Summary

Trump’s latest interview with Bret Baier on Fox News strongly suggests he is delusional, not just a liar.

He doubled down on election fraud conspiracies, baseless accusations against USAID, and his belief that tariffs alone can fund government spending. Trump also reaffirmed his desire to annex Canada and proposed a U.S.-controlled Gaza without Palestinian return.

His belief in these absurd ideas confirms a dangerous, self-delusional worldview that undermines stable governance, jeopardizes international cooperation, and endangers global stability.

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    I would own this. Think of it as a real estate development,” he told Baier. Under the plan, Trump declared, “The United States owns the Gaza Strip.”

    he believes the US is one of his companies and he is going to financially nuke it in the exact same way.

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      I’ve always thought you can make a lot of sense of Trump and his actions if you remember he’s a degenerate real estate developer and looks at many issues through that lens. The cost of building materials (steel). Wind turbines fucking up “the view.” His weird spat with low-flow toilets. His stupid wall.

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    Senile, demented geriatric who is being told lies by everyone around him to manipulate him, because they all know he is dumb and easily swayed.

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    No he’s not:

    “The opposition party is the media,” Steve Bannon, who helped run Trump’s 2016 campaign, told PBS Frontline five years ago. “And the media can only — because they’re dumb and they’re lazy — they can only focus on one thing at a time.”

    So the solution, per Bannon? Overwhelm them.

    “All we have to do is flood the zone,” he said. “Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”

    https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289315/trump-week-in-review

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      Exactly. He’s the clown getting everyone’s attention while his lackeys fuck everything up in the background.

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    The Gaza stuff is particularly troubling. I suspect he’s trying to provoke a terrorist incident in the US so that he can somehow set himself up as dictator for life. There’s of course no precedent or allowance for it in the law, but he’s been making it clear that neither of those things are going to stop him.

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    No … I really don’t care if Turnip is delusional or not, I already know he’s an idiot.

    The delusional one is the American people and government

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    Election fraud conspiracies? Lol wut, does he not think he won? (Didn’t read the article)

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      Started reading it, and it’s about the 2020 election…like dude you are the current sitting president again, the 2020 election doesn’t matter anymore.

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        I mean, if there really was fraud it would still matter that you hold people accountable. If there was any, though, it was the GOP doing it, so that’s awkward.

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    If you ignore the equator, and you just look at the northern hemisphere from the top down…

    Russia + USA + Canada + Greenland is like, fucking game over.

    I strongly believe all this Greenland shit and now Canada shit is just Trump, Putins puppet, trying to bring back the USSR better than ever.