Trump Dishes Out Another Avalanche of Tariffs.

Chocolatelovinggran

angie121, sadly the POTUS has a conviction for sexual assault and many women and girls have filed accusations of rape against him- one aged thirteen at the time.

Ah, but Trump’s abuse of women is absolutely fine because he didn’t claim he was a woman while he was doing it…

angie121, sadly the POTUS has a conviction for sexual assault and many women and girls have filed accusations of rape against him- one aged thirteen at the time.

mrsmeldrew

I don't think Trump will be POTUS long. His speech is rambling, doesn't make sense, goes off on tangents. He clearly has some kind of dementia.

He has always spoken like that I think?

angry

I don't think Trump will be POTUS long. His speech is rambling, doesn't make sense, goes off on tangents. He clearly has some kind of dementia.

Is the above comment to me or to another poster?

Oreo

Granatlast007

Oreo

ayse

He will continue to take plenty of no notice to anyone. He is a dictator

Shall we stick to the facts, he isn’t a dictator, he was voted in as President in a democratic country.
He may wish to be one but that’s another matter.

I think flinging around the term democratic country has become more and more meaningless as one actually looks at the numbers and considers corruption via the internet and foreign powers.

'... in a closely divided country, modest shifts have meant that control of the presidency has swung back and forth between Republicans and Democrats. Joe Biden won the 2020 election by 4.4 percentage points. Four years later, Donald Trump won by 1.5 points.'

www.pewresearch.org/politics/feature/how-changes-in-turnout-and-vote-choice-powered-trumps-victory-in-2024/

...Trump cannot say that he won the outright majority of the presidential votes that were cast in the election overall.
To do so, he would need to have won more than 50%, as all victors have done for the last 20 years - other than Trump in 2016.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5w9w160xdo

Also see www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/2024-presidential-election-voting-registration-tables.html

flinging?
The US isa democracy just as we are here. What you say is nonsensical.
It swings back and forth between two political parties just as it mainly does here.
We are a FPTP voting system here but you wouldn’t say we don’t live in a democracy.

Currently we are just about living in a representative parliamentary democracy. You may have noticed that Trump appointed new judges last time he was in office and they have been supporting him in his activities. The state of Texas has been asked to realign its constituencies to minimise the effect of voting for the democrats (Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from America). It’s called gerrymandering!

The FPTP system allows government by the party that has the most votes in that constituency. The chances are they did not get an outright majority in that constituency so many voters are unrepresented. This is why a well devised PR system would give more people more representation. It’s not perfect but parties would need to work together to get things done. It generally works quite well in Europe and New Zealand but sometimes falls apart rather like our parties that have internal divisions. The last Tory government for example.

Perhaps you would like to comment on how exactly this government is Marxist. In my understanding it is Social Democratic Party, rather centrist!

You may prefer a different voting system Granatlast007 but that doesn’t change the fact that the US is a democracy.

Granatlast007

Oreo

ayse

He will continue to take plenty of no notice to anyone. He is a dictator

Shall we stick to the facts, he isn’t a dictator, he was voted in as President in a democratic country.
He may wish to be one but that’s another matter.

I think flinging around the term democratic country has become more and more meaningless as one actually looks at the numbers and considers corruption via the internet and foreign powers.

'... in a closely divided country, modest shifts have meant that control of the presidency has swung back and forth between Republicans and Democrats. Joe Biden won the 2020 election by 4.4 percentage points. Four years later, Donald Trump won by 1.5 points.'

www.pewresearch.org/politics/feature/how-changes-in-turnout-and-vote-choice-powered-trumps-victory-in-2024/

...Trump cannot say that he won the outright majority of the presidential votes that were cast in the election overall.
To do so, he would need to have won more than 50%, as all victors have done for the last 20 years - other than Trump in 2016.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5w9w160xdo

Also see www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/2024-presidential-election-voting-registration-tables.html

flinging?
The US isa democracy just as we are here. What you say is nonsensical.
It swings back and forth between two political parties just as it mainly does here.
We are a FPTP voting system here but you wouldn’t say we don’t live in a democracy.

So the trans issue is the most important issue facing America in the way that immigration is the most important one in the UK? I’d like to bet that, when Trump imposes these tariffs, people in the know probably make a killing on the stock market .

Good to hear from an American perspective angie121.
It reminds me of why Trump won.

Chocolatelovinggran

He's busy with sleight of hand to distract all those asking
" Show us the Epstein files"

I agree. He is doing everything possible to distract from those incriminating files.

Oreo

ayse

He will continue to take plenty of no notice to anyone. He is a dictator

Shall we stick to the facts, he isn’t a dictator, he was voted in as President in a democratic country.
He may wish to be one but that’s another matter.

I think flinging around the term democratic country has become more and more meaningless as one actually looks at the numbers and considers corruption via the internet and foreign powers.

'... in a closely divided country, modest shifts have meant that control of the presidency has swung back and forth between Republicans and Democrats. Joe Biden won the 2020 election by 4.4 percentage points. Four years later, Donald Trump won by 1.5 points.'

www.pewresearch.org/politics/feature/how-changes-in-turnout-and-vote-choice-powered-trumps-victory-in-2024/

...Trump cannot say that he won the outright majority of the presidential votes that were cast in the election overall.
To do so, he would need to have won more than 50%, as all victors have done for the last 20 years - other than Trump in 2016.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5w9w160xdo

Also see www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/2024-presidential-election-voting-registration-tables.html

do you know what scares me? the times before trump got in when our kids wernt safe when women and girls were having our sports medals stolen by men when fully grown men with beards just had to say "im a woman today" then go into our private spaces/bathrooms and SA little girls 9happened often) when women in prison were getting graped by men who decided they would call themselves women and go into female prisons and grape the women /9some of whom became pregnant0 i think that ANYONE who subscribes to any of that and supports it is nothing more than an evil weirdo god bless president trump! im half blk by the way

Somebody is ill informed Jeannied. The EU is the UK's largest trading partner, accounting for over 50% of UK foreign trade.

You are so ill informed

Dependant on goods from Europe? Such as.......

Dictator? Don't make me laugh. The vile Marxist government we have in the UK are dictators.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Tariffs imposed against the EU generated tight smiles from Ursula vd Leyen and her team looking at photographs taken afterwards. They had until 1st August to negotiate a deal. Usually the EU drive the hard bargain. Not this time. Reports say they’ve had some of their own medicine back. They approached Japan for tips how best to go about things too.

You understand this deal is likely to increase prices in the UK, I’m sure, there is nothing for us to be gleeful about - quite the opposite, given we are dependent on goods from Europe.

Oreo

You don’t like him much then madeleine45 ? 😁

Well spotted 😂

Tariffs imposed against the EU generated tight smiles from Ursula vd Leyen and her team looking at photographs taken afterwards. They had until 1st August to negotiate a deal. Usually the EU drive the hard bargain. Not this time. Reports say they’ve had some of their own medicine back. They approached Japan for tips how best to go about things too.

Casdon

Oh good grief. I wouldn’t even buy a calendar of David Beckham with his kit off, never mind somebody ugly. The only thing I would say, is that one of Donald Trump in similar poses would be even more grotesque.

I think you may be right😂
I will have to look into a calendar for Trump, see if one exists, just out of curiosity.
I know the Putin one does, or certainly did a few years ago.

You don’t like him much then madeleine45 ? 😁

I hadnt realized of course his name is D Trump. so that should really read Dictator Donald duck Trump. Obviously I had forgotten that. What a moronic idiot he is, and for the idiots who voted him in, giving him the chance to behave like a 2 year old who wont play with you unless he is boss , or will take his ball away if he isnt the centre of attention. Well let him carry on as he is doing and with a bit of luck we shall end up bonded together by our dislike and distain of this idiot.

I have lived under dictators, He is worse than them. Under a dictator if he decides that women must walk on the right on monday and left on tuesday, you consider if you can live with this and make your mind up whether to live there or not. Now this lunatic with power ,that he uses to his own benefit, not his countries is supposedly in charge!!! He changes his mind with the breeze. No one has any idea what the fool will do tomorrow. Who wants to be told what to do by a lying, selfcentred moron, who is racist, treats women appallingly , and cares not a jot for anyone other than himself. He does not do what is best for his country but what suits him personally. Thank god I dont have to live under such lunacy. The thought that he might have his hand on the button, is quite chilling. Of course he actually thinks he has the right to annexe sovereign lands such as Greenland, without so much as a by your leave. I was actually in Greenland when he announced this and I can tell you that the greenlanders were both furious and determined that he should not get his way. Wonder what relation to Hitler he is? Obviously there must be some americans who have a brain, but we dont seem to learn about them , just the latest that the lunatic is getting away with.

I feel sorry for Starmer and the King and all who have to face this disgraceful pathetic human being, they certainly are earning their money to have to face him, without actually vomiting on the spot.!! Well let him carry on as he is doing and with a bit of luck , there will be not one country or person with integrity who will support him. In the meantime Canada is doing well for tourists as those who cannot trust or stomach USA are much preferring to go there where they are treated with respect and you can visit without feeling you have no idea what the fool will do tomorrow!!

Oh good grief. I wouldn’t even buy a calendar of David Beckham with his kit off, never mind somebody ugly. The only thing I would say, is that one of Donald Trump in similar poses would be even more grotesque.