Trumps Latest Insults are a Disgrace.

[Leicesterbaggie]

I do think that our government should officially request an apology from Trump. This will not happen of course because Starmer has not got the bottle to do so and the word apology is not in Trumps vocabulary.

A question I would also like Trump to be asked is why he avoided the draft on five occasions. I know, because he is a COWARD.

[kettering_baggie]

That man is complete FKin Idiot I wish that Bullet had gone through his head & out the other side in stead of his ear ,

It possibly did, in one ear and out of the other, nothing in between to damage.

[TipperaryBaggie]

Starmer has condemned his statement but if you think that he will ring him up and demand an apology, you're living in cloud cuckoo land!

[kettering_baggie]

Nobody will take any notice of Starmer anyway, he’s an absolutely nonentity of a man, ought to be ejected from office. Trump’s comments, were of course appalling but he’ll take no notice of Starmer, just like everyone else.

[Omegstrat6]

James O'Brien had an interesting analysis of Starmer's handling of Trump. Domestically, he has lots to criticise him for (who doesnt!) but regarding Trump, he struggles to see if he could have handled the Orange One any better. It's easy for Badenoch or Davy to say they would have been far stronger in their public denouncements of Trump because they are not PM.

O'Brien borrowed the analogy of Starmer trying to ride two horses, one of which is to take a diplomatic, softer, tone in order to try and persuade Trump to climb down from his threats around Greenland or tariffs and to keep him onside about any Ukraine settlement, the other is to stand up to him on issues and begin to forge stronger ties with the EU, Canada and other long time allies as well, perhaps, as engaging more with China in order to wean ourselves off an increasingly unreliable US partner.

Starmer has been quite successful in riding that first horse, not least because of Trump's TACO inclinations but even he must surely be aware that continuing to have to attempt to try and soothe the temper tantrums of this toddler POTUS is not sustainable long term and that with Trump's propensity for changing course dependent on who has his ear last, any agreements made with him are inherently fragile at best. Ultimately, he may have to elect to ride just that second horse.

A further consideration that O'Brien raised-and he isn't the only one to have done so-is the Suez factor. The 1956 debacle demonstrated once and for all the harsh reality that Britain was no longer a world power. Yes, her recent experience of Empire and of being on the right side at the end of WW2 meant that our voice was still respected on the world stage but we had no real "hard" military might to back up any "soft power" we retained. The following decades have only decreased our power and, more recently, Trump's weakening of NATO and Brexit have left us only further isolated.

For those who say our responses to Trump, or Putin or Xi Jinping have been too weak, I sympathise, but the reality is that, alone, we ARE weak so why would any of these authoritarian leaders listen to us? We can, of course, still strive to be a voice of reason on the world stage but we have no big stick to back up any softly spoken words.

In today's world, we cannot afford to be alone either economically or militarily and closer ties with our existing allies in Europe, Canada and Australia for example surely have to be strengthened. In the light of Russian aggression and an unreliable US under Trump, we may not like the regime but it might be prudent to also strengthen economic ties with China.

[kettering_baggie]

The point is, we need a leader, we don’t have one.

[Omegstrat6]

James O'Brien had an interesting analysis of Starmer's handling of Trump. Domestically, he has lots to criticise him for (who doesnt!) but regarding Trump, he struggles to see if he could have handled the Orange One any better. It's easy for Badenoch or Davy to say they would have been far stronger in their public denouncements of Trump because they are not PM. Criticise the Orange One too loudly and he is likely to have a knee jerk reaction and retaliate in temper.

O'Brien borrowed the analogy of Starmer trying to ride two horses, one of which is to take a diplomatic, softer, tone in order to try and persuade Trump to climb down from his threats around Greenland or tariffs and to keep him onside about any Ukraine settlement, the other is to stand up to him on issues and begin to forge stronger ties with the EU, Canada and other long time allies as well, perhaps, as engaging more with China in order to wean ourselves off an increasingly unreliable US partner.

Starmer has been quite successful in riding that first horse, not least because of Trump's TACO inclinations but even he must surely be aware that continuing to have to attempt to try and soothe the temper tantrums of this toddler POTUS is not sustainable long term and that with Trump's propensity for changing course dependent on who has his ear last, any agreements made with him are inherently fragile at best. Ultimately, he may have to elect to ride just that second horse.

A further consideration that O'Brien raised-and he isn't the only one to have done so-is the Suez factor. The 1956 debacle demonstrated once and for all the harsh reality that Britain was no longer a world power. Yes, her recent experience of Empire and of being on the right side at the end of WW2 meant that our voice was still respected on the world stage but we had no real "hard" military might to back up any "soft power" we retained. The following decades have only decreased our power and, more recently, Trump's weakening of NATO and Brexit have left us only further isolated.

For those who say our responses to Trump, or Putin or Xi Jinping have been too weak, I sympathise, but the reality is that, alone, we ARE weak so why would any of these authoritarian leaders listen to us? We can, of course, still strive to be a voice of reason on the world stage but we have no big stick to back up any softly spoken words.

In today's world, we cannot afford to be alone either economically or militarily and closer ties with our existing allies in Europe, Canada and Australia for example surely have to be strengthened. In the light of Russian aggression and an unreliable US under Trump, we may not like the regime but it might be prudent to also strengthen economic ties with China.

[baggieal]

Al, we know you love Trump.

You feign it, but you do. You start sentences with 'I'm not a Trump fan, but........'

Can we finally agree that Trump in a complete imbecile. And his mate Farage is one too?

The only benefit of all this shenanigans is that Farage's popularity in this country might dip. But having said that, look at the stupidity of his voter base.

As for Starmer, I actually think he's done well here. He's competent and he's provided a measured reaction in the circumstances.

God help us if Farage, Boris or Truss were in power now.

The point is, we need a leader, we don’t have one.

Gutless Starmer says everyone will have more money in their pockets in 2026. Was he referring to those with more than two kids or the thousands arriving daily given luxuries our homeless can only dream about?

[Omegstrat6]

"Behold: The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an Ill-fitting suit; the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the ***ism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul-all spray-painted Orange and paraded like a prize hog at a country fair.

Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been-arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition and corruption worshipped like a gospel.

It is America's shadow made flesh; a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power and spite, it doesn't just lose it's soul-it ****s out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader"

Oliver Kornetzke, US writer and historian on Trump, August 2025.

Nuff said?

[Johnny on the spot 1]

It possibly did, in one ear and out of the other, nothing in between to damage.

Funny ketts , oh that man pisses me off big style .