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Lewis Grotelueschen's avatar

“President Trump has calculated through every permutation and every degree of strategy,” and that we are en route to “an overwhelming victory.”

Apparently not a parody.

Greg WF's avatar

Lil Stevie Miller. Revenge of the Nerds meets Doctor Evil. I grow ever weary of hearing the fascist garbage coming out of his fat mouth. He’s a pathetic joke of a person, like Hermann Goering, but he has already brought misery, and death to many, like Goering. How many total dead by the end, I wonder?

LHS's avatar

Like I keep saying, remember that Brave, Brave Sir Stephen bravely turned his back and fled to safe, secure military housing after some demonstrators held up signs and *gasp* wrote in chalk on the sidewalk in front of his house.

TomD's avatar

I wonder if his lodging comes with a a bunker.

Greg WF's avatar

Yep, he’s a gutless creep. At the end, he’ll be one of the first ones to sneak out of the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, as Trump screams, and rants, as he pushes ICE, and Border Patrol paramilitary unit symbols around on a map showing the area of the Potomac, and Anacostia Rivers. Units that are shattered remnants by that time.

I guess we’ll see. Some of us, maybe?

David Court's avatar

My zero. (Somehow, my keyboard refuses to print the "h" instead of the "z".) That was just a tactical retreat to foam at the mouth another day.

Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

He's much more a Himmler than a Goering. I wish Miller would spend more time stealing artworks than whispering in Trump's ear.

Richard Thomas's avatar

Yeah, Goering was an utterly amoral corrupt fascist in the Trump mould who didn’t much care about the details of Nazi ideology only the opportunities for self enrichment and aggrandisement that being a in a senior leadership position gave him. The Reichswerke Hermann Göring, which served as his personal slush fund, was the largest industrial concern in Europe, some sources claim the world, by the end of 1941. All built from looted and expropriated assets and a massive user of slave labour.

Miller strikes me more as an ideologically committed fascist. Though I’d argue that Heydrich is the more apt comparison than Himmler given that Heydrich was the senior Nazi most closely involved in organising and overseeing the removal of ‘undesriable’ racial elements from German society and the primary architecht of the Holocaust. They even look somewhat similar.

Dave Yell's avatar

Wormtongue and Saruman

Terry Mc Kenna's avatar

I'd pick Goebbels (for the propaganda).

Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

I picked Himmler for the immigration cruelty and the camps. Propaganda is his hobby, not his perceived mission

Terry Mc Kenna's avatar

So many good choices.

R Mercer's avatar

Nah, Miller is not a propagandist by any stretch of the imagination. He also generally prefers to keep his head down. More a Himmler than a Goebbels.

Clammer31's avatar

Looks like a dead ringer for Adolf Eichmann (pre-hanging).

Clay Banes's avatar

To give Stephen Miller his due, he's a lot of Nazis rolled into one.

Chuck Eagle's avatar

Bro's head looks like a botched circumcision

Kim E Jones's avatar

I don’t suppose the Fox host pushed back at all on that?

Frau Katze's avatar

Do Fox hosts ever push back?

M. Trosino's avatar

Trump's no doubt worn out and in need of a little R & R after all that work.

Might I suggest he try spending a little time on the water as another famous wartime president did. FDR reportedly found sailing aboard his official presidential yacht the U.S.S. Potomac relaxing and refreshing, even during WWII.

Of course, being a wartime president himself, Donald would need a yacht worthy of his stature and fit for such duty.

Maybe his pal Jeff Bezos could loan him his little puddle jumper for a little excursion through the Strait of Hormuz.

Mike Lew's avatar

Maybe a three hour tour? 😀

Carolyn Phipps's avatar

"A threee-ower touuuuuur!"

James Byham's avatar

Oh shit, the weather seems to be getting rough ! Yo Ginger maybe before the ship goes down........

Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

I'd pay to view that excursion.

Dave Yell's avatar

Excursion is DJT s favorite new word.

Lewis Grotelueschen's avatar

"after all that work"

Formation of a whim *is* exhausting . . .

Mark P's avatar

Miller is so grotesque, I'm speechless

TomD's avatar

Forensic bullshit analysis indicates Stephen Miller is Trump's TS re-write guy.

max skinner's avatar

Does that guy sleep?

TomD's avatar

Daytimes, in a coffin.

Dave Yell's avatar

During oval office meetings.

max skinner's avatar

Touche. I was actually referring to Miller's ability to write speeches, whatever truth social stuff, and plot the means of mass deportation.

The Blockhead Chronicles's avatar

Trump’s uncle DID teach at MIT.

Liz V's avatar

All of those years of playing golf has paid off!!

Kate Fall's avatar

If only we could have as much "merit" as those White male golfers by working instead of golfing. Oh well, I'm sure golf is more important than anything else.

Dave Yell's avatar

Commander in Cheat!

Merrill's avatar

Did you ever wonder what America would feel like if we had a perverted, corrupt, fascist dictator as our "leader". Well, check it out. We've arrived. The question we keep asking ourselves, "What are WE going to do about it?" becomes more pressing everyday. The world envisioned by Trump's brain and enabled by his cultist syncophants cannot be allowed to continue.

How we rise up to stop it is urgent.

Claudia johnson's avatar

They don’t even lie well.

R Mercer's avatar
2hEdited

They do not need to lie well--in fact it is better to lie poorly.

By lying poorly they put everyone else in a bind. What they say is obviously BS, most people who are not lost in the weeds of MAGA know it is BS (and this includes the vast majority of GoP politicians). What you have done is forced them to swallow and support your BS, which further locks them into you.

If you do not go with the bad lie, you obviously suffer from TDS or you are not one of US. It helps draw and then reinforce in and out group boundaries.

It is a display of dominance and a process that leads ultimately to their total corruption and subservience. There is always some new BS to swallow and support, some new and more embarrasssing way to demonstrate your loyalty.

All because you did not call BS the first time, but went along... and went along... and went along. Deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole each time. More and more compromised... until you absolutely MUST cling to and support the horrific things because you have nowhere else to go.

Mike Lew's avatar

Yup, bad lying is all about dominance.

max skinner's avatar

Besides, according to the VP, you have to lie in order to make a point.

Old Chemist 11's avatar

Trump can't calculate 5th grade math. His pretense that he's always winning, even as he throws tantrums like the sorest of losers, comes straight from his mentor Roy Cohn's playbook.

Andrew Joyce's avatar

Well, from one “sexual matador” to another that’s high praise indeed.

Brent_in_FL's avatar

We. Are. F*%#ed.

Maribeth's avatar

A victory for whom?

Maribeth's avatar

This comment is so far down in the thread that it has lost context.

julia dream's avatar

The WSJ proclaims that Hegseth sets no time on ending the war -- only when Trump decides. Tell me this is not autocracy. Who stops this juggernaut of psychosis?

Daphne McHugh's avatar

Let’s hope that hubris=doom comes for Hegseth!

julia dream's avatar

I am beyond understanding why this "unpopular" war gets so much support from Congress. "In a 53 to 47 vote, a Democrat-led effort to restrict Mr. Trump from taking military action in Iran fell short for a third time." Yesterday! Are Americans informing their GOP Senators that we're all good on this? So only the SENATE and Trump and Hegseth support this war. And if Trump, Hegseth, and the Senate decide to [fill in the blank], we're all going.

Dave Yell's avatar

An issue suitable for framing in the midterms.

MoosesMom's avatar

Only 2 can stop it. Either the pliant, oath-violating elected GOP officials in the House and Senate, or enough voters in the midterms to replace the pliant, oath-violating elected GOP officials in the House and Senate.

Any guess on which?

max skinner's avatar

You don't trust that he will just know it's over in his bones?

julia dream's avatar

ANY MEANS NECESSARY! LOL! Maybe we should have a look at Hegseth's entrails ...

Dave Yell's avatar

or in his gut

Ben Gruder's avatar

"Stephen Miller, telling Laura Ingraham that “President Trump has calculated through every permutation and every degree of strategy,” and that we are en route to “an overwhelming victory.” I can't get over the North Korea of it all.

Greg WF's avatar

It makes my head swim listening to this garbage. I was born during Nixon’s vile presidency, but what is this? By the measure of our Mayfly existence, the decay has taken long to reach a critical level, but it sure seems to be rushing now.

I just rewatched the film Darkest Hour. Where the hell is our Churchill? I guess maybe we don’t deserve one. Not that deserving has anything to do with life, and death. Nemesis has fixed her eyes on us, and our Israeli allies.

Sic transit gloria mundi……..

Ben Gruder's avatar

Good quote. I remember Nixon. A benevolent genius compared to our current POTUS idiotus (my Latin is not as good as yours lol).

Garvin's avatar

No apology needed. "Potus idiotus" is the kind of label you'd see in a Warner Brothers cartoon - one that had Trump running around in it like Wiley Coyote.

Dave Yell's avatar

Enshitifis Potus Dufus

Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

Churchill didn't have to deal with an erstwhile ally going off on their own like BiBi. We have two meglomaniacal dictators marching to their own whims.

Dave Yell's avatar

If it wasn't for our bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

Kate Fall's avatar

Stalin was sort of going off on his own. My God, we used to have Presidents who could stand up to Stalin.

Ben Gruder's avatar

I used to like Netanyahu way way back in the day. Seemed well-spoken, reasonable and intelligent. But I now see him as Trump in a kippa: He's gone full authoritarian demagogue, enabled by Trump.

Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

I did too Ben, thirty or some years ago for the same reasons. He did not age well.

Dave Yell's avatar

What comes first the Trump or the Bibi?

Ben Gruder's avatar

Trump, imo. Bibi went full-in on demonizing Israeli Arabs after Trump led by example re Mexican immigrants.

Dave Yell's avatar

One with a large gut instinct and the other with ears to rival Little Marcos's

Kotzsu's avatar

It's giving Downfall (2004) vibes

Greg WF's avatar

That’s what I just wrote on another comment. At the end, Trump will be pushing symbols of Loyalist ICE and Border Patrol paramilitary units around on a map, ordering immediate counter-attacks. Screaming and ranting.

Unfortunately for the regime, those units will be shattered remnants by that time.

Lynn  Bentson's avatar

I hope they will be shattered remnants . The good news is that while ICE seems to brutal they also seem to be stupid and disorganized (thank God)

Greg WF's avatar

And cowards, under their aggressive bravado.

Jim Wimmers's avatar

At a Kennedy Center board meeting: "They weren't supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East." Also, "Nobody, nobody, no, no, no. The greatest experts, nobody thought they were going to hit."

Dave Yell's avatar

An overwhelming victory! Except for Iran s missiles, cluster bombs, drones, mines and ships.

Ben Gruder's avatar

Actually, and overwhelming and glorious victory!

Joe S's avatar

It's fascist garbage, which is par for the course for reichsminister Miller

Jeri in Tx's avatar

Makes you wonder if he stood in front of the bathroom mirror and repeated that over and over until he thought "wow, that sounds cool. I'm sure to get a gold star from president orange daddy!"

What a ridiculous bunch of mush coming out of his face hole. I'd feel sorry and embarrassed for him if he wasn't such an unlikeable pile of crap. Him and gabbard should be stuffed in lockers for all that cringy praise of the dumbest human to ever squat his huge ass in the WH.

Ben Gruder's avatar

In all fairness, it is not just Miller. Every single cabinet members gushes ass-kissing praise in Trump's cabinet meetings. It's truly disgusting. But I suspect they all do practice in front of a mirror.

Jeri in Tx's avatar

Oh, yes, I've seen the round table flowery bjs. It's gag-inducing.

Lockers for Everyone!

Tim Coffey's avatar

Bill: "Instead of receiving intelligence briefings, President Trump is watching Fox. And what he heard last night was his most influential aide, Stephen Miller, telling Laura Ingraham that “President Trump has calculated through every permutation and every degree of strategy,” and that we are en route to “an overwhelming victory.”"

< Tim spits out his coffee and starts laughing hysterically >

I have to hand it to Miller and Ingraham for their commitment to the bit. Their contempt for Fox's viewership is off the charts. Then again, the role of Fox in 2026 is to tell their viewers what they want to hear. I look forward to the day when gas is $10/gallon and Miller is crowing about Trump's strategic genius on Ingraham's show, and I look forward to it because I know the viewers are going to believe Miller instead of the evidence of their shrinking wallets.

Daphne McHugh's avatar

I am concerned that if events keep going in this direction Tim won’t be able to afford coffee to spit.

Tim Coffey's avatar

Funny you should mention that, Daphne. I buy a large bag of Starbucks that until recently was $14. Since the war kicked off, the price has gone to $16. But Miller says this is a new Golden Age, so what do I know.

Mike Lew's avatar

A small and worthy sacrifice to keep Iran from getting the bomb.

That was the crux of the 2024 election wasn't it? The need for shared sacrifice and higher prices? Or am I remembering it wrong?

Tim Coffey's avatar

2024? Feels like a lifetime ago. But I do remember when Trump pulled out of the JCPOA. If he was really worried about Iran "getting the bomb", then why didn't he and his national security team come up with a replacement that our allies would have supported?

Oh, that's right. Thinking is woke. I'm sorry.

Mike Lew's avatar

Come on, the JCPOA was a "bad deal." The greatest deal maker ever said so.

/s

Al Keim's avatar

That's the price of a Venti, Tim.

Al Keim's avatar

Never mind that Mrs. Tim is going to brain him.

Chandu's avatar

Don't worry Daphne. Tim is a rich dude who can afford daily coffee even if it doubles or triples in price (assuming that gas stays up below $3 a gallon). 🤣

Ben Gruder's avatar

He said a BAG of Starbucks, not a cup. To make at home. He ain't buying daily $6 lattes as you seem to be implying.

Tim Coffey's avatar

Tim? Rich? News to me.

TomD's avatar

In my world, drinking scotch the label of which does not include the words "Trader Joe" equals rich.

Chandu's avatar

Maybe I should find someone to explain that concept to you. 😁

Tim Coffey's avatar

That's awfully kind of you.

Dave Yell's avatar

He has his Pinto beans.

Justin's avatar

He looked through millions of futures and saw...building the ballroom, it was the only path to victory.

Tim Coffey's avatar

While lip-syncing to "Big Balls" by AC/DC.

Marcia's avatar

I have this recurring fantasy that somebody slips a truth serum into the coffee that these Fox hosts consume right before going on air. C’mon, Laura: tell us what you really think for a change. Wouldn’t it be a relief to drop the facade?

Tim Coffey's avatar

When Charlie Sykes was still with The Bulwark, he had Anne Applebaum on the flagship pod to discuss the "twilight" of democracy. Applebaum knew Ingraham from back in the day since both socialized in the center-right social circles, and Applebaum concluded that Ingraham was not a conservative but a radical who benefited from the destruction of our institutions and our democratic guardrails. Laura's on the air because she chooses to be. There is no better version of her. What you see is who and what she is. To paraphrase Orwell, the purpose of lying is lying.

Mike Lew's avatar

Remember from 2016? "I watch the shows."

Tim Coffey's avatar

Ten years of this shit, Mike. < sigh >

Mike Lew's avatar

No kidding. And he's not going away.

Tim Coffey's avatar

Nope. And frankly, Mike, we deserve what's coming to us. We asked for this. Well, now we're going to get it.

Mike Lew's avatar

Anyone who voted for him in 2024 after seeing J6 has my contempt.

Charles Witte's avatar

Like Nancy Pelosi said: “All roads lead to Putin”.

Dave Yell's avatar

That is a hefty 49.8 % of the country.

Dave Yell's avatar

And anybody who claims they didn't vote for this I reply, yes you did. 49.8 % to the detriment of us all.

Dave Yell's avatar

You mean the pice of gas isn't going down quickly?

Vic's avatar

Trump kids should be the first boots on the ground in Iran followed by the other MAGA billionaires. This is their war.

TomD's avatar

Elon's kids could be a whole battalion.

Eric's avatar

I'd be willing to let the kids skip out if we could send Elon instead.

Vic's avatar

I love your idea!

Maribeth's avatar

Maybe we should send felonious bone spurs too!

Lynn  Bentson's avatar

They are little , lay off. Just send Elon and/or his non resident harem

Eric's avatar

Good in theory, but first of all, we don't know if the Trump kids know how to put boots on their feet and second, didn't you know that bone spurs are a hereditary disability?

Carole Langston's avatar

Ivanka is probably the only one tough enough.

Vic's avatar

There’s a waiver for that.

Greg WF's avatar

My god, can you imagine the horror of seeing Barron Trump lumbering around the battlefield? “Holy shit! The Americans have GIANTS!”

Seriously though, I’m sure Gold Spoon Barron would make a great Combat Engineer. For as long as it took for one of his size 30 boots to step on a land mine. BOOM!! Bye-bye foot. Bye-bye a critical piece of anatomy higher up. On the plus side, his daddy could afford to get him a gold plated prosthetic.

Vic's avatar

I would love to see it.

Kate Fall's avatar

Unsurprisingly, they all have bone spurs. Do they think any Americans of any ideology are fooled by this?

Dave Yell's avatar

Don; too much coke. Eric; too dumb. Barron; too tall. Like John Fogerty's song, Fortunate son

dcicero's avatar

The ICE dudes ought to be in the first wave. Those dudes are bad-asses.

Kevin Robbins's avatar

Day 20 of the Republican Party’s war in Iran.

Congrats to Joe Kent on becoming an enemy of the state. It’s not necessary to be a white nationalist to oppose idiotic wars in the Middle East.

See somewhere this morning that Russia is shipping oil to Cuba. If true, I’m sure Trump “knows nothing about it.”

Al Keim's avatar

OOH he can set up a blockade and pound his Florsheim on the desk.

orbit's avatar

Bessent said today that the Trump Administration is considering removing sanctions on already loaded Iranian oil to help ease the energy crisis Bibi and Donnie have created.

Dave Yell's avatar

I can hear Walter Cronkite's voice: "And that's the way it is" on Day 20 of the Iran war, gas up 90 cents and rising.

Peter Hart's avatar

Not a fucking chance. The dumb fucks who elected him are getting exactly what they deserve. We have met the enemy and they are us.

Eric's avatar

The problem with the dumb fucks who elected him is that they're also too dumb to recognize that he's destroying our economy and our country.

Tim Coffey's avatar

Or maybe they do recognize it and are in denial about it. People do all sorts of cognitive gymnastics to avoid facing the truth about the consequences of their actions.

Bryan's avatar

They don’t see the chaos they have brought on. FOX doesn’t air it, so they have no idea. Their wallets know, they are too dumb to figure that part out.

dcicero's avatar

I think that's it. When you get your information from Greg Gutfeld, you think everything's great.

Mike Lew's avatar

Anything other than seeing a glorious victory is TDS.

Maribeth's avatar

I will ask once again:

Victory for whom?

Mike Lew's avatar

However the President defines "victory" that moment.

Kim Nesvig's avatar

Iran has been preparing for unconventional war with the US and meanwhile Russia has been engaged in decades of unconventional warfare against the US. Trump had ignited the former and has facilitated the latter.

Lewis Grotelueschen's avatar

"The average price of a gallon of gasoline is now about $3.88, according to AAA. In eight states, it’s over $4/gallon."

Biden, er . . . . . Trump did this.

TomD's avatar

Here in California, we *dream* of regular gas at $3.88.

Linda Oliver's avatar

I’m told by another CA resident that that is Gavin Newsom’s fault. Hail Donald.

TomD's avatar

Primarily, it's because CA elects to achieve a greater part of taxes collected via a gas tax than other states; and because air quality regs require different formulas at different times of the year.

Lynn  Bentson's avatar

Oregon same - average 4.49 (though I pay more in my college town) , Costco is 4.29 so whenever Idrive past Costco 13 miles away I fill up

TomD's avatar

In northern CA, regular is mid-fives and diesel is nosing above six.

Lynn  Bentson's avatar

Maybe I wont DRIVE to that conference in SFO next month .

Kate Fall's avatar

You might want to check how TSA is doing before you buy a plane ticket.

Chandu's avatar

Micky Maga from Dufusville, Alabama explains to WSJ:

You see by Biden not ending the 47 year war while he was president, the Patriot's Patriot™️ Trump has to take it on himself to end this long standing war once and for all.

So, if you can twist your logic enough times, anyone can clearly see that Biden is the reason oil price is increasing again!!!!

orbit's avatar
3hEdited

That, seriously, is MAGA's key talking point regarding Trump's war.

Nevermind that Orange45 did nothing about it during his first term.

Dave Yell's avatar

Biden's laptop!

Joy P's avatar

💯 Gen. Hertling

“… greatest danger to powerful nations was not external enemies but hubris—the arrogance that comes from believing success makes one invulnerable …”

Christine's avatar

Also, “Not paying those who stand on that front line during a period of heightened threat is not fiscal discipline; it’s strategic negligence.” He’s an excellent thinker and writer.

Dave Yell's avatar

Sure sounds like Trump to me.

Robert Jaffee's avatar

Is anyone truly shocked at this point as to how this war—special military exercise will play out?

Just ask yourself one question. When was the last time Trump actually cared about the Presidential Daily Brief or listens to the intelligence experts?

That said, the only time I’ve ever seen Trump care about National Security is when he left the Whitehouse with 300 of the nations most critical secrets, refused to acknowledge he had them, and then refused to give them back!

Therefore, you need to ask yourself, which team is Trump truly fighting for, because to me, it’s definitely feels like he’s not fighting for America!🇺🇸

Tim Coffey's avatar

As with all of Trump's actions, the only question that matters is how much Trump benefits financially. He's a pig at the trough and always has been.

Robert Jaffee's avatar

Can’t disagree with that; well said!…:)

Tim Coffey's avatar

In fact, I would bet someone has already done a "Downfall" parody where the English captions are Trump's military advisors are explaining to him how badly things are going.

Dave Yell's avatar

Mirror, mirror on the wall. What s best for Tump is best for all.

Lynn  Bentson's avatar

I have always thought he sold or even gave that defense info at many levels of classification to the Russians ,while living in "exile " at MAL and I still think so .

Mike Lew's avatar

He watches the shows. How much more informed can a president be? /s

Robert Jaffee's avatar

And he also talks to Putin—a lot! I’d love to be a fly on the wall for that…:)

Dave Yell's avatar

Trumpster needs graphics.(pictures) at his PDB s. He can barely read.

Robert Jaffee's avatar

Agreed, which is why the intelligence agencies are one step ahead of you; they made the new PDB a pop-up book!🤪

Dan Sescleifer's avatar

No masks or no deal on ICE.

Ben Gruder's avatar

That's the ballgame. It would cut the legs out of the basic myth that ICE (and really, all things Trump) are special creatures that deserve special protection, permission, leeway, and deference because they are so persecuted by 'domestic terrorists'. Therefore, the masks will be the LAST thing Rs agree to, if they ever agree to it. Trump will lean on them hard not to budge. Yet we cannot call America a free country while we have secret police at the beck and call of the president.

Christine's avatar

It should be no masks and no guns. The ranks would dwindle to nothing.

Ben Gruder's avatar

Or at least do a deep psych profile before issuing a gun.

Merrill's avatar

In the strange, hate-filled world of Donald J Trump, he has a special meaning for the world "WE". You might think that our fake POTUS means "my fellow Americans". Nope. You'd be wrong. When he says "WE" it's limited to his supporters or allies or corrupt collaborators. He NEVER means "We the People". His WE is referring to those who will become richer because of higher oil prices while 95% of Americans will become poorer. The "WE" of "SO MUCH WINNING" from tariffs are the Trump family and the upper 5% of taxpayers, NOT the People and so it goes into a war with Iran. WE the PEOPLE must do whatever it takes to save ourselves and the nation

Kass McGann's avatar

Not even that. It's "The Royal We". He doesn't mean anyone but himself. No one else exists in his sick mind. He should have been locked in a rubber room long ago. This man shouldn't have control over a children's toy much less a country.

Suzanne Clancy's avatar

An Indian-American friend shared a proverb with me: "You don't give a garland to a monkey."

Dave Yell's avatar

Remember the Letterman bit: Is it Trump or monkey?

TomD's avatar

Others are like the things new parents dangle above infants' cribs.

Kevin's avatar

Hey, Trump is being consistent when he says we destroyed 100% of their military's capability. He absolutely means that. But like with drug prices, he probably has another 1500% or 1600% yet to go in reducing Iran's military capability. We're holding him to objective, verifiable math standards when he's talking in raving lunatic idiot math. Cut the man some slack.

Al Keim's avatar

Mr. President have your bones checked in with your gut?

Lewis Grotelueschen's avatar

"in a strike you pretended we didn’t know about ahead of time"

Trump in the cuck chair . . . .