So, anyone seen Trump since yesterday morning?
— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) August 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I was like “fuck he’s fine” yesterday morning but subsequent lack of evidence has me wondering. like he’d make a point of saying something shitty to the press pool, no? that’s kind of his thing
— post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) August 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The man has always scoured the horizon for cameras to put him on the idiot box. His staff couldnt stop him from running up to them if their lives depended on it. Since hes not, he probably feels how he looks. That and the security is keeping reporters bigfoot photo distance away.
— The Wrong Way Kid (@the-wrong-way-kid.bsky.social) August 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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you’ll know if the president buys the farm because really weird shit will start happening in the crypto markets out of nowhere at least three or four hours before anybody says anything publicly
— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) August 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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in a criminal government just follow what the criminals do
— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) August 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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So uh. Why isn't Trump getting in front of a camera?
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) August 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Like the problem of being obsessed with being in front of the press is it's really really obvious when you are avoiding them.
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) August 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Like I'm okay with he's an 80 year old and is tired and.maybe the bruise is bad on his hand or something.
But I'm gonna get real curious if he still is avoiding cameras after the labor day weekend— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) August 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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oh, he’s SICK sick
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) August 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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leaving aside if Trump's dead or having any health problems this weekend, if, IF the on-line rumor mill was going even half as hard about Joe Biden at any point, you would have had mainstream media coverage and talking heads saying how it shows the public is worried about his age etc
— Henry (@henrythedog.bsky.social) August 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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I think they'd swear in Vance immediately if he were dead-dead, but if he's just mostly dead they've got a bunch of stocks to short before they pull the plug on him.
— Grumpy Fish (@jnsq.org) August 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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the thing about making every minute of your presidency a reality show about you is that people notice when you don’t show up for multiple episodes
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) August 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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These Effing People
— Keith Fitzgerald (@keithfitzgerald.bsky.social) August 31, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Medium Cool – Badges? We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges!
Trivia Man
The leading indicator of grifters cashing out… something is a very shrewd observation
Suzanne
Is this supposed to hurt my feelings?
zhena gogolia
I think the person who told us to look for “Swan Lake” being played on television and radio had the right idea.
hells littlest angel
@zhena gogolia: It’s more likely to be a slow, somber rendition of “YMCA.”
Suzanne
@hells littlest angel: LOL.
I remember reading that he supposedly loved Cats and listened to “Memory” a lot. I am not sure why that’s so hilarious to me, but it is.
mrmoshpotato
Sounds like the lying, orange, Kremlin-humper is on death’s door.
hotshoe
@zhena gogolia:
I live in an old folks community and we will definitely have fireworks going off the minute the actual news hits NPR. Folks have saved them from 4th of July to celebrate.
XeckyGilchrist
I loved all the “rebuttals” like “Trump was spotted heading to the golf course”
I figured yeah, “spotted” as in “liver-“
JPL
Vance said he was ready to step in and in the olden days trump would have said I’m not going anywhere.
I watch the stock futures and so far they are just giddy that a judge said yeah, you can’t do tariffs.
TheOtherHank
@XeckyGilchrist: Maybe they’re on their way to bury him next to Ivana
B1naryS3rf
There’ll be MAGAt tweets claiming Joe Biden and Hussein Obama were caught in a gay orgy after murdering him and there’s video 20 minutes after it’s confirmed Mango Mussolini bucks the kicket. They have no shame or clue whatsoever.
Jackie
@XeckyGilchrist:
Ah, he’s being buried next to Ivana, then…
Dang it! TheOtherHank beat me! GMTA😁
caphilldcne
Just got done banging pots and pans for 5 minutes and yelling free DC. I think I need some new chants to go with the pot banging. It was a little light tonight – my neighborhood usually musters 5+ people out. Supposedly 50 people have showing up in Lincoln park which I noticed had national guard guys out today. I wish they weren’t caught up in this but it’s not ok for them to be here and they aren’t preventing crime.
Scout211
Trump had an interview on Friday admitting his “diplomacy” with Putin was a dud.
He ended all those other wars inside his head but ending a real war is difficult. Huh.
moonbat
Trump has zero filter anymore. So when he started openly pondering his place in the afterlife this week, my immediate thought is that he got some very not good news from this physicians. Starting to wonder whether his obsession with winning a Nobel Peace Prize has more to do with him thinking it provides instant admission through the Pearly Gates than besting Obama.
Ohio Mom
This post makes me realize it wouldn’t hurt to start planning ahead for the big day. Even if Trump makes it to the end of his term, he’s still going to die and there will still be celebration. I remember when Thatcher died, she’d been out of office for many years and there was much joy and celebration through England. Obviously a lot of pent-up emotion.
There won’t be much going on in my little subdivision, I think I’ll be heading downtown in my Stars and Stripes baseball cap and waving my little flag.
hotshoe
@Scout211:
Among moments of happiness today is thinking that Donnie is going to die bitterly jealous of Obama because Donnie can’t possibly get the Nobel Peace Prize now.
His last words are gonna be: goddamn it where’s my Prize.
Mai Naem mobile
I wonder if his family is unclassified enough not to invite the Obamas, Bidens and Bushes to the funeral. I would think he would want them to be there to show what a bigly man he is but his family would probably just want to sell the funeral seats for some $$$. It’s such a disgusting family.
ColoradoGuy
Of course the seats will be for sale. It will be a loyalty test for the MAGA estate … who will seize control? Definitely a Kremlin moment.
Jackie
@Mai Naem mobile: Betcha Michelle, Hillary and Laura stay home. Bill can claim poor health…
Soprano2
@moonbat: That could be another sign of dementia, because sometimes that’s a symptom.
glc
Attempted kidnapping of 700 children thwarted in tense hearing.
To be continued.
TONYG
“weird shit in the crypto markets”. I’m not sure how to tell whether an inherently irrational market in a fundamentally worthless commodity has gotten weird — but I’ll look out for that!
Jackie
Shifting this from dead thread. Maybe Dorothy will see it here:
Or anyone else who may have access to the front cover to the NYT?
TONYG
@moonbat: It would be totally in character for Trump to ignore all that hippie stuff in the New Testament about helping the sick and the hungry and instead obsess about getting his fat ass into heaven.
Jackie
@glc: Stephen Miller is trying to spin this as “The children are being denied the ability to be reunited with their families.” I don’t think the judges are buying this obvious BS from this obvious POS.
Chetan Murthy
@Suzanne: Biiiig Elton John fan too, IIRC.
Scout211
President Donald Trump has lashed out at a subcontractor who cause a big mark on the stone of his brand new Mar-a-Lago DC party patio.
Soft, beautiful stone slab? There’s your problem, Donald.
JoyceH
Something I’m curious about. Yes, Trump is old, but we have plenty of celebrities, not to mention politicians, as old or older. So there is a large cadre of elderly people who shake a lot of hands. So – are there any other instances of elderly people winding up with heavy bruising on the back of their hand caused by shaking a lot of hands?
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Scout211: I’m sure it’s just an excuse to not pay the contractor.
Stiffing contractors makes Hair Furor feel at home.
Jackie
@JoyceH: Not really. And the bruising seems to be on BOTH hands – as when the bruise on his right (shaking) hand won’t support a needle stick, so his left hand is stuck instead.
JoyceH
@Scout211: Limestone isn’t just soft, it’s also porous. Which means that it’s going to be very prone to staining and the stains will be difficult if not impossible to remove. And there are all those umbrella tables that creates the assumption that eating and drinking will take place there. Trump always boasts about being a capital b Builder, so you’d think he’d know that.
lowtechcyclist
@hells littlest angel:
I admit I LOL’d.
Gin & Tonic
@Scout211:
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together who’d spend more than a second thinking about this problem would know that the chance of Putin agreeing to a meeting with Zelensky is zero.
JoyceH
@Gin & Tonic: Heck, I don’t think it’s even possible for Putin and Zelenskyy to meet. Any venue that would be safe for one would be unsafe for the other. A country where Zelenskyy would be assumed to be safe from assassination would be a country where Putin would be liable to be arrested for war crimes.
Chetan Murthy
@JoyceH: Ha! I had never thought of that! Though, maybe Turkey? OTOH, not sure that’s safe simply b/c …. can Erdogan guarantee no assassination attempts?
catclub
@mrmoshpotato: Has no memory of any feeling at all.
zhena gogolia
@Jackie: I think she just meant as “proof of life” — like when kidnappers send a picture of the kidnapped holding that day’s paper to prove they’re still alive.
ETA: I subscribe to the NYT, and I can assure you they do not put unflattering pictures of Chump on the front page. Or anywhere else.
Buggrit
I’m just waiting until I can play Queen’s “Death on Two Legs,” full blast, possibly on repeat.
catclub
@Chetan Murthy: I was thinking India could do it in terms of accepting Putin the war criminal, but they do not have a good record of preventing assassinations.
lowtechcyclist
@glc:
Good Lord…every time you think this Administration can hardly get any worse, they sink/dig lower.
Thanks for linking to this.
lowtechcyclist
@TONYG:
You and me both. I’d have no idea where to even start.
Ohio Mom
@Jackie: Try here: frontpages.freedomforum.org/gallery
But it only works for the day’s paper, no going back in time.
Though when Trump finally dies, browsing through all the front pages might be fun.
mrmoshpotato
@TheOtherHank:
I guess we’ll have to invade his golf course to piss in his grave the way he had the DC National Guard invade the nation’s capital.
Jackie
@Chacal Charles Calthrop: FFOTUS isn’t only stiffing contractors:
This is how the CO of the USA shows “respect” to “his” military.
Chetan Murthy
@lowtechcyclist: Indeed. We know that craziness will be coming, but truly, how can we discern in which direction the craziness will head? Who will go up? Who will go down? That seems …. difficult to divine.
Baud
Tariffs of fireworks and champagne will be the tell.
Splitting Image
The really scandalous thing about the “Biden is Old” coverage is that, as bad as it got last year, it wasn’t nearly as irresponsible as the email stories about Clinton in 2016. Biden’s age would have been a legitimate issue if it weren’t for the fact that the quislings used it as a way to bury stories about Trump’s age, his criminality, and his platform. The emails scandal was made up out of whole cloth.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
So stock up now!
BlueGuitarist
@Ohio Mom:
Iirc UK folks planned for years to drive “Ding Dong the witch is dead” to the top of the pop charts when Maggie thatcher milk snatcher died.
Cheryl from Maryland
i went down to the DC mail this afternoon to see an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art — Little Beasts, about European art of the small-scale natural world, connected with the development of the microscope. Which I totally recommend to anyone in the area with children — many activities geared towards kids, especially FREE JOURNALS to encourage encounters with the Natural World. Anyway, I saw many families, many happy tourists, and NO National Guards, armed persons, ICE, etc. Maybe the feeling is that we artsie people aren’t dangerous, but anyway, it was calm and normal. I was not anticipating normality — maybe that’s how the fascists get us.
Cheryl from Maryland
i went down to the DC mail this afternoon to see an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art — Little Beasts, about European art of the small-scale natural world, connected with the development of the microscope. Which I totally recommend to anyone in the area with children — many activities geared towards kids, especially FREE JOURNALS to encourage encounters with the Natural World. Anyway, I saw many families, many happy tourists, and NO National Guards, armed persons, ICE, etc. Maybe the feeling is that we artsie people aren’t dangerous, but anyway, it was calm and normal. I was not anticipating normality — maybe that’s how the fascists get us.
Ruckus
@hotshoe:
I live in a federal program seniors complex, meaning one has to be over 55 to even rent here and there is someone 99 yrs old living here. I don’t know if she’s the oldest or not. And I’m about in the middle of the age bracket for those still here. Have lived here approximately 9 years and a few have gone and been replaced. Now I know a lot of the people that have been here for some time, but more than a few have come and gone. Most move to an actual healthcare facility as they get a lot older and can’t really care for themselves.
Jackie
@zhena gogolia: Well, bummer :-( Ah well, I can understand avoiding a rare lawsuit by FFOTUS.🙄
Captain C
@mrmoshpotato: They might have him on the really good drugs.
Ruckus
@Jackie:
As you obviously know, shitforbrains has zero respect for anyone not shitforbrains. Which is one of the reasons I use that fitting, more than a nickname description. And he is not getting better as he ages out.
Jackie
@Baud:
I’m sure they’re already tariffed. China and France made, respectively.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Jackie: I’m just looking for proof of life! Using the NYT was gratuitous on my part
Ruckus
@Cheryl from Maryland:
maybe that’s how the fascists get us
Naw they get us because we let our guard down – or have our guard taken away, along with everything else.
Amy!
I just wanna know … is Swan Lake on Youtube or something? I can’t find it on cable, and really, for the full effect, it needs to be on broadcast. Oh, maybe PBS? Or could they be refurbishing VOA to handle the broadcast? This is all so confusing, and I don’t even know who’s in Trump’s Politburo!
Ruckus
@TONYG:
I’m pretty sure his fat ass won’t fit through the door.
Jackie
@Ruckus: Which Veterans KNOW – and still voted for him. Maybe we’re no longer recruiting our bravest and smartest.
Geminid
@Chetan Murthy: Turkiye developed pretty tight security during its 40-year war with the PKK. It would be a natural venue for a Putin/Zelensky meeting because it’s close to both their countries, and Turkiye already hosted two rounds of talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations earlier this year in Istanbul.
At the last round, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan huddled with the delegation heads before the meeting. It was agreed that no progfess could be made, so the formal session consisted Fidan reading his own nation’s ceasefire proposal. It included an offer to station Turkish military monitors on the ceasefire lines.
I think the basic problem is that Putin wants a peace treaty that recognizes Russia’s territorial gains and even adds to them, while Ukraine wants a ceasefire in place without ratifying any Russian land thefts. Also, Putin does not want to meet Zelensky under circumstances that imply the two men are equals
Ed. But Russia and Ukraine can work up and ratify a treaty without Putin and Zelensky meeting. Their foreign ministers can sign it. A Putin/Zelensky meeting might be counterproductive because the two men hate each other.
Sister Golden Bear
@hells littlest angel:
Ask and ye shall receive: Village People – YMCA (slowed & reverbed)
Jackie
@Geminid:
That doesn’t explain why Putin agrees to meet with FFOTUS.
Ah, I get it! Putin enjoys humiliating FFOTUS with a worldwide audience watching.
Ruckus
@JoyceH:
Likely not.
I live in a seniors apartment complex as I said in comment 53 and I’ve never seen anything human like djt. Most of us, as we age actually loose weight and I’ve never seen, out of all the old farts that I know, even the ones older than me where I live with issues like he is showing. Just checked and I’ve lost about 3 lbs from my normal decades long weight. And as much as it hurts to say this I’m not a lot younger than shitforbrains. Now I still walk a fair amount and do some work building wood things but nothing like I did 4-5 years ago.
different-church-lady
The only thing bad about Trump dying is that I’d lose my chance to call him an asshole to his face.
Sister Golden Bear
@Dorothy A. Winsor: This just in:
FrancoTrump is still (probably not) dead.Ruckus
@Jackie:
I have zero idea why ANYONE voted for shitforbrains. So he has money. He inherited a shit ton of money and has lost a lot/most of it seemingly several times. I’d bet he’s not the sharpest rock on the planet. Just a guess from all we’ve seen over the years.
Jackie
@Sister Golden Bear: Re-made specifically so FFOTUS can actually pump his fist and clap to the actual beat? LOL
Lethe
Grumpy Fish posted above …”if he were dead-dead, but if he’s just mostly dead…”
Welp, he’s in trouble then. Miracle Max wouldn’t help a guy whose only love is himself.
different-church-lady
Jake Tapper won’t be able to write a book about how they’re hiding Trump’s senility. Because they’re not hiding it.
Jeffro
@mrmoshpotato: from your lips to the FSM‘s ears
JaneE
The best thing I can think of is if Trump died before this term ends and Joe Biden doesn’t.
Geoduck
@Jackie: You can see the front page of the NYT website for free at least. Currently no headlines about the Shaitgibbon’s health, the main one is about the stoppage of the planeful of kids from being deported. And articles about Robert Muller and Rudy Giuliani’s health.
Jeffro
@Buggrit: can we get someone to work up a joyous, gleeful playlist for the Big Day?
Jeffro
@mrmoshpotato: I just need a drone capable of carrying a small payload.., A or small Ziploc bag
I don’t even need the drone back, it would be worth it
Jackie
@Ruckus:
Because those who voted for him love his worst traits. Others checked the box against Harris because she’s Black, not Orange; and has a vagina, not a mushroom.
Ruckus
@Jackie:
I served in the way back, during Vietnam and even then all the electronic equipment on the ship I served on for 2 years was solid state. Far different than the electronics that we see today, like your cell phone, or the computer I’m using right now. Now the difference between then and now in electronics is still hugely significant. Take your cell phone. I haven’t had a land line in 30 years, other than my business. But if you know the difference in electronics over the decades from when I was in the USN over half a century ago, you’d know it is very significantly different. Even if it was solid state.
Ruckus
@Jackie:
I wouldn’t have said it exactly like that but YES you are correct.
Princess
I’m not a Kremlinologist but as I said earlier, I’m very good at identifying authorship of anonymous things and I promise all of you, those recent Twitter posts that are under his name, he didn’t write any of them.
Bill Arnold
@Jeffro:
A first-person multi-sense urination drone.
mrmoshpotato
@JaneE:
And Clinton, Warcriminal, Obama, and Biden say “Fuck it!” to attending the orange shitstain’s funeral.
(You can be damn sure Hillary, Michelle, and Jill wouldn’t want to attend. Not sure about Laura.)
Shalimar
@Jackie: Chintzy shit like this is the most likely thing to save us from a dictatorship. The first thing you do if you want an authoritarian government is ensure the loyalty of the troops who enforce it. Choosing not to pay benefits is really stupid.
Jackie
@Ruckus: I know I was a bit crude, but it’s today’s world of “it is what it is.” We Democrats no longer have the luxury of “when they go low, we go high.” We’re forced to jump into the gutter and speak the language that gets the attention. So be it, we will. We don’t have to like it. Newsom is leading the example.
Timill
@JaneE: Preferably before 1/20/2027…
Tim
Bill Arnold
@Princess:
What’s your minimum count for distinct realDonaldTrump tweet/truth authors?
Scout211
@Princess: He rarely does. He has a team that writes posts mimicking his style. But sometimes he dictates the words to them.
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady: true
Baud
RFK Jr is sexually aroused
Jay
If Dolt47 were dead, there would be a disturbance in the Farce.
trollhattan
@Baud:
Rabies: one of few known cures for autism. Winning!
prostratedragon
@Sister Golden Bear:
Beat me to it. Balloon-juice challenge: play YMCA (with the staging business) at .25 speed, and survive till the chorus.
Scout211
Listed under things I never want to think about.
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: That (about rfk jr) is gross to contemplate under any circumstance. YIK.
@Scout211: No kidding! yeeesh.
Jackie
Another program FFOTUS wants to axe that targets mostly rural red states
Good article worth reading. “I voted for him, but didn’t think…”
hueyplong
@Jeffro: Haven’t done up a playlist, but when I do it will include
Beethoven
Queen
A number from The Wizard of Oz.
prostratedragon
@Amy!:
Here’s one. An earlier comment has queues for the different parts. The “Little Swans” might be especially festive for this occasion.
prostratedragon
Tchaikovsky that fits our mood on that day more closely is the final movement of Symphony No. 4:
“The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Sister Golden Bear: that made me laugh out loud
thank you
Nettoyeur
@JoyceH: You have to be on powerful anti coagulants…not aspirin..to get those bruises. It would take thousands of handshakes day after day to have that effect …and wait, both orange hands are bruised.
Jackie
This is just the beginning of an in-depth article. Read the rest.
Chris T.
Trump isn’t dead, he just smells that way.
Matt McIrvin
@Jackie: oh, so it’s the way Dunkin schedules “part-time” employees, got it.
Matt McIrvin
@Cheryl from Maryland: Who *wasn’t* there? Was it, say, an oddly white crowd? That’s maybe how we puncture the illusion of normality, by noticing that (if it’s the case).
Matt McIrvin
@Nettoyeur: Could be a drug interaction. I got scary bruises on my feet like that during surgery recovery, from taking aspirin and big doses of ibuprofen at the same time (they just took me off the ibuprofen and kept the aspirin).
Paul in KY
@Buggrit: I’m going to play ‘Burn, Motherfucker, Burn’ by Five Finger Death Punch!