What has Trump done now?

[red750]

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/donald-trumps-lies-are-just-getting-more-blatant-here-are-the-worst/?utm_source=lgbtqnation&utm_medium=directlink&utm_campaign=directlink

[Marty_d]

1 hour ago, red750 said:

You've got to hand it to the Canadians. He wants his name on everything, so they've named a public toilet the Donald Trump Memorial.

They should just swap the first letters - the Tronald Dump.

[Marty_d]

Just when you think he can't get any scummier.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-18/donald-trump-kennedy-center-demolition-plan-photo/107167248

Short story is - he's pissed off that he can't have his name on the Kennedy Center, so now he wants to tear it down.

What a c***.

[facthunter]

Little Brat chucks toys out of Pram. ( For all the world to see. ). You couldn't WRITE this stuff.  Egotistic Greedy,Vain and Vengeful. . Nev

[red750]

I watched a video of an episode of The Romano Report, It went for an hour and contained lots of profanities, but played lots of clips of a Fox interview by Laura Ingraham with Trump in which, amongst other things, he claims "China has lots of magnets. Nobody knows what a magnet is." Total idiot.

[Jerry_Atrick]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8vgy3pq5ywyo

 

There are the first steps of Canada and EU becoming very close by Canada becoming an associate member of the EU. What that means, I am not sure, but Chump's reaction was yet another tantrum. Howver' Carney's speech to the EU was priceless as it basically was the most polite sticking up of two fingers I have seen. go to 3:10 of this video:

 

Of course, Chump came out with threats and basically throwing his toys out of the pram. But, the USA doesn't need Canada nor Europe, so he really shouldn't care. 

 

[old man emu]

I heard that it has been suggested that Australia and New Zealand also become associate members of the EU.  Probably just an idle suggestion floating around in the wake of the offer to Canada.

[Marty_d]

13 minutes ago, old man emu said:

I heard that it has been suggested that Australia and New Zealand also become associate members of the EU.  Probably just an idle suggestion floating around in the wake of the offer to Canada.

We should. At the moment they are the last remaining democracies. Plus, "Aukeur" sounds much more refined than "Aukus"

[facthunter]

There's  a Place called Aukland so just what are Auks? T A Bot called Canada, Canadia. and he is a Rogues  Collar.. AKA "the Mad Monk".  UK just rejected VAD. . Currently there's no such thing as an "Associate Member" of NATO. A lot of this is a flight of fantasy. Idiot Trump is close to declaring WAR on NATO.  Any competition is a threat to The Orange U Tan. He's threatened to cut off  ALL trade.. He's capable of anything and needs to be locked up for the Safety of the World. When is ENOUGH enough?  He's likely to Put the world into another depression.. Like what happened in 1929.  Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

A little thread drift, but an associate member of the EU hasn't been defined,  so knowing the EU it may take a very long time, although the desire to move away from the USA may speed things up a little. 

 

But there will be hurdles. There are three freedoms that are preserved across the EU: movement of capital, movement of goods/services, and movement of people.  Will these have to be included in an associate membership? If so, then your control of immigration from any EU country goes out the window. So, given Australia's very tight grip on immigration compared to other countries, the preservation of this free movement may well be a problem. 

 

The EU will need to think about things very carefully. There sort of is already associate membership - it is the European Economic Area. It allows Iceland, Norway, and Lichtenstein to basically be in the EU without being in the EU, and they are required to comply with most of the obligations of the EU. Yet they don't get to vote on the EU rules they need to comply with. 

 

Switzerland has a similar arrangement through a bilateral agreement. 

 

And of course, after the messy divorce, there is this country called Britain, which tried it's own bilateral deal, but all was offered was Switzerland's deal. 

 

So, the EU has some existing memberships and deals, that if they give special treatment to Canada in this Associate Membership status, might peeve off a couple of these others, and may trigger a whole round of renegotiations of these arrangements. And given the rising anti-EU sentiment within the EU and the rising right, if Canada gets some sort of cushy deal, well, there will be individual countries coming under pressure to leave the EU and join a cushy deal, too. 

 

Outside of a free trade agreement or similar type of bilateral arrangement, I can't see this one being negotiated and agreed upon anytime soon. These are not insurmountable problems, but the political risk for the EU is very much there. 

 

 

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]