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

I doubt the Irish government would ever have the stomach to play that kind of hardball. They know where their bread is buttered in terms of the money that US multinationals bring to the Irish treasury. Sure, it could be considerably more, but they're not going to push it there, either.

It depends how far they can push this before the pushback starts. If it reaches war, I'd expect it to be worse than WW2. Theres some proper psychopaths in and around this administration.

The Americans won't lose a wink of sleep burning us when the time comes and its coming faster than people think. The US debt is becoming unsustainable and Trump will happily screw bondholders in the same way he screwed contractors. We'll be stupid enough to be left holding the baby yet again.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Trying to find a brain.....

Trump really seems to be taking a lot of cognitive tests lately…

Not just normal driving licenses, commercial drivers licenses. Are you able to get a license in Ireland to drive a massive truck/lorry if you dont have a valid work visa or are a legal resident or cant speak english? I wouldn't have thought so.

Weird US navy loses 2 aircraft in 30mins felon cites bad fuel lying sure as normal

It's electronic warfare

I like Xi a lot dumb statements

Fake missile spoffing force pilots to eject but we will never know

America has the worst president, incompetence admin ever and given the dismissal of key staff again we will not know

At the other end of the spectrum they have a badly run military/navy blowing boats out of the water shows bad leadership is a recipe for disaster now america dosent have checks and balances anymore

I was reading instructions came from on high that Silwa was not allowed to pull out. The administration want Mamdani to win.

Ref a side-player in the Ukraine Russia war, Hungary's PM V Orbán is upset by the Trump Admin's extra tariff on Russian oil as it is still importing oil from Russia. It seems he's going to meet Trump in the US next week and wants to discuss the new sanctions with him saying that he had gone too far, adding that Hungary will find a "way out" from the sanctions.

Hungary is a land-locked country. "We are discussing how to build a sustainable system for my country's economy, because Hungary is heavily dependent on Russian oil and gas. Without them, energy prices will skyrocket, causing shortages in our supplies," Orbán told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica during a visit to Rome.

Max Whitaker, US Ambassador to NATO, talking to Fox News on Sunday, criticised Hungary for not doing enough to end dependency. Last week the US opted to sanction the Russian energy sector for the first time since the war in Ukraine started.

"Hungary, unlike many of its neighbours, has not made any plans and has not taken any active steps. We are going to work with their neighbours, like Croatia and other countries, that can help them to wind them off. And that pipeline will most likely shut off in the coming years," Whitaker said, referring to the Druzhba oil pipeline.

It is EU policy to reduce the EU dependency on Russian oil imports and to have a 90 day reserve stock of oil in case of shortages. Hungary is not the only European country importing Russian oil, Slovakia being the other.

Were Trump to accede to what is basically a Russian ally on the new sanctions in another TACO movement after coming back from what he hopes will be a successful Asia trip, it would take a win away from his lips. It's interesting that it's the U.S NATO ambassador who criticized Hungary, and not it's ambassador to the EU or the UN.

On the Asia trip, I'm assuming that Trump wont use his Zelenskyy deal-making style with President Xi in China as it wouldn't work, that he'll be more restrained. Trump absolutely has to come back with a win with China.

So yesterday, Trump admitted that he recently had an MRI. Of course, he said that he passed it brilliantly, best MRI ever, but it gives new information on his recent 2nd visit to the Walter Reed Medical Centre.

Something is clearly up; doctors don't order Man RI for no reason.

Trump was boasting, and of course, didn't engage his brain but Marco Rubio was standing behind him on AF! and to me he looked like he realised the mistake that Trump had made by admitting to the MRI.

Serious questions need to be asked, and answered, about Trump increasingly fragile health

I know nothing really about Siwla but he comes across quite well in the bits I’ve seen of him, while I’m sure I wouldn’t agree with his politics he seems like a decent enough guy (for someone in American politics) I would think it unlikely that he’d stand aside to allow Cuomo who he does seem to really dislike a clear run.
Mandani though really seems to be nailing everything, nice clean candidate, intelligent stays on point and has a sense of humour coupled with razor sharp responses.