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Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

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  • #21272
    Dr Robert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Dr Robert


    Trump went full Biden with that speech.

    Clearly showing his age now.

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  • #21273
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,136 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    This interview

    Remember the photo of the guys hand with the tattoo's and someone had photoshopped MS13 on it to show how they could be interpreted?

    Trump thinks the guy actually has MS13 on his hand and will not believe that it's photoshopped, the guy will LITERALLY believe anything he's shown/told as long as it suits his agenda.

    But Biden right?

    https://twitter.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1917381376111960380?t=rVRKf1pOrdgWcnfaR_6lJQ&s=09


  • #21274
    Iecrawfc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭Iecrawfc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123401184#Comment_123401184

    Absolutely they all need to feel real pain now to drive it into their thick skulls what they have done, they are all culpable to various degrees, obviously the voters first, non voters next but every American needs to look at their society and accept blame for what it has become.



  • #21275
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,131 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123401528#Comment_123401528

    Trump has taken madman theory and applied it to the US.



  • #21276
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,131 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123401676#Comment_123401676

    The party and its following are just completely corrupt and venal at this stage.



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  • #21277
    Dr Robert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Dr Robert


    Trumps approval rating after 100 days is the lowest of any president in the last 70 years. What a hero.

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  • #21278
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,197 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Trump: “He had MS-13 on his knuckles tattooed.”

    Moran: “That was photoshopped.”

    Trump: “Terry, you can’t do that. Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. I picked you. But you're not being very nice.”

    Such a pathetic, petty, whiney little...

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #21279
    sock.rocker*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    Incredible that he thought they were actually written on the hand. The interviewer should have said "labelled" instead of "photoshopped" to try and make Trump understand. The numbers and letters weren't meant to look real as in "photoshopped".



  • #21280
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,197 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403111#Comment_123403111

    There are two options here.

    1) he thinks they actually are tattoos, in which case he's an idiot

    2) he knows they aren't and is just insisting they are, in which case he's a f**king shameless liar

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #21281
    sock.rocker*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403112#Comment_123403112

    Based on the video, I think it's definitely #1. I wonder who handed him that photo with the labels and omitted to tell him they weren't actual tattoos.. Like someone gave him that, saw that he thought the wrong thing, and decided not to tell him and just let him run with the lie.



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  • #21282
    Glaceon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,436 ✭✭✭Glaceon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403085#Comment_123403085

    But that’s fake news apparently… 🙄

    https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-demands-investigations-negative-approval-rating-polls-2064949



  • #21283
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,177 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    No doubt he believes in his own infallibility.



  • #21284
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,401 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403085#Comment_123403085

    . . . beating the previous record, which was set by Trump in his first term.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403112#Comment_123403112

    Why not both?



  • #21285
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,078 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403117#Comment_123403117

    Unfortunately, I'd say this is more like his Hurricane map, where he just drew on a map of a hurricane path with black sharpie to cover an area he said the hurricane might hit after it was pointed out to him it wouldn't.

    It's not about the truth, it's about providing something he can point to, say it's real, half of his dingbat supporters will believe it because they won't even look at the picture but instead will believe whatever Trump et al says, and just disparage/threaten anyone who questions it and say they're lying (which again, his dingbat supporters will then believe the reporter or whoever is lying to try make Trump look bad).

    It's not about truth, it's about propagating Trump's version as being the truth.

    Trump probably saw the image with the MS13 written on it because they were trying to suggest his actual tattoos represented those letters and numbers, and they just decided that as that was already released publicly, to just say he actually has MS13 tattooed on his fingers.



  • #21286
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,267 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403085#Comment_123403085

    In this new way of doing politics, I’m not sure Trump or MAGA actually care- they disregard the press that criticise them - they disregard the courts who penalise them - so why should they care what the public think of them?

    The midterm elections will be interesting - will the sheep still vote in the numbers they’ve done previously or will they switch horses? My money is on they’ll stick with MAGA- they’re brainwashed at this stage



  • #21287
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,177 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    A video depicting Americans working in Chinese style sweat shops.

    https://youtu.be/LeqIt7EmJI8?si=jdeTxb3lrTOdKkvZ


  • #21288
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,401 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Ironic, to put it no higher, that Trump supporters would post this on YouTube in order to complain about "Liberals" sharing it on social media. Have they no self-awareness?



  • #21289
    Igotadose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,351 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403193#Comment_123403193

    Thought this originated in China. Speaking of physical specimens working in the US, I give you Steven Cheung, Spokesattackdog for the CFTrump administration:

    image.png


  • #21290
    Baba Yaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403212#Comment_123403212

    looks like yer man, "oddjob" from goldfinger…

    yo! donnie vonredactedpants,vlad putin,benji netanyahu,vic orban..you sirs are the skidmarks on the jocks of humanity!!!



  • #21291
    Igotadose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,351 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403231#Comment_123403231

    Consider this image:

    image.png

    The hat's a bit small for the magahead though.



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  • #21292
    spacecoyote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,096 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123402840#Comment_123402840

    A former PM of Canada jokingly said that they could join, but with an expectation that each of the 13 provinces/territories of Canada would need to be made into an individual state.

    And that those states would likely lean very heavily towards the Democrats style of governing, as Canadians would not be happy to give up free medical, social support, etc...

    So it would swing the house/senate/presidency massively in favour of the democrats



  • #21293
    Baba Yaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403249#Comment_123403249

    😅 "you need a bigger….hat"

    yo! donnie vonredactedpants,vlad putin,benji netanyahu,vic orban..you sirs are the skidmarks on the jocks of humanity!!!



  • #21294
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,078 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403253#Comment_123403253

    That's what I was thinking too (as a funny hypothetical rather than something which should or would actually happen). Trump keeps saying Canada should be the 51st state. The f*cking size of Canada… It's a little bit bigger than the entire USA. Fair enough, only has about 10% of the population, but then still has 1000% the population of some of the red states.

    Someone should put it to Trump that would he accept Canada joining if they were 13 new states rather than just one, and get 2 senators per state, reasonable electoral college votes and House seats. See what the art of the deal looks like then.



  • #21295
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,267 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403283#Comment_123403283

    Have to say it’s great seeing how Canada is sticking up for itself - it’s just such a pity that we have to go external from the US, before we see clear and credible opposition to what America is doing - absolutely nothing happening inside America of any significance to counter the current regime - neither media nor politics nor people are making any impact



  • #21296
    Rawr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,395 ✭✭✭Rawr


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403283#Comment_123403283

    If I were attribute any meaning or intelligence to what Donnie has been saying about Canada (and we'll come back to that issue in a second) I'd suggest that the intention was to make Canada into a single US State with just 2 senetors and the Electoral votes of one of the larger states (Canada has just a couple million more people than California). It would torpedo the GOP's chances in The House (assuming that Canadian liberal parties would caucus with the Dems), but not hurt the GOP too much in The Senate. It would however make GOP presidential runs harder with another large deep blue state in the running.

    But that all depends on this being anything more than Donnie bleating out sound-bytes in order to sound "strong" or "presidential". As I tend to repeat, Donnie does not have a plan. Any plan. He does not have policies either. The whole Canada thing is likely little more than a political crutch to lean on when his other schemes blow up in his face.

    • Tariffs gone badly? Let's talk about Ukraine then!
    • Ukraine Peace deal going nowhere? Let's talk about Immigration!
    • Immigration is turning into a highly unpopular nightmare? Let's talk about Elon and DOGE!
    • Oh…Elon and DOGE are pointless & everyone hates them? How about we talk about Canada being the 51st State?
    • Talking about Canada being the 51st State has handed the Liberals a win and has triggered a grass roots boycott of US goods. Erm….have we talked about Tariffs?


  • #21297
    poop emoji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭poop emoji


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123402978#Comment_123402978

    not sure how true it is but friend in US years ago when i asked why the prices at petrol stations had half a cent per gallon granularity (eg 2.75 1/2) he said “oh that’s half cent Obama tax for roads”

    Right now if you go to Amazon international section on Amazon.com by time you get to checkout you see they clearly show the delivery and import taxes if it’s coming from US, Americans never seen the reverse of that

    One already in shops there and get prices without local sales taxes only to get a surprise at till

    The smart retailers should be transparent with shoppers, I suspect it will start as a slow trickle and then avalanche and then Trump tax would be a thing which cause Americans to cringe



  • #21298
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123400512#Comment_123400512

    The British burned the White House.



  • #21299
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,078 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403417#Comment_123403417

    Oh Trump would definitely only want Canada to be counted as one state for the reasons you say. Even just adding two senators from Canada would put the Senate on even more of a knife edge in most elections. But that's why Trump should be pressed more on if it'd be such a huge boost to the US to have Canda join as a state due to financial benefits, getting rid of that artificial line on a map between them or whatever nonsense he spouts (yet he doesn't seem to have the same opinion towards the artificial map line separating the US from Mexico) etc, would he let Canda join as 13 new States rather than one?

    Because all of a sudden, whatever financial benefits he thinks the US and Canadian citizens might have, will pale in comparison to the political disaster it would be for the GOP for decades. At the very least though, putting that to him and making him answer that might quell his rhetoric on it for a while.



  • #21300
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,208 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123403283#Comment_123403283

    You're missing the point. Trump wants Canada as the 51st state because that way it'll be part of the country while its voice will be drowned out due to only having a tiny voice in the federal government. If it got 13 states, it would make up almost a fifth of the federal government.

    Trump ultimately wants to do to Canada what he's done to numerous women, allies and the American public: Strip it and sell it.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • #21301
    aloyisious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,105 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123401676#Comment_123401676

    It definitely shows how much the GOP voter use a comparison value [our president V Democrat President] as the marker on how well they are doing in the US each day, day to day or month to month, when asked how they are doing, instead of how much their dollar is buying them at a household subsistence level on an ongoing day to day basis under Trump's admin. It would be great if his lies came home to roost before the next state, senate and congress elections take place.



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