Lebanon Earns Most Severe Travel Warning by Trump's US

As the summer season is upon us and Lebanon is in dire need of tourists, Donald Dumb has decided to place Lebanon in the most severely restricted travel destination category.

This is at a time when Lebanon is beginning to emerge from 50 years of foreign-induced warfare by shithole countries like Iran, Israel, Syria, and other Arab countries. The money-obsessed Lebanese are desperately seeking to have anyone come spend a few dollars this summer to the otherwise boring Lebanese tourism industry. Fake western-style parties on beaches illegally owned by the corrupt politicians, unsafe food in a deeply unregulated environment, the risks associated with the ongoing warfare between the criminal Zionist settlers and the equally criminal Shiite Muslims of Hezbollah, garbage everywhere, the risks associated with the maniacal driving habits of Lebanese drivers in an environment where road safety and codes are absolutely ignored and unenforce by Lebanese police, and the creme de la creme: religious tourism where "faithful" tourists come to contemplate the huge difference between the aspirational religious beliefs the Lebanese claim on one hand, and their bigoted practices that are far removed from any morality and ethical standards on the other hand.

But Donald Dumb is helping. His State Department has Issued 'Do Not Travel' warning for 21 countries, including Lebanon. US citizens are told "NOT TO TRAVEL TO LEBANON" under the most severe of its four categories of warnings and advisories.

Level 1 travel advisory: "Exercise Normal Precautions". This is in place in popular tourist destinations like Japan, Bermuda, and the Cayman Islands and simply to remind travelers to be safe and exercise caution while overseas even if there is no explicit threat.

Level 2 travel advisory: "Exercise Increased Caution." This applies to countries where there is not an explicit threat or danger, but crime and risks prevail: Saudi Arabia, China, and Spain.

Level 3 advisory tells travelers to "Reconsider Travel." This applies to countries the US deems inherently dangerous because of heightened risks of crime, civil unrest, or terrorism. This warning is in place for 23 different countries including Chad, Niger, Egypt, Jamaica, and Colombia.

Level 4 advisory is the most serious, telling US travelers simply to "Do Not Travel" there. This is the most severe and applies to countries with active armed conflict, dangerous crimes where foreigners are targeted, and enemies of the United States. This list incljudes 21 different countries including Burkina Faso, Yemen, Iran, South Sudan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Lebanon, the Central African Republic, Belarus, Iraq, Ukraine, Venezuela, Haiti, Libya, Somalia, Russia, Burma, Mali, North Korea, and Sudan.

The question now is how will, say, European tourists react. They are definitely NOT going to the US because Trump is persecuting foreigners of all stripes, including those from friendly countries like the UKL, Germany and others. For having a mosquito crushed by accident between their passport pages, the US Customs and Border Protection Police could detain, shackle, strip and handcuff the tourist for "violating US regulations" and bringing unauthorized dirty animals into the sublimely clean and virginal US.  Instead of 10 days on a Hawaiian beach, the said European tourists might find themselves in a cage in the swamps of Louisina or worse be sent by mistake to notorious concentration camps in El Salvador.

But will they risk their lives to come to Lebanon to sift through the garbage strewn everywhere in neglected 7,000-years old archeological sites? Or be faced with an Israeli missile or drone strike? Or be held hostage by the Iranian militia of Hezbollah? 

Perhaps there is a very profitable business idea behind all of this: TERROTOURISM. As a business, you could sign up to be flown to Lebanon, have your plane hijacked, be held by pseudo-terrorists in dingy basements, be driven to war-torn areas of the country.... OMG, the adrenaline rush! Much better than the Louisiana prison!

Trump Targets Lebanese-born Amal Clooney and Husband George

George Clooney's Wife, Amal Alamuddin, May Be Denied Entry to United States
Stacy Carey
Tue, April 29, 2025


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Movie star George Clooney and his attorney and human rights activist wife, Amal Alamuddin Clooney, own homes all over the world. A new report, however, indicates that she may soon have issues entering the United States to visit the family's homes in California and New York. 

For one, she is Lebanese-born and as a "non-white foreigner" she is automatically persona non grata for the repressive and racist Trump regime. 

Second, as a human rights activist, her work is to fight against regimes like Trump's and their arbitrary cruelty and barbarity against those perceived as "non-white anglo-saxons".

Third, and more consistent with the enslavement of Trump by the Zionists of America, Alamuddin Clooney has worked for the International Criminal Court on cases related to the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by foreign colonial Zionist settlers against the indigenous native Palestinian population. As such, she is enemy number one for the Trump regime.

The Financial Times  recently reported that senior attorneys from the United Kingdom, including Alamuddin Clooney, have been "warned" that they may soon face sanctions that would impact their access to the U.S.

The issue, according to the Financial Times, is the involvement and advice provided by Clooney and others to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Specifically, insight related to the ICC's investigation into the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian population in the brutally and illegally occupied Gaza and the West Bank in Palestine.

The warnings originated from Britain's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, sources told the media outlet. In addition to Clooney, several other British attorneys who have done similar work also received warnings.

Earlier, ICC prosecutor and British resident Karim Khan was sanctioned and had assets and property blocked. In addition, Khan is unable to enter the U.S. Sanctions for Clooney and others could bring similar restrictions.

Amal Alamuddin Clooney was born in Lebanon and emigrated with her family to the United Kingdom. She studied at both Oxford and New York University, and was admitted to the New York bar in 2002. As a Lebanese-British barrister and human right activist, Amal Clooney is an international human rights lawyer. She has represented several high-profile clients, including former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad, Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa, Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, and Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy.

The brutal xenophobe American dictator Donald Trump has been "cleaning out" the US of US citizens, foreigners, immigrants, and anyone that opposes his white supremacist agenda. Attorneys who have defended pending deportation cases have themselves been harassed and arrested. 

Amal married George Clooney in September 2014 and have 7-year old twins, Alexander and Ella. In addition to the family's main home in Lake Como, Italy, the family owns properties in New York and California.

Trump's Police State: The New Dictatorship Around the Block

Definition of a Police State:

A police state describes a state whose government institutions exercise an extreme level of control over civil society and liberties. There is typically little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive, and the deployment of internal security and police forces play a heightened role in governance. A police state is a characteristic of authoritarian, totalitarian or illiberal regimes.

Welcome to Donald Trump's new-and-improved United States where the law of one man is the law of the jungle, and where the Dictator-in-Chief dispatches his police to terrorize people, confiscate their belongings, throw them in jail, and deport them to countries they've never known. Like the Soviet Union Communist dictatorship whose repressive methods aimed at preserving the rule of the elite politburo, the American Capitalist dictatorship of Donald Dumb is using the same repressive methods aiming at preserving the rule of the billionaire oligarchy.

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Opinion

ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves
Hafiz Rashid
Tue, April 29, 2025

Trump's police is harassing and persecuting its own US citizens

In Oklahoma City Thursday, about 20 federal immigration agents raided the wrong home, forcing a woman out of the house with her three daughters, not even leaving them enough time to get dressed, and then seized their phones, laptops, and life savings.

The woman had only moved into the house two weeks earlier, after relocating to Oklahoma from Maryland. The armed agents told the woman, identified by local TV station KFOR as “Marisa,” that they had a search warrant, but the named suspects on the warrant didn’t live in the house and weren’t connected to anyone in the family.

“We just moved here from Maryland,” Marisa said. “We’re citizens. That’s what I kept saying. We’re citizens.”

The agents, who identified themselves as U.S. marshals, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and FBI agents, didn’t seem to care, waking the family up, forcing them outside in their underwear, ransacking the house, and taking the family’s belongings as “evidence.”

“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” said Marisa. “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”

“They were very dismissive, very rough, very careless,” the woman added. “I kept pleading. I kept telling them we weren’t criminals. They were treating us like criminals. We were here by ourselves. We didn’t do anything.”

One agent told the family, “I know it was a little rough this morning.”

“It was so denigrating. That you do all of this to a family, to women, your fellow citizens. And it was ‘a little rough’? You literally traumatized me and my daughters for life. We’re going to have to go get help or get over this somehow,” Marisa said. The agents told her that it could take days or months for the family’s stuff to be returned, and wouldn’t even give her a business card.

It all fits a pattern of cruelty from the Trump administration in its efforts to deport as many people as it can. The White House doesn’t believe in due process or following the law, or even standards of basic decency. The violent raid in Oklahoma City would be wrong even against a family of undocumented immigrants, let alone U.S. citizens like Marisa and her daughters. Hopefully, she and other victims of the administration’s wanton behavior can get restitution.

Donald Dumb's 100-days: How He's rapidly Becoming a Sitting Donald Duck

Tomorrow Wednesday 30, 2025 marks Donald Dumb’s 100 days in office. He's already crashing in the polls, and I am already looking for Fall 2026 when he loses both the House and the Senate. That is when his most ardent MAGA moron backers and acolytes will start peeling off of him. They have their own political future to worry about, so past November 2026, Donald Dumb will become a sitting Donald Duck.

With the man as stupid as a simpleton businessman, he relies principally on “appearance” rather than on substance.

All business, especially American business, is run on perception and not substance. They even have a slogan for it, “IT’S ALL ABOUT PERCEPTION”. There is nothing more purely American than this: Poor on substance, rich on superficial sellable stupidity. It is American business that invented marketing and advertisement, both of which boil down essentially to convincing imbeciles to buy stuff they don’t need. In America, they replaced “citizens” with “consumers” as the constituents of a United Scams of America that has always been the substance of the superficial United States of America. Which confirms the fact that the US is run by a bunch of corporations that give Americans the false impression that they live in a democracy, when in fact they live in a huge concentration camp where they are constantly buggered into buying and consuming way beyond their means.

This is what the American dream has always been about: borrow, live on debt, buy stuff you don’t really need, do not save, spend all your money on your “WANTS” and not your “NEEDS”, and spend your life worrying about money you owe to banks and creditors.

The reason we’ve seen Donald Dumb and his envoys (Rubio, Witkoff) “rushing” Putin and Zelensky into striking a deal over the past two days is so that the Moron-in-Chief wants to appear on TV tomorrow Wednesday and brag that “he ended the Ukraine-Russian conflict” (though he promised he’d do it in 24 hours when it has yet to materialize after 2,400 hours).

Now the dumb asshole in the White Outhouse knows that Putin is the aggressor and the more powerful party in the conflict, so Donald Dumb keeps offering his criminal brother-in-arms Putin huge carrots and puny sticks. Even before there are any negotiations, Donald Dumb has already conceded everything to Putin: Huge chunks of territory to be sliced off Ukraine and given to Russia; Ukraine can’t join NATO; and no European forces to be stationed facing Russia along the new borders of Ukraine. What’s left to negotiate then?

The only thing that matters to Donald Dumb is to “appear” to have achieved something, even if he has to lie, as evident in his bimbo spokesperson's tweet yesterday: 

@PressSec / Via x.com

But in business, they also teach you about “opportunity cost” and Donald Dumb doesn’t seem to grasp the concept because his America is losing on so many fronts. No man is an island, and no country is an island. Here are some thoughts from your average Americans on the 100-day bullshit.

One Reddit user JayFloww123 asked: "Donald Trump is coming to the end of his first 100 days in office, how do you think he has done so far?" Over 17,000 people shared their opinions on the matter. Here's what they said below.

“I’m American, I’ve lost every last shred of respect I had for my country"

"I’m Korean. Korea, China, and Japan have been at each other’s throats for over a thousand years. But somehow, Donald Trump managed to unite all three of us against America. That’s honestly kind of impressive”.

"I'm from Quebec, Canada. We're often considered the most 'separatist' of all the provinces. And yet, somehow, Trump managed to unite Canadians across the country, Quebecers included. I never thought I’d see the day. Lol”.

"He promised to end the Russia-Ukraine war in one day. As a Russian and Ukrainian, I am still eagerly waiting to find out which day it's gonna be”.

"I mean we're still waiting for Mexico to pay for his wall, so I wouldn't hold my breath”.

"He'll just lie and say he's already won it, and then Fox News won't show anything else about it, so his base will just assume it happened. You want to fix America? Obliterate Fox News and put in place reasonable precautions against oligarchic replacement propaganda, meanwhile funding and supporting a reasonably neutral media organization... and wait 20 years”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this exhaustive laundry list of Donald Dumb’s "achievements" in 100 days:

• Pardons all violent January 6 criminals.
• He allowed Netanyhau and his Zionist criminal settlers to revoke the Gaza ceasefire and resume their genocide across all Palestine.
• Ukrainian ceasefire collapses/fails to launch.
• War with Houthis/ signal gate 1.0 and 2.0.
• Let's Houthis shoot down 10+ Reaper drones.
• Threatens invasion of partner countries/alienates allies (Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Panama).
• Threatens war with Iran.
• Threatens NATO alliance.
• Does Russia’s bidding against Ukraine/propaganda, pulling aid, intel, and capitulation to land demands.
• Marc Fogel was released for a Russian cybercriminal.
• Dismantles foreign cybercrime defense.
• Multiple aviation accidents/blames DEI.
• DEI historical removals like Jackie Robinson/ Enola gay.
• Releases millions of gallons of water in California to the wrong place after fires.
• Addresses none of the deadly tornadoes in the central plains (busy winning his own golf tournament).
• Markets down 10-20% / worst month since the depression/market manipulation
• Blows up his own trade deals and erases trillions from the market with the dollar down 9%.
• Giant tariff tax / global trade war / *no tariffs on Russia
• Crypto scams / Trump and Melania coins
• Pardons Silk Road creator and crypto crooks
• US boycotts/travel warnings/prolonged detainment
• Frozen NIH research grants and prevented federally funded scientists from traveling or talking about their work.
• Gutted USAID, wasting billions in aid and costing lives.
• Plans to cut funding to public media like NPR + PBS.
• Took over the Kennedy Center.
• Hangs mug shot in the White House.
• Grabs women by the pussy.
• Lets Elon's kid put a booger on the Resolute Desk.
• Doge chainsaw to federal agencies with no DOD cuts and an actual increase in federal spending /mass “DEI firings”.
• Stops loans and programs like Farm to School.
• Invites dictators to the White House.
• Loss of 1st and 5th amendment rights/deporting for opinions/due process/deporting homegrown criminals.
• El Salvadoran detention camps/ Guantanamo Bay failure.
• Threatens loss of 14th Amendment — birthright citizenship.
• Threatens the 16th Amendment rights — Congress setting tax rules.
• Threatens the 19th Amendment — SAVE Act/women’s voting rights
• Threatens the 22nd Amendment — Third term.
• Weaponizes justice department/ Tesla vandalism = terrorism/January 6 revenge
• Measles and bird flu.
• Wasted 30k real eggs on Easter.
• F-47 jet and proposals for his image on currency, Rushmore, and airport naming.
• Canceled Ebola prevention funding.
• Eliminates FDA regulations on food.
• Opens federal forests for logging and opens protected ocean space for fishing/drilling.
• White House = Tesla dealership.
• Spends millions of taxpayers' money on golf trips EVERY weekend and some weekdays.
• Wastes millions attending Super Bowl, NASCAR, and UFC events.
• Trump Gaza/wants to create golden idols of himself.
• Attacks and sues private, state, and federal entities over constitutional rights/extortion.
• Attacks on trans, including troops. Even straight servicemen who die in battle are "suckers and losers" for him.
• Attacks the independence of the FED.
• Gets rid of price caps on medicine like insulin.
• Reverses student loan forgiveness.
• Tries to reverse overdraft fee protection.
• Reverses climate legislation/guts EPA.
• Violation of the Separation of Powers/criminal contempt.
• Mass Illegal Deportations.
• Masked secret police are kidnapping people.
• Revoked citizenship for hundreds of thousands of refugees.
• Mass protests in all 50 states.
• Didn’t know about dead soldiers in Lithuania/golfed with Saudis instead of being there for dignified transfer of bodies.
• Didn’t release Epstein files.
• Says “these things happen” after the Florida school shooting.
• No 'no tax on tips/overtime.'
• Brain worm autism theory/persons list.
• Fruit Loops made with real colors.
• A1 sauce secretary of education.
• Trump GOLD card for Russian oligarchs.
• Announces military parade for his birthday.
• 'Got rid' of paper straws.
• Made shower heads Great Again.
• Baby bonus/mommy medals.
 

"The sequel is turning out to be even worse than we imagined. And we knew it would be bad based on the original”.

"I’d say he’s done damage that will take years to fix, if ever, and greatly diminished America on the world stage. And for what? Economically, the country is worse. Employment is down. Prices are up. Pure cancer of a president”.

"And for what? The ultra-wealthy are now even wealthier. That's what for”.

“He has ended American soft power. We didn’t just lose respect around the world, we lost any goodwill, too. He has nearly destroyed the most powerful military alliance in human history. Once more publicly fellating the Russian dictator. He has emboldened our enemies and calls them friends. He has enraged our allies and calls them enemies.

“No one wins a trade war, but he bluffed the world and then blinked. Now, we’re a running joke. Inflation is up, not down, thanks entirely to his unforced errors. We risk losing reserve currency status, a potentially permanent disaster most Americans are too ignorant to understand. He’s even killing the bond markets. Really, you orange buffoon?

“Already started a constitutional crisis via the courts. Dismantled government, which didn’t save us money, and will cost money. Possibly sold our personal data to Elon Musk, and it seems to have everything up for sale. Threatening to arrest and deport Americans he doesn’t like, along with illegal immigrants who’ve been denied due process (another constitutional crisis). Sadly, around half the country understands none of this. Oddly, even many who do understand it are so in his thrall that they explain away his actions that go against their normal principles. He relies on a populace that doesn’t understand how anything works. As he says, 'I love the poorly educated”. If we survive him, we need to take a good look at our education system. Oh, wait, he’s wrecking that, too”.

"I'm from Australia. America may not be able to tell, but the most irreparable part is your standing with other countries. America is extremely unpopular right now everywhere. My whole 40-year life, people here have admired and respected the USA, gone in 100 days”.

"Believe me, America is pretty unpopular in America right now. I’ve lost every last shred of respect I had for my country”.

"As a Brazilian, based on the news and effects abroad, I say he’s done a worse job than even Bolsonaro. It’s not even 100 days yet, and it feels like a millennium. He is forcibly turning back the clock and trying to move the USA back to the 1950s. It worries me because so many people follow the USA’s posture, and they may try to do the same elsewhere. Remember: there are no conservatives, just regressionists. The world changed, and they want to go back, not keep things the way they are”.

"I have never been actively rooting for cholesterol to win harder, but cholesterol doesn’t kill people who have no heart”.

"He's been doing a lot of good in the world! Brought Europe closer together. Dealt a strong blow to right-wing momentum globally. Convinced various countries to stop trusting the US as an ally, build stronger alliances elsewhere, and shore up their own defenses. Destroying the American hegemony and ending the reign of the dollar. Got fucking China, South Korea, and Japan to work together on something, WTF. Helped to publicly expose the ultra-wealthy as the inhuman fucking slime leeching off of human society that they really are. Of course, I don't think any of these things are intentional, but he sure did do them!"

"Honestly? If this were a Democrat president in office pulling the nonsense that Trump has been doing, they would’ve been removed from office by now, but because it’s Trump, he’s allowed to cause as much chaos and havoc as he wants. Gas prices still aren’t down, grocery prices still aren’t down, and the Ukraine/Russia war still hasn’t ended as he promised. We still haven’t heard a single plan for his great ‘concept of a health care plan' that he promised, so what the fuck has he accomplished that’s making Americans lives easier? Hopefully, Americans will remember all this when it comes to the midterms but MAGA is a full-blown cult and majority of Americans voted against Harris because they found her laugh annoying, so we’re probably fucked anyway”. 

" He has exposed the well-hidden secret: America is really dumb and ugly".

"I don’t even know how to sum up all of the horror. I just feel like I’m seeing the U.S. slide into fascism, and I don’t know how to stop it. He somehow manages to do the very worst thing he could possibly do on every issue, and the decision-making often seems like: 'What is the most cruel, inhumane, stupid, selfish action possible in this scenario? Let’s do that.'"

"Well, I wake up in a cold sweat every day, we've lost about $200k from our financial accounts, and we've canceled our plan to retire this year. If they follow through on cutting social security and Medicare, we're probably going to live out our old age eating dog food on Saltines. So, he sucks and so do the 77 million idiots who voted for him”.

"I'm Canadian. I knew he would be awful and implement Project 2025. I knew he was a monster, but I didn't expect him to start threatening to take over Canada and other countries, destroy the stock market, post abhorrent memes about the people he was sending to camps with no due process, the insanity at the border, I could go on and on but the gist of it is: he's even worse than I expected”.

"Imagine getting called out by the pope for being a horrible person".

Marco Rubio's Divorce from MAGA Won't be Long Coming

Donkey-eared Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants has his eyes on 2028. He ain't convinced that his boss, the current Moron-in-Chief, will run an unconstitutional third term. 

Therefore, he has to begin demarcating himself from the whole MAGA pile of horse manure if he wants to win over the repentant republicans, the ulcerated independents, and of course perhaps some democrats. He is deeply uncomfortable with his blind subservience to the Dear Leader. It showed when he sat frozen like a deer in the headlights and did not participate in the public stoning of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the oval office on February 28, 2025.

For one, he needs to distance himself from JD Vance, the current VP who wants to be P in 2028. But more importantly, Catholic "dark-skinned" immigrant-hailing Rubio has to begin "appearing" to disagree with the Orangutan in the White House, and he knows that Florida and other states with large Spanish-speaking voter populations will not forgive him for being complicit with the ongoing persecution of Latin-American immigrants by white anglo-saxon protestant fascists and xenophobes.
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Marco Rubio Splits With Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi on Due Process
Will Neal
Sun, April 27, 2025


Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images

Secretary of State Marco Rubio forgot the Gospel According to Donald Trump on Sunday by admitting that anyone on U.S. soil is entitled to a fair hearing before being removed from the country.

“Yes, of course,” Rudio said in response to the host’s question of whether the Fifth Amendment still applies under Trump during his morning interview with MSNBC. “That’s what the law says!”

Perhaps conscious of having contradicted the latest White House statements and directives on the matter, he then scrambled to tell the network that “if you’re in this country illegally, you have no right to be here and you must be removed.”

Rubio’s statements to MSNBC directly contradict Trump’s insistence that “we cannot give everyone a trial” when it comes to forced removals from the U.S. / Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

“Somehow over the last 20 years, we’ve completely lost this notion, or somehow completely adopted this idea, that, yes, we have immigration laws, but once you come into our country illegally, it triggers all kinds of rights that can keep you here indefinitely,” he said.

On April 21st, the Republican president posted to Truth Social that “we cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years,” contravening the Constitution’s 233-year-old provisions that “no person shall be [...] deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

Earlier on Friday, a leaked copy of official guidance from Attorney General Pam Bondi also revealed federal authorities are now permitted to enter the homes of suspected gang members without obtaining a warrant.

Rubio’s comments come as scandal continues to mount over the illegal removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Maryland dad-of-one, to his home country of El Salvador as well as Friday’s deportation of three U.S.-born children ages seven, four, and two from Louisiana to Honduras.

The Secretary of State has also undermined a DoJ directive from Pam Bondi instructing immigration authorities to remove suspected gang members without a warrant or judicial review. / MARCO BELLO / AFP via Getty Images

MSNBC host Kristen Welker asked Rubio whether the removal of those citizens violated their right to due process, to which he responded by describing coverage of the case as “misleading.”

“The children went with their mothers,” he said. “If those children are U.S. citizens, they can come back into the United States with their father, or someone here who wants to assume them.”

The Washington Post, which first covered the story on Saturday, reported that in the two-year-old’s case, lawyers representing the child’s father had filed an emergency petition on Thursday seeking her release only for the man’s daughter to be flown out of the country before the court convened the following morning.

“You guys make it sound like ICE agents kicked down the door and grabbed the two-year-old and threw him on an airplane,” Rubio said. “That’s misleading, that’s just not true!”

The newspaper also reports that both families were taken into custody during a routine check-in as part of a supervision program, but were nevertheless prevented by immigration officials from communicating with relatives or legal representatives before being deported on Friday.

The four-year-old in question is understood to be suffering from stage four cancer and to have been left without access to medication or medical care by the abrupt removal from their country of birth.

“I don’t know how much more of a blatant or clear constitutional violation there can be than deporting U.S. citizens without due process,” Alanah Odoms, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, told WaPo.

“Especially with some of those citizens being the most vulnerable of all vulnerable children,” she added. “Not just any children, children with medical conditions that are dire.”

Donald Dumb's Inevitable Decline Has Begun

Later this June 14, the Moron-in-Chief will begin his 79th year. His mental and cognitive decline has already been exposed during the campaign with bouts of fumbling words, slurring speech, memory lapses, and confusion of names. So he should say goodbye for good in 2028 and disappear from our lives, unless he gets crushed in the 2026 midterms (He'll be 80 then) by losing the House and the Senate and then he can be easily be impeached for his crimes against the laws and constitution of the country.

Read about the dumb moron's health in: https://news.meaww.com/doctor-says-trump-now-78-has-less-than-75-chance-of-completing-his-second-term


Early signs of that path forward are already before us: His 100-day approval rating is lower than ANY PRESIDENT since Dwight Eisenhower. Even in the darkest of moments, hope flickers in the distance!
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CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades
Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN
Sun, April 27, 2025


President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, DC, on Friday. - Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Donald Trump won back the Oval Office and took charge of the government amid the strongest poll numbers of his political career, but as the 100-day mark of his presidency approaches, Americans’ views of what he’s done so far have turned deeply negative, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds.

Trump’s 41% approval rating is the lowest for any newly elected president at 100 days dating back at least to Dwight Eisenhower – including Trump’s own first term.

Approval of Trump’s handling of the presidency is down 4 points since March, and 7 points lower than it was in late February. Just 22% say they strongly approve of Trump’s handling of the job, a new low, and about twice as many say they strongly disapprove (45%).

Since March, Trump has seen notable drops in approval from women and Hispanic Americans (down 7 points in each group to 36% among women and 28% among Hispanics). Partisan views of Trump remain broadly polarized, with 86% of Republicans approving and 93% of Democrats disapproving. But among political independents, the president’s approval rating has dipped to 31%, matching his first-term low point with that group and about the same as his standing with them in January 2021.

The poll finds the president underwater and sinking across nearly all major issues he’s sought to address during his time in office, with the public’s confidence in his ability to handle those issues also on the decline.

Trump’s approval ratings on economic issues have dropped notably since early March as the rollout of his tariff plan led to volatility in the stock market and worries about rising prices. On inflation, approval is down 9 points to 35%, and on tariffs themselves, it’s down 4 points to 35%. His marks for handling the economy are down 5 points to a career low of 39%; he hit his previous low once in his first term and again this March). Only about half (52%) express confidence in his ability to deal with the economy, down 13 points compared with a December CNN poll.

“I’m disappointed. I didn’t vote for him. I was going to give him the benefit of doubt, because I figured, you know, he could do things to help the economy and … further disappointment,” said a 55-year-old Virginia resident who identifies as an independent and participated in the poll. She has worked for the federal government for more than two decades and asked that her name not be used.

Following his far-reaching efforts to reshape the federal government’s workforce, Trump has lost ground on approval ratings for managing the federal government (42% approve, down 6 points since March) and only 46% express confidence in him to appoint the best people to office, down 8 points since December. Less than half (43%) see Trump’s actions as a necessary shake-up in Washington, while most (57%) say his approach to the presidency is unnecessarily putting the country at risk.

Derek Steinmetz, a Democrat from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, said he was most concerned by Trump’s “overarching disregard for the rule, and the norms, and the structure of our government. It was a concern the first term, but it’s much worse this time around because there are fewer guardrails in place.”

Trump’s moves on foreign affairs – which have included a more friendly posture toward Russia in its war with Ukraine and ending many foreign aid programs – are also seeing majority disapproval (39% approve, 60% disapprove). Half say they have a lot or some confidence in his ability to handle foreign affairs, down from 55% before he took office.

Even on immigration, an issue where Trump had outperformed his first-term high by 7 points earlier this year, the poll finds declining approval ratings and diminished confidence in Trump’s actions. Overall, 45% approve now, down 6 points from March, and 53% express confidence in his ability to deal with it, down from 60% in December.

Trump earns narrowly positive ratings on only one issue tested in the poll: his handling of issues related to gender identity and trans people. Overall, 51% approve of his handling of that matter, including 90% of Republicans, 48% of independents and 16% of Democrats.

“I’m actually quite glad he said that there’s only male and female. I was actually quite glad when that came out, when he put that into law, that there’s only male and there’s only female, that there’s no binary, he, she, they. There’s no they,” said Lisa Munson, a Maryland mother-of-three who voted for Trump, when asked what she considers to be Trump’s biggest accomplishment.

Trump’s efforts at shaping arts, culture and American history, though, are far less popular, with 64% considering it inappropriate for him to take actions like seizing control of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and seeking changes in exhibits at Smithsonian Institution museums, an effort he delegated in part to Vice President JD Vance.

Vance matches Trump’s 41% job approval rating overall in the poll, with 58% disapproving. Neither Trump nor Vance is viewed favorably by most Americans. Just 40% say they have a favorable view of the president and 34% a favorable view of Vance.

Overall, Americans’ confidence in Trump to use the power of the presidency responsibly (46% confident, down 8 points) and to provide real leadership for the country (50% confident, down 9 points) have dropped sharply since December. Trump has issued a slew of executive orders directing changes to government practices and policy that have faced myriad challenges in court.

“I’m not a big fan of these executive orders that Trump and all the other presidents issue constantly. In Trump’s case, I think that he goes overboard on these executive orders, and that’s why a lot of them get shot down by the courts, you don’t have the authority to do that,” said George Mastrodonato, a Trump voter and partially retired lawyer who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and participated in the poll.

“I wish he would be a little more discreet and focus on the executive orders that he writes and issues that he could win in court. He seems to be like Yosemite Sam, you know? Blasting off with two guns in both hands, and some of them stick and some of them don’t.”

Just over half of Americans (52%), including majorities of both Democrats and Republicans, say Trump’s second presidency will fundamentally change the country in a lasting way. A little more than a third (36%) say any significant changes Trump makes will fade once he leaves office, and only 12% say Trump’s second term will not result in significant changes to the country.

Still, Americans are closely split on whether Trump has kept important campaign promises. Just shy of half, 48%, say he’s doing a good job of it, 51% a bad job – numbers that closely mirror this point in his first term. A 55% majority say he’s taken at least some actions to effectively address the nation’s problems, though only 28% believe he’s done things that have already started to help address the country’s problems.

Mastrodonato, the Trump voter from New Mexico, also largely sees Trump as keeping his promises. “He’s doing what he said he would do. Some of his approaches, I would take a different approach, but, you know, he’s Donald Trump so, he’s going to do whatever he wants to do.”

The CNN poll was conducted among 1,678 adults nationwide by SSRS from April 17-24, using a combination of online and telephone interviews. The survey samples were originally drawn from two sources – a probability-based online panel and a registration-based sample – and combined. Respondents were initially contacted by mail, phone or email. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.9 points.

CNN’s Emily R. Condon, Edward Wu and Aleena Fayaz contributed to this report.

Donald Dumb 's Illegal Business from the White House: IMPEACH HIM

Third Time's a Charm. Impeach the Orangutan.
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Sen. Jon Ossoff signals support for Trump impeachment
Nnamdi Egwuonwu
Sat, April 26, 2025


Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga) takes questions from the angry audience at a town hall meeting at the Cobb Civic Center, in Marietta, Ga., on April 25, 2025. He is calling for impeaching Trump.

Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., on Friday signaled support for impeaching President Donald Trump, telling attendees at a town hall near Atlanta that the president’s conduct “has already exceeded any prior standard for impeachment.”

“I mean, I saw just 48 hours ago, he is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin,” Ossoff said. “When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him. There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday night.

Video of the town hall was made available online by NBC affiliate WXIA. Ossoff, who is currently running for re-election to the U.S. Senate, made the remark in response to an attendee who asked why Democrats have not moved to impeach Trump, stating her belief that “everything that Trump is doing is leading us down an authoritative rule.”

“Do more. I like you and I will vote for you if you are brave, and you do what we need,” the attendee said. “We need him impeached, we need him removed.”

Ossoff in response said he “strongly” agreed with the attendee, but told the audience that the move is not currently feasible given the current makeup of the House of Representatives, which is responsible for introducing articles of impeachment.

“The only way to achieve what you want to achieve is to have a majority United States House of Representatives,” Ossoff said. “And believe me, I’m working on it every single day, every single day.”

The Georgia senator also pointed to what he characterized as Trump’s defiance of a federal court order as another potentially impeachable offense. Ossoff did not specify exactly which case he was referring to, but the remark comes as Democrats accuse Trump of disregarding a Supreme Court order requiring his administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native and Maryland resident deported to El Salvador.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Senate GOP’s campaign arm, called Ossoff’s remarks “disgusting,” accusing him of attempting to “overturn the will of Georgia voters who just elected President Trump.”

Ossoff now joins a handful of congressional Democrats who have backed calls to impeach Trump in his second term.

Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who called for Trump’s impeachment several times during his first term and was removed from Trump’s joint address to Congress in March, was the first Democrat this cycle to back the idea.

Additionally, Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., said earlier this month he “fully supports impeaching” Trump, accusing the president of “not abiding by a lawful Supreme Court ruling.”

Trump was impeached twice as a result of actions during his first term, but was acquitted by the Senate following each trial. Ossoff joined all Democrats in voting guilty in Trump’s second impeachment. He was not in Congress during Trump’s first trial.

Impeaching Trump again and convicting would require the support of a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate. Because Republicans currently control both chambers of Congress, the effort is a nonstarter, at least until the midterm election cycle.

But still, the support among Democratic voters for impeachment reflects broader calls for the party to more actively and aggressively counter Trump’s agenda, a notion that polling suggests is widespread among the party’s base.

A recent NBC News poll found less than a third of Democrats want their party leaders to make legislative compromises with Trump, while nearly two-thirds would rather congressional Democrats stick to their positions even if that risks sacrificing bipartisan progress.

Donald Dumb's Lying, Unqualified, Neoptistic, Charlatan Candidates for Public Office

Trump’s surgeon general pick promotes misleading claims about her education, new investigation shows

Mike Bedigan

Fri, April 25, 2025

Questions are swirling about the background of President’s Donald Trump’s pick for Surgeon General and whether she has presented misleading claims about where she was educated.

Dr Jannette Nesheiwat has been described by the president as “a double board-certified medical doctor,” and a “proud graduate of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.” [LIAR, CHEATER]

Prior to her nomination as Surgeon General she has been employed as a New York City medical director with CityMD, a group of urgent care facilities and also has appeared on Fox News and other TV shows.

However, according to CBS News, Nesheiwat only completed her residency through the university’s family medicine program in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and did not obtain her medical degree there.

She actually earned her degree from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, in St. Maarten, in the Caribbean, [UNQUALIFIED] records reviewed by the outlet have shown. AUC also confirmed to CBS that Nesheiwat was enrolled there for six years, from 2000 to 2006. Typically the program includes four years of study, but Nesheiwat was there for six.

Such lengthier study periods have, in recent years, fueled stigma against medical schools in the Caribbean, which have been perceived by some as a last resort for those unable to get into medical school in the U.S. [UNQUALIFIED]

Dr. Jannette Nesheiwat has been described by the president as a ‘proud graduate of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.’ A new investigation has questioned her schooling and credentials. (Getty Images)

Nesheiwat's LinkedIn profile lists “Doctor of Medicine” from the University of Arkansas School of Medicine among her education. It does not mention the Caribbean school.

In a 2018 social media post, Nesheiwat stated that she had completed her “medical training and residency” at Arkansas as well as serving as Chief Resident.

She also mentioned training at “the American University,” though does not specify which school she is referring to, as well as having completing” the majority of my studies” in London, England, at St. Thomas & Guy's Hospital.

In addition to her media appearances, Nesheiwat has authored a book on the “transformative power of prayer”[CHARLATAN SCIENCE] in her medical career and endorses a brand of vitamin supplements [CORRUPTION].

During the Covid-19 pandemic, she became a public figure on television as well as working on the frontlines in New York, helping patients in the aftermath of Trump's “Historic Operation Warp Speed that saved hundreds of millions of lives,” per the president’s office.

Nesheiwat’s childhood was also beset with tragedy after she was involved in an incident that killed her father. She was 13 years-old when she accidentally knocked a loaded gun over, which fired and fatally shot her father in the head. [STUPID] The incident occurred in February 1990 at her family's home in Umatilla, Florida, according to a report by the New York Times.

Nesheiwat is also the sister-in-law of Michael Waltz, [NEOPTISM] who serves as Trump’s national security adviser and was responsible for accidentally adding a journalist to a private Signal group chat, in which classified war plans were shared.

Reverse Int'l Student Visa Ban: Trump's On-Off Management by Chaos and Incompetence

It's chaotic. Unplanned. Not thought through. Reactive to public sentiment. Incompetent. Cruel. Inconsistent... In one word: It's Moronic. The only damage from Donald Dumb's American-vintage yo-yo stupidity is long term: People and nations around the world no longer trust the US. Relationships between peoples and nations are about so much more than money. It will take decades for any administration(s) after Donald Dumb's to restore confidence, and then it will come with permanent damage to America's influence. And the blame is squarely on the shoulders of the creepy American voters who voted a criminal racist sexist cheater TWICE to power. 

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Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations
Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein
Fri, April 25, 2025

The Trump administration has restored the student visa registrations of thousands of foreign students studying in the United States who had minor — and often dismissed — legal infractions.

The Justice Department announced the wholesale reversal in federal court Friday after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens of restraining orders issued by judges who deemed the mass termination of students from a federal database — used by universities and the federal government to track foreign students in the U.S. — as flagrantly illegal.

The terminations caused concern and even panic for thousands of students who feared the possibility they had lost their legal immigration status and could be quickly deported. Many who sued over the move said their schools had also blocked their ability to continue taking classes or conducting research, sometimes just weeks before graduation.

Judges also expressed frustration with the seemingly arbitrary moves and the unwillingness of government lawyers to say whether the students could continue to attend classes or needed to leave the country immediately.

The terminations from the federal database earlier this month sparked more than 100 lawsuits, with judges in more than 50 of the cases — spanning at least 23 states — ordering the administration to temporarily undo the actions. Dozens more judges seemed prepared to follow suit before Friday’s reversal.

DOJ said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is working on a new policy regarding foreign students studying in the United States on so-called F-1 visas. Until that policy is issued, no students will have their online student-visa records, known as SEVIS records, terminated “solely based on” criminal history checks that had flagged misdemeanor charges and dismissed cases.

It was not immediately clear whether the State Department is reversing a wave of outright cancellation of the visas of many of the same students. A federal official told a judge last week that the agency was performing “quality control” on those decisions.

Earlier this year, Secretary of State Marco Rubio canceled the student visas of dozens of foreigners he contends were disrupting U.S. foreign policy through pro-Palestinian activism. However, a more recent, larger wave of visa cancellations appeared to target students who had minor brushes with the law and were also impacted by the termination of their profiles in the SEVIS database.

ICE and State Department spokespeople did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

"ICE is developing a policy that will provide a framework for SEVIS record terminations. Until such a policy is issued, the SEVIS records for plaintiff(s) in this case (and other similarly situated plaintiffs) will remain active or shall be reactivated if not currently active, and ICE will not modify the record solely based on the NCIC finding that resulted in the recent SEVIS record termination,” a Justice Department attorney said in court Friday, reading from a written statement he was authorized to make on ICE’s behalf.

“ICE maintains the authority to terminate a SEVIS record for other reasons, such as if the plaintiff fails to maintain his or her nonimmigrant status after the record is reactivated or engages in other unlawful activity that would render him or her removable from the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act," the attorney said.

The "Soft Damage" Donald Dumb is Doing: They All Hate us Now

Non-Americans Are Getting Brutally Honest About Donald Trump And The US — Here's What They Had To Say

Dannica Ramirez

Sat, April 26, 2025

Within the first 100 days of Donald Trump being in office, his administration has carried out a series of controversial actions: Trump signed an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, he declared US interest in "reclaiming" the Panama Canal and "getting" Greenland, classified information was found being shared in a Signal group chat, and, among many other things, Trump tried placing "reciprocal tariffs" on dozens of nations and trading partners only for him to put a 90-day pause on them, stirring up fears of a recession.

That said, it should be no surprise that people in other countries who are keeping up with what's happening in America have...opinions. Recently, Redditor u/YoungYggdrasil asked the non-Americans of the Reddit community to share what they and their country really think about the US right now, and they did not hold back:

*."I'm from Hong Kong. America is the political equivalent of a dumpster fire. That, and it's unsafe."

*."South African here. Generally, I think we used to view the US as the leader of the free world, and as a country we should look up to... However, over the last few years, there has been a divide. Right-wing conservatives here still view the US as the best country with the best leader. Meanwhile, most liberals think the US is cooked, and despite having many problems in South Africa, they'd never move to America."

*."I'm from Luxembourg. Past seasons of the US were good, but not perfect. Then, 2016 happened, and it received poor ratings. But after 2024, the entire plot was thrown out the window, and now it feels like America is in its final season.

*."As a Chilean, I really admire American culture when it comes to art, music, and movies. It's honestly a 10/10. Unfortunately, the over-consumerist image often associated with Americans can be a bit off-putting, and the political tendency to impose US culture everywhere is somewhat irritating. For example, here in Chile, we have supermarkets owned by Walmart, and it's quite unpleasant to be encouraged to celebrate the Fourth of July. Like, WTF? "

*."I'm from Denmark. My country has always been very loyal to the US, and it took three months to destroy that relationship."

*."Canadian here. It's not so much the tariffs (though they're not helping), but the threats to our sovereignty. This is not how you treat your supposed 'best friend' and greatest ally. So don't mind us while we look elsewhere for a new bestie and trading partner. Voting for Cheeto Don the first time was foolish, but a second time? Well, you Americans have shown the rest of the world what's in your heart...and it's dark, racist, misogynistic, hateful, and ugly. If Americans can right themselves and return to democracy, be prepared to accept the censure of the world for decades to come. America as an ally and trading partner cannot be trusted."

*."Speaking as a Brazilian, I think Americans live in a bit of a bubble."

*."I'm from Italy. I'd say America's general culture has a big influence, but I'd say Americans' over-obsession with social issues and political shit-talking gets made fun of. Personally, I have conflicting opinions. I love the US, and I've dreamed of moving there since I was a little kid. At the same time, I think the country's own success has made Americans the most spoiled, brainless douchebags I could imagine."

*."Most Scots view America as a bunch of arrogant, selfish bastards."

*."Dutch person here. I think many people here think that your democracy is dying and that America has become an oligarchy on the verge of becoming a dictatorship. Also, among my friends, nobody would be surprised if your country descended into civil war. It looks like the extremists would be pardoned anyway, and many, many people in the US carry some of the most outrageous weapons."

*."I'm from Venezuela. My country is under a military dictatorship that is very happy right now since its political propaganda has always been that America is at fault for everything. Personally, I hate the dictatorship of my country with a passion, and I strongly believe that the US is heading toward that exact same type of dictatorship. It doesn't matter if one is left and the other is right; they use the exact same tactics and follow the same patterns. While civilians are yelling at each other because of their political beliefs, the far right and far left politicians seemingly both work for the same fascist piece of shit."

*."Spain here. Personal opinions aside, the general consensus here is: 'So, they shoot themselves in the foot with a shotgun over and over again and are trying to sell it as a master plan?'"

*."I'm from New Zealand. I'm sorry, but I view America now as ruled by an orange dictator who is royally fucking up the world. I've already lost some of my retirement money due to the stock market crashes, and everything is going to be more expensive for everybody on the planet thanks to the gun-toting far-right weirdos who voted for him."

*."UK here. No country is doing particularly well post-COVID and with the war going in Ukraine; however, Trump is royally screwing things up right now. He might think he can do whatever he wants as 'the most powerful man on the planet,' but in real terms, there are and will be consequences to his actions from the rest of the world. He is alienating the US from the rest of the world, and it's a shame. But that's what happens when someone with a power-hungry mindset gets in such a position. I don't think the rest of the world thought it would actually happen a second time, but it did. I wouldn't want to be a US citizen, especially right now. It's very sad."

*."I'm a German who's lived in the US for an extended period. I view Americans as universally extremist and complacent. Both conservatives and progressives are always trying to break new ground by pushing the envelope to see who can piss each other off harder.... I don't want to equivocate too much since fascists and kleptocrats are obviously far more destructive than neoliberal social progressives, but they share this particular feature: they're complacent in that none of them truly believe that anything destructive can happen at home."

*."I was born in communist Romania and lived my teenage and young adulthood years in a fragile Eastern European democracy. For the last 15 years, I've been a grateful Canadian citizen. As someone who knows first-hand the Russian horror, I just can't comprehend what the world is coming to. How can Americans choose to tie the noose around their necks and burn all the bridges between the US and the sane world?"

*."Icelander here. Americans think they're free and talk about freedom all the time, but they're not free. Your systems suck: healthcare, workers' rights, human rights, education, etc. You think you're the envy of the world, but you're not anymore. Mostly, we feel sorry for you because you're delusional. Yes, you are powerful, have a strong army and cultural influence, and have done great things in the past. We appreciate what you did for us during WWII, and we had a good relationship after you helped us build our country. But with all that is happening now — your threats against our dear friends in Denmark and Greenland, trampling human rights, and everything else Trump is doing — we are sad and disappointed. Some of us are scared you will target us as well. It's interesting, I guess, to watch the fall of an empire."

 

The Economist Cover that Says it All

 

Trump's Social Engineering Plan

Donald Trump Has a Family Policy. Stop Laughing.
Mona Charen
Thu, April 24, 2025

THE ANIMATING BELIEFS OF THIS ADMINISTRATION range from dangerously wrong to head-spinningly crazy. Tariffs are in the first tranche, along with the myth that NATO has been ripping off the United States for decades, that immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans, and that “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law” (just to name four). The beliefs that vaccines cause autism, that fluoridated water is a public-health threat, that threatening allies and neighbors enhances national security, and that taxing foreign holders of Treasuries would be a good way to solve the (nonexistent) problem of trade deficits belong in the second tranche.

The Trump administration marries insane ideas to gross, bullying tactics. But even when this administration stumbles upon an idea that is not deranged, illegal, or immoral, it has the capacity to do great harm. I’m thinking of the apparent plans to encourage marriage and motherhood. The administration is reportedly considering proposals to award mothers $5,000 “baby bonuses,” to reserve 30 percent of Fulbright scholarships to parents, to reduce the costs of IVF (not clear how), and to fund programs to educate women about ovulation cycles (I kid you not).

I’ve been promoting marriage for decades, not as part of a religious agenda but as the result of studying the social-science literature demonstrating that marriage makes adults happier than non-marriage and that stable, two-parent homes are the best environment for raising children, building thriving neighborhoods, and reducing crime, homelessness, and substance abuse.

The Trump administration cannot adopt this message without turning it rancid. If you hope to persuade people, you must start by showing good faith—that your intentions for them are good. This crowd has displayed open contempt for women—at least those women who vote for the other party or otherwise assert their individuality. In light of the president’s apparent requirement that any nominee for a major cabinet role has at least one serious accusation of sexual misconduct, the vice president’s sneers about “childless cat ladies” seem mild. Matt Gaetz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Pete Hegseth, and Linda McMahon all trailed accusations that would have been disqualifying in any other administration. (Only Gaetz was undone.)

But then, the thrice-married, adulterous president himself has been found legally liable for sexual assault in the E. Jean Carroll case, and has been accused of similar behavior half a dozen or so times by other women. What that may mean is that Trump must convince himself and others that accusations of sexual misconduct are always and everywhere “fake news.” Also, he just doesn’t give a damn. Trump has endorsed and campaigned with alleged sexual predators ranging from Roy Moore to Herschel Walker, and one of his first acts as president in the second term was to effectuate the release of Andrew and Tristan Tate from custody in Romania on rape and human trafficking charges. (So they can effectuate releases from foreign countries.)

The Trump crowd’s approach to fertility is not the joy of parenthood or the warmth of close families. It’s more like the “Great Replacement” theory made flesh. Give them credit for honesty, I guess. They don’t really claim to be speaking up for family values. Instead, as Elon Musk admits, he wants a “legion” of offspring “before the apocalypse” and is creating a harem to achieve it. He is married, but also father to at least fourteen children by four different women and willing to outsource his semen upon request. “No romance or anything,” he explained to one baby mama, “just sperm.”

It’s remarkable to consider that Musk is a pinup for the GOP these days. I well remember the party of “family values.” Musk is the most famous progenitor of illegitimacy in the world. (William J. Bennett, call your office.)

THE TRUMP CROWD WORRIES about America’s declining fertility rate and yet treats immigration as a mortal threat. So when they encourage childbearing, the not-so-veiled subtext is that they want not more babies but more white babies. Perhaps they will begin awarding “Mother Heroine” honors as the Soviet Union did, or the “Cross of Honor” with which Nazi Germany rewarded fecundity.

You don’t convince women in a free country to have more babies for the sake of the fatherland. If you want to encourage family formation and increase the birth rate, you can’t treat women as breeder mares. It helps to model good behavior. That includes being good husbands who don’t cheat on their wives, good fathers who actually live with their kids, and good parents who don’t commit or condone adultery.

Baby bonuses have been tried in other countries with poor results. Hungary has adopted a suite of policies to support families that are far more generous than what the Trump administration is considering, but the results have been disappointing. Singapore, South Korea, and Russia have seen similar results. Subsidies for babies don’t seem to budge fertility rates much if at all. Poland’s program of incentives showed some early success but more recent data found that childbearing is still trending down.

There are many things governments can do to ease the burden on parents—tax credits, parental leave, and banning smartphones in schools, among other ideas—but policymakers should keep their expectations in check about the effect these initiatives will have on fertility. If they just make family life easier and better, that’s a good start. But frankly, we’d all be better off if the Trump people stay far away from family policy, lest they besmirch it.

Trump's Fascist Policies at US Borders: Global Boycott of 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics

Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon : Trump must reconsider his Fascist travel policies ahead of the World Cup

FIFA president Gianni Infantino watches in resigned disgust as Donald Trump's assmouth spews bullshit in the Oval Office of the White House, Aug. 28, 2018, in Washington.

Trump's policies are impacting travelers arriving in the United States, citing upcoming sporting events like the 2026 World Cup. Tourists are being harassed, violated, imprisoned, held incommunicado and deported as they land on US soil for reasons that have nothing to do with security: It's up to the whim of a US employee at ports of entry to arbitrarily allow or deny entry, and regardless of whether the visitor has a legally obtained visa and does not represent the slightest threat to the so-called security of the US.

Senator Wyden is the top Democrat on the finance committee. He has just written to rabbit-eared Cuban immigrant's son Secretary of State Marco Rubio and to the bimboesque Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to warn the administration that its brutal policies that are causing the detention and abuse of otherwise lawful international travelers.

“This has turned ordinary travel into a needlessly grueling ordeal for tourists, business travelers, lawful permanent residents and U.S. citizens,” Wyden wrote.

International travelers appear increasingly wary of the administration's immigration and border policies. Several countries have updated travel guidelines for their citizens planning on visiting the United States, warning them of a lack of recourse if a border official decides on a whim to detain you, harass, you, strip search you, shackle you and hold you incommunicado for weeks, then turn you back and deport you for no reason whatsoever.

The travel forecasting company Tourism Economics recently revised its annual outlook last month to predict a 9.4% decline in international arrivals this year.

In February, a German visitor who attempted to return to the United States with his American fiancé after a road trip to Mexico was detained for 16 days. A backpacker from Britain, Becky Burke, was stopped at the U.S.-Canada border and held for nearly three weeks at a detention facility in the state of Washington, according to her father.

Wyden's plea comes after the federal government’s National Travel and Tourism Office released preliminary figures showing visits to the U.S. from overseas fell 11.6% in March compared to the same month last year. Tourism Economics expects U.S. spending by international visitors to drop by $9 billion this year.

In addition to the 2026 World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada, Wyden also pointed to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The United States also will host the Club World Cup this summer in 11 cities across the country.

“Ahead of these events, your departments will experience a significant increase in travelers seeking entry to the United States, to include extraordinary athletes, support staff, government officials, journalists, business owners, and spectators,” Wyden wrote. “If your harsh and unnecessary approaches to travelers continue, foreign-born athletes who have spent their whole lives training for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity may be unable to travel to the United States to participate in these games.”

Border issues have already worried a number of soccer players. Venezuelan forward Deyna Castellanos, who plays in the National Women's Soccer League, did not join her national team for a pair of recent matches because of fears she wouldn't be allowed to return.

Zambia's national team did not call up four women playing in the United States for games in China out of similar concerns.

In a March meeting with FIFA President Gianni Infantino, President Trump announced the formation of a task force to coordinate the federal government’s security and planning for next year's World Cup.

Trump's Bigot-in-Chief: Three-time Divorcée, Yet Says God Designed Husband as Wife's Boss

Another one of Trump's con artists!

If Paula White-Cain truly believes that God "designed" men to be their wives' bosses and leaders of the household, why has she divorced and married three times?

With her repetitive divorces, she must have disobeyed her friggin' God. She has TWICE committed the ultimate sin of violating the teaching that "...what God has joined together, let no one separate." Yet she is going around these days telling the uber-religious moronic MAGA Americans that husbands are the natural heads of their households and that wives ought to obey their husbands. She is probably also looking for - if not already committing adultery with - a fourth husband. 

This is the ultimate dictatorial Trump brand: They permit to themselves what they prohibit to their lowly masses. Just like Kim Jong Un's who is reputed to live a life of leisure - haute couture, multiple concubines, western movies and culture.... - while commanding his herd of North Koreans to a life of destitution, poverty and so-called modesty. 

Paula White-Cain also had a typical American protestant "megachurch" known as "Without Walls International". A megachurch is fundamentally a gigantic racket operation milking poor ignorant "faithful" Americans from the south and the midwest out of their dollars to provide the megachurch owners with tax-free profits. Racketeering is in fact a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (the megachurch) to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit (disguised as a non-profit tax exempt entity). 

Consistent with his own criminality, Trump appointed Paula White-Cain to be his "senior adviser for the White House Faith Office": A Senate Finance Committee investigation found in 2011 that White-Cain’s then-ministry, the megachurch Without Walls International, used tax-exempt funds to pay her family members millions of dollars in salaries.

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The White House Faith Director Just Said Wives Should "Submit" To Their Husbands, And While It's Not Surprising, It Is Gross
Pocharapon Neammanee
Fri, April 25, 2025

Paula White-Cain, a senior adviser for President Donald Trump’s White House Faith Office, said in a recent interview that she “submits” to her husband and that “God designed” men to be leaders of a household.

While speaking to Real America’s Voice host Steve Gruber on Wednesday, White-Cain praised men who are “returning” to church. “God is moving mightily, and what’s so exciting to me, it’s especially among young people and men. Men are the fastest returning to church,” White-Cain said.

“See what she’s saying there? Again: Men. We need more fathers, more husbands, more real men,” Gruber said.

Why is the three-times divorced sinner in charge of Trumps' Faith office?

“Absolutely,” White-Cain agreed. She added that men “are becoming the bedrock, which is how God designed it.”

A study published last year by the Survey Center on American Life found that church membership was declining among young women in the U.S. at a higher rate than among young men. Nearly two-thirds of young women interviewed said they were not treated as equals to men in churches.

White-Cain, a televangelist who has been called President Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser, referred to her third husband, Jonathan Cain, as the head of her household, stating, “God has an order.”

She continued, “If there’s ever a time that a decision has to be made and we don’t agree on something, he’s the head. It’s not hard to submit.” [So why did she divorce her first two husbands? She must have sinned and not obeyed them].

The White House Faith Office was established via an executive order in February, along with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias.

“I’m up here working on the initiatives for President Trump, who’s been in ministry for 40 years and understands it,” White-Cain told Gruber. “But I am so excited about the move of God and, undoubtedly, Bible sales up 22%, people returning to church, and men converting.”

The Faith Office leader has faced backlash for her church’s financial practices. A Senate Finance Committee investigation that concluded in 2011 found that that White-Cain’s then-ministry, the megachurch Without Walls International, used tax-exempt funds to pay her family members millions of dollars in salaries.

Even right-wing influencer Jon Root told digital news site NOTUS he was concerned about White-Cain’s involvement in the White House. “Anybody that you know holds true to strong biblical conviction and discernment wouldn’t be involved with Paula White,” Root told the outlet last month. “She’s 100% a false teacher.”

US-Born White Male Financier Rapes and Tortures in Manhattan Apartment

Ryan Hemphill is not a migrant, nor is he an immigrant. He is full-fledged US-born white male who is facing a 116-count indictment on charges of rape, torture and other sex crimes. And, look carefully at his photo: He is proudly wearing a Christian cross.

At least six women were lured into his Manhattan apartment where he sexually abused them with untold violence.

Trump and his racist billionaire minions and his lackeys at Fox News tell the American people that they are "cleansing" the country of all these foreign migrants and immigrants who commit violent crimes against US citizens - including those stupid "angel moms" who are paraded like cattle on TV as evidence. But what they don't tell their idiots of the MAGA crowd is that 99% of all crimes in the United States are NOT committed by migrants or immigrants, but by US-born white citizens. Which means that they can deport ALL the migrants and immigrants out of the country, and they'll still be left with the inborn disease of violence that is embedded in the American DNA. America is the definition of violence. It was born in violence and holds the world record of some. Per [https://www.bradyunited.org/resources/statistics], "The gun violence epidemic is a uniquely American issue":

Americans are 26x more likely to be shot and killed than others in high-income countries.

Every day 327 people are shot in the United States. Of those, on average, 117 will die.

Every day, 23 minors are shot in the United States.

And the white supremacist racists of the Trump administration and his MAGA hordes of barbarians continue to target foreigners (migrants and immigrants) as the source of all crime in the US.
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Private equity executive raped and tortured women at his Manhattan apartment, prosecutors say
MICHAEL R. SISAK. Fri, April 25, 2025



Sexual-Misconduct - Ryan Hemphill is escorted to court in New York on Thursday, April 24, 2025, for his arraignment on sexual assault charges. (Curtis Means/Dailymail.com, Pool) ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK (AP) — A private equity executive turned his New York City apartment into a torture chamber of “grotesque sexual violence," Manhattan prosecutors said Thursday. He is accused of raping six women over five months in a depraved rampage in which he allegedly punched, waterboarded and shocked victims with a cattle prod and kept recordings of the assaults as trophies.

Ryan Hemphill, who remains jailed after his arrest last month, pleaded not guilty to a 116-count indictment charging him with predatory sexual assault and other crimes dating to last October. The 43-year-old, who is also a lawyer, threatened to have victims arrested or disappeared in a bid to keep them silent, prosecutors said.

“The defendant told these survivors that he was untouchable,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said. “The indictment makes clear that he was wrong.”

Hemphill sat quietly in a khaki jail suit, his cuffed hands clutching a cross behind his back, as a prosecutor described his alleged crimes in gruesome detail.

If convicted, Hemphill could spend the rest of his life in prison. He was previously acquitted in 2015 of choking and holding a knife to his ex-girlfriend’s throat after testifying that he enjoyed strangling her during sex.

“We have reason to believe these six victims are only the tip of the iceberg,” Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Mirah Curzer told Judge Ann E. Scherzer.

Hemphill’s apartment, near the Empire State Building, was outfitted with numerous surveillance cameras, and investigators have recovered images showing dozens, if not hundreds, of other women, many of them naked and blindfolded, Curzer said.

Investigators also found hundreds of bullets and high-capacity magazines, and a large amount of drugs, including heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, and fentanyl, prosecutors said.

Hemphill met the six women through websites, including some that specialize in “sugar daddy” arrangements for women seeking wealthy romantic partners, Curzer said.

He told the women he was into role play and dominance and offered them large sums of money in exchange for sex and companionship, though he ended up not paying some of the women or giving them fake cash instead, Curzer said.

As Hemphill got to know the women, he convinced them to confide their past sexual traumas, which he then deliberately reenacted as he assaulted them, Curzer said. He took advantage of some victims' inexperience, the prosecutor said, or crossed boundaries that victims had clearly articulated.

Hemphill is accused of tricking victims into ingesting substances that rendered them unable to fight back, using handcuffs and other restraints on them, wrapping their heads and faces with duct tape, slapping and punching them, and torturing them with a cattle prod and shock collar.

Hemphill kept one victim shackled to a bed for hours while she begged him to let her go, Curzer said.

Hemphill’s alleged conduct is “truly shocking to the conscience,” and he “has made clear that he has no regard for the law or the courts,” Curzer said.

To keep women quiet, Hemphill boasted about connections to law enforcement and organized crime, prosecutors said, and claimed that because the women had accepted offers of money, it was them who would be arrested.

Hemphill is charged with bribing a witness and, according to prosecutors, drew up a contract in which he agreed to pay a woman $2,000 in exchange for dropping a complaint she filed with police. He is also accused of forcing some victims to record videos in which they stated that they had consented to being abused.

“The power imbalance in his predatory acts could not be more clear,” Bragg told reporters. “He wielded his law degree and money as both sword and shield, coercing and silencing survivors.”

The arraignment happened down the hall from disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial.

Scherzer ordered Hemphill to remain jailed without bail after prosecutors raised concerns that his predicament, combined with his wealth and connections — including a history of philanthropy and family real estate holdings — could give him the means and incentive to flee the country.

Hemphill’s lawyer, a public defender assigned to represent him at least through his arraignment, had urged Scherzer to move him to a rehabilitation facility to deal with substance abuse issues.

Scherzer ruled that, given the fact pattern laid out by prosecutors, “including efforts to dissuade by force and threats to witnesses from testifying against him,” jailing him was the only way to ensure Hemphill would return to court.

Hemphill’s alleged behavior, the judge said, “shows his extent to which he’s willing to go to protect himself from facing these charges."