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

seems donnie vonshitzinpants is the bestest golfer ever,wins the biggliest competitions….im guessing he was golfin over the weekend?

everytime i type "donnie vonshitzinpants" in reference to trump im waiting for one of those blacked out helicopters filled with special army type lads to come to whisk me away for a holiday to el salvador of guantanamo bay…

It's not just us, and I wouldn't bank on exchange rates to address this. The dollar has already fallen by more than 10% against the euro but, despite the falling dollar, there has been a steep decline in European travel to the US in the months since Trump's inauguration. And I don't think the problem is steep airfares.

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It will be interesting to see if Trump makes the same mess of tariffs on China when he starts trying to sort pharmaceuticals as he made of tech products. Will he miss the fact that the little tablets in packets that he recognises as pharmaceuticals depend on Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients many of which come from China at some stage in their manufacture? The US does product a lot of these APIs but the complexity of the supply chain is going to become quickly evident when he starts messing with it. He could beat his Covid record of killing people if he gets it wrong.

Well, it does have the random sprinkling of capital letters that characterises much of what he writes. But in other respects it is not his style at all, and it displays a level of doctrinal awareness that, though very basic, he certainly would not possess.

Throwback to when Trump gave "I definitely read that book for our homework" but can't talk about it vibes when questioned about the bible....

imagine Simon Harris or Michael Martin or at EU level someone spouting that nonsense. They would be laughed out of the room. I don’t know the US demographics for religion but it seems strange for a president to only talk of Christians. I’m guessing he didn’t say much during the Muslim festival (name escapes me). Yes it’s Easter but even we don’t spout that level of silliness in Ireland since the 70’s, maybe 80’s.

The typical "centrist" position on Donnie is a little harder to maintain when the crass stupidity of MAGAworld is so naked to the world, for them to maintain their position.

Although Donnie's election has brought so many bad things (with more to come) the one little positive of him winning is that all the theories of Trump or the GOP being good at anything evaporated the instant the light of reality shone upon them.

Defending all of this is considerably more work than I suspect most "Centrists" are willing to put in. Thus silence.

As I have stated earlier for the sake of anyone still pro-Donnie. The rest of us remember what he says, and we will continue to apply reality to what he will say. It would have been better off for posters with that mindset if Donnie had not won. Then they could have spent the next 4 years opineing about how Donnie would have done things better than "K.Harris". But now it's him in the Oval Office…and now you can't do that. It's less fun, isn't it?

Depends how you worded the poll I guess - there’s a big difference between someone who “thought” Trump would win, and someone who “wanted” Trump to win - towards the end I “thought” trump would win - that doesn’t necessarily mean I “wanted” him to win - albeit it was interpreted by many at the time as an endorsement of Trump which was just idiotic reasoning

One of the resident "I'm not a Trump supporter, I'm a centrist" posters was in making it out like Trump was actually a nice person, according to Bill Maher, as a result of a meeting put together with Kid Rock.

All three of these people are gobshites.

Not sure I get what you’re saying - in America today Trump is somewhat “popular” according to his ratings - he was up at around 51% in March albeit that’s gone down to about 47% now.

That’s just fact- I haven’t placed any value judgement on it in terms of my “view” on whether it’s a good thing or not- saying Trump is “popular” is not an endorsement of Trump - it’s simple commentary using facts. I would need to ask that person their view on Trump - I couldn’t assume it from just someone posting a favourable opinion poll

You could be right. However I sense that it would take a truly signifigant price drop to have the impact that you suggest (including a substantial drop in Park ticket-fees in Orlando).

If you compare the two, a typical package sun holiday doesn't usually include the apparent danger of being turned around after an 8 hour journey, or detained shortly thereafter. I feel that a price drop would probably have to also include at least one tourism season with enough stories of things going fine for it to actually encourage more people to take up those possible bargains.

Until that happens, the percieved difficulties and dangers of entering the US will likely still act as a deterrant, regardless of how many 100s of Euros you might dock off a holiday package.

Religion and fascism go hand in hand, even if the actual dictator himself doesn't believe in it, he always recognises the power he has when aligned with the religious leaders of his support base.

The RC church supported Franco in Spain, Mussolini in Italy and the protestant churches strongly supported Hitler in Germany.

The fascist often believes himself to be the supreme authority but has no problem in referring to religious traditions to bolster support and unify his followers against 'the other' who are often people of other religions and atheists

I was refused travel to the US yesterday in Dublin Airport. Business traveler with L1 visa on an AA flight to Charlotte. Was initially flagged for extra screening. Then there was something about not having a form to accompany the visa in my passport. Been to the US well over 100 times on the same visa type and never needed anything additional before, except for the first time after visa renewal. And as far as I remember, they stamp and keep it.

Wasn't really detained, but in some waiting room with a counter. Was asked to power on both laptop and phone. They were work items. Didn't really go through much thoroughly, but did check on browser items I had open on both laptop and phone. Cycled through some open files on the laptop. I was still being asked questions in random burst and my flight gate had closed. I told them I've now missed the flight and I'm going to leave. I was then told I was denied entry due to improper documentation and that it may affect future visits.

Well they can **** off. As there won't be any future visits. Told my employer today that I'm done with the US travel. It's remote or nothing. Was also considering a 3 week trip to Florida later this year. Completely off the table now.

Pre-clearance didn't look as busy as it usually was when I'd regularly fly Sunday mornings in the past. Not sure how much of it is due to people avoiding the US though.

I also wonder though if they'd accept paying more tax to invest in education for all to improve the general workforce.

Half of PhD graduates in the US came from other countries with better funded education systems.

You’d like to think that if the ratings went further south he’d be forced to resign - but as we know that’s not really how American presidencies work - I imagine Trump will act like nothing will stop his 4 year tenure - he’ll simply spin it as the vast majority of republicans love him and all the democrats hate him and the poll organisers are Democrat biased - he won’t give a sh1t about polls