“Where have they been for the last four years when we’ve been trying to pass a congressional stock trading bill?”
After a Financial Times analysis examining President Trump’s stock portfolio revealed more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter of 2026 amounting to a cumulative value between $220 million and $750 million, Drop Site’s @JulianAndreone asked senators on Capitol Hill to weigh in on the president’s blatant lawlessness and brazen corruption.
3/3. No matter what else is going on, the one predictable thing about any Trump policy is that he will find a way to prop up Putin and his fascist regime.
2/2. Trump used the Iran War as a pretext to lift energy sanctions on Russia, and even personal sanctions on individual Russians. Does anyone expect those to be reimposed? Of course not.
1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.
Sun, Rubio: “the Strait of Hormuz will reopen one way or another” (Al Jaz’ra)
Mon, Trump: “if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately 'Open for Business,' we will …blow up…all of [Iran’s] Electric Plants, Oil Wells & Kharg Island” (Tr. Soc)
Mon: “Trump tells aides he’s willing to end war without opening Hormuz” (wsj)
Centrist Democrats in the Senate folded on the shutdown, throwing away their leverage in exchange for worthless GOP promises.
When will they learn that there is no center between a government of oligarchs and a government of the people?
President Donald Trump keeps saying he doesn’t know what his own administration is up to.
Three times in the last week, Trump responded to questions about his signature policies by expressing ignorance.
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