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

The Grifter in Chief carries on:

https://us.cnn.com/2025/07/27/business/trump-scotland-business-crypto

The president has already made millions from his family’s cryptocurrency ventures, foreign investments,private clubs and the sale of a host of Trump-branded products, according to his latest financial disclosure documents.

Trump made more than $1.3 million from Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” Bible, $2.5 million from Trump sneakers and fragrances, $2.8 million selling “Trump Watches,” and more than $1 million on a “45” guitar, a popular moniker referring to his first term as the 45th president

And then there’s TrumpMobile, a wireless service with monthly plans and a $499 smartphone.

The actual headline in the Irish Times says:

EU-US deal good for Ireland as it averts trade war for now and gives businesses vital sense of certainty
Ireland relies heavily on US investment and stood to be exposed if talks went badly

And the details:

In the wider picture, Trump is building in baseline tariffs of 15 per cent for many countries, with his key goal being to raise revenue for the US exchequer. But this will hit those who rely on imports into the US, too, affecting businesses and consumers and pushing up inflation.That is the price of tariffs. For now, though, Trump is happy for the US to pay it.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2025/07/27/eu-us-deal-good-for-ireland-as-it-averts-trade-war-for-now-and-gives-businesses-vital-sense-of-certainty/

Sorry Donal o donovan in the independent. You have a point but if the EU was willing to take short term pain trump may have backtracked more.

I'm sure she was well briefed on what to give the felon

Could of been worse, she could of called Trump Daddy

Makes an absolute mockery of some of the nonsense posted to the forum about how this and pulling support from Ukraine was all some 4d chess game to focus on the China threat. That aged well.

The people who funded his campaigns thought and think otherwise, even if it's only to ensure a person from the other party doesn't get elected (regardless of their debatable capabilities).

Not many candidate elected to the office have throw as many strops as Trump has. In that way he definitely gets the award for the biggest president ever for the U.S.

There seems to be confusion on pharma. Prior to the announcement Trump said pharma won't be apart of it, it will be treated differently, but after the announcement a senior US official said that pharma were part of the 15%.

If you take it at face value sure Trump got something but go any deeper and its plain to see this benefits the US in no way whatsoever. Firstly 15% is not anywhere close enough to pull US businesses back to manufacturing in the US so Europe keeps all its jobs, secondly the US public simply continue paying more as all tariffs are is a tax on consumers. Thirdly he is pissing off everyone with his behaviour and bit by bit everyone is doing deals with each other that will mean the US is no longer the center of global commerce.

id say large global corporations will be the real winners, and of course their main share holders, i.e. trump and his mates!

The problem is his idiot army will be conditioned to see all of this as some sort of genius win. Trump may get to have a wank thinking he's pulled off a great "deal", but nothing is really changing for the EU as a whole and, as you say, no company is going to be packing their bags and heading back to the States based on this nonsense.

So the biggest loser in all of this is the American consumer who now has to pay an extra "import tax" on goods that come into their country. Goods for which there's often no other choice to choose from because they don't produce it themselves.

There may be a lot of "we cannot build bananas in America" moments coming for a lot of Yanks.

I'm waiting to see the colour of the 55 Billion U.S. dollar cheque Bessent and Trump say the Japanese Govt gave them.

MAGA: Trumps a brilliant golfer

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