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

On completely agree. I was just saying they fell for his bullshit. Remember the level of education in America is dismal. Plus many of these people only consume news from their echo chambers on social media. Add the two if them together and we get Trump.

Has he given a time frame when he is replacing income tax with Tariffs?

The tariffs themselves likely haven’t been imposed yet, and may not be for some time…if at all. An earlier poster outlined how a President can’t unilaterally impose blanket tariffs without Congress and that last time he tried this it took the guts of a year to make happen. But the value of a currency is down to many factors, so it’s not impossible for the USD to go down (or up) based on Donnie’s antics.

However, if the US cost of living keeps going up, a favourble EUR-USD rate mightn’t make a trip to the States all that much cheaper….assuming anyone would actually want to holiday there with the current state of the place.

Yep, as a person who's worked for US multinationals for all of my career, I used to look forward to the work trips. Haven't been over now since 2019 and I couldn't care less if I didn't ever need to go again at this point.

They've definitely become very inward looking and hyper nationalist. Trump is literally saying the US has no real friends or allies (which his supporters are fully on board with) : everyone is a potential rival at this point.

It's all a bit strange and unsettling, but it's the new reality.

The president can introduce tariffs without consulting congress. There's various ways to implement them. The China ones are already in place so he's just increasing them by 10pts.

The new Canada and Mexico ones will depend on which law he will enact. One he has to explain to Congress the other is generally reserved for national emergencies.

We should see shortly the actual wording at 6pm, I believe.

Disneyworld is such a big attraction that lots of people will still go there, even if Orlando itself becomes redhat central. Just stick close to the resort and don't go out at night.

'A convicted felon and known predator'

You have the dregs as ministers in the current Government. There is a massive dearth of talent.

They have another 5 years in power now, thats the pension pot nicely topped up.

They dont care about the public or about whats really best for the country, its all about feathering their own nest and egos.

This myth that other countries in Europe dont have as capable an educated workforce is sadly naive, alot of the Corporate tax take is just creative accounting.

Primarily that of Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta which are all in the top 5.

It can easily be funnelled through other countries or indeed the US if its dropped to 15% there. Its a very worrying concern.

brinkmanship as the powers of the world no longer rely on interconnected trade but on might to secure natural resources, and countries purses go into warfare

If you look at the last 30 plus years, what else has the US done? Wars, coups, foreign military bases, sanctions and other threats to get their way.

We've reached a point IMO where there is a slowly deflating sphere of US influence, while the rest of the world gets involved in international cooperation along with increased non-dollar trade.

Some insist on the democracy-vs-authoritarian view of the world, and while they have a point in so far as it goes, the changes to the international order are happening regardless.

I see Trump announced US bombed alleged Islamic State targets in Somalia. US doing as it wishes as usual, international law an irrelevance to the US and it's Western allies. I suppose given the slaughter in Gaza supported by them this is small change.

Trump on being asked if the will visit the crash site.

"You want me to go swimming?"

Trump apparently praised Musk for the great job he did with the computers in Pennsylvania. Has he just admitted that they rigged the results?………………https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swO9wkp_GRg

I know what I am talking about.

Meta for example has ~ 2000 staff in Dublin out of 75k worldwide, yet the revenues recorded by the Dublin based unit accounted for 54.5% of Meta’s global revenues of $134.9bn for 2023.

Its a similar story with Google and Microsoft, and alot of the Irish workforce are non Irish.

Its a loophole thats currently being exploited.

He either said people should go out and inject themselves with disinfectant/bleach to cure Covid-19 or he didn't.

He clearly didn't. Case closed. The mud flung didn't stick to the wall. Next.