Trump speech at DAVOS

He’s just an absolute prick. Rambling, offensive, incoherent, talking absolute unmitigated bollocks. It’s mystifying that people actually voted this prize tool into office. We really need to tell him where to go in no uncertain terms, and just deal with the consequences. I completely agree with Gavin Newsome - appeasement just doesn’t work.

Trump has now withdrawn the tariffs on EU.

Some bullshit about a productive meeting with Mark Rutte forming the basis of a future deal re Greenland and the wider Arctic region. Rubio, Vance and Witkoff on the US side of negotiations.

I don't know what the basis of the negotiations are, and I doubt anyone else does either. Spooked are they now with the response of the EU and NATO I wonder? Or is Greenland up for grabs for the right price. Who knows.

The Flip Flop is off his trolley again.

Oh yes Iraq apologies. It was Iraq I was thinking of re the WMDs with Bush. But yes Afghanistan too.

I'm sorry the horrors of war have woven themselves through your friends and family :-(

Every time someone says this I wonder what Putin could have on him that is worse than the stuff we already know about.

His supporters would just claim it was AI-generated anyway.

What statistics, from where show that a disproportionate number of killers are autistic? Autistic people are more likely to be a victim of crime, than a criminal.

@Shmoigel look up were the Kool-aid saying came from. It very much has racist connotations.

It's said that Queen Camila has bladder issues, now Trump has bowel issues, it's the new insult. Unless for those gleefully quoting it, it means a physical disability equals a moral failing, or not being as mentally capable as someone without a physical disability, it's beyond pathetic.

Our nations will not come together again or not at least not in the foreseeable future.

USA can put as many troops and radar stations in Greenland as you like, you could even have sovereign territory to have a base on... subject to negotiation but oh no, you had to go and threaten attacking a friendly nation, a fellow NATO member... then put trade tariffs on us.... you behave like a Xi or Putin.

(By You, i mean the USA)

Btw European troops were dying on your behalf long after 2001, waste of fucking time and life, some "friend" you lot turned out to be.

your husband and millions of others.

Google Krasnov.

My husband was deployed on 4 tours of Afghanistan (not to mention the times he spent in Iraq). He, in fact we all, still live with the scars. He was lucky to come home alive. Many close friends and colleagues didn't. Still more lost their lives years later, unable to cope. It was utterly devastating and should serve as a warning.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lost-in-trumpslation-an-interview-with-berengere-viennot/

Farage the ‘man of the people’ is a mega grifter who would sell the UK out first chance he got. He received almost £600k in one year from Russia Today. One of his MPs was jailed last month for 10 years for Russian corruption with barely a peep from the press.

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/06/11/nigel-farage-and-an-extraordinary-lack-of-curiosity-from-uk-government-and-intelligence-services-over-possible-russian-interference-in-brexit/

I've heard lots of Americans say that we need to support whoever their president is because of what happened 80 years ago. I used to be on a US-based knitting message board and it was a frequently-made point. I always make the same point about Putin.

Not all autistic people are full of empathy, a disproportionate number of killers are autistic (likely because it overlaps with MH issues). Look at Jonty Bravery.

I think Trump is autistic. I heard somewhere he eats the same meal every single day and has other stringent routines. It all fits IMO

Well, technically it's a trilingual canton but yes German is the majority language in that part of Switzerland. I bet the locals in the audience and staff working there were choking with laughter at that.

@Goddessoftheearth- No and I've never said any such thing in any of my posts.

Hitler was famed for this too.

But I do speak German and a little Japanese. SO CONFUSED RIGHT NOW.

Do you honestly believe that the US should take Iceland - sorry Greenland - by force?

As the parent of a kid with autism, and as someone with a lot of autism in the extended family...

No
NO
NO

By the way, people with autism might sometimes come across as 'weird' to the neurotypical, but in general - even though they might not be able to convey it - they tend to be extremely empathetic and concerned about fairness to all, and particularly to the downtrodden and disadvantaged.

Basically the exact opposite of Trump.

Can’t believe this is how tens of millions of Americans wish to be represented on the world stage. America is humiliated and a danger to the rest of the world.

Hopefully his doctors are lying to him about his decline and he thinks he has ages left otherwise I’m certain he’d push the red button and take us all out with him in a fit of jealousy that the world will move on without him.

When he’s gone there needs to be a forensic level clean out of his regime with hazmat suits and disinfectant.

I think that poster needs to have clarified because people aren't getting the joke.

That was literally a line from his 'speech'. Said to a roomful of people in Switzerland, mind you.

He managed to call out the cheap debt housing bubble though, I used to say I would vote for any UK politician that stood up and called out the property Ponzi based on cheap debt for the nonsense it is, none of them did it of course because that is (or was) a "third rail topic", the President of the U.S just did it, and in front of an audience at Davos of all places! AND he is telling bankers they will only be able to charge 10% on credit cards! That will likely get passed onto mortgages? Surely people now realise that the cheap debt property party that has ruined UK society is now well and truly over?

Maybe an agent, but not a witting one. More witless.

There has long been many a rumour that Putin has stuff on him. Now what stuff could that be? Considering the sort of man he is...

I don't have to support Trump because we were on the same side as the USA any more than I have to support Putin because we were on the same side as the USSR

So he just wants a bit of icy land? Just a thought - does he know about Alaska? Could someone fly him there, let him stick a flag in the ice, and tell him it's his now 🤷‍♀️

(He did say that he couldn't risk Russia taking Greenland because it's too close to the US, which does suggest that he has not in fact heard of Alaska)

@Shmoigel That's a good one. I'm sure everyone at home is standing to clap 👏 👏 👏