The Trump Administration

[KE Spider]

Always hope to have an exchange of policy views here. Doesn't appear possible, sadly. Hatred has warped any sense of reason among some.

For example , emoluments position - the US Defense Department is the recipient, not the Prez, but you know this. That said, I agree - would not have accepted the "gift".

And Long Time, please quit calling me a Republican. Believe the government that governs least governs best which would seem to align me with the Repubs, but policy driven - show me a better way, I will listen.

 

[Eight Legger]

KE, why is it "hatred" to call out the illegal and absurd actions of the president of the United States? If I murder someone and you witness it and call the cops, is that hatred? Am I justified to tell you "Hey man, just mind your own business... Stop being a tattle tale, that's not going to get you any farther in life."

 

[Wood Hall]

Always hope to have an exchange of policy views here. Doesn't appear possible, sadly. Hatred has warped any sense of reason among some.

For example , emoluments position - the US Defense Department is the recipient, not the Prez, but you know this. That said, I agree - would not have accepted the "gift".

And Long Time, please quit calling me a Republican. Believe the government that governs least governs best which would seem to align me with the Repubs, but policy driven - show me a better way, I will listen.

If it is going to the DOD, then why will it then revert to the Trump Foundation when the new AF1 finally goes into use?

Here are some policy views: Follow the Constitution. Don't gut scientific research. Don't attack higher education. Restore long-standing reproductive rights the three newest Supreme Court justices said under oath they would protect. Don't gut the FAA, the VA, the USDA, etc. Protect, rather than attack, voter rights. Don't threaten to invade a sovereign country, and stop pissing off our longest and most faithful allies.

Trump is obviously incoherent and has no concept of reality, just listen to him talk. Time to 86 47.

 

[KE Spider]

Makes my point perfectly.

 

[Wood Hall]

Marty Feldman Patel, our esteemed alum who somehow fell 30 stories upstairs to become the director of the FBI, is openly lying to the American public about Canada being a major source of fentanyl.

In the first three months of 2025, a grand total of 1.35 pounds of fentanyl was seized by border officials at our border with Canada — 0.06% of total seizures.

He is an absolute embarrassment to our outstanding university.

 

[localspider]

Makes my point perfectly.

Yep, half truths and outright lies,

 

[urfan1]

Yep, half truths and outright lies,

Then tell us the whole truth with no lies.

I heard a report by a DOD spokesman. It will cost taxpayers over $1 Billion to get this plane ready as Air Force One AND it will not be ready until after Trump's term is up.

 

[Long Time Spider Fan]

Marty Feldman Patel, our esteemed alum who somehow fell 30 stories upstairs to become the director of the FBI, is openly lying to the American public about Canada being a major source of fentanyl.

In the first three months of 2025, a grand total of 1.35 pounds of fentanyl was seized by border officials at our border with Canada — 0.06% of total seizures.

He is an absolute embarrassment to our outstanding university.

Kash Patel looked incompetent when he appeared before the Appropriations Committee of the Senate on May 8 and acknowledged that he had not submitted a budget plan for 2026 that was required by law to be submitted prior to May 1. He said he did not know when it would be submitted.

FBI Director Shows Up to Budget Hearing With “No” Timeline for Budget, Walks Back His Criticism of Trump’s Plan for Big Cuts at FBI | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

www.appropriations.senate.gov

 

[Eight Legger]

You know what, screw it. If Trump wants to accept a plane that might crash or be programmed to spy on him, I'm not standing in his way. Go for it, big guy. Best of luck. You're the smartest person in the room, I know because you've told all of us for 50 years.

 

[localspider]

Then tell us the whole truth with no lies.

I heard a report by a DOD spokesman. It will cost taxpayers over $1 Billion to get this plane ready as Air Force One AND it will not be ready until after Trump's term is up.

Im not sure if you wanted to provide a chuckle but your response to my post regarding half truths and lies was a half truth. CNN, the TDS pinnacle, stated that the cost to get the plane ready for use would be several million to over one billion. Should I give you the benefit of relying on a liberal news source ?

 

[urfan1]

Im not sure if you wanted to provide a chuckle but your response to my post regarding half truths and lies was a half truth. CNN, the TDS pinnacle, stated that the cost to get the plane ready for use would be several million to over one billion. Should I give you the benefit of relying on a liberal news source ?

I told you what the DOD spokesperson reported. Cannot speak to reliability.

 

[Wood Hall]

The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.

 

[Gallipoli]

The Aussies are donating 49 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. That is more than the US has sent. Donnie, where are the Abrams tanks? Where are the F-16s.

 

[Gallipoli]

The Pentagon has objected to the transfer of the tanks. It sounds like the US does not want to support them in Ukraine.
I would have thought better of a Republican Administration. This is the same garbage that the Biden Administration spewed. It is pathetic and embarrassing. The world is watching, Donnie and Petey.

US Pacific ally's Abrams tanks sent to Ukraine despite Pentagon concerns

Decommissioned Abrams tanks are Ukraine-bound despite concerns about their suitability, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Gallipoli]

Australia has only $25 million people. They know it is less expensive to give the tanks to Ukraine, than it is to dispose of them. President Trump is weak and feckless.

 

[urfan1]

Trump only cares about himself and his money.

 

[Long Time Spider Fan]

The Pentagon has objected to the transfer of the tanks. It sounds like the US does not want to support them in Ukraine.
I would have thought better of a Republican Administration. This is the same garbage that the Biden Administration spewed. It is pathetic and embarrassing. The world is watching, Donnie and Petey.

US Pacific ally's Abrams tanks sent to Ukraine despite Pentagon concerns

Decommissioned Abrams tanks are Ukraine-bound despite concerns about their suitability, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

www.newsweek.com

No one should be surprised that Trump is not supporting Ukraine. Trump has hated Zelensky ever since Zelensky failed to launch a fake investigation against Biden that Trump demanded while withholding Congressional approved aid to Ukraine. And anyone who claims Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if Trump had remained President is fooling themselves. Putin has so much respect for Trump that he launched the war's biggest drone attack against Ukraine right before the Trump/Putin phone call, what a show of respect. The phone call accomplished nothing, and it appears Trump is ready to just get out of the negotiation.

If Trump can't be the hero who negotiates the end of the war (regardless of how much Ukraine gives up), it certainly appears he is not going to help Ukraine at all.

 

[Gallipoli]

No one should be surprised that Trump is not supporting Ukraine. Trump has hated Zelensky ever since Zelensky failed to launch a fake investigation against Biden that Trump demanded while withholding Congressional approved aid to Ukraine. And anyone who claims Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if Trump had remained President is fooling themselves. Putin has so much respect for Trump that he launched the war's biggest drone attack against Ukraine right before the Trump/Putin phone call, what a show of respect. The phone call accomplished nothing, and it appears Trump is ready to just get out of the negotiation.

If Trump can't be the hero who negotiates the end of the war (regardless of how much Ukraine gives up), it certainly appears he is not going to help Ukraine at all.

As a un-abashed Reagan Republican, I tend to agree with your point about Trump's personal animus towards Zelensky. It influenced policy towards Ukraine and has hurt our national security.
That said, Biden has left the world in a much worse position, than when he entered office. Biden's perfidy in Afghanistan, and the inconsistent signals he sent to Putin before the invasion, directly led to the invasion of Ukraine.
Furthermore, Biden failed to sufficiently arm Ukraine in 2022, when the Russians were on the ropes.
He also should have been ramping up arms and support, as Russia was preparing for the invasion.
In contrast, Trump's supply of Javelin anti-tank missiles in 2018 and 2019 saved Kyiv and Zelensky.

 

[urfan1]

As a un-abased Reagan Republican, I tend to agree with your point about Trump's personal animus towards Zelensky. It influenced policy towards Ukraine and has hurt our national security.
That said, Biden has left the world in a much worse position, than when he entered office. Biden's perfidy in Afghanistan, and the inconsistent signals he sent to Putin before the invasion, directly led to the invasion of Ukraine.
Furthermore, Biden failed to sufficiently arm Ukraine in 2022, when the Russians were on the ropes.
He also should have been ramping up arms and support, as Russia was preparing for the invasion.
In contrast, Trump's supply of Javelin anti-tank missiles in 2018 and 2019 saved Kyiv and Zelensky.

You must live on Fox.

 

[KE Spider]

Or perhaps the truth.

Facts tend to support Galli's version.

 

[Gallipoli]

You must live on Fox.

You need to expand your horizons.

 

[localspider]

I told you what the DOD spokesperson reported. Cannot speak to reliability.

Whatever, your source was not a direct quote from the DOD was it? A half truth was it not? Multiple news sources

I told you what the DOD spokesperson reported. Cannot speak to reliability.

LOL, does that excuse a half truth post? Maybe you should listen to Fox occasionally for truth in reporting?

 

[Long Time Spider Fan]

Whatever, your source was not a direct quote from the DOD was it? A half truth was it not? Multiple news sources

LOL, does that excuse a half truth post? Maybe you should listen to Fox occasionally for truth in reporting?

Oh, you mean like the Fox reporting that the 2020 election was stolen? That only cost Fox 3/4 of a billion dollars for lying. Or do you mean when their lawyers have argued in Court that Fox is not a news, but instead an entertainment station? Yeah, Fox is known for its truth in reporting.

 

[Spiders4ever]

Trump math

90 days = 14-21 days.

 

[urfan1]

Whatever, your source was not a direct quote from the DOD was it? A half truth was it not? Multiple news sources

LOL, does that excuse a half truth post? Maybe you should listen to Fox occasionally for truth in reporting?

I do listen to Fox, and occasionally thet will have decent apparently unbiased reporting. Listening as I type, their health (expert) Doctor clearly does not understand SNAP and WIC benefis limit what they can be used for, Also says he suspects rotesseri chicken is better for you than a candy bar.

 

[Gallipoli]

JD Vance is an idiot. His speech at the Naval Academy included this segment. He just shredded the Reagan Doctrine, which said that we would provide support to those countries fighting against Russian invasions and influence.

Why is Trump so afraid of pushing for regime change in Russia, China, Iran and North Korea? These are core national interests.

“We had a long experiment in our foreign policy that traded national defense and the maintenance of our alliances for nation-building and meddling in foreign countries’ affairs,”

"What we’re seeing from President Trump is a generational shift in policy with profound implications for the job that each and every one of you will be asked to do.

The Trump administration has reversed course. No more undefined missions. No more open-ended conflicts. Returning to a strategy grounded in realism and protecting our core national interests."

JD Vance Declares ‘Era of Uncontested U.S. Dominance is OVER’ In Pro-Isolationist Speech at the Naval Academy

"No more undefined missions. No more open-ended conflicts. Returning to a strategy grounded in realism and protecting our core national interests."

www.mediaite.com

 

[Gallipoli]

Our retreat in Ukraine has implications worldwide. If we won't stand for Ukraine, why should anyone else? The Poles have categorically rejected sending peace keeping troops to Ukraine, along with the Brits and the French. There will be no end to the war in Ukraine until Russia is either defeated or disintegrates.

Poland has rejected a suggestion by Donald Trump’s envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, that it could be part of a force deployed to Ukraine under a peace deal to end the war there.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/13/poland-rejects-trump-envoys-suggestion-it-would-deploy-troops-to-ukraine/

 

[Gallipoli]

Trump is making the same mistake as Biden, Obama and Truman. We cannot send signals to our enemies that we want peace above all else. Trump is too afraid of another Afghanistan, his administration can't see the need to protect democratic nations and our friends and allies across the globe.

Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Australia are nervous.

 

[Eight Legger]

Trump and Vance idiots? If only there had been some indication of this earlier!

 

[Wood Hall]

Trump at West Point graduation (speaking while wearing his stupid MAGAT hat):

""No one wanted to join the military under Biden".

Everyone in that graduating class entered the USMA during the Biden administration. Every single Cadet who stayed to listen to that asshole violated their honor code, which states, "A Cadet will not lie, steal, or cheat, or tolerate those who do."

He also just pardoned a criminal Virginia sheriff.

MSN

Donald Trump is an idiot.