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Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

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    #26642
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,727 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/01/business/elon-musk-donald-trump-fight

    Trump early Tuesday morning responded with a threat: He could use DOGE to probe the government contracts and subsidies Musk’s companies receive.

    “Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!”

    Trump is threatening to set Doge and Musk and is (?) suggesting he may get deported.



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    #26643
    Brief_Lives
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,351 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123595866#Comment_123595866

    smoke and mirrors as usual… he is distracting from something else..

    what could it be today?



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    #26644
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,998 ✭✭✭yagan


    So much karma if musk got deported, preferably via el Salvador.



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    #26645
    thatsdaft
    Site Banned Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭thatsdaft


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123595802#Comment_123595802

    everyone’s pensions here has a good chunk in stocks, higher percentage the younger you are usually by default



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    #26646
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 43,023 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123595884#Comment_123595884

    Musk is a Canadian citizen so he wouldn't be going too far.

    And I don't wish any ill will towards Musk right now. He's a powerful man whose against Trump. When Trump is done then I'll be happy with anything bad that happens to Musk.



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    #26647
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,895 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123595904#Comment_123595904

    It all depends on where he would be deported to. As mentioned, if it was el Salvador, he could be detained indefinitely. Won't happen, but in Trump's America there's a non zero chance.

    Of course revoking citizenship will only be for the murderers and rapists, then it will be for anyone who (allegedly) committed a crime etc...

    Same playbook he's using with the mass deportations atm.



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    #26648
    thatsdaft
    Site Banned Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭thatsdaft


    There are 30+ Canadian citizens currently being held by ICE

    I suspect the Canadian government would place Musk as absolutely last on that list when it comes to trying to free their citizens from wrongful imprisonment by Trump SS

    As for Musk committing crimes, he openly admitted to heavy drug use



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    #26649
    aloyisious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,637 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Nice one Don. Seeking more attention, Don said he will take a look at de-naturalizing Musk and might turn DOGE on him as he gets a lot of subsidies (according to The Independent) in answer to a reporter's question. This is after he said tax will reach a whopping 68% (according to The Daily Mail) if his Big Beautiful Bill is not passed by the Senate.



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    #26650
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,054 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123595904#Comment_123595904
    1000012341.jpg

    From this very point, he deserves anything awful coming his way....

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



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    #26651
    Dr Robert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,092 ✭✭✭Dr Robert


    Investigate Trumps family businesses while they are at it.



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    #26652
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 43,023 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123595985#Comment_123595985

    I don't believe the drug use admission. It's a way of getting a pity party, suggesting that all his support for Trump was because he had a drug problem.

    Musk would never get caught out by ICE or any other authority. A man that wealthy would be well protected and on a plane to a destination of his choosing long before they could get near him. Multi billionaires have people in every major department and police force on their payroll.



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    #26653
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 43,023 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596016#Comment_123596016

    Did you read my whole post?

    I said yes he does but after Trump is done. He's a powerful tool against the most despicable creature on the planet.



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    #26654
    Baba Yaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123593891#Comment_123593891

    for real? actually building a prison in a swamp?filled with alligators…? holy shite…

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



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    #26655
    Baba Yaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123594676#Comment_123594676

    eau de loaded nappy 💩

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



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    #26656
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123594676#Comment_123594676

    And he's looking for $250 a bottle as well?????

    These people are morons…



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    #26657
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,708 ✭✭✭valoren


    They should call it "Eau De Banks" to honour his multiple bankruptcies.



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    #26658
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,703 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    So who guessed the leopards eating face moments would actually be delivered by alligators in swamps.

    Absolutely racist inhumane immigration policies being advocated for by MAGA.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #26659
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,011 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596036#Comment_123596036

    Musk's usefulness in that regard has become greatly diminished to the point where he's now practically useless.

    The wheels of the Elon Musk wagon began to come off after he foolishly called Vernon Unsworth a pedo because the latter rejected his ridiculous idea about using a submarine to rescue trapped kids in a cave in Thailand. Fast forward to his unbridled support of Trump and his ludicrous displays during that support and many, many, people who once viewed Musk as something of a genius now see him for what he truly is, which is a bit of a chancer that's struck it lucky.

    The guy has shown himself to be, well, not the best when it comes to judgement and someone who's done an awful lot to scupper himself through stupid actions and words, when the best course of action was to remain quiet.

    The biggest problem with Musk is that, like Trump, he's a narcissist who wants to be adored by others as much as he adores himself and all of his decisions will be based on viewing things through that limited prism.



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    #26660
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123594834#Comment_123594834

    It's all about the Performance - the cruelty is the point here.

    They are actually deporting less people on a daily/weekly basis than Biden or Obama did previously , but they are absolutely being more blatantly cruel and performative to feed the rabid base.

    The base aren't going to be happy with a cold bland government report saying "This week X number of illegal immigrants were deported".

    They WANT to see the snatch teams riding in on Trucks looking all scary and roughing up some brown people.

    They WANT to think about detention centres and dystopian horrors like "Alligator Alcatraz" - That makes them feel good about themselves.



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    #26661
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123594813#Comment_123594813

    People actually listen to him here. They wouldn't in the outside world. And he wouldn't even be here if the likes of StormFront and Voat still existed.



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    #26662
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,517 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596188#Comment_123596188

    Do they? It's always the same tedious fawning over the orange degenerate. Nothing new or interesting is ever offered.

    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



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    #26663
    Glencarraig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭Glencarraig


    De Santis can hardly speak with all the brown stuff covering his nose and mouth in the presser with Donny Plump and Kirsty Gnome.



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    #26664
    AbusesToilets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,784 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    My only hope is that these ghouls are so gleeful in being openly cruel, when the wheels come off and they lose power, that they won't be able to escape accountability for their actions.

    If they lose power.



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    #26665
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,517 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596246#Comment_123596246

    Not quite apples and apples but the 2010-2015 government here in the UK implemented austerity measures linked to almost 200,000 excess deaths (Source). Not only was nobody ever held accountable but David Cameron was ennobled and Nick Clegg is now one of the most powerful people in big tech.

    I wouldn't be holding my breath in other words.

    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



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    #26666
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 46,316 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596107#Comment_123596107

    Eau d'aiper

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    #26667
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596214#Comment_123596214

    I may have said 'listen' instead of 'hear'. Either way responding is like shouting into a toilet bowl



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    #26668
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,054 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596036#Comment_123596036

    I did. I saw the bit where you said

    "And I don't wish any ill will towards Musk right now".

    And my reply is that he's a scumbag and I do wish him every misfortune in life from that point on.

    If he manages to take Trump down a peg or two fine, but he's still a scumbag who deserves disdain.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



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    #26669
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,998 ✭✭✭yagan


    S&P versus Euro.png

    Sorry about the size but a rejoiner to an earlier comment about how bad the stock market is doing when valued in other currencies.



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    #26670
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,412 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123593344#Comment_123593344

    If he loved amphetamines he'd probably only sleep every second day



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    #26671
    Economics101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,729 ✭✭✭Economics101


    Just another day in Trumpworld: first a racist zenophobic reaction to a recent New York Primary:

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/trump-zohran-mamdani-citizenship

    Second, Trump inspecting a facility of immigrant dewtainees in Florida, evidently relishing in cruelty:

    https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/01/politics/alligator-alcatraz-trump-florida



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