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

Do you honestly think that Trump or any of his hand picked advisors have the least clue what is happening in the world? He has mentioned WW3 a couple of times, but he has also gone on and on about Canada being the 51st state, about how he is an expert on everything, about every other country taking advantage of the US, and innumerable other notions that have flitted through the mush that is his brain, do we take all those seriously too?

Do you genuinely think that Trump is capable of the foresight that would be needed to prepare for anything beyond his own wealth and ego?

Maybe he'll declare war on that penguin island because they're so mean to him.

Sycophantic is what I call Stephen Miller over his praising Trump after Trump met Carney… a grandmaster at chess, has opened a completely new relationship with Canada because of his strength and his diplomacy….

I can't believe that Biden has allowed Pakistan and India to escalate the conflict in Kashmir to the point of military action.

If only Trump was in the office, none of this would be happening.

China ... Despite their military might, they've never came close to attempting to start a war on a country for any reason since WW2, and what wars they have fought were territorial disputes formed from old Chinese empires going back thousands of years.

If that was the US in Africa, they'd have emptied a load of weapons to one side, and mopped up what they could after a decade of bloodshed.

The difference is that the American empire is only a few hundred years old. For all their Silicon Valley technology and putting men on the moon, they're still a primitive society compared to the Chinese or the Arabs or the Europeans.

The USofA has become a giant real-life "what if" experiment in parallel reality, still rooted in beliefs and practices from the Middle Ages. When I first saw the movie Avatar, I was struck by the notion that in this futuristic Americanised world, they would still be fighting wars on the basis of meatwave attacks (now who'd do such a thing in this day and age … )

Trump is obviously still living somewhere in the 1950s, and to an extent, I think that is what appeals to so many voters in the US. They are still there too, enjoying the post-WW2 prosperity that we Europeans paid for.

They still have an awful lot of growing up to do, as a nation.

Was the Carney/Trump meeting broadcast from the Oval Office?

What kind of tasteless wh**e's boudoir has he turned it into?

24 hours? I thought it was one phone call such was the respect Trump commanded in the world.

You mean it was nonsense?

I just looked back on the entire Oval Office press conference between Carney and Trump yesterday - it was 35 minutes long and not many of those minutes were anything whatsoever to do with Carney or Canada. Most of it was Trump fielding questions about US domestic policy. Whatever you think about Trump's policies (even if you assume there are some), the lack of simple common manners when hosting a world leader at the White House is atrocious!

Yes, but domestic US matters would be of great interest to the governor of the 51st US state

They eating the cats, they eating the dogs

Maybe he's announcing a contest for his next apprentice now that Musk has been spat out.

Well I dont speak for the majority, but from what I can see getting thrown out of White House is not a good look.

Especially when he went to the White House looking for support. Im not here to change any ones mind but its clear its a very anti Trump form.

Throwing a head of state out of the White House suggest disrespect on the part of the Trump administration, rather than the reverse.

And yes, most of the responses here will be anti-Trump, no one is embarrased to admit it. At least the antis have evidence on their side of the argument, unlike the pro side; we have been waiting for years for a coherent argument about positive aspects to Trump and his administration.

 unlike the pro side, we have been waiting for years for a coherent argument about positive aspects to Trump and his administration.

Is the usual "Just wait and you'll see" justification not enough?! (/S)