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Miles Archer

(24,338 posts)
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 04:37 PM Sep 2025

It was a "minor hydraulic issue," but Trump wasn't a dick about it at all, no smartassed insulting remarks. USA!

Trump helicopter makes emergency landing with president aboard

https://www.rawstory.com/marine-one/

The unplanned landing added an ironic twist to Trump's subsequent remarks to reporters traveling with him on Air Force One. "Fly safely," he said. "You know why I say that? Because I'm on the flight. I want to get home, otherwise I wouldn't care."

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It was a "minor hydraulic issue," but Trump wasn't a dick about it at all, no smartassed insulting remarks. USA! (Original Post) Miles Archer Sep 2025 OP
He constantly has to insult, demean, humiliate others. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #1
I'm surprised he didn't blame Biden Coldwater Sep 2025 #2
Be careful about jokes. They might get you fired! newdeal2 Sep 2025 #6
Gee, you don't think he might be a grandiose piece of sh*t, do you? Duncan Grant Sep 2025 #3
You know how many worthless excuses for human beings live in this country? Aristus Sep 2025 #7
Because it's all about the "me!" Grins Sep 2025 #4
One would think that thee MAGAts would be bored with this after a decade-plus Miles Archer Sep 2025 #5

Duncan Grant

(8,938 posts)
3. Gee, you don't think he might be a grandiose piece of sh*t, do you?
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 04:51 PM
Sep 2025

How does this worthless excuse for a human being maintain power and position? I cannot understand it. It makes no sense.

Aristus

(72,525 posts)
7. You know how many worthless excuses for human beings live in this country?
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 05:47 PM
Sep 2025

We attract them like flies to honey. The USA is practically the capital destination for the world's population of WEFHBs.

Miles Archer

(24,338 posts)
5. One would think that thee MAGAts would be bored with this after a decade-plus
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 05:42 PM
Sep 2025

The changes in Trump from January to the present is that he's more vulgar more often.

I think he's smart enough to know that the country wouldn't sit still for "a third term," so the MAGAts can't vote for him again, and in Trump's "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY" transactional world, their only worth is in their bank accounts (sneakers! digital trading cards! cologne!), and the social media trolls who spread his droppings from "Truth Social."

He's literally stopped pretending that he cares about anyone or anything but himself.

Sure, there wasn't much of that in the first term, but now, there's none at all.

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