this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
515 points (99.2% liked)

World News

49806 readers
2422 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

He really has got porridge for brains. It amazes me he can manage simultaneous walking and talking.

Why on earth would foreign companies want to invest in the US right now? He is the one that's making it less likely, there was plenty of foreign investment in the US under previous administrations then this moron came along and ruined it all.

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 2 points 54 minutes ago

Trump walks? I only ever see him behind something hiding how fat he is.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

He chickened out again?
Pfft, a proper real man and leader would've gone down to that concentration camp and punched each one of those Koreans himself!!!

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 48 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

When Foreign Companies who are building extremely complex products, machines, and various other 'things,' come into the United States with massive Investments, I want them to bring their people of expertise for a period of time to teach and train our people how to make these very unique and complex products, as they phase out of our Country, and back into their land," the president posted on Truth Social, adding “I don’t want to frighten off or disincentivize Investment into America by outside Countries or Companies. We welcome them, we welcome their employees, and we are willing to proudly say we will learn from them.”

You know what's missing there?

An apology.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 hours ago

You know what's missing there?

The unredacted Epstein list!

[–] trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Also several inappropriately capitalized letters. Trump didn't write this.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 39 minutes ago

He can't write anything. The stroke rendered his right hand unusable, and he's probably permanently loopy, more than usual. It's "Weekend at Bernie's: The White House Years."

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 hour ago

Well yeah, it stayed on topic the whole way through

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 8 hours ago
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

trump, apologizing never. Like most right winger, they give a typical corporate apology, a non-apology or they deflect the attention on an percieved enemy.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 25 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Y'all acting like Trump personally ordered the raid and is suddenly backing up, TACO.

Trump told ICE, "You're weapons free, you got a quota." And they went for it. Because of course they did.

This is Trump screaming, "Not like THAT!" Which is somehow hilarious and horrifying at the same time.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 hour ago

The idiot leader was too stupid to provide contingencies. And the ICE goons are too stupid to understand them anyway.

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Well, the desk in the oval office used to have a simple plaque on it that said: "the buck stops here".

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago

Mother was a narcissist, not on Trump's level, but I've never known another person so eat up with NPD. Impossible to overstate that these people cannot understand personal responsibility for their actions. Their failures are always someones else's failures. They cannot fail.

I was well into my 40s before it occurred to me, mother never once admitted fault or said she was sorry. Sure, some people act like that, sometimes, but you can tell they have a sense of guilt, a sense of wrongdoing. Sure, we've all know people who misdirect blame. A true narcissist cannot feel those emotions, cannot be wrong.

Telling a lie is a falsehood you know is false. Trump has never lied. He believes every word that has ever come out of his mouth. It tears my brain apart every time he's accused of lying or bending the truth. Anyone having a hard time with the notion I just described is suffering cognitive dissonance. Have fun with that, he can't feel it. You can because you're sane.

Trump isn't playing games. He isn't a tactical or strategic genius. He's simply a wealthy narcissist who struck political gold. He got dumb luck, like some of us do, and ran with it.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 63 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Divest from America! Shrink their economy!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 30 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Statesian here. I fully support this. Some people don't learn unless it hurts.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 2 points 15 minutes ago

I'm sorry that you get hurt by this too.
Seriously, the rest of the world:

[–] Juice@midwest.social 8 points 12 hours ago

Revolutionary defeatism stock is rising

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 192 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Yup they won’t be coming back and why on earth would they do anything else with them in the future.

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 54 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

"We're acting exactly like Nazis in Nazi Germany and I just don't understand why no one wants to do business with us!"

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Also the guy from Ireland who had his subdermal piercings involuntarily cut out without anesthetic.

[–] indomara@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 hours ago

Ice also abducted all of the adults out of a minivan, leaving two small children behind, who had to be rescued from the heat by bystanders.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago

If we’re going off history, it’s bad news because fucking EVERYBODY still did business with the Nazis.

[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 29 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Holy $&#+ that's horrible.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 121 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Trump backs off

The damage is already done. He got to stuff hundreds of Korean workers in one of his torture prisons while extorting the company and the country for their release. He's not backing off. He's pulling his fist back for another swing. Fucking headline journalists are too "TACO" pilled to see the next blow coming.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 22 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Quintessential loudmouth chickenshit performs as expected

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 91 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Hyundai already announced a two to three month delay on this plant after this whole thing. They aren't walking away, but this isn't an event they are forgetting.

It won't matter what President comes after this one, this whole thing is going to influence investment from South Korea for some time.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

if i were korea, i would just cut my losses and build in another country, like mexico and canada. or build it in a blue states, but foreign companies love the lack of labor protections in red states

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 87 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

If you were a foreign company considering investing a substantial amount of money to build a plant in the U.S., and then the unstable authoritarian dictator of that country pulls a stunt like this, you're going to reconsider putting any more capital at risk.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 hours ago

An unstable authoritarian dictator who, as way of a supposed apology, has literally told you that he's going to do it again as soon as he's stolen your technology, with the stated intention of putting you and your whole country out of business.

Only reasonable course of action seems to write the factory down as a loss and never set foot in the USA again.

[–] moncharleskey@lemmy.zip 31 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I've seen this plant, and it's massive. I don't know how close to completion they are, but billions have been spent. If they pull out they are going to take a hell of a loss. Hopefully that means they'll work to weaken Trump and the GOP in order to help their bottom line.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 34 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago

Indeed.

The actuarial calculation must be the billions more that will potentially be lost when exposing themselves to further harassment and extortion from Trump and his cronies versus the definite billions lost if they were to cancel everything now.

[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

I wish more people understood this

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 9 hours ago

korea seems to suck up to the gop quite often, probably i wont hold your breath. because they build in exclusive red areas. The only change will come , if Korean citizens refuse to relocate to the USA for work.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 169 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

He’s an incompetent child rapist

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 93 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

You don't know that. Maybe raping children is the one thing he's good at?

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 49 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe questioning his child-raping prowess is the key to make him admit it? 🤔🤔

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 37 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

This was such a preventable suicide, lol

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 10 points 14 hours ago

This entire train wreck was preventable.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Death by a thousand cuts, but we are cutting ourselves.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 21 points 14 hours ago

Epstein's Taco chickens out again.

load more comments
view more: next ›