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

Are you remotely surprised that he is more interested in his pet projects than the economy?

Also the same people claiming Trump is protecting women have not said a word about the fact he has appointed at least one person accused of sexual assault and another who is implicated in the coverup of abuse. On top of that he wanted a man who is implicated in people trafficking to be attorney general. Instead it's back to their rather unhealthy obsession with going after trans people.

Do you think men should be allowed beat up women in a boxing ring or trash them in every other sport?

Enjoyed seeing big Trump fan Riley Gaines whingeing on Youtube about her English husband being deported to England because his papers weren't in order.

MAGA Celebrity’s HUSBAND GETTING DEPORTED, She’s P*SSED! - YouTube

Many Americans think it very logical that women & girls should have the right to female only spaces and sports, (as laid down in the original 1972 Title IX), that is before Biden/Harris got their hands on it. Women with jobs, cool 😎

You and I are not going to make any progress here. I hear/read Title IX (female only) womens sports played a big part in the US election, you want evidence and I point to the US media, you call it baseless, so what can I say.

It seems you refuse to look at the points I'm making and see the difference between Trump 1.0 and 2.0. As if you're in denial.

USA has not a president like this in recent times and he's extremely dangerous. Look at what happened on Jan 6th 2021 and what he's capable of. He's a threat to democracy and is off the leash now with less barriers in his way.

And that is, as they say in the States, the whole ball game. Once the US federal justice department has been purged, there will be no legal recourse against Trump's various executive orders, and the US will truly be in uncharted waters.

Now, blue states could perhaps ignore executive orders, deeming them to run contrary to state law and things like that, but I suspect Trump will use federal funding as a weapon to strongarm states into cooperating. If blue states really want to go the whole way, they could maybe even pass laws that would prevent federal taxes from being collected. It would be an extreme move, and the federal government would almost certainly retaliate by attempting to use force to get blue states to comply.

But this could well be the outcome of Trump and his cronies ignoring the established laws and norms. Why would blue states observe the ones Trump tried to impose?

Its possible that the US will have to rely on the lower federal courts to save justice in the US. One lower court judge who issued a ruling blocking one of Trump's EO's, the one to destroy the birth-rights of children born in the US, passed a comment to the effect that judges in the lower courts were there to protect the laws of the US, whatever about judges elsewhere. Its easy to guess which court was being referred to.

But “state power” and common law precedent

I am curious as to how Trump circus will try to undo the whole legal system in US and not get tied up in lawsuits until the heat death of the universe

We'll have to wait three years to find out the answer [if Trump is still in office then]. Hopefully he is well on the way to give us the answer. If he **** up the economy worse than it is now price-wise on small grocery items like eggs etc by hitting the local farm producers and their markets.

Eggs be small but there are more exported [by multiple millions in dollar earnings for the Fed Govt] than imported. Transfer the importance they have to households budgets and diets to other produce grown in the US for its citizens and his "care" of the economy could cost him dear. The Dems cant be held responsible for the way the Trump Admin team run the economy.

Trump has claimed control of it with his insistence that tariffs are good for the US and its citizens. I assume he means the trickle-down will work for the US purchaser.

Gaza plan mental, he'll either end up impeached (again) or win the nobel peace prize.