Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 06/06/25

Tell me how

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123357432#Comment_123357432

Donald Trump is a human trafficker.

Kilmer Abrego Garcia was sent to El Salvador by Trump despite there being an order that he was lawfully in the US.

And it came out yesterday that Rumeysa Ozturk, the Turkish student who was lifted off the street was done so without any supporting evidence that she had engaged in any terrorist type activities and they detained her anyway.

We're 3 months in…

halkar

Trump meter so far:

Greenland, I want it.

Panama, I want this too.

Canada, 51st state.

Russia, my old friend Putin.

Ukraine, you owe me 300b, time to pay.

Syria, made president from one of the most wanted terrorist.

Israel, you better clean out Gaza.

Gaza, my future casino project.

Yemen, I am sending my bombs to you.

Iran, I will unleash hell on you.

China, still waiting for the phone call.

Rest of the world, come kiss my @$$ or else.

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123357659#Comment_123357659

That’s the scariest part in many ways. Three Months ! What will he do in three years ?

Akrasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123357735#Comment_123357735

What will he do in 6 days. Will he activate the insurrection act on April 20?

Basically taking full control over the police and armed forces and authorizing himself to deploy the military on American soil against US citizens

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-may-impose-martial-law-type-order-on-april-20-what-we-know-8162828

Trump said on jan 20th that he would declare a National emergency over the southern border within 90 days

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123355466#Comment_123355466

We'd be mostly competing with other imports.

People can delay purchases of cars or buy locally. Neither are options for most pharma.

Patented medicines are a license to extract money. The US has a history of ratcheting up the price of insulin or epi-pens even if certain to result in deaths.

Generics are made in India for a fraction of the price they could be made in the US.

Tariffs make this another per-user tax which the rich can more easily afford, especially since the goal was to replace income tax with tariffs.

Neamhshuntasach

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123357652#Comment_123357652

No. Nothing. When you get an L1 visa, you get the sticker in your passport. And some big print out book with regulations or conditions for the visa or something. There is also some form that the embassy staff have told us to bring with us when first travelling on a new first time issue of the visa, or a renewal. Which I have done multiple times. I can't remember if they give it back. But I've never been asked for it before, other than above scenarios.

I told them that their embassy is not listing this as a requirement and if they could tell me the name of the form and where it is stated I should have this form with me, as I'll need to inform my employer. But they didn't tell me. Just told me that I should have got it with my visa. They didn't really listen to any explanation or questions I had. Outside of their questions, they interacted with me to the bare minimum.

10000maniacs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123357361#Comment_123357361

Irelands answer is to do nothing. Let the American public pay the 25% extra. Half of them deserve it for voting in an unqualified ignoramus with the manners of a rabid chimpanzee.

Building those pharma plants in the USA is going to be an unmitigated failure, like the microchip Fab plants.

US technicians are not going to put on those bunny suits for 40 hours a week, especially on technicans wages. That's why AMD and Intel scarpered from the USA 40 years ago to Ireland and Korea.

Problem is it will take Trumps bozos a couple of years to figure that out.

Strazdas

He's as rude as anything (to Kaitlan Collins of CNN this evening):

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1911812958218490149

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123357484#Comment_123357484

A pity they can't deport Trump. Oh the irony if this backfired on Trump and he got deported to that prison in Al Salvador. He is a rapist and a convicted criminal after all.

A Dub in Glasgo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123357933#Comment_123357933

He is a nasty, vintictive buffoon which was amply demonstrated over the decades yet the American people elected the fwit to represent them across the whole world….

Strazdas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123357957#Comment_123357957

The disciples will claim he is a 'straight talker' and 'telling it as it is' (we all know he is their mirror image and that's how they speak to each other most of the time).

pad406

Sadly, this could be appropriate for the times we are in, maybe not so much as didn't speak out but didn't speak out loudly enough.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller

technocrat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123357933#Comment_123357933

Absolute state of Vance nodding away in agreement, thought the head was gonna fall of him… what an ar$e lick!

yagan

If this keeps up I reckon in a couple of weeks there'll be talk of the UN finding a new home.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358047#Comment_123358047

A UN building in Dublin would be more than welcome. It would be great for Ireland.

pad406

EU issuing burner phones and basic laptops to officials travelling to the USA

Normally reserved for trips to China or Ukraine where risk of IT surveillance is high.

Jesus wept, who'd have predicted that last November?

pad406

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358047#Comment_123358047

Should bring the IMF with them 😉

My name is URL

Re: the poor dude that is illegally held in a foreign territory; against the will of the supreme court… can they not just send Marshalls in to free him, take him back to the US and allow due process to happen?

Of all the **** the Trump admin are pulling; I honestly believe this is the most troubling. Everyone on the planet should be demanding Andry José Hernández is released and returned.. because it's only gonna be the start of it if they think they can get away with it once

circadian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358123#Comment_123358123

Trump has openly floated the idea of citizens coming under the same type of punishment.

RickBlaine

Trump on Zelenskyy!

"He's always looking to purchase missiles. Listen, when you start a war, you gotta know you can win a war. You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles."

What a despicable c*nt. I don't know if he genuinely believes Ukraine started the war or if he is just parroting Russian propaganda, but either way, he is a sh*t stain on the American history books.

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358047#Comment_123358047

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358078#Comment_123358078

I honestly think it’s getting to the stage where these sorts of statements are going to have to be made. Of course the MAGA crowd wouldn’t care. Ditching the dollar as the worlds reserve currency is another thing I heard mooted. That would hit them hard. It seems to be the only way stop this clown show.

REDBULL68

Just seen a pic of the lad that was illegally deported and their all calling to be brought back ,gang banger tatts all over him ,look at the pics and Google what each one means ,might shut a few people up .

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kowloon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358228#Comment_123358228

Surely we're not saying having certain tattoos disqualifies someone from due process?

RickBlaine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358228#Comment_123358228

That's not the point. He had gone before a judge in 2019 who said he cannot be deported to El Salvador and was given a work permit. ICE then suddenly decided this year his status had randomly changed without any further due process and was shipped off to El Salvador's prison. The government's lawyer than admitted in court that his deportation was a mistake but the Trump administration is doing nothing to correct that mistake, and even worse, is practically celebrating the fact he is in prison. They are also ignoring the SC on this matter.

No amount of tattoos can make that sequence of events ok.

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358228#Comment_123358228

Only irredeemably stupid people, to be fair.

circadian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358228#Comment_123358228

Feel free to go ahead and share a picture and explain each of the tattoos that means someone is now exempt from due process and Supreme Court protection.

halkar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358154#Comment_123358154

He has no idea about history. US started many wars with countries 20 times smaller and ran away with their tales between their legs. He is a serious problem for world. He will start war with Iran because of Israel and he will use nukes because its cheaper.

Podge_irl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358123#Comment_123358123

No. They have zero jurisdiction in El Salvador.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358154#Comment_123358154

He really is a thick stupid arrogant nasty ****. He could have easily stopped this war in his first month back in office by using the full force of America against Russia but no he is too stupid to do that instead he continues to let Russia bomb and destroy poor Ukraine and kill many more innocent people who might have been alive had America a proper president. There blood is on his hands now too.

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358321#Comment_123358321

But they do have considerable influence. They could, for example, make it clear to El Salvador that they will no longer pay El Salvador to warehouse large numbers of American deportees unless El Salvador can find a way to return any of them who turns out to have been deported mistakenly or illegally, and whose return is requested.

I feel confident that the El Salvadorean government would be receptive to this.