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

If that's the case then it may have been a smart move on behalf of the Air Force to highlight the stupidity of Trump's EO and just how clumsy his "thought" processes are. It's indicative of what may have to be done to circumvent his mindless approach to governing.

I'm not changing my argument at all. You mentioned tariffs and I said I believe he'll apply them to the EU at large. He hates the EU because he perceives them to be ripping off the US on trade and he's said it numerous times - look it up. The odds of some kind of economic trade war between the US and EU are high.

Aside from that, I believe there's a reasonable chance he'll ask US multinationals to weaken their presence in Ireland and relocate to the US. Our outspokenness on Israel won't do us any favours with the current US administration.

For the sake of 3 years? The next 8 years are likely to be MAGA and possibly beyond that. Imo they are going to do all they can to rig future elections and it's not clear what the democrats can do about it.

Mussolini, the first fascist, once said "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

Given the fact that Trump now has all of the tech billionaires and people like Bezos licking his arse, that's becoming more and more apparent.

I hate to break it to you, but there's gonna be a lot of things that Trump will do this term that he threatened and failed to carry out in his previous term. In case you haven't noticed, he has far more authority and power now.

That's a pretty big assumption, Trump is unlikely to legally be allowed to run for a third term so they're gonna lose a figurehead in 4 years. Also he has 4 years to repeat a mess so MAGA isn't necessarily gonna be viewed positively at the end of 4 years.

We'll see just how much Trump and his clowns **** things up over the next 4 long years. By the end maybe people will have finally copped onto these bozos and eliminate them from the body politic altogether. They're nothing but a toxic blight.

Even still, there's money to be made by corporations by having a european presence, as someone else mentioned, Europe is the only real bloc that has significant enough wealth to buy a lot of the luxury goods that the US makes, but more importantly, there is massive legislation around how software (which is where the big names are really focused other than pharma) can process data in geographical regions. They can't move data from european customers to US data centers to process and then return that data back, it breaches a whole rake of EU laws.

The data needs to be processed in Europe, which means the companies need a presence in europe, and ultimately if they want a cash injection outside of the states, they will want to keep one of the largest blocs able to spend money on these pieces of software.

Trump has a lot of the big silicon valley types appearing to kowtow to him, but the reality is they do that to protect their own interests. Removing a european presence drastically impacts their bottom lines, and will not happen.

I'm guessing we'll get a mix of posters saying it's not transphobic or outright praising it. Don't think any of his fans have had the guts to comment in his West Bank comments in thread yet.

Honestly though his policies ATM are seeming like that of a schoolyard bully who never grew up. The claim of the grown ups being in charge and him not being a warmonger have turned out to be false and just 8 days in.

Our economy not getting battered by Trump doing something which affects the status of US multinationals in Ireland.