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

What a truly bizarre thing for a leader of a country, any country, to post.

There really is something deeply, deeply, wrong with him. It's scary to think that this guy has access to the largest arsenal in the world.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/gold-card-residence-abroad/682103/

An interesting piece from back in March explaining how interest in an escape route from the USA is becoming common

Eric Major, the CEO of the immigration-advising firm Latitude, began his career helping rich Hong Kongers make exit plans to relocate to Canada or the United Kingdom ahead of the territory’s scheduled handover to China. Major went on to work mainly with clients from China, Russia, India, and the Middle East.

Today most of Major’s clients are American. Volek’s firm has more clients from America than from the next four biggest feeder countries (Pakistan, Nigeria, India, and the U.K.) combined. Fifteen years ago, the firm did not see much point in opening a U.S. office. This year, it’s launching its tenth. “I never would have imagined my No. 1 source market would become America,” Major told me. “But now the top brass of America is hedging.”

This bit is stark and reminded me of how super catholic some of my US relatives. Some of them would be fine with Trump as pope.

The couple had been looking forward to their homecoming, but it quickly became clear that the U.S. they’d left was not the same country that was waiting for them. Hsiao felt unsafe as an Asian woman, particularly when she went out wearing a mask. Carter’s family was divided along political lines. Even their church felt like a minefield. “We were hopeful until November,” Carter recalled. “But after I saw how many people voted for Trump, after the first term, after January 6—and people of faith in the church embracing Christian nationalism …”

“The Christianity that somehow has morphed in this country is not our expression of faith,” Hsiao interjected.

Spotted this on Reddit and had a good laugh. Trump truly does have the poorly educated under his spell, doesn't he.

A lot of poorly educated people do like Trump, I presume, but you'll also find that many people who've graduated high school, can read & write, hold down jobs, have a 3rd level qualification also support him. If you just slap a badge of 'poorly educated' on whoever likes Trump, then I don't think the psychology of MAGA is being fully explored.

I think there's quite a bit more to it in terms of the materialism, the tendency towards fervour and the brashness that exists in American culture. It doesn't matter how much education you have if your ego allows you to get locked into a particular idea and the resulting myopia shuts out basic common sense. Plenty of people with decent educations have got sucked into Scientology and plenty more have been sucked into MAGA. In both cases its a cult mentality.

Them portraying the flabby Big Mac scoffing aul pig as some of muscular Adonis will never not be funny!

He doesn't seem to have much problem with the comparatively recent artificial line separating the US and Mexico. Funny that

I was going to tag you in the photo 😁

Kathy Hochul (Democractic - Governor of New York) has come out with the below tweet today:

https://x.com/GovKathyHochul/status/1918785556810469770

However she has also received funding from EMILYs List  a left-leaning American political action committee (PAC) that aims to help elect Democratic female candidates in favor of abortion rights to office.

So having a joke about being the pope is offensive to Catholics but advocating for abortion isn't.

It appears for someone who claims to be a catholic she doesn't really follow the rules of it very closely.

This is the sort of bullshit that doesn't help the democrats pathetic posturing about a non issue that can be seen right through, there's loads of thing you can criticize Trump for this Pope picture isn't one of them.

I don't care about either the democrats or republicans, I don;t care about American politics in general.

I just find this nonsense from Hochul to be idiotic and decided to point it out as it won't be pointed out on this thread as it consists 99% of people who support the democrats and therefore this idiocy and hypocrisy won't be highlighted here whereas all the republicans idiocy and hypocrisy is probably pointed out here so need need to post any of that if it pops up on twitter for me.

You "dont care" but of all the stuff happening with American politics this is what leads you to post.

This is the one that lets you vent at a Democrat meanwhile when it comes to Trumps conduct which is objectively dangerous and idiotic... nothing. Including a claim that Trump did with the papal picture shouldnt be criticised. Backed up by exactly nothing.

Utterly unconvincing from start to finish.

Nope.

You did more than that - so you are already contradicting yourself in the space of a few posts. You claimed:

"there's loads of thing you can criticize Trump for this Pope picture isn't one of them."

Yet in multiple posts you havent backed that up. Because you cant.

So just a desperate attempt at excusing Trump and reaching for any excuse to lash out at a Democrat.

Meanwhile wheres the posts critical of the far worse and consequential hypocrisy from Trump, Vance and his sycophants.

You claimed to be concerned about hypocrisy didnt you?

You claimed not to be interested in US politics but this is what leads to a post? Yet seemingly for someone who claims not to be interested in US politics you claim to be familiar with the content of this thread. Which is about US politics. Another contradiction.

Wouldnt it be easier to drop the charade? Its not fooling anyone.

Of course it's offensive to Catholics, how is it not?

My gran is a devout Catholic and anti abortion. She was offended by this. Care to whatabout your way out of that?