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

How many countries have a head of state who has declared economic war on most of the countries it has cultural, familial, diplomatic, economic, trade and military pact ties with? How many countries have a head of state who has threatened to use his country's military in trans-border operations against its two neighbours, despite having trade deal pacts he arranged and signed his country up to as fair and equitable deals? How many heads of state have threatened to unlawfully use his nations military against the territory of a Trans-Atlantic country with whom his country has a decades old military pact from early in the last century? How many countries have a head of state who has brought into use a piece of legislation dated from 1798 called the Aliens War act, designed for use in a time of military war, against civilians during a time of peace in his country? How many countries have a head of state who has declared time and again his intent to ignore the constitution of his country after twice swearing an oath of loyalty to that constitution? How many counties have a head of state with an obligingly "did I say that" forgetful memory?.

Folks, I give you the non-doddery right honourable Donald J Trump, current holder of the office of the US president.

Trump is not the problem and not to blame. America is the problem and the blame!

Wouldn’t it be lovely all the same if this could be a Trump headline:

NEWSMarine Le Pen is sentenced to four years in JAIL and BANNED from entering presidential elections as she is found guilty of embezzlement and accused of 'undermining democracy'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14554463/marine-le-pen-banned-presidential-elections-guilty-embezzlement.html

I don't know why this is the latest thought process.... He would be prevented to run as VP because he's ineligible to run as president. Under the 12 amendment: "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States"

You're absolutely right, but we also have someone in office who would be willing to just ignore it. And if nobody is willing to enforce the rules (due to Trump's installation of loyalists), he might just get away with it. That's my concern.

Don't think it's as simple as that.

Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, all have possibly influenced MAGA as much as Trump has in real policy terms.

They'll be looking for a continuance possibly via Don Jr or more likely in my view Ivanka/Jared.

There's no Trump counterpoint by which ti remotely even challenge the ideology at this point. And it won't emerge unless they lose powerful in a significant way for at least a full Presidential term.

Meh, the thin work-around being mooted is that the 12th only refers to eligibility as defined by earlier amendments, the 12th cannot by definition have been intended to include eligibility as later re-defined by the 22nd amendment. And the 22nd only deals with being elected as president, absolutely no reference to VP.

It's Lionel Hutz level nonsense, and should be laughed at by any US Supreme Court. But the current supreme court, who knows.

In years to come when we all look back at the timeline of Biden years 2021 to 2025: we may very well come to remember those years as the years before Trump came along and caused the great economic crash. Let's face it all the various countries Trump is putting tariffs on. We dont know whether it will cause an economic crash on same level as 2008. But if it does the Biden years will be remembered as the good years .

April 1st is going to be confusing in a time where everything looks like a story from The Onion.

Lads, being America, he's likely to be shot again, so he may not make it to 2028.

Do

weisses, does that mean that the remaining 80 % were made up of - x

-Those under the voting age

-/those who voted Democrat

-those eligible and registered to vote but chose not to

-Those of voting age but were not registered

There's a hell of a lot of people in the 346m not eligible to vote, don't forget that. Most of these magazines heads have kids u18 who are as indoctrinated as they are. The 70m figure is just false optimism. There's at least another 20 or 30m who can't vote who would swing their direction too.

Trump is a self-avowed white-supremacist supporting serial sexual predator convicted of sexual assault and multiple accounts of fraud.

I will agree though that vance is less charismatic than a self-avowed white-supremacist supporting serial sexual predator convicted of sexual assault and multiple accounts of fraud.

But, they voted FOR a self-avowed white-supremacist supporting serial sexual predator convicted of sexual assault and multiple accounts of fraud so one cannot assume anything about their moral compass… such as it is.

It may not be politically correct to say this but out of those 70 odd million there is a percentage that voted for Trump rather than see a woman president.

America is not that progressive a country. If the democrats had put forward a strong male candidate like Obama I believe they would have won over a lot of the undecideds who eventually went with Trump.

Harris, like Hilary Clinton, had no charisma. She was not strong delivering the democratic message and appeared to have fallen in to a presidential race only because they made Biden step down.

A conversation should have been had with Biden a lot earlier by the democratic party leadership thanking him for his service but step aside a younger, energetic candidate for the next election.

On reciprocal tariffs. The EU puts 10% on US cars, the US puts 2.5% on EU cars. Does reciprocal tariffs mean the US is going to put 10% on EU cars?

What tariffs does the EU have on US pharmaceutical products? 25% as that is what Trump is threatening?