Thoughts on the Trump presidency

[najaB]

Trump's stupidity with Iran has now pushed Diesel prices of the forecourts to $6 a gallon:

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/ebeacf37-8e86-4198-85de-8c9d6dae7ed4

Watch the first lady's reaction here as a MAGA supporter's mental conflict is obvious: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cevw2rzlr8vo

Video description
President Donald Trump said that the Iran war will end "immediately" after US midterm elections and blamed the rising price of oil on the war.

Oil prices rose to $100 (£74) a barrel on Wednesday, after the US and Iran attacked tankers in the Gulf region and Yemen's Houthis hit oil facilities in Saudi Arabia.

The BBC's Sarah Smith is at the Republican Party's first midterms convention in Texas, where she asked voters how they think rising oil prices will affect the election.

 

[jon0844]

Trump's stupidity with Iran has now pushed Diesel prices of the forecourts to $6 a gallon:

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/ebeacf37-8e86-4198-85de-8c9d6dae7ed4

Bloody Joe Biden!

 

[D6130]

If Trump's offering $5, 000 to anyone who votes Republican in the mid-term elections, how's he going to find out.who they are when it's supposed to be a secret ballot? The guy's a total screwball!

 

[AlterEgo]

If Trump's offering $5, 000 to anyone who votes Republican in the mid-term elections, how's he going to find out.who they are when it's supposed to be a secret ballot? The guy's a total screwball!

Because that isn't what he's doing?

 

[najaB]

If Trump's offering $5, 000 to anyone who votes Republican in the mid-term elections, how's he going to find out.who they are when it's supposed to be a secret ballot? The guy's a total screwball!

It's $5,000 for every adult American citizen, not for those who vote Republican.

 

[ainsworth74]

however if it really is a "dividend to share in America's success" as they are trying to describe it

I wonder how many companies who were $40 trillion in debt and running an annual deficit of $2 trillion per year with no realistic plan to reverse or even just substantially reduce that deficit would be paying a dividend to their shareholders?

 

[D6130]

It's $5,000 for every adult American citizen, not for those who vote Republican.

Ah....I should have gone to Specsavers!

 

[DelW]

I wonder how many companies who were $40 trillion in debt and running an annual deficit of $2 trillion per year with no realistic plan to reverse or even just substantially reduce that deficit would be paying a dividend to their shareholders?

Well, Trump does have a long history of bankrupt companies behind him. This is just a bigger version of his normal modus operandi. It's hard to tell whether it's the greed, the corruption or the incompetence which has dominated.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I wonder how many companies who were $40 trillion in debt and running an annual deficit of $2 trillion per year with no realistic plan to reverse or even just substantially reduce that deficit would be paying a dividend to their shareholders?

The numbers might be different but the water companies seem to be managing this.

The fact is he knows full well that regardless of the midterm results no money is going to be paid, see the promised DOGE cheques.

 

[Annetts key]

The numbers might be different but the water companies seem to be managing this.

Some of the private water companies. There are some that are far better run and are not close to bankruptcy.

The fact is he knows full well that regardless of the midterm results no money is going to be paid, see the promised DOGE cheques.

Exactly, he has nothing to lose by making empty promises just like he has done many times before. I'm 100% sure that in the extremely unlikely event that the republicans don't lose their majority, there will be no $5000 payment to any ordinary U.S. adult citizen.

 

[jupiter]

It's primarily incompetence. He has a legendary low intelligence and his narcissism and fragility just makes him act impulsively to restore his own feelings of self worth. It's worth taking a deeper dive into what makes a dark-triad narcissist (he ticks all the boxes) to better understand his unusual and unorthodox style.

 

[THC]

I see President Trump has become the first Orange man to declare for a united Ireland - and in so doing laid waste to several decades of careful diplomacy. That said, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

THC

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I see President Trump has become the first Orange man to declare for a united Ireland - and in so doing laid waste to several decades of careful diplomacy. That said, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

THC

Be careful he might have eyes on uniting Ireland with the US.

 

[Strathclyder]

I see President Trump has become the first Orange man to declare for a united Ireland - and in so doing laid waste to several decades of careful diplomacy. That said, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

THC

Makes me feel unclean to even remotely agree with anything that comes out of his mouth. Feel like I need to take a long hot shower now...

Like the senile moron he is, he laid waste to several decades of careful diplomacy when he said it. At the end of the day though, what he says and what he wants are frankly irrelevent when it comes to the people and governments on either side of the Irish border deciding to unite as one. It's a decision that entirely rests with them and no-one else.

Besides, it's not like he really cares either way what happens to Ireland and whichever path it decides to take in the future; it seems to me that what lies at the core of this is one more way of making life difficult over here for the mainland GB government for not kowtowing to him and kissing the ring without question; same as with the whole Falklands debacle. Anything to give Westminster a headache for daring to show anything resembling a backbone and all but telling him to do one is fair game as far as he's concerned.

 

[Camberman]

Has anybody previously mentioned the Mary Trump YouTube channel? It appears to have much sensible and logical thoughts regarding her uncle Donald Trump - well worth a watch in my opinion.

see - https://www.youtube.com/@MaryTrumpMedia

Overview extract
"Mary Trump Media

Description
You might know Donald Trump as the authoritarian conman wrecking the country from the Oval Office. Mary Trump just knows him as her f***ing loser uncle."

 

[Strathclyder]

Has anybody previously mentioned the Mary Trump YouTube channel? It appears to have much sensible and logical thoughts regarding her uncle Donald Trump - well worth a watch in my opinion.

see - https://www.youtube.com/@MaryTrumpMedia

Overview extract
"Mary Trump Media

Description
You might know Donald Trump as the authoritarian conman wrecking the country from the Oval Office. Mary Trump just knows him as her f***ing loser uncle."

Yeah, I've been aware of her and her outspoken views regarding her uncle for some time now. One of the very few people in that family with any morals, scruples, brains and common sense.

 

[najaB]

It appears that according to DJT, 16 is old if you're a girl that he wants to ogle, but 35 is young if you're DJT...

During his recent visit to Ireland, a journalist asked him about the brewing diplomatic upset between the UK and his pet project, Argentina, over the Falkland Islands.

“Well, the Falkland Islands is very interesting, because here we go again. I remember as a young boy, pretty young boy anyway. But the Falkland Islands and, er, I think it was a different country at that time, the UK a little bit.

But they went in and they took it over. I’m not sure if they’re doing that. They have a little problem with immigration. They have a little problem with energy and they have some other problems they have to take care of.

So I don’t know, you know, I don’t know if they’re going to be willing to travel that far. That is very far away. You’re talking about weeks by boat.”

Source: thepoke.com

Only thing is, Donald Trump was 35 years old in 1982 when the Falklands war happened! It's becoming increasingly clear that his grip on reality is tenuous at best.

 

[edwin_m]

Trump criticises AI boss who called for slowdown and says only guardrail needed is a 'smart president'

Stock markets fall in the US, Europe and Asia as Anthropic boss Dario Amodei says AI development should be slowed "to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong".

www.bbc.co.uk

US President Donald Trump has just posted about AI - here are his comments in full.

"The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!

Looks like we're doomed.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Every time you think we're reached the bottom, he finds a way to go lower

 

[brad465]

Mitch McConnell is supposed to be returning to the Senate today after a lengthy absence. Let's see if they can pull a "Weekend at Mitch's" act.

 

[nlogax]

Mitch McConnell is supposed to be returning to the Senate today after a lengthy absence. Let's see if they can pull a "Weekend at Mitch's" act.

Didn't happen today, now his aides are suggesting he'll return on Wednesday. While stopping short of 'I'll eat my hat' territory should he return, I'd be amazed. My mind was made up that he died weeks ago.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/14/mitch-mcconnell-senate-return-01074901

McConnell’s office is keeping silent about the 84-year-old former Republican leader’s intentions since disclosing last month that he had returned home following weeks in the hospital and rehab. But expectations about a return to the Senate have grown among fellow Kentucky Republicans and his GOP colleagues in the Senate.


The senator’s staff has told senior Republicans that he will be back at the Capitol in time for a Wednesday committee vote on the farm bill, which stalled earlier this summer amid his absence, according to three other people with direct knowledge of the matter who were also granted anonymity.

 

[jon0844]

Didn't happen today, now his aides are suggesting he'll return on Wednesday. While stopping short of 'I'll eat my hat' territory should he return, I'd be amazed. My mind was made up that he died weeks ago.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/14/mitch-mcconnell-senate-return-01074901

What happened to those Med Beds that the Republicans all believe exists?

 

[nlogax]

McConnell lives!

NBC News video re. Mitch McConnell returning to the Senate.

Colour me surprised. Good for him and his family, though it's high time he left politics. He's not a well man and he'll be remembered as part of the reason Trump repeatedly happened.