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[–] FullPenguin@lemmy.world 85 points 1 month ago

Based on the Iran Deal, he seems more like a bottom to me.

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago (3 children)

you can describe trump in one word : megalomaniac

[–] notabot@piefed.social 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That's definitely a good word, but I think you need a few more to really round out that description; words like: senile, bitter, gullible, weak, thin-skinned, foolish, and evil.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

rapist, pedophile, asshole

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

The most accurate descriptors

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

you missed three from the top of the list: greedy, self-centered, egoistic

[–] moshankey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
[–] barneyrubble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Psychopath.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

2 words, malignant narcissist

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

3 words: Incompetent malignant narcissist

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

4 words: Racist incompetent malignant narcissist

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don can't, but Genghis Khan.

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I didn’t have the ghost of Genghis Khan killing Trump on my 2026 bingo card

[–] gankouskhan@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I don't want to support his pun, but here's an upvote

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While in reality he's a power bottom for Bibi and Putin to tag team

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Hardly call him a POWER bottom. That implies he has the ability to move his shambling corpse in a way other than a lurch.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The author of the post that Trump is the "most powerful man that ever lived" is probably correct. Think about it: the US has the largest military in the world, and can project power anywhere. Historically, while this power has been built up, in America the ability to wield it has been carefully constructed so that it has to go through several layers of responsibility before being used, and different parts of government can perform their own checks on that ability.

Then Trump comes along, and many of those checks and balances dissolve. Somehow, he has successfully aligned enough of our government to his agenda that he can launch a war (and lose it!) without being held responsible for the result.

That is Trump's superpower - the ability to do whatever he wants, with impunity. That's not supposed to happen in our modern society, but he figured out how. Perhaps the key is having no shame, so he can ask for things that no other politician would think is appropriate? But with that kind of power, he really is ruling like a king, with the largest military in history (and all those nukes) at his command. Who's gonna say "no" to him at this point? He got rid of everyone who might.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

On the other hand how effective is the US military really? Its got a lot of fancy toys but sure did just fall flat on its face despite what should have been overwhelming advantages.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

It's the big difference between grand strategy and tactics. You can win every single battle and still lose a war. Grand strategy comes from the top. If the mad emperor tells his troops to make war on the sea, is it really on the troops when they lose?

"War is a continuation of policy", so what happens when there is no policy? What would "winning" even have looked like?

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[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

From another article:

Trump said the document came from a “historian,” but Haberman and Swan later found that its author was Dave King, a longtime caddy and confidant of golfer Gary Player.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

don’t hate the Player; hate the game

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

Ok this is mostly unrelated, but the name Gary Player is a pretty great name for any professional athlete

[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fake news. No way Trump is a top.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He gives bottom energy for sure.

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

He gives sits-in-the-corner-by-himself-because-he-is-not-allowed-to-participate energy

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick… will you just go away already … or just die. Either is cool. Hopefully from a stroke on the toilet. Because anything else would make it worse.

I am so tired of hearing about all the stupid shit he says on a daily basis. I will be so happy when he is a distant memory.

I have some very expensive whiskey just waiting.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It won't matter what he eventually dies from. Even if the cheeseburger is still half eaten in front of him, half the US population is going to insist it was an assassination plot by Hillary and Obama

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately you are not wrong

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

You know what's funny with people who have the narcissistic personality disorder, is they themselves do not see anything wrong with them.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 4 points 1 month ago

I, Caligula...

[–] Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't you have to conquer something to be a conqueror?

I've conquered the entire world in multiple RTS games. One time i conquered an entire galaxy. Does that count?

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

He technically conquered Venezuela

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

Shhhhh! Quiet! 🤫🤐!!! He's sleeping 😴 again!

[–] Fribbizz@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

Conquerors are worthless. They come and go. What makes a realm/an empire stick around and last, is if the leader is a good administrator. What set the Romans aside was not so much military ability, though they had that. What set them aside was their ability to organise, plan and administer.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

What a loser.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

What a terrifically stupid claim. He has no idea what is going on.

Historian David King is even more frightening, check this guy's hard drive.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh yes Mr president, you aren't a bitch at all! /s

ha ha ha, fuck you.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Well, i mean he surrendered more times than those conquerors, so theres that....

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, sure but he has to use a splint to do it.

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Rump is useless a bulls on a tit.

[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Harry S Truman

[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

In stupidity

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

This all started with him getting the pee prize in russia.

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