>

Like Trump would pay attention to an intelligence briefing
Trump: China respected me too much to fly spy balloons over our country.
Also Trump: China released an engineered virus to infect us. >

Engineered super virus that is also totally not real but I also took the vaccine but also vaccines are bad mmkay >

And also gave the accelerated vaccine program the go ahead and the cool name, Warp Speed.
Before they turned "die to own the libs" into a political thing, Trump was proud of his accelerated vaccine program. Which he should have been. It was good. >

It was like the one good thing he did, which leads me to believe that most of it wasn’t his idea >

It was his idea to dismantle the Pandemic Response Team. >

The Pandemic Response Team that was created by another Republican administration. >

Yeah, it was weird that he was hating on the pandemic response team that bush started simply because Obama renewed it/increased funding for it. He just hated anything Obama was involved with. >


He just hated anything Obama was involved with.

A large percentage of his dumbest decisions were entirely based on this.  I think he was still salty about Obama roasting him at the correspondents dinner way back when. >

Exactly this. >


In a rant on his Truth Social platform, the former president flatly denied the Pentagon’s statement, branding it “fake disinformation”.
“China had too much respect for ‘TRUMP’ for this to have happened, and it NEVER did. JUST FAKE DISINFORMATION!” he fumed.  

Isn't "fake disinformation", actually true information? >

So much respect that actual Chinese spies were caught at Mar a Lago. It’s ok though … she was only looking for the pool (where classified docs were stored with a top notch Master lock). >

Today on lockpucking lawyer i will access classified documents with a Lego hand. >

The lockpucking lawyer is my favorite lockpicking lawyer.  His vids are great.  As an aside how is his development of an unpickable lock progressing? >

How many do you know? >

I know only one popular lockpicking lawyer.  I don't know of any lockpucking lawyers.  What the hell is that even? >

Any lock can be broken if you propel a puck fast enough at it. There might be a small nuclear reaction initiated at the speeds required but it's possible. >

You just described the Canadian nuclear weapons program. >

I thought that's why curling gets the big money >

I just love the fact that Biden is all "What?  You weren't told about the 3 spy balloons that flew over us during your administration?  That's okay, we'll brief you, booboo" >

Meanwhile fox is parading about how Joe took so long to shoot it down and they stole our secrets! >

This is so funny because Biden told the military (that Republicans claim to LOVE) on Wednesday to shoot it down as soon as it's safe to do so.  So any complaints they have about a slow response should go to the Air Force. >

The Air Force was waiting for it to be where it couldn’t crash into cities, so any complaints about a slow response should go to whoever decided to put cities there. >

The cities were built there to capitalize on preexisting natural resources, so any negative comments about the slow response should really be directed at whoever placed those minerals/rivers there >

🎶 Hasa Diga Eebowai🎶 >

Is that JOIN THE NAVY backwards? >

I like when Biden is snarky.  He should do it more often. >

The one thing anyone remembers from that debate lol >

The strangest thing to me is towards the bottom of the article which talks about China’s reaction to all of this. 
They basically condemned the US for shooting it down so aggressively and “vowed to take further actions.” 
Lol wut?! >

They’re gonna send 99 red balloons >

The end of the world in nuclear hellfire appeals to more Republicans than you might expect because they see the destruction of global civilisation as a prerequisite for the return of Jesus Christ. >

They’re also really into the delusion that they’ll survive such an event >

Not that they’ll survive, they’ll first be beamed up to space while the heathens are left to ravage each other. Then they come back down and live on the new Earth slash heaven. 
Also all the loved ones will rise from their graves bodily reincarnated. Unless they were cremated, then they can’t be brought back because God can’t bring back ashes… >

Ooh and the part where everyone gets along with their entire long lost family and lives happpily ever after… >


..the one-term, twice-impeached Mr Trump.

That should be Trump's official title. >

...is it not? I've just been abbreviating it 1TTWIT (pronounced "one-twit") >

This is the kind of polite insult I would like to see more of from Democrats. >

Yeah, it seems when Dems do it you have a lot of people on the right saying it's "unprofessional". >

Reminds me of when the student loan forgiveness thing first started and the white house Twitter replied to a bunch of republican congressmen tweets with exact amount of personal loans each had forgiven. That shit was pretty gangster >

That account got a follow from me after that epic tear down. >

Dark Brandon is the best Brandon. >

Wish he hadn’t shot down the railroad union.
Edit: this is why we can’t have nice things. Stop acting like politics is a game and we’re #teamblue
Anti-union is anti-American. >

It's almost like he was damned either way. Allow a major RR strike before the biggest holiday of the year - crippling logistics. Or, turn his back on the union labor he has claimed to support his whole career. >

Or he could have done the exact same thing but including the union's demands in the contract he forced everybody to accept. >

Congress had to pass that law and it took bi-partisan support. I don't think he would have had the votes to support working class folks - only to crush them. It's the American way. >

Yeah, there's no way the military missed something like that over American airspace. >

They didn't. Canada saw it too and kept quiet.
This is just pandering, the military knows about it, has some idea of what to do and a contingency plan. Trump, Biden, etc. are all irrelevant.
In my opinion it makes sense if the military can hijack it without China knowing, let them waste resources with balloons thinking what they're doing is working and no one's caught on.
But it could be anything in this case, we're not IT military experts. >


This is just pandering, the military knows about it, has some idea of what to do and a contingency plan. Trump, Biden, etc. are all irrelevant.

Let's not get too ahead of ourselves. The military still answers to the president and shooting down a foreign asset is something they would want approval of. Trump not paying attention is why it happened on his watch and wasn't shot down >

People complain about Biden being days late to shoot down a balloon. Trump is years late. Repeatedly. >

They're complaining on both ends.  There is no correct action in their view.
They're complaining he took too long to shoot down the balloon.
They're complaining that he shot down the balloon.
They are best ignored. >

Saluting a marine with a coffee in hand: impeachable offense
Saluting a general of an hostile nation: no biggie >

Not to mention, Bush did literally the same thing only it was a dog. He did it more than once. >

Ngl that's kinda adorable, lol
I had a buddy right out of basic accidentally salute an officer while holding a gallon jug of sweet tea... in his saluting hand.
They were both too dumbfounded to say anything and just walked away like it never happened. >


Now, a senior Biden administration official has revealed that the Trump administration wasn’t even aware of the three potential surveillance balloons at the time.

Yeah, that tracks. >

Well the Secretary of Defense claims he wasn't aware which is weird. >

It’s almost as if Trump only hired morons >

"Sleepy" Joe and his team catching shit that Trump and his "best" people missed must be a pretty hard pill to swallow for old dementia Don. >

Dark Brandon coming with the receipts >

Trump: There were no spy balloons!
Biden: Actually, there were quite a few. Would you like me to brief you on all the ones you missed?
Fucking savage. >

It'd be even better if he released Trumps itinerary for those days. 
"Oh, I see how you missed it. You had zero security briefings for the 3 days the first balloon flew over. All three days, you were playing golf until 2pm, and then sat around tweeting until a dinner with your kids. Ohh, sorry, you had dinner with a Russian 'business man' on one of the days, sorry. Should I list the itineraries for the other two occurances?" >

Holy shit somebody please leak it at least >


In a rant on his Truth Social platform, the former president flatly denied the Pentagon’s statement, branding it “fake disinformation”.

Isn't fake desinformation, true information? I'm very confused by Mr Trump >

Aren’t we all? >

i thank god everyday people ccame out to vote him out of office.  i needed off this circus car, it was making me lose my sanity >

not out of the woods yet my friend, but im glad you were able to get a bit of a mental break. I needed one too. >

Right wing media is claiming there were no balloons during Trump's presidency because of course they are. >

Contradicting "the military"? How dare they? >

The military is now woke so it’s OK >

Turning on the Military, betraying those who Serve to own the Libs... smdh.
Soon, they'll be straight up advocating for Treas- 
Ah. >

Well it's hard to initiate a coup if you don't have military backing... even moreso if you flat out start antagonizing them.
Kinda like Andrew Tate saying how corrupt and useless the Romanian police are and that he can get away with anything there. Sort of just giving them a reason to fucking nail his ass. >

How it probably went under Trump
Pentagon official 1: "Shit, one of China's spy balloons is going to cross over Texas"
PO2: "Shit that's ballsy, we need a plan for how to handle this"
PO3: I'll type it up for the president's brief"
Everyone in the room: " No no no no no" >

Or, alternatively, "What's point, he's not gonna fucking read it anyway" >

Let me fill you in, Jack >

“Look fat, have a seat and I’ll remind you why you lost” >


The Pentagon announced on Saturday that three suspected Chinese surveillance balloons travelled over the continental US during Mr Trump’s time in office.
Among the three separate encounters, one balloon is believed to have travelled over parts of Texas and Florida.
None of the balloons were shot down and the American people were not made aware of the situation. >


The Pentagon announced on Saturday that three suspected Chinese surveillance balloons travelled over the continental US during Mr Trump’s time in office.

Proving, once again, that every accusation from the Trump camp is either a projection, a confession, or both. I'd even extend this statement to everything Republicans say. So predictable. >

Not in this case, Trump probably legitimately didn’t know because he didn’t read intelligence briefings. The good ol’ Pretender in Chief. >

Biden makes Trump look like the amateur he is. It's so hilarious. >

Trump:  China loves me so much, they sent me balloons, I'm the best President ever! >

"Instead, they were only discovered after Mr Biden took office from the one-term, twice-impeached Mr Trump."
Fact burn! >

Wait, the President that didn’t attend his daily intelligence briefings was unaware of a spy balloon? >

Trump was briefed but probably blew it off similar to how he blew off the severity of COVID in the early days of the pandemic. Admitting they allowed something to enter the country would be seen as a failure of trump’s leadership. Hence why he stays in denial of anything he can’t personally capitalize on. >

Well except they didn’t blow off COVID, they thought it would kill “blue states” population where it first appeared and let it go off. Stupid, yes, but malicious not careless. >

As someone who lives in NYC trough all of it, you’re not kidding. Shit was like Resident Evil here >

Didn't the task force also literally steal medical supplies purchased by blue states? >

Yes, they did this as well as use COVID relief as a slush fund. >

Of course Trump would call this "Disinformation".....
He likely had no fucking idea it even happened because he hardly ever took the daily briefings and was out playing golf all the time, so in his mind it didn't happen because he either doesn't remember or he was never told >

I love this.  “Yeh, we still have the daily briefings you slept through in a file cabinet at Langley.  Swing by any time and we’ll be happy to bring you up to speed on the 4 years you missed.  Send us some dates you’re available and we see what we can do.” >

I told my mother that Trump said the Chinese would never do that because they respect him too much. She laughed for like 5 minutes straight. Like tears rolling down her face doubled over laughing. Wouldn't know why! 😂 >

I love when Dark Brandon gets all wild and bitchy… >

more like treating trump team like little kids and sits them down for story hour >

some republicans have given Biden shit for not shooting down the balloon before it entered US airspace, but wouldn't this have been a violation of international law if they'd shot it down in international airspace? >

And then they’d give him shit for shooting it over populated areas, and then give him shit for waiting until it was over the ocean. It’s a never-ending cycle >

They (Trump and other right wingers) know Biden did nothing wrong, but they are going to pretend he did everything wrong no matter what he does because they know their base will eat it up. Shoot it down as soon as it enter US airspace? Trump would have tweeted how weak the US is for shooting it down without collecting intelligence/jamming/hacking/capturing it. >

Biden may talk slow, may fumble, but his mind is still sharp as ever.  Trolling trump must be such a delight since trump loves to trash talk but can't ever back anything up. >

Biden should just tell TFG the briefing was in the documents recovered from his desk in MAL between a McDonalds burger wrapper and a ketchup smeared picture of Ivanka in her bathing suit. >

I can't help but wonder if it was in the daily brief he always gloated about not reading. >


JUST FAKE DISINFORMATION!

Does this make it true, then? >

trump team: we'll let fox news tell us who to blame. >

The very best of "fuck you" I've read today >

It's the  intelligence agencies fault, they hid it in has daily briefs where he'd never find it. >

You mean...on the pages...he refused to read his briefs dude >

To these people there's nothing a democratic president can do right and nothing a republican president can do wrong. >

" branding it “fake disinformation”."
so...information? >

lol i had the same thought... isnt fake disinformation real information? >

Yet another example of how genuinely incompetent the Trump administration was while in power. >

I honestly think that the DoD didn't told Trump because he would tweet out a pic of the balloon making the situation worst. >

I can see that being a genuine concern. >

I really admire the consistency of Biden’s contempt for Trump. >

The rate at which Republicans went from non stop memes to "can everyone shut up about the balloon. Stop being political" has set a new land speed record. >

Supposedly flew over Texas and Florida…
Did they wave to their buddies as they passed by?
tRump never read any of the briefs so doubt he would have a clue that anything happened even if it was reported to him. >

So they hid it from Trump earlier? >

Papa Brandon is laying down the heat. >

The balloon didn't have Trump's name on it so he didn't pay attention to it in his briefing. >

BOOM MOTHA FUCKA!  Fucking moron Dump didn't do anything. >

Be sure to use a lot of pictures and illustrations. Everyone knows Trump doesn't like to read or listen. >

trump barely received daily intel briefings and unless the ballon had TRUMP splayed across the outside he wouldn’t have paid attention. >

Or if it was delivering McDonald’s >

I love this little jab in the article. It probably wasn't necessary but a nice touch:
one balloon is believed to have travelled over parts of Texas and Florida >

Awww Dark Brandon strikes again! >

Dark Brandon lives >

Since Trump never bothered to attend the Intelligence Briefings. Other than absconding with highly classified documents and Top Secret materials tucked securely in his power girdle and walking out the door with them, not knowing or even caring about the safety of this Nation against foreign intrusion was never on his addenda. >

No he attended because they gave him the best coloring books. He just didn't listen. >

I don’t understand. So the military detected the balloons during the previous admin but didn’t deem it important enough to alert Trump or his defense chief?  Esper wasn’t even aware >

Oh he was aware. His Chinese bank account was very aware. >

It is high time for another cognitive ability test for Mr. Trump: he does not understand double negation:
“China had too much respect for ‘TRUMP’ for this to have happened, and it NEVER did. JUST FAKE DISINFORMATION!” he fumed.
Fake disinformation = real information. >

I strongly suspect this is something the Pentagon declined to include in the Presidential briefings…. >

The pentagon just straight up did not tell them.  It’s pretty hilarious tbh. >

Donald Trump is so laughable when he says such things. The worst enemy of American democracy who would do well to understand that what is going on here goes beyond bipartisan squabbles. >

I mean, if any of it is classified, Trump should take up the offer to replenish his collection >

If only Trump had rubbed them on his hair longer…. >

Fucking clown show of a government we have. It seems that Idiocracy got it right after all. >

Realistically, this kind of stuff doesn't reflect on the president whatsoever, it reflects on our military. The president will usually do what the military suggests, and the president would only know about a balloon that was brought to their attention in the first place. >

“This never happened. It would have never happened.
“And if it did, we would have shot it down immediately.”
Isn't this straight out of the narcissists play book? >

The Pentagon made an assessment and judged that Trump was too unstable to receive this information. >

"fake disinformation".    Such an illiterate ass. >

“Jake Sullivan said the Biden administration was able to retroactively identify the presence of Chinese balloons in US airspace during Trump’s term after the US “[enhanced] our surveillance of our territorial airspace.”
Does someone know what that even means? They looked at what? Wind currents or some shit and determined there was a balloon in the US airspace 3 years ago? >

Lol! Sick burn by Dark Brandon! >

I'd like to know what capabilities they upgraded to be able to retroactively go back and find these instances the former admin wasn't aware of.  
Nobody is gonna read this but the fact that 90% of the top comments are all some version of "he didn't do briefings" tells me no-one read the article!  I love Reddit, but most of us are just headline/top comment readers... 

Expanding on those comments on Monday, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the Biden administration was able to retroactively identify the presence of Chinese balloons in US airspace during Trump’s term after the US “[enhanced] our surveillance of our territorial airspace.”
“We enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things that the Trump administration was unable to detect,” he added.
“We were able to go back and look at the historical patterns” and uncover “multiple instances” during the Trump administration in which Chinese surveillance balloons traversed American airspace and territory,” Mr Sullivan said, speaking at an event hosted by the US Global Leadership Coalition.

Like lets talk about that, I don't give a shit about trumpy tantrums, how did they do that?? >

Fake disinformation. Or true information. Not sure how this works. >

Oh Joey…
Trumps administration wasn’t there to run a government.  They were there to stuff their and their friends pockets with as much money as they could carry before it was all over.
They didn’t give one single fuck about running one single aspect of this nation. >

My new favorite Trumpism:
“fake disinformation” >

Why is everybody feeding this idiot he’s an ex-president that didn’t his job as president, all he ever attempted to do was corrupt everyone to bend to his rules, he paid lip service to being tough but he didn’t read his briefings because he said he knew more than the intel agencies. >

love this so much...., esp since truth(lies)social had him bragging that the chinese would have never 'floated the blimp ("balloon") over the united states if i were president!!!  aaahhhaaa! he must have been focusing on his own blimp.  oh yea, the koch bros. are out when it comes to financing/endorsing trump.  buckle up for some new trump org. gimmick to raise money - oh wait, the trump org. doesn't exist!  aaahhhaaa!  just looking and sounding so bad and desperate at every turn.  optimally, the ideal downfall of this narcissist would occur slowly and publicly with as much humiliation as he has bestowed on others..  here's some irony; trump hosted the apprentice for the first 14/15 seasons (unbelievable it ran that long), giving him the opportunity to show the world he's a world class jackass - after the 14th season he was fired by nbc when the studio disagreed with remarks he made about mexican immigrants during his announcement of the prez run.  fired from his show.... >

Dark Brandon has sass.