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

A man that once ran 'sexiest child' competitions is doing all of this. People are defending him… , others just care about tariffs.

There's no coming back from this from a decency point of view

UK journalist Ian Dunt posted something on Friday that I've been thinking about, especially as I follow US politics quite a lot. He wrote it in response to the Trump / Musk fall out but it really can be applied to anything Trump and his cruel, moronic, and sycophantic administration does:

"I'm so mortified by the emotional and psychological load these people weigh on us. A whole world watching this and it's just… crap. Utter crap. An idiot boy on ketamine calling people a paedophile. A man who cannot write without reverting to capslocks, who cannot speak without lying. It's all just so pitiful and embarrassing. The fact that we have to pay attention embarrasses me. The fact any of this is in any way relevant embarrasses me."

Its not fascism asking for law and order to be kept.

California is willfully ignoring immigration laws that govern the entire land.

Given the fact the administration has been engaging in illegal deportations, I can understand why individual states aren't very trusting of them. The President and his cronies are wildly ignoring the laws that govern the land but you're fine with that.

I assume under normal circumstances, when the governor requests the Nation Guard they help them with food and accommodation? I'm guessing they can only use federal facilities unless the governor assigns the state digs?

Actually nearly all states became dependent on irregular immigration since it become a defacto economic policy in the 1940s.

Trump incited a mob to overturn an election result, and pardons people who attacked the police defending law and order.

He is a rapist and a felon, engaged in corruption and bribes on a vast scale - the air force one is the visible one, his cryptocurrency the obfuscated one.

Its fascism when masked goons abduct people off the street without due process.

Must have missed any posts from you criticising that.

Trump doesnt give a damn about law and order. His actions are intended to undermine it.

Proof positive any posts expressing concern for law and order are merely a partisan pretence.

It seems that the policy of chickening out on levies being applied against China is alive and well in Trumpland. Trump authorised the reduction in strength of some levies he imposed on China, telling Bessent and the others on the trade meeting with China in London today of the reductions.

Newsom and Bass arent doing their jobs.

Newsom could have had the LAPD, LASD, Highway Patrol, there to immediately shut down the riots and ensure other demonstrators actually protested peacefully.

Newsom is weak.

The "Peaceful Protests" nonsense is being mentioned again.

Orwell was right "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and your ears. It was their final, most essential command".

The LAPD are doing exactly that. Look at any footage and you'll see it's the state law enforcement confronting the protestors.

Trump was far too quick to deploy the National Guard and has only inflamed the situation.

I was gonna say that has to be AI, yet here we are

Holy ****

With the greatest of respect, this guy is long past having a decent bone in his body.

If you were to timeline just the past 20 weeks you have controversy after controversy, after lie after pure and outright bullshit but none of it appears to hang around more than a week. The news cycle has it all moved into the last with trumps administration moving onto the next bat **** crazy item.

You've got to remember, as many have already said here, a significant percentage of the population knew exactly what they were getting in voting this guy in. The news cycle seems to bury whatever story was there in the previous few days, replaced by whatever they want in the narrative.

The only way this is heading is towards some form of civil war(in my opinion), whether it will go that far is anyone's guess but when you've got to keep moving on the news cycle with more and more off the wall stuff, all bets are off.

I've read plenty of Orwell in my time and not just 1984, he would absolutely loath Trump. Do you really think the writer of 1984 would be a fan of a federal government that cuts back on rights, targets the free press and supports book bannings etc? Next thing you'll be claiming James Connolly would have been a fan.

I meant decency in the human sense, not the Trumpian one.

I think the definition of what is decent has changed. I think what people see as decent, honourable or respectable has shifted significantly

But…but…250 years, checks and balances…he hasn’t stabbed anyone through the heart with an ice-pick, let me know when the whole country has imploded, etc., etc.