How Trump is Dismantling America

Opinion
Trump presides over America’s coming-apart
Max Burns, opinion contributor
Wed, December 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM GMT+2·4 min read

The Trump administration has given us precious little to be thankful for this year. As 2025 draws to a close, history will remember it as a year scarred by the chaos of a White House that seemed intent on breaking the back of our democracy once and for all. It’s a psychologically exhausting time for the millions already coping with a sagging job market and rising consumer prices.

A year-in-review posted by Mediaite lists dozens upon dozens of Trump’s scandals, crises and abuses while still failing to capture the full scope of incompetence and malice that defines this administration. Millions from all walks of life spent the year grappling with political earthquakes brought on by a nonfunctional and increasingly irrelevant Congress, a Supreme Court complicit in Trump’s radicalization of ICE, and a historic, tariff-driven wave of small business bankruptcies. As Mediaite discovered in its own attempt to catalogue the damage, the aftershocks are simply too numerous to count.

On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, what should be a celebration of enduring freedom feels in many ways like a looming funeral. 2025 saw the shredding of America’s social fabric to the point that Democrats and Republicans now seem to inhabit two mutually exclusive realities. ‘One nation under God’ has quickly become many nations under grievance.

A Pew Research Center survey published this month shows just how far things have fallen in the opening decades of the 21st century. Back in 2001, 54 percent of Americans reported trusting the federal government, a slight increase from the 47 percent who felt that way in the 1980s. Now, public trust in government is scraping historic lows across every metric: As of 2025, only 17 percent of Americans believe that what their government is telling them is true.

That doubt goes far beyond just factually impaired politicians like Trump, too. As PBS News reported in October, fewer and fewer people trust government inflation numbers or jobs reports — thanks in large part to Trump’s constant demands that labor and economic statistics serve his political interests instead of reflecting objective reality. Public officials who were unwilling to fudge their numbers in order to make Trump look good quickly found themselves out of their jobs, as ousted Bureau of Labor statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer discovered in August.

Pew data from September reveals that the collapse of public trust in institutions is widespread. Most Americans now believe the Supreme Court has become too powerful and too unaccountable. Public approval of the nation’s highest court has fallen by nearly 25 percent since 2020, with a majority now viewing the court’s justices unfavorably.

Americans’ record level of distrust isn’t confined to the government. A Gallup poll found that trust in the media hit a new low of 28 percent in the back half of the year, with more than one-third of respondents saying they didn’t trust the news “at all.” Voting-age Americans now get their news from a larger number of sources than ever, from social media outlets like TikTok and X to YouTube influencers and, occasionally, even legacy news outlets like the New York Times. Yet poll after poll suggests they are unlikely to trust any news except that which confirms their pre-existing political beliefs, which makes compromise — and even reasoned political discussion — all but impossible.

Most Americans don’t even trust their own neighbors or family members anymore. Nearly half of Americans now think members of the opposing political party are “evil.” Political polarization has increased so dramatically that both sides now routinely label their opponents as threats to democracy itself. Things have grown so tense that one in five American households report experiencing family estrangement due to political disagreements. Our families are quite literally collapsing from the weight of our all-consuming political and social hatreds.

If it feels like things are falling apart in America, it’s because they are. Our institutions, our media, even our families are falling victim to the toxicity of a culture in which politics now consumes every aspect of our lives and finds itself amplified by a president who wields divisiveness like an artist uses a paintbrush.

That will only get worse as our nation careens into what is certain to be a brutal 2026 midterm election campaign. America may still be here, but we mark its 250th birthday anything but united.

Max Burns is a veteran Democratic strategist and founder of Third Degree Strategies.

 

How the Criminal Seditious Moron Escaped Justice

 

AMERICAN JUSTICE HAS BECOME A JOKE UNDER TRUMP

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Capitol riot 'does not happen' without Trump, Jack Smith told Congress
ERIC TUCKER




Trump was ‘most culpable’ for Jan 6 riot and would have been convicted in court, Jack Smith told Congress in newly released testimony
John Bowden
Thu, January 1, 2026


Trump was ‘most culpable’ for Jan 6 riot and would have been convicted in court, Jack Smith told Congress in newly released testimony

Donald Trump was “most culpable” for the January 6 riot and would have been convicted in court had the case gone to trial, according to explosive testimony from former special counsel Jack Smith, released Wednesday afternoon by the House Judiciary Committee.

Smith led both Justice Department prosecutions of Trump: the first over the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters after he lost the 2020 election, and the second over his alleged concealment of classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. He testified before the Judiciary panel in a closed-door session earlier in December as the committee investigates whether Trump was politically targeted by the Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland and President Joe Biden.

Trump's 2024 election victory ended the DOJ effort to hold him criminally liable. Many experts and Democrats in Congress grew frustrated with the Biden administration as a result of the DOJ’s year of delays before it directly confirmed it was investigating Trump for the attack on the Capitol; he was not indicted until August of 2023 on the election charges.

The release of the testimony by House Republicans on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, with Congress out of session and Washington still largely emptied out for the holidays, comes as they largely failed to prove any links between Smith’s prosecutions and the Biden White House. The president’s accusations of political weaponization have largely been overshadowed by his own very public efforts in that same vein against the likes of James Comey and Letitia James.

Among the revelations in the 225 pages of Smith's testimony were:

Trump’s actions “without question” added to the danger faced by his Vice President Mike Pence, who was in the Capitol during the riot and was targeted by Trump’s supporters, some of them chanting “Hang Mike Pence”;

Jack Smith testified before the House Judiciary Committee about the two criminal investigations into Donald Trump led by the Justice Department (AP)

The Supreme Court’s ruling on executive immunity was not an affirmation in Smith’s opinion that the president’s conduct leading up to January 6 was legal;

Smith’s case relied heavily on the testimony of Republicans who “put their allegiance to the country before the party";

The president’s demand that Georgia officials “find” more than 11,000 votes was seen by Smith as evidence of criminal intention;

Smith had “no doubt” that the president sought political retribution against him for filing the cases.

Throughout his 2024 campaign, Trump argued that he’d done nothing illegal and that the prosecutions were political efforts to punish him and prevent his return to the White House.

Smith told the committee that he believed he could have obtained a conviction in what was seen by many as the most serious of the charges: Conspiring to deny Americans a free and fair election by pushing to overturn the 2020 election.

“Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power,” said Smith.

The former special counsel said he relied heavily on the testimony of Republican state officials for his case, similar to the investigation headed up by the bipartisan House January 6 committee in 2021.

“President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him,” Smith told the lawmakers.

Asked about the violence that day, Smith said: “Our view of the evidence was that he caused it and that he exploited it and that it was forseeable to him.”

Addressing the accusation that his investigations had been politically motivated, he said he would have prosecuted on the same facts whether the person responsible had been a Democrat or a Republican, and said he had had no contact with former President Joe Biden over the investigations.

Smith’s office also oversaw the investigation into Trump’s allegedly illegal retention of White House documents at Mar-a-Lago, for which he was also criminally charged.

Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Sunday shortly after the committee’s release of Smith’s testimony that Democrats were “cheaters,” and attacked the party for not suppoting voter ID. He has long claimed that the efforts to prosecute him for the January 6 riot amounted to weaponization of the Justice Department against him by Biden.

Dozens of police officers were injured when protesters stormed the Capitol on January 6 (AFP/Getty)

Rioters fought with police for hours during the attack, leaving 140 injured (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The president continues to regularly insist that the 2020 election was stolen, including recently during a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Pressed by Republicans to accept that the president’s statements were merely voicings of opinions protected by the First Amendment, Smith insisted in turn that Trump crossed a line by reaching out to public officials and asking them to do his bidding, as was the case in the infamous call between Trump and Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, who was asked by the president to “find” more than 11,000 votes necessary to change the results in that state.

“As we said in the indictment, he was free to say that he thought he won the election. He was even free to falsely say he won the election,” said Smith. “But what he was not free to do was violate federal law and use knowingly false statements about election fraud to target a lawful government function.”

The riot on January 6 lasted for several hours as Trump initially refused, according to the House Jan. 6 investigation, to issue a video statement calling on his supporters to leave the vicinity. The president initially said that he would join the rioters at the Capitol, following a speech in front of the White House where Trump once again accused Republicans and Democrats alike of participating in election fraud.

The massive crowd descended on Capitol Hill from the White House and besieged it for several hours, battling with police and injuring dozens of officers. Perimeters were breached and protesters stormed the building, chanting out calls for violence against top officials including the vice president and then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, while defacing the building.

Trump speaking to supporters he had summoned to Washington, D.C., on January 6. Smith said the president was responsible for the violence that ensued (AFP/Getty)

Lawmakers huddled in secure areas and in one case were barricaded inside the main chambers as rioters attempted to break down the door, leading to the death of one protester.

Smith refuted claims repeatedly made by Republican members of Congress after the attack that it was peaceful in any way.

“There were people who certainly had weapons at the Capitol,” Smith said. “That I recall with certainty. And there's people who used weapons, whether they be poles or sticks or other weapons, against police officers. I know there was one officer who they took his gun. And so the use of weapons against members of law enforcement, it was outrageous.”

Even in the hours after the attack, the president was actively trying to convince members of the U.S. Senate to delay certification of the election, according to Smith. He cited testimony from Trump ally Boris Epshteyn, who told the DOJ that the White House was working to contact senators such as Lindsey Graham throughout the evening.

Smith went on to say that he was still considering charging other co-conspirators in the election conspiracy case when Trump won the election, making it a moot point.

The special counsel’s office was shut down and Smith resigned from the department in January of 2025, 10 days before Trump took office. DOJ policy prohibits the agency from investigating or prosecuting a sitting president. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration several lawyers who worked with Smith’s team were fired from the agency.

Smith told the hearing that he had no doubt that Trump wanted “retribution” against him for investigating him. He said: “So I am eyes wide open that this President will seek retribution against me if he can. I know that.”

Epidemic of White American Crimes Against Children in Red "Conservative" States

 

Excluding all other crimes by white Americans involving mass shootings, drug crimes, domestic violence and gun-related killings, below is a tiny sample of the rampant crimes against children in backward white-trash America.

 

Pedophile Epstein's Friend Donald Dumb doesn't seem to mind.

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TENNESSEE: 

1st Grade Teacher in Tennessee Arrested and Charged With Abusing Her Own Kids

https://newschannel9.com/news/local/lookout-mountain-teacher-charged-with-abusing-her-kids-in-the-ruby-falls-parking-lot

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TEXAS: 

North Texas substitute teacher charged with sexual assault of child, police say

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/north-texas-substitute-teacher-child-sex-crimes-21266370.php?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication 

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ALABAMA: 

Investigation leads to Huntsville man arrested on child sex abuse material charges

https://whnt.com/news/huntsville/investigation-leads-to-huntsville-man-arrested-on-multiple-counts-of-child-sex-abuse-material-charges/

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NORTH CAROLINA:

Steele Creek man accused of sexually assaulting child for years held without bond

https://www.qcnews.com/charlotte/steele-creek-man-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-child-for-years-held-without-bond/ 

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WISCONSIN:

Wisconsin Couple Arrested on Several Charges After They Left 8 Kids in Dirty RV With Easy Access to Weed

https://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/news/crime/2025/12/30/wisconsin-couple-charged-with-neglecting-8-children-in-lincoln-county/87963314007/ 

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 FLORIDA:

Florida Woman Arrested After Failed Murder-Suicide Attempt With Disabled Great-Granddaughter

https://www.volusiasheriff.gov/news/volusia-county-sheriff/deland-woman-charged-in-attempted-murder-suicide-plan-involving-13-year-old-victim.stml

 

 

 

RFK Jr. Succeeds in Raising Measles Cases from 285 to 2,012 in Under a Year

 

The U.S. surpassed 2,000 measles cases this year for the first time since 1992 under the public health stewardship of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 

CNN’s Jake Tapper had predicted this surge if Kennedy were to become the nation’s leading public health official.

The Centers for Disease Control reported that as of Dec. 23, the U.S. had 2,012 confirmed measles cases. Last year, the U.S. had just 285 confirmed cases.

Kennedy is a longtime anti-vaccine moron who claimed that a measles outbreak in West Texas was “not unusual.” The HHS secretary alleged that the disease, whose symptoms may include fever, coughing, and a blotchy rash, could be treated with Vitamin A, which, according to real doctors, is not a substitute for being vaccinated against the measles.

Shortly after the outbreak in West Texas, several children with measles needed to be treated for Vitamin A toxicity. The country has been turned by the shaman moron into a backward cesspool of unscientific beliefs, conspiracies and superstitions.

Kennedy was appointed in November 2024 by Trump as Secretary of HHS. The pick horrified virtually every public health official, and many informed educated people across the country. Only imbecile MAGA morons listened to RFK Jr. and now have to deal with the disastrous consquences on their children.

The US is not Kennedy's only victim of his shamanic voodoo bull---t. In 2019, a measles outbreak ravaged Samoa, where Kennedy had visited just months before. His nonprofit organization “helped spread misinformation that contributed to the decline in measles vaccination that preceded the lethal eruption.” Eighty-three people died in the outbreak. Trump should award him a medal for killing so many children, both overseas and here at home.

In May, the CDC said it was no longer recommending vaccination against Covid-19 for healthy kids and pregnant women. Later, Kennedy ordered the CDC to remove language from its website stating that vaccines do not cause autism. Kennedy has baselessly maintained this to be the case. The secretary has also enacted massive personnel and research cuts at HHS. Moreover, in one particularly embarrassing episode, a “Make America Healthy Again” report cited several nonexistent studies.

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Thanks to moron RFK Jr, Measles is now spreading across the US from the backward conservative state of Texas to Massachusetts and New Jersey:

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed that a visitor from Texas was diagnosed with measles after flying into the Boston Logan International Airport on Christmas Eve. 

World’s most contagious virus detected at 2 major US airports amid peak holiday traffic

Caitlin McCormack

Wed, December 31, 2025

A traveler passing through Newark Liberty International Airport tested positive for measles – one of the world’s most infectious diseases – earlier this month, officials said.

The patient zero passenger was in terminals B and C on Dec. 12, according to a press release from the New Jersey Department of Health.

“Measles symptoms include a high fever, cough, runny nose, watery red eyes, and a rash that usually appears between three and five days after symptoms begin,” health officials warned in the release.

“The rash usually begins as flat red spots that appear on the face at the hairline and spread downward to the neck, torso, arms, legs and feet.”

The airborne virus can spread when someone coughs or sneezes – and lingers in the air for up to two hours after the infected person leaves the area.

Officials implored anyone who suspects they were exposed to the illness to call their health provider before visiting a medical care center or hospital.

“NJDOH is working in collaboration with local health officials on ongoing contact tracing and on efforts to notify people who might have been exposed and to identify additional exposures that may have occurred,” officials said in the release.

The NJDOH said that anyone who is not fully vaccinated or has not contracted measles in the past are at risk.

While measles is highly contagious, the infection produces decades-long immunity – but the two-dose vaccine offers lifelong immunity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This year, there have been 11 confirmed cases of measles in New Jersey, according to NJDOH.

A record 8.03 million travelers are expected to fly across America this holiday season, according to AAA.

Newark isn’t the only major airport to report detections of the viral disease during the holidays.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed that a visitor from Texas was diagnosed with measles after flying into the Boston Logan International Airport on Christmas Eve.

The traveler was on American Airlines Flight 2384, which departed from Dallas-Fort Worth, according to a release from the MDOPH.

As of Dec. 30, there have been 2,065 measles cases in the US in every state except Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina and West Virginia, according to the CDC.

The US previously touted its elimination of the virus 25 years ago. Declining vaccination rates killed the celebrated herd immunity – resulting in a three-decade high of measles cases.

Jack White and the Moron GOP Rep Who Tried to Bully Him. A Gem

 

Kudos to Jack White for his powerful statement on the Trump MAGA culture as he exposed the moronic bullying by Trump's "Christian" servants and maids.

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Jack White condemns Republican congressman for sharing A.I. video with 'grade school bullying': 'Embarrassing'

"What kind of joke are we all living in now? All of Trump's lackeys and bootlicks like this elected official are cowards," White said.
Sydney Bucksbaum
Tue, December 30, 2025


Amy Sussman/WireImage; Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty 

Jack White inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November, Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) at a DOGE hearing in February

Jack White is calling out Republican congressman Tim Burchett for sharing a fake A.I.-generated video of the musician saying Trump supporters are fascists, as well as using "grade school bullying" while insulting his physical appearance.

On Monday, the former White Stripes frontman posted a lengthy statement on his Instagram condemning the Tennessee politician — White's home state — for reposting a fake video on social media from a MAGA account claiming the musician said to Trump supporters, "Don’t even think about listening to my music, you fascists."

[Imbecile] Congressman Burchett commented on his repost of the video, "That cute girl from the Addams Family got really ugly and angry." And when a Twitter user pointed out that the video wasn't real, [the dumb MAGA moron] Burchett responded, "You mean it’s not the girl from the Addams Family?"

White didn't hold back in his own response slamming the politician for his "embarrassing" bullying tactics and lack of tact.

Kevin Sabitus/Getty - Jack White performs November 27 in Detroit during Lions-Packers halftime show

"Can you believe that a U.S. congressman, that's right, a CONGRESSMAN (from my state no less), a once hallowed and respected position in our society, would repost an AI generated video, containing a false comment that I never said and refuted (without researching that I might add) and like a 10 year old on a playground, add to it attempted insults to my physical appearance?" White wrote on Instagram. "What kind of joke are we all living in now? All of Trump's lackeys and bootlicks like this elected official are cowards that would never talk this way to anybody like me or you in person."

White went on to blame President Donald Trump for lowering the bar "when he brought his scourge to this government."

"Neither him nor his sycophantic congressmen and women manifest class or dignity, they all just regurgitate cheap, childish, grade school bullying points and fake christian(!) rhetoric," he added. "It's really sad how embarrassing our leadership has become, I so wish the average American conservative could have a conversation with any intelligent people in other countries around the world, just for one brief moment, and actually see just what a joke our government (and by proxy our country) has become. All down to giving power and a soapbox to low class playground bullies the likes of Trump and Congressman Burchett."

The rocker then declared that his home state of Tennessee "deserves better" than Burchett.

"But you and your cult are too dug in and blinded to even realize it," White said. "Holding a bible in one hand and a flag in the other while you stomp out our democracy day by day in the service of one man's ego so that he can use taxpayer money to receive his fake peace prize and tear down the White House brick by brick. Embarrassing."

White ended his powerful statement by reiterating his belief that "there will come a time in the future when none of these right wingers will admit to being a part of this cult from this time period."

"All the maga hats will be in landfills and actual intelligent and honorable leadership will take their place," he added. "Let us remember the highly educated and well spoken leaders like JFK, FDR, MLK, from America's history, because when i look around now, I'm wondering if half of these so called representatives have ever actually read the constitution that they pledged an oath to."

Read White's full statement below:


This is hardly the first time White has spoken out against Trump and his administration. In August, he got into a heated exchange with the White House after communications director Steven Cheung called him a "washed-up, has-been loser" in response to his criticism of Trump's policies.

"Here's my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being," White said. "He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy. He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift."

In September 2024, he and his White Stripes member Meg White filed a lawsuit against Trump for "flagrant misappropriation" for using the band's hit song "Seven Nation Army" in a video.

"Don't even think about using my music you fascists," he wrote on Instagram at the time. "Law suit coming from my lawyers about this (to add to your 5 thousand others.)"

Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly

Trump Vetoes Bipartisan Bills in Retaliation against Native and Rural Americans

His ballroom ($500 million) and his luxury Boeing 747-8 jet gift from Qatar ($400 million plus $1 billion for retrofitting) will be more costly than the price tags of these two bills who would have served rural Americans in Colorado and Arkansas and Native Americans in Florida. The senile demented ass---- is an elitist, friend and partner of a criminal pedophile, and has contempt for disenfranchised Americans. Good job MAGA morons. 

In Colorado, Trump wants the State to pardon and release Tina Peters, a former GOP county election official who was convicted and sentenced to a multiyear prison sentence for tampering with voting machines. He loves to pardon criminals like him, but can only pardon federally-sentenced criminals, not criminals sentenced by the states.
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Trump issues his first vetoes of this term
Joe Walsh
Wed, December 31, 2025


Joe Raedle / Getty Images


President Trump used his veto power this week for the first time since returning to the White House, rejecting a pair of bipartisan bills designed to make it easier to build a water pipeline in Colorado and give a Native American tribe more control over a portion of the Everglades.

Mr. Trump vetoed the two bills on Monday, the White House announced on X, after they were sent to his desk earlier this month. The bills had backers in both parties, and they passed the House and Senate through voice votes. Both houses of Congress would need to pass the bills again by a two-thirds margin to override the president's veto.

It's fairly rare for the president to exercise his veto power, especially when the president's party controls Congress. Mr. Trump vetoed 10 bills in his first term, all during his last two years in office, and former President Joe Biden used the veto power 13 times while in office.

One of the bills — the Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act — would have added a small village called the Osceola Camp to a section of the Florida Everglades that the Miccosukee Native American Tribe has control over. It would also require the Department of the Interior to take action to protect structures in the village from flooding.

The bill was backed by Florida Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Ashley Moody, and by GOP Rep. Carlos Gimenez and Democratic Rep. Darren Soto. Shortly before it passed the House in July, Gimenez said the bill was "about fairness and conservation."

"It ensures the Miccosukee Tribe has the autonomy to protect their homes, land and their way of life," Gimenez said in a speech on the House floor.

But in a message to Congress on Tuesday, Mr. Trump said the project benefits "special interests" — and accused the tribe of not cooperating with his immigration policies.

He wrote that "despite seeking funding and special treatment from the Federal Government, the Miccosukee Tribe has actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected."

Earlier this year, the tribe joined a lawsuit challenging an immigration detention center in the Everglades that state and federal officials refer to as "Alligator Alcatraz." The tribe has argued the facility could hurt the surrounding environment, impacting the tribe's ability to hunt and hold ceremonies on the land.

The president also argued that the Osceola Camp was originally created without authorization, writing, "it is not the Federal Government's responsibility to pay to fix problems in an area that the Tribe has never been authorized to occupy."

CBS News has reached out to the tribe for comment.

The other piece of legislation that faced a presidential veto this week was the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act. That bill was aimed at completing a long-planned water pipeline that could serve some 50,000 people in southeastern Colorado.

The pipeline was first proposed during President John F. Kennedy's administration, part of a series of water projects in Colorado. But it was never built, in part because federal law required local communities to pay for it, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. A 2009 law changed the funding breakdown and allowed local governments to pick up only 35% of the tab. The bill that was passed this year would have reduced those local entities' interest payments and given them more time to repay the costs.

Mr. Trump said he vetoed the bill as part of a broader push to cut "taxpayer handouts." He pointed to the pipeline's expected price tag — the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation estimated in 2023 it would cost about $1.4 billion, double the projected price seven years earlier.

The president argued the legislation "would continue the failed policies of the past by forcing Federal taxpayers to bear even more of the massive costs of a local water project."

The bill was backed by the state's two Democratic senators and by Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert and Jeff Hurd, whose districts include areas that would be served by the pipeline.

Boebert told CBS News in a statement the veto was "very disappointing," writing: "This fight is not over."

Boebert castigated the veto in a separate statement to local reporter Kyle Clark, calling the bill "completely non-controversial" and saying she hopes Mr. Trump's veto "has nothing to do with political retaliation."

"I must have missed the rally where he stood in Colorado and promised to personally derail critical water infrastructure projects," Boebert wrote. "My bad, I thought the campaign was about lowering costs and cutting red tape."

Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado also strongly criticized the president's decision, writing on X: "Donald Trump is playing partisan games and punishing Colorado by making rural communities suffer without clean drinking water."

Fellow Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet accused the president of seeking "revenge."

Boebert drew attention earlier this year by breaking with Mr. Trump and signing a petition to force a House vote on a bill to release files on Jeffrey Epstein. The bill ultimately passed by nearly unanimous margins after Mr. Trump endorsed it.

Mr. Trump has also lashed out at Colorado officials over the case of Tina Peters, a former GOP county election official who was convicted and sentenced to a multiyear prison sentence for tampering with voting machines. He said in August he would take "harsh measures" if she isn't released from custody.

Iowans Trounce MAGA and Pick Democrat for State Senate

Fast Train Hurtling for November 2026.

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Democrat Renee Hardman wins Iowa state Senate special election
HANNAH FINGERHUT and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
Updated Wed, December 31, 2025



Special Election Iowa - This combination of undated images provided by Hardman for Iowa and Lucas Loftin on Friday, Dec. 26, 2205, shows Democrat Renee Hardman and Republican Lucas Loftin, who are running against each other in the special election for the state Senate seat representing parts of Des Moines’ suburbs. (Hardman for Iowa, Lucas Loftin via AP)
ASSOCIATED PRESS

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Renee Hardman was elected to the Iowa state Senate on Tuesday in a holiday-week special election, denying Republicans’ bid to reclaim two-thirds control of the chamber.

Hardman bested Republican Lucas Loftin by an overwhelming margin to win the seat representing parts of Des Moines’ suburbs. It became vacant after the Oct. 6 death of state Sen. Claire Celsi, a Democrat.

Hardman, CEO of nonprofit Lutheran Services of Iowa and a member of the West Des Moines City Council, becomes the first Black woman elected to the Senate.

Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in the district by about 3,300 voters, or 37% to 30%.

A GOP win would have given the party a supermajority once again, just months after a Democrat flipped a Republican seat in an August special election, giving Democrats 17 seats to Republicans’ 33. Celsi’s death made that 16.

Senate Republicans left Des Moines last spring with a supermajority, which allows the party to easily confirm Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds’ appointments to state agencies and commissions.

Without a supermajority, Republicans will have to get support from at least one Democrat to approve Reynolds’ nominees.

No Wants To Perform at the Kennedy Center Anymore

 

Why couldn't the Moron Donald Dumb create his own racist, hateful, radical rightwing Fascist, and neo-Nazi Performing Farts Center bearing his cursed name? 

Why did he have to parasitize and hijack a center created as a memorial to a truly great president who was assassinated by a 1960's version of MAGA morons: a Texan Evangelical Protestant who killed the country's first ever Catholic president? 

The answer is simply that Trump is jealous and seething with an inferiority complex vis-a-vis the Kennedys. He knows that he and his dynasty of corrupt leeches can never rise up to the shoe sole of John F. Kennedy. 

No sane artist would perform under the name of miserable and demented Donald Dumb who has not one artsy bone in his disgusting soulless physique. So he thought he would just hitch a ride and leech on the back of a smarter and decent president, John F. Kennedy. 

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I Can't Believe No One Wants to Perform at the Kennedy Center Now That Trump Is Destroying It

After the Trump-picked board voted to add Trump’s name, a handful of artists have canceled their performances, which the Trump-selected chairman has called “a form of derangement syndrome.”

Lauren Tousignant

Tue, December 30, 2025

It is the biggest bummer of my current life that I got stuck in the universe where Trump is a giant brat baby, Putin sycophant, and wannabe dictator, and not the universe where he was hugged as a child and encouraged to pursue his Broadway dreams. Alas, because he wasn’t hugged as a child—and was likely deeply discouraged from ever performing anything besides fragile masculinity—he is using all the pent-up rage of unrealized ambition to turn the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts into a tacky 1980s Atlantic City casino drowning in fake gold appliqués. And, shocker! No one (outside of the poisoned MAGA bubble) wants to perform there anymore.

On December 18, the Board of the Kennedy Center–whose members were all chosen by Trump–voted to rename the storied performing arts center the Trump Kennedy Center. Less than 24 hours after they all met in Palm Beach, workers added “THE DONALD J. TRUMP AND” above the Kennedy Center’s name. Technically, only Congress can approve a rename, so this is all illegal—but add it to the administration’s list of illegal actions, I guess. The Kennedy family is deeply pissed.

Two more groups have since pulled their upcoming performances because of the renaming: The Cookers, a jazz ensemble scheduled to perform on New Year’s Eve, and Doug Varone and Dancers, a New York dance company that was set to celebrate its 40th anniversary with two performances in April. The Center’s chairman, Richard Grenell—again, hand-selected by Trump—has accused everyone of having Trump Derangment Syndrome.

“Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice,” the Cookers said in a statement. “Some of us have been making this music for many decades, and that history still shapes us.”

“It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating,” Varone told the New York Times in an email, adding that they’ll be losing $40,000. Personally, I’d also rather go broke than perform beneath anything bearing Trump’s name.

On Monday, Grenell called both groups “far-left political activists,” adding that he believes “boycotting the arts to show you support the arts is a form of derangement syndrome.” Obviously, artists protesting the government is the most artist thing to ever happen, but God forbid you ask anyone in MAGA world to read a non-Trump book once in a while.

Immediately after the name change, drum and vibraphone player Chuck Redd canceled his Christmas Eve concert, which he’s hosted every year since 2006. Grenell dismissed it as a “political stunt,” accused Redd of “classic intolerance,” and threatened him with a $1 million lawsuit. Try looking in a mirror and saying those things, Grenell.

“Your decision to withdraw at the last moment—explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure—is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution,” Grenell wrote in the letter, which was shared with the Associated Press.

Last week, folk singer Kristy Lee also canceled her free concert on Jan. 14. “I won’t lie to you, canceling shows hurts,” she wrote on Instagram. “This is how I keep the lights on. But losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.”

Who needs ‘Hamilton’ at the Kennedy Center when you can go watch lara trump perform this chart bottoming song instead???

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— Covie (@covie_93) December 30, 2025

In February, after Trump got rid of the Center’s board and replaced it with only his supporters, a slew of artists canceled their appearances and events, including Issa Rae, the singer-songwriter Ben Folds, Pulitzer winner Rhiannon Giddens, and the producer of Hamilton, Jeffrey Seller, canceled the show’s run.

Trump also recently bragged on Truth Social about marble armrests he says may be added to the cultural hub of the United States—a fitting obsession for a “president” hollowing out a national landmark in order to build another monument to himself.

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Donald Trump Attacks Kennedy Family on Truth Social Hours After Death of JFK's Granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg

The president took to Truth Social hours after the Kennedy family announced their tragic loss to share posts from MAGA supporters mocking the political dynasty
Meredith Kile
Wed, December 31, 2025

NEED TO KNOW

In the hours following the death of Caroline Kennedy's daughter Tatiana Schlossberg, President Donald Trump took to social media to mock the famous political family.

On Truth Social on the afternoon of Dec. 30, Trump shared screenshots of MAGA supporters insulting the Kennedys for their response to his recent decision to add his own name to the Kennedy Center.

Members of the family have claimed that Trump is barred from renaming the center "by federal law," however, work crews have already added his name above JFK's on the historic memorial site.

As the Kennedys mourned the untimely death of Tatiana Schlossberg — the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy — Donald Trump took to social media to share posts mocking the famous family.

Tatiana, the middle child of Caroline Kennedy and her husband, Edwin Schlossberg, died on Tuesday, Dec. 30, at age 35, just over a month after publicly sharing that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.

The news was shared by the social media accounts for the JFK Library Foundation, on behalf of Tatiana's family, which included her husband, Dr. George Moran, and their young children, Edwin and Josephine.

"Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts," read the post, which was signed by "George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory."

Trump did not directly mention Tatiana's death in his social media deluge following her death. Instead, he shared screenshots of MAGA supporters mocking the famous political family for their recent responses to his decision to add his name to the Kennedy Center, a historic performance venue in Washington, D.C., which was dedicated as a memorial to JFK following his assassination in Dallas, Texas, in 1963.

"The Kennedy Family have LONG neglected the Kennedy Center, btw," claimed one. "They don’t raise money for it. They never show up. And the only Kennedy who has been there recently is a member of Trump’s cabinet."

"The Trumps have always been supporters of the arts. The Kennedys are supporters of the Kennedys," read another.

Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Work crews add Donald Trump's name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Dec. 18, 2025

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Thursday, Dec. 18, that the board of the historic venue had "voted unanimously" to rename the building to the "Trump-Kennedy Center." The following day, work crews added "The Donald Trump and" above the previously-existing lettering, which read, "The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts."

However, controversy quickly arose among members of the Kennedy Center board and the family itself. Tatiana's brother, Jack Schlossberg, wrote on X that "microphones were muted" during the conference call where the board voted, and the outcome was "NOT unanimous."

Jack's claim aligned with comments made by Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty, who serves as an ex-officio member of the Kennedy Center board. Following the vote, Beatty took to X with allegations that she and other opponents of the vote were muted on the call and were not allowed to vote their differing opinions.

"For the record. This was not unanimous. I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move," Beatty, 75, wrote. "Also for the record, this was not on the agenda. This was not consensus. This is censorship."

In her video message, she continued, "Clearly the Congress has a say in this. This center, the Kennedy Center, was created by the Congress. I think it's important for us to know that this is just another attempt to evade the law and not let the people have a say."

Other Kennedys have approached the matter from a legal standpoint. "The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law," wrote Joe Kennedy III, the grandson of former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. "It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says."

The Kennedys have yet to respond to Trump's latest attacks. The only family members who have posted to social media in the hours following Tatiana's death have been those sharing loving tributes, like Caroline's cousin, Maria Shriver, who was directly mocked in some of Trump's screenshots.

"I return to this space today to pay tribute to my sweet, beloved Tatiana, who left this earth today," Shriver wrote on X. "I return to this space to pay tribute and honor her loving and supportive family, who came together and did everything they possibly could do to help her. I return to this space heartbroken because Tatiana loved life. She loved her life, and she fought like hell to try to save it."

"I cannot make sense of this. I cannot make any sense of it at all. None. Zero," she continued. "My heart has always been with my cousin Caroline ever since we were little kids. My entire being is with her now. What a rock she has been."

"Those of us left behind will make sure Eddie and Josie know what a beautiful, courageous spirit their mother was and will always be. She takes after her extraordinary mother, Caroline. May we all hold Tatiana’s family in our collective embrace not just today, but in the days ahead, and may each of you who read this know how lucky you are to be alive right now. Please pause and honor your life. It truly is such a gift."

Read the original article on People

 

 

It's a White US Woman - Not Somalis, not Ilhan Omar - Behind Minnesota Fraud

The MAGA xenophobia and racism blame Somali immigrants for the Minnesota fraud case. But it's "one of them", a US-Born White woman by the name of Amiee Bock who is the ringleader behind the fraud and she was put in jail by President Biden. But white supremacist hatred overrides facts.


Aimee Bock, Founder and executive director of the nonprofit organization Feeding Our Future arrives at the Minneapolis federal courthouse on March 19 in Minneapolis.
Kerem Yücel | MPR News file

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Fox Contributor Reminds Colleagues Minnesota Fraud Ringleader Is a ‘White Woman’ Who Is ‘Already in Prison’

Alex Griffing

Wed, December 31, 2025

Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall pushed back on the narrative surrounding Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and the alleged billions of dollars taken by fraudsters in the state that many on the right blame on Somali immigrants. Marshall joined her fellow Outnumbered panelists on Tuesday to discuss the topic, but used her time to offer some historical context on the scandal.

“Well, I looked at what he [Walz] could be doing. I looked at what he is doing,” Marshall said to her fellow panelists, who were accusing Walz of not doing enough.

“One of the things that ties his hands is this very legislature that is trying to get him to resign. Interestingly, they’re not asking for a recall. So when they say the people of Minnesota don’t want him, well, put it to a recall. Let the people in Minnesota decide,” Marshall argued, adding:

Todd, love you. Google—if you Google, actually, local Minnesota news outlets have been reporting on this for years. Speaking of years, during the Biden administration, there were 59 people convicted so far. The ringleader is not Somalian. She’s a white woman named Aimee Bock. She was found guilty on all seven counts that were brought against her. So there are people that are already in prison. And remember, some of these are not DHS or federal-related facilities. Some of these facilities were closed down for other reasons, not even fraud.

But back to your question about Tim Walz: He asked the legislature in his state to give him more authority so that he could do more, and they said no. One, two—he also has closed a number of these centers already, and not just for fraud. They were investigating them for everything else. One, for example, on that video that went out—not the one from years ago, the one just recently—they were already closed because they were a bad daycare center. There was no fraud. They were just not doing a good job of the daycare.

He hired outside firms to audit the payments to these organizations. He shut down the housing stabilization entirely, that department entirely. He has hired an overseer for this specifically, and he continues to try and get more. And I don’t think, honestly, I don’t think he should resign. I don’t think he’s going to resign. I do think it’s political, and Republicans say it’s not. One, it’s Republicans asking for him to resign, and two, he’s less than a year from re-election, and this is definitely gonna put a ding and a chink in his armor as he runs.

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ESCALATING racism against Somali-American immigrants - The beautiful ugliness of white America.

 

- A typical MAGA dumb blonde white Cinnabon employee hurls unprovoked racist insults against innocent Somali customers;

 

- She first claims they harassed her;

 

- But police video footage shows she was lying throughout the episode;

 

- She then is forced to admit she was lying, making up false accusations against the customers, and did attack them because she is proud to be racist. 

 

In MAGA culture, it's ok to lie, make up "facts" when no one is looking, pretend to be a victim of innocent dark-skinned immigrants, and invent BS stories to belittle and blame innocent immigrants. They have learned their tactics from their convicted felon ringleader Donald Trump.


Screenshot:Ashwaubenon Dept. of Public Safety/TMZ

Body cam footage of a police officer speaking to the employee shows her claiming that the Somali couple, whom she called the N-word, was threatening her.

The Cinnabon employee who was fired after berating Somali customers on camera told a police officer that she was the one who was being harassed, not the other way around.

But TMZ obtained body camera footage from the cop who confronted the employee after the incident took place, which shows her telling him that the couple “treated me like sh*t first.”

“They came here and harassed me,” she said. “I have PTSD; they knew exactly that I was ill. It’s not the first time, [this is] not the second time. Don’t try to come at me when they’re threatening me.”

The officer then asked how she was threatened by the customers, to which she responded, “I don’t know, they started threatening me. I have no idea.”

Earlier this month, a video went viral on social media of a Somali couple, a husband and wife, visiting a Cinnabon at a mall in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin. According to the person who posted the original video, who claimed to be a cousin of the wife, the exchange that started with the couple asking the Cinnabon employee for more caramel ended in a back-and-forth between the two parties. Per the caption, the couple began recording after the employee, who is white, called the wife’s hijab a “witchcraft bandana.”

The employee called the couple the N-word and proclaimed, “I am racist, and I’ll say that to the whole entire world,” to the camera.

The timing of the video was especially poignant as President Donald Trump had recently made statements attacking Somali people and saying he doesn’t want them in the country.

The release of the latest footage shows that the Cinnabon employee claimed she was the victim, even calling the entire situation a “set up.”

The officer reacted by saying that she could either cooperate and give her side of the story or she would be arrested for disorderly conduct. She complies and shares that her name is Crystal (her full name is censored).

Ultimately, the footage shows that Crystal did not share her full perspective with the officer, instead saying that two other girls had harassed her before the couple came to the store, but could not explain the connection between the separate customers. She also accuses the officer of being sent by someone named “Tom,” to which the officer replies with confusion.

After the exchange proves to be fruitless, she says that she will call a lawyer, and the officer tells her she has that right. Then he walks away and says he is coming back.

Even Overseas Among Former Admirers, Trump has Become a Laughingstock

Back in 2015, when he first surged on the stage to become president "by accident", people I've visited with overseas in Europe and the Near East, expressed their admiration for the "Strong Idiot" who claimed he could change the world by the sheer force of his charm and personality, which tuned out to be a huge failure because bullying and bribing don't change the world for the better, but for the worse.

Back then, I used one word to tell them what I, as an American, think of Trump: HE'S AN IDIOT. Disappointed they were but did not change their conviction.

Nowadays, they contact me and ask me how come Americans have voted for such an idiot? I tell them, I told you so. It's as if they needed to see him performing in office to make a judgment, but not before even though all indicators were there. From overseas, they get "surface news" that dwells on grand declarations but not on the substance of the criminal all Americans knew Trump is.

Yes, the world now has seen Trump in action and understand what a dangerous imbecile he is. Even if their leaders keep meeting with him and pay him lip service, everyone knows the undenibale fact that the US has lost its world leadership for good. The damage is done inside, it is no longer on the surface.

The US has become the Village Idiot of the world thanks to Trump. He is a village idiot with dangerous weapons, but that is not a convincing argument. Jerry Seinfled once said in one of his episodes, "these people don't understand. That is why they have guns".
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Somebody Needs to Tell Trump Everybody Is Laughing at Him
Mona Charen
Tue, December 30, 2025



IN THE COURSE OF HIS LOSING RACE with the teleprompter during his Oval Office address on December 17, President Trump returned to a theme that obsesses him—respect. Even before his entry into politics, Trump was convinced that “weak” leaders, including Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Obama, were despised by other nations and that the United States was a laughingstock. As of 2016, according to a Washington Post tally, Trump had fumed at least one hundred times that other nations were “laughing at us.” Between 2020 and 2024, he probably exceeded that total, and in fact, even now that Biden is in the rearview mirror, Trump perseverates about how much Biden was scorned by the world.

After a litany of lies and an extra helping of gibberish (“We had men playing in women’s sports, transgender for everybody, crime at record levels with law enforcement and words such as that just absolutely forbidden”), Trump closed with the respect theme:

"When the world looks at us next year, let them see a nation that is loyal to its citizens, faithful to its workers, confident to its identity, certain to its destiny, and the envy of the entire globe. We are respected again, like we have never been respected before."

His speechwriters might want to make a note that the word “of” should follow the words “confident” and “certain,” not “to.” And while we’re offering constructive criticism, the president might profit from a little thought experiment.

Suppose you are driving in a foreign country. It’s late at night and you get pulled over by a policeman. After examining your passport and driver’s license, he narrows his eyes, gives his palm a few smacks with his nightstick, and demands a $1,000 bribe to let your infraction go. You might pay the man, but do you come away from this encounter respecting him? Or do you drive off, shaken and angry, concluding that the cop and maybe the whole country is rotten?

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The president seems genuinely not to grasp the difference between respect and fear, and because he has surrounded himself with fawning toadies, there isn’t anyone available to explain it to him. Accordingly, here is my modest effort to do so:

Dear President Trump,

Of all the wrong ideas you hold in your heart—that tariffs are paid by foreigners, that good looks are the chief credential for cabinet offices, that the 2020 election was rigged, that allies are bloodsuckers we’d be better off without—perhaps the most gobsmacking is your cherished notion that people respect you when they kiss your ass.

Sorry, that’s not true. They despise you on two levels. On the first level, because you’ve managed to get elected president, you do have leverage that nearly everyone must grapple with in some fashion. (Think of Volodymyr Zelensky.) That power comes not from you personally but from the great strength of this country, economic, military, and diplomatic. So yes, when you use that leverage to extort lavish praise from people, they will offer it. But they don’t mean a word of it. Not a word. And in their hearts they hate you for demeaning them in this fashion instead of treating them with respect.

The second level of contempt arises from the knowledge—recognized by the whole world, Mr. Trump, except you—that your extravagant need for attention and praise is evidence of your emotional stuntedness. With every renaming of a building you are sending up a signal that screams “I am so insecure!” And here’s the truth: You cannot piggyback on the respect John F. Kennedy earned by slapping your name on the arts center that was named by statute to be his living memorial. Your name may be side by side with his on the marble for now, but in our hearts, we will never respect you. Quite the opposite—for all of your depredations and twice on Sunday for attempting to hijack someone else’s honor.

It gets worse. It isn’t just that your ravenous hunger for recognition betrays a personality disorder, it’s that your particular style of seeking it really does provoke ridicule—that’s another word for “they’re laughing at us.”

The “Gulf of America”? Musing about absorbing Canada into the United States whether they like it or not? Decorating the Oval Office in a Saddam Hussein aesthetic? Threatening to expropriate Greenland from our ally Denmark? Truly great nations don’t need to prove their manhood by lording it over smaller ones. Imposing tariffs on islands inhabited only by penguins? Panting after a Nobel Peace Prize so flagrantly that you’re claiming to have settled eight wars? In two of those cases, there was no war. In the other six, the conflicts are either ongoing or were largely settled without you. Offering meme coins for sale to the highest bidder? Auctioning off pardons to criminals and leaders on the take? You bet they’re laughing.

Among the specific nations whose contempt you most often cited against other presidents, the go-to was China. China was, in your telling, always gloating about getting one over on Biden, Obama, etc. Well, just in the past few weeks, you have agreed to give China access to high-end microchips that are crucial for commercial and military use (and that were withheld by Biden), and you have held your tongue as China has pressured our ally Japan over its support of Taiwan. You even soft-pedaled the threat from China in your National Security Strategy. A younger Trump might have demanded, ‘What did we get in return?’ Nothing.

Our traditional allies are not always laughing. More often they’re wringing their hands as you luxuriate in the company of international outlaws like Vladimir Putin and Nayib Bukele, and mouth stupendous lies such as that Zelensky started the war with Russia.

In short, there has never been a president who has made the United States less respected than you have. We are, to borrow a phrase, disrespected like never before. Whether your twisted ego can recognize that is open to question, but what is not debatable is that virtually the whole world knows.

Trump Wasting $400 Million on Ballroom: Next Democrat President to Tear it Down

The Great Moron, the senile demented old geezer Donald Trump, keeps bragging about his new $400 million White House ballroom.

If a president can do what he wants without approval from Congress, then I assume the next president, who will surely be a Democrat, will also do as he pleases. And in order to erase the shame of having had a criminal idiot for a president, that new president will inevitably call on a demolition crew and tear down the ugly monster that will dwarf the White House itself. 

Trump's under-construction ballroom necessitated the demolition of the historic East Wing of the White House and did not undergo a public review process via the National Capital Planning Commission to secure approval. The next Democrat president will seek and obtain Congressional approval to demolish the ballroom. 

What a waste. $400 million, Trump says, are from his own money. Still a waste.  

Racist FOX News Can't Have Enough Berating Successful Immigrant Ilhan Omar....

 ...because she's BLACK. She's an IMMIGRANT from SHITHOLE country Somalia, and has married a very successful WHITE US-BORN American businessman by the name of Tim Mynett.

FOX has run out of news it can exploit to drill their racist anti-immigration white supremacist ideology. They adulate the worst criminal in all of American history who made it to the presidency by cheating and by seditious attempt at toppling the US government. But FOX won't discuss Trump's crimes. They need a dark-skinned human being to presecute, an immigrant to boot, and Ilhan Omar is the perfect combo, though she's never done anything wrong, let alone criminal. 

FOX even promoted the notion that Omar married her brother and cheated on her immigration application. This sounds a lot like Tump's birther conspiracy that claimed Barack Obama - who is BLACK - is not an American. 

Tim Mynett, the husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar is a very successful businessman. The value of his companies has exploded in recent years, growing more than 20 times in under a year, according to congressional disclosures. Of course, white supremacist racists don't like to see a white American succeed when he is married to a BLACK IMMIGRANT. 

Omar disclosed 2024 evaluations of Rose Lake Capital LLC, a business firm co-founded by her husband, at somewhere between $5 million and $25 million in 2024. Nothing in comparison to Trump's illegal billion-dollar deals he is making from the White House and around the world by dispatching his children and son-in-law to blend "fake peacemaking" with business deals. which he runs from the White House hiding behind his family. 

But that is Okay for the morons of FOX NEWS. When you are a racist dumb White American, you think that the whole world is like you and that you can peddle your lies and racism around. But only the MAGA morons who voted for Trump believe FOX's crappy news and that is very damaging to the country.

European Immigrants to US Engage in Criminal Acts. Deserves a Trump Ban!

Three racially PURE WHITE CHRISTIAN immigrants from LATVIA in Eastern Europe have been arrested in Texas for running a $14 million gift card fraud scheme across several states. Kristians Petroviskis, Romunds Cubrevics and Nurmunds Ulevicus were arrested by the Texas Financial Crimes Intelligence Center (FCIC).

​The men, all Latvian citizens, told investigators that they stole gift cards from about 10 stores each day, seven days a week, since May. They would then carefully remove the packaging.

​"The card is removed, and then the material on the back that covers up the numbers to transfer anything or activate the card is then removed so that they can see it," FCIC Director Adam Colby said. "The numbers that are on the card are then programmed into another program that the criminals are using, which will now monitor that card."

After the numbers on the cards are programmed into another, the cards were reassembled to appear new, without scratches, and placed back onto store shelves for someone to buy.

​"As soon as it is activated and money placed onto that card, the criminals are now aware of it, but they now have the ability to transfer the money off of that card and onto another card where it is then cashed out or used to buy high-end merchandise," said Colby.

At the time of their arrest, authorities allegedly found more than 400 gift cards on them, authorities said. The trio targeted stores in multiple cities, including Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.

They are charged with first-degree fraudulent possession of gift cards. One wonders whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will hunt them down the street, brutalize them and send them to some forsaken prison... 

Oh, but I forget. ICE won't. THEY ARE WHITE EUROPEANS, THE KIND THAT STEPHEN MILLER WANTS IN THIS COUNTRY. THEY CAN'T BE BRUTALIZED. ONLY HISPANICS AND OTHER GARBAGE PEOPLE ARE ELIBIGLE FOR BRUTALITY. THE THREE LATVIANS WOULD BE GREAT CANDIDATES TO JOIN PROUD BOYS OR OATH KEEPERS.

SCOTUS's Hypocrite Kavanaugh Regrets Backing ICE's Brutality to Hispanics

The beer-guzzling supreme court justice, Radical Right judge Brett Kavanaugh, must have had a few brews when he said he regretted voting to enable Trump's ICE to arrest and brutalize US citizens who look "Hispanic". A good third of the country's population is of Hispanic origin. Studying law and being appointed by Trump are no guarantees of intelligence, decency and integrity.

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Brett Kavanaugh Is Trying to Walk Back “Kavanaugh Stops.” Too Late.

Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern
Tue, December 30, 2025 

Justice Brett Kavanaugh does not seem happy that his name has become synonymous with racist immigration enforcement. In September, the justice [KAVANAUGH] wrote that Hispanic residents’ “apparent ethnicity” could be a “relevant factor” in federal agents’ decision to stop them and demand proof of citizenship. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection promptly seized upon his opinion as a license to stop any Hispanic person on the basis of race—often with excessive, even sadistic force—and detain them until they proved their lawful presence. Law professor Anil Kalhan termed these encounters “Kavanaugh stops,” and the name swiftly caught on as evidence mounted that they had become standard practice across the country. Lawyers also provided courts with evidence that Kavanaugh had sanitized the reality of this practice to the point of fiction. The justice claimed that these were “brief investigative stops” and that any lawful resident would be “promptly” released. In truth, federal agents brutalized, kidnapped, and tormented people—including many U.S. citizens—simply because of their ethnicity, even after they asserted legal status.

Now it appears that Kavanaugh has some regrets. Last Tuesday, the justice backtracked from his previous position without quite acknowledging the retreat. He did so in a concurrence to the Supreme Court’s decision to block President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard—a case that does not even directly concern “Kavanaugh stops.” In a footnote, he declared that race and ethnicity could not be “considerations” when officers make “immigration stops or arrests.” That directly conflicts with his earlier assertion that officers can use race and ethnicity as a “factor” when deciding whom to detain. The two positions cannot be reconciled. Yet Kavanaugh did not admit that he had changed his position; he simply pretended that the law in this area was “clear,” when he himself muddied it just months earlier.

On this week’s episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed this strange, tacit walk-back.

Dahlia Lithwick: It’s the icing on top of the Christmas cake that Brett Kavanaugh, in an unrelated discussion, gave himself the gift of forgiveness for his notorious “Kavanaugh stops” opinion.

Mark Joseph Stern: I think he is begging us to please cease and desist calling them “Kavanaugh stops.” This footnote is buried in the opinion and doesn’t really have anything to do with it. He just says: By the way, this conflict is about immigration stops. Then he segues into his view on the law around immigration stops, which he claims to be “longstanding and clear.” He writes: “The Fourth Amendment requires that immigration stops must be based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence, stops must be brief, arrests must be based on probable cause, and officers must not employ excessive force. Moreover, the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity.”

Wow! Immigration stops can’t be based on race? What a concept! A concept that you, Brett Kavanaugh, rejected just a few months ago, in September, in the Vasquez Perdomo case. Back then, you wrote that immigration stops could be at least partly based on race or ethnicity, and that a person’s appearance as Latino could be one reason for them to be stopped by immigration officers.

I wonder what has changed since September.

Well, I think he is trying to rid “Kavanaugh stops” from the discourse, which is never going to happen. And maybe he’s trying to send a message to the Trump administration to cool it down. Because now we have CBP Chief [the bovine human] Greg Bovino declaring that agents can engage in racial profiling. Bovino has even said that every single person in this country has to walk around with proof of citizenship or else face arrest on suspicion of being undocumented. Kavanaugh is probably a little unnerved that all these violent, racist arrests and abductions are taking his name. He doesn’t want to be remembered by history as this great villain who greenlit the worst wave of violent racial profiling by the federal government in ages. But this footnote changes nothing. He cannot walk back what he has unleashed.

This goes to all the quibbles that we surfaced about the shadow docket when Vasquez Perdomo came out. Because if the justices are going to go ahead and reverse precedent about immigration stops, and then their decision gets operationalized by the Trump administration, they can’t say: Oh, sorry, we didn’t mean that. They certainly can’t do it in a case that does not directly relate back to “Kavanaugh stops.” So this is weird dicta in a random case that is trying to undo crappy but unfortunately enforceable doctrine. And Kavanaugh is just like: No, it’s the shadow docket—I can do what I want! I get a do-over. I get takesies-backsies. We’re now at full Etch A Sketch: I’m making law. I’m breaking law. I’m changing law.

I’ve seen some commentators praise Kavanaugh for sort of responding to criticism here. I do not think he gets any points. He did what he did in Vasquez Perdomo; he should have foreseen the consequences. Every intelligent observer understood what was going to happen when his opinion dropped in September. Now he seems to regret it—though he still hasn’t apologized directly or acknowledged that he was wrong, and is pretending that what he said earlier is consonant with what he’s saying now. Too little, too late.