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

The White House comments on South Park are hilarious.

They are turning into whingey Karen's, way worse than than any looney leftie.

When your ego can't take a cartoon sketch as a joke then it's time to throw the towel in. Especially when the top whinger is a convicted sex pest and good friends with a kiddie fiddler.

The democrats haven’t been going left, both parties have been going right over the last 20 years at least. In any other country they would be considered centre-right, with the MAGA GOP being extreme right. It’s one of the many issues of a 2 party system - as long as you’re less extreme than your opponent, you’re considered “the left”.

In any case I think “going too far left” is just MAGA code for hating anything that promotes equal rights to all and doesn’t prioritise white Christians.

Do you realise that saying the dems are "too far left" for the US electorate is a different statement to your earlier one of the dems have a "far left ideology"?

The beauty of a well cooked Irish steak is that you can eat it with just salt and pepper and it tastes divine- less is more with good quality meat

I presume Elon Musk & JD Vance have come out and publicly supported South Park's right to free speech?

Right?

Right?

tumbleweed

yet here you are recycling it

Kinda reminded me of the time he was being interviewed by ABC's Terry Moran about Abrago Garcia and Trump insisted that the M S 1 3 characters that were clearly photoshopped onto a picture of his hand was actually a tattoo. When the interviewer tried to appeal to Trump's common sense regarding the obvious added lettering, all Trump did was double down on his stupidity and continue to insist that it was a tattoo.

You don't get real news on the EDGE feed… you just get clickbait nonsense most of the time.
I get a totally different feed to you which only mentions Trump once, but has clickbait stories about Irish celebrities, about footballers, about Wimbledon.

The problem very much is Trump.

He and his administration made the Epstein files a big deal and it's coming back to haunt him. That is news. So what is he covering up?

He reacted to the South Park episode, he could have ignored it. He made it bigger news globally by doing so.
Him and his amoral VP Vance with their hypocritical drivel about free speech which basically means they want to be racist and sexist but no one can criticise them. That's their version of free speech.
So yes it is news if the US administration is shown up in this way.

He picked a fight with the Fed Reserve Chairman and was shown up publicly as a liar, because he is trying to remove him from his position - entirely without merit or foundation. He wants to replace him with a stooge instead of someone who will execute the position with proper responsibility. That is news entirely of Trump's making.

On RTE it is mentioned about EU-US tariffs and trade deal. Is that real news?
It wouldn't be getting mentioned if Trump wasn't embarked upon economic insanity with tariffs.

On BBC he is mentioned because of a visit to Scotland. That is news in the UK.

The main headlines on the BBC and RTE website are about Gaza, and the attacks on and starvation of civilians - for which Trump is culpable too.
It also mentions that the US administration rejects a French move to recognise a Palestinian state.
But he is not mentioned by name. Is that real news?

Who knew electing a rapist who lacks basic etiquette would result in them getting headlines.

More Trump news, Columbia give in to blackmail. And Vance lectures Europe on free speech but they don't like student protests in the US.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8zljpvyk0o

Columbia is among a list of universities that have been pursued by the Trump administration over protests against Israel's war campaign in Gaza and other issues, including transgender athletes and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes.

The government has targeted over 4,000 grants for termination at over 600 universities and colleges across the US, totalling roughly $8bn, according to a tracker by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.

Trump posted on Truth Social platform on Wednesday: "Columbia has also committed to ending their ridiculous DEI policies, admitting students based ONLY on MERIT, and protecting the Civil Liberties of their students on campus.

"Numerous other Higher Education Institutions that have hurt so many, and been so unfair and unjust, and have wrongly spent federal money, much of it from our government, are upcoming."

One month after Trump was sworn into office, his administration stripped Columbia of $400m in federal funding over allegations of antisemitism.

Another failed attempt at denying you’re a Trump fan.

“Why am I getting all of this news…it is so confusing, I’m not even a Trump supporter”

If he pardons her, that is a full scale admission of guilt all across the board.