With his State of the Union Address just days away, Trump finds himself at a dangerous moment.
The country is cooling to his claim that America is “the hottest nation on earth right now”, and dubious that when all is said and done, the Epstein files will truly “absolve” him of misconduct, as he prematurely claimed earlier this month.
So the master of distraction needs to change the storyline, not least because Democrats are already limbering up and promising the world that change is on its way.
Governor Gavin Newsom of California urged European leaders and policymakers attending the weekend’s Munich Security Conference not to give up hope in America’s future, nor in the solidity of the [battered transatlantic alliance](https://inews.co.uk/news/nato-never-trumps-threats-ex-pentagon-official-4235180?ico=in-line_link). “If there’s nothing else I can communicate today, Donald Trump is temporary,” he assured conference attendees, promising them “he’ll be gone in three years…it’s important for folks to understand the temporary nature of this administration”.
The New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also told a panel at the conference that Trump was trying to bring about an “age of authoritarianism” in which “where Donald Trump can command the western hemisphere and Latin America as his personal sandbox, where Putin can sabre-rattle around Europe and try to bully our own allies there”. She outlined an alternative vision for US foreign policy that included a return to the “rules-based order”.
Less-Cap6996 on
The pig is in the pan.
Spam_Hand on
Wondering if fox will show his state of the union address live, or just describe what he’s saying over the feed with audio off.
Most people who voted for trump don’t listen to him speak and have no idea how bad his mind has gotten. His charisma, whic was always at least engaging, has turned fully into incoherency and rapud decline. His base largely has no idea of this because of hand picked or doctored clips they get from conservative media.
reddittorbrigade on
Being Anti-Trump , Anti-Pedophiles or Anti-Nazis is an honorable thing to do.
horseshit6569 on
There is no honor & no morals in our President nor in our Republican Reps / Senators in Congress.
CigaretteWaterX on
>Democrats were assuring the world that the first Trump administration would be seen by historians as a mere aberration, nothing more than a brief fever on the nation’s brow. The country would soon spring back to normality, they insisted.
MAGA is no aberration. It is a result of decades of propaganda, starting with AM radio/Fox News and vastly expanding with the internet. It took a generation to build up to this and it will likely take at least another generation to get rid of it.
They aren’t going to disappear and fade away. When Trump dies, they will not stop. This is *how they are*, and there’s many millions of them.
What is important is forming a coalition of opposition that quite simply outnumbers them. Also, the right-wing media apparatus must be dismantled and destroyed. It is time for a Democratic party that *wields power*. No more fussing about rules. No more compromises with evil. Everything possible must be done to totally destroy the right’s ability to wield power and to expand ours.
That means things like;
– Abolishing the senate
– full popular vote, full early mail-in voting in all elections
– Adding overseas territories as states
– Splitting big blue states into smaller deep-blue states. Yeah, they’ll be shaped weird. Get over it. Only need this if we keep the senate – it is WAY easier to do, technically possible with a 60 vote majority.
– Packing the supreme court with a bunch of 30-year-old lib arts majors
– Voter suppression in red areas
– Aggressive regulation of right-wing media organizations. Most of them, if audited, could be closed down for years in litigations
They don’t play fair, and they’re winning. They’re killing people. Time to stop fussing like babies.
blondiAngel on
The Epstein files and his plunging approval ratings have Trump scrambling for distractions before the State of the Union. It’s telling that even MAGA supporters are calling for Pam Bondi to be fired after her evasive testimony. The walls are definitely closing in from multiple directions.
Zepcleanerfan on
Fuck trump and his fascist bootlocker supporters. There how’s that?
geoffvro on
Maybe he should focus on making all of America Great rather than systematically destroying it 🤷
limaconnect77 on
Massive problem the vast majority of ‘normals’ and progressives have is they don’t realise (or want to accept) that this MAGA stuff is an extension of the fundamentalist Puritanical fervour/beliefs that founded the US.
Project 2026 made it crystal fkn clear what the end goals were – but, clearly, not everybody was in receive mode. They essentially telegraphed what would happen, lol.
digihippie on
What is dangerous about holding rapist pedophiles accountable via prison? Prison, not stepping down, not apologizing, not giving up status and power. Federal max security prison, where even inmates hate pedos.
Liberty and Justice for all.
Additionally his pardon party on the way out should be nullified.
OpticalPrime35 on
Imagine thinking disagreeing with a political party and being against their ideals is ” a dangerous moment “. The dangerous moment was allowing public discourse to get to the point to where disagreement becomes dangerous
fatjollyhousewife on
I still believe trump himself is the distraction. The people who wrote the playbook for the current fascist takeover attempt tell him what to say, give him a topic to yammer about, have him create outrage by making ridiculous statements, and wear everyone down with the firehose effect.
trisul-108 on
The problem is that Trump has become the figurehead of the Epstein Class. He has chosen his cabinet and appointments from the Epstein Pool. He has inadvertently and stupidly unveiled the curtain behind which they were all hiding. As Pam Bondi said, if we reveal Epstein Class, the whole system falls.
So … with whose money is this going to done, if Trump is the one holding up the Epstein Class system.
nonubiz on
You have to give credit to trump. He is a good con man and knows how to divide people. With help from his evil cabinet. He has stolen from us, abused his power, made promises he never kept,destroyed our standing in the world, is a traitor and no patriot, threatens the world, took away our safety nets, and ruined our health care and yet he still has supporters. Worst president in history but a good con man
PurplRzr on
In the words of Darkwing Duck, “Let’s. Get. Dangerous.”
crossdefaults on
All I saw was that, “Democrats are gargling in the wings.”
kummer5peck on
Dangerous for whom? Pedo Nazis?
I_am_BrokenCog on
you can really see how difficult non-white male authority figures are within all facets of society, not just the MAGA bigots.
the article makes zero mention of AOC, only Newsom, for 2028 potential POTUS, but they know they can’t ignore her, so they put her image as a “mental shim” to trick readers into not realizing she was omitted. This implicitly boosts Newsome as more viable because the readers brain doesn’t have her name in context of “potential candidate”.
This technique isn’t new, but it has direct resuslts, and is subtle enough to get over looked.
code603 on
The biggest problem is that the democrats don’t seem to understand why Trump won. Their entire message has been “vote for us so we can return to normal” and the fact is “normal” hasn’t worked for average American for the last 30 years. Trump won because he offered something different. Terrible, but different.
If Democrats don’t start offering sometime actually new that helps working people, we will be back here and even worse in a few years.
Whole_Inside_4863 on
There is no way around it, they’re going to have to bomb Iran.
KnowMatter on
Been seeing “republicans finally turning on trump!” headlines for basically a decade at this point.
kevendo on
Dangerous for him, not us.
Carochio on
Anti-Trump = Pro-America
ImmediateGrass on
Pro-Trump is dangerous. Anti-Trump is what ought to be the norm.
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Minisciwi on
How the fuck has it taken this long
eightdx on
My grandfather fought fascists for the USA, the least I can do is fight them today in whatever capacity I can.
det8924 on
Being Anit Trump basically just means someone whose not blinded by cult loyalty at this point
Jonas_VentureJr on
Ready the pitchforks!!
PelagicDreamer on
Every undocumented immigrant is paying into social security without any benefit.
Capy_3796 on
It is a dangerous moment. Because everything that Trump has done so far, every idiotic unforced error he’s made, has been done under zero pressure.
Image what he’ll do when he starts to feel pressure.
OldTempleHermit on
I wouldn’t call it a “coalition”.
It’s more like the other 1/3 of the country is finally starting to realize that all the “*greatness/we’re all going to be rich as hell*” bullshit they fell for in 2024 was;
a) a complete fking con
b) supported largely by ignorant, racist assholes
c) funded by billionaires, TV preachers, predators, pedophiles and a psychotic cult of murderers
Trump’s campaign bs may have seemed convincing at the time, but it has definitely proven not worth it today.
IntellectAndEnergy on
Hakeem Jeffries, in an interview today, mentioned “extreme actions”, including requiring a judicial warrant to enter a private residence. Apparently, adhering to things clearly outlined in our Constitution (4th Amendment) are now “extreme”.
justbrowse2018 on
Democrats have to be historically serious and on point if they win. I’ve seen them get at least brief control over the government and shy away from anything that seemed tough.
dancing_around_it on
Everything this wannabe dictator does is anti-American he and his funders are doing everything possible to take as much as they can while they can. They need to be stopped and brought to justice.
milkshakeit on
One thing we can’t do is underestimate his cult again like we did after he lost in 2020.
numbmumpleb1ister on
Fuck the orange rapist in chief and everyone who supports or enables him. He deserves the very worst fate.
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[Donald Trump](https://inews.co.uk/topic/donald-trump?srsltid=AfmBOoryhebFOc8PYimo-nMiMfr-g72vcfjU5H8dh_0SKc3U7GiM3YZZ&ico=in-line_link) is in urgent need of a distraction. After his administration suffered a week of [cascading reverses, defeats and own goals](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/walls-closing-trump-minnesota-maga-4233423?ico=in-line_link), the country’s headlines remain doggedly fixated on unresolved questions about the Epstein files, the US President’s own plunging approval ratings, and the first stirrings of Democrats gargling in the wings to replace him.
With his State of the Union Address just days away, Trump finds himself at a dangerous moment.
The country is cooling to his claim that America is “the hottest nation on earth right now”, and dubious that when all is said and done, the Epstein files will truly “absolve” him of misconduct, as he prematurely claimed earlier this month.
The President faces continuing calls from members of his own Make America Great Again movement to fire Attorney General Pam Bondi, following her evasive and [disdainful testimony over her handling of the Epstein issue](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/moment-showed-how-low-team-trump-4231520?ico=in-line_link) in Congress last week.
His [U-turn in Minneapolis](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trumps-terrifying-plan-steaming-ahead-ice-withdrawal-4215659?ico=in-line_link) may give rise to images this week of Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol paramilitaries packing away their guns and their masks and beating a humiliating retreat from the city.
Then, as early as Friday, the nine justices of the Supreme Court may overturn the President’s [“Liberation Day” tariffs](https://inews.co.uk/topic/trump-tariffs?srsltid=AfmBOoohel3ekRaLcnGwgKgbRkCH3i74nbG8biDxLbZ5a7TT2UWAsjIA&ico=in-line_link), in an opinion that could lay waste to the key pillar of Trump’s trade and national security policies if it goes against the administration.
So the master of distraction needs to change the storyline, not least because Democrats are already limbering up and promising the world that change is on its way.
Governor Gavin Newsom of California urged European leaders and policymakers attending the weekend’s Munich Security Conference not to give up hope in America’s future, nor in the solidity of the [battered transatlantic alliance](https://inews.co.uk/news/nato-never-trumps-threats-ex-pentagon-official-4235180?ico=in-line_link). “If there’s nothing else I can communicate today, Donald Trump is temporary,” he assured conference attendees, promising them “he’ll be gone in three years…it’s important for folks to understand the temporary nature of this administration”.
The New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also told a panel at the conference that Trump was trying to bring about an “age of authoritarianism” in which “where Donald Trump can command the western hemisphere and Latin America as his personal sandbox, where Putin can sabre-rattle around Europe and try to bully our own allies there”. She outlined an alternative vision for US foreign policy that included a return to the “rules-based order”.
The pig is in the pan.
Wondering if fox will show his state of the union address live, or just describe what he’s saying over the feed with audio off.
Most people who voted for trump don’t listen to him speak and have no idea how bad his mind has gotten. His charisma, whic was always at least engaging, has turned fully into incoherency and rapud decline. His base largely has no idea of this because of hand picked or doctored clips they get from conservative media.
Being Anti-Trump , Anti-Pedophiles or Anti-Nazis is an honorable thing to do.
There is no honor & no morals in our President nor in our Republican Reps / Senators in Congress.
>Democrats were assuring the world that the first Trump administration would be seen by historians as a mere aberration, nothing more than a brief fever on the nation’s brow. The country would soon spring back to normality, they insisted.
MAGA is no aberration. It is a result of decades of propaganda, starting with AM radio/Fox News and vastly expanding with the internet. It took a generation to build up to this and it will likely take at least another generation to get rid of it.
They aren’t going to disappear and fade away. When Trump dies, they will not stop. This is *how they are*, and there’s many millions of them.
What is important is forming a coalition of opposition that quite simply outnumbers them. Also, the right-wing media apparatus must be dismantled and destroyed. It is time for a Democratic party that *wields power*. No more fussing about rules. No more compromises with evil. Everything possible must be done to totally destroy the right’s ability to wield power and to expand ours.
That means things like;
– Abolishing the senate
– full popular vote, full early mail-in voting in all elections
– Adding overseas territories as states
– Splitting big blue states into smaller deep-blue states. Yeah, they’ll be shaped weird. Get over it. Only need this if we keep the senate – it is WAY easier to do, technically possible with a 60 vote majority.
– Packing the supreme court with a bunch of 30-year-old lib arts majors
– Voter suppression in red areas
– Aggressive regulation of right-wing media organizations. Most of them, if audited, could be closed down for years in litigations
They don’t play fair, and they’re winning. They’re killing people. Time to stop fussing like babies.
The Epstein files and his plunging approval ratings have Trump scrambling for distractions before the State of the Union. It’s telling that even MAGA supporters are calling for Pam Bondi to be fired after her evasive testimony. The walls are definitely closing in from multiple directions.
Fuck trump and his fascist bootlocker supporters. There how’s that?
Maybe he should focus on making all of America Great rather than systematically destroying it 🤷
Massive problem the vast majority of ‘normals’ and progressives have is they don’t realise (or want to accept) that this MAGA stuff is an extension of the fundamentalist Puritanical fervour/beliefs that founded the US.
Project 2026 made it crystal fkn clear what the end goals were – but, clearly, not everybody was in receive mode. They essentially telegraphed what would happen, lol.
What is dangerous about holding rapist pedophiles accountable via prison? Prison, not stepping down, not apologizing, not giving up status and power. Federal max security prison, where even inmates hate pedos.
Liberty and Justice for all.
Additionally his pardon party on the way out should be nullified.
Imagine thinking disagreeing with a political party and being against their ideals is ” a dangerous moment “. The dangerous moment was allowing public discourse to get to the point to where disagreement becomes dangerous
I still believe trump himself is the distraction. The people who wrote the playbook for the current fascist takeover attempt tell him what to say, give him a topic to yammer about, have him create outrage by making ridiculous statements, and wear everyone down with the firehose effect.
The problem is that Trump has become the figurehead of the Epstein Class. He has chosen his cabinet and appointments from the Epstein Pool. He has inadvertently and stupidly unveiled the curtain behind which they were all hiding. As Pam Bondi said, if we reveal Epstein Class, the whole system falls.
So … with whose money is this going to done, if Trump is the one holding up the Epstein Class system.
You have to give credit to trump. He is a good con man and knows how to divide people. With help from his evil cabinet. He has stolen from us, abused his power, made promises he never kept,destroyed our standing in the world, is a traitor and no patriot, threatens the world, took away our safety nets, and ruined our health care and yet he still has supporters. Worst president in history but a good con man
In the words of Darkwing Duck, “Let’s. Get. Dangerous.”
All I saw was that, “Democrats are gargling in the wings.”
Dangerous for whom? Pedo Nazis?
you can really see how difficult non-white male authority figures are within all facets of society, not just the MAGA bigots.
the article makes zero mention of AOC, only Newsom, for 2028 potential POTUS, but they know they can’t ignore her, so they put her image as a “mental shim” to trick readers into not realizing she was omitted. This implicitly boosts Newsome as more viable because the readers brain doesn’t have her name in context of “potential candidate”.
This technique isn’t new, but it has direct resuslts, and is subtle enough to get over looked.
The biggest problem is that the democrats don’t seem to understand why Trump won. Their entire message has been “vote for us so we can return to normal” and the fact is “normal” hasn’t worked for average American for the last 30 years. Trump won because he offered something different. Terrible, but different.
If Democrats don’t start offering sometime actually new that helps working people, we will be back here and even worse in a few years.
There is no way around it, they’re going to have to bomb Iran.
Been seeing “republicans finally turning on trump!” headlines for basically a decade at this point.
Dangerous for him, not us.
Anti-Trump = Pro-America
Pro-Trump is dangerous. Anti-Trump is what ought to be the norm.
[deleted]
How the fuck has it taken this long
My grandfather fought fascists for the USA, the least I can do is fight them today in whatever capacity I can.
Being Anit Trump basically just means someone whose not blinded by cult loyalty at this point
Ready the pitchforks!!
Every undocumented immigrant is paying into social security without any benefit.
It is a dangerous moment. Because everything that Trump has done so far, every idiotic unforced error he’s made, has been done under zero pressure.
Image what he’ll do when he starts to feel pressure.
I wouldn’t call it a “coalition”.
It’s more like the other 1/3 of the country is finally starting to realize that all the “*greatness/we’re all going to be rich as hell*” bullshit they fell for in 2024 was;
a) a complete fking con
b) supported largely by ignorant, racist assholes
c) funded by billionaires, TV preachers, predators, pedophiles and a psychotic cult of murderers
Trump’s campaign bs may have seemed convincing at the time, but it has definitely proven not worth it today.
Hakeem Jeffries, in an interview today, mentioned “extreme actions”, including requiring a judicial warrant to enter a private residence. Apparently, adhering to things clearly outlined in our Constitution (4th Amendment) are now “extreme”.
Democrats have to be historically serious and on point if they win. I’ve seen them get at least brief control over the government and shy away from anything that seemed tough.
Everything this wannabe dictator does is anti-American he and his funders are doing everything possible to take as much as they can while they can. They need to be stopped and brought to justice.
One thing we can’t do is underestimate his cult again like we did after he lost in 2020.
Fuck the orange rapist in chief and everyone who supports or enables him. He deserves the very worst fate.