By Eric Mack | Sunday, 22 December 2024 10:57 AM EST
President-elect Donald Trump hailed Sunday as "the 7th Anniversary of the Trump Tax Cuts becoming Law," vowing to "deliver the largest tax cuts in the history of our country" by this date next year.
"Today is the 7th Anniversary of the Trump Tax Cuts becoming Law," Trump wrote in a Sunday morning Truth Social post before he was slated to speak at a salute to Arizona gathering for Turning Point Action, which will air live and in its entirety on Newsmax, starting at 12:30 p.m. ET. "'Happy Birthday!'
"Next year, we will deliver the largest Tax Cuts in the History of our Country," he added. "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Many of the provisions of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act signed by Trump in 2017 are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. This means that more than $4 trillion in tax increases will take effect Jan. 1, 2026, charging next year's Congress and administration with the hefty task of grappling with the tax hikes.
Meanwhile, many of the provisions impacting businesses, including pass-through entities, are set to expire between 2025 and 2028.
The expiration of the cuts has the markets sinking as Congress is speaking out against extending the Trump tax cuts next year, according to Americans for Tax Reform's Grover Norquist on Newsmax.
"I think one of the dangers that people are looking at is that the tax cut may be delayed; it may get stopped," Norquist told Sunday's "Wake Up America Weekend." "We're one bad car accident away from having Democrat control of the House of Representatives, which means a $4 trillion tax increase. That's a lot of uncertainty."
Knowing that this will explode the deficit what is your opinion on this? You good with it? Rich people getting more $$ at the expense of all taxpayers?
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By Eric Mack | Sunday, 22 December 2024 10:57 AM EST
President-elect Donald Trump hailed Sunday as "the 7th Anniversary of the Trump Tax Cuts becoming Law," vowing to "deliver the largest tax cuts in the history of our country" by this date next year.
"Today is the 7th Anniversary of the Trump Tax Cuts becoming Law," Trump wrote in a Sunday morning Truth Social post before he was slated to speak at a salute to Arizona gathering for Turning Point Action, which will air live and in its entirety on Newsmax, starting at 12:30 p.m. ET. "'Happy Birthday!'
"Next year, we will deliver the largest Tax Cuts in the History of our Country," he added. "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Many of the provisions of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act signed by Trump in 2017 are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. This means that more than $4 trillion in tax increases will take effect Jan. 1, 2026, charging next year's Congress and administration with the hefty task of grappling with the tax hikes.
Meanwhile, many of the provisions impacting businesses, including pass-through entities, are set to expire between 2025 and 2028.
The expiration of the cuts has the markets sinking as Congress is speaking out against extending the Trump tax cuts next year, according to Americans for Tax Reform's Grover Norquist on Newsmax.
"I think one of the dangers that people are looking at is that the tax cut may be delayed; it may get stopped," Norquist told Sunday's "Wake Up America Weekend." "We're one bad car accident away from having Democrat control of the House of Representatives, which means a $4 trillion tax increase. That's a lot of uncertainty."
Knowing that this will explode the deficit what is your opinion on this? You good with it? Rich people getting more $$ at the expense of all taxpayers?
My taxes were lowered after the Trump tax cuts were passed so I don’t know what you want me to tell you.
I don't know your income level...if you are a 2%er your taxes went down dramatically. If you aren't then you got a sliver for sure.
But the question remains. Are you ok with exploding deficits under the GOP? Do deficits matter anymore? They used to...the GOP used to yammer on and on about them right up until trump added $8 trillion to the debt.
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I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
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By Eric Mack | Sunday, 22 December 2024 10:57 AM EST
President-elect Donald Trump hailed Sunday as "the 7th Anniversary of the Trump Tax Cuts becoming Law," vowing to "deliver the largest tax cuts in the history of our country" by this date next year.
"Today is the 7th Anniversary of the Trump Tax Cuts becoming Law," Trump wrote in a Sunday morning Truth Social post before he was slated to speak at a salute to Arizona gathering for Turning Point Action, which will air live and in its entirety on Newsmax, starting at 12:30 p.m. ET. "'Happy Birthday!'
"Next year, we will deliver the largest Tax Cuts in the History of our Country," he added. "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Many of the provisions of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act signed by Trump in 2017 are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. This means that more than $4 trillion in tax increases will take effect Jan. 1, 2026, charging next year's Congress and administration with the hefty task of grappling with the tax hikes.
Meanwhile, many of the provisions impacting businesses, including pass-through entities, are set to expire between 2025 and 2028.
The expiration of the cuts has the markets sinking as Congress is speaking out against extending the Trump tax cuts next year, according to Americans for Tax Reform's Grover Norquist on Newsmax.
"I think one of the dangers that people are looking at is that the tax cut may be delayed; it may get stopped," Norquist told Sunday's "Wake Up America Weekend." "We're one bad car accident away from having Democrat control of the House of Representatives, which means a $4 trillion tax increase. That's a lot of uncertainty."
Knowing that this will explode the deficit what is your opinion on this? You good with it? Rich people getting more $$ at the expense of all taxpayers?
My taxes were lowered after the Trump tax cuts were passed so I don’t know what you want me to tell you.
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
Maybe??
Throooow youuur markkerss dooowwnn
Still can’t do it, can you? Says way more about you than me, though. Keep that AR handy. No telling when I might show up at your door asking you for your measurable results of the next 4 years and a donation to the Soros Foundation.
So far, I think we have the following:
Canada the 51st state.
Panama Canal is ‘Murican.
Newfoundland is something or other but maybe a ‘Murican territory?
Denali is renamed Mount McKinley.
That about it so far? Throw them down by 1/20/25. Santa’s watching!
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
Maybe??
Throooow youuur markkerss dooowwnn
Still can’t do it, can you? Says way more about you than me, though. Keep that AR handy. No telling when I might show up at your door asking you for your measurable results of the next 4 years and a donation to the Soros Foundation.
So far, I think we have the following:
Canada the 51st state.
Panama Canal is ‘Murican.
Newfoundland is something or other but maybe a ‘Murican territory?
Denali is renamed Mount McKinley.
That about it so far? Throw them down by 1/20/25. Santa’s watching!
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
Maybe??
Throooow youuur markkerss dooowwnn
Still can’t do it, can you? Says way more about you than me, though. Keep that AR handy. No telling when I might show up at your door asking you for your measurable results of the next 4 years and a donation to the Soros Foundation.
So far, I think we have the following:
Canada the 51st state.
Panama Canal is ‘Murican.
Newfoundland is something or other but maybe a ‘Murican territory?
Denali is renamed Mount McKinley.
That about it so far? Throw them down by 1/20/25. Santa’s watching!
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
Maybe??
Throooow youuur markkerss dooowwnn
Still can’t do it, can you? Says way more about you than me, though. Keep that AR handy. No telling when I might show up at your door asking you for your measurable results of the next 4 years and a donation to the Soros Foundation.
So far, I think we have the following:
Canada the 51st state.
Panama Canal is ‘Murican.
Newfoundland is something or other but maybe a ‘Murican territory?
Denali is renamed Mount McKinley.
That about it so far? Throw them down by 1/20/25. Santa’s watching!
Canada is a country full of pansies . That’s why we subsidize their economy and we have to protect them from the evils of the world. They’re just not capable themselves. Pathetic really.
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
Maybe??
Throooow youuur markkerss dooowwnn
Still can’t do it, can you? Says way more about you than me, though. Keep that AR handy. No telling when I might show up at your door asking you for your measurable results of the next 4 years and a donation to the Soros Foundation.
So far, I think we have the following:
Canada the 51st state.
Panama Canal is ‘Murican.
Newfoundland is something or other but maybe a ‘Murican territory?
Denali is renamed Mount McKinley.
That about it so far? Throw them down by 1/20/25. Santa’s watching!
Canada is a country full of pansies . That’s why we subsidize their economy and we have to protect them from the evils of the world. They’re just not capable themselves. Pathetic really.
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
Maybe??
Throooow youuur markkerss dooowwnn
Still can’t do it, can you? Says way more about you than me, though. Keep that AR handy. No telling when I might show up at your door asking you for your measurable results of the next 4 years and a donation to the Soros Foundation.
So far, I think we have the following:
Canada the 51st state.
Panama Canal is ‘Murican.
Newfoundland is something or other but maybe a ‘Murican territory?
Denali is renamed Mount McKinley.
That about it so far? Throw them down by 1/20/25. Santa’s watching!
Canada is a country full of pansies . That’s why we subsidize their economy and we have to protect them from the evils of the world. They’re just not capable themselves. Pathetic really.
Where do you see Oh Canada in four years? Will POOTWH spread love, prosperity and teach the world to sing, like a Coca Cola, or doom and gloom, like a child overturning the monopoly board?
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
Maybe??
Throooow youuur markkerss dooowwnn
Still can’t do it, can you? Says way more about you than me, though. Keep that AR handy. No telling when I might show up at your door asking you for your measurable results of the next 4 years and a donation to the Soros Foundation.
So far, I think we have the following:
Canada the 51st state.
Panama Canal is ‘Murican.
Newfoundland is something or other but maybe a ‘Murican territory?
Denali is renamed Mount McKinley.
That about it so far? Throw them down by 1/20/25. Santa’s watching!
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
Maybe??
Throooow youuur markkerss dooowwnn
Still can’t do it, can you? Says way more about you than me, though. Keep that AR handy. No telling when I might show up at your door asking you for your measurable results of the next 4 years and a donation to the Soros Foundation.
So far, I think we have the following:
Canada the 51st state.
Panama Canal is ‘Murican.
Newfoundland is something or other but maybe a ‘Murican territory?
Denali is renamed Mount McKinley.
That about it so far? Throw them down by 1/20/25. Santa’s watching!
I would sell canada to the highest bidder.
You would but would POOTWH? He’d sell it for pennies on the dollar and then tell you what a tremendous deal it was and you’d believe him, wouldn’t you?
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
Maybe??
Throooow youuur markkerss dooowwnn
Still can’t do it, can you? Says way more about you than me, though. Keep that AR handy. No telling when I might show up at your door asking you for your measurable results of the next 4 years and a donation to the Soros Foundation.
So far, I think we have the following:
Canada the 51st state.
Panama Canal is ‘Murican.
Newfoundland is something or other but maybe a ‘Murican territory?
Denali is renamed Mount McKinley.
That about it so far? Throw them down by 1/20/25. Santa’s watching!
I would sell canada to the highest bidder.
You would but would POOTWH? He’d sell it for pennies on the dollar and then tell you what a tremendous deal it was and you’d believe him, wouldn’t you?
What is POOTWH? If you mean Donald Trump, I don't pay attention to a word he says. You should try that sometime instead of getting yourself all radicalized.
By Charlie McCarthy | Monday, 23 December 2024 09:06 AM EST
A New York Times opinion columnist and self-proclaimed "Never Trumper" conservative says it's time for President-elect Donald Trump's "perennial" critics "to drop the heavy moralizing and incessant doomsaying" concerning the next chief executive and his incoming administration.
Bret Stephens, in a recent column, wrote that after nine years, he no longer considers himself a Never Trumper. He says that he and others like him never truly understood what made Trump popular and effective.
"Who, and what, is Trump?" Stephens asked. "He's a man and the symbol of a movement. The man is crass but charismatic, ignorant but intuitive, dishonest but authentic. The movement is patriotic — and angry."
Some of that anger, Stephens added, is "correctly directed at a self-satisfied elite that thinks it knows better but often doesn't."
Also, Stephens said, Trump understood during the 2024 campaign that "ordinary people" cared greatly about the high cost of living and the migrant crisis at the southern border.
The columnist basically said he and other Never Trumpers were hypocritical and ignorant when it came to Trump.
"How come so many who denounce Trump as a sexual predator were, 20 years earlier, Bill Clinton's steadfast defenders?" the columnist wrote on Dec. 17. "Why were the same people who demanded investigations into every corner of the Trump family's business dealings so incurious about the Biden family's dealings, like the curiously high prices for Hunter's paintings?"
In creating fear by insisting Trump could lead the U.S. into World War III, was too friendly with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and would ruin the Republican Party, Never Trumpers overstated the possibilities, according to Stephens.
"[We] missed that his working-class appeal would also reach working-class minorities — like the 48 percent of Latino male voters who cast their ballots for him last month," Stephens wrote. "And we were alarmed by Trump's protectionism and big-spending ways. But the economy mostly thrived under him, at least until the pandemic."
When it came to the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021 – the No. 1 reason Stephens voted for Vice President Kamala Harris this year – Never Trumpers misread that, too.
"[I]f democracy means anything, it's that ordinary people, not elites, get to decide how important an event like Jan. 6 is to them. Turns out, not so much," Stephens wrote.
Never Trumpers never quite grasped that Americans also felt lied to by the left — see Biden's physical and mental decline — and saw the "torrent of Israel-bashing and antisemitism that emerged from the cultural left after Oct. 7," Stephens wrote.
Now, Stephens encourages other Never Trumpers to change their ways.
"So here's a thought for Trump's perennial critics, including those of us on the right," Stephens wrote to end his column. "Let's enter the new year by wishing the new administration well, by giving some of Trump's cabinet picks the benefit of the doubt, by dropping the lurid historical comparisons to past dictators, by not sounding paranoid about the ever-looming end of democracy, by hoping for the best and knowing that we need to fight the wrongs that are real and not merely what we fear, that whatever happens, this too shall pass."
Charlie McCarthy, a writer/editor at Newsmax, has nearly 40 years of experience covering news, sports, and politics.
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
Maybe??
Throooow youuur markkerss dooowwnn
Still can’t do it, can you? Says way more about you than me, though. Keep that AR handy. No telling when I might show up at your door asking you for your measurable results of the next 4 years and a donation to the Soros Foundation.
So far, I think we have the following:
Canada the 51st state.
Panama Canal is ‘Murican.
Newfoundland is something or other but maybe a ‘Murican territory?
Denali is renamed Mount McKinley.
That about it so far? Throw them down by 1/20/25. Santa’s watching!
I would sell canada to the highest bidder.
You would but would POOTWH? He’d sell it for pennies on the dollar and then tell you what a tremendous deal it was and you’d believe him, wouldn’t you?
What is POOTWH? If you mean Donald Trump, I don't pay attention to a word he says. You should try that sometime instead of getting yourself all radicalized.
By Charlie McCarthy | Monday, 23 December 2024 09:06 AM EST
A New York Times opinion columnist and self-proclaimed "Never Trumper" conservative says it's time for President-elect Donald Trump's "perennial" critics "to drop the heavy moralizing and incessant doomsaying" concerning the next chief executive and his incoming administration.
Bret Stephens, in a recent column, wrote that after nine years, he no longer considers himself a Never Trumper. He says that he and others like him never truly understood what made Trump popular and effective.
"Who, and what, is Trump?" Stephens asked. "He's a man and the symbol of a movement. The man is crass but charismatic, ignorant but intuitive, dishonest but authentic. The movement is patriotic — and angry."
Some of that anger, Stephens added, is "correctly directed at a self-satisfied elite that thinks it knows better but often doesn't."
Also, Stephens said, Trump understood during the 2024 campaign that "ordinary people" cared greatly about the high cost of living and the migrant crisis at the southern border.
The columnist basically said he and other Never Trumpers were hypocritical and ignorant when it came to Trump.
"How come so many who denounce Trump as a sexual predator were, 20 years earlier, Bill Clinton's steadfast defenders?" the columnist wrote on Dec. 17. "Why were the same people who demanded investigations into every corner of the Trump family's business dealings so incurious about the Biden family's dealings, like the curiously high prices for Hunter's paintings?"
In creating fear by insisting Trump could lead the U.S. into World War III, was too friendly with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and would ruin the Republican Party, Never Trumpers overstated the possibilities, according to Stephens.
"[We] missed that his working-class appeal would also reach working-class minorities — like the 48 percent of Latino male voters who cast their ballots for him last month," Stephens wrote. "And we were alarmed by Trump's protectionism and big-spending ways. But the economy mostly thrived under him, at least until the pandemic."
When it came to the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021 – the No. 1 reason Stephens voted for Vice President Kamala Harris this year – Never Trumpers misread that, too.
"[I]f democracy means anything, it's that ordinary people, not elites, get to decide how important an event like Jan. 6 is to them. Turns out, not so much," Stephens wrote.
Never Trumpers never quite grasped that Americans also felt lied to by the left — see Biden's physical and mental decline — and saw the "torrent of Israel-bashing and antisemitism that emerged from the cultural left after Oct. 7," Stephens wrote.
Now, Stephens encourages other Never Trumpers to change their ways.
"So here's a thought for Trump's perennial critics, including those of us on the right," Stephens wrote to end his column. "Let's enter the new year by wishing the new administration well, by giving some of Trump's cabinet picks the benefit of the doubt, by dropping the lurid historical comparisons to past dictators, by not sounding paranoid about the ever-looming end of democracy, by hoping for the best and knowing that we need to fight the wrongs that are real and not merely what we fear, that whatever happens, this too shall pass."
Charlie McCarthy, a writer/editor at Newsmax, has nearly 40 years of experience covering news, sports, and politics.
How about NO your orange piece of shit will always be a piece of shit human! Ahh that felt good
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
Maybe??
Throooow youuur markkerss dooowwnn
Still can’t do it, can you? Says way more about you than me, though. Keep that AR handy. No telling when I might show up at your door asking you for your measurable results of the next 4 years and a donation to the Soros Foundation.
So far, I think we have the following:
Canada the 51st state.
Panama Canal is ‘Murican.
Newfoundland is something or other but maybe a ‘Murican territory?
Denali is renamed Mount McKinley.
That about it so far? Throw them down by 1/20/25. Santa’s watching!
I would sell canada to the highest bidder.
You would but would POOTWH? He’d sell it for pennies on the dollar and then tell you what a tremendous deal it was and you’d believe him, wouldn’t you?
What is POOTWH? If you mean Donald Trump, I don't pay attention to a word he says. You should try that sometime instead of getting yourself all radicalized.
Guess you’re listening to this guy?
I would have to look him up, which isn't going to happen. Sorry I can't help you any further.
I am quite confident America will be better off four years from now. That's why I donated to President Trump's campaign and voted for him. But, it doesn't take much perusing of these forums to see that the vast majority of posters here want to see President Trump crash and burn. Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this crowd hates Trump more than they love America. And, they do not want to see him succeed.
And yet, you can’t or won’t list by what measure will indicate how you, or we, are better off in four years. In other words, throw your marker(s) down.
I want the US to be better off in four years but I have absolutely no confidence, none, that the repubs in Congress and the incoming administration have the ability, moral compass or background intelligence to do so. There are way too many morally bankrupt individuals in positions of power and making ideological driven decisions. POOTWH and those that gave him money and voted for him broke our government. It’s going to take a generation or a catastrophic event to recover.
There is nothing to like about POOTWH as a human being. Nothing.
It wouldn’t matter if Shecky listed 100 reasons for you would continue to try and attack and shame. You’re a committed leftist who wants to see America destroyed and replaced by some sort of communist corporate oligarchy. Plus I believe you aren’t even a citizen so sit this one out.
Maybe I’m here illegally and I’m a member of antiiiiiiiiiiifa?
You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
Maybe??
Throooow youuur markkerss dooowwnn
Still can’t do it, can you? Says way more about you than me, though. Keep that AR handy. No telling when I might show up at your door asking you for your measurable results of the next 4 years and a donation to the Soros Foundation.
So far, I think we have the following:
Canada the 51st state.
Panama Canal is ‘Murican.
Newfoundland is something or other but maybe a ‘Murican territory?
Denali is renamed Mount McKinley.
That about it so far? Throw them down by 1/20/25. Santa’s watching!
I would sell canada to the highest bidder.
You would but would POOTWH? He’d sell it for pennies on the dollar and then tell you what a tremendous deal it was and you’d believe him, wouldn’t you?
What is POOTWH? If you mean Donald Trump, I don't pay attention to a word he says. You should try that sometime instead of getting yourself all radicalized.
Guess you’re listening to this guy?
I would have to look him up, which isn't going to happen. Sorry I can't help you any further.
By Charlie McCarthy | Monday, 23 December 2024 09:06 AM EST
A New York Times opinion columnist and self-proclaimed "Never Trumper" conservative says it's time for President-elect Donald Trump's "perennial" critics "to drop the heavy moralizing and incessant doomsaying" concerning the next chief executive and his incoming administration.
Bret Stephens, in a recent column, wrote that after nine years, he no longer considers himself a Never Trumper. He says that he and others like him never truly understood what made Trump popular and effective.
"Who, and what, is Trump?" Stephens asked. "He's a man and the symbol of a movement. The man is crass but charismatic, ignorant but intuitive, dishonest but authentic. The movement is patriotic — and angry."
Some of that anger, Stephens added, is "correctly directed at a self-satisfied elite that thinks it knows better but often doesn't."
Also, Stephens said, Trump understood during the 2024 campaign that "ordinary people" cared greatly about the high cost of living and the migrant crisis at the southern border.
The columnist basically said he and other Never Trumpers were hypocritical and ignorant when it came to Trump.
"How come so many who denounce Trump as a sexual predator were, 20 years earlier, Bill Clinton's steadfast defenders?" the columnist wrote on Dec. 17. "Why were the same people who demanded investigations into every corner of the Trump family's business dealings so incurious about the Biden family's dealings, like the curiously high prices for Hunter's paintings?"
In creating fear by insisting Trump could lead the U.S. into World War III, was too friendly with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and would ruin the Republican Party, Never Trumpers overstated the possibilities, according to Stephens.
"[We] missed that his working-class appeal would also reach working-class minorities — like the 48 percent of Latino male voters who cast their ballots for him last month," Stephens wrote. "And we were alarmed by Trump's protectionism and big-spending ways. But the economy mostly thrived under him, at least until the pandemic."
When it came to the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021 – the No. 1 reason Stephens voted for Vice President Kamala Harris this year – Never Trumpers misread that, too.
"[I]f democracy means anything, it's that ordinary people, not elites, get to decide how important an event like Jan. 6 is to them. Turns out, not so much," Stephens wrote.
Never Trumpers never quite grasped that Americans also felt lied to by the left — see Biden's physical and mental decline — and saw the "torrent of Israel-bashing and antisemitism that emerged from the cultural left after Oct. 7," Stephens wrote.
Now, Stephens encourages other Never Trumpers to change their ways.
"So here's a thought for Trump's perennial critics, including those of us on the right," Stephens wrote to end his column. "Let's enter the new year by wishing the new administration well, by giving some of Trump's cabinet picks the benefit of the doubt, by dropping the lurid historical comparisons to past dictators, by not sounding paranoid about the ever-looming end of democracy, by hoping for the best and knowing that we need to fight the wrongs that are real and not merely what we fear, that whatever happens, this too shall pass."
Charlie McCarthy, a writer/editor at Newsmax, has nearly 40 years of experience covering news, sports, and politics.
How about NO your orange piece of shit will always be a piece of shit human! Ahh that felt good
Thanks for having such an open, inclusive mindset. You are a big help to the overall issues in our country.
By Charlie McCarthy | Monday, 23 December 2024 09:06 AM EST
A New York Times opinion columnist and self-proclaimed "Never Trumper" conservative says it's time for President-elect Donald Trump's "perennial" critics "to drop the heavy moralizing and incessant doomsaying" concerning the next chief executive and his incoming administration.
Bret Stephens, in a recent column, wrote that after nine years, he no longer considers himself a Never Trumper. He says that he and others like him never truly understood what made Trump popular and effective.
"Who, and what, is Trump?" Stephens asked. "He's a man and the symbol of a movement. The man is crass but charismatic, ignorant but intuitive, dishonest but authentic. The movement is patriotic — and angry."
Some of that anger, Stephens added, is "correctly directed at a self-satisfied elite that thinks it knows better but often doesn't."
Also, Stephens said, Trump understood during the 2024 campaign that "ordinary people" cared greatly about the high cost of living and the migrant crisis at the southern border.
The columnist basically said he and other Never Trumpers were hypocritical and ignorant when it came to Trump.
"How come so many who denounce Trump as a sexual predator were, 20 years earlier, Bill Clinton's steadfast defenders?" the columnist wrote on Dec. 17. "Why were the same people who demanded investigations into every corner of the Trump family's business dealings so incurious about the Biden family's dealings, like the curiously high prices for Hunter's paintings?"
In creating fear by insisting Trump could lead the U.S. into World War III, was too friendly with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and would ruin the Republican Party, Never Trumpers overstated the possibilities, according to Stephens.
"[We] missed that his working-class appeal would also reach working-class minorities — like the 48 percent of Latino male voters who cast their ballots for him last month," Stephens wrote. "And we were alarmed by Trump's protectionism and big-spending ways. But the economy mostly thrived under him, at least until the pandemic."
When it came to the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021 – the No. 1 reason Stephens voted for Vice President Kamala Harris this year – Never Trumpers misread that, too.
"[I]f democracy means anything, it's that ordinary people, not elites, get to decide how important an event like Jan. 6 is to them. Turns out, not so much," Stephens wrote.
Never Trumpers never quite grasped that Americans also felt lied to by the left — see Biden's physical and mental decline — and saw the "torrent of Israel-bashing and antisemitism that emerged from the cultural left after Oct. 7," Stephens wrote.
Now, Stephens encourages other Never Trumpers to change their ways.
"So here's a thought for Trump's perennial critics, including those of us on the right," Stephens wrote to end his column. "Let's enter the new year by wishing the new administration well, by giving some of Trump's cabinet picks the benefit of the doubt, by dropping the lurid historical comparisons to past dictators, by not sounding paranoid about the ever-looming end of democracy, by hoping for the best and knowing that we need to fight the wrongs that are real and not merely what we fear, that whatever happens, this too shall pass."
Charlie McCarthy, a writer/editor at Newsmax, has nearly 40 years of experience covering news, sports, and politics.
How about NO your orange piece of shit will always be a piece of shit human! Ahh that felt good
Thanks for having such an open, inclusive mindset. You are a big help to the overall issues in our country.
Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol.
Are you for real? MAGA may as well be MAHA….hate for brown people, hate for “other” religions, hate for science, hate for the earth, hate for LBGTQ, hate for the media, etc. There are only three reasons to support Trump….1) you’re a billionaire and see the world only in dollars and not in humanity 2) you’re a bigot 3) you believe it’s OK to have a sexual assaulting, lying, adultering felon in charge as long as the price of eggs comes down.
There was a B List comedian in the 60’s….Shecky Greene. You’re funnier.
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol.
Are you for real? MAGA may as well be MAHA….hate for brown people, hate for “other” religions, hate for science, hate for the earth, hate for LBGTQ, hate for the media, etc. There are only three reasons to support Trump….1) you’re a billionaire and see the world only in dollars and not in humanity 2) you’re a bigot 3) you believe it’s OK to have a sexual assaulting, lying, adultering felon in charge as long as the price of eggs comes down.
There was a B List comedian in the 60’s….Shecky Greene. You’re funnier.
Probably maxed out the credit cards on this great stuff. Yea, sure, it’s not a cult. And talk about unpresidented:
How to have a Trumpy Christmas, and make the president-elect richer, too
Donald Trump is profiting off his election in unprecedented ways as his family business sells $92 MAGA hat Christmas ornaments and $22 golden wrapping paper.
The Trump Store has a gift for every patriot on your Christmas list.
It’s a little late for this year’s celebrations, but you can get a very early jump on next year and count down with the $38 Trump Advent calendar. Or trim the tree with a $95 Mar-a-Lago bauble or a $16 MAGA hat ornament, sold in nine colors. (A glass version of the hat ornament is $92.) Stuff stockings with an $86 “GIANT Trump Chocolate Gold Bar” and a $22 pair of candy cane socks printed with “Trump.” Prepare a holiday feast with a $14 Trump Christmas tree pot holder and $28 Trump apron featuring Santa waving an American flag.
The profits from these holiday trinkets do not benefit a political committee or a charitable cause, but the Trump Organization, the Trump family’s privately owned conglomerate of real estate, hotel and lifestyle businesses. As the company encouraged customers to celebrate the holidays with Trump gifts for all ages, President-elect Donald Trump personally profited off of his upcoming term in a manner that is unprecedented in modern history — even during his unconventional first stint in the White House.
The Trump Organization thought of everyone celebrating Trump’s nonconsecutive terms this yuletide season, rolling out a line of merchandise printed with “45-47,” including $195 quarter-zip sweatshirts, $85 cigar ashtrays and $38 baseball caps. Fido can’t go without his gear, of course: The store also sells gifts for dogs, including orange leashes and camo collars emblazoned with Trump’s name. And don’t forget the kids! How about a $38 teddy bear wearing a red, white or blue Trump sweater, $8 MAGA hat stickers or an array of Trump sweets, including $16 gummy bears?
All of these gifts can be wrapped in $28 golden Trump wrapping paper or stuck into Trump ornament gift bags ($14 a pair), and accompanied by a note on $35 stationery featuring bottles of Trump wine.
“Make the holidays that much greater this year with essentials from the Trump Home and Holiday collection,” the website says, over a photo of an Elf on the Shelf toy and a lime-green MAGA hat.
Trump has long delighted in finding new ways to market his name, creating a merchandise empire that includes digital trading cards, pricey sneakers, expensive watches and signed Bibles. But his expansion of offerings in the run-up to the inauguration has further concerned ethics experts and watchdogs, who say his behavior is the opposite of what they expect from a president-in-waiting during the transition.
“How much is he going to use the presidency just to sell Trump products?” said Jordan Libowitz, vice president for communications for the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt pushed back on claims that Trump was profiting off his election victory.
“President Trump removed himself from his multi-billion-dollar real estate empire to run for office and forewent his government salary, becoming the first President to actually lose net worth while serving in the White House,” Leavitt said in a statement. “President Trump didn’t get into politics for profit — he’s fighting because he loves the people of this country and wants to make America great again.”
Trump’s wealth oscillated over the course of his presidency and his years out of office. In 2021, he fell off the Forbes list of the country’s 400 richest people for the first time in 25 years as his real estate portfolio took a hit because of the pandemic. He was back on the listthis year, buoyed by his stake in Trump Media & Technology Group.
The Trump Organization and Trump Media & Technology Group did not respond to requests for comment.
During Trump’s first term, his company sold merchandise including hats and products related to his prominent real estate properties and hotels, Libowitz said. However, he said, the 45-47 Collection and other products referencing the presidency represent a greater overlap between Trump’s business and political activities than was apparent during his first term.
Traditionally, presidents-elect are expected to take steps to limit conflicts of interest and adopt ethical guidelines in the run-up to the inauguration, Libowitz and other government ethics experts said. In the weeks since Trump won the election, he has not yet made commitments like the ones he made in 2017 to limit his financial conflicts. In 2016, he said he had sold all of his stock holdings, and the Trump Organization limited foreign deals, saying it turned down a $2 billion real estate deal in Dubai.
Trump has not resumed working at the Trump Organization since he handed over control in 2017 to his sons, but he continues to own a stake in the privately held firm. He placed all of his shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of his social media platform Truth Social, into a trust controlled by his older son, Donald Trump Jr., according to a regulatory filing this week. The president-elect continues to own those shares. Days after the election, Trump posted on Truth Social that he had “NO INTENTION OF SELLING!”
Trump’s campaign previously saidhe will follow ethics guidelines in office.
The Trump-branded merchandise is just one of the most visible examples of how the president-elect’s vast network of businesses — which now includes the crypto company World Liberty Financial — could profit from Trump’s new position.
Eric Trump, his son who serves as executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said in an interview with CNBC that his father would be “walled off” from the business when he returns to office and that he takes ethics concerns very seriously. Eric Trump plans to continue to do foreign real estate deals, including in the Middle East, he said in the interview.
“I’m going to be very sensitive to ethics,” he told CNBC. “He’s going to have nothing to do with the company. I’m going to have nothing to do with the administration.”
Eric Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Presidents and vice presidents are not held to the same ethics requirements as other executive branch employees, who are subject to strict rules on financial conflicts of interest and misuse of their positions for private gain. Some advocates for greater oversight of politicians’ finances say the holiday merchandise and Trump’s other financial dealings signal that existing regulations are ill-equipped to address the modern presidency.
“It’s kind of amazing the president is held to a significantly lower ethical standard than an accountant at the Social Security Administration,” Libowitz said.
Presidents since Jimmy Carter in the 1970s have used blind trusts to shield their assets and avoid any appearance of a conflict. Historically, presidents have faced congressional scrutiny of their business practices, but Trump is unlikely to face such challenges while his party controls both chambers of Congress. Also, under the Constitution, Trump cannot runfor office again, so the political stakes of his decisions are lower.
“This time he goes in as a lame duck,” said Don Fox, former general counsel for the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. “He didn’t really care the first term. I don’t think he would care any more this time.”
Throughout December, Trump has used his account on Truth Social to hawk products for the holidays. In between posts laying out his positions on the chaos in Syria and the government spending bill, Trump posted that the “hottest gift” this Christmas is his $99 coffee table tome, “SAVE AMERICA.” The book is sold by Winning Team Publishing, a company co-founded by his son Donald and Sergio Gor, the next director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.
Incoming first lady Melania Trump promoted her own line of Christmas ornaments and necklaces during a December interview with Fox News, where she discussed her husband’s “incredible” election victory. She described the ornaments as “very patriotic” and said the design was inspired by the election. The $90 brass ornament features “USA” in red, white and blue, and the gold “Vote Freedom” pendant retails for $600.
A representative for Melania Trump did not respond to a request for comment.
Earlier this month, the president-elect also announced he had launched a fragrance line, which includes the $199 “VICTORY 47” perfume for women and the “FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT” cologne for men. Products for Christmas delivery were sold out as of Dec. 19. Trump promoted the fragrances on Truth Social with a photo of Jill Biden smiling at him during a service this month celebrating the reopening of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
“A FRAGRANCE YOUR ENEMIES CAN’T RESIST!” the caption said.
The fragrance website is operated by 45Footwear LLC, the same company that operates GetTrumpSneakers.com, a website currently selling $499 “Trump Won Gold Low Top Sneakers.” The fragrance website says that Trump’s name and associated design are trademarks of CIC Ventures LLC and that 45Footwear uses Trump’s likeness under a licensing agreement.
Tacky ass fooking christmas. No wonder it’s soooooo hard.
Their insults are so vile and their comments so unhinged, it makes one wonder what is going on in these people's private lives that make them wake up each day so full of hate and vitriol.
Are you for real? MAGA may as well be MAHA….hate for brown people, hate for “other” religions, hate for science, hate for the earth, hate for LBGTQ, hate for the media, etc. There are only three reasons to support Trump….1) you’re a billionaire and see the world only in dollars and not in humanity 2) you’re a bigot 3) you believe it’s OK to have a sexual assaulting, lying, adultering felon in charge as long as the price of eggs comes down.
There was a B List comedian in the 60’s….Shecky Greene. You’re funnier.
MAGAs have to keep repeating the same narratives about hows much they think the Felon and Agent of Chaos are supposedly going to make America "great" because they can't wrap their head around the truth that it's all really about TEMBRA- Trump and Elon Make Billionaires Richer Again... at everyone else's expense. We may never hear any of them admit that, but we all know its true.
They also seems to have difficulty understanding the difference between anger and hate. Anger is how you feel when super rich people who hate "other religions, science, the earth, LBGTQ, hate for the media, etc.", use false promises to fool people into throwing their support to those super-rich people who only know greed and have no concept of true love.
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its the american way
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
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memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
But the question remains. Are you ok with exploding deficits under the GOP? Do deficits matter anymore? They used to...the GOP used to yammer on and on about them right up until trump added $8 trillion to the debt.
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2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
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You and Shek still can’t throw your markers down. How indicative.
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So far, I think we have the following:
Canada the 51st state.
Panama Canal is ‘Murican.
Newfoundland is something or other but maybe a ‘Murican territory?
Denali is renamed Mount McKinley.
That about it so far? Throw them down by 1/20/25. Santa’s watching!
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Memenia is back and looks amazing, you know.
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Bret Stephens, in a recent column, wrote that after nine years, he no longer considers himself a Never Trumper. He says that he and others like him never truly understood what made Trump popular and effective.
"Who, and what, is Trump?" Stephens asked. "He's a man and the symbol of a movement. The man is crass but charismatic, ignorant but intuitive, dishonest but authentic. The movement is patriotic — and angry."
Some of that anger, Stephens added, is "correctly directed at a self-satisfied elite that thinks it knows better but often doesn't."
Also, Stephens said, Trump understood during the 2024 campaign that "ordinary people" cared greatly about the high cost of living and the migrant crisis at the southern border.
The columnist basically said he and other Never Trumpers were hypocritical and ignorant when it came to Trump.
"How come so many who denounce Trump as a sexual predator were, 20 years earlier, Bill Clinton's steadfast defenders?" the columnist wrote on Dec. 17. "Why were the same people who demanded investigations into every corner of the Trump family's business dealings so incurious about the Biden family's dealings, like the curiously high prices for Hunter's paintings?"
In creating fear by insisting Trump could lead the U.S. into World War III, was too friendly with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and would ruin the Republican Party, Never Trumpers overstated the possibilities, according to Stephens.
"[We] missed that his working-class appeal would also reach working-class minorities — like the 48 percent of Latino male voters who cast their ballots for him last month," Stephens wrote. "And we were alarmed by Trump's protectionism and big-spending ways. But the economy mostly thrived under him, at least until the pandemic."
When it came to the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021 – the No. 1 reason Stephens voted for Vice President Kamala Harris this year – Never Trumpers misread that, too.
"[I]f democracy means anything, it's that ordinary people, not elites, get to decide how important an event like Jan. 6 is to them. Turns out, not so much," Stephens wrote.
Never Trumpers never quite grasped that Americans also felt lied to by the left — see Biden's physical and mental decline — and saw the "torrent of Israel-bashing and antisemitism that emerged from the cultural left after Oct. 7," Stephens wrote.
Now, Stephens encourages other Never Trumpers to change their ways.
"So here's a thought for Trump's perennial critics, including those of us on the right," Stephens wrote to end his column. "Let's enter the new year by wishing the new administration well, by giving some of Trump's cabinet picks the benefit of the doubt, by dropping the lurid historical comparisons to past dictators, by not sounding paranoid about the ever-looming end of democracy, by hoping for the best and knowing that we need to fight the wrongs that are real and not merely what we fear, that whatever happens, this too shall pass."
Charlie McCarthy, a writer/editor at Newsmax, has nearly 40 years of experience covering news, sports, and politics.
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The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
Are you for real? MAGA may as well be MAHA….hate for brown people, hate for “other” religions, hate for science, hate for the earth, hate for LBGTQ, hate for the media, etc. There are only three reasons to support Trump….1) you’re a billionaire and see the world only in dollars and not in humanity 2) you’re a bigot 3) you believe it’s OK to have a sexual assaulting, lying, adultering felon in charge as long as the price of eggs comes down.
There was a B List comedian in the 60’s….Shecky Greene. You’re funnier.
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How to have a Trumpy Christmas, and make the president-elect richer, too
Donald Trump is profiting off his election in unprecedented ways as his family business sells $92 MAGA hat Christmas ornaments and $22 golden wrapping paper.
The Trump Store has a gift for every patriot on your Christmas list.
It’s a little late for this year’s celebrations, but you can get a very early jump on next year and count down with the $38 Trump Advent calendar. Or trim the tree with a $95 Mar-a-Lago bauble or a $16 MAGA hat ornament, sold in nine colors. (A glass version of the hat ornament is $92.) Stuff stockings with an $86 “GIANT Trump Chocolate Gold Bar” and a $22 pair of candy cane socks printed with “Trump.” Prepare a holiday feast with a $14 Trump Christmas tree pot holder and $28 Trump apron featuring Santa waving an American flag.
The profits from these holiday trinkets do not benefit a political committee or a charitable cause, but the Trump Organization, the Trump family’s privately owned conglomerate of real estate, hotel and lifestyle businesses. As the company encouraged customers to celebrate the holidays with Trump gifts for all ages, President-elect Donald Trump personally profited off of his upcoming term in a manner that is unprecedented in modern history — even during his unconventional first stint in the White House.
The Trump Organization thought of everyone celebrating Trump’s nonconsecutive terms this yuletide season, rolling out a line of merchandise printed with “45-47,” including $195 quarter-zip sweatshirts, $85 cigar ashtrays and $38 baseball caps. Fido can’t go without his gear, of course: The store also sells gifts for dogs, including orange leashes and camo collars emblazoned with Trump’s name. And don’t forget the kids! How about a $38 teddy bear wearing a red, white or blue Trump sweater, $8 MAGA hat stickers or an array of Trump sweets, including $16 gummy bears?
All of these gifts can be wrapped in $28 golden Trump wrapping paper or stuck into Trump ornament gift bags ($14 a pair), and accompanied by a note on $35 stationery featuring bottles of Trump wine.
“Make the holidays that much greater this year with essentials from the Trump Home and Holiday collection,” the website says, over a photo of an Elf on the Shelf toy and a lime-green MAGA hat.
Trump has long delighted in finding new ways to market his name, creating a merchandise empire that includes digital trading cards, pricey sneakers, expensive watches and signed Bibles. But his expansion of offerings in the run-up to the inauguration has further concerned ethics experts and watchdogs, who say his behavior is the opposite of what they expect from a president-in-waiting during the transition.
“How much is he going to use the presidency just to sell Trump products?” said Jordan Libowitz, vice president for communications for the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt pushed back on claims that Trump was profiting off his election victory.
“President Trump removed himself from his multi-billion-dollar real estate empire to run for office and forewent his government salary, becoming the first President to actually lose net worth while serving in the White House,” Leavitt said in a statement. “President Trump didn’t get into politics for profit — he’s fighting because he loves the people of this country and wants to make America great again.”
Trump’s wealth oscillated over the course of his presidency and his years out of office. In 2021, he fell off the Forbes list of the country’s 400 richest people for the first time in 25 years as his real estate portfolio took a hit because of the pandemic. He was back on the listthis year, buoyed by his stake in Trump Media & Technology Group.
The Trump Organization and Trump Media & Technology Group did not respond to requests for comment.
During Trump’s first term, his company sold merchandise including hats and products related to his prominent real estate properties and hotels, Libowitz said. However, he said, the 45-47 Collection and other products referencing the presidency represent a greater overlap between Trump’s business and political activities than was apparent during his first term.
Traditionally, presidents-elect are expected to take steps to limit conflicts of interest and adopt ethical guidelines in the run-up to the inauguration, Libowitz and other government ethics experts said. In the weeks since Trump won the election, he has not yet made commitments like the ones he made in 2017 to limit his financial conflicts. In 2016, he said he had sold all of his stock holdings, and the Trump Organization limited foreign deals, saying it turned down a $2 billion real estate deal in Dubai.
Trump has not resumed working at the Trump Organization since he handed over control in 2017 to his sons, but he continues to own a stake in the privately held firm. He placed all of his shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of his social media platform Truth Social, into a trust controlled by his older son, Donald Trump Jr., according to a regulatory filing this week. The president-elect continues to own those shares. Days after the election, Trump posted on Truth Social that he had “NO INTENTION OF SELLING!”
Trump’s campaign previously saidhe will follow ethics guidelines in office.
The Trump-branded merchandise is just one of the most visible examples of how the president-elect’s vast network of businesses — which now includes the crypto company World Liberty Financial — could profit from Trump’s new position.
Eric Trump, his son who serves as executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said in an interview with CNBC that his father would be “walled off” from the business when he returns to office and that he takes ethics concerns very seriously. Eric Trump plans to continue to do foreign real estate deals, including in the Middle East, he said in the interview.
“I’m going to be very sensitive to ethics,” he told CNBC. “He’s going to have nothing to do with the company. I’m going to have nothing to do with the administration.”
Eric Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Presidents and vice presidents are not held to the same ethics requirements as other executive branch employees, who are subject to strict rules on financial conflicts of interest and misuse of their positions for private gain. Some advocates for greater oversight of politicians’ finances say the holiday merchandise and Trump’s other financial dealings signal that existing regulations are ill-equipped to address the modern presidency.
“It’s kind of amazing the president is held to a significantly lower ethical standard than an accountant at the Social Security Administration,” Libowitz said.
Presidents since Jimmy Carter in the 1970s have used blind trusts to shield their assets and avoid any appearance of a conflict. Historically, presidents have faced congressional scrutiny of their business practices, but Trump is unlikely to face such challenges while his party controls both chambers of Congress. Also, under the Constitution, Trump cannot runfor office again, so the political stakes of his decisions are lower.
“This time he goes in as a lame duck,” said Don Fox, former general counsel for the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. “He didn’t really care the first term. I don’t think he would care any more this time.”
Throughout December, Trump has used his account on Truth Social to hawk products for the holidays. In between posts laying out his positions on the chaos in Syria and the government spending bill, Trump posted that the “hottest gift” this Christmas is his $99 coffee table tome, “SAVE AMERICA.” The book is sold by Winning Team Publishing, a company co-founded by his son Donald and Sergio Gor, the next director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.
Incoming first lady Melania Trump promoted her own line of Christmas ornaments and necklaces during a December interview with Fox News, where she discussed her husband’s “incredible” election victory. She described the ornaments as “very patriotic” and said the design was inspired by the election. The $90 brass ornament features “USA” in red, white and blue, and the gold “Vote Freedom” pendant retails for $600.
A representative for Melania Trump did not respond to a request for comment.
Earlier this month, the president-elect also announced he had launched a fragrance line, which includes the $199 “VICTORY 47” perfume for women and the “FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT” cologne for men. Products for Christmas delivery were sold out as of Dec. 19. Trump promoted the fragrances on Truth Social with a photo of Jill Biden smiling at him during a service this month celebrating the reopening of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
“A FRAGRANCE YOUR ENEMIES CAN’T RESIST!” the caption said.
The fragrance website is operated by 45Footwear LLC, the same company that operates GetTrumpSneakers.com, a website currently selling $499 “Trump Won Gold Low Top Sneakers.” The fragrance website says that Trump’s name and associated design are trademarks of CIC Ventures LLC and that 45Footwear uses Trump’s likeness under a licensing agreement.
Tacky ass fooking christmas. No wonder it’s soooooo hard.
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