Trump's weak spot - Flattery!

I suppose we should acknowledge that no one is perfect and that includes President Trump but it was nonetheless embarrassing to watch him played by the slick Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin today.

Trump actually says that Ireland has a housing crisis because “they're doing so well, they can't produce houses fast enough”

Garbage. The REASON that Ireland has a housing crisis is that it importing VAST numbers of migrant, legal and illegal. Ireland is THE globalist Petri dish for the great replacement as the Irish become a minority in their own country in the near future.

In the 12 months to April 2024, Ireland saw a record high of 149,200 immigrants, the highest in 17 years.

The consequences of this are obvious but perhaps this simple chart shows the damage being done - this is globalism in action. The Irish are being replaced.

In essence, surging population driven by IMMIGRATION has been the core problem since the dawn of the Millennium.

But Trump thinks it’s because Ireland is doing so well! FFS!

In a separate part of the discussion, Trump turned to the area of trade.

"We do have a massive deficit with Ireland because Ireland was very smart, they took our pharmaceutical companies away from presidents that didn't know what they were doing... The EU's been very tough, and it's our turn too. We get a turn at that also."

He is only half right.

Ireland did indeed take the US Pharmaceutical companies and afforded them all sorts of tax brakes to headquarter there but they ALSO took Big Tech and Trump seems unaware of this.

Ireland, particularly Dublin, has emerged as a significant European tech hub, serving as the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) headquarters for many multinational US tech companies like Google, Facebook (Meta), and LinkedIn, with the sector employing over 70,000 people.

On the issue of that trade imbalance, it is a whopper

Most recently,Ireland's goods exports to the US surged by 34% to €72.6 billion, while imports fell slightly to €22.5 billion. So, a €50bn imbalance.

Trump may still get them on his tariffs against the EU. I hope he does.

Ireland is a fanatical supporter of the EU but he seemed particularly ill briefed on this. The Irish political regime despise Trump and some of them campaigned for Kamala Harris yet there was their leader given the warmest of welcomes.

Why? It’s because the Irish PM flattered him - just like Sir Keir Starmer flattered him. If only Zelensky had chosen to flatter him….