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

Trump in the 1980s was a critic of Reagans policy towards the USSR.

Trump’s early critiques generally fell into three categories:

Cost of the Arms Race

1. Argued that Reagan’s military buildup and Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) were too expensive and burdened taxpayers.
2. Believed Reagan relied too much on military posturing rather than deals.
3. Advocated for negotiation and transactional diplomacy, consistent with his business background.
4. Claimed that Reagan sometimes exaggerated the Soviet threat for political purposes.

The fall of the Soviet Union showed that Reagan was (with some mistakes in Latin America) overall correct.

That's a fake quote.

Any time you want to say Trump was right replace Trump with Rush Limbaugh or possibly another pundit. The idea that Tiny had original geopolitical opinions is laughable.

Well yes but that's true of most of us. I don't think anyone was implying that he formulated that idea.

That's a very simplistic analysis. There were so many aspects of the set up that were batsht.

Kinda hard to do a peace deal with people you are threatening to arrest.

It's a fake deal anyway full of things Ukraine can't agree to so that Trump can claim the war is Zelenskys fault and Putin is the good guy.

We'll have food banks like no ones ever seen before, big beautiful food banks

That deal was very much done with the threat of NATO annihilation.

Serbia was in Zelensky's position not Putin's.

Also the US agrees to "help" in unspecified terms but the EU is tied to a monetary value. The US does receive 50 billion though.

Also seems strict on locking out any European defense guarantee.

Why post a fake meme? (if that is what they are called)

Are you trying to give fodder to Trump and Republican apologists?

The results of a snap poll on Trumps popularity might be telling if it was based on one question: would you leave your pre-teen daughter home-alone at night with Trump?

The Marquette poll results say otherwise

It seems Trump is Pro-A.I. providing the rules on which it operates is set to a federal standard, that individual states would not have the right to set their own regulations on how A.I. would operate within the individual states. There seems to be a difference of opinions within the GOP on how the states would individually control A.I.

The MAGA movement is once again divided over artificial intelligence — and this time, the fight is escalating inside the Republican Party.

President Donald Trump has revived an effort to stop states from regulating AI, calling state-level rules a threat to innovation and urging the creation of “one Federal Standard instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes.” His post on Truth Social this week echoed language from the administration’s earlier attempt to curb state AI authority, a move that sparked a major Republican revolt over the summer.

A draft executive order viewed by Business Insider shows the White House preparing to go even further. The order would empower the Justice Department to sue states with “onerous” AI laws and direct federal agencies to explore ways to block or override them.

A White House official said any talk of executive orders remains speculative until formally announced.

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/trump-s-renewed-push-to-block-state-ai-laws-sparks-another-gop-split/ar-AA1QSDR1?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=b95e2214f18241c2de0d95c47c7131b5&ei=17

Well Mini Mike is quite fond of having guys "stand behind him"…….wink wink…ya know what I mean !!!