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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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Donald Trump, Insane, Straight Jacket

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 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…

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

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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Is This a Joke? Trump’s Attorney Genuflect, Pam Bondi, Tells Fox News ‘No One Is Above the Law’

Posted by on April 25, 2025 at 1:48 pm. 2 Comments :

One of the most chronic complaints of Donald Trump and his cult cabal has been his assertion that there has been a “weaponization” of government, particularly with regard to the Justice Department. His feelings on this subject are surely driven by the fact that he has been the most criminally active president in history, with a rap sheet longer than mobster Al Capone’s. Which, for some reason, he likes to brag about.

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Fox News, Pam Bondi

However, the only real evidence of such weaponization actually comes from the Trump administration itself. From the outset of his reoccupation of the White House, Trump has embarked on mission of malevolence aimed at all manner of civil servants, but especially the judiciary.

SEE THIS: Trump is on a Crusade to Intimidate and Impeach Judges Who Dare to Rule Against Dear Leader

On Friday morning there was a chilling example of this malignant behavior in a report that Trump’s FBI had arrested a sitting judge in Wisconsin on charges of obstructing justice by allegedly helping an illegal immigrant evade arrest. The charge is a typically specious exercise in the fascistic philosophy that permeates everything that Trump and his cronies are doing.

True to form, whenever there is a crisis connected to the Trump regime, he dispatches his subordinates to Fox News. Many of them spend more time on Fox than they do in their offices doing their jobs. That may actually be a blessing in disguise. In this case, it was Attorney Genuflect, Pam Bondi, who took her place on the Fox News pedestal to deliver her propaganda pitch to Fox hosts John Roberts and Sandra Smith. She began by insulting the whole of the judicial system…

Bondi: What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me.
Smith: When the American public hears this and they think these were once outstanding people in their communities, and their professions, and they put it on the line for this. Have you dug into their motive? What inspired them to carry out these acts and harbor criminals?
Bondi: They’re deranged is all I can think of. I cannot believe… I think that some of these judges think they are beyond and above the law. And they are not. And we’re sending a very strong message today, if you are harboring a fugitive, we don’t care who you are. If you’re helping hide one, if you’re giving a TdA [Tren de Aragua gang] member guns, anyone who is illegally in this country, we will come after you and prosecute you. We’ll find you.

Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me … they are deranged … we are sending a very strong message today … we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-25T17:11:59.990Z

Notice that Smith openly takes Bondi’s side, expressing her horror that this judge would put her reputation on the line, and falsely stating as a matter of fact that the judge was harboring criminals. To which Bondi replied that the only explanation for such behavior was that the judge is “deranged.” That is not a legal argument. It is a childish insult that reveals Bondi’s legal ineptitude. She also throws in an extraneous reference to someone giving guns to gang members, which no one has even hinted at. But this was just the beginning. They went on…

Roberts: Very significant development that you’re arresting judges now. Now it could be that the judges engaged in some terribly bad behavior and deserve to be arrested. But you know what critics will say. That this is the government that is expanding the powers of Article 1 of the Constitution, now they’re arresting judges. How do you respond to that?
Bondi: No one is above the law. No one is above the law in this country. And if you are destroying evidence, if you are obstructing justice, if you have victims sitting a courtroom of domestic violence, and you’re escorting a criminal defendant out a back door, it will not be tolerated. It is a crime in the United States of America. It doesn’t matter who you are. You are going to be prosecuted.”

ROBERTS: Critics will say this is the government expanding the powers of Article 1 of the Constitution, now they're arresting judges. How do you respond?BONDI: Nobody is above the law

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-25T17:13:12.277Z

How any credible journalist could listen to that response and not break out in hysterical laughter is hard to fathom. Although Fox News need not worry about that because they don’t employ any credible journalists.

Bondi’s clinging to the notion that “no one is above the law” is hypocritical in the extreme. Her boss, Trump, has literally been adjudicated to be above the law by the right-wing members of the Supreme Court who ruled that he has immunity for official acts, which they seem to define as anything that he says is official.

Meanwhile, Trump has 34 pending felony convictions for which he has not been sentenced. There are 54 more felony charges for which he has not been tried. And he continues to rack up more criminal acts, such his shuttering independent government agencies over which he has no jurisdiction. And his firing of thousands of employees without complying with the legal prerequisites to do so. And his deportations of people without providing the due process that the law demands. And his refusing to obey federal court orders and injunctions.

But other than that, no one is above the law. Well, except for all the MAGA politicians who break the law with impunity. And all of Trump’s oligarch pals who get away with flagrant financial crimes. And about 1,500 violent insurrections who stormed the Capitol in an attempt to undermine democracy, and put 140 police officers in the hospital, who all got presidential pardons. But other than that…

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Trump is OUTRAGED at Fox News for Revealing How Unpopular He Is, So He Attacks Rupert Murdoch

Posted by on April 24, 2025 at 10:51 am. 1 Comments :

The American people are increasingly dissatisfied with Donald Trump as he approaches the 100th day of his second occupation of the White House. And that is not the just the opinion of some random “radical left lunatic,” as Trump likes to call all of his critics. It’s the results of a new poll by Fox News.

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Donald Trump, Snowflakes

After several weeks of epically abhorrent fiascos, Trump’s approval rating has descended to new lows. His attacks on lawyers, universities, and of course, the media, only serve to expose his desperation. He is now getting failing grades on virtually every issue that he campaigned on. Although, it’s not as if he hasn’t been scraping the bottom of that barrel for some time.

SEE THIS: Trump 2.0 Begins with Approval Ratings that Rank Below Every Other President Dating Back to 1953

A new Fox News poll confirms the crash of the Corruptor-in-Chief. Overall, Trump’s job approval clocks in at 44%.” His disapproval is at 55%. These numbers are notably worse than Presidents Biden, Obama, Bush, and even himself in his first term. The Fox News reporting on its poll led off on a positive note, but then quickly slid off a cliff…

“President Trump receives his best marks on border security, as a 55% majority approves. That’s the only issue where his ratings are in positive territory. On immigration, a record high of 47% approve of Trump (48% disapprove), while a new low of 38% approve on the economy (56% disapprove). His worst ratings are on inflation (33% approve, 59% disapprove), followed by tariffs (33-58%), foreign policy (40-54%), taxes (38-53%), and guns (41-44%).”

To no one’s surprise, this survey triggered a predictable tantrum from Trump on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. He lashed out petulantly at his longtime media benefactor, Rupert Murdoch, saying that…

“Rupert Murdoch has told me for years that he is going to get rid of his FoxNews, Trump Hating, Fake Pollster, but he has never done so. This ‘pollster’ has gotten me, and MAGA, wrong for years. Also, and while he’s at it, he should start making changes at the China Loving Wall Street Journal. It sucks!!!”

So Trump is not only blasting Fox News as a disseminator of “fake news,” he’s accusing Murdoch of lying to him “for years” about ditching the pollster that has actually been surprisingly accurate. And he threw in a shot at Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal for kicks. Probably because the Journal’s Editorial Board recently wrote that Trump was waging “The Dumbest Trade War in History.”

Making matters worse, was what Steve Doocy said on Fox and Friends. He began by saying that Trump is “softening his stance on China.” While he characterized that weakness as positive, he elaborated by giving the Fox News viewers some information that was likely to cause them some emotional distress…

“Tariffs are unpopular with the American public. 72% say that the tariffs are making things more expensive. 55% say that they are hurting the economy. And 44% say they are hurting jobs. And when it comes to one other number, when you look at the S&P 500, it has gotten off to the worst start of any presidency going back to 1928, which is when they started keeping records.”

But not to worry, co-host Ainsley Earhardt (Sean Hannity’s girlfriend), chimed in to salve the wounds caused by Doocy’s brief detour into reality, saying that…

“The administration is saying that these projections are fluid, there are several options on the table. The president yesterday, he was out on the White House lawn, he was out there to find a good location to erect this new huge American flag.”

See? Everything is gonna be okay. The cost of living is rising to new heights. Everything from groceries, to gas, to rent, to appliances, to cars, and more, will be more expensive, for no reason other than Trump’s ego and ignorance. But at least we’ll have a giant, useless flag decorating the White House (which already has one on its roof) to wave at and salute on the way to the poorhouse. Good times! And so much winning.

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

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

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

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Donald Trump Messiah

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And on Easter Sunday…

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

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

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

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

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

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Donald Trump, Immigrant, Child

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Trump in Bed, Eating, Sad

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

SEE THIS: Trump Destroys His Own Claim that Russia Wouldn’t Have Invaded Ukraine if He Were President

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by on April 10, 2025 at 3:14 pm. 1 Comments :

The tendency for the MAGA faithful to sink into despair would be completely understandable after the past couple of weeks of economic decline and the continuing dismantling of the U.S. government. That RUD (“rapid unscheduled disassembly”) has been overseen by an ephemeral agency preposterously dubbed the “Department of Government Efficiency,” and led by an unelected billionaire pal of Donald Trump.

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Donald Trump and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

Trump’s “governing by chaos” method of mismanagement is producing precisely the sort of results that virtually every credible economist predicted way in advance. Both the stock market and the bond market took severe hits, depleting $6 trillion in assets, decimating the savings of millions of Americans, while setting up the uppercrusters to further enrich themselves.

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in response to this fiscal fiasco, the Trump administration gathered their most reliable apostles and dispatched them to the MAGA media to spread their gospel. Leading the pack was Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, who has made more appearances on Fox News than in the White House press room. On Thursday Leavitt sat for a friendly conversation with Fox’s Martha MacCallum. And she read solemnly from the Trump hymnal saying that…

“There’s great reason to be optimistic about America’s economy. Trust in President Trump. Look at what he did in his first term. Companies would be best served doing business right here in the United States.”

Leavitt: "Trust in President Trump. Look at what he did in his first term. Companies would be best served doing business right here in the United States."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-10T19:42:31.602Z

And there you have it. All you need in order to be bathed in the glow of illusory optimism is to place your trust in Dear Leader, who is divine and infallible. And the evidence of his divinity is observed in his miracles of the past.

Just in case you’ve forgotten, During Trump’s first term he presided over the deaths of more than a million Americans due to the COVID pandemic that he grossly mismanaged. The economy was in tatters, and far worse off than every other industrialized nation. More businesses were shuttered than at any time in generations. And Trump was the first president in decades to leave office with fewer Americans employed than when he began.

What’s more, Trump tried to extort the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to pressure him to dig up dirt on Joe Biden prior to the 2020 election that Trump still says (aka lies) was “rigged and stolen” from him. And Trump incited a violent and deadly riot by insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undermine democracy and prevent the certification of Biden’s election. Both of those incidents resulted in his unprecedented two impeachments.

That’s the resume upon which Leavitt is asking you all to rely for confidence going forward in Trump’s second occupation of the White House. And her simplistic suggestion that every company would be better off doing business in the U.S. ignores all of the rational arguments for taking advantage of the many benefits of diversifying production internationally, including labor, real estate, transport, and natural resources.

Leavitt’s plea to the nation to “trust in Trump” is more of the sort of adoration that sets the Trump cult apart from other political movements. This subservient demand for blind devotion is a hallmark of the Trump cabal. It was further affirmed during another one of his adulatory Cabinet meetings where all of his Pharisees are required to demonstrate their veneration of the Master. And venerate they did. For instance…

  • Attorney Genuflect Pam Bondi lied that Trump was “overwhelmingly elected by the biggest majority.” [Trump’s margin was one of the lowest ever]
  • Treasury Sycophantry Scott Bessent celebrated the stock market being “Up two [days], down one is not a bad ratio.” [The stock market has been down five of the last six days]
  • Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins gushed that “What you have assembled in your vision is a turning point in American history.” [That’s actually true, but for all negative reasons]
  • Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler drooled “Mr President, on behalf of America’s manufacturers, I want to thank you…main street is grateful for you.” [Main Street in Moscow]

This is a typical Cabinet meeting for the Trump regime. There is virtually nothing done that advances the interests of the American people. It’s sole purpose is to inflate Trump’s massive yet fragile ego. Like most other cult leaders, he demands to be worshipped. And while his flock will obey, it’s increasingly clear that the American public will not.

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

Posted by on April 7, 2025 at 1:41 pm. NO Comments :

The legacy of how Donald Trump presided over the fastest reversal of America’s economic fortunes in modern times is already engraved in historical stone. He took a nation with the strongest financial profile in the world, and has led it into a debacle that is dragging the rest of world down with it.

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Fox News, Maria Bartiromo, Donald Trump

This fiasco was 100% generated by the ignorance, arrogance, and ego of Trump, and was completely unnecessary. His boneheaded blanketing of tariffs on nearly every country across the globe (except, of course, for Russia), has resulted in the worst stock market crash since March of 2020, in the midst of a deadly pandemic that he also mismanaged with deadly consequences. And he has no idea whatsoever what to do about any of it.

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On Monday morning, Fox News Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo, hosted a segment of her program to discuss Trump’s deliberate destruction of the American economy. And her commentary was somewhat out of character for someone who is such a reliable devotee of the Trump cult. But that just reinforces how extraordinarily ghastly Trump’s bungling of the business of America has been. When asked about what the impact of Trump’s tariffs will be, she said…

“Well, it is going to have an effect on Main Street. Some things will become higher priced. We will see some products actually be raised in price because companies will pass on the cost of tariffs to consumers. I would expect that.

“That’s why you have some people saying that we could see a recession. We’ll see a growth slowdown. […] U.S. real GDP is on track to decline about one percent in the second quarter, and in the third quarter with unemployment rising.”

You don’t say? This is what credible economists have saying for months. It is a complete repudiation of Trump’s preposterous lies that foreign countries are the ones who pay the tariffs. Bartiromo is acknowledging that it is the domestic importers who pay, and then pass those costs on to consumers. How long will it be before Trump denounces her as a radical left lunatic spreading fake news?

Bartiromo went even further to acknowledge that a recession is a probable outcome of Trump’s idiocy. Although she doesn’t put it in terms quite as stark and accurate as that. In fact, Bartiromo actually appears to have chickened out at the end of her remarks, saying…

“But look, President Trump told us that we were going to see a disruption. We are in that disruption right now. The bottom line is when you’re looking at this situation from 30,000 feet above, he’s trying to rejigger the economy so that the U.S. is not reliant on China for prescription drugs, or Taiwan for advanced semiconductor chips, to try to get manufacturing here. So yes, I do expect this to hit the Main Street and hit prices that will go higher.”

See? It’s all part of Trump’s grand plan. He isn’t throwing the nation into an economic sinkhole. He’s just “rejiggering” it to increase domestic manufacturing. Never mind that tariffs would have the opposite effect because no manufacturer would invest billions of dollars, and several years, to build new factories when Trump’s policies are so unstable, unpredictable, and detrimental to growth.

What’s more, President Biden already got semiconductor, and other tech companies, to commit to domestic production without imposing devastating tariffs. See the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022.

Bartiromo isn’t the only MAGA maven to concede that Trump is sabotaging the U.S. economy. CNN is reporting that a gaggle of billionaire Trump supporters are hammering his economic policies. They are warning of an “economic nuclear winter,” and using terms like “recession,” “stupid, wrong, [and] arrogantly extreme.”

Trump has done a lot of dumb and dangerous things in the few weeks since his reoccupation of the White House. Including shuttering critical government services that will cost lives, firing independent inspectors general, threatening Social Security and Medicare, deporting citizens and legal residents to El Salvadorian gulags, and attacking and suppressing the free press.

But with his appalling economic policies Trump may have angered the one group that he actually cares anything about – his fellow wealthy, uppercrust elitists and greedy oligarchs. Or as he will shortly start to refer to the: radical left lunatics.

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Fox News Spikes Story by Their Own Reporter Who Asked Why Trump is Sucking Up to Laura Loomer

Posted by on April 6, 2025 at 1:15 pm. NO Comments :

It isn’t often that Fox News stumbles onto a factual presentation of a political story, particularly if it involves their designated messiah and cult commander, Donald Trump. Generally they obediently parrot whatever Dear Leader says, and then divert to some unrelated nonsense that they repeat ad nauseum to drill it into their vacuous viewing audience.

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Fox News, Fake News

Most of Fox News “reporting” consists of smearing random Democrats, or spreading fictional accounts of imaginary liberal malfeasance, or inventing preposterous tales of misbehavior by migrants such as eating cats and dogs. It really doesn’t matter to Fox News how they mislead viewers, as long it keeps them glued to the network to have their devotion to Trump be continually reinforced.

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The Fox News mission to canonize Trump was on display recently after a story about his relationship with Internet troll and conspiracy crackpot, Laura Loomer, made headlines. Multiple reputable news outlets reported on Loomer’s influence over Trump with regard to her role in the dismissal of National Security Agency (NSA) Director, General Timothy Haugh and other intelligence officials.

On Friday, Trump fired Gen. Haugh after a meeting with Loomer in the Oval Office. Loomer was reported to have presented Trump with a list of officials she deemed disloyal to Trump. Never mind that she has zero experience in intelligence or national security matters. And her concern – and that of Trump – was not disloyalty to the nation or the Constitution, but to Trump personally.

Not surprisingly, this incident has raised concerns about the politicization of national security and the potential undermining of America’s intelligence interests and institutional stability. Among those concerned was Fox News chief national security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin. She expressed her concerns in a tweet on Saturday asking…

“Why is the administration dismantling the nation’s cyber defenses at such a dangerous time? The President orders the firing of NSA director Gen Haugh after meeting with conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer in the Oval Office without consulting the Pentagon. Gen Haugh was fired for no reason while traveling to Japan. No replacement has been named for nearly 48 hours suggesting there was no plan. This after the administration has taken steps to dismantle CISA [Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency]. What is going on and why isn’t there loud bipartisan demand for answers?”

The fact that Loomer could even gain access to the Oval Office is shockingly disturbing and a dreadful omen for the future of the country. But even worse is that Trump would favor her opinion on national security matters over that of his Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, and his National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz.

Waltz was in the room with Trump and Loomer when she was badmouthing Haugh. He reportedly made a weak attempt to defend his deputies, but gave up rather quickly. Although Waltz may be out of favor after having invited a reporter into an attack planning chat on an unsecure commercial app.

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Griffin’s reporting on this story appears to consist entirely of the tweet noted above. While the significance of her comment is readily apparent, and unquestionably newsworthy, Fox News appears to question it anyway. They have not had Griffin on the air to report her story, or even posted it on their website.

So the revelations about Trump’s embrace of Loomer, or the questions about Trump’s “dismantling the nation’s cyber defenses,” or why Republicans in Congress are silent about it, are all being ignored by Fox News. Consequently, anyone relying on Fox News for information will remain in a state of blissful ignorance.

It’s bad enough that Fox’s coverage of current events is so heavily slanted toward the far-right. But when they are so committed to distorting their reporting that they even muzzle their chief correspondents, it is impossible to take the network seriously as anything other than the Ministry of Propaganda for Trump. Which everyone who is paying attention already knew.

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