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[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Trump administration is sending ships to rip 900 ocean sensors out of the Atlantic and Pacific — and Congress already told them twice they couldn't do it.**
They're doing it anyway.

[Josh Larky @jlarkytweets]

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is a critically important role for the safety of all Americans

Bill Pulte is a 38 year old broadcast journalism major whose billionaire grandfather helped him launch a private equity firm at age 23

Pulte has exclusively worked in real estate and private equity until now

If I made a list of the 25,000 people most qualified to be the new DNI, Bill Pulte would not be on that list

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

The issue is not the ratio of people, it’s Hegseth, inserting himself into the process and overruling promotion boards - including an attempt to promote someone the services passed over “several times”
Trumpism is the revenge of the third string.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Shawn Ryan on Trump: “I just don’t see any positivity coming out of this administration. It seems very self-serving. He had Todd Blanche do the dirty work so him or anybody in his family could never be audited by the IRS? What the fuck is that shit? The drone company, the $400M jet from Qatar, the Executives Club. Does this shit look like he’s serving the fucking people? No.”

[Amelia 🇺🇸 @amelia_tweetz]

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

[💙🌊 Zero Dark Twenty-Nine 🌊🌊🖋️🧫 @herotimeszero]

This right here tells you everything you ever wanted to know about Donald J. Trump.

This unhinged, furious 500-word essay about his name being removed from a building. Trump's name on a building doesn't affect a single American. Because it's utter nonsense. But our Narcissist-in-Chief is obsessed with it.

Instead of doing something critical like lowering prices, stopping his wars, making life better for Americans, he's engaged in nothing.

But to Trump it's everything.

Donald is in love with Donald. He wants to shower Donald in the three P's that have ruled his entire life. Profit, power, and prestige. Nothing else and no one else matters. Trump barely knows other people exist.

We are 250 years old and no other president would've ever written this pitiful letter begging to be acknowledged.

Trump is a small, weak man. And like other small weak men, he's obsessed with not being small and weak. But he will ultimately fail. They all do.

The thing Donald wants most is to be unforgettable. He certainly will be. But his name will not be on buildings or in lights. He will be remembered with loathing, shame and a warning. There are monsters among us. And the biggest monsters are the smallest of men.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

“Law and order” comes with an exception clause for MAGA politicians.

Trump just posted a letter from five Republican members of Congress asking him to pardon former Congressman Steve Buyer.

Buyer was convicted of insider trading by a jury and sentenced to prison. The letter doesn’t dispute that. So for regular people, it’s a felony. For Republican politicians, it’s a character reference.

[Sam @Discoplomacy]

“When submarine captains complained about the quality of work being done by outside contractors, Rickover informed all the contracting firms that after leaving a shipyard, their entire senior-management team was required to be onboard the refitted submarine the first time it dived.”

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

A little remarked upon fact: The Biden administration prosecuted the guy who leaked Trump's tax records and he got sentenced to five years in prison.

Imagine someone leaking something damaging about Biden and the Trump administration prosecuting them.

[Elizabeth @alluringmedia]

Funny how Elon felt so free to talk this in 2024 and then we find out he's on email chains, begging Epstein to be invited to the island. More than once. Elon Musk is one of the biggest frauds and conman alive.

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

American soldiers die in Trump's war, not a word from Donald. Gas and food prices skyrocket, not a word from Donald. People demand the Epstein files, not a word from Donald. But the minute you take his fat name off a building, Donald writes Mein Kampf for Morons.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

During his campaign for first term, Donald Trump was asked how he showed $916 million net operating losses in 1995 and setting it off for next 18 years without paying any federal taxes.

Not knowing what to answer, Trump said:

​"I absolutely used it, and so did Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett took a massive deduction."

We've to learn from Buffett as to how to deal with facts and data without being emotional or vindictive.

The very next day Buffett shared his income tax returns and said:

​"I have paid federal income tax every year since 1944, when I was 13. Though, being a slow starter, I owed only $7 in tax that year. I have copies of all 72 of my returns and none uses a carryforward."

He further noted that while he made $2.85 billion in charitable contributions in 2015, tax laws properly limited his deductions, meaning more than $2.85 billion of his donations were not taken as deductions and never would be.

He asked Trump to share his tax returns in public. Not knowing what to do, Trump said he is under IRS audit and cannot publicly share his returns.

For which Buffett responsded:

"I have been audited by the IRS multiple times and am currently being audited. I have no problem in releasing my tax information while under audit. Neither would Mr. Trump -at least he would have no legal problem."

Buffett then invited Trump to any place, any time before the election so they could both bring their tax returns, sit down, and let the public ask them questions.

Trump never accepted the invitation.

From then on Trump never once even uttered the name Warren Buffett.

Looks like Trump no longer even eat buffets.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump’s day so far:

• A federal judge temporarily blocked his plan to create a $1.8 billion slush fund for January 6 rioters

• A federal judge ordered Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center and halted plans to close the venue for two years.

• A federal judge reopened Trump’s $10 billion IRS lawsuit and ordered an investigation into “grievous allegations” that a rushed settlement was “premised on deception.”

Multiple musicians have pulled out of Trump’s Freedom 250 concert

And it’s not even 7 p.m. yet.

So much winning.

Hide the ketchup!!!

[Sandip Mittal @TheSandipM]

@MacFarlaneNews Ah yes, the Art of the Deal: demolish the East Wing to build a ballroom nobody asked for, dump 30,000 cubic yards of literal toxic waste on a municipal golf course, and then try to seize the property because it's 'ruined.' A true real estate mastermind. 🤡⛳️

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Completely unchecked corruption.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Here’s the deal. Biden botched the withdrawal, but the withdrawal was forced on him by Trump.

We built an Afghan military that relied on US contractors, then we pulled the contractors, air support, logistics, etc.

And we didn’t even include the govt in negotiations

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

Are you kidding me right NOW: Bessent says average refund hit $3,300, up 11% thanks to Trump’s genius tax cuts. Reality:

Sure, the average is real. But almost all the cash went to the rich. Yale data: half of households got <$100 extra. Top earners cleaned up. "Working families" my ass, this was always a giveaway to those who needed the least.

But of course, you won't get that from Fox, a network that agreed to pay $787.5 million for lying to you.

https://t.co/iuhKYCZJK2

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Collins: Do you think it's a good idea to put Trump on a $250 bill when people are struggling to afford gas and groceries?

Bessent: Look, I think it has... I think that... Do you think we should have a 250th anniversary celebration?

Collins: Well, that's happening anyway, but putting Trump on a $250 bill is a choice.

Bessent: No, no, no, no, no

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

It wasn't a secret, even then, who he was