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Related: About this forum'Who's that guy?' Rachel Maddow bursts into laughter at Trump's altered image - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC
Rachel Maddow describes Trump's latest grifting effort, buying his meme coins that put money directly into his pocket and the top buyers are promised a dinner with him at his club - 04/24/2025.
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'Who's that guy?' Rachel Maddow bursts into laughter at Trump's altered image - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
17 hrs ago
OP
What would dinner be? Cold McDonald's like he offered the championship football team?
Rhiannon12866
16 hrs ago
#2
At least there's the authenticity of the flames of Hades behind him. (n/t)
thesquanderer
14 hrs ago
#14
Big Nah. Back in 2021, SCOTUS made sure no emoluments charges would go anywhere. Ever.
ancianita
9 hrs ago
#19
boonecreek
(858 posts)1. Try to keep
your dinner down with Donald Trump.
Rhiannon12866
(232,797 posts)2. What would dinner be? Cold McDonald's like he offered the championship football team?


boonecreek
(858 posts)3. Hamberders!

Rhiannon12866
(232,797 posts)4. Here you go!

boonecreek
(858 posts)6. Don't forget the Imodium.

Rhiannon12866
(232,797 posts)8. ...


Ray Bruns
(5,153 posts)7. Mmmmmmmmmmm!

Rhiannon12866
(232,797 posts)9. Homer would love it!


Paladin
(30,237 posts)5. "$trump"
So what is that---short for "Strumpet"? That's an old term for a woman who has numerous sexual encounters. Hey, works for me...
niyad
(123,341 posts)16. True. Did you happen to notice that was aa dollar sign, not the letter "s"?
Even more on point.
Goonch
(3,885 posts)10. ;-{)

thesquanderer
(12,578 posts)14. At least there's the authenticity of the flames of Hades behind him. (n/t)
WmChris
(307 posts)15. Photoshopped
His jowls are gone and his hand super sized but I like the ketchup bottle.
Jughead
(81 posts)11. What's next?
White House timeshares?
Bo Zarts
(25,977 posts)12. Shhhhhhh!!!
As the apocryphal quote goes (attributed to many, from Richard Wagner to Will Rogers), "Don't look at the trombones, it only encourages them."
NoMoreRepugs
(11,231 posts)13. Just wear the SuperMan outfit and get it over with.
Hotler
(13,015 posts)17. And she mocked his big hands. nt
Justice matters.
(8,303 posts)18. Hey, here comes the infamous Emoluments clause... ignored by repugs
when their convicted dear leader doesn't care about it needing their congressional consent.
Also known as the Title of Nobility Clause, Article I, Section 9 , Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution prohibits any person holding a government office from accepting any present, emolument , office, or title from any "King, Prince, or foreign State ," without congressional consent.
Their bankrupted fraudster, tax cheat, draft dodger, and sexual assaulter doesn't even need to ask for their consent!
ancianita
(40,344 posts)19. Big Nah. Back in 2021, SCOTUS made sure no emoluments charges would go anywhere. Ever.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/01/justices-vacate-rulings-on-trump-and-emoluments/
Emoluments cases
The Supreme Court vacated the lower courts decisions in a pair of cases involving allegations that, as president, Trump received benefits from the hotels and restaurants that he owns, in violation of two anti-corruption provisions of the Constitution known as the emoluments clauses. In one case, Trump v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit allowed a lawsuit by competitors in the hospitality industry to go forward, rejecting Trumps arguments that the competitors alleged injuries did not give them a legal right to sue. Represented by the Department of Justice, Trump filed a petition for review in September, asking the justices to hear oral argument and weigh in on whether the lawsuit could go forward. But by late December, when the petition was first distributed for the justices conference in early January, Trump had less than a month remaining in his term as president. In his reply brief, then-Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall argued that the justices should wait to act on Trumps petition until after the inauguration and then vacate the 2nd Circuits ruling with instructions to dismiss the case as moot so that it would not serve as precedent for future cases a move known as Munsingwear vacatur.
Wall made a similar argument in Trump v. District of Columbia, in which the District and Maryland also alleged violations of the emoluments clauses. After a federal district court in Maryland allowed the case to go forward, Trump asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit for an order that would require the district court either to allow an immediate appeal or to dismiss the case, but the full 4th Circuit rejected that request. Trump then went to the Supreme Court in early September, but in his reply brief, filed in late December, Wall again recommended that the justices hold the petition until it becomes moot after the inauguration, and then grant certiorari and vacate under Munsingwear. The justices agreed to both of Walls recommendations on Monday morning, wiping away the appellate courts rulings in both cases and instructing the lower courts to dismiss the lawsuits as moot.
The Supreme Court vacated the lower courts decisions in a pair of cases involving allegations that, as president, Trump received benefits from the hotels and restaurants that he owns, in violation of two anti-corruption provisions of the Constitution known as the emoluments clauses. In one case, Trump v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit allowed a lawsuit by competitors in the hospitality industry to go forward, rejecting Trumps arguments that the competitors alleged injuries did not give them a legal right to sue. Represented by the Department of Justice, Trump filed a petition for review in September, asking the justices to hear oral argument and weigh in on whether the lawsuit could go forward. But by late December, when the petition was first distributed for the justices conference in early January, Trump had less than a month remaining in his term as president. In his reply brief, then-Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall argued that the justices should wait to act on Trumps petition until after the inauguration and then vacate the 2nd Circuits ruling with instructions to dismiss the case as moot so that it would not serve as precedent for future cases a move known as Munsingwear vacatur.
Wall made a similar argument in Trump v. District of Columbia, in which the District and Maryland also alleged violations of the emoluments clauses. After a federal district court in Maryland allowed the case to go forward, Trump asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit for an order that would require the district court either to allow an immediate appeal or to dismiss the case, but the full 4th Circuit rejected that request. Trump then went to the Supreme Court in early September, but in his reply brief, filed in late December, Wall again recommended that the justices hold the petition until it becomes moot after the inauguration, and then grant certiorari and vacate under Munsingwear. The justices agreed to both of Walls recommendations on Monday morning, wiping away the appellate courts rulings in both cases and instructing the lower courts to dismiss the lawsuits as moot.
This SCOTUS gave the plaintiff Trump exactly what he wanted: that emoluments (above) and crimes (the immunity ruling) are not prosecutable when a Republican president is in office, especially THIS one.
Justice matters.
(8,303 posts)20. If they ever tried to make the US viewed as a banana republic...
that ultra-corrupt extremists court would trash the entire constitution to protect their beloved convicted felon, con artist, tax cheat, fraudster, adjucated sexual assaulter, and draft dodger POS.