The Excursion to End All Excursions

[martybegan]

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"You know, they have this new word called
'affordability'!"​

Trump's limited vocabulary and desperate need to characterize anything that serves his agenda in superlatives ("beautiful" festoons his self-promotions as if it were a bucket of gold paint slathered indiscriminately) can result in some relentless, tortured syntactical locutions.

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Trump has a new word fixation, but it appears he does not fully understand its meaning — and members of his staff seem less-than-reluctant to tell him.​

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In the last week, Trump, 79, has used the word “excursion” dozens of times to describe his unauthorized war in Iran. He often makes a waving hand motion to describe what he apparently means.​

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The word “excursion” usually refers to a quick, leisurely vacation, but the president has applied that to describe his deadly war.​

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Some Trump aids... they believe Trump has confused the term “military incursion,” which is defined as invasion or attack, especially a sudden or brief one, with a “military excursion.”​

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Sources said that they or their coworkers have used the term “incursion” in front of Trump, which is where he may have picked up the term, but Trump is playing loose with the word’s definition.​

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“We took a little excursion because we felt we had to, to get rid of some evil, and I think you’ll see it’s going to be a short-term excursion,” Trump said Tuesday from his Doral, Florida resort.​

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“We did a little excursion, we had to take this couple weeks, few weeks of excursion,” Trump said the next day at a factory in Ohio.​

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Some officials in the White House said that they are afraid to correct the president on his gaffe, and others said a correction wouldn’t even matter.​

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“I’m not telling him,” one administration official told Zeteo, implying that correcting Trump would be “a fool’s errand,” and that “doing so would likely get them yelled at.”​

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Wasn't it William Tecumseh Sherman who famously opined, "An excursion is hell," highlighting the brutal and devastating nature of a seaside picnic?​

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Presumably, Trump would have dubbed the allied forces landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944 as "a day at the beach."​

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Getting all worked up over semantics, typical TDS dipshit.

 

[Rawley]

Those red numbers will drag the whole party down. Even the Rasmussen approval is only 44% and they only poll Republicans.

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Well, his approval rating in the GOP is better than Obama's at this point in his second term. Did Obama destroy your party?

Are the mid-terms going to be rough? Absolutely. They usually are.

 

[schmidlap]

Getting all worked up over semantics, typical TDS dipshit.

Are you an anti-semantic?

 

[Mac1958]

Maybe Europe will save our ass if Trump insults, mocks, trolls, extorts and intimidates them a bit more.

Hey -- tariffs! Slap on some more tariffs. That'll convince 'em.

If that doesn't work, post an AI video of Trump flying an airplane over Europe and spraying feces on its people.

C'mon, let's get on this! Winning!

 

[August West]

Well, his approval rating in the GOP is better than Obama's at this point in his second term. Did Obama destroy your party?

Are the mid-terms going to be rough? Absolutely. They usually are.

Obama wasn`t a convicted felon with rumors of pedophilia circulating and he never ordered his supporters to attack the police. Can you see the difference now?

 

[1srelluc]

What a "dog's breakfast" of an OP.

"Dog's breakfast" refers to something that is messy, disorganized, or poorly done.

 

[August West]

Nice little if predictable screed. Who wrote it all for you?

Who did you get to read it to you?

 

[martybegan]

Are you an anti-semantic?

I'm anti-chickenshit.

 

[Rawley]

Obama wasn`t a convicted felon with rumors of pedophilia circulating and he never ordered his supporters to attack the police. Can you see the difference now?

Yup Obama was less popular than a "convicted felon with rumors of pedophilia circulating and he never ordered his supporters to attack the police"

Not a ringing endorsement for your God Obama

 

[1srelluc]

I'm anti-chickenshit.

It such a mess it's a wonder when the OP tried to post he did not get.....System Message....OP is retarded!, and get locked-out.

 

[Rawley]

Maybe Europe will save our ass

What's the matter with your ass?

 

[berg80]

Don says it best. There's no better word than stupid.

 

[schmidlap]

Yup Obama was less popular than a "convicted felon with rumors of pedophilia circulating and he never ordered his supporters to attack the police"

Not a ringing endorsement for your God Obama

Obama was not perfect, just better, He completed two terms with 59% approval; Trump is at 42.7%.

 

[martybegan]

Obama was not perfect, just better, He completed two terms with 59% approval; Trump is at 42.7%.

How much of that is "don't say you disapprove of the black guy"?

 

[berg80]

Obama was not perfect, just better, He completed two terms with 59% approval; Trump is at 42.7%.

The context of the 42% number is most of those folks are cult members who will love Don until the day they die no matter how horrible a prez and a person he is. Without the cult his numbers would be sub 30%.

 

[struth]

Obama wasn`t a convicted felon with rumors of pedophilia circulating and he never ordered his supporters to attack the police. Can you see the difference now?

Yeah Obama was just a useful idiot for the demafasict party that made the country worse off and less safe


He was not America’s Mandela like Donald Trump

 

[Rawley]

Obama was not perfect, just better, He completed two terms with 59% approval; Trump is at 42.7%.

And yet, at this point in their respective terms, Trump has a better approval. Go figure, huh? You need to go back to obsessing over the word "excursion"

 

[schmidlap]

How much of that is "don't say you disapprove of the black guy"?

What is your racist assessment, and how is it calculated?

 

[schmidlap]

And yet, at this point in their respective terms, Trump has a better approval. Go figure, huh? You need to go back to obsessing over the word "excursion"

At the start of his second term, Obama's approval rating was approximately 60%, reflecting a strong mandate following his re-election in November 2012. ​

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Throughout his second term, his approval ratings fluctuated due to various events, including the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), foreign policy challenges, and economic conditions. For instance, his ratings dipped below 50% at times, particularly during controversies such as the handling of the Benghazi attack and issues related to healthcare rollout.​

Final Approval Rating: By the end of his presidency in January 2017, Obama's approval rating was around 59%, according to the American Presidency Project, indicating a relatively positive view of his presidency as he left office.​

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As of March 2026, Donald Trump's approval rating among U.S. adults ranges from 38% to 45%, with disapproval consistently higher, between 54% and 60% opinion.​

Do you anticipate that Trump will soon redeem himself and surge?​

 

[22lcidw]

Yeah, the people around him know better than to offer a discouraging word. Which, as we know, is how authoritarians usually fail.

It's starting to look like our former friends overseas aren't terribly interested in saving has ass in the Strait.

Let's take over the Strait of Hormuz and charge an extra 10% just for your views.