The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

Shiftless2 said:
"coffee belt" #439
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If we get coffee from the coffee belt, can we get serpents from a serpentine belt?

Shiftless2 said:
"This will harm ALL Americans." ace #440
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It'll harm "ALL Americans" on drugs.
And if they're so stupid they don't even understand the way to drive prices lower is to drive prices higher, then they MUST be on drugs anyway!
If they don't like it they should drop dead.

Keep the Sabbath holy. Find a tranny and insult their wardrobe.
 
A rational analysis of the tariffs. And it's gonna be hard for Magaworld to do its usual discrediting of the messenger. AEI is about as conservative as think tanks get.

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President Trump’s Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It’s Also Based on an Error.​

By Kevin Corinth | Stan Veuger

AEIdeas

April 04, 2025

President Trump on Wednesday announced tariffs on practically every foreign country (and some non-countries), ranging from a 10 percent minimum all the way up to 50 percent. The economic fallout has been dramatic, with the stock market losing nine percent of its value (based on the S&P 500 index at the time of writing) and forecasted probabilities of a recession rising.

President Trump described the tariffs as reciprocal, equal to half of the rate of tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers imposed by other countries. However, they are nothing of the sort. The tariff the United States is placing on other countries is equal to the US trade deficit divided by US imports from a given country, divided by two, or 10 percent, whichever rate is higher. So even if the United States has no trade deficit (or a trade surplus) with a country, they still receive a minimum tariff of 10 percent.

As an example, if the US imports $100 million worth of goods and services while exporting $50 million to a country, then the Trump Administration alleges that country levies a 50 percent tariff on the United States (the difference between $100 million and $50 million, divided by $100 million). The “reciprocal” tariff put into effect by President Trump on Wednesday would be half of that, 25 percent.

The formula for the tariffs, originally credited to the Council of Economic Advisers and published by the Office of the United States Trade Representative, does not make economic sense. The trade deficit with a given country is not determined only by tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers, but also by international capital flows, supply chains, comparative advantage, geography, etc.

But even if one were to take the Trump Administration’s tariff formula seriously, it makes an error ....

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Daniel Blackman​

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The American press has just recounted what former President Jimmy Carter said to Donald Trump during his recent interview about China.

"You're worried that China is getting ahead of us, and I agree with you. But do you know why China is getting ahead of us? I normalized diplomatic relations with Beijing in 1979.

Since then, do you know how many times China has gone to war with anyone? Not once, even though we're constantly at war.

The United States is the most warlike nation in the history of the world because it wants to impose states that respond to our government and American values throughout the West, and to control companies that own energy resources in other countries." China, for its part, invests its resources in projects such as railways, infrastructure, intercontinental and transoceanic bullet trains, 6G technology, robotic intelligence, universities, hospitals, ports, buildings, and high-speed trains instead of using them for military spending.

"How many kilometers of high-speed trains do we have in this country?

We wasted $300 billion in military spending to subjugate countries that sought to escape our hegemony.

China hasn't wasted a penny on war, and that's why it surpasses us in almost every area. And if we had spent $300 billion to install infrastructure, robots, and public health in the United States, we would have high-speed transoceanic bullet trains." We would have bridges that don't collapse, free healthcare for Americans, thousands of Americans who wouldn't be infected with COVID-19 more than any other country in the world.

We would have roads that hold up properly. Our education system would be as good as South Korea's or Shanghai's." - Jimmy Carter.
 
I would endorse The Atlantic's take:

"There Is Only One Way to Make Sense of the Tariffs"
The policy is absurd. It’s also an extension of Trump’s chaotic personality.

By Derek Thompson

Yesterday afternoon, Donald Trump celebrated America’s so-called Liberation Day by announcing a slew of tariffs on dozens of countries. His plan, if fully implemented, will return the United States to the highest tariff duty as a share of the economy since the late 1800s, before the invention of the automobile, aspirin, and the incandescent light bulb. Michael Cembalest, the widely read analyst at JP Morgan Wealth Management, wrote that the White House announcement “borders on twilight zone territory.”

The most fitting analysis for this moment, however, does not come from an economist or a financial researcher. It comes from the screenwriter William Goldman, who pithily captured his industry’s lack of foresight with one of the most famous aphorisms in Hollywood history: “Nobody knows anything.”

You’re not going to find a better three-word summary of the Trump tariffs than that. If there’s anything worse than an economic plan that attempts to revive the 19th-century protectionist U.S. economy, it’s the fact that the people responsible for explaining and implementing it don’t seem to have any idea what they’re doing, or why.

On one side, you have the longtime Trump aide Peter Navarro, who has said that Trump’s tariffs will raise $6 trillion over the next decade, making it the largest tax increase in American history. On another, you have pro-Trump tech folks, such as Palmer Luckey, who have instead claimed that the goal is the opposite: a world of fully free trade, as countries remove their existing trade barriers in the face of the new penalties. On yet another track, there is Stephen Miran, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, who has suggested that the tariff salvo is part of a master plan to rebalance America’s relationship with the global economy by reducing the value of the dollar and reviving manufacturing employment in the United States.

These three alleged goals—raising revenue, restoring free trade, and rejiggering the global economy—are incompatible with one another. The first and second explanations are mutually exclusive: The state can’t raise tax revenue in the long run with a levy that is designed to disappear. The second and third explanations are mutually exclusive too: You can’t reindustrialize by doubling down on the global-trade free-for-all that supposedly immiserated the Rust Belt in the first place. Either global free trade is an economic Valhalla worth fighting for, or it’s the cursed political order that we’re trying desperately to destroy.

As for Trump’s alleged devotion to bringing back manufacturing jobs, the administration has attacked the implementation of the CHIPS bill, which invested in the very same high-tech semiconductors that a strategic reindustrialization effort would seek to prioritize. There is no single coherent explanation for the tariffs, only competing hypotheses that violate one another’s internal logic because, when it comes to explaining this economic policy, nobody knows anything.

One might expect clarity from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. But even he doesn’t seem to understand what’s going on. The “tariff gun will always be loaded and on the table, but rarely discharged,” he said last year. So much for that. Yesterday, a Bloomberg reporter asked Bessent if the Trump administration has plans to negotiate with America’s trading partners. “We’re just going to have to wait and see,” he said. Was the administration ready to negotiate with the European Union, China, or India? “We’ll see.” Asked why Canada and Mexico were missing from the president’s list of tariffs, he switched it up: “I’m not sure.” Nobody knows anything.

By the numbers, the tariffs are less an expression of economic theory and more a Dadaist art piece about the meaninglessness of expertise. The Trump administration slapped 10 percent tariffs on Heard Island and McDonalds Islands, which are uninhabited, and on the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose residents are mostly American and British military service members. One of the highest tariff rates, 50 percent, was imposed on the African nation of Lesotho, whose average citizen earns less than $5 a day. Why? Because the administration’s formula for supposedly “reciprocal” tariff rates apparently has nothing to do with tariffs. The Trump team seems to have calculated each penalty by dividing the U.S. trade deficit with a given country by how much the U.S. imports from it and then doing a rough adjustment. Because Lesotho’s citizens are too poor to afford most U.S. exports, while the U.S. imports $237 million in diamonds and other goods from the small landlocked nation, we have reserved close to our highest-possible tariff rate for one of the world’s poorest countries. The notion that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is so absurd that I briefly lost consciousness in the middle of writing this sentence.

If the tariffs violate their own internal logic and basic common sense, what are they? Most likely, they represent little more than the all-of-government metastasis of Trump’s personality, which sees grandiosity as a strategy to pull counterparties to the negotiating table and strike deals that benefit Trump’s ego or wallet. This personality style is clear, and it has been clearly stated, even if its application to geopolitics is confounding to observe. “My style of deal-making is pretty simple and straightforward,” Trump writes in The Art of the Deal. “I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after. Sometimes I settle for less than I sought but in most cases I still end up with what I want.”

One can see this playbook—threat, leverage, concession, repeat—playing out across all of society. It’s happening in trade. It’s happening in law. It’s happening in academia. In the first two months of his second term, Trump has already squeezed enormous concessions out of white-shoe law firms and major universities. Trump appears to care more about the process of gaining leverage over others—including other countries—than he does about any particular effective tariff rate. The endgame here is that there is no endgame, only the infinite game of power and leverage.

Trump’s defenders praise the president for using chaos to shake up broken systems. But they fail to see the downside of uncertainty. Is a textile company really supposed to open a U.S. factory when our trade policy seems likely to change every month as Trump personally negotiates with the entire planet? Are manufacturing firms really supposed to invest in expensive factory expansions when the Liberation Day tariffs caused a global sell-off that signals an international downturn? Trump’s personality is, and has always been, zero-sum and urgent, craving chaos, but economic growth is positive-sum and long-term-oriented, craving certainty for its largest investments. The scariest thing about the Trump tariffs isn’t the numbers, but the underlying message. We’re all living inside the president’s head, and nobody knows anything.
 
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a) How much of that has been paid?
b) In timely manner?
c) Of those not fully paid, what's the legal status?
d) Who paid? Does Trump slush political donations for such payment?

From FOX:
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Has calling Trump's critics "lunatics" made the headlines recently?
Dems get low marks, but the Trump administration has the "Democrats"
aka the incompetence party looking like the adults in the room.
 
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Concerned Citizen​

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CC was scrolling through timeline threads and came upon this very insightful article and felt it worthwhile for those who are looking to ‘connect the dots’ regarding what’s happening.
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“When Nazis Are Quoted from the Bench: MAGA’s March Toward Tyranny”

By Tony Pentimalli

It happened in America. In 2025. In the halls of Congress.

Republican Congressman Keith Self, during a House hearing on censorship and public discourse, looked into the camera and quoted Joseph Goebbels — Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda — as if he were citing a respected authority on governance. “It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion.” Let those words sink in.

This wasn’t an academic comparison. This wasn’t a history lesson. It was a quote from the architect of the Nazi propaganda machine, spoken aloud by a sitting U.S. Congressman in defense of state control over speech.

There is no context in which quoting Goebbels is appropriate. Ever. But in Trump’s America — where the line between fascism and patriotism has been deliberately blurred — it’s not just tolerated. It’s a signal.

Make no mistake: MAGA’s flirtation with fascism is over. They’ve moved in, redecorated the place, and made it their home.

We are no longer watching the slow creep of authoritarianism. We are watching the sprint. And Donald Trump, now back in the Oval Office after the most disgraceful and dangerous comeback in American political history, is not merely condoning it — he’s fueling it.

When Trump praises dictators like Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán, it’s not hyperbole or entertainment. It’s aspiration. When he declares immigrants “poisoning the blood of our nation,” he’s not echoing Ronald Reagan — he’s echoing Adolf Hitler. And now, with Project 2025 well underway, his loyalists are pushing a roadmap that reads like a dystopian instruction manual: purge the federal government of dissenters, dismantle checks and balances, roll back civil rights, and crush independent thought.

But quoting Goebbels? That’s a new low — even for MAGA.

Let’s call this what it is: a brazen embrace of Nazi ideology. Goebbels was not a mere commentator on propaganda. He was its master, responsible for brainwashing a nation, silencing truth, and greasing the rails to Auschwitz with lies and hate. When a U.S. Congressman lifts his words to justify government control of speech, we are staring fascism dead in the eyes.

And don’t for one second believe it was a slip.

Keith Self sits on the same ideological team that celebrated January 6th as “patriotic,” that wants to erase uncomfortable truths from our children’s textbooks, that has outlawed books, banned history, and turned “wokeness” into a slur. These are not conservative values. These are authoritarian tactics. And they are working.

They’ve already dismantled reproductive rights. They’ve gutted voting protections. They’ve weaponized the courts — including a Supreme Court so compromised it shrinks from defending democracy and instead shields billionaires, guns, and bigotry. Trump’s allies now wear the language of fascism like a badge of honor: “retribution,” “domination,” “the enemy of the people.”

And we? We are told to be civil. To see “both sides.” To pretend that quoting Nazis from the House dais is just a political misstep and not a five-alarm fire.

This is not a drill. This is not about taxes or inflation or even the usual push and pull of partisanship. This is about whether America remains a democracy — or descends into something far darker. MAGA isn’t offering policy. It’s offering control. It’s offering submission. It’s offering a future where dissent is treason, where truth is decided by decree, and where quoting Hitler’s inner circle is not only allowed — but cheered.

The danger here isn’t abstract. It’s personal. If you’re Black, brown, LGBTQ+, Muslim, Jewish, disabled, poor, female, or an immigrant — you are the target. If you’re a teacher who believes in science, a librarian who stocks Beloved, a journalist who tells uncomfortable truths — you are the threat. If you believe that America is strongest when it defends liberty and not stomps on it — you are in the way.

And if we don’t stop this now, quoting Goebbels in Congress won’t be a scandal. It will be the standard.

History is screaming at us. The same tools used by fascists of the past — fear, propaganda, scapegoating, and the slow normalization of hate — are being sharpened by men like Trump and wielded by cowards like Keith Self.

We cannot wait for it to get worse. It already has.

This is the moment to speak, to act, to resist. Because when they start quoting Nazis without shame, the only thing left is whether we have the courage to say: Never again.
And mean it.

*Tony Pentimalli is a political analyst and commentator fighting for democracy, economic justice, and social equity. Follow him for sharp analysis and hard-hitting critiques.*
 
It appears that the Supremes haven't abandoned the Constitution (yet). Sad that I had to add the parenthetical remark

 
Shiftless2 said:
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It's immaterial Mr. President.
Accurate self-perception would not mitigate the destruction your second administration inflicts.

The U.S. acquired global leadership after centuries of having earned it.

It is not merely that the U.S. is not likely soon if ever to regain it.

Your Trump administration has not traded U.S. hegemony for something of equal or greater value.
Your Trump administration has forfeited our leadership role by gratuitously insulting our allies and trade partners, gaining U.S. nothing but a full-blown trade war, and escalating consumer prices.

If you know this, you're a maniac & a saboteur.
If you don't know this you're a liar & a saboteur.
 
Even if he knows what he's doing he has no idea what impact it will have.

BTW - the White House is now claiming that over 70 countries have called wanting to discuss tariffs. If anyone believes that I can introduce them to a nice man in Nigeria who is looking for a little help.
 
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Greg Stuart​

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Another long excellent read, but worth it.

I don't think any US journalist has written as tough (and spot-on) a portrayal of the threat facing us as this Canadian, Andrew Coyne of the Toronto Globe and Mail. If you read to the end, you will be rewarded with the most flattering photograph yet of the convicted-felon-in-chief: with all his make up- scary!

“Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies.

The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.

There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies. The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do – to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world – is incalculable. We are living in the time of Nero.

The first six months will be a time of maximum peril. NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock. We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe – the poor Ukrainians are probably done for, but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry – before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative. China may also accelerate its Taiwanese ambitions.

At home, Mr. Trump will be moving swiftly to consolidate his power. Some of this will be institutional – the replacement of tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trumpian loyalists. But some of it will be … atmospheric.

At some point someone – a company whose chief executive has displeased him, a media critic who has gotten under his skin – will find themselves the subject of unwanted attention from the Trump administration. It might not be so crude as a police arrest. It might just be a little regulatory matter, a tax audit, something like that. They will seek the protection of the courts, and find it is not there.

The judges are also Trump loyalists, perhaps, or too scared to confront him. Or they might issue a ruling, and find it has no effect – that the administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy: the idea that, in the crunch, people in power agree to be bound by the law, and by its instruments the courts, the same as everyone else. Then everyone will take their cue. Executives will line up to court him. Media organizations, the large ones anyway, will find reasons to be cheerful.

Of course, in reality things will start to fall apart fairly quickly. The huge across-the-board tariffs he imposes will tank the world economy. The massive deficits, fueled by his ill-judged tax policies – he won’t replace the income tax, as he promised, but will fill it with holes – and monetized, at his direction, by the Federal Reserve, will ignite a new round of inflation.

Most of all, the insane project of deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants – finding them, rounding them up and detaining them in hundreds of internment camps around the country, probably for years, before doing so – will consume his administration. But by then it will be too late.

We should not count upon the majority of Americans coming to their senses in any event. They were not able to see Mr. Trump for what he was before: why should that change?

Would they not, rather, be further coarsened by the experience of seeing their neighbours dragged off by the police, or the military, further steeled to the necessity of doing “tough things” to “restore order?”

Some won’t, of course. But they will find in time that the democratic levers they might once have pulled to demand change are no longer attached to anything. There are still elections, but the rules have been altered: there are certain obstacles, certain disadvantages if you are not with the party of power. It will seem easier at first to try to change things from within. Then it will be easier not to change things.

All of this will wash over Canada in various ways – some predictable, like the flood of refugees seeking escape from the camps; some less so, like the coarsening of our own politics, the debasement of morals and norms by politicians who have discovered there is no political price to be paid for it. And who will have the backing of their patron in Washington.

All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them.”

Andrew Coyne
 
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Occupy Democrats​

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BREAKING: Comedian Jon Stewart launches a brutal takedown of Donald Trump's disastrous tariffs and explains them in a way that even MAGA supporters can understand, calling them a "rat poison colonoscopy."

And he was just getting warmed up. This is a rant for the history books...

"Our economy is in the midst of a beautiful metamorphosis, turning from a simple caterpillar into a dead caterpillar," Stewart said, kicking off his monologue on The Daily Show.

"So let's get into it with another exciting installment of Trade Wars!"

"Now, you might remember when Donald Trump was reelected Wall Street was thrilled!" he continued. "Excited about deregulation, tax cuts, and the fact that you could once again call people sugartits."

Stewart mocked a top Wall Street banker for reportedly being thrilled about Trump's win because it supposedly meant that he could say "pussy" and "retard" again.

"Hmm... The R-word and the P-word?" said Stewart. "Well, I can tell you today that that top banker is definitely using both of those words, perhaps even adding motherf*cker, right now."

"This turmoil could have lasting effects on the global economy, on everyday Americans, and most worryingly, the stock portfolios of members of Congress," he joked.

"Mr. President, now is the time to soothe a worried nation," said Stewart, before rolling a news clip about Trump's post on Truth Social that Americans should not be "Panicans" which is a "new party" based on "Weak and Stupid people."

"Panican!?" said Stewart. "The genius that gave us 'Sleepy Joe' and 'Crooked Hillary' just shit out 'you're a panican'? How about 'Hystericrats,' 'Repussicans.' How about 'Cryingtologists.'"

"Did the overseas factory you had been sourcing your nicknames from get shut down during the tariff war?" asked Stewart.

"So we're going to try this again Mr. President, can you ease the fears of this nation like a true leader?" said Stewart, cutting to coverage of Trump's post that "ONLY THE WEAK WILL FAIL!"

"What are you doing?" said Stewart. "Your economic policy has the same tagline as season three of Squid Game!!? That's supposed to make us feel better?"

"Only the weak shall die in my economy!" said Stewart, affecting a villainous voice.

"And by the way in case you didn't get the point that he doesn't give a f*ck, he spent the weekend showing not telling. He played — not a round of golf this weekend — a tournament of golf, a three day tournament of golf," said Stewart. "Eight hundred and twelve holes of golf with his LIV Golf Saudi benefactors."

"And in case you're wondering about the venerated journalists who are now allowed to be in the press pool, this was literally the first question he was asked on Air Force One in the middle of a financial meltdown.." said Stewart.

He then cut to a clip of a reporter asking Trump about the golf tournament and Trump bragging about winning. The audience in Stewart's studio audibly booed.

"You heard I won? You heard I won? I won," Stewart said, mocking Trump. "You heard I won. I won! Mom, mom! I won. Mom! I won the tournament mom! I'm a good boy. Good boy, good golf."

"I know the stock market is not the totality of the economy but if I remember correctly in the run-up to the election, Trump seemed very concerned about the stock market," Stewart said, running a clip of Trump warning that Kamala Harris would crash the economy.

"And anything she can do I can do better!" said Stewart, impersonating Trump again. "I can do it on my own. I won mom! Hey mom! Hey mom look! Hey mom look, no economy!

Please love me."

"And it didn't have to happen like this. Trump had so many options to shape the world economy into the one he thought was fairer," said Stewart. "He could have proposed some incentives to bring back manufacturing. He could have gone sector to sector, nation to nation, negotiating better trade reciprocal agreements."

"But he had to go the full Teresa," said Stewart, running a clip of Teresa Giudice from The Real Housewives of New Jersey flipping a table and freaking out.

"Now to be fair, to be fair, to be fair to the Trump administration, they did give it almost two months and no effort before they asked ChatGPT what it thought they should do," continued Stewart.

"But for those of who have been tricked into believing that an economic crisis is a crisis, Trump's people have an answer," he said, before running clips of MAGA figures urging Americans not to panic or worry.

"When did the right become sho chill?" asked Stewart. "Aren't you the Bud Light's turning my kids trans folks? But economic meltdown and you're getting all philosophical?"

He then ran a clip of MAGA influencer Benny Johnson claiming that losing money "builds character" and "costs you nothing."

"Except money," said Stewart. "Losing money costs you money. It's the definition of losing money. And I know you go 'It's going to be worth it to get the character of the country that we want back again' but we have no f*cking idea if that's actually what's going to happen."

"You're all acting like the tariff regime is a tried and true remedy," he went on. "'Oh of course, this is the medicine that's always prescribed!' Except the last time it was tried a hundred years ago we had a Great Depression. So how does this work?"

Stewart went on to mock conservatives who are comparing the tariffs to a medical procedure or administering rat poisoning—

"So everyone relax. This is merely a routine rat poison colonoscopy," said Stewart. "By the way, what's the right dosage of rat poison? Oh if you get enough it, oh your headache will be gone."

"By the way if Trump wants us to stay the course with his radical plan, you might want to think of a strategy that inspires our confidence that you all know what you're doing," Stewart added.

The comedian went on to shred the Trump administration for sending out contradictory messaging about the tariffs, claiming that they're not a negotiation tactic and then claiming that they are, then stating that they're permanent but also temporary.

He also mocked Trump officials for claiming that jobs will come pouring back into America thanks to these poorly designed and even more poorly communicated tariffs.
"Their best argument so far for any of this is the same one that we got about Tinker Bell being able to fly:

You have to believe!" said Stewart.

Of course, you'd have to be a fool to believe in these tariffs at this point. All that they will accomplish is making the vast majority of Americans poorer while causing the rest of the world to distrust and despise us.

There is simply no arguing anymore. Donald Trump is the worst president in history.
 
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Trump isn’t just rewriting the rules.

He’s coming for your rights.

He tried to cut off Social Security phone lines. He handed your tax data to Musk’s private army.

He’s punishing lawyers who held Fox accountable for its 2020 election lies by winning a $787 million settlement.

In your state. At the agency helping your family. Inside your benefits. None of this is theoretical. It’s personal. The courts are blinking. Congress is buckling. And he’s betting you won’t notice until it’s too late. Call your reps. Tell them we've all seen the playbook. Tell them that you won’t stay quiet while your future gets sold off to cronies and cults. Then get out there and prove it.

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Donald Trump admits what he did, enabling insider trading that capitalized on his market manipulation​


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Trump has his billionaires rejoicing in massive profiteering that took place by Trump's tariff manipulation of the stock markets. He openly gloated how Schwab made $2.5b and another billionaire made $900 million. OPENLY EXPOSED.
 

How the Trump administration is attacking scientific research in the US​

video Since taking office, President Donald Trump and his administration have issued a series of decisions that have plunged scientific institutions into chaos.
By Pierre Lecornu, Olivier Escher (motion design) and Diana Liu

In the United States, many scientific research agencies are federally funded and therefore dependent on decisions made by the administration and Congress. This is the case for well-known agencies such as NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), one of the world's leading centers for research into climate, weather and marine resources, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which handles medical and biomedical research.

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