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Mourning the great American experiment.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Here are some of Trump's broken campaign promises:

— End inflation “on day one”
— “No new wars”
— Bring "the cost of everything way down”
— End the Russia/Ukraine war in 24 hours
— Make the price of gas under $2/gallon
— Cut the cost of homes in half
— $2,000 tariff rebate checks
— Cut energy prices in half within 12 months
— Reinvigorate car manufacturing with tariffs
— $5,000 checks from DOGE savings
— Reduced insurance premiums
— No taxes on Social Security
— Cut the corporate tax rate to 15%
— Make IVF treatment free

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump tells his supporters they will “go to hell” if they do not follow his commandments after forcing the audience to hold up their hands and pledge their total loyalty to him.

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

*Reads Jason Stanley’s book ‘Erasing History’*

*Reads the news*

Uh oh.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way -- I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell like they do ... "

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Here are quick fact checks on 16 of President Trump’s claims last night.
1) He claimed, “Food prices and almost every other item are rapidly going down.” Not even close to true. Federal figures show overall prices keep rising, food prices keep rising, and far more products are getting more expensive than getting cheaper.
2) He claimed, “Every single promise I made you as a candidate, I’ve delivered on.” Clearly not . The war in Ukraine didn’t end within 24 hours of his inauguration, inflation isn’t dead, Mexico hasn’t paid for the wall. Etc.
3) He claimed “over $20 trillion” has been invested in the US this term. This figure is fiction even the White House can’t justify. The White House website says “$11.2 trillion,” and even that is a wild exaggeration.
4) He claimed he "won the presidency three times,” then explicitly said he won in 2020. Just lies.
5) He claimed his ballroom will use “zero tax dollars.” The final breakdown is unclear, but the Secret Service has acknowledged that public dollars will be used at least for security measures related to the project, which includes an underground complex. Some Senate Republicans tried this year to get hundreds of millions in public money allocated in part to project-related security.
6) He claimed the ballroom project is “under budget.” There is no actual public budget for it, and cost estimates have steadily increased – from $200 million to $300 million to $400 million to $600 million.
7) He claimed that former NC governor and now Senate candidate Roy Cooper released the man who went on to kill Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte in 2025. But NC’s corrections department has explained that the man served his full robbery sentence and was not released early. The man's release, in 2020, happened months before the state's 2021 lawsuit settlement over pandemic-era prison conditions that resulted in some other offenders getting released sooner than expected.
8) He claimed Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was seen wearing a mask just “a few months ago.” No evidence of this; other Republicans have mocked Talarico for masking in 2022, four years ago. Trump also claimed, in what mayyy have been a joke, that Talarico was recently spotted running away and throwing up after eating meat at a barbecue. Clearly didn’t happen.
9) He said gas prices were just $1.85 per gallon in Iowa when he visited before the Iran war. The Iowa average that day was $2.57, per AAA, and GasBuddy found just four stations that day under $2 – at $1.97, to be specific – out of 2,036 stations it tracked there. (Maybe Trump was referring to the E85 ethanol blend only some cars can use, which was around $1.85, but he certainly didn’t say that.)
10) He said the US has the lowest drug prices in the world. Experts say that is not true as a general claim, and the White House hasn’t substantiated it.
11) He boasted that more Americans are working than ever before. That’s true, but it’s a basically meaningless stat because the number of people working rises over time as the population rises. Better ways to measure the labor market show that it has been far from historically strong this term.
12) He claimed “zero illegal aliens” have crossed the border over the last 15 months. Not true; state and federal authorities have acknowledged some migrants evaded apprehension during that period. The Trump administration says it hasn’t “released” any migrants into the country after apprehension, but that’s different than having zero people crossing at all.
13) He claimed “25 million” migrants poured into the country under Biden. This is another fictional figure. Through the last full month of Biden’s term, the government had recorded under 11 million nationwide “encounters” with migrants…including millions who were rapidly expelled. Even counting “gotaways,” which the House GOP estimated at under 2.5 million, it’s not 25 million people.
14) He claimed Biden or Democrats allowed “11,888 murderers” to enter the country. This is a gross distortion of federal data about non-citizens who entered the US not just under Biden but over the course of multiple decades, including during Trump’s first administration, and were convicted of homicide at some point, usually in the US after their arrival, but remained in the US because they were still serving prison sentences or their original countries wouldn't take them back.
15) He claimed he’d achieved “no tax on Social Security.” His 2025 law created an additional temporary deduction for seniors, expiring after 2028, but the administration has acknowledged millions of Social Security recipients will continue to pay taxes on their benefits.
16) He claimed “trillions of dollars in tariff revenue have come in.” It was in the hundreds of billions, not close to even $1 trillion, even before the big refunds prompted by the Supreme Court decision that ruled some of the tariffs illegal.
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[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Why do people only supposedly get the $5,000 if Republicans win in November? Republicans control everything and have for 2 years. Why didn’t they do it before? Why don’t they come back into session tomorrow and pass it right now? Because it’s all a lie, like everything else.

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

MAXXED OUT at $9.999!! GasBuddy data showing 5 stations in California that have hit the limit and are selling diesel at the dispensers highest possible price: $9.999/gal

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

Actually, only Congress can make that promise since it must appropriate those funds.

And Congress would never do it because it is corrupt and blatantly illegal.

The American people were fooled once by Trump’s false promises. They won’t be fooled again by his increasingly desperate and deranged promises.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

🚨 BEWARE of https://t.co/t3WSBRSlSF 🚨

While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

[The Washington Sun @washingtonsun]

Welcome to The Washington Sun.
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[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump: Do I get credit for building a ballroom with my money? I'm giving you a ballroom free of charge

(This is a lie. Trump is spending $350m of taxpayer money on the White House ballroom)

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Jimmy Kimmel just announced that his interview with James Talarico is being censored by Trump's FCC and will not air on television.

The interview will be available on YouTube instead.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

If/when Dems take over, they need to launch investigations into Brendan Carr’s abuse of the FCC

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel announces his interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC tomorrow, saying Trump’s FCC has threatened him, his show, ABC, its affiliates, and local stations over “simple traditional editorial decisions” and guest bookings.

Kimmel says the full interview will instead be posted to YouTube: “In the America we live in right now, that is the best that we can do until November.”

[Gator Food @Costco_Goblin]

@justscottplease 🤨

[Gator Food @Costco_Goblin]

So now I need to worry that the latest Claude or ChatGPT model will decide to hack into the nuclear arsenal and set off Armageddon, yeah? Fun times.

[Winnie Brinks @WinnieBrinks]

(Re)introducing myself in my new role as @jocelynbenson's running mate! Let's get to work delivering for Michigan.

[The Shumater @The_Shumater]

Turns out Trump's mystery meat is coming from a Brazilian agri-oligarch who's friend of Melania, and it includes scraps & chunks of meat that have been frozen for years before being ground up & mixed with American beef. Bon appétit!
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[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

NEW: On behalf of the Democratic Party we have filed in the U.S. Supreme Court to protect mail-in voting from the unprecedented effort by the Trump administration to subvert it.

[Brendan Keefe - ANF & InvestigateTV @BrendanKeefe]

You can't opt out of Flock following you or recording photos & video of you or your car. But Flock can opt out of us recording them in public by calling one of their customers: the police. I was stopped by three officers after a Flock installer called 911.
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