I've known someone else a bit like this, where he seemed "stupid" - found it very difficult to learn traditional academic subjects - but he was top notch at manipulation, and had an uncanny knack for guessing what people wanted in any given scenario.

You can't be truly dumb and successfully manipulate the majority of people you meet. Put another way, people who are as limited as he seems - find it very difficult to understand people and get what they want/need from them.

Currently Trump is responsible for roughly 1 million deaths this year alone by just cutting USAID. Next to that they have been murdering fishermen in the Caribbean, bombed Iran and 6 other countries and increased poverty in the US and made health care in the US out of reach for more of its inhabitants, as well as medication. Next to that regulations for food safely and pollution have been loosened, which will have a negative impact on health. This will result in many national deaths over the coming years. Then there is the thing with vaccines, reduced funding for the CDC and other vital departments responsible for preventing disease outbreak.

The estimates for the amount of deaths from cutting USAID for over 10 years are between 10 and 15 million, with more casualties in the years after, so Trump is on a path of surpassing Hitler when it comes to death count based on this alone. Oh and don't forget how he supplies and supports Israel in the genocide of Palestine, and the other illegal wars Israel is currently involved in.

Oh and don't forget the concentration camps from ICE, in El Salvador and African countries where a mysterious amount of people are secretly dying.

Hitler was literally a more honorable man than Trump.

Don't you mean "Moon America"?

Man, how disrespectful of you. Use its real name.

Onlookers fear ....

I like that kind of fine British understatement. It is like the BBC diffuses that MS Titanic appears to have had a minor collision with something floating on the surface and there might even exist risk that she cannot reach her destination harbour on time.

New Jerseys is now New America. Moon is now Moonmerica. This really is representative of why the rest of us mock america for being so fucking stupid.

The People Of Tranquility Have Taken Advantage Of Our Generosity For Too Long. From Now On The Sea Of Tranquility Shall Be Known As The Sea Of America.

Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter.

Yeah, we put a flag there and everything. Come on people!

Don't you mean "Orbital America" 😜

Nasty People of Tranquility, so nasty.

Fuck it, he should outlaw all proper nouns. Nouns are just like pronouns they’re woke and gay. Everything is either America or Trump.

Onlookers fear ‘something very wrong’ with Trump

This is their threshold?

There has been something obviously "very wrong" with him for years. Decades, even.

He doesn't even care about treaties that he signed.

Its not hit $5/gallon once where I am at in rural Illinois. When I filled up a few days ago itnwas $4.09 I think. I mostlynremeber because I had used some Kroger points that made it $3.09 ($1 off).

Though I don't think I have ever had enough points to get a dollar off before, usually ita at most 20 cents.

I'm worried we'll start a war with them and we'll be put down, blasted by tranquilizers.

I think he may have a personality disorder.

may have? My brother in christ, everybody already knows he has a pretty strong case of narcissistic personality disorder.

Drumpfs makeup crew really going for that jaundice look

Mad emperor is mad, other news at 11.

I'd suggest Lunarica, but constructing or comprehending even a shoddy portmanteau like that is far beyond his capabilities.

In the 1980s, Trump always made Spy magazine's "Top 10 Worst People, Places or Things" list. His one "mitigating factor" was always "at least he's not in politics".

Throughout history, no land claim has been valid without pissing on it. No one from America has pissed on the moon, therefore cannot claim ownership of it.

Ironically consistent with him not relating to the real world down here on Earth.

Any archived articles of this handy?

Vodkas Yeltsin was an outlier adn should not have been counted

A useful idiot still needs to be able to do things for you, win over the right people, set the tone of the room, be the distraction. If the useful idiot goes off of the rails, stops being taken seriously at all, you're left with just an idiot. They're worried they lost the useful part

The Republicans never really had control of him. I think they fear him dying on them and them not been able to hold MAGA together without his unique brand of genuine crazy.

Maybe next time they pick a puppet president they go with someone who knows the score, and isn't under the delusion they're in change.

That's why none builds in the middle of the desert. Too hot, dehydrated, no piss. It all makes total sense.

Fittingly the flag has been bleached white by now. So it'll still be useful.

Often he criticizes them.

Did you read the description under the pic? I get the feeling Raw Story really doesn't appreciate him, lol. Look at the date.

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he makes an impression of a transgender weightlifter during his address to House Republicans at their annual issues conference retreat at the Kennedy Center, renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center by the Trump-appointed board of directors, in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 6, 2026.

It's way worse than just the moon:

Among Trump’s bizarre online posts were images that appeared to be generated with artificial intelligence (AI) depicting him in hellish landscapes with threatening messages. One depicts Trump walking in Washington, D.C. alongside an army of robots and soldiers with red glowing eyes, and the message, “THEY WILL NEVER SLEEP AGAIN.” Another depicts Trump sitting atop a black throne amid a hellish and war-torn landscape in front of giant humanoid robots.

In another post, Trump suggested renaming the state of New Mexico to “New America,” and in another, redrawing Iran’s borders to mirror the silhouette of Trump’s profile. One post, also likely generated with AI, depicts the destruction of Iran’s Kharg Island with the message, “Bye bye, Kharg.”

Trump also shared an image of the moon that included the text, “THE MOON IS OURS,” alongside an American flag.

Didn't one of his former teachers call him the dumbest student he'd ever taught? Yes he's good at manipulation but he quite literally hasn't got any kind of a objective.

Children learn about the concept of delayed gratification by about five, it looks like trump never met this developmental milestone.

Way to clue in

I believe the Apollo astronauts did leave bags of human waste on the moon which may have contained urine. Probably need more specific criteria than just “American urine touched the moon’s surface”.

Not that I don't agree that there is a serious problem with what muck et al are doing, but it won't lead to Kessler syndrome, the satellite the make up star link are orbiting at what, 250 to 350 km of altitude. They will come down within two or three years on their own.

Whoever finally takes care of the bear problem gets to decide.

That is the gamble with useful idiots though, sometimes they can surprise you.

I think the Republican party is getting increasingly concerned that what little control and manipulation they had on him is fading fast.

I also think they need to have someone who thinks they're in charge so they can project bravado and power to the undereducated base that is MAGA. No "strongman", no MAGA

Sorry, that name is already taken.

Try Moon America1

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Sea of PDFs

The hardest people to deal with.

They're obsessed with transgender.

He may easily be the dumbest US president in US history

?

Hitler killed himself several days after his 56th birthday.

Oh NOW there is a problem with Trump…

Slow day in the news for rawstory.com I guess. Lots of people know there's something wrong with this dude, and have for a while.

Is he aware that the decades of solar radiation on the moon has bleached the flag the Apollo astronauts left?

It's white. Indistinguishable from a flag of surrender.

Not to mention, the US is a signatory of the Outer Space Treaty, recognizing space as neutral ground and subject to the same legal precedent as maritime law governing international waters.

Fucking lunatic should have been removed already.

He likes white things so you'd think he'd know about the flag

https://archive.org/details/SpyMagazine/Spy Magazine 1986-1998/1986/1986-10-OCT/mode/2up

It's him or Herbert Hoover, but at least Hoover probably understood that magnets are waterproof.