Donald Trump the Megathread part II

salmocab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597606#Comment_123597606

but it has a catchy name and sounds awful so it appeals to the type of people he wants it to.

extra gravy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597609#Comment_123597609

You forgot the most important part, he can make a quick buck off it.

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597609#Comment_123597609

…and it probably only needs to be newsworthy for two weeks, most of which has already passed

Field east

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597382#Comment_123597382

This most recent spat is of SOME interest especially the DOGE threat by Trump. Why?

(1) can Musk be sacked?

(2) if Musk is sacked/‘retires’ would Trump withdraw his threat?

(3) The GOP rep in the UK said on radio yesterday that the tax breaks in the upcoming “ big and beautiful’ budget is to encourage the very wealthy to increase investment/ create jobs. Would Musk/Musk companies not be a significant one of these - it’ the equivalent of ‘too big to fail’ comes to mind.

(4) re to Equivalent of ‘too big to fail’ situation , are some of the Musk companies extremely intertwined in a lot of US major programmes eg space exploration ,; service provision eg rescuing stranded astronauts; satellite communications , etc.?

(5) if DOGE is ‘successful’ and bankrupts Musk companies ,what impact will that have on job losses. Wondering , at this point , i wonder if the staff ca’nt wait for the mid terms to come around. Another ‘TOE’ walked on to accompany all the other ‘toes ‘walked on to date

Penn

Trump once again getting hit in the face with a softball question.

https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1940145037456941468

"…very nice question…" Yeah, except not even close to the one she f*cking asked you. Funnily enough when you're the President and you're visiting a large detention centre which has all the makings of a f*cking concentration camp with extreme concerns about due process and human rights due to the policies you're enacting, she's not asking you about your f*cking vacation days you narcissistic f*ck.

Akrasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596049#Comment_123596049

Trump couldn't get the sharks with lazer beams, so went with alligators instead

Akrasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596752#Comment_123596752

Trump's not gonna gas people like Hitler did. He's just gonna fly them to a remote part of the Pacific and dump them into the ocean.

Akrasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596991#Comment_123596991

Elections don't matter if you rig them

Economics101

Another shakedown.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/02/paramount-settles-with-trump-for-16m-over-60-minutes-interview-with-kamala-harris

michael-henry-mcivor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597401#Comment_123597401

Well the last person who banned Trump from twitter sold it to Musk for a clean fortune- nothing Trump could do to that twitter king-

ZeroThreat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597660#Comment_123597660

Not completely implausible. South American dictators used to fly any opponents out over the South Atlantic and dump them.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597660#Comment_123597660

His Israeli friend has zero issue with treating starving people as target practice.

briany

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597660#Comment_123597660

Well, the Nazis didn't arrive at the gassing thing all at once. They went through several schemes to rid them of 'untermensch' including deporting them to Madagascar and stuffing them in ghettoes.

This was after a general disenfranchisement from participating in society. That then graduated to executing them into mass graves, before finally landing at the industrialised slaughter that was the gas chambers and crematoriums. It was, as the name implies, the final solution. The one they deemed the most 'efficient' and 'effective' (I don't want to really apply these terms to genocide but I guess it's how the Nazis saw it…)

But that all comes after a period of dehumanisation. When you reduce a people to the level of a vermin, an infestation, a nuisance that needs eradication, you can do anything to them.

I have no idea what Trump's America might do to these migrants in time, but I do see the same kind of foundational language and attitudes being slipped in. The othering, the villification, 'they are the cause of all our problems!' and the disregard of basic human rights and due process. The direction of travel is the same. How far that road is gone down remains to be seen.

yagan

Another parallel with the Hitler age was that there already legal discrimination against minorities beforehand.

For Trump it's the irregular immigrants that many of his voters rely on for food and healthcare, so I won't be surprised if these detention centres become indefinite food labour camps.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597845#Comment_123597845

Great post!

VinLieger

Watch these camps turn their prisoners into farm labor to fill the gaps they are make around the country, farms in america will be worked by people in orange jumpsuits chained together in a very short time.

The irony being those same people would have happily done the work but this way they dont have to be paid so capitalism wins.

fullstop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597691#Comment_123597691

It’s a **** joke. Jon Oliver covered this a couple of weeks ago. Basically they played the first half of her answer in the preview/trailer and the second half of it in the feature and the orange scumbag claimed that they had replaced her answer with a better one (both parts were a **** answer anyway). FCC demanded transcripts and it was clear this didn’t happen, but Paramount are looking at a merger and decided to settle to keep the FCC on side, even though they would have won the case.
Any other media outlets criticizing trump are being investigated and/or threatened by the FCC. It’s a disgrace.

Kermit.de.frog

President Trump is about to announce a ceasefire in Gaza. Expecting another major foreign policy success in the coming days 👍

randd1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123598253#Comment_123598253

I suspect it's far more likely he'll spend his time bitching on social media about not being nominated for a Nobel Peace prize simply because he met Netanyahu and it was the bestest meeting ever.

And that Israel will blow apart another group of people queuing for food within 48 hours of the "ceasefire".

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123598253#Comment_123598253

And I'd suspect it will be entirely ineffective, let's just remember he's said feck all about how Palestinians are being starved. In fact he's outright endorsed genocide. Have you even commented on the fact that concentration camps are being setup under his administration?

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123598253#Comment_123598253

As much of a success as the other ceasefires he's previously announced which were instantly ignored?

👍️

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123598281#Comment_123598281

There's a possibility that Israel may retrench from Gaza because Iran did actually overcome Iron Dome by hitting some crucial Mossad and IDF targets. The usual cycle sees Israel clutching an olive branch before replenishing its defense supplies and when that's done they go on the rampage again.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123598253#Comment_123598253

How many ceasefires has he announced there now?
Was each one a "success" ?

And yet still you pop up this post this, positive proof you don't subject Trump's "announcements" to any sort of scrutiny. When it comes to Trump it is see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil.

Are you still praising the racist inhumane detentions camps in the swamp as something to be emulated?

threeball

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597699#Comment_123597699

Different times. Trump hadn't near the same power last time round. And he was out of office by the time of the sale, not expected to return.

eagle eye

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123598253#Comment_123598253

You've got to be trolling.

If you were an American born uneducated moron who can be easily manipulated then I would believe you.

You are not any of those things. I know your are a smart guy.

You don't live in the US as far as I'm aware so you are looking in from the outside and the US is a mess because of Trump.

There are so many unhappy people over there. Hundreds of thousands have emigrated because he is the Potus. There would be millions leaving the US if they could afford it.

I'm pretty sure you know all this.

looksee

Seven or eight replies, not bad.

Quin_Dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597135#Comment_123597135

Sadly , you are right..

The constitution only matters if people are willing to enforce it.

And right now , the people you'd usually look to to enforce and uphold the law and utterly in the bag for Trump.

If Trump breaks the law , who is going to stop him??

HalloweenJack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597646#Comment_123597646

I reckon he's just giving a nonsense answer to deflect.

No damaging info about the actual answer, gives him a chance to have a go at Dem states and also gets people talking about how he misunderstood the question, all very conveniently avoiding a real answer.

RickBlaine

I saw yet another interview with a regretful 2024 Trump voter who said his tariffs has totally upended his job as a truck driver because international trade is down. Then he said a person cannot be for low prices if they raise tariffs. At practically every public appearance or interview Trump gave during the campaign, he mentioned tariffs were a core part of his plan. He was the tariff guy. And now this moron is complaining that Trump implemented tariffs even though he voted for him.

These people are so stupid it is borderline hard to believe.

everlast75

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Hmmm... What a coincidence!