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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This would be a scandal that would have ended any other presidency.

Qatar gave a $400 million Boeing 747 to the Pentagon. Trump calls it a “free” gift. It is not free. The Air Force just spent months retrofitting it with secure communications, missile defense, and electromagnetic shielding.

The cost of that work is classified.

Estimates say north of a billion.

The number is enormous, and you are paying it.

Now the part they bury.

Under the memorandum signed by the Pentagon and Qatar, ownership of the plane transfers to Trump’s presidential library foundation when he leaves office. His own son says it will sit in the lobby of a future Trump hotel.

So follow the chain.

A foreign government hands a luxury jet to a sitting president. American taxpayers rebuild it from the inside out. Then Trump takes it home.

A gift you use for four years and then keep is still a gift. The Constitution bars foreign gifts to a president without the consent of Congress. This one never got that consent.

We are paying a fortune to gift wrap a luxury jet that ends up in his private collection.

Grift in plain sight.
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[India Yankee Kilo Yankee Kilo @xenn1al]

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[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Imagine Trump ever being invited to join a photo like this — not in a million years.

Four presidents. Zero drama. Just smiles, respect, and a shared love of country. 🇺🇸

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 Sheryl Crow on Trump’s UFC circus: “This administration is corrupt and does not care about the 🇺🇸 people. Let’s be better, America.”

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

An ugly, ugly side of America, put front and center. America is befouled. Our decline has been steep and grotesque.

[Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau]

The European mind can absolutely comprehend and recognize this for what it is: the personalization of power, the desacralization of democratic institutions, and the institutionalization of corruption.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

JFK once invited to dinner 49 Nobel laureates, Robert Frost, William Styron, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, James Farrell and Lionel and Diana Trilling, and others. His line on the occasion became famous: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Some of you were alive when that happened.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

“When the lights of ‘The Claw’ rise over the White House grounds on Sunday, and the fighters emerge, I hope you’ll understand what you’re really watching. A President has deluded his people into clapping for their own decline – and for his own delight.”

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[MayoIsSpicyy @Mayoisspicyy]

The Trump family is a great example
of how you can have all the money
in the world and still be white trash.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"The UFC event captures something about this moment in our history.

After all, it’s vulgar, it’s violent, it’s commercial, it’s grandiose, it’s tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump."

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[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

What an embarrassment for the United States

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “There is credible information in the Epstein Files by a 13-year-old girl, she claims under oath that she was assaulted by the sitting president. All these MAGA Christians, Erika Kirk and her harem of pro-pedophilia women never speak out for victims of sexual assault. They never speak out about crime when it’s one of their own because they believe in nothing other than white men getting power”

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Meiselas: The DOGE team cut funding for screwworm detection, screwworm prevention. The same way they cut funding for Ebola detection, Ebola prevention. The same way they cut it for hantavirus protection.

Everything that DOGE cut, these programs, which they may sound boring, they may sound like, "Why would we be investing a lot of money in these?"

Because that's what government does in order to protect from these types of things, yet DOGE gutted all of these programs.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Ranchers, the GOP let this happen. They voted to let DOGE and Trump eradicate funding for screwworm monitoring programs. Now, screwworm is here and cases are rising by the day.

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

From the Texas Tribune:

After Mexican officials confirmed case of screwworm in Nov. 2024, USDA, under Joe Biden, closed southern ports of entry to live cattle imports to prevent spread of screwworm into U.S. Move also strained supply of cattle in Texas....
USDA reversed course in Feb 2025, after Trump took office, announcing opening of ports"

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Jesus. What a disgraceful headline that perfectly sums up The Trump administration.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “Boycott every fucking thing on CBS News. From the morning all the way through to the evening. These are the same people that fired Stephen Colbert because Trump got his feelings hurt by a comedian. These people are the biggest bunch of pussies that masquerade with these grandstanding letters like they’re such badasses. These people don’t care about the truth, they don’t care about journalism, they don’t care about the Constitution, they don’t care about a free press. It’s just absolutely devastating what these oligarchs have done to our country”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Richard Gere on Trump: “We’re living in the darkest moment that I’ve experienced on this planet. Whoever thought America could turn like this? Whoever thought that a maniac like this would be president and dismantle all the good things? America’s never been a perfect place, but it has a perfect ideal. First day this guy dismantled almost everything that was good about the US government and people”

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

I will never ever find it normal or acceptable for a fucking 80 year-old president posting this kind of juvenile shit on a daily basis.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "The New York Times wrote a story today entitled, 'Trump Administration Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent,' as though that’s a bad thing, when actually, it’s very good."