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

I'd say it's people such as yourself simply being okay with the direction things are going. Government overreach that has never occurred before and you've outright claimed it's not happening. You've pretended to be a centrist or not a trump supporter but when all's said and done, you'll happily act as an apologist. Plenty posters feel like they'd happily be downplaying Mussolini back in the day and that includes you.

It’s incredibly difficult for Trump supporters to do anything except criticise anyone who opposes him, because he has done nothing except make millions of lives worse.He lies constantly, is incredibly thin-skinned, bitter and vengeful. He completely crooked, taking bribes from other countries out in the open through his crypto or by being gifted planes. He spends most of his time golfing, costing the US nearly $100m to this point. He’s spent another couple of hundred million making a ballroom in the White House at the taxpayers expense.

There is an avalanche of actions, speeches, tweets and interviews to back up all of the above. He is indefensible. So of course anyone who supports him in spite of all that knows that they cannot defend him, it’s easier to just call out his critics as ‘deranged’. It’s totally transparent and more than a little sad.

You do realise that the reality is that your viewpoint is just incredibly extreme for Ireland. I also wouldn't classify you as non hostile btw. You've happily shouted about TDS on a constant basis while entirely avoiding discussing actual issues..

Why are your posts almost exclusively about other posters on this thread as opposed to the thread topic?

"Trump can't be a fascist. He doesn't wear jackboots!"

For what it's worth, I don't think Trump is a fascist because that is at least a political ethos, and that's something Trump doesn't really possess. His only concerns are power, wealth and adoration. He could as easily been a Democrat right now, and had been in the past, but figured at some point that it's just easier to cultivate a cult of personality through the spreading of rage and paranoia than it was through love and charm and general good feelings. He just leans that bit to the former, so that's what he went with.

Now, the people behind him - the people with the actual strategy - oh, yeah, they're very much fascist. I genuinely get the creeps looking at that Stephen Miller person, with his dead-eyed, soulless face and monotone voice. He's definitely a person with a dream of 1984 - a perfect police state where all dissent is crushed and the boot stamps on the human face forever.

As for followers of Trump, that's going to be a mixed bag. I don't think most are fascist by any means, but they have become so obsessed with a couple of political issues that they're willing to throw away liberal democracy whether they know it or not, and they won't know or care what they've done until the business end of Trump's authoritarian apparatus is turned on them, when they get a knock on the door, but by which point it will be too late…

The best way to make people forget you've done something stupid or crazy is to do something else stupid or crazy shortly after.

Nah, Bush was way worse. Killing hundreds of thousands of people is worse imo.

Nixon committed treason, before he was president, which directly lead to the death of Americans. Which he knew it would.

Removal of cobert and kimmel was illegal as an attack on the first ammendment and if this thiefing felon gets away with it there is worst to come.

The spoofer talks deals and give no details if no 1 can question his incompetence the economy already in trouble will crash further worst president in history.

Still talking about posters on the thread and not the actual topic at hand, I see.

Care to actually comment on something happening at the moment with Donald Trump, you know, the current US president?

1. Trump is the elite. He had the Clintons at his wedding… Anyone thinking he's trying to 'drain the swamp' or cares about the common man is an idiot. As for 'giving voice to millions of Americans' ? He's made them more comfortable to say the most vile ****.
2. He's going after Venezuelans, bombed Iran and is now saying he'll try and get some airbase back from the Taliban. What if they tell him to do one ?
3. Pushing NATO to contribute more because they're afraid you're a Russian stooge isn't exactly a great achievement. What he has in reality done is shown the rest of NATO that the US is not a trustworthy partner.