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Duppers

(28,117 posts)
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 01:47 PM Aug 2019

Trump is completely melting down -- 6 craziest tweets this morning

Last edited Fri Aug 23, 2019, 02:42 PM - Edit history (1)

RAW STORY

1.) Trump declares his own Federal Reserve chairman to be an “enemy.”

2.) Trump declares that America will be better off without any economic relationship with China. Even though farmers in Trump-backing Midwestern states have been getting hammered by the president’s trade war thanks to the retaliatory tariffs that China placed on their crops, the president signaled that he now believes America should break off trade with China entirely.

3.) Trump orders American companies to stop manufacturing things in China.

4.) Trump orders postal carriers to search for fentanyl in all packages. In an even stranger tweet, Trump said that he was “ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!).”

5.) Trump says that journalists are willing to “lose their wealth” if it means a chance to oust him in 2020.

6.) Trump brags about having overwhelming approval from his own party.

Great explanations following each item at link. Truly worth the click & read.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/trump-is-completely-melting-down-here-are-the-6-craziest-tweets-hes-made-just-this-morning/

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Trump is completely melting down -- 6 craziest tweets this morning (Original Post) Duppers Aug 2019 OP
Who does he think he is? eShirl Aug 2019 #1
Yes, yes and yes. IrishEyes Aug 2019 #12
Harvard psychiatrist said it will only get worse. triron Aug 2019 #2
Give it time. Took years to reach this point, and of course Hortensis Aug 2019 #36
His illness is getting worse bdamomma Aug 2019 #3
He is indeed "a threat" Duppers Aug 2019 #5
It's republicans who are the REAL threat. pangaia Aug 2019 #20
Republicans in POWER who have no intention of letting voters Hortensis Aug 2019 #37
And then there are those who say he's really smart and is trolling us by tweeting out distractions.. brush Aug 2019 #28
He's truly out of his mind, such as it is. northoftheborder Aug 2019 #4
We've been warned. We all knew this was coming, but the republicans refused to smirkymonkey Aug 2019 #6
and worst of all bdamomma Aug 2019 #8
And the 20%er mouth breathers still think he's the 2nd coming of Chayssus lpbk2713 Aug 2019 #7
IF TRump pissed China off too much, Duppers Aug 2019 #9
THAT IS PUTIN's GAME PLAN! pangaia Aug 2019 #21
More accurately they could refuse to... Girard442 Aug 2019 #24
IMHO he's daring Pence Retrograde Aug 2019 #10
They won't do it. Duppers Aug 2019 #15
If not even Caligula can be removed with the 25th Amendment then it follows... NNadir Aug 2019 #11
I think there should be a tariff on all ties made in China world wide wally Aug 2019 #13
deflect, distort, distract, kiri Aug 2019 #14
his close business ties to epstein rampartc Aug 2019 #26
Is there any chance this is all in preparation for an insanity defense???? Vinca Aug 2019 #16
Market down 570 pts and still dropping Duppers Aug 2019 #17
"I hearby order" Impeachment proceedings to begin today. DesertRat Aug 2019 #18
The bunker scene is nigh. n/t Harker Aug 2019 #19
mmmhmmm what are we not supposed to notice today? 0rganism Aug 2019 #22
I'd laugh if this wasn't scaring the you-know-what out of me. PatrickforO Aug 2019 #23
Early MSMGA rally... griloco Aug 2019 #25
I do not believe tRump comes up with these statements on his own. KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2019 #27
Boy he sure got nailed on twitter by pretty much everyone. PatrickforO Aug 2019 #29
Who, indeed montanagranny Aug 2019 #30
I hereby order ! WTF ??mpeach YESTERDAY Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2019 #31
He got one of them right bluecollar2 Aug 2019 #32
I told you he'd be going full Howard Hughes by the end of his first term! Initech Aug 2019 #33
Except the Kleenex boxes will be extra small. geardaddy Aug 2019 #40
His cheese has done slipped off his cracker Bayard Aug 2019 #34
About the only thing from these tweets that didn's sound deranged, or total BS patphil Aug 2019 #35
is he trying to avoid criminal charger cause of mental illness? AlexSFCA Aug 2019 #38
So, Ivanka has to stop having her shit made in China? geardaddy Aug 2019 #39

triron

(21,988 posts)
2. Harvard psychiatrist said it will only get worse.
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 02:16 PM
Aug 2019

But the medis along with most republicans and some democrats still think it is just a little (if at all) aberrant.

bdamomma

(63,810 posts)
3. His illness is getting worse
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 02:17 PM
Aug 2019

and more and more professionals are bringing this out or have been publicizing his psychotic symptoms. Yes, he is a risk to himself and others. That is the main question, in any mental assessment, is the person a threat to himself or others. I would Yes to this.

https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/psychiatrist-warns-trump-may-be-at-significant-risk-for-deteriorating-into-full-blown-psychosis/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1224&recip_id=21760&list_id=2

snip of article:

Donald Trump’s verbal outbursts and Messianic claims of being “the second coming” and “the chosen one” have once again reignited a controversy over just what exactly is wrong with the pr*sident of the United States. Not only did he compare himself to Jesus several times in a single day, Trump also had a lot of trouble with the basic enunciation of words like “obstacle” and “applicable,” called the prime minister of Denmark “nasty” for declining to sell Greenland to the U.S., and declared all Democratic American Jews “disloyal to Israel.”

Whatever Trump’s diagnosis, it’s particularly bleak and dangerous that this man is running the country and in possession of the nuclear codes, among other forms of recourse. Still, people are debating whether Trump is actually psychotic or narcissistic with delusions of grandeur or perhaps suffering from rabid dementia eating away at his brain and making him particularly irritable.



we better stop playing with fire or we will be burnt, by a psychotic POS.

Duppers

(28,117 posts)
5. He is indeed "a threat"
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 02:28 PM
Aug 2019

A threat to our whole country and the world.

Thanks for posting part of that AlterNet article. Sent that along with other info to my rethugian brother but no blowback so far. Perhaps he's not speaking to me again!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
37. Republicans in POWER who have no intention of letting voters
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 04:30 PM
Aug 2019

change that.

Yes. Let's go after THEM!!!

brush

(53,758 posts)
28. And then there are those who say he's really smart and is trolling us by tweeting out distractions..
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 04:01 PM
Aug 2019

to switch the narrative away from another policy debacle he has created, and he is winning because everyone follows his tweets.

No, he's a fucking idiot who stumbles from self-created debacle to the next debacle he causes with his impulsive, uninformed, ignorant pronouncements.

Every other day now he's causing the Dow to plunge. Who needs this exhaustion?

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
6. We've been warned. We all knew this was coming, but the republicans refused to
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 02:31 PM
Aug 2019

see the writing on the wall and now we have a full-blown mental patient running the country.

bdamomma

(63,810 posts)
8. and worst of all
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 02:35 PM
Aug 2019

he is the one with the nuclear codes, now that is something to worry about. In the Green Mile, there was this line, I think his cheese fell off the cracker.

lpbk2713

(42,750 posts)
7. And the 20%er mouth breathers still think he's the 2nd coming of Chayssus
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 02:33 PM
Aug 2019



You can't fix that kind of stupid.

Duppers

(28,117 posts)
9. IF TRump pissed China off too much,
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 02:40 PM
Aug 2019

he has no idea that they could recall all the U.S. Treasury notes they hold and could immediately bankrupt this country. The US does not have enough money in a treasury to cover that kind of cash.

OR...we could just freeze all their assets in this country, including the treasury bonds. But then, how long could we go w/o Chinese products?

Trump is playing a very dangerous game that could possibly put the U.S. and whole world into a deep economic depression. But the fool has no clue!



Girard442

(6,066 posts)
24. More accurately they could refuse to...
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 03:50 PM
Aug 2019

...roll over the proceeds from their maturing t-bills into purchases of new ones.

But basically, yeah, what you said.

Retrograde

(10,132 posts)
10. IMHO he's daring Pence
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 02:55 PM
Aug 2019

or anyone else who can to invoke the 25th amendment. Then when he's removed from office he can throw himself a big pity party and go on ad nauseam about how he is being martyred for telling the "truth"

Duppers

(28,117 posts)
15. They won't do it.
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 03:17 PM
Aug 2019

Too many rethugians voters are ignorant enough to still be supporting him. It's the "Shoot someone on 5th Ave" thing.

NNadir

(33,509 posts)
11. If not even Caligula can be removed with the 25th Amendment then it follows...
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 02:56 PM
Aug 2019

...the Amendment is useless.

kiri

(794 posts)
14. deflect, distort, distract,
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 03:12 PM
Aug 2019

Remember Trump is a master manipulator, deflector, distractionist. He is ignorant, but he is extremely smart in using the media. Divert, redirect attention. Smarter than the journalists.

What is his "look over there" goal now? The Greenland absurdity? The NYC probe of his tax returns and bank statements (tax fraud, money laundering)?
His low poll numbers? His attack on US Jews?

He has succeeded. Again.





Duppers

(28,117 posts)
17. Market down 570 pts and still dropping
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 03:26 PM
Aug 2019

Soon approaching a 3% drop in just a few hours.

They must get rid of him before he crashes our economy.

0rganism

(23,933 posts)
22. mmmhmmm what are we not supposed to notice today?
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 03:37 PM
Aug 2019

it's a 6-tweet distraction, so something nasty's afoot

PatrickforO

(14,566 posts)
23. I'd laugh if this wasn't scaring the you-know-what out of me.
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 03:41 PM
Aug 2019

The guy is in la-la land, and he's got the nuclear codes................

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,489 posts)
27. I do not believe tRump comes up with these statements on his own.
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 04:00 PM
Aug 2019

I believe he is manipulated by his minders such as Miller and many in his cabinet. They discovered the power of his Tweeting and rally statements during the 2015/16 campaign.

tRump is the ultimate narcissist and psychopath so he just rubber stamps whatever they design for him to post after they tell him it will boost his ratings and produce a win.

Being a psychopath, he is in no way concerned with the consequences of his actions.

He's far more concerned as to when the next tee time and McDonald's delivery is scheduled......

PatrickforO

(14,566 posts)
29. Boy he sure got nailed on twitter by pretty much everyone.
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 04:04 PM
Aug 2019

I just called my Senators and said they need to get the sane people in the Senate together, get with Pelosi and start impeachment process because Trump is clearly crazier than a hoot owl. I urge all of you to call your Senators too! Heck, let's light up their switchboards.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
31. I hereby order ! WTF ??mpeach YESTERDAY
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 04:19 PM
Aug 2019

"I hearby order US companies". Is just so far beyond the pale. Like he had nothing to do with the mess!

bluecollar2

(3,622 posts)
32. He got one of them right
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 04:20 PM
Aug 2019

He does have overwhelming approval from his own party.

Upwards of 80% I believe...

Initech

(100,054 posts)
33. I told you he'd be going full Howard Hughes by the end of his first term!
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 04:24 PM
Aug 2019

Only a matter of time before he starts peeing into mason jars and saving his hair and fingernail trimmings!

Bayard

(22,035 posts)
34. His cheese has done slipped off his cracker
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 04:25 PM
Aug 2019

Showing he's completely nuts these days. Its become so commonplace, that many don't even notice anymore. Apathy and exhaustion.

The one I've found the most alarming lately is the whole Greenland episode. Totally disassociated from reality for all the world to see.

patphil

(6,158 posts)
35. About the only thing from these tweets that didn's sound deranged, or total BS
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 04:28 PM
Aug 2019

was the statement that he has overwhelming approval from his own party.
The fact that this is still true after all we have endured from the Trump shit show is the most bizarre tweet of all.

Patrick Phillips

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