General Trump hilarity free-for-all thread

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Q: How can you tell Trump is lying?
A: his mouth is moving and sounds are coming out of it

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/01/eleven-us-troops-were-injured-jan-8-iran-missile-strike/162502/

Nearly one dozen American troops were wounded in Iran's Jan. 8 missile attack on Iraq's al-Asad air base. This week, they were medically evacuated to U.S. military hospitals in Kuwait and Landstuhl, Germany, to be treated for traumatic brain injury and to undergo further evaluation, several U.S. defense and military officials have confirmed to Defense One.

Senior military and Trump administration officials had said on Jan. 8 that 11 Iranian missiles had caused "no casualties, no friendly casualties, whether they are U.S., coalition, contractor, et cetera."

In the past week, news organizations that were granted access to the base to film the damage and interview military personnel have reported that no Americans were killed, wounded, or "seriously injured." But the New York Times reported on Monday that some personnel had been treated for concussions.

In a Jan. 16 statement, a spokesman for the U.S. military command in Baghdad said, "As previously stated, while no U.S. service members were killed in the Jan. 8 Iranian attack on Al Asad Air base, several were treated for concussion symptoms from the blast and are still being assessed."

That particular lie had a lot of folks optimistic about avoiding war with Iran.

To be fair, he became president with his brain in even worse shape

[Juana]

Trump targets Greta Thunberg in barely coherent tirade at Davos: 'She beat me out on Time Magazine

Donald Trump has targeted Greta Thunberg for the second successive day at Davos, bemoaning the climate activist's criticism of his administration and the fact "she beat me out on Time magazine".

Speaking at a press conference before departing the World Economic Forum, the American president suggested the 17-year-old Swede "ought to focus on" other countries than the US, which he insisted was "clean and beautiful" and where "everything is good".

"Our numbers are very good, our environmental numbers. Our water numbers, our numbers on the air are tremendous. We have to do something about other continents and other countries," he said, despite the US being responsible for more cumulative carbon emissions than any other nation.

"We have a beautiful ocean called the Pacific Ocean where thousands of tons of garbage flows towards us, put there by other countries, so Greta needs to work on them," he added.

Ms Thunberg, who is also at Davos, launched a scathing attack on the US president's climate record on Tuesday, saying in a speech at the Swiss ski resort: "'Unlike you, my generation will not give up without a fight. Our house is still on fire. Your inaction is fuelling the flames."

Asked at Wednesday's press conference about those "strong words" and whether his administration was doing enough to tackle the climate emergency, Mr Trump responded: "How old is she?"

After journalists told him Ms Thunberg's age, the president: "Oh, that's good. She beat me out on Time magazine." The teenager was named Time's Person of the Year for 2019, ahead of the US president, who was on the shortlist.

Pressed further on the activist's climate message, Mr Trump said: "I would have loved to have seen her speak. I did not." He suggested Ms Thunberg's call for urgent climate action was "unrealistic to a point you can't live your lives".

The president, who has previously dismissed climate science as a "hoax" and whose administration has rolled back Obama-era environmental policies, had earlier criticised the teenager's "pessimism".

"Fear and doubt is not a good thought process because this is a time for tremendous hope and joy and optimism and action," he said at Davos on Tuesday. "To embrace the possibilities of tomorrow, we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse."

Ms Thunberg, speaking later at a panel discussion, responded by referring to "empty words and promises" by world leaders.

"You say children shouldn't worry... don't be so pessimistic and then, nothing, silence," she said.

I think we knew he's pulling a reagan and sliding into the abyss of dementia, didn't we?

[Doktor Howl]

Dementia implies that he was EVER above this level.

[Juana]

his interviews and shit in the 80s sound like an actual person talking tho? and not the unholy lovechild of one of the finding nemo seagulls and an early chatbot.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

I think we knew he's pulling a reagan and sliding into the abyss of dementia, didn't we?

Not sliding. He is demented.

[Juana]

Well yeah. He's just gotten worse.

[The Johnny]

I'll re-state an argument that i presented somewhere else in case you missed it:

https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Case-Donald-Trump-Psychiatrists/dp/1250179459

Not like I have the time to actually read it, but, professionals took that argument to the wall.

[Cain]

For those wondering, Iyad el-Baghdadi is the real deal. I've followed him for a couple of years now, and you know how carefully I curate my news sources. He's been a target of the Saudi state, and very hot on their hacking and disinfo programs in particular over the past few years.

[altered]

I have this funny feeling we're going to find out that the Saudis have their fingers in as many pies as the Russians, by the end of this.

Well. Uh.

I mean, we can already assume that much by money trails alone, I'm talking about non-financial pie-fingering here, especially because for some reason that's more shocking to me and most other people.

[Doktor Howl]

I have this funny feeling we're going to find out that the Saudis have their fingers in as many pies as the Russians, by the end of this.

Well. Uh.

I mean, we can already assume that much by money trails alone, I'm talking about non-financial pie-fingering here, especially because for some reason that's more shocking to me and most other people.

Or SOMEONE'S fingers, anyway.

[Doktor Howl]

Too soon?

[altered]

Too soon?

Nope.    Exactly right timing. It took a bit to hit me.

[Juana]

goddamn, Roger.

[Doktor Howl]

goddamn, Roger.

Jenn has announced that I am a barbarian. 

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

goddamn, Roger.

Jenn has announced that I am a barbarian.

That's why we like you.

Look what the White House posted on their youtube channel:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/theres-a-video-on-the-white-houses-official-youtube-page-calling-homosexuality-the-devils-work-2020-01-22?fbclid=IwAR1S1wO04g3iV0cPNJoXTZQ10d1rG-7cpuAGAUh9sCSCNlVvSSIDOHBsXWQ

Report, report, report.