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

Elon hosting a spaces later today on X to discuss Doge progress, the transparency and work from Elon is impressive, as Jamie Dimon said he is the Einstein of our time.

I don't think they would. Too bad optics wise.

There is however the US whiskey tariff due to kick in in March at 50% if the steel/aluminum issue isn't sorted. The tariff was paused under Biden so both sides could come to an arrangement. I'd say the EU would hold off on that and wait for Trump just to place a blanket tariff on the EU before they move.

You’re gonna have to do better than that 🤣🤣🤣

Naturally not expressing concerns about the security breaches occurring as a result of Musk. Just gotta praise etc.

is there any precedent of an American president being kicked out of office?

Is there a version of boards , in america, where we can read a similar trump thread.

I suppose reddit, but I haven't been, so wouldn't navigate that site.

"Calexit" might gather more momentum now.

There were people who stopped him first time around.

There is no one now. SCOTUS, his base, the House and the Senate, all have bent the knee.

S&P Futures have hardly moved, and I expect minimal impact on my equity portfolio. These tariffs will have little effect and are likely to be short-lived. Trump is playing a blinder, and there’s nothing anybody can do about it - just suck it up and kiss the ring!

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I would overdose on schadenfreude if Musk was to completely impload and lose everything. He's everything that is wrong with the world with wealthy people all wrapped up in one neat package. Most billionaires are scumbags but he's the king of scumbags.

is Musk actually more dangerous than Trump? He comes across a truly odious character. Just an awful type person

I think they are bad, more so that they both think they know everything, which is quite scary.

The markets are very bullish.

He ran out of steam because he had enough sane people around him, in the wider Republican party, and the US Supreme Court that his agenda didn't get as much traction.

None of that is any longer true. His administration this time is stacked top to bottom with hardcore loyalists. He has enacted an executive order (Schedule F) that gives him the power to fire federal employees, and it has been long feared that he will use this power to purge the entire government of people who might pose an obstacle to the wishes of him and his underlings. This is what appears to be happening. As we speak, Trump's government is trying to purge the FBI.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/politics/fbi-new-york-email-trump.html

The top agent at the F.B.I.’s New York field office vowed in a defiant email to his staff to “dig in” after the Trump administration targeted officials involved in the investigations into the Jan. 6 attack — and praised the bureau’s interim leaders for defending its independence.

“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy,” wrote James E. Dennehy, a veteran and highly respected agent who has run the largest and arguably the most important field office in the bureau since September.

Mr. Dennehy, through a representative in New York, declined to comment.

The email came after the Justice Department ordered the F.B.I. on Friday to collect the names of bureau personnel who helped investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, raising the possibility that Mr. Trump’s political appointees plan to purge career bureau officials, including rank-and-file field agents. That number could reach 6,000 — or about a sixth of the bureau’s 38,000 employees, according to the F.B.I.

At least nine high-ranking officials have been forced out since Mr. Trump’s inauguration, plunging the bureau into confusion. Mr. Dennehy wrote that those removals had spread “fear and angst within the F.B.I. ranks.”

Trump's team this team is unified, organised and determined and they've been wasting absolutely no time. To be fair you can work swiftly when are actions are unilateral with no attempt to find consensus. Trump has been attempting to rule from the Resolute Desk since he took office by way of executive orders, and so far this looks to have been largely successful.

The other problem is that even if these executive orders are subject to successful legal challenges, you get this potentially dystopian situation where the loyalists in Trump's government comply with Trump rather than whatever judges decide, and there will be essentially no recourse other than some kind of public protest on an unprecedented scale.