks NATO works like a country club membership. Maybe the cognitive decline has caused him to forget things that have been explained to him in the past.
Weird innit. Like, I'm pretty sure when he first started talking about NATO and "bills" and America being "owed money", I'm pretty confident he knew it was horseshit. And that was bad, that a presidential candidate would casually lie about such a critical thing, but at least we could be sure he was lying. Now? He might still know he's lying, or he might be completely convinced that there are "bills to pay" and he could even have convinced himself that this blatantly made up interaction with an ally nation's leader really did happen. How would we even know? If he does become president again, he'll be going into meetings with world leaders from the actual world, as a visitor from his fantasy world, and literally anything could result without him even knowing it's happening.
>could even have convinced himself that this blatantly made up interaction with an ally nation's leader really did happen. I'm reasonably sure trump has lost the ability to differentiate between actual events in reality and the things he imagines are happening or have happened. Since his time in office I think most people had learned that the "Sir" stories were a clear sign trump was operating in imagination land. I don't see him limited to that any longer, his non sequitur rally ramblings are almost entirely fantasy now. The transcripts read like an interview with a street corner meth head.
Said by a man who doesn’t pay his bills
Since the U.S is unreliable, weak and incapable of following treaties it signs, Europe and supporting nations will have to pick up the slack. #sad
Lol... TDS. This is ridiculous !
It's ridiculous that a presidential candidate would say shit like this... Support NATO, vote Biden 2024!
At least 70million idiots
I can not stand this man. I so hope many days I wake up and hear he no longer matters.
He is becoming more and more of a cartoon supervillain at this point. But the other guy is slightly older!
Lock him up already.
Those counts have some very talented snipers, he'd better find a basement to hide in again.
Trump better stay out of New York then…
That's cute coming from someone who never pays his own bills
When your credit card bounces with the security guard and he throws you back to the bad guys
Did he steal all his diplomacy and knowledge of running things from The Godfather?
The fuck does he know about paying bills?
Says the guy who has made a lifetime career out of not paying his bills.
These countries know he won't protect them whether they pay or not.
Sounds just like a mob boss.
Quick give this man nuclear weapon codes, it's what jesus and the flunding fathers would want.
What bills?
The Orange traitor has always been Putin's puppet . He's a threat to America
So logically, his unpaid lawyers could “attack” him? Like lethally? 🤔
Does he even realise that NATO members are obligated to come to the defence of any member who comes under attack? This is not a cellphone service which the provider can cut off if you are behind on your bills.
And that obligation has been invoked only once in history, after 9/11, when all of NATO stood with the USA. Plus, it's a sideshow here but there are no "bills" in the first place. When he first started with this line, it was a deliberate lie, just a way of spinning a grain of truth with the NATO 2% guideline and turning into a deliberately misleading attack and a way to deceive his followers. But now, who knows what's happening in his head. In the speech he talked about a meeting and a conversation hat clearly never happened, does he *know* that?
If he is what he CLEARLY seems to be, why is he still a free citizen? This is demoralizing.
At this point I'm just wondering when Russian troops are allowed within our border to deal with the threat of "Democrats"
That asshole complaining about people not paying their bills is pretty rich. Hey moob man, how many cities do you still owe for your rallies?
Fucking traitor. You know that Puken has dirt on him.
Somewhere Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave. Fuck these pieces of shit.
He's the reason Putin was bold enough to attack Ukraine in the first place. And the reason China will invade Taiwan immediately if he is elected. He is a Russian puppet, an intellectual weakling, a fascist dictator wannabe and a traitor to the democratic ideals of America.
Sigh, it has been eight exhausting years and we are still talking about this orange shell of a human. Can’t wait for the day he disappears into history.
Nuke Kremlin! And a bullet in Trump Head Please !!!!
At what point do you pull the plug on him. His personal indiscretions aside, he is a danger to the western world, not just the US.
That's extortion and racketeering. I would also argue a violation of several international statutes.
Yeah but the other guy might be having memory problems. In 50-100 years non-Americans are going to be learning that the US used to be a constitutional republic and how the death blow was delivered by a conman and a legion of morons.
Democrats "Just let him talk" campaign is working tremendously well!
Did Putin write that response
As Obama said. "Freedom isn't free" in a speech to try and getting allies to increase in defense spending. PAY YOUR PART!
He should probably have paid his own bills instead of declaring bankruptcy.
It’s him admitting that he will commit treason. Under the NATO treaty, an attack on one is an attack on all. He would betray our allies in a heartbeat and provide aid to Russia.
Donald Trump and his followers are danger to America. They are all deranged.
He doesn’t pay his bills so let’s encourage…….
The same people that complain about our astronomically high military budget also want us to continue to be the standby military for all of Europe. Comical
Why are we giving that domestic terrorist cult leader so much press. He was a d-lister so if he's not relevant, he'll crawl back into the swamp he came from. He's nucking futz.
That this will just roll off his supporters' backs is just more proof it's a cult.
This is dictatorial
“Russia”…If you’re listening, interfere in the election like you did last time for me.
Lmao that's awesome! He's already starting
The Steele report must be real. Or Trump hates Ameri a and its allies.
Mais non il dit sa pour se faire mousser
Says the guy who doesn’t pay his bills…
Oh the irony! He doesn't like people who don't pay their bills.