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

Always picking on minorities. That schoolyard bully analogy is very appropriate

I expect that the representatives of the various tech companies based in Ireland have made it quite clear to the Irish government in private meetings that it is to resist any rise in corporation tax as strongly as it can. It's not that Ireland has nothing else to offer, but these companies are all about the bottom line.

There may come a day when EU pressure to standardise corporate tax rates gets to be too much, but until that day comes, the rate will not change.

He 100% knows the grief and hassle this type of thing causes. He just doesn't give a damn. Look at his reaction to being asked to have empathy! Trump is not some bungling idiot who doesn't understand what he says and the impact he has. He, for all his shortcomings, is acutely aware of the power he wields and takes pleasure in abusing it.

He seemingly gets a pass on issues like this. It isn't him, some shadowing figure in the background and he repeats what he heard seems to be the narrative. There are a million other things he could be focused on, but he chose to take time out of a crisis, remember that US is doing terrible and everything is a mess according to him, and make sure those Transgender soldiers are kicked out of the army.

It's very hard to believe Trump would give a flying fig about what our relations with Israel are like (as he doesn't care about them himself), so we can rule that one out. His only interest in us would be whether we are 'good for business'.

The transgender thing is a MAGA obsession, despite it being rare in real life, and rarer still that it causes some kind of real dispute, i.e. the issue of transgender women in sports largely became a talking point after a few won something. It's easy pickings for Trump to pick on this tiny minority of people and get huge, vastly disproportionate amounts of favour with his base. Didn't he think out loud in a speech one time, something to the effect of, "It's wild - I mention this transgender thing and you all go crazy. So I'm gonna keep doing it!"? Or was that something else?

I doubt Trump cares about transgenderism beyond the fact that it's red meat for MAGA.

Lol. "Biden wasn't able to do anything about Gaza".

Wasn't able to, or didn't do?

There are many many words I could use for him that would get me banned from this forum. Purposefully saying a successful *female* boxer as a male was, one such disgusting lie used, an example of him generating hate against someone for kicks.

He is a thoroughly disgusting animal.

can we not re-name the atlantic ocean the greater donegal bay? 😎

It's the Gulf of Cork, I'll have you know.

Billy Kelleher already renamed it

They confuse freedom of speech with freedom to peddle nonsense without being challenged. And with good reason too as they peddle nothing but nonsense

Richard Boyd Barret on Newstalk arguing we shouldn’t be so reliant on US companies here and should starting building more of our own businesses like clothing if the likes of all the US multinationals left

”Look it up”, how about you post a link or 2 to back what you are saying up? It wouldn’t be that much trouble for you.

You don’t seem to have much of an argument other than what you “think” might happen, like saying the odds are that he will do XYZ. So far, I have yet to hear of any tariffs on the EU, or indeed Ireland, he has also said nothing about what happens between Ireland and Israel. You seem to think Trump would care about what 2 other counties say and do to each other, when in actual fact he won’t give a single thought to it.

No offence here, but it sounds to me like you really want this stuff to happen. Bizarre.