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Previous Guy a.k.a. Mashed Potato Head, gets busy on the eves of indictment(s) [1]

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Date: 2023-06-04

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show" Mary Trump, the niece of former president Donald Trump offered up a way to "humiliate" him to his 2024 GOP presidential nomination rivals. "If I were one of these candidates, I would simply show up to a debate with a bowl of mashed potatoes because that was his very first experience of humiliation was when he was being a total brat before my grandmother put dinner on the table," she recalled. "My dad had just ordered to shut him up and stop him from tormenting his little brother Robert. Took a bowl of mashed potatoes, dumped it on Donald's head."

"He hates that story," she added. "He has never been able to laugh at himself in a healthy way. It's really not difficult to get under that extraordinarily thin skin of his." www.rawstory.com/...

x after almost two and a half years, it's still nice to have a president who shuts the fuck up and lets us all enjoy a nice quiet weekend — Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 4, 2023

In a caustic column for the New York Times, Michelle Cottle lambasted Donald Trump's proposal on Truth Social for a year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence as nothing more than a political stunt of epic proportions that will go nowhere. Last week the embattled former president wrapped himself in the flag as he pitched himself as the frontman for a nationwide celebration, saying he wants to give "America’s founding in 1776 the incredible anniversary it truly deserves.”

Noting the now-indicted Trump is making the proposal to suck up all the political oxygen as his 2024 GOP presidential rivals are hitting the campaign trail in Iowa as he hunkers down in Mar-a-Lago, Cottle described his efforts as a "flagrant suck up" to the voters in the midwestern state.

As she wrote, "Mr. Trump would order up a yearlong Great American State Fair, with pavilions showcasing each of the 50 states — ideally at 'the legendary Iowa state fairgrounds,' to which he would invite 'millions and millions of visitors from around the world.'" With Mr. Trump as the guiding spirit, any 1776 tribute seems destined to descend into a culture-war cage match. Think Thunderdome but less civilized. www.rawstory.com/...

x Funny you don't show Trump. https://t.co/uOykyqqAck

While it's true Obama did add more real dollars to the debt during his time it was 8 years vs 4 and Obama put a war on the books that wasn't being counted. — ndrdog (@rthanado) June 5, 2023 One of President Donald Trump’s lesser known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. The financial burden that he’s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt. The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. That’s nearly twice as much as what Americans owe on student loans, car loans, credit cards and every other type of debt other than mortgages, combined, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It amounts to about $23,500 in new federal debt for every person in the country. The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by a leading Washington budget maven, Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. And unlike George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln, who oversaw the larger relative increases in deficits, Trump did not launch two foreign conflicts or have to pay for a civil war. www.propublica.org/...

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