Carsten Sorensen

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@RichardAngwin 👍

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@globalnews 😂😂will he huff and puff and try and blow our house down

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@LucasSa56947288 Why

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Trump-endorsed Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller — accused by his ex-wife of throwing boiling water from a skillet at her (scalding her chest and stomach), holding a gun to her head while she changed their infant daughter’s diaper, throwing her against a wall during a custody exchange in front of their toddler (leaving grab marks and bruises), and related claims involving their daughter’s collarbone fracture and statements like “Daddy kill you” — is going live on X tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET for a “special announcement.”

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump overrules his own Coast Guard and orders 11 giant Arctic icebreakers just because Russia has more – leaving taxpayers holding the multi-billion dollar bag!

Donald Trump reportedly ignored his own Coast Guard experts and ordered the purchase of 11 massive Arctic icebreakers after getting obsessed with the fact that Russia has a bigger fleet, according to a new New York Times investigation.

The Coast Guard’s most recent assessment said the country only needs four or five heavy icebreakers.

Admiral Kevin Lunday, the Coast Guard commandant, told the Times straight up: “The number 11 came directly from the president. This was the president’s number and the president’s decision.”

The Times notes the deal was born as much out of Trump's personal enthusiasm as military planning. After a round of golf with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Trump reportedly called him late one night and announced he no longer wanted one used icebreaker.

He wanted an entire fleet of brand-new ones instead.
The ships alone are expected to cost nearly $7 billion. The administration also bypassed normal competitive bidding by invoking a rarely used “public interest” exemption so the contracts could move forward without competing bids.

And here’s the kicker: while they found billions to buy the ships, there is no plan yet to pay for the crews, ports, maintenance, and infrastructure needed to actually operate them – costs that could run into billions more.

Where did the money come from? The administration redirected billions from the Republican spending law’s border security funding after Trump decided he wanted more ships than Congress had originally approved.Trump has never hidden his reasoning:

“We only have one,” he complained during his first term. “Russia has 40.”

Experts note that comparison is nonsense. Russia has a far larger Arctic population and relies on icebreakers to keep northern ports open year-round. The United States has completely different needs.

Even the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office is sounding the alarm likening the Coast Guard to “a lottery winner who spends all their money buying the mansion, and then goes broke once they realize they don’t have the money to maintain it.”

This is a perfect example of Trump’s government-by-fiat: decide he wants the biggest, the most, or more than the other guy – then leave everyone else to figure out how to pay for it, staff it, and make it work.

The man is treating the national budget like his personal toy store. If Trump’s ego-driven $7 billion icebreaker shopping spree has you seething, like and share this post.

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@RichardAngwin A softball scholarship

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@RafaMorgan64 So do Cdns

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BOMBSHELL: While Republicans drag Dr. Fauci, Gov. JB Pritzker just revealed that during COVID, Donald Trump told him he would only send life saving equipment if he agreed to praise him on the Sunday talk shows.

Is Donald Trump evil or just completely fucking deranged?

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Mike Johnson: “If we lose the midterms, the Democrats will go after the president’s family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, and the rest of you who have committed crimes.”

It’s my biggest wish. And you?

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@CalltoActivism Clueless

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

They lied about the whole thing and now admit the contractor screwed up the Reflecting Pool installation. And because they were in a rush to indict to please Trump, they presented false evidence to a grand jury. https://t.co/qk1RPaREZ4

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@highbrow_nobrow 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@CalltoActivism @OccupyDemocrats Democracy

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@LucasSa56947288 Dummkopf

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@LongTimeHistory wtf

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@Marwa_babs Iran Nuclear Deal

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@Biancarose52 He started the war that he lost, no

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@OlenaRohoza Best defence is a strong offence

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@RpsAgainstTrump Too bad so sad, not happening

[Carsten Sorensen @CarstenSorense2]

@BulwarkOnline He has a high opinion of his influence not based on history