Donald Trump is the 47 President of US

Mr Demon's @Demon_Skeith boi Rufus should duke it out with Trump lol Rufus would curb stomp Trump badly lol


Read from CNN:

Donald Trump is working to protect himself from being prosecuted once he leaves office​


The deal that President Donald Trump reached with his own administration to set-up an “anti-weaponization fund” for his allies is the latest example of how his second stint in the White House has focused on undermining checks on presidential power and insulating himself from future investigations.

The agreement highlights the new hurdles Trump is erecting that that could stymie probes by congressional Democrats, successor administrations and even authorities outside the federal government.

On several fronts, Trump is dismantling post-Watergate transparency mandates, attacking Congress’ power of the purse, rewarding loyalists accused of committing crimes that support his causes, and assaulting independent agencies and executive branch watchdogs.

Trump has done so by capitalizing on and accelerating an expansion of presidential power embraced by the conservative Supreme Court, and by blowing through norms and political gravity that reined in other presidents, former government attorneys and constitutional scholars told CNN.

When Congress in the 1970s passed constraints on the presidency in response to the scandals of the Richard Nixon administration, courts at the time backed those laws.

“What we’ve now seen is this dramatic pendulum swing in favor of just more executive power that’s consolidated within the president himself, that’s no longer dispersed,” said University of Southern California Gould School of Law Professor Adam Zimmerman. “We also see someone who’s willing to use that power to push that power to the limit.”

The latest gambit – a controversial agreement arising from a legally dubious lawsuit Trump brought against the IRS – is more sweeping in its protections for the president than initially reported. Its language could shield Trump from more than just tax-related probes. And the broad criteria for whom could benefit from the nearly $1.8 billion fund could incentivize individuals to not comply with congressional investigations into the president.

“The announcement of this fund really crystallizes so many trends we’ve seen in this term, which is the president using, corruptly using, the power of the government to punish his enemies and reward his friends, including friends who would break the law on his behalf,” said Gregg Nunziata, executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law, an organization of conservatives who oppose Trump.

A Justice Department spokesperson defended the fund in a statement that said it “was created to specifically hear and redress claims of lawfare and seek accountability for any American who was unfairly targeted for their beliefs.”

“Those who are upset about the Anti-Weaponization Fund should remind themselves that we are in this position because the President’s tax returns were illegally leaked, and previous administrations used their law enforcement agencies to relentlessly persecute their political adversaries,” the spokesperson said.

Immunity that extends beyond tax audits​

The tax amnesty the new deal extends to the president, his business and his family was made public with an addendum quietly published the day after the original agreement was announced. In defending it, DOJ officials have described the arrangement as the IRS letting go of past audits of the president in exchange for a dismissal of the $10 billion case Trump brought against the federal government for improper disclosure of his tax returns.

“Every single settlement, both sides give away something,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who signed the deal and who was Trump’s personal lawyer during the Biden-era criminal prosecutions against him, told CNN last week.

The language applies not just to potential claims against Trump brought by IRS or Treasury, but by any agency, though the Justice Department clarified to CNN that the focus is on civil matters, rather than criminal. The Department has also stressed that the agreement covers audits or claims related to Trump conduct that predates the May 19 agreement.

His health will not see him till the end of his term.
 
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The orange fool is finally getting a lot push back, they voted to shoot down his war powers finally.
Trump could easily veto it when it reaches his desk though and then it would get sent back to the senate for another vote, only this time it would need 2/3 votes for it to become law thus it's still highly unlikely. Nevertheless this shows that the crack within Trump's inner circle is getting bigger, more and more Republican party members openly opposing the war.
 
Trump could easily veto it when it reaches his desk though and then it would get sent back to the senate for another vote, only this time it would need 2/3 votes for it to become law thus it's still highly unlikely. Nevertheless this shows that the crack within Trump's inner circle is getting bigger, more and more Republican party members openly opposing the war.

Midterms should hopefully right this ship our nation is on.
 
Trump's Iran deal is way weaker than Obama's. And Obama did it via pure diplomacy alone. Trump was critical of the Obama administration's $1.7bn payment to Iran and the 100 billion and yet now Trump promised $300bn for Iran. Iran will use the money to finance more terrorism no doubt and make more missiles and drones. The Obama deal with Iran unfrozed $100 billion of Iran’s overseas assets and a $1.7 billion settlement, compared to Trump's $300 billion lol + The 25 - 50 billion taxpayers money he used to fund the war with Iran .

Read from BBC:

Trump has insisted the deal ensures that Iran will never buy, develop or produce a nuclear weapon. But the text of this agreement, which was read aloud by officials on the call, falls short of that.

Instead, the ceasefire extension jumpstarts a high-stakes scramble over 60 days for the two adversaries to achieve a lasting nuclear pact. It took the Obama administration 20 months of negotiations to reach the original Iran nuclear deal in 2015. Can the Trump administration do that in just two months?

For now, the text of the deal only commits Iran to "downblending" its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). A senior US official on Wednesday called it a "significant concession" by Iran.

But all of the technical details of how that might happen, and on what timeline, must still be ironed out in the 60-day period of negotiations that commence after the scheduled signing takes place on Friday.

Trump has also said the US will not provide any money to Iran. This is a key issue for the president, who has been critical of the Obama administration's $1.7bn payment to Iran in 2016.

With an eye toward his legacy, Trump has been keen to frame his Iran deal as better than former President Barack Obama's, and has used the money issue as a way to argue he has taken a stronger stance against Tehran.

But according to the text of this agreement, the US will work "with regional partners to develop a definitive mutually agreed plan with at least USD $300 billion" for Iran's reconstruction.

A senior US official said the deal does not commit the US to paying Iran a single cent. But the actual language in the agreement is opaque, and appears to leave the door open for the US to eventually make some payments to Iran as part of a negotiated settlement to the war.

That could be a major political problem for Trump and Vice-President JD Vance, who campaigned on a promise not to start new "forever wars." The anti-interventionist Maga base may take issue with the arrangement, even if any eventual payoff to Iran doesn't come directly from the US.

Other key issues also get short shrift in the page-and-a-half deal.

When the war started Trump said a top priority was preventing Iran from funding proxy groups in the region, like Hezbollah. That was a priority for Israel, as well, which joined the US in launching the war and has waged a separate conflict with the Iranian-backed militia group in Lebanon.

The cessation of hostilities under this initial agreement extends to Hezbollah. But the group barely received any other mention in the deal, and it is unclear if Iran will be pressured to drop its support for the group and other regional proxies in the next round of talks.

The text released on Wednesday also doesn't address Iran's missile program in detail, another issue that Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was a priority at the start of the war.

Whether the deal signed in Geneva this week leads to a final agreement is up in the air. The text gives both sides a 60-day deadline, but notes that this is open to an extension if necessary. That could suggest both countries aren't deeply optimistic that they can strike a more comprehensive agreement.

At his G7 press conference, Trump himself sounded noncommittal about the prospects of a lasting peace with Iran.
 
Read from yahoo news:

U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance say their interim deal to end the war with Iran will deliver a financial windfall to American farmers.

But the Iranians deny it. And in the absence of more details, sanctions experts are flummoxed over exactly how billions of dollars' worth of Iranian assets would make their way to the American heartland from the escrow accounts where they've been locked for years by U.S. sanctions.

A tentative agreement reached last week would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil and natural gas once passed, and allow Iran to start selling its oil freely again during a 60-day period when the two countries will continue negotiating key issues. The memorandum of understanding also promised to unfreeze Iranian assets.

Trump's deal has come under fire for failing to address the reasons the president cited for going to war with Iran on Feb. 28, including curbing Tehran's nuclear ambitions, its missile program and its support for militant groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

Lashing back at critics Tuesday on his Truth Social media platform, Trump said U.S. farmers would get a payday: The U.S. Treasury Department, he wrote, would release the Iranian assets "into escrow, controlled by the U.S.A., and will be used for the purchase of food and medical supplies, exclusively from the United States, including Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans from our great American farmers. These are things that are desperately needed by Iran.''

Vance, who spoke about the proposal after high-level talks in Switzerland, and Trump say that any frozen funds and assets held outside of Iran will be used to buy U.S. crops.

But the Iranians deny that's part of the deal. A spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmail Baghaei, said any agricultural purchases would be based on "prices and quality,'' not terms dictated by Washington.

"It is interesting that the philosophy and goal of the war, which was the destruction of the Iranian civilization and the collapse of Iran, has become enriching American farmers," Baghaei said.

Iran's ambassador in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, rejected Vance's contention that the U.S. and Qatar would dictate how Iran uses unfrozen funds. "Iran is the only country who decides what to do with those assets," he told reporters.


A U.S. official dismissed the contradiction, asserting that Iranian leaders were speaking to their domestic audience. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record.

Joseph Glauber, a research fellow emeritus at the International Food Policy Research Institute, said Iran was unlikely to abandon its other trade partners on food.

Iran's major suppliers include Brazil, India, Turkey, the European Union, Canada, Australia and Argentina, he said. Trump's demand to buy from the U.S. would "create some hard feelings with some of our competitors."
 
This circus keeps getting more painful to watch, some 80-year dementia idiot and his dumb looking lackies are never going to reach a winning deal with a country that more confident presidents wouldn't even look at.
 
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Trump now wants to sell F-35 to Turkey and lift Turkey's sanctions. A very very dangerous and unnecessary move. Turkey possesses the Russian S-400 missile systems that got them kicked out of the F-35 program in the first place. Operating the F-35 near Russian hardware compromises critical F-35's tech. Russian radars can collect critical electronic profiles, sensor data, and flight signatures of the F-35 and thus allowing Putin's military people to learn it. Turkey also supports Hamas and the Houthis.
 
Trump net approval rating on inflation is now -51:
 
Didn't think it could go negative.
not only negative but he currently holds the lowest net approval rating on inflation of any modern US president, breaks historical lows, surpassing the previous lowest ratings recorded by his predecessor Jimmy Carter.
 
Trump now wants to charge 20% toll on ship passing the strait of hormuz, basically it's like Mafia "protection money" as the situation in Hormuz is caused by Trump's own doing in the first place lol

read from CNBC:

President Donald Trump on Monday said the U.S. will impose fees in the Strait of Hormuz “at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped,” after declaring America the “guardian” of the major oil shipping route.

Trump, in a Truth Social post, also said the U.S. will reimpose its blockade of Iranian ports near the strait, the epicenter of the U.S.′ rapidly reescalating war with Tehran. The blockade will resume Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET, U.S. Central Command said.


“We’re attacking them tonight, and we’re taking out all of their capability for anything having to do with the strait,” Trump told reporters at the White House later Monday afternoon. “And I think in the end, we will end up controlling the whole thing.”

The U.S. has rejected Iran’s own plans to charge tolls to ships passing through the strait, which maritime experts, regulators and even top Trump administration officials have said is illegal under international law.

But rather than call for the return of the strait to its prewar status as a toll-free international waterway, Trump’s post asserts that commercial vessels attempting the transit must now pay protection money to the U.S.


Oil prices jumped, and stock indexes fell, following Trump’s announcement.

The strait, which saw 20% of the world’s oil trade before being choked off at the start of the war in late February, “is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran,” Trump wrote in the post.

All countries other than Iran will “have fair and open use of the Strait,” Trump wrote. The assertion came amid new exchanges of fire between the U.S. and Iran that have put the prospect of a peace deal further out of reach, while once again slowing tanker traffic in the strait to a trickle.

“The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as ‘THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,’” he claimed. “But as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World.”

“The process and formation will begin immediately,” he added.

The United Nations’ International Maritime Organization, which regulates maritime transport, said after Trump’s post that it “stands firmly against charging fees for passage through straits used for international navigation.”

“There is no legal basis through which to introduce mandatory tolls simply to transit through a strait,” the organization said in a statement to CNBC.


That stance echoes the one offered by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said last month, “No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That’s existing international law.”

It’s not unprecedented for the U.S. to offer protection services to vessels in the Persian Gulf — it did so for Kuwaiti ships under fire from Iran in the 1980s, for instance.

But slapping a 20% charge on ships is “quite an extortionate level,” especially since “it’s unclear that the U.S. can deliver safe passage in the first place,” said David Goldwyn, president of Goldwyn Global Strategies and a former U.S. State Department special envoy during the Obama administration.

“If the U.S. was able to safely escort ships and guarantee no threat from Iran, we would have seen that happen in the past few weeks,” Goldwyn told CNBC in a phone interview. “So I think this is really just bluster.”

Trump telegraphed the policy announcement in a Fox News interview earlier Monday morning, when he said the U.S. is “going to get paid for guarding” the strait.

“We’re going to keep the strait, and we’ll probably run it,” Trump said.

“We’ll become the guardian of the strait — maybe we’ll call it the guardian angel of the strait,” Trump told Fox. “And we should be reimbursed for that.”

“We can’t be expected to do that for nothing, unlike we had for many years,” he added. “We guarded it for nothing, and now we’re going to guard it, we’re going to get paid for guarding it. A lot of money.”
 
Don't forget the AOC hand salute, but agreed.

But I'm not gonna talk politics on this board because the admin/owner is a liberal. Sorry, Eddie, its true.

I'm not liberal, honestly never cared about politics till we started letting the dementia people into office who trample on common sense and morals.
 
I'm not liberal, honestly never cared about politics till we started letting the dementia people into office who trample on common sense and morals.
I'm just gonna explain, and leave.

This thread is nothing but hate. NOTHING but hate towards Donald Trump. The whole thread. A conservative doesn't dare to step into a liberal's thread.

I'm a moderate. I'm the independent. But what we're experiencing right now, is basically the Ronald Regean-style administration. Trump ADMIRES Regean. He is modeling himself after his legacy. There is a culture war right now. I dunno if you realize that. 90% of liberals HATE Trump. So, when I see this thread... I see liberals all over. These posts are from the same people who post on Cameron's Forum Promotion. I know, because I was there.

Anyway, back to what I'm saying:
My condolences to the next president who has to clean up all this shit.
This is you. Trump is currently trying to clean up Joe Biden's mess. The reason why your gas prices are high is not because of Trump, it's because of Biden. The minute he got sworn in, he canceled Xi Pipeline, so after that, anyone who does business - ANYONE who does business - has to pay more at the gas pump, AND has to pay more for each wood from A to B. Trickled down to YOU.

So, all these corporations had to end up passing the taxes TO YOU.
Also, thanks to Trump, another 9/11 will happen most likely :upside:
It was ALWAYS going to happen. Whether Trump is in there or not. I don't agree with the Israel vs Iran conflict, because we're suckered into that conflict. But we were always gonna go in there. We were always gonna go to war. Because, this war is not directly about Iran, and/or Israel. This is what we call a PROXY war. China has been indirectly, and directly attacking us. But you won't say that, because it doesn't reflect your worldview.

Go on Tiktok, you'll see propaganda.
Go on China's Tiktok, you'll still see propaganda, but geared towards their own people.
Tiktok was ALWAYS designed to indoctrinate, and subvert our lives.
China set up secret police stations.
China hacked our infrastructure.

But, hey, go ahead, keep hating Donald Trump.

I can admit that Trump is not perfect, and he makes some mistakes, but don't come out here and say Democrats are any better. Because they literally appointed a fucking communist in New York. Right now? New York is basically Gotham City. I have someone in New York, who is a liberal. I wouldn't WISH what's going on in New York on my enemies. Because EVERYONE is being gouged. Everyone is being misled. Everyone is suffering right now. EVERYONE.

Crime is so high in there, that I would never recommend anyone moving TO there right now. People are even dying without even communicating or interacting with another person. You can be on a train station in New York and be pushed on the train tracks because another person hates a specific race.

Not funny to me.
 
I'm not liberal, honestly never cared about politics till we started letting the dementia people into office who trample on common sense and morals.
It's true. Trump's absurdity (and stupidity) is causing many people that are indifferent about politics go into politics.

I'm just gonna explain, and leave.

This thread is nothing but hate. NOTHING but hate towards Donald Trump. The whole thread. A conservative doesn't dare to step into a liberal's thread.

I'm a moderate. I'm the independent. But what we're experiencing right now, is basically the Ronald Regean-style administration. Trump ADMIRES Regean. He is modeling himself after his legacy. There is a culture war right now. I dunno if you realize that. 90% of liberals HATE Trump. So, when I see this thread... I see liberals all over. These posts are from the same people who post on Cameron's Forum Promotion. I know, because I was there.

Anyway, back to what I'm saying:

This is you. Trump is currently trying to clean up Joe Biden's mess. The reason why your gas prices are high is not because of Trump, it's because of Biden. The minute he got sworn in, he canceled Xi Pipeline, so after that, anyone who does business - ANYONE who does business - has to pay more at the gas pump, AND has to pay more for each wood from A to B. Trickled down to YOU.

So, all these corporations had to end up passing the taxes TO YOU.

It was ALWAYS going to happen. Whether Trump is in there or not. I don't agree with the Israel vs Iran conflict, because we're suckered into that conflict. But we were always gonna go in there. We were always gonna go to war. Because, this war is not directly about Iran, and/or Israel. This is what we call a PROXY war. China has been indirectly, and directly attacking us. But you won't say that, because it doesn't reflect your worldview.

Go on Tiktok, you'll see propaganda.
Go on China's Tiktok, you'll still see propaganda, but geared towards their own people.
Tiktok was ALWAYS designed to indoctrinate, and subvert our lives.
China set up secret police stations.
China hacked our infrastructure.

But, hey, go ahead, keep hating Donald Trump.

I can admit that Trump is not perfect, and he makes some mistakes, but don't come out here and say Democrats are any better. Because they literally appointed a fucking communist in New York. Right now? New York is basically Gotham City. I have someone in New York, who is a liberal. I wouldn't WISH what's going on in New York on my enemies. Because EVERYONE is being gouged. Everyone is being misled. Everyone is suffering right now. EVERYONE.

Crime is so high in there, that I would never recommend anyone moving TO there right now. People are even dying without even communicating or interacting with another person. You can be on a train station in New York and be pushed on the train tracks because another person hates a specific race.

Not funny to me.
This thread consists of the real facts about what Trump is doing. The backlash/hate he faces comes from the fact that his actions achieve almost nothing, but making the US economy much worse and causing US allies to "turn" against us. It's no secret on China attacking the US and wanting to control the US and world economy, but crazily high Trump tariff is not the way to counter it, instead he has plunged the global economy into chaos and caused immense difficulties for US farmers trying to sell their crops overseas due to his trade tariffs. Like it or not, many farmers and US companies still need China to sell and manufacture goods there due to cheaper labor costs, and China still needs the US for trade. Trump has ballooned military expenses using taxpayers money for unnecessary conflicts, he "destroyed" the US tourism industry with his harsh border control policies.

Then, you have his other dictatorship-like moves, such as wanting to plaster his face and name on government buildings, national parks, passports and currency. Furthermore, many of the things he does are for personal gain too. For instance, he wanted to turn Gaza into a Trump tourist spot handled by his estate company, and he has wanted to build Trump hotels in Israel for years, which explains his close relationship with Netanyahu.

No past or present president from either the Democrats or the Republicans is perfect, and both parties and presidents are corrupt, though the level of corruption varies of course. Biden was also not good enough with many of his policies and Biden did create some mess, but no other modern era US president has achieved such a historic low net approval rating across so many multiple policy areas. Those are the hard facts. Public polls, including those from his own Fox network approved polls, have shown mostly low or red or even negative across multiple policies. Trump could have turned things around, which would have made his haters hate him less—or even turn them into fans—but he did not because he lacks the capabilities to govern properly in the first place. The fact that Donald Trump bankrupted many of the businesses he started shows that he is not capable. His real estate business was inherited from his father, which was already well-running. He also failed to repay loans from his father that he had promised to pay lol.

Then you have all his tax schemes, and he is also a convicted felon. Not to mention his stuff with the lolicon rapist Epstein, Trump's Jan 6 Capitol riot incident. Too many scandals. Heck even many of his own major loyalists like turned their backs on him or criticized him publicly unlike before. Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Alex Jones, Mike Pence, Bill Barrm Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, Todd Young and others. MAGA Commentators Figures like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones publicly condemned the President's approach to the US-Iran war conflict, resulting in Trump lashing out at them on social media. Also Independent support for President Donald Trump has declined sharply during his second term, with current polling showing only about 25% to 26% of self-described independent voters approving of his job performance. A significant drop from the 42% of independents who backed him during the 2024 election. Majority of US citizens are able to see how bad Trump is for the country. Trump is not fixing any mess he is piling up even more messes.

Also comparing Reagan with Trump. Reagan favored free trade and open markets, Trump implemented crazy tariffs to protect domestic manufacturing and failed. Reagan focused on projecting democratic strength and fighting the Soviet Union. Trump prioritized transactional diplomacy and domestic-focused foreign policy that achieved mostly nothing so far, Trump promised 24 hours peace resolution with the Ukraine Russia war and now it's like more than 1 year already and still raging on lol, His gaza peace board has almost no progress, His Iran deal is way worse than Obama and now already back to war lol. Reagan utilized an optimistic, unifying conservative message. Reagan Built a broad "community of shared values" that actively welcomed disaffected Democrats and independents. Trump wants "war" with Democrats and some Independents. So Reagan is > than Trump.
 
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I did read some of the tariff stuff is being refunded because of a Supreme Court ruling.

Then you have all his tax schemes, and he is also a convicted felon.
He wasn't given a fair hearing, it was all staged, and they tried him using privileged information. We compare Trump to Obama but not Biden. There's plenty of recording of Kamala Harris fumbling her words, and she doesn't know a thing about inflation. It likely happened during the Biden era when he used Trumps strategic reserves to keep gas prices low but to blame it on the next guy is unfair. Trump wants more domestic independence and factories. No one even bothers trying to see things from his perspective because he's in charge and everyone is a Karen reporter in response. Most of the arguments for what is wrong with what he's doing is Mary contrary to the same things we said about poopy pants Biden. There was no other way.
 
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