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

“Just how dumb are the Americans?”

They elected him- twice. Very.

I expect that once the true extent of the fraud and insider trading comes to light, it will be utterly utterly breathtaking

The advantage of being an 80 year old president is that you can feign dementia quite easily and avoid any serious consequences of insider dealing - his friends however, might not get away quite so easily

They might make up a new one for him… the Nobel Appease Prize.

He probably sees Cuba as a relatively easy win. Close to the mainland US, troops already on the island in Guantanamo, likely minimum resistance to re-taking Havana. Possibly thinks that the populace will support him, because after all his support is high amongst the Cubans in Florida.

All of which would be a complete misread of the situation, but in-depth analysis is not their thing. So I expect Cuba to be Aprils big adventure.

Btw - Shawn McCreesh is the journalist (NYT) who asked this question properly of Trump yesterday

"You just suggested that Iran got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war,” McCreesh said. “But you’re the only person in your government saying this. Even your defense secretary wouldn’t say that when he was asked, standing over your shoulder on your plane on Saturday. Why are you the only person saying this?”

If only the rest of the press grew a pair and put questions to him in this way...

They are wearing it as a badge of honour:

What was Trumps reply?

Yeah another chance to force another surrender if he wants advice pick a side thats not losing

The war ends when bibi says

He's a bit stuck now as, unlike Venezuela, he no longer has complete control of the narrative.

The Iran conflict is unpopular at home, hasn't been as clean as he'd like - American deaths, hitting a school, massive jump in oil prices - so like Venezuela he's trying to declare massive victory and move on.

Unlike Venezuela, he's got Israel quite happy to keep things going, and drag America in with them. Its not like Trump can say, 'not our war now, just Israel's. We won our bit, leave us alone'

Also Iran are saying we've no intention of talking to you. You attacked us, killed our leader and people; and our only viable way to respond is to slowly squeeze oil supply and hit you financially. If we stop now, we've barely hurt you for all the damage you've done. We're OK to keep Hormuz shut.

That's why Trump is threatening 20 times more destruction and fire if you keep Hormuz closed, its bluster to get them to stop hitting his weak point. Oil dropped a lot yesterday on rumours Trump would say things are over, if nothing actually changes on the ground, it'll go back up. And meanwhile Israel are quite happy to keep stoking the fire as Trump is tied to them.

His attention span has hit limit, his popularity is dropping but he can't just take his ball and go home this time.

“Because I just don’t know enough about it,” Trump replied, interrupting the reporter again. “I think it’s something that I was told is under investigation, but Tomahawks are used by others, as you know.”

Narrator - no dear reader, they were not in this case

Why does Chatgptzero say it is highly confident that was AI generated?

I tested it a few days ago and it said then it was likely human (but with some small AI input ,I think)

Now ,as I say it says it is 100% AI.

If you were to give that passage to an AI generator ,could it give a "rebuttal" that was equally "convincing"?

Have we crossed the Rubicon and outsourced our critical faculties to computer software?

https://gptzero.me/