Trumps Presidency 2025

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Tigermojo said:

US will get eviscerated in a global trade war because other countries will use their smartest people to navigate this. Trump will only use people who are loyal to him.

When the US was the world's leading manufacturer of everything coming out of WWII, we were the indispensable nation in any trade system. But that's long gone. Asia is the manufacturing center of the world. The rest of world can put together a perfectly prosperous trade regime without the US, and now probably will.

[1984Echoes]

9 hours ago, chasfh said:

We are headed for an economy rooted on special pleading and exceptions due to insider sweetheart deals and outright graft.

In other words:

Trump is trying to turn our country into Russia because he wants to "BE" Vladimir Putin and bilk billions and billions of corrupt dollars into his own pockets. For life.

Oh, and he also wants to execute reporters who say bad things about him.

Just like Vladimir Putin.

[Edman85]

Out of context text from coed beach vb teammate today "I have a pair!"

Made me worried in 2025, somebody could intercept texts, and have her booted from the league for a text about sand socks.

[casimir]

2 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

I want to have one person explain how this is making America great again. 

Where’s the thread author when you need him?

Edited 18 hours ago by casimir

[1984Echoes]

3 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

What I would like to see, is...

The door slammed in this Admin's face. In Trump's face, in his "advisor's" faces.

"It's Trump on the line? Hang up. We won't speak to him until his tariffs are dropped. You can tell him we're busy making deals with other countries, but not America."

I would love to see Trump's reactions if/when multiple other countries REFUSE to even speak with the U.S., while they are cutting deals with other countries. I can see him blowing his gasket and his eyes popping right out of his head...

 

 

 

[1984Echoes]

2 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

... Making America great again means cutting WAY back on workers pay and benefits...

MAGA doesn't even understand this.

The Moron (Trump) leading the blind and the stupid (MAGA).

[pfife]

4 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

I want to have one person explain how this is making America great again. 

Wonder where that one jabroni who bragged about voting for this dog**** went

[Tigermojo]

I don't think Donald Trump can explain what's going on. He just put tariffs on penguins. He has no clue what's happening.

[Sports_Freak]

2 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

I don't think Donald Trump can explain what's going on. He just put tariffs on penguins. He has no clue what's happening.

The penguins respond;

[pfife]

11 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Something something we will never be more respected something something 

Thats some beta ****

[Tigermojo]

He's living in an alternate Loomerverse.

[smr-nj]

God damned Senate confirmed Dr. Oz to head up Medicare. Are they out of their minds??

 

[slothfacekilla]

4 minutes ago, smr-nj said:

God damned Senate confirmed Dr. Oz to head up Medicare. Are they out of their minds??

 

God we are so cooked as a country, being run by a bunch of conmen

[Hongbit]

 

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

In other words:

Trump is trying to turn our country into Russia because he wants to "BE" Vladimir Putin and bilk billions and billions of corrupt dollars into his own pockets. For life.

Oh, and he also wants to execute reporters who say bad things about him.

Just like Vladimir Putin.

They probably shouldn’t take any meetings in any skyscrapers. 

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, smr-nj said:

God damned Senate confirmed Dr. Oz to head up Medicare. Are they out of their minds??

 

Yes. Yes, they are. 

[romad1]

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/03/army-mulling-dramatic-reduction-of-tens-of-thousands-of-troops.html

seems like a counter-productive move for a country with a real threat from China.

[mtutiger]

I'm just now seeing this clip from yesterday, but this is up there in the pantheon of stupid defenses of bad policy decisions.

[Tigerbomb13]

Would it ever be out of question that the G7 becomes the G6, with us being booted out?

[RatkoVarda]

not sure why I am continually amazed at his aggressive ignorance. so stupid and so incompetent. just amazing that this idiot is choosing to destroy the economy for nothing more than sh\ts and giggles.

[mtutiger]

24 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

not sure why I am continually amazed at his aggressive ignorance. so stupid and so incompetent. just amazing that this idiot is choosing to destroy the economy for nothing more than sh\ts and giggles.

Nobody wants to talk about it, but given that we talked about it endlessly with Biden, we should be talking about it with Trump as well: he's getting older. He's never been a particularly intellectually curious or, frankly, mentally stable person,  but the base case is to assume that all of these traits are going to be enhanced as he ages and as he begins to slow down mentally (which, people avoid it, but is very likely happening).

It reminds me a lot of my late grandmother.... it literally took her driving the wrong way down a four-lane divided highway until she got the keys taken away and ended up in assisted living. Trump is the POTUS version of this right now.... and absent the GOP finding their balls (I will be calling my rep's DC office and yelling today), I don't see him losing the keys anytime soon.

[chasfh]

11 hours ago, Hongbit said:

 

At least one of these was an unforced purposeful tanking.

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/03/army-mulling-dramatic-reduction-of-tens-of-thousands-of-troops.html

seems like a counter-productive move for a country with a real threat from China.

They're laying down in Europe. Can't have them there when our new allies attack and invade.

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, mtutiger said:

I'm just now seeing this clip from yesterday, but this is up there in the pantheon of stupid defenses of bad policy decisions.

And it's not even an actual defense, since prices on domestic products will rise to fill the new price gap created by dramatic increases in the prices of foreign products.

The only thing that might delay that some is a honeymoon period in which domestic products do not rise yet, which will immediately trumpeted as a triumph for the American consumer, and then as soon as the next horror takes over the news cycle, the prices will unceremoniously increase, and then when the media finally notice, Biden policies from years prior will be blamed.

[chasfh]

Here is how red hats on the ground are justifying tariffs. This, from a Facebook post from one of my wife's former high school classmates in small town Wisconsin.

One might ask, "Isn't this demonstrably untrue?" Another might answer, "Does that even matter?"