Tag: Donald Trump

President Trump’s Attack on the Media reads as an attack on Free Speech

Donald Trump’s attack on the media are the acts pf a dictator. The following reports on his actions support this contention

The top executive in charge of CBS News resigned on Monday amid President Trump’s intensifying political pressure against the news operation.

Donald Trump attacked ABC News the network hosting the debate for being unfair to him.

The president has prevented The Associated Press from entering the Oval Office while his FCC goes after other media outlets. 

Media watchdogs and other journalists have already accused some of the country’s most respected news outlets of bending to Trump’s will.  Bowing to pressure by Donald Trump both the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times owners stopped their endorsements of Kamala Harris. Both NPR and PBS are under pressure to change their reporting on the White House.

Before the election, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times were harshly criticized for shelving their planned endorsements of Harris for president. 

After the election, ABC agreed to pay $15 million as part of a legal settlement with Trump and put to bed a dispute that centered on an interview in which, Trump alleged, anchor George Stephanopoulos defamed him. 

On Jan. 31, the Defense Department announced that it was instituting a new “annual media rotation program” and dislodged several news outlets, including NBC News, from their Pentagon office spaces.

We are on the way to a dictatorship.

King Donald does as He Wants

Whereas the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause now provides:

[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them [i.e., the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Trump’s plan to accept free Air Force One replacement from Qatar raises ethical and security worries

For President Donald Trump, accepting a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar is a no-brainer.

“I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer,” the Republican told reporters on Monday. “I could be a stupid person and say, ‘No, we don’t want a free, very expensive airplane.’”

Past presidents couldn’t keep gifts of lions or horses. How could Trump accept a jet from Qatar?

MAGA media stars bash Trump’s reported Qatar plane gift, with some saying “it’s a bribe”

From left: Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin and Laura Loomer. 

Donald Trump dreams of controlling everything – he sees an opportunity to renaming everything

In President Donald Trump effort to rename everything he sees his opportunity to rename another prominent body of water.

Donald Trump Plans to Rename Another Gulf.

The Associated Press reported on Wednesday, May 7, that two senior White House officials have confirmed that — during his upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia— Trump plans to announce that the U.S. will officially be updating its lexicon to call the Persian Gulf the “Arabian Gulf” or the “Gulf of Arabia.”

While the U.S. military has referred to the body of water as the Arabian Gulf for years, the Persian Gulf name is more common among American civilians. For users in the United States, Google Maps currently lists the name as “Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf),” while Apple Maps solely displays it as the “Persian Gulf.”

Here is the list of renamings Trump intends to do.

Gulf of Mexico becomes Gulf of America Persian Gulf becomes Gulf of Arabia   November 11, Veterans Day becomes Victory Day for World War I May 8 as “Victory Day for World War II Denali, federally designated as Mount McKinley

Is Donald Trump President or King of the United States?

Asked if he has to uphold the Constitution as commander-in-chief, the president responded, “I don’t know.”

Apparently Donald Trump does not take his Inauguration oath to uphold the Constitution as a meaningful process that is to be taken seriously.

After all. Trump views himself a King of America.

President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired today on NBC that he doesn’t know if he has to uphold the US Constitution as president, but said his administration will “obviously follow” what the Supreme Court decides.

The answer came during an exchange on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” when host Kristen Welker asked the president if citizens and noncitizens deserve due process in legal proceedings. The president initially responded, “I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.”

Pressed further by Welker, who cited the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause, the president said he was elected to deal with immigration and the “courts are holding me from doing it.”

“I don’t know. I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said. What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said. They have a different interpretation,” the president said.

Trump has expressed extreme frustration during the first few months of his second term as federal courts — including the nation’s highest court — have slowed his rapid deportation push amid legal challenges over whether migrants are being afforded due process.

The U.S. Economy Shrank

NOT MAKING AMERICA GREAT

The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.3% annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years, as President Donald Trump’s trade wars disrupted business. First-quarter growth was slowed by a surge in imports as companies in the United States tried to bring in foreign goods before Trump imposed massive tariffs.

The January-March drop in gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — reversed a 2.4% gain in the last three months of 2024. Imports grew at a 41% pace, fastest since 2020, and shaved 5 percentage points off first-quarter growth. Consumer spending also slowed sharply — to 1.8% growth from 4% in October-December last year. Federal government spending plunged 5.1% in the first quarter.

Forecasters surveyed by the data firm FactSet had, on average, expected the economy to eke out 0.8% growth in the first quarter, but many expected GDP to fall.

Financial markets sank on the report. The Dow Jones tumbled 400 points at the opening bell shortly after the GDP numbers were released. The S&P 500 dropped 1.5% and the Nasdaq composite fell 2%.

The surge in imports — fastest since 1972 outside COVID-19 economic disruptions — is likely to reverse in the second quarter, removing a weight on GDP. For that reason, Paul Ashworth of Capital Economics forecasts that April-June growth will rebound to a 2% gain.