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

somenergy · 20-03-2026 12:35AM

EU leaders need to step up and call for a ceasefire in ME and initiate talks

US navy had pulled its ships out of the straits in Feb they knew it would be closed once the bombing started.

Idiot in WH should be arrested and all family assets frozen

Dems and reps should give back the back handers from the mag7 companies paid to there families.

Jeff2 · 20-03-2026 01:16AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124323691#Comment_124323691

I don't think Israel is so blind in this war

They've been waiting a long time for this to happen and will keep it going as long as they can.

Ardillaun · 20-03-2026 02:07AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124323689#Comment_124323689

He’s watching the basic economic numbers, though - petrol, inflation and the like - and his party will be telling him about them too. They affect the polls, the seats in Congress and thereby his impeachment prospects after November.

RickBlaine · 20-03-2026 03:01AM

I'm on some non-political forums and Discord chats and the Americans there are freaking out about gas prices. This has got to be one of the most politically unsavvy things a US President has ever done in a mid-term election year.

everlast75 · 20-03-2026 07:07AM

Front cover of the Economist

Take a bow

rayman10 · 20-03-2026 07:12AM

Looks like another TACO.

No attacks on Iran's Energy

No regime change

No US Navy escorts through the straits

No boots on the ground

kyote00 · 20-03-2026 07:56AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326087#Comment_124326087

but 100s of innocent people and kids murdered across half a dozen countries.
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Wanderer78 · 20-03-2026 08:32AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326101#Comment_124326101

donny will be deeply concerned about this, deeply!

secman · 20-03-2026 08:55AM

Donald J Trump reminds us many many times a day why history will portrait him as a clear outright winner of the title "Worst President of the United States of America " ever.

PropJoe10 · 20-03-2026 09:05AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326147#Comment_124326147

And one of the worst humans to ever live. Don't forget that.

somenergy · 20-03-2026 09:19AM

80% of lightweight americas the war is to distract from the trump-epstein files

RickBlaine · 20-03-2026 09:41AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326124#Comment_124326124

He'll be far more concerned about that Economist cover than by all the innocent deaths.

Igotadose · 20-03-2026 09:52AM

Different topic, but here's a good detailed analysis of the takedown that just took place when a Judge dismissed RFKjr's quack-laden ACIP board and their rulings. It'll be appealed but the Judge left no doubt of just how bad the board is, and in true CFTrump-appointee manner, did a lousy procedural job trying to get their nonsense past the requirements on constituting the board:

https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/judge-blocks-changes-to-vaccine-schedule-aap-v-kennedy-update/

aloyisious · 20-03-2026 09:59AM

Overnight the heads of the US and Israeli governments say there'll be no more attacks on Iran's main liquified gas field and the head of the Israeli Govt said Iran cannot process nuclear material and cannot make ballistic missiles. Benny referred to the missiles as tubular items. Trump said the attack on Iran's South Pars gas field was solely an Israeli attack, nothing to do with the US - a rapid hand-washing operation.

I understood that the building block for the US and Israeli attack on Iran was the existance of nuclear material and missiles in Irans Govt control, an alleged threat to world peace. Maybe the cost effect of the US and Israeli Govt attack on Iran has suddenly become obvious to Trump due to the effect it has on the US public, that it was a bad idea from the start.

Enter stage 2 of the operation; whom to blame in the Trump administration. Two persons are ruled out: Trump and Kent, the whistleblower. How to wind down the assault on Iran when no one is likely to step forward to accept blame. The assault may be the start-point, as in; who is the person officially designated for War in the US?

In the UK, the person responsible would take up gardening. Trump already has an outdoor pastime so that's him out. Maybe archery for Hegseth, as it is a martial artform, costs little, is non-nuclear and targets are to hand. The US market and public are paying the bill for the war at the moment, hardly the time to suggest that an extra $200 Billion is needed for the US military budget.

The only problem is how much Iran will feel like taking up an offer from some intermediary acceptable to both side in the war. Quatar is out as are most of the Arab countries in the Middle East.

aero2k · 20-03-2026 10:06AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326248#Comment_124326248

I've been critical of the regulatory bodies in the US, and there's no doubt change was needed. However, if you're going to implement such sweeping changes, the least you have to do is act in a legal manner, something this administration seems to be spectacularly bad at.

Ash.J.Williams · 20-03-2026 10:07AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124325991#Comment_124325991

Israel saw their chance when the white house was taken over by a bunch of dumb cnts

rayman10 · 20-03-2026 10:22AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326101#Comment_124326101

1000's surely.

A Dub in Glasgo · 20-03-2026 10:27AM

The clowns in charge of the USA

https://twitter.com/OunkaOnX/status/2034853838482809324

Podge_irl · 20-03-2026 10:50AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326283#Comment_124326283

They are bad at it because they think they are empowered to simply do whatever they feel like and they don't even try to follow legal processes.

Unfortunately, they very frequently get away with this approach.

swiwi_ · 20-03-2026 10:56AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124325453#Comment_124325453

i dismiss it out of hand. It’s fanciful nonsense. And I have been paying attention.

aloyisious · 20-03-2026 10:59AM

From Euronews: Gaza Peace Board. 'It was the decision of one oligarch' - Bulgarian PM Gyurov walks back Board of Peace participation. Bulgaria's caretaker Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov told Euronews joining the Board of Peace led by US President Donald Trump was the result of "one oligarch's decision" and does not reflect the political consensus in the country.

"It would be an exaggeration to say this is the position of Bulgaria," he told Euronews Special Report in an interview Thursday. "It was not a question of international politics - it was a personal question of one oligarch who is sanctioned by the Global Magnitsky Act."

"The signing of this treaty has to do with him being removed from this list of sanctions. I do not think it will work. What is surprising, unfortunately, is the influence of an oligarch in some parties," he added. The oligarch in question, although not mentioned by name, is Delyan Peevski. An influential figure in Bulgarian politics from the shadows, Peevski is currently sanctioned by the United States and the United Kingdom for bribery and corruption.

Bulgaria was one of the few European Union countries to join the contentious Board of Peace launched in January by Trump. The move was pushed by former Bulgarian Prime Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov, and approved just days before his government collapsed following the biggest protests the country has seen in decades.

The Global Magnitsky Act is an official U.S state dept policy document. The Magnitsky Act was passed into law by the the US house and senate in 2016.

https://www.state.gov/global-magnitsky-act.

Rawr · 20-03-2026 11:07AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326047#Comment_124326047

Quite likely. As I like to point out on this thread and others, Donnie is not a politican. He has no plan, no political mandate nor any semblence of a plan regarding anything he does.

Keep in mind also, he could easily care less about the fate of the GOP in the mid terms or any contest. They are a means to an end for him, and beyond the protection a GOP majority will give him, he doesn't really care what happens to them. The IRan War was entirely about protecting his own neck from Epstein combined with enough gullable stupidity to be led around by Bibi to do Isreal's bidding. Donnie had no plan for any of this, and likely didn't think (or care) how it would impact the day-to-day lives of most Americans.

The Dems need to be savvy and highlight how it is Donnie No-Mates himself who is to blame for all of this. Sure, you can blame the Iranians too, but the way all of this played out lands squarly upon the slumped bronzer-stained shoulders of that incontient nitwit who even now sculks away in the West Wing while day-dreaming about a gaudy Ballroom that likely will never get built.

pad406 · 20-03-2026 11:09AM

Who'd have thought it?

The only thing Trump 47 has done well is make Trump 45 look less bad

everlast75 · 20-03-2026 11:36AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326294#Comment_124326294

It was well documented at the time, that Bibi scuppered peace talks while Biden was in office, so as to damage his re-election campaign. He and Trump worked hand in hand to get Biden out.

Trump sees a war criminal who uses military actions in order to avoid elections and of course, can relate.

Francis McM · 20-03-2026 12:18PM

Sometimes I wonder, if Iran had eventually developed and given Hamas a small nuclear device, would they have used it, given Hamas had used Iran supplied rockets and arms before, during and after the Oct 7th attacks on Israel? Given Iran's and Hamas's aim to obliterate Israel, wipe it off the map?

In which case is not Trump doing the world a great service now?

Oscar_Madison · 20-03-2026 12:23PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326047#Comment_124326047

I’m delighted to hear that- about time they realised what fcking stupid idiots they were to put Trump in the Whitehouse in the first place

Penn · 20-03-2026 12:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326619#Comment_124326619

It's sad that it's only when the effect of Trump's actions reaches into their own pockets that they start to turn against him.

eightieschewbaccy · 20-03-2026 12:30PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326604#Comment_124326604

Have you forgotten how Obama made an agreement that was explicitly preventing the development of nuclear weapons? Trump threw that out day one. So this is a problem of Trump's creation if we're to truly analyse your logic.

Secondly, Trump claimed to have entirely their nuclear capabilities only last year.… He's most likely further radicalised the Iranian regime too. So what exactly should we thank him for?

briany · 20-03-2026 12:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326604#Comment_124326604

No. They're not stupid or crazy. The last Ayatollah had something like 100 million dollars invested in personal property. Not really someone thinking only of the life to come. This goes for pretty much every top Iranian official. Having far too good a time on Earth to end it prematurely in a quick nuclear escalation. Nobody wins in that scenario.

And wanting to wipe Israel off the map is nearly more about having a central rallying cry to hold the Iranian revolution together. I don't know what they'd even do with themselves if they managed it.

Nody · 20-03-2026 12:53PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124326432#Comment_124326432

Well he's beaten his own bigly record; the number of congress Republicans who suddenly want to "spend more time with the family" or "be closer to their constituents" and not going for re-election have hit an all time high of 35 (previous record was 34) with some time to go (last resignations expected around June due to deadlines in some states such as Florida etc.). Hmm, I wonder why they all suddenly feel that they are not likely to be re-elected come November…

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

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