| second: U.S. debt would be much lower as a percentage of GDP without the revenue loss from tax cuts enacted by Republican president George W. Bush in the 2000s, then Donald Trump during both of his terms. [go to link] |
| second: Donald Trump's behavior toward Iran and North Korea has incentivized other countries to develop nuclear weapons. A detailed explanation is here: [go to link] |
| THG: Oops, I should've used a question mark. He'll show up to point that out for sure. |
| THG: What's it been, two weeks. Looks like Gilligan took a hike. |
| second: The administration claimed to have identified 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote in four states. But during a meeting last week with state election administrators, Homeland Security officials said they had identified just 185 potential noncitizens. Unproven claims that large numbers of noncitizens have voted in elections have been at the core of President Trump’s political message [go to link] |
| second: Nearly one in three Americans voted by mail in 2024, but Trump, who wants to restrict the number of voters by limiting ballots cast by mail, signed an executive order in March that prohibits the US Postal Service from delivering ballots to any voters not on a federal list of citizens deemed eligible to vote in each state by the Department of Homeland Security. [go to link] |
| second: President Trump's legal team is threatening to sue over a report that found "no evidence that National Guard deployments have reduced violent crime."
In an Aug. 17 letter, Mr. Trump's lawyer, Alejandro Brito, claimed the report damaged the president's reputation. Brito is seeking at least $5 billion in damages. [go to link] |
| Brenda: I love Dr. Who but vortex with the opening credits is bad. I don't really look at it. Thanks loads THG. |
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| second: A majority of Americans believe President Donald Trump and his family have inappropriately profited from ?cryptocurrency since his return to power and that his policy decisions are influenced by his private business dealings, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Republicans believe the president allows considerations for his business interests to influence his decisions, a striking finding for a leader who pledged to clean up corruption in Washington. [go to link] |
| second: "Yesterday morning, the oldest resident of the White House Assisted Living Facility managed to slip past his nurses and attendants, and wandered, lost and befuddled in an ever-thickening fog of dementia, onto its lawn, where he began to gibber incoherently." [go to link]
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| second: “The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump's team has allocated $875 million. That’s 350 years' worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.” [go to link] |
| second: * Famous Presidential Quotes *
• Roosevelt “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
• Kennedy “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
• Reagan “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
• Trump “Did you know there’s a ‘B’ in DUMB?” [go to link] |
| second: In 2025, Trump said he would balance the federal budget, but in fact, thanks largely to his tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, the deficit is growing. Also in 2025, Trump promised that his new tariffs would enable him both to cut taxes and to pay down the deficit; in fact, the national debt relative to gross domestic product (GDP) is about to break the record set during World War II. More at: [go to link] |
| second: “This government has done some (expletive) that no government has ever done before and one of them is the crypto stuff,” Rogan said. “The crypto stuff is nuts. Trump has made billions in crypto. Then you got his sons and his sons are involved in these weird business deals, and there’s a lot of money flowing around that you could dig in and start arresting people.” So much more at: [go to link] |
| second: President Donald Trump went on a rant Wednesday over the helipad construction, grass, his ballroom project, the Iran war and his relationship status with Kim Jong Un "Of course he gets along with another fat delusional nepo-baby": [go to link] You don’t believe the written description? You should because there is video: [go to link] This really happened. |
| second: There is a contest that Trump is winning: ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History.’ [go to link] |
| second: From Friday through Sunday, Trump continued his now-habitual weekend flooding of social media with fantasies that he is smart, beloved, and powerful: [go to link] |
| second: On Tuesday 18 August 2026, President Donald Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz as US territory in a new post on Truth Social. Two things he wrote: 1) “NEW US territory”. 2) “The Hormuz Strait is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated.”
However, only ten vessels passed through compared to 130 to 140 before the outbreak of war. [go to link] Sadly for Trump, neither 1) nor 2) are true. |
| second: President Trump’s Billionaire Boy’s Club – A new investigation by Public Citizen reveals that 57 individuals within the Trump administration, excluding President Trump, are individually worth as much as $100 million, eight of whom are billionaires. The analysis underscores the growing economic divide between the average American worker, who earns $65,000 a year, and the politically-connected individuals who hold power: [go to link] |