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

What is incredible is that he has gone into aggressive and confrontational mode in his first week in office. Imagine picking fights and bust ups with your friends and allies without even having being provoked first.

His fanboys on social media are cheering all this on of course, but its a very strange way of conducting business and diplomacy - starting fights with countries that are not even looking for a fight.

He is a bully. Its what Bully's do.

Yet you have some gobshites thinking we should brown-nose the bully

”To be fair, and I think it's important to be very stoic about it, @greenfield21 has provided a source that does show that the US did get more exports from Ireland than the EU in November 2024. And when you consider explicitly what he said, that the US is the largest single country that we trade with, in isolation, that fact is true. Where this needs additional context though is A) Europeans have long embraced a single market which is our primary trade "partner" as it's allowed us to operate as a bigger individual on the global trade scene.”

Just to correct a flaw in your statement here, Ireland is the EU, it’s not Ireland and the EU.

From the guy who bankrupted a casino. Laughable really. Of course the MAGA crowd be delighted with that, takes their focus/anger from rising egg prices!

We've seen from history that appeasement doesn't work, why start it now?

So far this week, he's pissed off Denmark, Canada, Mexico and Colombia.

President Petro: "I’ve been informed that you’ve imposed a 50% tariff on our human labour’s fruits to enter the US. I’ll do the same.”

You can use your economic power and arrogance to attempt a coup, as you did with Allende. But I will die standing by my principles. I’ve endured torture, and I will endure you."

"Effective" he says hahaha.

”initial reports”, absolutely nothing of the sort exists.

Do poker players go bankrupt 6 times as well?

Ireland is very much the EU, we are a member and treated equally. It’s very simple as that.

When you say keeping the door open, open to what?

He's such a good poker player he bankrupted the casino…. the only problem it was his casino!

In my opinion, there is something deeply flawed in a person who looks at that picture and doesn't react with a cringe of epic proportions.

It's so very much beyond weird.

It is time the current arrogant rulers of the US are taken down ….. they need to be taught a lesson that will leave them with their tail between their legs and with the rulers having to do a 180 degree turn which means a massive purge of all hardliners in the regime …… the way they are going annoying almost every country will lead to this ….. the hidden forces that rule through corrupt failed businessman Trump and the Fox news inexperienced clowns appointed all need to be removed ….. they have no place whatsoever and are not even elected ….. most of all Elon Musk needs to go ….. he ain't even American !!! …. these individuals are toxic and it will be fun seeing them all crash and burn very soon ……

All the rest of the world should basically close themselves off from the Republican rubbish show …. and let that cancer rot and die ….. the Republicans should have been finished off after the Iraq war ….. sad that they survived ….. they are nothing but a terrorist group ….. ISIS with power in fancy suits is basically what the Republican Terrorist Group is …… they are pure evil ….. sadly the Democrats are not that great but at least they have some decent people still in them and they do not act like this current shower do with blatant disregard for everyone and everything …… whereas the Republicans are 100% rotten to the core ….. freeze them out, divide them, let them crash and burn ….. and let Trump change his mind and change sides for to save himself and he will ironically end up the 'hero' ….. the man who will sell himself as 'the lateral thinker who brought down the Republican Terrorist Group' ….. even though this will be more of Trump just running with the hare and running with the hounds approach …..

There are plenty other countries to trade with worldwide ….. the rest of the world does not need a terrorist organisation flexing its muscle ….. let the rest of the world get on with their own trade and let America severely alone until they get this cancer out of their system ……

Women and minorities deserve opportunity to succeed even if they're mediocre. Disabled, too (who are under attack via the anti-DEI stuff but that doesn't make the press as much.)

Why just reserve that to majority demographic men? And, as Michelle Obama said, most of the people she knew on corporate BOT's were pretty mediocre.

And not just any Casino but his own Casino and this fool is now running America for the second time ffs. What a mess. Americans at least half the population anyway are nuts crazy snd quitee stupid I think.