Legitimate gripes about Trump

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 2:34 AM

I find it kind of humorous that he told the Fake News Media on Friday night that he told the Republicans in the House to vote to release the files and nobody here knew about it. Ted and Second were still calling him Pedophile in Chief and shit like that all weekend, still very obviously under the impression that Trump was fighting like a dog to hide this stuff when he'd told everyone on Friday night that he wants them released now.

I didn't even know about it until I saw the TruthSocial tweet linked on today's RCP homepage.

Hell... I fucking doubt anybody at RCP even knew about it until today since they didn't post any articles about it all weekend.

That's your fucking worthless media for ya.

Good riddance.

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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

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SECOND

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 5:32 PM

Trump’s Nearly $2 Billion Postelection Windfall

Even though his campaign ended a year ago, the president hasn’t stopped fundraising.

By Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker | November 18, 2025, 6 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-fundraising-ballroo
m/684963/

On the morning after he won a second term as president, Donald Trump placed an unexpected call to his top fundraiser, Meredith O’Rourke. The night before, he’d told a ballroom of supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida, that he had held his last political rally—“Can you believe it?”—and was ready to focus on governing. But his message to O’Rourke after the break of dawn was different. “I want you to keep going,” he told her.

Within weeks, that message had gone out to his Republican donors, as well as to Fortune 500 companies and billionaire investors who typically avoided electoral politics. Their first opportunity was his second inauguration committee, which would eventually raise $241 million, about $90 million more than organizers needed to fund the events—and nearly four times as much as Joe Biden had raised for his own inauguration, in 2021. But that was just the beginning.

Trump wanted money for the sorts of political operations that many politicians support—the Republican National Committee, his own political action committee, a new dark-money nonprofit group, a super PAC run by longtime advisers. But he was also requesting money for technically apolitical nonprofit causes that offered corporations and wealthy individuals a chance to make tax-deductible contributions, including a dramatic White House renovation, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (now under his control), his presidential library, and a celebratory Army parade on his birthday. By August, Trump estimated that he had collected at least $1.5 billion since the election, more than all the money raised to support his 2024 campaign over two years, including funds raised by supportive independent super PACs. The tally is now approaching $2 billion, two people familiar with the effort—who, like others, were not authorized to speak publicly—told us.

Read: ‘I run the country and the world.’ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/trump-second-term
-comeback/682573/

Trump has kept careful track of the money coming in, regularly calling O’Rourke late at night for updates. He monitors who is giving, who is not, and the role of lobbyists who bundle donations, those familiar with his efforts told us. At times, the actual donation amount is less important to the president than the percentage of the donor’s overall assets. He thanks the most generous benefactors at swanky events at the White House and his clubs.

Much of the money has come from people or entities that have business before the government. Defense contractors, cryptocurrency investors, and technology companies have put in tens of millions of dollars as he has deregulated the industry or dropped enforcement proceedings. A select group of companies and executives—Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Coinbase, Palantir CEO Alex Karp—are top donors to multiple Trump projects.

Nothing on this scale was ever attempted by a sitting president prior to Trump. Other recent administrations have faced their own scandals over fundraising efforts. But Trump’s approach—in the extent of the donations he’s soliciting, the secrecy with which some are handled, and the frankness of the exchange of dollars for presidential favor—puts even the most ambitious prior efforts to shame. And he’s just getting started. “He hasn’t stopped,” a third person told us, “and I don’t anticipate that we will stop.”

Trump’s relentless fundraising has alarmed ethics watchdogs who have worked for years to reduce the role of large donations in buying access or protection from government regulation.

“While it is not unusual for lame duck presidents to fundraise for their Libraries, what we are seeing from President Trump in his first year of office is shockingly unprecedented,” Trevor Potter

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SIGNYM

Thursday, December 11, 2025 3:23 AM

I think this qualifies

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Gunboat Diplomacy Returns: US Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuela

President Trump confirmed to Bloomberg that U.S. forces intercepted and seized a tanker near Venezuela's coast, saying further information will be provided soon.

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Gunboat diplomacy was on full display Wednesday afternoon after Bloomberg reported that U.S. forces intercepted and seized a sanctioned Venezuelan oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. This move underscores the Trump administration's Monroe-2.0 posturing as Washington seeks to reassert control over the Western Hemisphere after years of neglect.

Bloomberg cited sources who did not disclose the tanker's name or the general area where U.S. military forces seized the vessel.

The move here is a foreign policy tactic known as gunboat diplomacy. It's where the U.S. military has stationed warships, jets, bombers, and troops that are to push the Maduro regime into complying with U.S. demands.[/wuote]

WTF are we doing in Venezuela???
Maduro already offered full access to US oil companies.


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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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