He's rented a neon billboard and he is telegraphing it in letters 20 feet high. We need to wake up!

[senseandsensibility]

He said this about deploying troops to Chicago this morning: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

He said that confidently to a cowed and yes, useless press.

I know that we are exhausted and overwhelmed. But this is not a rehearsal, gang. This is happening.

[BoRaGard]

1. press just sucks this up unquestioningly

sad

they have failed themselves, and America

[senseandsensibility]

2. Yes, as he's accelerated his efforts to consolidate power this week

they've continued to normalize and sanewash. The only thing I see even the slightest pushback on is the firing of Lisa Cook, but then again that involves some of the elites' money.

[sheshe2]

6. You missed the news about the federal judge in MD?

And now in the news, tsf may be backing down on sending troops to Illinois. There is a lot happening out there. Nicholle Wallace had a great show tonight.

Duckworth and Pritzger speeches were on MSNBC and Sen Warren will be on at 9, Jen Psaki's show.

[ShazzieB]

28. Glad to hear all of this!

I knew Gov. Pritzker was standing up to him and hoping he'd eventually back down. Fingers still crossed!🤞

[sheshe2]

30. Me too!

I read that tsf doesn't want to be embarrassed by Pritzker. He is no match for the Gov!

[ShazzieB]

65. Trump has met his match all right!

[sheshe2]

66. I love it!

[calimary]

14. Shameful.

I used to be a small part of that audio/video/print machinery. I'm embarrassed when I watch what passes for media coverage these days. I think they're all just afraid of him. That's NOT how it's supposed to work! Politicians are supposed to be afraid of the press, NOT the other way around.

[Skittles]

23. yes

I don't think they're all in Fox News mode (kissing Trump ass) so much as they are afraid of being targeted by him

either way it ENABLES HIM

[soldierant]

39. That, or

of being fired by their billionaire bosses and not being able to find a new job.

[Skittles]

41. well it's kind of a fascist circle

the rich fucks are kissing Trump ass hoping for big favors

[B.See]

44. Imo, it makes them COMPLICIT and

equally CULPABLE.

[Skittles]

45. oh absolutely

they certainly are not patriots

[Mz Pip]

73. Rather than confront him

they’re waiting him out. Unfortunately, Jan 20, 2029 is a long time to wait. Trump is just going to get worse.

Big corporations are doing the same thing. They have the luxury of waiting and enduring the tariffs that small businesses don’t have.

[Whiskeytide]

40. I think the problem is that the Press' power over ...

… politicians use to be worry that the Press would expose something the politician feared would damage him/her, and they might lose their status. The cult phenomenon, along with Тяцмp‘s demonization of the Press, has erased that power. Тяцмp Doesn’t fear them. He has learned that his cult will never turn on him, and consequently he can cower the media.

[sheshe2]

43. See my post #6

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20589078

You should watch MSNBC starting at 4PM EST, calimary. It is all I will watch and they are dayum good. They had former Maj General Randy Manner of the NG, along with others I mentioned in post6. He did not mince words about trumps actions. He did not mince any words about the dire situation we face. We are in trouble and Wallace never glosses over that fact.

[pansypoo53219]

47. BUTBUTBUT they have to keep their ACCESS!

[Oeditpus Rex]

57. Yes, they do

Can you imagine a story on a football game written by someone who didn't see it?

[poozwah]

49. maga zine

the press sucks it up because they are maga. corporate america, including the press, is all in on trump and his insane vision for america.

[ThreeNoSeep]

60. As if

nt

[Oeditpus Rex]

54. What do you expect them to do?

Tell him to his face he's a sociopath?

[Klarkashton]

3. The mainstream press isn't going to save us.

[ananda]

4. It should have been boycotted completely for the last 20 years.

Ratings...

[senseandsensibility]

5. Not too late to start now.

But yeah, I have no faith in journalists to stop this. The ones who cover him at least do not seem interested in that at all. They are part of the problem.

[Joinfortmill]

37. That's for damn sure

[Oeditpus Rex]

55. That isn't its job

Never has been.

[Scrivener7]

79. Depends on how you look at it. We would never have been here in the first place if there were an impartial press.

[Oeditpus Rex]

82. I trust you mean

if there were no FOXPAC et al, assuming you're using "press" in place of "news media."

[2na fisherman]

7. Echoes of Nixon 1977

"Well, when the President does it ... that means that it is not illegal."

[Skittles]

9. 1977?

[Xavier Breath]

11. That's when the David Frost interview took place where he said that line.

[senseandsensibility]

12. Yeah, I had to think about that too

Nixon was kind of in exile for a few years until that interview. Because no one had really heard from him since his resignation (he was in disgrace), that interview was a big deal.

[Xavier Breath]

15. I was 10 or 11 at the time so the interview wasn't top of mind for me.

But I saw snippets over the years and the very well done Frost/Nixon movie that came out in the 2000s.

[Karasu]

27. It's insane to think that the Supreme Court took that Nixon quote and turned it into fucking law in this country.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

33. The Sinister Six is wholly corrupt.

[SharonAnn]

72. The sinister six are connected to and influenced by Opus Dei.

Opus Dei is a fascist far right cult in the Catholic Church.

It doesn’t support democracy.

[Hekate]

35. One of the things I thought got settled when we got rid of Nixon: nobody is above the law..

I remember thinking — the system works. I held that close to my heart for decades.

When this SCOTUS gave its ruling on Trump’s criminal behavior, and said that a president in office most certainly IS above the law, my blood pressure went up so high I thought I was going to have a stroke.

Nixon & Trump are evil — astonishingly, Trump is more so because of his enablers. But 6 members the current SCOTUS are also doing terrible evil to the fabric of our nation’s laws.

[senseandsensibility]

38. The Supreme Court seems a little protective of the Fed

based on past comments. Still, I am not counting on them.

[maddiemom]

48. Much as I despised Nixon...

he really, REALLY wanted to be revered in history as a major statesman . Trump's priorities lie in a very different direction.

[gerryatwork]

8. The press

sane washes anything trump says.

[calimary]

16. Welcome to DU, gerryatwork!

And welcome to the "Grinding My Teeth in Disgust" club.

[Skittles]

10. what he MEANS is

I have the right to do anything I want, because no one will do anything about it"

[2na fisherman]

13. Thanks to Justice Roberts et al

Trump believes he can act in this way because the Supreme Court has given him absolute immunity to do anything. And his Project 2025 fellow fascists continue to promote the fiction of the "unitary executive."

[senseandsensibility]

17. That is absolutely true

Welcome to DU!

[calimary]

19. Welcome to DU, 2na fisherman!

If we take back the House next year, OR the House AND the Senate, maybe we can at least start doing something about this.

[Skittles]

21. you know it, 2na fisherman

welcome to DU! We need all the help we can get

[vanlassie]

67. Absolutely true. We should start saying "Trump/Roberts".

[bdamomma]

76. Well if

the felon keeps pushing somebody will push back. Meaning us.

[Brenda]

18. A MAGA fan in my area LITERALLY DID THAT.

A few months ago he put up a new electronic billboard at an intersection. And in big red letters it said something like:

"Donald Trump is the greatest president America has ever had and has done more things to help Americans than any other president in history!"

That's all it said until a week later it had a realtor ad showing her pretty face and a red dress on.

I've gotten so used to looking right instead of left there when I drive by, I have no idea what it says now.

[senseandsensibility]

20. OMG

I can't imagine living in an area where a business person would proudly do that. Now I'm not saying that there are no trump supporting realtors in CA, but they know better than to alienate the majority of their would be clients.

[Brenda]

24. Well, I am in a pretty red place.

However, the area this sign was installed is a VERY growing blue and black community, so I keep waiting to see it smashed to pieces.

They're so fucking delusional they think they can "change people's minds" by INSTALLING BIG ELECTRONIC BILLBOARDS TELLING US WHAT TO THINK.

Of course they'll cry free speech for that fascist public display while violently arresting peaceful protestors and banning books.

It's actually small when compared to some of the church electronic signs around here.

[Bengus81]

62. He actually put up his own sign? You should have called the City and had it taken down

Those kinds of signs are under regulations from a City.

[spanone]

22. The most dangerous man on earth is living in the Peoples' House.

And he's shitting gold everywhere.

[LW1977]

25. And himself

[WmChris]

26. Because

John Roberts and his band of sycophants told me I could.

[flashman13]

29. See the post earlier today, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN ......

[MadameButterfly]

31. WOW

Just wow.

[FakeNoose]

32. If the US media were "bowing down" to Chump, why would he need to rent a billboard?

No they aren't bowing down to Chump. A lot of them are finally - FINALLY! - showing some backbone and calling him on his lies. They are questioning him and fact-checking him. He doesn't LIKE THAT!

The billboard he rented should be invoiced to Chump as a personal expense. It's not within the scope of the presidency to rent billboards for any reason.

Uncle Sam should not pay for this. We already pay the salaries of all of his White House staff which includes all of the press staff and public relations employees. No president has ever done this and Chump isn't doing it either.

[quakerboy]

34. His friends own the press

They also have full, uncontested control of the executive branch, both parts of the legislative branch, and the judicial branch. In addition they control a majority of state houses and legislatures.

And now they have a fully publicly funded unaccountable private army building.

Its not happening. It happened.

[Oeditpus Rex]

58. Name these 'friends' of his

who "own the press."

[Joinfortmill]

36. Yup. Fuck MSM. Watch independent journalist

Stay Strong. Resist! And fuck Trump and his fascist pigs. I'm old, tired, and pissed off.

[CaptainTruth]

42. And for the record, I want people in my foxhole who are determined to fight...

...even when we're being assaulted by the enemy & about to be overrun.

I will never say "we've lost" & give up before the real fight has even begun. I will never surrender in advance, & when "foxhole" time comes, & sadly I fear there's a very real chance it will come, we will need thousands & hopefully a million or more like-minded persons to defend our country.

[LudwigPastorius]

46. In Trump, the Flaming Chicken of Moral Hazard has come home to roost.

Trump's fascist grip on the country it the inevitable outcome of pardoning Richard Nixon instead of prosecuting him, failing to impeach Reagan for Iran-Contra, failing to impeach George H. W. Bush for Iran-Contra, failing to impeach George W. Bush for manufacturing pretenses to go to war, illegal surveillance of Americans, and conducting torture, and failing to convict Trump for abuse of power, obstruction, and incitement of insurrection.

[WiVoter]

50. Is This Figurative or Is There A Billboard?

He’s sick AF, no question of that.

[Vinca]

51. And this morning the chat on "Morning Joe" is about what is wrong with the Democrats and why aren't

they doing anything. It really pissed me off. No blame for the GOP Congress that has abdicated its powers, it's all the Democrats fault.

[bucolic_frolic]

52. A desperate plea in great denial

of multiple health issues. Trying to maintain control in one area because he has no control in others.

This too shall pass.

[._.]

53. The problem is..

He's also criminally insane.

[JustAnotherGen]

56. The rapist thinks he's untouchable

He's not. What we need are the names of those deployed.

They need to be punished for following orders once the regime falls.

[Farmer-Rick]

59. Our democracy is broken

And it is all due to the filthy-rich capitalist who are allowed to accumulate more wealth than a small country.

So what do these obscenely rich egomaniacs do besides raping small children? They put in as ruler a psycho, pedophile, idiot, dementia riddled, buffoon, fascist dictator. They put him in charge because they can get him to do the stupidest, most immoral and greedy things they can think of. He is their puppet. Thank Bill Gates, Zuckerberg and Bezos for giving us pedo Trump, dictator in charge

[Historic NY]

61. Trump hand picked press would eat shit sandwiches on sesame seed buns.

[OldBaldy1701E]

63. Then, we need to stop him, yes? (n/t)

[senseandsensibility]

68. Absolutely!

Yes. But we are right to question whether some in positions of great responsibility are up to the task.

[Scrivener7]

78. And to notice that they absolutely are not. And the little posse can swarm

and insult and harass all they want, and insist that all is well, nothing more can be done, but we have bigger fish to fry than that nonsense.

[annielion]

64. Apparently this is what a malignant narcissist believes

From what I'm learning, a malignant narcissist believes they know everything and can do anything. And they will not listen to anyone who does not agree with them.

[mac56]

69. Distraction

[orleans]

70. where is the billboard, what does it say?

do you have a link?

[Initech]

71. He has gone totally fucking mad with power. He needs to be arrested now.

[Passages]

74. Yep.

[bdamomma]

75. Removal

of this cretin is necessary. Russia, China and India are installing themselves as a new world order, because of this inept sick unstable man/child. He has unleashed the National Guard on the American people, what don't people understand??? that he is assaulting Americans in front of all us and the world to see.

[Farmer-Rick]

77. Well, actually pedo Trump hasn't said anything in the last 5 days

But 6 days ago he did say that

Today it may just be, "mumble, mumble, slur, slur, shhh, fuuuu, unintelligible, ma Am gr ag......."

[senseandsensibility]

80. Yes, this post is from Aug. 26!

[Heftylefty]

81. Delusions of greatness

During a 2025 interview with The Atlantic, Donald Trump said, "the second time, I run the country and the world." If you or I were to walk around saying that, we'd be admitted to the psych ward for our own protection.