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

I find these ‘cabinet meetings’ laughable because:-

(1) they are said by Trump to show the public at large - Ms levitt also says it- how TRANSPARENT his cabinet is

(2) and what’s filmed is all of the utterances by the various secetaries are about praising Trump for the wonderful job he is doing/ how many people they have deported/ dollars they have saved, etc,etc, etc.

The only thing that's transparent about it is how they all have to bend the knee to Joffrey Trump and massage his ego.

"Oh President Trump, if not for you, 218m Americans would have died in the past 100 days, and you've saved the country $42trillion dollars, which is about $139gazillion dollars per American, and you've deported 9.2 billion illegal alien gang members, and yet THE MEDIA WILL NOT REPORT THESE NUMBERS AS TRUE BECAUSE THEY ARE EVIL BASTARDS!!!"

Sitting here having a laugh at the thick yanks voting for trump, then this

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0502/1510686-uk-election/

Ireland is in the process of creating two sovereign wealth funds (FIF and ICNF)

Truffle pigs

What is your point? We shouldn't bother to invest in our future and just spend everything while we have it?

Not exactly sound financial planning.

It's 2025! The cogs of the economy started to turn again 10 years ago. We wasted an opportunity during the tiger years to invest properly in the future and repeated it over the past 10 years.

Last autumn's budget was a disgrace. We knew trump was coming to wreak economic carnage and yet the government of the day went full tonto with a giveaway budget. Annual expenditure has gone from €70bn in 2015 to €120bn in 2025. Of that €50bn increase, €39bn of it was due to an increase in current spending with only an €11bn increase in capital expenditure. In other words we're pissing it away.

...and now that trump has started a trade war with every country on the planet we're likely to see a significant drop in corporation tax receipts ergo missing the boat again.

My point is the government that promises prudent saving will dip into those savings when to cover their regulation failure, as happened with the Bertie bubble.

The reason I mentioned it was that is was the same politicians over two governments that promised it wouldn't be wasted.

how is covering the gambling debts of a minority for the good of the nation?

Good question, you could argue one way or another that it was right/wrong decision.

In the here and now, the government is in the process of setting up the wealth fund and that is a positive step.

My view is that Ireland should prioritize investing in two of the world's most critical resources, energy and water, rather than placing funds into a sovereign wealth fund. While the returns on such investments may take a decade or more to materialize, the long-term benefits would be transformative for the Island. These investments could secure national stability, energy independence, and sustainable wealth on a scale we've never experienced before.

Not all, two are gone.

They were badly run and rewarded for it with the guarantee.

It was the later imf bailout that tackled what the government couldn't.

Bloody hell. I think Donnie is on a bit of a renaming bender, on account of that being the extent of his imagination when it comes to "improving" anything, or more to the point, having anything attributed to him.

I'm sort of wondering if we're going to get a silly yo-yo effect were a future Dem President will restore the Official US name for the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of Mexico", while future GOP Presidents might find themselves reinstating Donnie's childish retcon names for things.

I wonder if he'll actually manage to rename the "District of Colombia" to "District of America" like he suggested. I fully expect it to be beyond Donnie's gifts to know that "Colombia" is the name of the personification of the Americas, not just the name of a South American nation (who is also named after her).

Veterens Day is intended to honor all US Service Personell. Renaming the days specifically to only 2 conflicts may be seen as a snub of all other US combat veterens who served in the many other conflicts that the US has engaged in since WWII.

As a student of history, I might suggest that that quoted poster is not the person in this case who needs to read up on their history.

Ah, thanks for the spelling correction.

I hope he won't actually try this rename, but I've a feeling that he might need a lot more than an Executive Order to rename an entire Federal unit like that. Might actually require a vote or something (open to correction on that)

Trump doesn't like losers, so honoring only those who fought in WWI and WW2 is on par with Trump, because the US won them bigly.

Can't be honoring those losers like McCain, right?

I don't think people have an issue having 2 separate days to celebrate victory in WWI and WW2, but not at the expense of veterans or other wars.

Wonder will they have a victory day to celebrate the war over woke, DEI and trans people?