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

Trump: "I've announced a permanent pause on third-world migration…I didn't say '**** hole,' you did…We had a meeting and I said, 'Why is it we only take people from **** hole countries. Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few. Let's have a few from Denmark, do you mind sending us a few people'…But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, filthy, dirty, disgusting."

Such a hateful, racist, piece of sh1t.

For f**king years we said this, on this very "forum, and we had posters parsing words and trying to say he wasn't, as if hiring Pee Wee German wasn't proof enough. I remember one poster taking issue with me calling him racist, saying he wasn't, he was a "white supremacist, as if that made a f**king difference. That's the reason I expected the argument to differ between Paedophile and Ephebophilia when the time came.

I hope all of them are aware of whenever you defend this a-hole, it will always - ALWAYS come out that he is what people say he is. Starting with the bribe to Stormy Daniels, to the access Hollywood tape, to the mocking of the reporter, to the disdain for the military, right the way through his tax fraud, refusing to divest of companies, his sham marriage to Melania, the Russia connection, the extortion call to Ukraine, to the current bribes while in office, the open racism, the cognitive decline. Absolutely all of it.

J just hope the.penny drops at some stage - he made you look like utter, utter fools. There's a reason why you don't post here. You'll say it's because it's an echo chamber or some such bullsh1t. But I think it's because, on some level, you're too embarrassed to. You're tired of being caught out, or frustrated that when you take a defensive position of him, something else will come along (often Trump himself) that will undercut your argument.

That's why all we have left is pretend "centrists", who'll claim to be non committal.

We know the truth and that is you're embarrassed to openly admit that you have hitched your wagon to this pathetic fraudster. Well, you should be.

You should listen to CNN. More people should. They have no problem pointing out his lies and his u-turns.

Comic sans would be better suited

I said Ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland

There is no denying immigration is a problem across Europe and the USA, and there is a wide array of reasons for it.

There is also no denying the response has been inadequate.

Many of us remember watching the australian Border Control program that used to be on TV3 on I think Sunday evenings. Lots of times you would see them interviewing someone and checking did they have somewhere to stay, did they have x amount of dollars in their account or on them, how long were they staying for etc etc. and often times the person didn't meet the requirements and were put on the next plane back to where they came from. Obviously, thats easy for Australia being a landmass in the middle of the pacific, not attached by land (or a short boat trip) to Africa and Asia.

Here in Ireland I do think we need to get stricter on how we handle people arriving.

Going back to Trumps comments, I think Europe as a whole is at much less risk of being over run by immigrants than it is at risk of going to war with Russia.

Trump's comments are just pure racism, plain and simple. A decade ago he lavished praise on neo-Nazis and dismissed all Mexicans as rapists.

We can't have growth without immigration. That's why various crank governments such as that of Rishi Sunak have nothing beyond performative racism and cruelty.

And a huge proportion are from the common travel area so more a benefit of the EU. In terms of Trump being right, it's a xenophobic and racist rant.

Either he is getting them more regularly, which is worrying. Or, he's only had the one but he thinks he's just had it, which is even more worrying. Or, he doesn't really know what a cognitive test is and so anytime a Doctor asks him how he feels he considers that a cognitive test, which is maybe most worrisome.