Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 06/06/25

It seems the management of US defence matters have plans to change the supervision of Greenland's defence from a joint US/European Command jurisdiction to one of sole US [Northern] command according to several US officials. This decision would treat Greenland more like Canada than as part of the Kingdom of Denmark, which it is as a matter of fact. It's already plain that JD Vance has his eyes on Greenland, seeing it as a necessary part of US national defence to the extent he had the Comdr of the USAF base there relieved of command on the basis of a comment by her of the Islands status as Danish territory.

How did Howard Lutnick walk himself into this? Political naivety aside, it's a pretty good illustration of how trade policy is a machine that's finely adjusted and tuned over decades, and you can't just knock it down and rebuild it with a sledgehammer.

Allegedly this is a response from DJT on his website to what Musk did and said. The use of Elon instead of Musk leads me to doubt its sincerity. The threat of a massive increase in tax if the BBB is not passed is DJT waving a cudgel at the Senate and Congress without his usual "thank you for your attention" comment.

Lol, he's such an idiot.

He said once deals are reached with countries, the tariff will go to zero ('deals' done with China and the UK and the tariffs are still there). He also says tariffs are here to stay (the base rate)

Both can't be right. The administration simply has no clue and are just following Trump's lead.

Yeah Musk is certainly not the engineering tech-genius he and his fans make him out to be, but the things he is good at are shoring up share prices and getting government grants and contracts (usually based on lofty promises knowing they won't deliver on them).

If a lot of those grants and contracts start being pulled, it will definitely have a huge impact on Musk's wealth which is entirely based on his shares in his companies.

That said, he has been allowed to absolutely bury his companies so deep into the US infrastructure at this stage that it would even be difficult for Trump to get rid of him.

The war between Musk & Trump may be the only war Trump is actually able to fix in the near future.

And this guy ran a major financial institution, Cantor Fitzgerald. They survived not only 9/11 (New York office wiped out), but also being run by the likes of Lutnick. Some stress test!

I foresee that at least one will manage to jam an ICE into it and tune it so that black smoke belches out the back.

Tariffs were supposed to pay for zero income tax (5 trillion), in fairness DOGE were also suppose to find 2 trillion of savings (think they found 100bil).

Leaves 3 trillion, roughly the amount the US imports in goods each year. So they need a permanent 100% tariff on everything to balance that part.

That's if he wants to fulfill another election promise of a balanced budget.

Promise everything, delivery nothing! I'd expect nothing less from a felon fraudster.

Nutlick really is stupid. Who would have guessed? I assumed he was only trolling the American people up to now, but this clip proves he really is that stupid.

Ambushed by a banana.

Lucky it was not a penguin with a banana!

Reports were that White House aides are trying to arrange a call between Trump & Musk to get it sorted, but Trump has just told CNN that he won't be speaking to Musk for a while.

"President Donald Trump told CNN this morning that he is “not even thinking about” billionaire Elon Musk and won’t be speaking to him in the near future.

“I’m not even thinking about Elon. He’s got a problem. The poor guy’s got a problem,” Trump said.

The comments come after a day in which Trump and Musk traded barbs on social media as their relationship publicly deteriorated.

In a brief phone call, Trump talked about the forthcoming jobs report, inflation and gas prices.

Asked if he had a call with Musk, he responded: “No. I won’t be speaking to him for a while I guess, but I wish him well.”"