Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

halkar

China should ban all exports to US for few weeks. That will show who will kiss who's ass. Those trillion dollar companies didn't become rich with American's sweat .

BP_RS3813

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368149#Comment_123368149

Everyone should ban all exports - sell off Debt too. That will put manners on the feckers alright. World bullies america into behaving.

Oscar_Madison

It’s been very clear from day 1 that Trump doesn’t want peace in ukraine- for whatever reason he wants to hand it to Russia - he’s made unrealistic demands of Ukraine and they unexpectedly after trying to negotiate different terms, said yes- so he couldn’t end up blaming them for not accepting his terms - but still there’s no peace- and Trump has remained silent on Russia- just what the fck is going on?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/us-ready-to-abandon-ukraine-peace-deal-if-there-is-no-progress-says-marco-rubio

joseywhales

The whole thing is a joke , a political drama, noone can even put a dent in globalisation at this stage. The supply chains now and interdependence is complete. And it's a wonderful thing that prevents large scale conflict and keeps prices down. The only problem here is people's perception of their quality of life. Without the experience of labouring in a coal mine to die at 40 from coal dust inhalation related illness, you will never know how good you have it now

RickBlaine

The fact that one man can cause so much worldwide economic turmoil is crazy. If anything good comes from this sh*tshow it will be the rest of the world reducing its economic dependence on America and thus limiting the damage that a president can do.

EltonJohn69

Just got confirmed that it is widely known that only MS13 gang members have this type of haircut. Praying for a quick deportation so America’s dogs are no longer at risk of being eaten.

briany

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368257#Comment_123368257

The question isn't how good people have it with respect to the past. The question is how good should people have it with respect to total resources available in the present day?

After WW2 ended, there was a great boom of economic prosperity in the United States and optimism for the future was sky high. The view of the decades to come were summed up in popular TV shows like Star Trek and the Jetsons, where humanity ventured out into the stars and the problems of the modern age were mostly overcome.

But that hasn't quite happened. The size of the crumbs falling off the cake have got proportionally bigger, but it's not an invalid question to ask whether those with the knives and forks need to get so fat, i.e. if the system that enables that setup is a particularly fare/equitable one.

Stanley 1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368054#Comment_123368054

US consumers will have to pay more again.

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368295#Comment_123368295

The WTO forecast of 2.7% growth in global trade has been revised to a fall of 0.2% and …

UN trade and development body, UNCTAD, released its own report which forecasts global growth to slow to 2.3% in 2025 due to escalating trade tensions and uncertainty.

It said the projection was below "the 2.5% threshold widely viewed as signalling a global recession".

There's a lot of "I'm all right Jack" about the voters and the administration. Mé Féinners at best.

Strazdas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368295#Comment_123368295

America's influence for the last century was predicated on its vast wealth and business ethic obviously but also on 'responsible adults' being in charge. Nobody ever foresaw the emergence of a reality TV show buffoon and failed businessman with strong authoritarian instincts taking the reins of power and surrounding himself with fellow idiots and sycophants. One wonders if the US can ever recover from this or if its global influence is already gone for good.

Tony EH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123367800#Comment_123367800

I don't know diddly squat about this Mr. García and he may well be someone that I wouldn't want to spend too much time with, but it's HIGHLY disturbing that this administration will not rectify this appalling situation. A situation that was a "mistake". Instead they choose to double down and try desperately to pin something, anything, on the guy despite the fact that he has "no criminal history" according to the administration's own files. And all merely to justify their own fu*k up.

Trump and his crowd have to be one of the most malign groupings of sick individuals I've yet seen in control of a major western nation. They are utterly reckless, beholden to an extreme venality, allied with some very malicious cronies around the world and they have an inbuilt terror of admitting their own shortcomings & changing them.

And that makes them truly dangerous to everybody, not only in their own nation, but outside of it as well.

Sudden Valley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368018#Comment_123368018

I like Sam Harris but it is a bit ironic that he is repeating the line of Douglas Murray on a recent Joe rogan podcast where Douglas made this same point with zero self-awareness thst he was also not a expert on what he was talking about. There are too many speakers like Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson on the other side that speak on topics they are not experts in. Their main skill is talking confidently in public.

Tony EH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368555#Comment_123368555

There are too many of these Youtubers and internet talking heads yapping about important things that they have little understanding of full stop. Unfortunately, the naive think that they are hearing experts discussing topical issues and they come away with a head full of nonsense, thinking that they've got some inside scoop, when all these internet bozos are interested in is their attention, no matter what's being said and how much conviction it's being said with.

Stanley 1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123366512#Comment_123366512

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/18/stormy-daniels-tell-all-book-on-trump-salacious-detail-and-claims-of-cheating

"She describes Trump’s penis as “smaller than average” but “not freakishly small”.

“He knows he has an unusual penis,” Daniels writes. “It has a huge mushroom head. Like a toadstool …

“I lay there, annoyed that I was getting fucked by a guy with Yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart ...

“It may have been the least impressive sex I’d ever had, but clearly, he didn’t share that opinion.”

Stormy lays it out, she also said Trump had a guard on the hotel bedroom door and she felt trapped in, only alternative she felt was let him have his way and then get the hell out of there.

The scene in the movie "The Apprentice" where he committs marital rape with Ivana, is indicative of the type of man he is, would think there are many more women out there who have similar and more horrific stories.

threeball

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123364406#Comment_123364406

They're expecting a $90bn shortfall in revenue from tourism this year. Next year that's set to increase as Trump tightens his grip

Glencarraig

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123367880#Comment_123367880

So can we now officially refer to him as "plastic mickey" ?

joseywhales

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368349#Comment_123368349

It reminds me of when I was kid. My older brother would raid the dining room where my mother kept the sweets. He would include me to lessen the inevitable backlash when his gluttony was discovered. He would give me one and he would take two. Naturally I would complain about the unfairness and he would say "you only want more because I have more, if I had the same you would be content". That really stuck with me, as annoying as it was, there is no no moral justification for me to have the same as others if what I have is enough. It's my fallacy and weakness of character aka envy , that leads to my own unhappiness. That is an issue with modern society, a lack of self discipline and total indulgence in envy and vanity etc. you will always be unhappy no matter what you have if you don't have power over yourself.

breezy1985

So they are now talking about walking away from the peace talks to end Putin's 3 day war that Trump said he would end in 24hrs all because it its getting a bit too hard for them.

So just like his tariffs and his wall he is running away again.

Wolf359f

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368708#Comment_123368708

I was reading that one of the big issues is the reduction in states sales taxes due to shortfall in tourist revenue. Florida will be hit hardest, they have a high number of Canadians who go there for months on end and sales tax amounts to 80% of the States revenue (they have no income tax)

Strazdas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368754#Comment_123368754

Impossible to see how Trump's 'peace plan' was ever going to work anyway. He is not an honest broker and has shown in recent weeks he is pro-Putin and Russia.

testtech05

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368765#Comment_123368765

I am finding it hard to understand why Ukraine seems to be going along with the minerals deal or is it a case of trying to keep the US onside and hope they come around? Unfortunately I don't think that will work

threeball

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368757#Comment_123368757

I hope they're decimated. A state full of hateful hillbillies and imbeciles.

Wolf359f

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368786#Comment_123368786

It just feels like a slow car crash ATM.

The true effect of the tariffs, drop in tourism figures, mass federal layoffs haven't really been counted yet. Feels like in a few months it's all going to come crashing down.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368765#Comment_123368765

Well ya most of us knew he was talking sht. Some still need reminding for some crazy reason.

threeball

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123364682#Comment_123364682

Its also worth noting the Don Jrs latest squeeze is a director of a wildlife foundation, promoting floridas natural wildlife. Whilst he goes around shooting endangered ducks in Italy and his father removes wildlife protections worldwide. You couldn't make this shít up. The women that surround this administration have zero morals, no interests apart from their own promotion/enrichment. From Leavitt, to Noam, to Green, to Gabbard. The list is long and they are a sick bunch of individuals.

Field east

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368554#Comment_123368554

what happens if and when the next president is ofthe democratic persuasion and refuse to continue paying El. Salvador for keeping the ‘ illegals ‘ ‘ extradited to it. ?

Field east

If the Demo’s win the next president election it will take all ofthe 4 years , ATLEAST, to unwind the clock and ofthe voting pop is not happen with the way it does it is there a chance that the GOP will be voted back in again?

Tony EH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368829#Comment_123368829

I'm not interested in what ifs that may never come to pass in order to try and justify this admin's bullshit.

Timberrrrrrrr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368708#Comment_123368708

World Cup next year, how many will risk travel to the games being held in the US if there's a risk of being detained/deported on arrival?

We could see half empty stadia.

Stanley 1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123368816#Comment_123368816

Don't forget Laura Loomer, she has taken to his bed at Merde de Lardo, has him by the short and curlies, sacks people and gets him to endorse/back her up and right now he is scared of her, does what he is told.