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Pototan

(2,720 posts)
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 10:37 AM 13 hrs ago

Trump Melts Down in Latest Post

President Donald Trump, in a stunning Truth Social post Wednesday, branded the Jeffrey Epstein story — which has been perpetrated by the highest ranking members of his Justice Department for years — a “hoax.”

“Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at – It’s all they have – They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates,” Trump said. He added, “Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.”

The president made clear he no longer wants the support of those who remain interested in the Epstein investigation.


https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-melts-down-over-epstein-hoax-slams-supporters-who-believe-this-bullsht-i-dont-want-their-support-anymore/
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Trump Melts Down in Latest Post (Original Post) Pototan 13 hrs ago OP
This could get interesting. ms liberty 13 hrs ago #1
Sure, there will be some kerfuffle customerserviceguy 11 hrs ago #41
I refuse to allow him JustAnotherGen 11 hrs ago #42
Sure can orangecrush 2 hrs ago #77
Hahaha his past is finally catching up to him newdeal2 13 hrs ago #2
Trumpy sure has lot meltdowns lately!! riversedge 13 hrs ago #3
Why doesn't he just freaking blow a gasket and be done with it? Grim Chieftain 12 hrs ago #37
He's also extremely hypochondriac and vain Ursus Rex 10 hrs ago #59
Even Satan doesn't want him Joinfortmill 9 hrs ago #67
"I did not have pervo pedo with those hot young girls, right?" - Dirty Donnie (R-Felon) BoRaGard 13 hrs ago #4
but it's gonna be et tu 10 hrs ago #52
Without a doubt *rump is the strongest candidate that the United States has ever had for the 25th Amendment Uncle Joe 13 hrs ago #5
Yes, that's my worry about both the 25th and impeachment. soldierant 4 hrs ago #70
I hear you, but we can't let fear govern our decision making, and prevent us from doing what we know is right. Uncle Joe 4 hrs ago #74
Sounds like something is hitting a raw nerve. Irish_Dem 13 hrs ago #6
It does indeed. calimary 13 hrs ago #23
Methinks he doth protest too much Grim Chieftain 12 hrs ago #38
Very orangecrush 2 hrs ago #79
Who the fuck does he think is left to support him? spanone 13 hrs ago #7
I like your attitude Pototan 10 hrs ago #62
Why do they always use the phrase "melts down"? Aristus 13 hrs ago #8
Because there are about 5 people Hornedfrog2000 13 hrs ago #10
ORANGE toxic sludge Skittles 4 hrs ago #69
What is with his "Thank you for your attention to this matter" phrase? oregonjen 13 hrs ago #9
He thinks it makes him more "presidential". . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz 13 hrs ago #17
Congratulations on 21 years, according to Earl G's milestones post today. surfered 11 hrs ago #44
Thank you. I had forgotten it was coming around again! . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz 10 hrs ago #63
It is really weird PatSeg 13 hrs ago #25
He sounds like a regional manager of a Cinnabon Prairie Gates 10 hrs ago #55
Yeah, that sounds about right PatSeg 9 hrs ago #64
It's his his attempt at "So it is written, so it shall be done". bluesbassman 12 hrs ago #39
It is so bizarre róisín_dubh 1 hr ago #80
Very good signs. Baitball Blogger 13 hrs ago #11
Every accusation is a confession mac56 13 hrs ago #12
Donald trump is a pedo Hornedfrog2000 13 hrs ago #13
Just like a guitly toddler caught with his tiny hands in the cookie jar. Justice matters. 13 hrs ago #14
If it is a hoax..... Owens 13 hrs ago #15
Didn't Epstein die while djt was POTUS? Don't get the "eight years of lying" comment. allegorical oracle 10 hrs ago #61
He just called his hardcore QAnon base "weaklings" Arazi 13 hrs ago #16
he's the only one who has called it a 'hoax' CarolinaNC 13 hrs ago #18
Just like he did with the steele dossier mwmisses4289 11 hrs ago #50
Uh, huh. Keep talking, Professor. Hugin 13 hrs ago #19
I know ........ Beowulf42 13 hrs ago #20
Why don't reporters press him on this lie about Obama, Biden, Clinton? viva la 13 hrs ago #21
Ask Bill Barr. Kid Berwyn 13 hrs ago #22
He will croak any day now malaise 12 hrs ago #32
Guy wanted to head CIA when he was a teenager. Kid Berwyn 12 hrs ago #33
o you tease lol nt et tu 10 hrs ago #54
Wow. The one thing he was ever good at was keeping his base to heel. It's like he doesn't know how to do that anymore. Scrivener7 13 hrs ago #24
reflecting and deflecting big time here . lunatic . another badge of honor i wear, AllaN01Bear 12 hrs ago #26
Megalomania EarlG 12 hrs ago #27
Why doesn't he just fucking die already? Orrex 12 hrs ago #28
This could be a Maga "third rail". We often think there is nothing that would cause the hard core magats to stop Fil1957 12 hrs ago #29
Agreed Pototan 10 hrs ago #60
So what is the hoax? johnnyfins 12 hrs ago #30
The Real problem for Donvict re Epstein is that he had malaise 12 hrs ago #31
This is the wealthy slowly warming us up to a change IbogaProject 12 hrs ago #34
That's plausible Prairie Gates 10 hrs ago #58
Very plausible. tinrobot 27 min ago #82
If it's a hoax, then why has Trump and all of his sycophants hadEnuf 12 hrs ago #35
the ultimate outcome for this modus operandi NJCher 12 hrs ago #36
I'll go listen on Tune In. Ty electric_blue68 1 hr ago #81
It worked for him before. He needs to turn the narrative. pandr32 11 hrs ago #40
Maybe the jerk will leave..... DemMedic 11 hrs ago #43
Please oh please, someone stitch a voiceover of that insane post together with the video of Don Jr.... Ol Janx Spirit 11 hrs ago #45
One thing for sure, whoever has the list, videos and other supporting documents holds a lot of power. Buddyzbuddy 11 hrs ago #46
If it is a hoax nowforever 11 hrs ago #47
The president made clear he no longer wants the support of those who remain interested in the Epstein investigation. Texin 11 hrs ago #48
His entire post surfered 11 hrs ago #49
He's doing a fine job keeping it in the news Torchlight 11 hrs ago #51
Yes he is. underpants 10 hrs ago #53
... and so should we. Denvermosaic 10 hrs ago #56
Everything he says lastTexasDem 10 hrs ago #57
Meh . . . they'll eventually fall in line like they always do n/t markpkessinger 9 hrs ago #65
Scared much? Joinfortmill 9 hrs ago #66
points for not mentioning SOROS Skittles 4 hrs ago #68
Keep the heat turned up on the fat lying bastard wolfie001 4 hrs ago #71
Whatever keeps this fuckers blood pressure elevated... EarthFirst 4 hrs ago #72
Interesting that in a recent BBC audio interview... AntiFascist 4 hrs ago #73
Lonesome Rhodes moment I hope. HoosierDebbie 3 hrs ago #75
Okay, well now we know the Pervert-in-Chief is guilty as hell!! InAbLuEsTaTe 3 hrs ago #76
When does Trump NOT "melt down" on 'Truth' Social ??? Jack Valentino 2 hrs ago #78

customerserviceguy

(25,234 posts)
41. Sure, there will be some kerfuffle
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:46 PM
11 hrs ago

but I don't expect that this is going to bring Trump down in any way, shape or form. Let's face it, the MAGAts have pretty much had things going 100% their way since the election, this is just the first bump in the road for them. Nothing unites people like a common enemy, and that's where Trump is going with this. My prediction is that it will blow over when the next crisis comes. I'm not getting my hopes up, been there, done that.

JustAnotherGen

(35,636 posts)
42. I refuse to allow him
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:48 PM
11 hrs ago

to fire Jerome Powell and let the ensuing financial destruction distract me from the #EpsteinFiles.

newdeal2

(3,360 posts)
2. Hahaha his past is finally catching up to him
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 10:42 AM
13 hrs ago

Not the actual crimes of course, but he has been peddling filth and conspiracies for decades.

Now it’s all a hoax and you better get with the program or you’re dead to him.

Grim Chieftain

(383 posts)
37. Why doesn't he just freaking blow a gasket and be done with it?
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:29 PM
12 hrs ago

Anyone else with his temperament, obesity, and horrible diet would have stroked out years ago.

Ursus Rex

(402 posts)
59. He's also extremely hypochondriac and vain
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:43 PM
10 hrs ago

And has the trappings of great wealth, so he gets the absolute best treatment for anything that would hurt his lifestyle. I like to think that he's doing crazy secret clinic treatments and pharma cocktails that the rest of us could hardly imagine, let alone afford.

BoRaGard

(6,265 posts)
4. "I did not have pervo pedo with those hot young girls, right?" - Dirty Donnie (R-Felon)
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 10:48 AM
13 hrs ago

republicons not ever going to get into heaven...

Uncle Joe

(62,279 posts)
5. Without a doubt *rump is the strongest candidate that the United States has ever had for the 25th Amendment
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 10:51 AM
13 hrs ago

The problem is, his cabinet isn't really made up of MAGA believers so much as plain and simple sycophantic oligarchs; who have truly written off the best interests of the American People if they ever considered them in the first place.

Thanks for the thread Pototan


soldierant

(8,730 posts)
70. Yes, that's my worry about both the 25th and impeachment.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 08:05 PM
4 hrs ago

They don't hold special elections for the Pr4sidency. We'd be stuck with JD Vance - and a bunch of other sycophants who may be psychopathic, but are not demented.

Uncle Joe

(62,279 posts)
74. I hear you, but we can't let fear govern our decision making, and prevent us from doing what we know is right.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 08:31 PM
4 hrs ago

*rump is obviously unfit for office and if JD Vance isn't demented, that should decrease the chances for stumbling into World War III.

The other upside is it should actually demonstrate some measure of an executive guard rail for whoever takes over power.

*rump has most blatantly dragged the GOP into moral dishonor, increasingly apparent even among their own people, so regardless of whoever takes over during the remainder of his term, they will be facing stiff headwinds.

Aristus

(70,395 posts)
8. Why do they always use the phrase "melts down"?
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 10:59 AM
13 hrs ago

Couldn’t they just say “Trump says something characteristically crazy that the media will sane-wash, for which he will suffer no consequences, which will be ignored by anyone who could do anything about it, and will be forgotten the next time he posts crazy shit”?

I wish he really would melt down. We could get a hazmat crew in to clean up the toxic sludge, and then we’d be rid of him for good.

Hornedfrog2000

(361 posts)
10. Because there are about 5 people
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:13 AM
13 hrs ago

On this site that constantly post links to videos, etc. That have inflamatory titles to get you to click on it for advertisement money for themselves.

bluesbassman

(20,303 posts)
39. It's his his attempt at "So it is written, so it shall be done".
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:32 PM
12 hrs ago

He fancies himself as a strongman, authoritarian ruler, so patterning himself after Yul Brenner in The Ten Commandments fits the bill.

Plus he’s an A- hole.

Baitball Blogger

(50,463 posts)
11. Very good signs.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:14 AM
13 hrs ago

First, he's recognizing that he's losing his core support. And Second, this level of projection is definitely Top Gun.

Justice matters.

(8,636 posts)
14. Just like a guitly toddler caught with his tiny hands in the cookie jar.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:19 AM
13 hrs ago

It's never him. It's always his brother.

Owens

(543 posts)
15. If it is a hoax.....
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:20 AM
13 hrs ago

Then why was Epstein unalived in jail and Ghislaine is in jail now holding the cards in hopes of getting a pardon?

allegorical oracle

(5,334 posts)
61. Didn't Epstein die while djt was POTUS? Don't get the "eight years of lying" comment.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:57 PM
10 hrs ago

Biden wasn't responsible for ending Epstein's crime spree.

Arazi

(8,146 posts)
16. He just called his hardcore QAnon base "weaklings"
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:21 AM
13 hrs ago

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

More of this please!

mwmisses4289

(1,518 posts)
50. Just like he did with the steele dossier
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:32 PM
11 hrs ago

(much of which turned out to be true),
and the whole Russia thing, he kept yelling hoax!hoax! until some believed it. How long before he start with witch hunt?

Beowulf42

(274 posts)
20. I know ........
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:29 AM
13 hrs ago

you can't fix stupid, but you can't fit bat sh*t crazy either. We Democrats have let them demonize us long enough. Every damn one of us needs to stand up and shout these lies down.

viva la

(4,170 posts)
21. Why don't reporters press him on this lie about Obama, Biden, Clinton?
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:30 AM
13 hrs ago

"They did it! They made it up!"

"Really? Can you tell us what evidence you have for that accusation? And if that's so, why aren't you releasing everything to prove there's forgery involved?"

But they never seem to do that. I remember in the first term, at least occasionally a reporter would say one of his fabulations was untrue. Now they seem to just let him say obvious lies like that he brought in $16 trillion already this year.
It's disspiriting.

Kid Berwyn

(21,259 posts)
33. Guy wanted to head CIA when he was a teenager.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:07 PM
12 hrs ago

I think he ended up even higher as Putin's handler.



Who’s Enabling Putin’s Enablers?

BY SAM PIZZIGATI
CounterPunch, March 29, 2022

Where would Vladimir Putin be without the Russian oligarchy? Without Russia’s oligarchs, political leaders of the Western world have concluded, Putin would be tottering. Western leaders have made squeezing Russia’s richest a central piece of their strategy to end Putin’s Ukraine cross-border assault.

These same Western leaders, unfortunately, have failed to take seriously what ought to be an equally pressing question: Where would Russia’s oligarchs be without the West, without the Wall Streeters, wealth managers, and assorted other high-finance riff-raff “paid millions,” as Institute for Policy Studies analyst Chuck Collins puts it, “to help billionaires sequester trillions”?

Western leaders have essentially been ignoring this question almost ever since the old Soviet Union collapsed. And now we’re paying the price. Those Ukraine sanctions against Russia’s oligarchs? They come with a huge loophole. The Western world’s opaque web of tax havens and anonymous corporations is essentially rendering much of those sanctions ineffective.

Snippe…

The U.S. wealth defense industry, we need to remember, hasn’t just been helping Russian oligarchs hide their fortunes. America’s money-handlers have for years been helping them pile up ever grander fortunes. They’ve steered the illicit funds of Russian oligarchs into U.S. real estate, investment funds, and “even factories,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstein, a senior reporter on the 2016 bombshell “Panama Papers” tax avoidance exposé.

The Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has used “a network of banks, law firms and advisers in multiple countries,” the New York Times just reported, to invest “billions in American hedge funds.” Along the way, he tapped the expertise and contacts of U.S. high-finance giants ranging from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to BlackRock and the Carlyle Group.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/29/whos-enabling-putins-enablers/



Thank you for caring, malaise!

Scrivener7

(56,378 posts)
24. Wow. The one thing he was ever good at was keeping his base to heel. It's like he doesn't know how to do that anymore.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:32 AM
13 hrs ago

Or he does and he's just TERRIFIED of what is going to come out.

The irony is that I don't think it ever will come out. But that almost doesn't matter anymore.

He's lost his one talent and he's digging his grave even deeper.

I love to see it.

EarlG

(23,051 posts)
27. Megalomania
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:45 AM
12 hrs ago

He thinks he's walking on air now, and that he doesn't need any support from anyone because his presidency is God's will.

"Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker."

He's talking about Laura Loomer, Nick Fuentes, Dan Bongino, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Steve Bannon, even Lara Trump...

This could get interesting indeed.

Fil1957

(132 posts)
29. This could be a Maga "third rail". We often think there is nothing that would cause the hard core magats to stop
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:53 AM
12 hrs ago

supporting Trump. Not true. If he came out against gun ownership, most of his followers would abandon him. When he came out for vaccination, he quickly reversed himself 'cause he saw how unpopular that was with his followers. This looks like another one of those Maga third rail issues, more potent than vaccinations, not as strong as guns. But worse than either for him since this is Maga's holy grail, and he cannot change his position and release the files since he's in them. He's stuck. It's looking more and more like this has legs.

johnnyfins

(2,388 posts)
30. So what is the hoax?
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:55 AM
12 hrs ago

His supporters want the files. They think the files are full of liberal elites. Does he not understand this basic fact? If its a hoax, then what do the files contain?

malaise

(286,517 posts)
31. The Real problem for Donvict re Epstein is that he had
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:55 AM
12 hrs ago

‘So much things to say’ about his friend. There are way too many videos. Now he’s trying to run away from himself. Too late.






IbogaProject

(4,640 posts)
34. This is the wealthy slowly warming us up to a change
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:08 PM
12 hrs ago

The wealthy got their tax breaks, and now they are tired of his chaos. So they are now going to slowly grind him down, warm the public up to him going, and giving time for the transition to be arranged.

hadEnuf

(3,304 posts)
35. If it's a hoax, then why has Trump and all of his sycophants
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:19 PM
12 hrs ago

stroked the Epstein list up to a frenzy over several years?

So at the very least, Trump is saying he was running a hoax on MAGA just to get elected. And some will buy that bullshit.

But it is well past the election and he and his followers never stopped pushing it, right up to the point where it was on the AG"s desk. Then boom, it's all a hoax.

No doubt Trump's name is all over that list. Sure, there are possibly Dems on there too, but with Trump's name he becomes no better than the Dems that MAGA hates or him being a pedo is just something they can't tolerate.

Either way it appears that he may be in deep shit.

NJCher

(40,679 posts)
36. the ultimate outcome for this modus operandi
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:24 PM
12 hrs ago

Is that he did himself in. WNYC, our local public radio in the NY area, had a discussion on it this morning.

Shawn McCreesh, White House reporter for the New York Times, explains how this plan backfired and why this case remains a part of the American imagination.

Shawn explained so much about this which made sense and how ultimately it is going to cost trump a big share of these supporters. That is because for years and years and years he preached that everyone going against him was because of the Epstein files and what was in them. "They" (people like Clinton, et al) were scared of trump because he alone was leading the charge to open these files.

Now he's totally dissing these followers and telling them to blow off. He doesn't even want them as supporters, he claims.

Shawn explained that when you've heard this over and over and over again, it becomes their main support for staying behind him, even when they become aware of his many blunders.

When people like trump devise these strategies (if you want to call lying a strategy), they never think them through. They never think of the pitfalls. It's whatever gets them through the moment.

Ol Janx Spirit

(330 posts)
45. Please oh please, someone stitch a voiceover of that insane post together with the video of Don Jr....
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:03 PM
11 hrs ago

...repeating the Epstein conspiracy theory... It must be done!

It also needs to get airplay on every media available for a very long time.

Buddyzbuddy

(1,165 posts)
46. One thing for sure, whoever has the list, videos and other supporting documents holds a lot of power.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:04 PM
11 hrs ago

I think it's more than one person in control, the Videos would be at the top of the evidence pile with the list in a close second. Ms. Maxwell's memory is also on that list. She may still be in control of some of the evidence which might be used to guarantee her safety?
I don't imagine the evidence was destroyed unless discovered by the actual predator, highly unlikely.

Anyway, hopefully, the truth comes out, sooner rather than later.

nowforever

(552 posts)
47. If it is a hoax
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:12 PM
11 hrs ago

then releasing the whole file with no redactions should clear it up. Trump is a pervert and cannot control his sexual desires, I cannot imagine he spent that much time with his best friend and didn't participate.

Texin

(2,768 posts)
48. The president made clear he no longer wants the support of those who remain interested in the Epstein investigation.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:12 PM
11 hrs ago

Well then, it's a good thing for him he doesn't have to worry about those (former MAGAts) quitting him.

surfered

(7,885 posts)
49. His entire post
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:13 PM
11 hrs ago

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the FAKE and fully discredited Steele Dossier, the lying 51 “Intelligence” Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia (No, it came from Hunter Biden’s bathroom!), and even the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself, a totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton’s big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election, these Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at - It’s all they have - They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates. Also, unlike Republicans, they stick together like glue. Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bullshit,” hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years. I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

EarthFirst

(3,735 posts)
72. Whatever keeps this fuckers blood pressure elevated...
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 08:17 PM
4 hrs ago

…keep pushing him over the edge.

AntiFascist

(13,499 posts)
73. Interesting that in a recent BBC audio interview...
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 08:20 PM
4 hrs ago

Trump said that frankly he doesn't trust anyone.

HoosierDebbie

(435 posts)
75. Lonesome Rhodes moment I hope.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 09:19 PM
3 hrs ago

Except Lonesome unknowingly broadcast disparaging his followers. This one truthsocialed it directly, no accident.

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