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

And then to have people defend them/him.
The best analogy for it I think remains to be:

“Trump is a weak man’s idea of a strong man”

Renaming the gulf of mexico is whimsical. Won't be so funny when they rename Greenland 'Whiteland'

"She was good"

She doesn't even know that being in the country without permission is a civil violation not a crime. She then responded to a question about how organisations who rely on federal funds should pay their staff by saying "they should call Russ Vought." He hasn't even been confirmed yet. She's an idiot, just like the rest of her colleagues in that clown show.

Breaking a law is breaking a law. I assume you've no problem with all the asylum seekers arriving with no passport. By your book it's not a serious breach of the lawn. Perhaps we shouldn't deport them after all.

the mere idea of 'preemptive pardons' seems so totally off…can some one with the legal expertise explain how exactly they work in detail and what they really mean?

I remember years ago a story about Fox news were being sued for lying in their news broadcasts. They won the case because they argued that they had a right to lie. That story was a gross over simplification that probably never happened, but in the 30 years since, the idea that truth and honesty in press and public life should be respected has completely disintegrated.

Trump lies constantly.
The 'mainstream news' allows him to lie constantly, and now 'independent' news are completely captured and accept that lying is completely normal.

At what point is democracy impossible?

The 4th estate is now the 4th arm of the Trump administration through Trump loyalist oligarchs owning almost all mainstream media outlets in the US. And now the so called '5th estate' (new media) are being controlled and filtered through algorithms and censored on platforms also controlled by Trump's inner circle.

He controls or can easily manipulate: the Executive, Congress, Senate, the Judiciary, the vast majority of Radio, Television and National press media, and Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, soon to be Tik Tok…

I'm not the one playing the game. You're using symentec gymnastics in an attempt exhonerate a rapist.

In relation to 1/2/3, 'what Trump is doing' is a bit of a broad ask. All I can say is that I am, on the whole, happy that he was elected rather than Harris (or Biden).

What I most dislike about him is how he uses his position to enrich himself, his family and his friends.

Speaking of Trump and Ireland his Transportation Secretary was confirmed today- Sean Patrick Duffy ( who, btw, with his wife, has 9 children!)

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/28/sean-duffy-confirmation-secretary-transportation-senate/77968161007/

Elon Musk literally gave a Nazi salute, there, the last week, as you've probably no doubt seen.

But there will be those who'll argue that the angle of his arm was only 42 degrees, whereas a Nazi salute needs to be between 45 and 50, so therefore you're just being hysterical.

I watched Louis Theroux's documentary called Forbidden America: Extreme and Online a couple of years ago. In it, he met Nick Fuentes - one of the bigger movers and shakers in the American far right and the one who quipped "Your body, my choice" after the US election. As odious as Fuentes seems, he did say one thing that has some truth to it. He said, "Racism is the new rock 'n' roll". An online counterculture has formed in the last decade or so that uses a lot of racist language, and takes great glee in how much their 'jokes' offend polite society. Some are joking, maybe, and some are not, but the alleged post-ironic edginess of it all blends them all together, and they can flit back and forth over the line depending on the situation and company. They're memeing themselves into Nazism 2.0: Smirking Electric Boogaloo.

She was great a breath of fresh air. Way better then the last press secretary. Interesting they will have spaces for new online media outlets. Great pick by President Trump

Never mind the JFK/MLK files. If Trump was really serious about tackling the 'deep state', he could barge into all the secret USAF installations with a gaggle of press and demand to know where the flying saucers are.

But he'll probably just keep on demonising transsexuals instead.

The maga morons love it when trumps balls slap off their chins.

She has only stopped him from freezing funds that had already been allocated, the rest appears to be going ahead, even though it does not seem that anyone has any idea how it is supposed to be working.