When did Americans prioritize the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico or taking over Greenland as campaign issues?

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/would-trump-have-won-election-with.html

It would be difficult to speculate, with the American electorate in such a condition as it is now, lied to by the media, wrapped up in one specific, one-sided media bubble or another, without a lot of facts from which to discern what's true, as to whether Trump's sudden recurring, repeated themes, which have deviated considerably from the attacks on transgendered persons, and exaggerations of the President's ability to control retail prices, would have been winning campaign themes. People are so ignorant, stupid and blind to reality, all they see is the name, "Trump," and he gets their vote.

So this craziness, which would be funny if it were part of a skit on Saturday Night Live, but instead is dangerous and fearsome because the senile old man who spouts it off as if it were a recording being replayed over and over is about to enter the most powerful political office in the world, is being treated by the news media with as much of a straight face as they can muster. It's business as usual, as far as they are concerned, and if the topics sound like a comedy routine from a late night variety show, well, that's just news.

The news conference Trump gave at Mar-a-Lago a couple of days ago was quite telling. Whoever does his make-up is having a difficult time hiding his aged appearance. He has difficulty focusing when anyone else is speaking, and no matter what was said, he has specific themes that get played, as if he's trying to remember his best applause lines from his rallies. In the middle of some real whoppers, which are easy to detect from the tone of voice, facial expression and hand gestures that accompany every lie he tells, it was hard not to laugh. And then, every time I laugh, I'm forced to remember that in 12 days, this man will be sitting in the Oval Office, behind the resolute desk, with his finger on the nuclear trigger.

And, with his finger on every other trigger of the power of the Presidency. How can we emphasize and underline the fact that we are in real trouble, since that simple phrase sounds to trite and casual to express realistically exactly how bad it is.

[sop]

1. We'll know he's gone round the bend when he starts talking about changing the Rio Grande to the Bigly River.

[Aussie105]

2. People haven't caught on yet . . .

Trump is doing his best to role play what he believes makes him look like a strong leader.

His plans, threats or whatever you want to call them, are also meant to keep you off balance.
Don't play his game.
He has made so many unworkable promises in the past you should have learnt by now, judge him by is deeds and the actions of his enablers and not his words.

I'm envisaging 4 years of influential people forming two circles around him.
The inner circle faces Trump and tells him what a great job he is doing of being a 'strong leader', while the outer circle faces the public and assures the citizens of the world everything is or will be, ok.

America has survived deranged rulers before.

[lees1975]

3. I can only think of a couple of deranged, or senile, Presidents

Reagan had alzheimers when he ran for his second term, but that never got out. Then there was Tricky Dick. Bush was just plain stupid. Jackson would have made the news if he'd been in this century.

[travelingthrulife]

5. He is probably very serious. He thinks he's a master dealmaker, everyone tells

him he is. Putin has mentioned taking over the world one by one so he thinks he can make a deal to purchase Greenland.

[tulipsandroses]

4. MAGA will go along with it. It's a cult

I have no doubt they will justify every insane thing he does. The “but the price of eggs folks” may realize they have been duped.