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

jj880

Is this real? 🤣

EmergencyExit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123519233#Comment_123519233

The American people not just the GOP. They knew he was a rapist and still voted for him.

arctictree

I would not be surprised if Trump just had Elon arrested on some charge. So he can't post anymore.

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123519333#Comment_123519333

I doubt that one is real. It'd imply that Trump thinks doing a Nazi salute is bad.

Quin_Dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123519333#Comment_123519333

I'm going to go with no here.

It's not something that his MAGA base would dislike Musk for so what would be the point.

They already know it was a Nazi salute and they liked him more because of it.

TinyMuffin

81 years ago today Tom hanks landed on a beach in France to save Europe (and a Ryan) from nazis. He’d be spinning in his grave if he saw this bitch fight.

2smiggy

sad thing is all this will be 'water under the bridge' when the various people involved bring them to their senses. and the joke of a media over there will not mention it again, like it never happened.

I have little hope this will make an iota of a difference

Field east

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123518720#Comment_123518720

am very surprised that Trump has not cancelled Musk’s security clearance. It’ s like when you lose your credit card the VERY FIRST. Think we all do is to cancel it.. if he cancels it , it will be circumstantial evidence that the ‘spat’ is real and not a strategy re a. Deflection from SOamETHING

Necro

Mod: Folks can we stop posting memes and gifs only with absolutely zero discussion added, or warnings are going to have to be handed out for image dumping - there is a whole forum dedicated to Cool Vids, Links and Pics go and post them there.

https://www.boards.ie/categories/cool-vids-pics-links

magicbastarder

we just need someone to sign up to truth social so they can confirm if the screengrabs are genuine or not…

MoodeRator

I want to see how CFTrump handles the JE files accusation..

He has to take a defamation case if he wants to clear his name, if not, he looks guilty

If he takes the case, surely the files finally have to be opened in court as evidence for all to see

Or he can just open the files to everyone

wanderer 22

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123519450#Comment_123519450

Not particularly, being 'mentioned' in the files doesn't really mean anything, especially when it's well known the two were close. Do Trump's supporters seem to care about the accusation? They don't seem to at this stage anyway…whatever the upgrade of Teflon is, that's what Trump is covered with.

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123519450#Comment_123519450

Nah he'll just pass it off as Musk being a little b*tch, say he's not in the files or he did nothing wrong, then if asked about releasing the full Epstein files, say "We'll look into that" and then never do anything about it.

Trump won't care about looking guilty. Half of his Presidency is doing stuff that makes him look guilty of something or other (even if it's just defying court orders). He doesn't care about looking guilty, because he knows the effort and collaboration for any group to actually do anything about it is next to impossible.

Guilty men don't care about looking guilty. They care about being found guilty. Unless Musk through DOGE has actually obtained a copy of the Epstein Files and they have something incriminating in them, Musk's tweets (while pretty funny for how petty they are) about Epstein are utterly meaningless. Everyone already knew Trump was in them in some way or form (even if it's just flight logs). Trump's supporters don't care and without Musk showing any proof of anything further there's nothing new.

poop emoji

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/elon-musk-new-party-poll-trump

This pile of steaming 💩 just gets better and better with age, he gonna tear apart the the republicans armed with data he stole from US govt

wanderer 22

They'll reconcile quickly and pretend yesterday was nothing. Elon has already replied to a tweet (or whatever they're called now) saying they should make up by replying 'you're not wrong'. The fun is over I'd say.

looksee

I am not seeing Musk starting a new party - he was never particularly popular, he was accepted by the Trumpers when Trump was using him but I don't see that he had any significant personal support.

poop emoji

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123519548#Comment_123519548

If his aim is to destroy both other parties and he doesn’t lose his billions, third party would be the way to splinter both even if don’t win

Economics101

The US Treasury must be run by economic illiterates. Ireland is on a watch list for currency manipulation vis-s-vis the US$. No mention from Reuters or the Irish Irish Indo that Ireland does not have its own currency to manipulate. Apparently the Treasury used 3 criteria to add Ireland and Switzerland to the watch list: a trade surplus of at least $15 Billion with the USA, a trade surplus of 3% of GDP with USA and persistent net Dollar asset purchases.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-finds-no-currency-manipulation-2024-ireland-switzerland-added-monitoring-list-2025-06-05/#:~:text=June%206%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20No,nine%20with%20the%20addition%20of

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ireland-added-to-monitoring-list-of-countries-watched-closely-around-us-dollar-manipulation/a1670465334.html

Neither Reuters not the Indo seem to grasp the absurdity of all this.

pc7

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123519120#Comment_123519120

trump could rape a child live on tv and the morons who support him still would, that's the problem.

Igotadose

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123519562#Comment_123519562

They'd buy tickets if it were on pay-per-view, which it would be.

Rawr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123519556#Comment_123519556

He'd more likely split the right than the center. That's assuming of course he'd have the follow-through or sobriety to actually run a political party…which he doesn't…

Dohnjoe

Unfortunately I suspect they'll patch this up and be best buddies in no time

aloyisious

@Quin_Dub: You're right on if the Big Beautiful Bill would have to revert to the House for a second vote if Senators made changes to it while it was being debated and then voted in the Senate. This from an article in The Independent 10 hours ago.

Trump has faced challenges getting the bill through Congress. It narrowly passed in the House in May, and The Hill reported Thursday that it is “losing momentum” in the Senate. If the Senate makes any changes to the House-passed bill, as expected, the House will need to vote again on the legislation.

On Tuesday, Greene admitted in an X post that she didn’t read the full text of the bill, missing a section that “strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years.”

“I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there,” she wrote, adding, “This needs to be stripped out in the Senate.”

Greene went even further with her opposition to the bill on Thursday, saying she will not support it when it comes back to the House for another vote.

“When it comes to AI and regulation, when we get to vote on this bill again, I will be voting no because of this clause,” she said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, The Hill reported Thursday.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123519595#Comment_123519595

Or Elon will have his US citizenship revoked and end up in El Salvador.

Red Silurian

I'd say give it a week and their relationship will be back on track

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123519584#Comment_123519584

He doesn't have to run it; just fund it.

But tje question is whether the kind of party that Musk would like to fund is capable of attracting the kind of support that would make it a credible third force in US politics. Musk's dream party is:

• Fiscally responsible
• Authoritarian
• Pro-corruption
• Pro-oligarchy
• Anti-democracy
• Racist
• Bigoted
• Anti-social
• Anti-community
• Antisemitic

It's quite a specific wish-list. He would need to find plausible frontmen for such a party but, even if he could, I doubt that the party would attract enough support to displace the Republicans. The US system can really only accommodate two parties; the rest are, at best, pressure groups more than parties

poop emoji

81 years ago Americans (and Canadians and Brits etc) landed in Normandy to fight Nazis

Today the Nazis are in the Whitehouse fighting each other over how to best screw the Americans, Canadians, Brits etc

Tell me how

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123518893#Comment_123518893

Exactly! And the Nazi salute, and the insulting people, and the killing of USAID.

If any Democrat or Liberal or Left Wing politician or group entertains Musk for a second if he looks to invest in them to hurt Conservatives, they should be reminded of what he is and judged accordingly.

10000maniacs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123519333#Comment_123519333

I burst my sides laughing at that quote. It's like two toddlers fighting over a soother.

All jokes aside, it would be highly advisable for Musk to get out of the USA now. Trump is an absolute lunatic with a lot of power.

Remember Germany in the mid 1930s, there were a lot of opposition voices, and then suddenly there weren't so many.

Seth Brundle

What makes the lovers tiff between Trump & Musk even funnier is that Trump said the following to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz yesterday in relationto Russia & Ukraine...

Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy, They hate each other, and they’re fighting in a park, and you try and pull them apart. They don’t want to be pulled. Sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/05/politics/ukraine-war-trump-kids-fighting