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WHUT? Trump’s Press Secretary Reveals that ‘the Entire Pentagon is Working Against’ Pete Hegseth

Posted by on April 21, 2025 at 1:01 pm. 1 Comments :

Who could have imagined a few months ago, that when Donald Trump nominated Pete Hegseth, a weekend Fox News host with no experience whatsoever running a sprawling, bureaucratic institution, to head up the Pentagon, that it would result in being one of the worst fiascos in government administration history?

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Pete Hegseth with Drunk Emoji

The obvious answer to the question above is: EVERYONE! Or at least everyone who had not been indoctrinated into the Cult of Trump. And it didn’t really require much imagination. The predictions of certain calamity and chaos were ubiquitous among military and management professionals. In fact the notion that an incompetent, alcoholic, TV talking head like Hegseth could succeed was preposterous from the start. Even a devoted Trump-fluffer on Newsmax thought so.

SEE THIS: Has Hell Frozen Over? Newsmax Host Shoots Down Trump’s Defense Secretary Nominee, Pete Hegseth

It didn’t take long for the predictions about Hegseth to come true. Last month it was revealed that he participated in a Signal chat with some Trump regime colleagues where he disclosed U.S. plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen. After getting caught leaking such sensitive information on an unsecure platform, Hegseth lied that he had done so, despite the documented evidence.

Making matters worse, on Monday it was reported that the incident above was not a one-off. According to NBC News…

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used his personal phone to send information about U.S. military operations in Yemen to a 13-person Signal group chat, including his wife and his brother, two sources with knowledge of the matter confirmed to NBC News. He did so after an aide had warned him to be careful not to share sensitive information on an unsecure communications system before the Yemen operation, the sources said.”

This new revelation has prompted more questions from the press about Hegseth’s alleged competence. And the Trump team is reacting in its typical manner by circling the wagons and denying reality. However, in this case, Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, may have said a bit too much. In response to a question by Brian Kilmeade on Fox News, Leavitt let loose insisting that…

“The president stands strongly behind Secretary Hegseth, who is doing a phenomenal job leading the Pentagon. And this is what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you and against the monumental change that you are trying to implement. […] Unfortunately, there have been people at that building who don’t like the change the Secretary is trying to bring, so they are leaking and they are lying to the mainstream media.”

Leavitt: "The president stands strongly behind Secretary Hegseth … this is what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you and working against the monumental change you are trying to implement. Secretary Hegseth was nominated because he's standing up for the warfighters."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-21T14:17:35.963Z

Leavitt’s declaration that Trump “stands strongly behind Secretary Hegseth” is not going to age well when Hegseth is eventually fired. And how could he not be, if what Leavitt says is true. If “the entire Pentagon is working against” Hegseth, his continued employment should be untenable. There are 20,000 people working in the Pentagon. It wouldn’t make much sense to fire all of them and keep Hegseth, would it? And how the heck can he command a workforce of that many people who think that he is unfit to serve?

You have to wonder by what measure Trump and Leavitt regard Hegseth as “doing a phenomenal job.” He has done nothing but embarrass the nation with his malfeasance in office and multiple hits on Fox News. He even took time out from the White House Easter Egg event to whine to the media about the media…

This is what the media does. They take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees, and then they try to slash and burn people and ruin their reputations. Not going to work with me. Because we’re changing the Defense Department, putting the Pentagon back in the hands of war-fighters. And anonymous smears from disgruntled former employees on old news doesn’t matter.”

At the WH Easter egg hunt, Hegseth this morning pathetically blames the media for what his own appointees disclosed about his latest scandals.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-04-21T14:00:50.254Z

There is an abundance of derp in that whine. First of all, how can he blame the media for reporting what they have been told by his own top aides? Secondly, the news is not old. It was reported today. Third, it isn’t anonymous. The names of the sources are in the stories. Finally, those “disgruntled former employees” are people that Hegseth hired himself in the few weeks that he’s been on the job.

This is what you get when you put people in charge of critical government agencies who have never demonstrated any ability or aptitude to perform those jobs. And so many people in Trump’s Cabinet suffer from the same lack of experience and skill. A shockingly large number of them (20 so far) are, like Hegseth, from Fox News. Consequently, it is fair to assume that things are gonna get worse going forward. So buckle up, America. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.

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The Committee to Protect Journalists Releases a Frightening Advisory for US Bound Reporters

Posted by on April 20, 2025 at 1:04 pm. 1 Comments :

The long-running, seething animosity that Donald Trump has for the free press continues to be on full display with each new day’s attack on the media that fails to sufficiently worship him. And it isn’t just an attack on the reporters than he singles out for his infantile insults, it’s an attack on the Constitution and the keystone American principles of freedom of speech.

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Despite his addiction to demanding from the media the constant attention that he craves, Trump can’t stop lambasting them when they accurately report on his recurrent foibles and flagrant crimes. His assault on the media regularly descends to wholly unconstitutional threats to shut down the outlets that he disapproves of and even to arrest and incarcerate reporters who offend him by doing nothing more than telling the truth.

SEE THIS: Trump at the ‘Justice’ Department: CNN, MSNBC, and Other Media are Illegal and ‘It Has to Stop’

Among the consequences of Trump’s perverse and un-America behavior is the recent advisory from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), warning reporters about the risks they now face should they consider traveling to the United States. The advisory states that…

“Foreign nationals whose countries do not meet U.S. vetting standards may be barred entry. Journalists will not be exempt and should anticipate potential restrictions or questioning when traveling to or from the United States.” […]

“Increased border control, inconsistent enforcement, and broad discretionary authority among border agents suggest an unpredictable environment which warrants proactive preparation.”

The CPJ cited some of the potential risks that journalists should be prepared for, such as “prolonged questioning at U.S. borders,” “device searches,” and “citizenship status and denied entry.” They warned of possible detention and provided an extensive checklist of measures to take prior to and during any U.S. visit. They suggested using burner phones and other devices that have been stripped of information that the reporter wouldn’t want border authorities to have access to.

If these sound like precautions that a reporter might have to take when entering a totalitarian state, that is not coincidental. According to Reporters Without Borders…

“Press freedom in the U.S. has fallen significantly in the past year, […] Once considered a bastion for free expression, the U.S. is now on par with developing countries that have few resources or protections dedicated to journalism.”

Testifying before Congress in February, Craig Aaron, President and Co-CEO of Free Press Action, enumerated the attacks on the free press by Trump and his administration that “is using the power of the government to shake down the media and quash dissent.” Including…

  • Trump’s FCC chairman (and Project 2025 co-author), Brendan Carr’s threats to revoke broadcast licenses because he doesn’t like the viewpoints he sees on TV.
  • Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News for $20 billion because he didn’t like how 60 Minutes chose to edit an interview with Kamala Harris.
  • Disney/ABC, Meta, maybe now CBS — paying tens of millions of dollars to settle specious lawsuits. They appear to be paying off the president to shield themselves from reprisal or gain regulatory favors.
  • All the billionaire owners of these companies line up on the dais at the president’s inauguration clutching million-dollar checks to show their loyalty.

It is undeniable that, under the Trump regime, America has fallen to new lows with regard to its First Amendment protections of the free press. And that is by design of the aspiring authoritarian currently occupying the White House. Trump is taking his cues from his idols Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Viktor Orbán.

And Trump won’t stop until he he is forced to by those in the media who are not afraid of him, by those in Congress who have the courage to perform their constitutionally mandated duties, and by patriotic Americans who refuse to be oppressed by a wannabe dictator.

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Fox News Observes Easter By Celebrating the Resurrection of… Donald Trump?

Posted by on April 19, 2025 at 12:13 pm. 2 Comments :

On every Christian holiday, Fox News devotes much of their programming to the worshipful evangelism of that one religious sect, while conspicuously ignoring all others, even though Passover and Ramadan fall around the same time. And their unique homage to their favored faith always places a special significance on their Dear Leader Donald Trump. It’s a profoundly hypocritical brand of piety considering that Trump is indisputably the most flagrantly faithless person to ever occupy the White House.

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Donald Trump Messiah

Trump’s ignorance of – and actual animosity toward – religion is evident every time he deigns to mention it. And he only mentions it when he has something personal to gain by doing so. It’s not as if Trump sincerely follows the tenets of his alleged religion. After all, he famously declared his messiah-like infallibility saying, “Why do I have to repent? Why do I have to ask for forgiveness if you’re not making mistakes?”

SEE THIS: Trump Says ‘I Am the Chosen One’ After Tweeting that He’s ‘The Second Coming of God’

Trump’s entire public life is antithetical to everything that the biblical Jesus stands for. He and his Republican Party oppose healthcare for the sick. They despise refugees (such as Jesus). He has committed adultery against all three of his wives. He’s a pathological liar. He embraces billionaires and has no empathy for the poor. He frequently expresses his hatred for his fellow Americans on religious holidays. And he has literally and unrepentantly violated all of the seven deadly sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth.

So naturally Fox News regards Trump as the Second Coming of the messiah who can do no wrong and will be the savior of America and all of humanity. And to illustrate that point, the “Curvy Couch” potatoes of Fox and Friends did a segment this Easter weekend that was intended to show how their revered cult master in the White House was “putting faith front and center.” Co-host Emily Compagno said that…

“For so many Americans that felt persecuted under the prior administration, were prosecuted under the prior administration for daring to protest abortion; for daring to speak freely; for being put on watch lists by the FBI for worshipping at Latin mass.

“What a breath of fresh air. And I think the restoration of this just goes to show too, when we talk about the overwhelming success that Donald Trump had at the ballot box. Seventy-six million Americans said ‘Not any more. We want someone to be the voice for us. That actually sees and represents us.'”

It is notable that nowhere in Comapgno’s remarks did she present any evidence that Trump was “putting faith front and center.” In fact, she never even mentioned Jesus or Christianity. To the contrary, she spoke only about Trump. Which, in her defense, is the MAGA savior.

Compagno also listed some of what she believes were persecutions of Christians. All of which were blatant distortions or outright lies. And she disgorged utter nonsense about Trump’s alleged “overwhelming success” in the last election, which he won by one of the narrowest margins (1.5%) in modern times. She doesn’t bother to reveal that he actually got a minority of all the votes cast.

The fact that Compagno mangled reality in order to hail Dear Leader Trump as the “voice for us,” rather than the Son of God whom she supposedly worships, is telling. Particularly on this Easter when Trump has announced that he is going to turn the White House itself into a vehicle for bribes. He’s soliciting corporate sponsors for this year’s annual Easter Egg Hunt. Which is, of course, illegal. Although, perhaps it’s necessary due to the much higher cost of eggs under Trump’s “leadership.” Even so, Jesus would very likely have overturned the tables in Trump’s Easter Den of Iniquity.

And on Easter Sunday…

Trump's posts an Easter message to "Radical Left Lunatics" and "WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges," and everyone he hates. Because that's what he thinks Easter is all about.He goes on to attack President Biden and whine about the 2020 election that he continues to lie was "rigged and stolen" from him.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-04-20T16:17:29.894Z

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White House ‘Corrects’ a New York Times Headline – Winds Up Affirming Trump’s Contempt of Court

Posted by on April 18, 2025 at 2:37 pm. 0 Comments :

The second occupation of the White House by Donald Trump has proven to be far more destructive of the laws and principles of the United States and its Constitution than even the most pessimistic prognosticators imagined. And exacerbating the damage done is the fact that Trump routinely makes matters worse when he is confronted with his offenses.

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That was demonstrated this week when Sen. Chris Van Hollen travelled to El Salvador to arrange a meeting with his Maryland constituent, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was abducted by Trump’s thugs and carted off to a gulag in El Salvador without the due process that everyone is entitled to in the American justice system. Garcia has also suffered the defamatory abuse of Trump’s MAGA media propagandists.

SEE THIS: Trump DHS Official on Fox News Likens Wrongly Deported Migrant, Abrego Garcia, to Osama Bin Laden

After first being refused, Van Hollen was eventually permitted to see Abrego Garcia and ascertain his welfare and treatment while in custody. The meeting was a significant step forward to what should be Abrego Garcia’s release, and it was widely reported in the U.S. press.

Among the media that posted stories about the meeting was the New York Times. Their headline accurately stated that “Senator Meets With Wrongly Deported Maryland Man in El Salvador.” And that honesty was taken as some sort of challenge by the Trump administration to pile on with more lies and callous disregard for human rights. The White House posted the following…

Thanks White House hack, for providing this additional proof that Trump is in Contempt of Court for non-compliance with a court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-04-18T18:40:35.874Z

You really have to wonder just how severely disturbed one has to be to get on Trump’s White House staff. This attempt to mock what is a profoundly gross violation of international law and human rights is not only repulsive, it actually harms Trump’s already weak arguments for having deported Abrego Garcia, and for maintaining his incarceration. Trump’s White House is actually affirming that he is deliberately in Contempt of Court.

For starters, they crossed out the word “Wrongly,” which contradicts their own admission that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was the result of “an administrative error.”

Secondly, they also crossed out the words “Maryland Man,” and replaced them with “MS-13 Illegal Alien. However, there is no evidence whatsoever that Abrego Garcia is, or ever was, affiliated with MS-13 or any other gang. Furthermore, in the 15 years that he has lived in the U.S. he has never been arrested or charged with any crime.

Finally, they added the words “Who’s Never Coming Back” to end of the headline, referring to their insistence that Trump and his administration have no intention bringing Abrego Garcia back home, despite the ruling by a federal court ordering his return, which was upheld 9-0 by the Supreme Court. That’s gonna come in handy when hearings are held to determine whether Trump should be held in Contempt of Court.

For his part, Trump took time off from golfing to address this matter with a comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, saying that Van Hollen “looked like a fool,” who was “begging for attention.” And for that Trump called him a “grandstander.” All of which proves that Trump is still the master of projection and is staring into a mirror when composing his insults of others. Has there ever been a more foolish, attention grabbing, grandstander than Trump?

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Trump’s Truth Social is Creating ‘Non-Woke’ Investment Portfolios for MAGA Cult Investors/Dupes

Posted by on April 17, 2025 at 12:46 pm. 1 Comments :

It just never stops. Donald Trump, the Grifter-in-Chief, has spent his life peddling scams to anyone who was gullible enough to fall for them. He may have begun with gaudy, overvalued condos, elitist golf club memberships, and now bankrupt casinos, but he quickly expanded into cheesy merchandise like digital trading cards and swatches from the suit that he wore for his mug shot photo.

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Even after Trump’s occupation of the White House, he didn’t slow down his sleazy swindle ops that included pitching products so ludicrous that professional comedians couldn’t keep up with their comparatively mild swings at satire. Trump had the market cornered on comically corrupt commodities. And speaking of commodities, Trump has been dealing in those as well…

SEE THIS: THE TRUMP INDEX: While Trump Tanks the US Economy, What’s Going on With the Trump Cult Economy?

Now the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), the parent company of his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, is officially entering the financial services business. In an announcement on Thursday, TMTG revealed that…

“Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) has partnered with two other companies to create investment portfolios that they say will support ‘non-woke’ companies. […] In a press release, TMTG said the SMA strategies it was unveiling were called ‘faith & values,’ ‘liberty & security,’ ‘energy independence’ and ‘made in America.’ It did not expand on which particular companies it would be investing in.”

This should thrill the MAGA cult disciples who have been wondering how they could lose even more money by investing in certified losers that are endorsed by Trump. The focus of the Trump investment portfolios rests on buzzwords plucked from his political rhetoric. And what could possibly have more income potential than “non-woke” enterprises that pursue the anti-democratic goals of the MAGA movement? Just look at Trump’s crypto coin that has lost 90% of its value since its launch two months ago. Or Trump’s TMTG that has lost 88% from its high mark.

MORE HERE: Grifter Trump is Hawking His Stock and Crypto that Have Lost Gullible Rubes Billions of Dollars

While TMTG hasn’t revealed what companies it intends to invest in, it isn’t hard to speculate. It is likely that Tesla will be among them. Also, the Trump-fluffing Newsmax cable network. Notably, the stocks of both of those businesses have cratered since Trump was inaugurated in January.

And not coincidentally, so has the stock market overall, primarily due to Trump’s recessionary economic plans featuring his inflationary tariffs. All the more reason that investors should be careful to avoid Trump’s “pump and dump” tactics that look suspiciously like illegal stock manipulation and insider trading. This may account in part for the extraordinarily large amount of short positions (betting the stock will decline) in TMTG.

UPDATE: Judd Legum of Popular Info has detailed how this venture by TMTG is structured to funnel funds to Trump. He writes that…

“Trump will profit from these accounts in two ways. First, TMTG will invest a portion of its cash reserves in accounts. Secondly, as the majority shareholder in TMTG, Trump will benefit from the fees generated by these accounts. […] But Trump, as President, will also be able to significantly influence the performance of these assets through tariffs and other policies.”

So before anyone actually invests in anything that is promoted by Trump, you may want to take a look at how disastrous his business enterprises have been lately, and how they are really only intended to enrich himself…

Truth Social, Trump’s Pathetic Personal Propaganda Platform, Continues to Bleed Cash
In what may be the least surprising news of the year so far, Donald Trump’s flagship social media enterprise, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) – the parent holding company of his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social – released its annual report on Friday that revealed just how big a failure it is.

Trump’s Truth Social is Shedding Users Like a Miserable Childless Woman’s Mangy Cat
The Donald Trump-controlled Truth Social platform recorded its third straight month of declining traffic. Truth Social attracted 2,112,000 unique visitors, down 38% compared to June 2023 when the site generated 3,407,000 unique visitors. It was the platform’s second worst traffic performance since June 2022 when Truth Social had only 1,891,000 unique visitors.

Trump Crime Syndicate: Investors Arrested for Insider Trading in Failing Truth Social Scam
Trump’s associates in his truthless, anti-social media venture were arrested and charged with insider trading. Reports indicate that “the three individuals together made more than $22 million in illegal profits.”

Truth Social Disease: Ads on Trump’s Twitter Ripoff are Mostly Scams and Trump-Fluffing Merch
Advertisers are afraid of their ads being juxtaposed with hate speech and other noxious content. Consequently, the only advertisers who are willing to shell out are sketchy scammers, conspiracy theorists, and junk peddlers.

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Harvard Wouldn’t Kiss Trump’s As…er…Ring, So He Whines That They’re ‘Idiots and Birdbrains’

Posted by on April 16, 2025 at 3:24 pm. 0 Comments :

The reoccupation of the White House by Donald Trump is living up to his promise to be the “retribution” that he believes was due to the organizations and individuals who dared to criticize him and oppose his mission to subvert the Constitution and become America’s first dictator. In the few weeks since the inauguration, Trump has embarked on a non-stop revenge tour.

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Trump’s infamously infantile behavior is on full display with his recent efforts to bring his perceived foes to heel. Among them are politicians, and scientists, and financial institutions, and law firms, and of course media companies.

SEE THIS: Trump Escalates His War on the Press – and the Courts – with Predictably Preposterous Results

Most recently Trump is attacking universities in order to coerce them into complying with his oppressive demands to reshape their faculty and curriculum into one that conforms to his MAGA doctrine. Some of those universities have already caved in to his threats. However, Harvard has taken a stand for academic freedom and the principles enshrined in America’s Constitution. In response to Trump’s orders to subjugate themselves to his fascistic vision of academia, Harvard steadfastly refused saying that…

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

That noble stance was met with a predictably petulant tantrum by Trump on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. Trump put out a long and rambling rant that included some profoundly grotesque expressions of authoritarian tyranny. They included his severely disturbed griping that…

  • “Everyone knows that Harvard has ‘lost its way.'”
    Of course, everyone does not “know” any such thing. Harvard remains one of the most highly respected universities America and the world.
  • “Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’ who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called ‘future leaders.'”
    Harvard is well known to hire a broad spectrum of distinguished educators and administrators. When Trump speaks of idiots and birdbrains, he must be thinking about his family and/or his Cabinet.
  • “Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning.”
    This comment is coming from the guy who famously said that he “loves the poorly educated.”
  • “Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds.”
    And speaking of jokes (and hate and stupidity), have you heard the one about Trump University, that was found to be liable for fraud and ordered to pay restitution of $25 million?

Trump’s misadventures in education would be funny if they weren’t so abhorrent and harmful to the institutions and students that they are targeting. He is mounting a campaign to neutralize some of America’s most vital resources in government, media, law, and academics. Like the totalitarian despots that he idolizes and seeks to emulate, he needs to have total control, and anyone that gets in his way is subject to be being steamrolled by his MAGA machine.

Fortunately, Trump is more bullshit than bulldozer. But that doesn’t mean that he can’t cause some damage in the interim. In the end, he won’t succeed in his evil endeavors. He will be brought down by his own arrogance and incompetence. And with each step he takes he plants the seeds of his own defeat.

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Trump DHS Official on Fox News Likens Wrongly Deported Migrant, Abrego Garcia, to Osama Bin Laden

Posted by on April 15, 2025 at 1:27 pm. 1 Comments :

Last month the Donald Trump Immigration Squad captured and deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian national married to a U.S. citizen, with no criminal record, and deported him to El Salvador on the basis of wholly unfounded charges of criminal and gang activities. They later admitted that the deportation was a mistake caused by what they called an “administrative error.”

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Abrego Garcia was sent to a notoriously brutal gulag in El Salvador and has been held incommunicado ever since. Efforts to free him have been met with a barrage of lies and insults, while Trump himself ridiculously claims that he has no power to effectuate a return. It’s typical of his dishonest proclamations made to his MAGA media mouthpieces who are only there to serve Dear Leader.

SEE THIS: Trump Escalates His War on the Press – and the Courts – with Predictably Preposterous Results

On Monday night a Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, was interviewed on Fox News by devoted Trump-fluffer Will Cain. In the course of their discussion McLaughlin made a grotesque and grossly inappropriate association between Abrego Garcia and Al Qaeda terrorist, Osama Bin Laden…

“The media would love for you to believe that this is a media darling, that he is just a Maryland father. Osama Bin Laden was also a father, and yet, he was not a good guy. And they actually are both terrorists. He should be in this El Salvador prison, a prison for terrorists, and I hope he will remain there.”

DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: The media would love for you to believe that [Kilmar Abrego Garcia] is a media darling, that he's just a Maryland, father. Well Osama bin Laden was also a father and yet he wasn't a good guy, and they're actually both terrorists.

— Nikki McCann Ramírez (@nikkimcr.bsky.social) 2025-04-14T20:31:35.429Z

Seriously? There is no record whatsoever of any criminal acts or violence by Abrego Garcia. And the Trump factions haven’t presented a scintilla of evidence of any of their charges against him. So it is profoundly defamatory to make unqualified accusations of any kind, especially associating them with terrorist leaders who massacred thousands of innocent people.

McLaughlin’s lame attempt to tar Abrego Garcia with the barbarism of Bin Laden is preposterous in the extreme. She could have just as well said that Trump is a terrorist because he is also a father and is responsible for the deaths of more than a million Americans due to his deliberate downplaying of the COVID pandemic. She could even have drawn a connection between Trump and Hitler, because both sent innocent people that they didn’t like to prisons (aka concentration camps), without due process of law.

McLaughlin was not alone in making such chilling and un-American remarks. Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt addressed the Abrego Garcia matter on Tuesday in the White House press briefing room. She responded to a reporter’s question saying that…

“The Democrat and media outrage over the deportation of Abrego Garcia, an ms-13 El Salvadorian illegal alien criminal who has been hiding in Maryland, has been nothing short of despicable. Based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for father of the year. That’s because, unfortunately, many in this country care more about this ‘Maryland father,’ illegal MS-13 gang member, than an American mother and American citizen who was brutally murdered at the hands of a different illegal alien.”

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There is an abundance of derp in that statement. Let’s begin with the fact that Abrego Garcia was not “hiding” in Maryland. He had a family and a job and was a productive member of his community.

Leavitt went on to insult the reporters in the room by calling them “despicable” and engaging in “sensationalism,” simply because they pressed the administration to justify its treatment of a man for whom they had not provided any proof of the crimes that they alleged. And finally, Leavitt tried to connect the murdered mother to whom she referred with Abrego Garcia, who had nothing to do with that crime.

If anything is despicable about this, it’s the efforts by the Trump Propaganda Team to turn Abrego Garcia into a monster. They should immediately return him to his home and family. Then, if they have any evidence, they can present it to a court the way it’s done in America. Just making outlandish accusations with nothing to back then up is the sort of thing that is done in the totalitarian states, with autocratic tyrants, that Trump idolizes and seeks to emulate.

To those interested in some apt comparisons, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made one recently. And there is plenty of evidence to back it up. She was responding to the false accusations of Trump’s Propaganda Team that Abrego Garcia has a history of violence and sexual assault. You know who actually does have such a record? Donald Trump – with 34 felony convictions and dozens of allegations of sexual harassment and assault, including civil liability, with an adjudication that he’s a rapist, that resulted in a multimillion dollar judgment against him.

AOC: When he talks about rapists and criminals, he should look in the mirror

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-04-15T01:15:33.538Z

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Trump Escalates His War on the Press – and the Courts – with Predictably Preposterous Results

Posted by on April 14, 2025 at 2:28 pm. 1 Comments :

The road toward totalitarianism that Donald Trump has taken since he was reelected last November is becoming ever more clear with each day of his reoccupation of the White House. Despite being reprimanded and constrained by judicial injunctions, Trump continues to ignore the courts and forge his own unlawful path to satisfy his autocratic cravings.

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Earlier this year, Trump acted out his aspirational dreams of being America’s first dictator by banning the Associated Press from presidential events because they refused to obey his petty and unconstitutional demand to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. It was a blatant violation of the First Amendment’s protection of the free press.

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Undaunted by the principles of press freedom and the rule of law, Trump has now defied a court ruling to allow the AP into his media avails. According to Mediaite…

“Despite a recent injunction reinstating access, an AP spokesperson confirmed their journalists were denied access to an Oval Office press event on Monday. ‘Our journalists were blocked from the Oval Office today. We expect the White House to restore AP’s participation in the pool as of today, as provided in the injunction order.’”

The AP is being extraordinarily naïve if they really expect Trump to comply with the law. He has already demonstrated his disrespect for law and order by refusing to comply with a judge’s ruling to facilitate the return of a Maryland father that Trump’s immigration regime unlawfully sent to a gulag in El Salvador.

As a result of Trump’s efforts to banish credible journalists from the White House press pool, we are seeing more questions like the one that Trump received on Monday about his recent physical examination. Brian Glenn, a “reporter” from the rabidly right-wing MAGA outlet, Real America’s Voice (and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend), raised the subject with an adoring preface and a sickly sycophantic slant in the following exchange…

Reporter: You got a perfect health report. Everybody in the press wants to know this. How do you do it Mr President? … How do you stay so healthy? … How in the world do you do it? I’m 55 years old and I can’t keep up with you.
Trump: Because I enjoy what I’m doing […] Thank you. That’s a nice question. I like this guy!

Q: You got a perfect health report. Everybody in the press wants to know this — how do you do it Mr President? How do you stay so healthy?TRUMP: Because I love what I'm doing

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-14T15:26:26.285Z

HOLY SHIH TZU! Could this get any closer to parody? Why didn’t the reporter just ask why Trump is so handsome, smarter than Einstein, and better fit than an NFL quarterback? Which is not far from what Trump’s alleged physical report claimed. It says that he is 6’3″ and 224 pounds. Which is almost identical to that of Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs.

The question above was not the first of its kind. Last week a “reporter” from MyPillow’s Mike Lindell network asked…

“Trump looks healthier than ever before. I’m sure everybody in this room could agree. Is he working out with Bobby Kennedy and is he eating less McDonald’s?”

Are these reporters so infatuated with Trump that this is their way of asking him out on date? Notice that in both questions the reporter spoke for everyone else in the press pool, asserting that they all agree that Trump is a superior human specimen. However, most of the rest of the country doesn’t hold these perverse views. In fact, they are increasingly repulsed by Trump and his performance in office.

According to a new CBS News poll, “Most Americans recognize that the economy is getting worse.” Although there is a sharp partisan divide showing that 80% of Democrats say the economy is “bad” while 62% of Republicans say it’s “good.” Overall, Trump’s disapproval rating shot up to a majority 53% from 47% two short months ago.

What’s more, the percentage of Americans who say the economy is getting worse rose 11 points from 42% to 53% between November and March. And who is to blame for the worsening economy flipped in the past month from Biden by 4 point to Trump by 33 points – a 54% majority saying Trump is to blame.

Meanwhile, Trump continues to attack the media. His latest salvo is another swipe at CBS 60 Minutes over Sunday’s program that featured an interview of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, and a story about Greenland. Trump posted a rambling rant on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, saying that…

“I am so honored to be suing 60 Minutes, CBS Fake News, and Paramount, over their fraudulent, beyond recognition, reporting. They did everything possible to illegally elect Kamala, including completely and corruptly changing major answers to Interview questions.” [And that…]

“They should lose their license! Hopefully, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as headed by its Highly Respected Chairman, Brendan Carr, will impose the maximum fines and punishment, which is substantial, for their unlawful and illegal behavior.”

This psychotic scrambled egghead is still obsessed with Kamala Harris. And he is imagining “unlawful and illegal behavior” where none exists. Over which he has given orders to his FCC chair to commence some sort of punitive proceedings. These are the acts of an aspiring authoritarian who seeks to muzzle the media and ship his critics off to foreign prisons. And if the American people don’t rise up to reject it, many of them may find themselves in the same boat.

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THE TRUMP INDEX: While Trump Tanks the US Economy, What’s Going on With the Trump Cult Economy?

Posted by on April 13, 2025 at 1:45 pm. 1 Comments :

On what Donald Trump called “Liberation Day” (April 2, 2025) – the day that he liberated most Americans from the funds in their savings and retirement accounts – he promised to revitalize the U.S. economy and bring millions of jobs back from foreign countries that he said were ripping off America by selling way too much of what they produce to American buyers eager for bargains.

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Trump Baby on Cash Pile

Yes, that complaint makes no sense whatsoever to anyone with a 6th grade grasp of economics. Which eliminates Trump. But it is what Trump and his MAGA minions are insisting is the brilliant plan that is elevating the United States to new heights of wealth and is working precisely as it was intended, despite his having reversed course several times and capitulated meekly to foreign adversaries.

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In the two weeks that have transpired since being “liberated,” the stock market has gyrated wildly and ended up about 2,000 points lower than where it was before Trump’s tariff blunders, and 4,000 points below where it was when he inherited it from President Biden.

So while the nation – and the world – is suffering the dreadful consequences of Trump’s purposeful incompetence, it seems like a good time to see how all of this has affected what could be called the “Trump Index” a bundle of investments affiliated with the confounder-in chief.

Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT):
The natural place to begin is with Trump’s own business that is the parent of his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. Investors in this dog have lost about 50% from its price on Trump’s inauguration day twelve weeks ago. And it’s down a whopping 89% from its all time high.

Trump Meme Coin:
This is Trump’s entry into cryptocurrency that he launched on the day before his inauguration. And its performance since then has been a dismal decline of about 90%.

Newsmax (NMAX):
This notoriously pro-Trump MAGA media outlet went public about two weeks ago. Since then it has dropped 91% from its trading highs, making early investors significantly poorer, while simultaneously making them significantly more ignorant.

Rumble (RUM):
This is the MAGA world answer to YouTube. They record and post virtually every public appearance by Trump with unabashedly biased commentary from their Trump-fluffing correspondents. It has declined 43% since Trump’s inauguration.

Tesla (TSLA):
The automaker headed up by Trump’s billionaire oligarch, co-president, and director of the phony Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, has suffered a sever decline of 41% since Trump was sworn into office in January.

But not to worry. Trump and his cabal of billionaires will be just fine. They may have lost a small portion of their wealth, but only their loyal cult followers will feel the brunt of these abysmal investments. The the real targets of their economic assault – the American people – will be the most seriously wounded victims of this class war. And of course, it is, as Trump and his cohorts insist, all going according to their plan. Comforting, isn’t it?

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Fox News is Already Downplaying Trump’s Unreleased Health Report Because Trump…Looks Great?

Posted by on April 12, 2025 at 1:16 pm. 3 Comments :

This week Donald Trump went to Walter Reed Medical Center for the first annual physical of his 2025 reoccupation of the white House. As usual, there has been nothing released about the results of the examination, except for what Trump told a reporter on Air Force One.

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Trump in Bed, Eating, Sad

Trump’s account of his health was a predictably glowing example of a superior human specimen whose 78 year old body has another 78 prime years left in it. Never mind that he can barely navigate a slight inclined path or play nine holes without his golf cart. And that’s not even addressing his obvious and long-standing cognitive deficiencies.

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On Friday’s episode of “The Five” on Fox News, co-host Jesse Watters demonstrated why he is widely known as the dumbest man on television. In a segment about Trump’s physical exam, Watters replied to his Fox colleague, Brian Kilmeade, with his hallmark derpitude…

Kilmeade: Do you think that Trump will grade high in his physical judging from what you can see?
Watters: Healthy as an ox. 6′ 6″, 195, the stamina of an Olympic athlete. We’re gonna get probably a vague statement, and that’s fine. I don’t want to know his health. I think he’s fine. I don’t need to know what pills he is taking or not taking. He looks great.”

It’s unusual for anyone on an alleged “news” network to embrace the withholding of information about government or its key personnel. Generally they will want full transparency and all the info that they can get their hands on. But Watters says that he’s “fine” with knowing nothing, or maybe just a “vague statement”

Why would Watters be so easily comforted with crumbs of data about Trump when he has regularly demanded so much more about Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, or any other Democratic politician? Apparently because he can tell by just looking at him that Trump is in peak physical condition. Consequently, if he actually has any acute medical problems, including brain functionality, that are not visible to his layman’s eyes, Watters couldn’t care less. Trump could be on high doses of psychoactive pharmaceuticals and Watters doesn’t even want to know.

For his part, Trump spoke to a reporter after his exam and told him that he “got every answer right,” on a cognitive test. This is a reprise of his infamous account of his supposed mental acuity because he was able to recite “person, woman, man, camera, tv” in a test that was not measuring IQ, but was a simple test given to people who were being evaluated for early signs of dementia. Then Trump went on to claim, contrary to observable evidence, that “I’m in very good shape. Good heart. Good soul. Very good soul.”

“Good soul”? Trump seems to believe that his annual physical includes a doctor’s examination of his spiritual essence. And that he got a divine endorsement despite his lifelong rejection of faith, his multiple failed marriages, pathological lying, boundless greed, deliberate mismanagement of a pandemic that killed more than a million Americans, separation and incarceration of migrant children, abandonment of Ukrainian allies, incitement of a deadly insurrection, and many more acts of blatant evil that are too numerous to enumerate.

WTF? Does Trump think that in his annual physical the doctor examined his soul?If he had, he would have seen…

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-04-12T10:11:05.846Z

The White House has said that Trump’s medical report from the physical will be released Sunday. But judging from the reliability of such promises in the past, it would be foolish to expect the report to made public any time soon. And when it is, we can expect it to be heavily redacted so that any honest or useful information will have already been removed.

And that will be fine with Jesse Watters, and everyone else at Fox News, who are content to know only what Dear Leader permits them to know. That’s how cults work.

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