Trump speech at DAVOS

Bollocks. Where were they in 1939 and 1940?

Now that the Haitians seem to have stopped eating the cats and dogs, I'm sure his supporters have welcomed a new target 🙄

I have to say that I find him entertaining too, doesn't mean I would want him to lead my country though.

I can't believe what he comes out with and how he talks to people and I watch him to see what complete drivel he comes out with next and then watch his audience try and keep the looks of disbelief off their faces and zip their mouths shut as they have manners...unlike some!

The Pre-school section surely?

I mean, with Biden they just decided to have him run in the next election.

Lol 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

Yes, it's terrifying. I'd guess the percentage of people in the US with any awareness or understanding of that is under 20.

😂

Would ‘Elderly Parents’ be better? Or ‘Teenagers’

The one thing that seems to never rate a mention is that one of the very first actions of this fascist kleptocracy was to harvest data under the guise of 'cost cutting'. When you wrap your mind around just how much knowledge and information is now held by this maniac, it goes a way to explaining some of the inaction.
The fact that the republicans are still lining up behind him also conveys the fact that they don't seem to fear any backlash from their constituents. Why is that?
What a shitshow. Who are we going to have to get into bed with to quash this? Because the world needs to be able to cut him loose

😃 Take a bow, Fabulous.👏

He seems to be completely mad - though has always been a horrible, narcissistic bully.

Why are there so many awful people running the world

He keeps it hidden down the back of the sofa.

Everything he said at Davos today and at his press briefing yesterday on the first year in office was either complete nonsense or a lie. He sounds either drugged or ill as very low energy for him both yesterday and today.

Several comments left me gobsmacked though. Standing in Switzerland, a German speaking nation he says You would all be speaking German if it weren't for the US as we won the war and got no thanks for it.

He pulled back on the tariffs and military action and the threat to take Greenland by force though but only because:
Bad polling showed virtually no US citizens agreed with invading Greenland
Overseas governments and investors selling off US bonds meaning a volatile bond market yesterday
The military saying they would not invade Greenland without Congressional approval.
There is some debate about whether these tariffs are even legal.

I think the EU leaders and Mark Carney did well to stand up to him but I am sure this won't be the last we see of his nonsense.

Really? In AIBU? That's the best place you can think of for this?

He was literally waffling on about anything and everything, jumping from one thing to another and then back again. Looked like he was about to fall asleep at any given moment and then he had the balls to keep referring to Joe Biden and sleepy joe Biden 😆 looked like he was also holding himself up with the podium. My son said he was a better comedian than president

J D Vance has a cock? And one big enough to make a dent in a bowl of porridge? I'm sceptical.

Sadly, yes. Several of my friends USA support him. I can't get my head round that. They are intelligent people and yet.....
Een if all the leaders of the world came together to strong arm him out, he would start a war and that's what they're holding off from causing. The prob is he could just start a war anyway....

I listened on the car radio, thought it was some bad r4 play. Then realised and the full horror unfolded.. fucking nuts!

It depends what you spend money on.
The things that would have made a really big difference for Europe in the 2020s were:

1. An independent nuclear deterrence (only France has that)
2. A standing army
3. A seperate European/EU defensive alliance

America was opposed to all those things. The big elephant in the room re "standing up to Russia" and American presence in Europe is nuclear weapons and the nuclear deterrence. For pragmatic reasons (America needs allies under it's nuclear umbrella for it's own strategic defense) and humane ones (the less nuclear weapons the better) America would always have lobbied against its European allies getting weapons. It was Putin's ability to threaten nuclear war if he "lost" in Ukraine which led to so much restraint in how Ukraine's allies responded/are responding. Not to mention Ukraine had weapons once which they have up in exchange for a security guarantee from guess who...

What America meant, even under Biden, when it lobbied the EU to spend more on defense was that it wanted them to spend more on American made defense systems so we could use them in the next set of wars America asked us to join. Which is logical from Americas perspective. But a really hard sell to European electorates for good reason. I agree the EU does need to spend more on defense but it would be completely pointless to tie themselves into American made weapons anyway. It needs to be spending on things Europe needs for its own defense.

It's odd to think that Greenland is one of the oldest landmasses in the world, whilst it's neighbour, Iceland, is one of the newest.

Apparently the strategy is just to outright lie, which I think makes it worse.

https://x.com/PressSec/status/2014020416860573726

Lying suggests that there is a problem.

In my opinion, listening to today's speech, it sounded to me that he has a very complex disorder. I remember when Biden was losing it. I wonder if there are people behind the scenes now wondering what on earth to do because it might get worse.

People often wonder why nothing stopped Hitler getting to where he did. How could no one in his immediate circle, or outer circle for that matter, see the utter lunacy (and pure evil) in what he was doing. And if they did, WHY didn’t they act?

The entire world can see this utter toddler-president taking a wrecking ball to everything around him, throwing his toys out the pram and tantruming at every opportunity, insulting his allies and chumming up to dictators, and basically talking bombastic shit about everything and that block of ice (Iceland/Greenland) and everything else … and we can’t do a thing about it.

Yes - I feel like Putin has something on Trump too. Trump is delivering on the key Russian foreign policy objective of the last 50 years - to fracture NATO.