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

the reality is they can only offer prayers as the gun nuts just don’t give a toss about dead kids. A price worth paying for keeping guns at home is someone else’s children. If they don’t offer prayers then they have nothing to offer as anything else would have to be a too close to gun control and that’s just not something they will offer. If you are going to offer thoughts and prayers then you have to offer them with venom.

Not today

Gabbard's tweet should be put over all the insane clips of Donald's spiritual leader worshipping Donald

@J Mysterio

How are there so many actual psychopaths in the US administration.

I don't know if you'd call them psychopaths. Sycophants might be a better term. Trump, though, is a classic psychopath, and he has engineered MAGA in such a way either by accident, by deliberation or by sheer odious instinct that he stays at the top of it and anyone else who wants power within the movement must speak and act in increasingly specific ways.

Trump has been dialling this in since he first took office in 2017. His only problem then was that his rise to the presidency was so rapid that he was thrown in with a lot of people in the Republican party who still had some kind of morals and decency. Trump has ruthlessly and systematically purged the party of these people. Look at his press secretary in January 2017 up to the end of his last term, i.e. Spicer to McEnany. Look at how much more purely hitting the MAGA talking points the latter was.

The formula is now established as is the dogma and when Trump's underlings speak or act they're always trying to do so in a way that pleases Trump and his base. Laws and the constitution are irrelevant. Talk about who is great (Trump), vilify and dehumanise his critics and opponents, conspiratorialise and proclaim vengeance. And never, ever admit wrongdoing.

It's insane, but when you look back on the gradual degradation of public/political discourse in the United States, you can't really say it's not been coming, can you?

Perhaps he will get wedged in a bunker.

He's probably undergoing another transfusion of ego juice.

Hitler credited the Gods with saving him in the Valkerie assassination attempt, only to meet his end in a bunker a few months later.

Don't threaten me with a good time!

There's something deeply disgusting about these types hiding behind a god or "faith" to disguise their revolting politics.

Well, today I learned that the Nobel Peace prize is administered in Norway.

The quest for the Nobel peace prize nonsense is just sick though.

Trump's egged on the war crimes + now likely a genocide unfolding in Gaza.

Sure he's not responsible himself, but I think him winning the election was a necessary condition for that situation to become as bad as it is.

Ukraine - he's also made situation there far worse by pandering to Putin and his allies. Gave Putin hope, and a green light to him, Kim Jong Un, Xi etc. to go and savage and destroy Ukraine if they can. The US under Trump won't do anything prevent it and might even help a bit. It has a positive side effect from their admin's pov that it damages and weakens Europe/the EU, and makes us more reliant on the US in the short term anyway.

Israel's attack on Iran - like what is happening in Gaza Trump's election was probably necessary for that too (and the US took part).

What's up with the fetishisation of the US military, his constant boasting about how strong it is, hanging of standards around him in the Oval Office + talking about changing name of the Defence Dept. back to the Dept. of War?

Really odd + disturbing, and is it fitting for someone who believes they should be awarded a peace prize?

He probably has sent letters to all and sundry to attend his great day, his inauguration as the world's greatest ever peacekeeper in 6 months and booked (well made a deposit) Melania for the weekend away.

Junior and Eric will be busy having the avalanche of souvenirs made and planning how to stiff the manufacturers.