[Politics] Donald Trump, US President

[Motogull]

I'm sure this thread used to have a few Trump fanboys in it. They seem very quiet lately.

Posting permissions have been removed for some I recall.

 

[Brian Munich]

Posting permissions have been removed for some I recall.

Not for pro-Trump mods they haven’t

 

[Zeberdi]

Tremendous day for the USA and the world. Biden has been a disaster, I'm not convinced Harris would have been any better given her performance in interviews where she had no idea what she was talking about.

God bless America.

How’s that going 5 months later?

An unmitigated disaster?

August 2024 …

Whatever you think of Harris, it astonishes me that anyone could actually believe it is Harris, not Trump who would be a disaster for the world if she regained the WH.

• Have you read Project 25?
• Do you understand Trump’s position on Europe, Ukraine and Russia and the implications that has for the geo-political security of the UK and Europe?
• Do you not understand how having a Climate Change denier back in the WH would have existential implications for the whole world?
• Do you really not understand that Trump tearing up the Iran agreement, moving the American assembly from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and supporting Bibi’s annexation plans for the West Bank triggered the ME into a new downward spiral of radicalism, unrest and conflict?
• Do you not understand how Trump’s proposed isolationist policies and trade war with China could spark a global recession?
• Are you so blindfolded by your Democratic prejudice, that you can’t see how inciting civil disobedience and unrest in America sends ripples of uncertainty through global financial markets, creates instability in other liberal democracies and serves as a welcome diversion for nefarious intrusion from Russia and China into Western democratic infrastructure?

Anyone suggesting that of the two candidates, it is Harris that would be a disaster for the USA and the World, needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Or just fcuking wake UP!

 

[Motogull]

Truss put our mortgage payments up and it looks like Trump has harmed our pension fund values.

Hang the fukken pair of them.

 

[Curious Orange]

We are living in farcical times.

 

[portslade seagull]

We are living in farcical times.

Trump will be after your moniker soon. He is the one and only man

 

[Dorset Seagull]

We were warned about this a few years ago. You had to specifically opt out of the sharing data across the NHS & (partners) which was wrapped up as making things easier. They didn't specify who the 'partners' were, so I went to the trouble of opting out. Which wasn't that much trouble but I had to physically sign something. If my data was shared among the NHS & no one else without my specific consent, then I wouldn't care. My medical data is quite boring but I wouldn't feel comfortable with it being sold to a pharma company.

Yep I did the same. IIRC I did check the list of partners which were big pharma companies

 

[Brian Munich]

Truss put our mortgage payments up and it looks like Trump has harmed our pension fund values.

Hang the fukken pair of them.

Not too bad if you’re a few years from retirement, as markets always recover over time; terrible if you’re planning on retirement in the next 2-3 years.

 

[FIVESTEPS]

Person who doesn't have a future fu**ing it up for those who do.

 

[Eric the meek]

We are living in farcical times.

That bloke Ron Vara needs to be taken in for questioning.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

We are living in farcical times.

So extraordinary. Trump rewrites almost everything in the book. Extraordinary.

 

[Brian Munich]

We are living in farcical times.

You could not make this up.

 

[SouthSaxon]

Senator Chris Murphy understands the game being played.

LetsGetIntoIt2025 on Substack

Please pay attention to this. Things are almost always not quite what they seem when it comes to Trump.

substack.com

Best illustrated by a company that’s done a LOT of ring kissing since November.

 

[beorhthelm]

Senator Chris Murphy understands the game being played.

LetsGetIntoIt2025 on Substack

Please pay attention to this. Things are almost always not quite what they seem when it comes to Trump.

substack.com

Best illustrated by a company that’s done a LOT of ring kissing since November.

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such a mid-curve take. tariffs are not done company by company, they are on the product group. dont understand the need to invent theories about the motivation, seems odd desire to try and second guess Trump like he's got to be doing something else more clever than he says.

 

[Eeyore]

We are living in farcical times.

Trump has cost me about £400 in the last few days

 

[pocketseagull]

From 2019

WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump lost an auction in 1988 for a 58-key piano used in the classic film “Casablanca” to a Japanese trading company representing a collector. While he brushed off being outbid, it was a firsthand reminder of Japan’s growing wealth, and the following year, Mr. Trump went on television to call for a 15 percent to 20 percent tax on imports from Japan.

“I believe very strongly in tariffs,” Mr. Trump, at the time a Manhattan real estate developer with fledgling political instincts, told the journalist Diane Sawyer, before criticizing Japan, West Germany, Saudi Arabia and South Korea for their trade practices. “America is being ripped off,” he said. “We’re a debtor nation, and we have to tax, we have to tariff, we have to protect this country.”

Thirty years later, few issues have defined Mr. Trump’s presidency more than his love for tariffs — and on few issues has he been more unswerving. Allies and historians say that love is rooted in Mr. Trump’s experience as a businessman in the 1980s with the people and money of Japan, then perceived as a mortal threat to America’s economic pre-eminence.

“This is something that has been stuck in his craw since the ’80s,” said Dan DiMicco, a former steel executive who helped draft Mr. Trump’s trade policy on the 2016 campaign trail and in his presidential transition. “It came from his very own core belief.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/us/politics/china-trade-donald-trump.html

 

[Bodian]

From 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/us/politics/china-trade-donald-trump.html

Yep - his entire set of policies seems to be driven purely by revenge and spite for perceived and real slurs or defeats.

 

[A1X]

Yep - his entire set of policies seems to be driven purely by revenge and spite for perceived and real slurs or defeats.

Pretty much, his entire presidency is the Father Ted acceptance speech for his Golden Cleric award

 

[fly high]

Trump has cost me about £400 in the last few days

Think he's cost me a lot more than that.

 

[BLOCK F]

Think he's cost me a lot more than that.

And me!