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

Trump's approval ratings are already dropping fast. I wonder how low it will go when the medium term effects of his stupidity become apparent to Americans. I would hope this would finally give the non-maga Republicans (if any are left) an excuse to properly speak out against his policies.

Bernie Sanders would be a viable candidate if he wasn't so Old. AOC is running on basically the same policies

The Tariff conversation continues to be an embarrassment for the Trump administration.

Trump said that they'd be reduced, Karoline Levitt went on Fox and said there would be no walking back of tariffs until a deal is made.

I also saw a clip from a China spokesperson saying they wouldn't be changing their strategy based on comments from Trump.

A mess of a situation and none of it paints a picture of Trump knowing what it is that he is doing.

Aside from that, the mess in Ukraine where Trump is trying to force Zelensky to roll over, the ongoing immigration debacle where the judiciary is growing more and more annoyed with Trumps admins actions, the rowing back on the letter sent to Harvard trying to extort them, oh and signal gate 2 (this time it's the same as the last time) as well in the mix.

Not once in 4 years of the Biden administration did he have to deal with a single event that painted his administration in the same sort of negative light, Trump has like 5 of these at the same time. Within 3 months!

Pete Hegseth has told the Pentagon to kit out a room near the press briefing room to be a make-up studio.

The same lad who tried to deflect from his sharing of classified information by saying that he was returning the fighting warrior mentality to the DoD apparently thinks these warriors must look a certain way when talking about it.

The White House also released a statement supporting Hegseth in the communications disaster where they said Hegseth was working alone against the entirety of the Pentagon who were resisting his ideas. I'd say that'll go down well within the DoD and have people rushing forward to support Pete and to make sure he looks like the fearless warrior he is. They're just delaying the inevitable with this guy, I can't see him surviving in such an environment where he and his boss look to alienate the workforce at the Pentagon just to save this guys skin.

Separately, I wonder how DOGE feels about government money going in to a make up room for Pete at a time when they're spouting on about waste in government spending. I suppose the DoD have to spend that 260B extra their getting this year somewhere.

The White House also released a statement supporting Hegseth in the communications disaster 

Wonder is this the same type of support that Premier club owners give to their struggling managers?

That's not Vance.

There's no eyeliner.

a) There's so many sticks to beat them with, one more hardly matters

b) Trump probably, at least partially, doesn't want to fire Hegseth as it will reflect badly on his choice to appoint him in the first place.

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I read that Volvo are firing 800 people across three sites in America due to market uncertainty and the impact of tariffs.

I hope all those 800 people are Trump voters.

piss head Pete at it again

https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2671834413/

Meanwhile in DPR, penguins victory over Trump is in full swing

China sure looked pretty and very vibrant on Race around the world on BBC last night. Maybe that is where our future trading partner is!

China did look amazing, even cities I never heard of.