Trump's Second Term

[Tero]

Any of that certified Reflecting Pool blue sealant on eBay yet?

 

[Segnosaur]

New AF1 doesn't have to stop for furl.

Trump: It flies further and faster than any Air Force One. You don't have to stop for fuel every few hours. You maybe will never have to stop a fuel. It's got, they call it unlimited, well it's pretty close to unlimited

Speaking of Air Force 1....

Does anyone know how they managed to get the Qatari 747 Gift/Bribe ready to use as Air Force 1 so quickly?

They had first made an agreement with boeing for replacements for Air Force 1 way back in 2018 during Trump's first term. Now, converting a standard 747 into air force 1 probably isn't easy... installing new (secure) communications equipment, electronic countermeasures, verifying there are no security issues, modifying the interior, etc. and the project has been delayed due to technical issues. They aren't expecting the new jets until 2028. Yet they managed to get the Qatari bribe converted so that they will probably start using it less than 2 years after they offered it to trump. So how did they get the new jet converted so quickly?

Did they forego some of the systems (communications, countermeasures) because they recognize Trump is so incompetent they won't need it anyways? Did they just have a more competent company doing the conversion? Or did the Qatari bribe already have a lot of the desired updates so there wasn't as much to do?

 

[Segnosaur]

It appears the paint or whatever the Trump regime used to cover the large "86 47" etched into the lawn near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has worn away, and the numbers are once again visible today

Have they thought of hiring Four Seasons Landscaping for help?

Maybe Giuliani can lend them some of his hair dye to cover up the lawn.

 

[stanfr]

To my eyes, it looks more visible than it did originally.

Is there any word on how the patriotic vandals made the numbers? Did they stomp it in? Spray some Roundup?

Do we know they were human? Maybe the Aliens making the crop circles near Stonehenge got bored and decided to mix things up a bit. They certainly have motive, since Trump is releasing all the intel on them.

 

[Blue Mountain]

Trump's administration is attempting to stop a plan to compensate Black residents of a Chicago suburb for past raced-based housing discrimination.

June 17: The Trump administration has joined a lawsuit attempting to stop a first-of-its-kind reparations plan that would compensate Black residents of a Chicago suburb, arguing that its race-based criteria are unconstitutional. The program, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, offers Black residents and their descendants up to $25,000 for past raced-based housing discrimination. When the city’s program was approved in 2021, it was hailed as a model for reparations movements across the US.

Trump administration seeks to halt first US reparations program for Black people

White House joined suit to stop city of Evanston, Illinois, from compensating victims of housing discrimination

www.theguardian.com

 

[Blue Mountain]

Trump quietly redirects $352 million from the Secret Service to his ballroom project.

June 18: The Trump administration has quietly redirected $352m in federal funds designated for the Secret Service toward the president’s controversial White House ballroom project, despite repeated promises by Trump that the construction would be financed by private donations.

Trump administration quietly shifts $352m in federal funds for White House ballroom

Funds meant for Secret Service were transferred to project president promised would be financed by private donations

www.theguardian.com

 

[The Atheist]

It's almost like he lied.

Can't be true.

 

[Blue Mountain]

RFK Jr sacks key advisory panel and replaces it with sycophants. Court overrules him. Administration is now appealing the decision.

June 18: The Trump administration is urging a U.S. appeals court to overturn a ruling that blocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointees from serving on a key vaccine advisory panel. They were appointed after Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist picked by President Donald Trump last year to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, removed and replaced all 17 independent experts who previously served on the panel.

Trump administration asks appeals court to let Kennedy pick vaccine panel members

The Trump administration is urging a U.S. appeals court to overturn a ruling that blocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointees from serving ‌on a key vaccine advisory panel, saying the committee is unable to make annual recommendations on flu shots after a judge wrongly disabled it.

www.reuters.com

 

[Blue Mountain]

Trump continues his attacks on mail-in voting.

June 18: President Donald Trump said that something should be done to stop mail-in voting in Utah ahead of the state's primaries next week. "It seems as though the Great State of Utah, which I won each time, and handily, is going to the All Mail In Ballot format of Colorado, and the rest, that always head LEFT, as soon as the move is made," Trump wrote on Truth Social. He added, "We should stop Utah from doing this."

Trump says 'we should stop' Utah mail-in voting

U.S. President Donald ‌Trump said on Thursday that something should be done to stop mail-in voting in Utah ahead of the state's primaries next week.

www.reuters.com

 

[Blue Mountain]

(Reported earlier in the thread.) A firm tied to a Trump donor was awarded a no-bid contract for installing a water-purification system in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

June 18: A firm tied to a Trump donor was awarded a no-bid contract worth $1.7 million for installing a water-purification system in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool earlier this year. The contract shows that the National Park Service (NPS) bypassed the competitive-bidding process that is typically required, and gave a $1.7 million contract to the firm, Greenwater Services of Brookfield, Ohio.[not sure].

Firm Tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool [New York Times]

 

[Blue Mountain]

Trump administration has continuously delayed the release of a report that apparently outlines vulnerabilities in the nation's voting machines. Perhaps it's a nothingberder?

June 19: White House officials have for months delayed the release of a U.S. government report that outlines what it describes as significant vulnerabilities in the nation's voting machines ahead of the November midterms, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Several court cases filed by Trump's lawyers failed to prove voter fraud in the 2020 presidential race.

EXCLUSIVE: White House delays release of US voting machine study as midterms near

White House officials have for months delayed the release of a U.S. government report that outlines what it describes as significant vulnerabilities in the nation's voting machines ahead of the November midterms.

www.reuters.com

 

[Blue Mountain]

Pete Hegseth has repeatedly overridden the military's promotion process to the detriment of qualified female and minority officers.

June 19: A New York Times investigation found that Pete Hegseth has repeatedly overridden the military's normal promotion process, vetoing senior officers whose public records included support for diversity initiatives, mentoring women or minorities, or other policies associated with previous Pentagon leadership. The result has been the disproportionate blocking of highly qualified female and minority officers, with critics arguing that ideological loyalty tests are replacing merit-based promotion decisions.

Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity [New York Times]

 

[TragicMonkey]

Trump quietly redirects $352 million from the Secret Service to his ballroom project.

It's been a while since I took Roman history class, how many caesars was it who ended their terms abruptly because they irritated their own guards?

 

[Segnosaur]

Trump quietly redirects $352 million from the Secret Service to his ballroom project.

Maybe we will get lucky, Trump will spend the entire secret service budget on his ballroom, and then be left without protection for the remaining 3 years of his term.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

I'm pretty sure if you wiped out Trump and cabinet, the average IQ of the country would go up several points.

Never mind the average, the total IQ would go up.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Speaking of Air Force 1....

Does anyone know how they managed to get the Qatari 747 Gift/Bribe ready to use as Air Force 1 so quickly?

They had first made an agreement with boeing for replacements for Air Force 1 way back in 2018 during Trump's first term. Now, converting a standard 747 into air force 1 probably isn't easy... installing new (secure) communications equipment, electronic countermeasures, verifying there are no security issues, modifying the interior, etc. and the project has been delayed due to technical issues. They aren't expecting the new jets until 2028. Yet they managed to get the Qatari bribe converted so that they will probably start using it less than 2 years after they offered it to trump. So how did they get the new jet converted so quickly?

Did they forego some of the systems (communications, countermeasures) because they recognize Trump is so incompetent they won't need it anyways? Did they just have a more competent company doing the conversion? Or did the Qatari bribe already have a lot of the desired updates so there wasn't as much to do?

They are completing the conversion on another plane that was already well under way, hiding the Qatari plane in Area 51, and just telling His Orangeness this was it. Bait and switch.

 

[Planigale]

Do we know they were human? Maybe the Aliens making the crop circles near Stonehenge got bored and decided to mix things up a bit. They certainly have motive, since Trump is releasing all the intel on them.

He also has ICE rounding them up.

 

[Planigale]

Maybe we will get lucky, Trump will spend the entire secret service budget on his ballroom, and then be left without protection for the remaining 3 years of his term.

The cuts will almost be certainly from the cyber crime section. What is the point of them? Even if they successfully prosecute someone for cyber fraud Trump will pardon them. Besides cyber fraud seems to be a new Trump family business.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

New AF1 doesn't have to stop for furl.

Trump: It flies further and faster than any Air Force One. You don't have to stop for fuel every few hours. You maybe will never have to stop a fuel. It's got, they call it unlimited, well it's pretty close to unlimited

Video in link

Set it on an autopilot holding pattern over the Atlantic with the entire Trump family on board and give the pilot a parachute, they can live there 'forever'.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

I swear to god it's like listening to a five year old trying to convey a slightly complex idea.

I've been liken him to "Children Say The Funniest Things" for years.