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

let’s see what the next deflection is..

Prob Iran and definitely the UFOs to suit his own conspiracy theories and no doubt covid will raise its head again

Maybe countries should charge 20% tariffs and then the US will be in deficit.

Trump has accused the SCOTUS decision on his tariffs of being influenced by foreign interests.

His plans for Iran may have run into an overflight snag as the UK Govt is refusing to let U.S military aircraft involved in any attack on Iran land at and use U.K military bases. I expect Starmer is well aware of the opposition from within the U.K civil population to helping the U.S military at the best of times, let alone in an attack on Iran when there are natural sympathisers to Iran in the general U.K population liable to actively oppose any such help.

and also..

can you really go to war when you have just launched the dictatorship led “ Board of Peace”?

First item on the agenda..

Let’s go to war with Iran

Even dumb Americans aren’t that dumb

Oh yes they are i meet them every day, but they 100% dont care.

You could buy up tarriff debt from distressed businesses in order to free up cash flow, basically betting on there being a refund. Companies that took a big hit clearing their goods from customers and were desperate for cash flow could sell the chances of a rebate to chancers like Lutnick. Except for him it was never a chance. America having a go at Ukraine over corruption is like a sick joke. They wrote the book.

yup.. will have a massive impact on US economy for years, this is what happens when you don't understand tariffs and assume everyone is as ignorant about it as you are.

I agree. Him ranting was predictable over the judgement, but going after the two judges he himself appointed I wasn`t expecting.

Now that they ignored his wishes with this judgement, his singling them out may hopefully make them more inclined to follow the law than his wishes with future judgements.

There is no hope for the three that voted in his favor. It showed they are so much in his pocket that if he shot and killed a random stranger in a packed Time Square they would give him a free pass.

I think you may be wrong, yes. Trump cares not a jot for democratic norms. It's been said before, but if people are relying on checks & balances to save American democracy from emergent MAGA fascism, they're going to be waiting forever. You need to actually enforce those checks & balances. You need to have people generally agree to abide by them. But what you have in the US right now is about half the electorate engaging in a cult of personality, putting one man above the constitution and the law. Or if they're not doing that, they're certainly aiding & abetting those who do. That's not really what you'd call a stable foundation for a functional democracy. It's the kind of division and chaos someone like Trump utterly thrives upon.

With Trump it's gone like this,

2016: Ah, he'll never be elected. (he was elected)

2017 - 2020 : Ah, he's going to do something to get indicted. (impeached, but not indicted)

2021 - 2024: Well, with the Capitol Riots and the sexual assault case, he's finished (Not only not finished, but re-elected)

2025 - : Well, the checks & balances will stop the worst of it…. (are they?)

Point being that you cannot be complacent about the man and yet it is a trap people in the US and around the world have walked into time & time & time again.

He should be abiding by the court ruling. The idea that he's not only not doing that, but publicly criticising judges for striking his tariffs down is outrageous despot stuff, but this kind of behaviour is so normalised that it's just another news day, ready to be replaced by a fresh outrage tomorrow. Flood the zone.

So, in short, if it comes to a confrontation with Congress, Trump will ignore them and who will enforce the law upon him? Pam Bondi or Kash Patel?? Ha!

Don't forget Congress decided a day isn't a day anymore and the last year or so has actually only been one day.....

He's counting on those who voted for him to have a "who gives a **** about them" attitude to another state which he can point at and claim "they are the enemy" with some confidence that the voters will swallow that line.