A Secret Service Agent Explains What Trump Is Like Behind The Scenes A Secret Service agent who has served seven presidents says Donald Trump is weirder than all of them put together.

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S.V. Date of HuffPost notes that $60.7 million is the amount taxpayers have spent on the president’s 76 golf outings in his second term.

# of ppl who did NOT vote for Trump in 2020:

155,552,842 - 77,304,296 = 78,248,546

Overwhelming support? Hardly.
Clear public endorsement of policies? Certainly not.

It's NOT A MANDATE
when the majority of the population DID NOT vote for you.

Essential services are SHUT DOWN; those govt employees still required to work will not get paid till later in the month.

What's NOT shutdown (i.e. still FULLY funded):

* The $20 billion bailout of Argentina (America first?!)
* The White House ballroom construction
* ICE
* Homeland Security (@ 95%)

"Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, earned Trump’s admiration. Their warm relationship helped persuade him to pause the tariffs."

We've discovered the secret:
Send a beautiful woman to Trump to negotiate whatever it is you want.

was clear that he and Mr. Seller “don’t want Republicans going to their shows.” '

Mr. Grenell apparently doesn't understand the definition of "intolerance", given the way Mr. Trump executed the change in leadership at the Center.

'Richard Grenell, the Kennedy Center’s new president, called the cancellation “a publicity stunt that will backfire” in a post on social media. He accused Mr. Miranda of being “intolerant of people who don’t agree with him politically” and said that it

Kudos to the creative team for pulling "Hamilton" from the Kennedy Center. Particularly with a KC president that responds with vitriol:

President Zelenskyy, make the deal for the minerals with Canada and Mexico and the European Union. Forget the United States. This administration is interested in nothing except its own self-interest.

World Seeks an End to Plastic Pollution at Talks in South Korea Many nations hope to reduce the half a billion tons of plastic made each year. But pushback from plastic and oil producers, and Donald Trump’s election, could scuttle an agreement.

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Although it's impossible to eliminate plastic from every area of our lives, we can resort to silicone and glass for food storage and drinking items and traditional plates instead of plasticware. And stop buying bottled water except in extreme cases!