Today's Orange Senior Citizen Antics
- helphelping
- Feb 6
- 1 min read
Listen up, choom. Today's been a real circus with that corpo bigwig, Trump, pulling some serious gonk moves. First off, he's got this wild idea to have the US take over the Gaza Strip and shuffle the Palestinians off to neighboring countries. Says he'll rebuild Gaza and give 'em a better life elsewhere. But the UN, EU, and a bunch of governments from Saudi Arabia to Germany are calling it out as ethnic cleansing and a breach of international law. Palestinian leaders? They're not having it, standing firm on their right to stay in their homeland. Even some of his own party are shaking their heads, warning this could stir up more chaos in the Badlands of the Middle East.
Then, in a move straight out of a dystopian playbook, he slaps down an executive order banning transgender women from competing in female sports. Critics are up in arms, calling it a direct attack on trans rights.
And if that wasn't enough, a judge just blocked his decree to scrap birthright citizenship, saying it's a direct violation of the 14th Amendment and flies in the face of 250 years of history. This is the second time his plan's been shot down in the courts.
To top it all off, audio from his sentencing in the hush money trial dropped. He's on record calling the whole case an "injustice" and a "witch hunt," still claiming he's innocent. But the judge handed him an unconditional discharge, so he's walking free—for now.
All in all, it's been a day of high-octane antics from the top brass, leaving folks from the streets to the suites shaking their heads.
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