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

This is the petty little man that people are rowing in behind. Ordering the removal of a peace tent on the instigation of some MAGA reporter. You can see his demeanor change as soon as the "reporter" says the tent is anti-Trump.

A pathetic fool and his followers.

What gay lifestyle? Why does he assume that because the young guy says he's gay, that he's automatically living a so-called 'gay life-style'

Maybe that lad is celibate or unpartnered or not actively having sexual relations? Who knows?

Do all heterosexuals have a 'straight life-style'? Very condescending reply from Kirk in that clip.

I always found the one sided abuse of Biden in that debate absolutely gas. Trump was absolutely terrible as well, the only difference being that the Republicans are well versed in closing ranks, whereas the Democrats can't help but disintegrate from within.

The same applies today because there's no way anyone in the Republican party is going to call out Trump's health, whereas if it was Biden there today you can guarantee there would be Democrats breaking rank and causing chaos in their party.

Because there are people who identify as Christian who do, differently to how Kirk said he does, judge a person's worth by what they imagine a gay person does in the bedroom, as in you're a sodomite first, a human 2nd but never a Christian.

Now if how Christian one is is to be judged by one's bedroom activities, should that rule not also be applied to Trump?

The trump administration are giving Putin more support for his savage war on Ukraine. His support for the mass murderer Putin is an affront to democracy. Putin knows that as long as trump is president he has nothing to fear from America.

it’s all game, hypocrisy isn’t an obstacle, it’s a useful tool to cause outrage and distraction.

Some of the replies here and the reaction to the Kirk murder are fascinating. To be clear, let me start out by saying the person that did this is a scumbag and murdering someone on the basis of political differences should be condemned in the highest sense. Aside from it being morally repugnant, it actually serves no purpose. Now without getting into the ideology of the shooter, if they were of the left persuasion then they have done a massive disservice to their cause because all something like this would do is the embolden the right MAGA loons. In saying that I would not be at all surprised if it turns out to be another right wing gun nut that did this for some reason. Anyway speculation over.

What does fascinate me is the reaction and hand ringing to this murder in comparison to the countless other innocent murder victims in both America and around the world. In the exact same day there was another school shooting with a fatality. Before that another democrat was targeted. The world hardly heard about those incidents. Yet remember Kirk is someone who is quoted with the following:
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." and "Driving comes with a price... Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty". It is then a little ironic that someone who espoused such beliefs was then one of the statistical victims in the pursuit of this "freedom". Now, the level of outrage I've seen in the past couple of days and fake concern, far exceeds that of the innocent men, women and especially children who are struck down due to gun violence in America every day.

Also, lets cut the bullshit here in the comments from many almost canonising Kirk. He was not by any measure a nice person. He grifted in spreading hate and division and dressed it up in "debate", whereas what he was doing was more akin to brainwashing weak minded white men for the most part. He marketed in "Christofascism" and wanted all parts of life to confirm to his warped version of Christianity. He also ran from debates and topics when challenged by an "equal". Watch any of his so called campus "debates". He re-hashes the same bored taking points ("What is a woman?") and never addresses the points being made by his opposite number. It's no more clear that when his hubris made him believe he could debate in Cambridge and got his ass handed to him. Then when on a twitter rant about how crap England is and how is is so happy to be back in the good old US of A. Another great irony of his positions, is that by any measure someone as controversial as him would be far safer living in any European country. But no, the right to own guns and spew hate, trumped (pun intended) all of that. The sad thing is instead of Americans (well right wingers), copping on to the fact that they are the only western country in the world that this type of day to day gun violence happens, they will literally die on the hill of their beloved second amendment.

Whilst I've no doubt they'll catch the gunman eventually, the delay in doing so is surely significant. This should have been relatively simple, especially with it having massive resources thrown at it.
This is an FBI where apparently many long-serving agents have been retired or re-assigned, and at the top level has been peopled by inexperienced Trump appointees. On it's first big test, this new FBI has been found wanting.

It's a situation which will give encouragement to any organised domestic or foreign groups who plan to mount a professional operation on US soil. (I'm assuming that the CK killing wasn't professional purely because of the gun being found, the culprits face being clearly seen, stuff like that).

The US security apparatus (FBI, CIA, military etc) will still win a lot of the time purely because of their access to unlimited funds and the best technology. But a lot of times it comes down to people, and they seem to have a clear problem here.

If he has developed a droop on one side of his face, on the positive side it may stop him talking out of both sides of his mouth.

If he is now using AI for these speeches, after him making so much noise over Biden and autopens it would just add to his hypocrisy.

I don't know what there really is to talk about, honestly. This is the regime doing its thing. It's what Americans voted for.