🚨BREAKING: The U.S. dollar is TUMBLING after Trump’s Treasury dumped billions in U.S. reserves to buy Japanese yen.
The market chaos happened just hours after Trump stood aboard Air Force One bragging that "the dollar is doing great," framing the sell-off as a "signal of friendship" to Japan right after bizarrely bringing up Pearl Harbor.
Result: His own move tanked the dollar.
"Master of the Deal" strikes again. 📉🤡
BREAKING: MIC DROP! Democratic socialist candidate Francesca Hong DESTROYS her MAGA critics for smearing her as a "radical" by listing all of the truly "radical" things that Republicans push.
She put on an absolute clinic in political messaging...
“What’s radical is that we still have a $7.25 minimum wage. What’s radical is that Tom Tiffany is an election denier. What is radical is the fact that folks all across Wisconsin, many don’t have access to health care right now,” Hong said, after she was asked on NewsNation about her Republican opponent calling her “a radical trans activist."
Hong is running for the Wisconsin governorship, with her candidacy buoyed by rising support for democratic socialists across the country. Voters are fed up with Republican incompetence and criminality, but they're also tired of status quo, centrist, corporatist Democrats. Hong currently has a double-digit lead in the Democratic primary.
“Being able to make sure folks have what they need, when they need them from the state, is something that I believe many Wisconsinites have actually been telling me, that these are the things that they want to prioritize,” added Hong.
This is exactly the kind of messaging that Democrats should embrace. Republicans are trying to turn these upcoming elections into a referendum on "communism" to distract from Donald Trump's failed presidency and their own deranged radicalism.
The Republican Party is responsible for the most corrupt White House in American history. Its views on abortion rights and LGBTQ rights are profoundly out of step with the average voter. They are a pro-rapist, pro-pedophilia party as proven by their ongoing role in the Epstein coverup. They are the "Israel First" party and are funding this illegal war against Iran for the benefit of a foreign country. They want to make us all poorer and sicker by keeping wages depressed to benefit corporations while slashing Medicare and Medicaid.
Meanwhile, democratic socialists like Hong support free school meals, universal childcare, paid family leave, boosting education spending, raising the minimum wage, creating affordable housing, abolishing ICE, and pursuing moratoriums on AI data centers.
Those ideas only seem "radical" if you've been brainwashed by Fox News and Republican lies!
Please ❤️ and share if you'd vote for Hong!
BREAKING: Trump overrules his own Coast Guard and orders 11 giant Arctic icebreakers just because Russia has more – leaving taxpayers holding the multi-billion dollar bag!
Donald Trump reportedly ignored his own Coast Guard experts and ordered the purchase of 11 massive Arctic icebreakers after getting obsessed with the fact that Russia has a bigger fleet, according to a new New York Times investigation.
The Coast Guard’s most recent assessment said the country only needs four or five heavy icebreakers.
Admiral Kevin Lunday, the Coast Guard commandant, told the Times straight up: “The number 11 came directly from the president. This was the president’s number and the president’s decision.”
The Times notes the deal was born as much out of Trump's personal enthusiasm as military planning. After a round of golf with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Trump reportedly called him late one night and announced he no longer wanted one used icebreaker.
He wanted an entire fleet of brand-new ones instead.
The ships alone are expected to cost nearly $7 billion. The administration also bypassed normal competitive bidding by invoking a rarely used “public interest” exemption so the contracts could move forward without competing bids.
And here’s the kicker: while they found billions to buy the ships, there is no plan yet to pay for the crews, ports, maintenance, and infrastructure needed to actually operate them – costs that could run into billions more.
Where did the money come from? The administration redirected billions from the Republican spending law’s border security funding after Trump decided he wanted more ships than Congress had originally approved.Trump has never hidden his reasoning:
“We only have one,” he complained during his first term. “Russia has 40.”
Experts note that comparison is nonsense. Russia has a far larger Arctic population and relies on icebreakers to keep northern ports open year-round. The United States has completely different needs.
Even the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office is sounding the alarm likening the Coast Guard to “a lottery winner who spends all their money buying the mansion, and then goes broke once they realize they don’t have the money to maintain it.”
This is a perfect example of Trump’s government-by-fiat: decide he wants the biggest, the most, or more than the other guy – then leave everyone else to figure out how to pay for it, staff it, and make it work.
The man is treating the national budget like his personal toy store. If Trump’s ego-driven $7 billion icebreaker shopping spree has you seething, like and share this post.
@MAGALieTracker The root of all this? $$$$$.
These bastards are in this for the $$$.
RFK Jr’s track record proves it.
Trump & Family are $$$$-laundromats.
Every one of them should be prosecuted & jailed & their fortunes stripped from them. 🔻
https://t.co/eoTQFg6p3W
🔻
https://t.co/gAZnIqovnX
@MAGALieTracker Like they say, it's all going to have to be destroyed. There is NO coming back from this. The devil and his demons have been released from their cages & are wreaking Havoc all over the world. The End Of Days are upon us
@realDonaldTrump@SecWar@FBIDirectorKash@RobertKennedyJr
BREAKING: RFK Jr. refuses to answer Dana Bash’s question about what the Trump administration is doing to prepare for the next pandemic. Instead, he goes on a grievance-filled rant about COVID. We are in deep trouble with these people in charge.