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

They nominated the wrong black woman. Mrs. Obama would have obliterated The Chump.

This is desperate attention seeking

Must be a weird feeling to see and hear people fighting over control of the very country that you live in. You see Trump and his underling Vance gaslighting everyone on the situation in Greenland while you are sitting there wondering what the hell is going on. Would be worrying to have that all that playing out in front of you in real time.

This is a turning point in history. This will be a chapter by itself in the history books in a few decades to come and is still obviously writing itself, might even be a few chapters. A turning point for the EU, for decades a decrepit and ineffective world power, itself just an economic gathering. Now, though, its big brother has called its bluff, turned on them, and with it has forced the EU to start looking inward and realise that the decades of economic union have left it very much like a one-trick pony. This will be the golden era starting for the EU, a very much needed intervention that is very much not the intention of Trump. It will become much more self-sufficient to the detriment of the USA and will turn the Union, in my opinion, into a powerhouse.

USAID will also be a turning point for countries all over. For years feeding off the teat of the US, this turning point will show up the unreliable nature of the current US regime and means that these places will look elsewhere. That political power that the money bought will turn away from America to others. Years and years of building up soft and hard power was instantly wiped by a hate filed Sharpe.

Is it possible that Trump knows the GOP may suffer losses in Congress and that is why, as mentioned in the media, he cancelled his plan to appoint the sitting NY congress member - Elise Stefanik - to the position of US Ambassador at the UN.

Next week, Florida will hold two special elections: One in Florida’s 1st congressional district to replace Matt Gaetz, who resigned to become attorney general before his nomination flamed out; and another in Florida’s 6th congressional district to replace National Security Adviser Michael Waltz. Next weeks results might show Florida is not a sure thing for Trump and the GOP.

Wow ! Sounds like Trump has turned against MAGA !

Money = power. That is a major part of the reason that Trump is using tariffs. An effective economic tool that is used by him to get others to bend to his will. At the time, of course, the idea of a Union between neighbouring countries to maintain peace and to leverage the combined economies against comparative economies is a world power in an economic sense. It expanded to where it is now. Even the mere thought of a country bordering Russia joining sent shivers down Putin's spine. All of it to what end, though. When it came to a crux in the road, it showed exactly the EU for what it has become. That has spurned the current reaction, 800 billion in defence spending as an example. Of course, it never set out to be where it is now, but nobody thought a person like Trump would be elected to be president of the USA a second time, never mind the first.

Prices are up anyway - ironically Trumps tariffs may well reduce prices in Ireland - less jobs means less demand means lower prices

I'd imagine the elected president on this scenario would be Don Jnr. Not Vance. Trump has already said he won't endorse Vance in 2028

Yes, it's in Trumps sights, but I don't think he can tariff IP. That's more to do with changing US tax code (needing Congressional approval)

But he doesn't need to tariff IP.

The tariffs will have the impact of depressing sales and share price of eg Apple.

Apple and similar companies are then incentivised to relocate their IP to the US so that the iPhone is now a US product, not an Irish one subject to tariffs.

Is that not how this works?

And in what country does Apple book their profits?

Surely that and the country that applies the corporate taxation is the number 1 issue between US and Ireland, not the location of factories.