hiero

Good people who are poorly informed act like bad people.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

In the new interview, Trump told NBC that “I didn’t guarantee no war” and that “I didn’t promise anything.”

Not true.

There was often some nuance to his rhetoric on this subject. He repeatedly promised in 2024 to avoid “endless” wars or “world” wars (not specifically all wars) or boasted (without an explicit future promise) about not having started a new war in his first term. You can argue the nuance was lost on a lot of voters, or that boasting about not having started one is a de facto promise not to start one in the future, but the nuance frequently existed.

In other cases, though, he was categorical.

At an August 2024 rally in Pennsylvania, he promised, “Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all.” That month in North Carolina, he pledged, “No more wars.”

And here’s what he said in two of his highest-profile speeches. In his July 2024 address accepting the GOP nomination, he said, “With our victory in November, the years of war, weakness, and chaos will be over. I don’t have wars.” In his November 2024 victory address, he said, “I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars.”

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

This was the moment I knew for certain that 2026 was going to be a very bad foreign policy year for the United States.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Donald Trump’s 2nd term is an absolute failure.

Just like his first term.

MAGA is dead.

[hiero @hiero]

@unusual_whales Trump has never spoken truth or kept promise

[hiero @hiero]

@JayinKyiv @tugatripeira And he stains

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is unhinged. If a family member behaved this way, you'd worry about them. If a CEO behaved like this, the board would meet. He's living in an alternate reality and furious when a person won't indulge his fantasies.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Remember when we were told women were too emotional to be president

[hiero @hiero]

@SpencerHakimian Nobody listens because nobody trusts a word he says. For good reasons

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Zelenskyy: We've got messages that they are ready for meeting only if Ukraine will do what they decided in Anchorage. With all respect to the President of the United States, but you can't cut our country. You can't make decisions without us, about us. It's unacceptable and it will not bring peace.

[hiero @hiero]

@lesleyabravanel A very bad joke

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

Trump is on tape defending J6ers who pled guilty to assaulting police, calling law enforcement "dirty" while demanding violent criminals get taxpayer cash from his "weaponization fund." He thinks cop-beaters are victims who deserve a payout. The law and order party is a joke.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Well, it looks like Russia has suffered yet another (entirely predictable) foreign policy defeat.

🇦🇲 Armenia appears to have voted today to leave the Kremlin's sphere of influence and move closer to the free world.

Once again, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has proven to be the beginning of the countdown to the final collapse of the Russian Empire.

The continued stupidity and brutally self-destructive mistakes of this KGB clique across the region will drive the remaining nails into the coffin, and 🇺🇦Ukraine will be sure to finish the job with a shovel.

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

Brava to Kristen Welker for maintaining her cool and her reportorial backbone in an interview with a rude and bullying interview subject who could not marshall a single fact in response to a civil question.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

For 5 years he’s been promising evidence.

When asked for any, he responds like a little toddler.

Such a bitch

[Larry Sabato @LarrySabato]

It’s repetitive but still vital to say. There is NOTHING to Trump’s vote fraud assertions. There was nothing to them in 2016. Nothing in 2020. Nothing in 2024. Nothing in 2026. NOTHING AT ALL.

[hiero @hiero]

@ddale8 I always wonder if he leaves stains…

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump’s egregious (repeat) lie about Jan. 6 in the new NBC interview he walked out of: “They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI: ‘Go into the building.’”

There’s precisely no evidence this happened. DOJ’s inspector general found that the FBI had zero undercover agents in the Capitol crowd. Kash Patel has himself debunked a Trump-promoted conspiracy theory on this subject, saying FBI agents were merely deployed to do crowd control after the police declared a riot.

And of the dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who tried a “the cops let me in” defense, just one (1) was acquitted. Even in that case, the acquitting judge said that though the defendant reasonably believed he was being allowed in, the officers in question were actually overrun by the crowd and standing back reasonably and responsibly, not explicitly encouraging anyone to enter. (And they weren’t FBI.)

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Trump is too emotional to be president

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The world is getting tired of this man.

Not tired in the way you get tired of a bad TV show. Tired in the way you get tired of a dog that barks at nothing, bites the postman, and then rolls over completely flat the moment someone actually pushes back. Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed master of the deal, stormed off the set of Meet the Press this morning after NBC’s Kristen Welker had the extraordinary audacity to ask him questions. Factual ones. About his own policies.

He called her “darling,” ripped off his microphone, and left.

This is the man who dodged military service with a bone spur diagnosis so convenient it might as well have come with a receipt. The man who cannot name a single foreign leader he has genuinely stood up to. The man who goes absolutely feral at female journalists and folds like a deck chair the moment Putin, Xi, or a Supreme Leader in Tehran raises an eyebrow.

His war with Iran has been a catastrophe dressed up as a victory lap. He launched it. He had no plan for the day after. He bombed things, declared triumph, and then discovered that Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz and has absolutely no intention of giving that up for free. Every deadline Trump has issued has dissolved. Every ultimatum has been quietly extended. Iran now sits on the most valuable leverage in the global economy and uses it like a cash register, adding new demands every week while the man in the White House responds with angry posts on a social media platform that fewer people use than a regional Ohio newspaper.

The last time anyone successfully negotiated a deal with Iran, it took two years, a team of the finest diplomats in the Western world, and a level of patience and precision that this administration could not locate with both hands and a map. That deal, the one Trump ripped up without apparently reading it, contained limits on uranium enrichment, inspector access, and a clear framework for walking things back. Was it perfect? No. Was it dramatically better than the current situation, in which Iran now holds the global economy by the throat ahead of the US midterms? Substantially. Embarrassingly. Obviously.

Iran is not begging for a deal. Iran is choosing between deals, slowly, while the clock runs in their favor.

Even MAGA is starting to notice. The base that cheered every bomb drop is now sitting at petrol stations and supermarket checkouts doing the maths on what this war has actually cost them. Inflation is back. Interest rates are moving. Supply chains are straining and the worst has not even arrived yet. Right now, markets are running on buffer stocks and spare capacity. The moment those warehouses empty, the real pain begins.

In the meantime, the President of the United States is storming off television sets because a journalist asked him to account for his own decisions.

The bone spurs are acting up again.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This is what INSANITY looks like: Bullying buffoon Trump loses his fucking mind and walks out of a softball interview with Meet the Press host Kristen Welker. Because he's so insecure and psychologically fragile, the sick fuck thinks every election he loses must be "rigged."