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

What's with the sudden influx of people trying to spin the whole Jan 6th thing ?

Could it be related to… this ?

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-white-house-publishes-jan-6-website/

Apologies if posted. I was wrong he was actually impersonating a trans weightlifter. Sit back and enjoy.

It may be that he think's throwing up another dust-storm to confuse the actual allies the U.S has in NATO and Europe will help the others this side of the Atlantic who don't care for there to be a unified front with the U.S, as he doesn't give a fig for it anyway. His profit margins are more important.

If you think the current EU leadership will go to war against the US, you are out of your mind.

Where is the strong leader that would do this? The "Coalition of the Willing" to help Ukraine is 3 maybe 4 countries, ffs.

If they roll over and allow the US take a European countries territory without pushback then thats the end of NATO. A conventional war against the US we'd have no hope but in this case the cards are stacked in Europe's favour. It would be unpopular within the US, unpopular around the world, economical damaging and in an environment where Europe has a huge advantage.

At the very least the US bases would need to be commandeered immediately.

The question is also if Trump would try to annex or start an intervention in Iceland as well as the Republic of Ireland?

Not impossible to think so, as both countries don't invest much in military and defence leaving them exposed to Russian or Chinese interest. And especially in Ireland it would be about protecting the large scale US-American investment.

Yep I think Trump going to war with Europe has the potential to scare enough from his own party. Even if it's just personal economic hits which they will face. I'd say there will be more impeachments on the cards.

Marco Rubio briefing congress that the US wishes to.buy Greenland...
Well, that's ok then 🤷‍♂️🤦

A far, far cry from the isolationist no-new-wars stance of his election campaign. Not that it's any surprise. He also said that he'd end the Ukraine war in the day, and that he'd fix inflation/cost of living, neither of which have been any way achieved. Those promises were just to hoik in more moderate voters.

As I had thought, 'no new wars' was really just code for pivoting away from backing up its post-war allies or making any attempt to uphold liberal democracy around the world. Really, the Trump administration has plenty of appetite for conflict. A belligerent stance is almost central to the ethos of authoritarians, i.e. strength, might, power.

Right now it's looking like Trump and his minions just want to see how far they can make European leaders bend and supplicate as a kind of sick ego thing. Either the US is fixing to officially end the alliance and exit NATO or make it clear to Europe that the old arrangement is finished and that Europe is their vassal and any benefits the US will bestow are to come under a much heavier cost.

only 1% of the Epstein files have been released apparently. Way past the deadline.

Probably not if doesn't involve war. Trump could just announce he has 'come to an arrangement' with the government of Greenland and therefore no need to involve Congress.

No more than Russia in Ukraine, its important to stop the US early. Greenland is a major advantage to Europe. If they tried to hurt us in Europe in retribution they'd have to somehow take the war to Europe without any bases in Europe. Their only chance for land bases would be north Africa.

Theres no doubt he goes for Iceland after Greenland if he gets a free run. We might be lucky because at that stage Europe would have had enough and would definitely go to war.