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

During the election, there were many headlines about various economists and economic institutions which said that Harris's economic plans were far far better than Trump's. But so many swing voters either didn't see them, didn't believe them, or just chose to ignore them. The anti-expert rhetoric by some of the dumbest members of the GOP probably didn't help. Now they are all suffering from the consequences of that ignorance.

Scott Bessent saying the market drop is in response to China's DeepSeek AI tool released earlier this year and not Trump's tariffs.

I've a feeling even die hard MAGA's won't believe that shite.

10 trillion dollars wiped out since January 20th

They can blame whoever they want, the cause is obvious

Apparently a sale of Tik Tok was in the works to be announced today and Trump was going to make an announcement about it but China blocked the sale going through because of the trade war and Trump had to instead extend the moratorium on it being shut down by 75 days.

Middle East, Ukraine, Tik Tok, the great negotiator has negotiated nothing.

Theyre making a personal fortune the Trump inner circle..…They're doing it in plain sight. Eric out yesterday urging people to hurry up and start negotiating

Will those stocks go up?
The US is burning through political capital even faster than financial capital

You mean Lyin Ted?

Also Donald Trump Jr will make a run for the next presidency.

Ok, so you berate the Democrats alleged uselessness. What do you suggest they should do, given their minority status in both House and Senate?

I have already posted in this thread about what they should be doing. Which is doing exactly what Trump would be doing as one of the top news stories every single day if he was targeting 2028 and there was currently a Democrat president in the Whitehouse who is a convinced felon, who had launched his own crypto coin 3 days before inauguration, who allowed his billionaire mate to run roughshod over the government, firing numerous people who were investigating his businesses, who on this very night is hosting a dinner at Mar a Lago at $1 million to $5 million per plate (with another one coming up), who today was busy playing golf while 4 dead soldiers were arriving home.....I could go on and on and on. Where's the charismatic figure that people want to listen to? Where's the effort to appoint him/her the defacto party leader? All they're doing is pathetic ****. The filibuster was embarrassing, the pink clothes and stupid signs at the state of the union address made them look a complete shambles. Because they are. Trump is only president today because their own incompetence sabotaged their own 2024 campaign by not challenging Bidens candidacy from th3 start. They were and still are a shambles. Rant over.

Don't know .

Think unless he rows back soon to try to reverse this situation we may even see a move against him .

Thinking now the best way to get rid of Trump is for the rest of the world to push back strongly ..now is the time .

His Republican elite are out buying up falling stock and quite happy talking about" making the dollar weaker and 3 to 5 year plans to reshape the US economy" , and never mind the " short term pain " for ordinary people in the US !

Hal Lambert now talking on BBC Newsnight, very chipper about it , big Republican donor and billionaire .

Of course these carpetbaggers have been pushing for this ..Trump's their boy .

The issue with the filibuster is... he wasn't filibustering anything. He wasn't doing it to delay or stop a certain bill from being passed or similar, it was just entirely performative.

Said a lot of very important things, but what did it actually achieve? F*ck all.

And most people could neither hear what he was saying nor could give a xxxx.