Trump Neurosis Thread

[putnam6]

Between the border and DEI, this is another huge reason OMB 2.0 is now in a theater near you. 

This is a good thing,right? 


https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025...s-pockets/More Investment, More Jobs, and More Money in Americans’ PocketsThe White House
March 24, 2025Today, Hyundai announced a $20 billion investment in the United States — including $5.8 billion for a new steel plant in Louisiana, which will create nearly 1,500 jobs. The investment, which builds on Hyundai’s pledge earlier this year to “further localize production in the U.S.,” is the latest success in President Donald J. Trump’s pursuit of a Made in America renaissance.
It’s further proof that President Trump’s economic agenda is working.
Hyundai is far from the only automaker planning major investments as President Trump leverages tariffs to remake the U.S. into a global manufacturing powerhouse:

• Stellantis announced a $5 billion investment in its U.S. manufacturing network — including re-opening an Illinois manufacturing plant — as it pledges to increase domestic vehicle production.
  
• Volkswagen is considering shifting production of the high-end Audi and Porsche brands to the U.S.
  
• Honda is expected to produce its next-generation Civic hybrid model in Indiana.
  
• Nissan is considering moving production from Mexico to the U.S.
  
• Rolls-Royce is expected to “ramp up” production in the U.S. by hiring more American workers and expand its U.S.-based operations.
  
• Volvo is considering expanding its U.S.-based output.
  

It’s not just the auto sector; domestic and foreign companies have pledged trillions in new investments since President Trump took office:

• Project Stargate, led by Japan-based Softbank and U.S.-based OpenAI and Oracle, announced a $500 billion private investment in U.S.-based artificial intelligence infrastructure.
  
• Apple announced a $500 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing and training.
  
• Nvidia announced it will invest hundreds of billions of dollars over the next four years in U.S.-based manufacturing.
  
• Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced a $100 billion investment in U.S.-based chips manufacturing.
  
• Eli Lilly and Company announced a $27 billion investment in domestic manufacturing.
  
• United Arab Emirates-based DAMAC Properties announced a $20 billion investment in new U.S.-based data centers.
  
• France-based CMA CGM, a global shipping giant, announced a $20 billion investment in U.S. shipping and logistics, creating 10,000 new jobs.
  
• Merck announced it will invest $8 billion in the U.S. over the next several years after opening a new $1 billion North Carolina manufacturing facility.
  
• Clarios announced a $6 billion plan to expand its domestic manufacturing operations.
  
• GE Aerospace announced a $1 billion investment in manufacturing across 16 states — creating 5,000 new jobs.
  
• GE Vernova announced it will invest nearly $600 million in U.S. manufacturing over the next two years, which will create more than 1,500 new jobs.
  
• London-based Diageo announced a $415 million investment in a new Alabama manufacturing facility.
  
• Dublin-based Eaton Corporation announced a $340 million investment in a new South Carolina-based manufacturing facility for its three-phase transformers.
  
• Germany-based Siemens announced a $285 million investment in U.S. manufacturing and AI data centers, which will create more than 900 new skilled manufacturing jobs.
  
• Paris Baguette announced a $160 million investment to construct a manufacturing plant in Texas.
  
• Switzerland-based ABB announced a $120 million investment to expand production of its low-voltage electrification products in Tennessee and Mississippi.
  
• Saica Group, a Spain-based corrugated packaging maker, announced plans to build a $110 million new manufacturing facility in Anderson, Indiana.
  
• Paris-based Saint-Gobain announced a new $40 million NorPro manufacturing facility in Wheatfield, New York.
  
• India-based Sygene International announced a $36.5 million acquisition of a Baltimore biologics manufacturing facility.
  
• Asahi Group Holdings, one of the largest Japanese beverage makers, announced a $35 million investment to boost production at its Wisconsin plant.
  
• Samsung is considering moving its dryer production from Mexico to South Carolina.
  
• LG is considering moving its refrigerator manufacturing from Mexico to Tennessee.
  
• Italian spirits group Campari is “assessing the opportunities to expand its production in the U.S.”
  
• Essity, a Swedish hygiene product manufacturer, is considering shifting production to the U.S.
  
• Taiwan-based Compal Electronics is considering a U.S.-based expansion.
  
• Taiwan-based Inventec is expected to expand its manufacturing operations into Texas.
  
• LVMH, a French luxury giant, is “seriously considering” an expansion to its U.S.-based production capabilities.
  
• Cra-Z-Art, the biggest toymaker in the U.S., said it will move a “large percentage” of its China-based manufacturing back home.
  
• Prepac, a Canadian furniture manufacturer, announced it will move production from Canada to the U.S.
  

[putnam6]

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One more time, why Greenland? This is so unnecessary.

This is kinda like a Biff Tannen like blockhead taking the nerd's lunch money. Like the geopolitical equivalent of "Quit hitting yourself, dork, quit hitting yourself!"

I just hope he's impressing Putin like he wants.

For more on geopolitical engineering check out John McCain and Victoria Nuland, different strokes for different folks. 

But as for Greenland/ the Artic, it's a critical region the US isn't the only country looking to improve its positioning 

Here's a more balanced article 

https://www.dw.com/en/whats-driving-the-...a-71892279

 
And with tensions rising between other Arctic nations, particularly Russia, what used to be a cooperative relationship between countries in the region has fragmented.

Amid a scramble to shore up valuable resource reserves, are the Arctic's relatively peaceful days soon to be a thing of the past?

 
Frosty diplomatic relationsEight nations lie in the Arctic Circle: the Arctic Five — Canada, Denmark (through Greenland and the Faroe Islands), Norway, Russia and the US — are the region's coastal states.
Finland, Sweden and Iceland have territory, but no significant shoreline.
None of these nations "owns" the Arctic. They exercise their territorial and economic rights in line with international law, as all countries do. The Arctic Five can exploit living and non-living natural resources in their Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs): this includes fishing rights,oil and gas exploration and the ability to establish offshore renewable energy infrastructure.
These states also form the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental forum established in 1996 to foster cooperation between governments, Indigenous peoples and others living in the region. Other nations such as Germany, China and India have observer status.
The council has no regulatory powers, but is meant to serve as a platform for dialogue. Recent conflicts further south, however, particularly Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, have seen once-cooperative scientific and diplomatic relationships in the Arctic affected by the frayed relationships between Moscow and EU, as well as NATO members in the region.

[Oldcarpy2]

For more on geopolitical engineering check out John McCain and Victoria Nuland, different strokes for different folks. 

But as for Greenland/ the Artic, it's a critical region the US isn't the only country looking to improve its positioning 

Here's a more balanced article 

https://www.dw.com/en/whats-driving-the-...a-71892279

All true, but that's about bits of the Arctic that nobody owns.

Greenland isn't one of them.

[putnam6]

All true, but that's about bits of the Arctic that nobody owns.

Greenland isn't one of them.

It's about quick and easy access and security, China's been sticking its nose in the Arctic too. 

Clash Report

@clashreport
NEW U.S. Intelligence Report  China: • Most comprehensive and robust military threat to U.S. • Aims to lead in AI by 2030 • Dominates critical materials supply chains • Likely to increase pressure on Taiwan, including potential military action • Assertive moves in South and East China Seas heighten conflict risks  Russia: • Learning key lessons from Ukraine war, despite no “total victory” • Developing nuclear-capable satellite with “devastating consequences” • Alongside China, eyeing Greenland’s resources and strategic location  Iran: • Not currently pursuing nuclear weapons

Again Trump floats acquiring Greenland, but I'd bet this ends with the US having 2-to 3 bases. It would not be a good idea to deek around and let China get a secure foothold in the region

https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/why-chinas...ctic-arms/
 

 
While Western media called Republican President-elect Donald Trump a “madman” for suggesting he would buy or “invade” Greenland, China is quietly building up a new maritime Silk Road in the Arctic Ocean with Russia’s assistance. 
On December 22, 2024, Trump wrote in an X post that “for purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”

 
Over the past seven years, China has made significant strides in implementing its Arctic policies.
For example, in the second half of 2023, NewNew Shipping Line, a Chinese company that has partnered with Russia, completed seven containership voyages between Asia and Europe via the Arctic Ocean. Last July, it launched a new Arctic route connecting Shanghai to St Petersburg.
A Shanxi-based columnist says the US finally recognized that China and Russia have joined forces to launch the Northern Sea Route, or Ice Silk Road, which among other things, will mitigate China’s Malacca Strait dilemma, but it’s too late now.
“The Northern Sea Route has been ignored by many people but it is now attracting China’s attention with its unique geographical advantages,” the writer says. 
“This route meanders along the Russian Arctic coastline from East Asia to Europe, which can shorten the traditional route through the Strait of Malacca and the Suez Canal by one-third,” he adds. “This is undoubtedly a great benefit for China as a shorter voyage means lower costs.

 
Like Trump, China has an eye on Greenland’s strategic significance in the Arctic. In 2018, Chinese state-owned contractor China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) bid to build airports in Greenland, but it withdrew the bid in 2019. Some Chinese buyers had also sought to buy private land in Svalbard but the sale was blocked by the Norwegian government last July on national security grounds.

[putnam6]

side note...

Rasmussen Reports

@Rasmussen_Poll

TODAY -
Support for Trump's Venezuelan gang member deportation is nearly two-thirds of all voters

And, by a 2-to-1 margin, voters favor impeaching Judge Boasberg ... CC:

@julie_kelly2

[Oldcarpy2]

Hegseth rants at journalist:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=heg...RE&PC=U534

Instead of taking some responsibility for this debacle he rants at the journalist.

No class, no honesty, no spine.

He and Waltz should resign or be sacked.

The head of the CIA was in this chat, just unbelievable. And Witless was in Russia when he posted, for God's sake!

A few folk voiced concerns that some of these appointees weren't up to the job.

They have now been proved right.

[putnam6]

Hegseth rants at journalist:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=heg...RE&PC=U534

Instead of taking some responsibility for this debacle he rants at the journalist.

No class, no honesty, no spine.

He and Waltz should resign or be sacked.

The head of the CIA was in this chat, just unbelievable. And Witless was in Russia when he posted, for God's sake!

A few folk voiced concerns that some of these appointees weren't up to the job.

They have now been proved right.

It's not the best look but that doesn't mean this isn't anything but a tempest in a teacup.

Let's remember...

The same head of the CIA said there was nothing, zip, nada, zero classified in the "this chat"

[Oldcarpy2]

It's not the best look but that doesn't mean this isn't anything but a tempest in a teacup.

Let's remember...

The same head of the CIA said there was nothing, zip, nada, zero classified in the "this chat"

Maybe, maybe not. Hasn't the chat been deleted?

Even if true, and you seem happy to believe a CIA spook, it certainly was "sensitive".

Come on man, this is a major cock up and shows sheer incompetence on the part of key. Trump appointees.

Spin your way out of that!

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Between the border and DEI, this is another huge reason OMB 2.0 is now in a theater near you. 

This is a good thing,right? 

[Redacted endless list of the plan working.]

What a list! But as a former roommate would say, "Every silver lining has a dark cloud."

Plus I'm too neoliberal and globalist at heart to like using protectionism, isolationism, and key manufacturing tariffs to strong arm commerce to return domestic production. I didn't mind them exploiting Mexico pay and NAFTA/USMCA for overhead, real estate, and labor costs actually.

And I know there is something to complain about... There has to be some way to say, "Yeah his plan to force domestic production worked, BUT...."

How much are the prices of Hyundai, Volkswagen, Honda, Nissan, and Volvos going up? Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and all the red 7.25/hour states jobs are still paying costs way above Mexico.

Average Hourly Wage:

The average base salary for an entry-level manufacturing worker in Mexico is approximately $4.90 (USD) per hour.

Skilled Workers:

Skilled workers like machinists and welders in Mexico earn approximately $7 – 8 (USD) per hour, compared to an average of $20 – 22 (USD) per hour for similar positions in the U.S.

Not to mention land/tax cost in places like Tijuana, Rosarito, or Mexicali is way below the American one. Who absorbs the higher production cost most? The people given $21/hour jobs in Louisiana?

It's like the 80s, only it learned to not let people outsource for even greater profit. So The Nikkei can't crash and screw everyone over again.

Phones, Computers, And anything that plugs in is likely gonna go up.

But at least all the lowest-paying red states are getting a lot of new manufacturing jobs...

At times, It's almost like theres a slightly cultural need to return to calloused rough skin and blue collars. Like a return of real men with the lunch pails and the PPE. Like coal mines and foundries are part of a return to greatness.

[putnam6]

Maybe, maybe not. Hasn't the chat been deleted?

Even if true, and you seem happy to believe a CIA spook, it certainly was "sensitive".

Come on man, this is a major cock up and shows sheer incompetence on the part of key. Trump appointees.

Spin your way out of that!

I don't have to spin it, it's not a big deal unless you are an overly sensitive and worrisome sort. 

This is the reoccurring issue with the left's whinging, crying, and pleading at every occurrence in Trump's administration 

It's literally the (boy, girl, them, and they) who cried wolf, it's done so many times by the left it carries no weight, it has no credence. 

It's pretty bad here on DI the faithful nervously and anxiously waiting for the ultimate gotcha or ah-ha told ya so moment.  It's laughable and it mirrors the few and the loud on X and Reddit. 

In 4 or 5 days at the most some other non-issue will pop up and the devastating "Hegseth cock up" will fade into oblivion, so I wouldn't worry your little Wiltshire head about it too much