Everybody is laughing at Trump.

[kentuck]

They think he is a fool, an immature child.

He went to the NATO summit with Putin's orders in his pocket. He threatened to withdraw all American troops from Europe. He stomped his foot and yelled that Greenland should belong to the United States. We need it for its resources. They were laughing behind his back.

He used to brag that the United States was not respected and were ridiculed by the world. His bluster and and his grandiose plans with his war in Iran have been blown to smithereens. This morning he said, "it's over. I'm through with them".

Even the Belgium soccer team was mocking him. They performed the fist-waving dance that Trump is known for, after their victory over the United States. He was humiliated on the world stage.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Knowing Trump's penchant for refusing to acknowledge criticism,

I would imagine him saying that the Belgium soccer team was paying homage to him, admiration, praise.

[biophile]

36. They had tears in their eyes! 😂

[J-9]

40. They. Said.

Sir

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Congress passed a law in 2023 that specilly states he cannot remove us from NATO.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48868


In 2023, Congress enacted a law that prohibits the President from "suspend[ing], terminat[ing], denounc[ing], or withdraw[ing] the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty"—which established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)—without the advice and consent of the Senate or an act of Congress. See Section 1250A of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, Pub. L. No. 118-31. This provision emerged against the backdrop of debates concerning the United States' policy toward NATO and whether the President possesses the power to withdraw the United States from treaties without receiving the legislative branch's approval.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. He does whatever he wants whether it's legal or not. Nobody stops him.

[Escape]

8. Many here on DU still haven't figured that out, Diamond.

The LAW is not important to our dictator.. At this point, it's no more than a mild inconvenience to him. The courts can order that he and his cast of criminals obey the rules but there are no consequences when they refuse.

[hamsterjill]

16. Thank you for saying exactly what I was about to post.

I grow SO weary of the insistent posts that keep providing links to laws, etc. and posters believing with all their little hearts that Trump is bound by those laws. It's amazing how many even here on DU have not figured out that Trump pushes the envelope to see how far he can, and he generally gets away with it. He's broken more laws than anyone before him, and he's proud that he's getting away with it.

Case in point - has he paid E. Jean Carroll yet?

[NJCher]

49. I read a story

Tonight that said the judge ordered the disbursement.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

55. Plus interest!!

He already had to cough up the money for the court to set aside. He can’t do a damned thing about it now as they’ve ordered it disbursed.

She’s paying her lawyers and donating the rest of it to charities.

[NJCher]

57. Yep and up next

Is the $90 million he has to pay her.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

17. One thing that might stop him

Is the fact he and his henchmen have decimated our intelligence agencies. Making us more susceptible to terrorist attacks and mayhem. But what he fails to recognize is that it also makes him and his cronies more susceptible to attack as well. Iran was known to have plotted his demise because of his assassination of Soleimani in Iraq. I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't resurrected such plans. And now with Bill "I love to kiss Trump's ass" Pulte as DNI, our intelligence forces are essentially blind. It would be fitting that his lust for vengeance is what finally does him in.

[rampartd]

5. that law will get to the supreme court

about the time putin visits his new capital in paris.

[evolves]

22. So what?

Who is going to enforce that law?

Congress passed a law saying that the entirety of the Epstein files were to be released in December 2025. It STILL hasn't happened. He does what he wants, his lackey "cabinet" props him up, and the GOP traitors in Congress look the other way.

The law doesn't mean shit anymore, except for us peons.

[AZLD4Candidate]

26. They passed a law required the Epstein Files to be released completely and unredacted.

There is a Domestic Emoluments Clause in Article Two.

That hasn't been respected either

[vapor2]

38. Yes indeed but few bring it up

[FalloutShelter]

3. Laughing is easy.

He needs to be gone.
I’m tired of snark and laughter.

[calimary]

14. THIS!!!

[agingdem]

24. What I find fascinating is the depth of humiliation the semi-sane

Republicans are willing to endure to stay in power because of a know-nothing insane vomit spewing sadist…if they’re brave enough to hold town halls, their constituents shout them down forcing them to flee the venue…when they’re cornered by the press and asked to comment on Trump’s latest insult, threat, or global embarrassment they say they haven’t kept up with the news…

My take is a few of the semi-sane Republicans are secretly looking for the Dems to sweep the House and put a stop to Trump’s psychopathic urges…do what they are too cowardly to do… shut Trump down…

[Bristlecone]

6. He will 100% target Belgium at some later date

He never lets a perceived slight go. No matter how small and no matter the cost to others.

[MLWR]

7. "They think he is a fool, an immature child."

And they're one hundred percent correct in that assessment.

[dave99]

34. They KNOW he is a fool, an immature child.

fixed it

[AverageOldGuy]

9. True . . . but irrelevant

Trump is POTUS until Inauguration Day 2029. He will not change. Look at everything he has trashed, fucked , and destroyed in 17 months. How much more damage will he do in the next 31 months?

We can tell all the truth about Trump we want to and it will change nothing.

[NJCher]

52. Do you like

Feeling helpless?

Also, do you like feeling hopeless?

Try to answer this without telling me how “realistic” you are. That’s subjective and l am not interested in your perceptions of what a tough minded guy you are,.

I’m sincerely interested in how it feels to hand over your perceptions of power to a fuck up like trump.

P.s. see post by Ananda, which notes that he’s so incompetent he can’t even carry off his scams adequately.

[Billsdaughter]

10. We are in hell

Our nation is in great peril. It's obvious the mission is to destroy our country at Putin's behest. Our treasury robbed, our arms and apparatus pillaged, our economy in ruins, our alliances severed.

[Martin Eden]

11. I wouldn't laugh at an angry toddler holding the pin of a live hand grenade

Foremost on my mind would be taking that hand grenade away, and making sure the toddler never poses a danger again.

[ananda]

12. Trump has never understood that he's not the king of the world...

since he took the USA so easily.

His problem is that his brand of narcissism
compels him to want to take ownership of
everything and everybody that he comes
across in any way.

When he actually does this, he always fucks
it up, takes credit for doing it the best ever,
and then places the blame for the fuck ups
on someone and/or something else

He does this very well in the USA. But on the
world stage it's a whole nother thing.

Free world nations are strong, mighty, and united.
They have not been ruled or taken over by Trump
or Putin.

And Zelensky and Europe are in the process of
destroying Russia.

Good.

[mdbl]

13. I wonder if the US will ever regain any standing in the world after all this

and the destruction of our reputation isn't even over thanks to the asshole do-nothing GOP running the other branches.

[SamuelAdams]

15. It doesn't take away his power though.

He walked away from the ceasefire and we're back to war with Iran. Gas prices will spike again. We can mock him for his stupidity and incompetence but his actions still harm us.

[Dr. T]

18. My preferred name for that dance is

the Brain Floss.

[BidenRocks]

19. I need someone to explain the Second to me!

All the years and the NRAs bullshit, where is it!
The Tea Party? Don't Tread On Me?
This is the Governmental Overreach.
This is the Deep State, the takeover.
WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?

These are the people who went Ape Shit for Operation Jade Helm.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories

[Justice matters.]

43. They voted for him three times because Fox Noise groomed them to

for 30 years of trashing the Democratic admins with made-up lies and dishonesty.

All that for profits. It costs them almost a billion in settlement to Dominion Voting but they still turned a profit over all those years.

[pat_k]

47. It was all a lie. All of it. Every so-called republican "value."

From 2020

The Republican Party Is Racist and Soulless. Just Ask This Veteran GOP Strategist.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/racism-republican-party-stuart-stevens/

...
Asked if the Republican Party in the Trump years has become an outfit free of governing ideas, Stevens went even further: “It was all a lie.” He noted that this was word-for-word the title of his forthcoming book, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump. The modern GOP, he said, never truly cared about the ideas it claimed to care about.

This was a stunning indictment coming from a longtime political consul­tant who had toiled on five Republican presidential campaigns and numerous Senate and gubernatorial races. “The Republican Party has been a cartel,” Stevens said excitedly. “And no one asks a cartel, ‘What’s your ideological purpose?’ You don’t ask OPEC, ‘What’s your ideology?’ You don’t ask a drug gang, ‘What’s your program?’ The Republicans exist for the pursuit of power for no purpose.”

Throughout his decades as a Republican, Stevens considered this racist element a bug in the system. He now realizes it has been a feature.
He huffed that the Republican Party had not merely drifted away from its core positions, as sometimes occurs with political parties: “Fair trade, balanced budgets, character, family values, standing up to foreign adversaries like Russia—we’re all against that now. You have to ask, ‘Does someone abandon deeply held beliefs in three or four years?’ No. It means you didn’t ever hold them.” He added: “I feel like a guy who was working for Bernie Madoff.”

Stevens, an erudite fellow who is also a novelist and a travel writer, has become an emblematic ex-Republican. He once believed in GOP ideals and ideas. Now he saw it all as a huge con. His new book is a confession and cri de coeur. The first line is blunt: “I have no one to blame but myself.” In these pages, Stevens self-flagellates, calling himself a “fool” for his decades of believing—and lying to himself—that the Republican Party was based on “a core set of values.” Acknowledging his role, Stevens writes, “So yes, blame me. Blame me when you look around and see a dysfunctional political system and a Republican Party that has gone insane.” The book offers one overarching prescription for the GOP: “Burn it to the ground and start over.”

In our conversation, Stevens exploded with loathing for the party he once faithfully (and lucratively) served. He rejected the common view that Trump had hijacked the GOP. No, he explained, the triumph of know-nothing Trumpism marked the culmination of an internal conflict that had existed for decades between the party’s “dark side” and its professed ideals. Even William F. Buckley Jr., often hailed as a grand public intellectual and the founding father of the modern conservative movement, was “a stone-cold racist” in the 1950s, Stevens pointed out. (Buckley at that time considered white people more “advanced” and more fit to govern.)

“A lot of us in the party liked to believe the dark side was a recessive gene, but it’s a dominant theme,” Stevens, a seventh-­generation Mississippian who was named for Confederate Gen. Jeb Stuart, told me. “And it’s all about race. The Republican Party is a white party and there still are more white people than non-white people.” So that is whom the party aims at—even if this will eventually be a losing proposition as the nation’s demographics continue to shift. Ronald Reagan achieved a landslide victory in 1980 by bagging 56 percent of white voters; 28 years later, John McCain lost with 55 percent of white voters. Perhaps the party’s fixation on white voters can work one more time with Trump in 2020. “But we’re talking about the Confederacy—literally,” Stevens said.

And Nazi Germany. On his own, with no prompting, Stevens went straight to the Defcon-1 analogy: “I tell my GOP friends, ‘It’s crazy to say it’s 1934 in Germany…when it’s clearly 1936.’” He insisted that the 1930s are important for understanding the current moment. “When there was rising anti-Semitism, isolationism, and pro-Nazi sentiment, why did the US not become fascist?” Stevens asked. “Because of FDR. Leaders matter, and the GOP has now completely abdicated its role.” Instead, the party has yielded completely to demagoguery and race-baiting to exploit the racism and resentments of certain white voters. Throughout his decades as a Republican, Stevens considered this racist element a bug in the system. He now realizes it has been a feature.
...

[ChicagoTeamster]

20. Reporters should ask him about the dance and bring up Obama's meetings with NATO

Point out that Obama wasn’t left standing alone at NATO. Tell Trump world leaders laugh at him behind his back. Then have their sources ask white house staff for pictures of ketchup stains on the walls of the white house.

[Martin68]

21. Perhaps even worse than laughter they are ignoring him like the crazy uncle at thanksgiving.

Trump's failure to force European and other countries to bend to his will through tariffs and his utter failure in Iran have exposed the US as an unreliable and ineffectual partner.

[maxsolomon]

23. I'm not laughing. NATO isn't either.

Yes, his schtick is tiresome and gob-smacking, but he is a SOCIOPATH.

He starts wars on "gut feelings", he tears up treaties on whims and grudges, he gaslights, he grifts, he has the military murder people on boats and laughs at ethics and laws.

I'd say the NATO leaders are deeply, deeply concerned because they cannot apply logic to his behavior.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

28. They act the same way....

one would act when facing a rabid dog. WHERE IS OUR ATTICUS FINCH?

[orangecrush]

37. I agree

I see nothing funny about him at all.

[ChicagoTeamster]

25. As they should. And laugh at stooopid MAGA racists too.

[Scalded Nun]

27. This is no time for laughter. They need to protect themselves from us...and laughter won't do that.

[red dog 1]

29. Trump's stupid-looking "fist dance" reminds me of Elaine's crazy dance on Seinfeld..

[usedtobedemgurl]

30. The way he moves always reminds me of jerking off two other men! Watch a video

And tell me I am wrong.

[red dog 1]

31. Sorry, I cannot stand to watch that ugly bastard do his "fist dance"....to do so would actually cause nausea.

[usedtobedemgurl]

32. I get that. I hope you have a great day!

[red dog 1]

33. You too.

[Ilsa]

42. I heard it expressed as "pleasuring two giraffes at the same time." nt

[Skittles]

35. the street dance

(at :00:40)

[NJCher]

53. That was

Hilarious! And apropos, too. By the time they hit rock bottom, you’ve lost interest.

🤣

[Skittles]

54. yes

and the expressions from the observers are so subtle yet spot on

have to wonder about Jerry's shirt though, that looks weird indeed - like a "puffy shirt"

[BigmanPigman]

39. Team tRump won't allow him to see anything negative.

He probably is unaware of what is going on all around him since his fellow traitors are editing what he may see. Also, since he has so much dementia at this point he wouldn't remember what he saw or read from 1 minute to the next.

[usonian]

41. That is NOT necessarily a GOOD THING. Matter of fact .... I distracts from the ONE THING that matters the most.

Yes, this one.



I remember back in 2015, when "Prarie Home Companion" had a regular radio actor spoof Trump.

I screamed so loud, they probably heard it in Lake Woebegone. UNDER THE ICE.

Why? Because he thrives on attention and is dead as a raodkill skunk if Epstein is fully revealed.

He is winning the Epstein Attention War.

'Laugh all you like"

Everything he has done since Jan 2025 (or 2021) has been to distract from Epstein. HE IS HAUNTED.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21343625

[Orrex]

44. Maybe he'll just fucking die already

[AllyCat]

45. "Fist waving"? That's not what I call it.

[GenThePerservering]

51. I call it the Double Jerk-Off Dance

[pat_k]

46. The addled psychopath's lunacy isn't just humiliating. It is terrifying.

[C Moon]

48. Everybody's laughin' at me. I don't hear a word they're sayin'. Only the echos of my mind.

[demosincebirth]

50. You can't shame Trump. When they laugh at him, he thinks they're laughing with him.

h

[NJCher]

56. All you "I'm not laughing" people

Should realize that a good deal of the time, laughter is a response to nervousness. It is a way of reacting to something very unnerving.

Go do a Google scholar search under laughter nervousness if you don’t believe me.

This is so well known that college level interpersonal communication classes discuss it and how to react when it happens.