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

The Republican party is led by a man with a golden apartment atop a skyscraper, who constantly boasts about his wealth, and has probably made more money in office than at any other point in his life, and is now being backed by several of the most obscenely wealthy men in America, including Bezos, Zuckerberg and Altman.

Both party leaderships are run by the wealthy, but the Republicans just figured a better message to work over the rubes.

Trump has used the presidency to launch a digital currency which has made him millions and has also weakened regulations on cryptocurrency in terms of making it easy to avoid paying taxes digital transactions Of course the republican party has got large donations for crypto company's and tech company who want to avoid regulation

One thing, hopefully, the people steering and monetizing I.C.E will forget and that is if they run out of friendly countries to accept the deportees they will end up with a lot of locked-up people and the public aware of where the camp is located. There are other locations around the U.S which the Trump admin has been selectively using to hold prisoners so that he can keep one step ahead of the detainees lawyers and court moves.

Trump has an immigrant figure in his head which he keeps going on about, which his team might know is only propaganda to keep the MAGA heads happy that Trump is doing something about the invasion of "murderers, rapists, drug-dealers harming the U.S.", but which people in the U.S will think is real. Those people include listeners from across the voting populace who will not like such a camp in their state or neighbourhood.

All the detained persons will have lots of family and in-laws in the U.S. who are too many for ICE to gather in and lock up no matter how good and how well financed they are. Trump wont be able to disperse the voting whirlwind he has agitated.

If the proverbial hits the fan next year when people start demanding accountability from the GOP, will Trump try throwing DeSantis under the (it was all his idea) bus or will Governor DeSantis decide to transfer all legal responsibility to Trump's Federal team? Who is tasked with the security of the Everglades camp anyway - federal or state services?

I suggest that the GOP governors of other states are watching what is happening in the Everglades in Florida hoping that Trump's Homeland Security people doesn't ask them to give a helping hand with a secure facility in their states.

The point of tariffs is to make EU products less desirable to us consumers due to higher price and they will in turn buy us products. Why would the EU and China etc be looking for less % tariffs if it was good for them to have higher tariffs? Thought EU would be tougher but looks like they are beginning to crack. We are getting no concessions from the US.

Reading multiple reports from various media outlets the general consensus is the EU are going to agree to baseline 10% tariffs in hope of deal on other sectors while also buying more LNG. Many reports have said no US concessions on anything yet. Like it or not trump is getting his way. If all countries were willing to take some pain for while, trump would have to u-turn but everybody is looking after their own interests rather then thinking of bigger picture. Obviously time will tell if the above turns out as reported.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/03/eu-closing-in-on-framework-deal-with-us-to-avoid-trump-50-tariffs

There is one today, many others online. Quick search you will find.

History shows us that the EU doesn't "cave" when it does trade negotiations. If it has decided that a flat 10% tariff on EU→US imports is the lowest they can expect, then they'll be pragmatic and ensure that they get something useful in return. Just because the current US government is so incompetent in trade negotiations, and hasn't yet been able to offer concessions on their side, doesn't mean that it won't happen. Chances are the EU will agree a "deal" that Trump will be able to brag about but that delivers no benefit to the US … like upping their beef quota, for example, when they can't fill the quota that already exists.

Trump: we're gonna have a UFC fight on the Whitehouse grounds.

An absolute laughing stock

Like something out of idiocracy

Just seems to be an baboon sitting there.

Not sure what the point of dumping that was.

Meanwhile, the press continue to sh1t the bed and it never stops being depressing as f***

Nothing in the first article about mass deportations, trillions to be added to the national debt, millions cut from healthcare...

Nothing in the second about his use of a racial slur, nor the ridiculous claims about autism.

Instead, we have headlines and photos which appear to bystanders as "just another day".