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

This is 6 weeks in to Trumps second term.

It's a long one, but boy is it revealing. Make yourself a cup of tea or pour a glass.and just watch what the GOP have let happen.

Yeah you couldn't back up your ignorant comment so you double down. Typical , shown up for what you are, an empty vessel. Jog on.

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This is now the third time this video has been posted.

"what happened is, they rigged the election, and I became president"

I had dismissed allegations of Musk delivering the result for Krasnov, but he's not even hiding it.

Maybe we of generations whose main consumption was 80, 90s US TV, music and movies, but nearly all my nieces and nephews are now either working or studying elsewhere in the EU. None of them have bothered with the oz/nz working holiday visa.

I think the main change is that they were surrounded by kids of EU immigrants in school, the EU isn't foreign to them as it was like for me in school.

They going to festival around Europe all the time (one is mad into doing the Eurovelo routes), catching up with friend old and new, and it's all very doable compared to the long haul of old emigration destinations of the past.

Trump 1 vs Trump 2

He is determined to crash the US economy

Trump threatening Iran with military action. This is the same idiot who tore up the agreement that was working to stop them developing a nuclear weapon.

BBC

Iran's Supreme leader has criticised "bullying" countries in an apparent response to Donald Trump's letter demanding negotiations over its nuclear programme.

Trump said on Friday he had warned Tehran in a letter it could face military action unless it agreed to talks for a nuclear deal.

In a furious response on Saturday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran would not negotiate with "bullying governments" insisting on talks.

"I've written them a letter, saying I hope you're going to negotiate because if we have to go in militarily it's going to be a terrible thing for them," Trump told Fox Business on Friday. 

"There are two ways Iran can be handled - militarily, or you make a deal," Trump said. "I would prefer to make a deal, because I am not looking to hurt Iran."

Iran's Ayatollah appeared to respond to Trump's statements in a Ramadan meeting with officials on Saturday, reported by local media.

Khamenei did not name the US but said "some bully governments insist on negotiations."

"Their negotiations are not aimed at solving problems, they aim at domination," he said according to Iranian media.

"The issue is not just the nuclear issue.They are setting new expectations that these new expectations will definitely not be met on the part of Iran."

Iran had previously agreed to limits on its nuclear programme under the 2015 Iran nuclear accord, an agreement signed with the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany in return for sanctions relief.

But during his first term in office, Trump withdrew the US from the deal and reinstated US sanctions on Iran.

In the years since the collapse of the deal, Iran has accelerated its nuclear programme, accelerating its enrichment of uranium. It now has stocks that are near weapons grade, analysts say.

Every financial publication now openly talking day after day about Trump recession

While trump says he will bring wealth back to US (the exact opposite is happening as money is pouring out like water in a receding tide)

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5184691-trump-recession-tariffs-canada-mexico-china/

I suspect likes of Blackrock are happy as they can make money on volatility

But there comes a point as we seen before when all the chickens come to roost at the banks and the bottom falls out completely

Breaking an economy is easy putting it back together before elections… that’s assuming US is ever having elections again, I fully expect him to start a war to cancel elections

You might be in for a bit of a surprise given it's on the verge of going down the toilet with his new tarrifs.

That must be why the S&P and Nasdaq were at record highs

When we're talking about economies these days, I wonder if we're talking in terms of stock markets and GDP vs employment and buying power. Like, it would be easy to say the economy is doing well because companies are doing great business, but then you find that their employees are making terrible wages and can barely afford to make ends meet. Biden didn't do enough to allay the perception that the economic situation of the ordinary American was stagnating, regardless of what the macro picture was.

Anyway, this is a side issue. Trump doesn't exactly look on track to boost the economy in any sense, but as said, I don't even know if that is his (or rather his backers') aim.

Dan O'Brien has to be, behind the scenes; scalping tickets to the Ryder Cup. Why on earth would that be seen as a negotiation move or an olive branch?

Not true. That's why evil Biden and his evil party were sent packing. Trump said the other day that it was the worst in US history. I don't watch or listen to CNNLOL or any of the other identical networks or read the identical papers. They all hate Trump and I don't believe a word they say.

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