Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

Here is what appears to be the latest medical report on DJT. Make of it what you will. 😁

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/04/memorandum-from-the-white-house-physician/

Never mind, the House under the committee chairmanship of James Comer (Congress's answer to Inspector Chuseau) is investigating the great Biden Health Conspiracy.

What a distraction.

Trump culd do all that, but it would have the potential to create more problems for him than they would solve. For one the stock exchange would likely go into meltdown, and while Musk and the rest of the tech bros may not be buddy buddies, they are birds of a feather who would be asking themselves the question "Am I next ?"

Trump has gotten to where he is by cowing the GOP using wealth to threaten those who in any way disagree with him with electoral defunding, and mobilising his MAGA cult against them using social media. Trump`s whole war chest compared to any of those tech bros would look like a pittance, and his own controlled social media outlet Truth Social has only around 2 million followers. If those bros decided to curb Trump and bot postings on their platforms Trump would end up talking to nobody much more than himself. For someone who floods the zone with disinformation and lies via socail media to exercise control and feed his base support that could be a major problem for him

Even if Trump decided to do all you mentioned to him, Musk is presently worth around $350 billion and would still have more money than he could squander in a dozen lifetimes and would still have control of Twitter regardless of what the banks might or might not decide until at least after the mid terms, and would likely still have after Trump`s term is up.

This fallout has left Trump and the GOP with $100 million less funding for the mid terms, and his Big Beautiful Bill, with the effect it would have on Tesla, has really left Musk with no options other than doing a Trump on Trump using his wealth and his social media platform to go after those that support it. Trump going after any more of Musk`s interests would only add to that.

If anybody has more to lose in this than Musk, it`s Trump.

should read “ neck like a jockey’s bollocks”

I doubt Musk gives a toss about the debt. It`s all about what tariffs and the "big beautiful bill" would do to Tesla and any other of his interests.

Trump just screwed a friend of Musk`s, Isaacman, on becoming head of NASA so he is not going to turn around and hand it to Musk. Especially after Gor who detests Musk being the one who spiked Isaacman`s appointment. Trump`s ego would never let him do a TACO of that magnitude.

If that "big beautiful bill" has to come back to Congress for alterations, to me at least it would indicate that Musk had a lot to do with that and would leave Trump with even more of a squeaky bum heading into the mid terms than he has at present.

One can only hope that with Trump's intent to interfere with the education of elementary, middle and high school children and the attack on the universities that the US doesn't end up with brainwashed next generation adults and find itself unable to put forward thinkers capable of scientific, engineering and mathematical thought and inventions essential to any country's greatness.

As it is, he seems intent on allowing his White House backroom geniuses wreck what he claims will be a MAGA country. So far his version of the Gestapo, Homeland Security and ICE, have not managed to bring the universities under his control. He still has another three years to achieve the aim of his backroom geniuses.

Again, Musk is not worth $350 billion, he's only worth that notionally. He would need to close out all his share positions at current value to realise that. Its fantasy stuff.

Trump is quite happy to crash the market. He'll probably short Tesla stock before he announces any removal of Tesla subsidies. He doesn't give a toss as long as he makes money and he's vindictive. Theres no way he lets Musk shoot his mouth without trying to hurt him back.

The Tech bros knew they were playing with fire when they got on board with Trump. They also know he can hurt them unless they stay onside, at least for the next 3yrs.

You sure about that ? It might be the legal position, but when have leagalities meant anything to Trump ? If he remains in power without being removed, who knows what the landscape will look like in 3/4 years time.

22nd amendment to the constitution:

“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.”

It would require changes to the constitution for that to happen. Along with the fact that trumps popularity is very low, unless he tries a coup, it won’t happen.

I just can't see it happening. And I don't believe it's something that is seriously under any consideration. If anything they are using it like they do with so many other things, as a distraction from how the system is getting dismantled in full view already.

What I said was that if Trump shut down every enterprise Musk has he would still have more money than he could burn in dozen lifetimes. There will be no $100 million for Trump to threaten candidates in the mid terms and no $300 million in 2028 either. Musk would still have more than enough to cause Trump problems if he choose too as well as curtailing Trump on Twitter. Which when it comes to social media is Tump`s lifeblood.

If there is one thing the Tech bros will have learned from this, it`s the same as anyone else who tried to appease him. You are digging your own grave because to Trump it makes you look weak, and he is such a vindictive fcuked up individual he could not help himself even if he tried not to pile as much hurt and ignominy on you as possible.

This is a man who gave $300 million to get Trump elected, was giving him $100 million for the mid terms and who spent $20 million on a judicial election in Wisconsin.

I very much doubt he is living from wage cheque to wage cheque like the rest of us.