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

Sky news

Trump's comments on Gaza trigger tensions with his Arab-American supporters

By Mark Stone, US correspondent

The chairman of a coalition, which successfully lobbied Arab-Americans to vote for Donald Trump, has slammed the new president for his weekend comments on Gaza.

"Arab-Americans for Trump firmly rejects President Donald J Trump's suggestion to remove - voluntarily or forcibly - Palestinians in Gaza to Egypt and Jordan," said Dr Bishara Bahbah, national chair of Arab Americans for Trump.

The statement signals an early sign of tension with a key demographic which helped push President Trump over the line in November.

A critical number of Arab-Americans in places like Michigan helped propel Trump to victory. Small margins in cities like Dearborn and Hamtramck were key to Trump's success.

The statement, released late on Sunday and described as an "urgent press release", said: "We strongly believe that the ONLY resolution to the Israel-Palestine is a two-state solution… Arab Americans for Trump thank the President for imposing a ceasefire in Gaza.

"We expect that the President and his team work on the rebuilding of Gaza and launching the process that would culminate in the establishment of a Palestinian state living side by side in peace with Israel."

“Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?” “Not that I’m aware of. Is the Republican organisation - I hesitate to call it a party - committed to that? Overwhelmingly. There isn’t even any question about it.”

Noam Chomsky (2017)

Trump is the leader of a party that is pandering to 'accelerationists' and 'christian zionists'

Two types of people who making deliberate acts aimed at bringing about the end of the civilised world as quickly as possible.

Why did this leopard eat my face?

Says man who campaigned for the Leopards eating faces party

Thak god we got rid of "genocide Joe", eh?

It looks like the entire spat with Colombia was a performance.

Colombia said no military aircraft.

Then trump threatened and immediately backed down to using civilian aircraft (giving Colombia carte blanche access to US skies for deportations) and now can't use the military with Colombia.

Every other country will have watched and will see how easy it is to manipulate trump as part of a performance.

The hollering seals are too dumb to notice this, as usual.

The Interior Department said in a news release that the name changes "reaffirm the Nation's commitment to preserving the extraordinary heritage of the United States and ensuring that future generations of Americans celebrate the legacy of its heroes and historic assets."

... and f#ck the views and culture of local and indigenous people who have lived there since before the United States of America existed.

Elon Musk is South African ….. while he has American 'citizenship' the rule is that only someone born in the US can become the US president ….. Musk pretty much is the president in all but name but cannot be that officially because it is very clear his birth status does not allow him to be ….. so he is a basically as second class citizen ….. otherwise he'd be allowed to be the official president …..

Is he back on the drink?

Imagine... Real life Mel is actually crazier than Riggs!

An 8 minute video clearly laying out the plan of organised incompetence that is being acted out. Put in people who are over their heads and they will just do what Trump tells them. Even if he is stupid and incompetent himself, the people steering him, apparently the Project 25 group, are setting up a situation that previous experience shows leads to dictatorship. Whether he will continue to be the dictator remains to be seen.

Its not impossible at all. Human institutions can be changed, rules can be flouted, constitutions can be ignored.

The SCOTUS could decide that the 14th Amendment only applies to consecutive presidencies. It would be dumb as sh1t, but they could do it, and people would humm and haw about it, but the democrats would roll over and let them get away with it.
Trump controls all 3 branches of government and is in the process of replacing the permanent government (the civil service) with loyalists. He, and his oligarchs control the media, so that these sweeping changes can be implemented with little to no oversight until it's too late.

Do you know, for example, that millions of mail-in votes were not counted during the last election?

That's right. Legitimate votes, were simply not counted.

And you don't know about that, because the media in the US, are absolutely corrupted. The print media and broadcast media are owned by oligarchs. And social media and google searches are controlled by those same oligarchs.

The voter suppression tactics that have been happening in every US election since GW Bush get worse every time, so that the only way the democrats can actually win, is if they have a landslide that overwhelms the volume of election fraud that is now built in.

The below comes from investigative reporter Greg Palast, the only one who seems to bother actually looking into these things anymore.

https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

• 4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls according to US Elections Assistance Commission data.
• By August of 2024, for the first time since 1946, self-proclaimed “vigilante” voter-fraud hunters challenged the rights of 317,886 voters. The NAACP of Georgia estimates that by Election Day, the challenges exceeded 200,000 in Georgia alone.
• No less than 2,121,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified for minor clerical errors (e.g. postage due).
• At least 585,000 ballots cast in-precinct were also disqualified.
• 1,216,000 “provisional” ballots were rejected, not counted.
• 3.24 million new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote.

If the purges, challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, 

an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected.

 Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.

I. Am. Shocked.

It's like diving into a pit of starving lions, tigers and leopards, covered head to toe in raw meat smelling like antelope, buffalo and emu's, and then wondering why you're being eaten.

If only someone had seen this coming and warned them.