Daily Beast: Everyone Wants to Know Who Was at Trump’s Secretive Dinner

The top 25 investors were invited to a special pre-dinner reception and tour, although details of the tour were not listed on the $TRUMP website.

Despite ethical questions raised over being able to buy access to the president, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters it was not an official event. “The president is attending it in his personal time,” she said on Thursday. “It is not a White House dinner, it’s not taking place here at the White House.”

Speaking to Anderson Cooper on Thursday, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy questioned the mystery around the guest list. “This might be close to the top of the most corrupt things that the president has done,” Murphy said. “There are 200 plus anonymous individuals who paid their way to meet with President Trump.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/everyone-wants-to-know-who-was-at-trumps-secretive-dinner

Alternet: Behind Trump’s Order 14270: A sweeping directive that dismantles a century of protections | Opinion

On April 9, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14270, blandly titled “Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy.” Behind that bureaucratic name is a sweeping directive: Dismantle a century of environmental protections.

Every regulation related to the environment, natural resources, or energy, whether it safeguards air, water, species, or public lands, must be rewritten to serve polluters or vanish by default.

Some will claim this is just about efficiency. But no standard review process sets a mass expiration date for protections, regardless of science, impact, or legal mandate. This is not streamlining. It is a countdown to erasure.

https://www.alternet.org/trump-order-14270

Raw Story: ‘Deal is a whiff’: Onlookers blast Trump for ‘wild lies’ about his major announcement

Donald Trump on Sunday made an announcement on prescription drug price controls, resulting in mockery and backlash online.

Trump on Sunday took to his own social media site, Truth Social, and announced what he called “one of the most consequential orders in our country’s history.” It was a price control plan for prescriptions.

Problem is, King Donald has absolutely no authority to tell pharmaceutical firms how much to charge for their products.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-deal-wild-lies-drugs

Telegraph: Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison

The refurbished prison would house ‘America’s most ruthless and violent offenders’, US president says

Donald Trump has ordered the US Bureau of Prisons to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison off the coast of San Francisco.

In a message posted on Truth Social, his online platform, on Sunday night, the US president announced his plan to turn the small island into symbol of law and order, to deter “vicious” criminals whom he called the “dregs of society”.

“For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat criminal offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than misery and suffering,” Mr Trump wrote.

“When we were a more serious nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.

“That is why, today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent offenders.”

He added: “The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/05/05/trump-orders-reopening-alcatraz-prison

More here:

https://www.the-sun.com/news/14165183/trump-reopening-alcatraz-prison-americas-dregs-society

Reuters: Pentagon says leak probe may lead to U.S. prosecutions

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned on Tuesday of possible prosecutions of former senior advisors who were fired during a probe into leaks of Pentagon information to the media, saying evidence would be handed over to the Department of Justice once the investigation is completed.

F*ck*ng hypocrite! Look in the mirror and prosecute yourself!

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-says-leak-probe-may-lead-us-prosecutions-2025-04-22