The astonishing first week of the 2nd Trump term | Drudge Retort

Saturday, January 25, 2025

The astonishing first week of the 2nd Trump term

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump's second inaugural address on Monday and the end of his new presidency's second day on Tuesday. At some indeterminate moment between Monday's soaring midday speech, in which the first nonconsecutive two-term president in over 130 years artfully took a sledgehammer to the entire Obama-Biden era legacy without so much as uttering the men's names, and Tuesday's epochal executive order coming as close as legally possible to banning wokeism throughout the republic, the war ended. And as with the English capturing New Amsterdam from Peter Stuyvesant and the Dutch centuries prior, it happened without firing a single shot.

Posted by BellRinger at 09:05 PM | 59 COMMENTS | permalink

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I don't know how the 2nd term will turn out. His first term faced serious headwinds. His second term starts at warp speed. For the good of the country I hope it will work out well. Time will ultimately tell.

#1 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:06 PM

Oh God, not another Dinger op-ed thread.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-25 09:08 PM

It is, Redial.

Read it and weep!

#3 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:10 PM

Read it and weep!

I don have to. It's just "The disastrous first week of the 2nd Lewzer term" from the perspective of some right wing hack.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-25 09:14 PM

A far right Trump Sycophant puffs up his chest for dear leader and Jeff posts a thread glorifying it. Not surprised in the least.

#5 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-25 09:14 PM

Is ready said I don't know how it will work out, Laura Mohr.

But you've repeatedly shown terrible reading comprehension, so I'm not surprised by your comment.

#6 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:16 PM

So, keeping score:

- Grocery prices are not going to come down
- Not balancing the budget
- Border is not going to be sealed
- The Columbia River (giant faucet) is not going to be diverted to Los Angeles
- Ukraine war is not going to end
- No tariffs on Day One
- No tariffs on China
- No concept of a healthcare plan

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-25 09:17 PM

" I don have to. It's just "The disastrous first week of the 2nd Lewzer term" from the perspective of some right wing hack.

#4 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2025-01-25 09:14 PM | FLAG: "

Yeah, the deportation of gang members, murderers, rapists and multiple felons is clearly disastrous in the eyes of a Canuck.

#8 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:19 PM

Just a reminder

------- signed an EO putting the health insurance of millions of Americans at risk

------- pardoned violent unrepentant cop assaulters and said they have a role to play

------- threatened Biden with prosecution

#9 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:20 PM

My reading comprehension is stellar. I understand what you are desperately trying to do. Glorify a man that should NOT be glorified. It's patently obvious to me. But you do you.

#10 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-25 09:20 PM

If the------------- is deporting rapists, why is he still here?

#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-25 09:21 PM

Yeah, the deportation of gang members, murderers, rapists and multiple felons is clearly disastrous in the eyes of a Canuck.

#8 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

You mean the people who were going to be deported anyway?

Question for you moron: Did the deportees receive the due process they are entitled to under the constitution?

Seems to me impossible in such a short timeframe

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:22 PM

" 7 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2025-01-25 09:17 PM | FLAG: "

Predictions are like rectums. Everyone has got one. You may prove right. You may prove wrong. If you end up wrong will you be man enough to admit it. I don't know how a second Trump term will go. I don't.

#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:22 PM

Yeah, the deportation of gang members, murderers, rapists and multiple felons is clearly disastrous in the eyes of a Canuck.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:19 PM | Reply

That Canuck understands more about America than you do slick. Just sayin.

#14 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-25 09:22 PM

gang members, murderers, rapists and multiple felons

I have not seen all their individual files, so I can't comment.

#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-25 09:23 PM

" ------- threatened Biden with prosecution
#9 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2025-01-25 09:20 PM | REPLY | FLAG:"

Biden prosecuted "-------". Sit this one out, sport.

#16 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:24 PM

Biden prosecuted "-------". Sit this one out, sport.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:24 PM | Reply

For crimes that Trump committed. What crimes did Biden commit??

#17 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-25 09:25 PM

" That Canuck understands more about America than you do slick. Just sayin.

#14 | POSTED BY LAURAMOHR AT 2025-01-25 09:22 PM | FLAG: "

No, he really doesn't. He seems like a decent enough guy though.

#18 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:25 PM

" ------- threatened Biden with prosecution
#9 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2025-01-25 09:20 PM | REPLY | FLAG:"

Biden prosecuted "-------". Sit this one out, sport.

#16 | Posted by BellRinger

---- you ----

Do you realize how incredibly stupid you are?

First ------- committed crimes, Biden did not.

Do you know that Biden is immune for anything he did in office? You might have forgotten that cause you're a ------- idiot.

Go ---- yourself you loser.

#19 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:26 PM

" For crimes that Trump committed. What crimes did Biden commit??

#17 | POSTED BY LAURAMOHR AT 2025-01-25 09:25 PM | FLAG: "

Unlawful storage of classified documents. Influence peddling.

At this point, it doesn't matter. He's retired from politics and has dementia. He can't do any more damage.

#20 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:27 PM

Did the deportees receive due process as is guaranteed under the Constitution?

Did ICE arrest people without warrants?

Why do you hate the Constitution?

BTW I don't believe for one second what this administration says about who is being deported.

#21 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:28 PM

I'm on the verge of making Twoothy cry. Again.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:28 PM

Unlawful storage of classified documents. Influence peddling.

At this point, it doesn't matter. He's retired from politics and has dementia. He can't do any more damage.

#20 | Posted by BellRinger

You used to say the theft of classified documents was a real case. Now you don't

You're scum

Biden is immune dumbass

#23 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:28 PM

'm on the verge of making Twoothy cry. Again.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger

Suck the ---- out of my ass loser

#24 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:29 PM

Fifth Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Why are undocumented immigrants being rounded up without warrants? Why are they being deported without judicial review?

#25 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:30 PM

Why does Jeff hate the constitution?

Oh, yeah he is a fascist --------.

#26 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:31 PM

Twoothy,

If you want to cry over human traffickers being deported - have at it.

#27 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:31 PM

Sixth Amendment
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

How come undocumented immigrants are being rounded up and deported without due process?

It's almost like ------- hates the Constitution

#28 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:32 PM

Twoothy,

If you want to cry over human traffickers being deported - have at it.

#27 | Posted by BellRinger at

You mean like Matt Gaetz? Your hero?

BTW, who says they are human traffickers? -------?

Like you he is a consummate liar, so I take it with a grain of salt

But, I get it, your sorry excuse for a ---- gets a semi-woody thinking about deported brown people

#29 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:33 PM

" You used to say the theft of classified documents was a real case. Now you don't"

Nope. It's real. Democrats way over-reached when they had a legitimate case and that's a damn shame.

Biden is guilty of the exact same thing. Both should be prosecuted for it. Yet neither are being prosecuted for it.

#30 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:33 PM

" You used to say the theft of classified documents was a real case. Now you don't"

Nope. It's real. Democrats way over-reached when they had a legitimate case and that's a damn shame.

Biden is guilty of the exact same thing. Both should be prosecuted for it. Yet neither are being prosecuted for it.

#30 | Posted by BellRinger

Over reached

Like prosecuting him for trying to overthrow the government

You are a despicable piece of ---- jeff.

#31 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:34 PM

Patricide Jeff, what did your child-raping hero do with the missing Russia binder?

#32 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-25 09:34 PM

Biden is guilty of the exact same thing. Both should be prosecuted for it. Yet neither are being prosecuted for it.

#30 | Posted by BellRinger a

Liar

------- was tried because he refused to return the documents.

Biden returned his immediately

To an ------- like you they are the same thing.

#33 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:35 PM

" You mean like Matt Gaetz? Your hero?"

I opposed his nomination from the get go. Absolutely horrible choice for AG. It went down in flames in a week. Bondi is a solid pick.

" BTW, who says they are human traffickers?"

MS-13 are well known for human, sex and fentanyl trafficking. It's no wonder you show so much love for them.

#34 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:37 PM

Hey jeff, how come shortly after leaving office our intelligence assets started being killed off? Could that have something to do with -------?

------- is a traitor and you're a bucket of crap

#35 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:37 PM

" Biden returned his immediately

To an ------- like you they are the same thing.

#33 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2025-01-25 09:35 PM | FLAG: "

Biden and his Corvette possessed them for decades and he had far less clearance in the first place. He was spared prosecution due to his dementia.

#36 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:38 PM

Twoothy has gone through almost a full box of tissue because I've made him cry so hard in just a few short minutes.

#37 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:39 PM

@#1 ... His first term faced serious headwinds. ...

Yup. From those he appointed who honored their oath to the Constitution over fealty to then Pres Trump.

... His second term starts at warp speed. ...

Because he has surrounded himself with toadies who will do his bidding.

Loyalty to him was the main criteria, it seems, for choosing his Cabinet, not loyalty to the Constitution.

Loyalty to Pres Trump.

#38 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-25 09:40 PM

MS-13 are well known for human, sex and fentanyl trafficking. It's no wonder you show so much love for them.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 09:37 PM | Reply

MS-13 Is an American created gang. Oh and most of the fentanyl mules are American citizens.

OOPSIE DAISY

#39 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-25 09:41 PM

Hey jeff, you voted for a rapist, you feel good about that?

You feel good that our country is led by a rapist?

#40 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:41 PM

He started at warp speed because he is implementing Project 2025, something he lied about constantly during the campaign.

Jeff loves liars

#41 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-25 09:42 PM

@#34 ... Bondi is a solid pick. ...

I am not yet convinced of that.

Yes, she has the credentials (unlike Sec of Defense Hegseth) to justify Pres Trump choosing her.

But what I will be looking at going forward is how she uses those credentials.

Will she become (has she agreed to become in order to get the nomination?) yet another toadie of Pres Trump?

Time will tell.

#42 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-25 09:45 PM

... Bondi is a solid pick. ...

DEI hire. Weak.

#43 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-25 09:49 PM

Bondi perfectly represents how crime and punishment will likely be handled in the second Trump term. She has no moral qualms with basing her prosecutorial discretion on money, power, and proximity to the president. Indeed, her primary client is less likely to be the people of the United States than it is Donald Trump. In her hands, Trump can use the stick of legal action as an intimidation scheme to get corporate America to do his bidding. Considering the surfeit of cases being left in Bondi's care from the Biden administration, that's incredibly dangerous for the rule of law.

#44 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-25 09:55 PM

"Barack Obama, a Chicago radical in the Saul Alinsky/Bill Ayers mold, declared war on America during his 2008 presidential campaign."

Blows his credibility about 10 seconds in. The funny part is even MAGAs around the country are going, 'What the F?!" about one or more of Trump's Dictator Moves.

'

And if you'd like to know what's really going on... as opposed to the crappola thread article:

"Trump's Orders Feature Nonexistent Emergencies, Illegal Power Grabs, and Blatant Inconsistencies
But at least he restored respect for a tariff-loving predecessor by renaming a mountain."

"Inconsistencies

Trump, who added an estimated $8.4 trillion to the national debt during his first term, condemns his predecessor's fiscal irresponsibility and vows to do better with his "DOGE agenda" but is committed to leaving entitlements untouched and boosting defense spending.

He defends "the right of the American people to engage in constitutionally protected speech" but seems bent on policing employee training lest it promote an ideology he abhors.

He promises American consumers relief from high prices yet favors tariffs that will raise the cost of living.

He describes himself as a "peacemaker" while threatening to seize the Panama Canal. He supports "law and order" but excused political violence by granting pardons to Trump supporters who assaulted police officers while expressing their outrage at an election he falsely claimed was stolen.

He freed Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, rightly condemning his life sentence for facilitating drug deals as "ridiculous," but argues that other people convicted of similar charges should be executed.

As those contradictions suggest, Trump has few firm convictions, aside from some mostly bad instincts, and he is willing to deviate even from those when they do not serve his interests.

His flurry of early presidential acts and orders is a hodgepodge of personal grievances and politically convenient positions unified by no discernible philosophy or principle. We will have to get used to that. Again."

#45 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-25 10:07 PM

@#43 ... DEI hire. Weak. ...

Touché

#46 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-25 10:23 PM

@#44 ... Indeed, her primary client is less likely to be the people of the United States than it is Donald Trump. ...

Bingo!

The Constitution be damned.

#47 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-25 10:26 PM

Trump is going to ruin this country. The Environment,civil liberties,the rule of law, he's going to do irreparable damage to the institutions that enable the country to function.

And War. Let's not forget that Demon.

Trump will start and wage Imperial wars for his own ego.

Panama will be the first but war with Mexico isn't out of the question either.

It's like President Polk has been Reanimated as a ------...

This Won't End Well. For anybody.

#48 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-01-26 10:16 AM

BELLRINGER---

Donald looked stupid his first week.

Only a dishonest fanatic, such as yourself, claims otherwise.

The more Donald looks stupid, the more goofballs like you feel required to celebrate his genius.

#49 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-26 10:33 AM

Ballwasher the ------- traitorous moron adds nothing but -------- to the national dialogue.

Go ---- yourself, you ------- little weasel.

#50 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-26 11:33 AM

" 50 | POSTED BY LEGALLYGIVESHEAD AT 2025-01-26 11:33 AM | FLAG: "

If we ever met in person I'd have your head buried into a toilet bowl and I'd be repeatedly flushing.

So, go sit in a corner and shut the ---- up.

#51 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-26 02:37 PM

" You feel good that our country is led by a rapist?
#40 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2025-01-25 09:41 PM | FLAG: "

You twice voted for Bill Clinton and vociferously supported him. You need to drop the rapist crap because you will support it when it's convenient.

Do you want me to make you cry? Again? I can. And I have.

#52 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-26 02:50 PM

Was admitting you're okay with voting for a rapist, because Bill Clinton, the statement you were hoping to make?

#53 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-26 02:53 PM

Look at ------- try whataboutism, again.

He -------------, when did a court find Clinton a rapist?

I'm waiting,

Oh and you're a legend in your own mind, aren't you little turd boy.

#54 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-26 02:59 PM

The claims against Clinton are credible. You calling his victims whores doesn't change that. And you voted for it. Twice. And were complicit in smearing his victims. So drop the stupid morality card because you don't have any morals.

#55 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-26 03:06 PM

This is who Patricide Jeff supports.

www.politico.com

#56 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-26 03:13 PM

Sure jan, except one thing

A court found your hero to be a rapist.

#57 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-26 03:14 PM

BullBringer: "I voted for a rapist because Bill Clinton was president in the 90s."

Fkkk man, that's disgusting.

#58 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-26 03:15 PM

"I voted for a rapist because Bill Clinton was president in the 90s."

"Fkkk man, that's disgusting."

None of you partisans are doing yourselves any favors in this thread. You all have valid points about each other.

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