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

they never get old, always feel freshly insane. If it was a tv series in its final season it would be an impressive feat.

He wasn't far off blurting out "SPACE LASERS", throwing his box of stupid markers at the press and waddling out of there.

No and that's why they have elected Trump, keep up.

That's one thing you'd wonder about. It's week 2, and he's shown to be as bad (if not worse) than the flagging dags of the last time the Americans were thick enough to let him into the White House.

I think he'd stay full term, and I don't think the Grim Reaper is in any kind of rush to claim him, despite his abysmal diet. I do however think that by the time we get to Mid Terms & beyond, he'll be even more of a blithering mess. Once we get to the final year we might even get to the point where they actively try to avoid letting Donnie do a press briefing and delegate those to only the Press Secretary, with Vance being sent out for the in-person stuff.

I can easily imagine a scenario where Donnie has become so incoherient that press breifings in the will revolve around The Press asking his Staffers why Donnie hasn't been seen for months, with the MAGA-verse responding that he's been "busy" "working hard" "trying to make America Great"….all while he's in a Diet-Coke induced stupor somewhere on the White House residential floor.

There was an interesting discussion a while ago on the english language Latinamerican subreddit where the consensus seemed to be that the US had been the place to be for young educated ambitious latin americans up to about twenty years ago. Now Europe is preferred.

It's possibly still worth the risk of deportation for uneducated labourers from really grim places.

Yeah that delusion isn't at the same level as it is in Britain as Britain's best days are far more distant, but a lot of that rhetoric was used to fervour support for the likes of Brexit, the rise of Farage's parties etc.

But yeah, I can't imagine ever moving to or working in America. Not just their healthcare, but the stories that come out about employment in terms of f*ck all holidays, people having to be asked to donate their holiday days to another employee in extreme circumstances, f*ck all protections, being trapped in jobs specifically because of their health benefits…

"Land of the Free" my hairy f*cking arsehole…

I did not say that nothing is stopping us placing our own law above that of the EU. In fact I advocated that we do so in this thread. But at present, we haven't done it, and until we do so, the Third Amendment still applies, and EU law supersedes our own.

Trump has absolutely no capacity to handle novel crises in a reasonable statesmanlike manner. He showed that with Covid when he was battling his leading medical advisors in public and failing to promote simple common-sense public health messaging. If people are unconvinced of his catastrophic ineptitude during this time, we only need to look at how his polling tanked precipitously between around April/May of 2020 and that year's election. Prior to Covid hitting, it had been assumed that he'd cruise to reelection on the, 'Yeah, I may be an asshóle, but the economy's going well' ticket, which he essentially threw away.

This time around, he and his underlings are making sure that there will be no-one in his administration left to hold a contrary opinion, should another big problem arrive. Trump's ineptitude will still be obvious, but he and his acolytes will move as one to blame any or all of the following: Wokeness, DEI, Marxism, leftism, LGBT, Communism, fluoride, immigration or Disney, instead of what the actual problem is.

Though as ever, as shocking as some of Trump's public pronouncements are, don't get too distracted by the noise because the real story of Trump 2.0 is what he and his followers are doing to purge the US government at every level of people who are considered a threat to his power. That will go on at pace and with the thinnest of excuses, as we've seen with Trump ranting about how the FAA is staffed at his latest press conference.

I really wish I could believe that. I think it's like Trump, trashed the US's remaining reputation during his first term, resisted shutting down even though his Republican predecessor Bush Jr warned while he was still president that a pandemic was the greatest threat to the civilian population, etc…

The Labour majority exists thanks to borrowed SNP votes and the FPTP voting system, but the majority seems to be firmly in the ourselves above all others Brexity camp.

In a similar way to how some Brexiters considered EU membership as slavery a good cohort of Trumps voters don't even believe in government! They think that tax is theft and collective efforts to maintain a high standard of living for everyone is a conspiracy against the individual.

I remember the video of that, there was some medical lady standing behind him who was just squirming to high heaven

Given Trump's immunity to criticism, prosecution, the powerlessness of the Dems and what's left of the media - what do people think might be able to slow or stop him? He appears to be unimpeded in any way and short of his health failing I don't see any groups with a plausible strategy for dealing with him.

Can anyone outline a potential scenario where he is slowed, stopped or toppled?

The most obvious one is that his tenure as President simply goes pear shaped and he becomes unpopular. One wonders how the average US citizen will feel about him in a year or two's time : he seems far more nutty / deluded than he was back in January 2017.