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

they’ll be able to import ice from Greenland to California soon. Big chunks of beautiful ice to melt and replenish their lakes and rivers.
And Denmarks going to pay for it

Make America Green Again.

Imagine that! No need for a border wall if Mexico, the US and Canada became the one great nation under one leader. I just wonder where the great leader would put all the representatives and senators, seeing as he wants to drain the swamp.

No more illegals crossing the southern border. No more need for border guards and ICE there.

America acted primarily as interlocutor in the talks between Ireland and Britain. But they had no real impact on the actual outcome, nor could they have in such a role. If one or the other primary party, that is Ireland or Britain, decided to pull out of the talks for whatever reason, there was nothing that the US could have done about it.

Essentially they were an "independent" go-between. As such they were a welcome addition, but their impact on the over all result was very limited. That depended entirely on the parties negotiating the future of a disputed territory.

Trumps comments on Greenland is like a coded message to Russia to take what they want of Ukraine. How could he argue otherwise if he is threatening tariffs and not ruling out military use against Denmark. A fellow NATO member.

At the very least it looks terrible for an American President to be threatening tariffs on an EU country if they don’t play ball.

I'd also doubt if the same were to happen today that the trump administration would be part of it.

4 years! You really think it'll take him that long seeing he'll sort out the Russia/Ukraine war and the Israel/Gaza war in the first 24 hours of his presidency?

Not a hope. 😄

Good bloody job too.

Last time I checked, Biden never threatened Greenland or attempted to reclaim the Gulf Of Mexico as the Gulf of America. The reality is, Trump's first term won't be looked back on positively in history and I can't see term two being either. It's already being viewed from plenty of quarters as a symptom of a terminal decline of them in terms of the role they historically had.

All borders are man made lines! Maybe we should rename the Atlantic as the Irish Ocean.

But what actual damage has he done? That he was bad at PR and became old doesn't make him the worst POTUS.

Surely stealing classified documents is worse? What about giving Israeli secrets to the Russians? Or siding with Putin over US services?

Or sitting idly by while the capital was attacked by an anti-democracy mob attempting to overthrow an election.

Or giving in completely to the Taliban?

How about starting a trade war with China and having to bail out soya bean farmers with 20bn ?

What exactly has Biden done to make him worse than all of that. Never mind to be considered the worst ever.

You Wouldn't see much change out of that 100k if u end up in the hospital under the health system they would be getting into. You'd want to offer me a lot more than that to get me to sign up to that shithole.

Could be damaged due to the fire. it also hasn’t rained in the region in almost eight months so it’s not just a case of water management but not much water to manage. I live outside San Francisco and have had a couple of years where there hasn’t been rain for close to six months (but it normally will in winter) and the whole landscape is like a hay shed. There was a few years where reservoirs dropped to ridiculously low levels, plus this is winter so the snow melt is yet to come.
Some fires could be deliberately set but with wind gusts of up to 100 mph, things just get out of control very easy. That is what happened in the fires in Napa and Santa Rosa, where embers end up getting blown across whole valleys.

A lot of LAs water comes from way up North in the Owens valley, if you’ve seen the film China Town it covers the story of what led to the development of modern LA (much of this planned by a Belfast Man).
It really isn’t too much to ask of the most powerful man in the world to stay off social media until all details are available and not ramble about smelt and withholding water in order to air petty grievances.

And then there's the states that have a zero minimum age for child marriage.

What is it about Republicans and the religious right in America that has them ok with paedophilia?

The amount of them that get caught involved in it, or advocate for child marriage under religious grounds is astonishing. The party of the paedo.

Is it a religious nut thing?

elections due soon! Greenlandic independence will be the most important issue of the election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Greenlandic_general_election