I’ve been seeing lots of photos of Trump dollars on Facebook, and a large fraction of them are in really horrible condition straight out of the mint bag or roll. Here’s one example.
smithsb
September 12, 2026, 3:11am
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Possibly doctored photo? What’s with the ammunition belt in the background?
If real, another happy MAGA customer
Monty
September 12, 2026, 3:17am
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Babbler-in-Chief seems to realize the Blue Wave is on the way.
Even as he campaigned for Republicans in Texas at the midterm convention , President Donald Trump downplayed how damaging a Democratic takeover of Congress would be for his legacy.
He told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in an interview that he’d use his remaining two years in office to block most of the opposing party’s agenda, if that were to happen, and said Democratic control of Congress may not be that dire. The interview came at the Republicans’ midterm convention in Dallas ahead of November’s midterm election, in which the GOP is defending its slim majorities in both chambers of Congress.
Asked whether it was just as important to help Republicans keep control of the House and Senate as his own election to office was, Trump began by saying: “It’s never as important. Look, I’m campaigning for other people.”
“When you say my legacy, I’ll be a block. I’ll end up being blocker. I’ll block all their bad stuff for two years. It won’t be the same, but I’ll be a blocker,” Trump added.
Republicans have control of the Senate and House of Representatives, which has allowed the party to set the legislative agenda in Congress for Trump’s first two years of his second term and aided the passage of Trump priorities, like the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. If Democrats win majorities in one or both chambers – a scenario that many political analysts view as plausible – then Trump’s ability to push his agenda for his remaining two years in office would be complicated.
Trump suggested that he’d even be able to make some deals with Democrats, saying, “They’re going to want some stuff.”
Republicans have control of the Senate and House of Representatives, which has allowed the party to set the legislative agenda in Congress for Trump’s first two years of his second term and aided the passage of Trump priorities, like the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. If Democrats win majorities in one or both chambers – a scenario that many political analysts view as plausible – then Trump’s ability to push his agenda for his remaining two years in office would be complicated.
Trump suggested that he’d even be able to make some deals with Democrats, saying, “They’re going to want some stuff.”
“So it’s not as dire, maybe it is as dire,” Trump assessed.
@Smapti should sue the felon for plagiarism.
Cruz has a plan to make the “dividend” affordable for the government.
Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), a prominent conservative voice in the Senate GOP conference, says he’s willing to support President Trump’s proposal to give $5,000 dividend payments to U.S. adults provided that they are structured as tax refunds and go to people who work and pay taxes.
Asked about Trump’s proposal, Cruz told Fox News’s Jesse Watters that his support “depends on how it’s structured.”
“I would like to see it structured as a tax refund,” he said. “I would be all for structuring it as a tax refund."
“But I think we should be incentivizing work. I don’t think we should be paying people that are not working,” he argued.
Reporter confronts the felon with logic. You know what happened next.
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When a reporter questioned Trump about the proposal on the airport tarmac in Dallas on Thursday night, the president appeared to snap.
After noting that the US has $40 trillion in debt, the reporter asked: “If your economic policies are working, why do you need an incentive for people to turn out and vote?”
Trump responded: “I didn’t do it for turning out the vote. I’m doing it as a reward for people having to put up with five years, and four years, of a horrible, horrible situation caused by Biden.”
He repeated the point, calling the promised dividend “almost a reward for the people having to put up with Biden’s policies.”
As the reporter began a follow-up question, Trump said “not you,” while pointing to another journalist.
The reporter continued: “You also offered checks during… tariff refunds checks, and that didn’t happen, Mr. President.”
This was a reference to Trump’s November 2025 pledge to send $2,000 tariff-rebate checks, which have not been paid out. He also floated “DOGE dividends” in early 2025, which would have provided Americans with a one-time check of up to $5,000. They also never materialized.
Trump interrupted with another “not you,” then leaned toward her, glared, and repeated it for a third time. “Your network and you, you’re the worst,” he said.
Court rules the feds cannot order a coal plant to continue operating.
A federal court has ruled that the Department of Energy acted outside the bounds of its legal authority when it forced a coal plant in Michigan to keep running last year — a decision that could undermine the Trump administration’s push to prevent aging and costly fossil-fueled power plants from closing down.
Under President Donald Trump, the DOE has now used emergency powers granted by Section 202(c) of the 1935 Federal Power Act to force seven fossil-fuel power plants to stay open even though utilities and state regulators have decided it’s prudent and safe to shut them down. It’s a break with the historic use of the powers, which are meant to help the agency manage acute grid emergencies.
In May 2025, the DOE issued its first such emergency order, directing the J.H. Campbell power plant in Michigan to keep operating just days before its planned closure. The agency has since issued six more directives to keep the plant online, as each emergency order lasts only 90 days.
In a unanimous decision on Friday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a challenge from attorneys general representing the states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois and environmental groups against the DOE’s first emergency order to the J.H. Campbell plant.
Hegseth uses 9/11 tribute to laud you guessed it. (The bolding is mine; the stupidity and offensiveness are the war criminal’s.)
On a day reserved for celebrating the heroes of one of America’s darkest chapters, the man charged with leading the nation’s defense apparatus did the only thing he seems capable of doing in public — praising his boss and bashing Iran.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had a simple task at Friday’s Pentagon ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attacks on the Pentagon as well as the World Trade Center and United Flight 93: Remember the dead, honor the survivors, re-tell the story of that horrific day.
It’s an assignment that should have been easy for a man who spent years reading from a teleprompter while hosting a weekend morning show on Fox News. But for reasons known only to him (and perhaps his speechwriters) the self-styled “Secretary of War” chose instead to deliver a screed against “Islamic terrorists” and an “Islamist threat” while rhetorically linking the country’s righteous response to the 9/11 attacks to the ill-fated war of choice he and President Donald Trump have spent the last half-year waging against Iran.
He pivoted from honoring the 184 people killed at the Pentagon when American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the building’s limestone wall to boasting about how the U.S. has “laid waste to the world’s most prolific state sponsor of terrorism” and praising “warriors” for having “fought an Islamic theocracy … that cheered on 9/11.”
It was both wildly inappropriate and historically ignorant.
In his rush to justify the disastrous war he helped start by linking it to the attacks a quarter-century ago on the building he now runs, he left out the fact that the Iranian government at the time not only condemned the 9/11 attacks in harsh terms but Tehran actually offered assistance to America’s efforts to overthrow the Taliban in the weeks and months that followed.
Killer Kennedy has a new conspiracy theory.
In his speech at the Republican Midterm Convention, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exposed how the Democratic Party tried to shut him out of the 2024 presidential primary.
“No voter ever cast a primary ballot for Kamala Harris,” Kennedy said. “No elected delegate was ever consulted. A party of no kings simply anointed a queen, handpicked by secretive party elites who nobody even knows who they were. They’re just faceless guys with lanyards who are calling all the shots from the upper decks of that convention center.”
smithsb:
Possibly doctored photo?
I see no reason why anyone would have done so, but don’t feel like digging up any of the many other examples that I pointed out I have seen to reinforce my.point. if you don’t want to believe it is true for some reason, go for it.
Monty
September 12, 2026, 4:18am
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I don’t think the other poster was accusing you of doctoring the photo.
Odesio
September 12, 2026, 4:21am
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On some level, Trump might appreciate a Democrat majority in Congress because it means he doesn’t have to govern. On another level he might not like it as his ability to grift aswill be curtailed and a Democrat House might decide to challenge the Executive for usurping their power of the purse making his vanity projects difficult to complete.
That assumes he thinks in the first place. He’ll figure it might take a bit more effort or that losing will make him look bad (the part he actually cares about) but he’ll assume judges, especially the ones he appointed, will do the “right” thing.
Here’s another one that Facebook just showed me (so I didn’t have to dig around looking for more)
That has the hell beat out of it for a brand new uncirculated coin.
Smapti
September 12, 2026, 5:28am
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Turns out they’re made of chocolate.
Do you get into the Wonka factory tour with one?
