Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅

I'll try to be here for the debate, but I fear I fail often

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

"We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home while, at the same time, stumbling into a continuing catalogue of catastrophic events abroad."

- Donald Trump, 2025 inaugural address.

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

I served 24 years in the United States military. No commander in chief I have ever served under, democrat or republican, has ever had this level of indifference for our troops.

NONE. It’s a damn disgrace. These people are spitting in the faces of our service members everyday.

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

So Trump changes course & says it was China - not Dems - who cheated in 2020. By obtainining voter data from more Americans than are registered to vote. Hmm.
Anyway, this whole waste of time was just him claiming voter vulnerabilities (already known) & begging for the Save Act.

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

The White House claims China obtained data from 220 million U.S. voter records.

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

The Most Transparent Administration in the History of........

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: The Trump administration is planning to implement NDAs for all federal workers.

The draft of this proposed rule is already out, according to the Washington Post, and will be published tomorrow.

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

If you were horrified last night watching our elected leaders run and scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed.

Now, becomes a part of the solution and only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

@4HumanUnity @ksorbs It's so frustrating that their strategy of constantly posting OBVIOUS and wild lies works so well, because their followers always believe them.

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

@SpeakerJohnson Any added refunds will NOT be enough to cover the higher gas prices, energy bills, and overall inflation that we now have.....because Republicans "got their way".

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

I don't remember the last time the country that started the attack and the bombing, was also the country that was begging for a ceasefire. Is that what winning looks like in 2026?

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

@Acyn Umm, I don't think the problem is Congressional actions or the victims testimony under oath. I believe the problem is the inaction of the DOJ in their pursuit of the perpetrators. No calls on the DOJ to do a little more? At the very least to COOPERATE with Congress?

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Actual quotes from President Trump:

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully.
March 10: practically nothing left to target
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
April 6 :a whole civilization will die
April 7: total and complete victory
April8: objectives were met

A true disaster

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

@travisakers #PresidentTACO

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

@mmpadellan This feels like his "The dow is over 50,000" moment.

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

@WalshFreedom Israel, under it's current leadership, isn't acting like a very good ally. They are using our bodyguard status to them as leverage to bully everyone around them. They are the ones who lit this fire in the region, then played Trump like the idiot he is, sucking us in.

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

@JamesMelville "We negotiate with bombs" is a wild statement, particularly coming from the administration of "The Peace President" and Mr. Art of the Deal.

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

"From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer."

- Donald Trump, Jan 20, 2025

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'To end it like this for Trump is a disaster.'

Piers Pottinger reacts to Donald Trump's Truth Social post stating to have delayed his proposed strikes on Iran's power plants after 'good and productive conversations'.

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

Trump got re-elected because "people were sick and tired of the neverending crisis"

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We sure sidestepped that land mine, Pete!

[Acyn @Acyn]

Hegseth: It is common sense and the same common sense that brought President Trump back to the white house. People were sick and tired of the never ending crisis

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

"From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer."

- Donald Trump, Jan 20, 2025.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

IRAN MOCKS TRUMP: Iran releases a cartoon-style propaganda video mimicking Trump-era White House theatrics, turning his own over-the-top messaging style into a global punchline.

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

@JamesMelville None of his alternate headlines proved the actual headlines to be false. And he didn't even attempt to offer an alternative to the miscalculation on the Strait of Hormuz. What a joke this guy continues to be.

[Rico Politico🇺🇲🦅 @PoliticoSuave]

@FoxNews Lol, now do the Jan 6ers. Ooh and then do Trump's pardons.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is what this Administration of billionaires for billionaires really thinks. The consumer is an inconvenience.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.