Trump's Second Term

[Planigale]

Not a cult

Prepared in advance

Doocy: How long until we see your signature next to President Trump's face on a $250 bill?

Bessent: At present, no living person can be on U.S. Currency. Right now, there is proposed legislation to change that so Donald J. Trump could be on the $250 bill. We have prepared things in advance.

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From memory; the Department of Treasury controls the secret service. No living person can appear on US currency. The Department of Treasury is making arrangements for Trump to appear on a $250 bill.

I'm OK with that.

 

[Armitage72]

The White House
@WhiteHouse
·When law and order is restored, safety follows.

ALL WE NEEDED WAS A NEW PRESIDENT.
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Of course, the previous year was the lowest rate in 124 years, the year before was the lowest in 123 years, the year before that was the lowest in 122 years, etc.
(I'm guessing, but violent crime rates have been steadily declining for a while.)

 

[stanfr]

Here in Colorado Springs, at the Air Force graduation, JD gets booed for defending AI and saying "You can't boo me, I'm the Vice President of the noted States"
If he were President, he might have had a valid point....

Booooo

 

[Andy_Ross]

Thst show is getting shorter

Variety
@Variety
The Commodores Become Latest Act to Ditch 'Freedom 250' Concerts in D.C. After Backlash Over Trump Ties

 

[grunion]

People think that's the serial number of the bill in the upper left corner, but its really the launch codes for American nuclear missiles.

Its the only way they could get Trump to remember it.

I think the launch codes are something like “person, woman, house..” since he likes to brag about remembering those.

 

[Aridas]

Watters says Jill Biden doesn’t love her husband because she's a doctor and didn’t give Joe Biden mouth to mouth.

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Scum.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Watters says Jill Biden doesn’t love her husband because she's a doctor and didn’t give Joe Biden mouth to mouth.

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Watters needs to be kicked in the balls a few times per day to remind him what a steaming publicity-whore ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ prick he really is.

 

[Stacyhs]

Google Gemini on cabinet adulation:
Specific examples of the adulation from the meeting include:

• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: Stated that Trump's leadership on D.C. pool renovations was a "great segue" to compare him to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Hegseth added that across both of his presidencies, Trump was the "only one man" who successfully stood up to Iran.
• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: Credited the "continued resilience" of the U.S. economy directly to the strength of Trump's leadership.
• SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler: Told Trump, “You have made us a nation of builders again" and credited him with leading the country to the "greatest economy that the world has ever known."
• EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin: Commended the President by saying "thanks to your leadership," a multi-billion dollar Biden-era environmental fund had been canceled.
• State Department and CIA Officials: Media reports from The Independent noted that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe packed the majority of their designated speaking time with direct praise. [1, 2, 3]

The meeting was widely described by media commentators as highly sycophantic, with officials careful to credit Trump's leadership for all departmental achievements.

They're all just Trump ass polyps.

 

[Aridas]

As a small update on the so-called "Board of Peace" -

‘Zero dollars’: Why does Donald Trump’s Board of Peace fund lie empty?
Despite $17bn in pledges, organisation is stuck in limbo with no money flowing to projects in Gaza

The US president described the board, which solicited $1 billion “lifetime membership” fees from world leaders, as one of the “most consequential” international organisations created. Member states pledged $7 billion for the board’s Gaza “relief package”, and Trump promised a further $10 billion in US funding.

But four months after its establishment, the board’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money from donors, according to four people familiar with the matter. “Zero dollars have been deposited,” one says.

So shocking.

Well, I could leave it there and it'd be true enough, but things are a little more complicated than that. For example -

Rather than use the fund administered by the World Bank, and endorsed by the UN, the board has received donations directly via its JPMorgan account, the board’s spokesperson and another person familiar with the arrangements say.

While the World Bank must report on the financial position of the Gaza fund to contributors and board members, no independent transparency requirements are in place for the JPMorgan account.

There's a way that's far easier to use in a corrupt manner that supposedly is in use. In related matters -

Contributions of about $3 million from Morocco and $20 million from the United Arab Emirates have helped fund the office of Nickolay Mladenov, the “high representative” for postwar Gaza, and salaries for the Palestinian technocratic committee that the board formed to govern the strip.

The UAE has also recently provided $100 million to train a new police force for Gaza, but the programme has yet to start and the funds are frozen, say two people familiar with the matter.

The US state department intends to reallocate about $1.2 billion of aid spending for projects related to the board’s agenda. But the funds, which would not go directly to the board, have also yet to be spent.

A senior congressional aide says: “None of that money [has gone to the board]. None of that money is being managed by the Board of Peace. And State tells us there’s no intent to have any of that money managed by the Board of Peace.”

There is funding for related things, as there would have been regardless, but the Board of Peace isn't really getting it anyways. Also -

After a US-brokered ceasefire ended two years of intense fighting between Israel and Hamas, Trump laid out an ambitious multiphase plan that called for the disarmament of the militant group, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and reconstruction of the enclave.

No progress has been made on any of those three crucial objectives. Two people familiar with postwar Gaza planning added “not one US dollar” has been deployed for the rebuilding of the Palestinian enclave.

Bishara Bahbah, the Palestinian-American businessman who helped negotiate with Hamas on behalf of the Trump administration, says the committee has yet to start work inside Gaza because of a “lack of any funding to enable them to execute anything on the ground”.

“They know that if they go to Gaza, people are going to flood to them to ask for assistance, and they have no tools, no means,” says Bahbah, who speaks regularly with committee members. “It’s really dismal.”

The board’s spokesperson says there is no authority on the ground “to handle the flow of services and goods that are imagined as part of the plan. We’re not, like, hoarding money in a bank account and then awarding contracts for things that can’t be delivered.”

The practical side is still as good as untouched. Admittedly, that's completely unsurprising when $0 have been spent towards that goal.

 

[Norman Alexander]

So where has the millions already contributed gone?

*eyes swivel towards Trump*

 

[W.D.Clinger]

Watters needs to be kicked in the balls a few times per day to remind him what a steaming publicity-whore ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ prick he really is.

Page B-3 of the US Joint Doctrine for Targeting says the targeting process consists of these six steps:

1. Detect
2. Locate
3. Identify
4. Decide
5. Strike
6. Assess

For the target you have nominated, that process fails at steps 1, 2, and 3.

 

[ZiprHead]

From memory; the Department of Treasury controls the secret service. No living person can appear on US currency. The Department of Treasury is making arrangements for Trump to appear on a $250 bill.

I'm OK with that.

I'm okay with it if he is not living.

 

[kookbreaker]

Martina McBride has now dropped out.

Martina McBride Drops Out of Trump's 'Misleading' Freedom 250 Concert

The singer joined a wave of artists who have backed out of the event organized by Keith Krach, a Trump appointee.

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This is almost fun to watch.

 

[alfaniner]

So, who's going to stay? I'd guess Kid Rock, or Ted Nugent (aren't they the same guy?), Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli (what else do they have to do?). Hey, maybe Scott Baio will appear and do a dramatic reading!

 

[lionking]

A slight aside, but ... Milli Vanilli???

Who else would a fake President invite?

 

[Regnad Kcin]

So Young MC has already bailed.

Now apparently Milli Vanilli has just bailed (apparently the modern band was made up of the actual singers, not the dancers who lipsycned and one of whom came to a tragic end. )

The Commodores apparently are still on but have only one surviving member and he's 77.

C+C Music Factory defended their (his) performance in a 7 minute rant while sitting on the toilet. https://stereogum.com/2500391/cc-mu...cert-critics-in-seven-minute-toilet-rant/news

Morris Day was also apparently listed early on but said "nah".

What, no Village People? I am disappoint.

 

[Pixel42]

The White House
@WhiteHouse
·When law and order is restored, safety follows.

ALL WE NEEDED WAS A NEW PRESIDENT.
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The 'murdered by ICE agents' rate has definitely increased.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

What, Kid Rock had a schedule conflict?

The featured performers for The Great American State Fair on the National Mall:

-Vanilla Ice
-Martina McBride
-Young MC
-C+C Music Factory
-Milli Vanilli
-The Commodores
- Flo Rida
-Bret Michaels

A whole bunch of never weres, that.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

...because Hegseth beats him up and steals them

Nah, he mistyped, he meant to write "she didn't" instead of "I don't".

He's trying to dispel the persistent rumours that every time he eats a wine gum he gets blind drunk.

 

[dann]

Good morning, America!

Trump’s ‘snake’ story is coming back to bite America (MS NOW on YouTube, May 29, 2026 – 8 min.)
“Donald Trump is the snake. And we let him in. Twice. And now he is biting us, over and over and over,” says Chris Hayes.
0:02--> As Donald Trump flirts with a 30% approval rating, he is telling the American people to their faces, day in, day out, that he is done pretending to care about what they think.
He doesn't care about the midterms. He does not care about your financial situation. All that stuff he promised in the campaign. That's just the stuff you have to say to get elected.(...)
7:20--> He's using our government as full extension of himself.
And here's the thing, he's at the point where he's not just pretending to be some broken snake.
He's not frozen, he's not trying to be anything else.
No, this is the point in the story when he tells us all and he bites us.
And I gotta say, no one can say they are surprised by any of it.

Indeed, no one can say they're surprised by any of it, but not so much because of who and what Donald Trump is.
No one can say they're surprised because that's what the system is like, representative democracy.
It was how it worked with George Santos – until it no longer did – but obviously on a much smaller scale. It was how it worked with Joe Manchin, with Kyrsten Sinema. It was how it worked with 'We-can-do-both' Joe Biden. It's how it still works with John Fetterman, and it's how it would have worked with Kamala Harris, but it's so easy to pretend that that one would have been amazing – with or without the endorsement from the Cheneys. The system doesn't protect you from people who just tell you "the stuff you have to say to get elected."
It's the wonderful world of first amendment rights of politicians to lie as much as they please with impunity. Before and after the election. And I gotta say, no one can say they are surprised by any of it, except, maybe, some of the details.


Last week, there was another MS NOW video:

Call them flat out lies': How the law could protect Americans from Trump’s rampant deceit (MS NOW on YouTube, May 24, 2026 – 6:45 min.)
Six years later, President Trump is still repeating the false claim that he won the 2020 election, as recently as this week. Author of the new book “Liar’s Kingdom: How to Stop Trump’s Deceit and save America”, Andrew Weissmann, joins The Weekend to discuss.

How the law could, should ... theoretically, hypothetically ... but sure as hell doesn't.

2:31--> So there are all sorts of contexts where we hold people to account for saying something that is intentionally false, but when Donald Trump says there was, you know, material fraud in the 2020 election, as you just said, Jackie, that is not true. But there are no legal repercussions.
And that is different than what happens in, for instance, England or Brazil.
And I look at what other foreign countries have done to try and deter people who lie to US.


We didn't know at all
We didn't see a thing
You can't hold us to blame
What could we do?
It was a terrible shame
But we can't bear the blame
Oh no, not us, we didn't know

Of course, you did!
It was never a big secret how the system works. Except to those of you who don't want to know.