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

I'm hoping that his "name-change" and national identity change suggestion to Canadians will have the reverse effect there. It certainly seems to have brought about a sudden showing of the Maple-leaf flag on F/B. Ditto his suggestion that the greenback be used to "buy" out the birth-rights of Greenland's citizens.

So? It's the same photo Carter's family are choosing to use. Contemptible prick doesn't make it into the photo of a funeral of a pretty fantastic individual. Trump was a sore loser, she accepted the result and isn't going to attempt to instigate some kind of a coup. So her sharing a cropped image is reaching for something to complain about.

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..who never stopped whinging through the last four years that his 2020 election loss was caused by fraud.''Waaaaaahhhh, wahh..it's not fair, it should be mine''.

Polishing off the old crystal ball for a moment, something came to mind that I wonder if the "centrists" or the GOP themselves are considering.

Trump is going to technically be a "lame-duck" President from day one since he cannot be re-elected. If the US Constitution survives the next 4 years he must leave the post in January 2029. In normal political cycles, the following should be happening.

Next 2 years: Build up and campaigning for Mid-Terms

The following 2 years: Build up and Primaries to next Presidential campagn.

Normally, the sitting President would be helping the next ticket from their party, but this Donnie we're talking about. Donnie doesn't give a fiddlers about the GOP, or frankly even MAGA people. I don't really see him putting the work into helping anyone else out.

So this is what I wonder: When we get into late 2027, and people start to notice that Donnie isn't doing anything to promote the next pick for a GOP Ticket….what will they do? Will they go through the motions of a Primary like last time in the hope that Donnie will eventually direct them into what they should do…or will they suddenly come to the horrible realisation that once Donnie has everything he needs from them, he'll just leave them to drown in their own in-fighting.

Assuming the Dems even learn from their fecklessness from last time, this might be part of why the GOP lose in 2028. The Dems might run the full cycle of Primaries and do everything needed to field a canditate who might win, while the GOP sit on their hands, unsure of what to do when Donnie isn't part of their ticket.

I expect the Democratic party to run business as usual as far as their elections goes, however, once the Democratic party has its slates of potential POTUS nominees out there, expect CFTrump to be in full attack dog mode against all of them, and rabid spittle everywhere when one becomes the nominee.

Whoever is the GOP nominee will be chosen by him through his endorsements. His quid pro quo is promise of future pardons for him and his friends and families starting in 2029 and beyond. A leopard doesn't change his spots and Trump and Co. will get up to more criminal behaviours, it's not like he ever stops.

Sure, I saw him winning a Golden Globe recently for best performance as a lying weasel…

He did a couple of years of a show on Newsmax, according to Wikipedia, but apparently

Following the2021 storming of the United States Capitol, Forbes

warned corporations against hiring Spicer and other Trump "propagandists", stating,

"Forbeswill assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie."

which apparantly worked as he has done nothing significant - he published a book and appeared on Dancing with the Stars, but that's about it. Trump apparently cost him his career.

He pops up on Irish radio every now and again.

Exactly. It’s funny how many think Trump stupid, he is far from it and is very capable of recognising the depth of his limited educated skill-set compared to that of the bred-in-the-bone high brow intellectual political crowd. Obama chatting and including him at Carter’s state funeral will have pleased him no end.

His top of the ladder social fan club, OTOH, like Musk, don’t quite cut it. He is driven by much more than that. We could see him over the next four years try his hardest to smooth himself over to fit it. But then this is Trump we’re talking about - he could just as easily throw his toys out of the pram and instantly fire-up a regional conflict somewhere.

Re: Sean Spicer. Time to dust off #ETTD. There's a new crop coming in, in a week or so.

They just don't do irony do they. Naming US military bases after traitors to the US unreal but as you say blow that dogwhistle.

Seems like the old Confederate General naming was a sop to the south, who hadn't (haven't?) gotten over losing the Civil War. Good riddance to the likes of Bragg, apparently one of the most inept generals in the Confederacy

Forty McFortface would seem like the obvious option for one of them.