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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,058 ✭✭✭✭threeball


    I bet Comey regrets saying a thing about Clintons emails now. It set a chain of events in action that has resulted in Trump being elected twice and seeing himself brought up on nonsense charges due to Trumps personal vendetta. Just a couple of weeks after announcing the investigation into the emails, they withdrew it stating there was no case to answer. It was a huge misstep on Comeys part. Trump should be thanking him for getting elected in the first place.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,729 ✭✭✭✭Jelle1880


    Those renders of the ballroom are ridiculous, you just know he designed it himself.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-white-house-ballroom-renderings-construction-details/

    It's like a Temu Versailles.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,876 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Politics aside, what do the Trump supporters on this thread think about this sort of thing? Genuinely interested.

    Surely you have to agree that it's beyond tasteless?



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 5,582 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rawr


    Anyone else getting hints of Albert Speer’s «Germania» from those external drawings of the building?

    Donnie really hasn’t a clue with esthetics has he? The whole White House estate is going to look lobesided with this ginantic «block» beside it.

    Once it’s done and he leaves office the whole thing should be renamed the Barack Obama Conference Center….just to piss Donnie off.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,568 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    I didn't quite realise the scale of it..

    It's 90,000sq ft, the White House is only 55,000sq ft , so this monstrosity is nearly twice the size, it's appalling in every possible way.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth 8-bit


    You've reminded me of the episode " The Man In the High Castle " where John Smith visits Hitler.

    Now, in Trump has tweaked the White House more than the Disney Castle.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,623 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,158 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    An Bord Pleanála are going to tear him a new one. The White House is listed!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,640 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I hadn't fully realised just how big the ballroom is compared to the rest of the White House - is the perspective off in that image?

    It does appear that its height is the same as the main part of the White House but the White House is two stories over a basement, this is just one floor over a basement, and all sticking out in front of the White House.

    Its Trump saying 'I am bigger than the old order, I dominate all that has gone before me, I am the only thing you see compared with my paltry neighbour, bigger and shinier is better'.

    Meanwhile the White House has lost the East Wing. Whatever about building a new monstrosity, can he just demolish the old building? (Answer, no, he can't, there is supposed to be a committee overseeing the care of the building, but he has not appointed anyone to it. Apparently he can do groundworks, which he is doing, but can't build anything. Since when did what he is permitted to do make a difference to Trump?)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,261 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,269 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    Doubt it'll ever get built. Just another attempted distraction from the fact that Donald Trump raped children.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,558 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    I hope he's forgotten to have the original drawings of the house and all the plans filed away destroyed so that when he out of office and still alive, the new resident orders Trumps folly to be demolished, torn done and the rubble dumped on Trump's favourite gold course and the building restored to it's pre-bling condition.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,617 ✭✭✭joseywhales


    I see we have 100% tarriffs on pharma with 3 days notice. Come on now, noone can be in doubt that this is a grift now. Even if it was about on shoring, 3 days notice indicates this is just pernicious and a tax grab. The guy is gonna nickel and dime the greatest economy ever created into the toilet.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,617 ✭✭✭joseywhales


    I want my Republican friends to remember this. Last time he basically murdered millions of Americans by fumbling a pandemic, he was fired but four years later somehow you all had collective amnesia. Please this time, soak it in as the country burns, try to really let it make an impression



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,558 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    I'm hopeful that the artists/sculptors made a mould of the piece so that there could be an eruption of them all across the nation. Nothing like the media printing a story which isn't something he can ban but which gets his blood pressure up a notch or two.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,261 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I heard about one study that estimates that vaccines could have saved 250,000 of those lives.

    These people running the American state are evil.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,568 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    The EU are saying it doesn't apply to us as the existing "deal" locks us at 15% and as such EU based exporters will not be subject to this 100% nonsense.

    But Trump is a loon , so who knows?

    There's also the fact that he says it is for "Branded Pharmaceuticals " and most of what Ireland exports are ingredients rather than final product so not sure how it may or may not apply to Ireland.

    But again , who knows what Taco Tuesday will bring?

    It's the utter uncertainty that is the killer with this stuff.

    No one will do anything as they simply can't plan for a future that could be driven off a cliff on a whim by this fool.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭TinyMuffin


    but he saved 340 million Americans from drug overdoses.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,210 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    I think it’s actually the back of the White House that he’s building the Epstein wing onto. The front and back both look a bit similar with columns and bits.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,558 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Lol at Trump's comment about his friendship with Erdogan "for four years I was in exile, unfairly as it turns out, rigged election" to the media in the Oval Office while turning to Erdogan, "ask him, he knows about rigged elections better than anyone".



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭Stanley 1




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,951 ✭✭✭✭charlie14


    You made a statement that "Robinson had left wing views". Like everyone else desperately attempting to deflect from Kirk`s killer being from the MAGA gene pool, upon being challenged on these so called "left wing views" that somehow in resulted him being radicalised to the extent of going out and killing someone, nothing, nada. zilch, to back up your statement.

    After failing to do that, you are now off again on some half-assed notion that it had to be someone radicalised by a mysterious hard left because it seems in your imagination that only those on the left experience hate for their political opponents to the extent they will go out and murder them.

    Since 2002 in the U.S. there have been 597 right wing murders and 51 left wing murders. A ratio of over 11 : 1.

    Rather than desperately attempting to pin Kirk`s death on Democrats, you would be better served cutting back on the Kool-Aid.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,877 ✭✭✭amandstu


    As plain as the trip switch on an escalator.

    But his supporters and hangers on have morally bankrupted "their" country and demeaned its reputation in front of the world.

    Thankfully to date they have not succeeded into handing over Ukraine to Russia but that was not from lack of trying.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,568 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Except his plans are bigger, gaudier and tackier than anything else.

    He takes a "classic" architectural design and ruins it by super-sizing everything and destroying proportion and scale.

    A crass oaf who believes that bigger and shinier is always better..

    And you just KNOW he made it that big so that it would be the dominant feature on the grounds , because it's all about him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    I really hope that name sticks... The Epstein wing!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,628 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    If it somehow does get built, I would hope the first thing a new President would do is order its immediate demolition



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 5,582 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rawr


    You're assuming Donnie's best people (or the "Building Expert" himself) can pull off a building that won't collapse on it's own before the term is up :P



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,210 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    nothing would cancel the job quicker than that name sticking



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,558 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    I suppose that by now Trump knows he's going to have some presidential record when he goes, the least of the honours being the one who stirred up so much hate between the citizens that they are going out and expressing it by killing others regularly, while he proudly tells them that he has hate in his heart for them before he (as president) thanks them for their attention. Most other presidents would have said "God save America" or something similar.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,210 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    the Biden picture thing for me shows the level he’s at. That’s the sort of hi jinks you might pull as a joke in the office but petty stuff like that is or at least should be below the office of a president. He really hates Biden and I suspect for all his bluster about things it’s really just because Biden beat him.



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