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

He is consistent in the type he goes for isn't he.....I wonder if Ivanka moulded herself into the look to win daddys affection.......

FDI is one thing. FDI beholden to one country or one administration is another. We're far too concentrated and like anything be it nature or business, an ecosystem with no diversity dies.

We have opportunities of creating indigenous industry and creating an environment that's interesting to other nations like Japan, Korea and China looking for a foothold in Europe but we choose not to. Like everything in this country, we subcontract the future. Won't build our own houses, won't build our own infrastructure, won't even have competent consultants in house. Instead we subcontract everything to the private sector at inflated prices and accept substandard results. We've wasted 30years of incredible income in this country for a lack of willing to do anything ourselves. And that gravy train is coming to an end.

Well to be fair he is the biggest turd 💩

“You’re a great leader, sometimes people don’t like me saying it, but I say it anyway,” Trump responded. “There are those who say this may be the biggest summit ever,” he added.

….apparently

Some people believe Trump is the Second Coming. While others think he is the Antichrist - fulfilling the scriptures. ’In the wildest fiction you couldn’t make this s**t up.’

In either case, you had better praise his holy name: Trump.

But it is fascinating how a simple message repeated resonates with Americans enough, not only to win an election but to get the popular vote. And win two elections.

I think its widely recognised that its not a simple message that got him elected. Trump is a clever politician and used a sophisticated form of political micro-targeting.

By breaking the electorate into these smaller buckets he didn't need a single, unified message that everyone liked. He just needed to win one or two arguments with enough different groups to cross the finish line.

They identified specific voter bases and understood their one or two biggest primary concerns. Then they went and told those bases exactly what they wanted to hear, regardless if it contradicted what he had told other groups. Only need to look at his messaging on Gaza and abortion during the various rallies he held.

This was enough for these voters to ignore all the other BS and give him the vote.

But as a lot of folk are finding out, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!"

The EU will be wary if China and the US form closer ties. Their ability to pressure China over the genocide and ethnic cleansing of it's Uyghurs (ethnic Turks) population will wane. Basically China will have gotten away with it and the EU will be more likely to bend the knee and form stronger ties with the totalitarian communist regime.

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story. These are the two most powerful men on the planet btw, whether we like it or not.

Trump is a clever politician and used a sophisticated form of political micro-targeting

There's nothing clever or sophisticated in what Trump has done. He isn't that smart.

All he did was blow smoke up some dumb people's arses. Stupid people he understood would buy into his lies and deceit. Enough stupid people to possibly get him over the line.

Anyone can do that if they are willing to lower themselves enough to lie and lie and lie again, which is exactly what he does.

There's no cleverness or sophistication going on in that. It's just promising things to useful idiots that you can't deliver or have no interest in delivering, and when you have a blind following of that type that hate others so much that they're willing to overlook any of your wrongdoing, continually fooling them and using them is easy.

Saying that that is clever or sophisticated is assigning a level of wit and intelligence that just isn't there.

It's funny though that there are still some people who feel the need to rush to defend Trump's honour when a perceived weakness is pointed out.