Trumpiana: Lie baby lie, slur baby slur, sue baby sue!
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The Don unleashes a war on media for slights real or imagined with threats, insults and court cases
Donald Trump loves courtship of a different kind. He has tangled with the courts, berated judges going against him. And he has a penchant for going to courts at the drop of a hat or less.
The latest target in his crosshairs: The New York Times. Calling it “one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country,” he was “honored” to slap a $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit against the venerable old lady of the Big Apple.
Filed in the “Great State of Florida!”, the lawsuit accused the Times of defaming him ahead of the 2024 presidential election to undermine his candidacy and disparage his reputation as a successful businessman.
And the greatest crime of all — “becoming a virtual ‘mouthpiece’ for the Radical Left Democrat Party” and putting their “deranged” endorsement of Kamala Harris “dead center on the front page, …something heretofore UNHEARD OF!”
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But to Trump’s horror, a federal judge in Florida threw out the case just four days later, calling his 85-page complaint unnecessarily lengthy and digressive with dozens of “florid and enervating” pages lavishing praise on the president.
Giving his lawyers 28 days to refile a plaint no longer than 40 pages, the judge also chided them for its “vituperation and invective” saying a complaint was not “a protected platform to rage against an adversary.”
Even as the Times welcomed the “judge’s quick ruling,” recognizing the complaint as a “political document,” Trump’s legal team declared the President “will continue to hold the Fake News accountable through this powerhouse lawsuit.”
Curiously the dismissed lawsuit made no mention of the Times’ original sin —a number of articles about a sexually suggestive birthday message in a doodle of a woman sent to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 that appears to have been signed by Trump. He has flatly denied doing the doodle or signing it.
After taking the Times to court, POTUS flew off across the pond for a rare second state visit, to be courted by the Brits in royal splendour complete with a ride in a horse-drawn carriage, a military parade and a “flypast.”
The palace laid out a white-tie state dinner on a table more than 51 yards long decorated with 139 candles, 1,452 pieces of cutlery and five crystal glasses at each setting, with loads of pictures of “POTUS & FLOTUS 🇺🇸🇬🇧 The King & The Queen” amid the grandeur.
As the Brits pulled out all the plugs to woo Trump, a visibly awed president occasionally forgot protocol by patting King Charles on his back and walking in front of the monarch while reviewing the troops, as he did with Queen Elizabeth in 2019.
His fans approved with one Ken Rock posting, “Love how the boss takes the lead and the King follows” and ‘Lady of the Lake Magadonia@ForgottenWoman’ exclaiming, “The Scottish King returns as the President of the USA.”
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As some called it a “coup” and others “abject surrender,” for its labors, the Brits were rewarded with what the White House called “ANOTHER GAME-CHANGING DEAL! 🇺🇸🇬🇧The U.S.-UK tech deal ignites the future. Powering innovation, boosting American wins, and soaring to new heights in the digital age. 🚀”
But there was no escape from the ghost of Epstein as an image of Trump and Epstein was projected onto Windsor Castle before it was “swiftly” removed by the police. The same image was spotted on a van in Windsor too with the message: “Welcome to the U.K., Donald.”
Amid the state visit, the wily Trump did not forget to have “a wonderful phone call with my friend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi” to wish “him a very Happy Birthday!”
“He is doing a tremendous job. Narendra: Thank you for your support on ending the War between Russia and Ukraine! President DJT,” he wrote, rekindling hopes in India of a thaw and a possible trade deal – only to have them dashed days later.
Trump Friday signed an executive order that will add a $100,000 annual fee for applicants to the H-1B visa programme, sending Indian techies who make up nearly three-fourths of skilled foreign workers on such visas, scrambling to return to the U.S. before Monday’s deadline.
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Back in Washington, Trump’s “media enforcer,” as the Washington Post called the broadcasting regulator, forced Disney/ABC to yank late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel off air indefinitely after suggesting MAGA hoped to “score political points” from the identity of the man accused of shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Fellow late-night talk show hosts rallied in Kimmel’s support accusing Trump of sliding into authoritarianism with Stephen Colbert — whose own program on CBS was canceled after he criticized the network’s decision to pay Trump millions to settle a lawsuit — decrying “blatant censorship.”
In front of a fake gold backdrop, a jab at Trump’s redesign of the White House, Stewart mockingly presented “the all-new, government-approved ‘Daily Show’” with its “patriotically obedient host.”
Flying home on Air Force One, an unconcerned Trump suggested that networks should lose their broadcast licenses if their on-air talent is critical of him. “They’re giving me all this bad press, and they’re getting a license.”
“When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump, that’s all they do — that license, they’re not allowed to do that,” he said endorsing his media enforcers’s actions.
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Earlier, a day after filing the now dismissed case against the Times, Trump claimed he was “getting amazing feedback… and the predominant feeling and sentiment is, ‘IT’S ABOUT TIME!’”
A follower, Women forTrump@IStandWithTrump47, was quick to endorse with a meme warning of “TRUMP QUICKSAND DANGER.”
“WHO IS GOING TO ENTER THE TRUMP QUICKSAND? MANY HAVE TRIED, LEAVING PERMANENTLY DAMAGED, OR NEVER TO BE HEARD FROM AGAIN?
Indeed. America Beware!