Since Jan 20th - policies, statements and kooky behaviours of Trump and friends.
Mike Johnson suggests that congress eliminate federal district courts.
Trump removes ban on segregated facilities in government contracts, thus allowing for segregated bathrooms.
Jeff Goldberg reporter from The Atlantic, got a request to be added to a chat group in Signal. Michael Waltz, national security advisor, was the requester. The group included Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, Scott Bessent (Treasury), John Ratcliffe (CIA), Stephen Miller. In it they planned the bombing of Houthis in Yemen, disparaged our European allies and used emojis.
Trump invokes Aliens Enemies Act, then denies signing it, blaming Rubio?
Just one of the many lies that the press secretary tells while wearing a cross around her neck for everyone to see how "Christian" she is.
Overrules a court order that the DOJ determines is "erroneous"
Removal of Tuskegee Airman, Navaho Talkers and Jackie Robinson from DoD websites.
Re-hiring all the laid off NWS and USDA workers - 60,000 with full backpay. They had a paid months vacation all in the name of finding efficiency.
Removes Black Lives Matters plaza
Are there tariffs or not?
Sells Teslas, pronounced Teslar.
Renders hundreds of men to an El Salvador torture prison without even knowing if they are criminals, in opposition to a court order
Green card holder returning from Luxemboug is detained, beaten and tortured upon re-entry. Spokesperson says that's ok for CBP to do since he was charged with a misdemeanor drug possession charge in 2015.
Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney detained by ICE and moved to multiple prisons over 12 days because her visa had expired and she was in the process of obtaining a new one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/us/mooney-canadian-american-pie-actress-ice.html
English cartoonist Becky Burke was detained for 19 days by ICE because she performed household chores while visiting the US on a tourist Visa. Her visa was for 90 days, she was in day 50. ICE maintained she should have had a work visa if she was doing household chores for a host family.
French scientist denied entry to US because of anti-Trump statements on his phone.
https://www.reuters.com/world/french-scientist-denied-entry-into-us-french-government-says-2025-03-20/
Top 20 corrupt practices between January and March of 2025. 6 weeks.
https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-six-weeks-in-this-white-house-is-on-its-way-to-being-the-most-corrupt-in-us-history
- Jan 17th. Meme coin allowing people to pay Trump without knowing who paid him.
- Jan 20th - after saying that he will do the bidding of oil and gas industry if they pony up $1B, he announces a strategy to end oil and gas competitors by making it easy for oil and gas, but nearly impossible for their competitors to get permits
- Jan 25th -Fires 17 inspectors general whose job it is to find fraud.
- Jan 27th - fires Gwynne Wilcox from the NLRB, shutting it down. NLRB has cases in front of it brought against Musk and other billionaire "donors"
- Jan 30th - awards Trump Media stock to his cabinet members including the DOJ/FBI. Another way to buy off cabinet members is to inflate the stock or buy it directly from them. Cases in front of the DOJ against Musk companies are dropped. DOJ opens up operation whirlwind in which it will investigate anyone who criticizes the work of Musk and DOGE. So cases against Musk dropped, but those that criticize him are investigated.
- Feb 1 - fires director of the Consumer Financial Protection Board. CFPB had oversight as to Musk's preying on consumers and wanting to launch a crypto currency. Later DOGE eliminates all the staff.
- Feb 4 - Trump meets with the PGA and Saudi Golf League in the oval office, to try and resolve their issues and get them to play at his resorts.
- Feb 6 - Pam Bondi proposes to dull the Foreign Agents Registration Act, allowing foreign agents to attend Mar-A-Lago and influence the President without having to register as a foreign agent.
- Feb 10 - drops case against Eric Adams, resulting in the resignation of seven DOJ officials who wouldn't file the papers to drop the case. In exchange, Adams pledges to support Trump especially on immigration matters.
- Feb 10 - DOJ pauses enforcement of US laws that prohibit companies from paying bribes overseas.
- Feb 12 - announces $400M contract with Tesla for armored vehicles. Previous Tesla contract was worth $400k under Biden. Tesla does not make armored vehicles.
- Feb 12 - DOGE infiltrates Dept of Labor and gets information from OSHA. This information has to do with cases against SpaceX, which has 9x more employee injuries than the average industry average, as well as cases against Musk competitors. $250M in donations buys you access to information about lawsuits being brought against your compeitition.
- Feb 15th - DOGE fires 20 people from the FDA Office of Neurological and Physical Medicine Devices, which is overseeing Musk's Neuralink applications.
- Feb 15th - later announced that 50% of the FDA will be cut, particularly those parts overseeing consumer safety with respect to vitamin supplements. Should note a number of Trump's cabinet also sell "vitamin supplements" and other "health products" on the side.
- Feb 19th - IRS to cut 7,000 people, most of whom audit billionaires and millionaires and corporations.
- Feb 19th - word leaks that companies are now going to restart advertising on X as a way to gain favor with Musk when it comes to their cases or regulatory matters.
- Feb 20th - CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is canceled by RFK Jr who is on the record anti-vax and making money by referring people to lawsuits against vaccine makers.
- Feb 26th - Oval office display of Trump goods for sale, like MAGA hats. This is the first time a President has hawked merchandise, which is just another way to curry favor with him. Not only does the President do this, but Kash Patel of the FBI and Musk at DOGE are also selling merchandise.
- Feb 26th - Musk announces that the FAA contract with Verizon will be cancelled and given to his company Starlink.
- First week of March - Trump is accepting personal payments of $5M from CEO's to personally meet with him. Dinners with other guests are $1M.
DOGE canceled funding for Ebola prevention and study, during an Ebola outbreak. Then had to scramble to reinstate it, saying in his Cabinet meeting that they will make mistakes, but can quickly fix them.
Historically, those who attend press conferences ("press pool") are chosen by the White House Correspondents Association. Not anymore. Now Trump decides.
Elon Musk, not a cabinet member, attends and runs the cabinet meeting.
In an effort to drain the swamp, FAA contract is awarded to Elon Musk
When asked about the measles outbreak, RFK Jr replies that measle outbreaks are common, same day as the first child in 10 years died of measles.
Trump posts his vision for Gaza on TruthSocial
Trump fires staff that oversees the security of our nuclear arsenal, then has to re hire them.
Musk holds press conference in Oval Office, bringing one of his 7 kids who tells Trump "Shut your mouth, you're not the President, you need to go away." or some variation.
Trump steals money from NYC. Noem calls it a "clawback" regarding NYC housing migrants in a hotel. The shelter and services budget actually paid for it, not disaster relief.
Trump forgets that he is supposed to be swearing in Tulsi as DNI
Imposes 25% tariffs on all imported steel.
Trump halts investigations into foreign bribery cases, pardons Blago.
Trump moves to dismiss the Board of Visitors for all the military academies
400 ICE agents descend on Aurora Colorado looking for members of Tren de Aragua, resulting in the arrest of only one member.
As of February 7th, 19 days into his presidency, Trump has spent 9 days in Florida. Costing tax payers o
ver 10M, some of which goes directly into his pockets.
Trump fires all the board members of the Kennedy Center and appointed himself head.
Triple Canopy, part of Blackwater, a paramilitary group used in Iraq to kill civilians there, is preventing Democrats from entering a federal building. Blackwater is run by Eric Prince, brother of Betsy DeVos of Trumps first cabinet.
Trump on revamping the ATC system - all he had to say was we're looking at replacing the ATC system.
Still stuck on opening the faucet that brought water from NW Canada to LA?
The Attorney General will prosecute anti-Christian bias.
Claims Tuberville is responsible for Mahomes success since he was his coach. Mahomes played for Texas Tech 2 years after Tuberville left. Everyone clapped.
Says a flight costs $2 when discussing high speed rail.
NFL to remove "End Racism" signs due to Trump's attendance at the SuperBowl.
CIA will buy out its entire workforce if necessary to get people who disagree with Trump out of the organization. The entire CIA must support Trump's trade wars, undermining of China and targeting drug cartels.
Trump withdraws the US from the Human Rights Council.
Trump announces he wants to resettle 1.8 million Palestinians out of Gaza to someplace where they'd be more happy. US troops will be used to secure the area, which will become a economic zone owned by the United States.
Trump enacts 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, but at last minute, backs down. He claims a victory saying Mexico and Canada made tremendous concessions to help crack down on Fentanyl and the border. Mexico and Canada only promised what they had already put in place under Biden. Trump didn't know the difference.
Trump appoints the guy who defended Trump's use of a sharpie on a hurricane map to the head of NOAA. DOGE is then seen entering NOAA headquarters seeking access to their computers.
Musk is given access to every government transaction via the Treasury Department.
Trump gifts stock in his company to two of his cabinet picks, Patel and McMahon.
Press Secretary apparently prays that the pilot is the right skin color? Not sure she accomplished what she wanted to with this statement.
DOT removing all traces of DEI and Climate materials
Blames DEI for Blackhawk helicopter flying into a passenger airplane on approach to DCA, despite the below being posted on WhiteHouse.gov (since taken down).
Memos going out canceling Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day and other non-white celebrations, also eliminating any social groups or clubs, such as a gay and lesbian coalition, or groups of parents of handicapped children, or groups of veterans.
Tells federal employees they can resign and get paid for 8 months - but this isn't what the memo says.
Freezes federal funds for nearly everything, including Medicaid, Meals on Wheels. Rescinds the freeze after outcry
Halts aid programs, including the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief which provides HIV treatment to poor countries. Computers have been taken offline and treatments already in clinics will be recalled under "America First". The program was started by George W Bush and has saved 25 million lives so far.
Truth Social post on sending the military to California to turn on the water from the Pacific NW.
What actually happened
Memos issued from the Office of Personnel Management are not being authored by actual staffers but by outside sources as evidenced by metadata the OPM forgot to scrub.
Paused all grants and loans
Trump floats idea past leaders of Jordan and Egypt that they should take over 1M Palestinians while Trump can develop property there.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07kpjyzglloTrump flies plane of immigrants to Colombia without warning and Colombia turns them back. Trump then orders 25% tariff on Colombia. Proceeds to spell Colombia like the university in the press release.
USAF removes videos of Tuskegee Airmen and contributions by women pilots in WWII
Fires 17 Inspectors General overnight. IG's are the watchdogs of government departments. However the law states that 30 days notice must be given to Congress. But the law doesn't matter anymore.
Ice/FBI raids immigration lawyers office, Ice/SS shows up at school, Ice shows up at hospital.
Floats the idea of eliminating FEMA and letting states fund their own disasters
Puts conditions on aid to California... like voter ID. But no conditions on aid to NC
Pulls Dr Fauci's security detail
Advised legal aid services that receive federal support that they need to stop providing representation in immigration courts.
Launched ICE raids at school bus stops
Banned the CDC and other Health Depts from communicating to the public
Cancels all meetings being held by the NIH
Fails to put hand on Bible while swearing in
Wants to invade Panama
Wants to buy Greenland
Renamed Gulf of Mexico
Rerenamed Mt McKinley
Wiped out any spanish language sites on WhiteHouse.gov
Keeps calling Canada the 51st state.
Released and pardoned 1500 or so prisoners who participated on Jan 6th including those that beat and killed cops. Many of whom plead guilty. Some who have indicated they will be purchasing a lot of guns.
Government will no longer recognize transgender people by their transitioned selves, just by their birth certificate.
Muslim ban is essentially back in place.
Released and pardoned a man convicted of running the largest online drug cartel in history, coordinating 4,000 drug dealers, including those dealing fentanyl.
Fired head of the Coast Guard, the first woman in charge of a military branch in the US
Musk did a nazi salute... then the media gaslit us about it, firing reporters who called it a nazi salute.
Backslid on lowering prices, says it will be really difficult
Backslid on ending the Ukraine war, but did threaten Putin, who he says he's friends with.
Announced he's interested in acquiring property in Gaza, but he doesn't think the cease fire will hold.
Drew less viewers to his inauguration than Biden.
Should also be noted, not clear if its related, that on New Year's Eve a thunderstorm complex hit the east coast with lightning striking the Capitol, Washington Monument, Freedom Tower and Empire State building.
Trump's Christmas message was truly inspiring
Before Nov 4th.
Restarting this as a new page to document the crazy things Trump has said in the 2024 campaign. Any of these would be disqualifying. Some are famous enough not to need citations.
On Haitians "They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. They're eating the pets of Springfield" - he said this live on a debate stage in front of 80 million viewers. It changed nothing.
On auto workers: "Mercedes Benz will start building in the United States, and they have a little bit. But you know what they really are? Assembly like in South Carolina. But they build everything in Germany and then they assemble it here. They get away with murder because they say oh yes we're building cars they don't build cars. They take them out of a box and they assemble them. Could have our child assemble them." Referring to auto workers as children at the Economic Club of Chicago.
On his childcare plan: When asked about his plan for childcare at the Economic Club of New York, he said to a round of applause: Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down. You know, I was somebody — we had, Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka, was so impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about — that, because look, child care is child care, couldn’t — you know, there’s something — you have to have it in this country. You have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers, compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to. But they’ll get used to it very quickly. And it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us. But they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care, that it’s going to take care. We’re going to have — I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country.Because I have to stay with child care. I want to stay with child care. But those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about, including growth, but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just — that I just told you about. We’re going to be taking in trillions of dollars. And as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it’s, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers will be taking in.We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people. And then we’ll worry about the rest of the world. Let’s help other people. But we’re going to take care of our country first. This is about America first. It’s about make America great again. We have to do it because right now, we’re a failing nation. So we’ll take care of it. Thank you. Very good question. Thank you.
On how he knows how magnets work: "Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.” - Mason City Iowa
On dressing: He claims he is asked how he puts his pants on in the morning to which he also says:Well, I don’t think about it too much.’ I don’t want to think about it because if I think about it too much maybe I won’t want to do it, but I love it because we’re going to do something for this country that’s never been done before. - Mason City Iowa
On Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War: I love studying. If you take a look at. I mean the wars. I don't know what it is. The Civil War was so fascinating, so horrible, was so horrible, but was so fascinating. It was uh, I don't know it was just different. I just find it. I'm so attracted to seeing it. So many mistakes were made. See there was something I think could have been negotiated to be honest with you. I think he could have negotiated that. All the people died. So many people died. You know that was the disaster. If you got hit by a bullet in the leg you were essentially going to die or lose the leg. That's why you had so many people with no legs no arms. If you got hit in the arm or the leg it meant you were over because the infection gangrene. It was just such a sort of a horrible time. But that's I was thinking to myself cause I was reading something and I said this is something that could have been negotiated. You know it was just for all those people to die, and they died viciously. That was a vicious vicious war. And uh... in many ways look they're all this nothing nice about it. Boy that was a tough one for our country. But I think it's uh, you know, Abraham Lincoln of course if he negotiated it you probably wouldn't even know who Abraham Lincoln was. Uhhhh... he would have been President, but he would have been President, he would have been, he wouldn't have been the Abraham Lincoln. He would have been different but that would have been okay. It's uhh. It would have been a thing and I know it very well. I know the whole process that they went through. And they just couldn't get along. That would have been something that could have been negotiated and they wouldn't have had that problem. But it was a hell of a time. - Jan 6, 2024
On batteries and sharks: I went to a boat company in South Carolina. The boat. I said how is it? He said "It's a problem sir. They want us to make all electric boats". So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question', and he [the guy who makes boats in South Carolina] said, ‘Nobody ever asked this question,’ and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT —very smart. He goes, I say, What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there? By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, do you notice that, a lot of sharks? he asked. I watched some guys justifying it today. ‘Well, they weren’t really that angry. They bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were, they were not hungry, but they misunderstood what who she was.’ These people are crazy. He said there’s no problem with sharks. ‘They just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming now.’ It really got decimated and other people do a lot of shark attacks. So I said, so there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards or here, do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking? Water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? Because I will tell you, he didn’t know the answer. He said, ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.” I said, ‘I think it’s a good question.’ I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water. But you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted, I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark. So we’re going to end that. - June 10th 2024 in Nevada , a landlocked state with no sharks.
Then there's Hannibal Lecter - https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-keeps-talking-about-the-late-great-hannibal-lecter/2024/08/14/638eb545-60df-4b9c-98eb-352b2970459c_video.html
“Has anyone seen ‘The Silence of the Lambs’? The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He’d love to have you for dinner. That’s insane asylums. They’re emptying out their insane asylums.” - RNC 2024. Only 1% of those arrested at the southern border have criminal convictions. 86% of those caught smuggling fentanyl across the southern border are Americans.
Trump tries to explain why he brings up Hannibal Lecter. The set up is that immigrants are flooding the country and taking black and hispanic jobs. "So they're coming in, many are coming in from jails, prisons and mental institutions, insane asylums, that's like, you know, a step above right, insane asylum. And whenever I go um, Hannibal Lecter. You know what I'm talking about. They always go the fake news. That's a lot of fake news back there too (boos from crowd as he points to the press).They always mention you know its a way of demeaning, they'll say Hannibal Lecter why would he mention well you know why because he was a sick puppy and we have sick puppies coming into our country. I figure that's better than wasting a lot of words. Say Hannibal Lecter we don't want him but they always say, well why would he say that. I do it for a lot of reasons. But I do it because we are allowing some really bad people into our country and they are coming as terrorists, you know you saw the other day last month they had the record number of terrorists. I had a month, and I love Border Patrol. Did you see they gave me a full endorsement two days ago (crowd cheers). Border Patrol. The Border Patrol and they're they're great. You know they want to do their job. They don't want to let these people come in. They look at them, they can tell. They can look at someone say good bad. They say what's coming into our country now is having a huge negative impact on black families and hispanic families (possibly black/hispanic girl on stage nods along), and ultimately everybody." - 10/14/24 Oaks PA
On medical emergencies: ‘Would anybody else like to faint?’ - 10/14/24 Oaks PA. This rally required the doors be shut and it was so hot inside people were fainting. So he called for a doctor and stopped the Q&A and then asked if anyone else would like to faint. He later truthed that people fainted from excitement. "I had a Town Hall in Pennsylvania last night. It was amazing! The Q and A was almost finished when people began fainting from the excitement and heat." Once the last person was stretchered out, he then asked the crowd if they wanted more questions and they all cheered but he instead played music for the next 30 mins. Songs again included Ave Maria, Nothing Compares2U, Hallelujah, the F**king Catalina Wine Mixer song, and wrapped it up with the YMCA.
On Detroit: Trump, while in Detroit at the Economic Club said "Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she's your president" - 10/10/2024
On whatever this was at the Economic Club of Detroit: It’s so simple, you know. It isn’t like Elon with his rocket ships that land on the moon within 12 inches of where they want to land or he gets the engines back. That was the first, I really...I said 'who the hell did that.' I saw engines about three, four years ago. These things were coming, cylinders, no wings, no nothing, and they’re coming down very slowly, landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace with a circle. Boom! Reminded me of the Biden circles that he used to have, right? [Gesticulates with right hand in an oddly circular motion.] He’d have eight circles, and he couldn’t fill them up. And then I heard that he beat us in the popular vote. But that...I don’t know, I don’t know. Couldn’t fill up the eight circles [Again, gesticulates with right hand in an oddly circular motion.] Couldn’t fill up the eight circles. I always loved those circles. They were so beautiful to look at. In fact, the person who did that, that was the best thing about his...the level of that circle was great. But they couldn’t get people, so they used to have the press stand in those circles, because they couldn’t get the people. Then I heard we lost. Oh, we lost. But we’re never going to let that happen again. We’ve been abused by other countries but we’ve been abused by our own politicians, really, more than other countries.
None of this mattered in the end he still won.
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