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Donald had a temper tantrum on national television and walked out of an interview simply because Kristen Welker presented him with a basic fact.
Note to other journalists: now is the time to pile on. He won't be able to handle it.
California just held an election with paper ballots, signature verification, audits, bipartisan oversight, and public vote counting procedures.
You don’t get to yell “fraud” every time voters make a choice you don’t like.
Take the whiny little b*tch act somewhere else. We’re not buying that bullshit in this state!
🚨BREAKING: TRUMP JUST HAD HIS WORST MELTDOWN EVER.
Trump completely unravels when Kristen Welker challenged him on his California election claims.
Instead of providing evidence, he called her "crooked" and "stupid," attacked the press, and abruptly WALKS OUT in the middle of the interview.
She did what every journalist should do every time Trump spews his unfounded bullsh*t.
Thank you, Kristen.
BREAKINGNEWS Just so MAGA is aware the removal of Trump's name from the Kennedy Center is a permanent injunction. This can NOT be appealed. Trump has 14 days to remove his name. 🚨
BREAKING: "Trump came to China! We won!" CNN anchor reveals the tidal wave of mockery coming from China as a dejected Trump begs Xi Jinping for mercy!
CNN’s Erin Burnett was visibly stunned by the sheer level of unrestrained mockery China is hurling at Donald Trump during his high-stakes visit.
While Trump begins meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Chinese social media has exploded with viral posts openly ridiculing the U.S. president, and Beijing’s strict censors are happily letting it spread.
Some of the posts going viral across China include:
-- “America has lost its swagger. They’re nothing but a paper tiger.”
-- “Trump came to China! We won the tariff war!”
-- “They will look up to us from now on.”
-- “Trump, you’re welcome to visit China and learn from us.”
-- “The U.S. is no longer a country that we look up to. We can now compete with them with confidence and strength.”
Burnett pointed out that this kind of open political mockery – especially during a visit by a foreign head of state – is extremely rare in China unless the government explicitly wants it to happen.
The message from Beijing is crystal clear: they believe they have the upper hand and are enjoying Trump’s humiliation.This is the embarrassing reality of Trump’s failed tough-guy act.
After years of bluster and tariffs, Trump is now flying to China as a weakened leader, getting openly laughed at by the Chinese public with their government’s approval.
The “strongest president ever” is being treated like a joke on the world stage by America’s biggest rival.
This is what happens when an incompetent, blustering president thinks he can bully the world. The rest of the planet is watching, and laughing.
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Melania Trump says Jimmy Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our county.
I stand with Jimmy against Melania Trump!
Who is with me? 👍
Trump just fired all 24 members of the National Science Board. Every single one. By email. No warning. No reason given. The board has existed since 1950.
The National Science Board is the independent body that oversees the National Science Foundation, the agency that distributes $9 billion in research grants every year.
Its members are scientists and engineers from universities and industry. They serve six-year staggered terms specifically so they cross presidential administrations and stay independent of whoever is in power.
On Friday, every single one of them got the same boilerplate email from Mary Sprowls of the Presidential Personnel Office: "On behalf of President Donald J Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service."
That's it. That's the whole letter. For 76 years of institutional independence.
The NSF funds the basic science behind MRIs. Cellphones. LASIK eye surgery. GPS. The internet itself. The Antarctic research stations. The deep-space telescopes. The research vessels mapping the ocean floor. Every breakthrough that made America the world's leader in science for the better part of a century traces back through grants this agency made and this board approved.
The board chair, Victor McCrary, was actively advising Congress on Trump's proposed 55% cut to NSF's budget. The board was helping fight back. So Trump fired the board.
Marvi Matos Rodriguez, one of the fired members, told reporters she had been reviewing an 80-page report as part of her board duties just days before being terminated.
Keivan Stassun, a physicist at Vanderbilt, said NSF's leadership had already stopped responding to board oversight requests months ago. "We would ask them, 'Are you following board governance directives?' And their answer would be, in effect, 'We don't listen to you anymore.'"
Now there's no board to answer to.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House Science Committee, called it "the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation. Will the president fill the NSB with MAGA loyalists who won't stand up to him as he hands over our leadership in science to our adversaries?"
That's the actual question.
Because while Trump is firing American scientists, China is building research universities at a rate we cannot match. The CDC just buried a study showing vaccines work.
RFK Jr. runs HHS. The EPA is gutted. The Forest Service is being broken. Half of American children are breathing dangerous air. And now the people who decide what gets researched in the United States have all been fired by email on a Friday afternoon.