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

Doubtful if 'Ireland' has any more virtue left to signal after the extended love-in with their Pals in

Gaza.

surely people must be regretting their vote now . Whatever your opinion is on DEI trans rights immigration or the price of eggs . You have to see how much of a **** show this is .

Except pretty much anyone vaguely aware of the war knows that Zelensky said he isn't putting on a suit until it's over. So him to suddenly suit up now would be pretty inappropriate.

Also worth noting that question from the press was from MTG's boyfriend so a setup. Pretty much any self respecting journalist wouldn't have been querying it.

Why do you think that when it was an obvious set up ambush?

You claimed Trump is doing it very debt reasons, Trump's tax plans are gonna exponentially increase debt. Trump is doing all this because he is Putin's bitch, Trump's been president before and did nothing in relation to their debt. During that time he did attempt to extort Ukraine and had a weird relationship with Russia though. This time he's just gone full in on it.

It really is sickening that Michael Martin has to pucker his lips to kiss Trumps Ass...

I predict Trump will take light enough pot shots at MM similar to his jibe at Zelensky yesterday about "getting dressed up".....saying Ireland is making a fortune off the back of US companies etc...

MM will try to keep it light and go full leprechaun.....

USA owes nothing neither to Ukraine nor to Taiwan.

USA after Zelensky's words "we are alone" shouldn't help any country.

Keep in mind, that this is essentially how Donnie and his fellow goons generally operate.

He lacks the finesse and frankly the intelligence to use his “inside voice” during public summits and then save the arguments for the actual meeting room. What we saw there was the actual negotiation in front of the cameras, which likely took Zelensky by surprise since only a nitwit would do that willingly. But of course we have Donnie and his enablers there.

This is why the resulting negotiations were so short, and why there was no resulting press conference afterwards. The Orange Lummox let himself thump his chest like an incontinent elderly gorilla, and torpedoed the opportunity of potentially good minerals deal for both sides. Vance was clearly more interested in generating MAGA-friendly snippets about about not being thankful or pointless stupidity about not wearing a suit.

The “negotiation” was essentially, “Sign this one-sided agreement or else”. They wanted to bully him.

Problem with that plan is of course, is that Zelensky is not a coward. He faced down the Russian army rushing down the motorway to take his head, and he gave up evacuation with a request for ammo. “I need ammo, not a ride”. Of the 3 men in thar room who have “President” in their title, I would dare say that only one of them truely deserve it, and all going well we’ll see statues of that man, which his words etched onto them to inspire future generations about what an actual leader looks like.

Things are going to get hard, they were going to anyway with Donnie’s re-election. But the likes of Zelensky, and courage of conviction he displayed yesterday should inspire us all to stand up for what we actually believe in, in the face of craven self-serving stupidity.

DOGE exists as a propaganda exercise and for Musk to get unrestricted access to the US government. Musk has literally lied about multiple expenses and supposed fraud. Meanwhile the department of State just announced 400 million on armored Teslas. Meanwhile Trump's tax cut will exponentially increase debt which you seem to be avoiding.

The US just voted against condemning Russia for invading Ukraine. They voted alongside the likes of North Korea and Russia. On top of that, his administration has implied Russia was justified in their invasion. He is absolutely Putin's bitch.

And what about the last time he was president when he wouldn't say anything negative about him either?

When he actually took the word of Putin over that of his own intelligence/security services.

What war was he trying to stop then?

To eradicate wasteful expenditure takes time and a plan.

Doge is just to take a hatchet to any potential resistance or oversight to what trump and his pals want.

More power/money/control/ lack of personal repercussions

This idea that Trump is just a, so called, "business man", is only a sad effort to try and excuse his appalling behaviour yesterday and in general. He's neither a business man nor a politician. He's just some bully boy scrote that happened to be born into wealth and has had everything in life handed to him. He has a list of FAILED businesses behind him and yesterday's ludicrous display is an example of why. Anyone looking at that nonsense in the White House and thinking that that was good business should stay well out of such a game. Anyone thinking it was good politics should do likewise.

So how is spending millions on Musk-cans eradicating wasteful expenditure?

This idea that Trump is just a, so called, "business man", is only a sad effort to try and excuse his appalling behaviour yesterday and in general.

I'm not excusing his behavior, I'm just not surprised by it.

People need to leave the constant "I can't believe what he has done/said...." at the door.

He's been around for almost a decade.

He's liable to say anything, and if a situation is anyway transactional he's likely to frame it as some sort of business deal.