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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,653 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    I wouldn't exactly call destroying US European relations as a success. And realistically, there's not currently any agreement with Denmark or Greenland and what he gets, it's not a big win at all. Plus domestically this entire affair has been somewhat embarrassing for him.

    But carry on with the cheerleading sure! Flitting in and out to claim victories is sort of denying the reality, the US are ruled by a basket case. One who will praise the murder of civilians. One who is a rapist. A convicted felon and known fraudster.... And he can't even get the name right of the country he wants to invade...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭aero2k




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,750 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    More of this nonsense.

    Donnie wasn't playing anyone, he was serious about it. He bitched out, as usual, when he talked to the adults.

    If playing them like a fiddle was his aim, he played himself, again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,202 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    Both Denmark and Canada have land borders with two countries, including each other on Hans Island, all 320 acres of it. Negotiations over the island took 17 years and were concluded in 2022. Needless to say, it was a fairly low key dispute.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,496 ✭✭✭✭Jelle1880


    The only fiddle Trump is involved in is kiddie fiddling. Allegedly of course.

    Anyone who at this point still thinks he is playing some outrageous game that everyone else is just too stupid to understand is too deep in the MAGA cult for help.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,356 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Your position on this is that this was all just a ruse by Trump and that he never intended any of it?

    Despite Levitt continually stating that Trump 'tells it like it is'?

    And to what end? Its a pretty big con to play and the downsides could be enormous so what is the payoff?

    Just laughing at the press? That's it? The POTUS, faced with climate change, cost of living problems, threats from China, lack of a health care plan, no infrastructure plan, no plan to deal with AI, massive prison populations, continued school shootings, possibility of having his tariffs overturned and the bureaucratic nightmare that would entail.

    All that and a million other issues to be dealt with but this POTUS is spending his time, and that of the entire administration, on basically the equivalent of ding-dong-ditch?

    That is what you are applauding?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,146 ✭✭✭saabsaab




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭MayoSalmon




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,750 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    In 1984, Canadian soldiers visited the island and planted a Canadian flag, also leaving a bottle of Canadian Whisky The Danish Minister of Greenland Affairs came to the island himself later the same year with the Danish flag, a bottle of schnapps, and a letter stating "Welcome to the Danish Island"

    The two countries proceeded to take turns planting their flags on the island and exchanging alcoholic beverages. In 2005 a Canadian man and an unknown source on the Danish side also posted advertisements on Google to "promote their claims".

    The minor border dispute was often considered humorous between the two nations, with diplomats displaying good humour.

    It's amazing what a sense of humour can do.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,602 ✭✭✭✭josip




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭TinyMuffin


    jack smith had a great case against Trump. Pity they were so slow.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,202 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    Smith should have been unleashed a lot sooner.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,278 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,189 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    JD going straight for the iceberg there



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,236 ✭✭✭George White


    Is he talking about Raise the Titanic?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,189 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Looks like Rutte didn't consult with either Greenland or Denmark. Let's hope he didn't over promise on what wasn't in his gift.

    Greenland has demanded its red lines on sovereignty be respected after Donald Trump claimed an agreement with Nato would give the US full and permanent access to the Arctic island, the object of an increasingly bitter months-long dispute.

    Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Greenland’s prime minister, said on Thursday he did not know what was in the deal but the largely self-governing territory wanted a “peaceful dialogue” with the US, and its sovereignty was non-negotiable.

    “We have some red lines … We have to respect our territorial integrity. We have to respect international law, sovereignty,” Nielsen said, adding that if Greenlanders had to choose, “we choose the Kingdom of Denmark, we choose the EU, we choose Nato”.

    Nielsen told a press conference in the Greenlandic capital, Nuuk: “Nobody other than Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark have the mandate to make deals or agreements about Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark without us.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/22/denmark-pm-calls-for-constructive-greenland-negotiation-with-trump



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,169 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    What a moron.
    Even if that woeful attempt at a metaphor was written by a speechwriter rather than JD.

    He would have looked over it a couple of times, probably also done a run-through.
    And at no point did it dawn on him that this turn of phrase might be a bit off.
    That something as simple as swapping "Titanic" for "Tanker" would swerve appearing like an absolute idiot.

    Still, now the VP is on record regarding the direction of the US economy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭thenuisance


    Not sure that anyone else has mentioned this but I do find it hilarious. I hope the Danes make full use of it in the negotiations.

    https://nypost.com/2026/01/20/us-news/last-time-the-us-bought-land-from-denmark-epsteins-island-was-in-the-mix/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭TinyMuffin


    good program on tg4 about how Russian is always spying on the Scandinavian countries.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,547 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    They also fire people when they don’t like the statistics they put out…just sayin’



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,189 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Liars lying

    The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found.

    21794.jpg

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/white-house-ice-protest-arrest-altered-image



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    A short video popped up on my Youtube feed of Lawrence O'Donnell interviewing Captain Sully (the pilot who landed the aircraft on the Hudson). O'Donnell said that he doesn't want to drag him into politics but if he had any thoughts on Trump's comments. Sully sighed, paused for a long time, and said "Not surprised, disgusted". I thought Lawrence was referring to his Davos speech but then I saw it was posted 11 months ago.

    It really is an atrocious state of affairs when Sully's response is appropriate for pretty much any week of Trump's presidency.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 98,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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    TACO. Yes a-bloody-gain.

    By threatening war (he didn't rule it out earlier) he has received what concessions ? And has fundamentally weakened the cohesion of NATO.

    Making US bases sovereign would mean that local law enforcement couldn't pursue US military personnel there. Which is scary when you think of the deaths they've caused abroad without facing local courts.

    But it was a distraction.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭TinyMuffin


    maxwell to testify before congress under oath. Fingers crossed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭thamus doku


    I was banned for a day for trying to post on here. So I can’t unfortunately give the balanced narrative.
    If I do I will be banned again.


    Mod - warned for breach of forum charter

    Post edited by Leg End Reject on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,189 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,530 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    It's both hilarious and sad that the only people that Trump is playing "like a fiddle" are Trump supporters like the person you're replying to.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,098 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    The Dutch must be embarrassed by Rutte's ass-kissing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 959 ✭✭✭JPCN1


    The Danes have given a huge amount of their weapons to Ukraine so have to buy from the US so this is a win of sorts. Whether short term or long term depends on Europe. Will/Can they develop their own arms industry. Can they afford to develop and maintain a nuclear deterrent? Can 27 countries agree on this when they can agree on feck all and the cost will be massive. Would neutral Ireland contribute ???



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,594 ✭✭✭✭charlie14


    The bond markets and the threat of tariffs and the coercion bazooka from the E.U. put an end to his fiddling and left him with egg all over his face leaving Davos.

    Still good that he turned up and gave his speech for all the world to hear and see. As one commentator aptly put it, "a president not yet fully mad, but on the cusp of insanity".



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