Trump Presidency Round 2

[NDShark]

Interesting group of idiots you've elected.

 

[ozzman]

Almost as though these people have no idea what they are doing.

They know exactly what they're doing. Everything is transactional to him

 

[ab2cmiller]

I guess most of the gains yesterday was caused by shorts that were being squeezed and scrambled to cover their positions.

 

[BuaConstrictor]

Meanwhile..you have this dumbfuck.

 

[BuaConstrictor]

 

[IrishinSyria]

So everyone recognizes he’s actually just fucking dumb, right?

 

[calvegas04]

Majority of the country doesn't approve

Where Trump's approval rating as president stands in a brand new national poll

Americans' concerns over the economy, and specifically inflation and tariffs, appear to be partially fueling the downward trend of President Donald Trump's approval ratings in a new national poll.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Sea Turtle]

Majority of the country doesn't approve

Where Trump's approval rating as president stands in a brand new national poll

Americans' concerns over the economy, and specifically inflation and tariffs, appear to be partially fueling the downward trend of President Donald Trump's approval ratings in a new national poll.

www.foxnews.com

This is really going to affect his re-election.

 

[BuaConstrictor]

 

[BuaConstrictor]

Meanwhile, Trump is in the Oval Office pointing out his buddies who made billions/hundreds of millions.

Not a peep from the Trump humpers here, though.

 

[BuaConstrictor]

Might be time to see those "concepts of a plan"

 

[GATTACA!]

Absolute lunacy

 

[ulukinatme]

 

[TorontoGold]

So everyone recognizes he’s actually just fucking dumb, right?

They can't/won't admit it. The astute financial experts need more time digesting the results before carefully weighing in.

 

[Bluto]

Trump is so full of shit.

“If you'll remember all that talk about NVIDIA H100 chips, those highly advanced chips, well, it turns out, and this was published in a trade publication, that the Trump administration is likely to drop the export control on NVIDIA's most highly advanced chips to China. Now, how exactly did that come up?

That's a massive reversal in semiconductor and chip policy. It turns out that Jensen Wang, the CEO of NVIDIA, bought one of those $5 million things where he wanted to go and have dinner with Trump. And in his dinner with Trump, he was like, listen, there's no reason to do this.”

From Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 4/10/25: MAGA 'Art Of The Deal' Cope, Mass Bankruptcies From China Tariffs, Immigrant Screening For Israel Criticism, Apr 10, 2025

This material may be protected by copyright.

 

[GATTACA!]

Trump Says He Is Serious About Staying in Office Past 2028

Why do Republicans keep claiming he isn’t?

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Bluto]

LOL What?

This dude has lost his fuckin marbles. Funny/sad seeing all the right wingers go all in with the “coastal elite” conspiracy theory kooks.

Crazy aside, the Kennedy family used to send this dipshit to dry out and get clean where I grew up as a kid.

Anyhow, amazing collection of morons top to bottom.

 

[NDVirginia19]

About time for Humphrey's Executor to get overturned

 

[NDVirginia19]

They can't/won't admit it. The astute financial experts need more time digesting the results before carefully weighing in.

I don't think he's a 4d master chess player that can do no wrong, and I think his economic policy is pretty flawed, but I don't think he is any more stupid than the average politician we have had in my lifetime. I think that he is more boisterous and lacks the humility that other politicians have which exaggerates how stupid he comes off.

 

[Bluto]

I mean constantly degrading your employees and firing support staff can’t be helpful.

Two Planes Just Collided. Trump Team Is Arguing With People About it. — The New Republic

Donald Trump is choosing to pick a fight instead of responding to the accident.

apple.news

 

[GATTACA!]

About time for Humphrey's Executor to get overturned

Trump being able to replace JPow with a MAGA lackey will be the final nail in the US economic coffin.

 

[Bluto]

I don't think he's a 4d master chess player that can do no wrong, and I think his economic policy is pretty flawed, but I don't think he is any more stupid than the average politician we have had in my lifetime. I think that he is more boisterous and lacks the humility that other politicians have which exaggerates how stupid he comes off.

No, he’s legitimately stupid. Do you honestly think given all his failed business ventures and demonstrable lack of business acumen that he would be a person of any consequence if he did not inherit a shit ton of money?

 

[NDVirginia19]

Trump being able to replace JPow with a MAGA lackey will be the final nail in the US economic coffin.

I definitely sympathize with this point. But I still think independent regulatory agencies are unconstitutional without an amendment allowing their creation. With a healthy political climate, we normally would be able to trust the Senate to use their authority of advice and consent to reject the My Pillow guy from running the FTC, but I understand that the level of sycophancy would challenge that. I think the margins are thankfully slim enough now that we wouldn't have to worry about that, but who knows.

 

[NDVirginia19]

No, he’s legitimately stupid. Do you honestly think given all his failed business ventures and demonstrable lack of business acumen that he would be a person of any consequence if he did not inherit a shit ton of money?

There have been better businessmen, there have been worse businessmen.

 

[Bluto]

There have been better businessmen, there have been worse businessmen.

He ran every single company he ever owned/managed into the ground and corrupt as hell.

If a bunch of shady foreign money hadn’t been funneled into his companies in the early 2000’s he’d be living in a tent.

 

[NDVirginia19]

He ran every single company he ever owned/managed into the ground.

Not really. The core of his real estate business - his hotels, golf courses, office buildings, etc. - were all generally still pretty profitable. As was the Apprentice and his Trump licensing.

 

[Bluto]

Not really. The core of his real estate business - his hotels, golf courses, office buildings, etc. - were all generally still pretty profitable. As was the Apprentice and his Trump licensing.

See my edit above. Also, below. The Frontline piece delves into this as well. His bailout had nothing to do with his business acumen.

How Russian Money Helped Save Trump’s Business

After his financial disasters two decades ago, no U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in.

foreignpolicy.com

Watch: Inside the Bailout that Saved a Collapsing Trump Organization | FRONTLINE

In the wake of revelations about Donald Trump's 1995 tax return, take a close look at when bankers bailed out a collapsing Trump Organization in the early 1990s.

www.pbs.org

 

[GATTACA!]

I still think independent regulatory agencies are unconstitutional

Frankly I don't give a shit. With the extent of our current political polarization no President needs that power, especially Trump of all people.

If he replaces Powell with some MAGAT idiot that agrees to slash rates to 1% in order to get the position he's going to do damage that is unrecoverable.

 

[TorontoGold]

I don't think he's a 4d master chess player that can do no wrong, and I think his economic policy is pretty flawed, but I don't think he is any more stupid than the average politician we have had in my lifetime. I think that he is more boisterous and lacks the humility that other politicians have which exaggerates how stupid he comes off.

His private life pre-presidency is enough evidence to know he's not a smart person. His recent economic embarrassment is pretty much the nail in the coffin of him being objectively an idiot. He destroyed international confidence in his ability to have sound economic policy. We're not even talking about culture war stuff, the main black and white measure of success being - economic policy is a resounding embarrassment. You'll be hard pressed to find a president who has embarrassed themselves this publicly and unanimously. I have clients that are listed in London/HK and they are all pretty conservative and they're shocked at the lack of foresight.

 

[IrishLax]