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Anne Applebaum"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
François @Jura@anneapplebaum Jan 6th was supposed to be the last straw… impeach, remove, convict.
Faraiwe@FrancoisPrague @anneapplebaum execute...
Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸@FrancoisPrague Grab them by the pussy should have been the last straw. @anneapplebaum
Indy Richard 🏴@FrancoisPrague @anneapplebaum What will it take for someone in the US to remove Donald Trump from office, either legally or illegally? Isn't it obvious that the position is way beyond his physical and mental capabilities, and he is harming the interests of the United States?
Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.@IndyRichard @FrancoisPrague @anneapplebaum
I think only a MASSIVE midterm loss MIGHT convince #Republicans that sticking with #DisasterDon is a loser.
Then again, they are SO deep in denial, they'd declare a huge loss to be PROOF of election fraud. 🙄
rob@IndyRichard @FrancoisPrague @anneapplebaum Trump is only part of the problem. The rest of it is the people who put him there. They knew exactly what he was like, and that is why they wanted him there.
🍀March Mastodoness🍀@FrancoisPrague @anneapplebaum November 5th, 2016 should've been the last straw.
PhillyChuck
Paul_stilgarI am surprised that he did not write that he had never received an Emmy award.
He must really have Alzheimer.
bartosz 🚲🌳🐍🦀@Paul_stilgar @anneapplebaum I am not so surprised that he believes in all of this nonsense. We knew that already and he is not the only world leader with such opinions.
It's more surprising that he says this out loud. I am not a psychologist but maybe indeed this is some kind of defecit in inhibitory control related to aging
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2025/04/28/2025.02.19.638971.full.pdf
Catherine is not complacentSorry to repeat that but a large part of US is an accomplice .
6 judges , 218 rep. , 53 senators , CBS , X , Oracle , Apple , Nvidia , CNBC , faux , CNN , Miria Arelson , Wapo , NYT , Bezos , Musk , Tim Cook , Ellison father and son , Murdoch father and son , Lauder , insert here the name of 77 millions of Amerikkkans ….
most importantly also the fascists and terror sponsors Thiel, almost every other tech fash & their puppets Vance & Co.
And I must say that I forgot a lot of other big names like Zuckerberg .
𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉@anneapplebaum
Well writ; thanks for the gift access!
Well writ; thanks for the gift access!
AnneTheWriter#DementiaDon has Frontal Lobe Dementia. That means he has lost what little inhibitions and control he once had, and can easily become obsessed with bizarre things.
Dementia never ends well-- especially if the patient is allowed to keep working, and treated in the media and by those under them as if they are sane and reasonable.
#JDVance and the #GOPmajority will NEVER #invokethe25th to stop him. The Dems need to step up and do that for him, and stop WAITING for the midterms-- Donald's Dementia is too advanced and progressing quickly. People are going to die-- and already have. The world CANNOT wait until then.
Marianne@AnneTheWriter1 @anneapplebaum please don't use the dementia hashtag, it is for people caring for family and seeking information.
My apologies. I will remove the hashtag for the disease itself, but not for Donald's nickname. I've seen four relatives go through it, and it terrifies me that no one in the media is even talking about it and no one in power is trying to stop him. Everyone needs to quit ignoring it with him.
derptron@anneapplebaum He's got dementia and he's almost done. I doubt he even has a consistent reality at all.
He's long past the point where I'd want to be shot but I'd actually want to be stopped before I did all this damage. He never gave a shit who he hurt.
That's why I don't really feel sorry for him. Otherwise I actually might because he actually has lost his shit and it ain't coming back.
suzanne@crazyeddie @anneapplebaum
He would be perfectly happy if he could stay at Mar A Lago in his Oval Office replica signing things with an AI news feed telling him everyone loves him. A random set of actors could be paraded through and he'd never know they weren't dignitaries.
He would be perfectly happy if he could stay at Mar A Lago in his Oval Office replica signing things with an AI news feed telling him everyone loves him. A random set of actors could be paraded through and he'd never know they weren't dignitaries.
@cshlan @anneapplebaum I imagine there's a lot of that going on but also that he's hard to contain and he's being guarded by people who are going to see he gets his way until someone tells them he's incapacitated in a very official way.
It's only a partial coup at this point. The military and SS are still largely professionals even if the true believers are being removed. People would tell.
@crazyeddie
Totally!
Totally!
Misja van Laatum@anneapplebaum I used to think "running a country" required a decent amount of intelligence, skill, empathy, etc. Boy, was I ever wrong! 😱
IamSheilaat91@misjavanlaatum @anneapplebaum @IndyRichard @misjavanlaatum @anneapplebaum wasn't wrong when she thought that "running a country required a decent amount of intelligence, skill, empathy, etc." It's just that the requirements are different for "running a country into the ground!"
johan
Hannah Steenbock"If the invaders were Russians, they would arrest all of the politicians, put gangsters in charge, shoot people on the street for speaking Danish, change school curricula, and carry out a fake referendum to rubber-stamp the conquest. Is that the American plan too?"
Exactly this. Because Trump wants America to be like Russia. He'll send ICE and put all Danish people into labor camps. And Peter Thiel will be the governor.
Magnus Ahltorp@Firlefanz @anneapplebaum Of course it’s violently repulsive to even think of the US invading Greenland, so I get that part, but ”Danish” is not a relevant description of the typical Greenlander.
Agreed. Sadly, that just means the invaders would treat Greenlanders even worse, because they are not white.
No Exceptions@anneapplebaum If, as the piece states in the last paragraph, the Republicans in Congress are "the last barrier," we might as well quit while we're behind.
zetabeta@anneapplebaum
77 million voted for this, and approximately 80 million did not vote at all.
more or less, these voters knew what they voted for or let it happen.
"Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?"
my guess is, no. even if republicans stop this orange nightmare, i give only partial pass, stopping should have happened far earlier.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@anneapplebaum I wonder if he really believes he ended eight wars. He just may.
Comrade elronxenu@Eetschrijver @anneapplebaum He does; he still believes he won the 2020 election; his capacity for self-delusion is endless.
@elronxenu
I'm just never sure when he's the genuine believer and when he's the con man.
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I'm just never sure when he's the genuine believer and when he's the con man.
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@Eetschrijver @anneapplebaum I think it's both, to the extent that is possible. He repeats his lies over and over, to convince others.
Bodhipaksa@anneapplebaum I'm not sure even an invasion of Greenland would be a "last straw" for the GOP in Congress. Although some of them have said it would be, they've always fallen in line before.
My favorite absurdity in this letter is "we had boats landing there, also." The Danes (as part of Denmark-Norway) were there long before the US even existed.
BTW, I always love your articles. Thank you for what you do.
Orlaya@anneapplebaum
Norwegians, please offers him a super-duper golden Nobel Prize when he arrives on Mars with all his cronies and oligarchs on a one-way ticket.
Norwegians, please offers him a super-duper golden Nobel Prize when he arrives on Mars with all his cronies and oligarchs on a one-way ticket.
@anneapplebaum The Peace Prize fixation is all about Barack Obama, the fact that Obama did win a Peace Prize (and Grammy and Emmy awards) and Trump did not.
�@anneapplebaum nominate for ig-nobel price?
joostetoGreat idea, to award him the Ig Nobel Prize. However:
"The Ig Nobel Prize is a prize to promote public engagement with scientific research. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think"
No, that doesn't sound like Trump at all.
* Scientific research.
* Make people think.
>honor achievements that first make people laugh
- 1st preaidental term was hilarious
- signal gate and stuff was funny (not the content but that this type of issue happened)
- its the definition of a clown to make people laugh
- white house became a circus
>and then make them think
- yeah, no further explanation needed
>scientific research
- proof of concept that the great u.s. is brittle, that their "democracy", the winner takes it all, is obsolete and that one 1/2
2/2
can fuck up the economics pretty fast
- also nominate the person who nominates trump
thesis: there is no required level of IQ ruling the u.s. as potus thinks ig-nobel price is the true nobel price as accepting it with great proud
@anneapplebaum
"the last straw"
how many last straws? which last straw? how many will come?
i think first impeachment vote was enough.
my prognosis is not very optimistic.
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Ultra Verified 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Republicans in Congress should REMOVE HIM
DressToKILT@Ultraverified @anneapplebaum "cancer should fight itself"
Thinking that Trump is anything more than the most visible symptom of a disease is *dangerous* because it excuses the people actually making these decisions. That's not Trump. He's a useful idiot. Republicans won't remove him because *he is doing what they want him to do*.
Indeed agree 100%. Hence my follow up to my own post.
It's #REPUBLICANS who are The Problem.
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦 (@[email protected])
@[email protected] But they won't. Attention needs focus on that fact.
sNOWFLAKE ❄️ iNDUSTRIES@anneapplebaum no shhhhh…., sherlock
Hans Dampf"Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
...perhaps because Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize
JamesLundblad@anneapplebaum
I think this is WWE to distract from the job he's not doing.
Klotkin on WWE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIhwjiJBUz8&t=1609s
The Age of Empire Strikes Back: Stephen Kotkin on Trump, Wrestling, and the Use of American Power
BerlinFokusYeah, in this regard #Trump is nothing new .. Friedbert, the maniac .. Theophil, the slaughterer .. we have seen that all before.
This is one of the reasons democracy & rule of law where "invented" in the first place.
But people have decided that they rather want to follow orders (even that of a mad man), sooo here we are again.
@anneapplebaum so many things were meant to be that. The rape accusations. The mocking disabled people. Every other sentence out of his mouth. The riots, the insurrection, the taking WH documents, the nepotism, the more rape allegations and clear proof, the lies, the stealing, the wall, the Files, murdering people in open water, pals with Putin, the Gaza strip video, the everything
It goes on and on and on and nothing changes
Barboza Melissa@noodlemaz @anneapplebaum I hear what you’re saying — many of these issues have been widely reported and debated, and for a lot of people they seriously undermine trust and accountability. It’s exhausting when the list keeps growing and yet consequences seem limited. That frustration is understandable, even if people disagree on interpretations or responsibility.
@Melissa37 @anneapplebaum lest we forget the email from the evidence stack that places him at the scene of an infanticide and the covering up of said crime.
Every accusation a confession. Every single one. Thousands dead and missing after ICE has disappeared them.
MILLIONS dead because he gave the wheels of government spending to Elon fucking Musk, who dismantled USAID. He's a mass murdering tyrant. That people just let this stuff happen is unconscionable.
Spoonful@anneapplebaum
Metaphorically: How does one take the gun away from the toddler? Even the Daddy who gave it to him is ducking and covering. “Hehe, he’s just playing….i think.”
When we all see him an banoonoos we are following the distraction. Grab him by the Epstein and be done with it already.
Also: yes, please buy California. I would like to travel, but hate baggage claim.
Metaphorically: How does one take the gun away from the toddler? Even the Daddy who gave it to him is ducking and covering. “Hehe, he’s just playing….i think.”
When we all see him an banoonoos we are following the distraction. Grab him by the Epstein and be done with it already.
Also: yes, please buy California. I would like to travel, but hate baggage claim.
Duckbilled Plattypus.@anneapplebaum He believes the ONLY reason he didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize was because, as a super human uber deserving white man, he was a victim of reverse discrimination, and that no talent Latina unfairly got his prize. Machado thinks he should owe her for gifting her prize -- he just sees her as a thief who stole his honor.
Duke@anneapplebaum His obsession with the Nobel is right here. He absolutely cannot stand the fact that a black man could ever have something that he doesn't.
su_liam@anneapplebaum Or the law, so far.