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

I usually enjoy your "material",but trying to flip through the thread "catch-up " and seeing you reposting this nonsense repeatedly doesn't make it better, sometimes less is better .

Trump says a lot of things

In the coming days there is going to be panic right across industry and demands made of the government

Which industries will be hit first in your esteemed opinion? And what demands will immediately be made?

It doesn`t take much reading between the lines to see that your real worry is that the E.U. will not be "bending the knee" but hitting the big orange baby where it hurts with their own tariffs, specifically directed at the swing states and his MAGA heartland states.

None is fine too.

That didn't take long and it reads as more sensible than the threat.

Trump on McCain - "He's a war hero because he was captured. I prefer people who weren't captured"

He did indeed, it is a classic Trump interview, he is an utter clown.

He even says he is not a war hero…just think about that. Born with the silver spoon and bailed out, never worked a hard day in his life, and he says that about John McCain.

Am I right in saying and words are key here he is only " recommending " an increase, but hasn't imposed the increase or am I clutching at straws? God why am i even trying to decipher this imbeciles social media comments.

I believe he used similar words when he recommended backtracking on the reciprocal tariffs or it could have been the climb down on the China one (hard to keep track). Recommending to Scott 'Barbie' Bassett to drop them etc…

It's going to be harder for Trump to convince the US public that the EU will be paying the tariffs or that prices won't increase. I think the US public are well learned in how tariffs work now.

Just like the UK tried to drive a wedge into the EU, it didn't work out.

The EU is not perfect, but it is successful, and each member state benefits greatly from it. Trump and his team are terrified of the EU, simple as that. They are a threat to them in many ways, Trump himself doesn't understand the concept of the EU, remember he had to be told 10 times by Merkel that America couldn't do a trade deal with Germany, it had to be with the EU.

Along with that, the EU will make mince meat of the yanks when it comes to trade.

I can't wait to watch Trump back peddle on this yet again. His sorry old act of claiming to solve a problem that he caused.

Kermit. What course of action do you think the EU, and Ireland, should do?

Just agree to whatever demands Trump is making? Will that include allowing any and all agriculture products in, which would decimate our agriculture sector?

As Ireland exports, relatively, much more to the US than other EU countries, we are actually benefiting from being treated as one with the EU. Had Ireland been separated, his liberation day would have seen us get something like 65% tariffs.

So while you continue to panic over every utterance of Trump you have never laid out how you think Ireland should deal with Trump.

Trump is all hype. 50% on EU imports will drive inflation in the US. So.e goods will not be able to be replaced and US consumers will pay the tariffs. As the economist Dan O'Brien said this is economic warfare.

Trump is stumped. His so called peace initiative in Ukraine has failed as Putin will not negotiate, he also know that Europe will not sta d for Putins demands. He is muddying the waters.

Last time he exempted medicines from carries this time it will be the same. And then tge bond markets will make him fold. The reason the US has trade deficits is because of there education system. The EU will hit the US services from X to Facebook to Netflixs. Levies and taxes on them will see him fold.

See dating fireball blog. It explains it would take years to build a factory the size of a large city to build American iphones and then find 1000s of workers to work for a low wage assembling the parts for phones it's literally impossible trump will be gone in 3 years .apple sells 150k phones every day. They have a plan to build American phones in India.

Its like if ibm built a factory in Dublin we need 100,ooo workers in 6 months We pay 10 euro an hour where would the workers live we are already at full employment here .

The price of an iphone depends on being made in country's like India or china where there's 1000s of workers who can work for low wages in giant factory the size of a city

Dj Vance says we need to help people have more kids oh we are going to pass a bill that removes medicaid from 10 million people and stops payments to hospitals that provide medical care for workers old people and people on low income The problem is trump does not know how the economy works how tariffs work Tourism to the us is falling as people are afraid of getting hassled by ice .

It simply makes no sense to make certain products in America trump is causing chaos and has decreased the value of the dollar and increased the debt burden by billions of dollars .

He,s like a bull in a china shop . Moody's has downgraded us debt for the first time in 100 years . There's an article on dating fireball theres a lunch for investors in trumps digital coin it sounds very shady .