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

Aawww... Did the little b*tchbaby not manage to bully and threaten his way into a Nobel Peace Prize?

I mean, as others are pointing out this year's award is largely for actions taken last year, and yet the f*ckhead still tried to bully his way into it this year by claiming to have solved wars that never existed. You'd think someone who knows as much about everything as Trump does would have known it'd be extremely unlikely he'd even be in consideration this year.

But no, he tried to get it anyway, because he's a whingy little muppet.

And as sure as Israel won't abide by actual peace plans with Palestine or will completely take over Palestinian land, Trump isn't winning one next year either.

however she ended up can happen anybody.

The fact she is still there makes her just a deplorable as him, you are the company you keep after all.

She doesn’t need to be there for money now, divorce alone and she would have more money given to her than she would ever need.

Oh he’s losing the likes of Loomer over the Qatar thing 🍿

i have reqd that that the taco guy has placed 100% tarrifs on chaina due to the rare earths issue

In addition to what Manic Moran already pointed out, there's another reason: space. Airspace to be precise. Qatar is a very small country with not a lot of airspace under its control. And to top it off, much of the neighbouring airspace is either close to countries whose relations with Qatar are at best ambivalent, or chock full of civilian traffic heading to and from the major airports in the region, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha.

In contrast, the intermountain west of the US, where Mountain Home AFB is located, is sparsely populated and has large tracts of uncontrolled, uncluttered airspace available. Just what you need when you give your aircrew space to train. And if you need something with a bit more "bite", just an hour or two of flying gets you to the Nevada Test and Training Range, arguably one of the best air combat training environments on the planet, with top of the line radar and electronic warfare systems that allow for training under conditions as close to actual combat as you can get without launching a weapon. The annual Red Flag exercises at Nellis AFB north of Las Vegas, the air base responsible for maintaining the Nevada Range, are highly sought after by NATO and non-NATO nations for that very reason, and you can easily have detachments from a dozen or two countries at Nellis just for Red Flag. Just make sure you stay clear of that rectangle of closed airspace centred around the dried lakebed at Groom Lake, also known as Area 51.

Singapore based one of its fighter squadrons at Mountain Home for the very same reason, it too is a small country without much in the way of airspace in which to conduct exercises and training. Meanwhile, the Luftwaffe (that's literally the German word for air force) had a squadron based at Holloman AFB in New Mexico for that reason as well, as well as for the fact that extreme low level flying, the mission profile for Germany's Tornado squadrons, is far easier to do when there's no one around to complain about it.

There are plenty of shady dealings going on between the Trump administration and numerous middle eastern countries, and to say that I have a negative view of the current US government would be a massive understatement, but this deal is probably one of the least controversial things he's done so far.

Mass govt layoffs begin in the shadow of the continuing shutdown

Also 1.3m military personnel will not be paid, the first time ever, next Tuesday. I'm sure that'll go down real well with everyone

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/white-house-begins-firing-workers-amid-prolonged-shutdown/6T6GMVV5ZFGW7A77ZL5YQOKYXQ/