| ▲ | watutalkinbout 4 hours ago |
| You still think any of his moves are driven by 'what's good for the US'? I think it's motivated entirely by schemes to stuff his pockets with money. |
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| ▲ | rapnie 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| He's just running a kleptocracy, and doing so reasonably well. |
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| ▲ | rjzzleep 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | People still happily buy his tokens though, and then blame China for getting scammed. | | | |
| ▲ | trueno 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | indeed. i'm sure he's surrounded by some lumber moguls stateside that are going to get very rich from this. very russia coded. i don't doubt deregulation on clearcutting as well as removing land ownership and no logging in national forests & protected lands.... are around the corner with this admin. feel like they attempted that during his last term with attempting to disgrace park rangers over wildfires and saying they didn't rake the leaves on the ground or whatever. | | |
| ▲ | TehCorwiz 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They already started by shrinking national monuments. https://www.npr.org/2026/07/14/nx-s1-5893397/trump-again-shr... EDIT: Adding a TL:DR, this article explains how the Trump admin reduced the size of two national monuments by 90% and 91% respectively. This is just one example, there are more and most of them are out west in lands untouched for nearly a century. Saved for posterity because once they're gone, they're gone. | |
| ▲ | ETH_start 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is extremely partisan language, it shouldn't be on Hacker News | | |
| ▲ | xphos an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I think the clamoring of the aesthetic of impartiality is destroying interesting discussion. The president is currently lining his pockets with tax payer dollars and being an overall bumbling buffoon. It is not partisan when the would view the US as weaker, less intelligent, and less reliable. Its consequences of inaction and bad policy of the current administration | |
| ▲ | forestrywat 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | My friend, sometimes the truth is partisan. And in those cases it absolutely belongs on HN. | |
| ▲ | cammikebrown 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Oh no! Not the implosion of democracy in real time! | |
| ▲ | FpUser 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You should try programming language X vs language Y, cloud vs on-prem, Framework A vs Framework B, OOP vs Composition etc., etc. HN is as partisan as it gets. |
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| ▲ | pkulak an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| He's already got more money than he can spend. As dementia sets in, he's been shifting more and more to pure emotion-based decision making. |
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| ▲ | Terretta 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > “motivated entirely … to stuff his pockets” Someone's pockets, must be gnomes: • PHASE 1: COLLECT UNDERPANTS. (tariff "foreign" goods desired by Americans, collect upon import from companies, clarify spiked prices experienced by consumers ‘entirely’ due to prior admin policies) • PHASE 2: … (let simmer) • PHASE 3: PROFIT. ("return" tariff costs to companies) |
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| ▲ | nielsbot 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| don’t forget his weak ego |
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| ▲ | m0llusk 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's worse than that. He is so completely off that he thinks this means US builders will chose to buy US lumber instead and that will work out positively for everyone in the US. |
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| ▲ | iAMkenough 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Simultaneously believes that flooding the market with foreign beef to lower beef prices will benefit American cattlemen. |
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| ▲ | dboreham 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The "make more money" rationale is way too logical vs how this guy's brain operates. It's better understood as being like Pro Wrestling. Except the "ring" is the world economy. |
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| ▲ | brador 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| He wakes up and flips a coin. He doesn’t care anyway and there’s no consequences. |
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| ▲ | Jcampuzano2 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | If it was a coin flip, there'd be a 50% chance he did good things every day and we'd have a significantly better outcome than we do now. Its many times worse than a coin clip. | | |
| ▲ | dpkirchner 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The coin is to decide which terrible person he is going to listen to. And his weirdo followers love him for it. |
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| ▲ | hammock 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | oharapj 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There was significant talk about market manipulation - he knows what he's going to tariff and how that'll affect the stock market, so he can buy low and sell high without any risk, because he is effectively the dominant market force right now | |
| ▲ | sscaryterry 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Which one is this? Can you explain? Do his family members own Vietnamese lumber farms or something? Love the see-how-ignorant-I-am type of comments. | |
| ▲ | ekabod 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Maybe US lumber producers lined his pockets. Probably not. | | |
| ▲ | Avicebron 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don't cutting down our forests either but the stated goal of the whole exercise is to improve the US's businesses and self reliance on local industry... | | |
| ▲ | estearum 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | "The stated goal" is stupid as fuck, especially when it comes to our literal immediate neighbor who has been a steadfast ally for the last 100+ years. | |
| ▲ | forestrywat 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Why would anyone, even one of his supporters, care about the stated goal? The man has decades of pursuing goals other than his stated goals. You'd have to be profoundly naive. | | |
| ▲ | Avicebron 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Why would anyone, even one of hoods supporters, care about the stated goal? Because regardless of the execution, this is a forcing function around a broader topic about prosperity in a nation. Tangentially it's also about potential future conflict with China (I hope not!). Both of which I think are much more interesting of a discussion than base partisan mud-slinging. |
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| ▲ | ModernMech 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | And the stated goal of DOGE was to save money... Watch what they do, not what they say. They say a lot of things, and where they can they take all positions. | |
| ▲ | Arodex 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And the unstated goal is to satisfy a senile crook stuck in the 70s (maybe the 1870s)... |
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| ▲ | realusername 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | How it seems to work from his past attempts is that the business pays a bribe to try to lift it | |
| ▲ | wat10000 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's true, not everything he does is to stuff his pockets, a lot of it is just to fluff his ego or avenge perceived slights. | |
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| ▲ | Teknomadix 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Indeed. Donald Trump is only the visible tip of an iceberg. Below the waterline it's a massive and all encompassing corruption, comprised of an organized multi-national cabal that touches every part of the globe and which has its roots in the world starting well before WWI. The goal of which appears has always been to enrich the people on the inside while sewing chaos. To these figures, war and peril have always been more profitable than making peace. https://annas-archive.gl/md5/2275fbf2d96f518e54c2b72edf163f8... |
