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

does anyone care, more like?!

If you made the tiny effort to look up the Episopal church, they've always been far ahead of a lot of churches on LGBT rights. First gay priest was back in the seventies, they also had their first transgender priest twenty years back. So your point falls flat ultimately.

I'll never forget being at the opening day of a season baseball game in Florida when GW was president: he came up on the big screen to say a few words before General Petreaus (very militaristic) threw the first pitch. Two people in the row in front and one turns to the other: "I may not like the guy, but he sure is mah president".

Point taken, I didn't know it was an Episopal church.

And when Trump disappoints their expectations….

To all the 'Populists' who think Trump is the answer

Quite depressing actually. The fact that more civilians have been slaughtered with American munitions than any other nation and that we,Europe, are somehow beholden to these bastards is equally depressing.

Every country around the world is going to lose something due to the Trump presidency. For some it will be political and territory while for others it will be the economic consequences of American protectionism.

It's unfortunate but any fair minded person would say it's understandable if you're American and feel your nation's wealth and capital has been freely spread around the world with not very much in return from everyone else. They are wondering what American driven globalism that has made other countries rich, like Ireland, has done for them.

This has all been coming for years.

As for the Palestinians (and many others), yeah it won't be pretty.

'America first' doesn't mean 'America only' but it does mean retrenchment and a renewed focus on their own interests.

The only question is will it be only 4 years or will this be a permanent adjustment because if Trump's policies work and Americans start seeing improvements it will be hard for subsequent administrations to change course again.

In the first term Trump seperated families from their young children without any organised plan for future reunion. Many of these kids were very young, barely past toddler-hood, so they themselves wouldn't know enought to point to a parent's name or other details.

So as a stunt to impress the worst elements of his supporters, Trump pushed for a family seperatation plan at the border and didn't give a fiddlers about how it was done so long as it could be shown off that it was being done. That inhumanity is part of why he should never have been in the post the first time, not mention this already feckless sequel.

Thanks to Trump's lack of management, four years was likely never going to be enough. Tragically, many of those kids might never have been reunited with parents due to the herculean challenge of finding kids without accurate documentation and many years after the fact.

Can someone tell me why trump pardoned BLM and antifascists who caused jan 6?

Can one of his followers tell me how a convicted felon, who claims to have respect for the police, pardoned those who attacked them?

The US is the richest and most powerful nation ever. The majority of people in the world can only dream of the wealth and standard of life that Americans have.

The problem isn't the rest of the world, the problem is the vast inequality within the US.

There may be something to that if he hadnt threatened to send troops to Panama you would think?

just heard on radio that Trump has called her ‘nasty’ and said that ‘she is not good at her job’ I am really , really stuck for words and I have the most recent version of the Oxford Dictionary.
Trump is becoming more and more like Putin ie if you are not for me you are against ME and AMERICA and I am going to see to it that you will be followed up relentlessly And you will be neutralised , ostracised , etc, etc, etc, and maybe even have a ‘ fatal /near fatal ‘ accident

At least they will make savings on their Foreign Aid and financing of other countries defences with 0 returns and I don't blame him for prioritizing these areas.

NATO and UN will be interesting.