What has Trump done now?

[willedoo]

There's a lot of talk but a council spokesperson said they hadn't received a development application at this stage.

[facthunter]

Trust the Gold Coast Council? Never! If you don't want it, tell Trump that Qld is not really part of  Australia. Nev

[red750]

[kgwilson]

If it ever gets built Trump will probably be dead before it is finished

[rgmwa]

It would probably take around three years to design and build it starting from scratch. Even if it was built, I doubt that Trump will ever get his name on it. He will hopefully be in jail or in an aged care facility by then.

[facthunter]

I'd be worried about it falling over. The Council wouldn't be game to question the Building Specs.  Too busy divvying up the Bribe money. Nev

[onetrack]

The developer who is charging ahead with the Trump Tower has been bankrupt previously - twice. So I guess he's in good company with a U.S. President who has sent six of his business ventures bankrupt.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-24/trump-tower-developer-went-bankrupt-twice/106379446

[willedoo]

There was another council spokesperson on the ABC radio yesterday saying they have no problems with the developer being an ex bankrupt. He said deveploment is a risky business and lots of them go broke and it's a fairly normal part of developing , so move along, nothing to see here according to council.

[facthunter]

Just what you would expect from THAT Council.  Nev

[old man emu]

So, work is started but the money stops flowing. The Gold Coast is left with an unsighly mess, and the subbies get screwed again.

[facthunter]

Who Cares?  I wouldn't live there ,IF I Won a House or unit in the lottery. Nev

[pmccarthy]

Friends won a house on the Gold Coast. They moved there but couldn't stand it.

[red750]

In his State of The Union speech, which went for about an hour and three quarters, numb nuts claims his tariffs could virtually replace the need for income tax.

 

Other clangers in recent speeches, he claims the highest popularity ratings of any modern president, and confused Bermuda for the Bahamas

[ClintonB]

3 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

Friends won a house on the Gold Coast. They moved there but couldn't stand it.

I’ve been there for holidays with the kids, when you live in Tamworth it’s a a glitzy get away. Plenty for kids. Now they’re grown up we don’t goes for parks. Etc. I do like to go to Twin towns for shows, a lot of good artists play there cheap compared to stadiums and the like. I don’t mind a walk along the waterways fishing either, for a city you can catch good fish.

too much crime and crap to live there though.

[kgwilson]

I haven't been there for at least 15 years but I've driven past it 2 or 3 times a year for the past 15 years when I am heading for Noosa. I did go there a couple of weeks ago but the only reason was to leave it for NZ via the airport. Populated by the very wealthy with all their flash toys who could not care less for the environment. Very pompous & lacking of any good taste in architectural design. A slum for the wealthy. It was named for the high cost of real estate & rapid development in the late 50s. Used to be the South Coast with Southport, Coolangatta & Burleigh Heads the main centres. It was probably quite nice back then.

[facthunter]

Hideous TALL Buildings that Shade out the Beach in the afternoon. Artificial canals. NOTHING beautiful about it at all. Nev

 

[onetrack]

Had a good laugh about the latest American, "shoot 'em up, and ask questions later", mentality. It seems that U.S. Customs and Border control were running a drone looking for illegal immigrants near the Mexican border, and they strayed into a U.S. military area.

 

The Pentagon ordered their latest laser drone-killer into action, to defend against the "military threat", and blasted the Customs drone out of the sky, no questions asked! 😄

 

Naturally, Customs is furious, and is raging about everyone doing their own thing with no consultation (led by the White House, of course) - and even the FAA is getting dragged into it, with their over-arching control of airspace, and no reference to any other Govt authority.  What a typical, complete CF, of American gung-ho adventurism!!

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/26/us/pentagon-shoots-down-cbp-drone

[facthunter]

USA is a Joke in front of the entire world. Choose your Leader wisely next time. IF there IS a Next time.  Nev

[octave]

Trump confirms US has launched 'major operation' in Iran

[old man emu]

14 minutes ago, octave said:

Trump confirms US has launched 'major operation' in Iran

Perfect action to ensure the winning of a Nobel Peace prize.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Hmm.. thinking about it, if he succeds and restores a government that is democratic and/or representative of the people, maybe he should get a peace prize. 

 

For some debate on the amount killed over a month, it has ranged from the official 3,000 purely civilian population, to up to 30,000: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/iran-protests-death-toll-disappeared-bodies-mass-burials-30000-dead

 

That article is a month old; Wikipedia quotes different sources with wildly different estimates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

 

So I think 15,000 a month is not unreasonable.  To put it in perspective, if it were to continue, it would equal the number of Palestinians claimed to have been killed by Hamas (currently around 76,000) after 2 years in 5 months. Also, there is the veil if not reality that Israel is targeting th emilitary that hide behind its civilians, and Hamass has not yet differentiate the number of cilvilians and mitilarty/terrorist personnel killed. But, for the sake of the argument, let's assume they were all civilians and Hamas doesn't release its military killings. 

 

Given most Iranians are Persian and not islamic, and the definition of Genocide (at least according to Google AI is:

"Genocide is the deliberate, systematic destruction—or intent to destroy—in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group... " and incl;udes destruction, which is not necessarily killing... would it not seem that the Iranian regime is on that path against anyone who doesn't give the pretence of converted to Islam, or wants their own self-determination?

 

I have no idea of Chump's objectives, but if an unintended consequence is the re-impostiion of a government represntative of the people, preferably democratic, and disollution of state sponsored terrorism, then, well, it does deserve a peace prize, does it not?

[Marty_d]

27 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Hmm.. thinking about it, if he succeds and restores a government that is democratic and/or representative of the people, maybe he should get a peace prize. 

 

For some debate on the amount killed over a month, it has ranged from the official 3,000 purely civilian population, to up to 30,000: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/iran-protests-death-toll-disappeared-bodies-mass-burials-30000-dead

 

That article is a month old; Wikipedia quotes different sources with wildly different estimates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

 

So I think 15,000 a month is not unreasonable.  To put it in perspective, if it were to continue, it would equal the number of Palestinians claimed to have been killed by Hamas (currently around 76,000) after 2 years in 5 months. Also, there is the veil if not reality that Israel is targeting th emilitary that hide behind its civilians, and Hamass has not yet differentiate the number of cilvilians and mitilarty/terrorist personnel killed. But, for the sake of the argument, let's assume they were all civilians and Hamas doesn't release its military killings. 

 

Given most Iranians are Persian and not islamic, and the definition of Genocide (at least according to Google AI is:

"Genocide is the deliberate, systematic destruction—or intent to destroy—in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group... " and incl;udes destruction, which is not necessarily killing... would it not seem that the Iranian regime is on that path against anyone who doesn't give the pretence of converted to Islam, or wants their own self-determination?

 

I have no idea of Chump's objectives, but if an unintended consequence is the re-impostiion of a government represntative of the people, preferably democratic, and disollution of state sponsored terrorism, then, well, it does deserve a peace prize, does it not?

Dafuq??

 

Do you really think Trump gives a flying f**k about the welfare of anyone who isn't Donald J Trump?

Especially foreigners.

Once again the stupid bastard is being led by the nose by Netanyahu, who needs yet another war to keep in power and out of court.

Peace prize my arse. The only prize the orange clown deserves is "Worst President Ever", possibly upgraded to "Person who has had the most negative impact on humanity 2016-2020, and 2024 to impeachment"

[red750]

Trump's mantra is to prevent the Iranians from ever having nuclear weapons. He says they have been given opportunities to come to the table to negotiate but have failed to do so, therefore he is determined to raze their nuclear processing facilities to the ground.

[rgmwa]

He and Netanyahu are more interested in triggering regime change than getting some kind of agreement on nuclear development. In his statement justifying the attack Trump listed all the Iranian attacks on US interests snd personnel going back decades. 
Putin won’t be happy because he may not get some of the drones he needs. 

Edited 5 hours ago by rgmwa

[willedoo]

2 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Given most Iranians are Persian and not islamic

Jerry, 95% of Iranians are followers of Islam. They are Persians not Arabs, is the more correct way to describe them.