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crandc said:
Barron Trump tried to debate Jasmine Crockett. Did not go well for baby boy. Tried to shame her for having been a hairdresser. She retorted she worked her way through law school as she does not have a trust fund. He had talking points, she had facts. Maybe someone better at attaching videos could upload it. She was merciless.
It's like he honestly thought he must know more than working class Black woman.
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I don't think that really happened. Can't find a link to an actual news article about it.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
The curious case of Trump’s disappearing media transcripts

The Trump White House, which touts itself as “the most transparent” administration in history, has removed a database of official transcripts documenting President Donald Trump’s announcements and appearances.

The “remarks” section of the White House website now features YouTube videos rather than the transcripts that past administrations have published for decades.

The change is yet another example of the Trump administration trying to exert more control. Rather than printing every transcript, thus creating a comprehensive record for the public, the White House is selectively publicizing some events and skipping others.

The selection of “remarks” videos is noticeably incomplete, as it includes fewer than 50 Trump videos from the first 120 days of his second term.

The White House publishes a much greater number of videos on YouTube, including highly partisan attacks and propagandistic mashups.

HuffPost senior White House correspondent S.V. Date, who observed that the administration was cutting back on Trump transcripts earlier this spring, wrote last week that the White House was “excluding many of his most unhinged comments” from its website. In response, White House communications director Steven Cheung told Date to “stop beclowning yourself.”

Now the transcripts have been removed altogether, with one exception: Trump’s inaugural address. Stenographers employed by the government still record and transcribe all of Trump’s remarks, including his interactions with the media. Those records just aren’t being posted.

The YouTube videos are not a complete replacement because some of Trump’s remarks are not archived in video form, either.

Other records typically published by previous administrations, like White House press briefing transcripts, have also been omitted in recent months. The website currently only includes the transcript of press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s very first briefing in January.

The transcript purge impacts journalists and researchers more than the average taxpayer. However, searchable, text-based records of a president’s words are inherently valuable for holding an administration to account.

Joe Biden’s White House understood that when it got caught attempting to alter the transcript of his “garbage” remarks about Trump supporters, despite official stenographer concerns.

And so the disappearing Trump transcripts are revealing in terms of the administration’s priorities — and what Leavitt means when she touts “transparency.”

Perhaps “visibility” is the more accurate word. The Trump White House is certainly visible, often prioritizing videos and photos over the written word.

While Trump’s bombastic and improvisational speaking style demands heavy scrutiny and fact-checking, he often seems to care far more about images — specifically those of strength and dominance.

In response to a CNN request for comment about the website change, Leavitt said, “The president’s remarks are live on the website for every person in the world, including journalists, to access and watch for themselves. The Trump White House is the most transparent in history.”

he White House does, indeed, live stream Trump’s remarks. But the transcript purge is still quite telling. And it makes the existence of outside databases, like Roll Call’s Factba.se, all the more valuable.

“The move certainly underscores the reason to have a free and independent record of the president’s statements and responses,” Factba.se founder and developer Bill Frischling told CNN.

It also highlights Trump’s disregard for White House staff stenographers, a dynamic that former stenographer Beck Dorey-Stein described in a 2018 op-ed for The New York Times.

“Mr. Trump likes to call anyone who disagrees with him ‘fake news,’” Dorey-Stein wrote. “But if he’s really the victim of so much inaccurate reporting, why is he so averse to having the facts recorded and transcribed?”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/media/donald-trump-media-white-house-transcript-purge
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Maybe they are trying to hide his mental decline
 
In a commencement speech at West Point, Trump warned graduating cadets not to marry Trophy wives, and that it hasn't worked out for him.

That's going to make Melania happy.
 
Chris Craig said:
In a commencement speech at West Point, Trump warned graduating cadets not to marry Trophy wives, and that it hasn't worked out for him.

That's going to make Melania happy.
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All about his pal who married trophy wife and got yacht and killed himself. Gibberish. Also boasted about how many counties he won.

Spoke of bringing democracy at gunpoint. This was neocon views which supposedly Trump disagreed with.

New York Times sane washed into reporting Trump told them new golden age for country.
 
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This was President Biden last year. Not good at tweets, here is link if embed didn't work. Then tell me which one has mental problems.




 
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Trump honored (not really) fallen veterans at Arlington National Cemetery today. I guess it wasn't raining.
 
Yes, he talked about how God had arranged it so he was president during World Cup and Olympics.
 
People who attended crypto dinner complained the food sucked. Badly cooked steak, only drinks offered Trump wine or water. Poor service. Trump made briefly appearance but didn't mingle.
Gee, they were rooked. Who could have guessed?
 
crandc said:
People who attended crypto dinner complained the food sucked. Badly cooked steak, only drinks offered Trump wine or water. Poor service. Trump made briefly appearance but didn't mingle.
Gee, they were rooked. Who could have guessed?
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Like everything Trump, it was a half assed scam.

I really don't understand how people can support this fool.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
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The court simply allowed the case to proceed. Nothing has been won. They have not admitted it was a scam. They have not been ordered by the court to rescind any award they have given out.

Looks like Trump is making himself the judiciary now and has decided the outcome before the trial has taken place.
 
Yes, I took a guess which was incorrect. Pulitzer committee asked to hold case until Trump was out of office so as not to interfere with official duties. Like taking bribes, sending legal residents to foreign concentration camps, attacking Bruce Springsteen.
 
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Hiltzik: Explaining the newest Wall Street craze — the 'TACO' trade

Stock market investors don't have much to cheer about in the second Trump term, except perhaps for a new and almost flawless trading strategy — the TACO trade.

The acronym, coined by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong, stands for "Trump Always Chickens Out." ("Acronyms are very powerful, especially when they remind people of foodstuffs," Armstrong told his colleague Katie Martin on an FT podcast.)

That his observation points to the way to profit from stock trades in an uncertain environment was underscored by the market's response over the last few trading days to Trump's threat to levy a 50% tariff on imports from the European Union. The tariffs were to begin on June 1, or nine days later.

Acronyms are very powerful, especially when they remind people of foodstuffs.

Robert Armstrong, coiner of the TACO trade acronym

Trump issued that threat on Friday, May 23. That day the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell more than 39 points, or 0.67%, and the Nasdaq index fell 188.53 points, or 1%.

Two days later, on Sunday, Trump announced that he would defer the tariff increase until July 9. On Tuesday, the first trading day following the Memorial Day holiday, stocks jumped back up. The S&P rose 118.72 points, or 2.05%, and the Nasdaq rose nearly 462 points, or 2.47%.


See how the TACO trade works? It's a two-step process: Buy the dip — the lowered prices following a Trump tariff announcement — and sell at the higher prices after Trump's inevitable chickening-out pushes stocks back up.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hiltzik-explaining-newest-wall-street-100000657.html
 
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