The scary thing is that it's not even that weird any more. Everyone is kind of desensitised to his whack-job behaviour.

He can't even lower the bar any further; it's fallen off its lowest setting and been chopped up for matchwood.

Of course he can! He's proven all his critics wrong and this was only a normal Wednesday!
I just imagine the discussion he had with the artist:
- so, Mike, I want you to take Rocky's body and put my head on it
- hahahahahah...oh, you're serious? Sure Sir!

Sometimes there are memes that just take over and post themselves!


Meanwhile this Trump "thing" gets evermore Kafkaesque!

A major Fox News Trump fan, Tucker Carlson, today mounted an unusual defense of Trump
Source

Trump held a meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, during which he announced that he has restarted peace talks with the Taliban, and that he’d like to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to 8,600, down from a current total of less than 14,000.
Probably finish up the same as in Syria where the number of US troops has actually increased after a similar Trump announcement.

Another day in Trumpland.

Karma!
“A Warning,” a behind-the-scenes book authored by an anonymous Trump administration official that takes a critical look at the president, has replaced Donald Trump Jr.’s “Triggered” as the No. 1 nonfiction book on The New York Times's bestseller list.

Shouldn't the Trump Jr. book have been shelved under "fiction" anyway?

This election is turning into a Billionaire's playground.

When visitors go to KeepAmericaGreat.com, they have the option to donate $1 in exchange for a bumper sticker that reads, “Trump is a fraud & a failure.”

Dow down around 300 points since, mainly due to Trump waving tariffs around again.

One can only admire Trump's great deal of effort to avoid the stock markets to overheat.

America's manufacturing sector in November contracted for the fourth straight month, according to an industry survey released Monday; so this sector is technically in recession.
Survey respondents continued to complain of tariffs, trade uncertainty and weak orders.

Meanwhile as part of the slowly changing GOP story and retreat we now have "House Republicans are expected to argue President Trump did not intend for his dealings with Ukraine to benefit him politically, but rather that the president made "entirely prudent" decisions driven by a "reasonable skepticism" about corruption in the country."

They seem to be falling into the trap that Trump warned them of;

Dow falls more than 400 points after Trump warns China trade war could go beyond 2020 election
All the optimists who believed his frequent statements that the talks were going well and bought shares are counting their losses; hopefully, they will not rush to sell and start a panic.
Why doesn't he learn to keep his mouth shut?

Meanwhile, it is rumoured Attorney General William Barr is rejecting a key finding in the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the Russia probe, that the FBI had enough intelligence to initiate an investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016.

Luckily the inspector general is independent and Barr cannot change his report.

So much for the long-standing protocol that dictates the FBI and Justice Department operate free of political influence or meddling from the White House. Barr is rapidly turning into Trump's private attorney.

From the President whose lies are more easily disproved than Walter Mitty's.

""I don't know Prince Andrew, Duke of York, but it's a tough story," Trump said in London during a press appearance today on the sidelines of the NATO summit. "I don't know him, no."

So from as long ago as June


Plenty of other photos including at Trump's new Florida home Mar-a-Lago.

It's like a bunch of dads discussing someone else's nightmare kid...

https://boingboing.net/2019/12/03/vi...u-emmanue.html

Maybe Trump thought Andrew was the butler? Or the PA?

I could barely make out three words in the whole video.

More like a bunch of school kids talking about the teacher.

Indeed, there is an air of desperation.

Definitely. Without naming names!

One of Trump's favourite claims is that China is paying his tariffs and so pouring billions into the US.

Trump's own administration publishes data that shows import prices in $ are little changed (ca. 2%) since tariffs began, despite a 12% drop in the value of the Yuan in the same period so the Chinese are actually earning more for their products in Yuan!
It is the US consumers and companies who pay the tariffs.

You spelled "derision" wrong.

I was thinking exasperation

Or incredulity with a side of "thank fork that wasn't me."