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

Every week there's been some madness, threatening to annex Greenland, proposing to genocide Gaza, threatening to pull out of NATO, voting against a UN vote stating Russia did invade Ukraine (not to mention the horrible ambush in the Oval office), threatening to tariff the world, etc…

What's next week, probably bring back slavery and school segregation.

Not fit for office. What will his next hairbrained decision be?

Personally I don’t think it was the wrong move by Biden or Trump trying to contain China. The tariffs on everyone else though was dumb as f**k

The upshot of all this is that the likes of Japan and South Korea will know that they can not trust a US that likes electing buffoons, and so they'll know that being part of the RCEP as a trade bloc is an insurance for when the US does eventually go full Jack Ass.

Called it exactly. I missed it by two days though.

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0409/1506740-social-media-us/

In other news, anti-Semitic posts could be enough to deny visas.

Now, we all know 'anti-Semitic' can often mean anything that criticises Israel in any way so I'm sure such accusations could be applied to a wide range of potential offenders. Michael D. Higgins perhaps?

I called it too!

China ain't going to ship anything to the USA now.

Strange how the market flew up this morning at the starting bell without any announcements whatsoever.

Maybe I am wrong but surely people are suspecting there has got to be some fishy inside information being passed around there. Can anybody explain it any other way?

The ongoing tariff fiasco is farm, far worse than any of the ones you mentioned, or the likes of Iran Contra.

Lewinsky was a storm in a teacup, blown (no pun intended) out of proportion by a GOP baying for blood

Watergate was bad, but essentially a domestic affair with limited to no effect on foreign or trade policy

Bay of Pigs was bad as well, and helped set the stage for the Cuban Missile Crisis, but wasn't exactly unexpected, nor was it unprecedented. The US had moved against unwelcome governments in its "back yard" before under the guise of the Monroe Doctrine, and the 1954 Guatemala coup had been conducted by the same people who'd started the planning for what eventually became Operation Mars, the landing in the Bay of Pigs.

All of these were either of limited scope or in line with existing US policies. Meanwhile, the tariff tantrums by the tangerine of terror are completely out of line with previous US policies, serve no clear purpose either internationally or domestically and are simply the actions of a middle school bully who's gotten away with his shtick for too long. It will take decades to repair this damage, if it can be repaired at all.

So much for those brexit idiots last week celebrating their 10% tariff. One over on the EU. 😀

Its students visa and green cards not tourist visas yet anyway.

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What China will do now is match Trumps latest tariff.

But If they were clever, China's checkmate would be to delay ALL shipments from China to the USA for 90 days. Think about that one and the effects it would have.

Would be a brilliant move.