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Slingshot News: ‘You Guys Don’t Care About Taxes’: Trump Insults Law Enforcement Officers To Their Faces, Implies They’re Too Dumb To Understand Taxes [Video]
Donald Trump gave remarks to law enforcement personnel and National Guard troops several weeks ago in Washington, D.C. During his remarks, Trump stated to the people in attendance that they “don’t care about taxes,” implying that they’re too dumb to care or understand.
‘Watch Him With The Hands’: Trump Tests The Limits Of His Hypocrisy, Takes Jab At Gavin Newsom’s Body Language In Tone-Deaf Rant
During a recent bilateral meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki, Donald Trump hypocritically ranted about California Governor Gavin Newsom and his body language, specifically his hand gestures. Trump, who is known for wildly flailing his hands like he’s playing the accordion, should be the last person to call others out on their hand gestures.
Slingshot News: ‘Give Us Ownership Of The Land’: Trump Hits Rock Bottom In Diplomacy, Threatens South Korea’s Sovereignty During Meeting With Their President
During a recent bilateral meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, Donald Trump tactlessly entertained the idea of South Korea giving up ownership of land containing U.S. military installations. Currently, South Korea is granting land to the U.S. for military use as part of their U.S.–South Korea Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA).
Raw Story: Stephen Miller’s ex-classmate spills details: ‘He craved triggering the good-looking kids’
In high school, Stephen Miller was trying to “triggering the good-looking kids,” according to a new report Sunday.
Rolling Stone reported over the weekend that Miller was being “gossiped” about behind his back even in Trump’s White House.
As part of the broader report diving into Miller’s background and role at the White House, the outlet interviewed an individual who went to school with the man who is now the deputy chief of staff for policy for Trump’s second term in the Oval Office.
“As a teenager in Santa Monica, California, Miller craved nothing more than triggering the good-looking kids in school who wanted nothing to do with him,” the report states before introducing Jason Islas, who first met Miller at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, and “says he and Miller and a third friend were a tight-knit band of outsiders who spent middle school doing preteen-boy stuff, like talking about Star Trek (Islas remembers Miller as a big Captain Kirk fan).”
The report continues:
“That all changed, though, in the summer of 1999, between eighth and ninth grades, when, Islas says, Miller informed him they couldn’t be friends anymore. ‘One of the things he did say was that he didn’t like the fact that I’m of Latin heritage,’ Islas recalls.”
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-trigger-good-looking
Slingshot News: ‘Shea, Please Come Up’: Trump Watches On In Satisfaction As Indoctrinated Child Spews MAGA Talking Points During Religious Event
During his remarks to the White House Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible in D.C. several days ago, Donald Trump made a child come up to the stage and spout MAGA-laced talking points against DEI.
Daily Beast: Trump Hit With Fresh Court Blow After Revenge Firing
The Federal Reserve governor’s job is safe for now.
Donald Trump was hit with a legal smackdown after trying to remove Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook.
Cook can stay in her job, a federal judge ruled in Washington, D.C., blocking Trump’s unprecedented attempt to boot her using allegations of mortgage fraud.
She will now be present at the Fed’s Sept. 16 meeting, but Cook’s trouble with Trump is not yet over.
“President Trump has not identified anything related to Cook’s conduct or job performance as a board member that would indicate that she is harming the board or the public interest by executing her duties unfaithfully or ineffectively,” U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb said after issuing a preliminary injunction.
The judge also ruled that removing Cook caused her “irreparable harm” and that the president had likely violated her procedural right to due process by posting his letter to her on social media.
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House and the Federal Reserve for comment.
Trump posted a public termination letter on his Truth Social account last month, addressed to Cook, who was confirmed by the Senate in 2022 as the first Black woman to serve as a Federal Reserve governor.
His post contained allegations that Cook had committed mortgage fraud, claims that predated her time on the board, and said she was being removed from her position “effective immediately.”
At the time, Cook released her own statement, claiming Trump had “no authority” to fire her. She added, “I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022.”
Cook hired lawyer Abbe Lowell, who said in a statement last month that Trump’s “demands lack any proper process, basis or legal authority” and they would take whatever actions were necessary to prevent “his attempted illegal action.”
Governors can only be removed by a president with a valid reason for termination, known as “for cause.” Otherwise, they serve in long, fixed roles to add to financial stability. Cook, who was nominated to the post by Joe Biden, is not due to finish her current term until 2038.
The preliminary injunction Judge Cobb granted on Tuesday also found that Trump had likely violated the Federal Reserve Act by using social media to air his allegations about her mortgage fraud and also to fire her in public.
“The court is highly doubtful that Cook should have been required to piece together the evidentiary basis for a ‘for cause’ removal from a scattered assortment of social media posts and news articles,” Cobb wrote. “Even if the notice provided had been sufficient, Cook’s due process rights were nevertheless likely violated because she was not given a ‘meaningful opportunity’ to be heard.”
Cobb also barred Reserve Chair Jerome Powell or Fed officials from carrying out Trump’s wishes of firing Cook.
“This ruling recognizes and reaffirms the importance of safeguarding the independence of the Federal Reserve from illegal political interference,” Cook’s counsel Lowell said in a statement.
“Allowing the president to unlawfully remove Governor Cook on unsubstantiated and vague allegations would endanger the stability of our financial system and undermine the rule of law.”
He added, “Governor Cook will continue to carry out her sworn duties as a Senate-confirmed Board Governor.”
Trump did not answer a reporter’s question about a court overruling his firing when he was leaving a seafood dinner on Tuesday.
However, White House deputy press secretary Kush Desai told Politico that Trump’s firing of Cook was “lawful” and boosted accountability for the body that sets interest rates.
“The president determined there was cause to remove a governor who was credibly accused of lying in financial documents from a highly sensitive position overseeing financial institutions,” Desai said.
“The removal of a governor for cause improves the Federal Reserve board’s accountability and credibility for both the markets and American people.”
Judge Cobb’s ruling said this was the first purported “for cause” removal of a governor in the 111-year history of the Federal Reserve.
In her finding, Cobb said Trump’s attempt to remove Cook “was done in violation” of the “for cause” provision.
She said the best reading of that provision was that it was limited to “actions relating to that governor’s ‘behavior in office.’” And because the allegations of mortgage fraud occurred before Cook’s role as governor, Cobb said that “for cause” did “not contemplate removing an individual purely for conduct that occurred before they began in office.”
Trump has also attempted to fire Powell this year, unhappy with his refusal to cut interest rates.
Trump Hit With Fresh Court Blow After Revenge Firing
The Federal Reserve governor’s job is safe for now.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hit-with-fresh-court-blow-after-revenge-firing
SWNS: Jeffrey Epstein memorial plaque installed on Trump’s Aberdeen golf course [Video]
A campaign group placed a Jeffrey Epstein memorial plaque on Donald Trump’s Aberdeen golf course. The plaque reads: “In loving memory of Jeffrey Epstein – a terrific guy. See you very, very soon. From Donald.” Political group Everyone Hates Elon posted video of the stunt, saying: “Donald Trump called Jeffrey Epstein a ‘terrific guy’. He was a sex trafficker and paedophile. So we know he’d want to remember him properly on his Aberdeen golf course. Trump arrives in the UK next week for a state visit. Let’s absolutely ruin it.” Trump is due in the UK for his second State Visit.
Independent: Trump asks Supreme Court to approve his tariffs after warning US would be ‘destroyed’ if they don’t go ahead
President demands highest court weigh in on his use of International Emergency Economic Powers Act 1977 to slap hefty levies on imported goods
Donald Trump has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s ruling that the basis for his “reciprocal tariffs” policy was not legal, having warned the country would be “destroyed” without it.
The Court of Appeals ruled on Friday in agreement with a May finding by the Court of International Trade that the president had overstepped his authority by invoking a law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act 1977 to place hefty levies on goods imported from America’s trading partners.
Trump was incensed by the decision, insisting it was “highly partisan” and “would literally destroy the United States of America.”
Now, the administration has asked the conservative-majority Supreme Court to decide whether to take up the case by September 10, despite its new term not beginning until October 6, with a view to hearing arguments in November.
“The stakes in this case could not be higher,” Solicitor General D John Sauer wrote in his filing. “The president and his cabinet officials have determined that the tariffs are promoting peace and unprecedented economic prosperity, and that the denial of tariff authority would expose our nation to trade retaliation without effective defenses and thrust America back to the brink of economic catastrophe.”
Attorneys representing small businesses challenging the tariff program said they were not opposed to the Supreme Court hearing the matter and said, on the contrary, they were confident their arguments would prevail.
“These unlawful tariffs are inflicting serious harm on small businesses and jeopardizing their survival,” said Jeffrey Schwab of Liberty Justice Center. “We hope for a prompt resolution of this case for our clients.”
Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs in the White House Rose Garden on April 2, invoking the IEEPA to set a 10 percent baseline tax on all imports and even higher taxes on goods being shipped from nearly every one of America’s trading partners, with China, Canada and Mexico among those hardest hit.
However, his announcement sent shockwaves through the world’s stock markets as investors panicked over their likely economic consequences, eventually forcing Trump into a rethink. He duly announced a week later that the implementation of the tariffs would be suspended for 90 days, a deadline that was eventually extended until August.
Administration officials led by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick used the intervening summer months to attempt to broker custom deals with other countries but only succeeded in securing a handful of agreements, notably with the U.K. and Vietnam.
A revised list of tariffs that came into effect on August 7 saw India (51 percent), Syria (41 percent), Laos (40 percent), Myanmar (4o percent) and Switzerland (39 percent) particularly hard done by.
Then, last week, the Court of Appeals agreed with two challenges, one brought by the small businesses and another by 12 states, to rule in a seven-four majority decision that the president’s power to regulate imports under the law does not include the power to impose tariffs.
“It seems unlikely that Congress intended, in enacting IEEPA, to depart from its past practice and grant the president unlimited authority to impose tariffs,” the justices wrote in their decision.
They added that U.S. law “bestows significant authority on the president to undertake a number of actions in response to a declared national emergency, but none of these actions explicitly include the power to impose tariffs, duties, or the like, or the power to tax.”
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Bubba dearest,
Your tariffs are illegal.
You had no legal authority to levy them.
They gotta go.
You gotta go, too.
Period.
Stop.
End of story.
HuffPost: Look What Donald Trump Has Done To The Oval Office
Trump has taken an unusually personal interest in redecorating the iconic seat of the American presidency.
In the words of White Stripes singer Jack White, “It’s now a vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy professional wrestler’s dressing room.”
For decades, every president has made the Oval Office his own.
John F. Kennedy specially chose a rug in Harvard crimson, although he did not live to see its installation. Richard Nixon’s office featured a navy rug with gold stars, accented by gold curtains. Jimmy Carter surrounded himself with warmer, more natural shades. George H.W. Bush opted for powder blue as both a floor and window treatment.
The presidents have chosen different sofas, different coffee tables, different books for the shelves, different knick-knacks for the tables and paintings for the walls.
But none have had the aesthetic impact of President Donald Trump.
In his second term, Trump has endeavored to leave a more lasting footprint on the White House by drawing on his long career in real estate development. He paved the Rose Garden’s grassy center, erected two enormous flag poles and revealed plans to build a large ballroom on the East Wing to host events.
Trump’s Oval Office, though, has been the site of the most striking transformation so far.
The iconic space has been positively drenched in gold — curtains, of course, but also vases, frames, trophies, platters and vast amounts of gilding, including shiny curlicued moldings that ensure no part of the wall is left blank. This style is either Rococo or decidedly not Rococo.
An ivy plant that had adorned the Oval Office fireplace for over a half-century was replaced by lifeless objects. (The Washington Post figured out the ivy had been relocated to a greenhouse for safekeeping.)
Trump, it seems, has cast aside norms in decorating just as quickly in his second term as he has cast aside norms in governing. Anyone familiar with Trump Tower in Manhattan or his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida will not be surprised to see the full extent of his changes to the Oval, given his instinct to gild the properties that bear his name.
But that is also why his changes rub some people the wrong way. The White House — the People’s House — is not Trump’s own. First families may make changes to the residence to make it feel more comfortable during their stay, but the Oval Office is not part of a Trump-branded enterprise.
In the words of White Stripes singer Jack White, “It’s now a vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy professional wrestler’s dressing room.”
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Look What Donald Trump Has Done To The Oval Office
Trump has taken an unusually personal interest in redecorating the iconic seat of the American presidency.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-oval-office-gold-gilding_n_68910956e4b06ab33893e975