Donald Trump Appreciation Thread

[whelk]

10 hours ago, Farmer Saint said:

Got back last night after completing the sale of my place over there (and ensuring the cash was in my bank account in the UK).

And told you you never see a poor farmer!

[Gloucester Saint]

6 hours ago, Picard said:

Camus banned from entering UK

Camus banned from UK

 

As was another vile racist shitbag coming on tour to spread hatred https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/10/04/polish-foreign-ministry-furious-after-uk-denies-entry-to-far-right-writer-who-spoke-of-holocaust-myth/

Look, there’s another one https://www.haaretz.com/2011-08-11/ty-article/britain-denies-entry-to-israeli-rabbi-who-advocated-killing-of-non-jews/0000017f-dbc2-d3a5-af7f-fbeef4ab0000

People who post frustrations with policies of Starmer, Sunak, Truss, Johnson, May, Cameron etc = not having any problems generally entering the UK. Ditto most of the EU, Canada, Aus, NZ etc.

French scientist who criticised specific aspects DOGE relating to cutting indirect cost rates for labs, which is a MAGA POLICY = denied entry.

 

[Gloucester Saint]

4 minutes ago, whelk said:

It is bad but I just want Americans to suffer so much as result of this fucker. Even though impacts me I still like seeing the DOW and S&P fall

There does need to be a deterrent. They want to see chaos but it not effect them.

NBC poll still finding that only 2% regret their vote, although his approval ratings are very low by Presidential standards.

[whelk]

1 minute ago, Gloucester Saint said:

As was another vile racist shitbag coming on tour to spread hatred https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/10/04/polish-foreign-ministry-furious-after-uk-denies-entry-to-far-right-writer-who-spoke-of-holocaust-myth/

Look, there’s another one https://www.haaretz.com/2011-08-11/ty-article/britain-denies-entry-to-israeli-rabbi-who-advocated-killing-of-non-jews/0000017f-dbc2-d3a5-af7f-fbeef4ab0000

People who post frustrations with policies of Starmer, Sunak, Truss, Johnson, May, Cameron etc = not having any problems generally entering the UK. Ditto most of the EU, Canada, Aus, NZ etc.

French scientist who criticised specific aspects DOGE relating to cutting indirect cost rates for labs, which is a MAGA POLICY = denied entry.

 

Wasting your time Gloucester telling them not equivalent. Like MAGA responding what about George Floyd when highlighting they support ting putting a felon in the White House

[Farmer Saint]

1 hour ago, whelk said:

And told you you never see a poor farmer!

Well, how do you think I could afford to buy a farm? But yes, I get your point.

Edited April 24 by Farmer Saint

[Gloucester Saint]

When the Trump regime does things beneficial to public wellbeing, I will praise and give them credit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/crld4egrkrxo

[sadoldgit]

Trump is now coming across as King Canute. As if Putin gives a stuff about what Trump thinks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg7jnywn5dt

[badgerx16]

49 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

Trump is now coming across as King Canute. As if Putin gives a stuff about what Trump thinks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg7jnywn5dt

Ahh, the usual misunderstanding of Cnut. The whole point of the tide thing was to prove to his courtiers that he wasn't all powerful, and could not command the tide to turn. Mind you, Trump seems unable to convince his handler to do anything.

Edited April 24 by badgerx16

[Lighthouse]

Whenever I read about Trump saying he will negotiate a deal between Russia and Ukraine, I can't help but think of this.

 

[badgerx16]

After fundingcl cuts to the VA, and in the wake of the other cross-departmental budget reductions and program closures, Pete Hegseth has spent thousands of dollars converting a room adjacent to the Pentagon press room into a makeup studio.

Edited April 24 by badgerx16

[Gloucester Saint]

Feebly asking a Russian dictator and lunatic to stop bombing another country like he’s a cat scratching furniture is not going to work.

Bombing Moscow’s power plants and shutting their capital city into darkness, that might.

[AlexLaw76]

1 minute ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Feebly asking a Russian dictator and lunatic to stop bombing another country like he’s a cat scratching furniture is not going to work.

Bombing Moscow’s power plants and shutting their capital city into darkness, that might.

We can always do it, right...or any other 1st world (NATO) nation?

[badgerx16]

Trump has said that the fact Russia has not taken over the whole of Ukraine is a concession on Putin's part.

[badgerx16]

[Patrick Bateman]

Every time I see this thread, I'm still baffled that someone "appreciates" this prick. 

[Gloucester Saint]

4 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

We can always do it, right...or any other 1st world (NATO) nation?

We were better off getting him bumped off as an inside job, which I think would have happened if Trump hadn’t have kissed Putin’s arse. Very hard to win that war in the battlefield even with the aid Ukraine were getting but Trump has totally misread Russia and made a twat of himself with all the pronouncements around ending the war in a day or a week. New leader could be just as bad but you could get a Gorbachev. 

[Lighthouse]

14 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Then we’ll provide zero hard, military assurance that they can’t regroup and try again for the rest of it, at a time which suits them, from their established military foothold.

[badgerx16]

FOX News publish this poll, Trump calls for their polling expert to be sacked;

[spyinthesky]

I was speaking to a US client today.
He reckoned that Trump's new mate Mr Tesla, was able to tap into the voting machines ie those which were accused of fiddling Biden's victory, and ensured that Trump won this time round.
No idea if there is any credence in this but just suppose that Musk had been a supporter of Biden and this rumour was circulated amongst the MAGA mob, it is likely that another violent protest, stoked up by the Orange One, would have been on the cards.

[Dark Munster]

8 hours ago, spyinthesky said:

I was speaking to a US client today.
He reckoned that Trump's new mate Mr Tesla, was able to tap into the voting machines ie those which were accused of fiddling Biden's victory, and ensured that Trump won this time round.
No idea if there is any credence in this but just suppose that Musk had been a supporter of Biden and this rumour was circulated amongst the MAGA mob, it is likely that another violent protest, stoked up by the Orange One, would have been on the cards.

 

[spyinthesky]

6 hours ago, Dark Munster said:

 

Quite an interesting discussion.
The 'Russian Tail' theory was something I had never heard of before and possibly may be relevant to the Brexit vote.
Steve Bannon was apparently caught on audio prior to the 2016 US Election predicting that Trump would be ahead in the early stages of the election due to the fact that a lot of Republican voters live in small communities where it is relatively quick to collate and submit votes.
As a consequence it was agreed that Trump would declare victory midway through the vote knowing that the larger population areas were expected to vote Democrat in larger numbers.
MAGA supporters were primed to believe the election result was rigged and this they did with aplomb.

[spyinthesky]

Just read an article about a guy called Dennis Montgomery.
Anyone who hasnt heard of him, its worth a look at his background.
I reckon his story could be made into a great film, dovetailing into stories on Mike Lindell (the Pillow Man) and other snake oil salesmen and purveyors of right wing nonsense.

[badgerx16]

If you don't want to watch the whole of this video, at least watch the first embedded bit, taken inside a Court House, and then think how the image of plain clothed, masked men, with no visible ID or valid warrant, putting people into unmarked vehicles compares with Central and South American right wing dictatorships;

 

Edited Saturday at 13:55 by badgerx16

[sadoldgit]

Has there ever been a POTUS with such a lack of understanding of world (or internal) affairs than Donald Trump?

Putin has been stringing him along? No shit, Sherlock!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/26/trump-and-zelenskyy-hold-very-productive-ceasefire-talks-in-rome

The trouble is that it is entirely possible that Trump will wake up tomorrow or the next day and tell us that Putin is the good guy and Zelensky is the bad guy again.

Edited Sunday at 10:08 by sadoldgit

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, sadoldgit said:

Has there ever been a POTUS with such a lack of understanding of world (or internal) affairs than Donald Trump?

Putin has been stringing him along? No shit, Sherlock!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/26/trump-and-zelenskyy-hold-very-productive-ceasefire-talks-in-rome

The trouble is that it is entirely possible that Trump will wake up tomorrow or the next day and tell us that Putin is the good guy and Zelensky is the bad guy again.

Flip flopping on foreign policy because doesn't understand it, exactly as John Bolton predicted.

[egg]

[Challenger]

6 hours ago, egg said:

I am not too up on ornithology, is this a hen or a cock ?

[Gloucester Saint]

Interesting piece - Bessant and Kellogg at the moment as the adults in the administration seem to be having more input over the morons like Navarro https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g45zp77y5o

[sadoldgit]

On 27/04/2025 at 18:39, Challenger said:

I am not too up on ornithology, is this a hen or a cock ?

I think that we can safely say that it is a massive cock.

[Gloucester Saint]

I see the Canadian election interference is working out well for him….not https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ylzkzxkndo

It is set to be close, but it wasn’t anywhere near close pre-Trump with the Liberals set to be on the wrong end of a landslide.

[egg]

1 hour ago, sadoldgit said:

I think that we can safely say that it is a massive cock.

I say it's an Orange Tit. 

[Farmer Saint]

On 27/04/2025 at 12:21, egg said:

I'm sure it's a type of Shag.

[sadoldgit]

11 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

I see the Canadian election interference is working out well for him….not https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ylzkzxkndo

It is set to be close, but it wasn’t anywhere near close pre-Trump with the Liberals set to be on the wrong end of a landslide.

It’s good to see, at last, something good to be associated to the Mango Manbaby.

[badgerx16]

AMAZON are how defined as "hostile" by the White House after reports it is going to indicate in it's pricing information how much Trump's tariffs are adding to the cost of an item.

[Hamilton Saint]

This must be the first time an American president has lost a Canadian election.

Thanks, DT!

[sadoldgit]

It is a shame that they don’t do this in real time on a screen behind him.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claims-debunked

[badgerx16]

50 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

It is a shame that they don’t do this in real time on a screen behind him.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claims-debunked

The Washington Post reported on a website that counted over 30,000 lies and misleading comments during his first term.

Edited 8 hours ago by badgerx16

[Danbert]

24 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

The Washington Post reported on a website that counted over 30,000 lies and misleading comments during his first term.

They're reporting 32 lies in the interview he granted Time magazine to discuss his first 100 days in office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/30/trump-falsehoods-100-days-time-magazine/

[Gloucester Saint]

On 29/04/2025 at 07:05, Farmer Saint said:

I'm sure it's a type of Shag.

A non-Melania one (allegedly).

[egg]

The shrinking of the US economy is apparently all down to Biden, and nothing to do with his loopy policies. Bless. 

[Gloucester Saint]

38 minutes ago, egg said:

The shrinking of the US economy is apparently all down to Biden, and nothing to do with his loopy policies. Bless. 

And retreating like an Italian tank in WW2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70zy5w983go

https://news.sky.com/story/trump-100-days-executive-orders-tariffs-stock-markets-trade-war-latest-live-13209921

The amount of lies here is astonishing. The DNC is a disgrace though and should be mobilising ahead of the mid-terms. Instead they are AWOL, even if Trump and MAGA are doing a fab job of sinking themselves https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98gv43pjjno

[whelk]

51 minutes ago, egg said:

The shrinking of the US economy is apparently all down to Biden, and nothing to do with his loopy policies. Bless. 

Hilarious - please tank and put many many MAGA out of work. Will be funny watching that mad deranged Leavitt spin it.

[whelk]

12 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

The DNC is a disgrace though and should be mobilising ahead of the mid-terms.

‘Never interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake’

But yes hope a relative unknown can come out of nowhere and galvanise. Similar to Obama and Bill Clinton 

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, egg said:

The shrinking of the US economy is apparently all down to Biden, and nothing to do with his loopy policies. Bless. 

We can’t judge him for 5 years, surely?

[badgerx16]

 

And when the rest of the World stops selling to the US, or everything is built there so no imports are needed, what happens ?

Edited 1 hour ago by badgerx16

[badgerx16]

 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

We can’t judge him for 5 years, surely?

Apart from slightly higher inflation, Biden actually left the economy in decent shape. The fact he was doddery and should never have been standing for a second time is tangential if we’re only discussing the economy.

People voted for Trump claiming they felt he would put more money in their pay packets and he hasn’t. Given the disruption caused to global supply chains already by entirely unnecessary tariffs it’ll be quite some time before there’s any prospect of that being the case outside of the odd isolated specialist sector. His billionaire friends - and Marjorie Taylor Greene - seem to have done rather well out of insider trading however.

By contrast, the UK pattern postwar has tended to be - centre-right government, better public finances, worse public services, and swap it around for centre-left. Now I’m no fan of Reeves but this government has had to address dreadful public finances and public services, acknowledge to be the worst postwar right across the economic and spectrums. The IFS warned there was a conspiracy of silence about what was needed post-GE across all parties but some of the public don’t grasp that losing 6% of our economy to a very hard Brexit and funding furlough has done grave damage despite Boris and Farage’s sunlit uplands. The latter is borrowed and has to be paid back, that is adult life.

By contrast, the damage by Trump’s tariffs is only 0.8% of GDP. Could do without it but drop in ocean compared to above.

Edited 1 hour ago by Gloucester Saint

[egg]

1 minute ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Apart from slightly higher inflation, Biden actually left the economy in decent shape. The fact he was doddery and should never have been standing for a second time is tangential if were only discussing the economy.

People voted for Trump claiming they felt he would more money in their pay packets and he hasn’t. Given the disruption caused to global supply chains already by entirely unnecessary tariffs it’ll be quite some time before there’s any prospect of that being the case outside of the odd isolated specialist sector. His billionaire friends - and Marjorie Taylor Greene - seem to have done rather well out of insider trading however.

By contrast, the UK pattern postwar has tended to be - centre-right government, better public finances, worse public services, and swap it around for centre-left. Now I’m no fan of Reeves but this government has had to address dreadful public finances and public services, acknowledge to be the worst postwar right across the economic and spectrums. The IFS warned there was a conspiracy of silence about what was needed post-GE across all parties but some of the public don’t grasp that losing 6% of your economy to a very hard Brexit and funding furlough has knackered the economy. The latter is borrowed and has to be paid back, that is adult life.

By contrast, the damage by Trump’s tariffs is only 0.8% of GDP. Could do without it but drop in ocean compared to above.

Indeed. In short, Trump didn't inherit a clusterfuck, whereas labour did. 

[badgerx16]

3 minutes ago, egg said:

Indeed. In short, Trump didn't inherit a clusterfuck,

Yes he did, he told us so.

[Gloucester Saint]

15 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

 

And when the rest of the World stops selling to the US, or everything is built there so no imports are needed, what happens ?

He’s economically illiterate, not difficult to see why he’s endured a string of bankruptcies. Hinting at elimination of income taxes is typical populist fantasist thinking, Farage is in a similar mould, as was Boris as well. No qualification of what ‘massive’ is or any evidence of it bar the odd new plant, nowhere near covering the jobs lost in the commercial sector. And that’s pre-DOGE, because tens of thousands of highly skilled people won’t be buying new Chevys or extending their townhouses. They’re more focused on not foreclosing.

He’s has been propped up by Daddy, the banks and shady billionaires (eg Musk), hasn’t had to face realities.

If he presented this as a business plan at the interview stage of the UK Apprentice, Claude Littner would tear him a new arsehole.