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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.”

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

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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.

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.

As I watched the news this week, I thought of the classic film Love and Death. Set in Tsarist Russia, it brilliantly parodies Russian literature. In one memorable scene, the narrator explains, “There was a village idiots’ convention in Minsk. Village idiots from all over Russia were meeting there.

Just invite yourself to visit a country? The height of rudeness. JD Vance, & his wife visited an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the president told automakers at an event earlier this month that he would look “unfavorably” on any price increases after his tariffs, causing automakers to fear retribution unless they just grin and bear the incoming cost increases.

Too busy doing worthless crap like this: President Donald Trump fired off a series of wild messages on a number of topics during a flurry of activity on his Truth Social website in the wee hours of Thursday morning.

He’s certainly on top of things: Donald Trump appeared unaware on Wednesday that four U.S. soldiers had gone missing during a NATO training exercise in Lithuania. When asked by a reporter if he had been briefed on the situation that began to unfurl hours before, the president replied, No, I haven’t.

My podcast is feeling less like a grassroots effort now- it’s only been up for 8 days.

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Hegseth bragged about restoring meritocracy and competence to the Pentagon. In less than 100 days, he has done the opposite. Congress must investigate why the def sec of the world’s most powerful military risked the lives of our U.S. service members (and used group chat to destroy required records)

It gets worse: Trump Joins Musk to Poke Fun at Massive War Plan Leak The president and his “first buddy” appeared unbothered by the shocking leak of confidential military plans.

Musk’s next project: A super PAC tied to Elon Musk has started spending in two deeply Republican House seats in Florida ahead of next week’s special elections

Could it get any more preposterous? As Trump continues to cut federal programs used by millions of Americans, he proposed financially compensating the MAGA loyalists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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They all should be sacked!

Hegseths blunder: Zachary B. Wolf of CNN noted that “Trump intentionally hired amateurs for top jobs. This is their most dramatic blunder.” My first reaction... was 'what absolute clowns.' Total amateur hour, reckless, dangerous…. Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials.”

Oops President Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to a group text in which top officials debated highly sensitive plans for bombing Yemen, the magazine reported today.

Trump was asked why Usha went to Greenland: “She loves the concept of Greenland so she’s going there. We’ve been invited and they really like the idea.” … They were not invited. Nobody wanted them to come. Literally nobody.

Have they no limits? Girl Scout cookies? The study’s findings did not prove that Girl Scout cookies are toxic. The research covered a small sample of cookies and found levels of glyphosate and metals that are within a range considered safe by U.S. government agencies, experts said.

Love this: The thing is, these (EU)?countries know. They understand what everything Trump is doing adds up to, even if the frogs here at home are letting themselves get boiled before they realize how hot the water is. Will Republicans in Congress ever wake up? #JoyceVance

at a rally against DOGE: “DOGE claims to have found Social Security payments going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem with IT programmers and billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand.”