Trump's Second Term

[dudalb]

Trump admin replaces President's House slavery exhibit panels overnight

Trump administration-approved educational panels are now greeting visitors at Philadelphia's President's House slavery exhibit after months of legal fights over the site's interpretation of history.

https://www.axios.com/local/philade...s-house-slavery-exhibit-panels-replaced-trump

It includes little tidbits like Washington appreciated his slaves and bought them tickets to the circus and let them walk free about town.

Anybody doubting now that White Supremacy is the driving force behind the Whole MAGA movement had better wake up fast.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Everyone should read this because it is a microcosm of why everything has gone to ◊◊◊◊ in the USA.
This is how his malignant, senile narcissism destroys everything he touches.

His full demented 'speech section' on Aircraft Carriers today.

Also he's lying
The final construction cost for the Ford was approximately $13 billion.
While it was over budget the original estimate was around $10.5 billionm
it was never estimated at $3 billion.



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Trump talking to catapulters on an aircraft carrier.

 

[shemp]

I could drop 50 tabs of acid and still make more sense than him.

 

[shemp]

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Trump talking to catapulters on an aircraft carrier.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I could drop 50 tabs of acid and still make more sense than him.

Give the acid to 50 monkeys with typewriters, after removing half the keys from each typewriter, and they'd still make more sense than him.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Might be interesting to see how much oil money has flowed out of Venezuela since the earthquake. I mean, it would be a great opportunity for the Trump administration to show how much they care about the plight of people of Venezuela if they can show how those profits from Venezuela's oil are actually going to rescue and reconstruction. Wouldn't it?

It'd be interested to see how much oil money is coming out of Venezuela, full stop.

Given the state the Venezuelan oil industry is in and the unwillingness to put boots on the ground of TACO and his merry band of cowards, I'm guessing there's lots of excuses but very little cash flowing.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
@SecScottBessent

As America commemorates 250 years of independence, the @usmint will begin striking this new $1 gold coin to honor the enduring legacy of liberty and a lasting symbol of patriotism. Featuring President Trump, it celebrates the strength of American values, and the promise of a nation dedicated to preserving freedom for all.

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Coin looks plasticy.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Trump claims that "illegal alien truck drivers are killing a lot of people," so instead his administration is going to "replace them with proud American veterans. We're gonna take our veterans, we're gonna teach them a lot about driving trucks."

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Donny's first rule of truck driving: To make it go you have to shout "Choo! Choo!" and rock back and forth like I do.

 

[Blue Mountain]

Trump’s sons invest heavily in defense tech as father’s administration pours money in [washingtonpost.com]

July 13: Donald Trump’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have amassed a portfolio of defense technology start-ups that are benefiting from new Pentagon priorities and spending, further entangling the United States’ interests and the Trump family’s financial fortunes in an area with immense stakes for national security.

 

[Blue Mountain]

(Already covered upthread)

Trump Sharply Cuts the Size of Two National Monuments in Utah [New York Times]

July 13: Trump signed two executive orders to sharply cut the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah to less than 10 percent their current size. Both are rich in wildlife habitat as well as archaeological sites of importance to Native American tribes.

 

[Blue Mountain]

EPA's Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals has several people on it with conflicts of interest.

July 13: According to public health advocates, the Environmental Protection Agency’s science advisory committee on chemicals (SACC) is stacked with several Trump appointed industry-aligned scientists who have a range of financial conflicts of interest and stand to profit from deregulation. The SACC peer-reviews EPA science and scrutinizes the chemical risk analyses that underpin the agency’s decisions to regulate substances, with the aim of ensuring that the best available science is used.

Trump officials accused of stacking top chemical safety board with industry ‘mouthpieces’

Public health advocates warn of conflicts of interests and say panel likely to provide justification for key rollbacks

www.theguardian.com

 

[Blue Mountain]

Trump to make an address to the nation on Thursday night.

July 13: President Donald Trump will give a national address on Thursday night about newly declassified intelligence on investigations into U.S. elections and what the White House says are voting machine vulnerabilities, an administration official said. The Republican president could use his televised speech to again press his false claim that he lost his 2020 reelection bid to Democrat Joe Biden due to massive fraud.

Trump to assert voting machine vulnerabilities in Thursday speech

President Donald Trump will give a national address on Thursday night about newly declassified intelligence on investigations into U.S. elections and what the White House says are voting machine vulnerabilities, an administration official said.

www.reuters.com

 

[Blue Mountain]

ICE agents shoot and kill a legal resident in Maine and lie about why they did it.

July 14: ICE (immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents shot and killed a Colombian man in Maine in a traffic stop. He was reportedly a legal resident with right to work in the US in Maine. ICE agents claim he was trying to run them over but this is disputed by witnesses. ICE had an arrest warrant for an immigrant, but it was not for the man they shot.

ICE officer who fatally shot driver in Maine was 'fearing for public safety,' agency says

Sen. Angus King says the motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing.

apnews.com

 

[Blue Mountain]

ICE uses teargas, rubber bullets, and pepper spray against demonstrators. It's not documented if the tactics were required to keep the protestors under control.

July 14: ICE (Immigration enforcement) has regularly been using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations. A new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations across the US, including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

‘Misuse’ of crowd-control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds

Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Blue Mountain]

Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation [New York Times]

July 14: The lead investor in a South Korean aluminum company that has challenged Commerce Department penalties on certain exports from South Korea to the United States made a $2 million payment last year to President Trump’s holding company.

 

[Blue Mountain]

National Guard deployment in DC extended until next presidential inauguration [The Hill]

July 14: The Pentagon is planning to keep a National Guard presence in Washington, D.C., through Inauguration Day 2029, a guard official confirmed to The Hill. Guard members have been deployed in Washington for almost a year, since late summer, when the federal government temporarily took over D.C. law enforcement through presidential executive order and announced the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office put the cost of the deployment at more than $3 million per day. Despite the high cost, National Guard troops in Washington have not helped reduce violent crime in the nation’s capital, according to a study from the Niskanen Center, a Washington policy think tank.

 

[EHocking]

It'd be interested to see how much oil money is coming out of Venezuela, full stop.

Given the state the Venezuelan oil industry is in and the unwillingness to put boots on the ground of TACO and his merry band of cowards, I'm guessing there's lots of excuses but very little cash flowing.

Welp, according to TACO himself, 725 billion $.
And only returned 300m in earthquake aid (reportedly)

“How did we do in Venezuela? Not bad,” Trump said. “We’ve taken out so much oil in Venezuela, we paid for the cost of the war [on Iran] about 25 times over.”

The Pentagon said earlier this month that the US military campaign against Iran had cost about $29 billion, although some estimates have placed the total figure substantially higher.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Trump: The people that we have in this military. You can send most of them to Hollywood and they could become like movie stars. We actually have strong people going into the military now as opposed to people that aren't strong or that shouldn't be there, and I call it Central Casting.

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So the military is now full of gym bunnies who would run at the first sound of gunfire.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Welp, according to TACO himself, 725 billion $.
And only returned 300m in earthquake aid (reportedly)

Given the Venezuelan oil industry can't physically pump that level of oil, who do I believe TACO or reality?

 

[EHocking]

Given the Venezuelan oil industry can't physically pump that level of oil, who do I believe TACO or reality?

Lets see. Back of a fag packet:

$750b ÷ 180 days since mid Jan 2026 = $4.167b daily income from oil.
$4.167b ÷ $85 (avg $/bbl in 2026) = Venezualan oil production of 49.02 million bpd.
Avg reported Venezualen daily oil production is 1.2 million bpd.

That's only a TACO exaggeration of 4085%.
That's pretty close to reality for the current US president.

ETA : adjusted production based on current reported bpd