@randahl Donald Trump is a compulsive liar. He calls it Truthful Hyperbole— basically, an oxymoron to justify his lies.

I first read about it in ≈2016, here: [1] https://aphilosopher.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/trump-truthful-hyperbole/

I just read this one, too (looking for the above):
[2] https://archive.thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-may-sound-like-a-clown-but-he-is-a-rhetoric-pro-like-cicero-ac40fd1cda79/

“An emotional speaker always makes his audience feel with him, even when there is nothing in his arguments; which is why many speakers try to overwhelm their audience by mere noise.” — Aristotle, Rhetoric. [2]

@randahl Yeah I call bullshit too. He's such an ASS.

@randahl https://mastodon.social/@Om_Krishna/117287048663129634

@randahl The Guardian is reporting as a deal:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/united-states-denmark-greenland-security

@randahl I think there's a key typo... they surely meant to write 'Americaland' instead of the "outdated" name more people are familiar with, on this "In other news, we should try to distract the populace from all the insanity with a brief interlude of... insanity..." announcement...
#Interrupt
#Confuse
#Escalate
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@randahl What's the difference between Trump and a flying pig?
The "f".

@randahl i guess it's like macron in france that accepted to increase "drug" price over phone at the gallery of glass (when macron don't word here, it's a tourist spot, and was actually outside of France and said he did not talk to trump that week ... and that he don't have the constitutional or legal power to change drugs price)

Since trump showed he can "invent" discussion once i guess it the same here.

@randahl

He's a lying sack of shit. He and the lying liars who enable him are never not lying.

@randahl

Something seems to be afoot. From the Danish Statsministeriet, in Danish and English:

https://x.com/Statsmin/status/2101063203862057308?s=20

Not too informative, however.

@randahl

Something seems to be afoot, anyway. From the Danish Statsministeriet:
https://x.com/Statsmin/status/2101063203862057308?s=20

Not too informative, however.

@randahl

Trump is using standard "smoke & mirrors" advertising tactics to persuade his billionaires, foreign & domestic, to open their wallets again.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-pal-ronald-lauder-is-cutting-off-the-gop.html

He's target marketing to Ron Lauder especially.

Lauder cut off the GOP because Putin's war on Ukraine is thwarting his lithium grift.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/ronald-lauder-billionaire-donor-donald-trump-ukraine-greenland

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/why-buy-greenland-trump-annex-ronald-lauder-manifest-destiny/

There will be lots more announcements like these as Trump trades foreign policy & trade wars to his billionaires, foreign & domestic.

@randahl The BBC and CBC have reported on it already.

Something is rotten in Denmark.

@randahl I think they just have the rights they already have and that no opponent may do the same, it's very likely the text is not that dramatic but we will see

@randahl does anyone believe a word that comes out of his mouth at this point??

@randahl
It's on TV2 nyhederne now, apparently the agreement has been written, and now the Danish politicians need to read it before signing, but the date they will sign it has already been set.

Ok, TV2 may have been slightly more diplomatic, but that's what I got out of it.

@randahl

I see this on the German news as well, and if it's true I'm wondering if the Danish government is out of their minds now...

@randahl "and all other needs" "we will help Greenland in its development and construction", the claim is much better than just security, he's talking about full control, a takeover in all but name.

I highly doubt he got any agreement of the sort.

But i mean, trump lying? what are the odds of THAT?

@randahl Did you know, Randahl, that the word "gullible" is not an entry in any major US dictionary?

@randahl they will never learn how to deal with a bully. For now only two democratic countries did it as it should: Spain and Canada

@randahl as always, he's fucking lying.

He is insane and needs to be removed.

@randahl How do you know he's lying, because his orange lips are moving.

@randahl The whole text doesn't give any details, so I guess Trump just learned that they have been allowed to build military bases in Greenland for more than 50 years.

@randahl This is what Reuters is writing. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-denmark-close-greenland-deal-sources-say-2026-09-18/

@randahl it's like his deals with Iran and the end to the Ukraine war... just how much corruption can be done while he is in power, afterwards gop will blame the trumpery man for everything.