CHAOS! That is his specialty. The one thing he is good at.
When the Trump administration ordered that construction stop last week at Revolution Wind, a giant wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that was nearly finished, it alluded vaguely to national security concerns but did not offer any further explanation.
It’s becoming a striking pattern.
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YA THINK??
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The order was the third time the Trump administration had revoked permits or halted work on wind farms that had already received federal approval while offering little legal justification for doing so, following actions against wind projects in New York and Idaho. Legal experts say that there is little basis for blocking projects that have already received permits.
The Trump administration has signaled in a court filing that it next plans to rescind federal approvals for yet another wind farm, the Maryland Offshore Wind Project, which had not yet begun construction but would consist of up to 114 wind turbines off the coast of Ocean City, Md. The filing was first reported by WBOC.
These extraordinary moves are creating a crisis for the wind industry, experts said, putting thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investments at risk.
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I hate to spoiler it but there’s a real funny joke in the last 45 seconds. Rubio “This labor day is so meaningful now that I have 4 jobs”. Laughter erupts.
Trump Calls for Death Penalty in All D.C. Murder Cases
It is unclear how Mr. Trump would carry out his directive. The Supreme Court ruled that mandatory death sentences were unconstitutional nearly half a century ago.
President Trump said on Tuesday that his administration would seek the death penalty for all murder cases in Washington, D.C., the latest escalation of his show of force in the nation’s capital that he has described as an effort to combat crime.
Declaring in a cabinet meeting that the threat of execution is “a very strong preventative,” Mr. Trump echoed his long-held belief that criminals commit crimes because they do not fear the consequences.
“I don’t know if we’re ready for it in this country,” Mr. Trump said, referring to capital punishment. But, he added, “We have no choice.”
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday at a Cabinet meeting that he wants to rebrand his “one big beautiful bill” after he persuaded Republicans to call it that.
“Last month, in a landmark achievement, I also proudly signed the largest working-class tax cuts in American history. So the bill that — I’m not going to use the term ‘great, big, beautiful’ — that was good for getting it approved, but it’s not good for explaining to people what it’s all about,” Trump said. “It’s a massive tax cut for the middle class.”
The remark represents an admission from Trump that the name he chose for his signature domestic legislation has shortcomings. Some Republicans have lamented that it doesn’t convey anything about the bill’s contents and therefore makes it harder to sell.
I have you covered, felon. I’ve already named it the Big Bullshit Bill.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela will send military vessels to the Caribbean Sea and other waters to combat drug trafficking, the country’s defense minister announced Tuesday. The move comes as tensions with the U.S. simmer over the deployment of three warships to the region.
Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said the vessels will patrol the Gulf of Venezuela as well as the country’s “territorial waters” in the Caribbean. In an Instagram reel, Padrino added that about 15,000 members of the armed forces will participate in efforts on land and at sea to fight “ the armed, terrorist, drug-trafficking groups operating on the border” with Colombia.
Padrino announced the operation more than a week after the U.S. government announced the deployment of three guided-missile destroyers to the waters off Venezuela to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels.
Nah, there’s no chance at all of accidents at sea between the US andn Venezuelan ships.
Fox News attempted to back up claims Donald Trump made about Maryland Gov. Wes Moore by showing a clip that contained almost none of the president’s side of the story.
While speaking to reporters at the Oval Office on Monday, Trump, 79, told a tale about meeting the Democrat at the Army-Navy college football game in Maryland in December 2024.
“He came over to me, hugged me, shook my hand. He said, ‘Sir, you’re the greatest president of my lifetime.’ I said, ‘It’s really nice that you say that. I’d love you to say it publicly, but I don’t think you can do that,’” Trump said.
Moore, 46, immediately disputed Trump’s version of events, posting on X “lol” and “keep telling yourself that, Mr. President.”
Fox News’ Will Cain tried to embarrass Moore by playing footage on his show Monday, originally broadcast by The Art of the Surge on the network’s streaming service Fox Nation, which he suggested would show Trump’s version of events was accurate.
However, while the footage does show Moore excitedly shaking Trump’s hand and telling him “Good to see you,” the governor never hugs Trump, nor tells him he is the “greatest president of my lifetime.”
US President Donald Trump on Monday suggested many Americans would like a dictator as he signed orders to tighten his federal clampdown on the capital Washington and to prosecute flag-burners.
During a rambling 80-minute event in the Oval Office, Trump lambasted critics and the media as he complained that he was not getting credit for his National Guard-backed crackdown on crime and immigration.
“They say ‘we don’t need him. Freedom, freedom. He’s a dictator. He’s a dictator.’ A lot of people are saying: ‘Maybe we like a dictator,’” Trump told reporters.
I’m game, you convict. Name one person, one American who’s not kissing your ass, who’s said that. Just one. Let me guess. It’s on video just like your imaginary conversation with Governor Moore was.
Donald Trump on Monday was mocked on social media for doing “MAGA Math” after he once again made a ridiculous claim about how much he would reduce the cost of medications for Americans.
“I’m going to be reducing drug prices by 1,400, 1,500%,” the president boasted.
This time, though, a video that went viral online of him saying it received a community note on X, formerly Twitter, which dubbed it “misleading news” and spelled out:
It cannot go lower than zero to represent a ‘more than 100%’ reduction.”
That’s absolutely hilarious. Do me a favor, please, and post in this thread as soon as you count an even 100 magaflatearthers repeating, supporting, and thanking him for that inane claim.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday he’s on track to identify “interventions” that are “certainly causing autism” and possible ways of addressing them by September.
Ah, so he’s already identified that the cause is some kind of intervention. Dollars to donuts that’s his new nickame for vaccines.
The Trump administration is reinstating a long-dormant practice of conducting “neighborhood checks” to vet immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship, expanding its efforts to aggressively scrutinize immigration applications, according to a government memo obtained by CBS News.
The neighborhood checks would involve on-the-ground investigations by officials at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that could include interviews with the neighbors and coworkers of citizenship applicants.
The government investigations would be conducted to determine if applicants satisfy the requirements for American citizenship, which include showing good moral character, adhering to the U.S. Constitution and being “well-disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States.”
The big question here is: Who will do the checks? Hasn’t he gutted a lot of the federal workforce?
The new deportation attempt comes after Abrego Garcia declined a plea deal that would have sent him to Costa Rica if he pleaded guilty to human smuggling charges.
Earlier this month, the 30-year-old Salvadoran immigrant was released from a Tennessee jail where he had been detained since June after he was brought back to the U.S. from El Salvador.
On Monday, the White House’s social media team doubled down on its allegations that Abrego Garcia is in the gang, posting a photo of him reminiscent of artist Shepard Fairey’s 2008 portrait of Barack Obama — except instead of “HOPE,” the image says “MS-13.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained a mother of four earlier this month after she traveled back into the U.S. with her passport and valid green card.
Jemmy Jimenez Rosa, who was born in Peru but has been a lawful permanent U.S. resident for 33 years, was detained at Boston’s Logan International Airport in front of her husband and three of her four children on Aug. 11 after a family trip to Mexico. Todd Pomerleau, her attorney, claims that she, her family and her legal team were not given any justification for her detainment except a misdemeanor marijuana conviction from two decades ago that had been pardoned.
During her 10-day detainment, Jimenez Rosa was hospitalized twice because she was not given any of her prescribed medications, moved around to multiple facilities, including one only for men, and denied her access to her legal team, her attorney told HuffPost. All the while, her family and legal team struggled to get information about her whereabouts and why she was detained.
Jimenez Rosa was released on Aug. 20 with no charges after a judge vacated her decades-old conviction. However, authorities did not allow Jimenez Rosa to wait inside the detention facility to be picked up and did not notify her husband and attorneys of the details, her attorney said. Instead, she walked through a rainstorm for about a half mile to the Burlington Mall, where a stranger allowed an exhausted and depleted Jimenez Rosa to use their phone and let her husband know of her whereabouts, the attorney said. Her family and legal team then met her at the mall, which was about thirty miles away from home.
How many constitutional violations were there in that incident?
Ainsley and co-hosts were discussing Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C., and threats to deploy National Guard units in other blue cities such as Baltimore, Chicago, and New York.
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“I just don’t understand why they wouldn’t want to clean up these cities,” Earhardt said. “I mean, D.C. needed to be cleaned up. It looks like it has been.”
Okay, I confess. I stretched the meaning of the word journalist there.
Vice President JD Vance has rejected a Supreme Court ruling by one of its most feted conservative judges after a Trump order that is pitting MAGA against MAGA.
He brushed aside the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s famous stance that torching the American flag is protected free speech, so that he could support Trump’s new crusade against flag burning.
Vance loyally backed Trump on Tuesday, but several MAGA names and Republican stars have sided with Scalia and his ruling, made decades ago in the Supreme Court.
Vance’s intervention comes after the president signed an executive order requiring that the Justice Department investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag.
U.S. President Donald Trump caused a stir during his first summit with President Lee Jae Myung on Monday by suggesting that Washington could seek ownership of land used for American bases in Korea. This remark, made at the White House, marked a sharp break from the agreement that has long governed the U.S. military on the peninsula for decades.
When asked whether he would consider reducing the number of U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, Trump declined to provide a direct answer.
“Well, I don’t want to say that now, because we’ve been friends and we’re friends,” he told reporters. He then moved on to the issue of bases, adding, “They would say, ‘but we gave you land.’ I said, ‘no, you didn’t. You lease us land.’ There’s a big difference between giving and leasing. Maybe one of the things I’d like to do is ask them to give us ownership of the land where we have the big fort.”
Give us the land. It’s for our forts.
Got news for you, felon. That ain’t happening. South Korea is not transferring any of its sovereign territory to another country. Oh, yeah, the article explains the current agreement:
This remark stands in contrast to decades of bilateral agreements, including the Mutual Defense Treaty and the Status of Forces Agreement, which stipulate that U.S. forces use South Korean facilities on a lease basis and return them when no longer needed. Trump’s comment appeared to contradict these longstanding arrangements, raising concerns about adding uncertainty to already delicate negotiations over defense cost sharing.
Lee sought to shift the focus back to peace on the Korean Peninsula, appealing directly to Trump’s past record of engagement with Pyongyang.
A man was arrested for setting fire to an American flag in a federal park outside the White House on Monday, just hours after President Trump signed an executive order seeking to crack down on those who burn the flag.
The U.S. Secret Service told The Hill they detained a person at approximately 6:15 p.m. Monday in Lafayette Park “for igniting an object” and turned the person over to the U.S. Park Police, which has jurisdiction.
The Park Police said it arrested one person in the park at about 6:30 p.m., citing a violation of 36 CFR 2.13(a)(1), which prohibits fire in public parks, except in designated areas.
The Park Police declined to identify the person, saying such information isn’t publicly available until charges are formalized through court.
According to video published by The Bulwark, the man identified himself as a veteran with more than 20 years of service in the U.S. Army and said he was “burning this flag as a protest to that illegal fascist president that sits in that house,” gesturing toward the White House.
“I fought for every single one of your rights to express yourself in however you feel that you may want to express yourself. There’s a First Amendment right to burn the American flag,” the man said into a bullhorn, adding, “No president can make a law, period.”
No word if this particular flag was the one with the stain on it from the felon’s assault on stage.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump seemingly caught his loyal conservative base off-guard and sparked backlash by saying he would allow 600,000 Chinese students into American universities.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has singled out China, the second highest source of international students in the U.S., saying in May that the State Department would revoke visas for students tied to the Chinese Communist Party and boost vetting of new applicants.
After President Donald Trump indicated during remarks on Monday that the U.S. will allow 600,000 Chinese students in the country, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene objected to that policy prospect.
“We should not let in 600,000 CHINESE students to attend American colleges and universities that may be loyal to the CCP,” she asserted in a post on X.