Trump Lies

Trump: My Tariffs Are “Bringing In Billions A Week”

“Oil prices are down, interest rates are down (the slow moving Fed should cut rates!), food prices are down, there is NO INFLATION, and the long time abused USA is bringing in Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries on Tariffs that are already in place. “This is despite the fact that the biggest abuser of them all, …

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Trump: I’d Love To Send US Citizens To El Salvador’s Gulags Because It Would Cost Us A Lot Less Money

“I’d love it if we could take some of our 20-time wise guys that push people into subways and hit people over the back of the head and then purposely run people over in cars, if he would take them, I would be honored to give them. I don’t know what the law says on that but I can’t imagine …

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Trump: “Some Day You’ll Realize Tariffs Are Beautiful”

“We have massive Financial Deficits with China, the European Union, and many others. The only way this problem can be cured is with TARIFFS, which are now bringing Tens of Billions of Dollars into the U.S.A. They are already in effect, and a beautiful thing to behold. The Surplus with these Countries has grown during the ‘Presidency’ of Sleepy Joe …

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Trump Demands “Yearly” Reparations From Europe

EuroNews reports: US President Donald Trump insisted he had not deliberately triggered the intense market sell-offs but reaffirmed his goal of eliminating the US trade deficit. “I don’t want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” Trump said aboard Air Force One on Sunday. “We have to solve our trade deficit with China,” …

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REPORT: Glorious Leader Plans Birthday Military Parade

Washington City Paper reports: President Donald Trump for years has lusted after a big military parade over which he could preside — just like he sees leaders do in other mostly authoritative countries. During his first term in 2018, Trump wanted a grandiose military parade on the streets of D.C. But Trump angrily and reluctantly canceled his plans after military …

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Trump Boasts That He Won Own Golf Championship

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump claimed to have won yet another golf tournament on Sunday—with the president spending all weekend on the course while global markets continue their downward spiral after the announcement of his controversial tariffs. As he was headed back to Washington, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he “won” the Senior Club Championship in …

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Lutnick Denies Using AI To Calculate Tariffs [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: CBS anchor Margaret Brennan challenged Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over how the Trump administration’s sweeping new tariff policy targeted remote territories such as the Heard and McDonald Islands on Sunday. She asked Lutnick, “Like, why are the Heard and McDonald Islands, which don’t export to the United States and are quite literally inhabited by penguins, why do …

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Bessent: “Tariffs Are A One-Time Price Adjustment”

The Hill reports: In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” moderator Kristen Welker asked Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent about remarks from last January, when Bessent wrote, “Tariffs are inflationary.” “Have you expressed any concerns to President Trump directly that his tariff policy could be inflationary?” Welker asked. “No, what I have said are tariffs are a one-time price adjustment,” …

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Bondi: Anti-Trump Lawsuits Are “Constitutional Crisis”

“Just since January 20th, we’ve had over 170 lawsuits filed against us. That should be the constitutional crisis right there, 50 injunctions. They’re popping up every single day, trying to control his executive power, trying to control where he believes our tax dollars should be allocated. “It’s basically a game of whack-a-mole with these district court judges around the country …

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WH Flack: Tariffs Have No “Big Effect On Consumers”

“So the fact is, the countries are angry and retaliating — and, by the way, coming to the table,” he said. I got a report from the [U.S. Trade Representative] last night that more than 50 countries have reached out to the president to begin a negotiation, but they’re doing that because they understand that they bear a lot of …

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Rollins Dodges On “Penguin” Tariffs: “Whatever!”

CNN HOST JAKE TAPPER: “President Trump laid out with a giant graphic of all the countries where tariffs were going to be, what he called reciprocal tariffs, were going be imposed. And you’re imposing a 10% tariff on the herd in McDonald Islands. The McDonald Islands have zero human inhabitants. They have zero exports, they have zero imports. They do …

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French PM: Trump Is “Interfering” In Le Pen Case

Politico Europe reports: U.S. President Donald Trump has interfered in French politics with his tirade against the conviction of French far-right politician Marine Le Pen, France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou charged on Sunday. In an interview with Le Parisien, Bayrou called Trump’s social-media defense of Marine Le Pen an example of interference. “Interference has become the law of the world,” …

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Park Service Rewrites Underground Railroad History

The Washington Post reports: For years, a National Park Service webpage introduced the Underground Railroad with a large photograph of its most famous “conductor,” Harriet Tubman. “The Underground Railroad — the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War — refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping …

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DOJ Moves To Fire Prosecutor In Deported Man Case

The New York Times reports: A senior Justice Department immigration lawyer was put on indefinite leave Saturday after questioning the Trump administration’s decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador — one day after representing the government in court. Mr. Reuveni — who was praised as a “top-notched” prosecutor by his superiors in an email announcing his promotion two …

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WH: Trump Just Won Round Of Golf Championship

Mediaite reports: Trump is participating in golf tournaments over the weekend, and a statement on his progress sent out by the pool went viral Saturday among members of the press for being “tone deaf” or worse, after a terrible week for the stock market and the president opting out of a solemn ceremony for fallen American service members to attend …

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#HandsOff Protests Draw Massive Crowds Nationwide

The Associated Press reports: Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk rallied across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration’s actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues. More than 1,200 “Hands Off!” demonstrations were planned by more than 150 groups, including civil rights organizations, labor unions, LBGTQ+ advocates, veterans and elections activists. The …

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Trump: “Hang Tough In My Economic Revolution”

“China has been hit much harder than the USA, not even close. They, and many other nations, have treated us unsustainably badly. We have been the dumb and helpless ‘whipping post,’ but not any longer. We are bringing back jobs and businesses like never before. Already, more than FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS OF INVESTMENT, and rising fast! THIS IS AN ECONOMIC …

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Maddow: Tariffs Plan Began With Navarro’s Fake Expert

“You’d think it would take like a grand plan and some big brains to figure out how to destroy the economy of the richest nation on Earth, but that’s not how it’s working out. Turns out, it doesn’t take a big idea or a lot of big brains working together. In all of his books, Peter Navarro has cited an …

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WH Ridicules Judge’s Order To Return Deported Man

The Baltimore Banner reports: A federal judge in Maryland ordered the United States government to return a deported Beltsville man by 11:59 p.m. Monday in a case she called “unprecedented.” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday ruled against the Trump administration’s argument that the court had no jurisdiction, and said the record reflects that 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia was …

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Trump Hosts $1M Per Person Mar-A-Lago Money Beg

CBS News reports: As stocks continued to slide after markets opened, President Trump spike at a $1 million dollar-a-person candlelight dinner Friday at Mar-a-Lago. MAGA Inc. can raise unlimited money but is barred from coordinating directly with Mr. Trump’s campaign arm. The fine print for the Friday’s invitation says the president is attending as a guest speaker and not soliciting donations. …

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