Caesar Augustus for president 2028! Kill the swamp 
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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Trump is the kind of guy that 6th graders on the bus would have to take aside and say "not cool, man" except he's 80 years old.
Uses the word treason quite lightly for someone committing it on a daily basis
Trump went on, “The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information!”
I'll take "what was J6?" for a thousand
The guy who launched a violent Insurrection, and stole hundreds of classified documents to sell, might want to keep his mouth shut about Treason. Glass houses and throwing rocks and whatnot.
If not dictator why dictator shaped
If not a dictatorship why PDF file shaped
I prefer my autocrats in .txt
but seriously why are we censoring "pedophile" here?
I self censored for no reason really.
I think I’ve written the word pedophile too much lately and wanted to mix things up a bit.
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Oh right. The "liberal news media." The one that's owned by six billionaires. The one that sucks up to Trump constantly. The one that's constantly doing. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ in response to Trump's demented bullshit. THAT liberal news media.
Sorry about the loss of your arm. :(
Another victim of the liberal news media!
Death to pedophiles!
I see the war is going well
He'd have to go have a reasonable, fair debate with somebody to surprise me at this point.
When will Walmart Hitler just fucking die?
When will Americans exercise their rights and force him out of office instead of waiting for luck?
Americans don't exercise.
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Iran does have sea drones, and they have made giant holes in tankers at sea level with them. Iraq claimed that 2 of them were used to turn 2 real tankers into 2 giant fireballs in their harbour. I have seen AI of 20 simultaneous missiles hitting downtown Tel Aviv, but a bigger problem than AI on Israel is that Israel is criminalizing the sharing of strike information, with selective permission after for whining about civilian areas. There is a lot of damage every night in Israel.
Trump said the rallies in big square of Tehran are also fake, and even the hits Israel/Israelis admit to are fake. Same with GCC hits that GCC acknowledges.
If using AI for fake news, there is a Netanyahu video out early today, where his wedding ring fades in and out. He should then give death penalty to IDF/Netanyahu (he could be hiding instead of dead) for fake news.
It is next level, Hitler's bunker, and losing, to be resorting to this level of desperation.
As if starving and murdering detainees in ICE concentration camps weren't enough.
What a motherfucker.
Shitty article from a shitty source. In fairness, about a shitty President.
Of course Bill Clinton was one of the best ones, but who is counting THE LAST OK DECADE (90's). Everything was horrible after that. Everyone who was an adult in 2000 knows everything turned to poop.
You're not wrong. The SCROTUS deciding the 2000 election was an early warning sign, then 9/11 came and it just kept getting worse from there.
So I listened to it and heard nothing about death penalties for reporters. Am I missing something?
Quoting Trump's post, the nugget of truth is from:
The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information!
Which they turned into "Demands Death Penalty" because DailyBeast is a tabloid.
TBH I'm sick of DailyBeast and Rawstory showing up in my Lemmy feed. I'd argue they violate this community's "credible sources" rule.
TBH I’m sick of DailyBeast and Rawstory showing up in my Lemmy feed.
Try this: don't click the link.
And there's a chain of reasoning that makes the headline more than bullshit: Trump is demanding journalists be put on trial for treason, which has a maximum penalty of death. Trump is a long-time advocate of brutal and excessive punishment for anyone not on his good side. The leadership at DoJ are all Trump syophants who take their direction from him. Ergo, any journalist who pisses off Trump is likely to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, if not beyond.
Short version: Trump was threatening journalists with the death penalty.
Additional research: the Central Park Five, where Trump demanded their execution even after they were conclusively exonerated.
It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if Trump shouted "I'm going to execute you!" at the top of his lungs while throwing a baby out the window, on film, in front of a million people; if the headline makes inferred jumps and sensationalizes the event, it is not a news article. Its opinion/talk or whatever label you want to call it.
And that is exactly why we're here. Trump is a troll that thrives on tabloid journalism; everything that's even a little exaggerated is just feeding him. It's why he's there. And I am very sensitive to the idea that "it's really news because its true with these conditions and aligns with my beliefs" because thats the core operating mode of MAGA.
Yeah no, the president saying people should be charged with something thats punishment is death or life in prison is exactly that.. saying those journalists should be put to death or life in prison for what they have written.
It’s tough, because I don’t want to give him or the American justice system the benefit of the doubt, but I really hate the misrepresentation of this in the media. Charging someone with treason doesn’t mean they’ll be imprisoned or executed, it means they’ll be put on trial. If this story had addressed the potential for the president to bias the country against these reporters by calling personally for them to be charged with treason, I would be a lot less annoyed by the headline, but it’s inaccurate and they didn’t put any actual investigation into this piece.
It might be splitting hairs, but I really do wish for exhaustive Nuremberg style trials when I call this regime criminal, treasonous, and genocidal. I wouldn’t mourn if a few of them didn’t make it to trial, but I don’t want them to be able to take their secrets to the grave en masse.
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well that's true but also the penalty for treason is the death penalty
Or imprisonment.
Point is, that's not what the quote directly said. And that's what distinguishes journalism, and tabloids like DailyBeast (or talking heads/"analysis" like Fox News). Hence, every actual news outlet on this topic went with a factual headline, and quoted Trump directly instead of making a jump.
This distinction is very important to me. Ragebait like DailyBeast is why Trump is in power and the world sucks now, because it works.
Ragebait like DailyBeast is why Trump is in power
No, that was bigotry, racism, billionaire-controlled media, voter suppression and foreign interference. The Daily Beast's influence is lost in the noise compared to those factors.
And how likely do you really think it is that Trump would direct the captive, corrupt DoJ to exercise leniency? It's like someone is waving a gun in someone else's face and you're saying "well, ackshually, we don't really know if he intends to use it to intimidate or shoot that guy." And the gunman is a known sadist who places no value on human life.
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Death penalty to HIM
Midterms ... Impeachment ... then Prison or LEGAL execution upon conviction. Can't say Im spouting threats or violence for that.
You gotta realize none of that will ever happen because the Democrats lack the political will to even make a serious attempt.
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Clickbait headline. Trump's rant demanded that those reporters be tried for treason, is that not a bad enough thing to do, to make a compelling, and truthful, headline?
But no, because one of the possible outcomes of being convicted of treason is the death penalty, the headline says "demands death penalty". Gee, I wonder why the headline doesn't say "demands 5 years in prison", another possible outcome of a treason conviction? Anyone want to take a guess?
Sensationalism is so pathetic.
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