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

The master of the art of the deal TACO'S again. Masterful strategy, insult your allies and come back with sweet FA. 4D chess levels of genius.

At least he forced the EU into growing a spine.

Ireland have done pretty well out of US dominance throughout the 20th century.

Ill be dead before we know if the Chinese actually are a great bunch of lads or not.

So abdicate responsibility for our own defence? How will that fly in Europe. And opening up a can of worms by putting a German or French base on the western edge of the UK would go down a treat.

We're either a country or we're not. We need to get real. Energy security and defense are top of the list of priorities. Otherwise we may as roll back in under the UK and become like Scotland.

Marine Le Pen for example was hugely critical of Trump's decision to attack Venezuela and to kidnap Maduro.

The board of peace will slip out of history as quick as it slipped in. Maybe if it limits itself strictly to Gaza it will last a little longer. Has no mandate and no worldwide support. It’s trumps play-thing and it’s doomed to failure. I think nz got an invite and there’s zero chance we accept I would imagine. Next thing will be “if you don’t join my board of peace I will slap on a tariff“.

BOP is mainly for Trump to keep himself relevant after he leaves POTUS. He is the life chairman.

My parents were friends with a woman. Very well educated, pHd in Chemical Engineering, possibly photographic memory, but was mad as a box of frogs, lacked common sense and my mother used to say she shouldn't be allowed out on her own.

There are different types of intelligence. It's one thing to be able to rhyme off the Periodic Table, but if you will also believe any sob story you hear and are easily led, someone might still describe you as being unintelligent.

It's early days yet after his speech in Davos for the full effect of it, including his withdrawal of his threat to use military force to take over Greenland and dropping his new tariffs threats, settles into minds in the U.S. I expect him and his PR team to keep pushing the line that the threats were only hard bargaining ploys to settle the worried minds back home with "look at what I won for you" though that bag is empty. He didn't get the slightest prize for his desktop in Davos.

I'll wait to see what happens at his meeting with Zelenskyy: will it be a blowout or a meeting of minds given Trump is now on the backfoot where Europe is concerned. He's just gotten past his seizure of two Russian Oil tankers, something which won't affect the battle front in Ukraine but will have told Putin the U.S can hit him in the pocket, something which Zelenskyy would appreciate seeing Putin suffer.

In regard to the domestic problems facing U.S households, I hope that the U.S gets around to realising that Trump won't beat the inflation problem besetting them because he doesn't want to upset those in high castles.

Europe must not be led astray by any B/S appreciative line which is going to come from Hungary supporting Trump. Any meetings between Trump's team and the dissident EU country party must be watched by the other EU countries like hawks for more signs of betrayal of the EU project by Orban.