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

are the Secretaries of State not there at the behest of the President. ?If he is gone and the ‘head is cure off’ are they all IMMEDIATELY ‘let go’?

I cannot get my head around all ‘ this ripping off’ by the states that the US was trading with ! Did the US not see what was going on and why. It was up to the US to make it attractive enough for the pharmaceutical , etc, industries to stay in the US . After all the US is free of EU regulations - it is totally independant as to what it wants to do re business, trading, etc.

The democrats have become to divided and too many factions to give a united voice.

MAGA is simple, one message and any republican who doesn't like it is called a RINO and is attacked by everybody until they shut up or face being politically and sometimes personally annihilated.

There's a cult leader who can insult, belittle and blatantly lie about any republican politician or a member of their family and he doesn't get any push back.

There is no single democratic politician that has that much power within the party.

Republicans all want the same thing, to become as personally wealthy as possible, pay as little tax as possible and not be interfered with by anybody else.

MAGA followers think they will get this same privilege in their life not realising that the are the fodder to make the republican politicians rich.

MTG does not give a fxxk about her constituency. Susan Collins hasn't ran a town hall in 20 years. Yet they still get voted to keep their positions.

You are cherry picking. Will you please look at the other things that Biden did that were a bit more positive.. would it not be the case that whatever Biden did , they were done in a ‘more ordered’ , diplomatic way and no mention of Panama, Canada, Greenland , 🇬🇱 allies relationships remained VERY INTACT and the US. Under Biden - as was the whole of America And Russia was VERY CLEARLY in the opposite camp

There's a short video clip on The Independent site where Trump is in what seems to be a classroom with school children of below the age of ten, all seated behind desks. He sits behind one himself, with the POTUS crest fixed to it, front and centre where he and the kids sign individual EO's scrapping the Dept of Education, all using his type of "pen".

It's included in a report where he's asking SCOTUS to slash teacher training funds in war on DEI.

Unfortunately for him, the video has been edited from where he starts to sign the order to where his hand with the pen moves off the document, and is followed by him displaying his signed document.

Abortion rights. They're still important and were in the last election, too.

David McWilliams had a good take on tariffs at the weekend:

"Tariffs allow second-rate local businesses to sponge off consumers, selling them second-rate goods when they could be buying superior imported stuff. In the end, tariffs take from buyers and give money to yellow-pack local producers who can’t compete in the international market. There’s a reason that low tariffs, which have been reduced continuously in the past 50 years, corresponded with the greatest expansion of the global economy ever seen."

i.e. this is all about Trump forcing American consumers to buy locally made junk and tat instead of the option of buying good quality goods from abroad.

😃 😃 🤣

It's just part of the circus. A handful are showing "concern" and are calling for an investigation. When it dies down, they'll fall back in line.

They pulled this act with the insurrection attempt - then all one by one fell back into their default fealty position.

The rest of the world just gets immigrants to fill this gap. Immigrant wages cost less and this is why many are sceptical when the benevolence element of policy is promoted rather than just flat out be honest.
Angela Merkels Germany were short 1m menial labourers and it suited them to take 800k from Syria that time. It shouldn’t be imposed on countries who don’t need it or cannot accommodate

Yeah I expect the usual, announcements to placate politicians that arent followed through(have apple announced their annual billion dollar plan to build a new us plant and employ 2k workers?, is it the same one they announced during the biden admin?)

Then nothing

If pushed

something token
If pushed, wait for next term

The whole thing is a bag of snakes, you cannot control the flow of capital.

He looks a bit youthful here, he is more of an old cow than a show hereford at this stage

Considering what they're doing with their secret police/ICE immigration enforcement, where people are whisked off the streets and sent to 'centers', without anything resembling due process, and those centers are private prisons by and large, imposing labor on them can't be far behind.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/canadian-actor-jasmine-mooney-detained-mexico-border

Also, seems like the private facility in question was not in good financial shape in November, but obviously business has picked up:

(https://archive.ph/TQLWv)

Nice quote: “Currently with the low population levels we cannot sustain this operation,” Chief Financial Officer Tim Kurpiewski said in the notice of non-renewal. “Also, as the election looms this may also play a critical role in the use of the facility, but we won’t know that until November.”"

Most of them are already working for cents per hour - https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-prison-labor/

Ford Cortina Cashel & Tara