What an absolute embarrassing time to be an American. I apologize to the world on behalf of America for this fucking lunatic.

I'm an American and I'm kinda tired of hearing my countrymen apologize and say they are embarrassed. Were over a year into this and waaaay past the time to say that kinda shit. We shouldn't be embarrassed, we should feel ashamed and angry. And we shouldn't apologize, we should be actively finding ways to make a change no matter how small.

I know there are plenty of other Americans that probably lurk on communities like this so I'm mostly saying this to them. And the only reason I'm saying this is because about half the time I see other Americans apologize and say how embarassed they are it often seems like it's a way to say "see? I'm one of the good ones." None of us are the "good ones" anymore unless you are actively putting in the work. It doesn't matter if you didn't vote for him because he's still the president. People have died, continue to die, and will die in the future because of this man and he's doing all of it in our name. If Trump actually causes a global conflict with his bullshit we will not be blameless when the dust settles and our country will have to pay for this regardless of who you voted for.

The fact that a letter like this made it out at all says a lot about the current situation. Zero fucking adults in the room.

Mr. Peace President: "I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Is that fucking for real?

Holy shit I just looked it up. It's an actual letter sent by the US president. Below is a GIF (tenor.com) expressing how I feel about this:

The abuser's "look what you made me do" is so sickening.

I'm American born and raised and here's the truth: whether by incompetence or malice, the United States' politicians handed over governance duties to corporations and, for my entire life, have made choices in direct opposition to its stated values.

My government is not your friend, or friend to me or anyone I have ever met. Since at least Reagan, and indisputably since """Citizens United""" it is a vessel for the primarily the military industrial complex.

The world would be in a better place if the US held to its espoused values of democracy and liberty, but although I've known many citizens who take these to heart in their daily lives, and are honorable and loving people, and imagine themselves members of the global community, in practice our government stands on these principles only so far as they are profitable for the military industrial complex, and for billionaires.

They have stripped hollow our education system and trampled consumer protection at every turn. They have at multiple times operated illegal concentration camps, and served as inspiration to the nazis themselves. They have waged death for oil and resources, in our name. When we stand against them, they imprison and kill us.

The world is deeply ill-served by a globally influential United States until massive systemic change occurs. They must give us ranked choice voting. Curb the supreme court. Enshrine systemic balance in policy, not gentlemen's agreements. Until then, ice us the fuck out and save yourselves from our lunatic leadership.

As an American, I'm not just embarrassed, I'm pissed. This is so fucking stupid and the fact that there are still people who like this guy is just disgusting

Holy fuck it’s real. Cock-a-fucking-doodle-ass-shit-sucking-ball-fuck it’s real.

I need a drink.

I got a bit depressed when after reading it the only thing that seems weird is the capitalization of some words. Why "8 Wars PLUS"? Why "Total Control"? And why the PLUS? does it mean at least 8, maybe more? Isn't he sure how many wars he ended? Is it an acronym?

It's truly terrifying somebody with the reasoning skills and restrain of a toddler has access to nuclear weapons, but even worse that so many people still support him.

If there are history books in the future, at least this will all make an interesting few chapters

I didn't think anyone could make Kim Jong Il (or Kim Jong Un) seem comparatively rational and genius in a single note.

I wonder how he still got 40% approval rating.

Wasn't this the very point of establishing NATO? To protect the smaller countries from an attack like this. Damn. I'm ready for him to just be gone from this planet, any day now.

It's absolutely stunning that this is an official letter written by any government official, let alone a country's president. It reads worse than a 12-year-old's homework.

Not to mention completely false information included in the letter. What '8 PLUS' wars have you stopped? What do you mean there are no documents? The USA has literally signed an agreement with Denmark to waive all their claims to Greenland. And why are you blaming Norway's prime minister for you not getting a Nobel peace prize?

I could understand him declaring all this in a public speech. That's essentially what American politicians do for a living. However, stating such insane claims in a more-or-less private letter seems to suggest that he actually believes any of it. Which I guess is a possibility in the context of a senile, mentally deranged child predator...?

Someone should tell him about the establishment of who owns America.

As an American, embarrassed doesn't even begin to describe it --especially since I voted against all of this.

He really is the president that america deserves.

Do you have the source for this image? All the reliable sources I find say it's a text exchange.

He doesn't know that Denmark Norway a different places does he.

Apologies to approximately half of Americans

TIL I can't read and apparently I voted for Trump

So glad that I'm Australian. I'll keep our dogshit breakdancer any day.

Could he not have at least had one of his aides rewrite the letter in a normal language?

Don't hate on the Americans, hate on their leaders

I wonder if this is the first Presidential letter with the word "anyway" used in this context.

Imagine walking through the Smithsonian in the future, seeing the draft of George Washington's inaugural speech, Thomas Jefferson's draft the Declaration of Independence, and then this ...

You'd think someone on his staff could pass that through microslop and make it at least sound presidential.

I'm just glad that when we finally elected Hitler, it was old, obviously psychotic Hitler and not 1936 Hitler.

Not that the next few years will be easy, but the fact that they pretty much immediately showed their hand as fascist bullies instead of dogwhistling for another 4 years and training up a protegé will make it so much easier to activate the cognitive dissonance of people who fell for that shit.

Like, there's almost no theological excuse for supporting Trump right now. I expect to see an attempt at some weird modern paganism similar to Hitler, because he is very obviously and daily going against the belief system of his base.