Trump Wants An Airport Renamed After Him While His Company Trademarks Those Same Names
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/trump-wants-an-airport-renamed-after-him-while-his-company-trademarks-those-same-names/
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dhork@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 184d
Look at that, another impeachable offense! Let's add it to the pile
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 184d
He's been impeached, twice.
dhork@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 184d
Yes, but that hasn't stopped him
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 184d
Impeachments mean nothing without a conviction.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 184d
yeah, that's my point
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works · 63 pts · 184d
Wait, so he doesn't just want his name plastered everywhere, he also wants to collect royalities for the usage of his name? I must commend him for being this brazenly corrupt. It's a good litmus test for Democrats. If they refuse to prosecute Trump like the traitor that he is, they are not up to the task of pushing back MAGA, returning sanity to the US and healing the nation.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 184d
The Democrats already had four years to prosecute and convict this sack of shit. South Korea prosecuted and sentenced their former president in just 12 months. I don't expect anything from them this time around other than a PR slap on the wrist.
We need other parties but this country's elections are so fucked already we are only ever going to get two options of completely corporate-captured parties.
myrmidex@belgae.social · 18 pts · 184d
Hence the quote attributed to Emma Goldman
Cavemanfreak@programming.dev · 8 pts · 184d
It's not like they are not trying though.
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 184d
Your best bet, and that is tiny, but is still there, is to fill the Democratic party with Bernie Sanders-types and the like. AOC may run for president. She probably won't win, but she is a more progressive candidate than your typical centrist democrat. And it all started with her getting elected in New York. Talarico vs Crockett is the next opportunity to elect a more progressive candidate with Talarico.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 184d
Our best bet would be to collectly stop believing the lies of the DNC and start a new party that minimizes or forbids lobby from corporate goons.
But the capture of the two party system is very strong and any talk about that gets self-policed by well intentioned folks. The DNC propaganda is strong. I'm all for minimizing harm in the moment, but the harm of the status quo is building to many many decades of past "we have to vote DNC one more time" moments. And with climate catastrophy here already what harm are we minimizing? If there isn't a future for our descendants due to corporate-caused climate change catastrophe, then what are we even fighting for?
tal@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 184d
The Democrats would require a two-thirds supermajority in the Senate to convict without at least some Republican senators. They have not had that and are unlikely to get that.
greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 184d
Its because he's just been sticking his name and plated gold onto crap for decades. His brand is all he has, but someone doesn't seem to realise how radioactive it is.
Like hell am I, a european, flying into DJT. I'd rather fly through JFK and catch clap from a toilet seat.
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 184d
Watch him mandate that all intercontinental flights must go through DJT.
greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 184d
I mean, in reality I wont be flying to the US until some major reforms are made, shits wack and dangerous as fuck.
For many now, mentally, the united states is in the same bucket as casual travel to russia, somalia or north korea.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 25 pts · 184d
I name my shits after trump every single day.
itsmistermoon@piefed.social · 21 pts · 184d
I’m inaugurating a new Trump right now
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 184d
Taking a triumphant trump right now.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 184d
I got a double flusher trump over here
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 184d
Ah yes, the king trump. Mightiest of trumps.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 184d
Hey, you wouldn't pirate a Trump!
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 184d
He should trademark his ability to put more and more taxpayer money into his personal coffers.
I also want to see DJT and Donald J. Trump International Airport graffitied everywhere now, just to fuck with him. Mentions in songs and of course social media.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 184d
That may be counterproductive, see: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/12/14/president-reject-dont-say-his-name and https://stallman.org/glossary.html (under "the troll")
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 184d
Ah, 2016. Those were the days. It was all new and fresh and we never thought the USA would get to this point. The troll of yore is a dicktater now.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 184d
Looks like he is getting Palm Beach Airport, which is fitting.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 184d
Do you reckon he thinks that there are imnectarines as well?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 184d
imnectarines???
jdr@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 184d
It's a joke about impeachment
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 184d
ah, I guess my non-natively English-speaking brain didn't catch that
jdr@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 184d
It's cool, my brain doesn't speak either