President Trump - 2nd Term

**harrybarracuda** · 29-05-2025, 06:03 PM

TACO!

Donald Trump descended into a crazed meltdown after he was told about Wall Street’s ‘taco’ jibe for his trade policies.

During a press conference on Wednesday, a reported asked the president for his thoughts about the “Taco” acronym.

It stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out” and is reportedly being used by Wall Street traders to describe Trump’s habit of threatening to impose ludicrously high tariffs on other countries before backing out or reducing the rates at the last minute.
Trump didn’t take it well after learning about the term, launching into a rambling meltdown trying to justify his tariff policy.
Responding, he said: “I chicken out? Oh, I’ve never heard that. You mean because I reduced China from 145% that I set down to 100 and then to another number?”

Trump said this was simply “negotiation,” claiming that part of his tactic can include setting “a ridiculous high number” for tariff rates and going down if he gets other nations to give in to his demands.

He then finished by warning the reporter to not “ever say what you said,” criticising their “nasty question.”

Funny as fuck!

https://x.com/keithedwards/status/19...jibe-393688%2F

**39TG** · 30-05-2025, 07:28 AM

Even better, it will really annoy Trump and his family.

Trump doesn't bother hiding his senility and dementia. The Dems moved mountains to conceal how impaired Biden was. In this very important respect the Republicans are more honest.

**beachbound** · 30-05-2025, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by 39TG

In this very important respect the Republicans are more honest.

**39TG** · 30-05-2025, 11:11 AM

Mr. Trump is due more praise. I can't see him tolerating Mrs Trump pushing both her hands up into his face. Macron looks like a loser. His missus will have been bashing him for ages. I recently saw a Larry King interview with the Trumps after they got engaged. Melania was awesome. No hesitations etc. She was full on under Trump's wing in the interview. Trump was clearly the boss.

**harrybarracuda** · 30-05-2025, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by 39TG

Mr. Trump is due more praise. I can't see him tolerating Mrs Trump pushing both her hands up into his face. Macron looks like a loser. His missus will have been bashing him for ages. I recently saw a Larry King interview with the Trumps after they got engaged. Melania was awesome. No hesitations etc. She was full on under Trump's wing in the interview. Trump was clearly the boss.

Well she's not going to argue is she? He'll have ICE on her in a heartbeat.

**malmomike77** · 30-05-2025, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by 39TG

Mr. Trump is due more praise.

Taco you mean? I can only imagine Xi and Putin having weekly update calls laughing their arses off at the yellow child

**39TG** · 30-05-2025, 01:18 PM

They might for a laugh exchange messages on Signal knowing US intelligence will pick the messages up. President Trump seems to be doing much better in his second term at enriching himself. If Barron inherits a billion, he might one day be able to make a significant run for president. The Americans love their political dynasties.

**malmomike77** · 30-05-2025, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by 39TG

Americans love their political dynasties

i think you mispelt crime families

**harrybarracuda** · 30-05-2025, 03:23 PM

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — A governor who resigned amid a corruption scandal and served two stints in federal prison. A New York Republican who resigned from Congress after a tax fraud conviction and who made headlines for threatening to throw a reporter off a Capitol balcony over a question he didn't like. Reality TV stars convicted of cheating banks and evading taxes.

All were unlikely beneficiaries this week of pardons, with President Donald Trump flexing his executive power to bestow clemency on political allies, prominent public figures and others convicted of defrauding the public. The moves not only take aim at criminal cases once touted as just by the Justice Department but also come amid a continuing Trump administration erosion of public integrity guardrails, including the firing of the department's pardon attorney and the near-dismantling of a prosecution unit established to hold public officials accountable for abusing the public trust.

"He is using pardons to essentially override the verdicts of juries, to set aside the sentences that have been imposed by judges and to accomplish political objectives,” said Liz Oyer, who was fired in March as the Justice Department's pardon attorney after she says she refused to endorse restoring the gun rights of actor Mel Gibson, a Trump supporter. “That is very damaging and destructive to our system of justice.”

To be sure, other presidents have courted controversy with their clemency decisions. President Gerald Ford famously pardoned his predecessor, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton pardoned fugitive financier Marc Rich just hours before the Democratic president left office. More recently, President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family.

But the pardons announced Wednesday are part of a pattern of clemency grants that began in Trump's first term and has continued in the current one in which bold-faced names, prominent supporters and defendants whose causes are championed by friends time and again have an edge on ordinary citizens who lack connections to the White House.

In 2020, for instance, he pardoned allies convicted in the Russia election interference investigation that shadowed his first term as well as his son-in-law's father, Charles Kushner, who was later named ambassador to France.

On his first day back in office, he pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, using his clemency powers to undo the massive prosecution of the unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.

Twice indicted by the Justice Department, and entangled in criminal investigations in the White House and in his post-presidency life, Trump has long conveyed public suspicion about prosecutorial power and found common cause with politicians — including on the other side of the aisle — he sees as having been mistreated like he believes he was.
In February, for instance, the Republican president pardoned former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich after having earlier commuted his 14-year sentence on political corruption charges. Blagojevich, he said, “was set up by a lot of bad people, some of the same people I had to deal with.”

The most recent pardon beneficiaries include former GOP New York Rep. Michael Grimm, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to underreporting wages and revenue at a restaurant he ran in Manhattan. The former Marine and FBI agent resigned from Congress the following year and was sentenced to eight months in prison. Grimm tried to reenter politics in 2018 but lost a primary for his old district.

Others include former Republican Connecticut Gov. John Rowland, whose once-promising political career was cut short by a criminal case over gifts and favors from state contractors. Rowland was later convicted and imprisoned a second time for conspiring to hide his work on political campaigns and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.

The White House also announced pardons for rap artist NBA YoungBoy on gun-related charges and TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, famous for “Chrisley Knows Best,” a reality show that followed their family and extravagant lifestyle that prosecutors said was boosted by bank fraud and hiding earnings from tax authorities. The couple was convicted in 2022 of conspiring to defraud banks out of more than $30 million in loans by submitting false documents.

The latest pardons unfold as Trump has departed from the norms and protocols of the clemency process and as the Justice Department has signaled a tweaked approach to public corruption and white-collar fraud.

The department, for instance, has long had a pardon attorney tasked with sifting through applications from defendants and recommending clemency to the White House for those seen as having served their debt to society and accepted responsibility for their crimes, including drug offenders serving long sentences and not generally known to the public or connected to the powerful.

In place of Oyer, the fired pardon attorney, the administration installed Ed Martin, a Trump loyalist who briefly served as interim U.S. attorney in Washington. He has already pledged to scrutinize pardons that Biden issued on his way out of office and has said he would take a “hard look" at two men serving long prison terms for leading a conspiracy to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Meanwhile, the department's vaunted public integrity section, created in the post-Watergate era to investigate and prosecute public officials for abusing their powers, has been dramatically slashed, whittled down to just a handful of lawyers.

The section endured an exodus of prosecutors after Justice Department leaders demanded the dismissal of a corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams in part so he could assist in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
The pardons, said Princeton University presidential historian Julian Zelizer, fit “within the fold of his presidency, where he uses a lot of his power either for retribution or reward rather than for just kind of pure policy-making. We have to understand the pardons in that framework.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wire...blic-122326940

**malmomike77** · 31-05-2025, 12:45 AM

Looks like the Saffa Nazi was loaded on Ketamine et al, what a surprise, the US is just short of Germany in 36', god help the world and more fool is for letting outselves be led by these idiots for the last 4 decades.

**cyrille** · 03-06-2025, 02:47 PM

A few days ago, in the whitehouse with a drugged up Musk, Trump claimed DOGE had saved 3 million dollars by closing a programme creating transgender mice.

This is what has actually been closed...a programme to study transgenic mice.

**39TG** · 03-06-2025, 03:57 PM

I saw a report that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Musk had some fisticuffs in the White House and Musk ended up with a black eye. If true, awesome.

**bsnub** · 03-06-2025, 04:03 PM

Naw, Musk got into it with Stephen Miller because Musk is banging his wife.

**BLD** · 03-06-2025, 04:31 PM

Oi snubby can you tell that hegseth fucko that he's got no business "insisting " that Australia increase our defence spending. Just in case China attacks. We are already committed to the Aukus agreement but will likely get fucked over on that to.Anyway our PM told the prick that Australia decides what our defence budget will be. Not some ex fox news drunk.my God. The fucking arrogance he displayed in Singapore at that forum was astounding. Do Americans get to watch that sort of thing?

**bsnub** · 03-06-2025, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by BLD

Oi snubby can you tell that hegseth fucko that he's got no business "insisting " that Australia increase our defence spending.

I hate the coont as much as you do, he is a complete moron, like most of the orange morons administration.

**BLD** · 03-06-2025, 04:37 PM

Google the video. It's fucking cringy as fuck. My God wtf is going g on there with that orange buffoon? Something gotta give. Someone sooner or later,sooner I hope will pop a cap in trumps ass for real this time. Hope fully jd, pissy Pete and that godawful woman Caroline leavitt.

**BLD** · 03-06-2025, 04:46 PM

Seriously though wtf. If Trump wants to crash you're economy with half assed tariffs why is he now taking his nonsense on the road and war mongering ? Trying to get sovereign countries in the Asia pacific to bend the knee? Could it be that he has realised he's burnt his bridges in Europe? Looks like you guys can kiss all them allies adios..the Europeans are having it. It's all a bit fucking bizarre

**cyrille** · 03-06-2025, 05:04 PM

Do we still all have to pretend it would have been awful if that bullet had been two inches to the shooter's right?

**BLD** · 03-06-2025, 07:56 PM

Hopefully there will be another attemp

**beachbound** · 03-06-2025, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by 39TG

I saw a report that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Musk had some fisticuffs in the White House and Musk ended up with a black eye. If true, awesome.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Naw, Musk got into it with Stephen Miller because Musk is banging his wife.

Captain KKKetamine says his son punched him in the face.

**39TG** · 04-06-2025, 06:44 AM

Mr. Trump thinks Mr. Biden was a robotic clone. Oh dear, Mr Trump should be in an old folks home.

**cyrille** · 04-06-2025, 08:31 AM

: “Musk is right: this bill IS a ‘disgusting abomination’. We shouldn’t give $664 billion in tax breaks to the 1%. We shouldn’t throw 13.7 million people off of Medicaid. We shouldn’t cut $290 billion from programs to feed the hungry. Let’s defeat this disgusting abomination.” - Bernie Sanders

**Shutree** · 04-06-2025, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by bsnub

Naw, Musk got into it with Stephen Miller because Musk is banging his wife.

I wonder what she sees in the billionaire?

**harrybarracuda** · 04-06-2025, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by cyrille

A few days ago, in the whitehouse with a drugged up Musk, Trump claimed DOGE had saved 3 million dollars by closing a programme creating transgender mice.

Well he actually mentioned it in an address to Congress in March, but well done. We should call you "Scoop".

**harrybarracuda** · 04-06-2025, 10:53 AM

So the WH bimbo now claiming the CBO can't be trusted, when everyone knows what this bill is all about: The largest single transfer of wealth in US history.

The White House doubled down Tuesday on its claims that President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill doesn’t add to the federal deficit and that anyone who says otherwise is “blatantly wrong.”

The White House has now directly countered figures from the Congressional Budget Office several times. The office has said that while the proposed budget cuts spending in various areas, it will still ultimately add about $4 trillion to the federal deficit.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said last week that projections from the office have been wrong before and are wrong now. However, Tuesday she added that the office has become tainted by political bias and is no longer a truly independent, nonpartisan agency as it is supposed to be.
“There hasn’t been a single staffer in the entire Congressional Budget Office that has contributed to a Republican since the year 2000, but guess what? There have been many staffers… who have contributed to Democrat candidates and politicians every single cycle since,” Leavitt told reporters Tuesday afternoon.
“Unfortunately, this is an institution in our country that has become partisan and political,” Leavitt said.

However, there are others who appear confident that the current budget will add to the deficit and have expressed their concern. In fact, ex-special government employee Elon Musk, who just finished leading a cost-cutting crusade at the Trump-sanctioned Department of Government Efficiency, came out with perhaps his most scathing statement about the budget yet on Tuesday afternoon.

Musk took to his social media platform condemning the budget bill and censuring those who have voted for it.
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote on X. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”

CBO figures shouldn’t be trusted when it comes to adding to the debt: White House | Just The News

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