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It Seems Like The President Who Brags About How Smart He Is Cannot Do Arithmetic Trump repeated his mystifying claim that he is reducing drug prices by “1500%.”

NEW -- Well, at least this "fifteen hundred percent" nonsense maybe helps explain a couple of things.

Like how he overpaid so much for the Plaza Hotel. Or how he bankrupted casinos.

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Donald Trump Just Delivered The Worst Three Months Of Job Growth Since The Pandemic The last six months of Biden’s presidency saw twice as many jobs added as the first six months of Trump’s second term.

NEW -- Trump's economy in his first six months has produced fewer than half the number of jobs created in Biden's last six months.

Trump's solution? Fire the head of the office that compiles the statistics.

That ought to fix it.

With @delaneyrules.bsky.social

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Trump Just Took His Corruption To A Brazen New Level The White House treated a marketing event at his for-profit golf club as an official act and helped him promote it.

NEW -- Trump and his White House are taking his corruption to a brazen new level.

This morning, White House employees helped him promote his participation in a marketing event at one of his Scotland golf resorts.
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Trump Takes Break From $10 Million Golf Vacation To Put Forward New Jeffrey Epstein Explanation The president also announced new taxes on American importers and consumers during his trip to Scotland.

NEW -- Trump supporters need to download and update their Why Trump Finally After 15 Years Of Being Best Buds Split With Epstein explanation:

Turns out because Epstein was poaching Trump's employees from Mar-a-Lago.

Yes, our president actually said this.
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Trump Set To Spend $10 Million Of Taxpayer Money To Market His New Scotland Golf Course The five-day trip will also raise his second-term golf tab to $52 million in just six months. He spent $152 million during his first term.

NEW -- Donald Trump is on his way to Scotland to promote a new course at one of his golf resorts.

American taxpayers are footing the $9.7 million -- at least -- travel and security bill so that he can make more money at his family business.

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Trump Continues Evading Questions About His Child Sex Trafficking Friends The president responded to a question about the convicted child sex offenders by going off on an extended tirade about former President Obama.

NEW -- Donald Trump REALLY doesn't want to talk about his former pals, notorious child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

When he was asked about them today, he went on a 7 minute, 41 second tirade spewing 1,281 words -- about Obama.
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Trump Renews Lie That Russia Did Not Help Him In 2016, This Time With Gabbard’s Help Trump’s Putin-friendly director of national intelligence wants to prosecute Obama officials for pointing out the facts of what Trump did.

Trump has been lying about Russia and 2016 since early 2017.

Only now, he's got his Putin-sympathetic director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard helping him.

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Trump Renews Lie That Russia Did Not Help Him In 2016, This Time With Gabbard’s Help Trump’s Putin-friendly director of national intelligence wants to prosecute Obama officials for pointing out the facts of what Trump did.

NOT REALLY NEW BUT WHATEVER — Remember back in 2017 Trump started lying about how Russia had not helped him win and it was all a hoax?

Well, he’s still doing it. This time with the help of Putin-sympathetic Tulsi Gabbard.

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How Republicans Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Crushing Federal Debt Two decades after a GOP vice president declared that deficits don’t matter, Trump and his party are going all out to test that theory.

NEW -- If you like a big and growing national debt, you should absolutely *love* Trump's new law, which will balloon it to 120 percent of the gross domestic product within a decade, higher than it was even during WWII.

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Trump Accuses His Benefactor Putin Of Spewing ‘Bullshit’ About Ukraine Invasion The president promised he would end the war before he even took office. Instead Putin is slaughtering more Ukrainian civilians.

NEW -- Trump says his benefactor Vladimir Putin is killing "too many" people and so he is sending Ukraine more defensive weapons.

Also he doesn't know who put a hold on sending them this most recent time. (HINT: Ask the guy sitting to your left.)

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Trump Turns Attention Back To His Global War On Trade Having successfully slashed heath care for the poor, the president returns to hiking import taxes on Americans.

NEW -- With the slashing of health care for poor people and extending tax cuts that disproportionately help the very rich out of the way, Trump can now turn his attention back to tanking the world economy with his Global War on Trade.

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Trump Takes Lie-Packed Victory Lap On Bill Slashing Medicaid, Food Stamps Cuts to those programs by his ‘big, beautiful bill’ break campaign promises not to touch them, which many of his followers rely on.

STILL NEW TO YOU — Trump claimed that his new tax and spending bill fulfills a campaign promise by eliminating tax on social security.

It does no such thing.

That Big, Beautiful Lie and others from his victory speech last night:

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Pentagon Confirms Pause On Ukraine Aid, Blames Biden For Sending Too Many Weapons The delay comes after Trump told a Ukrainian journalist he would try to make anti-missile systems “available” to defend against Russia’s onslaught.

NEW — Trump’s Pentagon explained about the weapons pause to Ukraine and guess what — it’s all Biden’s fault!

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Opinion: ‘Don’t Mention The War!’ — Because Criticizing Putin Might Make Trump Mad It was an upside-down world at NATO, where all credit for higher defense spending went to Trump, even though it’s in response to Putin’s murderous war.

NEW COLUMN -- Remember that John Cleese sketch, "Don't mention the war!"?

Well, it happened in real life this past week -- not about a war decades ago, but about Putin's murderous assault on Ukraine.

Why? Because criticizing Putin might make Trump mad.
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NATO’s Suck-Up To Trump Strategy Appears To Work The military alliance on Wednesday released a joint statement boasting of higher spending that barely mentions Russia or Ukraine in deference to Trump's pro-Putin bias.

NEW -- Sure, it involved a lot of humiliating, demeaning sucking up to Donald Trump -- even calling him "Daddy" at one point -- but it worked.

Trump didn't threaten to withdraw from NATO, didn't blow everything up to defend his buddy Putin.

So, success!
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NATO Chief Tells Trump He Is Already A Winner Hours Before His Arrival At Summit The “Dear Donald” note praised Trump for “decisive action” in Iran and pushing NATO nations to spend more on defense.

NEW — The latest installment in NATO’s campaign to keep Trump from blowing up the summit and hanging Ukraine out to dry:

Donald, you’ve already won! Great job!

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Putin Is Still Attacking Ukraine, But NATO’s Bigger Problem Is Mollifying Trump The alliance’s summit will minimize references to either Russia or Ukraine to avoid antagonizing the U.S. president who has sided with the aggressor.

NEW -- Europe is seeing its largest war on the continent since 1945, but NATO is not planning to talk about it much at its meeting this week in The Hague.

Why? Because it would upset Donald Trump, who has consistently sided with aggressor Vladimir Putin.

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In Plain Sight, Donald Trump Continues His Takeover Of The U.S. Military American democracy may depend on career military officers willing to tell the commander in chief "no."

NEW COLUMN — Trump’s bombing of Iran is nowhere near the most dangerous thing he is doing with the military.

Not even close.

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As The Threat Of War Looms, Americans Have A President And Staff Who Lie All The Time Who in the Trump administration can people turn to for accurate information about Iran? Unfortunately, the answer may well be no one.

NEW -- What happens when the top officials in an administration who had to prove their loyalty by spreading the president's Big, Ridiculous Lie about the 2020 election contemplate entering a new Mideast war?

We have a government of unreliable narrators.
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Trump Hasn’t Visited A Single Natural Disaster Site As President — But Has Managed 40 Golf Days Trump, who politicized disasters during his campaign, is now slow-walking aid to victims of dozens of tornadoes, floods and wildfires.

NEW -- Dozens of communities have been devastated by windstorms, tornadoes, flooding and wildfires since Jan. 20, killing nearly 100 Americans.

Donald Trump has not visited a single one.

He has, however, managed 40 days of golf.

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Trump Presides Over $45 Million Military Parade For Himself Before Underwhelming Crowd While the parade was ostensibly to honor the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday, and not Trump’s 79th, Vance hyped Trump’s remarks as “the main event” of the night.

NEW -- Trump finally got a $45 million military parade for his birthday.

It may not have been all he had been expecting.

The crowds were underwhelmingly. Even he looked bored.

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America Is Finally Getting A Fascist Dictator Parade, Courtesy Of Donald Trump Trump has long admired autocrats like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping, and now he is getting an autocrat's parade.

NEW -- For years Donald Trump envied his dictator pals like Putin, Kim and Xi for the parades they got to have, with tanks and missiles and thousands of saluting troops.

Today he finally gets one of his own.

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Trump Thinks Fort Bragg Still Honors A Confederate General — But It Doesn’t The base name reverted to Bragg, but in honor of the World War II medal-winner Roland Bragg, not the treasonous Braxton Bragg from the Civil War.

Trump is boasting that he renamed Fort Bragg after a treasonous Confederate general, as he promised.

He did not.

It’s unclear whether he’s just pandering to his racist fans of the Confederacy or if he truly does not understand it himself.

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Hegseth Testifies That He Doesn’t Know What Legal Authority Trump Is Using To Deploy Troops But the former Fox News weekend host and current defense secretary told lawmakers he's sure his boss has the right to deploy troops wherever he wants.

NEW -- SecDef Hegseth is asked in Congress what authority, precisely, Trump is using to put troops on the ground in Los Angeles.

Hegseth says he doesn't know but is certain Trump has it.

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If Trump Orders Soldiers To Shoot Americans, He Seems To Have A Willing ‘Yes Man' At The Pentagon Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at his confirmation hearing refused to rule out opening fire on protesters if Trump ordered it.

NEW -- When Trump wanted his defense secretary to order soldiers to shoot Americans back in 2020, Mark Esper told him no.

This time, Trump has a solid "yes" man in that job in Pete Hegseth.

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OPINION: What Is A Fact? Unfortunately, In Court, It Is Whatever Donald Trump Says It Is The “political question” doctrine affords the president deference on factual assertions in court, presenting grave dangers to the republic.

NEW COLUMN — Is the sky green? Are lemons sweet? Does the existence of foreign criminals in the country constitute an “invasion” and a national “emergency?”

Sadly for democracy, yes, if Donald Trump says so.

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Trump's Obsession With Being A Top-Notch 'Deal Maker' Is Making America Weaker By inserting himself into the contracting process, Trump is saddling future presidents with a command platform lacking the ability to refuel in midair, a key feature.

NEW -- Donald Trump's self image as a Great Dealmaker and his obsession with plane size have not just led to soliciting a $400 million gift from Qatar.

They have already left America with a severely degraded wartime command post for future presidents.

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Opinion: Yes, There Was A Media Scandal In 2024. No, It Wasn’t About Joe Biden. The political press corps started ‘normalizing’ Trump just weeks after Jan. 6, 2021, to get access. That’s a big reason Trump later won, not some ‘cover-up’ of Biden’s age.

NEW -- Yes, there absolutely was media malfeasance in our coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign.

No, it wasn't about Joe Biden being old.

It was about how we normalized the hell out of a man who had already tried to end American democracy once.

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Donald Trump Openly Selling Access To Those Who Put The Most Cash In His Pocket His Thursday night “gala” dinner is unprecedented in American history. Using public office for personal enrichment is the literal definition of corruption.

Using your office to enrich yourself is the literal definition of corruption. Trump is doing it right out in the open.

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NEW -- Donald Trump is selling access to himself tonight to those who spent a total of $192 million to buy his souvenir crypto coin, which has an intrinsic value of exactly zero.

No, you are not allowed to know the names of the attendees.

Yes, it's as corrupt as it sounds.