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

and that would hurt Ireland the most.

it’s not a bad question in fairness - I’m not sure we’ll know the answer this side of the presidency - it would probably be more reassuring that he’s “lost the plot”- if MAGA don’t think they can control him then they’ll dump him- but even that’s a long way off right now- all of this is international affairs - only thing Americans really care about is their own economy and that includes Democrats - as long as the dollars keep flowing they won’t care too much what he does internationally

Hes gone down in mine. Waffling with Shapiro on his podcast, agreeing on Israeli actions. Making stupid memes and videos. Absolutely useless. The last thing we need is him as a follow up. Just more of the same shìte.

It seem a fairly well established routine that coming up to the closing bell there's a TTT (Trump Toilet Tweet) that sends shockwaves and ripples everywhere over the weekend, and then over the following week there's the TACO, the USD recovers a bit and some people make a lot of money.

However the overall effect of this repeating chaos is reducing exposure to the USD. Usually there's a flight to gold, and other safe havens when markets tank, but most US indexes are still climbing alongside gold, but not when measured in Euro and other currencies.

So what we're probably seeing in their indexes is the USD heading home to the US markets. So the US economy can still stagnate while all indexes continue to inflate.

There was something I read once about the nazi leadership. They were all incredibly incompetent but somehow stuff got done. That's because everyone in the lower ranks was given the task of implementing what Hitler would want to do. So people lower down the chain would come up with ideas that they thought Hitler would like. The ideas are shunted up the chain and eventually someone says yes and takes credit for it.

Additionally, the higher ups who had his ear would get their own pet projects green lit so they could "better" their own positions.

I figure there's something like that here. **** like Greenland is just crazy. But it's the kind of thing that an egotistical person like Trump would like. It would be the biggest land expansion in the history of the US. Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny military. Trump sees it as someone he can bully.

Someone suggested it to him and he liked the idea. Unless he's given something else to focus on he'll keep going. He'll keep tweeting, keep talking and keep trying to get it.

The problem is, what's his next interest going to be?

To be fair, I do think he believed that Hitler would honour his word. Of course, he didn't and then proceeded to annex Czechia while establishing a puppet regime in Slovakia. I think that's when the rearmament efforts and spending started to seriously increase. I don't buy the buying time narrative. I think it's a form of whitewashing. He was probably preparing for war while doing everything possible to prevent it.

Tough love, baby, some EU countries have little sympathy for Ireland and its history on corporate tax.

Yeah he basically called everyone out for pandering to him. I think he said exactly what needed to be said to European leaders, this diplomacy act hoping to kick the can down the road far enough so he will get a kick in the balls and be reigned in by mid terms doesn't look like it is going to suffice when Trump can wreck all told level of damage before then.

Sounds like the madman really is going to try and take Greenland by force.

The thread points out that these soldiers are trained for arctic warfare and are not suited for the purpose they are supposedly being prepped for. They are, however exactly suited to taking on EU forces in Greenland.

It's also being mentioned that senior US military leaders are trying to push back against orders to attack NATO allies.

My goodness are world markets going to tank if Krasnov fires the top brass and keeps drilling down until he finds enough cowards to do his bidding and has his troops kill French and British troops. So many people would kiss their pensions goodby.

I hope it's all a false alarm, but I doubt it.

Now would be a good time to take a little bit of pain and offload about 10% of all European countries American bonds. You'll take a loss but it'll squeeze the life out of the prìck. All of a sudden theres a very real crisis at home and its slow his roll, just like covid did.

Funny you should highlight that, the Institute of Strategic Studies have just done likewise

http://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/six-analytic-blog/2026/01/the-future-of-dollar-dominance/

Life comes at you fast.

2 days ago:

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/01/18/why-americas-bond-market-just-keeps-winning

https://archive.is/B1HmG

Today:

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/japan-40-year-jgb-government-bond-yield-record-fiscal-jitters-snap-election-call-takaichi.html