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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,489 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    Will be interesting to see what Karoline Lievett will say if quizzed about Trumps ceasefire



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,227 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    What a performance by the President. Came up Trumps :) when the world needed him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,980 ✭✭✭yagan


    What inspired him to declare a ceasefire without any formal talks anywhere?

    This could backfire on netenyahu in that Trump may lose interest and walk away out of boredom.

    This is where the other middle eastern states know Trump loves praise but not detail.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,075 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    the 12 day war is going to need a rebrand.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    i cant get my head around this…its ok for donnies bestie bibi and israel to blow the shite out of gaza,starve and shoot the crap out of the people,start lobbing missles at iran for the last fortnight or so,iran lob missles back and all of a sudden donnie steps in and bombs iran because the iranians are supposed to be making a nuclear bomb…?ok iran is run by a fairly evil regime and seem to hate everybody…. now just go a wee bit west and donnies other bestie is blowing the absolute shite out of Ukraine,russia is also run by a fairly evil regime but donnie doesnt want to do anything there,youd have to ask why…? maybe my world view is just too simple…and just now ive heard the"ceasefire"wasnt really a"ceasefire…?

    yo! donnie vonredactedpants,vlad putin,benji netanyahu,vic orban..you sirs are the skidmarks on the jocks of humanity!!!



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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 44,889 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    What exactly was the foreign policy success here?

    Given that Trump tore up the previous nuclear agreement which Iran was abiding by and Iran did not, as per the US Intelligence Services, did not have the capacity to develop nuclear arms (to which Trump claimed "I don't care"), how was the US engaging in military action a prudent move for the US? How exactly did it benefit US foreign policy? In fact, he even announced a ceasefire was in effect while Israel was bombing Tehran (despite Iranian denials of attacks)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,953 ✭✭✭circadian


    12 and a half day war.

    The 12 day war that never was.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,172 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I'd say that it's a fear of getting impeached combined with pissing off the MAGA loons.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,825 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    I was just going by what's available on wiki. Doesn't seem to be any other sources for the cost of Iran's missiles.

    Drones and the shorter range missiles are much cheaper, but for the latter, they can't strike Israel directly from Iran. They need to use their proxies (pretty much neutered now) or use the more expensive longer range missiles.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,292 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    He gave us George Bush, not his son.

    Trump jumped all over the board, Republican for two years, Reform party for a short time, Democrat for quite a while, a republican again, then denounced all parties and then Republican again.

    How on earth you can assign blame to Reagan for either of those is beyond me.

    Reagan was only a figure head, he did sfa. He left that to people who actually knew something about politics.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,088 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,301 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Fairness doctrine gone.

    Brought the Evangeliban into an influential position in the GOP.

    Two things that led to someone as incompetent as GWB.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,172 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,903 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Well it looks like Israel are about to make him look like a b1tch yet again.

    Israel just ordered a fresh round of attacks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,088 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Query to the US people here, re the F/B and other sites allegations that there are paid agent bounty hunters using body armour, caps and masks identifying or portraying themselves as ICE or federal agency agents correct and likely or just B/S? One video was on F/B yesterday claiming to be from a woman carwash owner running 3 masked men in two SUVs off her premises as they did not show her warrants or badges to prove they were legit agents in seeking entry to her premises checking on her staff.

    There is so much faking going on on open media sites the truth is hard to see.



  • Site Banned Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭thatsdaft


    While we all distracted, Supreme Court okays deporting people to shithole countries



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 368 ✭✭tarvis


    For what reason is Trump going to the NATO summit. ?

    He openly supports Putin and Russia. NATO was created to prevent the march of Russia over Europe

    He denigrates Ukraine which was invaded by Russia years ago now and is being bombed by Russia on a daily basis.

    What is NATO for today ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭newhouse87


    Trump just told Israeli fighter pilots give friendly plane wave to Iranians and not to bomb. Whatever about all his terrible traits he is funny at times.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,180 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/gBxrGlcScw


    very colourful use of language by Donnie , looks like things might spiral out of control…..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭francois


    Israel have played him like a fiddle



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,812 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Any chance that's AI?

    I know Trump swears a lot in private meetings (and throws tomato sauce at the wall), although that's the first time I've heard him use 'fúck' so pointedly. Maybe it's slipped out at a rally before or something as well, though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,088 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Looks like another reporter got in another nasty question.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,165 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Reportedly not

    .JUST NOW: Donald Trump reacts to Iran and Israel violating the ceasefire within hours: “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the **** they’re doing. Do you understand that?”

    I thought everything was sorted out, peace and prosperity for all??

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    question should be does donnie know what the fook hes doing…

    yo! donnie vonredactedpants,vlad putin,benji netanyahu,vic orban..you sirs are the skidmarks on the jocks of humanity!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,980 ✭✭✭yagan


    Israel thought they him in their pocket when he moved the US mission to Jerusalem, but now they're looking like more trouble than is worth his attention.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,180 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    The guardian have the quote on their live feed, it’s real.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,903 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    From the same interview.

    "Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before, the biggest load that we’ve seen"

    Also reported that he asked Israel to stop and Netanyahu said no. Trump again being spanked and played by an experienced politician.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    so vlad has slapped him down,now bibi has done the same…will the mayor of los angeles and the governor of california tell him to un-invade california…?

    yo! donnie vonredactedpants,vlad putin,benji netanyahu,vic orban..you sirs are the skidmarks on the jocks of humanity!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,301 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    That was his payment to the Evangeliban who want to hasten the end times.

    I think this latest round was him fantasizing about becoming the POTUS that brought peace to the middle east. har



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,114 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Hasn't a bull's notion.

    The obvious course of action here is to threaten to stop the flow of weapons into Israel and implore Iran to go back to talks, which Israel fcuked up because Netanyahu doesn't want Iran reopening the JCPOA (they were against it in the first place). Israel will back off in a serious way when their sugar daddy disciplines them and there might be a chance that Iran will comply, although that may have been permanently scuppered by Trump's stupid and impetuous decision to bomb them last week. However, if America get serious with Israel, there might be a way forward.

    Bottom line is this, Israel needs to have its cough softened in a big way. They're acting like wild dogs. Netanyahu is determined to sow as much instability in the region because it suits his purposes. Trump was made look like a twat and if he has any brain cells under that straw head of his, he might use America's military industry to influence things for the better.

    Trump needs to wake up to the fact that Israel has been using America as their useful idiot for far too long.



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