Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Bwgmon]

Trump has returned to posting memes for dumbasses.

I appreciate the use of the biblically-accurate JD Vance that nobody should ever save on their phone while also referencing an event that implies that Obama will get acquitted of any trumped-up charges that he might try to arrest him for.

[Edge-]

lmao this is the dumbest fucking timeline and i'm just going to start laughing at republicans instead of treating them like people with political opinions

[Endus]

lmao this is the dumbest fucking timeline and i'm just going to start laughing at republicans instead of treating them like people with political opinions

Let's put this in a little perspective. Back in my youth in the '90s, shortly after coming of age, I voted in my first national election. I voted for the Natural Law Party here in Canada. The Natural Law Party, for those who don't know, were a fringe nutcase party who wanted to use the power of collective transcendental meditation to empower yogic flying (literally using meditative energy to float/fly) to put up a psychic shield around the country to deflect bad energies away from Canada.

I did this as a funny lark because I didn't take things seriously at the time and my political views weren't well-formed and the Reform and PCs were splitting the conservative vote anyway so it didn't much matter; Chretien's Liberals won almost 40% of the vote with Reform as #2 at less than 20%.

But what I want to drive at is that the Natural Law Party was a more serious party than Modern Republicans. They made more political sense. They were not driven by hate and evil as their primary motivations. Republicans are all, literally every single representative and voter alike, all deeply unserious fascist dipshit smoothbrains. They are all, every single one of them, bad people. Unlike Natural Law Party candidates and voters, who are various levels of hippy-dippy through to intentionally ironic.

No one should take Republicans seriously in any way except as an extant threat, and then only so far as to protect one's self and those you care about. Trump is their Jim Jones, and they're all batshit crazier than Jones' followers.

[Breccia]

Trump has returned to posting memes for dumbasses.

So, at risk to myself and to prove a point, I'm going there.

Hey @Flarelaine @Rozz if one of us had posted this meme, not as a repost of a WH communication but just the image itself, would that have been infracted?

I know asking about that is, itself, an infraction offense, but at this point, I think everyone here needs to know if this forum on a video game website has higher standards than the most powerful country in the world. Incidentally, that means if I get infracted for asking but the question isn't answered, you are agreeing the answer is "yes".

I guess in the meanwhile, @Edge- and @Endus thanks for both of you already answering.

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Since we've reached the part of the death of the human race where discussion of a meme is now a valid political topic, Trump intentionally went with a face for J. D. Vance that's nearly spherical?

Scroll up. Look at it again. Look at the important message broadcast from the official WH that officially leads the official USA.

Why would Trump intentionally pick a mocking picture of the person he willingly chose to be Vice President and who has yet to take one step out of line?

[Xyonai]

Yeah deadass he just used one of the JD Vance edit memes for the picture. Fucking hilarious

[Breccia]

Local sources say that Trump is, big surprise, lying about his golf courses.

Donald Trump’s claims that the R&A has invested “millions of dollars” in updating Turnberry’s broadcasting and communications facilities in preparation for the Open returning to his Ayrshire links are understood to be well wide of the mark.

Sources insist that, in complete contrast to comments from the United States’ president, the R&A has not done any such work on cabling since a small amount was laid in 2009.

Trump made the assertion when landing in Scotland on Friday night for his five-day visit. “The infrastructure of the course is good,” he told The Telegraph when asked about the R&A repeatedly stating that substantial amounts of work would need to be done on logistics before it would consider taking the major to Turnberry again.

“In fact, the Royal and Ancient [sic], I don’t know you’re aware of this ... they spent a lot of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars, probably into the millions of dollars. And they’ve laid all the wire for television and for electricity under the holes of Turnberry, so that when the Open gets there, they have it all done.”

The R&A declined to comment on Saturday, but it is understood that a small amount of cable was laid in and around the 18th and the fans’ village in 2009 but nothing has been done since then. What has been laid wouldn’t even be usable now, according to sources, and did not come at significant cost.

Trump has lobbied for the Open to return to the course after he dished out his own millions to improve the layout and the hotel that is on the property.

Yet while the former R&A chief executive, Martin Slumbers, declared, “we will not be taking events there until we’re comfortable that the whole dialogue will be about golf”, his successor, Mark Darbon, has indicated that the main stumbling block is not Trump’s character or his penchant for stealing the spotlight, but the remoteness of the resort he bought for $60m in 2014.

“We love the golf course but we’ve got some big logistical challenges there,” Darbon said at last week’s Open. “You see the scale of their set-up here [Royal Portrush] and we’ve got some work to do on the road, rail and accommodation infrastructure around Turnberry. We’ve explicitly not taken it out of our pool of venues but we’d need to address those logistical challenges should we return.”

No wonder Trump stole a football trophy. He can't even buy a place where golf tropies are awarded with a golf course.

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Bloomberg and other sources report that the last few months have seen a historic movement of investments.

In June, $4 billion was moved out of US treasury bonds and $10 billion into US corporate debt. In July, it's $13 billion, the biggest month since 2015.

It can't be a big surprise to anyone. Ever since the US credit rating got downgraded, it was expected that people would have second thoughts. Trump intentionally widening the deficit by such a large amount will only hasten that.

The CBO says that, four years ago, debt payments were 9% of federal revenue. This year, they're saying 18%. By 2035, 30%.

And while the US can in theory just print money, this directly causes inflation/devalues the dollar, and makes the purchase automatically less attractive.

It just seems that more and more people who know what they're doing say that US companies are more likely to repay their debts than Trump. Shocker, I know.

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Trump promises to prosecute Oprah.

No, really.

Trump accused Harris of paying Beyoncé $11 million to appear at a Houston rally, adding, “She never sang, not one note, and left the stage to a booing and angry audience!” He also accused the Harris campaign of spending $3 million on “expenses” for Oprah Winfrey, and $600,000 to “very low rated TV ‘anchor,’ Al Sharpton (a total lightweight!)” for doing “absolutely NOTHING!“

He continued, “YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PAY FOR AN ENDORSEMENT. IT IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL TO DO SO,” before asking, ”Can you imagine what would happen if politicians started paying for people to endorse them. All hell would break out!”

Trump concluded, ”Kamala, and all of those that received Endorsement money, BROKE THE LAW. They should all be prosecuted!”

"Did Trump comment on the legality of paying a whore $130,000?"

No.

"Did Trump talk about the amount of money he promised Elon Musk?"

No.

"Does Trump know you're allowed to pay celebrities who happen to like you to appear at your campaign event, like you can pay celebrities to make any other appearance like the Super Bowl or Dick Clark's New Years Rockin' Eve?"

He should, he's been on camera enough and made such appareances himself.

This is, of course, a stalling tactic, and a poor one. Threatening to arrest multiple political opponents is already dictatorial behavior, and the fact that he keeps doing it is making it worse, not better. But you have to be a fucking moron to go after Oprah. Oprah is likely worth more than Trump, but has the benefit of not having anything better to do than ruin Trump like the beef industry. I also find it highly unlikely that known lawyer Kamala Harris somehow signed unenforceable illegal contracts in front of large numbers of people.

Nothing demonstrates Trump's fear of being caught as a child rapist than the desperate thrashing and wailing he's doing, while the fire he sets burns the country down.

[diller]

I appreciate the use of the biblically-accurate JD Vance that nobody should ever save on their phone while also referencing an event that implies that Obama will get acquitted of any trumped-up charges that he might try to arrest him for.

LMAO, wonder what Vance thinks of the use of that image of him.

[Polyxo]

Trump has returned to posting memes for dumbasses.

I appreciate the use of the biblically-accurate JD Vance that nobody should ever save on their phone while also referencing an event that implies that Obama will get acquitted of any trumped-up charges that he might try to arrest him for.

Lets 1 up him and spread memes about Trump getting Qaddafi'd.

[Edge-]

i like how i'm seeing some "serious" discussion about how donald "chose" an image with round day dee hamel in it and if that means there's some falling out and like my dudes holy fucking shit donald didn't even fucking notice that. on the internet - some reddit shit, i saw a few posts by journos.

he saw himself chasing obama, a black man, and understands the oj reference

i'm so fucking tired of literally anyone thinking it's any deeper than that lmao

[Kaleredar]

i like how i'm seeing some "serious" discussion about how donald "chose" an image with round day dee hamel in it and if that means there's some falling out and like my dudes holy fucking shit donald didn't even fucking notice that. on the internet - some reddit shit, i saw a few posts by journos.

he saw himself chasing obama, a black man, and understands the oj reference

i'm so fucking tired of literally anyone thinking it's any deeper than that lmao

Exactly.

Trump posting things with zero to no contextual knowledge of what’s going on is his M.O.

Playing fortunate son at rallies. Reposting pictures of him as a sith. He doesn’t know or care what’s happening, he’s literally a doddering old man whose mouth runs like a mad libs with about 25 words he cycles through.

We haven’t seen this man use a shred of tact or cunning in the past near decade and he’s not going to start now.

[Mayhem]

i like how i'm seeing some "serious" discussion about how donald "chose" an image with round day dee hamel in it and if that means there's some falling out and like my dudes holy fucking shit donald didn't even fucking notice that. on the internet - some reddit shit, i saw a few posts by journos.

he saw himself chasing obama, a black man, and understands the oj reference

i'm so fucking tired of literally anyone thinking it's any deeper than that lmao

To reinforce the argument that Trump is an idiot, he chose the O.J. chase, which means Obama is innocent.

[Dontrike]

Trump doesn't understand electricity and says we need more, but at the same time is trying to stop renewables.

US President Donald Trump delivered the keynote speech at a summit in Washington DC yesterday entitled "Winning the AI Race", in which he discussed his newly-announced AI action plan. Addressing the crowd on a variety of topics, Trump singled out his apparent disbelief at the power requirements needed to build his AI vision of the future.

"We wanna have very inexpensive electricity, so that you can power up the plants. You're going to need more electricity than any human beings ever in the history of the world" said Trump. "When I heard what you really need, I said you gotta be kidding me.

"Double what we produce right now for everything, right? Jensen, you're gonna have to explain that to me someday, why they need so damn much. Couldn't you do it with a little bit less? My father always used to say, 'turn off the lights son.' But you guys are turning up the lights."

President Trump's reaction at the level of power needed for AI data center expansion is well-warranted, if his estimate proves to be correct. According to the US Energy Information Administration, in 2023 the US produced 4,178 billion kWh of electricity, 60% of which came from fossil fuels, 21.4% from renewable sources like wind and solar power, and 18.6% from nuclear power plants.

Doubling that figure would be a truly monumental task. It's not clear if Trump was referring to the sum total of what is needed for data centers alone, ie double the current US output just for AI expansion, or whether his estimates include existing US power requirements in the mix.

Whichever, it's still a staggering amount of juice, and it's difficult to see how the US power grid could be quickly expanded to meet that sort of demand. While the second point of Trump's AI plan includes a proviso for "creating new national initiatives to increase high-demand occupations like electricians", the US is going to need more than a few extra sparkies to double its output.

"We will be adding at least as much electric power as China" he later continued. "Every company will be given the right to build its own powerplant, and you are essentially going to become your own utility."

Of course, President Trump has been known to speak in hyperbole, so perhaps that double-power-usage estimate should be taken with a pinch of salt. That being said, these new data centers will have to be powered by something, even if that doubled figure is an overstatement. Nvidia's new Blackwell AI GPUs can draw up to 1200 W each depending on the configuration, while the ever-popular H100 GPUs used in many data centers top out at 700 W a piece. Multiply that by the ever-increasing numbers hooking into the grid, and boy is that a lot of juice coming down the wires.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also spoke at the summit later that day with a reference to the President's plans. "We can't create new industries without energy. You can't reshore manufacturing without energy. You can't sustain a brand-new industry like artificial intelligence without energy," he said.

"If we decide, as a country, the only thing we want is IP—to be an IP-only, a services-only country—then we don't need much energy. But if we want to produce things, something as vital as artificial intelligence, then we need energy."

Prior to his comments, Trump credited US secretary of the interior Doug Burgum with "producing low-cost energy" stating that "we're down to $64, I want to get it down a little bit further if we can... I don't know if the oil companies love that or not, but we wanna have very inexpensive electricity."

US power demands were already expected to grow by 2% over the 2025-2027 period, and while renewable power plants continue to expand, it's difficult to see how huge amounts of extra capacity could be added to the system in a short period of time.

That being said, clean energy expansion proposals put into place by the Biden administration appear to be bearing fruit. Wind and solar power is estimated to have overtaken coal electricity production in 2024, reaching a record 17% of US electricity production at its peak, while states like California and Nevada were said to have surpassed their 30% annual share of solar in their electricity mix in the same year. However, while this rate of expansion is admirable, US power companies continue to announce the closure or gas conversion of coal-powered plant facilities.

Perhaps nuclear is the answer, then? "In May, I also signed an executive order to rapidly begin the construction of safe, reliable nuclear reactors," Trump said later in his speech. "Some of you are going to choose nuclear over oil and gas."

New York recently announced it would be building a the first major new US nuclear power plant in 15 years, so maybe this is merely the beginning of a new wave of nuclear facilities to power all these AI data demands.

Even with these plans, however, the new plants would need to built at an astonishing pace to keep up with the vast numbers of AI GPUs coming online in new facilities currently under construction by Meta, xAI, OpenAI, and others. A new nuclear power plant is said to take over five years to build, so it looks like the ground will need to be broken very soon to have a hope of meeting demands.

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Did you guys know that windmills are killing Europe? Sure, he also blames immigrant, cause what pedophilic racist wouldn't take a chance to blame random sets of peoples, but once again Diddling Diaper Don stupidly says something stupid.

Trump issued a warning to European leaders on Friday, claiming that immigration and renewable energy present imminent threats to the continent's future.

"Stop! This immigration is killing Europe. And the other thing—Stop the windmills," Trump said. "Killing the beauty of your countries."

Trump delivered the rebuke while speaking to press upon landing in Scotland. Praising US efforts to curtail immigration—saying the border was effectively "shut down" last month—Trump urged European nations to follow his lead.

"We took out a lot of bad people that got there with Biden," Trump said. "You're allowing it to happen to your countries. You gotta stop this horrible invasion that's happening to Europe."

Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric comes as nationalist and far-right parties have gained traction in some parts of Europe. Ruling parties in Hungary, Poland and Slovakia share Trump's hardline stance against immigration, with populist parties in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark seeing increasing support.

Wind power—which Trump has been openly disdainful of for aesthetic reasons—has seen steady growth in Europe in past years. Because wind power generates electricity without emitting greenhouse gases or other pollutants, it's widely embraced as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. In the US, the Trump administration has eliminated policies that are preferential to clean energy sources, eliminated many environmental regulations, and encouraged the use of oil, coal, and nuclear energy resources.

European leaders have not yet publicly responded to Trump's cautionary advice. "You gotta get your act together," he declared. "Or you're not gonna have Europe anymore."

Trump is a pedophile.

[En Sabah Nur]

Trump back on the golf course for day two of Scottish visit

Just gonna let folks click the link if they want to read and I'm only going to post the first image they used for it instead...



Man's a pro.

[Breccia]

Man's a pro.

Hey, how does Trump win all those championships at his courses when he sets the rules and the guest list? And also, how do you feel about leading questions?

Also, remember when Trump said he wouldn't have time for golfing? Remember when he said

Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf. Worse than Carter!

"Are you saying he should get no vacation time of any kind at all? In the most stressful job in the world? He even said this was a private visit in that link."

I'm not the one being a hypocrite when Trump says "I won't have time to play golf" then plays golf. And just to be clear: Not only did Trump play golf 261 days during his first term, the one where he said he'd be too busy to play golf, and he has also spent 23% of his second term golfing, 44 days out of 189. Whether or not days 43 and 44 are vacation or not aren't really the issue. Or, to put it another way, "Wolf! WOLF!"

By contrast, even by the vaguest standards, Biden spent 118 days total "in a vacation setting". If we scale Trump's 44 days out of half a year up to four years, term to term apples to apples, that's Biden 118 at most to Trump's 352 golfing alone. Obama played 333 total, and while that's still a lot, Trump is on pace to beat it in a single term - and has already beaten it total at one term, six months.

Trump is many things, and lying hippo is...oh, wait, that's the fat waddling animal. How did I make that mistake? Trump is many things, and lying hypocrite is lead on the list.

By the way, "vacation setting" would be far worse because, well, Mar-a-Lago counts, it's literally a hotel and golf course. A fair comparison between Biden "vacation setting" and Trump "vacation setting" would likely have Trump double Biden, and that's conservative.

By the way, this trip cost US taxpayers $10 million. Just this one trip.

P.S. Trump drives his golf cart on the green. I've made plenty of accurate pointed statements about Trump being unable to climb a small hill. Now, the "healthiest man to ever run for office" can't walk on flat level ground.

[Captain N]

And because we now live in the dumbest time line. I bring you Golf Force One - A taxpayer funded endeavor by the Trump Administration. An armored golf cart due to his previous 2 "Assassination Attempts".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...follows-trump/

[btlcryct]

And because we now live in the dumbest time line. I bring you Golf Force One - A taxpayer funded endeavor by the Trump Administration. An armored golf cart due to his previous 2 "Assassination Attempts".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...follows-trump/

I am in no way trying to defend Trump, but I don't think that's his cart. It has Ranger on the side of the bed in the back and on the hood, which is the attendant of the golf course if you will. Article is behind a paywall, so can't read it. This article shows him getting out of a regular cart:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/27/busin...usiness-crypto

[Breccia]

I am in no way trying to defend Trump, but I don't think that's his cart.

Honestly, I'd be okay if it was. It would be foolish to assume there won't be a third attempt by a Trump supporter to murder Trump. Or, at this point, Putin could order a hit. Then Trump would never live to see the consequences of his actions come crashing down on him.

[trapmaster]

And because we now live in the dumbest time line. I bring you Golf Force One - A taxpayer funded endeavor by the Trump Administration. An armored golf cart due to his previous 2 "Assassination Attempts".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...follows-trump/

It's a bed inside there with satan to comfort trump's feeling.

[Edge-]

And because we now live in the dumbest time line. I bring you Golf Force One - A taxpayer funded endeavor by the Trump Administration. An armored golf cart due to his previous 2 "Assassination Attempts".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...follows-trump/

i feel the only response to this is this video (sadly this is the first version that popped up on a search and i'm lazy)

[Milchshake]

Amazingly, some non-voters in 2024 did nazi this coming.



REPORTER: Should Israel be doing more to allow food in Gaza?
TRUMP: Say it?
R: Should Israel be doing more to allow food?
T: What is she saying?
SOMEONE: Should Israel be doing more to allow food in Gaza?
T: You really at least want to have somebody say thank you. We gave $60m for food for Gaza