@Ciaran: Yes it will. As with his Doonbeg golf course which couldn’t be given away – he bought it and brought employment to the area yet council refused to have erosion barriers placed on the beach like Ballybunion golf course
Helping Irish long term illegals in America will be way down his to do list

@Paul Fahey: Because “Ciaran” says so. End of story. Don’t question it, just move along and pretend you didn’t see it.

@John Fahy: Oh grow a pair. We do not need to run scared of the toddler. Remove the makeup and this is an old and ill man. I doubt he’ll make the full term. You think Trump holds more power than he does. He talks a big game, makes threats and achieves nothing. You assume that the corporations will all play ball and jump when he says how high. Just like his wall, it’s mostly bluster and as members of the EU we are not fighting alone. If anything Trump might end up creating more solidarity.

I’d worry far more about the climate he is creating. Dumbing down the discourse to an unprecedentedly stupid level, making attacks and threats against decent journalists seem acceptable. Add in his racism, misogyny, climate denial and the symbolism of having a convicted predator in the top job, and yeah, he can do massive damage there. It’s still quite amazing than an actual sex pred has managed to garner this level of support. Unthinkable not that long ago.

@Dr Albert S Meinheimer: Why should Irish illegals in the U.S. get any help? There’s a clue in the word ‘illegal’. Maybe look it up?

@Dr Albert S Meinheimer: he wants to deport all illegals, helping them is nowhere even near his to do list

@Kieran Conroy: illegal as in undocumented and this topic has been an agenda since Reagan. From Kennedy to Ryan there has been a push to naturalise illegal/undocumented Irish individuals

@SerotoninWars:
Exactly.
No other country would allow someone who pardon’s criminals and expects to be exempt from all his own.
The worst Person(I can’t use the word President ) to ever wrangle his way into the W.H.
He,along with his troop of clowns will have the country up in arms in 6 mths.
Popcorn ready.

@Mary.E.: Dont speak about Biden like that.

@Mary.E.: Agreed. The glaring problem with Trump and Musk and all their sycophants, is how allergic they are to basic facts. Like the multi-account frustrated men around here, they believe that something popping into their head makes it true. As fearful as I am about the far right and the creep of fascism, we have some hope. Trump’s ideas rarely ever survive contact with reality. The wall is the most obvious example. Nothing happened. They repaired a small stretch of tall railings and added a bit of fence! There is no wall. There will be no wall. Equally all of his tariffs and threats are likely to either dissipate or create untold pain in the US.

Interesting that the bully and pervert is now threatening to kill more innocent Muslim children today. It’s almost like he knows there’s a wad of promises he won’t be able to keep and is lining up a distraction already.

You are of course right. He’s not just the worst President in waiting, he’s one of the worst humans occupying the planet right now. A dangerous elite rich kid riling up the gullible. It’s truly amazing they think the most transparently selfish man on the planet cares a jot for people he views as ‘losers’. Oh well, they’ll just have to learn a painful lesson. Although it’s highly debatable whether they’ll have the wit or savvy to understand the lesson on offer.

@Chutes Idiot: interference in a foreign election even!!

@John Fahy: Simon would be the Fr Dougal of the Fr Ted & Fr Dougal leadership duo.
Mrs Doyle is also due back on stage with her “go on, go on, you’ll have another hate speech bill won’t you. Go on, go on, sure what harm can it do”

@John Fahy: Still better than licking a.. if that was your strategy

@John Fahy: He is right though.

@SerotoninWars: one of the great, if not greatest, USA Presidents.
MAGA- then we have non entities, Harris, Martin, McEntee, O’Gorman etc.
living off the backs of taxes paid by USA companies.

@Dermot Blaine: Pity our bunch don’t do the same with illegals.

@Billy Joe: Oh behave yourself. It’s a cynical land grab of the imagination and comprehension skills of the masses. They bandy noble sounding terms like free speech about. As if they want some pure factual conversation happening. It’s about destroying any sense of reality where we have certain facts as a baseline. Verifiable, researched, evidence based stuff. It’s about destroying this idea and flooding the space with bad actors and propaganda to manipulate people into supporting the worst people imaginable, acting against the best interests of humanity as a whole.

Trumpism wouldn’t have worked even 25 years ago. The a la carte world of believing any old nonsense because it feels good is manna from heaven for these guys. You are being played by highly organised groups and manipulators who don’t care a jot about the noble aspect of free speech. They just want a completely deregulated media and social media space where they can spread lies and propaganda to their hearts content. Divide and conquer.

@SerotoninWars: couldn’t have said it better, spot on

@garrettmckeon@hotmail.com: Thanks Garrett :)

@SerotoninWars: The current administration failed to provide a better alternative to what you have just ( pretty accurately) described. And that is why Trump is getting another term of office.
Clearly, the democrats’ agenda does not jive well with the American electorate, so much so that they would rather see a scoundrel like Trump in the Oval Office, and have his cronies dominate the house and senate.
The solution is simple; provide the electorate with a better alternative.

@John Fahy: simon harris is like Robert Shaw character in ‘The Sting’ . He bet on the wrong horse

@FlipBip: i thought you were being facetious with your first comment, but after your second, probably not……So, I don’t think making such a remark on the 2FM breakfast show constitutes US election interference

@Kevin Kerr: The hypocrisy is comical! If one insult from a country thousands of miles away = election interference, is there even a word for what Trump does?! He spends half his day insulting, belittling and firing insults out at anyone who doesn’t bend the knee. All in an effort to distract from his lack of intellect, and of course, to grab another chance to wave his orange makeup caked mickey around for a bit again!

@SerotoninWars: that’s not all he grabs

@Kevin Kerr: You should have went with your first instinct. I don’t give a damn what Harris says and neither does anyone else. He’s a clown.

@Noel Doherty: Very true!

@FlipBip: Agreed. If he was of any use, he’d do something good for Ireland but then we all know he is of no use.

@FlipBip: he was. It was 4 years ago and there’s way better words to describe him such as felon or sex offender

@Carl Valderrama: Simon Harris should resign he lost the election.

@P. V. Aglue: FYI. Elon Musk is controlled by Peter Thiel

@Carl Valderrama: Harris is right. Trump is a growl and worse.

@K O: a party got an overall majority?

@Carl Valderrama:
A margin of 1.5%.
Not exactly storming .,but plenty of underhand tactics.

@Patricia Mc namara: Ah come on now. Your talking about the best USA
President ever. As for simple Simon….

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@Patricia Mc namara: What’s a Growl?

@James T.Kirk: But he is President elect of the most powerful country in the world. As for Harris….. he’s a nobody from Wickla.

@James T.Kirk: you have proof of this ? Care to share some of the proven lies .

@Mary.E.: Well it is because he’s just been elected to a second term by the voters in November so suck it up.

@Setanta O’Toole: You must be living in an alternate reality buddy. It’s clear to anyone who follows the news even slightly that members of various cable television networks enjoy picking out and giving out about even the slightest thing that Trump says online. Every single insult or joke that he’s pulled out has been scrutinised by a wide variety of different channels. By the way, if you had even basic understanding of the US Constitution, you would know that Trump can’t be censured by Congress for throwing insults because they are protected under the First Amendment.

@Frank O’Hara: oh wow, he gets a dig out off a few news channels. What politician doesn’t? Now do the right leaning media’s treatment of Biden for the last 4 years. you carry on like a juvenile idiot don’t expect it to be ignored in the press. You saying he ‘wouldn’t be allowed’ to get away with something like this is laughable. By who? Thanks for informing me about the first amendment, might go for my citizenship and run for congress so I can call you a bollocks with impunity.

@Setanta O’Toole: Boo-hoo buddy, do you want me take out my tiny violin for you? There are 8 major news channels that are Democrat-leaning and there are only 2 major news channels that are Republican-leaning. 88% of journalists donate to Democrat politicians. All you are doing is engaging in pure whataboutism and you know it. I didn’t ask you about what Biden’s relationship with the media was (very cosy as you know), I asked how you can seriously believe that Donald Trump gets a fair shake when it comes to the news coverage that he receives. I don’t know whether you know basic maths, but 88% is a bigger number than 12% and 8 is a bigger number than 2. It’s pretty clear though that you’re quite the clown considering you think that Congress could have censored Trump!

@Mary.E.: Why not? He is, very soon to be, the leader of the biggest and richest country in the World. As for Harris…. Nobody outside of the 26 has heard of him.
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@Billy Joe: More lies. The Irish stance on the Palestinian situation, on its own, has been covered globally. Harris quoted, interview extracts etc. He’s even been on your beloved looney right misinformation channels around the globe.

@Frank O’Hara: Trump says and does stupid things unbecoming of a president constantly Frank, you and I both know this even though you won’t admit to it. Even if a news channel reports on it factually with no bias it looks negative. News channels don’t need to spin stories on him negatively to make him look bad, he does it himself through his words and actions. Also, if you don’t think he plays up to the perceived bias against him in the media, you are very naive. Fostering a siege mentality against the media and the democrats is how he has gained a lot of his support.

@Mary.E.: And he is a gowl!

@Mary.E.: That’s a slip on your part. You mean Biden.

@honey badger: I’m not ‘silly’ enough to condone genocide, as you do every day.

@honey badger: “Irish people want to know our hands are clean in this conflict. We don’t want to be complicit in any way with illegal Israeli occupation. We stand beside the Palestinian people who have suffered long enough.”— Bríd McGrath, head of Public Affairs at Oxfam Ireland.

@Brendan O’Brien: Good for you, Brendan.
In the meantime, I’d rather not see us commit the largest act of national self harm in our history for zero gain anywhere.

@honey badger: Solidarity with victims of oppression is not ‘self-harm’: it’s our basic duty as human beings.

You may wish to see Ireland bow and scrape before an erratic narcissist, but I don’t.

@Brendan O’Brien: We have given millions to Palestinians over the years, in humanitarian funding, aid, built water treatment plants, etc. There are ways to show solidarity that doesn’t put an even bigger target on our backs with a Trump team that already has us in its sights. Costing ourselves billions for zero gain is definitionally self-harm. Solidarity isn’t going to fund our health services etc.

@honey badger: well since you don’t give a dam about our national interest you’ll be alright. Just remember when you took Israel side against your own president who spoke the truth and our own armed forces when Israel threatened them and accused them of harbouring terrorists. All you are is a hy po crite trai tor.

@Ger Whelan: I’ve run out of road with your constant lies, terrible comprehension, and room temperature iq. Muted.

@honey badger: Ah truth hurts the poor Badger. Bye bye.

@honey badger: We have to call out a genocidal far-right regime if we are to have any self-respect.

@Brendan O’Brien: You and most of our political parties are already doing that now. Knock yourselves out. The OTB will cost us billions. Find any way that continues to show your solidarity that doesn’t give Trump and his team the tools to take us to the cleaners. He needs little excuse. You know I loathe Trump, but this would be an unprecedented act of national self-harm. For absolutely no gain anywhere for any one.

@honey badger: He needs *no* excuse. His ‘MAGA’ strategy is already in place.

‘Many within the new Trump administration’s appointees also see Ireland as a problem. Trump’s trade tsar Robert Lighthizer has said “Ireland gets a substantial part of the tax revenue that would normally be due to the US government” and this is a “transfer of wealth from us to them”. Howard Lutnick, nominee to head the US commerce department, said “it’s nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus at our expense … When we end this nonsense, America will be a truly great country again.”’

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/01/07/liz-carolan-trumps-alt-right-edgelords-will-inevitably-come-for-ireland-we-cant-take-the-bait/

@Brendan O’Brien: Call it out until the cows come home. Wonderfully bizarre how empathetic you are. No ulterior motive whatsoever, just an angelic modern day Jesus Christ. But don’t put Irish people at risk in the process. Why not head over to Palestine and help them fight if you’re so passionate and involved? Didn’t think so.

@Brendan O’Brien: Yes. I referred to this twice already. Let’s not compound it.

@Brendan O’Brien: Don’t worry Brendan Honey Badger will be back to giving out about trump shortly when he pulls military support for Ukraine.

@Marvin Dollery: How typical of a moral vacuum like you to believe that support for human rights and international law must have an ‘ulterior motive’.

You really shouldn’t judge others in the light of your own glaring shortcomings.

@Brendan O’Brien: Apology accepted. Now go and apologise to all the others like a good little man.

@Brendan O’Brien: So we should be calling out Hamas who have genocide of Israelis as their aim (without having to change the definition), instead our muppet leaders reward them by recognising a non-existent state with no defined borders, capital or even government. Listening to Trump today he’s in no mood for kidnapping terrorists or their apologists (and as not one Palestinian in Gaza has come forward with information on the whereabouts of a hostage despite the $5m reward then they are just as complicit, as they were when celebrating and disrespecting hostages and the dead on the streets of Gaza on Oct 7th). What a shame Biden was so beholden to the Squad, this could’ve been over in weeks with a strong US President.

@Ger Whelan: Our own president does have an unhealthy attraction to certain tyrannical regimes and has clearly shown poor judgement and lack of impartiality in some recent ramblings.

@Brendan O’Brien: The only genocide that is taking place is in Somalia, principly caused by Arabs striving to take full control of the country and its wealth
160000 killed and 11 million displaced.
You haven’t said a word about it, so I can only conclude that you’re a paid Palestinian agītator.

@Brian D’Arcy: I was being sarky D’arcy.

@Carl Valderrama: we can’t all be best mates with the saggy balled 47th president, Carl.

@Setanta O’Toole: you need hearing aids. Trump himself is the ultimate insult.

@Brian D’Arcy: she is whiter than me ffs

@Freda Peeple: Yes, lets look up to those running a country literally founded on extermination of the native population and their identity and culture as great arbiters of preserving culture and identity. Your paranoid fantasies about Muslims taking over the UK and launching a Nuclear strike at the US has no basis in fact either. You might want to look at how prolific the US has been with drone attacks and civilian casualties in Muslim majority countries in the Middle East over the last two decades and reassess who is a bigger threat to who.

@Setanta O’Toole: It was actually Europeans who founded America and slaughtered the natives, worth noting as a European I’m assuming if you’re pointing fingers. The UK will be Muslim dominant in our life time so it’s not Paranoid at all to worry about how that might alter a nations stance with its allies. and yes the Uk and the US amongst others have caused carnage in the Middle East I’m not disputing that, do you reckon they might have a thirst for vengeance?

@Freda Peeple: your second post says 2 decades, your next post says “in our lifetime” – now I don’t know what age you are, but I suspect you’ve got more than 20 years to live. So which is it? Hint: it’s neither – most reliable forecasts (and of course these are forecasts, which I wouldn’t dream of presenting as fact) predict that Muslims will make up 15 – 20% of the UK population in 25 years. Any predictions after that time are so fraught with uncertainty that thy are pretty much worthless

@Freda Peeple: Where did I imply that it wasn’t Europeans? Why is it worth noting? I don’t have any ancestors from any of the countries who engaged in the slaughter and colonisation of Native Americans, so I’ll point fingers all I like thanks. Do you have any data or evidence to show that a Muslim majority country with nuclear weapons would be any greater a threat to humanity than a western one? Pakistan has plenty. However, the only country that has ever used them is the one that you are claiming is under the most threat from them, with no evidence or precedent to back it up.