OFFICIAL LRC President Donald Trump SECOND TERM Thread

Can you do anything beyond copy+paste?

Did Trump’s wives support him when he raped children and flew on lolita express with his BFF Jeffrey Epstein?

We know Melania did but what about the others?

lol - WSJ

Historians differ about the real origins of World War III. Some think its roots lay in the disastrous U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 2000s, which weakened American authority in the world, emboldened rivals, and sapped domestic support for assertive military projection overseas. Some cite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the first major land offensive in Europe since World War II, breaking an 80-year taboo on armed conflict for territorial advantage. Some argue that the rise of China from the 1990s onward made conflict more or less inevitable, the world falling again into the Thucydides Trap of an emerging power posing an existential threat to the strategic hegemon.

But there’s general agreement about the crucial precipitating factor that led to the third global conflict in a little over a century: the brief and—or so it seemed initially—stunningly successful U.S. victory in the Battle of Greenland in early 2026.

It wasn’t much of a battle, to be sure. President Trump, fresh off his swift and effective intervention in early January to topple and bring to trial in the U.S. Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and his wife (who were later pardoned by President JD Vance and now run a chain of retail cocaine stores based in Palm Beach, Fla.), doubled down on his “Donroe corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine.

He insisted that the U.S. needed to annex Greenland for its own security and that of the wider Western Hemisphere and initially sought to pressure Denmark, the Arctic island’s sovereign authority, to sell it. Deploying his favorite diplomatic tool, import tariffs, Mr. Trump—not unreasonably—expected the Europeans to cave, as they typically did when confronted with the reality that decades of dependency and complacency had left them powerless in the face of strength.

But the Danes, a proud people whose soldiers had fought and died alongside Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, refused. When Mr. Trump ordered U.S. forces to seize the island, Denmark enlisted a handful of nations to help with the resistance—a coalition of the willing, but not very able.

It was never a contest. In addition to Danish and Greenlandic forces armed for winter warfare, the allies included a shipload of British Royal Navy admirals; a Canadian armored detachment handpicked in compliance with the nation’s strict commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion; a German fleet of battery-powered armored fighting vehicles that had to be abandoned when the only charging stations in Nuuk, the territory’s capital, broke down; and a Dutch infantry battalion that was forced to withdraw because of a shortage of ammunition, and discovered that shouting “bang-bang,” as they had been trained, was of little effect in battle.

Humiliated, the Europeans and Canadians retreated but regrouped, committed to do whatever they could to retaliate. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formally dissolved in late 2026. Europe expelled American troops. Deprived of its forward operating bases there, from which vital missions had been conducted across the world over the last 75 years, the U.S. tried to strike deals with Arab governments for bases in those countries. But domestic popular hostility to American military deployment, and continuing tensions over the U.S. alliance with Israel, meant there was to be no Middle Eastern replacement for Ramstein or Lakenheath.

The European Union escalated the economic warfare. It banned all American imports; U.S.-produced technology was regulated to within an inch of its life and eventually blocked completely. Baidu, Tiktok and BYD replaced Google, Instagram and Tesla in European homes and businesses. Military procurement from U.S. defense contractors ended. Only loyal Hungary agreed to take a couple of F-35s—on generous financing terms. The iconic McDonald’s restaurant on the Champs Elysees became an interactive museum of American obesity.

The fallout did almost as much harm to the U.S. as to Europe. The dollar sank, pushing up retail prices in America and causing a run on Treasury bonds that flattened mortgage lending and battered corporate finances. Seizing their opportunity, Russia and China demonstrated the value of allyship and pounced. Russia suspended its campaign in Ukraine and quickly moved on the Baltics. With NATO gone, Europeans were deeply divided about whether to offer support; but as a harsh winter descended, the desperate need for cheap energy soon forced them to assent to Russian control over large swathes of Eastern Europe.

China imposed a blockade on Taiwan. With U.S. warships that once patrolled the strait now deployed chasing drug boats in the Caribbean and mopping up Inuit resistance on Greenland’s coasts, Taipei quickly capitulated. Then, in a devastating move, Beijing ordered the release for open-source access of all of its most sophisticated artificial-intelligence algorithms. The explosion of supply of the technology crushed the U.S. market, cratering the valuations of the big U.S. tech companies, which had been built on their supposed AI dominance.

America’s strategic superiority was constrained by the limitations of the new geopolitical realities, and it had no intention of starting a nuclear war. Instead, along with its remaining three allies—El Salvador, Qatar and Senegal—it struck an uneasy peace, a tripartite charter that replaced the American-denominated global order with a condominium of Russia, China and the U.S. dominant in their respective regions.

The EU seems prepared to adjust their and add Canada as a member. Canada is a lot more like Europe than than U.S. The reason would to be build are stronger alliance for trading with China, Latin American, Africa, India and the other parts of Asia. The U.S. is leaded towards being an isolated leaper country.

Pete Hegseth is an alcoholic moron. Like all of the Trump inner circle, he’d have a heart attack trying to break 8 minutes in the mile

Yes, they are weak.

I won’t dig into any personal attacks, but I do think you’re very incorrect if you think Dimon or any large bank cares whatsoever about what political party is in power.

Correct.

None of that. Ever happened

What do you find strong about our country currently?

This all just goes to show you that you never know about anyone. Family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and colleagues at the VA - they are all totally shocked to find out this nurse who provided care for American veterans during the week, was actually a domestic terrorist on a mission to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement on Saturday mornings.

We are witnessing the American version of Sadam Husseins Iraq

The crazy mad king lives in his opulent luxury and bubble with his two idiot sons Uday and Kusay grifters plunder the country enriching themselves.
Last night the country watched the horror of an innocent person being executed for opposing the regime on the streets while Trump holds a gala movie premiere with Tim Cool and Bezos on the life of Melania. Produced by a movie guy in the Epstein files.

You know Melania right? She is an Epstein paid escort that the movie wants you to believe is a super model that speaks 8 languages and is the new Jackie O.

Sureal times!

Yep Obama sent 5M packing before you guys started defending Somalia. Nobody said a word. If I were you I’d go to the front lines. Put your heart all the way into the pirates or remain a coward.

Thanks for pointing out that Obama was a far more effective leader than Trump.

Thanks for pointing out how unnecessary and ineffective the current ICE actions are.

I’ll also point out that Trump is performing the same arrests in every single major city in this country, and it’s only the Somalian pirates any of you are concerned about. Obviously, Obama was a coward who let them thrive. MAGA will protect Americans whether you like it or not.

Not on farms. No deportations of illegals on farms.

Obviously, trump is a coward who lets them thrive. MAGA refuses to protect Americans.

Frum

“Not everybody who supported Trump and MAGA was a bad person at the start. But MAGA is a jealous god. It demands its supporters descend a path of degeneration to utter moral ruin. Police death squads today; who knows what tomorrow.”

And it's nonsense to say that ICE is treating red and blue areas the same. In red jurisdictions ICE doesn't go out into the community. Partly because of sanctuary city issues, but mostly because ICE is a show of force and a catalyst for trump to end democracy once and for all, starting with the insurrection act and ending with paramilitary death squads and mass political arrests.

Since 2024, ICE activity under the Trump administration has shown a clear geographic and tactical split: in Republican-led states and jurisdictions federal enforcement has leaned on arrests inside detention settings and welcomed deployments, while in Democratic-led cities the agency has emphasized community-based raids, courthouse/worksite arrests and high-profile sweeps that have prompted political pushback and National Guard or federal officer deployments [1] [2] [3]. Public reaction and partisan narratives have intensified around those patterns, producing new state-level efforts to rein in ICE in Democratic jurisdictions and legislative support for enforcement in Republican ones [4] [5].