On Saturday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called President Trump the “president of peace” despite his bombing campaign in Yemen and his support for the mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
“President Trump IS the President of Peace. He is ending bloodshed across the world and will deliver lasting peace in the Middle East,” Gabbard wrote on X. “Where Joe Biden failed, President Trump will succeed.”
Gabbard made the comments in a post sharing a quote from President Trump, who claimed his administration was “engaged in relentless diplomacy to forge a lasting peace in the Middle East, building on the historic Abraham Accords.”
Gabbard has been supportive of Trump’s daily bombing campaign in Yemen and was one of the administration officials in the leaked Signal chat that celebrated the bombing of a residential building.
As a member of Congress, Gabbard opposed the first Trump administration’s intervention in Yemen and frequently labeled the Saudi war against the Houthis that the US was supporting at the time “genocidal.”
One reason Gabbard was critical of the US’s involvement in the Saudi war in Yemen was that it was not authorized by Congress, making it illegal under the Constitution. Trump’s current bombing campaign in Yemen has also not been authorized by Congress, a fact recently pointed out by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA).
“Trump promised to end endless wars—now he’s bombing Yemen without Congressional approval. I stood up when Biden did it, and I’ll stand up now,” Khanna wrote on X.
Khanna and Gabbard were among the members of Congress who worked to pass a War Powers Resolution to end US involvement in Yemen in 2019, an effort that was defeated by a veto from President Trump.
Is Tulsi blackmailed or just a sociopathic duplicitous liar by nature?
She knows that flattering Mad King Donald is the only way to stay in his favor.
Yes, but staying in his favor is championing everything she said was against.
You gotta do what you gotta do.
To do what? Advance yourself for wealth v public benefit. Tulsi is a sad disappointment.
If she wants to have any effect on US foreign policy she has to keep flattering Trump. The "stable genius" is acting like a 2-year-old.
Always.
My stepcousin did her music degree in Oklahoma; fair to say she'd agree about Tulsi/a.
Which makes her a wind socket and a liar. Nothing there.
Mayor Quimby: "Very well. If that is the way the winds are blowing, let no one say that I don't also…blow."
She was for it before she was against it before she was for it again, don't'cha know ?
She’s always been a standard issue political opportunist. She was “Republicans’ favorite Democratic hawk” before she saw an opportunity to fundraise outside the Hindu nationalist community that put her in Congress by playing the “kinda sorta a little bit non-interventionist in some cases” schtick on Trump’s coattails while doing a slow bail from the Democratic Party.
A wind socket and a liar she is.
There is something more than just a standard opportunism on display here. I have a feeling that Trump —and many following in his coattails — thought he had much more power coming in this time around.
He is now visibly disintegrating — and those around him are nearly fraantically trying to shore him up. And Trump being Trump — can flip flop n-times a day, and it gets worse once he feels boxed in.
And now be is boxed in. Trump could never distinguish flattery from integrity. And in crisis — he gets worse. What caused this very visible flailing all over the place,
Now even Zelenski is making fool of him. Ceasefire? Zelenski said he agreed to Russia implementing ceasefire! Trump’s effort to help Ukraine with reviving grain deal — Zelenkski is laughing it of, and his European allies saud that should Trump get the deal done — they will not recognize it!
And today, Zelenski. is claiming that Russia’s Lutin will be dead soon. Now Trump is realy upset that Russia called Ukrainian president illegitimate!
Bombing Yemen is making zero sense, and the rush to war with Iran is asking for trouble.
Is Trump also going to follow Europe’s lead and implement policies of immiseration, thst is — deliberate crashing of economy in order to make some very dangerous wars palatable?
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Trump suddenly lost the plot. In Levant, in Europe , Ukraine, Yemen and Iran.
In latter day Rome the sexual analytique is always germane. The Donald notably likes to surround himself with pretty girls, gays, and brainless testerone-oids, who tend to gravitate to moral decay (think "flies to shit"). Tulsi, like Tori, Hillary, Samantha, Gina, Susan, … Melania and Eva, before, finds tacky killers irresistibly sexy (think Hannibal Lector).
I'm sad – and ashamed – to say she kind of fooled me with the pretending not to be really all that much of a genocide enthusiast bit she did. I guess I once again fell short on the amount of cynicism needed to evaluate American politics properly and the sort of shit human beings it nourishes.
You’re not alone. She fooled a LOT of people in a way that I couldn’t personally undersand.
I don’t think it was my cynicism that saved me from falling for it, or that I’m smarter than anyone else, or anything like that. I just got lucky. She happened to rub me the wrong way the first time I really watched her speak in public — she just came off as really fake to me, and that sent me down the rabbit hole a little of looking at where she’d been / what she’d done / who she was instead of just believing.
You're not alone. She fooled a LOT of people in a way that I couldn't personally undersand.
I think it is because people are so desperate to latch onto anyone who sounds the least bit antiwar. Even Raimondo wouldn't disavow Trump even after Trump did his missile attacks on Syria.
Me too.
As my wife would say, Yo Gabba Gabbard is "… definitely a HinDON'T in the Trust Department."
Both.
She is young enough and wants a high up political future. she will do anything to get there. Besides flip flopping is part of the political process.
One only has to look at all those oligarchs who resided with the Democrats while the going was good, but switched like road runners to Trump when they saw the writings on the wall with a demented Biden and a fruitcake Kamala.
Considering how DC wants to bump her off over some war crime texts, I’d say, she is kissing some behind so not to give an excuse to get fired.
She had potential or at least was in a position to rise to something different but she has chosen the path of the grifter. It did get her the current job though so, for a moment anyway, it has benefited her.
Damn good question. We had a saying in the U.S. Army, “fuck up and move up”. In fact I witnessed it. Our butter bar (2nd Lt. O-1) platoon leader blew up our switchboard by making us wire our generator incorrectly. He was promptly promoted and moved to Battalion HQ. Perhaps her rank (Major O-4) was similarly obtained. That’s all I got, I’m perplexed.
That’s funny/not funny. The Peter Principle.
That's my future President right there! First woman president!
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This mystery 360º turn, by which someone looks at the same place and has exactly the opposite opinion, can only be explained by quantum mechanics. Gabbard is a spin 1/2 fermion, no doubt. Is she the famous charm quark? Worry not, she's bound to decay in 3, 2, 1…
If only Trump was a fermion too, then together they could never occupy the same state. But alas the evidence seems to indicate that Trumpsters obey bose-einstein statistics, the only part of them that has some integrity is their spin.
Trump is almost certainly a Kaon, the meson of Chaos! XD
He’s a heavyweight… a composite particle whose primary feature is STRANGENESS (made up partly of strange quarks and regular up/dowm ones). The most famous Chinese physicist, Chien-Shiung Wu was the one who showed, using Kaons, that the physics are assymetrical.
And so are power relations in imperialist war.
MAGA fanbois may indeed obey bose-einstein statistics, after all they are just gauge bosons, information carrying mass zero particles.
“how many roads must a man walk down? Before you call him a man?! The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind! The answer is blowing in the wind!!!….”
POP
Adolf trump
is the prince of peace
as he promises more and more
hell[o] on earth for
everyone not like him
If i was into insanity
i would say
this lunatic is the anitchrist
good thing i dont believe
such fairy tales
But if i did
i would bend my knee
say a prayer or two
then run like hell
to the nearest church
Double speak
double think
can you say it
can you ponder
or just take some meth?
Its 1932 in 2025
Project 2025 is Universe 25
Its easy to spew indignation
is this hell
or is this just what we make of it?
Spinning down the drain
faster and faster
goes humanity
londons calling
Joe was right
just a bit early
Well written DW!…!….!
thanks Donna, my little brain is spinning like a top after this one…It all goes back to reading history as a kid, and then having a smug attitude of 'Boy if that happened here now, i would be right in there and we wouldnt let it happen but here we are! argghh
Tulsi drank the koolaide or perhaps the kill aide!…!….!
“Where Joe Biden failed, President Trump will succeed.”
Remember what Hegseth said about messaging. Gabbard was obviously listening.
now I can’t wear my “Tulsi 2020” t-shirt I got for donating to her campaign way back when, before tulsi started associating with Trump and started to suck so bad.
Publicly burn it and post online!
Burn baby burn!
Revulsed. Physically nauseated. I once believed she was honest and intelligent.
Wow, Yo Gabba Gabbard is kind of a f**king idiot, isn't she ? Echoes back to the dimwits of the Bush II administration.
Gabbard joined the Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton Club…!
The only time there will be lasting peace is when we're all dead.
Never did trust Tulsi, even when she was a Democrat.
Quite a weasel.