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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump is not the president of the United States.
We have a "Penumvirate":
Stephen Miller
Russell Voght
Pete Hegseth
Pam Bondi
Kash Patel
They are co-presidents of the USA.
What's my point? As long as they can control just enough of Trump's dementia with assistance from Faux News and other rightwing propaganda outlets,Trump will never leave office no matter how insane be gets.
rampartd
(3,813 posts)only trump can keep them together.
they may already be quietly eliminating rival successors.
"to the strongest" last will and testament, alexander the great
to your list add general flynn and maybe Franklin Graham. and whoever gets trump's copies of epstein's videos,
markodochartaigh
(5,030 posts)But because Trump is so unprecedentedly corrupt and transactional the office of the president is more glaringly the protector of special interests than it has been before. And no interest is more special than Trump himself.
Beartracks
(14,352 posts)popsdenver
(1,562 posts)I was reflecting on how similar Trump's actions and the ones in ANIMAL FARM aligned. So much, that I re-read it, and then I thought for sure, that he was indeed using the book as an outline for his Presidency.......
I was wishing that I was a zillionaire, so I could mail a copy to every address in the United States.......ANIMAL FARM was written for a third grade intellect, so his 70 million could easily grasp it..........unlike 1984 which required at least a high school education....
NameAlreadyTaken
(2,235 posts)lastlib
(27,551 posts)JT45242
(3,832 posts)The power behind those are people with ungodly amounts of wealth and no scruples.
BradBo
(925 posts)popsdenver
(1,562 posts)PUTIN.........
Grokenstein
(6,245 posts)Nosferatu and Naught tell it what to do, and tell Cheung (AKA the Thumbhead of Yucca Flats) what to post on social media under its name. The others are just ground-level chaos monkeys. While I'm confident they believe otherwise, I can't accept that Patel or Bondi or even Hegseth wields any real influence; their destiny lies under the bus.
The question is, who gives orders to Miller and Voght? There's always some shitweasel who stays off the publicly-visible chain of command.