Donald Trump has been condemned as a “vile, disgusting man” and a “sick human being” after gloating over the death of Robert Mueller, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Mueller, a decorated Vietnam war veteran who led a politically explosive investigation into Trump, died on Friday aged 81, triggering a callous reaction from the US president.
“Robert Mueller just died,” Trump responded quickly on his Truth Social platform. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”
Even by the president’s own norm-shredding standards, the comment was unusually harsh. There was a chorus of opprobrium from the “Never Trump” movement in his own Republican party.
Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, wrote on X: “@realDonaldTrump you are a vile disgusting man. Petty and pathetic, you are a hypocrite who reeks of weakness and insecurities with no moral core. Regardless of the politics, the American people should be embarrassed and ashamed for ever having entrusted you with leadership.”
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TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 127 pts · 151d
He doesn't even realize that the day he dies, his own tweet from today will be reshared millions of times. People cannot wait for this son of a bitch to die.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 39 pts · 150d
True. Some are not waiting.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 150d
The guy who resigned claimed that FBI blocked investigation into that assassination:
https://www.newsweek.com/ex-trump-official-says-he-was-told-stop-investigating-charlie-kirk-killing-11704210
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 150d
Who's this?
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 150d
OLD GREGG
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 6 pts · 150d
Tyler Robinson .
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 150d
Allegedly
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 150d
This story is bs, kirk was not shot by a 30.06 or however you write thirty ought six in numbers. It's a high powered rifle, that would have left a fist sized exit wound out of his neck. That gun, at that distance, would have made a very different wound.
He did not dissassemble the weapon in 1 minute into that tiny little pack and flee the roof, and the sheriff brought gun sniffing dogs right by that chicken coop and didn't hit anything, until the FBI showed up, took control, and found it right off, fully assembled.
The story is bs, and lemmy moderators are sometimes in on covering it up strangely.
Carmakazi@piefed.social · 7 pts · 150d
Terminal ballistics is basically chaos theory at work. Rifle rounds aren't packed with explosives, they can leave relatively clean exits regardless of how much ass they have behind them. The round might have only traveled through a few inches of flesh which isn't really enough to destabilize a round like that.
The going theory, one they have on video, mind, is that he stuffed the rifle down his pants while he scrambled off the roof, no disassembly. He hobbled to the treeline and disposed of it.
This is "the Las Vegas shooting was done by multiple CIA operatives with belt-fed machine guns to force a gun ban" levels of analysis. There's a plausible explanation, but it's more convenient for some people's political biases to believe in a conspiracy.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 150d
We have seen the video, he didn't have a rifle down his pants, come now. Link this video and argue that please if you think that.
The gun enthusiasts also used weaker and older rounds from the world wars era just to defeat these issues you mention, and they still made a different wound.
Why are you defending an obviously false narrative?
davepleasebehave@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 150d
Love it.
Don't believe it. But love it. keep going!
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 150d
Bro, or sis, it's absolutely true. A 30 ought six can shoot through a half inch of steel at that range. This has been demonstrated by the gun enthusiasts online. They shot all manner of objects, chunks of beef, steel plate, you name it, to demonstrate.
These rifles kill moose, elk, bear, from a distance. They have a serious foot per second to them. Like military rifles, but with a bigger caliber.
As with the other points. It's true, the story is bs. It's undeniably true.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 150d
I've shoot dozens of deer with a 30.06, and they also don't explode if you hit them in the neck. The round will pass through something that soft at that range without expanding or tumbling, retaining most of its energy instead of transferring it to the target - especially if you're using an FMJ or match round that's not designed to expand.
It's actually one of the reasons it's kinda fallen out of style for hunting. Despite its muzzle energy, it's not a particularly precise or effective as a hunting round versus a more modern cartridge. Something like a 6.5 Creedmoor will use less powder to shoot a smaller projectile more precisely and transfer more energy to the target.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 150d
The gun enthusiasts beg to differ, and have videos to prove it. There are always people to defend the establishment online, and they aren't always sincere. I am referring to you.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 150d
Dude - I am a gun enthusiast. I have over 50 of them.
I have 3 different 30.06 rifles (Remington 700, Springfield M1903, and M1 Garand). I've killed animals with 30.06, 6.5 Creedmoor, .308, 44 mag, 7.62.54R, .270, .223, 9mm, .357 magnum, 10mm, 12-gauge, 20-gauge, .22 rimfire, and more. I know a thing or 2 about this shit.
tomiant@piefed.social · 0 pts · 150d
Maybe it was just a crazy kid with a gun. Maybe not go all molten steel beams on this one.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 150d
Maybe you are denying reality because parts of the right wing are pushing reality for a change on this one.
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 145d
Maybe you have decided what you believe already and refuse to hear any other side of it and will never change your mind no matter what.
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 150d
You seem very sure.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 150d
It will be bittersweet in that, we'll all wish he was still around just long enough to see the feativities.
Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 150d
He doesn't care about legacy. A perfect hedonistic nihilist.
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 150d
He cares very much about his legacy. That's part of why he's trying to get his name on a bunch of stuff, build out monuments, and host celebrations. However, he thinks he's more popular than he actually is, and doesn't understand how anyone could not like him which leads to him thinking the legacy he is trying to manufacture is genuine and going to last.
kieron115@startrek.website · 2 pts · 150d
does he not understand that if he can rename them after himself, someone else can rename them again just as easily?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 150d
He may realize he's putting so many horrible things in motion that the naming issue probably won't be seen as the highest priority
Edit: lol what a weird thing to downvote
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 150d
I agree, but would also add that he seems to enjoy the infamy that his haters have afforded him
Xaphanos@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 150d
I believe that his name on things is a plan to collect royalty payments.
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 149d
His name on his towers and resorts, yeah. I was more referring to renaming the "John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" or the creation of the Trump Gold Card, F-47, Trump Class battleship, Trump Institute for Peace, Trump Ballroom, Arc de Trump, or the renaming of various roads and an airport (attempted: ongoing).
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 150d
That's a random theory. It seems clear to me that every action trump takes, he does so with people talking about him in mind and he revels in it whether they are saying good or bad things about him.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 99 pts · 150d
As if this was a novel thing... He did the same thing when Rob Reiner was murdered.
The orange pedo is an absolute psychopath and he doesn't even try to hide it anymore - probably the disinhibition caused by his dementia.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 150d
It’s the constantly being rewarded for a lifetime of criminal behavior including the rape and murder of children
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 28 pts · 150d
Let us also recall his remarks concerning the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi :
Like so many criticisms of others he offers, it would be perfectly applicable to himself.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 150d
Also a sociopath, and just an all around pos.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 150d
Yeah, also, he rapes children.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 90 pts · 150d
Where are all the “respect Charlie Kirk” people at?
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 39 pts · 150d
They are saying Trump restrained himself and could've been harsher.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 150d
To this day I don't know how these people can seriously look at themselves in the mirror and not see the hypocrisy and irony of their life. Like, deep down, somewhere under the blackened heart of bigotry and ignorance and vile putrid that represents their view of their fellow man; they know they're actually a piece of shit and the bad guys, right?
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 150d
They're no hypocrisy in white supremacy. "Us good, them bad" is reprehensible, but consistent.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 150d
They were pointing out specifically the fact that the people who would defend trump on this were adamant that any negative comment about that piece of shit CK was horrifically disrespectful.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 150d
Speaking of charlie kirk, he was killed by israel.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 46 pts · 150d
The day Trump dies, I'm celebrating. I plan to treat it like a national holiday every year...with fireworks if I can help it.
0li0li@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 150d
Every morning, I open lemme with hopes to see some of those assholes dead. Every fucking morning, since the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 150d
Ice cream and strippers.
mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 150d
JD Vance would be celebrating, too!
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 150d
He is a child rapist and genocidal warmongering mass murderer. Gloating over one death is a drop in an ocean of toxic waste.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 150d
And he has been rewarded for this behavior his entire life because our system has no laws against the pedofile parasite class
Naich@piefed.world · 36 pts · 150d
I can't think of a single redeeming feature of Trump. He is possibly the worst person on the planet.
fizzle@quokk.au · 5 pts · 150d
I suspect hes the most hated.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 150d
His incompetence is his redeeming quality.
Naich@piefed.world · 2 pts · 150d
Certainly his best quality. I mean Putin is a disgusting monster, but he's well turned out, polite, and intelligent. Trump lacks any positive traits.
dellish@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 150d
This just in: Child rapist is a shitty person.
But how about that Dow guys, why aren't we paying attention to what really matters?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 150d
Bomb falling sound
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 150d
Sorry I can't hear you over all the munitions they're suddenly dropping on various countries we weren't at war with. I think they asked how is the Dow????
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 150d
Turns out bombing key geopolitical supply routes and capital stocks is not only horrifyingly immoral but bad for the economy
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 149d
But horrifyingly immoral usually boosts The Economy (TM)!! There's just no way they could have seen this one coming. :( :( :( /s
DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 150d
God damn! They condemned him! That's serious, right?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 150d
Funny we're reading this in British media, because the Americans are entirely confined to the Cuck Chair of a corporate media desk
itisileclerk@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 150d
I beleive that there will be world wide celebration when Trump dies, no matter when, no matter how. That will be a good day.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 150d
I'm afraid there will be so many crocodile tears "thoughts and prayers" tweets about his death
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 150d
Yeah, but they won't be able to drown out the dancing/ partying in the streets.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 150d
People who have been actively ignoring everything he's said and done for the last decade will be weeping and wailing in the streets at this great loss to humanity.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 149d
As a Canadian I refuse to ever step foot in the USA again because of what Turmp has done and watching the American people celebrate it.
That said, I will gladly take a day to visit just so I can leave a steaming log of shit on his grave.
zilouge@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 150d
Yeah, I have bottle of champagne ready for that happy day.
AmbientDread@piefed.social · 23 pts · 151d
Day by day, word by word, action by action, confirms that he is the bloated corrupt personification of everything that is wrong with us.
Stern@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 150d
"Trump does some bullshit, many people upset, he remains unimpeached." Just another day ending in -y.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 4 pts · 150d
Impeachment without consequence is jut a footnote for the history books. He's got two asterisks to his name, he's still President. That's the problem.
status_sphere@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 150d
Trump: “Mueller’s report completely exonerated me.”
Also Trump: “I’m glad Mueller is dead.”
And people somehow think this lines up.
EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 150d
Breaking news! This just in. Trump is a hypocrite.
It's kind of weird people keep pointing this out, like eventually the people onboard the hypocrisy are suddenly going to change their ways. They aren't. They support trump because they wish they could get away with the shit he gets away with everyday. And they love him for it.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 150d
"He can no longer hurt innocent people"
How that disgusting, child raping, schoolgirl bombing, ShitGoblin can say that is just astonishing. Fucks sake.
Lucelu2@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 150d
Hey Donald... Tick Tock
Heikki2@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 150d
Why are people surprised? The World's Foremost Pedofile called Trump The Worst Person He'd Ever Known
tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 150d
"I have met some very bad people ... none as bad as Trump," Epstein reportedly wrote in the email, which was released by House lawmakers this week in a trove of files
NeilBru@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 150d
starik@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 151d
The Christians love this
USSEthernet@startrek.website · 13 pts · 150d
starik@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 150d
I get what you’re saying, but when 90% of them are like this (and have been for decades) mightn’t it be time to dispense with the pretense that “real” Christians are love-thy-neighbor, feed-the-poor types? Real Christians are the ones who exist in reality. In the US at least, this is Christianity.
USSEthernet@startrek.website · 8 pts · 150d
starik@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 150d
The people who chose this man as their champion are not responsive to shame.
USSEthernet@startrek.website · 13 pts · 150d
starik@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 150d
That’s awesome. Your coworker sounds like a really cool person. I just don’t think they are representative of most Christians in this country. If anything, your friend is the “Christian”, while the congregation they left behind are Christians.
nulluser@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 150d
[long heavy sigh]
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 150d
You do understand that starting their own church isn't necessarily a bad thing, right?
People who have a faith aren't all koolaid drinkers. Many of them live their lives in service to others.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 150d
The radical leftist communist preacher who gave people free food and healthcare and demanded that everyone provide those around them with the same care and generosity and that one spends on themselves?
They use his name, but follow none of his teaching or example and openly oppose everything he stood for.
The Bible is a horrible, sick collection of twisted, disgusting documents spanning many genres, but whether he was real or mythical, Jesus is a respectable role model even for an angry atheist like myself.
Reyali@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 150d
I read “this man” to mean Trump. And I agree that people who support him have no shame.
But similar to others in this thread, I do know leftist people who identify as Christian and do follow the actual teachings and lessons of Jesus. They may not be the majority of self-proclaimed Christians in US, but they absolutely exist.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 150d
Oh. Yeah, that makes a lot more sense. Sorry for the misunderstanding!
uberdroog@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 150d
But Charlie Kirk...something something
atropa@piefed.social · 2 pts · 150d
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 150d
"Innocent people" is a weird way to spell "pedophile", but knowing that a lot of pedophile activists are gaslighting themselves into believing that children can consent and they want it...
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 150d
There's never a fucking day spared for which that bastard likes to create horrors for even billions of people.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 151d
Raise your hand if this is in any way surprising to you.
Any hands? No?
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 150d
Well, yes, because those fucking reports ultimately passed the buck and helped him. Mueller fucking sucked. So yes, I'm pretty surprised.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 150d
They guy is best known for military service and leading an investigation of another nation manipulating the US election process. Pretty goddamm patriotic stuff. If you are the president of a bookstore, ya gotta pretend to like books even if you can't read, get a clue dumbass.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 150d
Yes, well, Trump is a cunt.
RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 150d
"opprobrium"... an element in the periodic table? Right next to copium I suppose?
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 150d
What if the entire world collectively chose a moment to simultaneously make one wish, kind of like believing in fairies. But instead we all prayed for Donald Trump to shit himself, and drop dead. I bet we could will this with some simple organization.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 150d
What a pathetic loser
johncandy1812@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 150d
The fall of Western Civ
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 150d
Vile, yes.
Dictator for life, also yes.
rossman@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 150d
Not really new, but it's the normalization from his handlers. He has the right but the lack of condemnation from his handlers is what should be shamed post trump
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social · 4 pts · 150d
Shitty person is shitty. Well, colour me surprised.
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 150d
I saw this and was so disappointed that I wasnt shocked. DJT is such a piece of shit.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 149d
Perhaps a strongly worded letter will get him to change his ways.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 149d
It's nothing compared to how we'll celebrate when this orange waste of cum dies.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 150d
The voters chose/ allowed him into the wh. They own all of this.
ForlornHorseCorn@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 150d
Some doesn’t understand American politics, as u missed the last thing I’ll just tell u, it’s u.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 149d
c/aneurysmposting
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 150d
It is gonna take a revolution to overthrow Trump, not that I support such a thing. Seriously!
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 150d
It's not just him, he just seized control of it, it's the party. It doesn't end with him.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 150d
Yet it somehow started with him. Almost like he was an important factor.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 150d
Not at all. This is 50 plus years in the making.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 150d
The party has been awful for a long time, and I'm certain plans for this have been in motion for a long time, but this state of affairs started with Trump as their mascot. What's happening now is a whole new level of fucked, and I don't see these chuckleheads holding onto it, and not just killing each other without that orange clown. But they're entrenched now, so maybe I'm wrong.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 150d
On the contrary my friend, those of us following this, have known about these intentions for decades. Me since the 90's, and many much much prior, which are the ones i learned it from. The president just seized control of it, seeing the dumbassery as it was.
This doesn't end with this president.
RanryuuRain@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 150d
Trump being vile is really not news.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 150d
I'm just waiting for Andrew Lloyd Webber to make a musical about how great Melania is so we can all go burn all our Cats! and Phantom! merchandise like we should have when he made Evita!
CircaV@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 150d
Have the day you voted for wankees. 🖕🖕🖕
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 150d
Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 151d
IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 150d
An enemy of his died and he wasn't nice about it? Like we were any better with Charlie or the healthcare CEO. xD
CircaV@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 150d
Please. Mueller kept him out of jail.
IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 150d
Sure but Trump perceived him as an enemy and if you hate someone, then you're not expected to be kind when they die. Trump got lucky Muller didn't go further but being investigated is definitely not a good feeling especially when there's a lot of dark shit to find.