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

Different times. Different optics. This will need to be on a scale of the queen's death. Not so much the mourning period but the funeral itself will be a big event, broadcast live and every western leader will be there and he will definitely sully the whole affair by talking about himself, blaming woke politics, saying the pope was too liberal, he (trump) won the 2020 elections. Will announce a temp lifting of tariffs on exports from Rome (indeed). Will say the pope was very nice man but mean to him when he said he wouldn't tell them to go for am American pope.

Anyway, that's more of a conversation for other thread

The rapid actions of the USSC should be viewed as a reaction to the conduct of the Trump administration who have acted on the principle that if you act quicker than the law can respond, then you stand a much better chance of getting away with stuff.

This will be a vicious cycle - extreme actions by Trump, lead to extreme responses from the USSC which Trump can then use to further vilify the USSC in the eyes of his supporters until it hits the critical point that Trump just ignores what the USSC says, garnering wild applause from MAGA. The USSC will hold him in contempt, but literally nothing will happen to him, and that will essentially be the end of the USSC as we know it.

Ah now a lot of them are children and teenagers

Vance assassinated the Pope!!!?

Nah, the Pope just thought “Fckit, if this is the future I give up. I’m outta here.”

Trump has immunity for official acts. You could argue that breaching the constitution is not an official act so he shouldn't be afforded immunity.

I don't think it's as clear cut as he can shoot someone in times square and get away with it. He could declare said person an enemy combatant, have them deported abroad and then drop a bomb on them.

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@poop emoji image/link dumps aren't allowed and this one was also in quite poor taste.

Bit rich coming From a guy who played soft ball with Putin. We call Trump and agent maybe the pope was too. Plenty of south Americans were sympathetic to the communist cause so you never know.

In fairness I reckon he was old school in that you keep going until the last breathe. Ratzinger stepping down was an exception. At least he lived to see Messi lift the world cup!

US markets are open today. More big losses.

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Over 1,000 down or 4,300 points lost since January 1st or 10%+ of entire market...

There's absolutely no proof, but let's ship him off to El Salvador anyway.

That doesn't make sense as the USA is applying tariffs on its allies, but no doubt any US media source will ignore that.

Why would any country whose exporters are losing US customers because of Trump tariffs decide to erect more trade friction.

Yeah, I was reading that justice Roberts had called the scope of immunity 'limited'. My understanding is that they kicked it back down to the courts for the question of what is and isn't official acts.

But we know that Trump would absolutely try to make any bit of shady business an 'official act', which is where the potential abuse of the wording would come in.

Take a common crime like arson - if Trump took a witness with him, maybe even a whole secret service detail, and declared to them that he was about to set fire to a random house in the name of the office of POTUS (for national security reasons only he knows, he could claim), could he get that classified as an official act? It would be a mental and completely senseless one, but this is just laid out to test the theory. If he says it's official and related to core duties of the presidency, would it be official?

Or better yet, if he believed it to be official. This was something Trump's defence were advancing in preparation for the insurrection case - he didn't think/know he was doing wrong.