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

He threatens to wheel out the national guard when a bloke is attacked.

He doesn't give two sh1ts about the girl being "stolen" from his employment to work for Epstein.

Usually these type of meetings are agreed well in advance. The leaders show up to shake hands type of stuff.

Why would Trump announce a meeting without everything already agreed and set up.

Or I am miss understanding the reporting?

If every country stands defiant and eats the tariffs, Trump will be in an impossible position. He is going to back out of any trade agreement anyway if the PM of that country looks at him funny, so whats the point. Let him put 100% tariffs on every country. See how long he can dodge a revolt in his own country when ordinary American people start seeing how much they have to pay for coffee, fruit, cars, clothes, wood and electronics.

The thing that beats the hell out of me is why the likes of Carney, Starmer, von der Leyen and even the Swiss are queing up for negotiations.

If everybody sticks together and ignore Trump's Tariffs, he will ultimately lose. I don't understand why people don't see this.

Any trade agreement with Trump is worth crap ultimately. He will cheat at trade agreements the same way as he cheats at golf. The whole premise of trade deficits with countries is bull$hit anyway.

What - no humans were involved?

Para 3: feeding his ego while doing the real deals elsewhere, also called screwing over the competition - which he has turned the U.S into - as far as a lot of former U.S trading partners and partners for peace are concerned. When the dust settles in years to come, it'd be nice for them to know he brought around his own demise.

I see Trump is back in his 'Sharpie can change hurricanes' point.

Coming out yesterday with 'new' (ie totally made up) figures which prove that actually everything is great and despite all the actual evidence, when you use his numbers (which can't see reviewed for at least 6 months apparently and only they have access to) then he is the bestest POTUS ever.

We are into Comincal Ali territory here. The POTUS, the most powerful person in the entire world, is left holding made-up charts and smiling like a child at a nativity play and wants people to tell him how great he is.

100%

Plus we have people giving him expensive gifts, like "Tim Apple".

I swear, this era of history will be so difficult to explain to a younger generation. How this level of incompetence and corruption won over people so easily will blow their minds

the danger is that this behaviour becomes normalised, the democrats may think that the only way to get back into power is to go down the same path that Trump and acolytes did.
after all 77 million adults voted for Trump

we now have a much deeper understanding of such behaviors, we even have far more sophisticated language in describing it, its classic personality disorder, nothing more, nothing less, and significant ideological collapse leading to the election of such, whereby most political entities have been engaging in, from both the left and right divide, we already know!

No exporter pays tariffs, how can Trump say that. All will be paid with US money. Whether US importers decide to absorb them will depend on their margins when selling on. If they can't then they'll have increase the price to the wholesaler which will in most instances will increase prices for consumers. Trump has managed to convince a lot of Americans the likes of China or Brazil etc will be paying money to the US when it will be Americans paying the tariffs. Its another tax on US businesses and consumers.