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

was there 15 years ago, a certain 5* hotel you see in loads of movies for 100$ for suite, ah great times

Grim tho for locals

It will be interesting to see what will happen between the Republican Congressional Representatives and Johnson, if there's broader dissent. He's manipulating parliamentary rules to prevent votes against Trump being brother by the Democrats currently, but what happens when reality starts to bite harder on his fellow party members? There are already voices speaking out against Hegseth, and when cuts to Social Security and Medicare are felt by voters, I can imagine things could get quite testy.

I’m actually on the fence here. He may well be dumb enough to believe it, on the other hand he is certainly cynical enough to know that if he just repeats and repeats it, enough people will believe him. It’s like the “eating the cats and dogs” thing. He more than likely knew that wasn’t true, but he doesn’t care as he knows that literally millions will believe whatever bullshit he feeds them.

If tourism bookings from abroad [outside US borders] are going downhill and the Admin succeeds in deporting all the "illegal" aliens, the hotel, casino and tourism industries are going to take a severe hit. Trump has been closing down national parks all over the US, firing their staff.

How much of the casinos, hotels and ancillary businesses are owned by US Co's and entities?

Not so sure. I think he believes whatever he's told or witnesses on Fox. He's convinced tariffs will make America great for example.

What national parks have been closed down? Also, you're not getting a job in a casino hotel if you don't have proof that you are legal to work in the US, even in a job unrelated to gaming. Its heavily regulated, and a casino is not about to risk their license, so deportations won't affect that industry so much. The likes of construction is a different story altogether though.

How long before the American public and media realise that Trump and his sycophantic cabinet haven't got a clue what the F they are doing with the economy and it is a total clown show?

Direct employees are only the tip of the iceberg in the supply chain for any big business like a billion dollar casino

The laundry is contracted, the cleaners are contracted, the hookers are not exactly on the books….

As some have pointed out though, this is ten times worse than Brexit as it affects all parts of the US economy, not just certain aspects. This is disastrous stuff - a total clown in charge who knows nothing about economics or finance and he's there for the next four years.

How long before the various statistical agencies within the Federal Government get corrupted? Will there be fiddling with the Consumer Price Index, the monthly Job creation numbers, the tariff revenue statistics, …..?

If the administration is corrupt enought to fire the authors of a legally mandated climate assessment report, they are corrupt enough to threaten economists and statisticians who do do not do as they are told.

Combine this incident with Steven Miller interjecting during a presser and claiming the supreme court 0-9 vote was in their favour. I would question if his staff are just running the show and manipulating him into thinking they're good ideas and will happily let him believe stuff like this.

Russia has done on a number on us.

Slowly but surely

There are predictions there will be shortages of products on shop shelves as the rate of imports from china falls by 30 per cent . Production of iphones will switch to India buy there's tariffs on Indian products of 20

per cent .

Experts and scientists are leaving American agencys . In the event of future disasters there could be more deaths as resources are cut from federal agencys

Tariffs are bad news for American business and consumers as they increase cost of goods and parts needed to make cars and trucks .

Consumers are cutting back on spending on luxury goods as they see a recession coming

Even when trump is gone there will still be negative effects as federal agencys will have lost highly trained staff who will take years to replace . The fall in the dollar value increases the we cost of all imports in the future

Old people are seeing their pension funds losing value Most working people have 401k pensions which invest in the stock market

I will find difficult to believe a

ANY FIGURE that will emanate from the Whitehouse or any of the Federal Agencies going forward. IMO if Trump can ‘ find out ‘ who put out that -3% GDP figure he will present him/her with their ‘walking papers’