He has purged or sidelined most of the seasoned national security experts in the government. He relies on a very small circle of loyalists who are singularly lacking in foreign policy experience, including VP JD Vance, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and right-wing lunatic Laura Loomer.
He sets up major meetings on a whim, with zero preparation, agency coordination or clear goals. He seems to believe his own hype that he is a master negotiator who alone can get deals done.
Their not meetings to get anything done,their suck up meetings to kiss the ass of a Fat Orange Idiot and new ways to screw us all over.
It’s time we all recognized that this is complete nonsense. We have to let go of the idea that he might have some grand strategy in mind. Or a master plan.
You have to first have a mind to work out a plan.
He has one basic drive: White supremacy!
There is neither a plan much less a master plan in this guy's amyloid ridden brain.
The only talent Trump has ever had is the con. Conned his way into office promising hateful people their hate was justified & to be celebrated. Now in his dotage, individual cabinet secretaries / advisors are conning him to do their bidding. He has no fkn clue what his admin is actually doing.
He never had a plan. He had a single goal: stay out of prison. Why do you think he lets everyone else run things?
Trump’s attempt to show some results from the two meetings — that he would set up a meeting between Putin and Zelensky to hammer out a peace deal — was a complete scam. Russia announced this weekend that no such meeting is planned.
It would be more accurate to describe Trump’s meeting with Putin as something that wasn’t serious from the very beginning. It was a distraction that spiraled out of control. This was likely intended as a change of subject from the Epstein files scandal.
To Trump, it didn’t matter what came out of the meeting as long as it dominated the news for a few days, which it did. It is very possible that sending troops to Washington, D.C. was done for the same reason, then acquired its own momentum.
We can’t let him continue to con us. Trump now has the ability to implement his darkest impulses. He moves to silence or sideline anyone who might oppose him or his army of fools. @maddow.msnbc.com tracks this. “Watch what he does, not what he says,” she warns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1QF...
It's all too much, disgustingly sickening. SCOTUS. Thank you Rachel for the information reminder. We must find a way to get him out of the White House NOW!
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This is GREAT info—but most of us know this. What we don’t know…is what we can do that will truly end this! If you have the answer to this—put it out there; organize us: WE ARE READY TO STOP THIS!!!
I believe it’s kind of a Both/And situation, and has been ever since his 1st administration. The only reason there seemed to be some order to that first one was the more-established government hands in that White House. 1/3
Trump acts on impulse & is demented, but like a simple animal, he also has strong instincts that serve him well on a basic survival basis. Trump understands just enough of the authoritarian playbook to thrust and stumble in its direction, even if it’s haphazard. 2/3
He’s definitely trying to become a full on dictator, while also stage-managing the news cycle to try to “blast the zone with bullshit” enough to cover for his criminality and incompetency. It’s both/and.
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THE WHOLE MEETING WITH PUTIN WAS SCAM TO GIVE PUTIN MORE TIME TO DESTROY AND KILL IN UKRAINE. EVERY TIME TACO DON GIVES PUTIN A DEADLINE, HE TURNS AROUIND AFTER THE DEALINE AND GIVE HIM ANOTHER ONE!!! NOT MORE SACTIONS, JUST MORE TIME!!!
I think people get confused because he has multiple aims. For him: get rich, stay out of jail, protect ego, punish enemies. For the people who got him there: implement Project 2025. When he switches from his pet projects to Project 2025, people see distraction, but I don’t think that’s always true
Unfortunately many people are seeing the authoritarianism as a “distraction”, when most of the time it’s just another one of his goals. A lot of it is hidden behind the fact that he’s a bumbling fool with a fragile ego
exactly...it has nothing to do with any vision of a constructive positive future for all Americans, it is power, selfish money grabs, racism and a throw back to reconstruction pre civil rights eras...
He’s just the spokesmodel for the violent branch of the regime. He is not the authority. This is NOT a presidency. It is a regime.
He may have no grand strategy, but there are people behind him who do. Remember Project 2025? Besides, too many things have happened that follow the authoritarian/fascist playbook. Miller, Vaught, Thiel -- they know what they're doing.
Not worried about him. Am worried about puppetmaster Millet
218 as of Today. The fascists are raging forward. Fascists at all gov't levels. I am being ASKED why I am protesting by TEACHERS!!! They had the summer off, why have they missed what is happening? Please do SOMETHING to save Democracy! youtu.be/O6EzqLPbMt8?...
It’s time to take Grandpa’s car keys away.
oh, he is just an old greedy conman. but thiel, vought, musk, leonard, etc-they do have (borrowing from putin's and orban's power grab) a plan which is not good for maggots but they needed them in that unholy coalition for the elections.
GOP Politburo at work. Thiel and Murdoch will strike soon - at the latest on 11/22.
Trump’s smartest move would be to get rid of Vance & Miller. He is failing mentally & physically and can’t even see that THEY are coming for him! Cut off the real head of the poisonous snake.
Putin was able to pass along more devious, democracy-destroying instructions.
That person has never been in charge. I fully believe he has always been given the illusion of being in charge while being manipulated by smarter evils.
To be fair, Felon47 is dealing with forty years of untreated syphilis festering, thirty years of Adderall addiction, twenty years of progressing dementia & five years of COVID-19 brain packed on top of a solidly double-digit IQ. His master plan is to smear the prior night's full diaper on his face.
Not to be funny but most people outside of the MAGA bubble or the US media recognised this a decade ago.
While I agree he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed, his sycophants are! This psyop has been running since at least 2020. I guess it’ll take Military in the streets of cities to make you re-consider your post. Wait! That’s happening now!
Should anything else be expected!! What Mind??? He is totally done. I mean DONE mentally. Really, what the hell?
At around the 22-25 minute marks, Yarvin, JD Vance’s court philosopher, proposes a system where black people would be made wards of religious ministers, who could force them to work as indentured servants and require them to submit to 24/7 “air-tag” monitoring. bsky.app/profile/adam...
I really can't understand how anyone would believe this guy was ever thinking further ahead than his next Diet Coke.
No master plan, just his Master (Russia)....
OR THAT TRUMP MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE SOME BRAINS!!!
Whoever thought he had a master plan must have never looked at past actions taken by him while screwing over city/state/nat'l governments before becoming the felon. No excuses im my book.
When a personality disordered person is reacting based only on his feelings, biases, anger, fear, likes, and desires, you have a man with no policies. And, his severe narcissism makes it impossible to care or even think of others' needs or desires. It is his own needs and wants that matter.
tRump’s master plan is to stay out of prison. So far, it’s working…
I’ve always thought of him as a kind of Walter Mitty character. It’s like Cliff Clavin has taken over the White House. Talks expertly about things he has no real idea about. Finds himself in situations playing out, but behind him, the backers agenda is very dangerous
I wouldn’t really call what spews from his pie hole “talking expertly”.
Agreed. I meant talk as if he were an expert when he knows nothing… “1,500% reduction in prices…”
He doesn't but the Chtistian Nationalists who surround him do. And they are proceeding in the dark.
oh he has a master plan in mind, it just doesn't involve any kind of foreign policy.
I don't know why the punditry class took this long. He has been a complete moron for decades and had to beg banks for money when he was a "businessman."
You know, I’ve thought about this. Our first reactions were that he was a fraud. Then he won the presidency. Twice. We began to think that there was something deeper. A hidden evil plan. And there is, in a way. But it isn’t a strategy as much as a brutal, authoritarian, impulsive drive for power.
It’s like asking what Tony Soprano’s foreign policy is. Or thinking that Michael Corleone’s interest in Cuba was geostrategic.
Agreed. But that's not new, either. He used mob labor in the early part of his "career" - and then stiffed any non-mob companies that he contracted with, forcing them to sue his companies. He's always been a bully. A dumb bully - but he has been treated like some kind of genius. It's bizarre.
To use a court term (and my problem with the federal judiciary is similar) - the presumption of regularity should have been removed years ago.
He ran to stay out of jail, to grift and steal and to get retribution against his enemies. He is possible one of the all time worst human beings he sits easily alongside Hitler, Stalin, Mao, PolPot, Putin and Netanyahu
No, that's no excuse. He was tyrant from his property developer days. I'm shocked that you think winning the presidency gives you some sort of credibility.
Oh there's a hidden evil plan- several of them actually. They're just not Trumps plans. He's just the blunt tool for the progenitors of these plans. Evangelicals, accelerationists, Russians...
I just heard a Foreign Policy podcast today talking about how he shows the dynamism of America? What? He bastardized his own casino market in AC then changed the "theme" of one of them and said, "I didn't like [the old one]." It's the same thing he has always done - failed and blamed everyone else.
Correction. it’s not Trump who has a plan. It’s Thiel and Musk. They have all our data (thanks SCOTUS) and are getting all the CDC data now too. They (and rest of white S African pay pal mafia will use it to win elections and to genetically engineer superior beings to populate their sick network 1/
Cities and eventually Mars. They want no AI regs limiting this sick research (they fund fertility start ups) while they support mass deportations of brown people and let sick people die. We are insignificant.
The master plan is driven his handlers: Let him run amok as the senile that he is, while they grab everything, destroy the civil institutions, and nullify progress made during the last 70 years.
True but he has implemented 50% of Heritage’s Project 2025 already and he has an autocrat’s playbook handy so there is a plan of sorts.
There are those in the administration, like Project 2025’s Russell Vought and Stephen Miller, who know exactly what they are doing.
No grand plan? And yet Trump is marching inexorably toward replacing key personnel throughout the government so that the government will answer to him only. His incoherent, impulsive, random, mean spirited behavior and actions are only a distraction.
Tut's "Mid Summer 🌙 Nights Dream ! Ghislaine, Ghislaine ! Mr Roberts made him immune to Democrats talking justice . ⚖️ U.S. citizens w so-called aliens, 👽 are Monopoly board pieces; Tut, taps the board, as the banker 💰 Tut worry, in decline, not enough God credits for a heavenly abode, gilded .
Many knew they're going to allow the bear 🐻 to eat them alive, but many middle-class & poor voters, R foremost, racist !! As Tut, the only thing they have in common, as non-billionaires; without benefits . Voter card members, seduced Tut owned Tut: "I could shoot someone, not losing a vote ! Sick !
Yes, there is a Master plan, Project 25 for middle-class & poor; to milk 🥛 🐄 um, dry !!! As Putin, Tut too, w shake & bake billionaire admin help; R tapping businesses for a percentage of their stock . Drain the swamp? No, create their own swamp, more soupy, in flimflam! Merciless ! Tut blitz blind
Looks like he is driving directly into Dictatorship which has psychological similarities to a tantrumming child who would be king. I’m disagreeing with the term nonsense, because it’s a pretty cohesive picture. Minimize that at your own peril.
His plan is to dismantle everything in our government.
Their plan...he's not alone in this evil work to destroy & control.
Trump is not of sound enough mental capacity now to have a real plan about anything. All his horribleness is finally catching up to him.
Farce.
You don't think "Mein Kampf" is his master plan? Perhaps as translated into Prop. 2025?
It's time to recognize he's a sympton, not the disease. He may think he's in charge and he has rights as president to do great damage, but the puppeteers pulling his strings know he won't be around forever and have long-range plans that don't include him. Get rid of Trump, but be ready for worse.
Well, nothing creepy about that 😳.
Project 2025 has a plan. And they are making progress. What Trump does is not the point. There are other running things.
He has a master plan, and that’s to dismantle American greatness while consolidating his personal power. And he’s succeeding, massively and rapidly. What it’s time we all recognize is that he does not care at all about what we’d consider effective government.
Trump has his master plan to not vacate the presidency office.
I agree with all posters who get upset what a nightmare he is. And that ‚we can’t let him continue‘. But then: nothing ever happens. Apparently, highly praised checks & balances were never real. The legal system is powerless, at least for criminal presidents & his bootlickers. Hopeless.
He just plans to be the master - or the Heritage Foundation wants it to look that way. He's on his way out and he doesn't know it. They do, so they're riding the train wreck to achieve their goals. Full blown oligarchy.
He's remaking the White House as if he will make it his permanent home.
True. Could not agree more. But, I get the feeling that he’s just the monkey- who the hell is the organ grinder? The architects of Project 2025? Stephen Miller? Trump is in no way capable of organizing this shit… so who is the man behind the curtain?
They are all manipulating him for their own ends.
But who are “they?”
All the people behind "Project 2025."
Look at the people funding his campaign donations. Look at the people funding Project 2025, look at who fund the heritage foundation etc.
Not to mention, all those toadies in the room at that so-called "meeting" yesterday. Such profound brown-nosing!!
He might not have a master plan. But the people who conspired to put him in power absolutely do.
He does not have a plan. But he does not have any serious resistance either.
Trump is a freaking idiot. Seriously the man is not smart at all. Remember his mantra is tell a lie long enough they will believe it. His ignorant base fell for it.
Remember, "The Art of the Deal" is a work of fiction ghostwritten by Tony Schwartz. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Major meeting where he babbles and no one knows what he is talking about
Why any surprise. Trump does absolutely no prep? Why? Because prep requires—thought, critique, integration of data, ideas, concepts. And Trump? Is DUMB, OBTUSE, & HALF-WITTED. Need I say more?
WHO ALONE GETS NOTHING DONE!!!
When a personality disordered person is reacting based only on his feelings, biases, anger, fear, likes, and desires, you have a man with no policies. And, his severe narcissism makes it impossible to care or even think of others' needs or desires. It is his own needs and wants that matter.
It’s just photo opps. As if to say “look I’m the only POTUS to have Putin do…….”. As if he didn’t get the reason why he’s the only one. His mental capacity is so limited. Almost toddler level. No ability to self reflect/analyze. #ReleasetheEpsteinTrumpFiles
If only someone wrote a book about this? And then warned everyone at his own risk.
This man is delusional. Trying to prove to everyone that he is highly intelligent and capable. Yet every time a reporter asks him a question about a current new presidential event he says he knows nothing about it! Not smart!
Of course he believes that. It's one of the signs of his large degree of narcissism and grandiosity.
He lives in his own fantasy world, where he indeed believes he is a master negotiator who alone can get deals done. And there is no one surrounding him who will speak up or speak out. His actions in his fantasy world are determining our reality.
I once had a boss like that. Lazy, incompetent, narcissistic, transactional. We used to say "Don't know what to do? Call a meeting!" when talking of him. He could be manipulated, with caution, like TNT.
Thats the problem u can’t succeed on a whim, its doom the failure
He has no clue….and then he listens to Miller and other bloviators
Interfering with or obstructing firefighters in in State of Washington is a crime! ICE can and should be prosecuted for their reckless and untimely interference of fight a wild fire!
It's all theater to him, optics, a reality show. Look how many of his insiders are newsmedia personalities. He has no business, economics, negotiation, or governing skills. He's a salesman, the front man, the one who gathers the crowds, the potential marks and customers.
"Politicians are people who lie to the press, then believe what they read." -Will Durst
Yep, he's the master who always claims to know nothing about anything that's going on. Does he really think we are fooled by his "I know nothing" routine? He contradicts his own hype.
