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

By coincidence, I recently watched an episode of Family Guy where Peter dodges his checkup and then tells his wife that the doctor told him that he's too healthy and in too good a shape.

I still remember the MAGA types here telling us how much of a wreck Biden was but now that it's Trump, all this is somehow just normal behaviour.

"Zero Day" with De Niro is a good mini series, to watch the influence of Tech and Hedgefund owners and how they can apply themselves onto US politics.

Trump says he "passed it brilliantly". How do you "pass" and MRI? 😁 Does he think it's an intelligence test?

That Man hasn't a clue about anything.

Think of an auld irish bachelor who hasn't worked a day in his life and had everything handed to him, hasn't a clue how anything works, and sails through life without a care in the world.

Now change that auld Irish bachelor for an old city alicker from new York.....

It affects Orbán and his policies. He wants to be Russia's catspaw inside the EU, continuing and deepening the Hungarian trade with Russia and delaying and blocking new EU sanctions on Russia as long as possible. That's the role he has decided to play post invasion of Ukraine.

Damage to the Russian oil & gas companies caused by the US tightening sanctions (this probably would have happened before now in step with the EU, if Trump had lost election) affects this and makes it harder for him.

I would say Orbán expected the US would just let the sanctions lapse over time (that was kind of what was happening) and would eventually begin to pressure the EU to end them too as part of their bogus "peace" efforts, hugging up to and offering carrots to Vladimir Putin.

edit: Apologies, language being used around these things can be kind of loose and I fell into that trap there. You're right a US tariff here doesn't affect Hungary (or even Russia or their oil companies). It's extra US economic sanctions on the Russian oil companies that have an effect here, and what Orbán may be displeased about and what above applies to.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/e-jean-carroll-beat-trump-123902368.html

"And no, Trump hasn’t paid Carroll a cent of the $83.3 million — not yet.

The president is still appealing both decisions.

“We’re through the appeals process,” Carroll said at the Montclair screening. “On the first trial, he lost every single appeal. He will now appeal to the Supreme Court.”“On the second (trial), we won that case, and we also clean sweep in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals,” she said. “He will go to the Supreme Court and we don’t know what will happen, but looking at the history, we have never lost to him. He has always, always lost.”

Jean's backer, Reid Hoffman has stuck by her all the way and has the kind of money whereby he will not settle with Trump and continue to make him smell.

From memory monies are held in a bond by the court do Trump cannot just walk away from the result.

The film/documentary discussed in the link sounds very interesting as was the movie about Trump's early days, "The Apprentice".

He had an MRI too. There’s something up with the way he walks of late as illustrated in his meeting with Putin. His stance is wide, he can’t walk straight and he swings the right leg round in a wide arc.

Probably has a catheda bag strapped to that leg and its full of piss most of the time. His insides are rotting and he's on daily diuretics to flush the crap out, hence the bruising on the back of his hand.

those heel spurs!

What an utter embarrassment 🤦‍♂️

but but Biden