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

There'll be a PropJoe10 monument built at the crash site.

I was confidently told on more than one occasion on this very forum that Trump wouldn't get elected again because too much of his base would die off by the time of the next election.

Also told that he wouldn't live until the next election, or would be in jail, or the electorate would be so disgusted by his various antics that he'd become a political pariah.

We know what happened with all of those. His vote tally has indeed increased election upon election.

Next confident prediction that looks shaky - the midterm elections will render him a lame duck.

Two things I saw today was the absence of Secretary of State Rubio and the apparent tension between the USAF General [JCS] and the other members of the miltary of his rank from what he said during his briefing at the event. The general didn't hold back from criticising the other serving and recently retired members of the general staff on their thoughts about the US military being involved in a war on Iran.

There was an emphasis from the CIA that the fighter was brought down by a shoulder-launched missile without mentioning the type. I assume the pilot told his interviewers what brought him down. The availability of it to Iranians on the ground probably went hand in hand with the users having Comms means as well which would mean they could tell IRGC and Tehran a fighter was downed, nothing to do with some leaker and the media in the US despite Trump trying to distract the US public with a a "fake news" allegation that US media were working hand in hand with the "enemy". The CIA gent didn't elabotrate on where Iran got it's hands on the missile or training in use.

A lot of the media over the past few days have been reporting repeatedly that the pilot was behind enemy lines. FFS, he was shot down over Iranian territory, inside Iranian airspace, a hostile USAF military aircraft present there as a result of Trump having it there on an excursion without Congress authorising war on Iran. Even the sceptical media have been swallowing Trump's lies….

Trump is now trying to blame journalists for "leaking" about the fact that there was a 2nd crew member of the downed F15 who was missing. This from CNN:

"During the press conference, Trump said that the revelation of a second missing crew member had alerted the Iranian military and sparked their competing efforts to try to find him first.

“It became a much more difficult operation because a leaker leaked,” he said. “All of a sudden, the entire country of Iran knew that there was a pilot that was somewhere on their land that was fighting for his life.” "

Now even a schoolboy knows that an F15 has 2 crew members, and if Trump and co were going on about one who had been rescued, the strong implication is that there is another one out there somewhere (dead or alive). Doesn't take a leaker. Memo to MAGA Maths geniuses 2-1=1.

It's not perfect but it's better than what preceeded it.

Not saying I like trump but he did more than sleepy joe .

I'm looking forward to seeing Trump & co jail the "leaker".

The Iranian media broke the news Friday morning.

Sure they claimed an f35 at first obviously just as a let's pick the biggest fish propaganda win but once they had the pictures of the wreckage the cat was out of the bag no amount of censorship of US media would have kept this incident under wraps as regards aircraft type crew count etc.

This notion that the Iranian's are basically relying on US media for intel that has come to the fore today is a bit ridiculous.

They were going to be searching that mountain no matter what CNN or CBS or whoever reported.

Who's a pedophile? You? Trump?

Let's not get childish with name calling?

Before the bombing starts America must implement 25th ammendment mass bombing infrastructure is a war crime heard a reporter ask a rep senator 3 times is it ok he stated duel usage garbage scared to go against a now clearly madman with the codes

The 10th Amendment says that the States cant be forced to enforce federal law.

Disturbing that a signed opinion from SCOTUS has agreed to vacate a lower court ruling upholding Steve Bannons convictions, for which he has already served time. The DC Circuit already affirmed the conviction. The Trump DOJ is trying to undo it.

It's a society that had open (as opposed to covert) racial apartheid in operation until 1964, and of course its removal created a massive backlash which gave the GOP a stranglehold on the South from the 1970's onwards. People need to stop comparing the US with Western Europe, Canada or Australia, which for all their faults are largely functioning democracies.

Don't underestimate the abortion vote. It was clear that Trump was anti abortion and Harris pro

For many people over here that is a red line policy and they will vote solely on those lines no matter who the candidate is