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

The targets will be US auto, US machinery, US banking and US tech. They will also target niche items that specifically hit Trumps base.

They might also hit fuel and aircraft. Aircraft would be massive and damaging for Ireland as the big aircraft lessors are based in Ireland.

Overall id expect the response to be targeted and nuanced compared to a tariff on everything

Europe needs to step up and start buying more LNG and arms from the US, only way to reduce the deficit and please Trump, otherwise a deep recession is inevitable.

"We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within." This is a quote attributed to the late Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

EU is twice as dependent on its exports to US, as US on EU. I cannot see how Europe doesn't avoid it, its needs to fold beforehand, otherwise we are in a world of pain but unfortunately Von Der Leyen is not Juncker this time round.

Red states wouldn't care. They'd react to any Trumpian pain the way that a gimp would react to a whipping from their dominatrix.

China and North Korea keeping very quiet lately not a peep,

Maddest thing he's ever seen so far. Only a month in. Still another 47 months to go (at least).

The next time a US politician comes to Europe to talk about free speech, remind them that their own president is talking about a law to limit any criticism of him. Just like the thin skinned loser that he is.

Here is your biggest "bringer of truths". A true nut job

In 2023, Ms. Harp sent a series of letters to Mr. Trump that unnerved people around him, according to a half-dozen people with knowledge of them.

“You are all that matters to me,” she wrote in one of the letters, which were seen by The New York Times. The letters’ authenticity was confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of them.

“I don’t ever want to let you down,” Ms. Harp wrote, thanking Mr. Trump for being her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.”

In another letter, she told Mr. Trump that she wanted to get back to “that synergy” she used to have with him, where “we’d talk about everything and nothing.”

“I want to bring you joy,” she wrote, “to feel like we can get through a day without ever having to talk ‘work.’”

At the White House, Ms. Harp is likely to serve a role unlike any presidential adviser in modern history.

Andrew Tate and brother on a flight to the US so sounds like Trump has intervened. Trump the man, the feminist and friend of sex traffickers. But the real issue is transgender people apparently.

No economic block can allow another entity to put tariffs on exports and not retaliate. The EU will get permission to put higher tariffs on US goods than they put on the EU

What's the betting they apply for and are granted asylum?

Better than even money I'd say. Sickening. And as you said, from the people who target transgender communities using the excuse of protecting women.

Simple. He was targeted with "Trumped" up chargers by people trying to quell free speech because he was speaking out against the Woke Agenda.

It's depressingly easy and as evidenced by that bizarre letter above, all too many people will swallow it up.

you left out the following / when Biden was preparing a critical package of arms in mid/ late 2023 and at a time when UKr had the upper hand CONGRESS BLOCKED It / DELAYED IT . It eventually got through 6 to 8 months later. It was public ally known at the time that the Republican members were taking their instructions from Trump. At the time it was thought that Trump did not want Biden to be successful re UKr , hopefully, winning the war but was the delay because Putin had a “ word”in Trumps ear?

It's not true, no, but it's the kind of thing I can well imagine Trump believes, all the same.

What the US government's attitude to Europe was in recent history isn't really that important right now anyway because there is the much more pressing matter of their current attitude to same. Appeals to sense and historical kinship aren't going to work because the worldview and domestic agenda of the US government has fundamentally shifted. The US is now well on course to becoming a authoritarian oligarchy with the only impediment being those stubborn elements of governance who refuse to surrender or bend the knee.

The EU is now a collection of liberal democracies who could assert considerable influence on the rest of the world if it decides to act with a unified foreign policy. This is not something that the US, Russia or China want to see happen, so they are going to spend considerable time and resources ensuring that Europe becomes more divided than united.