Trump Flunky Kari Lake Taps MAGA Propaganda Network, OAN, to Be the Voice of Voice of America

Posted by on May 7, 2025 at 12:33 pm. 1 Comments :

From the very first day that Donald Trump reoccupied the White House, he has orchestrated an assault on the free press and any journalistic effort to report the truth about him. There is nothing that irks him more than accurate reporting of his wrecking of the economy and his contempt for the Constitution.

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Trump’s anti-media crusade has taken the form of banishing news outlets like the Associated Press from all presidential events, and stacking the White House press corps with sycophantic Trump-fluffers…

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

The Trump regime’s campaign to undermine the free press is not limited by international borders. He put one of his most fervent cult devotees, Kari Lake, in a position to control the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees multiple broadcasting networks that inform people in countries that have no other source for reputable news. The networks under the auspices of the USAGM include Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA), Radio Television Martí, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN), and the Voice of America (VOA).

Now David Folkenflik is reporting for NPR (an American public broadcaster that Trump is trying to defund) that “Kari Lake says OAN’s far-right coverage will fuel Voice of America.” Folkenflik writes that…

“Senior presidential adviser Kari Lake appears to have resolved any doubts about what she wants to do with the Voice of America. Lake seeks for it to look and sound a lot like the far-right One America News Network.”

[Lake said that] “the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) is excited to announce a partnership with One America News Network (OAN) to provide newsfeed services to USAGM networks, including Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), Radio Martí, and Voice of America (VOA). […] I can ensure our outlets have reliable and credible options as they work to craft their reporting and news programs.”

The notion that Lake can ensure the VOA outlets of “reliable and credible options” by teaming up with one of the most dishonest purveyors of ultra-right propaganda would be laughable if it weren’t so harmful. And since she has already put the staff of VOA and the other USAGM networks on indefinite leave, OAN will be the only source of news for the these networks.

The “quality” of reporting by OAN is notoriously untrustworthy. After all, they hired former GOP representative, MAGA Matt Gaetz, as a primetime host after he crashed and burned as Trump’s attorney general nominee. And they have been the subject of massive defamation lawsuits, one of which they already settled, admitting that their reporting was false.

MORE HERE: OAN Concedes that ‘There Was No Widespread Voter Fraud’ to Settle Defamation Lawsuit

VOA insiders are justifiably appalled. Their White House bureau chief, Patsy Widakuswara, said that “Congress mandated VOA to report reliable and authoritative news, not outsource its journalism to outlets aligned with the president’s agenda.” And the former CFO of USAGM, Grant Turner, said that “Kari Lake providing One America News Network to our global audiences makes a mockery of the agency’s history of independent non-partisan journalism.”

It is entirely understandable that honest journalists would be disgusted by Trump and his lackey, Lake. But it is not unsurprising that the Trumpists would exploit and abuse their power to spread their disinformation to the world. They are already doing it here at home. Fortunately, however, they are losing in the courts, and in the court of public opinion. But we must remain vigilant and resolved to resist the totalitarian Trump agenda if we are to prevail.

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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.

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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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Trump Insults Rep. Jasmine Crockett as ‘Low IQ’ in Yet Another Racist Attack on Black Women

Posted by on May 5, 2025 at 1:00 pm. 1 Comments :

The flamingly racist rhetoric that Donald Trump uses on a regular basis ought to have resulted in his banishment from civil society decades ago. But there seems to be no end to his capacity for hatred, nor for his cult followers capacity to accept it.

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One of the most frequent expressions of Trump’s bigotry is his attack on the intelligence of his political foes, particularly if they are Black, and even more particularly if they are women. Although, Trump has plenty of support for his hate speech considering that during his first term his polling among republicans actually improved when he engaged in it.

SEE THIS: GOP Approval for Trump Rises AFTER Racist Tweets – Tells You Something About the GOP

Some things never change. And that’s certainly true with regard to doddering old hate mongers like Trump. On this weekend’s episode of Meet the Press with Kristen Welker of NBC News, Trump affirmed his place in the hearts of Klan members everywhere. In a response to a question about who he thought would be his successor, he began by saying that “It’s far too early to say that.” But unable to hold back his prejudice, he continued…

“You look at Marco. You look at JD Vance, who’s fantastic. You look at — I could name 10, 15, 20 people right now just sitting here. No, I think we have a tremendous party. And you know what I can’t name? I can’t name one Democrat. I mean, I look at the Democrats, they have a new person named Crockett. I watched her speak the other day and she’s definitely a low IQ Person. And they said she’s the future of the party. I said you have to be kidding. I don’t know what they’re gonna do.”

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So the only Democrat that Trump could think of that might run for president in 2028 was Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas. Apparently he has never heard of JB Pritzker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Gavin Newsom, Wes Moore, Andy Beshear, Gretchen Whitmer, Josh Shapiro, Pete Buttigieg, and of course, Kamala Harris. And that’s an abridged list.

However, in Trump’s mashed potatoes mind there is only Rep. Crockett, who he says “is definitely a low IQ Person.” Never mind that, in addition to being an elected member of Congress, she is a lawyer and a graduate of Rhodes College and the University of Houston Law School.

Trump’s insult was not based on any observation of Rep. Crockett’s intellect. It was just another example of how he denigrates Black women as stupid based purely on their race and gender. He has used the “low IQ” epithet many times before on other notable Black women, including Vice-President Kamala, Harris and Rep. Maxine Waters. Although to be fair, he has also used it on Black men (e.g. Don Lemon, LeBron James), and even white women (Mika Brzezinski).

Trump, of course, has never seen any documentation of the IQ of any of his insult targets. He is simply projecting his own mental deficiencies on his enemies. He is unarguably the dumbest occupant of the White House in American history. He’s the one who prescribed bleach injections to cure COVID. And renaming the Gulf of Mexico. Just this weekend he was asked about “due process” for immigrants, and his obligation as president to uphold the Constitution. To both questions he replied “I don’t know. I’m not a lawyer.”

That’s an interesting response, because Rep. Crockett is, in fact, a lawyer. But you don’t need to be a lawyer to know that every president takes an oath to “defend the Constitution” when being inaugurated. Not that Trump cares about honoring oaths. Just ask Marla, Ivana, and Melania Trump.

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

Rep. Crockett had a reply of her own to Trump’s insult that brilliantly exposed Trump as being “terrified of smart, bold Black women telling the truth.”

Trump’s attack on Rep. Crockett is typical of Trump. He often denigrates the intelligence and/or honesty Black women in the media. Among those he has gone after in the past are April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor, and Abby Phillip. After taking a question from Phillip, Trump whined “What a stupid question. But I watch you a lot. You ask a lot of stupid questions.” And of course, he was unable to provide an answer. Not even a stupid one.

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

Posted by on May 4, 2025 at 1:22 pm. 1 Comments :

Donald Trump seems to be doing his best to affirm that he intends to become America’s first dictator. He is furiously dismantling every cherished institution of the nation from justice to academia to journalism, and even religion. There are no principles or values that he won’t stomp on in pursuit of his own exaltation.

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Included among the pillars of American principles that Trump is eager to plunder is the nation’s Constitution itself. Not that he has any idea what it says or what it means. To Trump it is an archaic document that is only there for him to exploit if possible, or discard when necessary.

SEE THIS: Trump’s Justice Dept Threatens Journalists as ‘Treasonous’ for Not Disclosing Sources of Leaks

Trump confirmed his distaste for the Constitution in an interview with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press this weekend. During a portion of the interview that dealt with Trump’s unlawful deportation agenda, Welker sought to get his views on the legal aspects of rounding up allegedly undocumented persons and shipping them off to foreign gulags without any justification or legal recourse.

Welker: Your Secretary of State [Marco Rubio] says that everyone who is here – citizens and noncitizens – deserves due process. Do you agree?
Trump: I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.
Welker: Well, the Fifth Amendment says as much.
Trump: I don’t know. It seems — it might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or two million or three million trials. We have thousands of people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth. Some of the worst, most dangerous people on Earth. And I was elected to get them the hell out of here. And the courts are holding me from doing it.
Welker: “But even given those numbers that you’re talking about, don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?
Trump: I don’t know

Perhaps one of the most honest responses that Trump has ever given to a question is “I don’t know.” However, in this case, it is also one of the most disturbing. The president of the United States ought to know whether what he is doing is legal and constitutional. But Trump is admitting that he doesn’t know that the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution plainly says that “No person shall…be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” That’s “person,” not citizen.

Instead, Trump attempts to cower behind some unnamed flank of lawyers, but does not even bother to say whether or not they agree with him or the Constitution about due process. Then he suggests that due process – and thus the Constitution – can be ignored if there are too many people seeking its protection. And of course, because there has been no due process, Trump doesn’t know whether any of the people he is deporting are criminals or dangerous, or even in the U.S. illegally.

Worst of all is that Trump was asked directly if he needs to “uphold the Constitution” and replies that he “doesn’t know” about that either. He literally pledged an oath to do so when he was inaugurated. How is this not a five alarm warning that Trump is determined to discard the Constitution and declare himself King of America?

MORE HERE: Trump Marks His First 100 Days By Glorifying Why Most Americans See Him as ‘A Dangerous Dictator’

Given Trump’s responses, what’s to stop him from arresting a couple thousand journalists and then saying that there are too many of them to hold hearings to ascertain whether or not their First Amendment rights were violated. So it’s off to El Salvador for you. And he could do the same with lawyers, or teachers, or civil rights activists, or members of Congress, or anyone who triggers Trump’s ire. And yes, that means you.

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

Posted by on May 3, 2025 at 11:53 am. 2 Comments :

The crusade by Donald Trump to suppress the media, intimidate journalists, and bring an end to America’s constitutional protection of the free press, has accelerated since his reoccupation of the White House. His determination to emulate the sort of autocratic control that his idols (Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, etc.) enjoy is the keystone of his MAGA Cult movement.

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Among Trump’s brazen efforts to clamp down on independent news organizations and reporting is his lawsuit against CBS for what he claims was their “illegal” editing of an interview of Vice-President Kamala Harris near the end of the 2024 election campaign. It was just another attempt by Trump to use meritless legal tactics to bring the media to heel with threats and the abuse of the power of the presidency.

SEE THIS: Trump Threatens CBS Over Kamala Harris Interview on 60 Minutes He Says Was ‘Possibly Illegal’

Trump was furious at CBS and 60 Minutes for reporting in a manner that was consistent with honest and professional journalism. He posted a frothingly rabid comment in October of last year on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, saying that…

“60 MINUTES SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY TAKEN OFF THE AIR – ELECTION INTERFERENCE. CBS SHOULD LOSE ITS LICENSE. THIS IS THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN BROADCAST HISTORY. Kamala should be investigated and forced off the Campaign”

Trump is going to have an aneurism after he learns that the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has just announced that the interview that triggered Trump’s wrath has been nominated for an Emmy in the very category that ruffled his scales. As reported by the Associated Press (which Trump has banned from presidential events)…

“Last fall’s ’60 Minutes’ story on Kamala Harris — the subject of Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS — was nominated for an Emmy Award Thursday for ‘outstanding edited interview.’ Trump, in his lawsuit, complained that the interview was deceptively edited to make his Democratic election opponent look good.”

That’s right. The interview that Trump baselessly asserted was “illegal” and “election interference” due to its editing, has been nominated for an Emmy for “Outstanding Editing.” Could there be a better example of the irrational inanity of Trump’s impotent whining?

Well, actually there can be. Because Trump is still doing it with even greater force of idiocy. A few days ago Trump posted a new comment absurdly claiming that “The case we have against 60 Minutes, CBS, and Paramount is a true WINNER.” He reiterated his false accusation that the interview was improperly edited. But then he escalated his legal threats to include the New York Times because they published an article that correctly reported that legal experts regarded his case as “baseless.” He wrote that…

“[T]he Failing New York Times, which is Fake News both in writing and polling, claims that ‘people’ said that the case is baseless. They don’t mean that, they just have a non curable case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, possibly to the point where the Times’ interjection makes them liable for tortious interference, including in Elections, which we are intently studying.”

It is also notable that Trump’s legal threats are both a conflict of interest and a flagrant abuse of power. As David Corn of Mother Jones reports, Trump is simultaneously suing CBS and it’s corporate parent, Paramount, while his FCC chair, Brendan Carr, is reviewing a proposed merger between Paramount and Skydance Media. So Trump can extort a settlement from CBS under the threat of declining to approve the merger.

That wholly inappropriate scenario may have contributed to the resignation of 60 Minutes executive producer, Bill Owens, whose reason for leaving after 37 years included the complaint that he “would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it. To make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience.”

Hopefully CBS will not capitulate to Trump’s demands. What is clear is that everyone who has done so previously has paid a price for it, financially and reputationally. And those who have stood up against him have prevailed. That’s because the law, and the Constitution, and the people are on the side of unfettered freedom of the press. And it’s why Trump’s totalitarian efforts to undermine it will fail in the end.

UPDATE: An outraged and deranged Trump is predictably whining that the 60 Minutes interview “has now been nominated for an award by the totally discredited Emmys. Did 60 Minutes and its Corporate Parents apply to get an Emmy for an illegally falsified interview?”

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Trump FREAKS OUT Over a Democrat’s Bill to Impeach Him (Again), And He Can’t Figure Out Why

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

In the first few months of MAGA 2.0, Donald Trump has managed to exceed the worst predictions of his reoccupation of the White House by even the most pessimistic prognosticators. To the horror of patriotic Americans, he is fulfilling his campaign pledge that he would be a “dictator on day one,”

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From Trump’s unlawful dismantling of critical government agencies that literally save lives, to his disregard for the Constitution and defiance of judicial orders, to his threats against and suppression of the free press, his second term is a straight up embrace of the totalitarian rule that he envies as practiced by his idols and role models Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un. Which isn’t really working out for him.

SEE THIS: Trump Marks His First 100 Days By Glorifying Why Most Americans See Him as ‘A Dangerous Dictator’

Consequently, it isn’t particularly surprising that an understandably concerned Democratic member of Congress, Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI-13), has drafted a set of Articles of Impeachment in an attempt to save America from the certain harm that Trump is causing and seeks to exacerbate going forward. To be sure, it may be a well intentioned, but Sisyphean effort considering that Republicans control Congress for the time being. But a challenge not accepted is always lost.

You have to start somewhere. And this beginning is at least serving the purpose of pissing off Trump, and triggering a late night tantrum as his frantic response. Just before midnight on Thursday, Trump posted a long and rambling comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, that displayed just how troubled he is by this attempt at a third impeachment, that he bizarrely complained was the twentieth. He began by whining that…

“The Democrats are really out of control. They have lost everything, especially their minds! These Radical Left Lunatics are into the ‘Impeachment thing’ again…even though they have no idea for what I would be Impeached.”

Following that childish rant, Trump rattled off a bunch of incidents – mostly fabrications contrived by his diseased brain – that he thinks are problems for Democrats, including his relentless repetition of “Russia, Russia, Russia,” which actually refers to his well documented and unsavory associations with, and favoritism toward, his mentor, Vladimir Putin. Then he continued…

“These Congressmen stated that, they didn’t know why they would Impeach me but, ‘We just want to do it.'”

Of course, no one ever stated any such thing. But he uses that lie to call for “expelling them from Congress for all of the crimes that they have committed.” And naturally, he doesn’t bother to identify a single one of those alleged, imaginary crimes. But he does lash out like a whiny baby calling them “total LOWLIFES, who hate our Country.”

Trump closed by reprising an attack on an old nemesis who still resides rent-free in the Mar-a-Lardo atop his turkey neck…

“Remember, “Shifty” Adam Schiff demanded a Pardon…for him and the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs.”

Once again, Trump is lying. Neither Schiff, nor any of the members of the House Committee Investigating the January 6th Insurrection, “demanded” or even asked for a pardon. Biden alone made the wise decision to issue the pardons that Trump’s vengeful behavior has fully justified. After all, he is still calling for them to be persecuted as “treasonous.”

For the record, the most recent Articles of Impeachment against Trump by Rep. Thanedar belie Trump’s deranged assertion that “they have no idea for what I would be Impeached.” In fact, the seven articles were clearly spelled out in unambiguous detail…

  1. Obstruction of Justice and Abuse of Executive Power: Including denial of due process, unlawful deportations, defiance of court orders, and misuse of the Department of Justice.
  2. Usurpation of Appropriations Power: For dismantling congressionally established agencies and impounding federal funds.
  3. Abuse of Trade Powers and International Aggression: Including imposing economically damaging tariffs and threatening military invasion against sovereign nations.
  4. Violation of First Amendment Rights: Through retaliatory actions against critics, media, and attorneys exercising constitutionally protected speech.
  5. Creation of an Unlawful Office: By establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) and unlawfully empowering Elon Musk to unilaterally violate the Constitution.
  6. Bribery and Corruption: Involving dismissing criminal cases, soliciting foreign emoluments, and extortionate settlements for personal and political gain.
  7. Tyrannical Overreach: Seeking to consolidate unchecked power, erode civil liberties, and defy constitutional limits on presidential authority.

What could be clearer? If Trump still doesn’t understand what the grounds for his impeachment are, perhaps that should be the eighth article. Or at least grounds for invoking the 25th Amendment.

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OH MY: Trump’s Competency and the 25th Amendment was Raised on Fox News by Democratic Congressman

Posted by on May 1, 2025 at 12:51 pm. 0 Comments :

The case for declaring that Donald Trump is mentally unfit to serve as president has been made by many experts and professionals in the psychiatric field. But it doesn’t take an expert to see that Trump’s behavior in office is profoundly disturbed, erratic, and dangerous. In fact, it was made during his first term by a group of doctors that came together as “Duty to Warn.”

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In the 100 days since his inauguration, Trump has managed to crash the economy, alienate America’s allies, embrace its foes, dismantle critical agencies, and defy the courts and the Constitution, all while exalting himself as the messiah of his deranged MAGA movement. But no matter how hard he tries, he has been unable to convince the American people that he is capable and trustworthy.

SEE THIS: Trump Marks His First 100 Days By Glorifying Why Most Americans See Him as ‘A Dangerous Dictator’

While the majority of Americans have seen through the facade that Trump presents, a small faction of the population remains steadfastly loyal and blissfully ignorant. They can be identified by the media that they consume, which is primarily Fox News.

However, on Wednesday the curtain that covers Trump’s maladies and malevolence was pulled aside briefly. On Will Cain’s primetime Fox News program, Rep. Dan Goldman was interviewed about the state of Trump’s presidency at the 100 day mark. But their discussion went somewhat off course for a Fox segment on Trump when the matter of his competency was raised by Cain…

Cain: Even if you disagree, Congressman, and clearly you do with much of the president, the competency of the sitting president today, I think that the accuracy and the truth of those words do matter.
Goldman: Well, I don’t think he’s competent, Will. I don’t know what to tell you. Whether his cognitive abilities are sufficient to get past the 25th amendment, we don’t know that right now. But I think what is clear is that he has driven our country into a disastrous economy. He has undermined the fundamental rule of law and democracy. He is taking away benefits in order to cut taxes for the rich. I think even you, Will, would have to agree with me that this first hundred days is not at all what he promised the American people.
Cain: No, I’m sorry to notify you, I do not agree with you. I think this first 100 days is exactly what he promised the American people, and more importantly, exactly what was voted on by the American people.
Goldman: But I think the American people thought that he was going to lower costs, not raise them.

Dan Goldman to Will Cain on Trump: "Well, I don't think he's competent, Will. I don't know what to tell you." ?

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-30T20:45:26.867Z

That’s a lot of honest analysis for your average Fox News viewer to consume. They are not accustomed to hearing that Trump has cognitive deficiencies, or the examples of how those deficiencies impact the nation and the people. To be sure, most of Fox’s viewers are confirmed cult devotees who will dismiss everything that Goldman said. But the exposure to it could seep into the thoughts of a few whose minds are not cemented shut.

Unsurprisingly, Cain disagreed with Goldman. But his arguments for doing so were the sort of hollow rhetoric that is to be expected of a cult Pharisee. Obviously the American people did not vote for Trump to undermine democracy, increase the cost of living, terminate their healthcare and Social Security, or deport people – including U.S. citizens – with no legal basis or due process.

Goldman’s remarks on Fox News are the sort of medicine that the right-wing MAGA minions need. That includes the ones in Congress. And Goldman also addressed them on Thursday in a House committee hearing. Speaking to his Republican colleagues, Goldman said that…

“I don’t understand how you’re gonna be able to look yourself in the face knowing that you voted to allow our federal government to detain and deport United States citizens simply because you do not want to vote against something that Donald Trump may support.

“Do you have a thought of your own? Do you have a belief of your own? Or is everything literally just whatever Donald Trump tells you it should be?”

Rep Dan Goldman.

— Chris Hauck (@chrishauck.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T15:31:20.051Z

That’s a silly question. Of course “everything is literally just whatever Donald Trump tells [them] it should be?” Trump is the only one in MAGA World who has any thoughts or beliefs. And those are are as wispy as a fog on a sunny morning. They will change from one moment to the next. But they are what GOP members of Congress cling to for dear life.

Some day Republican representatives will realize that they need to be more afraid of voters than of Trump. And with the way that the current polls ore going, that day may be upon us sooner than we think. But still not sooner than we hope.

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Trump Gathers His Cabinet Members to Conduct Another Festival of Feckless Trump-Fluffing

Posted by on April 30, 2025 at 2:56 pm. 1 Comments :

Having reached the arbitrary media milestone of 100 days in office, Donald Trump has assembled his White House toadies to perform what he regards as their most critical duties as members of his Cabinet: Puckering up to kiss his…let’s say ring.

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This reprisal of Trump’s occupation of the White House is, much like his prior occupancy, an engagement that resembles his reality TV hosting chores more than anything like governing or leadership. He behaves as if he is the master of the plantation and everyone that he has bought and paid for are obliged to serve with obedience and adoration. Never mind how much he is despised by the American people.

SEE THIS: Trump Marks His First 100 Days By Glorifying Why Most Americans See Him as ‘A Dangerous Dictator’

During Trump 2.0 he has already called a couple of Cabinet meetings. And unique among presidents, these meetings have nothing to do with advancing the nation’s business. There is no discussion of projects or policy. How could there be when, along with his Cabinet, he invites the press to witness what is an elaborate tribute to Trump himself. Some examples of the discourse that takes place include the following fits of flattery from his fawning flunkies…

Scott Bessent: Sir, it’s been a momentous 100 days with you at the helm.
Doug Burgum: Everybody I’ve met, whether it’s at a coal mine or the border, law enforcement, the one thing they say is please thank President Trump from all of us.
Pete Hegseth: What we have seen since your election, your inauguration, there’s been nothing short of a recruiting renaissance.
Elon Musk: It’s an honor to work with your incredible cabinet.
Howard Lutnick: The attention on the Trump gold card — I mean, it makes me very popular.
Kristi Noem: One thing I want to point out is fake news has been saying that Biden deported more people than you.
Linda McMahon: I’d like for you to be known as the education president.
Lee Zeldin: The biggest reason why we’re here is that this is the 100th day of the most consequential, historic first 100 days in the history of this country.
Pam Bondi: Your first 100 days has far exceeded that of any other presidency in this country. Ever. Ever. Never seen anything like it. Thank you.
Susie Wiles: Congratulations to everyone on 100 days.. it’s unparalleled in my memory and best I can tell, ever.
JD Vance: You sit in the Oval Office and see these portraits of presidents past. And let’s be honest — most of them have been placeholders.

Isn’t it comforting to know that all of these public servants are seated around the conference table in the White House, with red hats in front of each of them, gushing over Dear Leader rather than wasting their time doing the work that past Cabinet secretaries have done?

No, really! If they were actually working, these incompetent Trump cultists would only be making things worse. That is painfully evident in what they said at this meeting. For example, Attorney Genuflect Bondi praised Trump for saving 258 million lives via his fentanyl seizures, as if he was there apprehending the drug traffickers himself. So according to her, 76% of the country would be dead now if not for Trump.

Trump's Attorney Genuflect, Pam Bondi, says that Trump has saved 258 million lives via his fentanyl seizures."Are you ready for this, media?" According to Bondi, 76% of the country would be dead now if not for Trump.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T17:47:42.089Z

Another example was how Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, replied to a question about whether he had spoken to the president of El Salvador about returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. as the Supreme Court ordered. Rubio’s response was to tell the reporter essentially that the Trump regime is a lawless cabal that can ignore the courts and the Constitution, and answers to nobody.

Q: “Have you been in touch with El Salvador about returning Abrego Garcia? Has a formal request from this administration been made?”Rubio: “I would never tell you that. And you know who else I'd never tell? A judge.”

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2025-04-30T17:51:34.090Z

Consequently, the more often that Trump huddles with his sycophants, the better for the country. To be sure, they are still cable of doing significant harm, and are doing so. But it’s not like they know what they’re doing, or that their services would be missed. And there’s even a chance that we might get to see Trump play his oldy-moldy and tell one of them that “You’re fired!”

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Trump Marks His First 100 Days By Glorifying Why Most Americans See Him as ‘A Dangerous Dictator’

Posted by on April 29, 2025 at 1:47 pm. 2 Comments :

The authoritarian aspirations of Donald Trump have been evident since he first crawled out of the slime of his reality TV swamp, seeking to bail out his failing business empire. His ability to sustain the myth of his success was ironically aided and abetted by the media that he maligns as “the enemy of the people.”

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Donald Trump Walking the Plank

As we arrive at the completion of Trump’s first 100 days of his second occupation of the White House, it is more obvious than ever that he is determined to be canonized as the messiah of his MAGA movement in order to ordain himself as America’s first dictator. Even his press secretary explicitly characterizes the devotion that she expects the Trump cult members to display…

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For his part, Trump sought to memorialize his 100 day anniversary in a manner that is typical of someone suffering from a severe case of malignant narcissism. It’s typical in that it exposes how deeply he has descended into an acute egomaniacal stupor. But it’s also typical in that it is deeply delusional. In a comment posted to his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, he linked to an article by GOP Sen. Roger Marshall for what he considers to be his accomplishments thus far…

“In just 100 days, we have witnessed one of the most productive presidential administrations in modern history. Trump has already signed more than 140 executive orders, issued more than 40 proclamations, and authored more than 30 memorandums—far surpassing the number of actions many presidents have taken throughout their entire administrations.”

Contrary to Trump’s gushing self-pride for what he regards a “productive presidential administration,” everything in that comment is more representative of the behavior of an unabashed tyrant. American leadership is not graded on how many unilateral actions are taken by a wannabe despot with overt animosity toward democracy. Bypassing the legislative and judicial branches of government is ordinarily done on a limited basis when required by unique circumstances. But Trump is using executive orders, and other instruments of power, to exert his own will, not that of the people.

The Newsweek op-ed by Marshall that Trump linked to was replete with more ridiculously reverential rhetoric. Marshall went on to say that…

“Despite relentless criticism from the mainstream media, radical judges blocking the president’s actions, and Democrats in disarray, the American people stand strongly behind the president’s America first vision.”

Marshall, of course, is lying. In fact, Trump has the worst approval ratings of any president in more than 80 years at this point in their term. Even worse, a poll by PRRI found that “Most Americans see Trump as a dangerous dictator.” That includes a majority overall, a majority of Independents, and even 17% of Republicans. Some may believe that those numbers are still too low, but this is just the beginning.

What’s more, one of Fox News’ most reliable Trump-fluffers, Mark Levin, seems to agree that Trump is an aspiring dictator. He told his viewers that…

“He is routinely violating separation of powers, which goes to the heart of our system. He’s ruling our country by executive orders, administration regulations in order to defy Congress and get around Congress. That is, he’s lawmaking, which is a clear violation of the Constitution.”

Actually, Levin said that on May 19, 2024. And he was talking about President Biden who signed only 42 executive orders in his first 100 days. And Trump posted a link to that clip of Levin on Truth Social. So he must have been aware of it because, as he says himself, he has “one of the best memories in the world.”

Finally, Trump’s shadow chief-of-staff, Sean Hannity, also devoted some time to heralding Trump’s “accomplishments” in his first 100 days. However, they don’t seem to include anything that actually benefits the nation or its people. Unless you regard renaming the Gulf of Mexico, or ending federal support for paper straws, as major achievements to move America forward. Well, do you?

WOW! Take a look at all of Trump's "accomplishments" as celebrated by Sean Hannity on Fox News.Is this what they think the American people want and need?

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T09:08:27.145Z

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WHUT? Trump’s Press Secretary Says the Trump Regime is Open to Arresting a Supreme Court Justice

Posted by on April 28, 2025 at 1:05 pm. 2 Comments :

Just when you might have thought that Donald Trump has gone as far as humanly possible to undermine democracy and defile the Constitution, he manages to descend even farther. If there is one thing we should have learned over the past few years it’s that there is literally no bottom to Trump’s anti-American grotesquery.

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King Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

In just the past few days, Trump has made some significant strides in his efforts to unravel the rights that Americans have cherished for a couple of centuries. He has deported legal residents to a gulag in El Salvador. He has threatened the academic freedom of universities. He has gone after the fundraising arms of his political foes. And he is even threatening journalists who dare to tell the truth about him.

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Now, on the heels of his “Justice” Department arresting a Wisconsin judge on phony charges that she helped a migrant to evade Trump’s ICE goons, his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has upped the ante in his fight against law and order. During a morning press briefing at the White House, Leavitt was asked a surprisingly coherent question by Peter Doocy of Fox News…

Doocy: As you guys look at other judges, would you ever arrest somebody higher up on the judicial food chain, like a federal judge or even a Supreme Court Justice?
Leavitt: That’s a hypothetical question…Anyone who is breaking the law or obstructing federal law enforcement officials from doing their job is putting yourself at risk for being prosecuted. Absolutely!

DOOCY: Would you ever arrest a federal judge or even a Supreme Court justice?LEAVITT: I'd refer you to the DOJ for individuals they are looking at … anyone who is breaking the law or obstructing federal law enforcement officials is putting themselves at risk of being prosecuted, absolutely

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-28T13:19:30.921Z

So Leavitt is explicitly declaring that the Trump regime would arrest a Supreme Court Justice if they determined that he or she was breaking a law. And we know from experience that, in Trump’s view, anything that is contrary to his personal interests he considers to be unlawful. This weekend he raged that President Biden and the members of the House Committee to Investigate the January 6th Insurrection “should all be in jail!“ So what’s to stop him from ordering the arrest of Justice Sonia Sotomayor because he doesn’t like how she rules on cases about him?

By the logic that Leavitt is employing, a Democratic Justice Department could arrest Clarence Thomas for taking millions of dollars in gifts (bribes?) from wealthy defendants who have cases before the Court. They could arrest Samuel Alito for ruling that Trump has “immunity” from the crimes he commits, because that ruling would facilitate obstruction of justice. In both of those examples there is far more justification for taking legal action against the Justices than anything that Trump or Leavitt have alleged.

These remarks by Leavitt are among the steps being taken by the Trump regime to turn America into a full fledged dictatorship. They would control the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. With the stranglehold they seek to exert over academia, lawfare, and the media, they would rival totalitarian regimes like Russia and North Korea. And while it may seem far-fetched, it is closer to reality today than it has ever been in the United States. Consequently, the vigilance and resistance of the people is needed now more than ever as well.

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