Geoff

I stand with Canada, Greenland, and Ukraine /
peace through superior firepower

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Turns out there's a reason the Reflecting Pool is green. The no-bid contract for the pool's water-purification system went straight to a company owned by longtime Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor John Cafaro. No competitive bidding. Just handed to him.
And Cafaro isn't just a donor. He has two prior felony convictions, including a guilty plea for conspiring to bribe a sitting member of Congress.
The total renovation came in at more than $14 million — over seven times Trump's original $1.8 million estimate. Taxpayers footed the bill.
Days after it was finished, the algae came back anyway.
This is what happens when public infrastructure contracts skip the bidding process and go straight to people with a personal relationship to the person in charge. Qualified companies lost out. Taxpayers paid more. And the pool still doesn't work.
Trump promised the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool would be "American flag blue" in time for the country's 250th birthday. He was wrong.
People online are calling it exactly what it looks like: money laundering

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

LOL

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Trump is the greatest enemy of the US:
1. His unjustified claim to Greenland has effectively ended NATO.
2. His support of Putin has ended all claims to the US supporting democracy.
3. His end of all US international aid has ended US soft power.
4. His war on iran has presented the US as a global village fool.
5. His persistent insults of all friendly global leaders alienates all.
6. No US president has appointed more incompetent people.
7. Finally, a man who always lies can't have any credibility.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

- Radoslaw Sikorski
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

.."Putin is a man whose word and signature cannot be trusted. He has lied repeatedly, violated agreements repeatedly, and built his system on intimidation rather than cooperation

We cannot be naive about Russia. The Kremlin understands strength and exploits weakness. That is why Europe must remain united and continue supporting Ukraine."

[Crazy Fenak @CrazyFenaker]

If paint is peeling off a pool, due to shoddy workmanship and improper treatment of the water by park personnel, it is NOT a crime to touch or photograph it. Literally hundreds of journalists have done that. Trump charging random people seems like more lawfare. No way they get convictions. More nonsense so that MAGA can blame someone other than Trump's incompetent no-bid contractors.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Vandals using chemicals on the Reflecting Pool

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

It was literally the people who painted it. They poured peroxide in it

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

I have to do another video on the reflective pool debacle. They are trying to say it was sabotaged by the left. They are unable to see a flaw in their God king. The Trump administration dumped hydrogen peroxide to kill the algae and it stripped the paint.

[Branislav Slantchev @slantchev]

The irony in the statement of our irredeemable Moron in Chief is that after the Ukrainians repulsed the initial attack by partially flooding areas around Irpin River, the Russians did divert to using regular roads… and the result was absolute slaughter as the Ukrainians would trap entire tank columns by blowing up the first and the last tanks and then taking their time to finish off the ones in between. The Ukrainians tore up road signs, blew up bridges, and used partial flooding in many areas to funnel the Russians into these kill zones.

[Cloooud |🇺🇦 @GloOouD]

Trump said that Russia could have ended the war against Ukraine on the very first day if not for a Russian general who sent tanks to Kyiv "through the swamp."

🗣"They got stuck in the swamp, almost like in quicksand. It was mud, like quicksand. They could not move. If that general had just gone straight on the concrete highway, that speaks volumes. That is why war is always associated with risk. If he had just moved straight on the highway to the city, they would have been in Kyiv in four hours, and Ukraine would have been able to do nothing. This war would have ended in one day. This was four and a half years ago. It was a huge mistake. The general decided to go through the field instead of the road and highway," he said

I know Ukrainian roads are far from perfect but calling E40 highway (Kyiv-Chernihiv) “swamp” is a bit too much…

Kyiv, Brovary direction, March 2022

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump: “The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nations magnificent Reflecting Poll…Years in jail!”

(He’s literally making up stories about vandalism to cover for problems caused by his own botched renovation of the pool.)

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

This is likely to be how it will be from now on, due to Trump's unreliability: US manufacturers being cut out of allied weapons manufacturing wherever possible.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Trump redefines what it means to be a moron, inventing a fantastical tale that explains the single reason why Putin couldn't take Ukraine.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Trump has lost his war in Iran, so it's time to refocus attention on bashing our European allies. Just watch.

[Pete @splendid_pete]

Trump’s Kyiv story is absolute weapons-grade bullshit.

Yes, Russian forces moved toward Kyiv. Yes, there was a massive convoy north of the city. Yes, mud mattered. Yes, Javelins helped.

But Trump takes those real fragments, throws them into a blender with his own ego, and produces the dumbest possible version of the Battle of Kyiv.

His claim is basically this: Russia had a perfect highway to Kyiv, one idiot general randomly chose a muddy field instead, the tanks got stuck like cartoon villains, and then Trump’s magical Javelins saved Ukraine.

The Russian column was not just hundreds of tanks. It was a huge mixed military convoy: tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, fuel tankers, artillery, supply vehicles, and troops. It stalled because Russia’s entire invasion plan was rotten: bad logistics, fuel shortages, food shortages, poor maintenance, congestion, mechanical failures, Ukrainian resistance, destroyed bridges, artillery fire, ambushes, drones, flooding, mud, and failed operations around Hostomel, Irpin, Moshchun, Brovary, and Chernihiv.

There was no single genius moment where Russia could have just gone straight down the “concrete highway” and won the war in four hours. That is idiotic. A tank’s top road speed is irrelevant when you are moving a massive invasion force through hostile territory, under attack, with broken logistics, contested airspace, destroyed infrastructure, and people shooting at you.

Roads aren’t even made of fucking concrete. It’s not Trump Tower.

And then there is the Javelin lie.

Trump keeps saying, “I gave them Javelins,” like he personally walked into Kyiv with a shopping bag full of missiles. No. The first 2018 package was a Foreign Military Sale. Ukraine requested to buy 210 Javelin missiles and 37 launch units for about $47 million. Bought. Not gifted by Saint Donald of Anti-Tank Charity.

And even that came with restrictions. Ukrainian forces were initially limited in how they could deploy and use them, with later rules allowing defensive use more broadly. So even his one favourite talking point is inflated, stripped of context, and repackaged as self-worship.

Javelins helped. Nobody serious denies that. But they were not the only reason Russian armor got mauled. Ukraine also had NLAWs, Stugna-P, Korsar, Barrier, older ATGWs, artillery, drones, mines, ambush teams, destroyed bridges, flooded approaches, local defenders, and actual soldiers who knew what they were doing.

The “Obama gave them sheets” line is also bullshit. Obama refused lethal anti-tank weapons, which is a fair criticism. But US support under Obama was not just blankets. It included training, body armor, helmets, vehicles, night and thermal vision, radios, patrol boats, rations, tents, counter-mortar radars, uniforms, medical supplies, and other equipment.

So the real version is simple:

Russia did not fail at Kyiv because one general picked mud over a motorway.

Russia failed because Ukraine fought back, Russia’s logistics were garbage, its planning was arrogant, its units were badly prepared, its columns were vulnerable, its air assault at Hostomel failed, its advances were delayed and mauled, and Kyiv did not collapse.

Trump did not save Ukraine with Javelins. Ukraine bought the first batch, later received more Western weapons, and then Ukrainians did the actual fighting.

As usual, Trump found one real word in the story, stapled it to his ego, and called the whole thing truth. Like a retard he is.

[Johanna Nyman @JohannaNyman5]

“Russia would not have invaded Ukraine had it been a member of NATO.”

— Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

At 9AM, JD Vance claimed the Strait of Hormuz was open on Fox News.

At 10AM, Iran announced the Strait remains closed.

It could not be more clear that the Trump admin has absolutely no control over the situation right now.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

" Cooperation serves the interests of both our states and nations, while conflict serves Moscow's interests. Before emotions destroy our solidarity, which was born in the face of the Russian threat, we need a direct and honest conversation.”

- Donald Tusk
Prime Minister of Poland about revocation Order of the White Eagle from Zelensky 🇺🇦

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The plan is for this plane to be in service for two years and then Trump will take if for himself. No President has ever stolen an Air Force for himself.

And you paid for it. The total cost could be $1 billion of your money for a new luxury jet for Trump and his family.