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Trump Warns West Point Graduates About the Troubles with ‘Trophy Wives’ – No, REALLY!

Posted by on May 24, 2025 at 12:42 pm. NO Comments :

Taking a day off from his busy schedule of staged executive order signings, dinners with buyers of his meme coins, and golfing at his own resorts, Donald Trump ventured off to the United States Military Academy at West Point. The five-time draft dodger who called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers” was there ostensibly to deliver a commencement speech to inspire the cadets on their graduation.

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Donald Trump Baby at Podium

Unfortunately, Trump’s speech was just another one of the rabidly partisan campaign style rants that he disgorges at his cult rallies. Consequently, it was filled with lies, insults, and narcissistic exaltations of himself. It was indistinguishable from the self-serving propaganda that he unloads during the staged press avails where he reveals how ignorant he is about pretty much everything.

SEE THIS: What Trump Admits He Doesn’t Know: 13 Examples of His Failing Mental Acuity – or Blatant Lying

Commencement speeches are supposed to be events that will inspire graduating students in advance of the life journeys that they will shortly embark upon. But true to form, Trump’s speech hardly conformed to that grand tradition. Instead, he tainted the entire affair with his radical, far-right, MAGA-fied politics, and flattery of himself and his imaginary achievements in office.

Among Trump’s egomaniacal glorifications was one that was particularly appropriate. He told the story of his friend, real estate magnate William Levitt, who “lost momentum” and became a wretched loser who died bankrupt and alone. According to Trump…

“He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife — could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn’t work out too well. And that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you, a lot of trophy wives. It doesn’t work out. But it made him happy for a little while, at least. But he found a new wife. He sold his little boat, he got a big yacht.”

In a pathetic commencement speech at West Point, Trump rambles about someone's trophy wife:"That doesn't work out too well, I must tell you. A lot of trophy wives."How inspiring, coming from an expert on trophy wives that don't work out well, who cheated on all of them.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T16:52:46.800Z

Trump’s tale of Leavitt sounds awfully familiar. Trump himself was divorced – twice. Each time he remarried someone that could be described as a “trophy wife.” It didn’t work out well. He cheated on all three of them. His current wife Melania – a former model – rarely spends any time with him. She lives in New York, not at the White House or Mar-a-Lago. She probably made him happy for a little while, at least. But now she’s probably just trying to hold on until the will has been read.

Most of the rest of Trump’s speech wasn’t any better. Rather than imparting any gems of wisdom for his young audience, Trump battered them with political bullsh*t that they couldn’t care less about. They rarely applauded his raving madness that included the following…

“We are making deals with other nations that were not even –nobody thought it would be possible.”
Trump hasn’t made a single trade deal to mitigate his ludicrous, inflationary tariffs. He just has a framework with the UK, and some discussions with China. Nothing finalized with them or the nearly 200 other countries that he tariffed.

“We won 2750 districts against 505. 2750 against 505. We had a great mandate and it gives us the right to do what we want to do.”
The districts he won were mostly sparsely populated rural areas. The districts won by Kamala Harris were densely populated cities. And winning an election does not give you the right to violate the law or the Constitution, as Trump does every day.

“I was investigated more than the great, late Alphonse Capone. Alphonse Capone was a monster.”
Trump loves to brag that he is a worse “monster” than the notorious mob boss, Al Capone. Which is true. Trump has a couple of dozen more felony convictions than Capone, and is responsible for more death.

“The job of the U.S. Armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun.”
So Trump thinks that it’s his job to threaten all other countries to accept his perverse brand of democracy at “the point of gun.” That’s the rhetoric of a mad tyrant who wants to rule the world. And it’s consistent with his talk of invading and/or annexing Mexico, Canada, and Greenland.

Hopefully the West Point Cadets can shake this off and get on their lives without this staining their day of accomplishment and pride. It’s too bad they didn’t have the far better, more inspirational, more intelligent, commencement speaker that the University of Maryland was lucky enough to get…

“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-05-23T15:28:14.784Z

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Trump Celebrates the House Passing His ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ in the Most Trumpian Way – By Lying

Posted by on May 22, 2025 at 12:34 pm. 2 Comments :

In a bizarre, overnight spectacle, the Republicans in the House of Representatives held a debate and vote on a budget bill that Donald Trump ordered to them call the “Big Beautiful Bill.” (BBB) They conducted these proceedings under the cover of darkness, presumably because they are too ashamed of the abomination that they are trying to shove down the throat of the nation to do it in the light of day.

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Donald Trump, Congress, Mike Johnson

The BBB barely passed on a party line vote of 215-214. If it weren’t for two recently deceased Democratic representatives, the bill might have failed. Trump’s loyal MAGA cult disciples in the House caved in to voting for the bill, even though several had previously insisted that they could not support a deficit exploding bill that violated their conservative “principles.” In the end, the cult and it’s Dear Leader, came first.

SEE THIS: Trump Cult Priestess, Karoline Leavitt, Preaches to ‘Trust in Trump’ to Bring Economic Salvation

For his part, Trump celebrated the passage of the BBB in a rambling rant posted on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. Unable to contain his glee, Trump wrote that…

“‘THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’ has PASSED the House of Representatives! This is arguably the most significant piece of Legislation that will ever be signed in the History of our Country!”

True to form, Trump’s comment was a stream of superheated hyperbole. In his mind there is nothing that he does that doesn’t surpass everything else of its kind in the history of human endeavors. However, he may be right this time, although not in the way he thinks. Because the BBB could be “the most significant piece of Legislation,” at least in modern times.

The bill is one Big Abhorrent Act of Betrayal to the American people. As Trump wrote in his comment, “the Bill includes MASSIVE Tax CUTS.” What he neglects to mention is that they are all for his wealthy pals and corporations. Meanwhile, his bill cuts benefits and services to the needy and middle class, including Medicaid and Medicare.

After “weaving” interminably, Trump closed his harangue with an impotent swing at his Democratic opponents…

“The Democrats have lost control of themselves, and are aimlessly wandering around, showing no confidence, grit, or determination. They have forgotten their landslide loss in the Presidential Election”

Let’s set aside Trump’s delusional and relentlessly repeated nonsense that his historically narrow victory was a landslide. His even more preposterous claim that Democrats are “aimlessly wandering around” and lacking in “confidence, grit, or determination,” is belied by the vigorous opposition to the bill by Democratic representatives throughout the night, and by the response to the BBB’s passage by Democratic Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries who said that…

“We will stand up today, stand up tomorrow, stand up this week, stand up next week, stand up this month, stand up next month, stand up this year, stand up next year, stand up at all times until we end this national nightmare and restore the American dream for every single person.”

Jeffries: We will stand up today, stand up tomorrow, stand up this week, stand up next week, stand up this month, stand up next month, stand up this year, stand up next year, stand up at all times until we end this national nightmare and restore the American dream for every single person

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-05-22T10:15:34.880Z

Trump’s giddiness over the BBB’s passage was shared by his Propaganda Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, who offered a ludicrous description of the bill as having “common sense and massively popular policies,” and regurgitated Trump’s flagrant lie that…

“The one big beautiful bill also helps get our fiscal house in order by carrying out the largest deficit reduction in nearly 30 years, with $1.6 trillion in mandatory savings.”

The only way that Leavitt could arrive at that number is by neglecting to include all of the tax cuts for the rich and other measures that wiped out revenue, such as firing IRS agents who collect billions of dollars from wealthy tax cheats. She also left out the fact that the “mandatory savings” included slashing Medicare benefits. Leavitt was fact-checked by PolitiFact on this. They rated her assessment “False,” saying that “the bill would increase deficits by $3 trillion to $4 trillion over the next decade.”

There was so much more wrong with this bill that it’s impossible to summarize. But comedian Jimmy Kimmel did a pretty good job of it Wednesday night. He began by saying that “This “Big Beautiful Bill” literally takes from the poor and gives to the rich, brazenly. Republicans like the robbin’ part, just not the hood.” And it just got better from there…

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What’s Keeping Snowflake Trump Awake at Night? Springsteen, Beyoncé, and Oprah, Oh My!

Posted by on May 19, 2025 at 9:31 pm. NO Comments :

Poor crybaby Donald Trump is spending sleepless nights massaging his wounded ego that can’t handle the fact that he is unloved by America’s most admired and talented celebrities. He is suffering terribly with having to console himself with losers like Kid Rock and Roseanne Barr. What a pity.

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Donald Trump, Snowflakes

In the deepest recesses of his lonely nights, Trump is still sobbing into his MyPillow over the results of the 2024 election that he waged against Kamala Harris. Even though he won (by a historically small margin), he is inconsolable that he failed to get every vote, or to avoid any criticism. He is still whining over contrived complaints that no one buys except his cult devotees.

SEE THIS: 60 Minutes Interview of Kamala Harris that Drove Trump to Sue CBS is Nominated for an Emmy

So early on Monday morning, Trump was awake and posting pathetic comments on his failing Twitter rip off, Truth Social. At 1:34 AM Trump lashed out at some of the beloved Americans that had the audacity to reject him and endorse Kamala Harris. He bleated that…

“HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT? WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN’T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONCÉ? …AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO???”

We now interrupt this yowling to state for the record that none of what Trump is grousing about is true. PolitiFact and others researched these baseless allegations last October when Trump first raised them about Beyoncé and “found no credible reporting that Beyoncé was paid for her endorsement or comments at the rally.”

Trump has offered no new evidence of any payments since then for Beyoncé, or Springsteen, or Oprah, or Bono. The only thing he’s offered is his relentless sniveling. And on the basis of that he is threatening to have Harris and/or the celebrities who supported her, investigated for some unspecified crime…

“I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter. Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment. In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds. IT’S NOT LEGAL! For these unpatriotic ‘entertainers,’ this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system.”

Once again, Trump is trafficking in imaginary improprieties. Harris didn’t pay for endorsements or for entertainment. She did pay for certain production costs that the law stipulates must be paid for. Those payments went to the contractors who did the production work, not the artists. But Trump still wasn’t satisfied. At 9:11 AM the same morning he posted another tantrum saying that…

“According to news reports, Beyoncé was paid $11,000,000 to walk onto a stage, quickly ENDORSE KAMALA, and walk off to loud booing for never having performed, NOT EVEN ONE SONG! Remember, the Democrats and Kamala illegally paid her millions of Dollars for doing nothing other than giving Kamala a full throated ENDORSEMENT. THIS IS AN ILLEGAL ELECTION SCAM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL! IT IS AN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, OPRAH, BONO AND, PERHAPS, MANY OTHERS, HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO!!!”

Naturally, Trump didn’t bother to post links to any of the alleged “news reports” that he said reported that “Beyoncé was paid $11,000,000.” But in his defense, he had a good reason for not posting those links. They don’t exist. There is likewise no video of anyone booing Beyoncé, so he didn’t post that either. But he did repeat his preposterous charge that something Harris did was “AN ILLEGAL ELECTION SCAM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL!”

Trump has always been fond of accusing others of violating the law. It’s called projection. He is the only president who has earned 34 felony convictions. And he is the candidate who had billionaires like Elon Musk contributing millions of dollars to his campaign. And he is the one who launched a meme coin that could serve as a virtual depository for untraceable bribes from conflicted persons, including foreign operatives.

Unfortunately, Trump is also the one who yells the loudest to deflect from the criminal activities that he regularly engages in. And that deflection also draws attention away from his abhorrent policies, such as deporting migrants to foreign gulags without due process, shutting down critical government agencies that save lives in the U.S. and internationally, cutting programs that Americans rely on like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and trashing the Constitution’s protections for the free press.

But at least he’s on top of the scandalous affairs of which pop stars are backing which politicians. Someone else will take of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and the coming recession. Trump has his tiny hands full with fantasies about Springsteen and Beyoncé.

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Trump’s Propaganda Secretary Flagrantly Lies that His ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Won’t Add to the Deficit

Posted by on May 19, 2025 at 3:16 pm. 1 Comments :

This weekend the House Republicans sought to get Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB) passed in the Budget Committee. They failed on their first attempt. Then tried again in a post-midnight session with marginal success as four Republican opponents to the bill voted “present” in order to allow it to advance to the Rules Committee.

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Donald Trump and Karoline Leavitt

These are the kinds of childish stunts that the GOP trots out in order to stumble forward in their efforts to implement the ultra-rightist MAGA agenda and to placate Dear Leader Trump. It isn’t easy to force unpopular policies by an unpopular president down the throats of the American people. Particularly when you have a narrow legislative majority that is divided between hardcore conservatives and frightened moderates. Not to mention a president who doesn’t have the slightest idea what he’s doing.

SEE THIS: What Trump Admits He Doesn’t Know: 13 Examples of His Failing Mental Acuity – or Blatant Lying

On Monday morning Trump’s Propaganda Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, responded to a question about the BBB’s estimated costs and how it would contribute to the national deficit. To no one’s surprise, Leavitt outright lied through her teeth…

Question: Is the president okay with this bill adding to the deficit?
Leavitt: This bill does not add to the deficit. In fact. according to the Council of Economic Advisers, this bill will save $1.6 trillion. And the president absolutely understands and hears the concerns of fiscal conservatives and of Americans who want to get our fiscal house in order. That’s what the intention of this bill is.

“There’s $1.6 trillion worth of savings in this bill. That’s the largest savings for any legislation that has ever passed Capitol Hill in our nation’s history. The next bill that even comes close was $800 billion. That’s less than half of the savings that we see in the One Big Beautiful Bill. And so, the goal of this bill is to produce economic growth, to cut taxes and to get our fiscal house in order. And this is the right step in the right direction towards doing that.

REPORTER: Is the president okay with this bill adding to the deficit?LEAVITT: This bill does not add to the deficit

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-05-19T13:29:52.789Z

There isn’t a single word of truth in Leavitt’s reply. Every credible analysis of the bill has produced a conclusion that it will severely increase the deficit. For instance, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, “the net cost of the committee’s provisions would rise to $5.3 trillion over 10 years. The bill also increases the statutory debt limit by $4 trillion.” Why would Republicans even consider raising the debt limit by $4 trillion if they were actually anticipating a decline in the deficit? Their actions reveal their true intent.

Furthermore, Leavitt’s reference to the Council of Economic Advisers is hardly an independent affirmation the bill’s impact. The Council is, of course, a White House office staffed by Trump sycophants. Asking them to analyze his BBB would be like asking John Barron to analyze it (ICYMI, John Barron was a pseudonym that Trump used when pretending to be his own PR rep).

Anyone who believes that Trump is serious about reducing the deficit is terminally naïve. After all, he increased it by about $7 trillion in his first occupation of the White House. And this time he is already demonstrating his irresponsible, profligate spending habits by accepting a 747 from Qatar that will cost the U.S. a billion dollars to cleanse of possible surveillance devices and to retrofit for use as Air Force One. He is also planning a $92 million birthday parade to honor himself. And his cuts to the IRS will result in the loss of $850 billion in uncollected taxes from wealthy cheaters.

MORE HERE: Trump Pledges to Forgo 100’s of Billions in Revenue By Letting Wealthy Tax Cheaters Off the Hook

Leavitt never actually says where she got the $1.6 trillion figure that she says this bill will save. She likely pulled it out of her asinine assumptions that only count cost reductions in the bill, but not any of the cost increases or revenue reductions. Among those savings are an $800 billion cut to Medicaid that accounts for half of Leavitt’s alleged savings. And since there are numerous benefits for the wealthy in the form of tax cuts and revocation of regulations that protect people and save lives, she is missing the bulk of the bill’s economic impact.

This bill still has to get through the House Rules Committee, the floor vote, and then the Senate. And considering that there are some Republicans who oppose the bill because it isn’t cruel enough, and others who are afraid that supporting cuts to Medicaid will cost them their seats in swing districts, its final passage is far from certain. Which is why Leavitt is lying so hard to deceive the public about it’s deficit exploding effects.

In the meantime, the American people can have a profound effect on the outcome if they call their representatives in droves and let them know that they are fervently opposed to the Big Abhorrent Bill. That would be an encouraging end to this disastrous legislation, and a satisfying smackdown of Trump and MAGA. LFG!

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WHUT? Washington Post Op-Ed Praises CNN for Being ‘Pro-Trump’ in All His ‘Fact-Deprived Glory’

Posted by on May 18, 2025 at 1:47 pm. NO Comments :

The state of journalism in the era of Donald Trump has suffered an alarmingly rapid descent into submissiveness to power and capitulation to the threats of an aspiring authoritarian whose dependence on, and hostility toward, the media has long been openly and loudly expressed.

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General Donald Trump on CNN

In just the few short months of his reoccupation of the White House, Trump has demonstrated his disgraceful disregard for the Constitution’s protections of a free press by banning media outlets that have angered him (Associated Press, Reuters), dismantling independent agencies (Voice of America, Radio Free Europe), declaring critical media illegal (MSNBC, CNN), and reshaping the White House press room to align with his radical MAGA agenda.

SEE THIS: Trump Declares Himself King of the White House Press Corps, Will Now Decide Who Can Question Him

in the midst of this media dismemberment, Eric Wemple of the Washington Post (which is owned by Trump flunky Jeff Bezos) has published an article that presumes to be an objective analysis of the the left-leaning cable news network, MSNBC. But it’s headline gives away it’s inherent bias: “MSNBC in five words: ‘I could not agree more’“ He began the article saying that…

“Over the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, CNN has erupted in regular shoutfests over the latest Trump outrage. Fox News, too, has had its moments of internal combustion, especially on its highest-rated show, ‘The Five,’ where rotating co-host Jessica Tarlov often snipes at her conservative peers. As for MSNBC: Does anyone ever debate stuff on this network? To get closer to an answer, I decided to gulp roughly 18 hours of MSNBC programming”

So Wemple is complaining that MSNBC doesn’t have the the “shoutfests” that Fox News and CNN have. And that’s supposed to be a bad thing? He also suggests that Jessica Tarlov – one liberal against four Trump-fluffers – constitutes balance. His premise is that MSNBC is a Democratic echo chamber that features “Vast expanses of predictable programming in which people passionately agree with one another” that Trump is a bad person and president.

That, however, is a hard position to argue with. What good is there to say about a president who has crashed the economy, abandoned longtime allies, embraced totalitarian foes, fought against the interests of working class Americans, and relentlessly seeks to enrich himself and his billionaire benefactors?

In Wemple’s article he claims to have watched 18 hours straight of MSNBC. But he only posts 15 time-stamped observations of that viewing, That’s less than one per hour. And they don’t even support his premise. For instance, he claims that MSNBC is stacked with liberal hosts and guests. But he acknowledges that they have Republicans in those roles, including host Michael Steele, Susan Del Percio, Brendan Buck, and Tim Miller. He left out hosts Joe Scarborough and Nicolle Wallace.

Wemple also claimed that MSNBC doesn’t book guests who support Trump, saying that they are “opting for Republicans that give it the patina of balance, even though those voices don’t represent Trumpism.”. But he himself notes that Trump advisor Stephen Miller, GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, all appeared on the network during his 18 hour taste test. And anti-Trump Republicans are the minority who wouldn’t have a platform, but for MSNBC.

Virtually every criticism that Wemple has of MSNBC applies much more accurately to Fox News that has zero Democratic hosts. MSNBC doesn’t avoid contrarian debate. They ARE the contrarian debate. Much of the rest of the media, including WaPo, has succumbed to Trumpism. Wemple closed his hackery by saying that…

“In pre-Trump times, MSNBC’s current programming model would have been outright journalistic fraud. In Trump days, not so much — and we have daily proof over at CNN: The segments featuring that network’s Trump-supporting contributors are loud, chaotic and poisoned by frequent distortions. At least CNN viewers get to hear the pro-Trump arguments in all their fact-deprived glory, however. I lean toward the CNN model, but not enough to strain my calves.”

REALLY? Wemple leans toward CNN’s “loud, chaotic,” “poisoned,” “fact-deprived” “distortions”? And what part of that does he regard as credible journalism? He is actually advocating that news networks air noisy, blatant falsehoods as some sort of exercise in balance. He thinks that viewers will benefit from being lied to, so long as it’s done by screaming right-wingers who emulate Trump’s infantile emotional infirmity.

If Wemple wants to watch pro-wrestling style face-offs by shouting partisans, that’s up to him. But he shouldn’t push his bone-headed ideas on others, or use them as a model for the principles of professional journalism. Fox News has always been useless as a source for honest news. And CNN has recently joined them in the gutter. America doesn’t need another network that traffics in anger and lies.

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EAT THE TARIFFS? Trump Admits that His Tariffs Will Raise Prices, But Blames it on Walmart

Posted by on May 17, 2025 at 2:00 pm. NO Comments :

On April 2, Donald Trump declared that it was “Liberation Day” as he imposed a broad set of devastating tariffs on virtually every country around the world. Ever since then he has staggered like a drunken toddler between clawing back his ill-considered economic scheme and doubling down when it suited some indiscernible purpose that resided only in his twisted imagination.

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The stock market responded with a certainty that it rarely exhibits by proceeding to crash more than it had in five years. It has since regained some of that decline due to Trump’s wavering and caving on alleged deals with the UK and China that don’t really resolve the problem, but generate some positive press. Although even his Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, has not been sold on his tariffs/taxes…

SEE THIS: UH-OH: Fox News Trump-Fluffer Admits that Trump’s Tariffs Will Fuel Higher Prices and Recession

For the most part, Trump has been insisting that everything he does is golden and that he is incapable of making a mistake. But that seems to have hit a speed bump on Saturday morning when he posted a comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, wherein he actually admitted – although likely inadvertently – that he is indeed responsible for the rising prices that the American people are all too familiar with, and the likelihood that the worst is yet to come. He wrote that…

“Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, ‘EAT THE TARIFFS,’ and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!”

Trump’s threat aimed at Walmart to “EAT THE TARIFFS” is an outright admission that the tariffs he is imposing would be paid by American businesses and the consumers who patronize them. That’s a complete contradiction of his prior claims that the foreign governments would pay the tariffs. And his accusation that Walmart is “trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices” is actually Trump trying to blame Walmart.

Trump is clinging to a kernel of truth when it notes that Walmart makes billions of dollars. However, he is ignoring that they make that money on narrow profit margins that will be erased if tariffs are implemented. He’s also ignoring the fact that consumers are already holding back on spending due to the economic strife that Trump has caused, and that will only continue to decline going forward.

Trump’s solution is to coerce Walmart to set prices lower at his demand. How is that different from the communist price-fixing of totalitarian regimes where the state decides what companies can charge for their products? Apparently Trump is abandoning capitalism in favor of the economic model employed by his hero, Vladimir Putin. And the CFO of Walmart recently acknowledged as much in an interview on CNBC…

Trump cranked up tariffs against China to 145%. Then, to "fix" the problem he created, he walks it back to 30%.But according to Walmart's CFO, even that is too high. A $300 microwave oven would cost $390.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T16:01:41.532Z

Trump sees – or has had it explained to him – that his policies will cause serious harm and likely a recession or worse. So he wants to force Walmart to rescue him from his own economic incompetence. That’s not gonna happen. But even if Walmart were to nibble on some of Trump’s tariffs, rather than eat them whole, it wouldn’t solve the problem. Walmart isn’t the only retailer in America that would suffer the consequences of his tariffs. Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, Costco, and others would also have to comply. And then there are the thousands of small stores that don’t have the pricing power of the big box stores, and would probably have to shut down.

Trump’s attempt to bully Walmart is a desperation move on his part. It can’t possibly work. It will only create more problems for retailers of all sizes across the country. And those are problems that will result in bankruptcies, job losses, and forced austerity for the American people, who are already complaining that that is not what they voted for. And it’s why Trump’s approval rating is at a record low.

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The Choice of Fox News Trump-Fluffer Jeanine Pirro as Interim US Attorney May Be Illegal

Posted by on May 15, 2025 at 12:46 pm. 2 Comments :

The team that Donald Trump has assembled for his second occupation of the White House is a collection of incompetent misfits who have an unprecedented measure of ignorance of, and lack of qualifications for, the jobs that they have been appointed to carry out. Most of them are committed to sabotaging and/or shuttering the departments that they were hired to lead.

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Among the saboteurs are Trump’s Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, an alcoholic with no command leadership experience, who has already been caught disclosing sensitive attack plans on a commercial chat app; Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, an anti-vax conspiracy crackpot with a brain worm; and Trump’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who doesn’t believe in Due Process or other explicit protections in the Constitution. But then, why should she when her boss doesn’t?

SEE THIS: WTHF? When Asked ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution,’ Trump Replies ‘I Don’t Know.’

Which brings us to the mysterious case of Jeanine Pirro. She is the Fox News personality that Trump has just tapped to become the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. She is a replacement for Trump’s first choice, Ed Martin, who was torpedoed by his long record of improprieties and Trump cult worship. Pirro would be the 21st Fox News alum that Trump has recruited this time around. And she would join another Trump flunky, Alina Habba, among the ranks of U.S. Attorneys.

However, there is some controversy as to whether Pirro can actually take the job. The Washington Post Editorial Board published an article that explores whether “Jeanine Pirro’s Appointment as U.S. Attorney Might Not Be Legal.” The article begins by stating that…

“[S]ince Pirro left her last job as a prosecutor two decades ago, she has acted in ways that call into question whether she has the independence necessary to responsibly take on one of the most important prosecutorial jobs in the United States. What’s more, in choosing her, Trump is pushing the limits of his authority. It isn’t clear that the law allows him to name successive interim U.S. attorneys who are not confirmed by the Senate.”

What the article is referring to is the “Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998” that governs interim appointments in the executive branch. It states that the U.S. District Court, not the president, can appoint a new interim staffer after the term of a previous interim staffer – in this case, Martin – has expired.

In their article, the Post’s Editorial Board elaborated on certain concerns about Pirro’s proposed appointment. For instance, they noted that “Trump has long wanted to place Pirro in a high government position.” He previously tried, and failed, to give her a high post in the Justice Department under his first Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, who he later fired. He discussed making her a special counsel to conduct meritless investigations of Hillary Clinton. And he briefly considered her for Attorney General before appointing Bill Barr, who he later fired.

When all of that failed, Pirro hooked up with Fox News where she made a name for herself sucking up to Trump and disseminating his most flagrant lies. She’s been there for twenty years now and has not been practicing law at all. Which makes her the perfect Trump appointee who is lacking in any relevant experience, other than her infatuation with Trump. As reported in the Post…

“On her Fox News show, she championed Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat. In documents obtained by Dominion Voting Systems as part of discovery in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News (which led to a $787.5 million settlement), Pirro’s executive producer at the time referred to her as a ‘reckless maniac’ during an internal argument over her pro-Trump monologues.”

This is the person that Trump believes is best qualified to lead one of the most important prosecutorial offices in America. The truth is that Trump believes Pirro is best qualified to obstruct any inquiries into activities by him and his cronies, while launching phony persecutions of his political foes. And he’s aiming to do all of that with an appointment that he may not be legally authorized to make. But Trump wouldn’t do anything illegal, would he? WOULD HE?

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What Trump Admits He Doesn’t Know: 13 Examples of His Failing Mental Acuity – or Blatant Lying

Posted by on May 11, 2025 at 1:18 pm. 2 Comments :

Donald Trump often brags about his allegedly incomparable intellect. He has claimed that he knows more about medicine than doctors; more about the military than generals; more about economics than economists. The list of subjects that he says he knows more about than anyone else is almost as long as the list of his documented lies.

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What’s more, Trump uses his gasbag boasts to favorably compare himself to President Biden, who he has relentlessly demeaned as incompetent and even unaware of what he’s doing or where he is. Meanwhile, Trump celebrates the results of simple cognitive exams as evidence that he’s a “stable genius.” And he is oblivious to the contempt in which he is held by most Americans.

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So while Trump frequently insists that he is the answer to all of mankind’s woes, and that only he can fix their problems, the Washington Post has compiled some examples of Trump exhibiting his ineptitude and desperation to evade responsibility for anything. The article began by noting that…

“One of the major themes of President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign was the idea that Joe Biden had no idea what was happening around him. […] But less than four months after taking over from Biden, it’s Trump who, in his own telling, is often unaware of major events surrounding him and directly involving his administration.”

What follows is a summary of the Post’s research of recent Trump attempts to separate himself from his multitude of failures.

  • On nominating Casey Means, a conspiracy crackpot with no medical license, as Surgeon General: “I don’t know her, I listened to the recommendation of Bobby [Kennedy Jr].”
  • On GOP Sen. Thom Tillis coming out against Ed Martin, the now discarded Trump nominee for U.S. attorney for D.C.: “I didn’t know that.”
  • On firing staffers of a program that provides health care for 9/11 first responders and survivors: “I’m not aware of anything that may have been brought up recently.”
  • On whether he had been briefed about four U.S. soldiers who died in a training exercise in Lithuania: “No, I haven’t.”
  • On the SignalGate scandal involving his top national security officials revealing sensitive data on a commercial chat app: “I don’t know anything about it.”
  • On his Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordering a halt to military aid shipments to Ukraine: “Trump was not aware of Hegseth’s order.”
  • On reported plans to deport migrants to Libya: “I don’t know; you’ll have to ask Homeland Security.”
  • On the arrest and detention of Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk: “I’m not aware of the particular event.”
  • On whether he could get Kilmar Abrego García back from El Salvador: “I’m not the one making this decision. We have lawyers that don’t want to do this.”
  • On whether he signed the order to deport migrants under the Alien Enemies Act without due process: “I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it. Other people handled it.” (He did sign it)
  • On decisions about deportations following a judicial ruling halting them: “I’d have the Secretary of State handle it, because I’m not really involved in that.”
  • — And a few that the Post left out… —
  • On his 145% tariffs on China: “80% Tariff on China seems right! Up to Scott B.” [Scott Bessant, Treasury Secretary].”
  • On whether he agrees if citizens and non-citizens are covered by due process: “I don’t know. I’m not a lawyer.”
  • On whether he is required to uphold the Constitution: “I don’t know.”

So there you have it. Trump in his own words. He repeatedly admits that he has had little to do with any of these critical events that all occurred in the first three months of his reoccupation of the White House. This is the same guy who has criticized Biden, falsely, for using an autopen to sign everything. And this is the same guy who clearly has no idea what he himself is signing in his ludicrous executive order ceremonies that are obviously staged in the reality TV style that he is so comfortable with.

Trump is an utterly oblivious puppet president. They just put an executive order down in front of him and he signs it.He doesn't know what it does beyond the brief summary they give him. It could be an order to require all Americans to be vaccinated against the woke virus.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-05-10T09:36:50.543Z

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Trump’s Brain is MUSH! He Struggles to Hype His Weak UK Deal as His Minions Go Full Cult Mode

Posted by on May 8, 2025 at 11:21 am. 1 Comments :

When Donald Trump announced his bizarrely named “Liberation Day” plan to impose his Trump taxes – aka tariffs – on the world, he promised that it would produce billions of dollars in revenue as the deals he would make would be signed at an impossibly accelerated rate, at one point saying that there would be “90 deals in 90 days.”

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Needless to say, that was just more of the hollow hyperbole that Trump disgorges in place of actual substance or facts. Forty-six days later, Trump has announced only one deal, so he’s 45 deals short. Nevertheless, he has spent the last few days boasting about his failure to fulfill his trade deal promises. Only Trump can brag about failing.

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On Thursday morning Trump finally announced a trade deal. It was with the United Kingdom. And in Trump’s mind it was a monumentally historic achievement. He called it a “full and comprehensive,” deal, but also contradicted himself, saying that the details will be “written up in the coming weeks.” When asked about specifics such as beef and movies, he said they would be negotiated separately.

Trump also claimed that “America will raise $6 BILLION DOLLARS in External Revenue from 10% Tariffs.” What he isn’t saying is that that money will be “raised” by Americans paying more for the tariffed products that Trump’s policy has created. What’s more, he isn’t being honest about the benefits of the UK deal. As economics professor Justin Wolfers notes…

Trump's "big" trade deal is with the UK:- It's a framework not a deal- They're our 11th largest trading partner- They're only 3% of US trade (97% to go)- They *already* charge average tariffs of only 1% (limited upside)It's a photo op, not a macroeconomically significant moment.

— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) 2025-05-08T11:35:11.717Z

Despite these facts, Trump’s cult devotees are drooling over him as if he were the second coming of their lord. Leading the pack of Trump apostles is his Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, who is infamous for his callous insensitivity toward America’s moms and other Social Security recipients. During Trump’s announcement of the UK deal, Lutnick gushed that…

“I want to make this clear. This was the president’s deal. People think, ‘Oh, that’s not the way it works.’ I have the best dealmaker to my left. If you don’t think that we take advantage of him calling the Prime Minister and getting that deal done, you don’t understand who’s the president of the United States. So he’s the closer. He gets deals done that we could never get done because he understands business, he understands deals, and that’s why we’re here today.”

Lutnick: "I want to make this clear. This was the president's deal. People think, 'Oh, that's not the way it works.' I have the best dealmaker to my left. If you don't think that we take advantage of him calling the PM & getting that deal done, you don't understand who's president. He's the closer."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-05-08T15:07:19.152Z

REALLY? Trump’s understanding of business and deals is limited to his experience of having declared six bankruptcies, and his having been found guilty of 34 felonies related to his financial malfeasance. As for being the “best dealmaker,” he still hasn’t resolved the Israeli/Gaza war or the Russian/Ukrainian war that he said he would end within 24 hours if he was elected.

Another example of Trump’s business acumen came during the UK deal announcement when he said that toy maker Mattel – who said that they will have to raise prices due to Trump’s tariffs – is “the only country I’ve heard that said, ‘we’re gonna try going someplace else.’ Let ’em go and we’ll put a 100% tariff on their Barbies.” That’s right, he said that Mattel is a country. And for his apologists who would dismiss it as a trivial verbal gaffe, he also said he would slap a tariff on them. Which is not something you do to companies, but only to countries.

Trump is utterly INSANE!He calls Mattel a country, and threatens to impose a 100% tariff on it, which would be illegal (you can't tariff a single company).

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-05-08T16:32:18.804Z

This is the level of competence that Trump has brought to the presidency. And it is evident in everything from trade, to economics, to immigration, to foreign policy, to the climate crisis, and more. He has an incomparable way of misunderstanding everything, and then lying about what he failed to grasp. And his embarrassing performance at this trade deal press conference is just the latest affirmation of his flaming incompetence.

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Trump Brags that He Failed to Sign a Single Trade Deal Since His ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Began

Posted by on May 6, 2025 at 1:24 pm. 1 Comments :

The execrable egomania of Donald Trump is on constant full blast. He is congenitally incapable of acknowledging any weakness or failure on his part. In his malignant mind he is infallible and the model of human superiority on a scale that approaches divinity.

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Consequently, Trump believes that everything he ever does or says is drenched in the purity of perfection. He never makes a mistake, or a bad decision, or misspeaks, or causes any harm, expect when purposely directed at his enemies who deserve it. He has even declared that, unlike everyone else in his faith, he is exempt from asking his god for forgiveness because he never does anything to be forgiven for. No, really!

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On Tuesday Trump met with the new Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney. During this meeting Trump disgorged his typical torrent of tantrums, litany of lies, and pitifully ignorant perceptions of the world. For instance, he repeated his preposterous desire to annex Canada as America’s 51st state, which Carney forcefully rejected. And he veered off into his ludicrous claim that he saved California from wildfires. He even gave himself credit for Carney’s election, evidently oblivious to that fact that Canadians, in part, voted for Carney out of disgust for his Trumpy opponent.

Among Trump’s self-serving ramblings (that went on for an interminable 40 minutes), were his outlandish observations on trade and his recessionary tariffs. And naturally, his narcissistic analysis was that they were brilliant and beneficial, despite the harshness of reality. Virtually every reputable economist is predicting increased prices, higher inflation, and impending recession.

Nevertheless, Trump remains delusionally confident, even though he has failed to secure any of the trade deals that he insisted would be made by countries desperate to ingratiate themselves to Trump and/or America. He literally bragged about his utter failure to get any deals signed, saying that “We don’t have to sign deals … they have to sign deals with us.”

TRUMP: We don't have to sign deals … they have to sign deals with us.SHEESH! Trade deals are signed by BOTH parties, not one. And all Trump is doing is pointing out that he has been unable to negotiate a single deal with any of 190+ countries that he's put his idiotic #TrumpTariffs (Taxes) on.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-05-06T18:47:16.266Z

Apparently Trump is unaware that trade deals are agreed to and signed by both parties to the deal. But after a month since he declared that it was “Liberation Day,” no other country has expressed any interest in complying with Trump’s bullying tactics. Including Canada, whose Prime Minister was sitting next to him as he made these asinine remarks.

However, Trump was only just getting started. He went on to boast that he has virtually halted all trade with China, and that that was good because “By not trading, we’re losing nothing. So we’re saving a trillion dollars. That’s a lot.”

TRANSLATING TRUMP: We're not buying groceries or clothes. So we're saving a lot of money.You're also starving and naked, you moron.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-05-06T17:06:23.451Z

Seriously? Trump believes that by cutting off all trade between the U.S. and China that the money that wasn’t spent was therefore saved. Well, maybe so. But we are also deprived of the goods that weren’t purchased. Which could include necessities like food and medicine and energy and building supplies. Just think how much money you could save by not buying your heart medications.

That’s the depth with which Trump understands trade and economics. And the ignorance that he embraces is going to cause some significant misfortune for millions of Americans. In the meantime, he is humiliating himself and America in the eyes of the world. Hopefully they know that he doesn’t represent the majority of us, and that we’re doing everything we can to mitigate his harm and to get rid of him.

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