Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Gorsameth]

If security was a real concern then the US could just ask to build another base on Greenland. No one should believe that bullshit for even a second.

The tech bro's (Peter Thiel and Elon Musk) want Greenland for their billionaire playground so they have instructed Trump to get it for them with some bullshit story about the Monroe Doctrine from the 1800's about how all of the America's should belong to the US.

[Paranoid Android]

Wait..WTF??

US makes initial $500M Venezuelan oil deal; some proceeds headed to Qatari bank

Semafor first reported the deal, including that revenue from it is being held in bank accounts, including one in Qatar, that are controlled by the U.S. government.

Yean, never going to see that money again.

[Draco-Onis]

Wait..WTF??

US makes initial $500M Venezuelan oil deal; some proceeds headed to Qatari bank



Yean, never going to see that money again.

Trump already gave the game away, they are selling 2 billion dollars worth of oil and it's going straight into Trump's pockets in the forms of secret foreign bank accounts. The investigations if there are ever any don't need to do any work, the dumbass broadcasts his corruption.

[Poopymonster]

Well... that's fair, I guess.


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Does Trump still get to claim that he ended those wars if he surrenders?

I love how an Indian comedian put it:
India and Pakistan went to war. There was a ceasefire, most likely to reload. Trump says he stopped the war. Pakistan and India, while at war, put aside their differences long enough to say "No you didn't." And promptly began shooting again.

[PhaelixWW]

So either he doesn't know what a dome is, Canada should be really concerned, or he doesn't know where Greenland is.

The correct answer, of course, is option (D).

[Mayhem]

Minneapolis ICE shooting live updates: Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act

[Dontrike]

With a massive affordability crisis what is the newest tone deaf thing that Trump and his agriculture secretary just drop? Why it just so happens to be $3 "meals."

Well that's not too bad, you may ask, and why is meal in quotations?

Cause it looks like this



Yep, the entire meal suggested is a "piece of chicken, piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing." What is that thing? Fuck if I know, but they said they ran "thousands of simulations," as though that means anything.

President Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary has been mocked after boasting that the government devised a new way for Americans to eat for just $3 a meal amid a nationwide affordability crisis.

Brooke Rollins claimed in a TV interview that her team had “run over 1,000 simulations” to find the most optimal nutritious dinner on a shoestring.

All of that work, she told NewsNation, led to a major finding: “It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing.”

Appearing on the network to promote the administration’s new “Make America Healthy Again” push, which urges people to eat less sugar and ultra-processed food, Rollins argued her approach would “save the average American consumer money,” even as she conceded that beef remains pricey.

Within hours, her meager menu was being ridiculed across social media as completely out of touch. “Even a dystopia would say ‘damn, that’s dystopian,’” wrote one X user.

Another posted, “I’m glad they ran a thousand simulations to figure out one chicken one broccoli one tortilla and the other thing,” with a third saying Rollins’ brag of 1,000 simulations to land on such a miserly plate was the “most insulting part,” and a fourth adding, “You can do this in Excel using solver in like 45 minutes.”

Several X users—including the Ways and Means Committee Democrats and Rep. Ted Lieu—used AI to create tragic-looking empty plates featuring Rollins’ suggested ingredients.

Others contrasted the meager plates with lavish seafood spreads at Trump donor events, and one viral edit simply scribbled “One Other Thing” on an empty section of the dish.

The beleaguered president has tried to wave away the cost-of-living squeeze, regularly dismissing affordability as a “hoax,” even while defending the very tariffs economists say are helping to keep prices high.

Repeated polling now shows his approval on the economy at its lowest point across both presidencies, with barely a third of Americans giving him passing marks and roughly half blaming him for a cost-of-living crisis they say is the worst they have seen.

Food is at the sharp end of that pain. Federal data show grocery inflation has outpaced overall price rises in the past year, with key staples like meat and dairy up sharply.

A report released last month found the share of households experiencing food insecurity had climbed to its highest level in more than a decade, with children in low-income homes hit hardest.

With the Rollins backlash tapping straight into Trump’s worsening political problem on affordability, some noted it appeared to be part of a wider plan by the administration to lower people’s standard of living.

Ahead of the Christmas season, the president urged parents to buy their children fewer toys.

Worse still for American consumers is the news that Trump’s aggressive tariff wall—now covering almost all imports and pushing average U.S. duties to levels not seen since the 1930s—has retailers warning of more price hikes on the way.

The Daily Beast has contacted the Department of Agriculture for comment.

[Belize]

Minneapolis ICE shooting live updates: Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act

Protest and have your rights trampled, or don't protest and have your rights tramples anyways.

Not exactly a hard choice, might as well throw a few bricks before the tanks roll in.

[Mayhem]

Protest and have your rights trampled, or don't protest and have your rights tramples anyways.

Not exactly a hard choice, might as well throw a few bricks before the tanks roll in.

So are dems from other states just sighing in relief or thinking about doing something, anything?

[Kathandira]

With a massive affordability crisis what is the newest tone deaf thing that Trump and his agriculture secretary just drop? Why it just so happens to be $3 "meals."

Well that's not too bad, you may ask, and why is meal in quotations?

Cause it looks like this

That is hardly a piece of chicken, Comparing to the size of the broccoli, that is a chicken nugget.

1 Nugget, 1 Piece of Broccoli, and a Pita Pocket.

What the entire F

[Mayhem]

That is hardly a piece of chicken, Comparing to the size of the broccoli, that is a chicken nugget.

1 Nugget, 1 Piece of Broccoli, and a Pita Pocket.

What the entire F

How else are the Americans supposed to lose 135 billion pounds by the midterms?

[Kathandira]

How else are the Americans supposed to lose 135 billion pounds by the midterms?

I ate more than that when I set a goal to lose 30lbs. It was a similar set of food, but way more of it. That is for real starvation levels of a meal plan.

[Mayhem]

I ate more than that when I set a goal to lose 30lbs. It was a similar set of food, but way more of it. That is for real starvation levels of a meal plan.

Starvation is exactly what's needed for the plan to work, because even if we pretend all of the US are grown men, their combined weight would be 68 billion pounds ... no idea where they want to get the rest but it's all of the US, doubled, plus some.

[Nightmare Queen]

Protest and have your rights trampled, or don't protest and have your rights tramples anyways.

Not exactly a hard choice, might as well throw a few bricks before the tanks roll in.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[Glorious Leader]

With a massive affordability crisis what is the newest tone deaf thing that Trump and his agriculture secretary just drop? Why it just so happens to be $3 "meals."

Well that's not too bad, you may ask, and why is meal in quotations?

Cause it looks like this



Yep, the entire meal suggested is a "piece of chicken, piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing." What is that thing? Fuck if I know, but they said they ran "thousands of simulations," as though that means anything.

The soviets got better rations

[Belize]

So are dems from other states just sighing in relief or thinking about doing something, anything?

Do you mean the general populace or like, lawmakers.

Cause lawmakers have shown themselves to be spineless, but there's been support protests and pushback from just regular folks

[Mayhem]

Do you mean the general populace or like, lawmakers.

Cause lawmakers have shown themselves to be spineless, but there's been support protests and pushback from just regular folks

I mean the spineless ones, yup. Very happy that regular folks protest in support though.

[Belize]

I mean the spineless ones, yup. Very happy that regular folks protest in support though.

Well Dems would be considered right wing in any civilized country, and they're getting their bribes lobbying from the same sources as Reps, so... Let's not expect a whole lot from them.

[Mayhem]

Well Dems would be considered right wing in any civilized country, and they're getting their bribes lobbying from the same sources as Reps, so... Let's not expect a whole lot from them.

Cool, so spineless and stupid, perfect.

[Edge-]

With a massive affordability crisis what is the newest tone deaf thing that Trump and his agriculture secretary just drop? Why it just so happens to be $3 "meals."

Well that's not too bad, you may ask, and why is meal in quotations?

Cause it looks like this



Yep, the entire meal suggested is a "piece of chicken, piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing." What is that thing? Fuck if I know, but they said they ran "thousands of simulations," as though that means anything.

this is depression-era thinking lmao

we're so fucked

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you know what? the energy they probably used on these "simulations" cost more than the "meal"

also, this is what rich, out of touch assholes who are genuinely bad people would come up with

and it is

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BEE TEE DUBS

whatever happened with the rest of the epstein files?

is this administration and the republican congress still working overtime to protect child rapists and create one new crisis after another to try to distract from it?

why are republicans so desperate to protect child rapists?