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.

[Master]

Trump is over here in England having another state visit. They have moved all the demonstrators and protesters away so he can believe he is loved by all.

Meanwhile Starmer sacks the US ambassador for his links with child sex offender Epstein but Trump is still in office.

[Master]

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.

US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has had his programme pulled over "offensive and insensitive" comments about Charlie Kirk. Insane.

Disney-owned ABC said it would be taken off-air indefinitely - and with immediate effect - after network operator Nexstar said it would stop broadcasting the programme.

The move was celebrated by Mr Trump, who wrote on Truth Social: "The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done."

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/jimmy-kimm...235100844.html

[TitoFan]

He doesn't even try to disguise it anymore. He knows he can pretty much get away with whatever the hell he wants.

[Master]

The only hate is in his own heart.

Trump does not want free speech he only wants his own views to be heard. Anything else is wrong and extreme. He is making the courts, federal agencies and administration in his own image and mindset.

It is not about America it is about himself and his ego.

US President Donald Trump has suggested some TV networks should have their licences "taken away".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4qe0rz2zvo

[TitoFan]

[Spicoli]

Been beyond words with the entirety of our current situation as of late. He's presently tearing the constitution or many foundations that established this republic to cinders. Waffling tariffs, direct pressure from the State to penalize and silence everyone from law firms to stand up comedians to media outlets. Targeting unidentified craft in international waters with the US military, mobilizing national guard and active duty military in major US Cities over the objection of Governors and in violation of the constitution, crypto swindles and clear grifts, the establishment and growing basically a privatized anonymous police force currently sweeping private businesses and properties and detaining US citizens while "we check their paperwork" and as late as last night directly instructing the DOJ to target his political "enemies" for prosecution. On and on and on. Every single one of those is what you've historically heard about the slide into authoritarianism. This is a conditioning and normalization of actions unimaginable simply 10 years ago. What makes my head numb is that there are still defenders of Trump who think this merely settles as a political affiliation undertaking. A they vs us or "what side" issues. The fall and destruction of core principles and ideals we were founded on does not simply get undone in the span of an election cycle. There is a permanence to excepting and getting comfortable with that form of government oppression and darkness. Today it's them, tomorrow it's you. We are oblivious in simplistic tunnel vision tribalism and digging deeper into our tone deaf and blind information silos. This nation is in trouble.

[Master]

The event honouring Charlie Kirk at a stadium in Arizona was extreme when Erika Kirk, Charlie's widow, took the stage and said "The answer to hate is not hate," . "The answer, we know from the Gospel, is love and always love. Love for our enemies, and love for those who persecute us."

Donald Trump, who spoke immediately after her, said "I hate my opponents, and I don't want what's best for them," Trump said "Now Erika can talk to me and the whole group and maybe they can convince me that's not right, but I can't stand my opponent."

[Kirkland Laing]

Been beyond words with the entirety of our current situation as of late. He's presently tearing the constitution or many foundations that established this republic to cinders. Waffling tariffs, direct pressure from the State to penalize and silence everyone from law firms to stand up comedians to media outlets. Targeting unidentified craft in international waters with the US military, mobilizing national guard and active duty military in major US Cities over the objection of Governors and in violation of the constitution, crypto swindles and clear grifts, the establishment and growing basically a privatized anonymous police force currently sweeping private businesses and properties and detaining US citizens while "we check their paperwork" and as late as last night directly instructing the DOJ to target his political "enemies" for prosecution. On and on and on. Every single one of those is what you've historically heard about the slide into authoritarianism. This is a conditioning and normalization of actions unimaginable simply 10 years ago. What makes my head numb is that there are still defenders of Trump who think this merely settles as a political affiliation undertaking. A they vs us or "what side" issues. The fall and destruction of core principles and ideals we were founded on does not simply get undone in the span of an election cycle. There is a permanence to excepting and getting comfortable with that form of government oppression and darkness. Today it's them, tomorrow it's you. We are oblivious in simplistic tunnel vision tribalism and digging deeper into our tone deaf and blind information silos. This nation is in trouble.

This is eight months into his second term. Imagine thirty eight months in.


The big thing to watch over the next few years or however long these fuckers stay in power is what they do with the Federal Reserve. Trump wants lower interest rates which will increase inflation. If the bond market sees a Fed that is giving up on controlling inflation long term rates will spike and the government, private business and Americans will face much higher interest payments. That might be the least of the damage if some of the crazy shit that people Trump has appointed to the Fed like century bonds and strongarm tactics to make foreign central banks accept them become a thing. America's economy rests on the rule of law and a credible independent Fed and both of them are disintegrating.

Everything else, fairly easy to predict.


Not this. This isn't a prediction. This is currently Washington DC.


It's difficult enough to run a country as large, important and complex as America with a bunch of qualified credentialled experts in the top jobs. Nobody has ever tried running a large important country with a bunch of morons in charge before. It's a new exciting experiment that we're witnessing here. You can't help but think it's going to catch up with them at some point.


Amazingly none of the tenth rate crooks, con men, grifters, bullshitters, inadequates and malevolent incompetents who are currently in the top jobs are any good at them. The only thing any of them have any ability at is going after their enemies, so while they fuck every other aspect of their jobs up that's what they'll do. The repression will continue to ramp up. There'll be ever expanding enemies lists, they'll start eating their own, there'll be paranoia and polygraphs and eventually we'll discover that going after their enemies was the whole point of Trumpism and the economy, the rule of law, democratic institutions and the American way of life were just unfortunate collateral damage that couldn't be avoided because America was being destroyed by the deep state. We had to take our enemies out to save America and it's a shame about the state of the country but there was nothing anybody could do.

[TIC]

a credible independent Fed

bwahaha