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

It would be unacceptable, but it's not as if it would be the first time that the US undertook a roundly condemned invasion.

If it did happen, it would likely happen after the US left NATO and completed its geopolitical realignment. There's not a lot that Europe could do about it militarily. Some economic sanctions and vigorous head shaking.

But I don't think it would be the end of western civisation, unless European leaders completely threw in the towel. It would just underscore the US's leaving of it.

Think about how easy it would be for the US to go into partnership with Greenland if they weren't run by an absolute loon.

56,000 people so maybe 30,000 people people eligible to vote in a referendum for independence, them you will have a 50/50 split so realistically you might only need to influence 5000 people to vote for independence and you have a billionaire who controls the biggest social media site and unlimited funds from the US to promise investment, it would have been incredibly simple

Rubio on X

"The United States will not tolerate any third-countries or their oil companies producing, extracting, or exporting oil and oil-related products with the Maduro regime in Venezuela. This is a regime that has consistently stolen elections, pillaged from its people, and colluded with our enemies. Any country that allows its companies to produce, extract, or export from Venezuela will be subject to new tariffs, and any companies will be subject to sanctions."

strange bed fellows…. Signal founders being who they are….

He's denying the story, even though the evidence exists.

Congress should hold a hearing, produce the evidence and then call for his resignation.

The only thing this admin does better than cruelty, is incompetence.

It's falling apart already. No surprise to anyone.

Manic, this is far more serious than somebody doing something stupid. Heads gave to roll over this. Trump should have called for an immediate investigation, since he apparently hadn't been informed, and a complete review of all communications since the administration took over needs to be undertaken to ascertain if other material has been handled in such a careless and irresponsible way.

Had this, or other information, gone to the wrong hands or the journalist in this case could have reported the details before the attack, it could have placed US lives in direct danger.

For a military person such as yourself to simple wave away such a security breach as something stupid and by your post clearly looking to downplay it is staggering.

Everyone in the military should be requesting guarantees that such a stupid mistake cannot happen again.

Have details of military codes, secret locations, passwords, personal details, training plans etc also been leaked?

It would seem reasonable that this, or other people, have been privy to far more information that what we have just learned about.

And POTUS and rge defence secretary don't give a damn and want to attack the journalist. A US citizen who has done an incredible act that will hopefully lead to saving military personel lives in the future.

Where are them checks and balances?

Only a few days ago the same clowns said they will hold investigations on whom in pentagon leaked that Musk is being show war plans

only for the same clown to then share warplans with journalist

But hey I see the feeble reply from MAGAts is “but but her emails”

So we’ll take it that they did indeed share war plans with Musk - and MAGA’s only concern is who pulled its pants down and exposed them for putting 100s of millions of lives at risk

Dumbed down and trivialised - nothing to see here. Move on or we’ll get the water cannons out- actually feic that, we’ll get the canons out.

what about the town hall meetings and other outlets - especially radio , some Tv stations, u tubes- that provide a PLATFORM to those that are ‘not happy’ , to put it mildly, with the way things are going . REMEMBER that close to 50% did not vote for Trump. AndREMEMBER that those that did not vote but could have might be more Enthuased the next time - so they are still there and might be now interested in voicing their concerns

So all of the above are PUSH BACK opportunities to KEEP THE RESISTANCE ALIVE

We can get the job done, or we can complain about how we've no system for doing it. 

It's a serious indictment of the US Military and Dept of Defence given the trillions budgeted to them in the last 20 years if they have to use a private sector communication app for the purpose of simple communication between team members.

I mean, in a time when Elon Musk is claiming DOGE is finding wasted billions everywhere it looks, this is another indicator of where he should be sending his minions if he is serious about finding waste. Not that he will, if the Pentagon not having passed an audit in years wasn't enough to trigger a serious investigation in that respect, then this isn't going to be either.

Did anyone else notice that twice now in the last few days, Trump has pleaded ignorance to distance himself from the actions of his administration.

At the weekend, he claimed he didn't sign an executive order associated with sending people to El Salvador which a judge had an issue with it (this after saying Biden's pardons didn't count because he didn't physically sign them) even though his Press Secretary had said repeatedly including on Fox News that he had signed it.

And now yesterday where 2 hours after the story of the journalist invited in to a war room messaging chat broke, Trump said when asked that he knew nothing about it.

Classic Trump of course, worry about himself and throw whoever he can under the bus. A colossal f*ck by his administration.