Donald Trump huffed and puffed online after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore challenged him to walk the streets of his state.

The 79-year-old president lashed out on Truth Social on Sunday at Moore’s “nasty and provocative” invitation three days earlier to join him for some light cardio in Baltimore, calling the city a “crime disaster” and threatening to deploy National Guard troops.

Trump was so angry about the public safety walk invitation that he suggested he may pull federal support for rebuilding the city’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed last year.

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    The first man to bankrupt three casinos will soon be the president who bankrupted the military budget with all these useless deployments.

    I hope as a side effect of this nonsense that cops everywhere feel emasculated, knowing that Trump holds them in such little regard that he feels the need to send in the national guard to do their jobs for them.

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    Starting to look like the safest mode of assassination of that man would be to just yell “BOO!” when he’s not expecting it, and then let his failing physiology do the rest of the work.

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    Is anyone else tired of all the “Trump Melts Down About…” and “Trump Rages Over…” articles?

    I guarantee you he’s not melting down or raging in the slightest. He owns an entire country. He’s sleeping like a baby.

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      I’ve been tired of it since 2016.

      The worst part is whenever you see some subjective word use like this, and then you dig into the actual source event or material, 99% of the time, it’s absolutely nothing. Oh, did T “melt down” by tweeting in all caps? Ah yes, so rare, an occurrence. And not just articles about him, but usually articles about his reaction as being something crazy or whatever suffer from this kind of hyperbole.

      Also in the same category are articles with “will” or “can” or some other version of “maybe maybe maybe” or “likely to” in the headline. 99% of the time, no it won’t. It’s just a workaround for Betteridge’s law of headlines (any headline with a question mark can be answered “no”) that any article that suggests something might happens can be answered with “nah, probably not.”

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      Heavily funded PR team provides fiery response on Trump-owned social media to keep nation distracted and divided as rights are stripped and Russian plans to cause civil war and demolish nation come to fruition

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      fucking meidastouch with their hyperbolic headlines

      like, guys, maybe in sane times this would be a bombshell revelation ending his career. but these are not those times. this is yet another nothingburger that nobody will care about

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    How is the tone offensive to Trump? He just invited him for a safety patrol. No slander, no negative tone. Wtf.

    Trump is so damn soft, man. How do these Alpha male types follow such a bitch? 🤣 🤣

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    I’ve always heard that Trump is charismatic but I really can’t see it, he talks like a dementia patient and behaves like a toddler.

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      He clearly is charismatic - the results speak for themselves. I’m with you though, even way back in 2015 all I could see is an obvious conman.

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      If you’ve heard that Trump was charismatic, you’ve been listening to morons.

      Also, he’s a child rapist.

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      I think he used to have dumbass sleazy used car salesman charisma at some point, it started to break down sometimes around 2017 and at this point he is drifting off of momentum and cult think.

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      He isn’t charismatic … his money is … or at least the idea of him having actual money that he might (but never) share is charismatic

      He’s more of a vector for cerebral hemorrhage … every time any human gets close to him, people lose their minds and think he’s actually important

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    Someone remind him that it’s not his money,

    Trump was so angry about the public safety walk invitation that he suggested he may pull federal support for rebuilding the city’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed last year.

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      Could always do what that town did during the Cold War, and ask Russia to fund the reconstruction.

      For the unaware, Vulcan West Virginia was a tiny coal mining town that had been trying to get a bridge built for a few years, but the state was dragging their feet on funding. The town was only accessible via a private gravel footpath (that was technically off limits to the public, since it was owned by the local railway company,) and a small footbridge that was in shambles. For years, the town had been begging the state to build a proper bridge. But the state was reluctant to build a bridge that wouldn’t see a lot of use.

      In 1975, the suspension footbridge collapsed, meaning the only remaining way in or out of town was to trespass on the railway’s gravel road. So that town contacted the USSR, and asked them to fund the new bridge. The USSR never actually responded, but the town also contacted the news… And the Soviet reporters jumped at the chance to make “US town seeking humanitarian aid from USSR” headlines.

      Suddenly, the state announced that they had money to build the bridge. The announcement came on the same day that a Russian reporter traveled to Vulcan to interview the residents. The official story from the state was that the bridge had been planned for months, and it simply took time to get the ball rolling… But everyone knew that the state was simply embarrassed into funding the bridge.

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      “I’M THE KING! I CAN DO WHAT I WANT!”

      “Any man who must say ‘I am king’ is no true king.”

      Plus, we don’t have kings here. At some point enough people are going to remember that.

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    Is anyone else tired of all the “Trump Melts Down About…” and “Trump Rages Over…” articles?

    I guarantee you he’s not melting down or raging in the slightest. He owns an entire country. He’s sleeping like a baby.

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    1 it’s not his money. He didn’t pay anything.

    2 he should be saying our counties legislative system will make the Dali’s insurance pay for the damages and/or ask Congress to set laws that restrict any shipping vessel large enough to cause such damages carry insurance that can pay for the full extent of their damages or they aren’t able to ship to our ports.

    That would up shipping costs, sure. But isn’t that what his administration wants, less international trade and forcing the country to become less dependent on foreign countries?

    Oops oil, coal, gas costs went up, and long term it yet again would be cheaper for local renewable energy. As 40% of shipping is just bringing oil/coal/gas from one port to another. When the solar panels are in your state, county, city, neighborhood, or on your property, “shipping costs” drop drastically.

    Someone crashed into a power line, entire blocks/neighborhoods could go down, except if those solar panels are on your roof, maybe just switch to your batteries and have localized power till the power comes back on, then switch it back to the grid. Tornado destroys 5 houses, bring what you need to your neighbors after and still have a refrigerator and air conditioning while you sort out what to do next in heat that’s only getting worse.

    The people who think that people aren’t accelerating global warming still usually accept the idea that the planet is getting warmer.