Does he not have people around him to gather data and impart in upon him...
Of course he does. Or did.
...because when those ppl told him things he didn't like to hear... they got fired.
Just look at the list of people he jettisoned during his first term... and the reasons he used for dumping them. The handwriting was already on the wall during his first term... and yet, America chose to give him a second bite at the apple. WTF does that say about us?
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Back in 2016-17, I was deep into some back&forth with 40YEARSWAITING.
I told him then, that DJT would do anything/everything he could to run The USA like he ran his private companies, because that's all he knows- and all will ever know. I was right.
I predicted to 40¢ that this feature of his personality would land him in constant conflict with the law and the courts... because he was an arrogant dullard who was too stupid to avoid constant legal conflicts. I was right about that, too.
In my lifetime, there has never been an American presidency so mired in drama, controversy, and legal tangles as Amin 45 and Admin 47. Conspiracy theorists can shout "bias!" and "Deep State" and "TDS!" all they want, but one point is immutable: this was NOT the face of America's daily political news until this d00d came along.
So now, we see:
1. a cabinet of people whose only qualifications for hiring was kind words about the person who hired them 2. a techbro boss who purchased a presidency, gutted/dismantled/irreparably damaged critical services that benefit all all American citizens, then fled- when a few damaging news articles called him on his s# 3. and a diminished footprint of the US's position on the world stage... a world stage that had been carefully calculated for 70+ years to benefit the US in the long run.
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I called all of this. Before he was even POTUS45.
I wasn't some clairvoyant. I wasn't Negrodamus. I was just a kid, raised by a career policeman to see a con man. could just see what he was/has always been... and imagined what "Reality TV"- level of banality he would bring to our nation's image.
I was right about that, too.
A nation led by a clown will be seen as a circus on the international stage.
In his term as POTUS 45, there were professionals around him to tell him what he he needed to know. In his term as POTUS 47, he's surrounded himself by people who will only tell him what he wants to hear/know.
That is a danger for any country led by a man of such low-level personal proclivities/weaknesses.
Kristi Noem didn’t know what habeas corpus was at today’s hearing.
So that’s good……
Simply seeing that in print would seem hard to believe until people see it for themselves. Is this what trump means by he only hires the best people? We're screwed.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
Trump says he’ll call for ‘major investigation’ into performers at Harris events
President Trump is pressing for a “major investigation” into why some celebrities lined up to support former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, questioning whether megastars Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey and Bono were illegally paid for their endorsements under the guise of performance fees.
“HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT? WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN’T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONCÉ? …AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO???” He wrote in a post on Truth Social early Monday morning, nearly six months after he beat Harris in the election.
“I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter. Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment,” the president added. “In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds. IT’S NOT LEGAL! For these unpatriotic ‘entertainers,’ this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!”
The White House didn’t immediately respond to The Hill’s request for more details about what investigative body Trump wants to see take up the issue.
Harris’s campaign held a number of star-studded events during her four-month bid against Trump after then-President Biden abruptly dropped out of the race.
Winfrey openly denied being paid to back Harris.
“I was not paid a dime. My time and energy was my way of supporting the campaign,” Winfrey wrote on Instagram last fall.
She added that her production company was paid only to cover the incurred costs of events.
“The people who worked on that production needed to be paid. And were. End of story,” she wrote.
Springsteen, meanwhile, has become an outspoken foe of Trump, with the president posting last week his dislike of the legendary rocker, after Springsteen lambasted his administration during a performance overseas.
“Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK,” Trump wrote on social media Friday, going on to call the New Jersey icon a “dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker.”
Trump followed up his initial post on Monday with another message a few hours later asking whether entertainers were paid for their Harris endorsements. He specifically cited Beyonce, who appeared with Harris during a rally in Houston last October. Harris’s campaign faced backlash after the singer showed up but didn’t perform.
“According to news reports, Beyoncé was paid $11,000,000 to walk onto a stage, quickly ENDORSE KAMALA, and walk off to loud booing for never having performed, NOT EVEN ONE SONG! Remember, the Democrats and Kamala illegally paid her millions of Dollars for doing nothing other than giving Kamala a full throated ENDORSEMENT. THIS IS AN ILLEGAL ELECTION SCAM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL! IT IS AN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION!” Trump said.
“BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, OPRAH, BONO AND, PERHAPS, MANY OTHERS, HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO!!!” he added.
It’s unclear where Trump found the $11 million figure.
The Harris campaign has denied it paid Beyonce $10 million for an endorsement, an unfounded, unsourced claim that circulated around the time of the superstar’s appearance.
Federal Elections Commission records show the Harris campaign paid Beyonce’s production company Parkwood Production Media LLC $165,000 after the Texas event. Such reimbursements are often associated with large event production — staging, sound and lighting — costs, which cannot be donated to political campaigns.
This is what "unhinged orange grandpa" sounds like when he realizes the best he can get are washed up artists like Lee Greenwood, The Village People and "The bud Light assassin", Kidd Rock.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
Fact Check: Yes, Oklahoma's new academic standards say to teach students 2020 election fraud myths as fact
Claim:
Oklahoma instituted updated academic standards in 2025 requiring schools to teach high school students that widespread fraud impacted the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Rating:
Rating: True
In spring 2025, a rumor circulated about Oklahoma's new academic standards that alleged that the state would soon require schools to teach students that systematic voter fraud occurred during the 2020 presidential election. The new standards, many people claimed, reflected debunked conspiracy theories promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump to explain why he lost that election to former President Joe Biden.
"Next school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud," said one X post by independent reporter Judd Legum. "The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum."
National Education Association president Becky Pringle called the new academic standards "propaganda" in a May 7 MSNBC appearance (see 2:06). Similar claims spread on platforms like Facebook, Reddit and Bluesky; many posts alleged the state's Department of Education head, Republican Superintendent Ryan Walters, was responsible for the new curriculum requirements and noted that the state ranks 49th in education — likely a reference to a 2024 ranking compiled by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a major watchdog for children's welfare.
Oklahoma's new social studies standards for high school students, which take effect in the 2025-26 school year, do, in fact, require students to learn about so-called "discrepancies" in the 2020 election. The updated guidelines list examples for these discrepancies, all of which are theories not based in evidence — and many of which Snopes has independently debunked. Thus, we rate this claim true.
Walters did not immediately return a request for comment left for the agency's spokesperson. In an April 29 statement on X, Walters called the new benchmarks a "major victory" for the state.
"The most unapologetically conservative, pro-America social studies standards in the nation are moving forward," Walters' post said. "These reforms will reset our classrooms back to educating our children without liberal indoctrination." Oklahoma's new educational standards
Oklahoma's 2025 social studies standards are available here. See Page 118 for the academic benchmarks outlined under "United States History" for ninth through 12th grade, which clearly require students to study debunked claims of election fraud, but with the perspective that these theories are legitimate, rather than misinformation.
Here is the relevant language from the document:
Identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information, including the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, the security risks of mail-in balloting, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction of "bellwether county" trends.
Oklahoma's new academic benchmarks are available for download on the Oklahoma State Board of Education's webpage under the "Handouts" section for the Feb. 27, 2025, meeting in a document titled "22725 Final SS OAS 2-27" (which presumably stands for "Feb. 27, 2025, Final Social Studies Oklahoma Academic Standards Feb. 27").
Snopes has repeatedly debunked many of these supposed 2020 election "discrepancies" listed in Oklahoma's new learning targets, including supposed mail-in ballot security issues and the idea that "sudden batch dumps" of voting ballots or an "unforeseen record number of voters" indicates fraud. We have also previously explained that delayed ballot counting doesn't mean voter fraud is happening. Peer-reviewed research published in the National Academy of Sciences' journal shows that trends for so-called "bellwether counties" — areas in the United States which often choose the winning presidential candidate — were not unusual during the 2020 election. A timeline for approval
In Oklahoma, the state Department of Education releases proposed updated social studies standards every six years, which the Oklahoma State Board of Education and the Oklahoma Legislature are, in theory, supposed to approve in order for them to go into effect.
But if the Legislature takes no action, then the draft rules will go into effect by default 30 days after they are proposed, per state law on academic standards and their review:
If the Legislature fails to adopt a joint resolution within thirty (30) legislative days following submission of the standards, the standards shall be deemed approved.
That is what happened in this case: Oklahoma's Republican-controlled Legislature did not take action by the May 1 deadline, allowing the new language to go into effect. Attempts by both Democratic and Republican lawmakers to block Walters' effort failed to pass.
Initial draft language available for public comment differs; that document, dated Dec. 14, 2024, and available on the official Oklahoma State Department of Education website, simply directs students to "examine issues related to the election of 2020 and its outcome" (see Page 118 here).
According to Oklahoma Voice, a news outlet focused on the state's government, several State Board of Education officials said they were unaware of last-minute changes in the document when they voted, including the added 2020 election-fraud language.
The new learning targets also call for teaching the controversial theory that COVID-19 began in a Chinese laboratory as undisputed fact, as well as describing the "challenges and accomplishments" of Biden's administration (see Page 118.)
Eggers, Andrew C., et al. "No Evidence for Systematic Voter Fraud: A Guide to Statistical Claims about the 2020 Election." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 45, Nov. 2021, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2103619118.
Reuters Trump administration blocks Harvard’s ability to enroll international students Nate Raymond and Ted Hesson Updated Thu, May 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM EDT3 min read
FILE PHOTO: Views of Harvard University By Nate Raymond and Ted Hesson
BOSTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students on Thursday, and is forcing existing students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status, the Department of Homeland Security said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered the department to terminate Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, the department said in a statement. Noem accused the university of "fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party."
Harvard said the move by the Trump administration - which affects thousands of students - was illegal and amounted to retaliation.
The clampdown on foreign students marks a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign against the elite Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which has emerged as one of Trump's most prominent institutional targets. The move comes after Harvard refused to provide information that Noem had previously demanded about some foreign student visa holders who attend the university, the department said.
“It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments," Noem said in a statement.
Harvard rejected the allegations and pledged to support foreign students.
“The government’s action is unlawful," the university said in a statement. "This retaliatory action threatens serious harm to the Harvard community and our country, and undermines Harvard’s academic and research mission.”
The university said it was "fully committed" to educating foreign students and was working on producing guidance for affected students.
Harvard enrolled nearly 6,800 international students in the 2024-2025 school year, amounting to 27% of its total enrollment, according to university statistics.
In 2022, Chinese nationals made up the biggest population of foreign students with 1,016, university figures show. After that were students from Canada, India, South Korea, the UK, Germany, Australia, Singapore and Japan.
Trump, a Republican, has undertaken an extraordinary effort to revamp private colleges and schools across the U.S. that he says foster anti-American, Marxist and "radical left" ideologies. He has criticized Harvard in particular for hiring prominent Democrats to teaching or leadership positions.
Trump has frozen some $3 billion in federal grants to Harvard in recent weeks, leading the university to sue to restore the funding.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that it was terminating $60 million in federal grants to Harvard because the Ivy League institution failed to address antisemitic harassment and ethnic discrimination on campus.
In a legal complaint filed earlier this month, Harvard said it was committed to combating antisemitism and had taken steps to ensure its campus is safe and welcoming to Jewish and Israeli students. It said the administration's actions were a threat to academic freedom.
Trump took office in January pledging a wide-ranging immigration crackdown. His administration has tried to revoke student visas and green cards of foreign students who participated in pro-Palestinian protests.
Foreign undergraduates at U.S. colleges typically pay full tuition, an important source of revenue for colleges and universities.
International students at Harvard also contributed to the local economy, data from NAFSA, the Association of International Educators shows. They spend $384 million a year in the 2023-2024 school year, supporting some 3,900 jobs through their payments for housing, dining, retail and other services and goods.
