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

I saw a short video clip from a US House of Representatives Member from Illinois. Mary Miller, a Republican.

Mary sits on House Agriculture and Education Committees.

The clip was interesting was Mary was talking about Climate Change. She didn't talk about it for long. All she said was that it was a hoax and a sham. And her logic for saying this, you might wonder given the committee memberships she holds might give her some insight, alas no, they don't.

She says that Climate Change is a Hoax because firstly the Climate is directly influenced by the Sun and secondly that God controls the Sun and he wouldn't do anything that would result in harm to the planet.

We laugh at the Healy Rays in Ireland, but every country has them. They might look and sound better in the US, but they're just as wilfully ignorant.

P.S. I spend way too much time thinking that what if in 2016, the UK had voted to remain, Hillary had beaten Trump so much he disappeared and the world collectively decided that that was a good time to enact meaningful, long term and sustainable practices with respect to the climate and society instead of the rampant sh*t show we've seen dominate much of the time since because of the victories of the Brexiteers and the Orange loud mouth.

I read some business experts think trump is stupid or has toxic masculinity. Issues eg he wants to show he's tough raising tariffs even though all experts say tariffs are pointless and hurt the consumer and increase inflation .He has crashed the stock market and bond market in America .This is not good for musk most of his wealth is based on the stock market value of his companys

Even worse than that trillions lost in stock market value is that he is reducing the value of the dollar meaning goods for consumers and parts imported to make cars will cost more

No one wants to say the king is wrong

Ceo,s are afraid to criticize Trump as he,s taking money from the social security fund to find tax cuts for the rich and corporations

He supports lite touch regulations on digital currencys.

Its a massive change if people investors lose faith in the dollar and American Treasury bonds

america being a superpower is based on the strength of the dollar

All the alarm bells point to a coming recession caused by trump .

Doge is wreaking havoc on the social security agency which pays out pensions to 75 million people Doges motto is if it's not broke ,it,ll be broke when we are finished but it's ok cos we just fired 10,000 people so who cares if you can't get thru to someone on the phone to talk to or have a problem filling in an online application on an app to access your pension

i miss mad magazine if it was on the stands now trump and musk would be in every issue and their basic stupidity and greed would be lampooned

Tech company's are donating to trump as he s not in favour of regulation

meta has sacked moderation staff and sent moderators to work in the Texas to show they are in line with conservatives

Goggle said years ago browser fingerprinting is bad for consumer privacy but it's using it now it can spy on you by tracking the os version what version of chrome you are using on your PC or phone

Theres no basic privacy user data laws in America.

Theres,s a vibe shift going on tech companies do not have to even pretend to respect user,s privacy

Trump is clamping down on free speech and the right to protest in America

University s will have to agree to strict policy's against protestors in order to receive any federal funding for research or to be able to take on students on low income

Trump knows universitys are the source of the next generation of liberal democrats politicians and human rights activists

China will have to decide whether to decouple from the US dollar. Components ordered from China are mainly quoted in US dollars. If I'm quoted last week and decide to purchase today then there's a 14% loss of margin that the Chinese company have to absorb as the dollar is weakening considerably. So there are issues for China too outside of losing trade to the US.

but what about those innocents being killed in Gaza and SUPPLYING the means to Israel to do so?????????

Trump has managed to take the attention off two human tragedies in Ukraine and Gaza whilst making himself the main news story. And he's delighted. It's what he lives for. The entire population of both could be eliminated tomorrow and he'd spend 10mins working out how to make it about him and divert the attention back.

It's merely coincidence that it's helping his genocidal buddies, Putin and Netanyahu.

Karoline Leavitt is 27 and is married to, and has a baby with, a 59 year old man 🤢. These people are so **** weird.

Any wonder trump has her on board.

Probabaly thinks he in there.

She won't last the 4 years

Her next career will be as a major presenter on Fox News......same as Kayleigh McEnany.....except bigger.....coz she's even further right than McEnany!

Lads, seriously open a new thread if you want to gossip about a woman you don't like including her family. Very Trump like. A little honour please.

You want us to stop criticising the presidents mouthpiece? I’ve heard it all now.

One thing for sure is that the "Good Guy Wins" westerns movies made in the USA in the past won't be made nowadays. The men in the black hats are all over town and the law officer isn't wearing a white hat either.

Pretty clear messaging from the Chinese embassy in the US.

The entirety of the modern right wing is absolutely filled to the brim with people like that. Everything about the right is an absolute falsehood and the people who swing that way have no barriers to the lies they are willing to spout nor depths that they are willing to descend to.

We have gotten to the point that almost every single time somebody on the right wing of politics opens their mouth they are lying about something. The level of dishonesty is off the charts.

It's genuinely worrying to see people constantly debase themselves like that and willingly so too.

Very dangerous indeed.

Except Murdoch's media has been absolutely lying through it's teeth for years before social media.

They didn't call election fraud because they didn't have a candidate calling it but they had no problem pushing Trump's nonsense about Obama needing to show his birth certificate.