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

Not sure why anyone would try to defend Hegeseth on his stupid rules of engagement comment. He didn't even explain what he meant by his comments. Imagine running defense for a prick like that?

It must work well or they wouldnt persist with it.....I suspect a long long time as they are hypocrites as well as morons....I think the maga morons understand to some degree perhaps the letter of the laws that suit them

But don't give muchnof a sh1t about the spirit in which they were intended as that doesn't suit...and completely ignore anything that would run counter to their desires

+ the most important point....they are morons.. which sort of renders the preceding moot.

So really you do pretty much whatever the **** you want as long as you sporadically say the things they want to hear and they'll keep eating any old horseshit you serve them!

MS NOW confirms Corey Lewandowski is also out at DHS.

"Womp womp"*

*In June 2018, former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski drew intense national criticism for saying "womp womp" on Fox News while a Democratic strategist was recounting the story of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome being separated from her mother at the U.S.-Mexico border.

He will be a loss.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Lewandowski fired a pilot for leaving one of Noem's blankets on a plane, then immediately rehired the pilot when it was discovered that no other pilot could fly them home.

I know what I would have done if I was the pilot.

Sky just had a vox pop of people in texas being asked for their thoughts on Trumps actions

It's depressing to listen to....no concept there just might possibly be other equally or dare I say it more valid opinions

No reasoning, one dipstick with a pair of gold high top runners hanging around his neck

Everyone on the we believe in trump train

Maybe they edit out anyone with a balanced view....but to a man/woman you knew there would be no point having a debate with any one of the geniuses interviewed....facts/logic...none of that would matter

Utterly depressing.

"It appears the US economy really is in the shitter."

America public - votes for man who bankrupt multiple companies and was convicted of fraud

*American economy collapses

American public -

The Mad King has issued a decree

I wonder what currently serving and veterans think of this chickenshit draft dodger saying things like this? It's so cringe for someone so unmanly to pretend to be John Wayne.

I very much doubt we have any common ground where Trump and his present cabinet of misfits are concerned.

I see them as a bunch of lying conniving psychopaths determined to turn the U.S. into a fascist state, while you as part of their military are happy to follow whatever orders they give you and spend your time on here defending them.

From just the present in Iran we have Trump declaring a few months ago that Iran`s nuclear capabilities were obliterated, to a week ago saying it was his decision to go to war because he had a "feeling" there was going to be an imminent attack by Iran. An attack with what when their nuclear capabilities were obliterated ?

His "feeling" as far as I`m concerned was that he could not go to Congress looking for approval as it would result in him having to admit his obliteration was just another of his lies. With Trump it is even feasible that he saw that Robert Duval had passed away, decided to watch a re-run of Apocalypse Now and with the Epstein files and his low poll ratings, on hearing Duvall utter the lines, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning….Smelled like victory" decided another war was just what he needed to win the mid-terms. Both him and his administration are so unhinged that anything is feasible. They cannot even get their own stories straight on who decided to start this war or what it is meant to achieve.

Trump according to himself started it based on a "feeling". Rubio said it was the Israelis got the ball rolling and the U.S. joined in, but a day later tried to roll back on that, - while still attempting to hold to the line that Iran`s nuclear facilities had been obliterated a few months earlier - and it was Trump`s that started it based on his "feeling" of an imminent attack from drones or something something…. None of them have now any idea of what the desired outcome is. Regime change has gone out the window being replaced by, we will just keep bombing until something happens. What that might be they have no idea. Which from his statement is their war lord Hegseth`s preference, and on past form that of their partner in this Israel. Even if something did happen I doubt the unhinged Hegseth or the Israelis would not find another reason to keep bombing.

As to Hegseth`s rules of engagement I have already addressed that in another post recently.

And who exactly in his cabinet would say otherwise?

his cabinet does not govern the world. A lot of US business is dependent on foreign monies. They rely on a lot of resources from other countries. There are a lot of countries with significant leverage over the US, whether his cabinet realises or not