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President Donald Trump’s administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20251210120244/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-threatens-new-icc-sanctions-unless-court-pledges-not-prosecute-trump-2025-12-10/

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  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    1 day ago

    What is the deal with this orange orangutan? The rightwing conservative movement can throw him under the bus and get a new idiot to lead their movement … so why hang the fate of your movement on this moron? Seriously … they could find a younger, stronger more charismatic individual to lead them that would be ten times more dangerous than this aging orange deformed sea lion.

    • Lodespawn@aussie.zoneEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      MAGA and charisma don’t really seem to have any overlap. Miller is some kind ghouls, Vance is charmless schlub, Hegseth is a Neonazi used car salesman, Bondi is the Karen meme brought to life, Patel is clearly some kind of moron in spite of somehow achieving a law degree, Kennedy is also some sort of Nepo-moron, Oz is a scheister and snake oil salesman … it goes on.

      You could look outside the admin but even those clowns have the likeability of a building site portaloo. Like what the fuck is wrong with Jesse Watters? He looks like a possessed ventriloquist dummy and he has the morals of someone who is devoid of a soul. Musk and Theil are detached from reality, I mean Theil is literally running around given lectures on the end times.

      Kirk was about as close as they seem to be able to get to a functioning human being and his ideas and morals were straight out of Mein Kampf and the KKK code of conduct.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      In theory they could and I think that’s what they were setting Kirk to be once Trump croaks, but then his neck did that thing. A lot of the problem is that the current crop of right wingers both the base and the leaders are fucking lunatics that are broadly crippled by their own egos and madness.

      Just look at their propagandists, it’s gone from Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh to fucken Asmingold and Catturd. Sure the old ones were still just as horrific and stupid but at least they vaguely attempted to be respectable. I think this devolution has been broadly effective across the board, from the highest elements like Musk and Thiel to the lowest dregs listening to some inane podcaster on the way to work.

      I legit don’t think they have anyone outside of Trump who can rally their base on a unified level anymore, so they stick to him hoping they can solidify their gains before the whole damned thing implodes.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          I think Carlson is a bit too IDK weak, timid, insecure. Don’t quite have the wording for it but one of the big advantages Trump has that most of his potential replacements don’t is that his narcissism is so all encompassing that he comes across as strong to them. Mind you that’s just self assurance and it’s equivalent to a sleazy used car salesman but it is a notable difference.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      The aging sea lion enables the Stephen Millers to go about their nasty business while everyone is looking elsewhere. That’s one way he’s dangerous. The other is that he’s a threatened malignant narcissist with dementia and diminishing impulse control, and one of the world’s most powerful armies.