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

No president can usurp the US constitution.

Not by themselves. They need an organisation behind them.

The fact is that public consensus has been coming apart for a long time in the US. Social media, underpinned by chronic cultural problems has polarised American society, inducing widespread radicalisation. The difference between the right and left on this is that the left are still fractured while the right has largely united and they've united under Trump. Their guiding principle is not the US constitution. It is the word of Trump speaking to their prejudices and fears. This is the essence of a particularly scary term you may have heard in the last year - 'post-constitutional America'.

Donald Trump must be the first time in history that a weak, lazy man totally uninterested in his job who basically spends 99% of his time asleep or playing golf is idolised by millions of uninformed zombies …… Trump has no input whatsoever on government and has delegated that to incompetent extremists who answer to either Project 2025 itself an incompetent project or Netanyahu ….. Trump is a paper tiger and a con ….. a liar and a marketeer snake oil salesman who comes out every now and again to spout the propaganda of what is behind him ….. he speaks for an entity that is akin to The Handmaid's Tale …. but he is the Basil Fawlty spoof version ….. he speaks to the press ….. abuses Kaitlan Collins or whoever is in the firing line ….. and then rides off into the sunset as all cowboys do ….. in this case to play golf and say he beat Tiger Woods or whoever …… another lie ….. while he allows a group of incompetent unelected hardline ministers run America as some sort of a cross between Gilead and Fawlty Towers with Maxwell Not-So-Smart in charge of security, trade and economics …..

Tariffs and annexation yields (imo) essentially no US wine sales to Canada last month. Down 94% YOY which imo means nothing sold.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/trump-trade-war-alcohol-sales-dropped-after-provinces-pulled-us-products/

Yeah, I have a Canadian friend who lives in New Brunswick, in a fairly rural area. She told me that since Trump said Canada should become a US state, that they have just stopped buying ANYTHING that comes from the US.

Food, drink, cars, publications , services, anything, anything made in the US , they just won’t buy. She told me that people have just taken this decision by themselves , with no input from government, lobby groups, influencers, or media. It’s a national “movement “ that just happened naturally. They also won’t travel there either, unless it’s completely unavoidable.

Groundhog Day-again and again

Is that the farthest Taco man can think ahead?

https://us.cnn.com/2025/06/29/politics/trump-tiktok-buyer-bytedance-ban

Hitler actually overruled his appointed general of the forces near the coast (Rommel) to hold back the tanks as Hitler was 100% certain the real attack would come around Calais

Hitler thought he knew better than those whose professional life was fighting.

If you read the article, there's plenty about it being due to Canadian's just not buying anything from the US, and the provinicial premiers kicking US products off the shelves. Not just tariffs, Canadians are seriously giving 2 fingers to the US. Lots of stories about MAGAts being hostile to their (usually long term) retired Canadian snowbird neighbours in warm states and the Canadians saying, "O.K. then f**k you we're leaving."

Good for Canada. America needs to feel more pain. Maybe enough will come to their senses to do something about the mayhem CFTrump and his lickspittles are causing. I'm doubtful, one thing about Americans is a massive sense of entitlement coupled with rampant deep stupidity.

I was aware they pulled US liquor from the shelves in Canada. I wasn't aware they done the same for wine.

It just goes to show, even if tariffs went back to zero, the damage is done and as you say, Canadians will still avoid some US products.

Soya farmers found that out during Trump's first term. They lost the China soya market for a time due to tariffs and when it reopened, they found most Chinese buyers had switched to Brazilian suppliers and didn't switch back:

Canadian wines are enjoying this, they suffered a few bad years so this really helps with getting the money flowing.

Boarder crossings are still as low as Covid, so it’s really not great for the yanks.

Imagine if America had a president like Trump during World War 2!

While putting a post-it with the words "I'm sorry" on them....

If they had the internet and social media back then the world could very much have an America like there is today.

watching Karolines press conference now, why does she shout so much? All the journalists asking questions look set up, some lad wants the head of the Fed fired

I don't think there has ever been an administation which has been so openly hostile and intimidatory to the media. Trump himself calling for journalists to be fired and calling them fake news, Vance admonishing them and Hegseth attacking a Fox News reporter for asking a legitimate question about uranium. Karoline is especially vile towards the media saying that they insult her intelligence, she is openly contemptuous of some of them and seeks their removal. Any difficult question is countered by blaming Biden. Her shouty, agressive attitude is symbolic of this regime