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

It will be the same old tactic, "we have all the cards, your playing with world war 3" except I imagine it could go as far as "give us your land in exchange for peace, ill tell putin to stop killing Ukrainians"

And of course this will be all bullshit.

Putin has hands on the trump controller.

Pretty much

Some-one thinks the labour figures are correct. A top official at the Federal Reserve said Saturday that this month's stunning, weaker-than-expected report on the U.S. job market is strengthening her belief that interest rates should be lower. Michelle Bowman was one of two Fed officials who voted a week and a half ago in favour of cutting interest rates.

Bowman and a fellow dissenter lost out after nine other Fed officials voted to keep interest rates steady, as the Fed has been doing all year. The Fed's chair, Jerome Powell, has been adamant that he wants to wait for more data about how President Donald Trump's tariffs are affecting inflation before the Fed makes its next move.

At a speech during a bankers' conference in Colorado on Saturday, Bowman said that “the latest labour market data reinforce my view” that the Fed should cut interest rates three times this year. The Fed has only three meetings left on the schedule in 2025.

The jobs report that arrived last week, only a couple of days after the Fed voted on interest rates, showed that employers hired far fewer workers last month than economists expected. It also said that hiring in prior months was much lower than initially thought.

Source of report: The Independent. https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/a-top-federal-reserve-official-says-dour-jobs-data-backs-the-case-for-3-rate-cuts/ar-AA1KdUGf?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=4beae08265f846e7fe84c6fc1b4a2b68&ei=97

Great to see Democrats finally growing a back bone on the Trump administration's attempts to steal house seats to avoid getting pummelled in the midterms next year.

Well.. at least at a local level and the governers anyway. Their congressional delegation could do with waking up a bit.

Yes. He always punches down, never up. The respect has for some of the most heinous leaders in the world is palpable.

Everyone f**king knows that if it was only the Dems all over the files, Trump would have released them ages ago.

Such an epic fail at distraction.

It's hilarious. Like someone had to insert a recurring phrase at the end of his posts to make him sound even more infantile and stupid.

Edit: re 29604 above

Trump has made a deal with AMD and Nvidia to sell their 5G chips to China. They give 15% of their revenue for Chinese sales to the US government.

Trump has been going on about "national security" issues for years with selling these chips to China. How does this deal fix the national security issues?

Nvidia and AMD have agreed to hand over 15% of the money they earn from the sales of A.I. chips in China, the chips they have EXPORTED from the U.S to China. Nvidia will share revenue from sales of its H20 chip, while the pledge applies to AMD’s MI308 chips. Apparently this is in return for the export licences the Trump Admin gave the companies. It's almost, just not quite, the same as reverse tariffs being applied to U.S companies. That Latin line Trump dislikes "Quid Pro Quo" comes to mind

Report on the Euronews media site.

His actions in office tell another tale e.g. TikTok was also meant to have been shut down or sold off in the US - he stopped that.

Afair he's been told it helps his popularity with the "youth". Was some lobbying also, by rich investors in TikTok.

Probably similar take with Nvidia and GPUs - a lot of lobbying from their CEO/investors about all that money to be made in China and the $ signs started flashing in Trump's eyes.

Anyway, there is no way I can credit the US would actually come to blows with China over some attack on an Asian US ally or a blockade of Taiwan say with a Trump or Vance admin. in charge, so 🤷.

Didn't know it was illegal (the halt on implementing that law)?!