Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Rasulis]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCring...20_billion_to/

Apparently MAGA stands for "Make Argentina Great Again"

Fuck you, US farmers! Donny needs to give billions to Argentina! They are Fighting For Their Life!

That's funny. Argentina's economy been in a bad shape for decades.

U.S. Banks Are Hunting for Collateral to Back $20 Billion Argentina Bailout
Banks are looking for assets or guarantees from the U.S. that would back a private-sector loan to support Argentine President Javier Milei

In summary, US financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, are “struggling” to come up with a loan they would feel comfortable with.

[Xyonai]

Trump could have made money selling the windows and other bits of that place, but would rather just demolish like the child he is.

Where are all of those little "DON'T TARE DOUN HISTOREEEEEEEE!" people that were bitching about Jim Crow era statues?

I mean it's not out of character; he bought and destroyed valuable and irreplaceable art-deco pieces on properties he bought in New York(?) after outright refusing to allow people to remove them safely so they could be preserved for no real reason other than he's just fucking stupid and malicious.

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And what do we, the American people get out of it? Domestic beef production that's financially unsustainable without taxpayer subsidies? Man, fuck these losers.

I mean, ideally, a part of boosting Domestic production -is- offering government subsidies so they can get their footing and remain competative against cheaper, foreign markets. It's what we've done for decades, especially with stuff like Green Energy and Dairy Production.

Just Trump's fucking stupid and never added the '...And put money into domestic production' part into any of his dimwitted trade-war plans. He just expected domestic companies to pour resources into new production sites out of pocket and not just go 'Well it's still cheaper to do as we're doing, even with these taxes, so fuck it'.

[Paranoid Android]

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. https://nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3m3pxtx5xqq2k

Trump shaking down the DOJ.

This is amazing that while technically the DOJ is independent (cough) asking for a settlement? Yes his case or grievance is bs, but this won't stop.

Once more Trump's minions will decide on this. No shock.

[Edge-]

https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3m3pxtx5xqq2k

Trump shaking down the DOJ.

This is amazing that while technically the DOJ is independent (cough) asking for a settlement? Yes his case or grievance is bs, but this won't stop.

Once more Trump's minions will decide on this. No shock.

wait

you can do that as president?

this sounds like that one trick to make millions that accountants hate

[zorkuus]

Hey americans, what will it take for you to remove this criminal from office?

[btlcryct]

Oops, a US Marshal got shot.....by an ICE agent while conducting a stop. Maybe if they weren't hiring random Joe's (and Superman, Dean Cain), they'd be better trained not to do that. Or not ramming cars.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/us/lo...arshal-injured

[Edge-]

Oops, a US Marshal got shot.....by an ICE agent while conducting a stop. Maybe if they weren't hiring random Joe's (and Superman, Dean Cain), they'd be better trained not to do that. Or not ramming cars.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/us/lo...arshal-injured

how much do you want to bet we'll find out that half these chucklefucks are just 3%'s or proud boys and shit who basically went through a weekend of training that was mostly pounding beers

[zorkuus]

how much do you want to bet we'll find out that half these chucklefucks are just 3%'s or proud boys and shit who basically went through a weekend of training that was mostly pounding beers

You're assuming too much. They were most likely just handed a badge, gear and some guns on first sight.

[Draco-Onis]

You're assuming too much. They were most likely just handed a badge, gear and some guns on first sight.

That would be the correct assessment given we have them on video tear gassing themselves and being unable to run fast enough to catch an average guy. These guys seems like a bunch of wanna be larpers given toys that they don't know how to handle speaking of which.

Trump has spent 700 percent more on deadly weapons for ICE this year - but agency still claims they can’t afford bodycams

While the majority of the money has been spent on guns and armor for field agents, the outlay has also seen ICE purchase “guided missile warheads and explosive components,” according to Popular Information.

Here's to hoping they are good with missiles and explosives as they are with tear gas.

[Edge-]

keeps sounding like he literally wants ice to be his little private personal military

[Malkiah]

Hey americans, what will it take for you to remove this criminal from office?

for there to be a change in the demographics so that approximately half the population doesn't actively support this.

[Kathandira]

Hey americans, what will it take for you to remove this criminal from office?

Tried twice in his first term. Didn't work.

I'm sure there will be attempts in his second term. Let's hope for better results.

[zorkuus]

Tried twice in his first term. Didn't work.

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about actual tangible measures. Your system cannot be so broken that one person/party can just hold it completely as hostage and everyone just spreads their arms and shrugs... oh wait, nevermind.

[Kathandira]

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about actual tangible measures. Your system cannot be so broken that one person/party can just hold it completely as hostage and everyone just spreads their arms and shrugs... oh wait, nevermind.

When that one party controls all three branches of our government, and has thrown ethics and good faith right out the window, there isn't too much the other party can do.

Outside of that, several people have tried to end him in a more absolute method, and that failed too. (I do not condone nor celebrate the attempted assassinations.)

I'm not a civics major or a lawyer, so as far as I am aware there is honestly very little that can be done. Perhaps other more intelligent minds can chime in.

[s_bushido]

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about actual tangible measures. Your system cannot be so broken that one person/party can just hold it completely as hostage and everyone just spreads their arms and shrugs... oh wait, nevermind.

It's not just one person. The entirety of the GOP supports him. I mean, you could argue that a lot of them only do because their constituents have bought into the cult...but if that's the case, the blame lies at the feet of even more than just the politicians who protect/enable him.

[Paranoid Android]

https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3m3pxtx5xqq2k

Trump shaking down the DOJ.

This is amazing that while technically the DOJ is independent (cough) asking for a settlement? Yes his case or grievance is bs, but this won't stop.

Once more Trump's minions will decide on this. No shock.

Edit: Stealing these quotes, they hit the point.

A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

The Unitary Executive Theory was the definition I was trying to find and when you make the decision that money should be handed to you, is likely a problem.



https://bsky.app/profile/mford.bsky..../3m3q5umsvfs2q

Great legal analyst. So corrupt that what is there to explain, yet here we are.

[Breccia]

In the ongoing effort to end the Ukraine War in 24 hours, Putin rejects cease-fire and Trump ends future talks.

Trump had announced last week that he and Putin would meet soon in Hungary to try to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. But Putin has been unwilling to consider concessions. Moscow has long demanded that Ukraine agree to cede more territory before any ceasefire.

Russia reiterated its long-standing terms for a peace deal in a private communique known as a "non paper" that it sent to the U.S. last weekend, according to two U.S. officials and two people familiar with the situation.

The communique reaffirmed Russia's demand for full control of the long-contested eastern Donbas region, according to one official, effectively rejecting Trump's call for a ceasefire to commence with a freeze of the frontlines at their prevailing locations.

A Western official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Rutte planned to present to Trump the European views on a ceasefire and any subsequent peace negotiations.

Trump, who last week spoke by phone to Putin and met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, had hoped for another high-profile session with the Russian leader after their August summit in Alaska failed to advance negotiations.

But the two sides postponed a preparatory meeting between Rubio and Lavrov that had been expected to take place in Budapest on Thursday.

Lavrov and Rubio spoke by phone on Monday. Lavrov said the place and the timing of the next Trump-Putin summit was less important than the substance of implementing the understandings reached in Alaska.

The Kremlin said there was no clear date and that "serious preparation" for a summit was needed, which may take time.

"Listen, we have an understanding of the presidents, but we cannot postpone what has not been finalised," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "Neither President Trump nor President Putin gave exact dates."

"But this was the smart move! Surely you didn't expect Trump to demand Ukraine give up land to Russia, in exchange for nothing?"

It's literally what he did last time. So yes. So did everyone else.

Ukraine's European allies have been concerned that Trump could meet Putin for a second time without getting any serious concessions from the Russian leader.

In a statement on Tuesday, the leaders of European powers including Britain, France, Germany and the EU said they "strongly support President Trump's position that the fighting should stop immediately, and that the current line of contact should be the starting point of negotiations."

"Well let's see you do better!"

I don't have to. Trump ran for office and got people to vote for him on the promise that he would end the Ukraine War quickly and easily. He said it many times, in public, on purpose.

Here is just a partial list, posted in April. It includes the defense that the many times he said it, in public, on purpose, was being sarcastic. You know, like how Republicans praise Hitler.

Trump promised quick, easy results, and has had nothing but failure. Trump is a failure, and it's getting people killed.

[Gorsameth]

Poor Rutte, every time Putin and Trump have a meeting or call he has to fly to Washington to reprogram Trump.

[Malkiah]

It's not just one person. The entirety of the GOP supports him. I mean, you could argue that a lot of them only do because their constituents have bought into the cult...but if that's the case, the blame lies at the feet of even more than just the politicians who protect/enable him.

this isn't to you specifically but more to the overall point.
i saw this and was just struck by the scale of the problem in the US.
people on this forum talk endlessly about some magical day when regressive voters "get it" and then the UStopia starts, but this is what happens when see and feel the material consequences of their voting... they blame an individual, and the jews, and don't change their underlying ideology, and then next election they just vote for the next republican who is the same as the last republican.

https://imgur.com/gallery/they-will-never-get-HeLXQXO

[Edge-]

man, donald really does have that same public humiliation fetish, huh