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

Has Trump succeeding in turning the US into what would be described as a rogue nation, if it were another nation?

Meanwhile, National Security is invoked so as not to release information about those deported to El Salvador, their criminal records (if any), and when the planes took off.

"The judge is seeking information on:

"concerning the exact timing of when the two planes took off from US soil and left US airspace that day, as well as the specific times individuals deported under Trump’s proclamation were transferred out of US custody that day. "

Yet leaked war plans are???????????????????????????

https://us.cnn.com/2025/03/24/politics/deportation-flights-trump-administration-state-secrets-privilege/index.html

Somehow it’s ‘pot, kettle, black’ that comes to mind on reading this statement from the White House…

Trump will have no problem firing people in his administration to deflectors blame.

His first term was a mess. This one is going the same way.

Nobody is that stupid

Oh, my sweet summer child. The people Trump has appointed to he highest offices of state are very much that stupid. They have one quality, and that is unwavering loyalty to Trump.

its always been a rogue nation, this admin is just making it much much roguer!

Remember the big deal about Hillarys emails?

This is way worse.

I'd say China and Russia are pissing themselves laughing. Trump is an absolute gift to them. There's good reason Russia wanted him in.

virtually every previous admin were involved in shady global activities, in particular in maintaining global conflicts, including the biden admin, but to be fair, they were no where near as bad as trump admins, this admin is by far the most dangerous admin america has had in a very long time, maybe ever!

Have any European leaders responded to the latest leak?

I think the answer to all those questions these days tends to be "no, even stupider".

The military must be going bananas at all this, their lives and members of their force being put directly at risk with no checks and balances to stop the every deepening stupidity, incompetency and hatred (the trump admin has been breaking the law but then changing those in charge of pursuing the law breaking to avoid the repercussions).

But we have a first hand example of this being slow moving enough that it is accepted as OK and full cognitive dissonance is in effect, which I can understand, as this is their livelihood and the hope is that in ~3 years those at the top will change and it will go back to "normal", but they have 3 years of being put directly at risk by people who a) don't care about them in the slightest and b) are too stupid to hide that lack of caring.

Are you suggesting a US military coup in offing, who will install a junta, to restore power to the people? 😛

It's gas. To see something like this being hand waved away as an innocent "mistake" or something that's not really that serious is an indication of the blind support that this clown show has, whether that's from the hardcore idiots or the soft support from elsewhere.

An NFL coach wouldn't carelessly tweet his team's bloody game plan for a Thursday night, but here we have high level heads within the US govt. blithely tossing out sensitive information to randomers on a group chat about where they're going to bomb next.

You really couldn't make it up.

The only thing that would have made this more hilarious is if somebody in Yemen had received the message too.

I doubt a coup will happen, right now the admin is too dumb to do anything that might threaten the medium term even if they are all about destroying the here and now in ways that don't benefit the US at all.

But, if you're in the US military right now, you have to be questioning your function and worth and whether it's worth being pants'd by the government so frequently.

It has crossed my mind - there’s more than enough evidence there on the texts to support that theory and you couldn’t at all be accused of being conspiratorial in arriving at that conclusion, given what MAGA are capable of and have done to date.
The texts are actually supporting and reinforcing MAGA’s own stated position on Europe so it’s actually advantageous to them to “manufacture” this “leak” - I’m leaning towards it was deliberate myself. If Waltz gets sacked, it will be a temporary measure unless he’s disliked internally and this is part of a ruse to get him out.

that is surely not true… They put details of an upcoming bombing on it.

If its deliberate they arent doing that… what if the reporter leaked it in advance?