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

The Trump administration suspended leases on Monday for five large offshore wind projects that are under construction off the U.S. East Coast over what it called national security concerns, sending shares of offshore wind companies plunging.

One argument they are using is that windfarms would be vulnerable to swarms of drones. So they are saying its a national security issue.

The suspension was the latest blow for offshore wind developers that have faced repeated disruptions to their multi-billion-dollar projects under U.S. President Donald Trump, who has said he finds wind turbines ugly, costly and inefficient. State officials, Democratic lawmakers, offshore wind companies, and industry trade groups slammed the move as unjustified.

The pause will affect Danish energy firm Orsted's Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind projects, Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners' Vineyard Wind 1 project, Dominion Energy's Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, and Equinor's Empire Wind 1 project, according to the statement.

Shares in Orsted traded down more than 12%, with Dominion and Equinor also trading lower.

Dominion said the suspension will threaten grid reliability for its Virginia customers, including military bases and data centers powering artificial intelligence.

While I appreciate a head of state who doesn't put his country's military at risk as a policy, the reverse is also true when that person comes out with "we need" and "they say" statements as a pretext for future use of the military to take over a friendly country's, an ally, territory by force of arms. The very least that can be said about Trump's latest verdict on Greenland's future is that Trump is switching from a passive aggressive position to one of direct military action against that friendly country, that he is trying to persuade himself of the righteousness of what some warmongering gits in his Admin team have suggested to him from the back seats.

Appointing another Special Envoy, this one to Greenland, is akin to something from another century, a Plenipotentiary-general as it were. If he goes ahead with this nutty idea, he will have opened the door to regime change being an acceptable idea where it comes to his position in the U.S, to remove a warmonger from power for warring on a neighbour without justification. I don't see there being any credible justification for Trump's position at all.

His other idea of upping the capability of the U.S Navy with new ships is more of the same, chest-thumping by him, when his description of the current U.S Navy warships is strange as he is deploying the same ships off Venezuela in martial operations.

In the event of the US under Trump taking over Greenland how do posters think Europe would react. No military response, I know, but would European countries impose sanctions etc in response.

There's no point given Europe's structural problems and the soaring cost of living in a lot of countries. A lot of Americans would find the inability to speak the native language a serious problem for many places, especially France.

Here in the UK, wages are infamously sh*t while the cost of living in the "golden triangle" of Oxford, London and Cambridge is soaring. I've even looked into moving back to Ireland and there are so many places where there is either nothing or whole houses for thousands a month.

Came across this earlier and thought it was brilliant......

I don’t know about you, but I’m sleeping a lot easier these days, knowing that the ship of state is being captained so beautifully. It may surprise you, but I confess that I was worried for a while, despite the American people electing the GREATEST president in our history, not once, but three times, even if the black-robed CRIMINALS in the courts and the corrupt U.S. Congress STOLE one of those victories in 2020.

I know, I know, there was nothing to worry about, given how much cheaper everything has gotten at the store. Okay, so prices haven’t actually dropped, but what’s a little inflation among patriots? Even if the he didn’t end the Russian-Ukraine war on his first day like he promised, Nato’s secretary general says that only tens of thousands of people have died there this year. And the President hasn’t started any new wars. Well, except for the little one around Venezuela. Oh, and that bombing of Iran. The tariff battles are going great, even if companies and farmers say it doesn’t feel that way. What do they know?

Thank goodness the President is making sure that policy is guided by science, expertise and facts. Look, the man is a stable genius. He told us so, using those exact words, the last time around. He had that uncle who taught at MIT and he keeps acing the cognitive tests and that MRI at Walter Reed, so he must be smart. (I kind of wonder why they keep giving him those tests, but I’m sure there’s nothing the matter because he said so.)

But what really made my heart soar like an eagle was his Truth Social post on December 9th, where he laid it all out. His brilliance, his dedication, his command of that ’ol ship of state. The golden era is upon us. Just look at the classy new Liberace-died-and-gone-to-heaven decorations in the part of the White House that hasn’t been torn down.

“There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me,” he began his post that night. “My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I’ve stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country…and created an ‘aura’ around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before.”

Don’t you just love him? Isn’t he the sweetest? Such a mensch. He went on like that for nearly 500 words, talking about the “top” Walter Reed doctors, “all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks. Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I have been told that few people have been able to ‘ace’ this Examination and, in fact, most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all.”

This is all very usual and reassuring, don’t you think? Reminded me of the 158 thoughtful and unifying posts he made over the course of three hours on the night of Dec. 1st. One of them was a repost that called him “The greatest president ever to live.” If only Abraham Lincoln had done that, would there even have been a Civil War? Be honest, the South wouldn’t have dared.

Come what may from the radical left lunatics, I’ll never forget the leadership he showed at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, when he told tens of thousands of mourners in Arizona, “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them.” And, especially, the heartfelt decency he showed to the family of Rob and Michele Reiner and all of their friends and fans the other day after they were murdered.

Donald Trump — for we must call his name, and honor it, though you may already have guessed of whom I speak — said that Rob Reiner, director of “The Princess Bride” brought his murder on himself, “reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.” Later, asked if he meant it, the president told reporters that Reiner was, indeed, “deranged” and “very bad for the country.”

As you can see by now, dear reader, the preachers are right, Trump has been touched by God. He was saved from an assassin’s bullet, that day in Butler, Pa., as so many soothsayers said, to lead us out of the darkness and into the light. Did they also say something about lemmings? I’m trying to recall.

This is all entirely NORMAL!!!!

So, sleep tight, and the next time you’ve got jitters, maybe because unemployment just hit a four-year high or your health insurance costs are about to double or your kindly neighbor just got deported, remember that the stable genius is in charge and, as he said in his Rob Reiner post, “the Golden Age of America is upon us, perhaps like never before.”

Department of Justice doing some lame attempts at fire extinguishing...