r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 5d ago
Soft Paywall Trump, 79, Forgets the Name of the Pacific Ocean
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-forgets-the-name-of-the-pacific-ocean/7.3k
u/deestew68 5d ago
Trump, 79, should be in prison, not the president of the United States
436
u/Josh6889 5d ago
Can't say I've heard of anyone else with 34 felonies who didn't go to jail.
110
27
→ More replies (6)14
113
u/seleaner015 5d ago
At this point I’m fine with a secure nursing home
→ More replies (5)129
754
u/Daxivarga 5d ago
Americans showed what matters to them voting for this asshole
306
u/FlaccidCatsnark 5d ago edited 5d ago
More Americans showed what DOESN'T matter to them by not even bothering to vote.
More eligible voters didn't vote at all than the number who voted for Trump.
And more voted for (Harris or some other candidate) than voted for Trump.Edit: Since this comment has popped up in my mortifications a few times, I've had the opportunity to rethink my thinking on the 37%. While some of that group may legitimately feel that their vote for POTUS wouldn't matter, especially due to the design of the Electoral College, I am pretty sure that some significant percentage of them don't make the effort because they believe that the resulting government doesn't have any direct and meaningful impact on their lives. So why bother?
If any 2024 non-voter - who feels that they meet that latter description - is reading this, I'm curious what your thinking is now.
42
u/rabbirobbie 5d ago
for reasons that will never make sense to me, this is what they wanted
→ More replies (5)→ More replies (48)5
u/Meat-bill 5d ago
I'm with you on your first comment. Some of us have been around long enough to see what a P.O.S. he's been since the 80s. When the John McCain phony war hero comment was first floated and saw he wasn't immediately banished from the entire American political system, especially on the Republican side, I knew something had changed in a seriously bad way.
Even though it baffled my mind that he was elected the first time, I reluctantly gave people a pass on it.
But after seeing what happened during his first term, I cannot possibly fathom what drove people to vote for him a second time, no matter how much they might have disliked Kamala Harris for whatever reason.
So now, here we are. EVERYTHING he's doing was completely predictable/predicted, and the American people were repeatedly warned about it, but they still went to the polls and voted for him again.
Unfortunately, we are ALL getting exactly what the majority voted for, so I hope his supporters are enjoying it. They just need to remember, they have opened the door for another president they don't like to come in and use the office the same way Trump is, to do things they don't like. So when that time comes, they will have nobody to blame but themselves, and I will give zero fucks.
→ More replies (3)→ More replies (12)404
u/Dont_Kick_Stuff 5d ago
No we didn't and Trump has repeatedly admitted to the fact that the election was rigged in his favor. The man has said it multiple times on national television so stop with this bullshit narrative that "We The People" voted for this. We didn't and this decrepit twat is only in office because of Musk and his Star link system that our voting machines were using.
293
u/clark_c 5d ago
^ this. Why wouldn’t the man who cheats at everything, including trivial things like golf, not cheat to win the election that would protect him from going to jail?
I urge everyone to look at the good work the Election Truth Alliance and SMART Elections are doing. The election numbers don’t make sense.
14
u/VoiceOfRealson 5d ago
And why was the man who always talks about himself constantly talking about the "rigged election"?
→ More replies (8)6
u/Specialist-Jello7544 5d ago
He can’t not lie, he can’t not cheat, he can’t not grift, he can’t not stop boasting. He has proven this over and over again. Every day that he is on tv, on twitter, on the radio, he gives himself away.
He lies, cheats, grifts and boasts even when he doesn’t have to. It’s his belief system, his way of life, his reason for living.
By the history of his behavior, he rigged the elections. Both times.
97
u/Celtic_Pluviophile 5d ago
And, don't forget the fake shooting! For many, that put him over the top.
→ More replies (15)23
u/Majestic-Bowler-6184 5d ago
Yeah, you'd think even a .22 calibre round would've left a mark, taken out a chunk...even surgery should've had someone of his age wearing bandages for weeks, mininum, with the rate of aging soft tissue healing.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (28)60
u/DrDerpberg Canada 5d ago
The fact it wasn't 96-4 is damning enough.
→ More replies (1)25
u/tigerhawkvok California 5d ago
As a Californian (Bay-Area-ian? How deeply into the sanity bubble can I label myself?) I agree.
→ More replies (5)18
45
→ More replies (56)10
8.3k
5d ago
[deleted]
2.4k
u/Pipe_Memes 5d ago
No need to worry! Trump isn’t really running anything. Steven Miller and other ghouls are running the show while Diddlin’ Dementia Donny reminisces about his glory days of pedophilia.
717
u/roastbeeftacohat 5d ago
there is a reason he's been talking about renovations on DC buildings and reseeding the grass. real estate development is his comfort zone, and so his staff is letting him stay there. the DC occupation is in part just so he can get homeless people off "his property".
→ More replies (2)256
u/mikunilime 5d ago
Or he’s planning on staying much longer than we think
457
u/BringBackBoomer 5d ago
He's 79, has dementia, weighs 300lbs, drinks only diet Coke and eats hamburgers daily. He's not staying anywhere for much longer.
267
u/IAMACat_askmenothing 5d ago
From your lips (comment) to gods ears
I think he’s immortal
Prove me wrong Donnie!
105
u/CaptKydd 5d ago
I believe demons are immortal.
97
u/The_Summer_Man West Virginia 5d ago
Exhibit A: Kenneth Copeland
62
→ More replies (4)12
u/Dangerous-Rice44 North Carolina 5d ago
Exhibit B: Strom Thurmond. He lived to 100- fueled by racism.
→ More replies (4)22
u/sapphicsandwich 5d ago
He'll just start harvesting children for their blood to keep him healthy along with the rest of the billionaires.
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (9)69
u/redheadartgirl 5d ago
Much to my dismay, we're currently in the "good" days of this presidential term. Once he's kicked off, Peter Thiel (via JD Vance) will be running the show. There's no telling how bleak this is going to get.
22
u/_Z_E_R_O Michigan 5d ago
I think that's their plan, but they're going to have a VERY hard time holding on to power when Donnie's gone. JD Vance has no following and has been constantly ridiculed in the press, while Thiel is just pure evil with no attempt to hide it. MAGA is a literal cult, and they won't accept couch-fucker or gay Satan incarnate as their leader. Unless conservatives are willing to resort to Putin's tactics in order to stay in power (which they won't because they're too goddamn stupid), they've got a serious reckoning coming.
→ More replies (3)→ More replies (3)41
u/overcannon 5d ago
Well, that's definitely a possibility. The other side is that he'll lose some of his congressional support because JD doesn't have the electoral loyalty that Trump does
→ More replies (2)39
u/ricosuave79 5d ago
Well would it hurry the hell up and do its thing already then? Time is of the essence.
36
u/glenn_ganges 5d ago
My mother taught me by experience that you can live a long time on hate alone.
That woman had no joy in her life and only caused pain to others for decades. She was incredibly unhealthy and yet despite many attempts death did not take her until she was very old.
→ More replies (3)77
u/LongPorkJones 5d ago
Between his ankles, his catheter, the clear sign of receiving an IV (bruising on his hand), the speculated stroke(s), his slurred speech, his clubbed fingers, all it's going to take is a bruised ego and adding a little too much salt to his fries right before going absolutely apoplectic.
66
u/Raesong Australia 5d ago
the speculated stroke(s)
Is it really speculated when he, completely out of the blue, made a social media post insisting that he didn't just have a series of micro-strokes and was in fact in peak health?
23
u/LongPorkJones 5d ago edited 5d ago
Without confirmation, it's speculation.
But you're right, we all know they happened.
60
u/asethskyr Europe 5d ago
Newsom appears to be trying his best to work on elevating those blood pressure numbers.
→ More replies (3)24
u/Minguseyes Australia 5d ago
If shitposting on Reddit bruises his ego, then I’m doing my bit!
12
u/-rosa-azul- Virginia 5d ago
He's for sure mad about Gavin Newsom making fun of his posting style. Cholesterol and stress, do your thing! 🤞🏼
19
u/HighPriestofShiloh 5d ago
If someone could just swap his diet Coke out for regular Coke he wouldn't make it the full 4 years.
→ More replies (1)9
u/justweazel Connecticut 5d ago edited 5d ago
But it’s going to be made with real cane sugar now thanks to President Trump and that is healthy to drink at 55g of per bottle!
/s
→ More replies (1)25
→ More replies (45)26
u/sneakysnake1111 5d ago
He can EASILY last another 20 years.
There's a saying, 'only the good die young'. And it's really accurate lately.
→ More replies (2)34
u/evildevil97 5d ago
I dunno. Jimmy Carter made it to 100, and he is the definition of good.
→ More replies (4)→ More replies (4)39
u/wrosecrans 5d ago
He's openly "joked" (the man has no sense of humor, and has never sincerely laughed - the news just covers for him) about having a third term. He hasn't been super subtle about wanting power, wanting to retain power, not giving a damn about the constitution. He's normalizing deploying Feds to control US cities in LA and DC.
→ More replies (7)89
u/DistractedPhoenix 5d ago
You say that, but the things he says in public have profound effects on the economy and world stability
→ More replies (1)33
u/Kaidanovsky 5d ago
Unfortunately too many voters didn't consider that or didn't care
→ More replies (4)→ More replies (31)44
350
u/archdukemovies 5d ago
Hard to know what's dementia and what's just plain stupidity.
252
u/the_headless_hunt 5d ago
He's been in way over his head for the last 10 years (or 78) so he just rambles thinking he sounds smart. Add to that, him aging and maybe having cognitive changes and you get his nonsensical bullshit. If we keep saying it's dementia that adds a level of sympathy and leeway. But he's just an idiot that doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.
→ More replies (17)135
u/always_unplugged 5d ago
Seriously, I didn't realize how much worse his rambling had gotten in the past few years until I saw a clip from ~2016. He still sounded painfully simplistic and just as hateful, but it was more focused, less wandering stream-of-consciousness. And he's probably the most recorded person of all time—there's plenty of content to compare. The decline is clear.
102
u/MonsieurLinc Michigan 5d ago
He's like America's Caligula. Decadent, perverted, woefully incompetent, and put in charge of the most powerful nation of the time only to run it into the ground.
→ More replies (1)35
u/NevermoreForSure 5d ago
He’s the useful idiot Caligula for a horde of greater and more depraved Caligulas. A Caligula cadre, if you will.
→ More replies (6)→ More replies (5)13
u/fiah84 5d ago
it was more focused, less wandering stream-of-consciousness
isn't his rant about his uncle and nuclear energy from like 2016
11
u/fesnying Vermont 5d ago
"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
71
u/the_gaymer_girl Canada 5d ago
During Covid, there were some times where Trump didn’t appear to understand the concept of object permanence by suggesting that if they didn’t test for cases, the pandemic wouldn’t get worse.
→ More replies (1)90
u/DeltaVZerda 5d ago
This is misunderstanding Trump's perspective. He wasn't referring to the pandemic in the context of a health emergency that was causing deaths, he was referring to the pandemic in the context of a scandal affecting his presidency. In that context, quieting the media really does prevent the pandemic from 'getting worse' read 'looking worse'.
→ More replies (3)44
u/Upset-Outside8716 5d ago
Yeah, this is the real answer. It more revealed how narcistic he was, rather than something like object permanence. The pandemic truly, to his bones, only mattered for how it made him look, not any of the actual impact of it.
And that's kind of the bottom line to him and all fascist leaders. They have no actual principles, they're only seeking power/approval from those with power. He doesn't believe in anything at all, he's just siding with traditional conservatives because they have even fewer moral convictions than democrats.
→ More replies (8)44
u/sowhat4 North Carolina 5d ago
In a normal person of that age, it could be aphasia which just means that words are not readily available for recall. I had that condition for about a year after a severe bout with encephalitis 50+ years ago as I'd just not be able to talk - like Moscow Mitch's brain freezes.
Now, I'm a little older than Trump, and the aphasia is striking again as an age related thing. My PCP assured me last week that "I'm smart" and do not need to draw a clock, connect the dots, or remember a sequence of four nouns". I asked, if this was a Medicare Wellness Check, why I wasn't doing that fun little dementia screening exercise.
Anyway, Trump has dementia and started from a position of not being able to read, write, or reason very well even at the peak of his mental prowess. If it was standard aphasia, he'd just not say anything instead of spewing garbage. (I just listened to the news clip. He literally cannot name anything specific. He has the the vocabulary of a 5 year old.)
→ More replies (6)61
u/CaptainDudeGuy Georgia 5d ago
He has dementia. He isn’t fit to run office.
To be clear, these are TWO independent disqualifier statements.
Even if he didn't have dementia, he wouldn't be qualified for the office.
Even if he weren't unqualified, he would still have dementia.
I also offer the third disqualifier that he's incredibly and unrepentantly corrupt.
8
118
57
22
29
u/gdj11 5d ago
His people don’t care. He’s doing everything they want and they can put all the bad PR on him. They’ll weekend-at-Bernie’s him as long as they can.
→ More replies (6)→ More replies (80)7
u/ClassicT4 5d ago
It has no cure. It’s a debilitating disease. It’s only going to progressively get worse as time goes on.
→ More replies (1)
1.2k
u/Due-Egg4743 5d ago
Also the Gulf of Mexico.
397
u/Foreign_Isopod_3855 5d ago
Probably why he renamed it.
Incoming, "we're renaming the Pacific Ocean the American Ocean. And we're renaming the Atlantic Ocean the American Ocean too! Having two oceans that are centered on the United States named two different things is unnecessarily confusing!!"
→ More replies (20)147
u/nullfacade 5d ago
"It's all water, it all touches. Why two names? So confusing. I Donald J Trump am putting an end to this! All water is now America Ocean."
38
u/Zombie_DooDoo 5d ago
I could see this being a line in the Idiocracy sequel that we are all living in.
→ More replies (1)24
u/anonomonolithic 5d ago
And we’re gonna charge tariffs just to look at OUR oceans now!
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (11)5
102
u/Coro-NO-Ra 5d ago
They tried to rename the Pacific Ocean to Ronald Reagan a few years ago. These people have been fucking nutbags for decades.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (11)28
u/MrKrazybones 5d ago
Had a flight recently that landed in Florida. The pilots only ever referred to it as "The Gulf" I'm glad the stupid name hasn't taken off
→ More replies (1)
4.4k
u/cugeltheclever2 5d ago
Hey Jake Tapper you fucking hack, where are you on this?
1.0k
u/Duster929 5d ago
Don't worry, when this is all over there will be bunch of tell-alls and exposes and all the cowards too afraid to speak up now, will make millions.
And all the corporate media lackeys will monetize their access to power.
324
141
u/johnmd20 5d ago
This is unfortunately all so true.
Everyone near Trump knows he's a dotard who can't put two sentences together or form a single cogent thought. Yet, they persist.
→ More replies (1)30
25
u/Eastern_Macaroon5662 5d ago
Just take a look at Cucker Tarlson. Suddenly he has all these values and does interviews with people like George Santos to expose what "Congress is like behind the scenes"
28
→ More replies (8)10
u/StanIsNotTheMan 5d ago
And then they should all be arrested for aiding and abetting a convicted felon.
→ More replies (1)506
u/MalevolentTapir 5d ago
He is going to need another couple years to figure it out, you can read about it in "Original Sin 2: Trumps Decline, or How I Fell for It Again"
→ More replies (3)132
u/YOSHIMIvPROBOTS 5d ago
President Kidlover: Or How I Stopped Caring And Pursued Ratings.
→ More replies (4)56
66
u/Apprehensive-Ad9523 5d ago
Give him a break. It's called the Gulf of America
52
→ More replies (2)15
32
10
17
→ More replies (31)31
u/Alamo1049 5d ago
Jackass Tapper could’ve tried to pick a harder topic like Trump/Epstein to write a book but he just chose an easy homework to punch down and make easy money short term. Fuck his journalist-legacy attempt.
→ More replies (1)26
u/cugeltheclever2 5d ago
These guys coasted for years on the myth that they were all Woodward and Bernstein. At least now we see them for what they really are - cowards, opportunist, conformists.
2.1k
u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast 5d ago
President Trump’s senior moments have seen him confuse several land-based locations, but now his cognitive slide seems to have extended offshore.
During a Tuesday morning interview on Fox and Friends, Trump discussed his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and seemed to forget the name of the ocean that separates the US and Russia.
“You know we have an ocean that’s separating us, right? A thing called... an ocean,” he said. “A big, beautiful ocean. And, uh, they don’t, they’re right there. So it’s a different kind of a thing for them.”
Read the full story, here.
1.8k
u/dbkenny426 5d ago
I will never understand how anyone can listen to this idiot ramble and think he's some sort of genius.
817
u/733t_sec 5d ago
Most people never hear him they hear the analysis of him. So fox and friends reports, "Trump came on and discussed his meetings with leaders in Europe" and it sounds very presidential to people. Sane washing is a helluva drug.
318
u/alleyoopoop 5d ago
Fox has been editing his interviews to make him look smarter for ten years. That's why it's so reprehensible that Paramount caved in the lawsuit alleging they favorably edited Kamala's interview.
→ More replies (6)56
u/nucumber 5d ago
Paramount/CBS is a business, and businesses exist for only one reason: to make as much money as they can get away with.
They're up against Dear Leader, who uses governmental powers to fuck over those who displease him.
So there ya go
30
u/MommyLovesPot8toes California 5d ago
There was a time, wasn't there, when it wasnt like this? When some smaller companies actually operated with a goal towards stability, long term employment, and the betterment of the community. Or am I just repainting history?
I work at a company like that, now, and so does my husband. So it's easy for me to forget that not everyone else does.
→ More replies (6)35
u/nucumber 5d ago
I think things worsened as distance grew between ownership and customers.
I was born in 1954 and grew up in a small town (3k) surrounded by corn and soybean fields. The owners of the pharmacy, the five and dime, the hardware shop, bank, etc were all locals.
They made money but they were mostly entrepreneurs who liked working for themselves and enjoyed being part of the community they served.
They're all gone now and replaced by regional and national chains, and their shareholders live far away and could not care less
→ More replies (3)21
u/Humble_Bee7 5d ago
Actually, in Das Kapital, Karl Marx refers to that same general phenomenon. He called it the "alienation of labor", the psychological distancing of the workers from the products of their work....i.e., a craftsman making a chair with his own hands from plans he has drawn up and wood he has cut, to produce the entire finished object, versus a factory worker performing the same repetitive motion on a disconnected part. No emotional investment there.
→ More replies (3)→ More replies (17)20
u/Atheist_3739 5d ago
They're up against Dear Leader, who uses governmental powers to fuck over those who displease him.
So there ya go
Like Jesus explained to South Park lol
→ More replies (1)72
u/clickmagnet 5d ago
You know Fox is always gonna bend over for whatever Republican is on the menu. It pisses me off when the Times does it though.
19
u/francis2559 5d ago
I thought the Times, at least, would want a decent economic policy. The WSJ has been pushing him harder it seems.
13
u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 5d ago
Well the Times is compromised too. There’s actually not a lot of media left not owned by those without Trump juice on their chins.
20
u/TannerThanUsual 5d ago
I read somewhere that Republicans always look for an excuse to vote for a Republican, and Democrats look for an excuse to not vote for a Democrat. I couldn't stop thinking about it after I read it. I look back to the years I've been old enough to remember voting for candidates and it's true for as long as I remember. For Hilary, she didn't support gay rights in the 90s, for Biden he was too old and we needed someone younger, for Harris she didn't have a strong enough stance on Israel, then even further back with Obama I remember complaints about him not having much of a resume. I'm not talking about why Republicans wouldn't vote for these candidates, these are actual excuses Democrats told me.
Makes me think of the news too. Fox will do absolutely anything to explain Trump's stupidity.
→ More replies (2)12
35
u/sympathetic_monster 5d ago
I fly a decent amount. I’ve noticed multiple old white dudes scrolling their social media feed. It’s a lot of pictures or videos of Trump looking “presidential” but not actually speaking at length. Just maybe a super short sound bite with rhetoric to back it up. So yeah, I don’t think they actually ever see the crazy.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (13)9
u/chmod777 New York 5d ago
You really need to read the transcripts get the true rambling insanity. The parenthetical loops and pauses and subject leaps. Just listening to audio clips is not enough.
→ More replies (1)99
u/ProfessorDerp22 5d ago
He speaks to them on their level.
51
u/BrianWonderful Minnesota 5d ago
This is very much it. He has a very small vocabulary. When his supporters hear words and phrasing they don't understand, they don't see it as a limitation on their own part, but as the speaker saying nonsense to sound smart or to insult 'regular folk'.
→ More replies (2)23
u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 5d ago
That’s been the triumph of the ignorant. We went from a culture that generally accepted progress to one that is suspicious and angry at anyone who seems more intelligent. It’s not by accident.
8
u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 5d ago
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov
→ More replies (2)16
u/HawkeyeSherman 5d ago
This right there. He never paid attention in school and that gives him an innate ability to speak to the millions of Americans who never paid attention in school either.
He loves the uneducated because he loves himself.
62
u/patentattorney 5d ago
I can get that they voted for him just because he isn’t a democrat. (It’s dumb but whatever).
What I will never get is how much of hypocrites they are. They literally said they couldn’t vote for Biden because he was too old. Trump will be older than Biden (and it’s not like trump is cognitively with it).
→ More replies (6)19
u/karl_jonez 5d ago
same but the idiots that believe it HAVE to believe it. They have no other option. Capitalism has made them poor and turning to something like socialism would break their brains. The only viable option left is to believe a compulsive liar with dementia is going to fix their life.
→ More replies (1)17
u/SausageClatter 5d ago
"On the whole, his speeches were sinfully long, badly structured and very repetitious. Some of them are positively painful to read but nevertheless, when he delivered them they had an extraordinary effect upon his audiences."
-A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler, 1943
→ More replies (1)9
u/fire2day 5d ago
A lot of them are idiots, a few of them benefit from it, and I think some of them are stuck in a sunk cost situation. They voted for him, and now they’re just waiting for the payoff. Spoiler: there won’t be one.
→ More replies (1)28
u/Indubitalist 5d ago
“He only pretended to forget it to troll the liberals.”
20
→ More replies (1)15
u/AthasDuneWalker 5d ago
Soon to be followed by "Yeah, he's drooling and shitting his pants in public to own the libs!"
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (45)13
u/bbqsox 5d ago
It's mind blowing. They'll talk about Biden being unable to finish a sentence. Biden is an old man with a stutter. Trump has always been a babbling idiot. How can ANYONE listen to him talk and think he's some sort of genius? He's a moron and that's before his dementia started to get really bad.
73
u/bassocontinubow Kentucky 5d ago
The days of calling George W Bush our dumbest president are just so SO far away. Absolutely wild.
→ More replies (4)19
u/wial 5d ago
Not to mention Reagan.
→ More replies (1)15
u/kandoras 5d ago
I'm not sure if you dug him up that Reagan right now wouldn't score better than Trump on a dementia test.
28
u/Those_Silly_Ducks Canada 5d ago
Also of note, the distance between mainland Alaska and mainland Russia is 55 miles. This is the narrowest point of the Bering straight.
→ More replies (2)21
u/Bgdggdgb 5d ago
So, can we change it back to Gulf of Mexico then, or…?
→ More replies (2)23
u/whatproblems 5d ago
no he just renamed the pacific ocean to ocean a big beautiful ocean. update your maps with a sharpie
8
u/HawkeyeSherman 5d ago
Not the Pacific Ocean, but the Behring Sea is now known as the Big Beautiful Ocean.
The Pacific Ocean is now known as the South Big Beautiful Ocean.
→ More replies (3)31
u/AqueductMosaic 5d ago
Paywalled
→ More replies (2)86
u/_-_-_I_-_-_ 5d ago
Because OP of the thread and OP of the post are the daily beast. They're planting their own clickbait. Not sure why it's allowed on this sub
→ More replies (10)52
u/builttopostthis6 5d ago
Scream it from the rafters people. This shit needs to stop. Reddit is functionally providing them free advertising revenue by allowing them to post links to their own curated articles. And even that wouldn't be so bad if the articles weren't pure tripe. Yeah, the 79-year-old clown with dementia forgot a word while speaking. So fucking what?
Ironically, the silver lining is that it is paywalled, so you don't have to read the randos' Twitter comments they pepper in their articles.
So sick of this rag.
→ More replies (4)8
u/starliteburnsbrite 5d ago
I've got an idea: how about leaders that don't have "senior moments" for a change? And also, fuck the euphemisms, he's brain addled and stupid.
→ More replies (36)7
204
u/starvs 5d ago
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV
→ More replies (3)20
u/RagingIke297 5d ago
Ehhh, they impeached me, I still walked out of DC looking peachy 😭
→ More replies (1)
199
u/alleyoopoop 5d ago
Jesus, it's even worse. Anyone can draw a blank for a few seconds, although it's not usually done with the Pacific. But he went on to say that Ukraine can't join NATO, because Russia would never allow a NATO country on its border. That's not drawing a blank; that's total ignorance of the world. Finland is in NATO and on Russia's border, as are Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland. And the US is only a few miles away --- technically, their 12-mile limits overlap.
72
u/ItsAConspiracy 5d ago
And Finland has a longer border with Russia than Ukraine. Plus they joined NATO after the war started, and Russia didn't say a word about it.
→ More replies (11)15
u/unshifted 5d ago
Listen, they didn't teach geography in Big Business Deals classes at Wharton, ok?
451
u/LeMasterofSwords Pennsylvania 5d ago
Fuck the media for pretending like his brain wasn’t mush before the election. And fuck the media for still not doing it
10
u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 5d ago
The American news media is owned by, like, six conglomerates. Bezos bought WaPo. NYT and The Atlantic have always been pro establishment. NPR and PBS tried too hard to appear nonpartisan, treating the GOP with softball questions, right up until their funding was gutted. (Now, all of a sudden, we're hearing actual critical reporting. Too late.)
→ More replies (5)57
u/DriftingTony 5d ago
I see comments like this every day, but frankly, I see both CNN and MSNBC call it out all the time, like practically daily. If you want to argue that it needs to be given even MORE coverage, I don’t disagree at all, I just don’t understand why people on here (not you) always love to immediately call out the media for “not” doing things that it is doing, and vice versa.
A perfect example is a week or so ago when people on here were pissed off and claiming that MSNBC was “energetically agreeing with” something insane he said, when I watched the very broadcast they were talking about, and the reporters did the exact opposite, literally calling his comment “rambling insanity”. I know everyone loves to blame the media for everything these days, but they aren’t ALWAYS guilty.
→ More replies (4)47
u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 5d ago
That's now. From 2020-2024, their favorite themes were, "Biden is old! Look how OOOLD!", "Americans FEEL the economy is doing poorly. Let's interview some Republicans to find out how the economy is really doing!", and "Such and such scandal happened to Republicans. Here's how that's bad for Joe Biden."
→ More replies (1)
363
u/SummerSun75 5d ago
Hey MAGA MORONS!! Added Bonus: LOL. You get to payoff all the debt for the tax cuts for the billionaires. Great job! You're a special kind of stupid!!
This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he's ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyonce to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.
48
u/red286 5d ago
I love how he claims he "ended a war" when he's talking about a minor conflict that ended on its own.
Cambodia - Thailand -- Not a war, more of a border skirmish. They agreed to a ceasefire in order to get lower tariffs with the US. No peace agreement has been signed, nor has the border conflict been resolved.
India - Pakistan -- Not a war, barely a border skirmish. Pakistan said "yeah sure if Trump wants to say he stopped it, let him", India said Trump had zero to do with it. Worth mentioning that Pakistan is largely dependent on the US for military equipment, so they're legally obliged to gargle his balls.
Iran - Israel -- Again, not a war, though a bit closer to one than India-Pakistan. Unlikely Trump had much of anything to do with it. Seems more like Israel achieved their goals, and Iran had no viable method of retaliation so they just kinda sucked it up.
DRC - Rwanda -- This one he can MAYBE take credit for, assuming that the peace lasts. DRC basically sold their mineral rights to Trump in exchange for protection. Rwanda likely decided that it wasn't worth the risk of getting the US involved and so signed an agreement. This conflict has had many starts and stops over the past 30 years though, so I wouldn't take this as "settled" yet, but for now it seems to be.
Serbia - Kosovo -- This war has been cold for nearly 30 years, and Serbia didn't renounce their claims on Kosovo. This was the US getting them to sign some economic development deals, but otherwise a complete nothingburger. There was no active war, and the conflict between the two countries remains unresolved.
Egypt - Ethiopia -- They've made literally zero progress on this conflict. If anything, Trump's statements have made things worse, not better.
I believe he's also claiming a seventh -- Israel - Palestine, despite that conflict still being ongoing and there being literally no peace agreement.
→ More replies (3)13
→ More replies (8)44
u/Steelergrl2310 5d ago
I think he upped it to 7 wars now.
20
→ More replies (3)14
u/knightcrawler75 Minnesota 5d ago
He will soon be taking credit for WWII. Or maybe taking credit for when George Washington seized the airports.
114
u/thieh Canada 5d ago
I told you he will move to change the Pacific Ocean to American Ocean West and Atlantic Ocean to American Ocean East. /s
73
u/Responsible-Room-645 5d ago
Why the /s? This is totally within the realm of possibilities
→ More replies (2)42
→ More replies (7)28
u/caffeinetherapy Washington 5d ago
Let’s make it even simpler. “Left Water” and “Right Water”
→ More replies (1)19
u/SlagginOff 5d ago
Can't have anything with "left" in the name though.
→ More replies (2)15
u/LheelaSP 5d ago edited 5d ago
Reminds me of a picture of three (far right) AfD politicians in a German magazine, where they can be seen posing next to each other, left to right, described as:
(Yes, that's hilarious for us Germans. We have low standards)
→ More replies (1)
130
u/Ombudsman_of_Funk 5d ago
Isn’t that the Atlantic Ocean?
93
u/oznux 5d ago edited 5d ago
Yes, yes it is. Amazing I had to scroll this far for this. Title is wrong. It’s NATO, after all.. North Atlantic and all that.
→ More replies (1)15
u/bobbydebobbob 5d ago
Me too. Kind of hilarious they got it wrong while accusing him of the same. I guess you could make an argument for it being both but it was definitely the Atlantic as he was talking about European leaders. Not that he remembered either ocean.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (8)39
u/Ok_Weird_500 5d ago
Trump could be referring to the ocean between the USA and Russia, which is what I think OP assumed.
It does seem to me he was referring to the ocean between the USA and the countries whose leaders came to meet him, which would be the Atlantic.
29
16
u/Z0na 5d ago
I don't think OP is assuming anything, they just took the headline from the source. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-forgets-the-name-of-the-pacific-ocean/
→ More replies (4)6
u/Ok_Weird_500 5d ago
When you click through, they've removed Pacific from the title, though I see the original title is retained in the URL.
It was still an assumption made by someone though, and the fact the title was changed reflects the ambiguity of which ocean he is referring to.
24
u/SpectacularRedditor 5d ago
That's the Sea of Dementia, Donny.
12
u/CelticSith I voted 5d ago
And after he finally goes, we'll all be swimming in the Sea of Tranquility
28
u/Robotlollipops California 5d ago
You know we have an ocean that’s separating us, right? A thing called... an ocean,” he said. “A big, beautiful ocean. And, uh, they don’t, they’re right there.
Concepts of an ocean, from the standpoint of water.
→ More replies (1)
86
17
37
u/Mason110417 5d ago
Who amongst ourselves has never forgotten the name of the largest ocean in the world that we learned about when we were in 3rd grade?
6
14
u/NiceCanadian00 5d ago
He didn’t forget… he’s fucking stupid, never knew what that bigly water thing was….
12
13
u/NotAnotherEmpire 5d ago
Every week is going to be worse. He can't stop this, if he would admit there was a problem. Which he won't because he's narcissistic.
→ More replies (3)
12
u/WatchingThisWatch 5d ago
Not the title i was expecting when i first saw 'Trump, 79' at the start...
11
8
u/steve_ample I voted 5d ago
It's one of the two big oceans that isn't part of the city name where your failed casino was based, Donnie.
9
9
u/JacquoRock 5d ago
Oh my God. That was legit hysterical. He actually ad libbed, "yeah...uh...a great big beautiful ocean." Not to restate the obvious, but of course everyone is aware that such a flub by President Biden would not be ignored by all the mental giants at Fox News (as was the case here).
→ More replies (1)
10
u/_BannedAcctSpeedrun_ 5d ago
He forgot the name of the Atlantic ocean OP. He was talking about the ocean that separates Europe from the US. You both screwed up.
→ More replies (1)
14
u/ultralightdude Minnesota 5d ago
It sounds like he may have been referring to the Atlantic separating the U.S. from both Europe and Russia. He has two places he commutes between regularly. Both on the Atlantic. This is as sad as it is horrifying.
→ More replies (2)
14
u/MobileArtist1371 5d ago
Pacific? You mean the Atlantic ocean? Right? RIGHT???
Come on dailybeast! How can you be calling Trump out for this while getting the name wrong yourself??
Holy shit what a blunder. You originally titled the article "Trump, 79, Forgets the Name of the Pacific Ocean" which is the same as the post headline, but then you realized you fucked up and it's actually called the ATLANTIC ocean so you took the name out of the title on your site.
oh wow. It's worse that that. Even in the original article you called it the "pacific ocean" and had to go back and change it to it now saying "Atlantic"
→ More replies (7)
7
7
u/TheLizardKing89 California 5d ago
The Pacific Ocean is literally the biggest geographic feature on the planet. It’s larger than all land combined.
→ More replies (1)
7
5
•
u/AutoModerator 5d ago
As a reminder, this subreddit is for civil discussion.
In general, be courteous to others. Debate/discuss/argue the merits of ideas, don't attack people. Personal insults, shill or troll accusations, hate speech, any suggestion or support of harm, violence, or death, and other rule violations can result in a permanent ban.
If you see comments in violation of our rules, please report them.
For those who have questions regarding any media outlets being posted on this subreddit, please click here to review our details as to our approved domains list and outlet criteria.
We are actively looking for new moderators. If you have any interest in helping to make this subreddit a place for quality discussion, please fill out this form.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.