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

That ear !!!!!!……….looking well, totally unmarked !!

The fact that there's an active concern about being prevented from entering the US because you're critical of Trump, that is Trump's America.

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-academic-denied-entry-united-states-donald-trump-personal-opinion-messages/

I have a buddy in the US that is fairly MAGA orientated. He's also super in to the Epstein stuff. It's at the same time amazing, hilarious and depressing to see how people like that are folding themselves into having nothing left

The orange clown is gonna end up burying people under the WH, and all his small government cronies will celebrate it. His proud military men will happily do the lifting

By their own wording which I linked to their government page they will detain you even if you attempt to self deport.

Do you want me to post that link again?

He's the President and unquestioned leader of his party (much more so than 1st term). Trump just banishes anyone who doesn't suck up to him enough.

Was struck by Hegseth praising him after the bombing of Iran. I thought way he phrased it, you'd almost think Trump was right in there planning out the operation and directing it! Think I have heard similar from others (e.g. Rubio).

Can you imagine it here if all the cabinet ministers had to do a little spiel about the visionary leadership and the strength of Our Taoiseach, M. Martin or whatever everytime they opened their beaks about something in public? It'd be ridiculous, a joke.

When it comes to the Republicans and Trump's cabinet + officials, the US is now very much the land of the lickspittle, shamelessly brown-nosing the boss!

Its so they can contribute to causes or people they want to or like, non white people area in disaster, naw not going to help them, good Christian folk that's a yes, they can play God then with their money and not trust the government to use it wisely

Trump back on the pharmaceutical bandwagon again. Touting 200% pharmaceutical tariffs on some countries. Probably Ireland is top of the list.

On the Ukraine/Russia war front, it seems from Trumps response to media questions on whom cut back on Air defence supplies to Ukraine "You tell me, you seem to know the answer" that he was getting tetchy on several topics. It seems that after a conversation between Trump and Hegseth as to whether the U.S forces in the Middle East had enough ammunition in reserve to keep up a strong defence if needed, that Hegseth and one of his Pentagon civil deputies discussed the matter and one or other of them came up with the idea that stopping the planned flow of air defence munitions to Ukraine was necessary to the U.S forces in the Middle East and a cutback was put on the Ukraine supply. The problem for Trump began when the media heard about the cutback as, apparently, neither he nor his National Security Advisor Sec State Rubio were informed beforehand.

Last night, the issue came front and centre for Trump with the media and he apparently lashed out at Putin directly talking about the bullshit (Trump's own word) Putin was saying. It seems that Putin's close Kremlin ally, Medvedev had given an earlier release to the media in Russia which was not complimentary about Trump and the U.S. It seems that Trump was getting hot under the collar and needed to lash out at some-one, this time not Zelenskyy.

Back to what apparently happened in the Pentagon between Hegseth and his Pentagon deputy on the supply cutback decision, it's not clear yet whether there will be any repercussions for either of those last two people in leaving Trump without a "by your leave" hint or plausible deniability and with no answers in front of the media.