Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Captain N]

The Storms weren't the ones who stole Jack Burton's truck, it was the Lords of Death / Wing Kong.

Not to be confused with 1980s Gold Record band Wang Chung.

[Redwyrm]

Imagine if Biden hadn't preemptively pardoned those he did before leaving office... Biden should have just blanket pardoned the entire Democratic party, all news organizations and late night hosts to be sure Trump couldn't do what he has always wanted to do.

[Dontrike]

So how confident is Trump's FBI? Well the head of it was writing to himself about how good he's doing. Nothing like some affirmations to continue being a fucking tool.

[Valdhammer]

nonstop stress when you're young and healthy can be rough
il Douche is neither young, nor healthy.

He’s also incapable of feeling stress. Need a conscience for that.

[Poopymonster]

He’s also incapable of feeling stress. Need a conscience for that.

Better living through Chemistry.
Can we get a look at the most recent Dr. Feelgood logs, see who's snorting what again?

[zorkuus]

Ok, now tRump and his entourage of quacks think they've found a cure for alzheimer's...

[Paranoid Android]

The authorities in the Dominican Republic said on Sunday that they had recovered cocaine from a speedboat that was recently destroyed in a U.S. military airstrike, part of the Trump administration’s campaign targeting Latin American criminal gangs and drug cartels.

https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3lzglk6eplx2i

I wish I could show photo but in link.

Hmm? So by the photo of showing whole complete packages of cocaine and miraculously finding the packages after military ordinance obliterated the boat.

Even with this miracle, still illegal of military strike. Oh btw great job media running with this narrative.

[PhaelixWW]

Ok, now tRump and his entourage of quacks think they've found a cure for alzheimer's...

"If you inject some bleach, you'll never suffer Alzheimer's symptoms again!"

[zorkuus]

"If you inject some bleach, you'll never suffer Alzheimer's symptoms again!"

I'm sorry, it was autism. Anyway, I'm sure their solution is even dumber than that. RFK jr will make sure of it.

[alach]

They are going to say autism is caused by Tylenol.
Hope they get sued harder than Fox News by Dominion for just the suggestion.

[fwc577]

They are going to say autism is caused by Tylenol.
Hope they get sued harder than fix news by Dominion for just the suggestion.

The only drug that we have definitive proof causes autism is Fox News.

[Al Gorefiend]

If they cure autism, what will moms use on GoFundMe to gather sympathy donations? We're going to need a new buzzword since ADHD fell off the mainstream wagon, we cant have parents taking accountability for their misbehaved children.

Or we go full circle and we're back to claiming demonic possession and exorcisms.

[Kaleredar]

I'm sorry, it was autism. Anyway, I'm sure their solution is even dumber than that. RFK jr will make sure of it.

And something that he or a close political leech can directly profit off, don’t forget!

[alach]

Whatever happened to CRT? I never knew what it was but it was the greatest threat to America a few years ago. Another buzzword and "ailment" beaten back and defeated by the brave members of the conservative party.

If these guys didn't have make-believe issues - they'd have no issues.

[Draco-Onis]

Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say

President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan accepted a $50,000 bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent last year in a since-closed U.S. Justice Department bribery investigation, two sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
In the alleged scheme, Homan promised immigration-related government contracts when he joined the Trump administration in exchange for the money, the sources said, speaking anonymously to discuss nonpublic investigations.

FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the investigation closed over the summer, one of the sources said. Homan could not be reached for comment.
“This matter originated under the previous administration and was subjected to a full review by FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors. They found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing," Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement on Sunday.
"The Department’s resources must remain focused on real threats to the American people, not baseless investigations. As a result, the investigation has been closed.”
The probe into Homan started around August 2024 near the end of President Joe Biden's administration and stemmed from a separate national security investigation, one of the sources told Reuters.

In that unrelated probe, the target repeatedly brought up Homan, saying he was collecting bribes in exchange for future government contracts, the two sources told Reuters.
An undercover sting operation was set up, and Homan was caught on a recording accepting a $50,000 bribe in a bag from the restaurant chain Cava, the sources said.
Homan oversees the Trump administration's campaign of mass deportations of people in the country illegally. The White House said he has not been involved in awarding any contracts.

"He is a career law enforcement officer and lifelong public servant who is doing a phenomenal job on behalf of President Trump and the country,” Abigail Jackson, White House deputy press secretary, said in a statement.

A grand jury probe into Homan in the Western District of Texas was still in its early stages when Trump returned to the White House in January, the sources said.
Emil Bove, who was acting deputy attorney general and is now a federal judge, was briefed on the case in February, one of the sources said. In that exchange, he expressed displeasure with the probe and said it was an example of a "deep state" operation, referring to the idea that unelected officials secretly control the government.
The statement from Patel and Blanche said the probe was a "blatantly political investigation" and "yet another example of how the Biden Department of Justice was using its resources to target President Trump’s allies."

Homan was an official at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Barack Obama and its acting director during Trump's first term.
During Trump's four years out of power, Homan ran a consulting business to help companies obtain immigration-related government contracts.
In the recorded sting operation, Homan claimed he would keep the bribe money in a trust until he had completed his service in the Trump administration, one of the sources said.
Not long after the meeting when he criticized the Homan probe, Bove separately ordered corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams to be dropped, prompting career prosecutors to resign. The Justice Department has also largely dismantled the unit that prosecutes corruption cases, which took part in the Homan probe.

The now-closed probe into Homan was reported earlier by MSNBC.

You have to admire the sheer stupidity of just giving him all cash not that it matters, the supreme court has basically made bribery legal they just ask you be subtle about it. Now thanks to the new administration you don't have to be let the cash flow.

[btlcryct]

Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say



You have to admire the sheer stupidity of just giving him all cash not that it matters, the supreme court has basically made bribery legal they just ask you be subtle about it. Now thanks to the new administration you don't have to be let the cash flow.

And they literally don't care:

https://x.com/FNC_Ladies_Rule/status...731860/photo/1

But ask them about Biden and they'll go on for days how corrupt he was.

[Endus]

https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3lzglk6eplx2i

I wish I could show photo but in link.

Hmm? So by the photo of showing whole complete packages of cocaine and miraculously finding the packages after military ordinance obliterated the boat.

Even with this miracle, still illegal of military strike. Oh btw great job media running with this narrative.

It doesn't matter if they're running drugs. If they're running drugs, it's a police issue, and the USA has no jurisdiction in the waters they're in when they're being shot at by the USA. Running drugs is also not an immediate lethal threat to anyone, so there's no justification for use of lethal force to stop it.

Imagine if the USA put tanks all over and occasionally took a shot at a truck or car traveling a nearby highway. Is it "okay" if it turns out that car was smuggling drugs? Fuckno. This doesn't get "better" when the shot lands in another country's jurisdiction, it gets worse.

[Edge-]

And they literally don't care:

https://x.com/FNC_Ladies_Rule/status...731860/photo/1

But ask them about Biden and they'll go on for days how corrupt he was.

wow, megyn kelly being the hateful dishonest cunt she always was

to think

she was once the heir apparent to the most valuable hour of TV in America

now i guess she's got a podcast after crashing out as a daytime tv talk show host

wild how republicans always out themselves as truly awful and as never actually improving as human beings. did she learn any empathy from that time she got preggers and suddenly realized that maternity leave is actually super important for mothers after spending years shit talking lazy women wanting to spend time with their babies? no, she just learned that it applied to her for a chance and she cared about that. fuck all those other mother lol

[fwc577]

And they literally don't care:

https://x.com/FNC_Ladies_Rule/status...731860/photo/1

But ask them about Biden and they'll go on for days how corrupt he was.

Megan Kelly is one of the "Let them eat cake" crowd. She can speak all she wants that people don't care. And she may be right that some MAGA nutjobs don't care. But nothing is going to change the mind of those MAGA nut jobs. The war isn't for their minds. It's for the Independents and the people who sat out the last election or the people who voted to "punish" the Biden administration by not voting for Kamala.

They are the ones who care.

Over 30% of US Households made less than $50k last year. Remind people that this asshole, who is in our government, was paid $50k to do illegal shit and he didn't get prosecuted over it because of the current administration, these people will pay the price eventually.

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she was once the heir apparent to the most valuable hour of TV in America

now i guess she's got a podcast after crashing out as a daytime tv talk show host

She made Orange Man mad early on. Despite her carrying all the water for Trump and MAGA these days, her career is over because she's a woman. Only way she's going to become relevant again is if she does to Trump what she wouldn't do to Ailes, just go suck him off like her surname is Loomer.

[Edge-]

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/22/nx-s1...-survey-hunger

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the administration of President Trump announced on Saturday that it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey, calling it "redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous."

The Household Food Security Report provides yearly data on the lack of access to adequate nutrition for low-income Americans, and helps shape policy on how to combat food insecurity and hunger.

The USDA's announcement comes after Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law this summer, which expands the work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. This, in effect, will leave an estimated 2.4 million Americans without food aid.

"The national food insecurity survey is a critical, reliable data source that shows how many families in America struggle to put food on the table," Crystal FitzSimons, president of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) told NPR. FRAC is an anti-hunger organization that advocates for food security in the U.S.

FitzSimons said that without the annual report, advocates and policymakers won't have a clear lens on the scale of hunger in America, and how to prevent it.

"Without that data, we are flying blind, and we don't know the impact," FitzSimons said.

According to the USDA, 47.4 million people lived in food insecure households in 2023. This means that at certain times, "these households were uncertain of having or unable to acquire enough food to meet the needs of all their members." Among those, nearly 14 million were children.

In the announcement, the Agriculture Department stated, "trends in the prevalence of food insecurity have remained virtually unchanged."

Experts are saying that's not true.

"Last year's report for 2023 showed an increase in food insecurity," Kyle Ross, a policy analyst with the progressive research group the Center for American Progress, told NPR. "At that point, it has been the largest rate of food insecurity that the country has seen since 2014 and substantially larger than just two years prior."

Food insecurity is on the rise, there are more hungry Americans.

The response from Donald Trump and Republicans?

Stop finding out how many Americans are going hungry, because if you ignore the problem you can pretend it doesn't exist.

Ross also said the Agriculture Department's claim that the annual report on food and nutrition insecurity in America might be politicized is not accurate.

"That has no bearing in reality whatsoever," Ross said.

Every accusation is a confession.

Ross thinks that the higher job requirements people have to meet to access SNAP benefits, and the resulting rise in food insecurity, is the likely motive behind the Trump administration scrapping the report.

"This will substantially increase food insecurity, and unfortunately, that will make itself clear in the data of food insecurity reports in the next couple of years," Ross said.

The USDA did not respond to questions from NPR about the reasons behind the report's cancellation.

The last report will be released on Oct. 22, according to The Associated Press. It will cover 2024 data on food insecurity in the U.S.

Food insecurity will rise and more Americans will go hungry under Donald Trump and Republicans. But we won't know how many because they don't want us to know.

Hungry folks be desperate folks.