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Trump on MSNBC and CNN: "I think they're gonna be turned off." (Original Post) MagaSmash Apr 2025 OP
shithole was already crazy............... Lovie777 Apr 2025 #1
The piehole is shitting out random whines. C_U_L8R Apr 2025 #2
Does he only move from that damn desk to the golf course? PittBlue Apr 2025 #3
It's not like he has policy papers to read. As I posted below underpants Apr 2025 #6
Trump threatened to pull ABC's broadcast license over Disney's DEI practices. sop Apr 2025 #4
Why does he sit in the Oval 🙄 with those thick 70's Holiday Inn curtains shut? underpants Apr 2025 #5
I think he fears being shot. drray23 Apr 2025 #8
I've had that thought too underpants Apr 2025 #11
He loves the decor some_of_us_are_sane Apr 2025 #9
Excellent post. Very interesting underpants Apr 2025 #10
Luckily, trump is wrong on everything LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2025 #7

underpants

(194,584 posts)
6. It's not like he has policy papers to read. As I posted below
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 05:04 PM
Apr 2025

Why does he sit in the Oval 🙄 with those thick 70's Holiday Inn curtains shut?

Is it the GOLD thing?
Is it supposed to be dark and foreboding?

He has no idea the power of that office. Using it that much cheapens it.

sop

(17,280 posts)
4. Trump threatened to pull ABC's broadcast license over Disney's DEI practices.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 04:57 PM
Apr 2025

"I think they're going to be turned off" is a veiled threat, like a mob boss musing that a rival could be "eliminated." It's clear Trump also wants to end free speech in America: "MSDNC is even worse than CNN. They shouldn’t have a right to broadcast."



underpants

(194,584 posts)
5. Why does he sit in the Oval 🙄 with those thick 70's Holiday Inn curtains shut?
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 05:02 PM
Apr 2025

Is it the GOLD thing?
Is it supposed to be dark and foreboding?

He has no idea the power of that office. Using it that much cheapens it.

drray23

(8,568 posts)
8. I think he fears being shot.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 06:26 PM
Apr 2025

Does not want to give a line of sight to a sniper. Now, of course the white house surroundings are supposed to be protected but he may not fully trust it.

underpants

(194,584 posts)
11. I've had that thought too
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 05:41 AM
Apr 2025

I first noticed it from pics of the cabinet meeting that Elon was at. DC is just up the road and that day was a glorious sunny day. I joked that it looked like a darkened lair (inside a volcano on an uncharted land) as a Bond villain like Elon seems to want. Was it to seem menacing like Trump’s mugshot? Or, was it because he was worried about someone taking a shot at him?

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,674 posts)
9. He loves the decor
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 07:57 PM
Apr 2025

of a cheap House of Prostitution in old movies. Or............"The White House" by Cecil B. DeMille.

In fact, there are eerie comparisons of Trump and DemIlle.

These quotes about DeMille taken from a critique of the book, "Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art" :

"But in his vision of the Bible as an American frontier narrative he recast this old trend in American culture as a cinematic precursor of the “neoconservatism” of our own times...artist or hack, defender of freedom or a hypocritical opportunist who embraced the golden calf of sheer commercialism, he is a pervasive puzzle---a mirror of the larger puzzle and contradictions of America itself."


Trump has the taste of a Madam, and he's turned the White House into a brothel for his rich friends.
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