Trump does not do well at these boring but obligatory occasions. My impression is that he just wanted to get it over with and get back to his deal making.

BAT

"I would not be surprised if the dump reneges on the deal."

No doubt. It was obvious that there were strings attached to that offer. It was also clear that Argentinians did not like, and said so, their country being under the thump of the corrupt American President.

Also, no doubt, a deranged Trump will find some other way to get revenge.

I'm not surprised. Fools and their money are soon parted. It probably isn't the first time and, now that their name is on the "quick buck sucker list," it probably won't be the last.

"Mishap" ?????

LOL

semper fi

This is right up Trump's alley. The rich get richer and the poorer get poorer.

If she answered truthfully to any of those questions, she'd be on Trump's hit list in a nano-second.

As it was, not answering either way saved her from a charge of lying to congress.

If Trump gets wind of this scam, it will probably give him a "Eureka!" moment, otherwise known as, Why didn't I think of that?

Why won't Trump release the Epstein files?

My first guess is that there are a number of very prominent GOP campaign contributors with deep pockets, not to mention a couple or three sitting members of congress . . . who would be exposed if their names come out. Not that they don't deserve to be run out of town on a rail but that's not how Trump's MAGA circle play the game.

And then, of course, there are those rumored photos of Trump himself frolicking with some young stuff.

In short, the answer to "why" is . . . . all Hell would break loose.

America would go through a massive sea change. And to put some icing on the cupcake, we'd probably end up with our first Madam President.

The timing is right. Canadians start streaming South across the border to U.S. warmer climes along about Thanksgiving. Big mistake while Trump's gestapo is free ranging violence from sea to shining sea, as the song goes. America isn't safe anymore. Not for us and our families and certainly not for foreign tourists.

Canada is telling it like it is. The risk is high. Better to be smart and be safe.

Well, if nothing else, Trump has been successful at getting Epstein off the liberal media news cycle.

That should be a load off his mind.

Too conservative?

Never conservative enough for Trump. Or, as Trump's niece clearly warned America in her book about her Uncle Donald, "Too Much and Never Enough."

REDIAL

I didn't watch it that long. I knew he was a B.S. artist right from the beginning.

His act didn't seem to impress anyone. Small wonder.

Anyone who has ever been around someone who is rapidly, day by day, sinking into full blown dementia doesn't need a search engine.

Even in yourself while you're still reasonably lucid.

REDIAL

800 days in what job?

He didn't elaborate. Something about people needing people. One can only assume he was making it up on the fly. I just thought it was the height of arrogance to say anything of that nature to a room full of seasoned military professionals.

I got my first burst of spontaneous laughter early when Hegseth, while addressing an audience of battle-worn and battled-scared senior military officers, said "what I learned from my 800 days in this job" blah, blah, blah.

After that everything else he said became irrelevant.

I also thought that having so much military brass in one location would be an opportune time for them to start planning a military coup of the Trump administration.

I'm still not sure I'm wrong.

Trump, preoccupied by the loss of his eyelashes, has "no comment."

Trump always did envy Putin's style.

Russia has a Supreme Court, or whatever they call it. Actually, they're just a group of bobbleheads whose only job is to act as a second source of agreement with Mr. Putin.

It sounds like our own U.S. Supreme Court is in the process of turning themselves into copy-cats.

This thread is about the U.S Supreme Court and, by the admission of Justice Thomas, no longer intends to abide by precedent but rather the nonsensical whims of a power hunger grifter.

Sticking to the subject, my question is . . . . What's in it for them? In the long run?

This is an admission that we've long suspected. The Supreme Court is no longer an independent judiciary. The conservative majority is now in the business of incrementally destroying the Constitutional Republic of the United States.

IOW, greasing the skids for Donald Trump.

This should come as a surprise to no one.

CBOB

"I'm starting to think prison is a place I don't want to go."

Surprise! You're already just inches away.

Authoritarianism (Autocratic tyranny) is just a bigger version.

Your fear represents the bars.

The government is your guards.

Your warden is the dictator.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

Somebody told Trump he got rolled in Alaska. Now he hates Putin but he's still scared to death of him.

Which is why Trump said he would send aid to Ukraine but only through the European Union.

Trump is an angry coward. Angry at Putin but too cowardly to face him down over Ukraine.

He made his own bed.

Now it sounds like he's trying to hang onto his self-importance.

Tough ----- said the kitty.

Well, when your wife cuts you off and you're too ugly to get a mistress, what's a guy supposed to do? A free ego-boosting "massage" is hard to pass up. Especially if you have pinky swear assurances that Trump will keep your secret . . . And Trump has pinky swear assurances that you will keep his.

HAMBURGLAR

"How do You know?

I have no problem. When I see Trump on the screen, I just picture a 6' python who wants to throw his coils around the country.