Keep everyone poor and stupid and you can stay in power for ever.
President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that aims to eliminate seven federal agencies, including ones that focus on media, libraries, museums and ending homelessness.
The president directed the government entities “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law,” insisting they “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel.” It ordered the heads of each entity submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget confirming full compliance within seven days.
The president targeted the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which is the parent company of Voice of America’s (VOA), as well as the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, which is a think tank, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which is an agency that supports libraries, archives and museums in every state.
He also dismantled the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, which aims to prevent and end homelessness in the U.S., the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, which focuses on preventing, minimizing, and resolving work stoppages and labor disputes, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, which aims to expand economic opportunity for underserved communities, and the Minority Business Development Agency, which promotes growth of minority-owned businesses.
Amid questions over the future of VOA, Trump had picked former Arizona gubernatorial and Senate candidate Kari Lake to lead the outlet. The Trump ally said at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month the international state media broadcaster won’t be “Trump TV” under her watch.
While the president doesn’t directly appoint the head of VOA, Trump had nominated conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which would make the decision. Bozell needs to be confirmed by the Senate to take his post and then could select Lake.
The U.S. Agency for Global Media also oversees Radio Free Asia, which broadcasts and publishes for audiences in Asia and is seen as a way to combat Chinese propaganda in the region.
The Trump administration has been focused on an overhaul of the federal government, with tech billionaire Elon Musk tasked with finding ways to cut spending and workers. That work has been met with challenges in the courts— federal judges in both Maryland and Northern California district courts issued orders Thursday halting the mass dismissals.
The White House on Friday vowed to appeal the federal court rulings, which have required the Trump administration to reinstate probationary government employees.
“To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DON’T, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!” he said.
Good lord. Is there anything that COOTWH can’t do? He really is amazing! I’ll bet he could stand in for Mike or even Eddie. No more show cancellations and definitely a tambo if you wear your MAGA gear!
Trump has not previously been reported to be a Fiddler fan, but the musical has intersected with him before.
(JTA) — US President Donald Trump counts “Fiddler on the Roof,” the musical about a Jewish family seeking to maintain their traditions in an Old World shtetl plagued by antisemitism, as one of his favorite Broadway shows, he said while visiting the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. this week.
Trump’s visit was his first since he dismissed members of the national performing arts center’s board and appointed himself its chairman. He spoke at a board meeting and toured the center, according to The New York Times, which both obtained a recording of the meeting and interviewed people who had been present.
In his comments, Trump said he possessed musical aptitude but had been thwarted in pursuing a career in the arts by his father, the real estate developer Fred Trump, according to the newspaper. The White House communications director told the Times that Trump “is a virtuoso and his musical choices represent a brilliant palette of vibrant colors when others often paint in pale pastels.”
Taking control of the Kennedy Center
To take control of the Kennedy Center, which he said had leaned too “woke” in its programming, Trump ousted the former board chair, the Jewish billionaire and philanthropist David Rubinstein, whose family came to the United States from Ukraine — which was part of Russia’s Pale of Settlement, the setting of “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Get the cabinet to remove COOTWH. He should resign immediately, he’s old and has mush for brains. Doesn’t even remember applying his signature on such a historic and monumental EO. Get him out.
Trump says he didn’t sign proclamation invoking Alien Enemies Act
CNN —
President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration’s move.
“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters before leaving the White House on Friday evening.
The president made his comments when asked to respond to Judge James Boasberg’s concerns in court on Friday that the proclamation was “signed in the dark” of night and that migrants were hurried onto planes.
“We want to get criminals out of our country, number one, and I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump said. “Other people handled it, but (Secretary of State) Marco Rubio has done a great job and he wanted them out and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”
The proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom.
The fucknuttery exposed. 100 year no-interest bonds? Now that’s a sound financial investment I’d be dying to get into and behind. From the “failing” magazine The Atlantic:
Careful planning? Most of Trump’s tariff threats so far have been aimed at Canada and Mexico, which are outside the top-10 dollar-holding countries and therefore have little influence over its price, instead of countries such as Japan, India, and Switzerland, which hold lots of dollars. Precise execution? The Canada-Mexico tariffs themselves were announced, paused, unpaused, given sector-specific exemptions, then semi-re-paused in the span of six weeks, and Trump’s broader suite of tariff threats has been so haphazard that even key members of his own administration have been left completely unaware of what he will do next. Minimize adverse consequences? Far from grinding foreign countries into submission, the tariffs have prompted swift retaliation from allies and adversaries alike and produced a groundswell of anti-American nationalism even in a country as seemingly friendly as Canada.
In fact, Trump himself appears to have no interest in this plan. The president has never been shy about previewing the deals he wants to make (such as his promise to end the Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours) or floating strange ideas that no one asked for (such as turning Gaza into a resort), yet he has not so much as mentioned the idea of a Mar-A-Lago Accord in public. At times, he has even seemingly gone out of his way to undermine it. Earlier this year, when rumors circulated that the BRICS member countries might create a new currency for international trade—the kind of move that would weaken the dollar—Trump threatened them with 100 percent tariffs if they tried to replace “the mighty U.S. dollar.” Instead, Trump has said that on April 2—which he calls “Liberation Day”—he will impose “reciprocal tariffs” on individual countries to match the trade barriers they have set on the United States. That idea, too, conflicts with the supposed logic of the Mar-a-Lago Accord, because the stated goal isn’t a grand geopolitical bargain; it’s simply to pressure countries into dropping their tariffs on U.S. imports.
Trump’s apparent lack of interest in the master plan attributed to him is probably a good thing. If he did somehow pull off the Mar-a-Lago Accord, disaster could follow. “Success” would mean the destruction of the alliance system that has delivered unprecedented peace and prosperity since it was created after World War II. It would mean a period of international economic chaos as countries scramble to find alternatives to the dollar. It could even trigger a global financial crisis by undermining faith in the U.S. Treasury market, just as the devaluation of subprime loans undermined faith in the mortgage market in 2008, as Kamin and the economist Mark Sobel have written. “The dollar might indeed fall,” they observe, “but not in a way that Trump would like.”
For now, the Mar-a-Lago Accord remains less a genuine plan than a way for Trump’s backers to put a strategic spin on the president’s inchoate impulses. The attention it has received reflects the intense demand for some kind of coherent tariff rationale. But the wait for an explanation may be long.
Lithuania appreciates our military more than this clown. Too meek and weak to go to Dover. What a POS. From Letter From An American:
Finally, four soldiers who died when their military vehicle sank in a deep swamp in Lithuania during a training exercise came home to Dover Air Force Base, in Dover, Delaware, today. Their recovery took about 200 U.S., Polish, Estonian, and Lithuanian personnel a week and required drones, search dogs, Navy divers, and ground-penetrating radar, as well as 70 tons of sand and gravel.
“We consider US soldiers in Lithuania as our own,” the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said after thousands of people joined Lithuanian president Gitanas Nausėda and other dignitaries in a dignified departure ceremony of the soldiers from Lithuania. “The farewell ceremony once again demonstrated our society's solidarity, respect, and gratitude to the Americans.”
"We hit the Hooties very hard." Someone please check with Darius and make sure he's okay. "They were shooting down ships." This fucking guy hasn't a clue. Just BS'ing with Bibi the Butcher by his side. "Not one car goes to the EU." 9% of US auto exports go to the EU. I'm not a numbers guy but if I had to guess, its more than one. His best part is doing his cartoon voices though, very impressive and diplomatic. The shouting too. "Everything is down." "I guess I've done that."
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President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that aims to eliminate seven federal agencies, including ones that focus on media, libraries, museums and ending homelessness.
The president directed the government entities “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law,” insisting they “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel.” It ordered the heads of each entity submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget confirming full compliance within seven days.
The president targeted the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which is the parent company of Voice of America’s (VOA), as well as the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, which is a think tank, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which is an agency that supports libraries, archives and museums in every state.
He also dismantled the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, which aims to prevent and end homelessness in the U.S., the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, which focuses on preventing, minimizing, and resolving work stoppages and labor disputes, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, which aims to expand economic opportunity for underserved communities, and the Minority Business Development Agency, which promotes growth of minority-owned businesses.
Amid questions over the future of VOA, Trump had picked former Arizona gubernatorial and Senate candidate Kari Lake to lead the outlet. The Trump ally said at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month the international state media broadcaster won’t be “Trump TV” under her watch.
While the president doesn’t directly appoint the head of VOA, Trump had nominated conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which would make the decision. Bozell needs to be confirmed by the Senate to take his post and then could select Lake.
The U.S. Agency for Global Media also oversees Radio Free Asia, which broadcasts and publishes for audiences in Asia and is seen as a way to combat Chinese propaganda in the region.
The Trump administration has been focused on an overhaul of the federal government, with tech billionaire Elon Musk tasked with finding ways to cut spending and workers. That work has been met with challenges in the courts— federal judges in both Maryland and Northern California district courts issued orders Thursday halting the mass dismissals.
The White House on Friday vowed to appeal the federal court rulings, which have required the Trump administration to reinstate probationary government employees.
https://apple.news/ApcCLMI9ATBOjqmKQsGRSrw
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“To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DON’T, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!” he said.
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Trump has not previously been reported to be a Fiddler fan, but the musical has intersected with him before.
(JTA) — US President Donald Trump counts “Fiddler on the Roof,” the musical about a Jewish family seeking to maintain their traditions in an Old World shtetl plagued by antisemitism, as one of his favorite Broadway shows, he said while visiting the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. this week.
Trump’s visit was his first since he dismissed members of the national performing arts center’s board and appointed himself its chairman. He spoke at a board meeting and toured the center, according to The New York Times, which both obtained a recording of the meeting and interviewed people who had been present.
In his comments, Trump said he possessed musical aptitude but had been thwarted in pursuing a career in the arts by his father, the real estate developer Fred Trump, according to the newspaper. The White House communications director told the Times that Trump “is a virtuoso and his musical choices represent a brilliant palette of vibrant colors when others often paint in pale pastels.”
Taking control of the Kennedy Center
To take control of the Kennedy Center, which he said had leaned too “woke” in its programming, Trump ousted the former board chair, the Jewish billionaire and philanthropist David Rubinstein, whose family came to the United States from Ukraine — which was part of Russia’s Pale of Settlement, the setting of “Fiddler on the Roof.”
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-846988
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Trump says he didn’t sign proclamation invoking Alien Enemies Act
President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration’s move.
“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters before leaving the White House on Friday evening.
The president made his comments when asked to respond to Judge James Boasberg’s concerns in court on Friday that the proclamation was “signed in the dark” of night and that migrants were hurried onto planes.
“We want to get criminals out of our country, number one, and I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump said. “Other people handled it, but (Secretary of State) Marco Rubio has done a great job and he wanted them out and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”
The proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/politics/trump-signature-alien-enemies-act-proclamation/index.html
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Careful planning? Most of Trump’s tariff threats so far have been aimed at Canada and Mexico, which are outside the top-10 dollar-holding countries and therefore have little influence over its price, instead of countries such as Japan, India, and Switzerland, which hold lots of dollars. Precise execution? The Canada-Mexico tariffs themselves were announced, paused, unpaused, given sector-specific exemptions, then semi-re-paused in the span of six weeks, and Trump’s broader suite of tariff threats has been so haphazard that even key members of his own administration have been left completely unaware of what he will do next. Minimize adverse consequences? Far from grinding foreign countries into submission, the tariffs have prompted swift retaliation from allies and adversaries alike and produced a groundswell of anti-American nationalism even in a country as seemingly friendly as Canada.
In fact, Trump himself appears to have no interest in this plan. The president has never been shy about previewing the deals he wants to make (such as his promise to end the Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours) or floating strange ideas that no one asked for (such as turning Gaza into a resort), yet he has not so much as mentioned the idea of a Mar-A-Lago Accord in public. At times, he has even seemingly gone out of his way to undermine it. Earlier this year, when rumors circulated that the BRICS member countries might create a new currency for international trade—the kind of move that would weaken the dollar—Trump threatened them with 100 percent tariffs if they tried to replace “the mighty U.S. dollar.” Instead, Trump has said that on April 2—which he calls “Liberation Day”—he will impose “reciprocal tariffs” on individual countries to match the trade barriers they have set on the United States. That idea, too, conflicts with the supposed logic of the Mar-a-Lago Accord, because the stated goal isn’t a grand geopolitical bargain; it’s simply to pressure countries into dropping their tariffs on U.S. imports.
Trump’s apparent lack of interest in the master plan attributed to him is probably a good thing. If he did somehow pull off the Mar-a-Lago Accord, disaster could follow. “Success” would mean the destruction of the alliance system that has delivered unprecedented peace and prosperity since it was created after World War II. It would mean a period of international economic chaos as countries scramble to find alternatives to the dollar. It could even trigger a global financial crisis by undermining faith in the U.S. Treasury market, just as the devaluation of subprime loans undermined faith in the mortgage market in 2008, as Kamin and the economist Mark Sobel have written. “The dollar might indeed fall,” they observe, “but not in a way that Trump would like.”
For now, the Mar-a-Lago Accord remains less a genuine plan than a way for Trump’s backers to put a strategic spin on the president’s inchoate impulses. The attention it has received reflects the intense demand for some kind of coherent tariff rationale. But the wait for an explanation may be long.
https://apple.news/AUYLar0G_Rz2ajTJO7-TzSQ
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Finally, four soldiers who died when their military vehicle sank in a deep swamp in Lithuania during a training exercise came home to Dover Air Force Base, in Dover, Delaware, today. Their recovery took about 200 U.S., Polish, Estonian, and Lithuanian personnel a week and required drones, search dogs, Navy divers, and ground-penetrating radar, as well as 70 tons of sand and gravel.
“We consider US soldiers in Lithuania as our own,” the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said after thousands of people joined Lithuanian president Gitanas Nausėda and other dignitaries in a dignified departure ceremony of the soldiers from Lithuania. “The farewell ceremony once again demonstrated our society's solidarity, respect, and gratitude to the Americans.”
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Only 1,384 days to go.
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https://apnews.com/article/military-parade-dc-trump-9ca70b018fe4f663ecaaf993d1b45a59
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