Getting through the next 3 1/2 years under President Trump will be quite a challenge not only for all Americans, but also for the wider world. He is not an honest and reliable public servant, rather somone who fabricates statistics and "facts" out of thin air, then keeps changing them to suit his fancy. No one can trust him, probably not even members of his own family, who seem to keep a careful distance. Trump appears to be quite a lonely and confused guy. At age 79, he is unlikely to change.
Here is a message in Spanish just received from an immigrant: El Presidente Trump sigue siendo injusto con los inmigrantes. Mis amigos tuvieron que regresar sus permisos de trabajo y no le permiten renovar sus licencias de conducir. Asi que están en problemas y temor. También Trump está creando muchos problemas mundiales con su arrogancias y su locura. [Trump is treating immigrants unfairly, making them turn in their work permits and not allowing them to renew their drivers' licences. Trump's actions are arrogant and crazy.]
Reuters, Exclusive: Tesla's brand loyalty collapsed after Musk backed Trump, data shows
Tesla owners in my own family have put a sign in their car's rear window saying they bought it before Musk had started backing Trump. (They still like the car.)
Daily Beast, Elon Musk’s DOGE Burned Through $21.7 Billion of Taxpayer Cash
National Review, You Can Fire the BLS Commissioner, but You Cannot Fire the Economy
Not surprisingly, Donald Trump still remains underwater in terms of voter support. In fact, he has never enjoyed majority support, the only president in US history never to have reached that crucial milestone. A recent Fox News poll shows that 62% of voters now disapprove of Trump’s handling of tariffs – while 58% are against the tax and spending bill, and 55% are unhappy with his overall handling of the economy. But government officials should avoid giving the president this or any other information he doesn't want to hear, as he has shown he won't hestitate to fire the bearer of bad news, whether true or not.
Trump calls any data and facts that he doesn't like or that fail to show him in a favorable light, "fake" and "rigged." So what or whom can we now trust? Certainly not the president.
The question is: how will we ever manage to get through the next 3+ years? And how can the US and the world actually recover from Trump's presidency after he is finally and thankfully gone from office? Will we even live to see the day?
CNN, Weather Service is now hiring back hundreds of positions that got cut in the DOGE chaos
CNN, ‘How much does it cost for fascism?’: Tensions erupt at Nebraska GOP congressman’s town hall
Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood was berated by constituents at a town hall meeting in Lincoln where he tried to defend his support of Donald Trump.
Huff Post, President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly bragged about how smart he is, apparently has trouble with basic arithmetic, having asserted a mystifying lie about drug prices several times now.
“You know, we’ve cut drug prices by 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500%. I don’t mean 50%, I mean 1400, 1500%,” he told reporters Sunday before boarding Air Force One to return to the White House following another weekend of golf at his New Jersey course.
He had made the same false claim 12 days earlier at a reception for Republican members of Congress: “We’re going to get the drug prices down — not 30 or 40%, which would be great, not 50 or 60. No, we’re going to get them down 1000%, 600%, 500%, 1500%.”
“You know, we’ve cut drug prices by 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500%. I don’t mean 50%, I mean 1400, 1500%,” he told reporters Sunday before boarding Air Force One to return to the White House following another weekend of golf at his New Jersey course.
He had made the same false claim 12 days earlier at a reception for Republican members of Congress: “We’re going to get the drug prices down — not 30 or 40%, which would be great, not 50 or 60. No, we’re going to get them down 1000%, 600%, 500%, 1500%.”
Wow! Sounds like we'll all be getting huge rebates just for buying drugs.
Reuters, Hunger mounts, cemeteries grow in Sudan's besieged al-Fashir
Mideval artist Hieronymus Bosch playfully invited viewers to enjoy our brief sojourn here on earth.
Bosch’s "Garden of Earthly Delights" appeared in the NY Times.
Here below is the entire 3-part panel.
(Please excuse any posting quirks here.)Wikipedia:
"Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' is
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T The painting is divided into three panels: the left panel portrays the Garden of Eden, the central panel depicts a fantastical
wworld of earthly delights, and the right panel shows Hell, interpreted as a warning against the dangers of temptation and sin.
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