Trumps Presidency 2025

[ewsieg]

10 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

What media bubble is this guy living in?   You're probably right if you're referring only to Fox News, but your normal MSM, CNN, NBC-MSNBC/ABC/CBS, major papers etc, every day I hear about legitimate economic issues.   Even the more right wing stuff I listen to is mocking Trump when it comes to prices.

Edited yesterday at 12:54 AM by ewsieg

[romad1]

14 hours ago, smr-nj said:

Excerpt From Heather Cox Richardson - 
(you can go to her Facebook page to read the full daily synopsis that she provided for Friday, December 5.)

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December 5, 2025 (Friday)

Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America. It did so quietly, although as foreign affairs journalist at Politico Nahal Toosi noted, the release of the NSS is usually accompanied by fanfare, as it shows an administration’s foreign policy priorities and the way it envisions the position of the U.S. in the world. 

The Trump administration’s NSS announces a dramatic reworking of the foreign policy the U.S. has embraced since World War II. 

After a brief introduction touting what it claims are the administration’s great successes, the document begins by announcing the U.S. will back away from the global engagements that underpin the rules-based international order that the World War II Allies put in place after that war to prevent another world war. The authors of the document claim that the system of institutions like the United Nations, alliances like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and free trade between nations that established a series of rules for foreign engagement and a web of shared interests around the globe has been bad for the U.S. because it undermined “the character of our nation.” 

Their vision of “our country’s inherent greatness and decency,” requires “the restoration and reinvigoration of American spiritual and cultural health,” “an America that cherishes its past glories and its heroes, and that looks forward to a new golden age,” and “growing numbers of strong, traditional families that raise healthy children.”

Observers referred to the document as National Security Council Report (NSC) 88 and noted that it could have been written in just 14 words. White supremacists use 88 to refer to Adolf Hitler and “fourteen words” to refer to a popular white supremacist slogan. 

To achieve their white supremacist country, the document’s authors insist they will not permit “transnational and international organizations [or] foreign powers or entities” to undermine U.S. sovereignty. To that end, they reject immigration as well as “the disastrous ‘climate change’ and ‘Net Zero’ ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threatened the United States, and subsidize our adversaries.”

The document reorients the U.S. away from traditional European allies toward Russia. The authors reject Europe’s current course, suggesting that Europe is in danger of “civilizational erasure” and calling for the U.S. to “help Europe correct its current trajectory” by “restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.” Allowing continued migration will render Europe “unrecognizable” within twenty years, the authors say, and they back away from NATO by suggesting that as they become more multicultural, Europe’s societies might have a different relationship to NATO than “those who signed the NATO charter.”  

In contrast to their complaints about the liberal democracies in Europe, the document’s authors do not suggest that Russia is a country of concern to the U.S., a dramatic change from past NSS documents. Instead, they complain that “European officials…hold unrealistic expectations” for an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine, and that European governments are suppressing far-right political parties. They bow to Russian demands by calling for “[e]nding the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance.” 

In place of the post–World War II rules-based international order, the Trump administration’s NSS commits the U.S. to a world divided into spheres of interest by dominant countries. It calls for the U.S. to dominate the Western Hemisphere through what it calls “commercial diplomacy,” using “tariffs and reciprocal trade agreements as powerful tools” and discouraging Latin American nations from working with other nations. “The United States must be preeminent in the Western Hemisphere as a condition of our security and prosperity,” it says, “a condition that allows us to assert ourselves confidently where and when we need to in the region.”

The document calls for “closer collaboration between the U.S. Government and the American private sector. All our embassies must be aware of major business opportunities in their country, especially major government contracts. Every U.S. Government official that interacts with these countries should understand that part of their job is to help American companies compete and succeed.” 

It went on to make clear that this policy is a plan to help U.S. businesses take over Latin America and, perhaps, Canada. “The U.S. Government will identify strategic acquisition and investment opportunities for American companies in the region and present these opportunities for assessment by every U.S. Government financing program,” it said, “including but not limited to those within the Departments of State, War, and Energy; the Small Business Administration; the International Development Finance Corporation; the Export-Import Bank; and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.”  Should countries oppose such U.S. initiatives, it said, “[t]he United States must also resist and reverse measures such as targeted taxation, unfair regulation, and expropriation that disadvantage U.S. businesses.” 

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I want to be ill thinking about these people in power for 3 more years. 

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, Netnerd said:

Interesting how Flag Day's visibility grew once Donald was president. Convenient that he happens to share that day with his June 14 birthday.

Explains too much.

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Edited 23 hours ago by chasfh

[guy incognito]

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[chasfh]

It’s a struggle because Trump is King Lunatic.

[Motown Bombers]

 

[chasfh]

See what's happening here? If he crimes right out in the open, it normalizes it so much no one is truly horrified by the crimes anymore. It just becomes part of the landscape. That may be a new concept to us, but Russia figured this **** out 800 years ago.

 

[oblong]

Yep. That’s the trick. Normalize the military hanging out in the cities asking peoole for their papers.  Normalize snatching people away.  Normalize killing people in boats. All in the name of “immigration” and “drugs”.  

[Edman85]

Thought I had earlier today...

If you had to rank the worst or five worst things Trump or his admin has done this term, what would they be?

[romad1]

7 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

Thought I had earlier today...

If you had to rank the worst or five worst things Trump or his admin has done this term, what would they be?

The Mount Rushmore of Evil but with an additional Zaphod Beeblebrox head. 

my opinion only and i may have forgotten some atrocities: 

In the George Washington spot:  The Elon Musk led DOGE cleanout of research for cancer and other sciences.  Why would we ever want to do anything in the future?  And the Alien mothership sucking of all the databases up into the Palantir and other data bandits. 

In the Thomas Jefferson spot:  Pete Kegsbreath, Marco Rubio and the gutting of the Department of Defense, State Department and the general junking of collective security ideals. America is orienting its foreign policy toward Saudi Arabia and the gulf states vs. traditional democratic allies.  The idiotic 'what have you done for me lately' approach toward NATO and Ukraine.  

In the Teddy Roosevelt spot:  RFK Jr. being in charge of anything.  Heathcare determined by the worst idiots in America and not science.  Propagating the 'just so' presumptions of a man who wouldn't be allowed to run a strip mall GNC. 

The Abraham Lincoln spot:  Kristi Gnome and Cory Lewandowski creating their own Gestapo and running rough shod over civil liberties and the Constitution. 

The Extra head (I'll call him Franklin Delano Herbert Walker Baines David Eisenhower - geeze what would AI do to that image) : Bumper sticker is Tariff Policy.   That idiot in the Oval Office being allowed to wreck the economy with his steamboat-era trade policy and destroy the White House and our institutions because the Supreme Court is just going to let him. 

 

[guy incognito]

Edited 3 hours ago by guy incognito

[gehringer_2]

18 minutes ago, guy incognito said:

It's also Putin in a nutshell. In fact, it's really Brig Gen Jack D. Ripper in a nutshell.

[The Ronz]

 

[guy incognito]

[Motown Bombers]

 

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, guy incognito said:

not recently anyway. Grenada has been awhile, but Eisenhower had the services busy in C/S America....