Trump also thinks he can rewrite Presidential history and slap it on a wall.....
What. A. Sh*tbag! Cleaning up after this maniac is going to be fun. It will at least be equal to the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein. Party in the USA.
Meidas Touch just did a piece comparing the bunker under the Epstein Ballroom to Hitler's bunker. TRump's renovation of the existing bunker will no doubt be his childish version.
The wealth of this nation is its diverse people. They will endure---his crap will not. TRump's "brand" was already toxic. This psycho will NEVER get it back. See you in the streets.
Does not anyone have a clue that building a palace on White House Ground, gilding the Offal Office with bling, creating an outrageous,juvenile and insulting Hall of Presidents, putting his name on government office, issuing a coin with his face on it, building an Arc of Trumph is prima facie evidence that he isn't going anywhere, except on a gurney.
And it is not delusion either, they are, according to Steve Bannon working on it, and it won't require an election either.
This is not an administration, it is a regime, any semblance of an administration died months ago.
The administration that was, is history, and in it's place a facade, a tool by which executive orders will be enforced.
It took 250 years to build the administration and three months to tear it down, it can not be rebuilt. Maybe that is a good thing, it needs to be rebuilt to meet the needs of the 21st Century and future, but first we have to overthrow the regime by causing an internal collapse.
Boycott, resistance, sabotage, general strike,. Our only tools because the regime has the guns
First the came for the trans and I did nothing because I wasn't trans, then they came for the immigrants and I did nothing because I wasn't an immigrant...
Trump's mindset requires him to turn everything into a monument to his greatness. No one will ever love him as much as he wants to be loved, so it falls to him to honor himself with all the low-brow tacky ornamentation that gives him so much joy.
The bigger and more numerous the monuments, the greater is the evidence of an insecure ego. Dementia weakens impulse control, which likely explains why Trump is gilding everything he touches. That Trump's dementia is now manifesting as derangement was clear as a bell in the 9PM rant and the new insults tacked below his useless walk of fame.
Time to remove this guy from office. Past time, in fact - waaaaay past time.
Republicans need to grow some spines or stop calling themselves "Republicans", since not going against authoritarian actions is antithetical to supporting a republic.
Thank You Thom! I think I'll send your essay to school with my 11th grader for his U.S. History class. If he gets in any manner of "trouble" for it I will take great delight fighting a very public fight to defend both him and the essay. Thom, you continually inspire! Signed, a grateful Texan
We need to remove a lot more than just this one person from office. We need to look closely at who is pulling the strings of this demented puppet with a big mouth and megalomaniac personality.
We can’t have it both ways. Either he is demented and incompetent, which I believe he is, or he is someone who is capable of negotiating treaties and making active, complicated, daily decisions and even knowing the inner workings of his office, the country, immigration, international affairs and interplay of international leaders, results and consequences of trade snd tariffs, Musk’s and his hired hands harvesting our personal tax and SS info, endless financial deals, renovation of grand ballrooms to the tune of hundreds if millions of dollars, health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid and now a potential war with a third world country over “our oil”? Which is it?
Who is really running this country, now? Who’s making all this illegal and asinine decisions and basically scraping off the top from our country’s hard earned tax money?
Yes, he’s no doubt deranged, and dishonest to the core. This was evident when he took office the first time, to anyone with a brain.
But, Is this also the next episode in our history of certain figures of immense wealth and power who hire criminals through party affiliation to attempt to take over the richest country on Earth by basically organizing a pseudo crime ring who pull the strings and prop up this dishonest reprobate who serves as the figurehead and fall guy when it all goes “pear shaped” which it is.
Is this another version of a Regan presidency? One so blatant that it’s not to be believed and something with such a bad script that the show should be cancelled before the first season ends?
We need to look first at the immediate circle of sycophants and aides then widen and widen the circle and always follow the money FOR power trail. It’s so hard to fathom and so frightening because it involves so many corruptible people, now in control of a vast, rich hen house now surrounded by Foxes.
You nailed it G P, he can't be both a deranged immature, psychopath, and a strategic and tactical genius, but he can be, and is a tool, but for whom?
Who is Susan Wiles, really? Where did shoe come from, who put in her in her job. She was not part of Trump's world, I am sure that he never even had seen her, before she was chosen as Chief of Staff.
The Chief of Staff controls access to the President and whispers in his ear.
Rahm Emanuel ran Obama.
The Chief of Staff is the gate keeper, and the gate keeper is a powerful position, maybe the most powerful.
This is from yesterday's CNN newsletter, "Meanwhile in America". Why is this man still running around loose?
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Trump this week put the finishing touches on his “Presidential Walk of Fame” on the covered walkway between the main White House mansion and the West Wing. The exhibit consists of presidential portraits in garish golden frames above plaques describing each commander in chief.
The potted biographies don’t correspond to any recognizable view of history. “Barack Hussein Obama” is described as “the first Black President, a community organizer, one term Senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American History.”
But the 44th president fares better than poor Joe Biden, who doesn’t get a portrait at all, but a picture of an autopen — the automatic device that Trump claims Biden used to sign bills because he wasn’t mentally up to the task. “Nicknamed both ‘Sleepy’ and ‘Crooked,’ Joe Biden was dominated by his Radical Left handlers,” reads the plaque.
A plaque honoring President Andrew Jackson states that he was “unjustifiably treated unfairly by the Press, but not as viciously and unfairly as President Abraham Lincoln and President Donald J. Trump would, in the future, be.” President Ronald Reagan is described as being a “fan” of the current president. Former President Bill Clinton is praised for his late 1990s economy. But the plaque also notes, “In 2016, President Clinton’s wife, Hillary, lost the Presidency to President Donald J. Trump!”
If the odd punctuation and stray capital letters seem familiar, there’s a good reason why. “As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself,” Leavitt said.
This reminds me of the huge palace that was built in Romania by THEIR dictator, while people starved. We know how that ended for their “leader” and his wife. BTW, why would Trump need TWO executive residences, one at the White House and one above the ballroom? For the executive mistresses?
Trump is turning the White House into another MAL, giving us a message that he is going to leave by his own volition. Furthermore, his naming building as Trump _____. I expect that the ballroom will eventually be called the throne room and will have a “gold” Trump on the roof. And Washington DC becomes Washington District of Trump (DT) or Trump DC. He telling us his plans with every change.
Trump is frequently labelled a narcissist. His behavior more accurately describes a clinically classic paranoid personality. He has elevated paranoia (especially the delusions of grandeur and the suspicion) to a kind of great positive attribute and he has found dozens of others with the same mental disease to team up with him in becoming our lords. The good news is that they inevitably turn on each other and fight for dominance, and, like Susie Q. Wiles, they do not have enough awareness to even hide their insanity. They are all self-destructive. But we cannot wait for them to self-destruct. We have to help them in that ASAP.
It seems clear to me that Trump has large amounts of the whole cluster of the 5 "dramatic-erratic" personality disorders: narcissistic (everything is about him, egotistical, grandiose), paranoid (suspicious, believing everyone is out to get him), sociopathic (violating the rights of others, lying, cheating, inflicting harm without remorse, no conscience, no compassion or other social emotions), histrionic (high drama, attention-grabbing behaviors [opposite of "no drama Obama"], self-pitying (how badly he's been treated!!), superficial relationships, inability to accept blame for failure), and borderline (unstable mood, unrealistic positive appraisal of people easily morphing into denigration, unstable relationships). These dramatic-erratic personality disorders overlap a lot, and it's rare that a person has only one of them! Although one PD may predominate in a person, there is no such thing as just one pure PD. That's a failing of this system of categorization.
I have not yet seen an open letter in any media with a professional diagnosis of trump deranged syndrom (his own). Written by real profesional doctors / psychiatrists / etc. something explaining to all Americans the trump disaster. Signed by let’s say around thousand experts, mmhh… that would be cool. But probably they are all afraid of trump and company bad reactions? So sad.
Yes, Trump is totally deranged and TDS refers to his own constellation of behaviors. During Trump 1.0, many mental health professionals wrote about his mental illness, including the descriptive diagnosis of "malignant narcissism." Even back then, his cognitive capacities were questioned. Now, however, we don't need professionals (although I am one) because it is clear to see that the man has no comprehension of what is going on. His "speeches" and contradictory behaviors require no authoritative interpretations. He lives moment-to- moment in aggressive pursuit of his immediate and vindictive self-gratification, intellectually incapable of any real planning or policy, or even knowing what is actually happening under his regime. Knowing on some level that he can't grasp or retain knowledge, he sees himself as absolved of even trying to keep up, trusting his hand-picked lackeys to reign in loco presidentus.
I appreciate much this article. It really exposes the deep grasping after power that the Trump administration so embodies. It is truly the embodiment of human evil that needs to be exposed, needs to be countered. And you Thom have the grace to do this. Bless and continue this much needed work!
The disgusting edifice called a ballroom is NOT costing $400 million; almost certainly at least 50% is going into the lame duck Felon's pockets - Ask any architect for a realistic cost of the approximate dimension handed out (the dimensions are almost certainly exaggerated also).
I am reminded of the time we took a tour of Buckingham Palace and were in a room with a gold tureen as big as my dining room table ("yes the Queen greets guests here, and the servants polish it"). We were directed to look at a marble top table, holding a crystal lamp, one on each side of a fireplace set in the wall. What was special about this table? It was a false front that opened to reveal a staircase that led from the Queen's private apartments, so that she didn't have to cross the courtyard, in public to get there.
An "override of history" is clearly more pointed, and appropriate than our usual statement of erasing it.
There is a famous federal building in Kansas to which POSOTUS should lend his name upon his immediate relocation there - the Trump Leavenworth.
Trump also thinks he can rewrite Presidential history and slap it on a wall.....
What. A. Sh*tbag! Cleaning up after this maniac is going to be fun. It will at least be equal to the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein. Party in the USA.
Meidas Touch just did a piece comparing the bunker under the Epstein Ballroom to Hitler's bunker. TRump's renovation of the existing bunker will no doubt be his childish version.
The wealth of this nation is its diverse people. They will endure---his crap will not. TRump's "brand" was already toxic. This psycho will NEVER get it back. See you in the streets.
Wait until he renames the Washington Monument for himself. I'm surprised that he hasn't yet.
Does not anyone have a clue that building a palace on White House Ground, gilding the Offal Office with bling, creating an outrageous,juvenile and insulting Hall of Presidents, putting his name on government office, issuing a coin with his face on it, building an Arc of Trumph is prima facie evidence that he isn't going anywhere, except on a gurney.
And it is not delusion either, they are, according to Steve Bannon working on it, and it won't require an election either.
This is not an administration, it is a regime, any semblance of an administration died months ago.
The administration that was, is history, and in it's place a facade, a tool by which executive orders will be enforced.
It took 250 years to build the administration and three months to tear it down, it can not be rebuilt. Maybe that is a good thing, it needs to be rebuilt to meet the needs of the 21st Century and future, but first we have to overthrow the regime by causing an internal collapse.
Boycott, resistance, sabotage, general strike,. Our only tools because the regime has the guns
First the came for the trans and I did nothing because I wasn't trans, then they came for the immigrants and I did nothing because I wasn't an immigrant...
"Gurney". Good descriptive word (all things in a nutshell)!
Yeh,, he is in such ill health, that even with infusions of children's blood, odds are he won't make it to 2028
Trump's mindset requires him to turn everything into a monument to his greatness. No one will ever love him as much as he wants to be loved, so it falls to him to honor himself with all the low-brow tacky ornamentation that gives him so much joy.
The bigger and more numerous the monuments, the greater is the evidence of an insecure ego. Dementia weakens impulse control, which likely explains why Trump is gilding everything he touches. That Trump's dementia is now manifesting as derangement was clear as a bell in the 9PM rant and the new insults tacked below his useless walk of fame.
"Greatness." Fixed it for you.
Time to remove this guy from office. Past time, in fact - waaaaay past time.
Republicans need to grow some spines or stop calling themselves "Republicans", since not going against authoritarian actions is antithetical to supporting a republic.
What is needed Ingrid is a call to action, stop enabling the regime, starve the beast.
Several Democratic representatives have introduced articles of impeachment against Trump, including Reps. Shri Thanedar and Al Green.
Just takes a few House Republicans.
There we go again: "Ir just takes a few house Republicans" Again the forlorn hope.
A few house Republicans that will go against Trump and the MAGA base? In what universe?
Four already have regarding healthcare.
Four and no more. Don't expect any more to sign on.
Indeed! Not holding my breath.
The house, the senate and SCOTUS need to hear the people’s call. Thank you Thom Hartmann Team for your on going support of truth and insight!!
Thank You Thom! I think I'll send your essay to school with my 11th grader for his U.S. History class. If he gets in any manner of "trouble" for it I will take great delight fighting a very public fight to defend both him and the essay. Thom, you continually inspire! Signed, a grateful Texan
Hope he has a pocket copy of the Constitution.
You are the best kind of parent, Bo.
What do we know him for? I think Shakespeare's Kent from King Lear had the answer.
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a
base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a
lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,
glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a
bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but
the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,
and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I
will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest
the least syllable of thy addition.
We need to remove a lot more than just this one person from office. We need to look closely at who is pulling the strings of this demented puppet with a big mouth and megalomaniac personality.
We can’t have it both ways. Either he is demented and incompetent, which I believe he is, or he is someone who is capable of negotiating treaties and making active, complicated, daily decisions and even knowing the inner workings of his office, the country, immigration, international affairs and interplay of international leaders, results and consequences of trade snd tariffs, Musk’s and his hired hands harvesting our personal tax and SS info, endless financial deals, renovation of grand ballrooms to the tune of hundreds if millions of dollars, health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid and now a potential war with a third world country over “our oil”? Which is it?
Who is really running this country, now? Who’s making all this illegal and asinine decisions and basically scraping off the top from our country’s hard earned tax money?
Yes, he’s no doubt deranged, and dishonest to the core. This was evident when he took office the first time, to anyone with a brain.
But, Is this also the next episode in our history of certain figures of immense wealth and power who hire criminals through party affiliation to attempt to take over the richest country on Earth by basically organizing a pseudo crime ring who pull the strings and prop up this dishonest reprobate who serves as the figurehead and fall guy when it all goes “pear shaped” which it is.
Is this another version of a Regan presidency? One so blatant that it’s not to be believed and something with such a bad script that the show should be cancelled before the first season ends?
We need to look first at the immediate circle of sycophants and aides then widen and widen the circle and always follow the money FOR power trail. It’s so hard to fathom and so frightening because it involves so many corruptible people, now in control of a vast, rich hen house now surrounded by Foxes.
You nailed it G P, he can't be both a deranged immature, psychopath, and a strategic and tactical genius, but he can be, and is a tool, but for whom?
Who is Susan Wiles, really? Where did shoe come from, who put in her in her job. She was not part of Trump's world, I am sure that he never even had seen her, before she was chosen as Chief of Staff.
The Chief of Staff controls access to the President and whispers in his ear.
Rahm Emanuel ran Obama.
The Chief of Staff is the gate keeper, and the gate keeper is a powerful position, maybe the most powerful.
This is from yesterday's CNN newsletter, "Meanwhile in America". Why is this man still running around loose?
--
Trump this week put the finishing touches on his “Presidential Walk of Fame” on the covered walkway between the main White House mansion and the West Wing. The exhibit consists of presidential portraits in garish golden frames above plaques describing each commander in chief.
The potted biographies don’t correspond to any recognizable view of history. “Barack Hussein Obama” is described as “the first Black President, a community organizer, one term Senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American History.”
But the 44th president fares better than poor Joe Biden, who doesn’t get a portrait at all, but a picture of an autopen — the automatic device that Trump claims Biden used to sign bills because he wasn’t mentally up to the task. “Nicknamed both ‘Sleepy’ and ‘Crooked,’ Joe Biden was dominated by his Radical Left handlers,” reads the plaque.
A plaque honoring President Andrew Jackson states that he was “unjustifiably treated unfairly by the Press, but not as viciously and unfairly as President Abraham Lincoln and President Donald J. Trump would, in the future, be.” President Ronald Reagan is described as being a “fan” of the current president. Former President Bill Clinton is praised for his late 1990s economy. But the plaque also notes, “In 2016, President Clinton’s wife, Hillary, lost the Presidency to President Donald J. Trump!”
If the odd punctuation and stray capital letters seem familiar, there’s a good reason why. “As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself,” Leavitt said.
This reminds me of the huge palace that was built in Romania by THEIR dictator, while people starved. We know how that ended for their “leader” and his wife. BTW, why would Trump need TWO executive residences, one at the White House and one above the ballroom? For the executive mistresses?
Trump is turning the White House into another MAL, giving us a message that he is going to leave by his own volition. Furthermore, his naming building as Trump _____. I expect that the ballroom will eventually be called the throne room and will have a “gold” Trump on the roof. And Washington DC becomes Washington District of Trump (DT) or Trump DC. He telling us his plans with every change.
Trump is frequently labelled a narcissist. His behavior more accurately describes a clinically classic paranoid personality. He has elevated paranoia (especially the delusions of grandeur and the suspicion) to a kind of great positive attribute and he has found dozens of others with the same mental disease to team up with him in becoming our lords. The good news is that they inevitably turn on each other and fight for dominance, and, like Susie Q. Wiles, they do not have enough awareness to even hide their insanity. They are all self-destructive. But we cannot wait for them to self-destruct. We have to help them in that ASAP.
It seems clear to me that Trump has large amounts of the whole cluster of the 5 "dramatic-erratic" personality disorders: narcissistic (everything is about him, egotistical, grandiose), paranoid (suspicious, believing everyone is out to get him), sociopathic (violating the rights of others, lying, cheating, inflicting harm without remorse, no conscience, no compassion or other social emotions), histrionic (high drama, attention-grabbing behaviors [opposite of "no drama Obama"], self-pitying (how badly he's been treated!!), superficial relationships, inability to accept blame for failure), and borderline (unstable mood, unrealistic positive appraisal of people easily morphing into denigration, unstable relationships). These dramatic-erratic personality disorders overlap a lot, and it's rare that a person has only one of them! Although one PD may predominate in a person, there is no such thing as just one pure PD. That's a failing of this system of categorization.
I have not yet seen an open letter in any media with a professional diagnosis of trump deranged syndrom (his own). Written by real profesional doctors / psychiatrists / etc. something explaining to all Americans the trump disaster. Signed by let’s say around thousand experts, mmhh… that would be cool. But probably they are all afraid of trump and company bad reactions? So sad.
Yes, Trump is totally deranged and TDS refers to his own constellation of behaviors. During Trump 1.0, many mental health professionals wrote about his mental illness, including the descriptive diagnosis of "malignant narcissism." Even back then, his cognitive capacities were questioned. Now, however, we don't need professionals (although I am one) because it is clear to see that the man has no comprehension of what is going on. His "speeches" and contradictory behaviors require no authoritative interpretations. He lives moment-to- moment in aggressive pursuit of his immediate and vindictive self-gratification, intellectually incapable of any real planning or policy, or even knowing what is actually happening under his regime. Knowing on some level that he can't grasp or retain knowledge, he sees himself as absolved of even trying to keep up, trusting his hand-picked lackeys to reign in loco presidentus.
They are afraid, Trump is like Hitler he is ruling by fear.
Actually, thousands are on the record.
On the record is of no consequence, Words do nothing, action matters.
You said they are cowards. You'd be wrong -- as usual. They stake their professional reputations.
Just yesterday I wrote about it....
No Trump I did not say they are cowards. I said words do nothing, action matters.
I called you Trump because you do the same shit he does.
Fuck you.
Unlike yolu, I spend time and money for the cause, asshole.
I appreciate much this article. It really exposes the deep grasping after power that the Trump administration so embodies. It is truly the embodiment of human evil that needs to be exposed, needs to be countered. And you Thom have the grace to do this. Bless and continue this much needed work!
The disgusting edifice called a ballroom is NOT costing $400 million; almost certainly at least 50% is going into the lame duck Felon's pockets - Ask any architect for a realistic cost of the approximate dimension handed out (the dimensions are almost certainly exaggerated also).
I am reminded of the time we took a tour of Buckingham Palace and were in a room with a gold tureen as big as my dining room table ("yes the Queen greets guests here, and the servants polish it"). We were directed to look at a marble top table, holding a crystal lamp, one on each side of a fireplace set in the wall. What was special about this table? It was a false front that opened to reveal a staircase that led from the Queen's private apartments, so that she didn't have to cross the courtyard, in public to get there.
An "override of history" is clearly more pointed, and appropriate than our usual statement of erasing it.