2026-09-16 23:30 UTC
⁃ Emitting weird messages toward foreign governments that they find hard to sensibly respond to? ✅
⁃ Erratic? ✅
⁃ Impulsive? ✅
⁃ Vengeful? ✅
⁃ Obsessive about strange things? ✅ (cannons rather than catapults and battleships and ballrooms) (2/3)
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@marick@mstdn.social 2026-09-16 23:30
Tewodros³ was a devout Christian, though, and faced even fewer institutional/norm-style constraints, so he could have people who disappointed him have their hands and feet chopped off and thrown to hyenas. So today is better in that way. He also drank a lot, which Trump does not. ––– ¹ https://therestishistory.com/episodes/the-mad-emperor-of-abyssinia-part-1 ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Madness_of_King_George ³ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tewodros_II (3/3)