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

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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 4,692 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    It's looking less likely now that reality TV star Spencer Pratt (Independent until he registered as Republican around March or May) will make it into the runoff in LA mayoral race. In the California gubernatorial race it's likely Steve Hilton ® will do so though hes only 2% ahead of Tom Steyer (D) the billionaire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,422 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I really don't want to agree with this. I've several family members who adore the guy. My Dad got hesitant after the nonsense in the Strait of Hormuz and all I could think about how the Epstein stuff, the very credible rape allegations, January 6th, supporting genocide stuff, etc was all grand but Petrol goes up a few bob and that's where the line is.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,760 ✭✭✭francois


    About time the supine and cowardly MSM pushed back against the adjudicated rapist, 34 times convicted felon and possible nonce. 10 years too late though as they chased ratings.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭bog master


    This Susan Collins after her impeachment vote,

    Had Collins left it there, she would have been fine. But she didn’t leave it there. In an interview with CBS’ Norah O’Donnell, Collins said “I believe that the President has learned from this case” and that Trump “will be much more cautious in the future.”

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/05/politics/susan-collins-trump-impeachment



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    That reminds me of something. I remember during the election that that oaf Senator Kennedy said that she was a "DEI hire". I wish someone had pointed out to him that she was always elected to her positions never hired. I'm aware "DEI hire" is basically an insult but still, I would have liked to have seen him trying to squirm his way out of that.

    Also, even if Harris had been elected and was a weak and sub-par president, she still would have been infinitely better than Trump. She wouldn't have pardoned criminals en masse, she wouldn't have started a pointless trade war, she wouldn't have started a war with Iran, she wouldn't have insulted allies like Canada and Greenland, she wouldn't have fallen asleep multiple times on camera, she wouldn't have earned billions as president, she wouldn't have plastered her name and image on buildings, etc, etc, etc…



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭Stanley 1


    At times during that interview you feel like he is really going to blow his top, start swearing and smack her one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭bog master


    Hmmm amnesia or????????????????????????

    Throughout those discussions, the president also made a series of false claims. On the Iran War, Trump appeared baffled
    when Welker referenced his frequently touted campaign promise of no new wars.

    “I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” Trump, who has dubbed himself the “Peace President,” said. “I built our military.”

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-storms-off-from-meet-the-press-interview/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,959 ✭✭✭amacca


    Would like to see someone push him that far....I'd imagine his cockroach like sixth sense for survival and deep desire to prolong the grift and stave off any sort of consequences (should they ever materialise) would ahem trump that....I'd love to see him put to the pin of his collar and nailed on facts consistently from now on but I'd say he'd just scuttle away to completely controlled interviews.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,177 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    EU wide policy along with Eastern European style border approach for the Mediterranean and you solve it overnight.

    I'm on the verge of a site ban. Please don't rage bait me, I'm easily triggered especially late at night!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,422 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 33,942 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    EU wide policy on what?

    I'm not even opposed to stronger border controls and a less generous asylum system. But ideas like the Rwanda policy or this policy are entirely about optics (and, essentially, vice signalling) over efficacy. They are expensive and don't work.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,527 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    What an absolute vile abhorent disgusting excuse for a human being trump is.

    Listen to this interview below. Look at the hate & fury on his face. First is James O Brien LBC comment on this:

    He truely hates women who try and hold him to account.TBH, If I was the interviewer i would have got up and walked out, life is too short .. no one should have to take this bullsh*t. Sod access, what value is that now, better off NOT airing him, starve him of what he seeks, publicity

    The interview with MEET THE PRESS James O B refers to - about 2 mins 28secs, then trump walks out:

    Post edited by aidanodr on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    I know this has been said before, but I think it's more that america is a country of individuals rather than a coherent society. So people are happy to go along with things if it's in their selfish interest.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,422 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Every country seems to be going that way. The only reason Europe is any different is the spate of welfare state building that followed the Second World War. I can see the social contract being eroded bit by bit. There was even a lad on an Irish radio show a few weeks ago boasting about killing a housing development. His reason? It would have affected his view of Mount Leinster.

    We've a lot further to slide before we get to the Americans' level but it's far from impossible.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,958 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Just like his arsehole fans, he loses it when a fact is brought up and he can't deal with it, so runs away.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,422 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Standard bully. They cannot deal with people standing up to them.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,801 ✭✭✭✭Jelle1880


    Fair play to the journalist for questioning his lies.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,436 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    ...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,337 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    In the past hour Iran launched multiple Ballistic Missiles towards Israel.
    In retaliation for Israeli striking Beirut despite Iranian warning not to.

    In the aftermath, Trump spoke to Fox news and Israel are finding out what becoming a speed bump for Trump feels like.
    Trump seems to seeking a deal and avoiding a return to direct conflict if he can at all manage it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,586 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    After the walkback by acting A.G Blanche on the compensation fund for the Capitol criminals, I hope the judge looking into the Trump family IRS deal approved of by Blanche finds that the arrangement and facts and figures it is based on are phony and constitute criminal conspiracy to defraud the IRS under federal law amongst other offences so that Blanche will go down alongside the entire adult Trump family listed as taxpayers. The image of Trump doing time like Capone for tax evasion would bi nice.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,177 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    Hopefully it doesn't kick off again. This war could settle with Israel continuing their slow creep on Hezbollah while Iran fires at them. Ultimately Israel will be laughing after spending so many missiles on other nations and Israel also drew in the US which heavily degraded Iranian capabilities.

    I'm on the verge of a site ban. Please don't rage bait me, I'm easily triggered especially late at night!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,084 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Even if Iran genuinely didn't want nukes before, you can see why they'd want nukes now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,586 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    One of the weird things about that ceasefire is Trump claiming several times that he talked with H'izbollah to get it done. I just can't see them, or a person acting as a go-between for them, to be talking to Trump unless it was to string Trump along on behalf of Iran.

    Post edited by aloyisious on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭King Power Fox


    "I don't know what happened in that scrum" - open your eyes and it's easy to see what happened. Cold blooded murde.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭KilOit


    Why does he do these interviews if he can't take difficult questions? What's he hoping to gain from them



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,912 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Because he's an imbecile and thinks he can control the interview, but when the interviewer pushes back he just defaults to his usual Fake News and ends it

    Time for all these journalists to start calling him out on his BS, show him up for what he really is



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    Screenshot 2026-06-07 at 22.28.27.png

    He really is one of the dumbest people that's ever lived.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭mountain


    trump is surrounded by sycophants in the White House, they don’t question anything he says or does, the sight of him sitting at the Resolute Desk, while his lackeys gather round and nod is sickening.

    He is furious someone called him out on his lies



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    I watched that interview with Welker. Fair play that someone FINALLY kept pushing back and didn't just let him ramble incessantly. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if his doctor tells him to avoid confrontational interviews in future, he looked like he was about to explode.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭CrazyEric


    he looked like he was about to explode.

    We can only hope



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