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

Perhaps he should consider 'self-deporting'. I doubt the ICE camp in El Paso would be to his taste.

The guy is being treated scarcely any differently to the way a convicted rapist or armed robber would be. A person who overstays a work or student visa is not a hardcore criminal. It's a relatively minor infraction of the law - the MAGA nuts and headbangers who are cheering this on are not very pleasant or likeable people.

A big difference with Russia is body count, they really don't give a shyte, most who are killed in Ukraine are cremated by mobile cremation trucks, ashes scattered nearby, families cry out for return of bodies but are soon quietened by the authorities, plenty more can be coerced into signing up particularly by a couple of grand (dollars) up front, thereafter on the never never.

US families regardless of politics do not like body bags returning and their politicians know it.

I wonder will there be a protest this year in Washington for the 'undocumented' Irish!

Pastor Chuck Baldwin

I am hoping some of my astute fellow posters can explain this to me in plain English!

"Apparently eager to get ahead of the report and try to prevent market fall-out, Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro insisted Tuesday that the poor jobs numbers were actually evidence that the administration is deporting “millions” of undocumented immigrants who were previously stealing jobs from Americans.

“We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like,” Navarro told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo. “When we were letting in 2 million illegal aliens, we had to produce 200,000 jobs a month for steady state.”

The jobs that were created during the Biden years were “going to illegals,” while “American were going to the employment lines,” he continued. Under Trump, that supposed trend has reversed, so really the country only needs to create about 50,000 jobs per month, he added.

“So, Wall Street, when this stuff comes out, they can’t rain on that parade, they have to adjust to the fact that we’re deporting millions of illegals out of our job market,” Navarro said. "

Oh let's see…… a load of bollocks.

That probably best describes it.

research shows that tariffs cost American households $1000. There’s about 134 million households in America. No wonder his coffers are full. But it’s definitely not a tax.

The figures must be really bad considering Trump sacked the Commissioner of Labor Statistics in August because she would not falsify the figures and now with the fix in under a more compliant Commissioner they are even worse.

Other than Navarro making the early running as favorite for the Comical Ali Award Speech of 2026, I would go with "It has now dawned on us that the jobs those illegal aliens were supposedly stealing, were jobs so badly paid and where conditions were so poor U.S. citizens will not work in them and as a result this kip of a place is starting to fall apart"

It's the whole Brexit thing playing out again. Migrant workers are supposedly a huge drain on the economy and stealing jobs from the locals that they are all desperate to do.

I lived there legally and became a citizen but I know a number who are there living and working for up to 30 years undocumented, the grey economy. There was a time pre 9-11 when they could get a driving licence, pay taxes etc….. sounds crazy but it was happening. There was a kind of institutional blind eye thrown at the Irish but not any longer.

Trump’s bridge tantrum looks like another favour for the billionaire class:

The billionaire owner of a bridge connecting Michigan with Canada met Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, on Monday hours before President Trump lambasted a competing span, in the latest flashpoint in the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Canada.

Matthew Moroun is a Detroit-based trucking magnate whose family has operated the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, for decades. He met on Monday with Mr. Lutnick in Washington, according to two officials briefed on the meeting who requested anonymity to discuss a private conversation.

After that meeting Mr. Lutnick spoke with Mr. Trump by phone about the matter, the officials said.

Shortly afterward, Mr. Trump threatened to block the planned opening of a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, which would take away toll revenue from Mr. Moroun’s crossing, if Canadian officials did not address a long list of grievances.

The Moroun family has for decades mounted legal challenges to block or delay the competing project, known as Gordie Howe International Bridge. One of the challenges reached the Canadian Supreme Court, while the family has also lobbied extensively against it.

“The billionaires scored again,” Representative Debbie Dingell, Democrat of Michigan, said in an interview. “Donald Trump won Michigan. Why is he going to screw the working people who voted for him?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/world/canada/bridge-owner-trump-lutnick.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Oh dear, MSNOW talking about the Prime Minster of England being in trouble. All we need is a shock collar on every newscaster in the country for a year to sort this out.

She should have gone on the likes of Joe Rogan and put a coherent argument together instead of reading a premade speech. Made a few bad mistakes like that jab at Christianity. "You're at the wrong rally".

Gavin Newsome is ten times the candidate she is. I understand the money raised was a big part he didn't replace biden but he's far superior. I believe he'll run in the next election and will stand a very good chance.

Trump DOJ fails to persuade Grand Jury to prosecute 6 Democrats who appeared in the video that called on soldiers not to obey illegal orders.

Trump had accused the 6 of seditious behaviour. A two thirds majority on a federal Grand Jury is required.

However there is sometimes forum shopping by prosecutors. I understand this was a DC Grand Jury. We've seen previously the WH trying again and again. Will they try to get new GJs this time in Republican States or districts?

I think 3 GJs refused to bring charges against NY AG Leticia James.