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Trump questioned perception of Portland before approving military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

www.kgw.com /article/news/local/trump-seems-to-back-off-portland-military-plan/283-e9c6bdfb-92d6-4881-bb74-09bb325a5270

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/46954791

Trump referenced a weekend conversation with Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, and he alluded to being told by Kotek that the reality in Portland is different from what's being portrayed to him.
"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice," Trump said. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.' They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place...it looks like terrible."

News @lemmy.world

www.kgw.com /article/news/local/trump-seems-to-back-off-portland-military-plan/283-e9c6bdfb-92d6-4881-bb74-09bb325a5270

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Oh God. The reality TV guy thinks TV is reality.
- This was known from his first term. He had hours of "Executive Time" scheduled every day that was just him watching television. Fox News Grandpa is running the nation.

Are his handlers showing him old riot footage?
- His handlers are showing him exactly what they need him to see.
  Same thing I was saying about Trump leaving in 2020. He might be gone, but the people who found him useful aren't. Whatever we attribute to Trump, the thing to remember is that Trump is just the outlet. There's a whole wellspring that is the source of his vitriol.
- Oh God, the possibility that the biggest gaslighter you know is also being gaslit by his sycophants.
  “At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Saturday morning.
  
  I've said it before, but I hope to be alive in 40 years so I can watch documentaries on how nuts things are right now.
- Well, they showed him a picture of a medical bed and he posted it online apparently
- It could have been riot footage from Hong Kong, and would probably have worked just as well.

It's called dementia, Mr. President.
- Remember when Reagan would confuse movie plots with things that actually happened? The USA doesn't learn from its mistakes.
  
  Thanks to the marvels of the modern education system... No.

So he asked if what he was told by others was correct, almost certainly was told it was wrong by the actual Governor that would know firsthand... And still decided to send the military based on the lie.
This proves an intent to ignore reality, not just decisions based on misinformation provided.
- The problem is the Governor wasn't the last person to tell him something.

I thought the design of the national guard was that it reported to the governor of the state, not the president.
I thought the entire point of the national guard was to oppose tyrannical actions by federal government, and that it was never intended to be handed over to federal control without approval from said governor or some truly special circumstances like a real invasion.
The federal government was originally intended to not have a substantial standing army. The national guard was intended to be our army and effectively independent per state so that only the states' wishes of a combined force would be honored.
- Feds are only supposed to regulate interstate commerce, without any barriers on trade or people within states.
  They are way way over their authority and need to be put into check after this dumster fire burns out.
  
  If a non-Confederate takes office someday, the ability of the president to commandeer National Guard troops needs to be removed from law. There's no reason for it. Really, it should be a constitutional amendment.
- We lost the plot on that one when we used the National Guard to force the shitty racist confederate states to be a little bit less racist. It set a bad precedent and with the power of hindsight was not the correct move. In hindsight we should have just Nuremberg’d all the traitorous confederates right after they lost. We’d be in much better shape now.
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_(United_States)
  Looks like it can be under the control of either.

Little late to be asking that for the first time now, Donald. Is this that thing where old people have a brief flash of sanity before they go out forever?
- lol I was thinking something similar, but hoping for let these be a reverse John Fetterman stroke.

We must spend millions to stop this antifa banana. He’s an immediate threat to national security. The sax looks shifty too. I’m worried his IQ may be even higher than our own president. Send in the seals!
- See the rainbow armband? That how we know they're antifa!
- Done, now what?
  
  Good job. Now we wait

Trump certainly has gone senile and he's being manipulated. Remember, Trump is merely the front and the fall guy, the real power pulling the strings are the oligarchs who bankrolled him.

JFC, all of this is just so very stupid.
He really is the average Faux viewer manifested as President. So many of those fucking idiots think that BLM/antifa literally burned cities to the ground.

Is he becoming self aware for the first time?

He's a complete puppet who has no idea what's going on. A figurehead who believes whatever the fascist regime tells him and signs whatever executive orders they put before him. They still need him because the cult base is what keeps them in power-, otherwise he'd already be gone. What will they do when he dies or can't go out in public any more? I'm not sure if they know, but I think once the midterms are over and once they believe they've cemented their power they'll get rid of him in a heartbeat.

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