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

I didn't find it particularly striking, although I understand your point. However, the fact is that it's never about the US. It's always about Trump. In every conceivable way. The only way Trump's brain works is "How can I use this situation in order to increase my greater glory?"

Anyone that thinks Trump is in this for anything other than the enrichment of his ego is either deluded, or not all their dogs are barking.

Do you get tired of being proved wrong, or do you just not live in Ireland???

https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-41569396.html

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Now, to be totally honest, he is also in this for the enrichment of his pocket.

Yeah, I get that too. Trump is a narcissist and it is all about him.

But It's the blatantness that strikes me. Normally when some big country or business is trying to shaft people for their own gain, they'll try be subtle and hide it.

Trump literally screams it's all for Me!!!!! And Americans go 'That's our guy!'

This has been alleged with the recent 'Krasnov' story, and that he was 'got at' in the late 80s on a visit to Moscow. Whether or not this is true is quickly verging on being irrelevant, in my opinion, because it wouldn't hurt his standing with one half of America and the other half already aren't exactly fans of his. His position would remain as is, and foreign leaders would therefore still have to deal with him on the basis of the power he wields.

Although, I would be interested to know what exactly 'asset' means. I mean, on one level it's clear: a benefit to the Russians, but more to what level of cooperation these assets operate. Are they people who are predisposed to being favourable to the Russians because they're reactionaries, or is it more like they're getting coded messages on a little shortwave radio?

"The European Union was formed to screw the United States - that's the purpose of it and they've done a good job of it," he said. "But now I'm president." "We'll be announcing [tariffs] very soon, it'll be 25% generally speaking and that will be on cars and all other things." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05ml3q2gn7o

Luv the language Donald 😃

Its all a bit surreal and prescient that video.

A pity McSavage isnt still on tv, he'd have lots to work with these days. Funny guy.

Was he this orange this in his first term ? He has really looked awful of late, Scaramucci was only recently talking about how disheveled Trump was looking. I know his father went senile at a similar age and started alarming people around him by wearing a bizarre wig, maybe we are approaching a similar situation ?

The meeting where Trump told his cabinet members [the ones who went through the Congress Appointment hearings routine] that if any of them were unhappy with Musk, to speak up and leave.

There's just so much bizarre about it all, and it's all too easy to become numb to it - for it to just be 'normal', but the sitting president of the USA tweeting out a video of Gaza turned into a resort and a big golden statue of himself in the centre will never be normal. To even suggest ten years ago anything of the sort would ever occur would have been considered complete lunacy.

With respect to that, it's easy to overlook that Musk appears to have cobbled together his own signature outfit for his DOGE duties, consisting of a black blazer over a t-shirt, black trousers and a black hat with 'Make America Great Again' written on it in dark gothic font. He's basically Colin Hunt from the Fast Show without endearing qualities.

Following on from the Macron/Trump media presentation [where the European had to take the Yank in hand to straighten out the facts for him] I'm waiting to see how the UK PM handles any misinformation from the Yank at their media presentation [if there is a media presentation on how their talks about Ukraine went].

This from the Russians will undoubtedly put a fly in the Trump ointment:

For Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, it's “unacceptable” to see troops under European banners on Ukrainian territory. Even for peacekeeping purposes.

The head of Russian diplomacy has no intention of letting Europe deploy soldiers to monitor a possible ceasefire as part of a peace agreement. Sergei Lavrov repeated: this is “unacceptable”. There is no question of peacekeeping troops in Ukraine flying the European Union flag or national flags, particularly in the context of collaboration between France and the United Kingdom. In his view, the presence of European soldiers would be an attempt to “prolong the conflict”. 

America is leaving itself massively exposed security wise with all this madness.

Years of built up intelligence and security all being brushed aside and erased within a few weeks.

He is definitely an agent. 100% compromised.

When Trump was re elected back in november I was neutral neither pro nor anti Trump.

At the time some self pro claimed Irish patriots cheered his re election I dont think I have to name names.

Anyone familar with Irish twitter will likely know who I am talking about.

But given a string of recent developments,

Trump stating he impose 25% tariffs on Imports from the eu.

Trump siding with russia against ukraine at the UN.

Trump seeming to side with russia with what conditions & terms are to be agreed upon for ending the war.

Trumps statement on taking over gaza.

Trump aiming to reduce military spending by 50% and trying to naively get russia and china to do the same.

I cant for the life of me see what the positives are with this string of foreign policy developments.

If the tariffs issue do cause some eu countries to go into recession; its beyond me how people calling themselves Irish patriots could cheer on such a man if we end up in recession over him.