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Zorro

(18,691 posts)
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 10:07 PM Nov 2025

Trump Promises to Torture Disobedient GOP Senators With 3 A.M. Phone Calls

A MAGA insider promises the president will “make their lives a living hell.”

President Donald Trump has plans to use sleep deprivation as a way to throw his weight around with GOP senators.

As the government shutdown quickly approaches its 35th day, the president is growing increasingly agitated that Democrats have not caved to Republican demands. Now, he’s ready to use extreme tactics to get GOP senators to comply with his desire to deploy “the nuclear option” to eliminate the Senate filibuster rule.

An unnamed MAGA adviser is promising that Trump will make the lives of senators who don’t comply with his demand to destroy the long-standing check on power “a living hell,” according to a new report from Axios.

“He will call them at three o’clock in the morning. He will blow them up in their districts. He will call them un-American. He will call them old creatures of a dying institution. Believe you me, he’s going to make their lives just hell,” the advisor told the publication.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-promises-to-torture-disobedient-gop-senators-with-3-am-calls/
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Trump Promises to Torture Disobedient GOP Senators With 3 A.M. Phone Calls (Original Post) Zorro Nov 2025 OP
Just block his number. NameAlreadyTaken Nov 2025 #1
Exactly. Why does anyone accept this lunatic's phone calls? tanyev Nov 2025 #3
And even the pre-cellphone days GopherGal Nov 2025 #7
Turn the phones off and get back to work for your constituents..it's We the People, remember? Deuxcents Nov 2025 #2
Hope some Republican Senator goes all Les Grossman on him Zorro Nov 2025 #4
That was fun Drum Nov 2025 #6
Great movie! Initech Nov 2025 #9
Straight to voicemail. Drum Nov 2025 #5
Seriously, Futurama had the right idea! Initech Nov 2025 #8
I doubt the NRA is wanting to do away with the filibuster. Emile Nov 2025 #10
and why not. this 'being' having made OUR lives a "living H-E-DoubleHockeyStick".... sprinkleeninow Nov 2025 #11
I wouldn't answer the phone. Beacool Nov 2025 #12

GopherGal

(2,905 posts)
7. And even the pre-cellphone days
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 10:38 PM
Nov 2025

we figured out to just unplug the phone from the wall when we went to bed.

But logic is not the MAGA strong point, so they might not be able to figure out the number blocking feature, either.

Deuxcents

(26,912 posts)
2. Turn the phones off and get back to work for your constituents..it's We the People, remember?
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 10:11 PM
Nov 2025
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