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

Trump inspecting a facility of immigrant dewtainees in Florida

Wow he's really going old-school right-wing there. Plenty of 'dews' in Florida who originally came from elsewhere in fairness…

Sorry, it was just a typo on my part.😁 You can blame it on my outrage at this obscene policy.

The Lancet did an article projecting the effects of defunding USAID:

"Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 (uncertainty interval 8 475 990–19 662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (3 124 796–5 910 791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030."

Scumbag is too polite a word for the murdering Nazi.

Delighted for them hope they get squeezed now till the pips squeak !

Apparently the site has/is a landing strip, useful if you're transporting prisoners by air. As for the site, I can guess spreading the rumour that it's surrounded by alligators would have an effect on future inmates, as in: bef***ed if I'm going to be eaten by them, I'll be a good inmate.

It would put a different slant on Trumps (they're eating the….) quote, thought Ron DeSantis might not appreciate the electoral effect if it turned out the locals wildlife were doing that.

Trump has stated today that the price of gasoline is less than 2 dollars per gallon in 5 states. No state has an average price of less than 2 dollars 75 cent. Trump stated that the price per gallon in California was 7 dollars 70 cent.

Everyone knows he is blatantly lying, no one challenges him. Bizarre

That's what I really don't get with the reporters in the room. Just someone please shout "BULLSXXT" at the top of their lungs.

But they're afraid they'll never get back in the press room so they all keep their mouths shut and listen to the crazy and then afterwards go back to their echo chambers like CNN and NBC and talk about how stupid Trump is.

It seems like he didn't say anything about the average price in the 5 states. That doesn't necessarily mean he's telling the truth, but you never know, he may have paid 5 gas stations to lower their gasoline prices for the day ;)

"He's a Communist!" - The sitting president of the USA. It's not that this type of rhetoric hasn't been bandied about before, but sometimes you have to stand back and remember how far the US has fallen in its discourse when this type of thing is coming out of their highest office.

People say all politicians are as bad as each other. I wouldn't say this is true. Donald Trump is as bad in the category of previous presidents' bad tendencies, plus he is an outrageously corrupt (show me the Obama scam coin that netted Obama a whole other fortune) person with the emotional age of a 12 year old. And the best part is that his followers love him for it.

But the constitution says reps are limited to a two year terms and senators to a 6 year term. At the end of the current term, all members of the House and about a third of the Senate will see their terms of office expire. Their terms of office doesn't just carry on if there is no election. If there is no midterm, there will literally be no House. So an election every two years is mandated by the constitution. Trump can tweet and shout and threaten all he wants, but the presidency doesn't have the power to cancel them.

Also, the states administer elections, not the federal government.