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

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People missing the bigger picture here

It’s a first tariff on a service

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123419443#Comment_123419443

absolutely, and this admin hasnt a clue whats its doing, and wont give a flying fcuk about those negatively impacted from their actions

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123419052#Comment_123419052

So he's saying that between the tariffs and falls in disposable income, this Christmas people will only be able to purchase a fifth to a tenth of the goods they would normally ?

If you got less than 10 dolls last year, you might not get one this year. If you got less than five then you probably won't get any.

aloyisious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123419531#Comment_123419531

Excellent, rationing of COLORED lights from China - ten per household saving the planet from all the energy waste and pollution from festive season lights on lawns and rooftops. Customs checks on sleighs flying in from the Greenland direction; "sorry Santa, its from the great leader"….

aloyisious

Perfect way to ruin Trump's weekend, have the media highlight Pence getting the John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Sunday, if the media does mention it in general and not on page 9.

Billy Mays

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123419531#Comment_123419531

Sounds like the federal government telling people how to live their lives

I thought the right were against that type of thing 🤔

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123419443#Comment_123419443

Good thing no country has ever thought of reciprocal tariffs ever.

Or other non-tariff trade barriers.

The number of government-approved American releases in China plunged from a peak of over 60 in 2018 to as few as 15 in 2022, according to industry data. They rebounded to 35 in 2023 and totalled 31 in 2024. - How many this year ?

Good thing that Hollywood Accounting doesn't really exist. Return of the Jedi cost $32.5m to make but it still hasn't turned a profit despite a total income of $569m. Hollywood Accounting. Very creative. On top of that there's price transfer, intellectual property, CGI costs and the technology to phone stuff in so I can't see how Trump could force Hollywood to bring money back to stay in the USA.

thereiver

I heard on rte radio there's 1000s of Irish people working in America. with no visa some they get married to an American citizen they apply to be a USA citizen while the papers are being processed they go to government office

Some people are being arrested and deported for not having a visa . America is becoming a fascist country .ice have quotas they need to arrest and deport x no of people per week. This is happening to people from many country's .

If I married an Irish woman the chances of being deported in Ireland is close to zero unless I commit a crime one of the things that makes the economy boom is immigrants who came to work and make a new life

The American economy was literally built by immigrants

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123419817#Comment_123419817

In fairness visa overstayers have being getting deported regularly since 9/11. What's alarming now is valid Green card holders being detained for expunged offenses. A parking violation would now be enough for ICE to determine a Green card holder be detained.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123419214#Comment_123419214

Trump does not treat that office with respect though and he certainly does not deserve respect.

Trump is an attention seeker and that is exactly what he is doing making things up for laughts and why he never should have been elected never minded reelected in the first place.

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123419891#Comment_123419891

They were deporting people who went to ICE offices to register.

And Irish people on Deferred Action who overstayed their visas and had to report an ICE office every six months as part of efforts to regularise their status. People who were doing that all through Trump's first term.

“The Irish government has been extraordinarily good in this, they have gone out of their way to be helpful to the immigration centres and the immigrants as much as they can.”

“These are very, very serious violations of people’s privacy, you know, constitutional protections against search and seizure and due process.”

thereiver

Brendan o,connor show on rte avaidable as a podcast he said people who are in the process of getting a visa and are married to a USA citizen are being arrested when they go to a government office eg not just people who overstay a visa ,

People who are married and are going thru the legal process of becoming an American citizen

You can listen to the box show news panel anytime on rte.ie radio 1

I think it's a long process over ,6months to become a USA citizen or get a green card

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ah that explains it

Frank Bullitt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123419443#Comment_123419443

This.

There will be a lot of tech companies looking at this with a degree of worry now. Shopify would be top of mind.

aloyisious

The distance to which Trump goes to thinking things through was explained earlier today with his musing "do I have to uphold the constitution" where some constitutional rights in it are guaranteed "or can I ignore them and rely on SCOTUS for guidance".

There are things he says publicly which are stupendous in their stupidity and there are things he says which should have his cabinet, the senate and the house of congress, en masse, shouting at him "You cannot be serious". His statement about the constitution and SCOTUS should be enough to have the constitution clause on standing him aside in favour of his V/P activated. If he actually tried to rule outside the constitution, it should be enough to have him impeached, tried and convicted of crimes against the US.

If he does succeed in getting SCOTUS involved to the extent of taking his question seriously enough to give it a reply, I sincerely hope SCOTUS tells him he swore an oath in Jan 2025 to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, with him ending his swearing-in with the words "so help me God".

If Trump is stood aside in line with the constitution, I hope the Chief Justice firmly tells Vance what the wording of the oath hold and oblige him to do without question, fear or favour.

I do not think Trump was in any way trying distraction tactics or ploys today. I believe he was actually speaking out loud on the thoughts of how he could act outside the constitution and the official duty limits SCOTUS laid down for him and other presidents.

extra gravy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123419180#Comment_123419180

It would also need congressional approval to be reopened as a prison as it's part of the Golden Gate national recreational area. Shame he and his family of parasites couldn't be dumped there right now.

breezy1985

How do you tariff a movie ?

Who pays and when.

Also I only today discovered his influencer debriefings. What a pathetic load of nonsense.

briany

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123420622#Comment_123420622

I imagine the domestic supplier pays, as with physical goods and then they pass that extra cost onto the consumer. However, as things like films can be streamed from services that are foreign-based, I imagine the US would say to them that they must pay the tariff or else be IP-blocked in the US.

Anyway, it's all moot because it'll just mean that many people will dig out the peg-leg, the eyepatch and take to the high seas once again because a tariff on 0.00 they can manage.

Anyway, I thought Trump hated Hollywood, looking upon it as a festering cauldron of Marxist-wokism-blah-blah-blah. Some producers out there must have decided to go supplicating to him with a big bowl of money.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123420734#Comment_123420734

But pay for what. The distribution licence or physical DVD or download or what ?

This is just another on of those things he blurts that never actually happens I assume.

threeball

Tarriff this mofo's

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIfqDiLIXiR/?igsh=MTZvNGRqbGVlbnh2Zw==

Chinese knocking it out of the park again

Frank Bullitt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123420742#Comment_123420742

From what I can understand, production companies get tax incentives to film in certain locations, the new season of The Last of Us as an example, a lot of it was filmed here in Vancouver. The production company would be based in America, HBO in this instance, so when they file their taxes and incomes based off what they produced, if it is listed that they filmed here in Vancouver, the tariff would take the form of a tax on top of that.

At least, that is how it was explained to me.

briany

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123420742#Comment_123420742

Those are all different things and, depending on where they're produced, they could all be tariffed. The distribution rights would probably get the 100 percent tariff in the case where its a digital form and the same thing with the physical DVD. They would have to pay a tariff on the distribution rights fee as well as a tariff to actually import the physical DVDs.

It is supremely dumb, but I suppose it could be done, all the same.

Frank Bullitt

Regardless of how they will be implemented, film stocks took a hit today.

kneemos

Looks like some Americans are hightailing it with EU Visa and Passport applications up on previous years. Qualified types no doubt if they're applying for visas.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/economy/arid-41625949.html

everlast75

So, when quizzed about the pope picture, this is what he said....

FOX NEWS: Some Catholics were not so happy about the image of you looking like the Pope

TRUMP: You mean they can't take a joke? You don't mean the Catholics, you mean the fake news media. The Catholics loved it. I had nothing to do with it. Maybe it was AI.

In other words...

a) the Catholics got offended by a joke!

b) no, the fake news media were offended by it

c) the Catholics loved it

d) I didn't post it

e) AI did it.

What a sniveling little weasel. If you post it - own it.

A profile in courage indeed...