Let’s start with whatever the bleep this is . (Take that as a warning for the visual.)
Nearly six months into his second term, President Donald Trump has a new portrait posted to the White House website.
White House officials posted an eight-second video to social media on Monday, showing the new portrait being hung on the wall at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus.
The toddler-in-chief is, you guessed it, a crybaby/snowflake.
President Donald Trump has privately complained that the Supreme Court justices he appointed have not sufficiently stood behind his agenda, according to multiple sources familiar with the conversations. But he has directed particular ire at Justice Amy Coney Barrett, his most recent appointee, one of the sources said.
The behind-closed-doors grievances have been wide-ranging, and while many have been about Barrett, Trump has also expressed frustration about Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, the sources familiar with the matter said. The complaints have gone on for at least a year, the sources said.
The president’s anger, sources said, has been fueled by allies on the right, who have told Trump privately that Barrett is “weak” and that her rulings have not been in line with how she presented herself in an interview before Trump nominated her to the bench in 2020.
“It’s not just one ruling. It’s been a few different events he’s complained about privately,” a senior administration official told CNN.
And now Musk is dogging his former boss.
Elon Musk issued a blistering criticism of the massive Republican bill for President Donald Trump’s agenda Tuesday, posting on X that it is a “disgusting abomination.”
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote . “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
“It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden American citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt,” added Musk, who left the White House last week.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said the package would increase the deficit by $2.3 trillion with its tax cuts and spending hikes on immigration enforcement in the military outstripping the savings.
California’s going to be fined, the biggest fines, the largest fines, a scale nobody’s ever seen before.
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump said he plans to impose “large scale fines” on California as his Justice Department threatened to sue the state’s public schools after a transgender athlete was allowed to compete and won two medals in last weekend’s track and field state championship.
Trump promised the financial penalties in an overnight June 3 post on Truth Social after AB Hernandez, a transgender high school, placed first in the high jump and triple jump in California’s track and field finals.
Hernandez shared the podium with her cisgender competitors following a rule change enacted last week that allowed athletes assigned as female at birth to receive medals based on where they would have finished if a transgender athlete had not competed.
“Biological Male competed in California Girls State Finals, WINNING BIG, despite the fact that they were warned by me not to do so,” Trump wrote in a 12:56 a.m. ET post . “As Governor Gavin Newscum fully understands, large scale fines will be imposed!!!” he added, referring to California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Trump did not quantify the amount he will seek to fine California or specify which federal funding stream he might target. A spokesperson from Newsom’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
I will note that at least the felon didn’t call her him ; he used the pronoun they . That will probably get some of his base in a lather, too.
Boulder suspect’s wife and children are in ICE custody to be expeditiously deported.
The wife and children of Boulder, Colorado, terrorism suspect Mohamed Soliman are in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the family is being processed for expedited removal, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
“We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack, if they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it,” Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Tuesday. “I am continuing to pray for the victims of this attack and their families. Justice will be served.”
So why did I post that here instead of one of the other threads. This next bit shows why. The bolding is mine.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on social media on Monday, “In light of yesterday’s horrific attack, all terrorists, their family members , and terrorist sympathizers here on a visa should know that under the Trump Administration we will find you, revoke your visa, and deport you.”
And if they knew nothing of it, lil’ Markie and Cruella de Vile? You’re still going to punish them, aren’t you?
It turns out the felon is running the government like he runs businesses!
President Donald Trump’s MAGA makeover of D.C.’s Kennedy Center is sputtering amid plunging sales.
Revenue from subscriptions for the upcoming season of programming is down 36 percent from last year—dropping from $4.4 million in 2024 to just $2.8 million so far this year, The Washington Post
Single-ticket sales also dropped 50 percent in April and May, compared with the same period last year, according to The New York Times
The plummeting sales suggest Trump—despite boasting at a recent board dinner that he had “eliminated DEI initiatives” and “brought back family-friendly programming that will attract large audiences once again”—may have pushed an already struggling institution deeper into financial trouble.
Straight into bankruptcy.
Musk is giving a felon a dose of his own medicine.
Billionaire Elon Musk reportedly still owes president Donald Trump an eye-watering $100 million out of the $300 million he committed to get the reality TV star elected.
That’s according to the Wall Street Journal , which reports that now that the bromance between the two has seemingly ground to a halt, Musk isn’t keeping the cash flowing. Trump’s advisors said that the latest $100 million check hasn’t arrived yet, in perhaps the most concrete sign yet of a widening rift between the two larger-than-life figures.
Give me a moment. I fell off my chair on that one.
The renamer-in-chief is at it again. (The missing word in the second paragraph is in the original article.)
President Donald Trump’s administration has officially declared that June will now be recognized as Title IX Month — not Pride Month.
The U.S. Department of Education published a new report on Monday, June 2 announcing that June will now be about recognizing instead of Pride Month. The official statement reads:
“The U.S. Department of Education (the Department) today announced that it is recognizing June as ‘Title IX Month’ in honor of the fifty-third anniversary of Title IX of the Educational Amendments (1972) being signed into law. June will now be dedicated to commemorating women and celebrating their struggle for, and achievement of, equal educational opportunity. Throughout the month, the Department will highlight actions taken to reverse the Biden Administration’s legacy of undermining Title IX and announce additional actions to protect women in line with the true purpose of Title IX.”
I’ll take your nominations now for which day, week, or month should be recognized for Amendment XXV.
The goverment wants to know if you’ve been harmed by an alien. The answers were obvious.
Whoever handles social media for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, learned an important lesson on clarity Friday afternoon.
It all started after the agency posted on X : “Contact us if you were harmed by an alien.”
My favorite is the answer which included Musk. Of course the ones about extraterrestrials were close, too.
There is collateral damage in the feud with Harvard.
Jules Riegel, a lecturer in History and Literature, planned to teach a course in the fall at Harvard University on global transgender history.
Now they are opting out of teaching the course due to fears of content-based retaliation and fears for their students’ safety and as an openly transgender individual, according to a Monday court filing.
“I have had to reevaluate how I can safely teach courses on topics including global transgender history, World War II and the Holocaust,” Riegel said.
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An anonymous faculty member in the court filing also changed their teaching plans for next semester due to fears of harassment.
The professor, a member of the faculty of arts and sciences, planned to teach a course addressing the lead-up to the U.S. Civil War, according to a court filing from Harvard professor Kirsten Weld.
However, they felt like the topic would be considered a part of diversity, equity and inclusion programing due to its focus on slavery, settler colonialism, Indian removal and the U.S.-Mexico War.
The professor was concerned that they would face false accusations under Title VI — which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin — since the course would explore white supremacy in American history.
The collateral damage is, of course, education itself.
China calls out Don the Con for being a conman.
Chinese officials tore into Donald Trump on Monday, accusing him of sabotaging his own trade negotiations.
Trump claimed Friday that China had “totally violated” the terms of the 90-day tariff pause that the two countries hammered out in Geneva at the start of last month. In a lengthy Truth Social post, Trump insisted he had taken a soft-handed approach to negotiations in the weeks since, but now he was done being “MR. NICE GUY!”
Trump’s comments came just hours after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who was one of the principal U.S. negotiators in Switzerland, admitted on Fox News that trade talks between Beijing and Washington had “stalled.”
China hit back Monday, stating Trump’s claims that the Asian powerhouse had been withholding rare earths were “groundless.” In reality, officials said, the U.S. had “seriously damaged” the agreement by imposing restrictions on Chinese-made microchips and student visas for Chinese nationals.
“The United States had unilaterally provoked new economic and trade tensions,” a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said in a statement. “Instead of reflecting on itself, it has made bogus accusations and unreasonably denounced China for violating the agreement.”
Why is anyone even discussing anything with him anyway? He’s a convicted fraud. That means you cannot trust him.
Don’t tell me these clowns aren’t antisemites and Nazis.
A Pentagon staffer was promoted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth despite her history of pushing antisemitic conspiracy theories and neo-Nazi rhetoric on social media.
Kingsley Wilson, formerly a deputy press secretary at the Department of Defense, was appointed as the Pentagon’s chief press secretary on May 23, just months after reports exposed her extremist online views.
That includes endorsing the “great replacement” theory —which falsely claims white Americans are being intentionally replaced as the dominant race in the U.S for political gain—as a “reality.”
She also pushed the long-debunked claim that Leo Frank, a Jewish man lynched in Georgia in 1915 after a wrongful conviction, was actually guilty. Frank was posthumously pardoned in 1986 by the state of Georgia.
Here’s your diploma, now fuck off.
They stood in formation at Falcon Stadium, diplomas in hand, having met every standard of physical endurance, academic excellence, and military discipline. But, on Thursday, when the time came for the U.S. Air Force Academy’s class of 2025 in Colorado Springs, Colorado , to commission as second lieutenants, three cadets were quietly held back.
They are the first out transgender cadets to graduate from the Academy. And under a newly reinstated Trump administration ban, they will not be allowed to serve.
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Marquez, along with the two other graduates, was placed on administrative absence, barred from taking the oath, and warned he might need to repay the cost of his education if he refused to leave voluntarily, the paper reports. That education—funded by taxpayers—is valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. According to The Gazette , Marquez was later told by Air Force officials that if he is involuntarily separated, he won’t be billed. But the message was clear: his government does not want him in uniform.
I left out “and shut the fuck up or we’ll make you pay every penny it cost for your college education”.
That’s enough news of the cruel for one day.
