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

Imagine Howard Hughes showing up at the Oval Office and giving a televised address talking unsubstantiated nonsense while a kowtowed Lyndon Johnson sits down like he has been put in time out time and stares into space for the duration of Hughes' waffle.

He did say Americans might suffer - roll on the suffering 🤪

In his head, he's a mix between king of the world and Gary Cooper in High Noon.

Everyone inside or outside the US is his minion. We're here to serve his vision and when he says jump we should say how high. He honestly thinks we're all living in fear of his threats, just like the other coward, Putin, with his nuclear sabre rattling.

The Hostage ultimatum of 12 noon is right out of a cowboy movie. He even said how he couldn't understand how people could be so mean as to hold people hostage whilst advocating for an escalation in the violence which has seen at least 60,000 people killed.

"Honestly Trump is a Dementia Addled Muppet with no coherent plan and purely out for himself."

I agree.

"The problem though is that he's not the biggest threat simply because he's incompetent and idiotic but rather it's that malicious idiot Musk"

Yes I agree. Musk is nasty and unhinged at the moment. If I were American I would be raging what Trump is letting him do as he was not elected in anyway and demanding he not be allowed do anymore. If I were American.

I think Americans sane ones are slowly starting to stand up and protest now.

That must be Adin Ross, The Chump probably just got up from that seat !!

The next US presidential election is a while down the road yet for the 2 parties but I expect they are both analysing the effect of Putin's war in Ukraine is having on the estimated electorate of around 1,009,874 people of Ukrainian descent and 2,432,733 people of Russian ancestry in the US.

Toss in two other electoral factors; that of people of Arab descent looking at what Trumps big plan is for the Arabs in Gaza, expelling them from their ancestral lands into Egypt and Jordan AND the illegal immigrants from south [and lately north] of the border.

That might explain the silence of the Democratic Party given how they were trounced by the GOP in the last election. Trump is giving them all the opportunity they need to avoid the blame when things go wrong. Its increasingly only MAGA-GOP fingers at the wheel.

If Trumps tariff wars go wrong for HIS economy, will the value of the US dollar suffer and throw the US into a dive? Who is the financial genius Trump is willing to allow affect the way his federal economy goes?

Why should the democrats bother targeting those of Arab descent?

They wanted Trump to finish the region off so no idea how the dems can win their vote unless they promise to nuke the place.

You have media like gript emerging because all of Irish media sings from the same liberal hymn sheet. There is no diversity of thought, at all.

In the past you had genuine plurality of views but over the past 30 years it's been on a journey to, if we are being honest a rather smug consensus.

King Abdullah II became both the first Arab leader to meet with U.S. President Trump, and the first to directly reject his proposal to relocate Gaza's two million Palestinians to Jordan.

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-02-12/ty-article-opinion/.premium/king-abdullah-says-no-why-jordan-wont-be-accepting-gazans-any-time-soon/00000194-faab-db1f-a5dd-faab6aef0000

Good, someone not afraid to declare the emperor naked.

He wants to return all of these industries to the US but there is no skilled labour for any of it anyway, us is at full employment, would have to import millions of workers if the on shore all pharma and chip manufacture and steel etc etc. but of course it doesn't have to make any sense because he is just lying as usual. He just wants to threaten everyone and get some kind of token victory he can point to. Why does Europe even have tariffs on US vehicles. Apart from the odd collectors item or because you might want a pickup for the craic, why would you want a high mpg , unreliable American car?

One word of warning for everyone back home, at all costs do not import us food. I've lived here for about 8 years and I immediately realized I was gaining weight without changing diet or exercise. I don't know wtf they put in it but the highly processed food somehow is even more calorific and full of absolute ****. I try not to think about the milk and the meat.

Most of our neighbours when they visit the banana republic of America, go vegetarian for the duration of their visits because the meat and eggs are so bad. We do the same, I marvel at how I grew up thinking I ate great American food and then moved to Ireland and realized how bad it was back in the US.

No question the food here is much better. America's great at junk food and there are few things I can't get here, but I've learned to live without them, quite happily.

You must have missed all the Iona bots with their opinion pieces in newspapers and being wheeled out very opportunity for their "alternative views"

Media like gript emerged because certain sections of society just want their views validated regardless of reality or facts

I love the way things that are completely different are presented as identical because of a single similarity.

Photo op =/= Press briefing on policy. But by all means pretend its the exact same👍️

Almost as clairvoyant as the simpsons