Today in Trump

[Master]

This is brilliant and very concerning.

[devsherdteam]

totally agree

[devsherdteam]

The people of America will look back at Trump and regard him as one of the great presidents in future years.

Just how they have done with Obama.

Do they? Not sure what he achieved. I think he was just a kiss ass who was desperate for acceptance and cared too much about everyone liking him to make tough decisions

It’s wild to see the political climate mirror the chaos that often comes with big personalities in the spotlight, much like we see in boxing, where confidence and unpredictability sometimes collide.

[Master]

A federal judge in California has ruled that the way President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles this summer was illegal.

The ruling comes as Trump seeks to use National Guard troops in order to crack down on crime in other US cities and support immigration enforcement.

US District Judge Charles Breyer said Trump violated the Posse Comitatus Act, which limits the power of the federal government to use military force for domestic matters.

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said that "a rogue judge is trying to usurp the authority of the Commander-in-Chief to protect American cities from violence and destruction".

The ruling is on hold until 12 September.

The Trump administration will likely appeal against the ruling.

"The President is committed to protecting law-abiding citizens, and this will not be the final say on the issue," Ms Kelly said.

California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement that "the court sided with democracy and the Constitution".

In response, Trump said that he may send the troops back into the city, arguing that the governor there is "very weak", and needs his help.

"He's going to need us again, because it's starting to form again. I see it," Trump said in an event at the White House. He also argued that the 2028 Olympic Games in LA would have been cancelled if not for his military deployment.

Trump deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles in June in response to protests against immigration raids.

The White House argued it was necessary to quell violence, but California officials argued that their law enforcement could handle the situation without military intervention.

The president has also deployed hundreds of National Guard troops in Washington DC and has weighed dispatching troops to Chicago as soon as this week.

"We're going in," Trump told reporters when asked about Chicago after the judge's LA ruling was announced. "I didn't say when, but we're going in."

Judge Breyer's order only applies in California, but could signal legal challenges ahead for Trump's plans to use the Guard to enforce his policies.

After Trump deployed troops to Los Angeles, Governor Newsom sued the administration for alleged violations of the Posse Comitatus Act.

The law, first passed in 1878, prohibits using the US military in order to execute domestic laws, or assist with doing so. The law has limited exceptions, such as authorisation by Congress.

Judge Breyer found that the ways the Trump administration used the National Guard in Los Angeles violated these restrictions.

He cited work by soldiers such as "setting up protective perimeters, traffic blockades, crowd control, and the like" as prohibited under the law.

"President Trump's recent executive orders and public statements regarding the National Guard raise serious concerns as to whether he intends to order troops to violate the Posse Comitatus Act elsewhere in California," Judge Breyer wrote.

He warned that Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ran the risk of "creating a national police force with the President as its chief".

He blocked the National Guard from executing the following laws including "engaging in arrests, apprehensions, searches, seizures, security patrols, traffic control, crowd control, riot control, evidence collection, interrogation, or acting as informants".

An additional legal challenge from California sought to wrest back control of California's National Guard contingent, after Newsom alleged Trump had unlawfully circumvented him to deploy the troops.

Judge Breyer, who also handled that case, ruled in Newsom's favour, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favour of Trump in June.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ylyd9lkkqo

[Master]

On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host played a clip of the president being asked by a reporter how he was “holding up” after Kirk’s death.

“I think very good,” Trump replied, before immediately changing the subject to talk about the new Whitehouse Ballroom construction.

“And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they’ve been trying to get for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure,” he said.

“He’s at the fourth stage of grief: construction,” Kimmel joked.

“This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend,“ he continued. ”This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish, OK?”

“And it didn’t just happen once,” Kimmel said before showing a clip of Trump on Fox News, where he once again responded to a question about Kirk’s death by talking about the ballroom.

“Oh, when I heard [about Kirk’s shooting]? I was in the midst of building a great... for 150 years, they’ve wanted a ballroom at the White House,” Trump said.

“There’s something wrong with him, there really is,” Kimmel declared. “Who thinks like that?”

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/jimmy-kimm...112117871.html

[TitoFan]

Yeah I saw that.

I've long moved beyond worrying and fretting about Trump... to worrying about those who still revere and blindly follow and defend Trump.

Trump is an old man... and soon the rigors and pressures of the job will take their course.

My bigger worry is about the damage that's already been done.

The divisiveness... the polarization... the inability to have civil, sensical debates and disagreements. The rush to insult... the popularity of the word "they."

THAT'S what worries me.