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

The reality is that Trump has a stable source of income, and a US presidents pension along with medical care and a reasonable expectation that people will fill his wallet with dollar bills on request so he doesn't give a fiddlers about how the majority of them survive week to week or day to day on their wages and pay their bills. All other payments he's due to make are ignored, the supplicants have to join the queue for the leavings from his table. He doesn't need a state COLA assist so the poor and needy are irrelevant to him.

More proof, if any were needed, that trump is indeed the darling of the white supremacists and neo-nazies.

Not every Trump flag is going to be accompanied by a swaztica flag, but 99% of swaztica flags flown in America will be accompanied by a trump flag

On the whole American Nazi thing, are these lads proud their country fought against and helped defeat the Nazi's in WW2, or angry over it?

Also, what is it with these white power/confederate types and their attachment to the loser, the side that lost to their country? Is it really themselves they hate, that they can't stand being Americans? I know they're not the smartest crowd, but surely chanting "America First" while waving the flags of entities that declared war on and fought America seems a bit contradictory?

Deplorables, she called them. She did them too much justice.

Fine people though, according to Trump. I wonder what he see's in them to call them that.

Morons like that couldn't even point out Berlin on the map, never mind understanding the sheer hypocritical state of mind in being a Nazi in America, given what occurred between Germany and America during the war.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if these bozos put American involvement in WWII down to some leftist conspiracy. That seems to be the catch cry of the modern right winger.

Fuckwits with flags.

I always find it funny that white supremacists don't represent a supreme of anything.

wow I have stayed away from watching too many of his ramblings but even for him this is insane. What is he even trying to say?

But Joe Biden is the one in cognitive decline!

I think the days of polls could/should be on their way out.

I haven't a clue the way it's going to go. Objectively, it should be a 100 Seat electoral college victory for Harris, minimum.

In reality, he could still win because we've no clue which particular segment of the population are going to turn out to vote.

I've seen social media videos of both Red and Blue voters voting early, and Red and Blue voters and activists speaking with conviction and saying that it is in the bag for their side.

Objectively, he's the worst candidate that has ever ran for the office. His record in office, his crimes and misdemeanors, his performance at his rallies, such as posted above or last night, his completely non-sensical personal policies (hundreds of % increases on tarriffs, using the army to summarily deport people, 'The WALL'), the policies of those who have his ear (Project 25), the evidence of his former close close staff who are imploring people not to vote for him. He's a clown and a charlatan of the highest order and is deserving of being obliterated. But, he won't be, because of the MAGA faithful, many of who I don't believe have the mental capacity and/or desire to assess him objectively. And I don't mind saying that, that can be a fact even though some people might not want to acknowledge it, and given the absolute evidence as to his persona and capability, anyone choosing him deserves to be judged.

I wouldn't be surprised at this point if the reports of betting leaning in his favour is another instance of grifters (the bookies) seeing his supporters are ripe for the taking and are expertly reeling them in.

And yet, he might win….

America should have a serious conversation about how it is inhibiting itself by getting to a place where this charade can happen, but it doesn't have the bodies (individual or collective) respected enough and objective enough to have that conversation.

all the posts I have seen related to polls are based on polymarket (especially from the trump side)

And Donald is doing interviews with Glenn "soft in the head" Beck.

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1846328989649981597

Why is this only coming out now?

Reaaaaalllly retreating into the safe spaces if he's doing a Beck Interview, good lord.

It's a good way to see Convicted Felon Trump lie again. Trump ducked his question on Covid and lied about his administration and how many support him, and whined that he disagreed with his VP. Pathetic.

I wonder how long before that fellow asking him the question becomes a victim of stochastic terrorism. Too bad Univision gives out so much info.

And, it'd be awesome if that fellow gets some questions like, "Are you going to vote for Trump now?"

A: Because it's a NEW attempt to hush her for THIS election,

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-legal-team-tried-keep-stormy-daniels-quiet-yes-rcna175887

Apparently this is a Rachel Maddow scoop who has the receipts.

This is all incidentally part of his lawyers attempt to get Daniels to pay Trump for a judgement in the case she previously lost against him, trying to extract the fee plus interest etc. - at one point, they made a grave error and admitted — in writing no less — that Trump would accept less money from Daniels, if she agreed to a brand new hush deal ie. a new hush money deal. He wanted her hushed again for the paltry sum of $30,000.

“We disagree that a payment of $620,000 would be in full satisfaction of the three judgments,” Trump’s lawyers said in a July letter obtained by Rachel. “However, we can agree to settle these matters for $620,000, provided that your client agrees in writing to make no public or private statements related to any alleged past interactions with President Trump, or defamatory or disparaging statements about him, his businesses and/or any affiliates or his suitability as a candidate for President.”

So to review, Trump wanted $650,000. He was prepared to accept $620,000 alongside a signed NDA.

When Daniels balked, Trump agreed to accept $635,000 — and he got $627,500, without an NDA.

So what’s the bottom line? As Rachel summarized on the show, “The Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump, is currently awaiting sentencing for crimes related to a secret hush-money payment he made to porn star Stormy Daniels, just before the 2016 election, to keep her from talking about him — and specifically about having sex with him.

“And now just before the 2024 election, Trump has once again demanded that Stormy Daniels sign on to an agreement not to talk about him, offering to knock off thousands of dollars off her bill if she did. Maybe this time, Trump has learned his lesson about not laundering this through his business, but he really is basically trying to do the same thing again.”

In summation:

It's easy to imagine if Trump wasn't a greedy prick and simply, with his bigly wealth and no need for money waived the judgement in exchange for a new hush agreement, I'm willing to bet she would have accepted, with both parties having gotten what they wanted ultimately: him to have her silenced, and she to not pay him a single penny.

It looks like Fox & Friends seemed to think that for some reason that Don The Con™ and a white sofa are incompatible. I wonder why🤔

Seems like Fox are fairly sure that Don doesn't just chat shít...

Important correction below and one that I need to add here. It isn't a puppy pad or a towel.