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

Trump sued the @WSJ for $10B claiming that the Trump signed birthday card to Epstein was a fake. Yet today the @nytimes reports that Trump called everyone at the WSJ to kill the story first .

And now we know what he looked like during the call...

so Trump and his bunch of bootlickers used the war room for weeks, to discuss ways to hide and bury the Epstein files.
I hope there are repercussions for all these when things get back to normal. Or as normal as America gets.

No, there won’t be.

Not one of them will ever face the consequences of their actions.

America is political cesspit, and the only thing that will survive in it going forward are the fully bought and compromised and the wholly morally corrupt.

Theres no going back to what was before for America. MAGA has broken that country completely, they would have to rebuild their country from the ground up collectively and in unison, which as a fractured people, they will never do.

Also, MAGA is also a demented cult, and Trump is their God. These people are beyond moronic, they actually revel and take great pride in their ignorance, hate, anger and cruelty, all in the name of their perceived righteousness. And I reckon beyond saving, they’ve abandoned reality for the alter of Trump, and are not coming back.

What passed for normal before Trump will never come back, America Inc has made sure of that.

People laugh when he says stuff like this but I've no doubt that he's entirely serious. He literally could not give a flying f**k about inflation, because he himself is making an absolute fortune from the presidency and he's isolated himself from the prosecutions that were being delivered before he got back into office. That's the only thing he cares about.

People here don't like seeing others acting too big for their boots. It's ingrained. Maybe it's the Catholic addiction to needing to suffer to achieve and to feel guilty when you do. But overall if we see someone overachieve, it's criticised.

There were debates on the radio when Daniel Wiffen was saying he wanted to win gold and break records (he was quoted as saying that he possesses "one of the best mentalities in the sport") and whether it was a Gen-Z thing creeping in here and how he should be more humble in the traditional Irish way of "I know I'm good but I'm not going to say it I'll just say sure I'll give it a go". He was labelled cocky and arrogant for daring to say that he's the best - because we're just not used to hearing that here.

This is why we struggle to understand Trump's popularity of his base and his ability in 2024 to get votes from Independents and some Dems who didn't like Kamala.

The fact is him being brash and making wild claims simply isn't as grating or unpleasant to the average Joe over there, not in the same way. They expect their athletes to say they're the best and will blow everyone else away. They expect someone who is rich or in power to gloat and make outrageous claims.

Obviously there's times where they'll recognise that it's going too far or it's just hyperbole - but my point is that they aren't as culturally predisposed to dislike it as we are. It's the opposite, they like it.

They admire somebody acting too big for their boots because it's ingrained in the same way it is for us to feel uncomfortable about it. It's easy to excuse someone's actions if you think you will one day be in that position and would act the same when you get there. That's what these temporarily embarrassed millionaires latch onto.

Yet Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, says the European Union should be ready to impose new sanctions on Iran, if the crisis in the Middle East doesn’t end. Er… the US attacked Iran. That what's causing the crisis in the Middle East. We should be sanctioning Trump and Netanhanyu.

Unreal. It's like sanctioning Ukraine for not surrendering to Russia.

This isn't about brashness or arrogance, this is about Trump deciding on a whim what the new reality is and the rest of the GOP going along with it, no matter the cost to ordinary people.

In his acceptance for the Republican nomination in 2024, he said that “Inflation has been a killer for our country. No matter what you're making, it doesn't matter because inflation is eating you alive.” A month later he said on Truth Social “With your vote in this election, inflation will stop.”

Suddenly inflation is something to love. It boggles the mind and not in an 'Oh, why can't he be humble' manner but in a 'Why is no-one stopping him!?!?!' way.

Inflation is good, in the same way that the phone call that got him impeached was "perfect".

They are "winning" the war and the crowd weren't booing, they were great!

He phrases everything as positive, lies through his teeth and just plows ahead, regardless.

If he were real, he'd have a Trump face on his chest and a red hat.

Trump shows up for the Knicks game. Causes untold hassle to fans, is booed, leaves early and they suffer their first loss after 13 straight wins.

Fans burn sage outside the arena.

The Knicks play last night. Taylor Swift, hated by Trump shows up: Knicks have the biggest comeback in NBA playoff history.

ETTD

Probably Bibi Netanyahu

Nah, Putin, along with the next unallocated World Cup.

Meh, that's just Meloni trying to get back in Trump's good books. She's been kinda invisible for the last month or two, since she lost a referendum and Trump attacked her over not allowing him to use an Italian base during the first phase of the war.