Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

I’m reminded of an old Elvis Costello song, “Crawling to the USA” which has a line that seems apt “Everybody is on their knees, except the Russians and the Chinese”.

You must be truly outraged by him deporting people without trial so. Trump went to trial was found guilty as sin by a jury, meanwhile those in an El Salvador prison have faced no form of due process. Or do you only care that Trump was prosecuted for crimes that he did commit? You actually don't seem to be paying any attention to his presidency these days, just because it's going so atrociously?

Seems Temu and Shein are upping their prices to compensate for tariffs. Might dawn on some that a tariff is a consumer tax.

Just reading up on this Garcia fella they sent to El Salvador, they were dead right to get him out of the country because he seems to have come to the attention of law enforcement on way too many occasions.

So smoke without fire I say.

Yes, the charges she brought against Trump were completely over the top and abuse of power.

So by that 'logic'; the charges brought against her are……

Won't be surprised if he deports first nations people for being un-American.

It doesn't matter what kind of person Garcia is, or indeed any of the other people who were sent to El Salvador. The point is they did not have due process, which includes the opportunity to defend themself.

This is not a matter of rounding someone up and throwing him into the local jail for a night because they are a bit suspect, this is effectively ending someone's life by not just deporting them, but putting them into a interment camp in a third country from which they have no chance of release.

They should all be brought back, no doubt some of them are gang members and are not people you want free in the streets, but they need to be brought back and put through the proper process of a trial. Then you can deport or extradite them, or put them in jail in America.

You're very confident there'll be another free and fair election in the USA. I'm not.

That is very true.

I said it at the time of the Alvin Bragg case that it was a nonsense case and taking it would backfire badly.

It did make a Martyr out of Trump, it galvanised him and led to huge amounts of donations flooding in to renergise his campaign.

The Letitia James case was also heavy handed, youd be prosecuting hundreds of companies on an annual basis if the same criteria was applied across the board as it was to Trump. It was selective targeting by a biased Attorney General and Judge.

Standard industry practice expects the lender to do its own re-evaluation of the submissions made by Trump and other borrowers before issuing a loan. The lenders also made substantial profits in the transactions. There was no crime.

The Dems would of been much better served getting their own house in order, they were lying to the American Electorate about president Bidens mental health for half a decade untill they couldn't hide after that infamous debate.

Also 100% true.

Trump is destroying the US economy in a manner they will never recover from. Their biggest trading partners and allies are moving onto pastures new. He will bankrupt the few indigenous industries he had like Tesla, Boeing etc.

He's created an environment that will see the military suppliers far less relevant except to the US themselves.

Consumers will face higher prices for everything and you can be sure that the Asian countries he's screwed over will exact a price for agreeing to supply anything going forward.

NATO bases are likely to close once Europe become self sufficient as we won't want to be launch pads for excursions in the ME and Africa.

The list goes on and on. If the US were turkeys, they voted for Christmas in November and the price they are about to pay will change the country forever.

A complete indictment of the Americans that he has done this much damage and he's still floating around the same percentage he got in the election. It takes a special kind of stupid not to realise how badly this is going to affect their day to day.

The anecdote was of some person who left Ireland to live in Spain due to rampant immigration. Which makes no sense, Spain has historically had far far greater immigration. Ireland is one of the most genetically homogenous countries in the world.

It absolutely is whataboutery, you're pointing to Trump's enemies while ignoring the fact he was convicted by a jury of his peers, he was not a victim. You repeatedly complain about judicial overreach but when the judicial system is circumvented by Trump. The reality is Trump is a criminal and continues to behave like one. You're happy with him doing so though. Maybe you want to him destroy the US position in the world though. In which case he's doing an amazing job.

The constant ranting about the Democrats is more you dodging discussing the presidency, let's be entirely honest about that.

The GOP'ers could've nominated Haley. They wanted Trump. Not the democrats fault Trump is POTUS - he was nominated, he ran and won. GOPers who didn't want Trump could've stayed home.

But, they wanted him, just like the 2 yapping about Democrats and witch hunts and other Trumpisms. They want Trump, they (and all of us) have him.