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

Most royal families are that inbred it's a miracle they can stand up

the issue if you look at the MAGA-heavy media, they are touting the speech as a reinforcement of the close UK-US ties and Trump as worthy of the attention of a Royal visit (two kings). Everything is now reported with one’s own partisan view

This sounds like he's calling him a bellend

this is from other reports….

Tim Waltz seems to think there is. I'll take his word over yours. Why are you getting so defensive over this when the democratic governor himself is saying it. Not to mention claiming I moved the goalposts when the guy I replied to is the one who did.

Waltz:

"Today’s raids by state and federal law enforcement happened because our state agencies caught irregular behavior and reported it. That’s how the system is supposed to work, and our agencies will keep at it as long as there are fraudsters around to put behind bars."

Edit: the context for this text is a few posts previous in the tweet I shared which you've ignored before claiming no context. Make it make sense.

Walz (without T) said it because the state has investigated fraud and when they found any it has been reported to the federal government, while Patel loves to pretend it was all his people. It's the same reason why under the Biden administration dozens of people were charged and sentenced for it, because the state informed them of it. Ironically the number of arrests or sentences that MAGA loves to claim actually mostly comes from the Biden-era investigation.

The issue is that you seem to conflate a YouTube video of some illiterate grifter with proof of fraud, when in reality nothing was found so far at the creches he visited.

That there is other types of fraud might very well be, as it seems to be confirmed by Walz but the main reason that MAGA jumped on this is because they pretended that the Democrats in charge of the state ignored it and it was the brave FBI and a YouTuber that uncovered it all.

I didn't bring up a YouTuber yesterday I brought up the fact the trump admin is trying to take credit off Tim for this. You and another poster brought that up. Investigations take a long time so even if there was something to that we'd not find out for a while.

I repeated the text I posted earlier to remind you. The original tweet featured all the context you need. It demonstrates the fued between the Trump admin and the likes of Tim.

Seen this on FB, had to share, IYKYK😂

https://www.rte.ie/sport/golf/2026/0429/1570815-trump-heaps-praise-on-mcilroy-at-white-house-banquet/

Video attached in the article. This was during the British kings dinner yesterday. Good to see Rory getting the recognition. One of our greatest sportsmen ever.

Speaking of fraud and corruption:

“They just took the cover page of my estimate and just added a bunch of money,” the original cost estimator said.

By Sharon Zhang , TRUTHOUTPublishedApril 27, 2026

"The Trump administration has covertly granted the private company building President Donald Trump’s ballroom project a no-bid federal contract for a project near the White House, and then quintupled its value from its original price estimate, new reporting shows.

The New York Times reports that, in January, the Trump administration granted Clark Construction a contract to repair two fountains in Lafayette Park, which sits across from the White House, and they did so without posting the grant on public databases. 

The National Park Service (NPS) project, which will be paid for with federal money, was originally estimated to cost $3.3 million, according to calculations done in 2022 under the Biden administration. But the Trump administration inflated that to $11.9 million, and then later tacked on provisions to raise the value to $17.4 million, internal NPS documents showed.

The agency undertook numerous unusual measures both to ensure that Clark would be granted the project without competition, and that it would be given over quintuple the original cost estimate to complete it. 

For instance, the administration used inflation as a reason to tack on another $2 million to the project. Officials also invoked an exception, citing “urgency,” to bypass the part of the typical federal contracting process requiring the government to consider multiple bids for the project in order to save money. This exception has not been used in 99 percent of NPS contracts in the past decade, according to the Times.

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The consultant who did the estimate for the Biden administration, Stephen J. Kirk, told the Times that the additions to the budget were completely arbitrary.

“They just took the cover page of my estimate and just added a bunch of money onto it,” said Kirk. “I didn’t add those extra millions on there.”

The administration said that the project was urgent because of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration coming up this July. But one expert, contracting law expert Steven L. Schooner, said that this excuse is frivolous.

“No one will die. No one’s quality of life will be diminished. There is nothing urgent about this,” he said. “Self-imposed deadlines aren’t urgency. And lack of planning isn’t urgency.”

Clark Construction was tapped by the Trump administration last year to build his $400 million ballroom — a privately-funded project that has already sparked a mountain of corruption concerns, with corporations using donations to potentially gain Trump’s favor. Trump has repeatedly sung Clark Construction’s praises, and has previously said that he wants to grant it numerous contracts for various projects around Washington, D.C.

Trump posted an 11-second video showing one of the repaired fountains on Truth Social on Saturday. The video shows an oval shaped pool with two lit-up fountains spraying water. The fountain lights change color in sync.

“The first time Lafayette Park Fountains, opposite the White House, have worked in decades. My Great Honor to have funded this project (and many others!), and helped,” Trump wrote.

After the Times article was published, Trump posted a screed against the publication, claiming that he made “a multimillion contribution to the effort,” without evidence of that claim.

“Once again, The Failing New York Times has attempted to grossly mischaracterize what should be hailed as the restoration of Beauty and Grandeur to our Nation’s Capital as something else completely,” Trump wrote. “The New York Times should congratulate us, instead of trying to make us look bad.”

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he is afraid to walk down those stairs without help

What exactly is he trying to say with?

They don’t know how to sign a nonnuclear deal. 

Meaning they don't klnow how to (read don't want to) sign a deal that would involve scrapping their nuclear weapons program?