Trump is much older than I thought if a Roman Emperor was using his motto
Trump is much older than I thought if a Roman Emperor was using his motto
Interestingly, Hadrian also built a wall, had Senators who opposed him put to death, and established a cult. Remind you of anyone??
Donaldus Hadrianus Trump's already had the best words
I do believe that's Donaldus Anus Trump.
Mushrumus Dickus
😄👏👏
Hadrian??? Tell Trump & Leavitt that their motto is gay 🌈 & see what they do.
Biden edited Wikipedia
Yeah, Scotland was deeply unimpressed with that numpty too!
Hadrian was a foreigner, how could he possibly count
Actually a lot of America is based off of the Roman empire. That's not just the trumpism. Almost like government in general is about forcing people to do what they want under threat of death and imprisonments.
You don't need to read all the citations in the "Peace Through Strength" Wikipedia article if you're old enough to remember Reagan. Which Press Secretary Barbie isn't.
Beyond that it completely misses the idea behind the phrase. This is more like “peace through punching”
youtube.com/shorts/dkZt9...
New maxim: Those who don't learn history can take credit for anything.
Hadrian would like a word.
He also invented the Cobb Salad.
He just bombed a country unprovoked
I .ran at this point Taco is an ass clown
That's it. Her and her lies are gonna get it
I can’t believe the amount of stupid that comes from this administration.
Isn’t the phrase from Ancient Rome?
So all Osama needed to do after 911 is say, " ok,it's time for peace now"
Leavitt is Trump's "Baghdad Bob".
Unbelievable…I think she actually believes her own words.🙄
Just like he came up with the word groceries
that's bait dot gif
Hey commiegirl
I want to so badly:
Yes, last night I was awakened to a low flying plane over my house and I was in a full blown panic for about 5 minutes, thinking it was a revenge mission. I feel so peaceful. I'm sure the Iranian people and the middle east feel the same.
That sounds like rape.
Has she had to take the cross off from around her neck bc it’s burning her flesh? I’m amazed she didn’t go full North Korea & claim Trump caused the sun to rise this morning, but of course just give it time & we’ll get there.
Good points! Perhaps some day people will start their mornings admiring the 🍊💩 sunrise when Fanta Felon is old and feeble... oh wait. 86 34F 47
Reagan would like a word
I would not be surprised if Trump and his followers believe he's channeling Reagan. Or worse: he is Reagan.
They certainly act like he's the second coming of Reagan sometimes. 😒
iirc Reagan also coined "Make Iran Great Again"
Reagan would bea socialist lib to them because of his amnesty.
How much do you think she actually knows about Reagan, or anything else that happened before she was born (which Google tells me was during the Clinton Admin)? I bet she was one of those awful students who thought "I wasn't alive then so it doesn't matter" during history class.
Kate is right. Reagan popularized this phrase in modern political rhetoric. Trump has neither coined it nor practiced it. During his first term, he dropped twice as many bombs on Afghanistan than Obama and Biden combined. (20,600 > 10,400)
It has roots back to Hadrian in the early 100s.
Our non-history loving country can't think that far back
We should all at least remember Frost’s shirt in Aliens with “Peace Through Superior Firepower” on it
The Sumerians would like a word...
Trump is older than anyone suspected.
Meh, not really. Some scholar used the phrase in a book and Wikipedia picked up on it. Now corrected. :-)
Well, he did build a wall as well...
You expect people here to know anything that far back?!?!?!
I think Nixon would like a word too.
Hell, Washington would like a word.
Not one single MAGA is smart enough to question this or anything else Trump's minions say.
The thing that gets me is the ones I know who went to college and can read but still lap up this Fox News bullshit.
Exactly. It boggles the mind.
I like this quote, but does anyone has evidence that Voltaire wrote or spoke it?
Whether Voltaire or not, fairly insightful! ;)
Most can’t read…..
Made me spit out coffee!
You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace. Power to the peaceful. ~Michael Franti
"He strongly took my peace..."
FFS - he’s never had an original idea in his life. America First - Woodrow Wilson 1916 Make America Great Again - Ronald Reagan 1980 A variation of Peace Through Strength has been recorded as far back as Hadrian, with Washington, Hamilton, Goldwater, and Reagan using it long before present day.
In many ways Trump is the product of Roger Stone’s long memory and dark taste for irony.
“Drain the swamp” - Mussolini.
Speak softly and carry a big stick - Teddy Roosevelt 1900
Make Germany Great Again - Adolf Hitler 1934. Does this sound familiar?
Donald Trump even stole the idea of “golden toilets” from Marjorie Merriweather Post.
Good for you! "Peace Through Strength" Reagan - ~1984 AD Hadrian - ~120 AD Not saying "Peace Through Strength" is the right idea, but it's almost 2000 years old. And I bet Hadrian repurposed it from somewhere.
Imagine making Reagan seem intellectual though . Trump always lowers the bar .
If you believe the short story "The Egg" is real, then yes he did come up with that motto. And so did you. And so did I. Because we're all the same being.
I've never wanted to punch so many people in the face before today. Just so you know, I have trouble killing ants in the kitchen because it feels too violent.
I’m with you
Me too!!
Seconded
I broke down crying today after a bird collided with my car. But I would throat punch certain folks right now. Ya know, peace through strength I guess.
Don’t dream it be it as Dr Frankenfurter would say
OMG! If I have a bug in my house, I try to get it into a paper cup so I can release it outside. I don’t like killing any living creatures. I also want to punch all of them.
My bar is set lower … I want to punch them in the throat! The frustration is real.
Again, we need to back the bus up. Who negotiated a deal with Iran to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons? Who withdrew the US from said deal?
Leavitt appears to be the one came up with the motto, "better living through rabid sycophancy."
Of course she’s lying. She enjoys lying. I learned from following @drjackbrown.bsky.social to look for signs. She smiles through some of her biggest lies and lunges forward on her tiptoes. She’s elevated, excited, thinking she’s clever and her lies are working. They’re not, and she’s dim.
She needs some Ivermectin
Despicable. Shameful. Every word she speaks is a lie - or at least completely false and wrong. She’s either stupid, evil, ambitious, programmed or vapid. Or all of it. Her family should be ashamed.
using AI to generate an answer certainly confirms your self-description
Is she saying that Reagan’s soul has entered Trump’s body to let him take credit for the “Make America great” phrase, the “peace through strength” phrase, and the word “groceries”?
His entire shtick is just ripping off Reagan. It’s pathetic.
They're all just so ignorant... about EVERYTHING.
Or just flat-out lying.
Bingo - they take for granted that their supporters will never question or check them. Truth is not important.
Most of his supporters have to know they are lying but don't care because of Own the Libs.
All of dotards “original” slogans he stole from Reagan or the nazis.
Don't bring logic and facts into discussions with or about Leavitt and/or Fanta Felon. It's just confusing! LIES are simpler it seems. 86 34F 47
Don't bring logic and facts into discussions with or about Leavitt and/or Fanta Felon. It's just confusing! LIES are simpler it seems. 86 34F 47
Also, in the book “1984” the term "War is peace” was used. Hmmmm 🧐
We know he didn't steal it from 1984. No way he read a book
She was born 10 years later, so she's a little vague on the Reagan years.
She could just ask her husband who was very much alive in the Reagan years
A senior citizen, I believe.
Yes, likely in his 40’s during Reagan 🤣
Predictive text models are not a reliable source of info, in addition to wasting exponentially more energy than just looking up the existing source.
The predictive text model used no more energy than that required to look up the screenshotted Wikipedia page and then post the screenshot on here.
fun fact: ai sucks, i dont want my google searches to bring up answers that may be literally imagined by a nonsentient text generator
False.
Her personality reminds me of a pubic louse.
I’m so sick of this North Korea level of propaganda.
Where the hell did all this scum come from? So many Nazis just immediately ready to help dismantle our democracy. How?? Why??
I hope someone snagged the (if it's there) license plate of that truck that hit and ran.
Good thing Trump has a massive fucking ass for all these twats and thugs to all kiss at once.
And I just came up with the word “bimbo.”
Her delivery is that of a zealot not a press secretary. I don't know how people can watch her
Brazen liars are always the dumbest ones.
She’s so gross.
That poor deluded child.
She is so annoying.
#AggressiveIgnorance
She is so fascist. Ridicolous and dangerous.
AF
OMG, yes times a million.
‘War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength’ George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Sure why not
That's probably why he's getting dog-walked by Putin when it comes to Ukraine.
Peace through strength = Do as we say and we won’t bomb you.
Stop the stoopid!
🎶 Shit KKKaroline (la la la) 🎶
Every time she opens her mouth I am stunned at the level of stupidity and delusion.
😂
The level of sheer idiocy and pandering to trump’s ego that comes out of this regime is staggering!
The God-Emperor worship is insane
He invented the word groceries, why not this.
I'll never forget the day I learned he invented the word, "caravan." ~ all of MAGA
He invented inventions.
I think she goes home, barks at the billionaire, and pay the illegal alien she hired as a nanny all before she stands in front of a mirror practicing these insane diatribes on how great Trump is and how feeble and feckless Joe Biden? She is too young for the job. She didn't work to gain knowledge
He also invented the phrase “grab ‘em by the pussy, they love it because I’m a celebrity”.
Right after he invented the transistor, the internet, the wheel, and discovered fire. A true renaissance man.
How dare you leave out that he was the first to notice Frederick Douglass!
Ha ha .. yes of course!
And soo educated 🤯 Telling us the US had a bond with Roman Empire, Putin lost 51 000 people in WWII… And it’s really amazing how many men he brought to tears saying „Sir“ to him🥹
And IVF remember
Al Gore invented the internet, and Dan Quail raised the first tomato. Require civics class for everyone.
And won a medal of honour in the Vietnam war .. twice …
With bone spurs .... Donold 🤡 the deal maker
All that and still had time to perform air traffic control duties at the Revolutionary War airports!!
Ha ha .. true that! That man's a genius (stable one at that!)
Daddy drumpf paid off the university to make sure of it!!
Hamberder
She's insane.
Pees thru strings I came up with that one.
Do you think she has always been such a dumb bimbo or just since Donny hired her?
He probably employed he because she say anything she is told to say no matter how ridiculous it is: puppet!
A smart person wouldn't apply and wouldn't be hired.
Always🤣
Every time I see her I automatically think about this meme and I'd bet good money that I'm not the only one.
If only there was an agreement in place trump didn't tear up & toss out. (Like the pandemic playbook he tossed at the advent of COVID) Twat
Peace through strength IS SO GODDAMN STUPID. It makes my head hurt. DUMB DUMB DUMB.
Wikipedia: "'Peace through strength' is a phrase that suggests that military power can help preserve peace. It has been used by many leaders from Roman Emperor Hadrian in the second century AD to former US Pres. Ronald Reagan in the 1980s." They lie about EVERYTHING bc their voters know NOTHING.
Their voters are stupid and ridicolous like all fascists have always been.
Emperor Hadrian (AD 76–138) must be spinning in his grave after wasting all that time building that wall. Perhaps they should fact check with Reagan from the 80's too.
Donakd had hamberder with Covfefe.
🤢🤮🤮🤮
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.—George Washington Probably used from the beginning of time. What an unmitigated idiot.
Isn't "peace through strength" just tyranny?
Are Israelis enjoying their “being-bombed-nightly-by-Iran through strength” of Netanyahu?
Dude thinks he's Kane... he's not even Slavic, he's Brother Marcus. A fanatic with a cult following put in power by the enemy and not anywhere near as smart as he pretends to be.
She’s a fucking idiot … This concept has been employed throughout history, most notably by Roman Emperor Hadrian and later by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the Cold War.
she doesn't read, like, books.
I really, really hate her.
Someone needs to take out her batteries.
Theodore Roosevelt’s ’walk softly and carry a big stick’, Trump has never come up with anything original.
Leavitt: Nobody knows more about peace and love than President Trump. Some may not remember, but he is the one who said, all those years ago: “All we are saying, is give peace a chance.”
And he held a peace-in while in bed with his Asian wife.
The phrase dates to ancient times. Roman Emperor Hadrian (AD 76–138) is said to have sought "peace through strength or, failing that, peace through threat." Hadrian's Wall was a symbol of the policy. In 1984, "peace through strength" was a core foreign policy principle of the Reagan administration
I lived through the Reagan era. I feared every day we were going to be annihilated by our foes because of that idiot's policies. Reagan had mental issues, he was only trotted out to put a face on the policies his GOP handlers created. His era was a fucking nightmare for millions of us.
So it’s exactly what we’re seeing today? The fat orange fuck isn’t all there anymore, his policies come from the fascist Heritage Foundations playbook and he needs others to tell him what’s going on… #DementiaDon #8647
Ronnie started this
This administration is wholly unoriginal, plagiaristic, and incompetent. They wouldn't know strength if it hit them like a squeaky tank wheel.
The earliest "peace through strength" I PERSONALLY know is from 2500BCE - the Persian empire. How ironic that he stole it and is using their motto against them today. 💀 And claiming it as his own LOL.
I saw that, and that was in the back of my mind, but wanted to go with more modern/recent. 🤣🤣 Very sickening though how people debase themselves for him
This is what you get when you hire uneducated "low information voters" to be spokesperson for someone who doesn't know how to read and has a rich father paid for degree. Neither know anything about history.
"doctrine"....bomb brown ppl when your citizens hate you. got it.
How convenient that she/they forget that Trump withdrew from the treaty to limit Iranian nuclear development & they immediately began expanding their nuke enrichment which has led to Trump’s active involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict!
I think her love eggs are on L10 lol what a cockwomble she is .
He's also begin to speak softly while carrying a big stick. None of us know why but it sure is effective she added.
She's got to be one of the dumbest people in America
Tbf thats a low bar with Trumpsters.
Why aren't their law schools and undergraduate schools rescinding their diplomas
Peace through strength sounds like a fucking bully.
💯🎯
It was, among other places, the motto of the fascist ruling party in V for Vendetta, which is likely where this bint got it from.
It’s been used more than a few times in US history, and considering how long the GOP has worshipped at the altar of Reagan, they probably got the motto from him.
I vaguely remember someone talking about speaking softly and having a big stick 100 years ago or so.
If a cult had a poster child…
There is an old country saying that goes something like this…she’s so full of shit when she dies they can bury her in a penny matchbox.
Stupid? Incurious? Uninformed? Sycophant?
She’s a lying little cunt.
"I sleep very well, thank you, what a stupid question"
How dystopian! Seems like they are talking to a bunch of braindead people! Wtf! Can’t Americans just make this shitshow stop?
No we can’t. We want to but the idiots are in charge.
The idiots will be in charge forever. Forget any elections you won’t get any.
I know a lot of people are not giving up. I’m not.
This awful bimbo needs to get back to school. Not only did Emperor Hadrian use that ridiculous phrase some 2000 years ago but that idiot cowboy Reagan recycled it only 40 odd years ago.
It's been used since Roman Emperor Hadrian but sure he came up with it.
Didn’t Hitler come up with that motto?
"strength through joy" because "surrender stalingrad" and "soviet war prisoners" weren't considered as motivational.
It’s been a concept since Hadrian at least.
Cu*t in a cult.
This woman needs to fuck right off…. Back up… fuck off again and fuck off for ever. These fucking liars will reap what the sow eventually.
Right and Woodrow Wilson had nothing to do with coining “america first”
He also came up with, “You’re fired.” If I remember correctly. 🙄
Back in my day, we just called that "bullying"...
Exactly. Thank you!
Only KKKaroline can attribute something to Trump that has been a concept since (checks notes) Hadrian. She’s only 1900 years off. Next, she’ll tell us that Trump invented the light bulb, aviation, the printing press, and Diet Coke.
don't forget the telegraph and electricity
oh, and the Wheel
What. The. Fuck.
He invented "peace through strength," both the phrase and the foreign policy? I'm a little sketchy on my American history, but I feel like some others have tried this before, no?
Thanks, Wikipedia, for confirming that I didn't just hallucinate that.
Wauvvv… Just plain stupidity
“I wonder when he came up with that motto?” says no one ever about the guy who’s shown for decades that he’s highly motivated by the wish for revenge.
This women sucks on his ego so hard!
I wonder if she feels dirty when she goes home each night? She makes me yearn for Kayleigh McEnamy.
Ask a Russian working class about it. They wanted the war.
Also MAGA, they want civil war.
"Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see" - John Lennon "Working Class Hero"
"The Sun rises in the east solely due to the beneficence of our Glorious Leader President Trump."
🤦🏻♂️
Pretty sure Trump didn't come up with that phrase. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_t...
Holy F. Trump invented the SmartPhone, BTW.
He also came up with “War is Peace”, “Freedom is Slavery”, and “Ignorance is Strength”, I believe
Doubleplus good
That blonde KERATIN gonna take you to the stars baby! 🫨
These people are fucking crazy.
Dear Leader is also the one who made Juneteenth famous, and came up with the word “equalizing”.
The real issue is the lie and the failure of the press to hold her accountable for this and all her wildly mendacious statements. Her answer in the SC beauty pageant was more coherent than most of what she says daily behind the podium
How can she live with herself.
Because she can’t see further than the rear end of DJT
Sounds like a George Orwell motto. How brainwashed must one ditsy blonde be to repeat this gibberish to the press?
"He is the one who came up with that motto" Nope. web.archive.org/web/20220525...
That’s enough to gag a maggot.
Twist of "speak quietly but carry a big stick" rip off? Quick search say Hadrian could have used it.
Look, let's just admit he invented the Earth. "And the Spirit of Trump moved across the face of the waters"
Well, sure. He has no understanding of history and he's never read a book in his life. So he naturally assumes he came up with it!
"Doctrine"? More like BS-ifesto.
No, no, no! I cannot listen to her ever again. She is literally killing off my brain cells with every word. 🙉
🤡🤡🤡
Unfit war criminal
She’s such a bimbo dipshit cunt
Peace for whom? Iranian civilians, Gaza civilians, Ukrainian civilians…?
Clearly Leavitt is not a student of history. Her greatest skill seems to be able is to lie and not even know she’s lying some of the time. Sort of like a pull string Barbie that is pre-programmed with propaganda.
Idiocracy.
How much time before they ask the Secretary of Education to ban all the books that "suggest" that the statement had been used by other figures since forever?
Oh cool, he came up with a slogan...
It’s true that nobody really knows what it means.
Jesus Christ that saying is older then her husband/daddy
lol! Gore was mocked but Trump 🤪😵😵💫
She can’t be that stupid can she ?
They’re just counting on their followers being that stupid
If not, she's pretty good at pretending. Oscar material. But I'm still going with yes.
Bullshit Barbie barks bullshit.
I think for best effects you need all the words to be different so I would go with : Bullshit Barbie barks bollocks
Babbling Barbie, the oral arbiter of trumpian bullshit.
Just off the top of my head, I’m thinking of FDR, Truman, Reagan… Her propaganda pitch is positively painful to watch. And, frankly, embarrassing for her. 🥴
well, that would be Ronald Reagan, who popularized the concept. the concept, however, goes back to the 4th century...Rome? "si vis pacem, para bellum"
She has a promising career after this presidency is over as the chief spokesperson for Enron.
It means nothing when these people say anything. Other than - you can bet on the opposite being true
You can hear the wind sail through her ears.
There is not even peace within his own fucking countries walls! These people are as delusional as they come. I really wanna smack the shit out of that lying... tho.
another case of plagiarism :"Peace through strength" is a phrase that suggests that military power can help preserve peace1...has been used by many leaders, including Roman Emperor Hadrian and former US President Ronald Reagan12. The concept is associated with realpolitik1." (wikipedia & wikiwand)
Nobody knows why the fuck Trump broke the Nuclear Iran Deal in May 2018. This was STUPID.
Because Obama admin negotiations made it happen & he got favorable opinions on it.
Landmark Deal. What do we have now?
Because of Obama.
I assume you're looking for an answer more sophisticated than "because Obama did it."
Uh…wut? WTF is that idiot Leavitt babbling about? Spanky has no clue how to do anything except process bribes & con the MAGA rubes with his stupid money scams. That’s it. That’s ALL he’s got!
And both are menial jobs for entry-level minions. And that's what he is.
🤣🤣🤣 or, a 3rd rate coffee boy! (using one of his favorite insults!)
What is a coffee boy, and who tf rates them? This sounds just like the case of groceries, all over again.
Recall Spanky’s 1st term in office… one of his favorite slurs was to berate any staffer who failed him as a “coffee boy”…e.g. someone with no skills; a loser; a schlepper. It all started with George Papadpalous.
Even if I did know that, I forgot. Thanks for the insight. Trump doesn't know how to make instant coffee, let alone work an actual job. Besides, he sucked at reality show business, as far as I'm concerned. That Apprentice shit was god awful. So, he should stfu if he had any self-criticism. Or brain.
Agree 100%! Time him to GO!
Shut the hell up.
In 1984, "peace through strength" was a core foreign policy principle of the Reagan adm emphasizing a strong military to deter aggression and promote peace. The goal was to project American power & resolve, leading to a world where nations were free from threats & could determine own destinies.
Does this woman get anything right? She does have a computer, doesn’t she?
How’s that working out?
Aliens (1986) - I must’ve missed Trump’s name in the writers credits
It’s apparently easy to claim Trump is the best President ever, when you ignore all his predecessors.
No love for Reagan?
Nuclear level delusion
The Godfather came up with that while roughing up a smaller gang in the back ally.
Everything is a lie
“Nobody knows what it means to accomplish peace through strength” That on its own is certainly true of this 🤡 🚗 administration
At some point a person becomes ashamed of perhaps just the most egregious lies... right?
JFC these people are dumb.. unfortunately, the ones who voted for them take that even further..
'Oh and you know that saying "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"? That was also Trump. He also coined the term "Let there be light"'
This is exactly how they sold invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
Like his calling the insurrection a "day of love".🙄
She looks like a cheerleader, sounds like a cheerleader, way way too unserious. Hilarious in a make you want to vomit sort of way…
That sounds like bully talk to me. I would know because I taught in elementary school.
'It has been used by many leaders from Roman Emperor Hadrian... to Ronald Reagan... The idea has critics, with Andrew Bacevich stating, "'Peace through strength' easily enough becomes 'peace through war.'" ' - Wikipedia These people lie as easily as they brearhe.
Goldwater and Reagan used the phrase long before Trump. He can’t even plagiarize effectively.
Nor can Melania... 😉
LOL! Totally forgot about that… how long ago and quaint that seems….
“Peace through strength” is the coinage of the Roman emperor Hadrian- the arrogant vapidity of this administration keeps us permanently wrongfooted, wasting energy wondering if the latest inanity is deliberate trolling or willful ignorance. Will Trump be credited with inventing the wheel next?
‘War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength’ George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
MAGA Barbie spews nonsense...AGAIN!
She’s no Barbie and that crucifix doesn’t make her a Christian — quite the opposite.
Spinderella at her lying best🙄
STUPID Press Secy or STUPIDEST Press Secy?
It's a tough category amongst Republican Press Secretaries. Sara Huckabee went on to be the dumbest governor.
Let's not forget Sean "The biggest inauguration crowd ever. Period" Spicer! Stupid. Stupider. Stupidest?
Yeah, Sister Sarah is still begging 47 for FEMA money for post-disaster recovery there in Arkansas. DOGE has it all now, I suppose.
I believe George Washington spoke of this concept. Even Ronald Regan welcomd the idea.