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CatWoman

(80,253 posts)
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:08 PM 18 hrs ago

Trump has entered the Howard Hughes phase.

Saving his urine, endlessly watching Ice Station Zebra.

That comment made me LOL. The comment was brought on by this post from Trump:

We have subsidized Denmark, and all of the Countries of the European Union, and others, for many years by not charging them Tariffs, or any other forms of remuneration. Now, after Centuries, it is time for Denmark to give back — World Peace is at stake! China and Russia want Greenland, and there is not a thing that Denmark can do about it. They currently have two dogsleds as protection, one added recently. Only the United States of America, under PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, can play in this game, and very successfully, at that! Nobody will touch this sacred piece of Land, especially since the National Security of the United States, and the World at large, is at stake. On top of everything else, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland have journeyed to Greenland, for purposes unknown. This is a very dangerous situation for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet. These Countries, who are playing this very dangerous game, have put a level of risk in play that is not tenable or sustainable. Therefore, it is imperative that, in order to protect Global Peace and Security, strong measures be taken so that this potentially perilous situation end quickly, and without question. Starting on February 1st, 2026, all of the above mentioned Countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland), will be charged a 10% Tariff on any and all goods sent to the United States of America. On June 1st, 2026, the Tariff will be increased to 25%. This Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland. The United States has been trying to do this transaction for over 150 years. Many Presidents have tried, and for good reason, but Denmark has always refused. Now, because of The Golden Dome, and Modern Day Weapons Systems, both Offensive and Defensive, the need to ACQUIRE is especially important. Hundreds of Billions of Dollars are currently being spent on Security Programs having to do with “The Dome,” including for the possible protection of Canada, and this very brilliant, but highly complex system can only work at its maximum potential and efficiency, because of angles, metes, and bounds, if this Land is included in it. The United States of America is immediately open to negotiation with Denmark and/or any of these Countries that have put so much at risk, despite all that we have done for them, including maximum protection, over so many decades. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-blurts-epic-saturday-morning-rant-threatening-allies-and-referencing-dogsleds-in-bid-to-seize-greenland/

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Trump has entered the Howard Hughes phase. (Original Post) CatWoman 18 hrs ago OP
When will any of the worthless corporate media ask the obvious question aloud: RockRaven 18 hrs ago #1
Miller & Noem are behind most of the domestic activity, while Donnie focuses on western hemisphere domination CrispyQ 18 hrs ago #4
Insidious Stephen Miller is the demented degenerate's scrivener.. agingdem 18 hrs ago #6
Jimmy Kimmel had the best line: We have to remember, Stephen Miller is from Santa Monica not Transylvania. CrispyQ 17 hrs ago #10
Trump's clearly insane, and there are a lot of people with self-serving agendas whispering crazy shit in his ear. sop 18 hrs ago #2
WTAF is he talking about? Layzeebeaver 18 hrs ago #3
he's treating Greenland the same way he treated the Nobel Prize CatWoman 18 hrs ago #5
Pedo is fixated on destroying NATO using powers he doesn't have. Justice matters. 18 hrs ago #7
Paragraphs were invented for a reason. greatauntoftriplets 18 hrs ago #8
A raving madman UpInArms 17 hrs ago #9
How about a 10% tariff on Bondi for blocking the release of epstein files? PSPS 17 hrs ago #11
Don the Shit Shoveler Dink Faux pas 17 hrs ago #12
"all of the above mentioned Countries,...will be charged a 10% Tariff" LudwigPastorius 17 hrs ago #13
Oh, now he's the... purr-rat beauty 17 hrs ago #14
Wow, just wow. That is one very crazy post. It's honestly pretty scary. He's nuts and it's obvious. Biophilic 16 hrs ago #15
The only thing of which I'm certain is that DJT Had NOTHING to do with writing that. MineralMan 16 hrs ago #16
"Thank you for your attention to this matter" is like an office memo that its author knows everyone is going to delete.. eppur_se_muova 16 hrs ago #17
Holy moly...that drug cocktail he's on...yikes! mwmisses4289 16 hrs ago #18
Barking mad. nt chowmama 13 hrs ago #19

RockRaven

(18,782 posts)
1. When will any of the worthless corporate media ask the obvious question aloud:
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:21 PM
18 hrs ago

"With a POTUS this demented, what unelected person is actually making the decisions presented as his?"

CrispyQ

(40,719 posts)
4. Miller & Noem are behind most of the domestic activity, while Donnie focuses on western hemisphere domination
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:30 PM
18 hrs ago

& Hegseth cheers him on. We are deep in the rabbit hole with no end in sight.

agingdem

(8,775 posts)
6. Insidious Stephen Miller is the demented degenerate's scrivener..
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:42 PM
18 hrs ago

Trump spews crazy vomit, Miller takes notes and then turns Trump’s verbal diarrhea into Fox talking points..

CrispyQ

(40,719 posts)
10. Jimmy Kimmel had the best line: We have to remember, Stephen Miller is from Santa Monica not Transylvania.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:03 PM
17 hrs ago


I have to laugh at little things like that or I'd go crazy. Also, it's good to remember these are not the best & brightest. Miller is not some super villan. I think he was a misfit who was bullied & now he wants to hit back. I think a lot of maga were either bullied in high school, or they peaked out in high school. Either way, they feel they have something to prove.

sop

(17,602 posts)
2. Trump's clearly insane, and there are a lot of people with self-serving agendas whispering crazy shit in his ear.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:22 PM
18 hrs ago

Layzeebeaver

(2,168 posts)
3. WTAF is he talking about?
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:23 PM
18 hrs ago

“Angles metes and bounds”? Huh? This isn’t a school playground. It’s a fecking continental sized island.

Jump to the keystone cops style survey team wearing their little maga hats running abound putting up a tripod that keeps falling over and finally ending up as little human pop-cicles being licked by a polar bear.

CatWoman

(80,253 posts)
5. he's treating Greenland the same way he treated the Nobel Prize
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:38 PM
18 hrs ago

obtain it by any means necessary

Justice matters.

(9,455 posts)
7. Pedo is fixated on destroying NATO using powers he doesn't have.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:47 PM
18 hrs ago

Just what Putin wants since two decades, if not more.

Article 5 would require NATO nations to respond to any attack from Russia or China on Greenland and they both KNOW that so that's WHY they don't attack Greenland.

It's called a deterrent!

Still nobody is actually doing anything effective to remove that mind-sick traitor?

greatauntoftriplets

(178,659 posts)
8. Paragraphs were invented for a reason.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:53 PM
18 hrs ago

Use them, TACO boy.

I'm recovering from surgery to fix a detached retina and this is impossible to read.

LudwigPastorius

(14,263 posts)
13. "all of the above mentioned Countries,...will be charged a 10% Tariff"
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 03:00 PM
17 hrs ago

He still doesn't understand how tariffs work.

Biophilic

(6,425 posts)
15. Wow, just wow. That is one very crazy post. It's honestly pretty scary. He's nuts and it's obvious.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 03:14 PM
16 hrs ago

MineralMan

(150,694 posts)
16. The only thing of which I'm certain is that DJT Had NOTHING to do with writing that.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 03:40 PM
16 hrs ago

Half of the vocabulary is not part of his working vocabulary, and the statement is relatively grammatical and organized. None of that is part of Trump's writing pattern, style, or capability.

Who wrote it? Stephen Miller most likely. His hand is in a lot of Trump's latest statements.

eppur_se_muova

(41,077 posts)
17. "Thank you for your attention to this matter" is like an office memo that its author knows everyone is going to delete..
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 03:50 PM
16 hrs ago

without reading.

It says that the author has fulfilled his obligations as he sees them and is now going to leave it up to others to implement the "new policy", then bitch and whine when it doesn't get done, and play the aggrieved party like a real drama queen.

What a wretched excuse for a human being he is.

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