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

He's crazy, or as the Aussie saying goes he's got a few dingos loose in the upper paddock.

Maybe he's on holidays in El Salvador, he is an illegal alien after all.

20 billion bailout last week

Fair dinkum.

Should Trump not be sent to El Salvador under his current project, seeing as he's home-grown and a criminal? I really wish a journalist would suggest that to him.

He lost the battle and others in Trump orbit pushed him out

He spend billions, nearly bankrupted his main businesses permanently destroying the brands that took so long to build

Trump used him and discarded him as was obvious he will do, now that trump can raise money via insider trading and crypto scams and foreign entities paying bribes via fart coins he no longer needs likes of Musk

In fairness, don't think the public wanted him to crash the economy and seems to be lots of buyer's remorse on show.

Leavitt describes Abrego Garcia as "hiding in Maryland" and says, "based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for father of the year"

She is one disgusting piece of shït.

The war in Ukraine and conflict in Gaza are still going on. He said he'd end them rapidly when in office. He has launched attacks on Yemeni citizens, he said he wouldn't start any new conflicts. He said the stock market would soar if he won, it's seen record losses. He said he'd stop the weaponisation of tthe DOJ, he's escalated that like never before. He has created strife and acrimony against many countries after he said that he would be the great negotiator.

His actions with respect to immigration and tariffs are the closest he has come to his campaign promises. In both cases though it has profoundly more problematic than he thought it would be. China is taking him to school on tariffs and a small few immigration cases are steeling the judiciary to push back on him.

With many of his campaign supporters already saying they regret voting for him, it's a long long way from what he promised.

Meanwhile his opponents last November said he would bring chaos and the subjugation of democracy. Both of which he has done in abundance. He has signed an executive order direction the DOJ to launch investigations in to two Republicans who tentatively opposed him or spoke against him since 2020 for no other reason than they did so, that's a dictatorial move if ever there was one.

Looking back at the campaign rhetoric of both Trump and his detractors last year, it's his detractors which are much closer to having been proven correct.

I get what you're saying, but Ryanair has been, shall we say less than satisfied, with Boeing for some time now. The company relied massively on the 737 MAX to update its current fleet, much of which is made up of older Boeing 737-800s that were delivered in the early to mid 2000s. However, the ongoing issues with the 737 MAX, combined with the FAA-mandated reduction in aircraft production at Boeing's facilities at Everett and Renton mean that Boeing is significantly behind in aircraft deliveries, which has hobbled Ryanair's growth plans. So while O'Leary is a wind-up merchant of the highest order, there's some real beef between Ryanair and Boeing.

That being said, I don't think there's much that Ryanair can do. Airbus doesn't have any spare capacities on their assembly lines, Toulouse, Hamburg and Mobile are flat out. What's more, the company has it's own set of headaches, namely in the shape of one of the engine options for the new Airbus A320neo, the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G engine, also known as the GTF or Geared Turbofan. These engines have significant reliability and vibration issues, leading to aircraft groundings, excessive engine changes, etc..

Meanwhile, the COMAC C919 mentioned in one of the articles linked above hasn't even started the EASA certification process required for the type to be operated commercially in Europe, not to mention that there's absolutely no maintenance or spare parts infrastructure for it outside of China. And beyond that, there aren't really any options. The only other airliner in that size range is the MC-21 by Yakovlev, a Russian manufacturer, and that one is still undergoing flight tests & certification in Russia. And while I have no doubt that O'Leary wouldn't give a rodent's behind about ordering from Russia if it weren't for the sanction, he'll be keenly aware about how Irish airline Cityjet and Mexico's Interjet fared with another Russian airliner, Sukhoi's Superjet 100, whose reliability, maintenance issues and spare parts availability were so bad that the aircraft were dropped from operations after only a few years.

So it looks like Ryanair is shackled to Boeing regardless of Trump's tariffs, not because O'Leary doesn't want to move away from them, but because he simply can't.

None of them have a 'proper pair', they lost the election as they would not play dirty like he would… fight fire with fire and all that. Need to beat him at his own game.