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

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123502849#Comment_123502849

this can be one of the same thing, its also common for many religious followers to struggle with anxiety issues.

charismatic leaders tend to be highly narcissistic, including religious leaders, this can be an automatic magnet for such anxious followers, a leader that seems to know whats going on, has all the solutions……

Patrick2010

Trump might pardon P Diddy if he’s found guilty , what’s the point of courts, let Trump hear the case

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/diddy-pardon-trump-trial-conviction-b2761008.html

Glencarraig

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123501535#Comment_123501535

She can only be leaving for the money cause everybody knows that Musk's nickname is "Plastic Mickey" !!!!!

Flaneur OBrien

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123503211#Comment_123503211

Of course he will. The country is a joke at this stage.

thereiver

I think they way trump works is they way the choose a job candidate is which person is very conservative who is popular in they state they started off in as a politician

who is good at raising money or attracting donors

who likes to appear on Fox news or joe Rogan and various extreme conservative podcasts .do they look good on tv . The result of this is the person who knows least about the area of expertise or is weirdo extremist who believes in conspiracy theorys gets the job So the person who is least capable with a mediocre intellect gets the job of manager of a government department .Being slightly racist or ignorant of how government works seems to be an advantage in getting a high profile job .

Theres an item on sky news today. Government spending has gone up since Doge started cutting jobs from all federal agencys .

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123503211#Comment_123503211

Sure he needs someone to replace Musk now

briany

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123503241#Comment_123503241

I'm sure there are a number of people he'd like to pardon. A few months ago, conservative pundit Ben Shapiro was talking about pardoning Derek Chauvin. I had thought Trump would consider this as well, although it's been pointed out that even if Trump pardoned him, he'd still serve a state-level sentence.

Someone I fancy he'll consider a pardon for, if he does let Diddy off, is Ghislaine Maxwell. I remember when her arrest happened, a reporter asked Trump for comment and his words were - "I just wish her well, frankly…" That was as sitting president, talking about someone in the middle of a big sex trafficking case. 😮

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC2jsRrzCrs

TinyMuffin

musk got into a physical altercation with Bessent and miller yesterday. But who threw the punch?

briany

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123503320#Comment_123503320

Musk/Miller fight cctv footage

TinyMuffin

now musk is going after bono after he claimed on Joe Rogan usaid cuts have cost 300000 lives.
When egos collide.

eightieschewbaccy

RFK now saying federal scientists might not be allowed to be published in peer reviewed journals. Instead he wants it to be in house government publications... Keep getting reminded of the brain drain of Nazi Germany ATM.. Everything is fine though!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/rfk-jr-medical-journals

kowloon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123503348#Comment_123503348

Krav MAGA.

fly_agaric

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123503211#Comment_123503211

The Felonious POTUS does seem to have a thing for letting criminals he likes off the hook. Was kind of dumbstruck when I heard he pardoned that Ulbricht fellow.🤷

fergiesfolly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123503211#Comment_123503211

Well, there's every chance there's a freaky video of Donny smothered in baby oil.....

cnocbui

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123503241#Comment_123503241

It's a moral swamp.

cnocbui

A 15 year old sacrificed for an election stunt.

kneemos

Trumps tariffs have cost global companies 34 billion and counting.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0530/1515846-trumps-tariff-tally-34-billion-and-counting/

aloyisious

It seems that the location Trump chose to make the increased Steel and Aluminium tariff charges yesterday was a a US steel plant in Pittsburgh that is in the process of being sold to a Japanese Steel corporation, Nippon Steel. Trump, during the period he was out of office, opposed the purchase and Biden blocked it. Now Trump has no problem with the deal between a foreign company, Nippon Steel, buying what is described as an iconic US plant.

It is the standard practice of foreign companies which have bought out other companies, home and abroad, to asset-strip the newly purchased Co and transfer the assets to the mother-country of the purchaser.

Due to his flip-flops, it would not be wise to presume that any product made at any Nippon Steel plant in Japan or elsewhere outside the US will be liable to the latest tariff increases Trump has put on all imported steel and aluminium.

Wolf359f

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123503986#Comment_123503986

To put it into contrast, the US has collected $68 billion in tariffs so far this year. They need another $2332 billion to get rid of income tax (one of the reasons Trump brought in tariffs) That means Trump needs to increase tariffs 11 fold! Then again he stated they were collecting $2 bil a day, which is obviously bullshit.

We won't get into the trillions lost in the Trump slump!

threeball

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123499864#Comment_123499864

The US was never any of those things though. Since ww2 they constructed a narrative which sold that story to the world. In reality they were like an invasive species, wreaking havoc in every corner of the world just to further their interests.

In One way I'm glad Trump got in, cos it lifted the mask on what the US really is and how it's people view the rest of us. It's time we moved on. They have created more global instability and death since the end of the war than any other nation apart from Stalins Soviet Union.

If they want to reintegrate with the world in future. It should be on our terms, not theirs.

kowloon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123504319#Comment_123504319

In One way I'm glad Trump got in, cos it lifted the mask on what the US really is and how it's people view the rest of us. It's time we moved on. They have created more global instability and death since the end of the war than any other nation apart from Stalins Soviet Union.

No room for Mao?

AbusesToilets

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123501921#Comment_123501921

in some wonderful news, he's apparently taken so much, it's damaged his urinary system, giving him a permanent state of UTI like symptoms and incontinence.

extra gravy

In the latest episode of "could you imagine if Biden said this?". Nothing will be said of course because the media have normalised his insanity. More interested in keeping their press passes than their integrity.

Field east

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123503241#Comment_123503241

well, if Trump says that he was treated ‘VERY UNFAIRLY ‘ by the courts then he will have GIVEN HIMSELF sufficient grounds to pardon him - is that not the playbook that’s used in all of his decisions

Field east

—- am he must LIKE him and he MUST like them!!!!!!

Patser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123504514#Comment_123504514

Again, I'm absolutely astounded that Trump can endorse a claim that Biden was replaced by clones, that his deep end MAGA supporters then share amongst themselves as proof; but all serious commentators, all Senators and Representatives, all normal people just somehow gloss over, never comment on, just dismiss as Trump being Trump.

He dogwhistles to his base in plain view, and everyone is later shocked that they are ill informed. This claim should be brought up in every interview with every Republican Senator or Govt Secretary; saying is this true, do you believe it, what have you said not the President regards this!

It's like the autopen claim. No-one followed up on it seriously l, so the MAGA base still repeat it as a genuine thing.

everlast75

So, if I'm clear on this, MAGA's position is

1) Biden was mentally incapacitated, had "handlers" and made no decisions

2) Biden made all the decisions, was incompetent and ran the economy into the ground

3) there was no Biden, he was replaced by a clone.

Gotcha!

Seth Brundle

So will they now drop the horrible claim that they hid Biden's cancer for years?

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123504815#Comment_123504815

MAGA has more in common with a religion than a political or economic ideology. Trump is God and the rest is just details.

looksee

It must be deeply hurtful to Biden that after a more than adequate presidency, which was possibly better than many people admit, and at worst was harmless, he goes into his final few months a victim of Trump's spite and mania. They don't have to say nice things about him, just leave him alone and in some sort of peace.