Trump's Second Term

People voted for Trump because they were told (and believed) he would run government like a business; and, as a result, have saddled us all with a guy who runs it like it's a TV reality show. Who else would televise a cabinet meeting but someone who's more concerned with what makes great TV than with what makes good government?
 
Armitage72 said:
Obviously, whoever is reporting the national debt is deliberately reporting incorrect numbers and needs to be replaced. Just like every person who reports statistics that disagree with Trump's proclamations.
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It's funny until it isn't. If Trump starts to sack people reporting accurate economic data and replaces them with cultists reporting glossy lies instead, the markets are not going to buy that ◊◊◊◊. If you literally can't trust economic data the US publishes, the balloon will pop. The money will immediately start to flee elsewhere.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
It's funny until it isn't. If Trump starts to sack people reporting accurate economic data and replaces them with cultists reporting glossy lies instead, the markets are not going to buy that ◊◊◊◊. If you literally can't trust economic data the US publishes, the balloon will pop. The money will immediately start to flee elsewhere.
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You say that, but corporations seem happy to roll over completely for Trump. Whether it's a university changing its DEI policies, a communications company cancelling a show and completely ignoring facts inconvenient to the regime, Intel allowing itself to be part-nationalised or the shakedowns of the legal firms, they seem happy to comply

Corporations will operate based on the new, revised, more accurate, economic data if that's the price for having a share of the lucrative US market.

If the Trump administration demands a 10% stake in any corporation which wants to operate in the US market then many will comply, it's good business, and they don't care whether that stake goes to the country, the administration or the President personally.

Until it became illegal and/or unseemly to do so, British companies regularly paid bribes, allowed shared ownership and engaged in all sorts of shenanigans in the developing world. It looks like that's the economic environment that's developing in the US and they'd best be prepared.
 
MAGA voters were some 30-40 million. They have issues. We are all ripping THEM off. But can they be so stupid as to believe the flattery session disguised as a cabinet meeting? Trump likes to believe it. It makes him happy for a few seconds. But a good number of MAGA are not quite as stupid as Trump.
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Having watched the latest cabinet meeting, I’m convinced we’re living in The Twilight Zone. I mean that literally. It was no different than the episode “It’s a Good Life” in which desperate adults must appease a spoiled child with godlike powers who is holding them hostage. The constant flattery and ego-stroking, the absurd praise and manic servility would be funny if it wasn’t so terrifying. It’s the kind of stuff you see in North Korea. An assembly of toads dancing for a fat orange viper.
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It seems he's gonna try everything.

President Donald Trump has called for billionaire George Soros and his son to face federal racketeering charges over their support of "violent protests."

"George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday morning.
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