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

that’s basically the plot of Star Trek season arc

Trump doesn't like direct confrontation, he's a coward who can't speak his mind to someone unless he's surrounded by sychophants or being a key board warrior. In other words, he's a typical bully.

Maher doesn't know his arse from his elbow most of the times I've watched him. He's easily swayed and can be quite the lickspittle when in the company of someone he's normally critical of. He's the "liberal" Joe Rogan.

This will be just a "Look Putin I have a bigger mickey and rockets than you do" type of parade.

Any notion that there's a "plan" went out the window with the tariff on penguins.

I've been trying to think back to a defining moment of the last couple of weeks and I think that moment more than any encapsulates the imbecility and lunacy at the helm.

The problem for foreign holders of US debt instruments is deciding on alternatives, and once other long term options are settled on the retreat from US paper assets will pick up momentum.

Any sign of Melania? Maybe her contract is up.

Ummediately before the inauguration, Semiconductors were subject to a 25% tariff, set to rise to 50% later in 2025. Many consumer electronics like smartphones and laptops had 7.5%.

So you know they'll just put it back to where it was and say "Art of the deal", "Winning"

Also Republicans - Let Trump run again in 2028 !

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On rte radio you can listen to today's Brendan o Connor show. They talk about how trump is destroying the us economy investors are selling stocks and USA Treasury bonds America is no longer seen as a safe stable place to invest money while trump seems to have no logical economic policy .He is causing chaos in the stock market and bond markets unlike anything sense the recession in the 70s

America is at risk of becoming a second rate country with a average value currency investors are selling off American Treasury bonds as fast as they can buy gold or other safe investments

How the mighty have fallen

A poem comes to mind about trump

Look on his works ye mighty and despair

To know him Is to loathe him

Hes a legend in his own mind

I thought Idiocracy was a satire

trump thinks it's a documentary

Trump thinks ignorance is bliss

Unless you happen to have invested your savings in the stock market you,ll not be so happy

In the 50s America feared the red menace

Now they fear the orange menace in the white house whose friends with Putin

Autocrats need to stick together

Trump is writing a new book

How to lose allies friends and influence Putin

With a forward. By DoGe

Destroy our once Great Economy

America is in debt by trillions of dollars it's going to be much harder to pay back debt as the dollar falls and the bond market falls

The value of the dollar is linked to the price of us Treasury bonds

There's going to be a backlash against trump when consumers wake up and discover all goods are going up in value inflation is rising

The dollar in their pocket buys less

Shops will close as consumers cut back on luxury spending in fear if mass layoffs

With the upcoming recession people are afraid to buy a new house as there's likely to be significant job loss,s as consumer confidence falls

Even trump will find it hard to ignore the trillions

Dollars lost in the stock market

Tariffs = Corruption

one difference you will find, it’s WAY more expensive, even with the dollar falling to .88cents prices have risen dramatically.

Most people just want to live and work and look after their families, same as everywhere else. It’s becoming very hard for ordinary families to afford life in general. Electricity gone up (dramatically where I am), water gone up, groceries still increasing in Walmart, not so much in other stores. Yes eggs have come down. Gas still high. Insurance increases are crazy. Mine 25% this year. Shops closing. Property coming down (buyers markets in many areas, not where I am though) not a surprise with the increases over the past 6 years.

Interest rates still high. Great for savings (if you have them) not so good for loans/mortgages.

I came back to the States a few weeks ago, no issues at all. I did notice price increases immediately in groceries.

Reading this in Extra.ie has me laughing. The White House Doctors report on Trump's health status summary put's it down to his golfing active lifestyle. I wonder what he sees when he's looking down at the golf-ball next to his golf stick.

A. Looking forward to his invitation list and who. ‘ throws sickies o’ on the day!,,,!!!!!!!!!

Same issues here in Ireland and pretty much the world over. Only the Americans thought they were so exceptional that they are immune from this. So decided to vote for a lunatic who was selling the exceptionalism lie hard and they lapped it up.

Americans need to learn, they're no better or more deserving than anyone else. They're just a bit more isolated due to geography.