For all of Donald Trump’s promises of an economic “golden age,”
a spate of weak indicators this week told a worrisome story as the impacts of his policies are coming into focus.
Job gains are dwindling.
Inflation is ticking upward.
Growth has slowed compared with last year.
More than six months into his term, Trump’s blitz of tariff hikes and his new tax and spending bill have remodeled America’s trading, manufacturing, energy and tax systems to his own liking.
On the intimate contacts between Putin's 'peace negotiator' Dmitriev and Trump's son-in-law Kushner, since the day after Trump was elected in 2016. Known since the Mueller report.
Goals: joint investments and self-enrichment.
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When Americans thinks #Trump is doing a horrific job in *every* poll... maybe it's time to look in a mirror, Trump voter.
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Five-page draft Trump administration cyber strategy targeted for January release
https://cyberscoop.com/trump-national-cybersecurity-strategy-2025-release/
James Carville says Trump invaded Venezuela for a simple reason:
“It's All about Epstein”
The commentator said Donald Trump is throwing up desperate distractions from the Epstein Files
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/04/all-about
Trump’s comments about Greenland, Colombia and Cuba offered a glimpse of how emboldened he feels after the quick capture of Nicolšs Maduro.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/trump-venezuela-monroe-doctrine.html?smid=nytc…
Days after Donald Trump fell asleep during a televised Cabinet meeting,
the president on Thursday again dozed off during a ceremony to mark the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Trump was visibly closing his eyes as Rwandan President Paul Kagame spoke from the podium at the ceremony inside the U.S. Institute of Peace building,
his hands clasped and his head drooping while he sat at a table to the left.
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Chief Justice John Roberts,
who has used his position to do Trump a lot of favors,
noted that Trump’s use of IEEPA to claim an unlimited tariff authority ran up against the separation of powers.
Tariffs are “taxes on Americans, and that has always been the core power of Congress,” he said.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, likewise a reliable pro-Trump vote, worried that gifting Trump a vast power to impose tariffs would be a “one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual ac…