The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

Shitting all over the graduations of the next generation of military leaders.

Well done sir!

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https://www.alternet.org/trump-trophy-wives-west-point/

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Of all the sub-ramblings during his blather to the West Point grads, this one stuck out a bit – and of course it’s clearly addressed as though there were only males graduating

Trump Warns West Point Grads to Steer Clear of ‘Trophy Wives’

The president ought to know, having now been married three times to women who were significantly younger than him and employed as professional models prior to getting engaged.

Updated May 24 2025 3:46PM EDT

Donald Trump went off on a characteristically bizarre tangent to talk about the dangers of “trophy wives” during a commencement speech at a military academy.

During his address to graduates at West Point, the president delving into a long-winded anecdote about famed real estate developer Bill Levitt, who he said made a “tremendous amount of money but “lost momentum” when he divorced and remarried.

“He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife,” Trump said.

“It didn’t work out too well,” he went on. “But that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you, a lot of trophy wives, it doesn’t it work. But it made him happy for a little while, at least. But he found a new wife.”

Trump need not necessarily have gone off on such a tangent to get his point across to new graduates at the famed New York military academy, arguably having prior form in this area himself.

The president has famously been married three times: first to Ivana Trump in 1977, then to Marla Maples in 1993, and most recently to Melania Trump, now First Lady, in 2005.

All three women were significantly younger than him, and aged between 28 and 34 at the time they were married, having also worked as professional models prior to getting engaged.

(probably no longer has the neural tissue to consider how this applies to himself)

…and i owe a coke to @ficuswhisperer !

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It didn’t onebox for me, so thanks for summarizing!

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In a statement to NBC News, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accused Garcia Venegas of having “interfered” with the arrest during the operation.

“Anyone who actively obstructs law enforcement in the performance of their sworn duties, including US citizens, will of course face consequences which include arrest,” the DHS’s statement to NBC said.

Interesting. Did they charge him with obstruction? (spoiler: they did not, because they know damn well that recording law enforcement is not obstruction).

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If your ideology requires deadly force to get people to sign on to it, you are the bad guys.

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I hit a paywall, so here’s an archived version

https://archive.ph/BAIkt

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People have tried to explain tariffs to him, but they can’t understand them for him.

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Never in American history has the federal government taken a position on public health like this," the secretary said proudly.

That’s not the flex he thinks it is.

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Shit is far more useful that that creature’s so-called brain.

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The word “almost” needs to be removed from that sentence.

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…and in reality. Those are grown ass members of the armed forces, FFS.

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It’s really looking like all right-wing political violence in recent years is going to get examined by this administration for pardons, because promoting right-wing political violence is a pretty obvious goal:

“The U.S. Justice Department’s new pardon attorney said he is going to take a ‘hard look’ at two men who are serving long prison terms for leading a conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
‘On the pardon front, we can’t leave these guys behind,’ Ed Martin Jr. said this week…
‘In my opinion these are victims just like January 6,’ Martin said, referring to 1,500 people pardoned by President Trump for crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.”

I bet Whitmer is feeling super great about cozying up to Trump now.

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