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

Mr Morals here...

"Donating his salary", while milking gifts like a plane, cryptocurrency, pawning cheap perfume, watches etc etc.

Whats the going rate for a pardon to the Trump crime family these days?

How many multiples of the Presidential salary gets you off the hook for sex crimes?

Just par for the course for the utterly corrupt and depraved President Trump in 2025 meanwhile his defenders and supporters get distracted by his golf score.

I don't know how U.S multinational Companies, as a whole, feel about Trump's tariffs ref their business profits being hit when they have products entering the U.S from their plants outside the U.S AND the same applying to their exports from their U.S plants entering the countries retaliating against Trump's tariffs in kind. According to an article in todays Irish Indo, Caterpillar, Headquartered in Irving, Texas, is confident it can offset U.S. $1.5Bn hit from U.S trade levies (which I assume means tariffs) on it's products entering the U.S. from abroad. That is a large hit on a U.S Company from the U.S Govt.

Diageo expects an ANNUAL U.S $200 million hit from tariffs as well, according to another report in the same edition.

He is making 1 billion a month with no 1 calling out their i can be bought commander and thief

That reminds me of this critique, there was discourse, enemies were made that day

we were PIIGS

Clearly Trump is somewhat bluffing here when he asks the reporters if they know what a BRICS nation is...

But, god forbid, in his defence, he has been misquoted in that tweet. In the embedded video clip, he ASKS if Spain are a BRICS nation, not states that they are one.

Face palm - my bad... the absolute muppet! Missed the bit later into that clip…

It's more accurate to say he's isolating the US from the global economy by erecting trade barriers.

News just in…

A contraction in U.S. imports "was more than offset" by strong growth in imports into other regions, including Europe, Maersk said in its second-quarter earnings statement."Even with market volatility and historical uncertainty in global trade, demand remained resilient, and we've continued to respond with speed and flexibility," CEO Vincent Clerc said.

https://www.reuters.com/business/maersk-boosts-profit-outlook-container-demand-defies-trade-fears-2025-08-07/

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail

I guess that it means that the word of Trump is not that of a gentleman, just that of a transactional businessman. There seems to be more U.S goods exported to Brazil that there is Brazilian goods exported to the U.S. to the tune of some 7 Billion dollars despite Trumps "word" on the trade difference between the two countries.

In terms of what else Trump is involved in now in Europe, I hope Ukraine and Europe heed the truth that Trump cannot tell a truth, that he's lower than a snake in the grass, more likely to TACO to Russia and stick his fangs in Ukraine again.

As for his peaceful intents in the Middle East, I'd like to see Netanyahu's Govt partners and his Military stick it to him by forcing the control Gaza into the sand and gutting Trump's medal hopes.

I would have some thought for the U.S citizens and the bill Trump is sliding in under their front doors and hope they force Trump and his GOP friends out of office.

There's a law and order story in The Independent that a former FBI agent, Jared Wise, involved in the Capitol insurrection attempt who called on other rebels to kill the police officers protecting the Capitol, calling them Nazis and Gestapo. Mr Wise was to go on trial last Jan 17th but the trial did not go ahead, the DOJ mover to have the charges dropped on 20 Jan and the judge agreed. Trump gave him a pardon. Wise is apparently now in federal employment in the DOJ, as a senior advisor to the Deputy A.G.

Narration: In fact, he was the Nazi.