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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: 29,771 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Its just Trump blowing off some steam as usual

    And, again, you think that this is appropriate behaviour for the President of a country?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    The article points out that the claim is entirely unsubstantiated. You claim there were questions at the time but Newsweek don't tend to agree with you, the only questions were social media posts claiming something. There was no report of Beyonce getting paid 11 million dollars. You're back to endorsing outrageous behavior. If he opened an investigation into Springsteen, you would inevitably find some way to legitimise it.

    https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-beyonce-11-million-endorsement-fec-records-trump-election-2074174



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Ans this excuses it? He is showing himself up to be a baby, yet again.

    They hypocrisy as well is glorious, investigate Bruce, Bono etc…but Musk, Zuckerberg, the jet gift, that’s all totally fine.

    Give us all a break.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,031 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    " Lal..laa lalala , Baby you were born to run "...think that is about Donnie himself probably .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,739 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    No I dont think it is appropriate to be honest.

    I wish he would be more statesmanlike and drastically cut back on his tweets and social media output, most of which is utter twaddle.

    However my post was in response to someone saying his comments were an abuse of power, which I disagree with.

    Bidens administration on the other hand was shown to be trying to censor alot of people, notably during Covid, that was a real abuse of power.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    The president is threatening people with investigations and it's not an abuse of power? I'm sure you'll justify such investigations too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,739 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    There wont be any investigations, its just an empty threat.

    To go in the list along with the many others.

    Canada the 51st state

    Invade Greenland

    Take back the Panama Canal

    Lock Hillary Clinton up

    etc etc

    Post edited by MisterAnarchy on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,110 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    So, what you're saying is, in common vernacular...

    President Trump is full of sh1t.

    Couldn't agree more.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭pad406


    Problem is though, that toddler Orange Buffoon does not mean it as an empty threat. He'd do it if he got half a chance



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,443 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Bidens administration on the other hand was shown to be trying to censor alot of people, notably during Covid, that was a real abuse of power.

    If you mean point out lies and stupidity of those being stupid and lying about Covid, then, yes.

    It wasn't censoring if they were on every dumb show available crying about how they were being censored.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Bidens administration on the other hand was shown to be trying to censor alot of people, notably during Covid, that was a real abuse of power.

    Citation needed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,948 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    From Ann P. Mitchell on F.B.

    In May, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington [CREW] asked the District Court in Washington to order DOGE to comply with an FOI and for the court to order that those records be preserved pursuant to the Federal Records Act (FRA). The court agreed with CREW and ordered discovery. The Admin then sought a Writ of Mandamus from the Circuit [appeals] Court to order the District Court to dismiss its order.

    "The government petitions for a writ of mandamus to halt the district courts order for limited discovery into whether the United States DOGE Service (USDS) constitutes an agency within the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The government contends that the district courts order permitting narrow discovery impermissibly intrudes upon the Presidents constitutional prerogatives.

    In light of the governments failure to make a persuasive showing on either of the first two elements of the analysis, there is also no reason, in considering the totality of the circumstances, to issue the writ. Accordingly, the petition for a writ of mandamus is denied." Filed on 14 May 2025.

    It seems, basically, that DOGE will have to maintain records of its work in compliance with the FRA act, enabling FOI's to be complied with. Doubtless the Admin will seek another court to overturn the Circuit Court order. It does appear the courts consider DOGE to be a Federal Agency liable under the FRA act.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Money on this veering into conspiracy theories again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,235 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Trump says Biden has "Stage 9" cancer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,382 ✭✭✭trashcan


    Ah, there he is. That’s the Trump that we all know. Too much to expect any basic decency from him, despite his earlier short and to the point statement. Of course, as someone pointed out earlier, it was bound to happen once he got in front of a camera and had to speak off the top of his head rather than someone compose a statement for him. And once again he turns it all around to himself. “I took a cognitive test , and I aced it. Are you proud of me “🙄. What a despicable human being he is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    It didn’t even take him 24 hours. And he still has to make it about himself somehow.

    Pathetic.

    And just for the record, there is no such thing, or concept, as stage 9 cancer. Stage 4 is the max. Not only is he pathetic, he is a moron.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,615 ✭✭✭✭charlie14


    Seems he either never heard the quote, - (or more likely did and his cognitive recall is nowhere close to what he claims) - that it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,821 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    A truly, truly, pathetic excuse for a human being.

    "So and so has cancer"

    "Well, I did a cognitive test. I got all the answers right. Are you proud of me?"

    Fkn 'ell

    :/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭Greengrass53


    Think 9 is the PSA count?

    Not excusing the orange gimp, mind you.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,057 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Just in case anyone is unsure, stage 9 cancer is 4 stages past dead.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,548 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Biden's cancer has a Gleason score of 9.

    The Gleason score is arrived at by adding up the stage (in Biden's case, 4) and the grade group score. The latter figure is a measure of how aggressive a cancer appears to be, based on microscopic examination of a biopsy sample. Biden's grade group is five, given him an aggregate Gleason score of 9.

    To be honest, I wouldn't be excessively critical of Trump for confusing the staging and the Gleason score. Most of us have a pretty hazy idea of exactly what they are.

    I would be critical of his immediate pivot to boasting about his own cognitive health. This is crass, tasteless, self-absorbed and narcissistic. It also contributes to the already-strong impression that Trump is very anxious about his own cognitive health. Someone who incessantly harps on about his excellent health, his impressive memory, his romantic or sexual prowess, his wide circle of friends, or whatever is showing you what it is that he most fears.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Worth pointing out, Trump only used the “stage 9” comment to infer that somehow Bidens team knew about it and covered it up, when it was only discovered recently.

    This again, is an attempt by Trump to smear someone when he knows next to nothing about the situation, and then makes it about himself.

    But this is the man who gloated about having the tallest building in manhattan as the twin towers were still smouldering rubble, so should we actually be surprised here?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,074 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Trump is the POTUS. Getting simple stuff wrong because it's a bit complicated is deeply worrying.

    What hasn't been commented on much is that amount of times he simply says he doesn't know. Obviously it's his way to avoid answering questions, but a POTUS with so little grasp of anything is a bad sign.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,074 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Trump had a 2 hour call with Putin yesterday after which Trump claimed Putin will start talks. This despite numerous times Putin has played Trump already. But according to strongman Trump, he really told Putin this time.

    Remember , Trump already told Putin to stop via tweet with Putin simply ignored.

    Within hours Putin released a statement saying he had no intentions of a ceasefire unless Ukraine basically gave up.

    Another failure from Trump.

    The most powerful man in the world that can't get anything done.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,059 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I think Putin was an interogator with the KGB,he knows how to manipulate people. I imagine it was like a teacher with a junior infant.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,732 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Well, Trump wasn't elected to have actual human decency.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,052 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    True - that's just something that previous Presidents naturally had



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,110 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    He was told the correct information on Biden.

    So, he either knows what he's saying is b0llox and his primitive monkey brain thinks that saying 9 instead of 4 will be more egregious in the eyes of his cultists, despite the fact that it is manipulating a fellow human having advanced cancer or...

    He was told and forgot, mixing up the number 4, with the numbers 5 and/or 9, because he either couldn't care less to retain that information or hasn't got the mental capacity to.

    Either way, what the f*** is he doing being President of the United States

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,548 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Seriously, I think Trump was told Bidens's stage (4) and Gleason score (9), and just got them confused. Easily done, by someone who has no ideah what either a cancer stage or a Gleason score signifies.

    There are multiple serious reasons why Trump is utterly unfit to be President. This is honestly not one of them.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,855 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    You make sure you are sure before running with it. This is just another example of his disregard for even trying to be competent.

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



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