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

Still spinning these lies.

Par for the course by now I suppose.

When the US is in a recession, are you still gonna be calling that a win for the working class? Honestly it's also pretty telling that you've avoided ever mentioning the pretty horrible hits the working class are already facing as a really of his policies.

The working class are lost thats why we have Trump. Yes I also said the working class have been hollowed out at the expense of billionaires and greedy corporations. The politicans dont seem to care about this. All the working class get is inflation, stagnant wages and more taxes. Its a democracy, they voted for Trump, it seems they finally realised the system that was designed to lift them just traps them.

And Why is Trump going after pharma, oh yeah because these companies pay no tax in the US, offshore the majority of their jobs, and then completely rip of the US customer with the highest drug prices in the world, all the while getting huge grants from the NIH to make the drugs. How would the US not have a huge defict and is drowning in debt. Why wouldn't anyone try and change this if you're in the US. And the only reason Trump is using tariffs is he knows Congress is so corrupt they will never do anything anyway. So yeah the people have voted for change.

And why are the same drug companies able to charge what they charge in the US but not in the EU?

They all got sold a dud if they think Trump is going to save them.

And the key point is exporting to who? If he is talking about America only then America makes up 33% of all pharma exports from Ireland so if this halves over a 5 year period we will still be exporting 16.5% to the USA in 5 years time and these companies have 5 years to make up the deficit with sales to other countries.

I wish everyone would stop going Chicken Lickin on this.

He likes tariffs because they're one of the few levers available to the failed casino owner and sex offender.

When gets bored of them he'll put more effort into starting a full blown bloody domestic race war.

Well there has been noticeable change in the markets and overall sentiment towards US international policy/diplomacy

I hope you are right. It will be fun to see them falling flat into the slurry pit of their own making.

..

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-officials-object-european-push-buy-weapons-locally-2025-04-02/

Some of the proposed measures could mean a smaller role for non-EU companies, including those based in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, experts say. In a March 25 meeting, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia that the United States wants to continue participating in EU countries' defense procurements, the sources told Reuters.

According to two of the sources, Rubio said any exclusion of U.S. companies from European tenders would be seen negatively by Washington, which those two sources interpreted as a reference to the proposed EU rules.One northern European diplomat, who was not part of the Baltic meeting, said they had also been recently told by U.S. officials that any exclusion from EU weapons procurements would be seen as inappropriate. Rubio plans to discuss expectations that EU countries keep buying U.S. weapons during his visit to Brussels this week, where he will attend the NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting, said a senior State Department official.

So they don't include Europe or Ukraine in the 'negotiations' with Russia. They threaten to annex greenland, a NATO territory. They threaten consequences if european companies don't tow the line of Trumps DEI executive orders. They appease the aggressor. They blame the victim. Threaten the EU with tariffs.
Now they say they'll be mad if we don't buy their weapons, instead choosing to build our own and buy from our local FRIENDS.

Middle finger.