"To say that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Teddy Roosevelt
#26 in Salvatore Catalano's new series of American Presidents
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When I mention that Donald Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao--a convicted money launderer for drug cartels--and then made billions in crypto off of him, the important thing to remember is that Hunter Biden sold a painting.
I’ll never forgive glitch Mitch McConnell for stealing Obama’s SCOTUS pick, claiming 8 months before the election was too close - then stealing Biden’s SCOTUS pick, claiming 8 days before the election wasn’t. He’s responsible for this shitshow.
I believe, more than ever, Trump needs to be chided, insulted, and laughed at. His ability to let things go, is nil. We see this more and more.
He's narcissistically battered, severely ill, and increasingly paranoid. He's consumed by rage, fear, malice, and impulsiveness inherent to his aberrant psychopathology. He's physically weakened by disease. His massive energy swings portend to increased medication to treat neurological diminishment. His recalibration periods are longer. He feels the sand exiting his hourglass.
He's ineffective on the world stage, crazed by bad economic indicators at home, panicky at the prospects of losing the midterms, and refuses to do anything that would ease economic pain on voters - like the sociopath he is.
His math is 6th grade level - one grade above his vocabulary - as he keeps repeating idiocies. His myth is now being sustained only by gaslighting and puffery. And when he is challenged, he comes off poorly. He is, like always, terrified of humiliation.
It's our collective obligation - Dems, Ind's, the media, business leaders, sane people - to challenge him more.
The election was not rigged - he lost. America is not more respected under him, it's more reviled.
His war in Iran was strategically asinine. The deal he has been forced to make is way worse than Obama's. Epstein is a massive cover-up, he's guilty of something.
His polls are in the toilet.
Celebs and artists want no part of him.
His name is toxic.
Nobody trusts him and as long as he is President, nobody trusts us.
Trump made $2.2 billion last year. That's $250,000 every single hour. And yet, there's a guy out there who makes $10/hour, has no healthcare, no friends, and no teeth. But he has a picture of Trump on the wall that he kisses every night and says, "Thank you for fighting for me."
BREAKING: CNN just aired a devastating montage of all the times that Donald Trump accused others of using their public office to make money. Donald Trump's net worth has almost tripled since he took office. Everything he accuses others of is an open admission.
🚨WTF: TRUMP HALLUCINATES ON LIVE TELEVISION
Donald Trump says he “had a conversation with former President Teddy Roosevelt” about the Panama Canal.
Teddy Roosevelt has been dead since 1919. Donald Trump belongs in a home.
BREAKING: THAT'S RIGHT! E. Jean Carroll's attorneys REJECT Trump's desperate request for her to give him more time to cough up the $5.8 million that he owes her.
No mercy for this monster...
Shortly after the Supreme Court refused to hear Trump's appeal of the civil case verdict that Carroll won in 2023, his legal team reached out to hers and asked if the payment could be delayed as they try to get the court to reconsider its rejection of their appeal.
In other words, Trump lost and then begged for time to scheme his way to a victory. Carroll's lawyers promptly and bluntly refused.
Consider the gall here. Not only did Trump sexually assault this women, he then went on to defame her publicly and frequently, and fought the case all the way to the Supreme Court. Then, when he was unable to get his desired result, he reduced himself to begging, as if this entire saga was simply a matter of cordial disagreement instead of deeply contentious and laced with cruelty.
At the same time that he was pleading with her to hold off on collection, he was posting on Truth Social that he "never met" her, that the defamation claim is "ridiculous," and that he's battling "injustice."
In their court filing, Carroll's attorneys Roberta Kaplan, D. Brandon Trice, and Maximilian T. Crema stated that there is simply no reason for further payment delay — especially since the justices, including the conservatives, unanimously agreed not to hear the case.
“To date, Carroll has agreed to each of defendant’s many requests to delay the payment he owes her. Given the extraordinary lengths he has taken to avoid such payments and that each of those efforts has been denied in full, that cooperation ends today. It is time for him to pay Carroll,” the lawyers wrote.
The roughly $5.8 million sum ticked up to its current amount thanks to interest accrued as Trump dragged his feet and sought relief through the court system. Originally, a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and then defamation damages were added on top. Trump is currently appealing a separate $83 million defamation verdict that Carroll won in 2024.
Carroll's attorneys referred to this current juncture as "the end of the line” and stated that it's “time for him to pay Carroll.”
Trump must immediately surrender the money to Carroll and then she has to remain eagle-eyed. If he defames her again, she should hit him with an even bigger lawsuit!
Please ❤️ and share if you stand with E. Jean Carroll!
💥 Check out Major Jason Watson of the US Air Force holding a sign that reads:
Impeach
Convict
Remove
Next, this American hero is arrested for protesting in uniform at the Capitol 🤷🏻♂️
Should he get a medal for speaking truth to power?
@SamanthaJPower All of this was completely foreseeable. If not criminal, it is at least deeply immoral and a permanent scar on the reputation of the U.S. Shame, shame, shame.
@SamanthaJPower@alenarojikova What people forget is that USAID was a huge part of what made America a superpower with influence across the globe.
It was American power and strength without its military.
By relinquishing its soft power America has opened up the gap for China to swoop in & fill in the void.
Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:
• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.