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

our housing issues will carry into the 30's, and possible into the 40's, due to its significant and fundamental flaws, its far more complex than just our population, i.e. reducing our population will not resolve our housing issues, but will although relieve some of the issues, the reduction in economic activity will more or less cancel out gains made by population reduction

Comical Ali seems an understatement. This is literal North Korea style of propaganda, right down to the 'President Trump just won several golf tournaments in a row' bullshit.

This may play well with the MAGA crowd, but even some of them cannot be so dumb not to see the 6 month wait for this secret data as just another Trump snowjob. Especially considering the source.

Who are not going to be fooled is any company Trump is attempting to coerce into moving their operations to the U.S. Any chance of them doing so would require independent verifiiable data and Trump`s little tantrum last week on job figures blew that out of the water.

He said they have access data to unpublished census data but the last US census was in 2020?

I do wonder what will be thought of all this in a century:

The next jobs figures released by Trump’s new appointment will show new created jobs are the biggest ever

Long time lurker here, don't know enough about politics to contribute. A question I would have watching all this is, are we seeing the fall of for use of a better word the American Empire?

Empires through history have all risen and fallen and I would think these Empires didn't just fall overnight but declined for years before the slide was unavoidable. America seems to be sliding for the last 30 to 40 years now and Trump like Nero seems to be fiddling while Rome burns.

Has Trump done so much damage already that America is going to slide further and further down for the next few decades and how low?

There's a way to go yet before that 'empire' collapses. Save your popcorn until Trump retires or dies because the MAGA/Republican/P2025 crowds will begin to eat each other; there are too many diverse beliefs for them to be unified by anything other than Trump's cult of personality. There'll be a civil war or a couple of states will secede from the Union before it all goes tits up, probably over things like banning women or immigrants from voting altogether. As for foreign influence, the whole world, including their allies, are moving away from the US and those nations usually kept in check like Russia, Iran etc are now openly laughing at him.

By all means, help the process along by not buying or using US products and services if possible.

India is equally pi**ed because Pakistan is trolling them, pointing out they did a quick deal with Trump that got them minimal tariffs.

So a Muslim country with ties to Iran and China, got a deal over India that has dealt with the US for military hardware. India (and Indians on twitter/Reddit) is raging.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-says-it-wins-us-tariff-deal-trump-cites-oil-reserves-pact-2025-07-30/

Trump saying Ukraine need to give up land as part of a cease fire negotiation...

Trump meeting with Putin in alaska in the coming days...

Riiiiiight...land for Russia, rare minerals for Donald and co, Ukraine loses their land.

Zelenskyy Pretty much told him to go **** himself.

Reek - Round II