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dweller

(28,760 posts)
Sun May 31, 2026, 03:58 PM 14 hrs ago

Donald Trump knows he's in serious trouble

HEATHER DELANEY REESE
MAY 31, 2026

At 8:15 this morning, the President of the United States began panicking in front of the entire world. For more than seven hours, he posted nearly 50 times. And when he finally slowed down, it would stand as one of the most revealing fits of rage of his presidency to date. Because what he shared was beyond any reasonable person’s comprehension.
He complained that because China has a ballroom, he should have one too. He posted an image of a “Trump Peace Prize” bearing his own face. He repeatedly compared himself to George Washington. He shared an image of himself kissing a flag. He shared a heroic fantasy image of himself depicted as the God of War that said, “YOU’RE GETTING DISCOMBOBULATED.” And most concerning of all, he repeatedly called for a federal judge to be investigated, impeached, and removed from the bench, placing both the judge and his wife in danger by putting a target on their backs before an already radicalized base of loyalists.
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And we cannot say this part quietly, because the title in front of his name is the whole point. This is not a troll on the internet. This is not a man yelling into a void from his basement. This is the President of the United States. This is the one human being on the planet who commands the most powerful military, who holds the nuclear codes, who can move markets and topple governments and start wars on a whim. When a man like that names a judge and a judge’s wife and tells millions of followers they should be ashamed, investigated, and jailed, the distance between a post and a real human being in real danger collapses to nothing. There is no one above him to send it up the chain to. He is the chain. And the entire world is watching him spend a Saturday this way, our allies and our adversaries alike, all of them now asking the same question every American should be asking, which is whether the person with that much power over their lives is well enough to hold it. These are dark days for this country. They are dark days for the world. And it is a strange and frightening thing to live through a time when the most dangerous instability on earth is not a foreign army or a failing economy, but the mind of one man posting cartoons of himself for nearly 7 hours on a Saturday.
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And I keep coming back to one thing tonight. Never before have we seen an American president behave like this. Not in a country founded on democratic norms, not in our lifetimes, not in any lifetime we can point to. There is no modern equivalent for this, no American equivalent, for this level of instability, corruption, and sheer insanity playing out in public day after day. To know that there are people beside him taking his wildest fantasies and turning them into digital hallucinations for him to share is its own kind of betrayal. And then there are the people who still claim to follow him, who cannot keep pretending that any of this is normal, because it is not, and somewhere underneath this unimaginable spectacle, they know it too. He cannot keep going like this. A man does not spend his day the way he spent today unless something is wrong. What we are watching is a man in cognitive and physical decline doing it in front of the entire world. And one day soon, we are going to have to come to grips with something even harder than the posts themselves, which is that there were likely medical professionals who knew, who put their names to words like “excellent” and “fully fit,” and who covered for him anyway. We are going to have to reckon with how many people looked straight at this and chose to call it normal. How many looked straight at it and called it healthy. How many looked straight at it and chose loyalty over truth.

Because here is what today actually showed us, underneath the noise. This was not strength. A man in command of himself and his country does not spend seven hours of a Saturday begging the world to see him as George Washington. The judge did his work calmly, in writing, on the law, and it held. The President spent the day melting down at him in public, in front of everyone, in front of the whole world. One of those is what lasting, real power looks like. The other is what it looks like when power can feel itself slipping and cannot stop grabbing at the air. We have not seen him this exposed before. The mask he used to keep up, the one that hid the worst of it, is gone, and a man who has to insist this loudly that he is well and powerful and beloved is telling us, without meaning to, exactly how unwell and how unsteady he has become …

much more at the link , with several of the Pisswig’s insane posts

https://heatherdelaneyreese.substack.com/p/donald-trump-knows-hes-in-serious





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Donald Trump knows he's in serious trouble (Original Post) dweller 14 hrs ago OP
Doesn't shithole binge post everyday around ..... Lovie777 14 hrs ago #1
Trump is too far gone ... oldsoldierfadingfast 13 hrs ago #22
It was attributed to Abraham Lincoln, at least in the 70's, As my memory serves.. bobalew 11 hrs ago #33
He's out of his frikken mind bif 14 hrs ago #2
They don't care. He's a white male. ananda 13 hrs ago #12
I just didn't realize how bad we were f'd. Katinfl 13 hrs ago #14
Seems likely his 'minions' are also making millions for themselves via insider trades and general graft Attilatheblond 10 hrs ago #38
Will his party ever notice? young_at_heart 14 hrs ago #3
They're in it for the grift. They know he's an insane criminal. They suck up to him to get what they want. diane in sf 14 hrs ago #5
When I try to say anything to a republican Tree Lady 14 hrs ago #8
I doubt it. Trump (imo) is one of the least self aware individuals I have ever viewed in the public space... wcmagumba 14 hrs ago #4
His cognitive decline was obvious in his first term.. agingdem 14 hrs ago #6
All true but everytime I think he can't go any further he gets and pass and then gets worse.... joanbarnes 14 hrs ago #7
Almost every year a group of non-partisan historians and political experts... Escape 14 hrs ago #9
Nah, he ust knows he's surrounded by incompetent boobs Warpy 14 hrs ago #10
The utter failure of the media to do its job and the utter cowardice of the Republican Party... johnnyplankton 13 hrs ago #11
Same stuff we have been hearing for ten years sarisataka 13 hrs ago #13
The emperor has no clothes and many can see it -- but not enough, at least not yet. Fil1957 13 hrs ago #15
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe 13 hrs ago #16
I try to read Heather dweller 13 hrs ago #21
Human history is rife with cruel, sadistic, greedy and incompetent leaders. These guys can only get power with the Fil1957 13 hrs ago #17
Recommended. H2O Man 13 hrs ago #18
I think he knows dweller 13 hrs ago #20
Exactly. H2O Man 12 hrs ago #24
I think you and dweller are both right. calimary 20 min ago #43
Does his followers really give a shit Figarosmom 13 hrs ago #19
Keep in mind that a lot of his 34% approval raters never pay attention Justice matters. 12 hrs ago #26
Your words are quite true. chouchou 12 hrs ago #28
The Day of Dementia is upon us Blue Owl 12 hrs ago #23
A must read. dalton99a 12 hrs ago #25
When the vote is taken on chump's sanity, BidenRocks 12 hrs ago #27
He should be arrested people 12 hrs ago #29
Never before have we seen an entire political party castrated and brought to heel by a madman dlk 12 hrs ago #30
This is a must-read; the whole thing at the link. Amaryllis 11 hrs ago #31
BillionaireBoyzClub found the perfect mush brained ego maniac grifter to give NoMoreRepugs 11 hrs ago #32
But we still have to, anyway. calimary 2 hrs ago #42
He's manic. Mme. Defarge 11 hrs ago #34
If I may quote professor Vinkman: "The usual stuff isn't working." Wounded Bear 11 hrs ago #35
Yes indeed. calimary 12 min ago #44
He reminds me of Homelander tward th end of 'The Boys''. Lokilooney 10 hrs ago #36
Lying 🤥 Donald Trump is in very poor health Miami Blue 10 hrs ago #37
Immutable . . . Aussie105 10 hrs ago #39
lol hueymahl 9 hrs ago #40
LOCK HIM UP... Totally Tunsie 7 hrs ago #41

Lovie777

(23,916 posts)
1. Doesn't shithole binge post everyday around .....
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:04 PM
14 hrs ago

3am?

Hasn’t shithole been off the rocker for sometime, and doesn’t he also have post writers too.

22. Trump is too far gone ...
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:47 PM
13 hrs ago

to know a word such as 'obfuscation'; much the less, be able to spell it. There are a few errors that he would normally make when he was typing his own stuff that someone else is now using to make us believe that it was him.
As has been said before, "You can fool some of the people all the time; and all the people, some of the time. But, you can't fool all of the people, all of the time." (PT Barnum, I think, too lazy to look it up).
Point is - don't let yourself be fooled. And to answer your question - Yes.

bif

(27,292 posts)
2. He's out of his frikken mind
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:13 PM
14 hrs ago

And has been for quite some time. But his minions are too afraid to do anything abut it. Like I said when I heard he was reelected:"We're fucked".

ananda

(35,599 posts)
12. They don't care. He's a white male.
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:58 PM
13 hrs ago

The whole purpose of the Republican party
is to make this country and everything in it
all white all the time, with the males ruling.

Attilatheblond

(9,341 posts)
38. Seems likely his 'minions' are also making millions for themselves via insider trades and general graft
Sun May 31, 2026, 08:49 PM
10 hrs ago

Kickbacks on federal contracts to pals seems likely too. There is probably so much opportunity for obscene and possibly illegal, financial gains that it makes sense some of them post in his name to keep their profitable version of Weekend at Bernie's going. No way they are gonna kill their golden goose by doing the 25th Tango. Seems likely the doctors are in on the feeding frenzy too. Why wouldn't they be? It's only money.... OUR money

young_at_heart

(4,066 posts)
3. Will his party ever notice?
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:24 PM
14 hrs ago

Every time they show his cabinet praising his "wonderfulness" as they go around the table I find it hard not to cringe. How on earth can they do this??

diane in sf

(4,260 posts)
5. They're in it for the grift. They know he's an insane criminal. They suck up to him to get what they want.
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:46 PM
14 hrs ago

Tree Lady

(13,403 posts)
8. When I try to say anything to a republican
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:52 PM
14 hrs ago

They laugh and say he is just sticking it to the democrats, he doesn't mean any of it. They really believe that.

I guess they would have to or not follow him anymore.

wcmagumba

(6,698 posts)
4. I doubt it. Trump (imo) is one of the least self aware individuals I have ever viewed in the public space...
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:31 PM
14 hrs ago

Geez, the guy thinks he is God...so no, he has no idea of what he really is or what others think of him...

agingdem

(8,981 posts)
6. His cognitive decline was obvious in his first term..
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:48 PM
14 hrs ago

we heard him say if doctors stopped testing for covid then covid would go away..he suggested drinking bleach and injecting disinfectant as a covid cure…he threatened judges/lawyers and their families, he napped through his 34 count felony trial..he called women reporters ugly, stupid, pig, dog, horse face…he said Somali immigrants were eating cats and dogs…this was never normal thought…but there were a few grownups around him who could in some way reign him in…

So the difference now is he’s untethered, surrounded by incompetent enablers getting rich off his greed…enablers who pander/encourage/implement his delusional psychotic spew…


joanbarnes

(2,141 posts)
7. All true but everytime I think he can't go any further he gets and pass and then gets worse....
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:52 PM
14 hrs ago

Escape

(532 posts)
9. Almost every year a group of non-partisan historians and political experts...
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:54 PM
14 hrs ago

releases a ranking of all the presidents. Trump was dead last in the last one. Seems like Obama was in the Top Ten and Biden was about 14th.

Trump is a much , much worse president now than he was in his first term....

Can't wait for the new rankings to come out. THAT will send him into a lifelong fetal position mental breakdown.

Warpy

(114,730 posts)
10. Nah, he ust knows he's surrounded by incompetent boobs
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:55 PM
14 hrs ago

and keeps thinking it would all go away if they'd let him do it all himself.

johnnyplankton

(663 posts)
11. The utter failure of the media to do its job and the utter cowardice of the Republican Party...
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:58 PM
13 hrs ago

...are the stories that will be remembered. If there is a history. He still has the nuclear codes....

sarisataka

(22,866 posts)
13. Same stuff we have been hearing for ten years
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:07 PM
13 hrs ago

He's in trouble
People have to notice
His supporters are leaving him
...

And he's still there.

dweller

(28,760 posts)
21. I try to read Heather
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:35 PM
13 hrs ago

on a regular basis , and hope more here will also .
She stays busy covering him


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Fil1957

(921 posts)
17. Human history is rife with cruel, sadistic, greedy and incompetent leaders. These guys can only get power with the
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:28 PM
13 hrs ago

Last edited Sun May 31, 2026, 11:11 PM - Edit history (1)

support of a large number of supporters. Could there be something wrong with us, the human species, since we keep putting these deranged individuals into power over and over again?

H2O Man

(79,318 posts)
18. Recommended.
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:29 PM
13 hrs ago

While it is certainly true that he has been an asshole who has splatter the internet with insults and threats, it is possible to view this as similar to the past ..... but I think it shows something important. While many sociopaths are seemingly immune to stress, there is a level of threat to their well-being where they freak out. Might be for fifteen minutes, might be fifteen days or weeks.

The fella in the White House has had periods like this. It increases the internet splattering, pointing the finger of blame outward, threats, and even having someone fired from his administrations. We've seen this. However, it is important to recognize that he has not lived a particularly healthy life style since he first announced he was running in 2015. Organicly speaking, human bodies tend to experience declines at his age, even among once-strong men. And this fella has never been a strong man.

Thus, in many ways this is just more of the same shit-splattering. But it is important to recognize the inevitable decline of his body from head to toe, and the clear distinctions between his first-term, confident splatterings, and his second-term rants as the war in Iran and its global consequences having him feeling trapped and paranoid. The reduced capacity we are witnessing actually make him more dangerous.

dweller

(28,760 posts)
20. I think he knows
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:34 PM
13 hrs ago

His days are numbered , and he is getting more and more desperate


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H2O Man

(79,318 posts)
24. Exactly.
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:07 PM
12 hrs ago

He is trying to avoid focusing on the war against Iran. He knows he is lying to the public when he claims the U.S. is winning. The attack did not result in a lessening of the stress the Epstein files had caused him. The three day war that Netanyahu promised him has not resulted in the "glory" the president believed he would enjoy. He knows that Netanyahu purposely lied to him, to get him to go along. Then Iran fights back. As Rubin would say, that knocked the fuzz right off the peach.

What he is doing is as much of a threat to this country as was the Civil War.

calimary

(91,012 posts)
43. I think you and dweller are both right.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:34 AM
20 min ago

And I bet he’s aware that increasing numbers of people are losing faith and confidence in him, and his effectiveness as the “infallible warrior “ he fancies himself to be.

All happening as he feels older, less all-powerful, and more vulnerable. THIS isn’t supposed to be falling apart for him. NOT for HIM! Everything is supposed to work out beautifully for him, over ANY challenge OR challengers.

And it’s not working out the way he thinks it’s supposed to.

Figarosmom

(13,847 posts)
19. Does his followers really give a shit
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:29 PM
13 hrs ago

Rather his name is on the Kennedy Center or not. Do they really care enough to kill over it? It's not like they'd ever attend anything there.

Maybe someone might try something just to get the attention of their lord and master and to get their share of the slush fund.

To tell the truth I'm surprised that jd hasn't seen this as a chance to sabotage trump and take over. He seems just like that type of guy.

Justice matters.

(10,118 posts)
26. Keep in mind that a lot of his 34% approval raters never pay attention
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:14 PM
12 hrs ago

to "politics" (a lot are just too busy making ends meet or too lazy to care, or even too stupid to understand anything other than football, WWE "wrestling, baseball of UFC fights).

Anything "politics" or "policies" or what not does not penetrate their thinking. They vote Republicrooks because their parents voted Republicrooks, or because their church tells them the Democratic tickets are evil Communists... or what else: They will never ever cast their votes for other pols than Republicrooks, even if they'd lose everything they have because of their vote.

That's what's most scary about the fool on the hill.

chouchou

(3,353 posts)
28. Your words are quite true.
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:36 PM
12 hrs ago

His followers would be much happier at a dog-fight than attend a concert at the Kennedy center.

Blue Owl

(59,722 posts)
23. The Day of Dementia is upon us
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:04 PM
12 hrs ago

Every goddamned day this insane fuck isn’t locked in a padded cell….

BidenRocks

(3,557 posts)
27. When the vote is taken on chump's sanity,
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:27 PM
12 hrs ago

anyone voting for chump must also be insane and removed.
It is a violates our National Security to allow this to continue.

people

(851 posts)
29. He should be arrested
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:41 PM
12 hrs ago

Putting a target on the back of a judge who ruled against him and his wife is awful. Unacceptable. Criminal. Someone in the gov't has to stop him.

dlk

(13,371 posts)
30. Never before have we seen an entire political party castrated and brought to heel by a madman
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:55 PM
12 hrs ago

And we have a mainstream news media that for the most part goes along for the ride.

It’s heartbreaking.

NoMoreRepugs

(12,253 posts)
32. BillionaireBoyzClub found the perfect mush brained ego maniac grifter to give
Sun May 31, 2026, 07:00 PM
11 hrs ago

them the keys to EVERYTHING. Not going to be easy to get back to anything remotely resembling normalcy IMO.

Wounded Bear

(64,720 posts)
35. If I may quote professor Vinkman: "The usual stuff isn't working."
Sun May 31, 2026, 07:46 PM
11 hrs ago

Not enough idiots left who haven't seen his shtick and will fall for it.

All he has left is the raw power of his office, and the people - us - are fighting back when he overreaches.

calimary

(91,012 posts)
44. Yes indeed.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:42 AM
12 min ago

It’s all downhill from here, for you, Donald. NOBODY’S gonna want you to try for a third term.

It’ll be most interesting to watch what impact the upcoming midterms have on Trump and his carefully constructed “aura of invincibility”.

Miami Blue

(391 posts)
37. Lying 🤥 Donald Trump is in very poor health
Sun May 31, 2026, 08:03 PM
10 hrs ago

To be honest, I'm completely relying on the observable swelling of his hands, ankles,
and legs and a prominent bruising on his
neck.

He has Non-Vital = his body is failing
to sustain life ✔︎

Non-Cognitive=He has dementia, and probably Alzheimer's, disease like his papa, and a disorder which makes him act with impulsivity✔︎

Bad lab results✔︎

Bad Cholesterol conceivably over 200
because of his addiction to devouring
junk food 🍔 🍟 ✔︎

He is a severe cardiac patient ✔︎

Bad Lipids aka Bad Cholesterol, have been
piling up in his blood vessel walls. ✔︎

Poor Lying 🤥
Don the Con
Sad





Aussie105

(8,234 posts)
39. Immutable . . .
Sun May 31, 2026, 08:49 PM
10 hrs ago

Future historians will be discussing the current situation at length, and decide the problem doesn't reside with Trump as a single individual as such.

It lies with those who think there is something in it for them personally, and those who think America's position in terms of military, religious and moral superiority, as well as being in a dominant position in trade and global economics, is immutable.

They are blind to the current situation.
It's all slipping away.

How do you run an 'intervention' for a whole country?
Isolation seems the only option, to stop the current American Disease from spreading further.

Trump will be gone soon enough.
The damage he has done and the delusions he has fostered will take generations to set right - if it can be done at all.

Totally Tunsie

(12,088 posts)
41. LOCK HIM UP...
Sun May 31, 2026, 11:15 PM
7 hrs ago

I don't care if it's for his crimes or his mental status.

Either way, just LOCK HIM UP!

Enough.

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