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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭nachouser


    The wagons are starting to uncircle.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,578 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    I blame the press for this.

    He has said disgusting thing after disgusting thing and he has not been called out for it.

    Yet any slip by Biden or Harris and they've been crucified.

    He has attacked journalists and they don't stick up for each other and stand up to him.

    No repercussions for a spoiled child will mean they won't change and will in fact get worse

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭rogber


    Trump showing once again what an obnoxious and emotionally retarded gobshite he is. Guy gets murdered by his son and Trump makes it all about him.

    He and his family and all his supporters are absolute scum.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭DarkJager21


    And everyone was supposed to be "a little bit nicer" after what happened his favorite Pez dispenser just a few months ago?

    Just wait for the day Trump gets his, there will be celebrations in the streets worldwide and online. He will probably have to be buried in a secret location too as it may become the biggliest world record ever for most pissed upon grave on the planet.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭swampgas


    So an appalling tweet is what it takes for some Republicans to speak up.

    But his depraved crimes against children, his utter brazen corruption, his attacks on allies like Greenland and Canada, his cozying up to the murderous regime of Russia, these are not quite bad enough. For those presumably lesser crimes they keep silent or defend his actions.

    They are utterly reprehensible, for even while they call out Trump for his horrible tweet, they leave unsaid any criticism of his many, many, many appalling and far more serious crimes and moral failings.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,261 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,194 ✭✭✭eire4


    I see your feeling very magnanimous today given that description of who they all are!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    Rob Reiner's response to the Kirk murder was that it was "absolute horror". This was someone that Rob disagreed with politically in pretty much every possible way. It also illustrates that Rob was a significantly better person than Trump will ever be, and that's putting it very mildly.

    Anything I write to describe my feelings towards Trump and what he wrote, and indeed everything I've seen written about it today, just doesn't seem to do it justice. His depravity is literally beyond the descriptive power of language.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,899 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Well, you can't really blame rogber for that. The Republican party does advocate for 'denial of empathy' as expressed by their own Charlie Kirk.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,350 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    This is one area where I would give him some leeway.

    I 100% expect that if he passes within any sort of a reasonable amount of time from him having been a public figure, the US will erupt with impromptu celebrations and people on the streets.

    I was in the US in 2020 and when Biden's victory was announced on the 7th November, the celebration was like nothing outside of a sports championship win that I've ever seen. I remember one couple driving some form of a Porsche through the city centre and the wife was hanging out the window beating the living daylights out of a saucepan with a large ladle, like they were leaving home and she had to think "phone? check, purse? check, saucepan and ladle? CHECK! It will be like that again if this guy departs say while in office or while still being a loud foghorn having left it.

    So let him show his true colours in moments like this, it makes more of a mockery of all his mouthpieces who will seek to ingratiate themselves more with him who talk about the harmful rhetoric and say that it's coming from the left.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,350 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    If the Trump statement about the Reiner couples murder was his own and not related to presidential politics, it shows his lack of mental understanding of how humans usually socialize. If he made it purely to stir ****, it's enough to have him removed from office with his V/P moved up to take over through an "mental instability" move by his cabinet [under constitutional rules] members or by Congress itself as a whole.

    There's no way the statement should be seen as him merely muddying the waters to hide some dirty secret. He's well capable of making irrational statement like the Reiner one merely because he can open his mouth and speak s***e. Give him time and he's likely to come out with some adverse comment about Australian gun control or immigration laws. He's morphed from being the U.S president to being a media shock jockey.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,676 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


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    This aged poorly... It took Trump about 5 minutes to be awful.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,578 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Q: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Rob Reiner. Do you stand by it?

    TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.

    ....

    I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all. I thought he was very bad for our country."

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,350 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    He's a narcissist, plain and simple.

    On 9/11 he spoke on radio to give a reaction and he said that he now owned the tallest building in Manhattan. When he spoke to the press on the White House lawn about Charlie Kirk, he said 4 words, and then spoke about the construction trucks at in the background. They're just 2 examples of how he does not have an empathetic cell in his body.

    None of this is surprising, what is surprising, is the extent to which people have bought the narrative that he is the only one who cares about middle America. Never has a president been so far from that being the case.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,899 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    The pure vile that idiot can spew is beyond understanding. How anyone see's even the remotest justification to support him, is equally disturbing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 224 ✭✭lillielad


    Mod Edit: Warned for breach of forum charter

    Post edited by Necro on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,675 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    I've seen some MAGA heads saying that Trump's tweet was no different to what was said about Charlie Kirk : but he's the US head of state, not some slob posting from a trailer park in Montana.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,386 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


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    I'd almost forgotten who Reiner was, honestly. Managed to catch The Princess Bride in a cinema a few years ago and loved it. Not really familiar with the rest of his work but it just seems to cartoonishly cruel for Trump to level this against a figure from decades ago.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭TinyMuffin


    did he wish dick van dyke a happy birthday yet. 😋


    “Glad I won’t be around for trumps second term” he said.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭Tork


    He'd better not send JD Vance over to visit, like what happened with Pope Francis…



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭.Donegal.


    You can say his post is in poor taste, vile etc until the cows come home but most worryingly was just how unhinged it is. It’s not remotely normal to come up with that essay when writing about someone who was just murdered, he managed to make it about himself it’s just bizarre. It’s beyond trolling, it’s just pure sickness in the head and soul.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,676 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Highly recommend Misery, Spinal Tap and Stand by Me. Had an extraordinary run early on in his directorial career.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    Happy to be proved wrong, but I don't think any Democrat in the Senate or House, or any of the major Democrat pundits, reacted to Kirk's murder with anything other than shock and condemnation.

    A few years earlier, major Republicans, including that dipsh*t currently in the White House, were making jokes about Paul Pelosi's attack.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭Tork


    I have an acquaintance who thinks he's the best thing ever. The main thing he seems to love about Trump is his 'burn it all down' philosophy. People like him are happy to ignore a lot of Trump's awfulness because he's sticking it to the man.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,899 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    lol at "sticking it to the man"… but he IS "the man", the callous multi-billionaire the masses would normally be sticking it to. No, they are just engaging with hatred and rage. Call it personal experience.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭thenuisance


    The celebrations may even outdo Thatcher.

    His statement was the kind of thing that you would put down to drink or drugs. He is supposed to be tee-total and to never take drugs. I've never heard anything to believe otherwise. That means that he meant it. If he did then it seems quite reasonable to assume that he is mentally unstable.

    This could be a reason to enact the 25th Amendment. That would mean that JD Vance would become US president. I've often wondered if that has been the plan all along. Vance (backed by the Paypal Mafia - you should pay particular attention to Musk, Thiel and Sachs) will then be in place to push the Republicans through the midterms and on to the next presidential election. Trump can do all the dirty work (election rigging, replacement of State with Federal authority - he's already cut huge swathes through government legislation that protects US people, their rights and their environment) - anything bad will be blamed on the Presidents unfortunate and un-noticed decline and the bright and shining Vance will step in (his election campaigns backed by his friends and some of their friends) to save the US. It would not surprise me if these crazy lines are being fed (by the likes of Stephen Miller) to Trump to line him up for his political assassination by the Republicans as they see the mid-terms looming. Vance could well be president by March giving him time to turn around the public in time for those elections. At this stage a Vance-led Republican Party must be much more electable than a Trump-led one. A presidential assassination without a gun could be on the cards.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,350 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    That's probably the sanest evaluation of what's gone wrong with the U.S political scene, that the acquaintance thinks of Trump as a person who's sticking it to "the man" with a "burn it all down and start from scratch" attitude, from the Weathermen era of politics thinking something great will come out of what Trump is doing. "The man" is your acquaintance, whether he sees bothers to see that or not.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭ilkhanid


    Buried in a sewer would be better, or fed to swine -if they'd sully themselves by eating him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,323 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    There is nothing bright and shining about Vance, he is a totally charisma-free zone. The faithful might even resent him as putting himself forward as a Trump substitute. They voted for a wealthy business-man, even though they got neither, but there is nothing about Vance to appeal to anyone.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,916 ✭✭✭threeball


    I'm half expecting him to ruin Christmas for millions of children by blurting out about the big guy. Amazingly, its probably the one thing that would see him removed from office.



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