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Trump's Second Term

Andy_Ross said:
Forget wars, the economy, tariffs etc.

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
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It is a high priority. How else can he fund raise? He is not going to Mar-a-Lago much and it is smaller anyway.
TINY ballroom. Any other billionaire would reject it.
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Andy_Ross said:
Forget wars, the economy, tariffs etc.

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1981419031237447722
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Reminds me of a story I read by a journalist who was covering trump during the collapse of his Atlantic City casinos. On the morning the bankruptcy court was going to formally turn the properties over to the banks, the journalist went to interview trump. See how he was handling it. He found trump in his office in trump tower. trump had drapes displayed on a table in his office, trying to decide which he liked best. trump asked the journalist which ones he liked.

The journalist said it was surreal. trump's business empire was going down the tubes at that very moment and trump was preoccupied by office drapes.

The business owner I worked for at the time -- a truly self-made millionaire (his father was a day laborer) -- commented: "There's got to be something wrong with him."
 
newyorkguy said:
The journalist said it was surreal. trump's business empire was going down the tubes at that very moment and trump was preoccupied by office drapes.
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Isn't it rather because Trump knows that it will never go really bad on him: he'll be bailed out somehow. Instead, he is more concerned with beauty in the world, the simple beauty of drapes. Golden drapes, I assume.
 
Andy_Ross said:
He doesn't even know who he's pardoning.

COLLINS: Today you pardoned the founded of Binance. Can you explain why you did that?

TRUMP: Which one was that?

COLLINS: The founder of Binance

TRUMP: I believe we're talking about the same person, because I do pardon a lot of people. I don't know. He was recommended by a lot of people.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1981455304060534903
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Autopen - every accusation is a confession.
 
steenkh said:
Now several months later, how many white South African farmers decided to flee the "genocide" and settle in the U.S.?
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Practically a rounding error? About 70 in the first couple months to some fanfare and maybe a trickle of a couple a month since then? To make it worse, the Trump Administration wanted to cut legal slots to 7500 total from 125K, with 7000 of that reserved specifically for those White South Africans.
 
steenkh said:
Isn't it rather because Trump knows that it will never go really bad on him: he'll be bailed out somehow. Instead, he is more concerned with beauty in the world, the simple beauty of drapes. Golden drapes, I assume.
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No it did become terrible for him, his banks put him on an allowance of just $450,000 a month ( no joke).
 
As of the close of the day on October 14, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -1,548.

14 October 2025
-2: Trump announces another extra-judicial killing of an alleged drug running boat (-2 for illegal) [784]
-1: Trump claims Mamdani “has never worked a day in his life” [785]
-1: In the same quote, he calls Mamdani’s policies “communist” [785]
-1: Trump threatens to cut off funding for New York city if Zoran Mamdani becomes mayor [786]
-1: Trump claims people from Central America will start flooding the US when they hear of free healthcare [787]
-1: Trump claims foreign government are “sending their worst people” to the States [788]
-1: Mike “Pot calling the kettle black” Johnson on Democrats berating a Capitol police officer [789]
-1: Mike Johnson says the upcoming No Kings Day will have “Hamas supporters, Antifa types, and Marxists” [790]
-1: Tulsi Gabbard claims Barack Obama ordered the overthrow of the US government in 2016 [791]
-1: Scott Bessent says “we need to get the government out of the way” [792]
-1: Tom Emmer (R-ND) claims the Democratic party has a “pro-terrorist wing” [793]
-1: Headline: ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat (Politico)

References:
784. Trump: “Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility - just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!”

785. Trump on Mamdani: “He has never worked a day in his life. If they are going to be sending their stupid policies -- I mean, communist policies, which has proven for thousands of years it doesn’t work…”

786. Trump: “The funding for New York, and for every place, comes through the White House. And I’m very generous, and I was always very generous with New York. But I wouldn’t be generous to a communist that’s gonna take the money and throw it out the window.”

787. Trump: “When they hear they get the greatest healthcare package in the world and they have no money, they head up and they start forming caravans.”

788. Trump on immigrants: “They send up their worst people. They send up people that are criminals. They send up people from jails. And the best ones they send are people that don’t work very hard and that are on a social form of welfare.”

789. Mike Johnson: “They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers.”

791. Mike Johnson: “We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let’s see who shows up for that. I bet you you’ll see Hamas supporters, I bet you’ll see antifa types, I bet you’ll see the Marxists on full display, the people who don’t want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic. And we do.”

792. Bessent: “The government is standing in the way. We’ve tried to get it out of the way. The Democrats have not been able to shut President Trump down in the courts. They’ve tried to shut him down in the media ... we need to get the government out of the way.”

793. Gabbard: “Barack Obama ordered the overthrow of the United States government after the 2016 election was done — after the American people said no, we want Donald Trump to be our commander in chief, not Hillary Clinton.”

794. Emmer: “They care about one thing only. Appeasing the radical pro-terrorist wing of their party.”
 
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As of the close of the day on October 15, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -1,570.

15 October 2025
-1: Trump dismisses a question about the lack of good intelligence on “drug-running” boats [794]
-1: Trump claims Venezuela sent their prisoners and insane to the US [795]
-1: Trump claims black women in Chicago are begging him to send in the Marines [796]
-1: Trump says he will permanently shut down “Democrat projects” as part of the current shutdown [797]
-1: Trump claims Chuck Schumer is “losing IQ points” [798]
-1: Trump insults Chicago’s mayor, who is Black, as a “low IQ person” [799]
-1: Trump claims the investigations into the documents at Mar-a-Lago was a “weaponization of a political opponent” [800]
-1: Trump further claims the Investigations are a “massive political crime” [801]
-1: Trump says he “hopes” Jack Smith will be investigated [802]
-1: Trump threatens to move FIFA World Cup and the Olympics from Boston and LA if “they don’t straighten up” [803]
-1: Trump claims it’s now a passion for him to go into cities and clean them up [804]
-1: Trump lies about winning Georgia three times [805]
-1: Trump claims to have terminated the Hudson River Gateway Tunnel project in New York [806]
-1: Trump claims he can do whatever he wants on tariffs [807]
-1: Trump says the US has been unable to host state dinners until now [808]
-1: Trump claims to know “a lot about reverse bathtubs” (an engineering term) [809]
-1: JD Vance says they’re retraining the entire government to tackle “left wing violence” [810]
-1: Sean Duffy says the US will save billion by cutting fuel economy standards, ignoring environmental impact [811]
-1: Ted Cruz lies about “considerable evidence” the No Kings rallies are funded by George Soros [812]
-1: US Border Czar Tom Homan wars against “hateful rhetoric” (from the left) [813]
-1: Headline: Pentagon reporters have now turned in their badges – but plan to keep reporting (Guardian)

References:
794. Q: “There are Republicans and Democrats concerned that they are not getting information about who is on those ships.”
Trump: “Well, but they are given information that they are loaded up with drugs, and that’s the thing that matters.”

795. Q: “Why did you authorize the CIA to go into Venezuela?”
Trump: “They have emptied their prisons into the US. Prisoners from mental institutions, insane asylums ...”

796. Trump: “The people of Chicago are walking around with MAGA hats. You have women, beautiful Black women, walking around with MAGA hats. ‘Please let the president in and we don’t care how he does it ... bring in the Marines.’”

797. Trump on the government shutdown: “We have the people that we want paid, paid. We want the FBI paid...We’re getting rid of programs that we didn’t like...They’re going to be terminated on a permanent basis, and it’s thousands of people...tremendous numbers of Democrat projects

798. Trump on Schumer: “I think he’s losing IQ points with time. I think that happens. I hope it hasn’t happened with me. I know if it did, you guys would let me know about it very quickly.”

799. Trump: “Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what’s going on in Chicago ... “

800. Trump on Biden and Jack Smith: “I think it was the worst weaponization of a political opponent in the history of the world ... Deranged Jack Smith in my opinion is a criminal. I hope they’re gonna look into Weissmann too ... Lisa Monaco should be looked at very strongly.”

801. Trump: “They have committed massive political crime. I hope they’re looking at Schifty Schiff. I hope they’re looking at all these people. And I’m allowed to find out. I’m in theory the chief law enforcement officer.”

802. Trump at a press conference with the U.S. Attorney General and the Director of the FBI: “Deranged Jack Smith, in my opinion, is a criminal. His interviewer was Weissmann. I hope they’re going to look into Weissmann too. Weissmann’s a bad guy. And he had somebody, Lisa, who was his puppet, worked in the office really as the top person — and I think she should be looked at very strongly. There was tremendous criminal activity...They have committed massive political crime. I hope they’re looking at Shifty Schiff. I hope they’re looking at all these people. And I’m allowed to find out — I’m, in theory, the chief law enforcement officer.”

803. Trump: “Somebody said, ‘would we think about taking the World Cup away from Boston if they don’t straighten it out?’ The answer is yes. We have the right to do that with FIFA. So if we think that LA is gonna be bad, or that applies a little bit to the Olympics too.”

804. Trump: I never thought we’d go into every city and make them safe. Now it’s like a passion for me and it’s a passion for the people behind me.

805. Trump: “I won Georgia three times. But they say twice. I won it big the second time but we had criminals that didn’t allow -- I hope they’re gonna go into that. I hope they go into the votes which are being stored in Fulton County and take a real look at those votes, because I won it the second time too.”

806. Trump: “The project in New York—it is billions and billions of dollars of that Schumer has worked 20 years to get. It is terminated.”

807. Trump on tariffs: “We’re allowed to do whatever we want. We just had presidents that didn’t want to do it for whatever reason. Of the eight wars, tariffs are directly responsible for me ending 6 of them. 5 or 6.”

808. Trump: “A new thing is you build a super modern building next to an old-fashioned building and I think that’s good but I don’t have the courage to do that with the white house. It’s good for a lot of places. It’s not good for here. We will be able to have state dinners. We would literally not even have state dinners because it is not set up.”

809. Trump: “You build what’s called a reverse bathtub. And it’s not that uncommon, but it is actually a reverse—you, you seal it. The problem is, nature always wins. I know a lot about reverse bathtubs. I’ve done it, and it’s something you only do in emergency.”

810. JD Vance: “Because we have such a big problem with left-wing political violence, we have to train the investigatory and law enforcement powers of the government to focus on that particular problem ... we really have to retrain the entire government to focus on this left-wing violence problem. We are doing it.”

811. Sean Duffy: “We are gonna save billions of dollars by getting rid of the fuel economy standards that are set way too high, that no combustion engine can meet, costing each car to the tune of thousands of dollars for the end consumer. We’re in the process of getting rid of those rules.”

812. Cruz: “Follow the money. Cut off the money. You look at this No Kings rally—there’s considerable evidence that George Soros and his network is behind funding these rallies which may well turn into riots. I’ve introduced legislation that would allow DOJ to use RICO to prosecute the money that is funding these No Kings Protests.”

813. Homan: “If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops.”
 
steenkh said:
Isn't it rather because Trump knows that it will never go really bad on him: he'll be bailed out somehow. Instead, he is more concerned with beauty in the world, the simple beauty of drapes. Golden drapes, I assume.
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Because trump knows it will never really go bad for him? Sorry. I'm going to stick with my former Boss's thought: Got to be something wrong with him. ;)
 
Tero said:
Something major has to happen soon that severely limits Trump. Otherwise I am going to start falling into the crowd that says there will be no 2026 election.

I have to say this is about as depressing as Trump ever got for me. MAGA voters will take years to learn.
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As I've said here repeatedly, there definitely WILL be a 2026 election. Authoritarian dictators ALWAYS have elections.
Free and fair elections, not so much.
 
Darat said:
No it did become terrible for him, his banks put him on an allowance of just $450,000 a month ( no joke).
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They took his super yacht off him though.
Well, Adnan Khashoggi's old yacht the Nabila. Largest in the world when launched.

Khashoggi ran into financial problems and sold the it to the Sultan of Brunei, who in turn sold it to Donald Trump for $29 million. Trump renamed it Trump Princess. It was taken when he went bankrupt and was sold on for $20 millions.

Queen wrote the song "Khashoggi's Ship" on The Miracle album about it.
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Andy_Ross said:
Just kill people.

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
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Just killing people is murder. People who do it are murderers.

I can say it again more slowly if it was confusing.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
Not to mention that when politicians say a project like this will be entirely privately funded they're usually lying. In the UK, Boris Johnson's 'privately funded' Garden Bridge ended up costing taxpayers £43 million despite the fact that not one brick was layed.
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Didn't you know, Soros is paying for it.
 
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