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Donald Trump's decision to be an absolute piece of trash by snapping at a reporter "quiet, piggy" should be one of the easiest things for anyone of any political ideology to condemn. But we don't live in a normal society anymore, and Republicans are now tripping over themselves to DEFEND Trump's decision to prove to the world that he has absolutely no class and possibly the thinnest skin of anyone alive today.
US Attorneys in several Northeastern states have confirmed that the Trump administration is planning massive raids on non-English-speaking churches during the holiday season in order to round up as many people as possible. This is one of the most diabolical moves this administration has made, and it goes against everything that these phony right wing evangelicals claim to believe in.
The release of the Epstein files is inching closer after both the House and Senate voted this week to force a release of the entirety of the files. But that doesn't mean we'll actually see everything. According to Jeffrey Epstein's brother, Republicans in the Trump administration have been actively scrubbing the names of Republicans from the files in order to prevent any scrutiny - and perhaps avert any potential legal or political problems that Republicans could encounter upon release.
The recent Nick Fuentes scandal has blown up MAGA, with some believing that it was perfectly normal for Tucker Carlson to interview Fuentes, while others understand that this is a horrible look for the Republican Party. The situation has gotten so bad that even Laura Loomer has come out and admitted that the GOP seems to have a very real, and growing, Nazi problem. But Fuentes is a symptom of a larger disease that has been festering inside the Republican Party for decades.
Multiple judges that were appointed by Donald Trump himself gave the president and the Republican Party a lot of grief this week after smacking down lawsuits and policies that Republicans were depending on. The first humiliation happened when a Trump-appointed judge struck down his defamation lawsuit against CNN, but the biggest defeat were the conservative judges who threw out Texas' recently gerrymandered new district maps that were supposed to cement the Republicans' majority in Texas for a decade.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi has been the most loyal stooge out of Donald Trump's entire cabinet. She's also been his biggest failure. So far, everything that Bondi has done (on Trump's orders) has failed in the most hilarious ways imaginable, and those failures are going to become a point of contention for her and Trump if she continues to screw up. The latest disaster is her handling of the James Comey indictment that is about to be completely dismissed.
Donald Trump has decided to try out his "sales pitch" for American voters on how he can help their economic struggles, and it isn't one that's going to leave anyone feeling better about their finances. At the McDonald's Impact Summit this week, Trump talked about affordability but only by saying that voters were "lucky" that he won the election instead of Kamala Harris. He then tried to pin all of the economic pain being felt today on Biden and Harris, something that voters are not buying for a second.
Two months ago the media was tripping over itself to tell us that the Left is overly violent and vicious, and that we needed to tone down the rhetoric (even though statistics proved the exact opposite.) Those same media outlets are completely silent right now as Donald Trump's rabid base threatens the life of Marjorie Taylor Greene following a weekend of Trump calling her a "traitor" and other inflammatory names. Greene is garbage, there's no question about that, but the MAGA lunatics that are threatening her are even worse.
The Trump administration is now testing out a new talking point for Americans who are struggling to afford basic necessities: Blame immigrants. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent launched the new talking point this week during an appearance on Fox News, where he falsely claimed that some of the high prices we're seeing right now are because of immigrants. The truth is that Trump's tariffs are the main driver of higher prices, and the LACK of migrant labor is also driving prices even higher than usual.
Donald Trump made a shocking admission to reporters recently, saying that he had "no idea" why his doctors made him undergo an MRI. The obvious conclusion based on Trump's statement is that he's absolutely lying and he knows EXACTLY what they were looking for. But if we take his statement at face value then we have to assume that he's suffering from serious health problems that could be so bad that his doctors are afraid to tell him what's happening. There's also a third possibility that actually makes even more sense.
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More and more Republicans across the country are starting to stand up to Donald Trump and defy his orders, and it is driving him completely insane. He's now directing his wrath at Republicans in Indiana for refusing to vote to gerrymander their state the way that others have (and the other states have received intense backlash for doing so.) Trump is calling on MAGA acolytes to primary these Republicans, but he doesn't seem to understand that he's the one who has been exposed as a weak and feckless leader.
Donald Trump is so desperate to distract everyone from the barrage of Epstein files being released that he's resorting to things that can only be described as comical. At the end of last week, he demanded that Pam Bondi start investigating Bill Clinton and several other prominent figures that are believed to have ties to Epstein, and Bondi immediately complied. But he's not fooling anyone, and his distraction efforts aren't doing anything to stop him from being completely consumed by this scandal.
After roughly a year of being in complete limbo with odds increasing that it was going to die forever, the prosecution of Donald Trump in the state of Georgia is back on. A new prosecutor has agreed to take up the case after Fani Willis was removed and no other prosecutor was willing to take on such a daunting task. While the prosecution itself likely won't happen while Donald Trump is still in office, the fact that the case has effectively been revived is absolutely a positive development.
Donald Trump's mental health has taken a turn for the worse, and that's not good for a man whose sanity and mental abilities were already questionable. But he has been hit with the perfect storm of problems in the month of November, and he doesn't know how to handle a single one of them. All he can do is get on Truth Social and scream into the void about how unfair everything is and how all of his problems are somehow just "hoaxes" being created by the Democratic Party.
Donald Trump recently held a private dinner with some of the biggest CEOs in the country, and those who attended told reporters that Trump was basically asking them how to be president. Specifically, he was asking for advice on the issue of "affordability," even though he proclaimed on social media just days later that "affordability is a joke." The man has absolutely no idea what he's doing or how to be a leader, and his plea to business leaders is just further proof of that.
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Donald Trump's support among Republican voters has cratered in recent weeks as the economic pain of his policies becomes too much for them to overlook. Even without the growing Epstein scandal, Republican voters were already turning against Trump over his policies - but the new scandal won't help him much, either. Trump is in serious trouble, and voters are going to take it out on the entire Republican Party next year.
Attorney General Pam Bondi got absolutely trashed by the judge overseeing the joint motions from James Comey and Letitia James last week as they seek to challenge the placement of Lindsey Halligan as the US Attorney in Virginia. Bondi had told the judge via filings that the indictments are valid no matter what because Bondi herself looked over the grand jury transcripts before Halligan even got the job. However, the judge pointed out that this was an obvious lie because the transcripts didn't exist at that point in time. Bondi is in MAJOR trouble.
Trump-supporting pastor Joel Webbon called upon Donald Trump last week to start rounding up his political enemies and throwing them in prison. Webbon made it clear that "sternly worded tweets" weren't going to cut it, and that he needed to go after politicians, judges, and possibly even average citizens who dare to stand to Trump. This is a form of psychosis that really should be labeled "Trump Derangement Syndrome," and it is not a normal way for a human being to think.
According to a new analysis, inflation under Donald Trump has grown so much that the average family is spending an extra $700 per month on basic necessities. This comes as Trump continues to tell Americans that inflation isn't happening and that it is all a big hoax by the Democrats. American families are suffering, and the one person who can fix the problem is refusing to acknowledge that the problem even exists.
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As Americans increasingly struggle to afford basic necessities like food, Donald Trump continues to insist that the problem isn't real. In fact, he went beyond just calling it not real and actually concocted an elaborate conspiracy as to why people "think" that prices are high. The man has lost any and all touch with reality, and his denials of our problems are going to make things so much worse for all of us.
Pam Bondi's Department of Justice was forced to admit to a federal judge this week that they made a major mistake - but they swear that they won't do it again. The mistake - which they have made in multiple different prosecutions - is that they blabbed about the case on social media and demonized the defendant, thereby tainting the entire potential jury pool. This particular case involves a prosecution that began under Alina Habba in New Jersey after she indicted a sitting lawmaker on bogus charges.
During his disastrous appearance on Laura Ingraham's Fox News program this week, Donald Trump claimed that "no one knows what a magnet is." He didn't say that no one knows how they work - he literally said no one knows what they ARE. This brings us to the latest edition of "If Biden had done this," because the media would have been calling for Joe's immediate resignation if he ever said anything even remotely as insane as this. But Trump, as usual, gets a free pass from the media and therefore the public to continue to show off his dementia.
In spite of the staggering number of problems that the President of the United States should be dealing with, Donald Trump sent his lawyers to the Supreme Court this week to file a motion asking them to overturn the verdict against him from the first defamation lawsuit from E. Jean Carroll. That particular verdict has already been upheld by two appellate courts, but that isn't stopping Trump from asking his good friends on the Supreme Court to step in and save him from the mess he created for himself.
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Donald Trump still insists that he's going to send every single American a check for $2,000 from the tariff money that he's bringing in, but when he was pressed about the math this week, he couldn't do basic addition and subtraction. The amount of the alleged rebate checks would far exceed the yearly revenue from the tariffs, meaning that the government would actually LOSE billions of dollars with this idea - and that might be why Scott Bessent immediately shut it down.
With the federal government set to reopen, House Speaker Mike Johnson was left with no choice but to swear in recently-elected Democrat Adelita Grivalja. With that happening, the vote on the discharge petition to get the Epstein files released is now imminent. According to reports, there is a sense of panic about this among Republicans, including The White House, as they know that there is nothing they can do to stop it - though Trump has been desperately trying to distract people from it.
While Americans are struggling to afford food, Donald Trump's administration has been secretly handing out major tax breaks totaling hundreds of billions of dollars to the wealthiest companies and industries in the country. These tax cuts go above and beyond what was included in the "One Big Beautiful Bill," and they are being directed by multi-millionaire Scott Bessent and his Treasury Department.
Donald Trump's own Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, appears to be actively trying to sabotage the President from inside the administration. In the past few days, Bessent has publicly contradicted several major proclamations from Trump, saying that they either won't happen or the ideas that he has simply don't exist. But Bessent's comments aren't getting the same level of coverage as Trump's bold proclamations, so most people don't even know that his own administration is telling us that none of this is real.
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Over the weekend, Donald Trump promised that he was going to send out $2,000 rebate checks to every single American that would be paid for using the tariff revenue (our money) that the government has collected. This promise was immediately killed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent within minutes, but the backtrack wasn't heard or seen by as many people as Trump's promise. This is how the media typically works.
Donald Trump issued a series of sweeping pardons on Sunday to his scumbag friends that worked to overturn the results of the 2020 election. While most people were angry about this move, the real reaction we should have is one of pure joy. The pardons only cover the federal crimes they allegedly committed, and those investigations died a long time ago. The rest of the charges these people are facing are state-level, and if they accept a pardon they can lose their 5th Amendment rights, according to the Supreme Court. This was actually a very stupid move for Trump.
The Trump administration announced their absolutely insane plan to have people start taking out 50-year mortgages in order to get more people to buy homes. This plan has been blasted by economists and analysts from both sides of the aisle who recognize that it is an economic disaster waiting to happen. The proposal will prevent homeowners from building equity, and will also be a longer drain on their credit, preventing them from being able to make other big-ticket purchases.
After years of calling President Biden "Sleepy Joe," karma has come back to bite Donald Trump in a big way. The current President is struggling to stay awake during press conferences and other events, and the entire country got to witness this first hand on multiple occasions in the last week. The man's mental and physical health is rapidly deteriorating, and in spite of what we can all see, the White House insists that he's the healthiest and most energetic person who has ever lived.
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Last week's election losses for Republicans turned out to be a major "lightbulb moment" for Republican lawmakers, and multiple new reports are telling us that these lawmakers are preparing to ignore Donald Trump for the remainder of his "lame duck" administration. They realize now that he is not as powerful or influential as he wants everyone to believe, and they also learned the hard way that blindly following him will lead to an electoral massacre.
Donald Trump's cognitive decline might be even worse than we thought. New photos from The White House have revealed that the administration installed a new, gold-lettered sign indicating where the Oval Office is located, which many believe is to remind Trump how to actually get to work. This isn't just part of the ongoing renovations, as the sign is just printed on poster paper, so clearly it isn't meant to be a permanent fixture.
As millions of Americans were worried about food security because her father was delaying the release of SNAP funds, Ivanka Trump was on social media promoting her new, for-profit food company that she co-founded. The Internet immediately lit up with people calling out her "tone deaf" sales pitch as Americans go hungry and struggle to afford basic grocery necessities. The timing for Ivanka really could not be worse.
Not long after the horrific jobs report showing that the economy shed more than 100,000 jobs last month and layoffs have hit recession-levels, another report came out showing that Donald Trump has caused America to cross another grim economic milestone: Household debt is now at an all-time high. After increasing by nearly $200 BILLION in the last quarter, total household debt across the country now tops $18 TRILLION. And with prices increasing on everything, that number is expected to continue to rise at a record pace.
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Donald Trump's brain has completely the process of completely breaking down after the breathtaking losses that Republicans suffered in this week's election. Following their embarrassing defeats, Trump met with Senate Republicans this week to discuss reopening the government, but he couldn't stop himself from veering off course to talk about things that aren't even real. The man is absolutely off his rocker, to put it gently.
A very panicked Steve Bannon begged Donald Trump this week to do everything in his power to overturn the massive electoral victories that Democrats achieved on Tuesday. Bannon is urging Trump to use the Department of Justice to challenge election results, in spite of the fact that there's zero evidence that anything out of the ordinary happened. Bannon was so cocky a week ago when he claimed Trump would serve a third term, but a healthy dose of reality has turned him into a whiny baby.
Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security decided to mock a woman who wrote an op-ed for USA Today over the fact that her husband - who is in the country LEGALLY - has been detained for weeks by ICE. Noem's department falsely claims that the man, a British journalist, was supporting terrorist organizations, even though they have failed to provide a shred of evidence to support this claim. The agency is in the business of cruelty, and we all need to realize that they are pure evil.
This week's electoral losses for the Republican Party appear to have been a wake up call to many members of the GOP - including those INSIDE Trump's administration. According to a new report, this "the emperor has no clothes" moment could cause some of Trump's most trusted insiders to turn against him, or at the very least start providing a little more pushback against his insane plans and goals.
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Pam Bondi's Department of Justice has told the judge overseeing their political prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James that her office will NOT be complying with a recent court order. The court, at James' request, had ordered the DOJ to turn over all materials relating to Lindsey Halligan's appointment as US Attorney, as well as documents about her interactions with the grand jury. Without this information being turned over, it is likely that the case will be dismissed very quickly.
Karoline Leavitt became visibly flustered and resorted to her usual lies when she was asked a question about Donald Trump's clearly failing health this week. The question specifically asked why Trump had an MRI and why the White House hasn't given a reason for it, and Leavitt claimed that even Trump didn't know why it happened, but she claimed that he's absolutely doing great. If any of this is true, then it is proof that his health is far worse than anyone thought.
An adviser to Donald Trump told Axios this week that the President is prepared to make the lives of Republicans "a living hell" if they don't do what he's demanding of them, which is to eliminate the filibuster. But after this week's election results, Republicans are going to be even less likely to get rid of the legislative tool, as it is more likely to hurt them in the future. But Trumps' threat is real, and we know that because he's already made everybody else's lives a living hell.
A 63-year old Donald Trump voter who recently retired to take care of her 26-year old daughter told NBC News this week that she desperately regrets supporting Trump after she lost her SNAP benefits. More and more MAGA voters seem to be coming around and realizing that Trump doesn't care if they live or die, and the stories of people abandoning the MAGA movement are becoming more frequent than Republicans want to acknowledge.
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