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

How embarrassing for the USA

I'm guessing over the next few hours we'll have posters who will say it was an inspirational press conference. One thing worth remembering is that Trump's press conferences didn't fully jump the shark until COVID. This time round, he's basically starting from where he left off.

Whatever one's complaints are about anyone from Clinton to Harris to Obama to Biden, not single one of them would have made a press conference about any tragedy into a deranged soap box to take jabs at their enemies. They also would allow for an actual investigation to take place rather than using it as an excuse to play up to their fans. He's not a hard working politician, he's a deranged egomaniac devoid of any human decency.

The depressing thing about it is something much more stupid and worse will bury it in the headlines soon enough, just like this buried the concentration camp EO he just signed.

As the Overton window continues to shift, his acolytes will just continue to throw the TDS label at people who think that is a problem like the independent free thinkers they are (lol), and on it goes.

There was a lad back in the 1930's, funny moustache. He took a dislike to a certain race of people and tried get rid of them all. He also wasn't too fond of what he believed were inferior people, like those with disabilities. Thank god the Americans have Trump. That'll never happen there.

That clip of Trump's DEI theories is desperately sad, depressing and frustrating. He cannot even put his ideas together into a coherent sentence, but more than that, the lack of thought, empathy and humanity is beyond even making a joke about.

To follow his "DEI is to blame for this" suggestion to its logical(??) end point, the next step would obviously be to ground all commercial, private and military aircraft until they can weed out the DEI-hired pilots, flight-crew and ATC's, no?

How long before some moron disrupts a commercial flight when they find out the pilot isn't a white male?

I wonder what losing around 40% of your agri workers will do to food prices.

There’s no mystery as to his focus- he is totally self centered -he has no ability to empathise and never had even way before his presidential ambitions - nor does he have a track record of appropriateness and decorum - he has no filter - I let what he says float over me - I’m more focused on the impact of what he says- will America ultimately revolt against him? Impeach him or whatever? Who knows - but I stopped getting worked up about what he said many years ago - impact and outcome is all that counts

Which is why the media should not play his games

Haven’t read the whole thread but has anyone mentioned the Florida Trump voter who is complaining that his wife is now being deported to Venezuela even though he knew what Trumps policy was when he voted for him

He got in again. History and karma mean jack.

I posted this on another thread recently.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers

During WWII the US had a temporary labour agreement with Mexico for farm workers but while the scheme officially ended the dependency on Mexican farm labour never did, creating an established low cost model reliant on illegal workers.

Maybe he'll change the rules and run a third time, and get in again.

Plenty of dictators and autocrats and scumbags have lived to ripe old ages and died happy rich individuals, more than a few are doing that right now. I'm not a believer in "karma" at all.

He doesn’t have the authority to change the rules, and at the rate of his cognitive decline he probably won’t be able to even last until the end of this term, never mind a third.

Weren’t we told he was just joking about all of that anyway?

As much as I wouldn't shed a tear if that happened it would be the worst possible outcome. Remember, he's not the only racist bigot running the show. There is a whole cabal of scumbags behind him and they would use any such event (his assassination) as a pretext to really go full fascist. In fact I go as far to say many of those characters would live his assassination as it would give the carte balance afterwards. Remember all the freedoms suspended as a result of 9/11 that never returned. It would pale in comparison.