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

Well if somebody is happy to label all Palestinians as members of Hamas then they're a special kind of dense.

His father is rolling in his grave.

I think if Trump is going to act the arsehole, then whoever from the govt. is going over to the Paddy's day parade from here should just go an meet the organisers and ignore Trump completely.

"Desiring the Constitution to be the supreme law of the land is the democratic position. Retaining the ECHR is the authoritarian one.".

Sorry, but you are talking complete nonsense now. The irish constitution is the supreme source of law in Ireland. Period.

You should stop before you embarrass yourself further.

The reaction of normal people is "these idiots cant even get basic facts right"

The problem is that the words 'fascist' and 'Nazi' have been thrown around so much in the last 80 years (not always without reason, mind) that they've lost a lot of impact with the general public, and this one of the things that ironically helps keep the powder dry for a genuine return.

Do I think Trump's crowd are fascists? They certainly do things reminiscent of the ideology like demonising foreigners and political opponents, ramping up jingoistic language, attempting to purge government of those thought to be disloyal, making general appeals to a great and glorious past, having a general disregard for democratic norms when they get in the way, attempting to overturn democracy when it doesn't go their way and honouring members of the public who commit violence to this end. Among other things.

So, yeah, I would say fascist would be a fair descriptor, even if it's not a 1:1 match. It's certainly vastly closer to that kind of politics than the USA of ten years ago in way that would have been almost unimaginable, then.

But we've got to a stage where almost none of this appears to be particular shocking. MAGA would have to do something pretty spectacular to generate a level of outrage comparable to January 6th at the time it happened. If a mob attacked the US Capitol, based on the sitting president's lies, and that's now become normalised, then it's hard to imagine what would make everyone pause for thought, including Trump's backers.

How long will the frog boil?

wtf does this even mean?

Jesus christ, after one of the worst air tragedies in recent years, he hasn't shown a shred of emotion and has to have a swipe at Obama and Biden. Because planes were famously falling out of the sky under them.

What an idiot.

And making it all about himself and the failures of previous administrations. He has no respect for god nor man… handing out blame with nothing to go on.

Accidents will happen Mr President even with the best people on duty. As pointed out by one brave correspondent he is getting way ahead of himself.

Oh my god.

Reporter: "Why do you think diversity had something to do with this place crash?"

Trump: "Because I have common sense."

There's precious little room left under the bus after that press conference.

I hate so much that I was right about this.

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