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

A minor thing in the torrent of bullshíte, but wasn't it Trump himself who the NK regime described as a "mentally deranged dotard" that they would "tame with fire" if the US ever dared attack them?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50682235

I don't even think that Trump is a racist in the sense that I don't think he holds racism as an abiding principle. He basically divides his view of people into winners and losers. He hates poor black people, but will happily schmooze with rich ones. He's outspoken of his admiration for Tiger Woods, for example.

But that's assuming a neutral attitude from them. If they like him or dislike him, or love him or hate him also determines his attitude, but this is much more temporal. Trump will literally flip his rhetoric about someone depending on what they're saying about him on a given day.

In an alternate reality, Trump is happily schmoozing with the most outspoken liberals of Hollywood, having been accepted by them and is a registered Democrat, but they kind of rejected his brand of gauche materialism, and then he found that he could get so much attention on Twitter by saying outrageous things. I think I remember a story about him saying to a friend something like '….it's amazing. I just type something into this little box, hit send, and all of a sudden everyone's talking about me!'

Total catnip to a narcissist like him. Over time, he realised just what an audience he had. Didn't help that it was concurrent with a rising online reactionary far-right counterculture, and here we find ourselves today. He rode that wave all the way to the presidency.

If the launch codes are " Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV" we're bolloxed.

This isn't the conspiracy thread, come on now

It's mad to think that Trump's share of the vote actually improved with each election!

I don't understand the USA, it's a different culture. How many tens of thousands died because Trump wouldn't get behind Covid containment measures that had been set up under Bush Jr. And then Biden's Iron Clad support for Israel begat a genocide and now Trump keeps it rolling.

But before I was born they thought dropping bombs on rice farmers in Vietnam was protecting the Murican way of life.

The more you think about it the more Trump is merely the most overt symptom of a great underlying ill.

Perhaps the power brokers are pleased with Trump's actions. First of all, people say it takes the news focus of the Epstein files, but also depressions and recessions, such as what would be caused by the energy shock, are great for the very wealthy. They have enough saved to ride out the storm and pick up plenty of cheap property as the little guy goes belly up and has to sell or can't make their rent.

In olden times, there was the worry of revolt, but social media has ensured that the public at large is far too divided or distracted to unify and fight the real enemy.

"I'm good at language"

…says the guy who wrote "bare" for "bear" and "reign" for "rain".

I wonder…does he know what coño means in English? Cos he's going to be hearing that directed at him a lot in Venezuela.