Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Mayhem]

Does this picture show Trump shitting his Depends and making someone pass out? Possibly, but apparently someone fainted and no information as to why, so I'm going to go with the non zero chance of Trump still smells like the buffets at his hotels.

Damn fuck me the constant idiotic rambling drivel, it's nauseating.

[Odinfrost]

Does this picture show Trump shitting his Depends and making someone pass out? Possibly, but apparently someone fainted and no information as to why, so I'm going to go with the non zero chance of Trump still smells like the buffets at his hotels.

I *love* the irony that it happened during the swearing in of the medicare/aid administrator. Another perfect metaphor for this Trump administration

[Corvus]

The supreme has halted the deportation of Venezuelans, with Alito and Thomas dissenting.

https://bbc.com/news/articles/czd3rdjn81lo

[s_bushido]

The supreme has halted the deportation of Venezuelans, with Alito and Thomas dissenting.

https://bbc.com/news/articles/czd3rdjn81lo

Correction: They've ordered the administration to stop. It won't.

[Draco-Onis]

Correction: They've ordered the administration to stop. It won't.

Pretty much this, Trump has lost several cases in court and his response has been MAKE ME. It's insane that the media is not hair on fire about this.

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No worries. That magical sharpie will alter the path of the hurricane away!

We are going to have an apocalyptic summer, these idiots seem to see dystopian sci-fi as aspirational.

[Breccia]

In the ongoing effort to escalate the trade war, Trump unilaterally orders fees on Chinese ships docking in the US, up to $50 million per year. No matter what they're carrying.

So, I guess that's something else he can just do because he feels like it.

[gondrin]

In the ongoing effort to escalate the trade war, Trump unilaterally orders fees on Chinese ships docking in the US, up to $50 million per year. No matter what they're carrying.

So, I guess that's something else he can just do because he feels like it.

Oh, I wonder if the dock workers voted for Trump seeing as this will absolutely kill their jobs due to the fact that pretty much all cargo shipped into the US comes on those ships.

[Shadowferal]

China has been planning this sort of thing for awhile now. Trump’s Greatest Miscalculation? China Had Been Preparing For A Trade War For Years

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“China has been getting ready for this moment for years,” says Huang Tianlei, a China specialist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. Since the 2018 start of the first trade war with the U.S., American exports as a share of China’s total have dropped from just under 20 percent to below 15. “They deliberately diversified away from the U.S. because they knew this day would come,” Huang says. “And now it’s here.”

Only in hindsight does it become clear how much of a wake-up call Trump’s first-term offensive was for China’s leaders. In the years that followed, Xi Jinping poured energy into insulating and securing the economy, cutting China’s reliance on foreign trade and imported tech. Before Western capitals even started debating decoupling, China had already begun pulling away from the West. It built domestic supply chains, rerouted exports, ramped up research, bankrolled future industries, and shored up economic weak spots.By and large, that plan paid off. Trump’s new tariff blitz will hurt, but China is in a far better place to hit back. The country’s economy is now far less exposed to outside shocks — a shift that was already visible under Joe Biden, who imposed a steady stream of export bans and tech restrictions to slow China’s rise in global innovation. The results were mixed. Despite the pressure, China closed the gap in several high-tech sectors. When the Chinese AI model Deep Seek made waves around the world in January, it was a wake-up call in Washington: China’s momentum won’t be easy to stop.

[Breccia]

When the media and the far Left obsess over an MS-13 gang member and demand that he be returned to the United States for a *third* deportation hearing, what they’re really saying is they want the vast majority of illegal aliens to stay here permanently

JD Vance said this in person in public on purpose and of course FOX News was quick to quote him *ding*

For the record, of course, this isn't even close to being true. I do like how Vance, like the rest of Team Trump, is hanging everything on "he's a MS-13 gang member" in a claim so objectively false that I was able to find a Snopes article debunking Vance's claim ten days earlier.

Garcia has been accused of gang membership. If "accused" is enough, bear in mind, the FBI did find stolen documents the hotel Trump calls his house. It's both or neither.

But as you can see, JD Vance, the person Trump chose to be Vice President, in a statement Trump has yet to correct or disown, said that wanting Garcia to get fair, legal treatment means "the media" and "the left" want "the vast majority" to remain here "permanently".

That's some big time Strawmen. But, it's also the public, deliberate position of the WH, and by extension, the position of all Trump supporters who have not said otherwise.

Soooooooo...

As a Trump supporter who has not said otherwise, I agree with this kind of extension. Therefore, by supporting and approving of at least one violent terrorist, specifically the accused and then arrested and then tried and then convicted Jan 6th members that Trump pardoned, which I never disagreed with once, I therefore support and approve of "the vast majority" of violent terrorism. Considering Trump negotiated with the Taliban in public on purpose and I never disagreed with that either, this aligns with the Trump platform that I have supported and approved of for years.

Therefore, the reasonable conclusion of my public words and actions is, when there is violent terrorism, I support and approve unless I say differently. This is the logical result of Team Trump's statements, which remain uncontradicted by Trump or by me.

[Nightmare Queen]

what the fuck an unelected south african pedo guy can just install people in senior positions?

what the literal fuck is happening

We're living in the Nightmare Matrix

[Rasulis]

Nicholas Gilbert, a dairy farmer who operates Adon Farms in upstate New York, experienced tariff sticker shock when a routine shipment of cow feed from Ontario cost him $2,200 more than expected.

“I’m not even sure it’s legal! We contracted for the price on delivery,” he told The Atlantic. “If your price of fuel goes up or your truck breaks down, that’s not my problem! That’s what the contract’s for.”

Unfortunately for Gilbert, the tariff is very much legal. Like many American business owners, he mistakenly believed that tariffs on imported goods would be paid by the foreign exporter.

In reality, the charge was imposed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and passed directly to him.

"We’re taking that right on the chin,” Gilbert tells the magazine, explaining that he would have to pay tariffs on the fertilizer and farm equipment he buys too.

Harris tried to tell you that. You did not believe her. Instead, you trusted a huckster with multiple bankruptcies and long history of frauds & customer abuses.

[gondrin]

Harris tried to tell you that. You did not believe her. Instead, you trusted a huckster with multiple bankruptcies and long history of frauds & customer abuses.

Oh, this is funny. He thought because the contract doesn't involve tariff costs that they weren't part of it. The seller fulfilled the contract. The government added on the tariff. It is no different than a sales tax being added onto a contract after the fact which is legal in the US.

And unless he chooses to absorb that tariff, he can explain to his customers why now they are paying more for his goods.

[Dontrike]

I see the Candy Man is back in the White House, 'cause they're doing some massive drugs.

[Kaleredar]

Oh, this is funny. He thought because the contract doesn't involve tariff costs that they weren't part of it. The seller fulfilled the contract. The government added on the tariff. It is no different than a sales tax being added onto a contract after the fact which is legal in the US.

And unless he chooses to absorb that tariff, he can explain to his customers why now they are paying more for his goods.

Which is, ultimately, what’s going to happen.

He’s going to have to raise prices to eat that increased cost of doing business.

As will every other business that imports… well, at this point, anything, from outside the United States. Which I would reckon is most of them.


You know, a Democrat coming into power could really gain a huge amount of good will early on by dropping the tariffs and coupling it with legislation to ensure that prices are decreased accordingly. People would be literally paying less, which is what we were promised by Trump was going to happen… somehow.

[Nymrohd]

I see the Candy Man is back in the White House, 'cause they're doing some massive drugs.

This has to be mushrooms. They are all on shrooms.

[Mayhem]

This has to be mushrooms. They are all on shrooms.

white house website

I am not saying they are stupid and high, but telling the world that you plan to reshape manufacturing, trade, and everything else, is not super smart.

[Belize]

white house website

I am not saying they are stupid and high, but telling the world that you plan to reshape manufacturing, trade, and everything else, is not super smart.

Reading this diagonally, I wonder what could have happened after the seventies that stifled innovation and growth in the U.S.

Surely it doesn't rhyme with Donald Deagan.

[Odinfrost]

Reading this diagonally, I wonder what could have happened after the seventies that stifled innovation and growth in the U.S.

Surely it doesn't rhyme with Donald Deagan.

And now, ironically, innovation and growth is gonna be stiffled thanks to something that rhyme with Ronald Drump

[Breccia]

[
On Monday, Harvard President Alan Garber said the university would not bend to the government’s demands.

UPDATE: Trump is now claiming this was incompetence.

Harvard University received an emailed letter from the Trump administration last Friday that included a series of demands about hiring, admissions and curriculum so onerous that school officials decided they had no choice but to take on the White House.

The university announced its intentions on Monday, setting off a tectonic battle between one of the country’s most prestigious universities and a U.S. president. Then, almost immediately, came a frantic call from a Trump official.

The April 11 letter from the White House’s task force on antisemitism, this official told Harvard, should not have been sent and was “unauthorized,” two people familiar with the matter said.

The letter was sent by the acting general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services, Sean Keveney, according to three other people, who were briefed on the matter. Mr. Keveney is a member of the antisemitism task force.

It is unclear what prompted the letter to be sent last Friday. Its content was authentic, the three people said, but there were differing accounts inside the administration of how it had been mishandled. Some people at the White House believed it had been sent prematurely, according to the three people, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about internal discussions. Others in the administration thought it had been meant to be circulated among the task force members rather than sent to Harvard.

But its timing was consequential. The letter arrived when Harvard officials believed they could still avert a confrontation with Trump. Over the previous two weeks, Harvard and the task force had engaged in a dialogue. But the letter’s demands were so extreme that Harvard concluded that a deal would ultimately be impossible.

After Harvard publicly repudiated the demands, the Trump administration raised the pressure, freezing billions in federal funding to the school and warning that its tax-exempt status was in jeopardy.

That's right: Team Trump is now trying to avoid the blame for what they did themselves.

For the record, because people are talking to the NYTimes anonymously, I believe those anonymous people.

"Why would they admit this was incompetence? Why not just shut up and let the assumption this was intentional continue, since this is exactly what everyone expected Trump to do?"

Besides "because it's true"? I suppose it's possible some of the people who intentionally worked for Trump to threaten foreign students and enforce direct racism into every inch of the US, are suddenly having second thoughts with Trump destroying the economy, world relations, and his polling numbers. I think they're scared that their actions are having consequences, and if they are to be hired again by literally anyone, they'd rather their resume say "I am incompetent" than "I am a terrorist-defending cunt". Because those are the two choices.

[Nightmare Queen]

I see the Candy Man is back in the White House, 'cause they're doing some massive drugs.

Let me guess, it has to do with CERN, doesn't it?