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

Very True. I recall debate around that time that creationism should be given equal weight to science in schools at the time. This has been brewing for decades in the US.

You have to wonder if the seeds of some of the current Conservative US attitudes were brought over by a certain group of settlers that share the same ancestry as JD Vance. Some of the hallmarks are noticably similar.

I think we're all still coming to terms with what Trump appeared to know a decade ago:- "I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and I wouldn't lose any voters. OK? OK?"

I mean… people like to say he's dumb, but that particular quote sounds more prescient with each passing year, doesn't it?

And while the response to this is generally to point to tanking approval ratings, it's worth remembering that aside from the MAGA cult who will really follow him off a cliff (or rather jump off a cliff at his behest, because no way is he missing golf at Mar a Lago), there is the whole other bloc who'll hold their nose and vote for him, such is their hatred or fear of 'the other side'. Trump has been a serious contender in 3 general elections, now, and has increased his vote total in each one, despite everything known about him, a fraction of which would utterly sink pretty much any other political career. Think about that.

Far from crashing out of politics due to this scandal or that, as his critics have predicted at every turn, he is (or rather his advisors piggybacking on his caché with voters) successfully engineering the end of American democracy, made himself pretty much impossible to prosecute and vastly increased his own personal fortune. I despise him as much as most here, but you cannot say he's not been effective in pursuing his goals, here.

But he's no longer just unfortunate for Americans. Across the world, we'll be bearing the brunt of his ignorance as energy prices shoot up due to this utterly insensible war with Iran.

Totally unsurprising response from Trump. It will be forgotten in a few days as a newer comment or action will take the headlines. The depth of disgusting bile that eminates from his gob on a regular basis knows no limit and the reality that it is acceptable for a head of state of the USA to speak and act like he does, shows that we have passed the rubicon into something far more troubling than just political division. It speaks to a normalisation of behaviour that would once have been disqualifying, not just controversial. It is sad that it is all now just background noise, another day another Trump crass and disgusting comment.

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I haven’t verified that yet.

edit: It’s fake

This is just as bad.

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I would bet every penny I have, that when Trump kicks the bucket (which I think is not completely unlikely during this term, given how unhealthy and old he is), and a section of people inevitably celebrate or say they are glad, there will be a slew of high profile US republicans criticising those people.

They will evangelise as to how the left and right are allegedly different, and how "the right" don't celebrate death, while completely ignoring this latest repugnance from Trump.

Hypocrites and cowards, all.

This is escalating out of control. Trump is a puppet, too stupid as to have any idea as to what's driving this.

Oh well the gulf countries are about to lose there power plants in 24 hours

What a stupid post from the criminal incharge of of the USA clearly dumb as fcuk

That's targeting civilians like his buddy did in Ukraine and its a another war crime makes the regime more popular

That is Presidential, eloquent, and compassionate.

I can't decide when he does whether they should dump him at sea like Bin Laden, so there can't be a golden shrine (because you know that's what he would want) or a grave so that we can have the world's largest gender neutral toilet.