I believe his mentor i.e: Vladimir Putin is directing Trump's efforts to turn the U.S. into Russian style oligarchy/dictatorship.I think that creating fear among the working class by firing thousands. To be hired back I stspect there will be a loyalty oath and severe punishment for protests Trump is already well on his way to destroying Constitutional Rights with the cooperation of yje Rubber Stamp, sold out, majority on the Supreme Court.

"Earning the name Ivan The Terrible?

Well today America has Elon the Terrible doing basically the same things Ivan did in Russia.

"And here we thought the Republicans represented Christianity:"

That's what they claim but they are really about the Trump cult. christ has been replaced by an egomaniac."

"now seems to control Pres Trump?"

Seems to control? More like "obviously owns."

Forget the 25th, all of the Cabinet members are sold out po;itical whores! Not one single pne would ever stans up to the Lunatic in Chief! Hell! Not even one Trump supporter on this site is big enough to admit their mistake! Trump supporters today are just cowards! So afraid they won't even say a word against him! I will, from now on refer to MAGAs as COWARDS, they see the sell out of American values just like the rest of us do but they won't even object! Because they are COWARDS! Just because we have a President that accepts domination by Putin doesn't mean the rest of us do! Just as Ukrainians are doing real Americans will fight against Putin and his pawns, like Trump, for as long as it takes to return America to democracy!

Cause for celebration? obviously yes! This is a HUGE achievement which will help mllions of people! Oh wait' not white people? Should I be celebrating in Trump's dictatorship?
Guess what!?! am anyway! Everyone should be! If you aren"t then you need to look at yourself and question who and what you are??

"I remain to be convinced that Pres Trump is capable of emotion. How many friends does he have?"

To have a friend I have found that first you need to be one which Donald Trump never learned how to do.

"I'm beginning to regret saving France in the world wars."
you now claiming to have participated in the Normandy invasion
What?? What I do know about the brave men who actually did though is that they would be disgusted by Americans kissing Potin's ass as Republicans are these days. I wonder if they have consciences? They throw hateful words around as if they fought the Nazis instead of now welcoming them into the GQP?!?

"The government paying for any kind of public media is absolutely wrong and every single one of you know it. You just won't own up to it when it meets your narrative. Typical and pathetic."

Soall these years I've been Hlisteing to NPR should have been spent listening to Fox News like you humtske SO i COULD BE JUST AS DUMB AS YOU ARE TODAY?Sorry stupid, I chose real news instead of Rupert Murdoch's well paid liars,
Anyone who primarily gets their information from Fox News is as dumb as HUMTAKE. Sad .but true

Drill stupid drill!

Drill stupid drill!

As the Trump economy melts down to recession or even depression he will get increasingly angry as he tries to divert the blame to previous presidents. If we had a Supreme Court they would declare his attempt to declare pardons granted by Biden illegal but we don't have a Supreme Court any more. They were replaced with a rubber stamp.

"Burning down Mar-a-Lago seems to be a minor outcome if they aren't stopped in their tracks by the courts."

Rubber Stamp Supreme Court will prevent anyonr from halting Trump/Musk from destroying our government as Putin has ordered them to do.

Donald Trump has no business deciding anything about the future of the Palestinian people! The Arab world is ignoring him as they should be, His plan is for greed f**kers like Jared Kushner to steal the Palestinians' land and build hotels which is stupid because auch a plan would cause terrorists to target any such development so much that nobady woyld ever go there.

"The Promise of the Egyptian Plan for Gaza"
"U.S. President Donald Trump touted his proposal that the United States should seize control of Gaza, empty it of its roughly two million residents, and redevelop the territory as a tourist area, a "Riviera of the Middle East." Such a plan is a nonstarter among Arab countries. They perceive it as tantamount to accepting the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Put on the spot, Abdullah demurred and suggested that he awaited an alternative plan for Gaza, one that would be advanced by Egypt."

"Betrayed because that's what Colonizing Powers do to wannabes they see as expendable."

Ukraine wasn't betrayed by America; Ukraine was betrayed by a traitor to America named:
Donald "Putin's Bitch" Trump.

"How much did this performative nonsense cost, Leon?"

More than "the richest man in the world?" pays in taxes!

I don't think REIN was being flippant; I think he was commenting on the fact that an unelected billionaire who earns billions through contracts with the Federal Government is worming himself into many importanr agencies of the government and purposely disabling them or completely destroying them; NOAA being just one of them. His motive? It's not cost savings as he claimed earlier. It has become obvious to many that many or most of his slashing isn't saving any money. It ttruly is, as if, Trump and Musk are both working for Putin to purposely destroy the American government. They need to be stopped and it is past the stage that this is a political argument.

Bimbling idiots slashing staff that the idiots don't even understand what functions they serve. Recipe for a disaster and if it comes it will be the Trump/Musk disaster. These egomaniacs are playing with fire.

Didn't he steal enough with his $Trump coin? That family wants everything every MAGAfool has!

OFFICIAL TRUMP

Sorry but I just can't sympathize with thoks now like thepeopke than sold-out Trump Demodone thiscrats have e Cuban-Aerican voters who supported Trump and the sure as Loo F**K! Sure looks now like the Democrats were much better allies of the Cuban people than "sold-out to Putin" Trump!
I have to say it! Obviously the Cuban-Americans in South Florida are suckers! Democrats would never have done this but then our leaders aren't owned by Vladimir Putin.

"If the Terran R booster becomes commercially successful, it could play a big role in launching megaconstellations."

What are "megaconstellations"?? Anyone?

I think Putin has answed clearly what he thinks of Trump's cease fire and it sure ain't a pause in the fighting. If anything, it seems to have caused more intense attacks. At this point I think Trump should stay out of it; it just gives Putin more opportunities to humiliate him on the world stage. Pretty obvious Putin has absolutely no respect for the current President of the United States.

Never underestimate the power and the greed of the private prison industry. 30,000 potential detainees is a gold-mine for those vultures. Except for the most dangerous violent criminals they will all end up in for profit private detention facilities at great cost to the yaxpayers. Thwy like to claim they save us monet but they are liars ans everyone knows it.

Geezus! Are there still Amrticans that don't understand that Trump is a ---- TRAITOR?!?! Wake the f**k up! He is doing everything he can to destroy our economy, nation, future! Putin tells him what to do and Donnie does exactly what he is told to do.

"-Eric Trump's 2014 interview with sports writer James Dodson resurfaces on an NPR segment, where Trump says "we don't rely on American banks; we have all the funding we need out of Russia"

"Just keep saving the us money"

Yeah they are saving us so much money they won't release any of the actual figures.

"The Trump administration's DOGE cost-cutting effort led by tech mogul Elon Musk claims to have saved more than $100 billion so far, largely through canceled contracts and workforce reductions. The details on those savings are anything but clear, though, and skeptical analysts have found DOGE's claims riddled with inaccuracies and inflated numbers, leading some to wonder just how much money the Musk team is really capable of saving as it chaotically slashes its way through the federal government. A new study from the Budget Lab at Yale raises an even more troubling question: What if DOGE actually costs more than it saves?

Analysts at the Budget Lab, a non-partisan policy research group at Yale University, took a look at how revenues would be affected by one notable goal of the DOGE project: severe cuts at the IRS. With the Trump administration reportedly considering staff cuts of as much as 50% at the tax agency, the analysts found that such a reduction would mean the IRS collects $395 billion less over 10 years due to reduced capacity. The layoffs would save about $45 billion over the same period, resulting in a net loss of $350 billion."