Day 1 of Trump's Presidency... and all the days that follow

[Rizotto]

Scott Ritter: 'the conflict over the strait of Hormuz has nothing to do with USA national defense or foreign policy. This is about Trump's narcissism, about sustaining the cult of personality, the Trump brand.'

Scott Ritter : Who Controls Hormuz?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C4XjdkWNzDo

[Bill Ryan]

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/181869

If you thought the DoorDash lady who delivered McDonald’s to the White House today was just some random, authentic grandma… well… she wasn’t.

Here’s Sharon Simmons [last video] in August 2025 at a hearing in Nevada, talking about how the “One Big Beautiful Bill” made a difference in her life.

It’s all fake.

[Bill Ryan]

Many podcasts, interviews and articles have referenced the long and detailed New York Times piece, published on 7 April, about exactly what happened in the White House in February when Donald Trump took the decision to launch a war with Iran despite almost everyone in his Cabinet telling him this was a really bad idea.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...-iran-war.html

The article is behind a login wall, but I was able to open the page and grab a full PDF before the page closed again. It's now here in the Avalon Library.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Bill/How_T...York_Times.pdf

[Ravenlocke]

Candace Owens

Oh

https://x.com/RealCandaceO/status/2044197399564788007

https://x.com/jake__traylor/status/2044175473492513119

[Ravenlocke]

Owen Shroyer

Trump 2 years ago ran on "Kill FISA", the illegal spying that is very unpopular.

Today, Trump is urging Congress to pass FISA, which he ran against, and continues the illegal spying on Americans.


https://x.com/OwenShroyer1776/status...40920363257989

Justin Amash

The man who spent years whining that the government illegally spied on his campaign is now demanding Congress let him spy on every American—without a warrant.

FISA 702 is the real threat to Americans’ privacy: warrantless surveillance of U.S. persons under the guise of targeting foreigners. Far bigger than the Title I abuse Trump complains about.

Stop electing hypocrites who trash the Constitution. Tell Congress: Vote NO on FISA 702.

https://x.com/justinamash/status/2044126731355746474

[Ravenlocke]

The Patriot Voice

Trump is the “great magician” according to Marina Abromovic, as I reported on in October 2025.

I called it.

https://x.com/TPV_John/status/2044137447982797243

https://x.com/_TruthZone_/status/2044065826450317389

[BMJ]

EXPOSED: Trump Names the Hidden War — Britain Has No Cards Left

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IBxif0k4d-k

Promethean Updates
Apr 14, 2026
Summary:
00:00 The Monday Brief - EXPOSED: Trump Names the Hidden War — Britain Has No Cards Left - April 13, 2026
02:12 Lloyd's of London Blinks: How Trump Seized the Empire's Chokepoint
05:05 Bessent's Nuclear Option: From Dubai to Zurich to the City of London
07:10 Britain's Top General Confesses: "We Have No War Plan"

Susan Kokinda argues that President Trump has “put the empire on notice” by exposing what she calls a decades-long British-run extortion system centered on the Strait of Hormuz. She says Trump moved to break the alleged protection racket by undermining Lloyd’s of London’s role in maritime insurance, pushing the U.S. to provide coverage, and enforcing an “all or none” approach to Iran’s oil sales.

Kokinda highlights UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer declining to join an American blockade and claims Britain has lost control of the choke point.

She details financial actions targeting Iranian money flows, including UAE arrests of IRGC-linked money changers, Treasury Secretary Bessent using Patriot Act Section 311 against a Zurich bank, and scrutiny of London-based crypto exchanges and Santander UK. She cites a UK military chief admitting Britain’s war planning has lapsed since the Cold War and links fuel disruptions and protests to the conflict, concluding Trump has forced a hidden imperial system into the open.

[Rizotto]

Copying here Bojacan's post from the Israel vs Palestine thread (Link: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1710770)

Brian Berletic of The New Atlas describes how the pattern has become clear: the Trump administration is amplifying USA's goal of global hegemony by strangling sailing corridors to prevent competitors from trading vital energy supplies.
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• The US has announced a blockade of all maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz originating from Iran or having agreed with Iran for passage;
• This is the full implementation of Washington’s initial objective for waging war with Iran, an oil blockade of not only China but also much of the multipolar world;
• The US’ primary geopolitical objective is global hegemony and the only way it can achieve this objective is by dragging the rest of the rising multipolar world down relative to US power and wealth;
• The primary means to do this is by targeting the life blood of modern civilization which is energy;
• The US has been sabotaging and creating energy crises deliberately around the world including through the invasion of Venezuela, the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines, its own blockade on the so-called “shadow fleet,” and the US CIA and military targeting Russian energy production, storage, and export facilities within Russia itself;

US Announces Blockade on Iran (and China): How & Why This Risks Global Escalation

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KmHYS8oK-pg

[Kryztian]

The LEGO video series address Trump and his attempt to make him self look like Jesus (or a doctor, or whatever we are supposed to believe.)

[Jaak]

As M.P Hall once said , good humor must have truth in it .
Trump is full of sh*t and most of the things he says are far from truth.
All these jokes and lego movies made about Trump and his Epstein coalition seem to have more truth in it than what Trump is doing or saying. And i have not seen any good comeback from the Trumpstein side. Only lies .
Sorry Trump fans , you have lost the Meme war . You can try to twist the reality in so many ways but truth will remain standing.
Truth will win and aint much of that left on Trumps side.
Must be annoying as hell for all the Q-anon and 5-D chess believers to twist the facts to fit their beliefs and create their false reality and after all that effort they still fail .
Did the swamp got drained ? Who got arrested ? Nobody ? Must be 5D chess to draw attention to the baddies or something...

[Kryztian]

Posted by Jaak (here)
Trump fans, you have lost the Meme war. You can try to twist the reality in so many ways but truth will remain standing. Truth will win and aint much of that left on Trumps side.

It really does feel as though the day Trump posted the meme of himself as Jesus (oops, I am sorry, the meme of himself as a Red Cross doctor) that it was a pivotal day in American history. As if something shifted. Is this a natural, organic thing in the course of human events, or are the sinister PTBs lurking in the shadows and have engineered something?

Just about two years ago a similar event happened and the tide suddenly went out on Biden. The news was out there that perhaps, just perhaps, Biden wasn't 100% there cognitively, and that maybe he shouldn't run for re-election in November and should hand over the reigns to the brilliant and capable Kamala. The few die hard Biden supporters were forced to give up the belief that he really was running the country and that he really knew how to get of the stage when bumped into walls and knocked over microphones. Karine Jean-Pierre had to stop shaming those reporters who questioned Biden's mental faculties. Biden as "not 100%" was now the consensus belief, although the "D" word (dementia) could not be politely uttered.

Suddenly, no one wanted to defend him. He was a lame duck biding his time until his term ended. He was radioactive. No one was pretending that he was of any relevance or importance. At best, he was a historic relic of times past.

Interestingly, there was not one Democrat calling out Joe Biden. The idea of Biden's ineptitude doesn't really trace itself to a group of insiders in White House, or to the Dems on Capitol Hill, to the DNC .... but the idea just somehow came to prominence, it just became "common knowledge" that there was something about Biden. It's pretty clear that this whole was engineered in the secret corridors of Washington and carefully planted in media outlets.

Since Trump inauguration day, January 20, 2025, Trumps approval rating has dropped quite a bit, but he still weathered all these storms, and somehow there was hope that he could turn this situation around. He promised to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours and that didn't happen. He promised peace in Israel and Gaza and that didn't happen. He said we would get to the bottom of the mystery drones over military bases and that didn't happen. He promised no regime change wars and then bombed Iran. He demanded a Nobel Peace prize and then he bombed the school in Minab, Iran and murdered 60 young innocent women. He and his supporters indicated we would get to the bottom of the Epstein story and ... you know how that turned out. A third of the country thoroughly detested him during his previous term and nothing changed there. But he was loosing the middle and also of some of loyal MAGA followers. But still, Trump and his Administration kept on going, as if nothing had happened, grandiosely stating how successful and victorious they were, and the most grandiose statements of course came from Trump himself. They were Teflon.

And then it happened, the famous meme got posted on Truth Social, and no one, save Trump himself, is defending this. No one is at his side pleading his case. No one in the media is trying to downplay the significance of this action. Trump is, instantly, like Biden, radioactive.

There are 32 months left in Trump's term, and I am pretty sure he is not going to finish them. It's not the plan of the PTB. Is it an interesting coincidence that the meme dropped two days after the Bilderberg Conference ended in Washington D.C.

So how will he be ejected from the White House?

• J D Vance could talk to some Cabinet Members and invoke the 25th Amendment. This might be the quickest and easiest way to get Trump out. Not sure if Vance has the hutzpah to do this, and I think the PTBs might want a more dramatic effort to ramp up news ratings and left/right animosity.
  
  
• There could be another impeachment. It would be nasty as the two side of the uniparty pretend to attack each other. Repubs, trying to cuts there mid term losses might actually vote for removal. However, the impeachment could drag out for months and a faster method might be more desirable
  
  
• Trump just might resign. He will go to the microphone and announce that his doctor found something and that becase he just loves America so much, he's going to have to say farewell. Of course, this will happen after a lot of close advisors coddle his ego and tell him how much his sacrifice for the country will cement him as one of the great presidents.

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I have a hard time imagining that Trump can type at a keyboard or that he uses a computer all that much. Most people born after 1960 learned how to use a computer. Few born before 1930 ever did. Trump is somewhere in the middle, but I think he falls into the class that don't know where the "home row" is on a typewriter and can only chicken scratch with two fingers.

Before personal computers, offices had type writters, and most of the people operating them were mid level, "secretaries" and usually female. The personal computer didn't enter the office until Trump was in his fourties, and at first, it was nothing but a glorified typewriter. By that time, Trump was high up enough that he probably he several secretaries, and he was probably still of the mindset that only woman should do the typing. He never needed to learn how to use a keyboard and I doubt he ever bothered to learn.

I just do not believe that Trump types in his own strange, demented posts into a computer into Truth Social all by himself. His posts may be reflections of what he says and how he thinks, but he doesn't enter numerous typos and grammatical errors. Trump's Truth Social posts are grammatically correct and there are no spelling errors.

I also doubt that Trump has much time to look at all the A.I. images of himself on social media. I really doubt he knows how to right click on an image, save it to a folder, and upload it someone else. Not that this skill is beyond him, but it just isn't something that elderly conservative executive type does when "you have a girl who can do it for you." I am pretty sure that "somebody else" found the image, or had it created, and was the main force in getting that image on to Truth Social page. Perhaps they had Trump's approval. Perhaps they told him that it was a good idea. Just like someone told Trump that attacking Iran was a win-win situation.

Another part of the narrative that stinks to me is that "Trump's Christianist base" finally turned on him because he "mocked Jesus". I am just not seeing this. Perhaps Christians should be offended, but there are many conservative Trump supporters that have overlooked so much (his divorces, relationships with porn stars and Epstein, etc.) that this one image has not changed anything. If they were still with Trump at the beginning of this week than there are still with him now.

This image is a psy-op and it is quite a brilliant one. And it is going to usher in something new.

[Ewan]

The following was reportedly seen on a Substack called 'I F***ing Love Australia'

It was an Aussie's reply to Trump's rant about 'NATO not being there for us' :

"Mate, you run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where the number 1 cause of bankruptcy is medical debt. A country where women can die in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.

You lock up more of your own citizens than any other nation on earth. More than China. More then Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything, they're just too poor to make bail.

Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that is happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between math and English while you sell the gun-maker's stock to your mates.

Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working two jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges while you spend a trillion dollars trying to flatten a country that did not attack you.

(chose not to copy this paragraph as rather unpleasant)

And you're calling Greenland poorly run?

Greenland has Universal health care. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick, nobody dies in a waiting room.

(there's a bit missing from my printout) ....history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.

And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.

So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminum siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f***king mouth".

The only item I individually fact-checked was infant mortality and it was correct - with 5.1 deaths per 1000 live births in the US compared to 4 in Cuba.

[Kryztian]

Trump Admin Cancels $11M Catholic Charities Contract Amid Feud With Pope
Apr 16, 2026 at 07:19 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin...-feud-11837718

The Trump administration has reportedly canceled an $11 million contract with the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami, which offers shelter and care to migrant children entering the United States alone.

The Office of Refugee Settlement, part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has paid Catholic Charities for numerous years to house immigrant children entering the U.S. without adult supervision. The federal government contacted the charity about the cancellation in late March, according to The Miami Herald.

The HHS said that the cancellation was motivated by a falling number of migrant children entering the country without parents or adult supervisors.

"ORR is closing and consolidating unused facilities as the Trump Administration continues efforts to stop illegal entry and the smuggling and trafficking of unaccompanied alien children," Emily G. Hillard, the HHS press secretary, told The Miami Herald. She did not comment specifically on the case of the Miami nonprofit.

The abrupt severing of the White House's long-term support to the nonprofit comes amid an ongoing feud between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV.

Newsweek contacted the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami and HHS for comment by email on Thursday morning.

[Rizotto]

https://www.rt.com/news/638514-vance...a-tpusa-rally/

‘You’re killing children!’: Vance heckled at key MAGA event (VIDEOS)
The US VP had to defend President Trump’s Gaza policy at a rally on a Georgia college campus

US Vice President J.D. Vance was forced to defend Washington’s policy in Gaza after he was booed and heckled at a key MAGA event on Wednesday.

Co-founded by the late Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is a conservative student group that has long been seen as a strong support base of President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement but is now showing apparent cracks.

Less than 15 minutes into a TPUSA event at the University of Georgia on Wednesday, Vance was interrupted by hecklers over US policy in Gaza, with one audience member shouting, “Jesus Christ does not support genocide!” As he attempted to respond, others shouted, “You’re killing children!” and “You’re bombing children!”
( ... continued - full article at above link)

[Rizotto]

https://www.rt.com/news/638498-jesus-slaps-trump-ai/

Jesus slaps Trump in AI clip shared by Iran (VIDEO)
The jab comes amid the backlash over a controversial social media post by the US president

An Iranian embassy has shared an AI-generated video depicting Jesus casting Donald Trump into hell, following backlash over a social media post in which the US president appeared to portray himself as a Christ-like healer.

Trump posted the image on Truth Social on Sunday but deleted it the following day after a wave of criticism, saying he had not recognized its religious implications. It originally appeared in February, when author Nick Adams shared it with the caption: “America has been sick for a long time. President Trump is healing this nation.” Trump’s version was slightly altered.

On Tuesday, the Iranian embassy in Tajikistan posted a clip that opens with the image that Trump had posted. The glow coming from his hands quickly fades as Jesus descends from heaven, slaps him across the face, and sends him tumbling into a fiery abyss.
( ... continued, full article at above link)

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Here's one of these depictions of the Trump conflict with Jesus. Remember when Jesus chased the money changers out of the temple...

[Rizotto]

That explains why Trump was made to install total AI surveillance on americans by Palantir:
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Wide Awake Media, April 16, 2026:

Catherine Austin Fitts argues that Donald Trump was installed by bankers to construct a digital control grid comprised of programmable money, digital ID, and a social credit system.

She maintains that Trump is expendable now that the infrastructure for this system is complete.

"So let's look at the control grid. There are three general baskets of what you need to do. The first is programmable money. The second is digital ID... And then the third is you need the hardware and the software infrastructure to do the social credit system."

"And so you need all the data centres... But you also need a surveillance infrastructure and enforcement infrastructure to back it."

"So how do you persuade conservatives... to embrace building that infrastructure? The way you do it is you say, oh, we have election fraud, or oh, we have an immigration problem. And so we need a digital ID to identify who everybody is so we can't have fraud."

"If you look at everything [Trump has] done to build the control grid, or to put the conditions in place to do it, they now have what they need."

"Trump is basically expendable now."

https://x.com/wideawake_media/status...99385519386898

[Bill Ryan]

Donald Trump has just now posted these two messages in quick succession.

First,
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...16663301119812

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Who’s dumber, Tucker Carlson or Joe Kent? It’s very interesting! I met Joe Kent at Dover Air Force Base, along with numerous others who had lost their loved ones in War. I said hello to all of the families. Kent, horribly, lost his wife. Her casket was being brought to Dover, along with the rest, although he married again, quite quickly, in my opinion. In any event, a number of years later, I noticed the same person was running for Congress in Washington State, and lost. I then noticed a couple of years later, he was running again, and lost. While I didn’t know him other than our brief Dover encounter, but feeling sorry for him after the two Election losses, I told my people, “Hire him for the White House. Give him a job, make him feel good, he lost his wife and two Elections.” They did so and, while I rarely saw him, I certainly didn’t expect disloyalty, but that’s what I got. He was really a SLEAZEBAG, and some would say, on top of it all, A LEAKER! I don’t know whether or not that was true, but next time, NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! Kent is a LOSER, just like Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and the rest of them are LOSERS — You’re born that way, LOW IQ, and there’s not a damn thing they’re going to be able to do about it! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Second,
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...16736627974477

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I’m on Air Force One heading to Las Vegas and Arizona for Greetings and Speeches on NO TAX ON TIPS, a WINDFALL for our Great American Citizens. I am watching one of the Least Attractive and Talented People on all of Television, Jessica Tarlov. Her voice is so grating and terrible, I had to “turn her off!” Her Democrat soundbites are FAKE. She makes up “Poll Numbers,” and nobody challenges her, because she is so boring. I have among the best Poll Numbers I have ever had, and why shouldn’t I, ALL THE COUNTRY DOES IS WIN. CNN had me at 100%, saying they never saw that before. GET HER OFF THE AIR, SHE IS BAD FOR OUR COUNTRY! I hear Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens are dying fast. Their numbers are terrible. Nobody believes them anymore. They were FAKE MAGA, and now they’ve been exposed! President DJT

[SilentFeathers]

Bigger things are happening other than a bunch of stupid posts from Trump, that are basically just a distraction tactic. Why Trump does this crap is beyond me, but, he's also making big moves behind the scenes too.

A HUGE development today is that Israel and Lebanon entered into a cease fire of sorts. If this somehow takes hold and works in even a slightly positive way, this is really a huge deal. I actually seen a clip today from Lebanon State Media that had Lebanese and Israeli flags in the background during the news broadcast.....I thought I was seeing things! But it was these two flags together, I've never seen these two flags together in such a way in my lifetime and I'm 63. In my opinion this is HUGE. If this cease fire and Israeli and Lebanese truce works, it could actually run Hezbollah out of Lebanon. If Lebanon joins the Abraham Accords, well, history is in the making for a long term peace deal, and perhaps trade and long term business arrangements being made.

[BMJ]

CAUGHT LYING: Media Admits It Prefers Iran's Nukes Over a Trump Win — Here's Why

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g9NjTs9GavU

Promethean Updates
Apr 16, 2026
Summary:
00:00 The Midweek Update - CAUGHT LYING: Media Admits It Prefers Iran's Nukes Over a Trump Win — Here's Why - April 15, 2026
02:11 Brussels Abolishes Sovereignty — And Calls It Democracy
05:44 Tulsi Found What Schiff Locked in a Safe
08:50 Trump Broke the Special Relationship — On Purpose

Barbara Boyd argues Tom Friedman admitted some prefer Iran not be defeated if it politically benefits Trump or Netanyahu, then frames recent events as exposing “theater” about defending democracy.

She claims the EU executed a regime-change operation against Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, citing NGO pressure, frozen funds, threats to strip voting power, and a push to end EU member-state vetoes, amid protests over a fuel crisis tied to the Iran war. Boyd highlights JD Vance’s remarks in Hungary about radicals, sovereignty, and foreign election pressure.

She says Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents showing Trump’s first impeachment was a hoax driven by whistleblower Eric Ciaramella, Adam Schiff, and Inspector General Michael Atkinson, while Biden-Ukraine corruption allegations were suppressed.

Boyd concludes Trump is dismantling the US-UK “special relationship,” pursuing Middle East peace talks with Iran and Israel-Lebanon, and urges viewers to subscribe and support Promethean Action.

[AutumnW]

Posted by Chip (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Donald Trump posted this a few minutes ago.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...76634773749603

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I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs. They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too! Look at their past, look at their record. They don’t have what it takes, and they never did! They’ve all been thrown off Television, lost their Shows, and aren’t even invited on TV because nobody cares about them, they’re NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS, and will say anything necessary for some “free” and cheap publicity. Now they think they get some “clicks” because they have Third Rate Podcasts, but nobody’s talking about them, and their views are the opposite of MAGA — Or I wouldn’t have won the Presidential Election in a LANDSLIDE. MAGA agrees with me, and just gave CNN a 100% Approval Rating of “TRUMP,” not Hand Flailing Fools like Tucker Carlson, who couldn’t even finish College, he was a broken man when he got fired from Fox, and he’s never been the same — Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist! Or Megyn Kelly, who nastily asked me the now famous, “Only Rosie O’Donnell,” question, or “Crazy” Candace Owens, who accuses the Highly Respected First Lady of France of being a man, when she is not, and will hopefully win lots of money in the ongoing lawsuit. Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful woman than Candace, in fact, it’s not even close! Or Bankrupt Alex Jones, who says some of the dumbest things, and lost his entire fortune, as he should have, for his horrendous attack on the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, ridiculously claiming it was a hoax. These so-called “pundits” are LOSERS, and they always will be! Now Fake News CNN, The Failing New York Times, and all of the other Radical Left “News” Organizations, are “hailing” them, and giving them “positive” press for the first time in their lives. They’re not “MAGA,” they’re losers, just trying to latch on to MAGA. As President, I could get them on my side anytime I want to, but when they call, I don’t return their calls because I’m too busy on World and Country Affairs and, after a few times, they go “nasty,” just like Marjorie “Traitor” Brown, but I no longer care about that stuff, I only care about doing right for our Country. MAGA is about WINNING and STRENGTH in not allowing Iran to have Nuclear Weapons. MAGA is about MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and these people have no idea how to do that, BUT I DO, because THE UNITED STATES IS NOW THE “HOTTEST” COUNTRY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Can someone explain what kind of 4D chess this is supposed to be?
Because this doesn’t read like leadership — it reads like vanity, rage, and loss of control.

At what point does MAGA stop calling this strategy and start admitting it looks unhinged?

If this is “the plan,” then MAGA ought to ask itself why it suddenly sounds so much like a public nervous breakdown.

What also stands out to me is that this doesn’t read like confidence. It reads like fear. There’s a panicked edge to it, like he knows he’s losing control of the narrative and is lashing out at anyone who won’t stay in line. For all the talk of strength, this sounds more like a man who feels threatened.

4D Chess = Duh, Duh and Double Duh. Trump would have trouble playing 2D tic tac toe, at this point. His followers spent the last 9 years of their lives high fiving each other and getting their kicks watching their Clown squirt their enemies with his rubber corsage.

It's a cult. Their gurus are nasty podcasters, and their daily chants take place under the Big Top online Circus.