Trump Has No Idea What He Has Unleashed

Tuesday, April 08, 2025

Edward Luce, Financial Times: There is no school of foreign policy realism or trade mercantilism that could explain the US president's actions

Posted by retort at 05:32 PM | 28 COMMENTS | permalink

"A trillion comments have been wasted accusing the wrong people of Trump derangement syndrome. The real TDS afflicts those who keep seeing a rational actor, or an economic chess game, where none exists." Me on Trump's wrecking ball. www.ft.com/content/9f51 ...

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-- Edward Luce (@edwardluce.bsky.social) April 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM

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Trump is dumb-as a-stump, intellectually and emotionally. You wouldn't want to be him. No one should have to be ruled by a man like him. He is the father of disaster.

Future generations will not understand why we gave Trump the chance to do things to us.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-08 05:57 PM

"I was well familiar with what a narcissistic, ridiculous, tacky, vulgar, arriviste this guy was," she told Sullivan.

"That I knew about. The one thing I underestimated, in fact, did not see at all is, I had no idea how abjectly stupid the man is."

www.newsweek.com

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-08 06:39 PM

I had no idea how abjectly stupid the man is.

And that from the woman that wrote In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!

So there's that.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-08 06:46 PM

How many businesses that Pres trump has run have gone bankrupt?

I'm counting six.

What's your count?

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-08 06:57 PM

He doesn't care. It's no sweat off of his balls. Scotus gave him immunity. It's all she wrote.

#5 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-04-08 07:07 PM

Trump is dumb as a stump. But he's also hateful, petty and selfish, the perfect tool for the real drivers of this intentional dismantling of our country's infrastructure, the neoreactionaries, aka the Dark Enlightenment, aka the nerd reich.

Go ahead, look them up. A bunch of self-centered, super-wealthy elites who don't believe in democracy. They believe only the tech bros are qualified to run everything. That's why Musk has the role he does. That's why everything is being defunded and why the media are being attacked relentlessly.

#6 | Posted by cbob at 2025-04-08 07:43 PM

The Senate has responsibility here or the Cabinet under the 25th Amendment but they aren't going to act.

#7 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-08 07:43 PM

Trump announces China wants to negotiate and the Dow jumps up. China announces he's lying again and it collapses.
My question is were his buddies buying low and then selling high or are there people who actually believe what he says?

#8 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-08 09:25 PM

"It must be misery to awaken to another day of being Donald Trump. ... His childlike ignorance - preserved by a lifetime of single-minded self-promotion - concerning governance and economics guarantees that whenever he must interact with experienced and accomplished people, he is as bewildered as a kindergartner at a seminar on string theory."

George F. Will

#9 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-04-08 09:29 PM

The Senate has responsibility here or the Cabinet under the 25th Amendment but they aren't going to act.

#7 | Posted by danni

oh wow.....from a supporter of the brain dead vegetable who had to have

florescent arrows on the floor to know which way to go after speaking

and a supporter of the illiterate word salad queen

that's funny right there now...

#10 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-08 10:06 PM

no idea what he unleashed..

my date saturday night didn't know what I

was about to unleash either....

#11 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-08 10:08 PM

"oh wow.....from a supporter of the brain dead vegetable who had to have
florescent arrows on the floor to know which way to go after speaking"

That guy grew the economy.
Trump is destroying the economy.

Serious question: Why don't you care?

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-08 10:09 PM

What's funny is I can see what he's doing.

Standing up to the rest of the world.

Standing up for America.

Something had to be done...

He's doing what he probably would have done his first term were it not for Covid.

#13 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-04-08 10:19 PM

@#13 ... Standing up for America. ...

Is he really doing that?

Or is he just trying to put himself (his ego) into the center of discussion?

There's a difference.

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-08 10:27 PM

Create chaos and make the US dysfunctional. Putin's puppet.

#15 | Posted by morris at 2025-04-08 10:44 PM

"Standing up to the rest of the world.
Standing up for America.
Something had to be done..."

Something had to be done, about what exactly?
Please be specific.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-08 11:19 PM

Stocks are dropping almost as fast as the-------------'s pants on Epstein Island.

#17 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-08 11:39 PM

Trump is the mean little kid who gets off torching ant hills and hurting neighborhood stray cats...it isn't about rational thinking it is about finally being able to be powerful somewhere, somehow.

#18 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-04-09 08:19 AM

it isn't about rational thinking it is about finally being able to be powerful somewhere, somehow.

#18 | POSTED BY HUGHMASS

Yes. This.

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-09 09:42 AM

Bill Johnson can't see ----.
This fool thinks he's king of the world, and everyone needs to do what he says or else.

DEATH TO TYRANTS.

#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-09 09:56 AM

Standing up to the rest of the world.

#13 | Posted by BillJohnson

For what? Standing up for what?

Jesus, this is why we have Trump. Idiots who left school after the 4th grade thinking they understand economics.