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]

[red750]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/867171179237501

[red750]

Like so many videos have been saying, this nutter thinks he is so powerful he can do anything he wants to. Now he thinks he can ban fishing.

 

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news/donald-trump-sparks-outrage-after-37680578?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1789829784

 

 

 

 

 

[old man emu]

Trump makes Idi Amin look like a Nobel Lauriate.

[red750]

The movement is getting stronger.

 

[facthunter]

ChatGP will find you. Nev

[red750]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1620256652487442

[red750]

Here's Nev's favourite - Mary Trump.

 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1707138740592324

[red750]

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DaVvBWYvT/

[old man emu]

This is a double-barreled post as it could go here or in the AI thread, but Trump has declared that  reported concerns about uncontrolled AI are fake news. Call me cynical, but that makes me wonder how much the Trump Organisation (the private family business) has got invested in AI companies. Also, he has indicated that mastery of AI is a race between the USA and China. It seems that AI has become the 21st Century's Arms Race, with the common people being the victims.

[old man emu]

On another topic, Trump has banned certain media organisations from attending the White House. Those organisation are, of course, taking the ban to Court on the basis of their being contrary to the First Amendment, which creates prohibitions on Congress making laws in three areas.

 

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

 

I wonder how these legal actions will go. While one could reasonably argue that the ban vio;ates teh First Amendment, Trump could quite easily counter by saying that the grounds of the White House are restricted areas for security reasons and that entry entry thereto by any person depends on that person gaining the appropriate security clearance. And we know that the grounds for deny the clearance in Trump's world are pretty flimsy.

 

[nomadpete]

29 minutes ago, old man emu said:

On another topic, Trump has banned certain media organisations from attending the White House. Those organisation are, of course, taking the ban to Court on the basis of their being contrary to the First Amendment, which creates prohibitions on Congress making laws in three areas.

 

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

 

I wonder how these legal actions will go. While one could reasonably argue that the ban vio;ates teh First Amendment, Trump could quite easily counter by saying that the grounds of the White House are restricted areas for security reasons and that entry entry thereto by any person depends on that person gaining the appropriate security clearance. And we know that the grounds for deny the clearance in Trump's world are pretty flimsy.

 

It's just another distraction from the witheld Epstein files... and the Iran war.... and the price of diesel.... and....

[nomadpete]

I see That in protest, the 'approved' news outlets have taken a day off from covering whitehouse news - even Fox!

 

[nomadpete]

A famous man once said...

 

"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech." ―( Idi Amin)

[rgmwa]

2 hours ago, old man emu said:

Call me cynical, but that makes me wonder how much the Trump Organisation (the private family business) has got invested in AI companies.

Trump and his sons are heavily invested in AI indirectly through shareholdings and directly through personal involvement in AI and AI related companies.