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

This might be The Rock that Trump flounders on

What a silly orange man

I just love this. It should be a real Gotcha moment for the Democrats. I would love to see a journalist read to him what he said and then read out the oath of office he took.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/trump-due-process-rights-constitution

I hope this figures in some future article of impeachment.

Also there would seem to be a good place opening up to house MAGA criminals (following due process, of course):

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/04/politics/trump-alcatraz-prisons-reopen

Out of curiousity, was she offended by the RTE Investigates programme about clerical child abuse in the Christian Brothers schools, cover ups by the hierarchy and their enormous wealth on Wednesday night?

It was Rob Lowe, he literally flies 100 Americans to Ireland for every episode of his gameshow "The Floor" which is filmed in Bray but you'd never know it:

I'm not supporting the tariffs as a good way to combat this, but I completely understand the US Government thinking that it's ridiculous for it to be more cost efficient for Fox to film in Bray instead of LA where they have their studios. It's not like a King Arthur or Vikings or whatever where you want the Wicklow landscape to film, it's just a studio stage.

Regardless of your leanings, this seems like something incentivised wrongly somewhere

Calm yourself chief. When he comes out with silly things (e.g. Alcatraz, AI pics) he is best ignored. Alcatraz will not get rebuilt, 100% guaranteed. We all know it's silly.

Or you can spend the next 4 years getting upset and obsessed. He talks a massive amount of shite, knock yourself out getting excited by it all. People are already starting to ignore him.

It's opening up the trade war globally to include services, even if somewhat indirectly. The US has a massive surplus in services and so is the vulnerable party if things continue to go south and they implement the planned tariffs after the delay.

As far as filming in LA goes, if it's really so much cheaper in other countries, then it's just going to make movies more expensive and thus more risky to make. Do you risk more money and produce it in America, or do you produce elsewhere and let consumers pay the tariff? Like, if the costs to produce in America are too high now, it will become even more expensive if everyone is trying to do it.

The bigger picture here is if it leads to things like gaming. Games are made all over the world. Would America start tariffing games 100% if they not made entirely in the US?

Why am I, a normal person, capably of putting more thought into this than the Presidential Administration. He has a meeting with Jon Voight, who suggested tax breaks, and instead went for tariffs.

On what basis do you decide if he is being serious or not?

And don't you think a politician, POTUS even more so, should not be simply making up rubbish for laughs?

He wants to be treated with the respect his office deserves, he should treat it with the same respect.

He'll make suits mandatory next after a weekend of watching 1930s movies.

It should not be necessary to 'take a joke' from the President of the United States of America, there is usually dignity and diplomacy in the role of any head of state, though of course that is very easy to forget under the current US administration.

Neither he nor his followers are aware that what he says should be assumed to be heard by both adversaries and allies and interpreted by people of different cultures and languages and is part of the soft influence of the country that he serves. Serves, not rules or controls.

Of course the damage is done now; there is no respect for him and by extension, the country. Apart from his cult followers no-one believes anything he says, yet everyone is aware of how much damage his vindictive, paranoid, senile rambling is doing. We are past 'he wants to be a dictator', he is already acting like one, making up new rules about anything that occurs to him, ignoring and trying to dismantle the 'checks and balances', having his hand-picked cabinet of syncophants telling him how wonderful he is, generally trashing the country and disturbing the balance of the world.

Having said all that ^^^, I do wonder if, 80 years after the last world war, the world is ready for another shake up, and this is it. Complacency is the enemy of progress, and the US had its share of complacency.

The EU should heavily invest in enterprise, it's an ideal time for it IMHO.

Is his thought process now to ‘ house’ all those ‘criminals’ in Alcatraz instead of sending them ‘home’ to El SAlvador.
And why is it necessary now to consider the development of Alcatraz to service as a prison again when there is a lot of prison space being freed up by sending criminals back ‘home ?
The mind boggles again?

Or is all of this To ‘Flood the Zone’ with Sh—-y/ completely off the wall statements so as to get us all talking/ hyped up so the real issues are not discussed or even tabled?

it’s more flood the zone… Israel says they are going to complete their genocide my taking Gaza and their attack on a ship with foreign aid should be the number one story… instead Trump is sucking up all the attention with his nonsense.