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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭pad406


    I guess only time will tell. I just feel that all those issue you mentioned, and many more, were not their concern. It was the economy, he tanks that he loses them, or that's how I see it play out.

    If he doesn't, well then the US is fubar'd for a lot longer than we now think it will be.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭briany


    I think your problem, there, is that you're assuming MAGA would make the logical connection between Trump's policies and a decline of the US economy and therefore turn on him.

    My contention is that this logical connection will not occur. The cult mindset will not allow it. They will look for every other scapegoat, and the scapegoat would be chosen by Trump himself, most probably.

    MAGA has shown no form for criticising Trump. If evangelical Christianity starts with the idea that God's judgement is always good, I think MAGA starts with the idea that Trump is never wrong.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,058 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Absolutely.

    Or else he just throws money at the problem (America's, not his obviously).

    He will subsidise a company's "return" to the US and stick the cost onto the national debt, and claim he brought jobs back.

    #Winning

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,886 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    ...Trump's policies...

    What policies?

    He gets silly ideas and without thinking them through, he acts on them but he has no actual policies



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,951 ✭✭✭✭kneemos




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭pad406


    No, I don't expect them to turn on him, I expect them not to turn out for him. That's what will make the difference.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭yagan


    Aren't his policies dictated more by the last movie he saw?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,521 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Trump’s “tremendous” speech with Carney today.. nothing shocks any more with Trump. Whack-job



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,243 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Chaos at Newark airport due to air traffic controllers walking out. Wait until it happens at JFK or O'Hare. It's Biden's fault though dontcha know.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,396 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    It's utterly painful to watch other world leaders in the Oval Office having to deal with this moron. I would love to know what they say about him behind closed doors. Americans should be genuinely embarrassed.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,220 ✭✭✭Economics101


    I get the impression that Carney struggled to keep a straight face when listening to the Orange Moron. Promising that Canada as the 51st state would get huge tax cuts and a better health system, was a real hoot.

    Some day some visiting leader will lose it ans just guffaw at the crucial moment.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,942 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Imagine trying to pass that off to Carney…who has run 2 banks and is highly qualifefd.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,591 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    Can anyone speculate what Trumps big anouncement is for Thursday?

    I would wager he is going to lower Chinese tariffs to 50%.

    It would be hilarious if Xi ignored it and didn't react by lowering his recipricol tariffs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,665 ✭✭✭kyote00


    Carney asking Trump if the White House was for sale was comedy gold. First time I’ve seen Trump laugh….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Iecrawfc


    So I assume Trump is taking full responsibility for the Pakistan/India conflict breaking out as any wars around the world are solely down to if the parties involved respect the US president or not?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,535 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    …that piece of drivel has been memory holed along with all the other invented fake concerns about Biden, Harris, economy etc to justify voting for the wrecking ball of hate that is Trump.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,058 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,058 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, wrote to Harvard.

    A MIT gave it the once over and posted it on social media...

    1000007819.jpg 1000007820.jpg

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,158 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    Just like when Zelensky tried to disrecet him in the White House.That didnt really work out for him.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,886 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I'm assuming the word "disrecet" is a typo of "disrespect". So how exactly did Zelensky disrespect Trump? As I understand it, that's not how the majority of the world interpreted how that meeting went!



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  • Subscribers Posts: 42,924 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Disrecet??



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭yagan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,240 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    He should take responsibility because in his own words 'that war would never have happened under me' so by logical extension an India Pakistan war must only be happening because Trump explicitly wants it to happen.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,240 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Why do they all write in a form that mimicks the exact style and grammatical errors that Trump talks and writes in?

    It looks like they have a chat GPT that is asked to draft their letters in the style of Trump, but i think its more of a symptom of the Trump cult. They've been immersed in his insanity for well over 8 years and it has rotted their brains so deeply that they think and talk and write like him.

    As Trump selects his sycophants for leadership positions and prunes his military to remove anyone who will oppose him, who is left to stop him?

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭yagan


    Big announcement?

    Xmas decorations except from tariffs?

    Formal alliance with Putin?

    Triple tariffs on Ireland for what the Bull McCabe did to Tom Berenger?

    Vietnam Victory day?

    Who knows?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,388 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    Trump has mentioned WW3 continuously since the start of his presidency- given America is going full on protect Americans first, it’s probably the one thing that has got my attention - India / Pakistan kicking off is not good- but I feel America knows just what’s happening or about to happen across the world and they’re making preparations now -

    we may laugh at trump in most ways but I have a feeling a lot of what he’s doing is about preparing for war situations that are about to happen throughout the world - feel free to laugh at that but it’s clear the world is getting far angrier, more hungry and more vulnerable - you can’t explain Trump “economic policy” because it’s unexplainable-

    but it might make some sense when looked at through the eyes of what might happen in the not to distant future - multiple wars on multiple fronts with the key powers of Russia China and the Middle East dividing up the spoils .

    I feel like a conspiracy theorist writing this but for me, Trumps mention of WW3 continuously looks different than just scaremongering now- it’s as if this is what he’s positioning to protect America from this -the world is certainly hostile and volatile right now - while WW3 may not happen , there’s every possibility that multiple wars and conflicts will start in the near future



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,803 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    A good example:

    Spent Christmas, a few years ago, with good friends in the US. I bought the couple, and their kids, one present each; something of value that I knew they would like. They bought each of us about 20 presents each, all plastic shite "gag" gifts and we were expected, it quickly became apparent, to be delighted with every one of them and pretend it would be in pride of place in our house. Had to quietly ask #1 daughter to try not to look so "WTF?" as she opened hers.

    These wouldn't be the typical brash Americans either, he's a college professor and she's a doctor! It just seems to be ingrained in them over there.

    Quantity over quality, as they do in so much of their lives.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭randd1


    Dave Chappelle called it "stoned people ideas".

    Basically, when your off your tits and coming up with random sh!te that seems like the best idea when you're out of it, but in the cold light of day is just idiocy stoner talk.

    It's the best way I've heard of describing the Trump administration's plans.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭ilkhanid


    ''disrespecting'' in MAGA world= standing up for yourself and not letting the WH trash walk all over one. And I recall that in the eyes of the non-trumpist world it was Zelensky that came out of that interaction best.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,879 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    It's time for us to understand that Trump will be with the US, and us, everywhere until the financial support he get's is cut off. It's the $ he gets that keep him going. I'm hoping some conman, or nation, would come along and hack into his accounts and rob him so blind he wouldn't have even a cent or a crypto-dollar to his name. Make him homeless.



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