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@carstenfranke @GottaLaff
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move on, nothing to see here, all business as usual...

And 3 #TheAtlantic reporters were invited into the #ovaloffice this weekend, one was #JefferyGoldberg of #SignalGate. Like WTF, he hates them!

#Trump does these private talks as ✨ #distraction ✨

Because today Monday, they are ⭕removing all #civilservants who check Federal #votingrights 🥶

Maybe he assumes this #votersuppression will _not_ be top news this week

I hope #MarcElias will get on the news more

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Ever looked at the White House and thought: “You know what that needs? Gold cherubs.” Donald Trump sure did when he started his second term as U.S. president. Our @CultureDesk shared this Wall Street Journal story on how Trump’s gilty conscience is changing 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-

#Design #Interiors #Architecture #DonaldTrump #WhiteHouse #OvalOffice #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

12/15

The laughter makes it even more despicable.

"In his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that “home-growns are next” and that El Salvador would “need to be build about five more places” to hold American citizens.

So the president of the United States proposes, on camera, to deport Americans to foreign concentration camps."

snyder.substack.com/p/trump-ho
#Trump #Bukele #OvalOffice #fascism

Thinking about... · Trump: "Home-growns are next"By Timothy Snyder

"During Bukele’s visit today, Trump made clear he’s also considering sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador. "The homegrowns are next," Trump told Bukele in the Oval Office. "You gotta build about five more places. ... It's not big enough."

robertreich.substack.com/p/the #Trump #Bukele #OvalOffice #fascism #ICE #politics

Robert Reich · The two tipping points for when we officially become a dictatorship could occur this weekBy Robert Reich

"This is what fascism looks like in real time: calling a wrongfully deported man a terrorist, claiming the power to strip American citizens of their rights, and floating the use of foreign prison camps as a solution to so-called “crime.” If they can do it to him, they can do it to any of us."

meidasplus.com/p/trump-has-dis #Trump #Bukele #OvalOffice #fascism #ElSalvador #kidnapping #AbregoGarcia

Donald, you're either a liar or a piece of shit. Well, actually, you're both: a lying piece of shit
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Via the #KyivIndependent @ 11:42pm ET on Mar 17, 2025

U.S. President Donald #Trump said on March 17 that his argument with President Volodymyr #Zelenskyy during the #Ukrainian leader's visit to the #OvalOffice was part of a strategy to pressure #Ukraine.

#SlavaUkrainii #StopRussia

kyivindependent.com/we-had-to-

The Kyiv Independent · 'We had to get Ukraine to do the right' thing' — Trump on his Oval Office clash with ZelenskyBy Olena Goncharova

"What happened in the #OvalOffice Friday with #Trump attacking #Zelensky in the service of #VladimirPutin is unlike anything we have ever seen.

Trump spewing Putin's talking points to undermine Zelensky would’ve been like FDR openly mocking Winston Churchill using Hitler's talking points as the Nazis bombed London.

Trump was not working for us but for Putin."
deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/

Marco #Rubio , US Secretary of State, also sat on the couch in the #OvalOffice last week. But he didn't open his mouth, IIRC.

His own Youtube channel 10 years ago uploaded the clip below from a speech in the US Senate youtube.com/watch?v=rFqvErYqFR

He explains why Ukraine is legally entitled to security guarantees and support from USA and UK against Russia.

I wasn't even aware that USA is obligated by this treaty to ensure Ukraine is safe and doesn't get invaded.
How stupid am I? Or was this treaty simply never mentioned since 2014, out of some secret agreement so USA doesn't lose face by not heeding her side of the nuclear disarmament deal since 2014?

Sheds further light on why #Zelenskyy repeatedly insisted on security guarantees for Ukraine in context with "THE DEAL" (on "Raw Earth", as DT has obviously decreed rare earths should be called from now on... )

Did you know about the treaty?

YT has quite a few 2014 clips with Rubio, in case he deletes his one. While not explaining the security guarantee signed by USA, UK and Russia, his stance is always decidedly pro Ukraine and pro support from USA youtube.com/results?search_que

Come to think of it, did Georgia also used to have nuclear war heads that got confiscated in exchange for security?

#JohnGotti would have OK’d #Trump #Vance #mob hit on #Zelensky. President Trump, who once famously bragged that he’d be “one of the greatest” #mafiosi, put everything he learned in growing up around the #NewYorkCity mob in the 1980s to use during his already infamous #OvalOffice attempted shakedown of #Ukraine’s #Zelensky on Friday. America may never recover from the plurality of voters who wanted a Gotti-style strongman as president. inquirer.com/opinion/commentar #corruption #politics #government

The Philadelphia Inquirer · John Gotti would have OK’d the Trump-Vance mob hit on ZelenskyBy Will Bunch