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

Russia was never left wing. They may have taken on a left wing ideal for a very short space of time but the very rulers who led the communist revolution quickly turned to authoritarianism and extreme right wing ideals for themselves and the country whilst bleeding the population with supposed left wing ideals. The only truly left wing countries have been the nordic countries.

There will be protest s when working class people realize the massive cuts to basic services like medicare Medicare medical care for old people veterans and retired people . Its not really a money saving idea to sack mechanics and highly trained staff that maintain the complex systems that air traffic controllers rely on to do their work. The cost will be more serious accidents as planes will be more likely to crash or collide .the air traffic control system is already stretched to the max with flight controllers working overtime.due to staff shortages

The supreme court has granted trump more power than any other president .

The American government has always run on a system of checks and balances to stop threats to democracy but this is not working due to trump simply passing executive orders and ignoring Congress . Leaders of federal agencys will be replaced with trump loyalists.

The federal government will no longer be able to regulate corporations and protect the consumer from scammers or enforce regulations to protect the environment . . Trump is trying to pass a peace agreement that Ukraine will hand over billions in it's Mineral wealth in order to hold onto the land it has liberated from Russia .

Trump has already said he'll send the military to deal with protests. He told them everything and they still voted for them.

To be honest, whatever happens in America they'll get no sympathy from me as they haven't done anything to avert it. Skitting and laughing at John Oliver and Jimmy Kimmel is all well and good but it doesn't do a damn thing to halt what's been in train.

We just need to make sure that we in the EU protect one another and work as a collective.

Skitting and laughing at John Oliver and Jimmy Kimmel is all well and good but it doesn't do a damn thing to halt what's been in train.

I'd give them a pass, they didn't set out to be more than entertainers. What I do have an issue with is the media trying to be talk show hosts. Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper, Jake Tapper et al. I no longer watch television, and was never an avid fan of 24hr news channels (I watched more Fox than I did CNN) but have seen enough clips of these to know they aren't trying to dig to the root cause of issues, they're trying to nose around to find some juicy bits.

Which journalist had been told something pretty significant by Trump but held on to it until his book was published? That sort of thing serves no one except the journalist, and the politician.

How do you change that? I mean, if you're in power and want people to have more interest and knowledge than you mandate civics classes but we've seen how conservatives react to anything within the school that they have an issue with.

Genuine question, how does a society become informed or have a culture where being informed is encouraged. I don't have children so I can't speak as to what goes on in classrooms today. I grew up in a house where there was one TV and the news was prioritized every night and Prime Time was watched a couple of times a week. My mother also had drive time on.

I don't think the average voter understood that trump was going to take the federal government apart and sack 1000s of workers or make major cuts to medicare and Medicaid .working class voters are the ones who will be badly effected by cuts in Medicaid and public services and the lack of consumer protection

We're now living in the times where a man child is president of the USA. All he wants is adulation. Say any amount of mad sh*te and adore me.

If you follow this lad I really feel sorry for you. Somewhere along the line you think you need a strongman who shoots from the hip to get you ahead . But the wool has been pulled over your eyes. It's a distraction (put enough sh*to put there to muddy the waters), while they gut everything and make themselves richer. It's the ultimate Grift in real time.

P.S Musk's downfall will be glorious to see. Keep gutting public services and see what happens.

JT really has gotten under trumps skin it seems.

Showing the world yet again that he is a child.

Ideal answer already provided on Reddit

Would he not be close to a Kanye style breakdown as it is? He hasn't gone on Twitter and overtly declared a love of Hitler yet (that I know of), but I have seen him sieg heil twice and pose on stage with a chainsaw. This is in addition to a tweeting frequency approaching Graham Linehan.

John Oliver has to make his program entertaining in order to get viewers and remain on air while also commenting on complex political topics .these topics are covered on MSNBC and CNN but ratings are falling for most news programs that are not on

Fox news in America .

Musk sometimes gets compared to Elizabeth Holmes, who similarly used an uncanny ability to blagg about herself to build a company worth billions, based on mostly the fiction that she knew what she was doing.

In the case of Holmes and her Thernos company, reality eventually came to get her (and the value of her shares) because the company had promised something that wasn’t technically possible. She went from being a “genius” billionare to being in jail for massive fraud.

Musk’s products for the the most part are real, but are propped up with vapourware claims and Tesla itself hasn’t released a successful new design in many years. The Cybertruck (or W*nkpanzer to give it it’s offical name) is by far one of the most failed consumer auto-products out there. Combined with multiple recalls, and the fact that the thing can never be street-legal in most countries, it is now also supplanting the BMW has the universal sign that the driver is a bell-end.

The potential stagnation of Tesla is a massive problem for Musk, because that has become his Thernos. Tesla stocks are so overinflated that they nearly eclipse the stock value of all other auto-makers in the world combined. All of that value is based on mostly meme-stock nonsense and the previous fiction that Musk had a clue of what he was doing. Musk borrows of the value off those stocks to have money, and without those stocks he becomes considerably poorer.

So I live in some hope when I see Tesla struggling. Should the value of that company collapse to what it’s actually worth then Musk goes from being this Tony Stark wannabe to a very public and dramatic financial failure. The resulting fallout would take years, so he wouldn’t disappear from our screens, but the more it would it go on the more the world would learn how Musk is little more than a block-headed stoner narcissist who at best once knew how to get lucky with other people’s smarter ideas.

Wondering why CFTrump has rolled over? Well, who is buying Trumpcoins? He's minting money apparently and anyone (hiya, Vlad) can buy them.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/19/donald-trump-crypto-billionaire

Yep while Oliver is making jokes, he's always clear on how serious the situation is. Plus each episode tends to amount to a 30 minute informative session on stuff that is in dire need of being fixed in the US. Also did a similar segment on project 2025 last year. I'm not sure the major news station did any in depth segments on the threat of it which is slightly fucked...

Re this kind of claim , I am now looking , more and more, to see the source of such claims . In this case it is PETE Hegeseth and FOx news.