Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

https://i.imgur.com/7d3hhJm.png

so is he just announcing he's fucked and hoping to overturn on appeal? doesn't seem like a great legal strategy

it's worked so far? delay delay delay

I haven't been following this, but, no, if he's convicted he'll remain so even until he files an appeal.

Maggot? Weak sauce.

I can say that I'm actually breathing somewhat normally

so if convicted then what? is actual jail time likely to be on the table? even if he appeals, wouldn't that just waste more time when he really needs to be out there fundraising and campaigning?

Maggot? Weak sauce.

You missed the 'hag' he slipped in there

speaking of are any of the other trials (Jan 6, classified docs, Georgia) actually happening before the election? feel like he's pretty fucked if so

"tiny side door" seems incongruous among his usual bluster.

The complete sentences, orderly punctuation, and (mostly) correct capitalization make that tweet/whatever come off surreal somehow. It reads somewhere between a 4th grade book report and a mopey diary entry. Even the words where the first letter (but not the whole word!) was incorrectly capitalized just seem like half-hearted gestures. I feel like they are mailing it in here, maybe even using ChatGPT to cobble together a few Trumpy phrases into something cohesive because he just doesn’t have the energy for it right now.

very low energy

'stanchions' is the biggest giveaway that someone other than Trump wrote that

"tiny side door" seems incongruous among his usual bluster.

He's a big-door guy! Side doors are for losers.

Haha stanchions was the first word I saw too, I was originally going to zero in on that but I got sidetracked by the whole feel of the thing.

Haha exactly how I reacted too. Where are the ALL CAPS?!?!?

He’s really all in on “every business will flee NYC due to my persecution.”

That what happens when you outlaw crimes

Mans just phoning it in now. Sad!

I wonder who isn't answering his calls anymore, some of those have gotta hurt

(more, please)

and let's never forget: this man is the symptom of America's dysfunction, not the cause

Why not both? It's a feedback loop by now.

fair

tiny side door Trump is used to being applauded in every Mar A Lago room he enters, that's gotta hurt his widdle feelings

dumptruck donnie

relentless. he has to know that Trump is watching. and why Trump would keep mentioning him is beyond me. if Biden wins, he at least owes Jimmy a state dinner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzjqJdsDWgc

meanwhile...
https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-poised-clinch-13-billion-social-media-company-stock-award-2024-04-23/

1.3 not 13 (url is misleading)

lol trump is a solid Poster but anyone who fucks with a professional comedian needs to be far more locked-in than he is

"let one rip van winkle" is a good line, Kimmel

How tf does this kind of money just get magicked out of thin air for this asshole, I mean I know it’s not real at this point, but I have no doubt he’ll somehow amass all of this additional wealth

I'm guessing Melania has urgent business elsewhere that's keeping her from supporting her life partner in his literal time of trial

her devotion is moving. away. farther and farther away

I thought he still couldn't touch that money for 5 1/2 months, so the stock needs to maintain its value until then. Also I am pretty sure that if a company has a $1.3 billion dollar valuation it doesn't mean you can just cash out all the stock at once because doing so means the value tanks - like Bitcoin has some insane market cap like 1.5 trillion dollars but it's not like you could get anything close to that if all the Bitcoins were sold today

i'm not plugged into every single new story right now, but are we talking about this?

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1246645808/truth-social-shares-windfall-trump-media-technology-group

Former President Trump is set to get $1.2 billion richer — at least on paper.

The windfall comes thanks to being rewarded with an additional 36 million shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind his Truth Social app.
The shares are a bonus provided to him after Trump Media traded above a certain level for a set number of days.

Trump met that criteria at the close of trading on Tuesday. The new shares raise his stake in Trump Media to 115 million shares, boosting the entire net worth of his holdings in the company to $3.7 billion.

The value of Trump's stake has fallen sharply since the company's trading debut in late March after share prices in Trump Media retreated.

But it's still a significant potential return given that he's the majority shareholder in a company in which he has invested no money.

And Trump could use the money: He's mired in legal cases — including the ongoing hush money trial in New York — and is running again for the White House.

But he's prevented from selling his stake until September under his current agreement — although he could try to find ways to negotiate a new deal.

i don't know, i see how truth social is a complete embarrassment and it's amazing that it is worth more than $0.0000, but as an uninformed spectator to wealthy people i believe that the stock will be a laughingstock that will still somehow be worth billions to trump when he gets paid out in september, and that if trump has money problems in the meantime, he will find at least one insanely evil rich person to spot him a couple hundred million dollars until september, in exchange for what the insanely evil rich person (not trump - the other person here) believes will be very beneficial if he gets another chance to become a dictator in november

would be funny if he just dumped his entire holdings the first day he was allowed, wouldnt work of course the stick would go to zero, but it would be funny, i wonder how much he can sell without it tanking, its kind of a funny sitch where not only can it tank from the over supply of him selling but it can also tank from the public perception of him selling, which i guess isnt different than any founder and big holder of a company, except with trump its maybe more fraught cause the people holding the stock are fans of his rather than just investors

One wonders whether hostile investors are reading these same stories and contemplating timed activities

😉

heh

Front page of CNN.com:

How Pecker punched holes in Trump’s defense

Thanks, I will go vomit now

"How Pecker forced Trump's words down his throat."

"Pecker stays firm on witness stand"

Pecker a Huge Obstacle for Trump Team

Fears that Pecker will lead to a hung jury.

Pecker Exposes Lengths Taken to Please Trump
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-national-enquirer/

Trump Fears Pecker's Power
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-fears-david-pecker-witness-trial-1893744

Johnson Supports Pecker

Finally consequences

Trump to receive bonus worth $1.2bn for Trump Media stock performance

A price floor means ex-president gets bonus even though Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock value has plummeted

so then who is that money coming from? is it $1.2b from his supporters dumb enough to buy stock in a worthless company?

aiui the bonus is just more stock added to what he had.

supporters dumb enough to buy stock ... Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse

Headline writers, this is your WEEK

Huh

“That nest egg has lost about half its value in the past two weeks as Trump Media & Technology Group’s share price dropped from $66 after its public debut last month to $32 on Friday. But McLain, 71, who owns a tree-removal service outside Oklahoma City, said he’s not worried. If anything, he wants to buy more.
“I know good and well it’s in Trump’s hands, and he’s got plans,” he said. “I have no doubt it’s going to explode sometime.””