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

"Trump will never manage to give military aid to Russia"

Trump will never get elected after the "grab her by the pussy" tape.

Trump will never get elected after the Stormy Daniels hush payment.

Trump will never survive the first impeachment.

Trump will never survive the second impeachment.

Trump will never get re-elected after fighting the peaceful handover of power.

Trump will never get re-elected after the dumpster fire of a campaign in 2024.

Trump will never get re-elected after his criminal convictions.

Trump will never enact project 2025.

Etc etc etc

Wake up. Trump is a baddie. Supporting Trump is supporting Putin, and I for one, don't want to have to go and learn how to speak Russian

You are basically pushing for a repeat of the Munich Agreement - even with the benefit of hindsight.

I'm glad this opinion is only the minority in Ireland so I'm taking some comfort in that at least. Given our own history, I can't fathom taking this stance.

6 million new homes required in the US- it’s going to bump up prices as cost of raw materials will rise from the tariff on Canada which supplies a lot of the timber - considering a home purchase is the single biggest purchase of most people lifetime, it’s going to impact a lot of people for decades - tariffs on agricultural goods also -farmers don’t have the time to change horses mid stream so again food will rise overall.

I’m trying to find the logic here- is he forcing American producers to produce what he wants them to produce, thus closing down or greatly reducing the need for foreign goods in those areas?

If so, the pivot will take time and as for trees and timber, decades - he will be long rotting in the ground.

As for the economy, aside for the fact it will take a few years to see a positive impact in the Agri sector, you have the immigrant farm workers completely scared off working on farms for fear of deportation - so who will harvest because Americans certainly won’t unless he introduces chain gangs which I wouldn’t put past him

^ Exactly: it's all a game to Trump. No, really, it's like something out of Sid Meier's Civilization series of games. International relations boiled down to a zero sum game, taking different postures to score different kinds of points, all from a god's eye view wher battles are just about numbers.

In the interests of saving time and being more efficient overall.

Could Putin just announce in future what he is making Trump do.

Cut out the clown show.

Have you and the others who believe that Zelenskyy should throw in the towel to Trump/Putin ever considered the possibility that, in the long hours Trump's told the world he's been on the phone to Putin, that he has cut a deal with Putin splitting up Ukraine between them for its reported mineral and rich earth resources and that is why he wants Zelenskyy out of the picture? Trump has made it clear that there will be no US boots on the ground in Ukraine. I believe him, with the rider that Trump includes the US NOT being part of the mineral resources workforce. He's angered that Ukraine is delaying his plans by resisting Putin's war. Trumps B/S claim that Zelenskyy has only 04% of the popular vote is just rubbish and more of Putin's disinformation. Trump, with his behaviour, has provided Zelenskyy with a shot in the arm from Ukrainians pissed-off with Trump likely to vote in Ukraine's presidential elections.

We haven't heard diddly squat from Trump as to what he and Putin allegedly said to each other in the long phone-calls he claims to have had with Putin. All Trump has spoken about is how Zelenskyy is the person keeping the war going. That figures if you include any deal he has made with Putin to divvy up Ukraine between them. It's worth going back now to what Trump said since the Oval Office row about Zelenskyy not being around much longer.

Ref your "he's in no position to dictate terms" maybe you should reverse that to refer to Trump, not Zelenskyy. He's the elected head of the Ukraine republic, not Trump. Your deliberate ignoring of whom is the aggrieved party and whom is the aggressor in the war opened by Putin on Ukraine since 2014 shows your argument does not have a stitch of relevance when it comes to the war.

It's pretty noticeable that his biggest supporters tend to just post and dash or not post at all. They got excited about the attacks on transgender people but don't say a word about the Andrew Tate intervention etc.

He can't run again!

Can we stop this nonsense of Trump getting a 3rd term. It won't happen. It can't happen. It's ludicrous to even discuss it. Even the Republicans aren't that stupid.

What version of events did you watch last week, because for all the clips I've seen from the oval office, I didn't see this edition.

Zelensky refused to play the "lets ignore reality" that was being pushed on him. He is doing an incredible leading his country and representing the best interests of the citizens both now, and in to the future.

And with respect to the "giving thanks" that the snowflakes were asking for. He has said thanks publicly nearly 90 times in the last 3 years, why were they so demanding of it last Friday? And Vance brought up Zelensky going to PA before the election last October like that was something he needed to apologize for. Do all the MAGA'ts forget that Trump and Vance made stopping support for Ukraine a central part of their election campaign, was he supposed to join them at rallys pushing that message?

Trump is doing nothing more than trying to bully Zelensky in to losing territory, giving up resources, abandoning security and stepping down so a Putin puppet can be installed and you and the American Right Wing want him to jump at that opportunity and thank Trump effusively while doing so? America has taken giant steps backwards which ultimately and eventually impact its own self interests. Trump and Vance and Johnson and the rest of them debasing themselves pushing this strategy will be held accountable in time.

Sorry, you're right. I wasn't even thinking of that. I think I had it in my head him being asked if he'd run again in 2028, but pretty sure that was in context of if he lost in 2024 would he run again in 2028.

An event at which Roger Cook was the guest speaker, a journalist asked the premier to finish the sentence: “JD Vance is a …”

Cook replied: “Knob.” then said: “You’ve got to have one unprofessional moment, don’t you? That was it.”

His description won him laughs and a round of applause from the audience.

“When I made the comments there was a lot of applause around the room so perhaps some people enjoyed the fun that came with it. Other people might have been offended and I apologise.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/04/wa-premier-roger-cook-calls-us-vice-president-jd-vance-a-knob

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Trump is more powerful than Putin. I don't buy the Russian agent. Trumps ego wouldn't allow it given he's technically the bigger fish.

I think it's more a case of Trump having wild world views and being pretty dogmatic about them.

As I've said before the relative amendment (the 22nd) states that "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice". It doesn't appear to prevent him actually running, only prevents him winning. If his name is on the ballot and he wins by a landslide due to his overwhelmingly successful second term, will the courts really over-rule the clear democratic wishes of the American people?

Also (repeating myself now from 2 weeks ago so apologies) it seems to me that a win/run in 2028 would be for 're-election' as opposed to for 'election', so it wouldn't necessarily breach the 22nd. I don't believe this theoretical and perhaps fanciful interpretation has been tested in the Supreme Court.

I don't think the above is likely at the moment, but hellfire, so much has happened in the first 6 weeks that seemed unlikely that it is surely ludicrous to rule out anything over the next 36 months?