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

The Canadians booed the US National Anthem at a few games over the weekend.

You know how sh*tty you have to be, to get Canadians, to boo a National Anthem? Trump sh*tty.

You know Deepthroat was an undisclosed source? Shall I go through the long list of unnamed sources that have broken huge scandals? A publication risks their credibility if they don't validate their sources etc. I'm sure you'll spin this in some other way as further confirmation comes out in relation to this as Trump fans historically do...

Worth remembering that fans lapped up dogs being eaten when that had absolutely no credibility so somewhat hilarious to see the passion for facts.

Seems like the story is pretty solid:

https://archive.is/O3COo

25 y/o grad of Rutgers, an entirely unimpressive university - I know, I lived in NJ. Not like this is someone out of MIT or Stanford, no doubt some lackey that's good at following directions.

Wtf is wrong with these people. Everything they do and say is so childishly aggressive.

*not you TinyMuffin. Gaetz etc. 😁

Trumps greatest achievement. He managed to piss off the Canadians.

The Canadians.

That's really hard to do.

That's one of the products I was thinking that are manufactured in the EU (or outside the US), even though it's a US-based company. Even just comparing the colours of our orange Fanta and the US's orange Fanta, they're completely different. Our Fanta is coloured the same as orange juice, because it's made with orange juice. Their Fanta is coloured like the skin of an orange I guess because oranges are orange…

Trump got nothing except headlines. Some deal for the USA.

You (and the bosses) must be delighted with what the Donald has delivered since he took office anyway.

He hasn't cut off Ukraine just yet, he is looking somewhat wobbly there + might not provide as good RoI as expected, but otherwise the report card from Tsar Putin and Chairman Xi would be good to excellent so far!

This would be typical of the 'base'. Their hero can do no wrong and every move is an absolute master stroke : it's quite cult like.

Agree, strange scary stuff happening. Musk hacking the US government, doing the same things he did when he bought Twitter, firing senior execs, slashing budgets, closing departments. Now he has a free run at the US establishment. What is going on? Tariffs look like a side show.

Ya, making it more difficult to export your products and destroying global trust in the US makes them irrelevant in the global order more than anything.

That is 100% what he was looking for…… His base laps with up without him doing absolutely anything.

Kiss the ring?

Yesterday you were trying to spin nonsense about Canada 'bending the knee'… you could provide no actual details to back that up and it was obvious Trump had called off the tariffs due to market jitters and Canada re-promising to do what they'd already promised to do.

So you've moved off from one nonsense phrase "bending the knee" to another "kiss the ring".

All the while backed up by absolutely nothing.

Just like Trump's bluster.

Desperate phrases to conceal an absolute lack of substance or tangible progress made by Trump to justify damaging US standing.

Meanwhile, it is obvious to those paying attention that "Trump blinked":

Despite a White House victory lap, there’s a more convincing case that it was really Trump who backed away from a fight that could have caused severe economic pain… A more objective view of the bizarre showdown with America’s neighbors suggests a blunter truth: Trump blinked…
And by backing down at the 11th hour, the president also sent a clear message to Beijing — which has been slapped with a new 10% tariff on exports to the US — that he might jump at a potential deal if it looks like a breakthrough, even if it lacks depth.

Oh and that phrasing is described by CNN as:

“Canada is bending the knee, just like Mexico,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN. This was a stunning insult coming from a press aide with no diplomatic responsibility. It also suggested deep contempt for Canada, especially in the White House of a president who demands it become the 51st state…

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/trump-blinks-trade-war-analysis/index.html

You need to compare debt as a percentage of GDP, then you'll find America isn't that indebted compared to other countries. Argentina for example is more indebted.

The general assessment is that his threat of tariffs against Mexico and Canada haven't had any real tangible things achieved. So if it follows the same approach with Xi then it just makes Trump seem all the more silly. Realistically it's just gonna mean all these states are simply gonna grow their trade relationships with the likes of the EU cause trust in the US is greatly diminished.