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

If they were really interested in America they'd be investing in central America, encouraging industries to produce their products there, which would provide jobs, reduce the drug gang problems and reduce migration and reduce dependence on China.

I made the same post on his first term and the fact they haven't figured that out in 8 years shows they don't really want to solve any of the above issues. They just want to blame everyone else for their issues.

We are truly watching the Truman show.

It's all for show because MAGA is gullible. Voted him in because of inflation, only to find him trying to go gung ho on ramping it up through tariffs. It's the "Art of the deal". Everyone knows Trump lies, but its just the political version of The Apprentice

Why should I? He could give it to an equally incompetent fat republican senator who spends his weekends doing coke with high class escorts - last time I looked America hasn’t imploded

Well, with people like Musk and that sociopath Miller knocking around in the background, you're right to be worried.

It'll be interesting to see what the Irish Trump supporters say when he tries to tariff the EU or when he suggests Ireland become a US state. Will they still be lapping up his every word?

I hardly call it his biggest election promise 🤪He’s busy right now shooting warning shots over countries bows in order to get them to the negotiation table and achieve some quick wins - a lot of what Trump is doing right now is also what he promised he’d do in his election campaign - some of that is also in line with project 2025 - so he’s fulfilling his election promises- a first for a politician 😀

To what degree he’ll succeed with this or indeed with the minutae of project 2025 who knows - legal issues may drag the whole thing to a stop - it may also hand Democrats the next presidential election - who knows
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he kept his promise to let the water flow in California. Opened dams and has let billions of gallons of water flow down, and completely wasted.

It was a massive part of his campaign to distance himself from this because he knew that most of the proposals in there were hugely unpopular.

But go ahead, cheerlead for the guy who 'at least has a plan' even if that plan is something that very very few people actually voted for, and which he deliberately and repeatedly declared he had nothing to do with every time he was asked about it.

Democracy is supposed to be where you vote for a representative to represent your interests or political preferences, and the way you decide who to vote for, is by the things they campaign on in the election. When the candidates lie through their teeth about what their policies actually are, it's not democracy anymore.

Perhaps, or maybe there's something else going on.

What would you do if I turned up in your house, demanded to be let in, demanded access to your online banking, changed all your passwords and told you I'm auditing your expenditure because I think you're wasting some money.

Would you think 'Fair enough'? Would you protest? Would you protesting be an indication that actually the 'audit' is justified?

(and I would have just as much of a legal right to do this to you, as Musk has to do what he's doing in the US Treasury, ie: no legal right at all)

Heaven forbid that people worry about unelected people gaining access to your private information.

You are protecting just your name by posting anonymously on boards. If I asked you to post you credit card details, you'd tell me where to go... Even if I told you not to worry, I'm just checking to make sure you're not misappropriating funds.

The World Cup trophy behind Trump at this press conference. It wouldn't at all surprise me if he's asking to be the one who hands it to the winners.

Yep and it sounds like basic auditing standards are flying out the window. In any org, there's supposed to be huge auditing trails for dealing with sensitive data.

The sheer disrespect being shown to those who work in these agencies - locked out of offices - told to stay home.. as tho rent utility bills mortgages and childrearing are inconsequential and can be stopped and restarted on the word of someone who never worked in the relevant service. No workers rights in oh so great America?

It's the here and now economy that most US citizens, including Trump, seem to be interested in. It's why Trump wants US Tech and other industry companies operating production facilities and factories abroad to return to the US despite those companies getting better financial deals abroad. It must be gutting for the expert on deals to know that he cant better the foreign Govts offers to US companies and has to rely on tariff threats to force the US companies to return their facilities to US soil.

Trump has been moaning about those companies a lot lately, telling them they should move home, saying Canada has nothing that the US needs.

Why do you suppose that Musk is not doing what Trump has given him authority to do; cut out the "deep state" operations Trump and the MAGA heads claim have been harming the US for years now by reducing at will the US civil service operations in the USA and abroad?

Take a look at the staff reduction notifications that Trump's people have been rescinding or putting on hold because they've realised the actual harm the reductions will cause to the public, which include all of Trump's MAGA supporters.

When Lindsey Graham questions why the DOJ sent a circular to FBI agents asking them if they were involved in the Trump investigations, it leaves the impression that Republican senators are dropping hints that some of the new admin team are overstepping the mark.

Edit: Its worth remembering that for every US civil servant let go by Trump, there are extended family. He's rapidly creating a hate-base for himself and the GOP by letting Musk off the leash. Any denial statements he issues on his Truth Social site that he didn't know what Musk and the juniors Musk has brought on board Team Trump were doing wont wash, his plausible deniability cover is blown.

Trump sees a bunch of untermensch, that he'd be happy to drop a MOAB on to clear the way for a few beachside hotels, buy he knows there'd be blow back so he'll try to ship them off to live with the other untermensch, with no consent on either side. And then they wonder why people attacked the Twin towers.