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

Serves Vance right to be frank. Of course Donnie doesn't actually care about any other ticket than his own, it wouldn't surprise me if he has it in his mind to try to illegally run again.

This sort of feeds into my theory that beyond the whole Heritage Foundation skullduggery at play, that Vance was little more than a prop for the election. Essentially a younger canditate designed to show up how old Biden was. Donnie certainly didn't have any future GOP tickets in mind, since he doesn't actually give a flying feck about the GOP, and probably never did.

If he’s still alive, he’ll look to run again for sure. I know some would accuse me of hyperbole but his first 3 weeks of the presidency have been repeatedly testing the fences of American political safeguards which look flimsy at best. If the GOP are happy to endorse him and he can get some SC ruling on it he will run again.

Just a quick look at the referenced CBS link shows that Trump enjoys a relatively high level of support on many issues. It does not show an increasing level of support since he took office. Not surprising that people tend to approve of what they just voted for. We will see later when the effects of DJT become evident……

I did have them in mind when posting alright and yes, they wouldn’t be a happy bunch right now- not sure would they impact satisfaction levels significantly but then again depends who the poll people are asking.

Shorterm and “just in” satisfaction ratings are one thing - I think 6 months from now that’s where we might see the “dawning”- Americans were asleep at the last election so there’s no reason to think they have gained some miraculous insight since then. As far as most are concerned Trump is making America great again

When impacts start to come in, Trump and co. will just turn and blame someone else, if it gets bad enough.

An internal whipping boy, or black "foreign hands" (the dastardly and scheming Danes and Canadians perhaps🙄).

Americans do seem to be catastrophically dumb in the collective (much more so than I ever thought 😔) and I fear they might swallow any old horseshít fed to them, and act on it.

He’s now going to be responsible for the war starting again in Gaza.

We had a ceasefire before he came in.

He's in 3 weeks and that’s now over.

He’s steering the world to war and who knows past that.

Trump addressed that aspect at the start saying “there will be some pain for Americans” or similarly worded statement - likely the understatement of the year but certainly he’s propositioned that Americans will be impacted.

Hopefully their hurt will be great which may in turn, create public revolt - very hard to see that happening though given what America has accepted from the MAGA crowd to date

How it’s been said up to now in my MNC experience

“We are proud of X % being female Y % being black and Z% being latinx”

Alongside all sorts of events to celebrate

A-lot of this stuff is implied and will remain so, really depends on top C suite

TBH it’s none of the governments business who is hired and not by a company, and that discrimination works both ways with positive and negative discrimination

So Trump has just signed an order to bring back plastic straws because paper ones "explode"

Basically he's addicted to Diet Coke and doesn't like the paper straws, so like some demented king he has demanded they be changed, and when asked about the impact he replied

“I don’t think that plastic is going to affect the shark very much as they’re ... munching their way through the ocean,”

**** me.

I think it's clear the ceasefire was only ever a temporary measure by Israel to get remaining hostages back while they can, I suspect once last hostage is handed over they will very quickly find a reason to resume joyfully killing as many Palestinians as possible, even if Trump doesn't encourage them to start sooner

Israel has a free hand to do whatever they like especially with Trump in the white house.It will be straight forward enough to find a reason to resume the genocide against the Palestinian people .

Chinas MO is build some extraordinarily expensive piece of infrastructure in either a strategic country location wise or that is rich in mineral resources - knowing the country won’t have a hope in hell of paying the money back - then rape the land of all its precious metals in payment.
It’s a deal with the devil is all it is.

About a month into his "presidency" and it's exhausting. I'm torn between switching off completely and trying to stay in the know. The man is a complete and utter moron, but there's nothing more dangerous than a moron who thinks he's smart. He's already in danger of ruining a very fragile ceasefire with his Gaza-Lago nonsense.

Oh and he's certainly running again in four years. 100%