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

He clearly hasn't a clue what he is doing. Announces huge decisions on a whim and then the flunkies have to point out he has messed up and he does a quick U-turn. A part of me wonders if he can even survive the four years being so grossly incompetent, there never has been such a gormless fool in the White House.

Along with smartphones and computers

Semiconductors
Solar cells
Flat panel TV displays
Flash drives
Memory cards

Somehow I think that list might be added to. The phrase "think before you open your mouth" springs to mind.

Well this just shows that eventually the list of whats actually is tariffed will be the size of a post-it note

Remember in the Presidential campaign, Trump and his team made a big deal of the flooding that happened in North Carolina and accused Biden of having abandoned the state.

This is what is now happening.

https://ncnewsline.com/2025/04/12/fema-will-stop-matching-100-of-helene-recovery-money-in-nc-stein-says/

Gov. Stein: ‘I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider FEMA’s bad decision, even for 90 days.’

Interesting choice of words by the Governor there, implying the administration has shown it is capable of pausing decisions for 90 days for international matters, so what about for national ones.

Trump opened up a can of worms with his liberation day tariffs that he is struggling to close shut.

Even if the bond market recovers which it won't any time soon, he is in serious trouble.

America is fast becoming a world tyrant - Rape and pillage , just like it’s President - and sticking a dumb blonde hypocrite as your spokesperson press secretary doesn’t change that either .

US ‘demands control’ from Ukraine of key pipeline carrying Russian gas

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/us-demands-control-from-ukraine-of-key-pipeline-carrying-russian-gas

While it is another climb down on tariffs todays exemptions on computers smartphones etc from China it is not a full tariff relief for those products which still face his original 20% China tariffs. So all that has happened today for US consumers is the products have gone from being priced out of the US market to they will still be on sale but at a significantly higher price given the tariff still in place.

"The biggest climb down ever by a president. No other president would climb down so bigly. Biden wouldn't have had such an awesome climb down. Obama no way. The most awesome president ever with such a great climb down."

They'll feel however Trump tells them to.

Tremendous!

The base already accepts without question, so Fox News is defunct in that sense. The network just serves to further validate what they already believe and that little dopamine shot the viewers get keeps them tuning in, so the network makes money.

It's really Fox News who need MAGA. Trump has turned on the network before when they seemed to be trying to distance themselves in the wake of 2020, but the prospect of losing the majority of its viewership to something like Newsmaxx (which sounds like a The Day Today episode) made them abruptly reverse course.

There was a woman on a vox pop before his first election that stated rather adamantly that he would destroy America.

Still remember her for some reason,but turns out she may well have been right.

Murdoch. The same dope who took his own kids to court because they weren't right wing enough. Madman

Apparently, ICE (US immigration and customs) has the power to detain literally anyone in a room for many hours and go through their phone etc - even if the person has done nothing suspicious or anything to attract their attention.