Showing posts with label The Trumpening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Trumpening. Show all posts

Friday, September 5, 2025

BREAKING: Trump's Missing Days Question Answered! It Was OverGold!

by Scott Creighton

I have an exclusive scoop for you guys! Someone (anonymous sources) sent me an image of the moment President Trump was found in the Oval Office last week!

I cannot independently verify the authenticity of the photo but I can tell you it may actually be a real photo of something or another and as with the MSM and Israel's apologists, that's good enough for me.


 

Reportedly (from secret sources who are not authorized to be within 500 feet of any school, ever) Donald Trump suffered his 6th OG (OverGold) event since getting back into the White House in Jan of this year.

That's a lot of OG events even for tin-pot third-world dictators of the past and way too many for an occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.  which is currently being renamed to '16 Stacks Crib'

The Donald (as he likes to be called by various sycophants he brings to 16 Stacks Crib to pay him tribute) was sent to OverGold rehab center run by Lit Wayne and DJ Jazzy Jeff.

He was released against Pimp's orders after only 5 days.

Another relapse is expected as The Donald is reportedly changing all the PVP plumbing in the White House to gold. 

Tech leaders heap praise on Trump during White House dinner

 (The Tech Bro Billionaires all have to suck up to the Great Man-child in-Chief and coddle his ego like a toddler.)

This is embarrassing that this classless, tasteless thing is in the White House nailing gold trinkets to everything in sight.  What a tasteless moron he is. Look how he sucks up to Bill Gates and the rest of the Deep State.


"I want to thank you for being so pro-business' Sam Altman fascist

I can't wait for the day they find TrumpyBear like this: 


 

Trump revives historic 'Department of War' name in Pentagon rebrand

(He's also allowing the Pentagon to be renamed as 'The MIC's ATM') 

from al Mayadeen English

US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order later today to restore the historic name "Department of War" as an official secondary title for the Department of Defense. The move represents a symbolic shift in how the US military presents itself to the world.

Trump explained his reasoning by pointing to history, “We won World War I, World War II – it was called the Department of War, and to me, that’s really what it is. Defense is a part of that, but I have a feeling we’re gonna be changing.”

He argued that the current title projects weakness. “We don’t just want to be defense. We want defense, but we want to be offense, too,” Trump said, claiming the new name conveys “a stronger message of readiness and resolve.”

The executive order allows Pentagon officials to use terms such as “Secretary of War” and “Deputy Secretary of War” in correspondence and ceremonial settings, though a permanent renaming would require congressional approval...

read more here 

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Trump Order to Kill Cashless Bail Will Exacerbate Inequality While Doing Nothing to Fight Crime, Experts Say

(While TrumpyBear lets Ghislaine go to Club Fed and an Israeli pedophile flee the country, he cranks back up the bail bond industry so the poor and working poor get stuck in privatized jails for longer and eventually released on bail for a predatory financial system. Fuck the poor and the working man says TrumpyBear.)

by Scotty 

from Common Dreams

US President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Monday aimed at ending the policy of cashless bail for people accused of crimes, a move criminal justice reform advocates say will heighten the already massive inequality within the system while doing little to stop lawbreaking.

One order requires Washington, DC, which the president currently controls under "emergency authority," to end its cashless bail program. The other directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to identify other jurisdictions around the country with cashless bail so that they can have their federal funds restricted or suspended. 

Several states, including Illinois, New York, California, and New Jersey, have moved to significantly reduce or eliminate the use of cash requirements for those accused of crimes to be released pretrial. DC, meanwhile, was one of the first cities to implement the policy.

Jeremy Cherson, communications director for the Bail Project, told Common Dreams that cash bail creates a "two-tiered system of justice—one where people with money, regardless of risk, can pay bail and be released, whereas people without money will be detained, maybe unnecessarily, just because they can't afford to pay a bail amount."...

read more here 

Monday, August 25, 2025

Trump moves to ban flag burning despite Supreme Court ruling that Constitution allows it

(Imagine if Obama or Biden or (God forbid) Kamala Harris had:

  • withheld Epstein files
  • given Ghislaine a pass to go to Club Fed
  • started rounding people up and sending them to work camps
  • put troops on the ground to 'police' major cities in America (Posse Commitatus Act ends)
  • ruined the economy on purpose
  • been caught lining his own pockets while in office
  • sucked off Netanyahu and Adleson
  • partnered with Peter Thiel to collect every bit of data on the American people
  • and... now... banned flag burning because it's unAmerican...

What do you think the reaction from the right would be? But Trump does it... (crickets))

(In a fascist society you are not allowed to criticize the Glorious Leader or the state. How does this sit with the libertarian Trumpites who hate 'statism'?  Isn't whitewashing our history and scrubbing up history the most oppressive form of statism there is? And isn't it their own candidate turned dictator who is doing it while they all collectively cheer?)

by Scott C. 

from the AP

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag, an activity that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled is legitimate political expression protected by the U.S. Constitution.

The order the Republican president signed in the Oval Office acknowledged the court’s 5-4 ruling in a case from Texas in 1989, but said there is still room to prosecute flag burning if it “is likely to incite imminent lawless action” or amounts to “fighting words.”

In that case, the justices ruled 5-4 that the First Amendment protects flag burning as legitimate political expression. The late Justice Antonin Scalia, the conservative icon who Trump has repeatedly praised, was in the majority...

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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Trump escalates attacks against Smithsonian museums, says there’s too much focus on ‘how bad slavery was’

'Ya'll just talkin bout the bad parts of slavery. What about the good stuff? Made a couple families really really rich and kept the wrong people from voting and shit.' our current president ಠ_ಠ

from CNN

President Donald Trump escalated his campaign to purge cultural institutions of materials that conflict with his political directives on Tuesday, alleging museums were too focused on highlighting negative aspects of American history, including “how bad slavery was.”

In a Truth Social post, Trump directed his attorneys to conduct a review of museums, comparing the effort to his crackdown on universities across the country.

The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future,” Trump wrote.

Trump’s comments come days after the White House announced an unprecedented, sweeping review of the Smithsonian Institution, which runs the nation’s major public museums. The initiative, a trio of top Trump aides wrote in a letter to Smithsonian Institution secretary Lonnie Bunch III last week, “aims to ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions.”...

read more here 

Friday, August 15, 2025

In split decision, court clears Trump to restart CFPB mass firings

(And the fascism continues. By taking out the CFPB, Trump is signaling to the corporate masters of the universe that he is willing to do whatever they demand of him including removing the agency that tries to hold them accountable for their abuse of the civilian population. Everything for Big Business and nothing for us. But that's what you Trumpites voted for, isn't it?)

 "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." 

from CNBC News

A divided federal appeals court on Friday cleared U.S. President Donald Trump to resume mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ruling that a lower court had lacked jurisdiction in temporarily blocking this.

However, the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said on Friday that its decision would not take immediate effect, allowing lawyers representing CFPB workers and pro-consumer organizations to seek reconsideration by the full court of appeals, meaning dismissal notices were likely to have to wait for now.

The decision nevertheless imperiled the employment of perhaps 1,500 workers at the CFPB whose mass dismissals were blocked in April by a trial court, which found the attempted purge violated a March injunction temporarily halting the administration’s efforts to shut the CFPB down...

read more here 

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Trump-GOP Medicaid Cuts Already Causing Healthcare Havoc in Multiple States

from Common Dreams

The cuts to Medicaid contained in the recently passed Republican budget law are already having a damaging impact in multiple states, as both local hospitals and state governments struggle financially to make up funding gaps.

As NC Newsline reported on Wednesday, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) has announced plans to cut Medicaid spending by $319 million starting on October 1, which the publication said "means the state will reduce rates by 3% to all medical providers, as well as cuts of 8-10% for inpatient and residential services and 10% for behavioral therapy and analysis for patients with autism."

NCDHHS spokesperson Summer Tonizzo did not sugarcoat the impact that the cuts would have on services for Medicaid patients in her state. She said that services including hospice care, behavioral health long-term care, and nursing home services could see reimbursement cuts significantly steeper than 3%.

"These reductions may cause some providers to stop accepting Medicaid patients, as the lowered rates could make it financially unsustainable to continue offering care," she said...

read more here 

'Corporate Crime Pays' Under Trump as His Agencies Drop Enforcement Against 165 Companies

(Textbook definition of fascism. Everything for Big Business at the expense of the people. Pure unadulterated fascism.) 

from Common Dreams

During the first six months of his second term, President Donald Trump's administration has withdrawn or suspended enforcement actions against 165 companies in sectors across the U.S. economy, with Big Tech benefiting most from federal agencies' lax approach to corporate crime.

A report released Wednesday by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found that the Trump administration has halted or ended a third of misconduct investigations and enforcement actions targeting technology firms—including behemoths such as Meta, Tesla, and Google.

Both Meta and Google donated to Trump's inaugural fund, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent big in support of the president's 2024 White House bid. Public Citizen found that the tech corporations that have benefited from Trump administration decisions to drop enforcement efforts have spent a combined $1.2 billion trying to influence the president.

"The Trump administration is protecting lawbreaking corporate insiders from accountability instead of protecting Americans from corporate lawbreaking," said Rick Claypool, a research director for Public Citizen and author of the new report. "To Big Tech corporations, this sends the message there is little risk in breaking the law in pursuit of profit—especially if you are an ally of the administration."

"For insiders," Claypool added, "corporate crime pays."...

read more here 

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Trump Labor Statistics Pick Called Social Security a 'Ponzi Scheme' That Should Be Shuttered

from Common Dreams

U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to replace the top labor statistics official he fired earlier this month has called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" that needs to be "sunset," comments that critics said further disqualify the nominee for the key government role.

During a December 2024 radio interview, Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni said it is a "mathematical fiction" that Social Security "can go on forever" and called for "some kind of transition program where unfortunately you'll need a generation of people who pay Social Security taxes, but never actually receive any of those benefits."

"That's the price to pay for unwinding a Ponzi scheme that was foisted on the American people by the Democrats in the 1930s," Antoni continued. "You're not going to be able to sustain a Ponzi scheme like Social Security. Eventually, you need to sunset the program."

Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), one of Social Security's most vocal defenders in Congress, said Antoni's position on the program matters because "Bureau of Labor Statistics data is what determines the annual cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefits."

"It should alarm everyone when a yes-man determined to end Social Security is installed in this position," Larson said in a statement. "I call on every Senate Republican to stand with Democrats and reject this extreme nominee—before our seniors are denied the benefits they earned through a lifetime of hard work."...

read more here 

Trump BLS pick hints at halting monthly jobs report

from Politico

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics is floating the idea of suspending the monthly jobs report in favor of less-frequent quarterly data published by the statistical agency.

E.J. Antoni said that BLS should halt issuing the reports — which are widely relied upon by economists, the Federal Reserve, Wall Street and other businesses to gauge the state of the economy in close to real time — until its methods can be improved to limit subsequent revisions. 

“How on earth are businesses supposed to plan — or how is the Fed supposed to conduct monetary policy — when they don’t know how many jobs are being added or lost in our economy?” Antoni said in an interview with Fox News Digital released Tuesday.

“Until it is corrected, the BLS should suspend issuing the monthly job reports but keep publishing the more accurate, though less timely, quarterly data,” said Antoni, who is currently the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation...

read more here 

Tariff revenue makes it hard for Supreme Court to rule against Trump, Bessent says

(The Trump regime of unqualified hacks pretending to be in charge has stated the Court of Appeals will cast us all into another Great Depression if they uphold the rule of law and rule against his illegal tariff taxes on the American people. According to them, there will be a crash if his LARPer government has to pay back the 1.6 billion dollars they have raised so far (they claim it's in the trillions which is a lie)

At the same time, his new head of BLS says they aren't going to release monthly jobs data reports anymore, I guess to cover-up for all the jobs they are losing as a direct result of Trump fucking up the economy with his tariffs and 'deals'.  BTW, Trump hasn't made any trade 'deals'. Trade deals are approved by congress, several hundred pages long and signed by other countries. He's just made the shit up wholesale as he imposes new, illegal taxes on the American people to pay for the tax breaks he gave Big Business and Billionaires.) 

from Reuters

Increasing revenues flowing into U.S. government coffers from tariffs would make it difficult for the Supreme Court to rule against the Trump administration on the issue if a lower court case makes its way to country's top court, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday.
 
"The more money coming in, it gets harder and harder for SCOTUS to rule against us," Bessent said in an interview on Fox Business Network's "Kudlow."

Bessent was responding to a question about a case currently in front of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., which challenges the legality of what Trump calls "reciprocal" tariffs as well as a separate set of tariffs imposed in February against China, Canada and Mexico.

read more here 

Friday, August 8, 2025

'You can’t lie to the American people' Joe slams Trump for using Heritage Foundation jobs numbers

from MSNBC


 

 

Still Fuming Over a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Finds Some Numbers He Likes

(The data from which these numbers have been derived has never been published anywhere and they say they will try to publish it sometime in the next 6 months. It's secret data only the Heritage Foundation can see. But don't worry. It's accurate. Just ask the neoliberal globalists who put together Project 2025 and Project Esther. They have nothing to hide.) 

from the New York Times

President Trump finally got the economic numbers he wanted. 

Still bristling about last week’s less-than-impressive report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Mr. Trump summoned reporters into the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon to present them with more favorable data.

During an impromptu news conference, the president displayed charts from Stephen Moore, an economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, that he said proved his economy was better than that of his predecessor, President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

“All new numbers,” Mr. Trump said, holding up a chart.

The typically humdrum task of counting jobs, income levels and other economic data has become decidedly dramatic during the second Trump administration. For months, Mr. Trump and his top allies had praised the Bureau of Labor Statistics when it showed strong job growth. But after the bureau put out weak job numbers last week, Mr. Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the agency’s commissioner, and claimed that the figures were rigged. (Instead of offering proof, he said it was “my opinion.”)

The firing of the commissioner, whose job was merely to count the data accurately, left the president in search of some different data, more to his liking.

Enter Mr. Moore.

It just so happened that the Heritage Foundation economist had been crunching some census data, and he began assembling the figures into graphs that he knew would please the president...

read more here 

Modi and Lula discuss Trump's tariffs amid strained trade relations with US

(As expected, Trump's ridiculous tariff plan (raise more taxes from the American people to cover costs of giving trillions to Big Business and billionaires) is only succeeding in 1. making our economy scream and 2. driving other nations closer together in trade and their hatred of us. Promises made, promises kept.) 

from PressTV

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have spoken by phone regarding various issues, including the tariffs recently imposed by the United States on goods from both nations.

Lula confirmed a state visit to India in early 2026 during the call on Thursday, a day after the Brazilian leader told Reuters news agency he would initiate a conversation among the BRICS group of countries on addressing US President Donald Trump's tariff measures.

The group of major emerging economies also includes China, Russia and South Africa.

Lula's office confirmed that in the call, both leaders discussed the international economic situation and the unilateral tariffs affecting Brazil and India, which are among the nations most impacted by Trump's actions.

Trump recently imposed a 25% tariff on Indian goods, raising the total tariff to 50%, alleging that India continues to purchase Russian oil.

He also imposed similar tariffs on Brazil, affecting sectors including aircraft, energy, and orange juice.

During the conversation, Modi and Lula reiterated their goal of increasing bilateral trade to over $20 billion annually by 2030, up from approximately $12 billion last year.

They also agreed to enhance the scope of their preferential trade agreement and discussed virtual payment platforms to facilitate trade...

read more here 

Thursday, August 7, 2025

'Disaster in the Making': Trump to Open 401(k)s to Crypto, Private Equity Vultures

from Common Dreams

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday that would allow private equity and cryptocurrencies into Americans' 401(k)s, appeasing corporate interests that lobbied for the change and disregarding warnings about the risks it poses to retirement accounts.

Citing an unnamed senior White House official, CNN reported that "the order calls for the Labor Department and Securities and Exchange Commission to issue guidance to employers about providing access to those alternative investments in their retirement accounts."

The private equity industry has been working for years to gain access to a portion of the roughly $12 trillion that Americans have saved in workplace retirement plans.

"This is the holy grail for private equity," Axios reported Thursday, noting that federal rules currently bar most defined-contribution plans from investing in private equity and crypto. Both industries spent big on the 2024 election; the investment management behemoth BlackRock, whose CEO has advocated opening 401(k)s to private equity, donated to Trump's inaugural committee.

James Baratta and Whitney Curry Wimbish noted in The American Prospect earlier this year that "there was added desperation from the industry" for access to 401(k)s "because of their dire need for cash amid weakening performance and fewer deals."

"Some firms have begun mortgaging their own funds for money to pay out limited partners," they added. "Retail investors represented trillions in untapped potential."..

read more here 

Monday, August 4, 2025

Trump pledges to ‘substantially’ raise US tariffs on India over Russian oil

(Trump's tariffs are causing a great deal of harm to American citizens, some of whom were foolish enough to vote for him less than a year ago or buy his grifting BS ever since. So now, he imposes even more of them. Brilliant.

But that's what you voted for, right?) 

from al Jazeera

United States President Donald Trump says he will “substantially” raise tariffs on India, intensifying the row between the two countries after years of rapprochement.

Trump accused India in a social media post on Monday of buying and reselling “massive amounts” of Russian oil “for big profits”. 

“They don’t care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian War Machine,” the US president wrote. “Because of this, I will be substantially raising the Tariff paid by India to the USA. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!”

He did not specify the rate of the tariffs or when they would take effect. The US imported $87.4bn in Indian goods in 2024, according to US government data.

Last week, Trump announced 25 percent tariffs on Indian goods, citing New Delhi’s levies on US products and purchases of Russian oil and military equipment.

Later on Monday, India rejected Western criticism of its business dealings with Russia, noting that the US and European countries have continued to import Russian goods and energy products after the war...

read more here 

No disaster relief funding for states boycotting Israel, US says

(Glorious Trump supports convicted child sex traffickers, protects the secrets of convicted child rapists and now denies you disaster relief assistance if your state just happens to reject supporting a nation currently starving children and committing genocide so they can steal more fucking land.

This is what you voted for though, right?) 

from PressTV

The administration of US President Donald Trump has declared that states and cities boycotting Israeli firms will be denied federal funding for natural disaster preparedness, marking a new level of support for its ally, even as Israel faces global condemnation over its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said in grant notices posted on Friday that states must follow its "terms and conditions" to qualify for funding, including  certifying they will not cut “commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies.”

According to the notices, the condition applies to at least $1.9 billion that states rely on to cover expenses related to search-and-rescue equipment, emergency manager salaries and backup power systems.

In April, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees FEMA, said that boycotting Israel is prohibited for states and cities receiving its grant funds.

The development comes as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which promotes economic pressure on Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories, has been gaining popularity after the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in 2023...

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Saturday, August 2, 2025

Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged,’ Fires Labor Official

(Trump is a tin-pot dictator. A petulant child throwing a temper tantrum in the middle of the store til he gets what he wants. He's destroying this country because he hates it. He paved over the rose garden at the White House and had them install American flag drainage grates on the ground for runoff. American flag drainage grates. On the ground. He hates this country like every dictator our 'national interests' installed over the decades hated their own countries and wanted to tear them down and remake them in a fascist mold.) 

from the New York Times

President Trump unleashed his fury about weakness in the labor market on Friday, saying without evidence that the data were “rigged” and that he was firing the Senate-confirmed Department of Labor official responsible for pulling together the numbers each month.

In a long post on social media, Mr. Trump said he had directed his team to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who was confirmed on a bipartisan basis in 2024.

Emily Liddel, an associate commissioner for the bureau, confirmed late Friday that Dr. McEntarfer had been fired and that William Wiatrowski, the deputy commissioner, would serve as acting commissioner.

The president fired Dr. McEntarfer after the bureau released monthly jobs data showing surprisingly weak hiring in July and large downward revisions to job growth in the previous two months. Economists widely interpreted the report as evidence that Mr. Trump’s policies were beginning to take a toll on the economy, though the president insisted in a subsequent post that the country was “doing GREAT!”

Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the labor secretary, echoed Mr. Trump’s concerns about Dr. McEntarfer in a post on social media.

“So you know what I did?” Mr. Trump later told reporters, as he claimed the numbers were “phony.” “I fired her, and you know what? I did the right thing.”...

read more here 

Friday, August 1, 2025

Global trade in chaos as Trump imposes steep tariffs on 92 countries

from PressTV

US President Donald Trump has imposed steep tariffs on exports from 92 countries, including Canada, Switzerland, Brazil, and India, ahead of his self-imposed August 1 deadline that is expected to reignite global trade tensions.

“We have made a few deals today that are excellent deals for the country,” Trump told reporters on Thursday afternoon after signing executive orders to impose tariffs between 15 and 41 percent on goods from around the global market.

He ordered raising tariffs on Canadian imports to 35 percent for goods deemed non-compliant with the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), citing Canada’s failure to curb fentanyl smuggling across the border, saying Canada had "failed to cooperate" in curbing illicit narcotics flows into the US.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement that he was “disappointed” with Trump’s tariff hike, adding that “Canadians will be our own best customer.” He emphasized that Canada accounts for just 1 percent of US fentanyl imports, highlighting the minimal role Canada plays in the US fentanyl issue.

"While we will continue to negotiate with the United States on our trading relationship, the Canadian government is laser focused on what we can control: building Canada strong," he said in a post on X.

The decision pertaining to Canada contrasted sharply with Trump's decision to grant Mexico a 90-day reprieve from higher tariffs of 30% on many goods to allow time to negotiate a broader trade pact. However, Trump said the US would continue to levy a 50% tariff on Mexican steel, aluminum, and copper and a 25% tariff on Mexican autos and on non-USMCA-compliant goods subject to tariffs related to the US fentanyl crisis...

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