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

Nancy Pelosi has labelled Trump, Musk's puppet President Elect.

The irony of that after the WSJ article yesterday detailing how Biden was essentially a puppet President.

Pelosi has been siding with billionaires and special interests for years, she doesnt like it when the shoe is on the other foot.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, deflection and whataboutery.

No its not deflection or whataboutery, its highlighting rank hypocrisy.

Is taking a 'windfall' in order to do the bidding of Musk an official Presidential act?

Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York suggested Thursday night that Elon Musk would provide President-elect Donald Trump with a “windfall” if the incoming commander-in-chief does the bidding of the X owner.

Congressman floats theory that Musk has promised Trump a ‘windfall’ if he does billionaire’s bidding

I guess it would be above Donnie’s head to explain the concept of a nation leasing a portion of their sovereign territory to another nation for the client nation’s benefit. (In this case, the canal territories, which the US got control of and benefit from for the guts of a century.)

Panama had their territory essentially sliced in half and couldn’t really benefit from the Canal tolls until they got control back in 1999. The US got handy access to a strategic asset, and a faster way to move ships between their East & West coasts without having to go around South America, or dig an insanely expensive canal through their own territory.

The pay off was that eventually the impoverished Panama would get that territory back and have a means of earning revenue from the canal. Of course Donnie needs something grab people’s attention away from Elon’s block-headed attempt to govern through him. I guess Panama will do (until Donnie finds something easier to sell to the MAGA dimwits)

There may have been a “Belt and Road” project to build a similar canal in Colombia.

However “Belt and Road” and “Chinese backed” are two word synonymous with abysmal build quality and projects that that just land the host country in debt for something that ultimately might not survive too much use to them.

There was a planned canal through Nicaraguar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_build_a_canal_across_Nicaragua

Doge already showing what their priorities are in terms of cuts. Trump and co protecting the vulnerable as per usual.

Some did. Not enough paid attention. The GOP tried to keep it a secret, but like all things they did so ineptly.

The stories coming out, about the absolute ignorance shown by 'former Democratic voters who voted for Trump,' would be shocking, if one didn't have the worst expectations of the intelligence of the average American.

Wait till the tariff's kick in (if they in fact do) and the Trump-voting small business owners get good and shafted, just like the last time. Or once Linda McMahon gets her claws into the DoE, and guts it.

Fun fact: the future SecEd is on the board of a US college with a campus in Dingle. I expect it'll do well, they'll carve out an exception somehow. Pretty mediocre school by all accounts.

Isn’t their some mad belief that underneath Greenland is a massive amount of minerals for manufacturing like copper and so on?

Easy to mine it all out when all the ice melts. "Drill baby, drill" or whatever it is they say.

AOC is funny.

Tulsi Gabbard is a pro war nomination globally. Point blank period

As is Donald Trump

These people have nothing on Lord Haw-Haw.

Is it any wonder that the mainstream is dying when you have people telling bare faced lies with a straight face and expecting people to swallow it.

Trump the warhawk, Biden the peacemaker.

People bare faced telling lies and expecting people to swallow it? You mean like Trump, who has been fact checked and is a proven liar? What count of lies do you think Trump is up to now?

Fact-checkers at  The Washington Post  documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during his presidential term, an average of about 21 per day.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump)

Also established in courts of law that Trump is a liar - he lied about sexual assault, he lied when it came to covering up hush money, fraudulent reporting to dodge taxes. Proven liar.

Those lies?

Funny how you give a free pass to Trump to come out with however many lies and incoherent self serving drivel as he likes, and you'll defend him. Yet valid opinions on Gabbard bring out this vitriol.

Tulsi Gabbard is a warmonger, anyone who wants to give a free pass to warmongers who launch illegal invasions is a warmonger. Nothing is more likely to lead to more wars than rewarding warmongers. Yeah some people have nothing on Lord Haw Haw for sure.

Any comment on trump picking Gaetz?

The best people.

Trump as a rapist trying to surround himself by people as depraved as himself. Or amoral bootlickers like JD Vance. He probably cant look anyone with any sense of decency in the eye without whatever shred of conscience left in him revolting.

If Epstein was still alive Trump would be pardoning his good buddy and trying to put him into Cabinet.

We can clearly see that Trumps second administration shaping up to be very different to first.