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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭bog master


    Sharpiegate 11

    Such matters of great importance being discussed at todays Cabinet Meeting.

    “So this pen is very inexpensive, better,” Trump said. “Writes well. I like it.”

    The president then proceeded to give a shout-out to Sharpie, the company that makes the pens he regularly uses and complained about the pens used at the White House.

    “So I came here, and they have $1,000 pens. And, you know, you hand pens out, you’re signing, and you hand them out. You’re handing them as all these people. Sometimes you have 30, 40 people, and they are $1,000 a piece,” Trump complained. “Beautiful pen, ballpoint, $1,000. It was gold, silver, gorgeous. But I’m handing out to kids that don’t even know what they are.”

    So I’m saying this is crazy, and it had another problem: They didn’t write well,” Trump rambled. “So I take it, and I signed, and there’s no ink, and I got all you people looking, and you say, ‘there must be something wrong with Trump.’”

    The president claimed that rather than using a $1,000 pen that doesn’t write, he called Sharpie and told the company he wanted pens, but he didn’t want them to say Sharpie as he was signing contracts as president.

    “He said, ‘Well, I can make it nicer.’ I said, ‘What can you do?’ He said, ‘I’ll paint it black.’ I said, ‘That’s nice,’” Trump recounted his conversation.

    He claimed that the person from Sharpie even said that they could paint the White House on it in gold, calling it “almost real gold,” and even suggested putting his signature on it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,745 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    I watched a small bit of that live feed of the cabinet meeting from the White House. JD was giving a spiel about the most important week in the Christian calendar coming up. Wanted to add prayers for his fellow Christian’s and pray for the servicemen. It went around to the other lads talking about how great things were going “prayers for servicemen” . Ending with the “God bless America”.
    Yet when they spoke about Iran they referred to it as “a religious cult” without any hint of irony.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,546 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    If it's a religious war with Iran, then send the Christian fundamentalists over to do the fighting...

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,595 ✭✭✭TinyMuffin


    insulted the british warship going to help in the gulf. Said they’re not the best. And like toys.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,599 ✭✭✭✭charlie14


    Trump got Pakistan, who had 8 oil tankers stuck in the the Strait of Hormuz, to give Iran his hoped for ass saving plan. Iran laughed at his proposal, but let Pakistan`s oil tanker through as a diplomatic courtesy, achieving what Trump`s bigliest most powerful army, navy or air force could not and Trump believes it was a gift due to him.

    That he would even think that, never mind say it, shows on its own just how deranged he is.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,455 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Jesus Christ… None of these ships sailed! This whole situation he outlines did. not. happen. He is honestly the stupidest possible person that could have gotten that job, how is this timeline possible?

    Trump Reveals the ‘Present’ Iran Gave Him to Prove Negotiations Are Real:

    And then I watched the news and they said… A very good anchor, actually. Happened to be Fox. But I watched it, and he said something’s unusual happening. There are eight boats that are going right up the middle of the Hormuz Strait. Eight big tankers are going loaded up with oil right through it. And I said, well, I guess they were right, and they were real. And I think they were Pakistani-flagged.

    And I said, well, I guess we’re dealing with the right people. And actually, they then apologized for something they said, and they said we’re going to send two more boats, and it ended up being 10 boats. I hope I haven’t screwed up your negotiations. I thought it was appropriate to say, because I did taunt you the other day by saying they’re going to give us a present.

    https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-reveals-the-present-iran-gave-him-to-prove-negotiations-are-real/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,455 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Starting to sound like the ground operation is coming aswell, Im seriously thinking of dumping all my investments tomorrow and waiting it out, there must be more going on than we're being told about.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,647 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    There are two dates for the ground invasion and I can't tell you which one is more likely; either tomorrow evening after markets close (to make sure it does not crash directly because how could an ground invasion of one or more of the islands fail? Hence they think good news would overshadow that by Monday as Iran will have surrendered) or next Thursday/Friday to connect it with Easter (that way the quarterly pension statements that Americans see will not take a hit and they can connect it to Easter so they can get prayers in the churches going with the sermons there etc.). And yes, I think they are that stupid in their decisions that is about as much thought and planning goes into the decision and even that may be generous.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭Stanley 1




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,920 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭Tazz T


    he's only gone and tacod a taco. Put back the strikes on Iranian energy structure. Someone's made a quick buck but the market looks like they're calling wolf and recovering quickly.

    Now he'll have to untaco so his son can make more money



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭Tazz T


    88 million in oil shorts minutes before that announcement. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the biggest conman in history.

    (update): I've hugely underestimated that.

    … And apparently leader of the 'free' world



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,255 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake




  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 45,538 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Trump acknowledges that he has ignored the US Constitution and has learned from his Russian master...

    I won't use the word war because they say if you use the word war, that's maybe not a good thing to do. They don't like the word war because you are supposed to get approval. So I will use the word military operation.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,255 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Not to be outdone by his idiot boss



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,757 ✭✭✭flutered


    strikes on iran put back to april, just announced



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,076 ✭✭✭KilOit


    Seeing a lot of conservatives changing their tune regarding Trump, are we close to the end of this madness?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth 8-bit


    ^^ the sooner the better , if only



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 959 ✭✭✭JPCN1


    With that level of sniveling sycophancy you'd wonder if he is compromised. Wouldn't trust a fella who could debase himself like he has…



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,647 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    No; for the same reason after the January 6th insurrection the republicans all started to wobble and talk about no need for more etc. Yes; things will eventually settle down a bit compared to now as they piss their pants over the poll results but ending the madness? Not until 2029 once Trump is removed from office (think how unhinged Trump will get once GOP loses control of the house in November this year and the last minute BS they will try to pass before the handover…).



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,782 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    I don’t think so.

    You might laugh but was watching the series- Louis Theroux The most hated Family in America earlier this evening - a repeat -it was recorded around the time of Bush as President.

    There was a scene in it at the family’s in question Baptist church - they were anti-gay of course and boy did the preacher fcker preach hell fire and brimstone along with attacks on Bush (who’s going to hell apparently)
    There’s churches like this all across America - they lap this sh1t up each Sunday. There’s a serious percentage of America who are bat sh1t crazy and the preacher laying of hands on Trump ceremony the other day and the prayer b0ll0x going on at the White House cabinet meeting today is completely normal in many parts of America.
    Really, to many in America, all of this is as normal as cookies with warm milk



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,255 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    This is the rank ignorance we're up against.

    Any chance they could just skip to the poisoned kool aid part



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,782 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    ”In Trump we Trust”- coming to a dollar bill near you, real soon pilgrim.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 562 ✭✭✭pad406




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,546 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    He'll put his signature on anything but the draft…

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭MONarmy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,750 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    At times, we hear the usual crap from his fans here, along the lines of "well 70+ million voted for them, are they all stupid.

    Yes, they are all absolute idiots.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 562 ✭✭✭pad406




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Timistry


    Delete



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 98,142 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Holy underwear! Sheriff murdered! Innocent women and children blown to bits! We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!

    Trump doesn't come off well by comparison



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