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

They don't seem to care about the billionaires that have become even richer because of it.

The only reason most of them would care about people making money off of it, would be if the people making money were not white

THe Scientoligists survived the passing of Ron L Hubbard and the Mormons survived Brigham Young where there was credible evidence to suggest he was a war criminal so I do not expect MAGA to just fade away with Trump gone. If he doesn`t get his BIG BILL through, or doesn`t gets it through without it going back to Congress to be watered down, it will weaken him. Either way after the mid terms the successsor hunt will be on.

Trump got himself where he is not by any great talent. He got himself there through social media and a war chest he used to threaten any republicans that looked as if they would oppose him. $300 million of that from Musk leading up to the 2024 election. Musk had pledged a further $100 million for the mid terms that Trump would have used in the same way. I cannot see Musk now giving him that, so the question is will Musk now use that money attempting to torpedo his BIG BILL and threaten republican politicians who support it in those mid terms by doing a Trump using his wealth and social platform to fund and back others.

Musk has nothing to lose. He has more money than he could burn in several lifetimes. If the both de-escalated Musk might just lick his wounds and let it go, but I`d doubt that as the BIG BILL will do Tesla serious damage on top of what he has done to the brand himself. Trump`s ego will make sure he won`t keep his big gob shut. Especially now when he knows what TACO means.

Musk is a useful idiot , that's all.

Another case of Trump not being on the side of law and order, having the DOJ cancel it's defence against the wrongful death suite initiated by Babbits family.

The world’s richest man has no skills 😂

He’s a horrible person with terrible morals but he has to know a thing or two about business to amass the wealth he has.

Yeah, have your Daddy leave you money and then effectively squander much of it.

Link

Donald Trump started his career at the end of the 1970s, financed by his father Fred Trump. Over the years this transfer of wealth added up to around $500m in today’s money in gifts. My rough calculations say that, had he simply taken the money, leveraged it not imprudently, and passively invested it in Manhattan real estate – gone to parties, womanised, played golf, collected his rent cheques and reinvested them – his fortune could have amounted to more than $80bn by the time he ascended to the presidency in 2017.

And yet Trump was not worth $80bn in 2017. Instead, Forbes pegged him at $2.5bn – which, given the difficulties of valuing and accounting for real estate, is really anything between $5bn (£4bn) and zero (or less). It is in this sense that Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig call Trump a “loser”. He is indeed one of the world’s biggest losers. By trying to run a business, rather than just kicking back and letting the rising tide of his chosen sector lift his wealth beyond the moon, he managed to destroy the vast majority of his potential net worth.

And aside from that, there's ample evidence of how he has behaved in business, not paying contractors, suspicious loans, debt forgiveness and of course, 5 or 6 bankruptcies.

And what we're watching happening right now with the meme coin and the family going to countries at the same time as he is to negotiate deals, will be written about in books about corruption in the future. The fcuker will be long gone at that point though, unfortunately.

I wasn’t talking about Trump.

reclose is talking about the world's richest man - Musk.

So you were talking about the guy who made his name coming in to existing companies and the suing to become recognized as a founder or otherwise painting the narrative that it exists because of him?

Not a character I would aspire to be either, by any stretch.

Not me.

He very clearly isn’t the fittest president ever, he is nearly 80 and overweight, both of those together increase mortality.

He is also in his second term, he can’t run after this one. He might be in the public sphere, he won’t be president.

It's eerily similar to his 'doctors' report 😁

Yeah some lucky people get away with living unhealthy lifestyles and still live to a very old age, unfortunately he seems to be one of them.

How does this even make sense if we are in the Euro?

https://www.breakingnews.ie/business/trump-administration-adds-ireland-to-monitoring-list-for-currency-manipulation-1770611.html

Hold up folks.

It's all clarified now.

Man who was found by a jury of his peers to consistently utter the most disgusting lies, so egregious in fact that he must pay $1.1 billion, and then appealed that finding, only to have it confirmed by the court of appeal... Says we should be believe him when he says there's no there there.

(PS - why would he investigate someone for paedophilia 10 years?)