This is what tariffs were always all about for Trump. Not about revenue, trade, domestic manufacturing, GDP - it’s about giving himself the unilateral power to decide economic winners and losers on a case by case basis, with kings and CEOs coming to him asking forbearance..

Best own I've seen on this guy yet. King knows what he's talking about and Burgum has no clue, that is clear from this exchange. Bravo.

IN HONOR OF CALIFORNIA’S 175TH ANNIVERSARY, WE WILL BE ROLLING OUT A VERY SPECIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE FOR EVERY CALIFORNIAN THIS SUMMER!

He never had the money to pay for the ballroom. It was always a scam. We were always going to have to pay for it. They were just waiting for the right moment to hit us with the bill. This is now the time.

Be Best, Todd. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... H/T - @laurieluvsmolly.bsky.social

if you really think about it, there's no problem we face that can't be solved by a new White House ballroom

We are currently in the 3-5 day pause on the 14 day extension of the initial 48 hour hard deadline for the ceasefire.

Besides.... everything with this. He's also not realizing the media isn't supposed to take a side or be patriotic.

Neguse: "Despite all of that, Speaker Johnson made the decision to gavel the House & send everyone home. Now we're back 2 weeks later & what has the majority decided is the most pressing issue to debate? Apparently it's a resolution commemorating a bill that the GOP passed last year. It's absurd."

Trump: 2/6-“They want to make a deal badly 3/2-“They want to make a deal badly 3/16-“They want to make a deal badly 3/24-“They want to make a deal badly 3/25-“They want to make a deal badly 4/1-“They want to make a deal badly 4-13-“They want to make a deal badly 4/14-“They want to make a deal badly

Look, I’m sure she is a nice lady who found some financial benefit to the tax cut on her tips but please don’t insult my intelligence by suggesting that she was suddenly able to cover CANCER TREATMENTS with the money she saved on tips.

Maybe start with the US economy?

Kamala Harris: it is not just about the individual, it is about the apparatus, if you will -- I would refer to talk about the cronies who are allowing this to happen. Members of Congress. I'm going to use the F word, who are feckless. It is an appropriate F word

"For other countries, negotiating with a personalist strongman like Trump is a fool’s errand. His decisions aren't deliberate ones taken in conjunction with experts. It’s just his whims and grievances creating international chaos whenever the mood strikes."

I am not sure why Melania Trump decided to make a statement about Jeffrey Epstein seemingly out of nowhere today, but if the idea was to put the ongoing coverup in the rearview mirror it will backfire spectacularly

It’s TACO Tuesday!

I talked to The Times for a little profile of yours truly. Check it out:

Ushering in the end of humanity because a bunch of “alpha” white men are too scared to stand up to a demented old man who’s caked in makeup.

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

Of all the dangerous and illegal things Trump is doing to tear apart the fabric of our constitutional republic while Republicans remain cowardly silent, in the final year of his term the politicization of the US military may turn out to be the biggest problem.

Reporting like this makes clear that Trump’s thinking about his war is completely incoherent and governed by whatever impulse he’s feeling at a given moment

Final answer?

From my home to yours.

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We invaded Venezuela, kidnapped their leader and installed a puppet, and are now pillaging the country's resources just like the fascists in the 1930s did, and somehow this has already been normalized and isn't being treated as the crime it is

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment