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

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  • #61232
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,406 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124538502#Comment_124538502

    There's no danger of me becoming an international footballer I assure you!



  • #61233
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,009 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124538595#Comment_124538595

    Not with that attitude 😄

    Post edited by everlast75 on

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #61234
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,009 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    From CNN

    As President Donald Trump prepares to host a UFC fight at the White House this week, his family is promoting a venture aimed at profiting off the spectacle by selling gold coins priced as high as $12,000.

    The “Freedom 250”-themed silver and gold medallions feature Trump’s face and are being marketed as a collaboration between the UFC and the Trump Organization, which is run by the president’s sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr.:

    1000045082.jpg

    Oh, for the days when corruption was defined as mere allegations that Hunter Biden was only able to sell his artwork because his dad was president, and not whatever the f**k this unchecked delboy level, blatant monetisation of the office of the president that is happening in front of our faces..

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #61235
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,009 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    On the plus side....

    NEWS: Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has conceded defeat in South Carolina’s gubernatorial race after a crushing result and is now endorsing South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson for governor. She currently has just 11% of the vote.

    So, apparently making your entire about picking on trans people isn't a vote winner? Huh....

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #61236
    RoyalCelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,177 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124538456#Comment_124538456

    It's a bit insane that the western world even has to move in that direction. We were there in the past and should have never moved to the left.

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



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  • #61237
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,359 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124538624#Comment_124538624

    It's just a jump to the left
    And then a step to the right
    Put your hands on your hips
    You bring your knees in tight

    But it's the pelvic thrust
    That really drives you insane
    Let's do the Time Warp again
    Let's do the Time Warp again....



  • #61238
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,009 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Why would he post this?

    1000045084.jpg

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #61239
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,607 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124538667#Comment_124538667

    Because he thinks it proves his tariffs would have worked if he was allowed implement them properly. In reality to everyone who understands it shows he caused the deficit to increase...



  • #61240
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 45,403 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124538667#Comment_124538667

    Because he doesn't understand that the US is a difficult place to trade with due to his constant tinkering with the markets.

    It's HIS fault the trade deficit is widening.

    The "hotness" of their economy is their inflation over heating for the ordinary working man. Prices are rising while wages are stagnated.



  • #61241
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,958 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124538613#Comment_124538613

    Ugh.

    Every single little thing about him and what he does is just so…vulgar.

    🤮



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  • #61242
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,480 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124538667#Comment_124538667

    That Wharton Business School education is really standing to him 🙄



  • #61243
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,480 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Why the fcuk are what appear to be baggage handlers searching anyone

    https://twitter.com/i/status/2064395738877149540


  • #61244
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 46,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124538340#Comment_124538340

    I often had to give training on data visualisation techniques. At the end of each course, I used to give a short light-hearted overview on various problems such as how pie charts are evil, colour blindness, etc. However, one topic I often showed was how Fox News used visuals to politicise a topic (usually towards the Republicans), often lying with the data. So, forgive me when I would laugh at whatever stats you have in your post!

    Examples of Fox "data":

    image.png image.png

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  • #61245
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,406 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    May CPI figures due to release today. Likely a 0.5% month-on-month rise to 4.2%



  • #61246
    Tazz T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭Tazz T


    And just like that, we've gone from 'a deal in a couple of days' to 'Iran took too long to negotiate. Now they will pay the price.'

    He is the biggliest conman in the world and he's the president of the US.

    Oil hit its lowest price since April last night due to his peace deal BS yesterday and someone (I suspect 'he's known for a long time') was buying it all up literally two-three minutes before he made that post - forcing a jump of 2 dollars in under a minute.



  • #61247
    Economics101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭Economics101


    This is just a foretaste of what Trump will try to get up to in the November elections. The pressure to steal the election will be relentless.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/10/politics/postal-service-deliver-mail-in-ballots



  • #61248
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,773 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    US inflation jumped to 4.2% in May amid Middle East energy shock

    Biden again?



  • #61249
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,009 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124539700#Comment_124539700
    1000045134.jpg

    .…

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #61250
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,009 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124539700#Comment_124539700
    1000045134.jpg

    .…..

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #61251
    Stanley 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭Stanley 1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124539000#Comment_124539000

    I believe it is the Senegal team who just arrived for the WC and they were searched as they came off the flight stairs, what a welcome.



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  • #61252
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,590 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124538615#Comment_124538615

    She finished 5th.

    I saw her described somewhere else as "The Riley Gaines of Gubernatorial Elections" , which is quite frankly brilliant.



  • #61253
    RoyalCelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,177 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    Mainly energy costs, so the Iran war.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0myzxjkw99o

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



  • #61254
    aidanodr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,527 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124539700#Comment_124539700

    Yip - its all Sleepy Joes fault .. everything is, dont you know, including the Iran war and everything else and also anything at all that happens in the future.

    Surely you have learned now that Donald is as pure as the driven snow - He is completely innocent, virtuous, and morally untainted. I mean someone has to stand up for him 😁



  • #61255
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,084 ✭✭✭✭briany


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124539525#Comment_124539525

    The whole peace-deal/war/peace-deal runaround the USA are doing is such an obvious scam to manipulate oil prices, thereby enriching Trump and his friends.

    He was supposed to have been roaring down the phone at 'yahu a few days ago and now he's back to doing his bidding. I suppose Rubio will be announcing that the Iran war is over (again) in the next week or two and the cycle will begin again.



  • #61256
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,590 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124539962#Comment_124539962

    Vance was quoted yesterday as saying "we are extremely close to a deal with Iran, it could be as soon as a few days or it could be a few months"

    Trumps ego has them painted into a corner.

    ANY deal they can get Iran to agree to will be demonstrably worse than the Obama deal that Trump tore up 7 years ago - Everyone knows this , but Trumps ego would not survive the global mockery that would follow that deal.

    I genuinely think that he might just completely walk away from the whole thing and say that it's up to everyone else to resolve so that if countries sign any deal he can claim that "That's a terrible deal , I'd never have signed that deal , I would have done a much better deal , I'm the deal master don't you know!!!"



  • #61257
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,783 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    I really wish he'd just give them the 24 billion. It'd solve his and the rest of the worlds problems in one go.

    I'm kind of surprised his various tech bros aren't already suggesting even urging this already.



  • #61258
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,633 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124539760#Comment_124539760

    Olympics should be stripped off the US. It will be even more of a mess given how many more athletes, officials etc are involved.

    The Olympic Committee can hardly say they'd no warning.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #61259
    Leroy42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,441 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    I think he would love to walk away, but unfortunately, he can't. If he walks away, he is basically walking away from the Petrodollar system. It would also signal open season on Israel. It is simply not an option.

    Trump knows it, and that is why he is stuck. In almost everything else, he has simply been able to walk away. Be that a bankruptcy, a failed business idea, an affair, a marriage, repealing Obamacare or building the wall. He couldn't actually delivery so he just ignored the problem and walked away.

    He has created a disaster for the US. A disaster that it is very difficult to see how he can get out of without a massive cost.



  • #61260
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,077 ✭✭✭✭threeball


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124540023#Comment_124540023

    I don't think global mockery bothers Trump. Everyone has been slagging him off for years, he showed up at a Knicks game the other night knowing he'd be mercilessly booed. Water off a ducks back. It seems to fuel him. He seems to take any reaction as positive, as a win for him. Even being a proven rapist, doesn't knock a stir out of him.



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  • #61261
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,783 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124540048#Comment_124540048

    As the weekend showed, even interviews he walks away from.

    Unrelated to DJT but when Ireland gets mentioned on CNN it's never good news(Belfast riots).



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