Every day waking up to yet another insane declaration from Trump. America is losing the respect of the world

What has he actually said about Gaza? I thought he wanted America to take control and oversee it's rebuilding. People here are talking about him turning it into some kind of Vegas with golf courses etc. Has he actually said that?

This is a real life implosion of the West.
He was voted in. The second of two very obviously unsuited presidents for one reason or another. We do get the presidents we deserve. Welcome to a complete turn around of the worlds superpower. Russia & China are laughing ...

I'm not sure the changes wanted will require US troops

But the home owners who lost their homes in LA still own their land. Anything they rebuild is theirs. Anything Trump builds in Gaza will belong to Trump.

Before the election, Trump couldn't see any possible outcome other than a win for him. So even before he was in office he was talking about amending the constitution so that he could serve a third term. And I absolutely wouldn't bet on him not trying at some point.

Or changing the rules for a US citizen, not necessarily native born, to be President.

This is a very fast paced and terrifying takeover isn't it.

Perhaps this is what the tariff fiasco was smoke-screening.

In 2017, Steve Bannon, advisor to Donald Trump, called it "flood the zone," literally "inundate the zone," overwhelm the opposition, institutions, and the media with an unstoppable torrent of announcements, measures, and decisions.

So many, so relevant, crucial, and often illegal or unconstitutional that touch a nerve, overwhelm, and make a strong or effective response impossible.

When congressmen or senators try to focus on one, three more come down on them. When courts halt one, others arrive. When the media investigate or delve into an appointment, a dismissal, they helplessly watch as the rest pass without obstacles.

Ok. Same thing happens here and you're shipped off to...I don't know...Australia. That ok with you?

And there are already pledges from countries other than America to get in and help them rebuild.

If you think once they're moved out they'll be allowed back in...

Wait for the rules to change, along with term limits.

Fuck. Fuckity fuckity fuck.

That's sinister.

Trump is trying to distract the world from all the moves he is making to initiate the possibility of a 3rd term. Whether he will literally be fit for it of course is debatable, but his megalomaniac brain wants the power and control.

He also wants to distract from his utterly disastrous tarriff war and the mess he made if it. The art of the deal guy negotiated nothing new with Canada and less patrols from Mexico (no matter what the republicans try to say) it illustrated how little he knows. To top it all he 'negotiated' a deal with Panama to allow US ships to use the Panama Canal ...which are too big to pass through the Panama canal. He is an idiot but a very dangerous one.

All that is happening is straight out of Project 2025 a rascist fascist document if ever there was one.

Elon Musk is an unhinged loon who isn't quite as bright according to those who have worked with him and who is as thin skinned as trump himself. For all his talk about free speech he doesn't like it when the free speech is about him.

What the UK has to worry about is that the right wingers and uneducated in the UK ( see the US comparison) just see trump as being strong, fighting for his country and being isolationist. Which is all very well until.there is a disaster and suddenly they need some outside help...see LA fires where Mexican and Canadian firefighters stepped in.

If you listen to enough podcasts and read the comment sections, or listen to callers on LBC there are plenty of people out there who admire the orange nut job. They don't care about womans rights they just see that Starmer isn't what they want, so Farage is the next best thing. Thankfully he has fallen foul of Musk otherwise Elon would be raiding the treasury with his whipping boys.

People whose homes destroyed in LA are can’t return to destroyed homes because it’s not safe. I see parallel with Palestinians… how can a person return to a block of flats that is collapsed? Like asking people to return to Grenfell.
Its common sense to evacuate for large scale redevelopment … America is not paying to rebuild Palestine.

Except he is arguably the most powerful man on the planet. All that is happening in America WILL affect us at some point down the line. Especially considering us British are still, on paper, allies.

The Constitution could be changed though. Anything is possible with the terrible twins.

Maybe he should offer them American citizenship?

Musk was not born in America, so ineligible to be President. (And not a citizen by birth)

They've never had a say in anything though. I can't see that changing anytime soon to be honest.
And they must be beyond mentally and physically shattered now.

Personally I would take my chances with a tent rather than be beholden to Trump. But that's me. I have no idea what I would settle for if I'd just been bombed, chased and hunted for 18 months.

Esp considering he's just signed a hiring freeze and an order for wfh employees to rtw in office even if their wfh arrangement pre-dated Covid. They could lose a lot of employees.

I must have missed that announcement … are the Palestinians getting rid of the Israelis???

I think it’s opening bid, say you are going to invade gaza, (no intention of doing it) scare everyone to the negotiating table.

Canada had already agreed to that in December. We didn’t add anything that wasn’t already set in motion.

Trump literally gained nothing other than inspiring a bunch of Canadians to be more patriotic.

Respectfully, that view is arrogant. I'm not trying to start anything with you, just trying to point out the people deserve a say. They claim that land. They don't want a landlord, nor an American demagogue as a saviour. iykwim

If he wasn’t such a danger to the world I’d say he’s just like the worst attention seeking child you sometimes get in a class. Don’t care what attention they get, how negative it is, as long as they get attention. It’s almost like an addiction with Trump.