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Trump learned from his first term; in his second go-around, he’s placed MAGA cultists in every key position of power. They will follow Trump to the ends of the Earth, knowing that a presidential pardon is there for the asking, if necessary.
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Trump’s Plan Is Now Out in the Open
It’s getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Trump learned from his first term; in his second go-around, he’s placed MAGA cultists in every key position of power. They will follow Trump to the ends of the Earth, knowing that a presidential pardon is there for the asking, if necessary.
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www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
“Trump was at the heart of it. He loved the attention and in private, he was a total fucking beast.” He claimed that the girls were as young as 15. He’d wander off with a couple girls. I saw him. He was getting laid like crazy,” the photographer said.
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Report: Trump hosted cocaine-fueled parties with underage girls
Sources who attended shindigs say Republican nominee 'was getting laid like crazy' at Plaza Hotel soirees that included models as young as 15 hoping to advance their careers
www.timesofisrael.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:29 AM
“Trump was at the heart of it. He loved the attention and in private, he was a total fucking beast.” He claimed that the girls were as young as 15. He’d wander off with a couple girls. I saw him. He was getting laid like crazy,” the photographer said.
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www.timesofisrael.com/report-trump...
Trump has always been a liar. The Indian government said the American president’s version of events simply wasn’t true, and the conversation that Trump publicly described never actually occurred.
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For the third time, India pushes back against Trump’s dubious boasts
After Trump bragged about his successes with India, officials in New Dehli quickly disputed his claims. Then it happened again. And then it happened again.
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July 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Trump has always been a liar. The Indian government said the American president’s version of events simply wasn’t true, and the conversation that Trump publicly described never actually occurred.
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www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Trump, who promised during the 2024 campaign that he would kill taxes on Social Security, has been repeating the false claim the legislation does just that. He made the claim at a rally in Iowa on Thursday night and at Friday’s bill-signing ceremony.
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www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Social Security Administration sends misleading email lauding Trump's new tax cuts law
The emails say nearly 9 in 10 Social Security beneficiaries won't pay income taxes on their benefits in the future. But the Trump tax law did not directly address Social Security.
www.nbcnews.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Trump, who promised during the 2024 campaign that he would kill taxes on Social Security, has been repeating the false claim the legislation does just that. He made the claim at a rally in Iowa on Thursday night and at Friday’s bill-signing ceremony.
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www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Trump family has flown the American flag before with Trump-branded products of suspicious origin, including its “God Bless the USA” Bibles, which an Associated Press investigation last year showed were printed in China.
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Trumps drop 'Made in the USA' label for new phone and a debate ensues: How to define 'made'?
The Trump family may be having second thoughts about that “Made in the USA” claim attached to its new Trump-branded phone, which raises an interesting question: How to define “made”?
apnews.com
June 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Trump family has flown the American flag before with Trump-branded products of suspicious origin, including its “God Bless the USA” Bibles, which an Associated Press investigation last year showed were printed in China.
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apnews.com/article/trum...
In a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, June 26, the Republican leader had a 41% approval rating among respondents, with 54% disapproving. This compares to Quinnipiac's poll released June 11, when 38% approved and 54% disapproved.
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Trump approval rating: New poll released after US strikes on Iran
A pair of polls released this week offers an early look at how Iran strikes could affect Trump's job approval numbers.
www.usatoday.com
June 28, 2025 at 7:43 AM
In a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, June 26, the Republican leader had a 41% approval rating among respondents, with 54% disapproving. This compares to Quinnipiac's poll released June 11, when 38% approved and 54% disapproved.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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The struggle is real.
June 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The struggle is real.
U.S. President Donald Trump receives mostly negative ratings in a new Pew Research Center survey of 24 nations.
When asked about Trump’s personal characteristics, most describe him as arrogant and dangerous, while relatively few see him as honest.
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
When asked about Trump’s personal characteristics, most describe him as arrogant and dangerous, while relatively few see him as honest.
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
U.S. Image Declines in Many Nations Amid Low Confidence in Trump
More than half of adults in 19 of 24 countries surveyed lack confidence in Trump’s leadership on the world stage.
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June 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
U.S. President Donald Trump receives mostly negative ratings in a new Pew Research Center survey of 24 nations.
When asked about Trump’s personal characteristics, most describe him as arrogant and dangerous, while relatively few see him as honest.
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
When asked about Trump’s personal characteristics, most describe him as arrogant and dangerous, while relatively few see him as honest.
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
Project 2025 proposes expanding federal control over local law enforcement and to "restore law and order" in places where the administration disagrees with local policies and practices or in jurisdictions that supposedly have a crime problem. It was all planned.
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www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
Project 2025’s Plan for Criminal Justice Under Trump
The policy proposals would drastically reshape criminal justice policy.
www.brennancenter.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Project 2025 proposes expanding federal control over local law enforcement and to "restore law and order" in places where the administration disagrees with local policies and practices or in jurisdictions that supposedly have a crime problem. It was all planned.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
In a historic first, Washington’s Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth will skip a crucial meeting of over 50 military leaders that could shape the course of the Ukraine war. Instead concentrates on renaming a Navy ship named after a gay rights activist.
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www.thedailybeast.com/hegseth-snub...
Hegseth Snubs High-Stakes Ukraine War Meeting in Historic First
It’s the first time in three years that America’s top defense official will be absent.
www.thedailybeast.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
In a historic first, Washington’s Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth will skip a crucial meeting of over 50 military leaders that could shape the course of the Ukraine war. Instead concentrates on renaming a Navy ship named after a gay rights activist.
www.thedailybeast.com/hegseth-snub...
www.thedailybeast.com/hegseth-snub...
It doesn’t matter that Know-it-all Trump never admits any wrongdoing, any mistake, any failure, or any broken promises to his believing MAGA supporters. What matters is more and more people begin to see that he’s a fake, a delusionary con man.
www.eurasiareview.com/25052025-ral...
www.eurasiareview.com/25052025-ral...
Ralph Nader: Trump’s Lying Now Produces Deadly, Costly, And Soon Calamitous Consequences – OpEd
The chronic lies of Der Führer Trump, hour by hour, day after day, are having deadly and costly impacts on the American people, with many more casualties in the pipeline of wreckage he and his henchma...
www.eurasiareview.com
May 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
It doesn’t matter that Know-it-all Trump never admits any wrongdoing, any mistake, any failure, or any broken promises to his believing MAGA supporters. What matters is more and more people begin to see that he’s a fake, a delusionary con man.
www.eurasiareview.com/25052025-ral...
www.eurasiareview.com/25052025-ral...
In the bill is a provision to strip judges of contempt powers.
The main intent of the provision appears meant to spare the federal government any legal consequences for even deliberate, continuing, and belligerent defiance of court orders.
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The main intent of the provision appears meant to spare the federal government any legal consequences for even deliberate, continuing, and belligerent defiance of court orders.
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In Congress, a Move To Strip Courts of Contempt Powers
Contempt powers protect important rights. When the government tramples lawlessly on your interests, court orders—and the mechanisms for enforcing them—are often going to provide your only practical re...
www.cato.org
May 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In the bill is a provision to strip judges of contempt powers.
The main intent of the provision appears meant to spare the federal government any legal consequences for even deliberate, continuing, and belligerent defiance of court orders.
www.cato.org/blog/congres...
The main intent of the provision appears meant to spare the federal government any legal consequences for even deliberate, continuing, and belligerent defiance of court orders.
www.cato.org/blog/congres...
No matter how these tax cuts are financed, the result will hurt most working families, especially low-income households. The most damaging way to finance TCJA extensions would be with spending cuts for programs like SNAP or Medicaid.
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There will be pain: Continuing low tax rates for the rich and corporations will hurt working families
Extending Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will have painful trade-offs for the U.S. economy and most Americans.
www.epi.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
No matter how these tax cuts are financed, the result will hurt most working families, especially low-income households. The most damaging way to finance TCJA extensions would be with spending cuts for programs like SNAP or Medicaid.
www.epi.org/publication/...
www.epi.org/publication/...
Trump has been busy greasing the wheels for an extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts that will again be heavily weighted towards the wealthy, and essentially telling the poor and working class to suck it up.
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www.thestate.com/opinion/arti...
Trump, Musk and the GOP may not hate struggling American families but they are hurting them | Opinion
Columnist Issac J. Bailey writes that the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency are making life worse for the most vulnerable Americans.
www.thestate.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Trump has been busy greasing the wheels for an extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts that will again be heavily weighted towards the wealthy, and essentially telling the poor and working class to suck it up.
www.thestate.com/opinion/arti...
www.thestate.com/opinion/arti...
The Trump administration wants to slash SNAP benefits, take healthy food away from students, and weaken rural economies to pad the pockets of billionaires. These actions do not promote health and instead inflict hardships on people with low incomes.
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Trump is punishing poor people under the guise of promoting their health • Louisiana Illuminator
President Trump says he wants to “Make America Healthy Again,” but his administration’s efforts to slash food access tells a different story.
lailluminator.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The Trump administration wants to slash SNAP benefits, take healthy food away from students, and weaken rural economies to pad the pockets of billionaires. These actions do not promote health and instead inflict hardships on people with low incomes.
lailluminator.com/2025/04/07/t...
lailluminator.com/2025/04/07/t...
Trump’s understanding of history. It’s so shockingly dumb—yes, even for him—that it’s hard to believe that we have a president of the United States who is this ignorant. Allow me to put this as Trump himself might on Truth Social: THE MAN IS AN IDIOT!!!
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Donald Trump Really Is a Lot Dumber Than We Thought. Like, a Lot!
His reading of American history is shockingly stupid, even for him.
newrepublic.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Trump’s understanding of history. It’s so shockingly dumb—yes, even for him—that it’s hard to believe that we have a president of the United States who is this ignorant. Allow me to put this as Trump himself might on Truth Social: THE MAN IS AN IDIOT!!!
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How many glaring conflicts of interest can Trump have before we realize he is only in it for himself?
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was “ridiculous” to “suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit.”
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was “ridiculous” to “suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit.”
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Trump's Middle East visit comes as his family deepens its business, crypto ties in the region
President Trump's trip to the Mideast comes as sons Donald Jr. and Eric work the same part of the world for the family’s moneymaking opportunities.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
How many glaring conflicts of interest can Trump have before we realize he is only in it for himself?
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was “ridiculous” to “suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit.”
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/nationa...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was “ridiculous” to “suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit.”
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/nationa...
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Bruce Springsteen Calls Donald Trump ‘Incompetent, and Treasonous’ at 2025 Tour Kickoff
Bruce Springsteen Calls Donald Trump 'Incompetent, and Treasonous' at 2025 Tour Kickoff
At the kickoff show of his 2025 European tour, Bruce Springsteen delivered a fiery speech against Donald Trump.
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May 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Bruce Springsteen Calls Donald Trump ‘Incompetent, and Treasonous’ at 2025 Tour Kickoff
With a weak President and an incompetent Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth we can't even defeat the Houthis.
Trump wanted results within 30 days, but after $1 billion spent, several drones and two fighter jets lost, Yemeni rebels were still firing back.
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Trump wanted results within 30 days, but after $1 billion spent, several drones and two fighter jets lost, Yemeni rebels were still firing back.
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How a floundering US campaign against the Houthis reportedly led Trump to a truce
US president wanted results within 30 days, but after $1 billion spent, several drones and two fighter jets lost, Yemeni rebels were still firing back, The New York Times reports
www.timesofisrael.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
With a weak President and an incompetent Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth we can't even defeat the Houthis.
Trump wanted results within 30 days, but after $1 billion spent, several drones and two fighter jets lost, Yemeni rebels were still firing back.
www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-flound...
Trump wanted results within 30 days, but after $1 billion spent, several drones and two fighter jets lost, Yemeni rebels were still firing back.
www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-flound...
Hegseth’s penchant for sharing classified information on Signal, his use of an unsecured phone line and compromised personal devices and his repeated celebration of Take Your Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Officials Day add up to more than just a bad look.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Why Pete Hegseth Still Has a Job
Hegseth is terrible at every part of his job except the one that matters to Trump—a willingness to break with norms that keep the military in check.
www.thenation.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Hegseth’s penchant for sharing classified information on Signal, his use of an unsecured phone line and compromised personal devices and his repeated celebration of Take Your Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Officials Day add up to more than just a bad look.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The voters who assembled behind Trump like that Trump is Trump — just as the decades-past swing voters who went Nazi liked that Hitler was Hitler. He publicized his resolve to get “even” with his enemies and enact mass deportation of illegal immigrants.
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forward.com/opinion/6742...
Voters elected Hitler because they liked his fascist promise. Trump's reelection repeats that history
Voters elected Hitler because they liked his fascist promise. In 2024, the same appears to be true for Trump.
forward.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The voters who assembled behind Trump like that Trump is Trump — just as the decades-past swing voters who went Nazi liked that Hitler was Hitler. He publicized his resolve to get “even” with his enemies and enact mass deportation of illegal immigrants.
forward.com/opinion/6742...
forward.com/opinion/6742...
Under President Donald Trump, FEMA has denied federal assistance for tornadoes in Arkansas, flooding in West Virginia and a windstorm in Washington. It also has refused North Carolina’s request for extended relief funding in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
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Trump denies disaster aid, tells states to do more • North Dakota Monitor
In the wake of recent natural disasters, state leaders across the country are finding that emergency support from the federal government is no longer a given.
northdakotamonitor.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Under President Donald Trump, FEMA has denied federal assistance for tornadoes in Arkansas, flooding in West Virginia and a windstorm in Washington. It also has refused North Carolina’s request for extended relief funding in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
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Hegseth halted flights to Ukraine from Air Force Bases in Delaware and Qatar without Trump’s order. Reuters, citing official records, said 11 military flights were cancelled, costing the government between $1.6 and $2.2 million.
Hegseth is incompetent.
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Hegseth is incompetent.
www.kyivpost.com/post/52215
Trump’s White House Blindsided by Hegseth’s Halt to Ukraine Aid, Report Says
New report details “haphazard policy-making” on Ukraine and “unclear” command structure within the Trump administration.
www.kyivpost.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Hegseth halted flights to Ukraine from Air Force Bases in Delaware and Qatar without Trump’s order. Reuters, citing official records, said 11 military flights were cancelled, costing the government between $1.6 and $2.2 million.
Hegseth is incompetent.
www.kyivpost.com/post/52215
Hegseth is incompetent.
www.kyivpost.com/post/52215
The defense secretary called off 11 Ukraine-bound planes carrying artillery, shells, and other weapons. Trump was completely unaware that Hegseth had made the call but the administration is treating the communication failure like business as usual.
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newrepublic.com/post/194902/...
Pete Hegseth Made an Order on Ukraine Trump Knew Nothing About
In the early days of Trump’s term, an order came from Hegseth’s office that sent national security officials scrambling.
newrepublic.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The defense secretary called off 11 Ukraine-bound planes carrying artillery, shells, and other weapons. Trump was completely unaware that Hegseth had made the call but the administration is treating the communication failure like business as usual.
newrepublic.com/post/194902/...
newrepublic.com/post/194902/...
Reposted by Webster Reels
Trump is fantasizing about some America that no one, literally not a single American, wants to return to. Poverty was through the roof. Health care was abysmal. People had seizures from toothaches. Most people didn’t even use toilet paper, it wasn’t splinter-free yet.
newrepublic.com/post/193614/...
newrepublic.com/post/193614/...
Donald Trump Really Is a Lot Dumber Than We Thought. Like, a Lot!
His reading of American history is shockingly stupid, even for him.
newrepublic.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Trump is fantasizing about some America that no one, literally not a single American, wants to return to. Poverty was through the roof. Health care was abysmal. People had seizures from toothaches. Most people didn’t even use toilet paper, it wasn’t splinter-free yet.
newrepublic.com/post/193614/...
newrepublic.com/post/193614/...