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

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What has happened at the 2026 World Cup over the last 48 hours:

• Swiss footballer Embolo's visa was put under review and he was only able to join his team days later.

• Iraqi national team player Aymen Hussein was held for questioning for nearly 7 hours upon entering the United States.

• The Iranian national team spent days dealing with visa procedures at the U.S. Consulate in Türkiye. The U.S. only allowed them entry on match days. Fifteen members of the delegation were denied visas.

• Omar Abdulkadir Artan, named CAF's Best African Referee of 2025, was denied a visa. Despite travelling to the U.S. with a diplomatic passport, he was refused entry and sent back. FIFA announced that he will not be able to officiate at the tournament.

• The South African national team arrived in the United States much later than planned because part of the delegation was not granted visas.

• Members of the Senegal national team staff were forced to remove their shoes and subjected to lengthy searches, sparking accusations of racism.

• The Uzbekistan national team was searched with bomb-sniffing dogs and the footage went viral in international media.

• Some Scottish supporters, despite being eligible to enter the U.S. visa-free under the ESTA programme, had their travel authorisations revoked just days before departure.

• Many supporters who had already bought tickets and booked accommodation had their visa applications rejected, resulting in financial losses.

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I'm sure FIFA is happy that they gave him that fake trophy now
 
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Shiftless2 said:
"How ... did Trump really identify ... the dumbest village idiots of America?" #3,366
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Humanity has long puzzled over whether "power corrupts", or whether power attracts the corruptible.
We as individuals have priorities.
Trump seems to have filtered out those that value the exercise of power over benevolence.


President Donald Trump’s choice for acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, has proved controversial. Pulte’s lack of background in national security matters has sparked resistance from Democrats on Capitol Hill, which is not surprising. But some Republicans, too, have expressed dismay at the president’s choice, a Trump loyalist who currently runs the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

“I see no evidence of any qualifications for that job,” said U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas.
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Thus in Pulte's case (among others, RFKj for example) even competence is not a Trump administration requirement.

Loyalty to Trump is a plus. Fidelity to the Constitution is not.
 
In the middle of the night, while most Americans were fast asleep, the President of the United States was awake inside the White House. Unable to get any much-needed rest, he opened Truth Social and shared a post that had the complete opposite effect he hoped it would.
And at exactly 12:35 this morning, Donald Trump decided it was the perfect time to announce to the world that a cognitive screening exam, the kind doctors use to help identify signs of cognitive impairment and dementia, proved he possessed what he called “extreme intelligence.”
In that rambling late-night post, Trump bragged that he had scored a perfect 30 out of 30 on what he described as a “high difficulty” cognitive test. He questioned whether “Dumocrats” would be surprised by how smart he was and celebrated his fourth “perfect score” on this dementia screening test.
Based on the events of 5-31-2026

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Continuing with #3,370

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Texas is now dealing with multiple confirmed cases of flesh-eating screwworms, a parasite so destructive that the United States spent decades and billions of dollars trying to eradicate it. And the most infuriating part is that experts warned this could happen.

Screwworms don’t just “infect” animals. They literally eat living tissue. They can infest cattle, wildlife, pets, and in rare cases even humans. Ranchers have feared their return for generations because outbreaks devastate livestock, overwhelm veterinarians, and create massive economic damage.

For years, scientists and agricultural experts argued that surveillance, monitoring, and rapid-response systems were essential to keeping outbreaks contained before they spread. But in today’s political climate, expertise itself has become a target. Anything involving science, prevention, research funding, or government monitoring gets mocked as “waste,” “bureaucracy,” or “big government.”

That mindset has consequences.

You cannot slash oversight, demonize experts, hollow out public institutions, and then act stunned when preventable crises come roaring back. Prevention is invisible when it works. That’s the whole point. Nobody notices the disaster that never happened.

And now Texans are watching a nightmare parasite reappear while politicians who spent years attacking government capacity suddenly pretend these systems matter after all.

This is the broader problem with modern Republican governance under Donald Trump: contempt for expertise right up until reality crashes through the front door.

Because eventually, nature does not care about political talking points. And flesh-eating parasites definitely don’t care about culture wars.
 
Shiftless2 said:
#3,371
"Republicans called it "wasteful spending". RA Media
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Republicans cut more than this one category of spending.
Cherry-picking negative consequence for partisan bias confirmation is silly.

That is NOT an endorsement of the cut, or the cutters, Trump / Musk / Republicans.
Instead it's journalistic integrity.
 
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