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The president snapped after watching a TV show he didn’t like and said CBS should lose its license.

Donald Trump on Sunday called for “maximum fines and punishment” against CBS and its corporate parent, Paramount, over Sunday night’s “60 Minutes” broadcast.

In two separate posts on his Truth Social website, Trump complained about the show’s interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris last year ― which he is suing the company over ― and railed against Sunday night’s reports on Greenland and the war in Ukraine.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 2 hours ago

Trump: 60 Minutes is all lies and hate!

Faux News: Yeah, that's our thing!

[–] Zess@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

His tweets read like Donald Trump putting his own words into an LLM that edits text to sound like Donald Trump. Like he typed his normal nonsense into ChatGPT and said "make it sound smart but still like Donald Trump."

[–] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 18 points 8 hours ago

Endless reports of Trump melting down. Nothing about real news or change.

So sick of seeing that cheetoh-face dim-wit puppet. Dreaming of times when we never see it again.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 7 hours ago

What could this guy do that could be illegal and punishable? What?

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"Truth, Justice and the American Way!" Changed to "Money, Easy Money and Stolen Money...but only for all my friends!".

[–] Liberteez@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

Free means all. Rise or fall.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 100 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Blatant threats of government retaliation against private citizens.

Clear violation of the First Amendment.

And nothing will happen.

Fuck Trump.

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 86 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hitler was notorious for his temper tantrums. He is confirmed to have watched Charlie Chaplin's iconic 1940 film 'Thr Great Dictator' but never said or wrote what he thought of it. Charlie Chaplin said that he would have given anything to know what he thought of it.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Trump is born almost exactly 1 year later after hitlers death coincidence? Reincarnation baby, no quick saves.

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[–] Gregg@lemm.ee 303 points 1 day ago (2 children)

“This is why we can’t elect women to power! They are too emotionally unstable and we’ll be in WW3 within a month!”

-Sexist chuds

Yeah, about that…

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 86 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's because, for some reason, people don't treat anger like an emotion

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

*male anger. Angry women are still emotional and hysterical.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago

Or rather they consider anger to be an emotion of strength, rather than one of fear

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 19 points 1 day ago

Yep, thank God A WOMAN doesn't have the nuclear codes. Just imagine how scary that would be.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 223 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Does anyone else remember when "senile old man yells at the TV" wasn't relevant political news*? I do. Can we please go back to those times?

Oh, pre-2016, how I miss you.

(It's relevant because he has toadies in place to enforce his insane whims).

I remember when hearing from the president was special and they would prepare a statement or speech. It made news because it was important and rare.

Now it's a multiple times a day occurrence of verbal diarrhea.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

She wore a tan suit too

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

We need to protect these 60 minutes people. They’re very brave and patriotic. We owe them protection for their service to America right now

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 66 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 117 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Softest President of all time. Like wet paper.

[–] opus86@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago

He's 10 ply. Soft AF.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'd call him President Wetwipe, but those are actually useful.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 129 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (15 children)

He urged FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who was named to the position by Trump, to deliver “substantial” penalties to the network for what he called “unlawful and illegal behavior.”

“CBS is out of control, at levels never seen before, and they should pay a big price for this,” he wrote.

In Trump's mind, saying something he doesn't want you to say is "unlawful and illegal". And since both Congress and the Supreme Court have decided that he is never wrong, and law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial, that is the de facto reality.

law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial

This is fucked up and it's terrifying that's the new reality

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[–] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 day ago

“They are not a ‘News Show,’ but a dishonest Political Operative simply disguised as ‘News’”

Shocked pikachu used “projecting”

[–] NoNotLikeThat@lemm.ee 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

“They are not a ‘News Show,’ but a dishonest Political Operative simply disguised as ‘News,’ and must be responsible for what they have done, and are doing,” the president wrote.

Isn't this clown being sued by the same firm that sued Fox "News" and won?

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 94 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Cluster B personality disorders, specifically Narcissistic types, aren’t keen on truth, they create their own “truth” and gaslight anyone who contradicts that personal “truth”. Allegedly.

Cluster B, both borderline and narcissistic types, fear exposure of who and what they really are at baseline. The difference is a borderline will turn that anger and madness inward, possibly to the point of self harm and suicide, while the narcissistic type will turn that anger and vitriol at the source of potential or real exposure of truth. Allegedly.

[–] residentoflaniakea@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It gets even weirder: a narcissists sense of reality checking is impaired such that they are unable to accept facts that contradict their viewpoint. If their statements/opinions collide with reality, they dismiss it as they hold themselves above reality. They don't / can't learn as this would imply there are gaps in their knowledge and whoever is the messenger of such contradicting facts will incur wrath to allow them to heal, no matter how tactful this is brought to them. Narcissists don't lie (in their mind) and this is akin to something like psychosis or delusion. This is different from psychopaths who are aware of their lies but the motivation differs in that a psychopath does it for external gain (to obtain a goal) whereas narcissists do this for internal gains (so called narcissists supply - feeding the ego). One could speculate that a narcissistic autocrat and his followers (Trump and MAGAs) suffer from shared psychosis.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The real pity is as damaging as narcissistic personality disorder is, few get treatment because they’re just sane enough most of the time to not be institutionalized, even temporarily.

Vs borderlines who get there by virtue of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and self harm.

The real damage of using OCD, ADHD, and narcissist outside of truly diagnosable situations has no doubt been realized in the complete absence of recognition in the present political climate. So now we have a social movement based on one narcissist’s self constructed reality. Allegedly.

[–] residentoflaniakea@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Narcissists don't seek treatment as this would imply they're imperfect, however destructive their lives are. On the other hand we don't force treatment on people unless they are an immediate physical threat to someone or themselves. Another aspect, you alluded to, is culture. In the west, especially the US there is a reverence toward these types of behaviour that are in line of the traits seen with overt narcissists. Kind of a positive feedback loop wherein these types filter towards the top of whatever organisation. I believe Musk is narcissistic aswell, and I doubt he is truly autistic. (I think he is self diagnosed, and normally I refrain from gatekeeping, however, I believe he is self aware enough to figure something is different about him and he mistakenly attributed these aberrations in his personality for autism instead of narcissism - I might be wrong though.) Having these two characters in power does not bode well for our civilisation. It makes me nauseous to think that they themselves are unable to recognise the destruction they are bringing onto the world.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago

This next statement is not intended as disparaging to anyone diagnosed with autism. I do think there are some individuals who will disparage autistic individuals by using a self diagnosis of autism as an excuse for crappy behavior.

Remember, if the Behind the Bastards journalist is to be believed, Elon grew up without friends. That experience alone may account for some the aberrant behavior we see.

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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"maximum fines and punishment"

Sure. Those are both 0, jackass.

He should just go ahead and have that stroke he's been foreshadowing for years.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the 60 minutes in question?

https://youtu.be/odFTqgm0984

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Trump needs to be removed from office and we should be out in the streets calling for nothing less

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This guy has himself surrounded by yes men and is locked into his own disinformation bubble for most of the time. Getting a glimpse of what people who aren't kissing his ass really are thinking about him must have been quite the whiplash for his tiny sick mind to take.

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[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Guys why are you talking bad about the supreme leader? He'll arrest you and starve your family.

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