"Trust doesn't return with a photo op, a handshake, or deals signed under duress. It is built slowly, consistently, through a pattern of behavior. #Trump broke that pattern. He salted the earth. And now he struts through the wreckage, calling it a win.
The rest of the #world sees it for what it is...
They'll smile for the cameras. But they won't forget. And they won't trust."
- @Daojoan
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/
"The damage isn't theoretical... Trade routes are shifting. Investment is diversifying. Global power is rebalancing... All of it is premised on a hard-earned truth: the #UnitedStates cannot be trusted to lead. Not because of one man but because of what half the country has chosen to normalize. Not because of #Trump alone but because every institution built to restrain him failed & then got in line."
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/
"Allies are preparing for retaliation cycles. Enemies are exploiting the vacuum. #Trump brags about getting countries to the table. But a meeting is not respect. A press conference is not a partnership. These aren't alliances. These are standoffs with better lighting.
...His statecraft is theater. His negotiation tactic is a threat. His diplomacy is extortion. And the rest of the world is reacting accordingly."
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/
"None of these governments believes #Trump will keep his word. How could they? The man broke every commitment he ever touched.
The #Iran deal. The #Paris Agreement. #NATO cooperation. #WTO norms. Trade deals with #Mexico, #Canada, and #China. He walked away from each of them. Because #chaos creates attention, and attention is the only currency he respects."
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/
Trust Is Dead. Trump Keeps Selling the Corpse.
Behind every handshake is a nation plotting its exit strategy from the American empire.
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/
" #DonaldTrump says he's cutting deals again... His team calls it a triumph... But no one with a functioning memory or a map believes this is real. It's not leadership. It's damage mitigation. The #UnitedStates is not being courted—it's being managed.
The trust is gone."
The Ugly American:
> The Ugly American is a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer that depicts the failures of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Southeast Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_American #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #MAGA #SouthEastAsia
#CETA
#GeoPol #TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli
(3/n)
#CEUM
The rift b/w the #US and its #NorthAmerican, neighbors, #Canada and Mexico, offers huge chances for a new world order.
As #MAGA #DonaldTrump singlehandedly keeps alienating the US stauchest, quite like erstwhile Allies, the remaining #NATO members can reshape the Alliance to their purposes
Furthermore, amalgamating the economies of the other 2 erstwhile #European colonies to the #EU might even...
USAID Official Ousted While Writing Scathing Memo on #Trump Cuts
Nicholas Enrich was preparing a 3rd damning #memo on #DonaldTrump... cuts to USAID before he was forced out.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192227/usaid-official-third-memo-trump-cuts
"In his 1st memo, Enrich described severe staff reductions... in his 2nd, he noted 72... #USAID activities had no funding, leading to a #death toll that is “not known.” But in his 3rd memo, Enrich estimates how many people will die or get deadly diseases as a result of the cuts."
USAID Whistleblower Boldly Drops Truth Bomb On Trump
INSIDE: Marco Rubio ... ABJ ... #ElonMusk
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/usaid-whistleblower-boldly-drops-truth-bomb-on-trump
"senior #USAID official was placed on leave Sunday after he wrote a memo blowing the whistle on the #Trump admn...
The impacts on global #health outlined by Enrich are devastating, wide-ranging, and suggest hundreds of thousands of avoidable #deaths will result from Trump’s lawless destruction of USAID."
Vulture Capitalism Comes for #Democracy
The playbook #Trump & Musk are following to dismantle govt resembles the one used to pick apart America’s newspapers.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/vulture-capitalism-comes-for-democracy
"Trump & #ElonMusk... are taking their chainsaws to the federal #government. Waiting in the wings are Trump’s #billionaire buddies—including 13 in his administration—who are salivating at the prospect of govt agencies being privatized"
Art of the Steal:
This Is the Biggest Trump-Musk Scandal That No One’s Talking About
#DonaldTrump & #ElonMusk are ushering in a new age of bribery, graft, & #corruption to American #politics.
https://newrepublic.com/article/192008/trump-musk-scandal-corruption-crypto
"The new #Trump administration wouldn’t just be open for business. With the aid of Musk’s #DOGE wrecking ball, the administration would create the perfect environment for graft, self-dealing, & lucrative influence-peddling. And it would be legal, at least some of it"
"Stop the coup" rally protesting President Trump and Elon Musk draws hundreds in Boston
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/rally-protest-donald-trump-elon-musk-boston/
"Hundreds of rally-goers gathered on the icy #Boston Common Friday to voice their frustrations with #DonaldTrump and... [South African immigrant] turned White House official #ElonMusk...
Their hope is that the power of their voice will create change.
"At the end of the day, our founding fathers put the people in charge," said Bright."
"Even if you charitably view this as mere appearance of corruption rather than the real thing, we’re watching the creation of a dangerous new playbook:
Presidents can now use frivolous lawsuits as leverage to extract millions from tech companies, while those companies can effectively purchase political protection through “settlements.”"
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/30/meta-pays-trump-25m-protection-money-after-mar-a-lago-offer/
OK so we're on #Trump 2.0 day nine
Can we take a broader view beyond "Trump hates #DEI" ?
Can we take a broader view beyond "Trump hates #Immigrants / #AsylumSeekers" ?
Can we take a broader view beyond "Trump hates #Transgender people" ?
#DonaldTrump hates all of those things, and more
But don't lose sight of the big picture: Trump is conducting nothing less than the wholesale destruction of the entire #USDemocracy -- piece by piece as he can -- in full service to #VladimirPutin and #Russia
Remember this: Trump and Putin at Helsinki 2018 and the famous "whipped like a dog" photo
It speaks volumes
The Trump memecoin saga is a perfect example of how news outlets breathlessly reporting astronomical “fully diluted valuations” without proper context or skepticism helps to legitimize yet another crypto scheme.
This is not to downplay the extent to which Trump is grifting his devotees and crypto traders looking to make a buck on memecoin speculation. But it is important that we accurately report on his cons and don’t contribute to misleading crypto hype for the sake of large numbers.
Newspapers’ estimates of the $TRUMP token’s fully diluted value fluctuated wildly from somewhere around $20 billion to around $70 billion, depending on which paper you read and when they published.
This variance perhaps should have been a sign to these reporters that the numbers aren’t real.
Newsletter: No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin.
Rolling Stone states the truth clearly. No sanewashing, no both-sidesing, just the plain unvarnished truth.
I wish more headlines were this honest.
Elon Musk Wants to Pay for His Tax Cuts With Your Social Security and Medicare
The point of Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE is to cut entitlement programs so Trump can give tax cuts to the ultra- wealthy and corporations
People in Ukraine are worried about how Trump’s victory might affect them. The team at @timkmak’s Counter Offensive talked to people on the ground about their concerns. “If we get discouraged because an election has taken place in another country and we don't like the president elected, we will never have independence and autonomy,” says 21-year-old Yelyzaveta Kanievska.
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/the-street-level-view-from-kyiv-on
