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Just peanuts: Defense officials told NBC News that this kind of parade ( Trumps birthday parade on June 14) could cost up to $45 million, which Trump said was "peanuts compared to the value of doing it."
Best line yet: Firing Powell would inject yet more chaos into the economy, and the White House told reporters that Trump’s post “should not be seen as a threat to fire Powell.” Hedge fund founder Spencer Hakimian posted: “Cleanup of orange vomit on Aisle 3.” #HCR
… MSNBC’s Catherine Rampell: “This is the problem with electing an administration of too-online edgelords (ie JD Vance) instead of people who actually want to govern. You can’t just ‘shitpost’ your way to a deal with China.”
“If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“
Apparently he has no memory ..The Bulwark reposted a clip of then-senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) on the Fox News when a right-wing group falsely alleged the IRS was targeting them. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country,” Vance told host Laura Ingraham.
Trump’s sr director for counterterrorism, Sebastian Gorka, appeared on Newsmax and said that those who publicly criticize Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s incarceration in a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador could be committing a federal crime. And could end up there too ! He’s pretty scary looking
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX): “I like the fact that they sat around and called Joe Biden sleepy Joe Biden. But at least you could sleep at night because you didn't have to worry about your 401 K disappearing.”
CNN’s Harry Enten: “There are only two presidents who have net approval ratings negative at this point. One of them was Donald Trump in his first term and the other one, Donald Trump in his second term.”
“In my case I like to take a nice shower, to take care of my beautiful hair,” Trump told reporters while signing the order in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes till it gets wet. It comes out drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous.”
Meanwhile, we need to be clear about another possible motive of Donald Trump: market manipulation. After all, Trump told his followers to buy stock just hours before making this announcement. A whole lot of Trump’s cronies are certainly getting very, very rich off of Trump’s schemes.
The truth is: Gutting the IRS has everything to do with making it easier for billionaires like Elon and Trump to evade taxes.
#RobertReich
Uh- what about focusing on earth: Trump's NASA nominee Jared Isaacman will tell senators he aims to prioritize missions to Mars, potentially clashing with lawmakers focused on returning to the moon. Questions will probably focus on his close ties to SpaceX and unconventional background
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Days before Trump announced sweeping new tariffs that sent markets reeling, Newsweek reported that Marjorie Taylor Greene invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Treasury bonds.
Trump was asked if he spoke to industry leaders and CEOs about his tariffs: “I've talked to the biggest in the world. I talked to the biggest of them all, many of them. You know what they said? We don't blame you.” Reporter: Who did you talk to? Trump: “I don't want to say.”
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Go figure-
But not from every other country. While Trump imposed tariffs on Australia’s remote Heard and McDonald Islands, which are uninhabited except by wildlife like seals and penguins, it did not put tariffs on Russia
Teaser for episode 13- first of six episodes on Musk. There’s more to the story if that’s possible!
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Good line #RobertReich
In economic terms, Trump’s tariffs — on cars and other goods — are analogous to the Signal group chat: A dumb move that’s not just a gross mistake, but also indicative of a deeper failure to understand even the basics.
Copp notes that a 1967 law “prohibits government officials from hiring, promoting or recommending relatives to any civilian position over which they exercise control.”
All in the family: Phil Hegseth new role at the Pentagon as a liaison and sr advisor to DHS. Pete Hegseth also employed his brother when he ran the nonprofit Concerned Veterans for America, where the younger Hegseth’s salary was $108,000 for his media work.