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The use of this particular scene is especially confusing, as it was the moment in the Marvel film Endgame when Thanos discovers he has lost his god-like powers and is immediately defeated.
Jim Starlin, who created the character of Thanos, shared his reaction: “After my initial feeling of being violated, seeing that pompous fool using my creation to stroke his infantile ego, it finally struck me that the leader of my country and the free world actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer.”
At a rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Trump remarked, “The FBI also sent multiple undercover human spies to surveil and record people associated with our campaign…Look how they’ve hurt people. They’ve destroyed the lives of people that were great people, that are still great people. Their lives have been destroyed by scum. OK, by scum.” Trump repeated claims that he and his campaign were spied on by the FBI, and that the FBI knew that the Mueller investigation was “a hoax.”
The remarks came just a few days after his Department of Justice’s inspector general issued a report on the Mueller investigation. It found that the investigation into Russian election meddling, which began before the 2016 election, was justified. It also concluded that the Mueller investigation was not tainted by political bias. Trump has referred to the Mueller investigation in the past as an “attempted coup.”
Trump targeted Congressional Democrats at the rally, who had recently begun drafting articles of impeachment. Trump characterized it as “the lightest, weakest impeachment…This is ‘impeachment light.’ This is the lightest impeachment in the history of the country.” He also claimed that America would collapse he wasn’t reelected, joked about staying in office for decades, and teased a guard for being “too politically correct” in the removal of a female protester.
Trump grew angry when it began taking too long for the security to eject the female protester, mocking the guard with arm gestures for being “too politically correct” in not being rough enough in removing her. He said to the crowd, “I’ll tell you, law enforcement is so great. That particular guy wanted to be so politically correct. We don’t want to be politically correct. I don’t know who he was. He didn’t do the greatest job.”
Trump was discussing the possibility of mediating a solution between India and Pakistan over a growing humanitarian crisis in the disputed Kashmir region when a reporter mentioned the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump replied, “I think I’m gonna get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things, if they gave it out fairly, which they don’t.” Trump had been previously nominated by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the request of the US government.
Trump remarked on President Obama having been awarded the prize: “He had no idea why he got it and you know what, that was the only thing I agreed with him on.”
On the subject of negotiations between the geopolitical rivals, Trump said, “I’ve never failed as an arbitrator. I’ve been asked to arbitrate disputes, pretty big ones, from friends. And I’ve done it in a good successful fashion.”
The base had been so hastily abandoned that photographs show it was still powered and stocked with food. Russian journalists took footage of the abandoned base and claimed in media broadcasts, “Manbij is ours!” Turkey immediately began an offense against Kurdish militias in the region, who had lost over 10,000 soldiers fighting alongside the US against ISIS. Trump later tweeted about his own “great and unmatched wisdom” regarding the matter.
Though the Kurds had long been US allies in the region, Trump dismissed concerns about them by saying they are “no angels.” He also suggested that the Kurds were releasing ISIS prisoners, though other US officials have said that this was being done by Turkish-backed forces. Concerns about the released ISIS prisoners were dismissed as being a problem for Europe instead of the United States. Trump claimed that allies like the United Kingdom’s were “thrilled” with his decision, though the UK government has denied this, and opposed any Turkish incursion. Other reports with sources in Trump’s administration assert that he believed Turkey to be bluffing, and that it wouldn’t actually attack Syria.
Trump also claimed that the soldiers that had been stationed in Syria would be coming home, when in fact they were just to be redeployed to Iraq.
As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over…
The Department of Agriculture estimated that 982,000 children no longer automatically qualify for free school lunches. 45% will have additional application requirements, while the rest will no longer qualify at all.
The decision was immediately met with widespread backlash. The G7, an organization representing the world’s most developed economies, meets annually.
Trump later reluctantly changed the location to Camp David, though he maintained that the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution that prohibits Presidents from personally profiting from their office is “phony.”
He made the claim multiple times, including on Fox News and on the White House lawn to reporters.
He explained to reporters, “It was an illegal investigation…Everything about it was crooked — every single thing about it. There were dirty cops. These were bad people. If you look at McCabe and Comey, and you look at Lisa and Peter Strzok, these were bad people.” He continued, “And this was a — an attempted coup. This was an attempted takedown of a President.”
Since then, Trump’s own Department of Justice has determined that the FBI acted appropriately when they first launched the probe into election interference in July 2016, before Trump was elected, and that it was not tainted by political bias.
Trump gave no elaboration as to how the clause from the Constitution that he has sworn to uphold is phony. The clause, from Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution reads,
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.
The claim was part of a larger statement that that evokes the infamous “having nuclear” speech. In it, Trump said no other President gave up his salary and boasted about his prowess at real estate and his financials, despite never having released tax returns as promised. He complained about Obama’s book and Netflix deals and claimed that being President has already cost him $2 to $5 billion dollars.
He then launched into a deviation about rallies that echoed other remarks on setting greater records than Elton John, attacked Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, and claimed that Obama failed to solve the North Korea problem because of a lack of respect, unlike what they had for Trump and he had for them.
