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

I didn't think it was possible for anyone to be worse than that McEnany weapon from the first 4 years, but Leavitt has managed to take the award, I think. Just about.

There is also the IgNobel Prize. I wonder would that satisfy the Donald? Winners included: Dan Quayle 1991: Education , "consumer of time and occupier of space" for demonstrating, better than anyone else, the need for science education.. Also, 2021, Economics: : Pavlo Blavatskyy, of Montpellier Business School, for discovering that the obesity of a country's politicians may be a good indicator of that country's corruption perception.

Methinks the current administration should really scoop the pool over the next year or so. 😎

where is this being reported

It seems that Trump would have the U.S. and the world believe he is a very trusting soul, that he didn't know Epstein and Maxwell got more than one of the Mar-A-Lago female staff to leave their customer entertainment employment there to work instead for Epstein, and that he didn't have any idea or suspicion as to why Epstein might have done it, even though as a good friend of Epstein, he has admitted that he knew what Epstein liked. God forbid that Epstein was running a version of "Salon Kitty" in New York for international clients.

To be fair as mentioned by others Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini were also nominated but obviously didn't get it so he fits in pretty well with that trio when it comes to nobel peace prize nominations.

Feels more like the old Venetian Republic to me where the elites ran it in their interests and the people were just fit to be workers, soldiers and sailors.

Stephen Colbert had Harris on and said

“I just wanna remind everyone. You warned everyone about the future under our current president. You said:

- He will prosecute his political enemies

- He will cut Medicaid/Medicare

- He will ignore court orders

- He will alienate our allies

- He will give massive tax cuts to the rich

And I know you’re not here to say I told you so. But would you like to?”

Any American who claims that they didn't vote for Trump because of what's happening now, is willfully ignorant.

Trump has gone full Tariff mad to-day. Some details here (the heading on the link is a bit misleading).

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/31/trump-extends-deadline-tariff-deal-mexico

Apart from the new bullying of Canada over Palestine, just 2 observations: Why hit Bangladesh of all places with 20%?; why is Brazil at 10% despite his threats over Bolsonaro? TACO again?

Or just a giant distraction

Canada is a commodity economy like Australia and both avoided recessions after 2008 because of China's infrastructure demand. As is demand for their commodities continues to grow in Asia so tariff induced reductions in cross border trade south will be more than made up for by demand from the rest of the world.

All Trump's tariffs do is act as obstacles for anyone trading with the USA.

Its option 1. No one in this administration has the brains to be able to play that political game. A punch to the face is as nuanced as it gets.

Aside from all the yoyoing of individual tariff rates there is still a 10% baseline tariff now set on all imports from all countries, which effectively is an extra tax on US consumers and businesses.

There may be waivers for critical products, but ultimately that 10% is a trade friction that wasn't there before January and certainly may affect trade flows, especially when new blocs like the RCEP converge to eliminate 90% of existing tariff barriers between members.

The RCEP come into existence in response to Trump pulling out of the TPP.

Hopefully this latest situation with the US will bring a renewed focus and impetus to “get things done”