For the many-th time, Trump's "$19.2 trillion" figure is a lie.
New foreign direct investment in the US - to acquire, create or expand businesses - was $232 billion in 2025. (Source: https://t.co/ooDwrAHoTK.) The White House's own website claims there've been $10.6 trillion (not $19.2 trillion) in "major investment announcements" this Trump term - and even that's a wild exaggeration that includes vague pledges, vague statements that aren't even pledges, and pledges about *trade between the US and other countries* rather than investment in the US.
Previous fact check from when Trump was claiming it was $17 trillion: https://t.co/yaAEApwIzy https://t.co/gA34TQep93
Because Trump says everything is back to normal on the oil front does not make it so.
Mr Global hits the nail on the head here. Behind the false narrative to cover up Trump’s illegal market manipulation there is an economic structural cost when institutional investors walk away.
Trump’s market persistent manipulation of the markets cost YOU and he and his friends were the beneficiaries at YOUR expense.
My thanks to Mr Global for the clip
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This is the President of the United States.
What he doesn't understand is that everything is connected. Even if you factor out the tragic loss of life, Russia invading a sovereign democracy and getting away with it tells China exactly how far it can go with Taiwan. And that would definitely affect us.
Burying your head in the sand isn't a foreign policy. It's an invitation for every adversary watching to test how far they can push.
Trump on the Russia-Ukraine war: "It doesn't affect the United States ... I've seen the battlefields. They send me pictures. I actually want to say, 'Don't send them to me.' Pete Hegseth sends me pictures. I say, 'Pete, you know what? It doesn't help the look.'"
To my Republican colleagues:
The President of the United States made $2.2 billion in one year while sitting in the Oval Office, most of it from industries he regulates. Experts now compare his self-enrichment to Putin and other authoritarians, not to any leader of a democracy.
You know this is blatant corruption.
You say it privately.
So when will you say it publicly?
Is holding your seat really worth your silence?
I’ve heard the argument. If you speak out, you lose your primary, and someone worse takes your place. But look around. What has your silence actually prevented? The corruption grows bolder every day you stay quiet. The country needs your courage more than it needs your incumbency.
One day your kids and grandkids will ask what you did when the President of the United States sold the office for billions. They will read the record. They will know whether you stood up or stayed quiet to protect a title.
Ask yourself how you want to be remembered, because history will remember either way.
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Every single day he is costing us millions. Every single day.
-$150 million in golf trips
-$600 million ballroom renovation at the White House
-$14 million to turn the Reflecting Pool into a swamp
-Hundreds of millions more to convert that jet We gave the nation's credit card to a man who bankrupted casinos.
Chaos will follow is the easy soundbite. The harder sentence is the one Sotomayor wrote right before it: the president now holds power that neither the People, nor Congress, nor the Constitution gave him.
The ruling didn't just let Trump fire agency commissioners at will. It overturned a 91-year-old precedent that let Congress build independent commissions in the first place, the FTC, the NLRB, every multi-member body designed to function above the daily churn of presidential politics. That structure is gone for everyone except the Federal Reserve, which the same six-justice majority decided needed its own separate shield in the same opinion.
If the legal theory underneath this were actually about constitutional principle, it would not need a custom exception carved out for the one agency whose independence Wall Street actually polices in real time. Sotomayor's dissent calls that out directly, and she's right to. The inconsistency is the argument, not chaos. Chaos is just what inconsistency looks like once it reaches the rest of government.
Donald Trump told you the ballroom would not cost taxpayers a dime. He told you donors were covering it. He even claimed the builders offered to do it for free.
None of that was true.
New reporting shows the White House secretly handed out a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million.
They routed the deal through the Executive Residence office, the one that normally buys White House furniture and art, because it is exempt from the competitive bidding rules every other federal agency has to follow. They even claimed disclosing the project would compromise national security.
The cost estimate has already tripled, from $200 million to $600 million, with half of it landing on taxpayers. The contractor stands to clear tens of millions in profit.
A federal judge already ruled the president has no authority to demolish the East Wing and build this thing. He is doing it anyway.
This is your money, spent in secret, on a vanity project, with the rules deliberately dodged.
More corruption, plain and simple.
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Why you take us for fools, Mike?
A 57-year-old veteran in Kentucky who served this country just lost his food stamps because his disability pay disqualified him from the new work requirements.
A 62-year-old woman in Ohio just lost her Medicaid.
A grandparent raising their grandchildren just learned they have to prove 80 hours of work a month to keep food on the table, or lose everything.
Mike Johnson calls this "REAL RELIEF for hardworking Americans."
The same bill gave a $75,000 tax cut to every millionaire in America.
The same bill cut $700 billion from Medicaid.
The same bill cut 4 million people from food stamps, 72% of them working households.
The same bill adds $4.5 trillion to the national debt your kids will pay.
They didn't cut spending because the country needed it. They cut spending because they needed an excuse to cut taxes for their donors.
That's not relief. That's mugging the American people, and now you want a medal for it?
Today Iran struck Kuwait and Bahrain, American allies. The Strait of Hormuz is in chaos.
Trump's response? A 600-word Truth Social rant about a golf course.
He's building himself a golf course on federal public land. With your tax dollars.
Through the Department of the Interior. Designed by his personal golf course architect.
He called it a gift to the American people.
The American people did not ask for a golf course. The American people asked for healthcare, lower prices, and a president who isn't wasting money on vanity projects.
This is the same man who:
- Cut food assistance for the poorest Americans
- Slashed VA funding for veterans
- Gutted rural hospitals
- Told working Americans there was no money for healthcare
But there is always, always, money for Trump.
He's building himself a legacy property on land you own, with money you earned, that he will brand, profit from, and call "America First."
This is what the ATM presidency looks like.
A foreign oil giant was under fire from the Trump White House for buying Russian oil. Then it poured nine figures into a troubled refinery startup tied to Donald Trump Jr. Not long after, the pressure from the Trump Administration vanished.
Donald Trump sold it as a win for America. But the real winner was his family.
This is pay to play at the highest levels of government. Welcome to Episode 19 of the Corruption Chronicles.
Biden: The reflecting pool reflects something even worse than the narcissism and incompetence at the core of this administration. It’s the corruption. The corruption. The brazen, blatant corruption. Corruption on a scale never seen before in American history in any administration.
Trump has made billions of dollars since returning to the White House. Simply stunning to me.
He has no shame. Frankly, it’s embarrassing for the country. Trump couldn’t care less.
Making money off the presidency is one of the reasons he wants to be president