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

Wow...lucky pilots!

Your periodic reminder that Trump nearly had his last VP killed...

Putting aside the hypothetical nonsense, he really is persisting in calling Democrats - "Dumacrats"!?

Presumably therefore it would be acceptable to starting calling Republicans - "Rapepublicans", given their tendency to protect the rapists?

What even is the point of this hypothetical? Iran is showing absolutely no signs of 'coming out with its hands up' in this way…

It's more depressing that a group of people will listen to this drivel and think it somehow vindicates their opinions/worldview rather than make them feel like hanging their head in shame that they ever contributed to letting this clown anywhere near consequential decision making

How poor does ones judgement have to be for that drivel from that moron to be something that you think is a good thing

I'm struggling to adequately express my contempt for these morons tbh....listening to vox pop earlier, it's clear it is something of a cult (at least the fools that were interviewed and the cult members aren't capable of much in the way of critical thought....I hope in time they develop some capacity for it although given their age I wouldn't be hopeful......if any gerrymandering should be done its to prevent irresponsible fruitloop adults like these from voting....a basic test of reasoning / cause and effect should be a minimum....to save the rest if us from the consequences of idiots like those interviewd having any influence on how things are run...

But you have to understand that in the view of the character on the right's eyes, Obama was the most divisive president ever , but because he was bi-racial. He represented to people like her an attempt to move to a whole new plateau of societal enlightenment, which was utterly intolerable to both the people in deep red states and also the emerging reactionary counterculture in the US.

And to her, Donald Trump is the most unifying president ever. The Democrat party might as well be a proscribed organisation and their supporters run out of the country. Trump unifies the "real" Americans, ie Republicans.

It's warped, and parts of it MAGA wouldn't even really admit to themselves, but consistent in its way.

The Trump-DOJ deal for the $1.7billion slush-fund to reward Jan 6th criminals is the main news item in CNN, the NY Times and the Washington Post. Even the sleepy mainstream media is latching on to this.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/18/politics/trump-irs-lawsuit-fund-for-allies

Never in history has corruption been so huge, so open, so brazen.

If I recall correctly, he vetoed the water bill because of Lauren Boebert!

TACO again and again!

Just a deeply, deeply embarrassing human being. I don't really have anything else to say about it anymore.

Does lightning strike twice or three times or more?

Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 rioters were already indefensible. As many of them run into fresh trouble with the law, the move continues to look even worse.

May. 18, 2026, 8:57 AM EDTBy Steve Benen

At a congressional hearing last week, Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt complained that Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee continue to focus on the Jan. 6 attack from five years ago. To hear the Missouri senator tell it, it’s time for the political world to simply move on from the insurrectionist attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Among the many problems with Schmitt’s argument is that the relevance of the political violence hasn’t faded at all, especially as many of the rioters who received pardons from Donald Trump run into fresh trouble with the law. Two days before Schmitt’s complaint, Law & Crime reported:

A Jan. 6 rioter from Texas who was pardoned by President Donald Trump and claimed he had “completely changed” since the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack was arrested Sunday and charged with deadly conduct after allegedly threatening a churchgoer with a gun.

Ryan Nichols, 36, is accused of displaying and grabbing the weapon, a pistol, while threatening and confronting a man over a “prior disagreement” in the parking lot of Oak Grove Baptist Church in Harleton, according to local police officials.

If Nichols’ name sounds at all familiar, it might be because the Texan recently announced plans to run for Congress as a Republican, though he withdrew from the race soon after.

He’s the same man who pleaded guilty in 2023 to crimes he committed on Jan. 6 telling a judge he was “very sorry” for the “bad choice” that he made in early 2021. Nichols further claimed that he had “completely changed” in the wake of the attack.

Three years later, he’s due back in court in early June, where he’ll say whether he intends to plead guilty or not guilty in the wake of his latest arrest.

Just days before Nichols was taken into custody, law enforcement officials in Florida announced a prostitution, human trafficking and child predator sting, which led to the arrest of two more Jan. 6 participants who had received pardons from the incumbent president.

Two weeks before that, a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in North Carolina over charges of sexual exploitation of a minor and possessing sexually explicit images of children.

Those developments come three weeks after a different Jan. 6 rioter who received a presidential pardon was sentenced to four years in prison on child pornography charges. Earlier in the month, a different Jan. 6 rioter, who was also rescued by Trump, was sentenced to life in prison for molesting two children.

Around the same time, another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter was charged with threatening a police officer who served at the Capitol. This came roughly a month after the same man was arrested in Minneapolis after destroying an ice sculpture that was outside the state Capitol.

Unfortunately, this is just the start of a larger list of insurrectionists who ran into trouble with the law after receiving clemency from Trump.

In February, for example, a different pardoned Jan. 6 rioter was convicted in Florida of child molestation and exposing himself to children. (The man, Andrew Paul Johnson, attempted to bribe one of his victims by saying the administration would send him money as part of restitution for those who attacked the Capitol.)

One week earlier, another pardoned rioter, Christopher Moynihan, who was arrested after allegedly threatening to assassinate House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated harassment as part of a plea agreement.

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/pardoned-jan-6-rioter-arrested-again-in-texas-extending-brutal-pattern

And TACO Man wants to give some taxpayers money to these ehmmmm?