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

Future queen of Belgium caught up in Harvard foreign student ban​

By Charlotte Van Campenhout

May 23, 20257:30 AM EDTUpdated 2 days ago



Denmark's Prince Christian celebrates his 18th birthday in Copenhagen

Count Felix and Princess Elisabeth of Belgium attend Prince Christian's 18th birthday celebration at Christiansborg Castle in Copenhagen, Denmark October 15, 2023.

Princess Elisabeth, the 23-year-old future queen of Belgium, has just completed her first year at Harvard University but the ban imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on foreign students studying there could jeopardise her continued studies.

The Trump administration revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students on Thursday, and is forcing current foreign students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status in the U.S., while also threatening to ....

 
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Federal Government’s Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship​

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AJ Connelly

A growing list of words and materials are being scrubbed from government websites and documents in an attempt by the Trump administration to remove all references not only to diversity, equity and inclusion, but also to climate change, vaccines, and a host of other topics.

PEN America initially compiled a list of more than 250 words and phrases reportedly no longer considered acceptable by the Trump administration, from “abortion,” to “women,” and including “disability,” “elderly,” “Native American” and, unsurprisingly, the “Gulf of Mexico.”

The list has now expanded to 350+ words, encompassing even desirable goals like “safe drinking water,” the mention of which can result in research grants or other agreements with the federal government getting nixed.

Our list is most assuredly incomplete. The New York Times published a list of .....

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Pen's list is can be found at the site in addition to numerous links to other lists.
 
Of he wasn't POTUS he'd be institutionalized

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Future queen of Belgium caught up in Harvard foreign student ban
Princess Elisabeth, the 23-year-old future queen of Belgium, has just completed her first year at Harvard University but the ban imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on foreign students studying there could jeopardise her continued studies #704
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This headline, this story, this Trump administration policy requires a huge journalistic asterisk.
CERTAINLY in terms of U.S. international diplomacy if not common human decency, a metaphorical, gratuitous, diplomatic finger in the eye to European royalty is inadvisable U.S. policy. BUT !!
Harvard's international student body is hardly an irrelevant assemblage of human rabble that can be abused and insulted with impunity.
Kudos to Reuters for putting a royal face on the problem.
But we must not miss the broader consequences of Trump's xenophobia. In less than half a year the Trump administration has insulted the globe,
not merely churning the global economy with destructive turmoil.
Trump's chaotic administration has undermined United States' own principles as fundamental as habeas corpus.
It is not merely "the" People, U.S. citizens in jeopardy. Humans around the planet are at risk.
And the United States Constitution now suffers full frontal assault, with a convicted felon as president in violation of section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

The inmates have taken over the asylum.

Shiftless2 said:
Federal Government’s Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship #705
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Censor means to examine and expurgate.
In practice that's generally limited to a book, or a library.
Godwin's Law aside, Trump's clamor, this presidential administration's "banned words list" isn't applied merely to public school libraries.
Instead its directed to our government's own formal texts.

“He who controls the past controls the future.
And he who controls the present controls the past.” Orwell, as paraphrased by George Will

If the presidential directive was merely to substitute Trump-authorized synonym / euphemism for the previous conventional terminology we might dismiss it as "policy".

But the actions reported here and corroborated elsewhere are genuine historic revisionism.

Put a notorious swindler with dozens of felony convictions into the white house, what did you think would happen ?!

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"Of he wasn't POTUS he'd be institutionalized" #706
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The scale, the scope of this atrocity is mind-numbing.
We stray from reality if we deny that the U.S. presidency is not merely an institution, but one of the most famous, most consequential institutions in all living humanity.

So the issue is not that POTUS isn't already institutionalized, but that the institution he has unConstitutionally usurped is not therapeutic, or even segregated confinement.
Instead it is the locus of the greatest most dangerous most formidable powers in human history.

It is difficult to imagine a more alarming, more potentially cataclysmic human scenario.
 
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The scales tip and masks slip as Trump's authoritarian drift accelerates and weaponizes civil power.

He's still demanding Harvard turn over student names despite federal court orders, recruiting park visitors to snitch on history displays that don't fit his view, and constantly attacking the Fed chair he appointed. America is dying because of steady pressure on institutions, rewriting of history, and punishment of dissent until resistance becomes unthinkable.
 
An analysis of the president's latest ramblings from an actual scholar of history. 47 obviously doesn't know what he's talking about but then...no surprise!
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Joann Johnson​

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“Hey Trump voters! Yesterday Trump had a press conference in the Oval Office. He said, ‘You know, our country was the strongest, believe it or not, from 1870 to 1913. You know why? It was all tariff-based. We had no income tax. Then in 1913, some genius came up with the idea of let's charge the people of our country, not foreign countries that are ripping off our country. And the country was never relatively—was never that kind of wealth. We had so much wealth, we didn't know what to do with our money. We had meetings. We had committees. And these committees worked tirelessly to study one subject. We have so much money. What are we going to do with it? Who are we going to give it to?’

Did you know that you know an actual expert on the period of 1870 to 1913?

It's me. I am.

I've been studying this time period for two decades and I don't mean reading a Doris Kearns Goodwin book every few months. I am a trained scholar of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

There's a lot of us actually who study this period. In fact, I was in a room with many of them over the weekend. We stared at Trump Tower in Chicago while we met. It was... motivating.

Do you know what happened between 1870 and 1913? There were two economic panics. Huge ones. Deep, scarring panics where many working people went hungry and jobless.

Do you know who was ‘rich’ in that period? The Carnegies. The Vanderbilts. JP Morgan, who almost singlehandedly controlled the nation money's supply. Wild swings occurred in the stock market. Working people were paid pennies. Middle-class people made money, bought homes, and lost them with regularity. There was no economic stability.

There was no regulation. Between 1880 and 1905 there were well over 36,000 strikes involving 6 million workers. Do you know what they were striking for? The biggest ask was an 8 hour work day.

Do you know what Congress focused on instead? Passing obscenity law, obsessing about sex and white women's purity. Creating instability in the Phillipines, the Carribbean and Latin America via colonialist, eugenic-based projects. Enriching themselves on kickbacks from industries like the railroads. Rejecting appeals for women's suffrage and anti-lynching laws. State governments doubled-down on segregation law and passed laws to try to control what was taught in classrooms.

Sound familiar?” - Lauren Thompson
 
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"Meanwhile, back at the ranch, he has to cut things short to get back to Putin who is clearly the one calling the shots" #710
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[Trump] labelled Putin "absolutely CRAZY" following Russian strikes on Kyiv, he also hit out at Zelensky, saying: "He is doing his country no favours by talking the way he does."
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Ukraine war latest: Everyone is emotional says Kremlin, after Trump calls Putin 'absolutely crazy'

Trump stepped up his criticism of the Russian president after a weekend of major drone and missile attacks on Ukraine.
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It’s time to unlock Russian assets to help Ukraine​

By Hugo Dixon / May 25, 20255:00 PM GMT-5
TINOS, Greece, May 25 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Ukraine’s security is critical to Europe, but the continent can no longer rely on the United States to support the country’s war with Russia. Donald Trump keeps blowing hot and cold about whether he is willing to tighten sanctions on Moscow to force Vladimir Putin to agree a ceasefire. The U.S. president could even cut a deal with his Russian counterpart behind Europe’s back.
The European Union, the United Kingdom and other willing countries such as Canada therefore need a way to support Ukraine that does not require Trump’s permission. The best option is to unlock Russia’s $300 billion of frozen central bank assets, the lion’s share of which are in Europe. With Germany’s new government endorsing the move, the political stars may be finally aligning.

The clock is ticking. Innocent humans are being murdered.
A mere $300 $Billion isn't likely to decisively and permanently expel Russia from Ukraine.
But in combination with additional decisive support from our European NATO allies
they can make it too costly for Putin to do anything other than repatriate his invasion force.
 
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Tesla employees make shocking demand of Elon Musk: 'We are now at a crossroads'​

Robert Crow / Mon, May 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM EDT
Electrek reported on a letter written by this cohort, which says that Musk's actions have damaged the Tesla brand and caused sales to slip. Because of that, they say, Musk should be removed as CEO.
"The damage done to Elon's personal brand is now irreversible, and as the public face of Tesla, that damage has become our burden," the employees wrote. "We are now at a crossroads: continue with Elon as CEO and face further decline as customers abandon the brand, or move forward without him and allow our products and mission to succeed or fail on their own."
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Tesla employees make shocking demand of Elon Musk: 'We are now at a crossroads'

One Tesla employee says they were fired from the company because of an association with the letter.
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This extensive group not designated as "Democrats", obvious if not reflexive political opponents. They're reportedly Tesla, and therefore Musk employees. They owe their livelihood to Musk. They're seeking to fire him
for the benefit of the enterprise.
 
Trump admits he has no idea how tariffs work before breaking into his usual babble

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Trump is out for dinner at a French restaurant with Putin.
The waiter asks Putin what he would like to order.
"I will have the chicken," says Putin.
The waiter replies, "And for your vegetable?"
"He will also have the chicken."
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