The Trump Presidency, Season 2

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Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social)

The Trump budget in one chart: Cut programs that help families and make America a leader of the world, pour money into kidnapping grad students and deporting toddlers.

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So Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz. Yup. But, where would he get an idea like that? I wonder...

Trump’s Alcatraz Announcement Comes The Morning After Clint Eastwood Prison Classic Was On Local TV

The Clint Eastwood classic was on a local Palm Beach station the night before Trump made the announcement he is reopening the infamous prison.

deadline.com

“I guess I was supposed to be a moviemaker,” said Donald Trump today when asked why he decided to reopen the infamous prison on Alcatraz Island.

Turns out there might be a more prosaic answer: Clint Eastwood’s 1979 classic Escape From Alcatraz was shown on a South Florida PBS station the night before. (Trump was at Mar-a-Lago for most of the weekend.)

We need to defund PBS, IMMEDIATELY.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

I thought Trump wanted to get to back on the moon very soon? How will defunding NASA possibly get him even near there...

 

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I thought Trump wanted to get to back on the moon very soon? How will defunding NASA possibly get him even near there...

Mexico and China (and maybe Canada!) will pay our way to the Moon. Trump is just that good.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well Trump could make that happen: he just needs to be on that trip with the promise to never come back. Most countries on the planet will gladly pay for that!

 

[detrius]

I thought Trump wanted to get to back on the moon very soon? How will defunding NASA possibly get him even near there...

Elon already came up with a plan.

Spoiler

 

[Veritable Quandry]

*taps foot*

*taps 30 cm*

 

[Noodles]

So Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz. Yup. But, where would he get an idea like that? I wonder...

Trump’s Alcatraz Announcement Comes The Morning After Clint Eastwood Prison Classic Was On Local TV

The Clint Eastwood classic was on a local Palm Beach station the night before Trump made the announcement he is reopening the infamous prison.

deadline.com

Turns out there might be a more prosaic answer: Clint Eastwood’s 1979 classic Escape From Alcatraz was shown on a South Florida PBS station the night before. (Trump was at Mar-a-Lago for most of the weekend.)

We need to defund PBS, IMMEDIATELY.

Is this also why he wants to tariff movies. He was watching some Clint Eastwood movie and like, "Look at this, they don't make movies like this anymore, why don't we make movies like this? It must be foreigners."

 

[Noodles]

I thought Trump wanted to get to back on the moon very soon? How will defunding NASA possibly get him even near there...

Make the Moon People pay for it!

 

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*taps 30 cm*

*huffs* That is not how you measure foot tapping!

 

[detrius]

Is this also why he wants to tariff movies. He was watching some Clint Eastwood movie and like, "Look at this, they don't make movies like this anymore, why don't we make movies like this? It must be foreigners."

One of Trump's favourite movies is (supposedly) "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

One of Trump's favourite movies is (supposedly) "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".

Does he know that this movie is, aside some actors, entirely Italian with locations in Spain and Italy?

Ah right I forgot... "100% tariffs on movies" is what Trump also wants to do.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/06/trump-movie-industry-tariffs-actor-jon-voight

 

[Isabeau]

Well, Carney’s meeting with the US uncle fucker in chief at the moment.

Thomas Seal (@twseal.bsky.social)

Trump posts this minutes ahead of meeting Mark Carney:

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Carney to Trump: "There are some places that are never for sale ... having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign, it's not for sale. It won't be for sale ever."

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Canada 'not for sale, ever', Carney warns as Trump touts benefits of becoming 51st US state

Donald Trump repeatedly says joining the US would be "a massive tax cut" for Canadian citizens.

www.bbc.com

 

[detrius]

Does he know that this movie is, aside some actors, entirely Italian with locations in Spain and Italy?

Ah right I forgot... "100% tariffs on movies" is what Trump also wants to do.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/06/trump-movie-industry-tariffs-actor-jon-voight

That's why I brought it up.

But I'm not sure he knows those movies were filmed in Europe. Or that this is actually one of his favourite films. As far as I know, he probably thinks the name of the character portrayed by Clint Eastwood is "Dirty Harry".

 

[Sid]

Trump is just that good.

Trump and good in one sentence... who would have thought.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

So Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz. Yup. But, where would he get an idea like that? I wonder...

Trump’s Alcatraz Announcement Comes The Morning After Clint Eastwood Prison Classic Was On Local TV

The Clint Eastwood classic was on a local Palm Beach station the night before Trump made the announcement he is reopening the infamous prison.

deadline.com

We need to defund PBS, IMMEDIATELY.

Huh... And all this time, I thought Trump thought PBS was something women get once a month.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Trump and good in one sentence... who would have thought.

"Trump" and "good riddance" go well together.

 

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The Grifter President is all about the People.

Freight Company Tells SEC It Needs Millions in $TRUMP to Get Access to the President

The transactional nature of the Trump presidency, now on the blockchain.

gizmodo.com

Donald Trump has promised to have dinner with the top holders of his cryptocurrency memecoin $TRUMP, creating a pretty clear-cut opportunity for buying access to the leader of the free world. Freight Technologies Inc., a North American-based shipping company, wants to take advantage. The firm’s CEO Javier Selgas recently announced—publicly, on purpose, with zero consequence—that it intends to purchase as much as $20 million worth of $TRUMP so that he can try to influence the president’s policies on tariffs.

According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing made by the company, it has tapped an institutional investor to provide financing for an initial purchase of $1 million worth of $TRUMP, with the possibility of an additional $19 million. Basically, it’s borrowing up to $20 million to get a seat at the table with Trump. The company isn’t shy about that goal, either. In a press release, Selgas said the purchase is part of the company’s “promotion of productive and active commerce between the United States and Mexico.”

You have to buy your way through the Tariff wall.

 

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Talking To The President

A sort of interesting oped on how to interview a narcissistic fabulist who loves discussing his own desires and victimizing even moderately contentious reporters. I'm just not sure he provides an effective way out when dealing with Trump.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

You know, it occurs to me that if "Autistic people don't make families or babies etc" whatever RFK was going on about the other day. WTF are these Eugenics nut jobs worried about?

Wouldn't the "problem" just resolve itself?

That's only half the story, though. Just as they did 100 years ago, the great replacement theory enthusiasts and the eugenics folks want people to have lots of babies, but only the right -- i.e. white, healthy, high IQ -- kind of babies to ensure the survival of the ethno-nation state.