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

A window into how he sees the world....

They did have the facts but decided to lie through their teeth

The Democrats should publish a list of Trump nominees who have lied to Congress, with specific evidence in each case. Two problems: the list would be so long it might taks a while to compile, and secondly Trump would pardon most of them.

But you have to try, and flood the zone with something else other than Trumpian sh*t.

greatest country on earth my arse!!! Greatest basket case on earth.

We give out about our elected representatives here, but by jaysus they aren’t remotely close to the madness and craziness in America!

I wonder if the plan isn't to invade Greenland while Trump is still alive, begin the harvesting of its resources and then blame Trump when he dies while making excuses as to why it needs to stay with the US.

There's the tech bros link in investments in Greenland, could be nothing to do with prestige, rare exerts or security, just a payback for dollars they've pledged to him, kind of like his Venezuela deal for the oil backers.

This is the reward that big business gets for contributing to White House ballrooms and other causes dear to Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/12/donald-trump-threatens-block-exxonmobil-venezuela

Has the penny dropped yet? Trump will always break his word and betray you.

Agree, people tend to give his bluster too much credence and deep discussion — which ultimately feeds into his 'flood the zone' tactic.

With Greenland, noting the US withdrew some of its presence there in the past and there is no impediment or opposition to them ramping that up again to where it was base numbers-wise and general personnel-wise, what will end up happening is exactly that — the Danes / Greenlanders will say "sure, work away" and there will be some resources agreement which probably doesn't materially change the way the US acquires such resources anyway. Trump and his cheerleaders will then marvel at how "everyone laughed but the Europeans caved in to DJT's sheer will" and credit him(self) with his powers of brinkmanship and assertion of American power.

But I guess that's where the danger is. All this sabre rattling is a throwback to the world of imperialism and if the US is willing to so openly and flagrantly rip up the rule-based collaborative Western global order that it helped to build and gatekeep (and that's without suggesting that the US has always abided by those principles of course) in favour of the return to all out "might is right-ism", that's a signal for the unleashing of much more dangerous forces in a world. I mean, considering that the age of 19th / early 20th century imperialism culminated in the first use of atomic weapons in action, it's worrying that the current US administration is reckless as to taking the world down that path again.

Exxon must be devastated.

Exxon: 'We're not going to invest in Venezuela, it's far too unstable'

Trump: 'We're blocking you from investing in Venezuela'

Exxon: 'Oh no… Anyway.'