“When you’re negotiating with Iran, Mr. President, to what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal?” a reporter asked Trump before he left for China on Tuesday, alluding to the skyrocketing inflation caused by the fallout from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon.

“Not even a little bit,” Trump said, shockingly out of touch even for him.

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    At this point the problem isn’t him. The problem is the people keeping him in charge and refusing to depose him. He’s a sundowing old pedo that they refuse to do anything about.

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      Exactly. Find the person in the chain that wants to live. Flip them. Then seriously, about 5-15k people need to be executed for treason. Were beyond the ‘lEtS m00vE fOWrd’ phase.

      Let’s have justice. Let us practice justice. Let us execute justice, or there will never be peace

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        I mean when he still has 44% approval ratings, half of America or more is to blame.

        It’s just insane.

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    MAGA doesn’t care. Trump phrases things to sound like “you’re not a REAL American unless you believe what I tell you.”

    So now, “not letting Iran have a nuclear weapon” is it. If you aren’t “smart” enough to know that’s more important than anything else, you’re a loser and a traitor.

    They will never turn on Trump. Never. Gas could be $7.00 a gallon. They will just regurgitate whatever they are told, and the blame will be put on whoever they’re trying to discriminate against.

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      Then the strategy is identify and eliminate. Gas leaks kill thousands every year. Even a small amount of drain cleaner comprised of hydraulic acid can be placed discretely but have catastrophic impacts

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    Malignant narcissists don’t give a crap about anyone else anyway, but as long as Trump can change the subject from the fact he’s a child rapist and avoid releasing the Epstein files he’s happy as a clam.

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    “He’s just trolling the media, he actually deeply cares about me.”

    • MAGA cultists
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    The only thing he has EVER cared about is getting his own rocks off. Be it raping children or robbing people blind, if you have EVER thought he gives even a fraction of a shit about you, you’re the idiot.

    To extend this thinking, he doesn’t give a shit about his country either, clearly. It’s just about what’s in it for him. He is the worst president we have ever had by an order of magnitude. Eventually others will figure this out.

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      Because everyone has the ability to just expatriate to another country whenever they like. Jobs and family and community and travel are all just instantaneously sorted.

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    The mask/pretense is slipping off…
    Until someone else shoves it back in position when the midterms get closer…

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    This is the correct thing to say, no matter what he might actually think. The less that he appears to be concerned about the cost of the war, the stronger his negotiating position against Iran is.