Trump's Second Term

I would have thought that, even in Trump USA, it would be illegal to sack someone because of their political affiliations.
 
Totaly normal.

REPORTER: Why did you fire the head of the bureau of labor statistics?

TRUMP: Because I thought her numbers were wrong

Does Trump have employment stats that she wasn't told? And does he think she made the numbers up as a fiction based on a whim rather than from cold, hard facts?

Next up, Trump fires the TV weather girl because she said it would be sunny but there were some clouds and wind on a golf day.
 
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I would have thought that, even in Trump USA, it would be illegal to sack someone because of their political affiliations.
At last check, the Trump Administration was engaging in blatantly political purges even during that first term. Their shenanigans were held back to some extent by the rules and incompetence, but not even remotely entirely and did significant damage across the board regardless. To my view, it should have been and is utterly predictable that things would get far worse in a second Trump term and likely in any plausible Republican term if Trump hadn't been the next Republican President, given the state of that group of anti-American saboteurs. Not least because of the reclassification of federal employees EO bomb that Trump left behind.
 
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I fell a bit behind on the list and it's taken some effort to catch up. This week it passed a new milestone: -1000.

As of the close of the day on August 1, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -1005.

1 August 2025

-1: Trump instructs his administration to fire a statistician who produced numbers that made him look bad [428]
-1: Trump further complains the numbers were rigged to make him look bad [429]
-1: White House social media posts lies about Canada’s “inaction” on drugs and trafficking [430]
-1: Senator John Kennedy says the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will soon be shut down [431]

References

428. Trump: “I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records - No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected - How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

429. Trump: “In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad - Just like when they had three great days around the 2024 Presidential Election, and then, those numbers were “taken away” on November 15, 2024, right after the Election, when the Jobs Numbers were massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over 818,000 Jobs - A TOTAL SCAM. Jerome “Too Late” Powell is no better! But, the good news is, our Country is doing GREAT!”

430. White House: “Canada’s inaction on drugs & trafficking threatens America. President Trump is taking BOLD action to protect American lives & national security.”

431: John Kennedy: “The Corporation for Public Broadcasting—the scheme bureaucrats used to funnel taxpayer money to NPR and PBS—will soon be no more. That’s great news for every American who doesn’t want their tax dollars funding left-wing opinion journalism EVER again.”


31 July 2025
-1: White House unironically posts a message to social media recounting the US “Gilded Age” [426]
-1: Trump posts a rant about Fed chair Jerome Powell ... who he had appointed to the job! [427]
-1: Headline: Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum (Washington Post)

References
426. The White House: “WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE ✨ Thanks to the leadership of @POTUS, the U.S. has generated over $150B in tariff revenues within the past 6 months.”

427. Trump: “Jerome “Too Late” Powell has done it again!!! He is TOO LATE, and actually, TOO ANGRY, TOO STUPID, & TOO POLITICAL, to have the job of Fed Chair. He is costing our Country TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS, in addition to one of the most incompetent, or corrupt, renovations of a building(s) in the history of construction! Put another way, “Too Late” is a TOTAL LOSER, and our Country is paying the price!”


30 July 2025
-1: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary accuses the NIH of funding a lab that “brewed up a virus that killed 20 million people”


29 July 2025
-1: Trump says countries that have left-wing values become very mean and are badly run [423]
-1: Comment on the social media site Threads showcases Trump’s embarrassing behaviours during his visit to Scotland [424]
-2: Headline: Trump’s EPA targets key health ruling underpinning all US greenhouse gas rules (Reuters) (-2 for impact)
-1: Energy Secretary Chris Wright says rescinding GHG regulations is about ending “Orwellian squelching of science.” [425]

423. Trump: “When people go socialistic, or when you get the radical left or the left going in, the countries actually become very mean. They become two things: mean and incompetently run simultaneously.”

424. Threads: “Trump’s recent trip to Scotland was widely criticized as a display of “self-absorbed” behavior, with a series of disjointed rants, including bizarre comments about windmills, starvation, and conspiracy theories. His ramblings were seen as showcasing a president in mental decline, embarrassing the U.S. on the world stage.”

425. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says rescinding all greenhouse gas emissions regulations is about ending “the cancel culture Orwellian squelching of science.”


28 July 2025
-1: Senator Roger Marshall appears to claim Obama helped cover up Biden’s cognitive problems [420]
-1: Trump believes he’s prevented six wars from happening in the last six months [421]
-1: Trump repeats his lie that the Epstein files are a hoax cooked up my Merrick Garland and James Comey [422]

References
420. Sen. Roger Marshall: “The Obama White House was the true threat to democracy ... Obama was actually involved in this. They lied to us about COVID. They lied to us about Biden’s health.”

421. REPORTER: “Do you think a ceasefire is even possible?”
TRUMP: “You’re talking about with Israel -- you’re talking about there. Because we have many ceasefires going on. The whole world is -- if I weren’t around, you’d have right now six major wars going on. India would be fighting with Pakistan.”

422. Reporter: “You had said you had not been briefed that your name was in the Epstein files, doesn’t the AG have to tell you?:
Trump: “It’s a hoax. Those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They run by Garland, Comey… They can easily put something in the files that’s a phony.”


27 July 2025
-1: Trump attacks US media for being nice to Democrats, ignoring the fact Fox and OANN are cheerleaders for him [419]

References
419. Trump: “Networks aren’t allowed to be political pawns for the Democrat Party. It has become so outrageous that, in my opinion, their licenses could, and should, be revoked! MAGA!”


26 July 2025
-1: Headline: U.S. slaps 20.56% anti-dumping duties on Canadian softwood lumber (CBC)
-1: Trump lies about wind farms: “It’s driving the whales loco. It’s not going to happen in the United States.”
-1: Trump rants about “windmills” (actually wind-powered electricity producing turbines) [418]

References
418. Trump: “And the other thing I say to Europe: we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery. Our beautiful plains. I’m not talking about airplanes… they won’t let you bury the propellers.”


25 July 2025
-1: Trump makes a big thing out of US beef exports to Australia (hint: they don’t want American beef) [415]
-1: Headline: Trump’s Big Trade Deal With Japan Is Already Falling Apart (New Republic)
-1: Trump posts another rant about just how super-duper his administration has been to date [416]
-1: Trump fails to understand a weak dollar is bad for consumers buying imported goods [417]

References
415. “After many years Australia has agreed to accept American Beef! For a long time, and even though we are great friends, they actually banned our Beef. Now, we are going to sell so much to Australia because this is undeniable and irrefutable Proof that U.S. Beef is the Safest and Best in the entire World. The other Countries that refuse our magnificent Beef are ON NOTICE. All of our Nation’s Ranchers, who are some of the hardest working and most wonderful people, are smiling today, which means I am smiling too. Let’s keep the Hot Streak going. IT’S THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA!”

416. Trump: “The Radical Left Democrats are doing everything in their power to distract and obfuscate from our GREAT six months of service to America, results of which many are saying is the BEST six months in Presidential history. They have gone absolutely CRAZY, and are playing another Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax but, this time, under the guise of what we will call the Jeffrey Epstein SCAM. As things are revealed and, I hope will take place quickly, you will see that it is yet another Democrat CON JOB. Hopefully, the Grand Jury Files will put an end to this HOAX. Everyone should see what is there, but people who are innocent should not be hurt. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

417. Reporter: “Why has dollar fallen so much?”
Trump: “A weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money. When we have strong dollar… you don’t do any tourism”


24 July 2025
-1: Tulsi Gabbard blames Obama for Trump getting impeached for Jan 6 and being charged with stealing classified material


23 July 2025
-1: Trump: “We will have reduced drugs prices by a 1000%, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400… Not 30 or 50%”
-1: Headline: Trump’s birthright citizenship order is unconstitutional, appeals court says (CBS News)
-1: Headline: Columbia University to pay $200m in settlement with Trump administration (BBC)
-1: Trump desperately tries to divert attention from the simmering Epstein scandal [414]
-1: The Wall Street Journal reports Bondi told Trump his name appears several times the Epstein files

References
414. Trump: “We had the Greatest Six Months of any President in the History of our Country, and all the Fake News wants to talk about is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax!”


22 July 2025
-1: Trump claims Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Biden tried to rig the 2020 and 2024 elections [411]
-1: In the same comment, Trump falsely claims he won the 2024 election in a landslide
-1: Trump pulls the USA out of UNESCO (again)
-1: Trump claims irrefutable proof Obama was trying to lead a coup (but doesn’t say when that was) [412]
-1: Trump shakes down CBS for $16 million [413]

References

411. Trump: “Barack Hussein Obama is the ringleader. Hillary Clinton was right there with him and so was Sleepy Joe Biden, Comey, Clapper. They tried to rig an election and they got caught. And then they did rig the election in 2020. And then because I knew I won that election by a lot, I did it a third time and I won in a landslide.”

412. Trump: “We found absolute -- this isn’t like “Evidence” or like -- this is proof, irrefutable proof that Obama was seditious, that Obama was trying to lead a coup, and with Hillary Clinton and all these other people, but Obama headed it up. This is the biggest scandal in the history of our country. It really goes on even to the autopen.”

413: Trump: “BREAKING NEWS! We have just achieved a BIG AND IMPORTANT WIN in our Historic Lawsuit against 60 Minutes, CBS, and Paramount. Just like ABC and George Slopadopoulos, CBS and its Corporate Owners knew that they defrauded the American People, and were desperate to settle.
”Paramount/CBS/60 Minutes have today paid $16 Million Dollars in settlement, and we also anticipate receiving $20 Million Dollars more from the new Owners, in Advertising, PSAs, or similar Programming, for a total of over $36 Million Dollars. This is another in a long line of VICTORIES over the Fake News Media, who we are holding to account for their widespread fraud and deceit. The Wall Street Journal, The Failing New York Times, The Washington Post, MSDNC, CNN, and all other Mainstream Media Liars, are ON NOTICE that the days of them being allowed to deceive the American People are OVER. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! BREAKING NEWS! We have just achieved a BIG AND IMPORTANT WIN in our Historic Lawsuit against 60 Minutes, CBS, and Paramount. Just like ABC and George Slopadopoulos, CBS and its Corporate Owners knew that they defrauded the American People, and were desperate to settle.
 
Oh, I realise that, but I thought that somewhere there must be a lawful protection that could be used to appeal?
Even if it would fail in the current ◊◊◊◊ show that is America today.
Let's face it, all that thing about the US justice system and all the administrative "checks and balances" that they loved to crow about...it was just smoke and mirrors.
 

Trump: "I think we're gonna be very successful fairly soon. We'll have drug prices coming down by 500, 600, 800, even 1,200 percent."

The idiot doesn’t understand very simple mathematics. Over 100% you are giving people drugs plus money. Why doesn’t anybody in the press pull him up?
The modern press is next to useless. And it’s possible I’m being generous.
 
But why? I don’t think journalists have lost their instincts, I just thing they are instructed by their editors to not question Trump over everything.

Now assuming that his press secretaries feed him talking points like this, which I think is likely, are they so monumentally lazy that they can’t be bothered to fact check, or don’t they care about what crap they feed him? It could be either.
 
Nuclear Submarines!! War!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
Based on the highly provocative statements of the Former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that. Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
The lengths Trump will go to to distract attention away from the Epstein files!
 
Let's face it, all that thing about the US justice system and all the administrative "checks and balances" that they loved to crow about...it was just smoke and mirrors.
I think the words you are looking for is “bull ◊◊◊◊” rather than “smoke and mirrors”.
 
But why? I don’t think journalists have lost their instincts, I just thing they are instructed by their editors to not question Trump over everything.

Now assuming that his press secretaries feed him talking points like this, which I think is likely, are they so monumentally lazy that they can’t be bothered to fact check, or don’t they care about what crap they feed him? It could be either.
He always made up numbers. He doesn't consult his press secretaries for that. The hugely biglier numbers the better. That he doesn't understand percentages is no surprise.
 
But why? I don’t think journalists have lost their instincts, I just thing they are instructed by their editors to not question Trump over everything.

Now assuming that his press secretaries feed him talking points like this, which I think is likely, are they so monumentally lazy that they can’t be bothered to fact check, or don’t they care about what crap they feed him? It could be either.

Don't reporters who dare to question the Emperor's new clothes get banished from future White House press conferences while their questions are completely ignored?
 

Trump: "I think we're gonna be very successful fairly soon. We'll have drug prices coming down by 500, 600, 800, even 1,200 percent."

The idiot doesn’t understand very simple mathematics. Over 100% you are giving people drugs plus money. Why doesn’t anybody in the press pull him up?
He wouldn’t understand the joke about Tufnel's amp going up to 11.
 

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