President Trump 2.0

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Sometimes they do.

If you thought your property would be under threat, by your actions, you may decide to act differently.

It’s called a deterrent.


Your attitude is very naive.

How is getting revenge a detersnt exactly?

Naive, I don't think so! I'd report to the police get security etc.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

So what you're saying is that because the Palestinians thought their property was under threat from appropriation by Trump, it was acceptable for them to deface Trump's property in Scotland to act as a deterrent to him?

I'm sure the Scots would laud anyone who defaced Trumps unwelcomed property.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Naive, I don't think so! I'd report to the police get security etc.

Yes, ‘cos they’ve proven to be really effective in these situations.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by pip08456

I'm sure the Scots would laud anyone who defaced Trumps unwelcomed property.

They probably view it as a Russian asset

https://www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2...very%20quickly.

REMARKS BY PRESIDENT TRUMP BEFORE CABINET MEETING

The White House February 26, 2025…


…THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Great job.

In just over one month, illegal border crossings have plummeted by numbers that nobody has actually ever seen before. It’s much more than 100 percent.

[Stephen]

Numbers have never been his strong point.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Numbers have never been his strong point.

or the truth

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

They probably view it as a Russian asset

Wonder if it will get frozen like other Russian assets?

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Wonder if it will get frozen like other Russian assets?

He's likely to unfreeze Russian assets, now he's shown his true allegiance.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

or the truth

much more than 100%

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-job-...135033689.html

DOGE job cuts bring pain to Trump heartland

PARKERSBURG, West Virginia (Reuters) -Jennifer Piggott proudly hung a red-and-blue Trump campaign flag outside her one-story home during the November election race. Now, after she was abruptly fired from her civil service job, her days of supporting the president are over.

Piggott is among more than 125 people dismissed in February from the Treasury Department's Bureau of Fiscal Service in Parkersburg, West Virginia, unsettling a community that voted overwhelmingly for Republican President Donald Trump.

"Nobody that I've talked to understood the devastation that having this administration in office would do to our lives," Piggott, 47, told Reuters in an interview, saying she would not have supported Trump if she knew then what she knows now.

"As much as I think that President Trump is doing wonderful things for the country in some regards, I don't understand this at all," she said.

Piggott worked at BFS for five years and had recently been promoted. That promotion made her a target as the Trump administration began firing thousands of probationary federal workers - a group that includes new hires but also existing workers moving from one internal position to another...

… In interviews with three dozen workers, business owners and politicians in Parkersburg, which sits at the convergence of two rivers including the mighty Ohio, nearly all said Trump's focus on cutting government spending was a worthy goal. But most said they knew BFS employees to be hard-working and didn't see them as the right target if the aim was to eliminate waste.

Scot Heckert, a Republican who represents parts of Parkersburg in the West Virginia state legislature, said he was worried that layoffs at BFS, which employs about 2,200 workers in Parkersburg, would "devastate" the local economy because the workers earned higher-than-average salaries, and because of the looming prospect of another round of cuts.

He said his daughter-in-law was among those fired and that he was seeking more information on why so many jobs were eliminated in a seemingly indiscriminate manner before he would commit to backing Trump in the future…

… Roger Conley is a Trump supporter who left the Republican Party last year because he thought it was too liberal. In a Facebook post before BFS workers were cut, Conley said DOGE was acting like any successful business in boosting efficiency and wondered why anyone would question its moves to lower costs.

Then his son lost his job at BFS, according to union members.

In a February 20 Facebook post, Conley said while he still backed Trump, he questioned the need to fire so many people so quickly and whether Musk was the right person to lead the effort…

… One veteran caught up in the BFS layoffs was Chauncy James, who was promoted twice during his 18 months at BFS, the second time to building maintenance.

James, 42, said he too worries about making his mortgage payment and feeding his five children. At last week's rally he marched with a sign criticizing Musk and said he regretted voting for Trump.

"They are pretty much just coming here, chopping heads off, without really doing their homework," James said. "He got elected president and he's doing a lot of things that people never even imagined that he was going to do to us."

[1andrew1]

Reassuring to see that The Times understands where Trump is coming from.


https://www.thetimes.com/comment/car...2025-6pjdzrrpl

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

much more than 100%

Perhaps people are so fed up of Trump now they are crossing into Mexico.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Pierre

There’s so much wrong in that statement, intentionally so, I can only assume. That I invite you to explain it, in the context of and referring to the applicable parts of my posts that are relevant to your answer, by quote and answer.

I’ll wait…..it’s also late so you’ve got all Monday to respond.

Not a hard task so happy to oblige.

Originally Posted by Pierre

If you thought your property would be under threat

The Palestinians and their supporters have a right to think this as Trump as Trump has suggested that the Palestinians in Gaza relinquish their territory and relocate to other countries. And that he redevelops the territory.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-gaz...fbb22b0bcf47ba

Originally Posted by Pierre

by your actions, you may decide to act differently.

It’s called a deterrent.

So by defacing Trump's property in Scotland, it may act as a deterrent to his Gaza redevelopment plan being carried out, however unrealistic such a plan was (like many of his plans though eg Canada, Greenland, the Wall...)

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Originally Posted by Paul

Perhaps people are so fed up of Trump now they are crossing into Mexico.

They're certainly moving to the UK and Ireland!

Americans apply for UK citizenship in record numbers

Donald Trump’s election and British tax changes believed to be behind 40% rise in applications

The number of Americans applying for UK citizenship rose to the highest on record last year, with Donald Trump’s return to power and UK tax changes contributing to a surge in applications by US citizens in Britain.

Over 6,100 US citizens applied last year, the most since records began two decades ago and 26 per cent more than in 2023. Overall applications for UK citizenships were up 6 per cent to 251,000, another record.

Applications by US citizens surged in the last quarter of 2024 in particular, rising 40 per cent year on year to about 1,700, according to data published by the Home Office.

Immigration lawyers said Trump’s presidential re-election bid and victory in early November helped drive the increase, along with UK tax changes encouraging Americans to secure British passports before they exit.

Elena Hinchin, partner at law firm Farrer & Co, said the US political landscape was “a very serious driver” of increased interest in UK residency.

“We’ve definitely seen more interest in citizenship from the US since the lead-up to the election campaign,” she said. “There’s much more interest than under the previous Trump administration.”..

There has also been an increase in Americans seeking citizenship in Ireland, with data revealing a 46 per cent rise in applications last year from people in North America with Irish ancestry.

https://www.ft.com/content/e20a2ea0-...7-05030f4a4c93

[Russ]

I wonder if Reform will be campaigning to send the message that "the Yanks aren't welcome here, we're too full"?