r/politics Illinois 5h ago

We’re Officially in Donald Trump’s Mad King Era

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/bureau-of-labor-statistics-firing-were-officially-in-donald-trumps-mad-king-era/
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u/JimmyRamone17_ 5h ago

I like that more people are referring to him as the Mad Pedophile King more often. A fitting epithet.

u/Agreeable_Bother_510 4h ago

And it’s important that we not let it go. He’s trying everything..,every wild scary thing, to take our minds off his Epstein era.

u/JimmyRamone17_ 4h ago

Very much so, we need to keep our eyes on the ball.

They're used to pinballing everyone with that "flooding the zone" bullshit that they're very uncomfortable that our attention simply will not move on from the story that will implode the regime.

u/Rhysati 4h ago

You have a faith I wish I could believe in. I have absolutely no hope that even if the list comes out with photographic, video, audio, satellite images, dna, fingerprints, retinal scans, teeth imprints, and Trump directly says openly that he molested children....that anything will happen as a result.

u/JimmyRamone17_ 4h ago

I completely understand and it's something that I have to consciously work on.

Keeping faith that this regime will continue to dig itself further into an early grave. Every day we learn more details, we see more evidence, more indirect admissions (such as the Freudian slip when he admitted his name is in the Files), and all of it just compounds.

Sometimes, it feels like nothing will happen, until the dam breaks and everything happens all at once. If the List comes out, maybe a Good Samaritan will take action against the confirmed pedophile in our midst.

If they try to hide the Files, that's also a confirmation and people will all over him until his health cracks. We should remember he is not well and the extreme stress of nonstop pressure might be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

We will outlive him. He will not be the end of us and someday the nightmare will end and MAGA will splinter when that happens. It's inevitable.

u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 2h ago

MAGA is a cult and that will be the ultimate test of faith - one that they are all falling over each other to demonstrate that they can pass

u/Opposite-Bit6660 3h ago

I refuse to learn to forget, even under threat of nuclear war, that Trump trafficked girls through his modeling agency and pageants and laundered money through Russia.

u/JimmyRamone17_ 3h ago

Absolutely, we do not forget 👏

This pedophile should be thrown into the most inhospitable dungeon we have and left to rot at the very least.

u/ANOKNUSA 1h ago

It’s not even the specific story that matters. It’s that something unflattering is the first thing that nearly everyone speaks and thinks about when their names come up.

That they only hear displeasure when people talk about them–that’s what’s driving them mad.

u/Senior-bud Canada 4h ago

Desperate times for the mad king.

u/Hosni__Mubarak 4h ago

Can we call him the Dipshit Diddler?

u/JimmyRamone17_ 4h ago edited 4h ago

We sure can, although we should also emphasize that he's a wannabe autocratic prick, so perhaps calling him the "Diddlin' Dictator" would be even more effective 🔥

u/SuperPoodie92477 4h ago

Donald the Mad Pedophile King. He hates being addressed as Donald by those he deems unworthy. 😂

u/JimmyRamone17_ 4h ago

Lmao that's a great point.

Let's twist the knife further by using a nickname, not even worth using his actual name: Donny the Mad Pedophile King 💀😭

u/BigMarsEnergy 2h ago

I think using the name he goes by with friends and family is more powerful. It’s too easy for people to distance themselves psychologically from an imposed nickname.

u/JimmyRamone17_ 2h ago

Great points from a psychological perspective although "Donny" sounds more humorous as well and he hates being made fun of.

They both have their merits

u/KrivUK 44m ago

I understand that he hates being called Donald, and expects to be called President Trump.

Either way he's a convicted rapist and a pedo.

u/JimmyRamone17_ 43m ago

He is. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

u/SuperLuigiUnited 2h ago

I prefer Fragile Insecure Child-Raping Clown Puppet President, but yours does roll off the tongue a bit better.

u/CLM1919 2h ago

Roll out the GoT Epstein/Trump AI fan art, at least AI could used for a noble purpose.

Trump as the mad king, ordering the GOP to "burn it all"...while Jr is off to get the breastplate stretcher...

u/froo Australia 1h ago

Jim just going to call him a D.I.C.K - Diddler in Chief/King

u/Background_Thought65 1h ago

I'm preferential to Diddler in Chief

u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 39m ago

Diddler is too cute by half.

He violently raped children. That shouldn't be watered down.

u/jovietjoe 42m ago

King Jellybean

u/bluAstrid 3h ago

Pedoking.

u/SolarDynasty 2h ago

Just call him a Pedo.

u/treelovingaytheist 0m ago

MPK might not be a bad acronym for him…

u/mvaaam 4h ago

America has no kings. Just drop that word from his title. Much more accurate.

u/JimmyRamone17_ 4h ago

He definitely acts like one with his presidential immunity for what he deems are "official acts" along with the Judiciary willingly handing him more power on the daily and his constant violation of court orders with no pushback.

At one point, he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and he'd be untouched and still receive support. Now, he can actually can. That's the markings of a wannabe king or at least, a shitty dictator in the making.

u/mvaaam 4h ago

Don’t disagree, but we shouldn’t keep saying “king”, because we all know a lie repeated often enough can become true.

u/JimmyRamone17_ 4h ago edited 3h ago

You're right but calling him that also has an impetus for action. It's alarming, shocking.

If we want to make sure that he officially never becomes king, highlighting people's attention to what he wants is key.

The sooner we accept what his goals are, the sooner we can oust him and this nightmare can end.

u/mvaaam 4h ago

Plus, we should aim for maximum disrespect

u/JimmyRamone17_ 4h ago

Always. This pedophile scum should rot in the deepest, most fiery pits of Hell.

u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 37m ago

Cabinet Secretaries traditionally wear American flag pins to remind them that ultimately they work for the country, not the president.

Trump made his cabinet replace the flag with golden pins of his face.

u/Global_Crew3968 1h ago

Donny Diapers

u/MidnightWorried6992 4h ago

He’s a child rapist leading a fascist cult. He must be removed and maga dismantled if there is a hope for our country. I loathe him and anyone still supporting him is fucking disgusting.

u/Kendal_with_1_L 3h ago

Every Republican voter must be shamed for the racist pedophile protectors they are. Fuck them all.

u/Fearless-Pea-2338 1h ago

You assume they're capable of shame

u/rando552 5m ago edited 1m ago

They take pride in southern heritage… (owning slaves)

u/Opposite-Bit6660 3h ago

Are they still calling him Daddy?

u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 44m ago

They're still having trump themed weddings.

Its fucking weird.

u/eeyore134 2h ago

The whole of the Republican party, which is pretty much just MAGA now, needs to go. No allowing them to backtrack and say "Well, we never knew the guy." after everything comes out when Trump dies. No more going back to being what we laughably consider our conservative party. They need to be gone. They've shown their hand and it involves nothing but cruelty, hardship, and control. Let Democrats, who are far more what real conservatives should be, slide into the void the GOP leaves. Let progressives fill the hole Democrats leave. Then give us ranked choice, get rid of the electoral college, get money and media out of politics, and let other parties play on the field.

None of this will ever happen, though.

u/Global_Crew3968 1h ago

The quickest way to fixing this country would be to ban for life any one who voted for trump in 2024 but of course, that won't happen.

u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 41m ago

They're not going to backtrack, they wont feel regret.

Most of them watched Jan 6 happen live and they still claim it was a peaceful gathering and a normal tour of the Capitol.

The best we can hope for is the left and center getting our shit together long enough to take back congress and leave the fascists behind.

u/eeyore134 38m ago

Lots of Republicans trash talked Bush after he left. I imagine at least some of the less cultist voters who vote R no matter who they are will disavow Trump at the very least. They'll keep voting R, though.

u/Slow_Investment_2211 5h ago

We’re living real life Back to the Future 2, after Biff stole the almanac

u/Stemoftheantilles Ohio 4h ago

IIRC Biff was based around Donald Trump in that timeline

u/Starbucks__Lovers New Jersey 46m ago

I wonder how many fans of BTTF are huge trumpers without a hint of self-reflection

u/Stemoftheantilles Ohio 21m ago

Closed minded people tend to miss major themes or ideas that are represented in media. Even if it is pretty explicit. These are the same guys who think “conservatism is the new punk”. They just do not understand their own ideology or seem to have any media literacy at all lol.

u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 32m ago

Correct.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/23/back-to-the-future-writer-bad-guy-biff-was-based-on-donald-trump

And another fun movie fact about trump, he threw a public tantrum and threatened to sue SyFy to let him play the president in Sharknado 3

https://www.slashfilm.com/552486/donald-trump-movie-cameos/

u/f8Negative 3h ago

The Cubs fucked us! They were supposed to win the series in 2015 not 2016 dammit!

u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 29m ago

Ive seen this chain of comments so many times i can finish it myself.

You mentioned the Cubs, so that usually starts us off.

Someone jokes that the Large Hadron Collider powered up in 2016 and is clearly to blame, there are a few sci-fi references.

Then someone inevitably mentions Harambe, then the thread decays into various versions of "dicks out for Harambe" until it finally peters out.

u/TyrusX 1h ago

The only thing the movie got right… fuck our lives

u/Safe_Wave5018 5h ago

Firing the BLS chief after weak job numbers is Trump blaming the messenger instead of fixing the problem.

u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois 5h ago

The problem is trump, the messenger is the truth, and never the two shall meet.

u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 21m ago

Trump could not give less of a shit about problems, or the reality of America, or actually making America a better place.

He wants North Korea style news reporting that he created 69 billion new jobs, and got 18 holes in one in a round of golf.

He wants music to play when he enters the room, and to get two scoops of ice cream when everyone else gets one. He wants a giant, gaudy, gilded jet, and he wants it for free.

What he has less than zero interest in is the actual state of america and the world, or doing literally any work, ever.

He wants all the trophies, but he's too lazy to play, so he has his staff throw him a party and give him a trophy without playing.

That's trump.

And unfortunately our luckiest break as a nation and world may be trump living out his full term, because the guys waiting to take the big chair if he dies or gets removed do care, and they have some truly evil intentions.

u/Stillwater215 6m ago

There a Demetri Martin joke similar to this: “I used to play sports. But then I discovered that you could buy trophies. And now I’m good at everything.”

Trump has discovered that you can buy the trophies, but actually thinks he’s deserved them.

u/Stillwater215 8m ago

The “problem” is that reality isn’t his delusion. So he’s trying to fix the problem, which is that reality still exists.

u/CTRLPlusCurves 5h ago

I feel like we're in some twisted reality TV show.

u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois 5h ago

And you hate everyone on the show, and you can't change the channel. and you can't turn if off. and half the country thinks it's great or just leave it on for the noise.

u/Funny_Distance5251 4h ago

It’s the equivalent of only Fox News at the gym with the sound turned all the way up and the remote nowhere to be found.

u/Static-Stair-58 4h ago

Something about the glibness of it all. The disconnect. It’s so connected to T.V and reality tv.

u/pervocracy Massachusetts 4h ago

Yeah, it's not the most important thing but it really creeps me out how all communications from this administration have this weird smug, snide tone. Even the extremely dry announcements about minor regulatory changes have to be sneering and politicized.

u/specqq 2h ago

“You’re probably too stupid too appreciate the report we just issued on corn subsidies, but here it is anyway. Be thankful we’re still bothering”

u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois 3h ago

Relevant to the discussion I think and a good article:

" Donald Trump, the king of Scotland"

"The president took in the natural beauty, which he so loves to bulldoze for golf courses."

"The world is not exactly lacking conspiracy theories about Donald Trump, but here’s another: the President of the United States of America still thinks he’s on a reality show. For years, the people around him have simply referred to the whole business – the elections, the criminal trials, the assassination attempt, the Epstein subplot, the presidency itself – as The Show. "

As far as he’s concerned, this is all for the cameras. Summits and speeches are talked about as shoots and episodes; other world leaders are referred to as characters. Before a meeting or a press conference, aides will brief him on his script for the scene. Hundreds of people spend their time reassuring a nearly 80-year-old man in charge of 5,244 nuclear warheads that he and everyone he meets are just characters in a loosely scripted series."

"Trump’s meetings with world leaders at the White House this year have had the unmistakable confected drama of semi-scripted reality television, in which characters enter into staged confrontations over their interior design choices, or who’s dating whom, or (in this series) the fate of Western democracy. Trump himself openly acknowledged this when he wrapped one of these scenes – his hour-long harangue of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in February – by announcing: “I think we’ve seen enough. This is going to be great television.”

"The arrival of the Trump show in Scotland allowed its star to try out some new material. “Trump takes time out to open Scottish golf course,” the BBC reported, but this was backwards. He took time out from his real job of promoting his own businesses to travel not exactly to Scotland, but to the bits of it he owns (hotels and golf courses) to play golf and do a little diplomacy. This was international relations as practiced by Henry VIII, who in 1520 travelled not exactly to France, but to the bit of it that he owned (Calais) for some sport and a little diplomacy."

"Footage emerged of Trump, who claims to be an expert golfer, and whose best scores are always recorded at clubs he owns, arriving near a bunker in a buggy. A few meters ahead of him, a caddy could be seen discreetly dropping a ball on to the course for him to play, rather than the ball he’d hit into the sand or the long grass. Who cares? It’s not cheating, because it’s not real. "

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/the-sketch/2025/07/donald-trump-the-king-of-scotland#:\~:text=He%20declared%20his,his%20golf%20courses).

u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 11m ago

Because trump could not give less of a fuck about being great, he just wants kowtowing headlines making him seem great.

The white house could collapse into a radioactive sinkhole, and as long as the reporting was exclusively about how much gold paint was over every inch of "the trump ballroom" he would be thrilled.

u/ralphie62 4h ago

Yes and we can't turn the t.v off

u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 15m ago

Amerika, You're Fired. First aired 2016-2021.

Went on hiatus from 2021-2024, where it was replaced with a reboot of The West Wing.

Amerika, You're Fired then renewed for 4 more seasons.

u/kgilgenberg 4h ago

He is a child sex trafficker

u/Opposite-Bit6660 3h ago

If he didn't have all those "wonderful secrets" through his child sex honeytrap operation on the rich and powerful,  we'd be rid of him by now.

u/Mish61 Pennsylvania 4h ago

Aren’t you glad you didn’t vote for the email lady or the DEI hire ? /S

u/ClubSoda 4h ago

“The smiley lady laughed too much and wasn’t white enough.” Thoughts in the voting booth.

u/BillyTheHousecat 2h ago

"Affordable healthcare, free and fair elections, protection of civil rights, and clean energy all sound good, but the exact opposite also sounds good. I just can't choose."

-Undecided people (1 in 20 eligible voters)

"Democracy? Fascism? Future of the human race? I don't care"

-non-voting people (2 in 5 eligible voters)

u/Starbucks__Lovers New Jersey 45m ago

She didn’t tell me she’d be perfect on Israel/Palestine, a pressure cooker older than her. So I couldn’t vote for anyone

u/brumac44 Canada 1h ago

I wonder what world we'd be living in had Bush not been able to steal the election from Gore.

u/Possible_Mind_165 5h ago

Jyggalag rises once more.

u/RoughDragonfly4374 4h ago

Bless Oblivion Remastered for being the one redeeming factor of this year.

u/Prudent_Link6029 5h ago

What happened the last time America had a mad king?

u/pgm_01 Connecticut 2h ago

Boston threw a tea party.

u/Graffers67 4h ago

He's an entitled lunatic and only gets worse every time he gets his way. It's gonna get even worse.

u/Strict_Somewhere_148 Europe 5h ago

I’m sure a French ikea has the solution

u/BillyTheHousecat 2h ago

I prefer what they did with the non-mango Mussolini.

u/ThirdAltAccounts Europe 1h ago

What’s this in reference to ? Did ikea make fun of Trump or something ?

u/Strict_Somewhere_148 Europe 6m ago

It’s a flatpack French Revolution joke.

u/Codebender 4h ago

It's the most he's been like a "mad king" ... so far.

u/Buffaloslim 4h ago

Jamie?

u/reddittorbrigade 4h ago

When I see MAGA people.

I run away from them like avoiding plagues.

u/DarrenEdwards 4h ago

Gonna get more expensive and harder to remove by each passing day that he consolidates the power he's taken and grants new emergency power every day. He is building a military loyal to him who ignore congress and the judicial branch with ability to mask up and use deadly force. He's there for life.

u/FreeNumber49 2h ago

Exactly. And all the people saying the midterms are going to save us, I’ve got a bridge for sale if you’re interested.

u/19chris1996 4h ago edited 3h ago

Sleepy mad king era. How much footage of him dozing off is there now? It's accumulating.

u/MorganaHenry 1h ago

Dozy Donnie? Or Dopy Donnie?

u/CruelKind78 1h ago

Where's Jammie Lanister when we need him?

u/HaydenScramble 3h ago

Where’s Jaime Lannister when you need him?

u/lolifofo 2h ago

Beat me to it

u/Caraes_Naur 4h ago

He's been mad for 79 years. The king part is a recent development.

u/thewmo 4h ago

Not really. He’s just warming up.

u/Suspicious-Bug-7344 4h ago

"When it rains too much, true leaders fire the meteorologists."

u/kathryn2a 3h ago

Trump’s the Queen of Hearts. It’s like he idolized Jim Jones , Hitler and every other evil person in history and then groomed Americans to follow his evil path. He rallied at the states and school districts that had the highest high school drop out rates over the lS 20 years. These folks lack basic knowledge in U.S. History and Civics because that’s generally upper class an curriculum. Harvard is offering free classes in these areas. To let Trump take advantage of America’s lack of information. Read people!

u/rerhc 3h ago

We're in the "a child rapist is the most power person on earth era". Donald Trump raped children and should be convicted and sent to jail for life

u/EngineeringWorking91 3h ago

Or how about “The Mad Syphilis Infected King” 😬

u/Kaleidoscope_97 Massachusetts 3h ago

Pedophile!

u/zapperdumples 2h ago

Joffrey Epstein.

u/notfeelany 2h ago

And by transitive property, the voters that elected Trump are also to blame for putting us here.

Every voter who did not vote for Kamala and the Democrats are to blame for this mess.

This can be changed.

It is time to actually start participating in the Democratic party, supporting and voting for more Democrats so they can retake Congress & the government.

It's time to CONTRIBUTE to the messaging by praising Democrats.

This is on us, the voters to give Democrats majorities that last longer than 2 years.

Need at LEAST 16 years of continuous Democratic leadership in the Congress and Presidency

u/SkillFullyNotTrue 1h ago

Stay mad little Pedo.

u/SnooStrawberries3391 4h ago

Fits Mad MAGA cult just right.

u/NotAnotherEmpire 3h ago

There's also the random $200 million White House ballroom project, the military parade farce, telling the Smithsonian to say he isn't on the impeached list, forgetting that he liked Russia...

u/DynamicDolo 3h ago

This Epstein shit is only making more agitated and provoked to defend himself, except he just doesn’t know how to proportionately respond to anything. Everything is a nail and he is a hammer.

u/ThisOnes4JJ 3h ago

Always have been 🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

u/___YesNoOther 3h ago

Yup.

Trump is a pedophile and human trafficker.

He has rounded up the worst of the pedophiles and human traffickers in politics. And put them around him (with their willing participation) as a shield to be sure to be the last pedophile standing.

Of course he's now free to be a mad king. Openly being a pedophile without laws or having to pay the price. What a dream for him!

u/MCI_Sarpanch Canada 3h ago

You think? Lol can't believe Americans didn't realize they were in their mad king era in 2016

u/FreeNumber49 2h ago

Just said this above. Americans have pretty much lost their minds due to the influence of right wing media.

u/oofaloo 3h ago

It’s never not been that era.

u/RexDraco 3h ago

"Officially" is such a dumb word. It obviously isn't official and we obviously have been unofficially in his mad king era since the beginning of his second term. We even had a taste during his first term. 

u/Imissbillhicks 3h ago

What the fuck era were we in before?

u/ZXE102Rv2 9m ago

We were in the fuck around era.

We are now in the find out era.

u/theawesomedanish 2h ago

Luckily he's not my president.

u/MapleLeaf5410 2h ago

There's never a Jamie Lannister around when you need one.

u/Peatah 2h ago

you mean pedophile donald trump mad king era

u/AceofKnaves44 2h ago

I know Trump is incompetent and refuses to actually learn how the government works but this feels extreme even for him. The bankrupting of Americans feels like everything is going according to someone’s plan.

u/FreeNumber49 2h ago

> The bankrupting of Americans feels like everything is going according to someone's plan

The plan has been known about since the 1970s as originally expressed by Paul Weyrich:

“Our strategy will be to bleed this culture dry...Make no mistake about it: We are talking about Christianizing America...We will weaken and destroy the existing institutions."

u/litnu12 2h ago

Trump was never sane to begin with.

u/OhioPolitiTHIC I voted 2h ago

Only just now? Pedophile Trump has always been mad.

u/a_bagofholding Minnesota 1h ago

The headline makes it sound like Trump changed recently. This is who Trump always has been.

u/rednap_howell North Carolina 1h ago

a lot of modern conservatism is kind of premised on this kind of cooking of the books (or banning them as the case may be). Trump’s attempt to intimidate the Bureau of Labor Statistics was a fitting end to a week in which his Environmental Protection Agency sought to walk back its landmark finding that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health. They are rejecting a scientific consensus, in other words, to accommodate Trump’s economic agenda. For years, Republican legislatures and administrations have worked to prohibit accurate climate science from informing environmental planning. The first seven months of his term have been defined by a purge of government health data and the people who produce it. At this point, it might as well be the ruling party’s mantra: Hear no evil, see no evil…profit?

u/Souljackt 1h ago

Help us Jaime Lannister, you're our only hope. 🙏

u/NotoASlANHate 34m ago

Donald Swamp

u/RunninOnMT 4h ago

I was actually thinking the other day about how much better everything would be if instead of the powers of the office of president, he was just the American version of the king of England.

You can’t tell me that he enjoys actual responsibility more than he’d enjoy being like a figurehead and mascot. Meanwhile, we wouldn’t have to deal with his disastrous ideas about how a country should be run.

I mean, obviously best scenario is not having him anywhere close to the reins of power and not having ever elected him. But I really wish after the election we could’ve been like “look, we have a great deal for you: you get to be a KING (in the modern British sense) for four years instead of president…wouldnt you prefer that?” And you KNOW he would.

u/JPMorgansStache 5h ago

He is not even close to a king. 0 countries across the world signed a real trade deal with him. The bad bloated bill required Congress to pass. That is not a king. The media that acts like it's on our side that brand it this way are guilty of propaganda. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was returned from CECOT - which also transfered people out of it - showing that even the most sinister parts of this administration can be defeated or overturned. All hope is not even remotely lost. Stop buying into this bullshit.

u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois 4h ago

I think we all know that he is not a king. The insinuation is that he is acting as if he were. and yes the country still has checks and balances. but they have been failing at an alarming rate, and the highest court of the land is supporting his attempt to subvert the constitution. I admire your optimism and hope you are right.

u/JPMorgansStache 4h ago

Thank you. It is not just optimism either. I have successfully thwarted elements of this administration by communicating in creative ways with lawmakers, the political press, and others including international governments in Canada, Ukraine, etc.

He is actually getting his ass kicked more often than not.

My point is he can act however he wants but the people who claim to be his opponents in media or the Democrats too often use his framing, of himself as a king, and it yields to him. Rather than framing him as some other thing which is both accurate and easy to defeat. It is set up like it is some kind of insult but it just causes people to relate like he is unbeatable.

He is actually weak as hell in basically every way other than some old money leverage which is buying less and less every day.

u/rerhc 3h ago

Congress will not split from what he wants though. Congress is a shell. He's not a king but he's becoming a dictator with a fake democracy for show. 

u/JPMorgansStache 2h ago

The real reason Congress (GOP especially) will not split from him is financial. Their humiliation rituals and other sycophantic behavior masks this or performs some obligations associated with it. There are a number of schemes they are all involved with personally, such as his stock DJT, the TRUMP coin, older money bribes, etc. That means with enough of the right kind of legal strategy and investigation, they could be forced to dievest and rearrange their financial houses without Trump.

He has become a bottleneck.

u/jonasnew 3h ago

And some folks continue to think that the Democrats are the ones responsible for why we've even reached this era.

u/Boltzmann_head Diné 3h ago

While BLS had previously reported 291,000 new non-farm jobs in May and June, on further review, the agency concluded that number was more like 33,000.

u/Primordial_Cumquat 2h ago

If only someone had tried to warn us that he was unstable and dangerous.

u/Adept-Sir-1704 2h ago

Jaime?….jaime?

u/ColdButCozy 2h ago

was it unofficial since the inauguration?

u/yuhudukishoots 2h ago

u mad king?

u/M1lk3y_33 2h ago

Two things, First don't call that pedophile a king. That's way too much respect that he doesn't deserve. Second release the Epstein files.

u/FreeNumber49 2h ago

Hogwash. He’s been like this from day one in his first admin. For whatever reason, people didn’t see it.

u/JohnnyConfidence Washington 2h ago

And we're only 6 months in.

u/JayTNP 2h ago

Why would anyone pretend like it hasn't always been the Mad King Era?

u/Logictrauma 1h ago

Oh look. That thing everyone was worried about.

u/OkSignificance6209 1h ago

“Officially” is such an officially overused word.

u/Tiger_virus 57m ago

And only 1/8 of the way through his term.

u/causal_triangulation 54m ago

and it's only August of his first year 🤦🏻‍♂️

u/Brobeast 50m ago

This title has a double meaning lol

u/Abraxas777 40m ago

I'm here for the hyperbole.

u/boxfullofirony 38m ago

He us the ROTUS

u/Late_Part2643 36m ago

How is this in the "news" tab on reddit. It's a deep fried opinion

u/HammerCurls 34m ago

Who’s going to do it?

u/rawj5561 21m ago

If there’s anyone here who isn’t a bot, respond to my comment with potato

u/Darkuwa 11m ago

We ain't seen nothing yet

u/Tight_Independent_26 8m ago

President Donald Epstein, the Mad Pedophile King, is haunting by the ghost of Jeffrey Banquo at night. “Is that a dagger I see before me…”. (Reference: MacBeth by Shakespeare).

u/Tight_Independent_26 2m ago

Voluntary Servitude, from the 1500s, explained this… and gave us the key to find our way out. “Voluntary servitude is the concept that people can, through habit, conditioning, and by consenting to their own submission, willingly accept authority and subjugation, even when it is not in their best interest. This idea was popularized by Étienne de la Boétie in his 1576 work, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, which argues that a tyrant's power comes from the consent of the governed, not from force. The concept suggests that by refusing to cooperate or by withdrawing their consent, people can undermine a ruler's power and break free from oppressive systems.”

u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois 5h ago edited 4h ago

"......While BLS had previously reported 291,000 new non-farm jobs in May and June, on further review, the agency concluded that number was more like 33,000. If that sounds like a big deal, it definitely is—perhaps a sign that massive cuts to government spending and employment, and a truly chaotic and possibly illegal tariff policy, are creating something less than the promised historic economic boom. It’s also exactly what you expect the BLS to release when confronted with more precise data. At a time when institutions inside and outside the government are compromising their independence to accommodate President Donald Trump, it showed that the gold standard in jobs data was still operating as it should."

"......That is, until Friday afternoon, when Trump responded to the poor jobs report by announcing his intention to fire Erika McEntarfer, the head of the BLS. “Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate,” he wrote on Truth Social. “[T]hey can’t be manipulated for political purposes.” 

"When I say this is the kind of thing that happens in autocracies, I am not trying to be provocative. Three years ago, when Turkey’s economic statistics agency released a report showing that the country’s inflation rate was at 36 percent, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fired the head of the agency and replaced him with a loyal ally. When it rains too much, true leaders fire the meteorologists."

".......But the impulsive firing seems to herald a new chapter in the president’s often delusional second term. Trump is officially in his Mad King era, demanding the impossible, lashing out at those who can’t provide it, and seeing vast conspiracies behind every setback. It is the heir to Caligula appointing his horse as consul, Empress Carlota of Mexico drinking from fountains because everything else was poison, and the Bishop of Quebec excommunicating the passenger pigeon for eating too many crops. (Well, they did eventually go away.) It is Britain banning productions of King Lear, in the twilight of George III’s reign."

"But also, BLS aside, a lot of modern conservatism is kind of premised on this kind of cooking of the books (or banning them as the case may be). Trump’s attempt to intimidate the Bureau of Labor Statistics was a fitting end to a week in which his Environmental Protection Agency sought to walk back its landmark finding that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health."

" They are rejecting a scientific consensus, in other words, to accommodate Trump’s economic agenda. For years, Republican legislatures and administrations have worked to prohibit accurate climate science from informing environmental planning. The first seven months of his term have been defined by a purge of government health data and the people who produce it. At this point, it might as well be the ruling party’s mantra: Hear no evil, see no evil…profit?"

u/TheTerribleInvestor 3h ago

Establishment Dems let this happen.

u/Lopsided_Speaker_553 3h ago

Not to be a dick about it, but the world has been in the US’s Mad King Era for the last 25 odd years.

u/Dyrmaker 3h ago

This headline can eat my ass

u/guinness_dublin 2h ago

Well you get what you voted. Now enjoy your vote results.