The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America
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It's disgusting alright S2.
At least Bill & Melinda visit Africa now & then.
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When I go to the gym, I usually end up getting stuck watching Fox. Not good.
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Crews begin removing Trump’s name from Kennedy Center after missing Friday night deadline
Story by Devan Cole, Betsy Klein, CNNWorkers began removing President Donald Trump’s name from an exterior wall of the Kennedy Center early Saturday morning, video from a CNN crew showed.
It comes after the historic performing arts venue missed a deadline to comply with a federal judge’s ruling to remove Trump’s name from the building and asked for for additional time to carry out the directive.
Justice department attorneys representing the center said late Friday that while work was ongoing, thunderstorms in the Washington area caused delays. They said crews expected to fully remove Trump’s name “in the early hours” of Saturday.
US District Judge Casey Cooper had set a deadline of 11:59 p.m. Friday for the center to certify compliance with his order. The judge hasn’t yet responded to the center’s request for additional time to say that it has carried out his demand.
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BREAKING: Federal judge ORDERS Trump to restore slavery and climate exhibits to national parks by July 4th, "to properly honor" America's 250th birthday
A federal judge just delivered the most poetic legal smackdown of the Trump era.
U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley ruled Friday that the Trump administration MUST reinstall the exhibits and signs about slavery, climate change, and other "inconvenient" history that it stripped from national parks and monuments across the country — and she gave them 21 days to do it.
That deadline lands right at America's 250th anniversary. And Judge Kelley made the symbolism EXPLICIT, ordering the signs restored "by the 250th anniversary to properly honor the remarkable achievements of the United States."
Translation: you don't honor America by ERASING its history. You honor it by telling the TRUTH.
The ruling is a devastating blow to Trump's March 2025 executive order targeting what he called a "revisionist movement" portraying America as "inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed." Under that order, the Interior Department went on a censorship rampage — ripping out exhibits about slavery, scrubbing references to climate change, and sanitizing more than 430 national park sites of anything that didn't match Trump's "preferred narrative."
Judge Kelley called it EXACTLY what it is. Removing these signs, she wrote, not only undermines "the integrity of the National Parks; it sets a dangerous precedent of CENSORSHIP and SANITIZATION."
The lawsuit was brought by the National Parks Conservation Association, the American Association for State and Local History, and groups representing park conservationists, historians, and scientists — who accused the administration of waging a "sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science."
Sound familiar? It should. This is the SAME administration that argued in court it has the right to chisel the names of nine enslaved people off a stone monument at George Washington's Philadelphia residence. The same administration that removed slavery displays from the President's House memorial — prompting another federal judge to quote George Orwell's 1984 while condemning the government for "dismantling objective historical truths."
TWO federal judges. TWO Orwell-worthy rulings. ONE administration obsessed with erasing the parts of American history that make Donald Trump uncomfortable.
Here's the thing about history: it happened. Slavery happened. Climate change is happening. No executive order, no censorship campaign, no sanitized placard can change that. The enslaved people who built this country existed. Their stories matter. And now, thanks to Judge Kelley, those stories are going BACK on display where they belong — just in time for the nation's birthday.
America's 250th anniversary should celebrate how far we've come. And you can't measure how far we've come if you erase where we started.
The truth will be restored. The censors have LOST in court again.
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More here
www.nbcnews.com
A federal judge just delivered the most poetic legal smackdown of the Trump era.
U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley ruled Friday that the Trump administration MUST reinstall the exhibits and signs about slavery, climate change, and other "inconvenient" history that it stripped from national parks and monuments across the country — and she gave them 21 days to do it.
That deadline lands right at America's 250th anniversary. And Judge Kelley made the symbolism EXPLICIT, ordering the signs restored "by the 250th anniversary to properly honor the remarkable achievements of the United States."
Translation: you don't honor America by ERASING its history. You honor it by telling the TRUTH.
The ruling is a devastating blow to Trump's March 2025 executive order targeting what he called a "revisionist movement" portraying America as "inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed." Under that order, the Interior Department went on a censorship rampage — ripping out exhibits about slavery, scrubbing references to climate change, and sanitizing more than 430 national park sites of anything that didn't match Trump's "preferred narrative."
Judge Kelley called it EXACTLY what it is. Removing these signs, she wrote, not only undermines "the integrity of the National Parks; it sets a dangerous precedent of CENSORSHIP and SANITIZATION."
The lawsuit was brought by the National Parks Conservation Association, the American Association for State and Local History, and groups representing park conservationists, historians, and scientists — who accused the administration of waging a "sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science."
Sound familiar? It should. This is the SAME administration that argued in court it has the right to chisel the names of nine enslaved people off a stone monument at George Washington's Philadelphia residence. The same administration that removed slavery displays from the President's House memorial — prompting another federal judge to quote George Orwell's 1984 while condemning the government for "dismantling objective historical truths."
TWO federal judges. TWO Orwell-worthy rulings. ONE administration obsessed with erasing the parts of American history that make Donald Trump uncomfortable.
Here's the thing about history: it happened. Slavery happened. Climate change is happening. No executive order, no censorship campaign, no sanitized placard can change that. The enslaved people who built this country existed. Their stories matter. And now, thanks to Judge Kelley, those stories are going BACK on display where they belong — just in time for the nation's birthday.
America's 250th anniversary should celebrate how far we've come. And you can't measure how far we've come if you erase where we started.
The truth will be restored. The censors have LOST in court again.
SOURCE with comments
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Judge orders Trump officials to re-install signs and exhibits at national parks on topics like slavery and climate change
President Donald Trump last year directed the Interior Department to make changes to parks, monuments and memorials to address any “false revision of history.”
www.nbcnews.com
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Re 3,385, 3,386
And it makes for a better spectator sport than the World Cup
How bad do you have to be to have a crowd want to watch your name get taken OFF of a building?
And it makes for a better spectator sport than the World Cup
How bad do you have to be to have a crowd want to watch your name get taken OFF of a building?
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BREAKING: UGH! Racist Pete Hegseth has REMOVED the portrait of the first Black 4-star general, Chappie James, a war hero who flew 179 missions for our country!
In a breathtaking act of disrespect, Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth ordered the removal of the portrait of General Daniel “Chappie” James Jr. from the Air Force Art Gallery, and then left the space blank.
General James was an American hero who . . .
-- Flew 179 combat missions in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam;
-- Became the first Black four-star general in U.S. military history; and
-- Famously stared down Muammar Qaddafi in Libya, gun in hand, forcing him to yield.
Presidents as far back as Ronald Reagan honored James. Even Ron DeSantis approved naming a bridge after him. He was respected across party lines as a trailblazer and a hero, who earned every star on his shoulder.
Just to remind you, Hegseth spent most of his National Guard career as a public affairs desk jockey and never advanced beyond the rank of major, and now cosplays as some kind of battle-hardened combat veteran.
James’ portrait, of course, was taken down as part of Pentagon Pete’s crusade against diversity in the military, which is doing so much for morale that one longtime Pentagon employee who walked past James’s portrait every day for a decade reportedly retired after it was removed.
Hegseth has also infamously blocked promotions for Black and female officers, fired senior Black leaders, and worked to restore monuments to Confederate traitors. He truly seems to believe that accomplishments by Black service members don’t count in his Pentagon.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore, a combat veteran, rightly called the purging of Chappie James “despicable, and not representative of the Army I served in.”
Removing a pioneering general’s portrait and leaving the wall empty is a deliberate insult to generations of Black Americans who served and sacrificed for this country.
With Trump’s blessing, Kegseth is erasing heroes who don’t fit his narrow, lily-white fantasy about the U.S. military, where one-third of all active members aren’t white, and a fifth women.
Chappie James has earned a place in history the likes of Pete Hegseth will never, ever hold.
He is deceiving himself if he thinks he can erase it.
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FLASHBACK: Trump ran on being 'King of Debt' in 2016, bragged he could eliminate national debt in 8 years
By Alec Schemmel Fox News / Published June 6, 2025 7:01pm EDTWhen Donald Trump ran for president for the first time, he campaigned on reducing the national debt, referring to himself at the time as "the king of debt" and telling voters he would pay off the nation's multi-trillion-dollar debt in 8 years.
"I'm the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me," Trump said during an interview with CBS's Norah O'Donnell in the lead up to the 2016 election. "I’ve made a fortune by using debt, and if things don’t work out I renegotiate the debt. I mean, that’s a smart thing, not a stupid thing."
"We’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt," Trump said a few months prior on the campaign trail during an interview with The Washington Post. When asked how long it would take, Trump responded: "I would say over a period of eight years … The power is trade. Our deals are so bad."
Musk has said continued 'overspending' will plunge the US into 'debt slavery'
FLASHBACK: Trump ran on being 'King of Debt' in 2016, bragged he could eliminate national debt in 8 years
Trump, once self-proclaimed "king of debt" who promised to eliminate national debt, now faces criticism from Elon Musk over a GOP spending package adding $3 trillion to the national debt.
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Part of the "news" value of this post #3,390 is the media significance.
Trump is a malignantly polarizing figure, tending to concentrate others into category of either friend, or foe.
Here to fore FOX has been Trump friendly. BUT !
Now?
FiscalData Treasury.gov
Total U.S. federal debt: $39,220,785,117,318.68
Debt to the Penny | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data
Total outstanding debt of the U.S. government reported daily. Includes a breakout of intragovernmental holdings (federal debt held by U.S. government) and debt held by the public (federal debt held by entities outside the U.S. government).
fiscaldata.treasury.gov
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Thing is when Trump said "renegotiate" he meant declare bankruptcy and force the lenders to take pennies on the dollar. While that was the way he ran his businesses the US cannot declare bankruptcy.
And just a comment on #3,390 - the $39 trillion in debt does not include the funding shortfalls for Social Security and Medicare so you've got to add another $150 trillion or so to that. And that doesn't even consider various other pensions (federal, state, and municipal) that are also underfunded (we've already seen municipalities declare bankruptcy in order to get out from under their pension obligations).
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Thank you Captain Sunshine.
So out of a total national population of 350 million, that's over $428,000.oo for each human. That includes penniless infants, subsistence workers, prison inmates, the destitute homeless, etc.
So the per capita debt of those that actually have the ability to pay is >$700 $Thou.
How many in the U.S. have neighbors that have over $700,000.oo to spare? $AND !
By Trump breaking his campaign promise against foreign wars, our inflation rate has increased, the Fed has increased interest rates,
and that increases the interest burden of our already astronomical debt.
We're not getting any additional benefit.
It's just costing $U.S. $more.