Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

Understandable that we focus on the McGregor visit, but the casual ignoring of court orders over the weekend is a much bigger deal.

There's a slippery slope there - to an extent the court system has always been powerless of itself and relies on the good faith of people with actual power to follow and/or enforce even when they actively dislike what the court has directed. If that changes, then you are definitely heading into a whole new ball-game. The parallels with various 1920s European events would be fairly stark.

Does Trump actually have to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll? Not immediately, at least

Before Donald Trump delivers any amount of monetary damages to E. Jean Carroll, he could engage in a long appeals process.

theconversation.com

"With Trump in particular, who is well known for drawing out legal processes, the appeals process could take a long time. It just depends. It could take years.
And the $65 million of punitive damages, in particular, is not about how much Carroll was harmed. It is about punishing Trump’s bad behavior and getting him to stop doing it".

Does seem Carroll could be in for a very long wait to get paid, Trump will employ the delay, delay tactics and might well be lying beside Ivana before this gets settled, imagine having to go after Trump's estate as his vulture family come to pick his bones.

I signed for my mortgage digitally… I've signed my work contracts digitally.… Plenty of things are viewed as credible signatures. Trump just thinks the performance of signing is work.

And the complaint coming from Trump who never signed any instructions to declassify the documents he stole but used the defence that as POTUS once he thinks it and orders it is official.

So it's just rubbish about Biden digital signatures

President of what though? Suggestions please…..

Yesterday was an embarrassment to Ireland, the office of the U.S Presidency… and to anyone with a hint of decent moral standards…

The only way that Circus show in the Oval office could have been any worse was if Harvey Weinstein, Jeffery Epstein and P.Diddy were there also…

He might be voted in once as a protest vote, but there's not a chance he'd get voted in twice.

First of all you'd have to turn up, and he's highly unlikely to do anything other than threaten to hit someone.

Secondly, you'd have to do something for your constituents, and the only thing he does for his constituents is keep the drug suppliers busy and punch old men in the face for refusing whiskey.

And third, there's every chance he'd be arrested for possession while entering the Dáil, and he'd be banned from it.

As for the Presidency, I'm not joking, as a general rule he's so despised in Ireland in the main that I would probably stand a better chance if, and my sole reason for campaign for running would be for letting an ordinary lad have a much fancier gaff than he currently has and free tickets to major sports events.

After The Monk fiasco I don't think McGregor is as far away from the Presidency as people here think.

SInn Fein are populist and do extremely well here. A right wing populist hasn't done well here (bar Casey) because so far we haven't had one with charisma or one which the media becomes totally obsessed with, when that happens everything will change here

Lets be honest , a certain element of the British and the Americans love parading McGregor around because it reassures them of their established stereotypes of the Irish. Namely that we are a bunch of clowns. So I'm not surprised they gave him loads of air time.

Sinn Fein are populist left. The definition of populism is "person, especially a politician, who strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite group". That 100% describes SF.

SInn Fein are also dominated by religious beliefs so could turn from left to right wing populism on a dime depending on how tide turns, its been that way throughout Eastern Europe where once left wing groups have gone to right.

If Casey gets on ballot here it's not out of the question McGregor won't.

His highest in office approval ratings currently . Just under 50%.
None of our business really if the people who voted for him don’t have buyers remorse.