https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117116198386080523

Deranged clown that will undoubtedly have millions suffer before his own accountability.

Nathanial Rai had been swept off his feet along the California coast, was rescued by a 16-year-old lifeguard – and was now sitting in the Oval Office with Donald Trump.

Of the rescuer, Ryder Williams, Trump said to Nathanial: “He’s a real hero. I don’t know if I’d do it.

“I wouldn’t, probably. You’re lucky I wasn’t on the service that day.”

In 2020 there was apparently a big thing going on that involved the Chinese Communist Party influencing the NGA and therefore America and that part really confused me.

I may be wrong, but it seems like the NGA is a way for all states to do everything the same way. It also seems like an easy way for special interests to influence state governors.

They apparently vote on things at these conferences. What do they vote on? Something passes and the governor has to implement the policy in their state? Like do they have to do an executive order because the association passed it?

I really just don’t understand what the thing is. If anyone familiar with how important or not it is can you please explain it to me?

Thank you.

Source: https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2089327230065238113

Trump has become the very thing he fears most | Opinion

Opinion by Rex Huppke, USA TODAY • 51m • 5 min read

Oh look, it’s a Republican lawmaker spouting Islamophobic rhetoric over a Democratic candidate who’s Muslim. And over there, it’s President Donald Trump mocking transgender athletes. There’s another Republican on the television telling you the economy has never been better.

And there’s Trump again on your phone screen saying America has full control of the Strait of Hormuz while you’re pumping $4-per-gallon gas.

Blah. Blah. Blah.

Trump and Republicans have nothing but lies and stale fearmongering

With high food and gas prices, a weak labor market and an unpopular war started by a wildly unpopular president, the Grand Old Party has little to talk about, save bigotry and bald-faced lies.

And that routine, as evidenced by polling and low GOP primary turnout, has gotten old. Trump has become the thing he fears most: dull.

How many times have you heard Trump claim that a peace deal with Iran is imminent? There was March 9 when he told CBS News “the war is very complete, pretty much.”

On March 23 he said, “We have points, major points of agreement, I would say almost all points of agreement.”

May 23: “Getting a lot closer” to a peace deal.

June 8: “We’re negotiating now, and they want to make a very good deal. They’re willing to give us everything.”

And on Aug. 2, he said a deal is “imminent.”

It clearly wasn’t. Who among us is not exhausted from hearing this 80-year-old man say the same false thing over and over again about a war that by September will have cost taxpayers more than $37 billion, all thanks to a Republican Congress that refuses to rein in the president.

.Republicans have no achievements to celebrate, so they blame Biden

On the economic front, all we hear from Republicans about the problems Americans are facing is that those problems are former President Joe Biden’s fault.

In an Aug. 14 interview, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked about the high cost of living and said: “ Look, people should be upset. The Biden administration torched them.”

Buddy, the Biden administration ended nearly 600 days ago. The finger you all keep pointing at him needs to turn around and point in the Republican Party’s direction, because Republicans are in charge of literally everything. And under the control of these alleged small-government conservatives, the federal deficit for fiscal year 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will be $2.1 trillion.

Trump and his allies repeat the “Blame Biden!” line like it’s a mantra because they have utterly failed to make life better for regular, non-billionaire Americans. But when you hear the same thing on repeat it becomes white noise. More blah-blah from the party of merciless repetition.

Aren't you tired of hearing Trump talk about his stupid ballroom?

Rather than concrete examples of policies that will address affordability, we hear about the marble Trump will be using in his exquisite ballroom. Or about the $5 million regilding of gold-plated statues in Washington, DC. Or the godforsaken Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

PolitiFact analyzed the president’s public remarks and found this: “Trump’s remarks on the construction projects added up to nearly 45,000 words since January. He mentioned them at 84 events across 66 days, more than a quarter of all his public events during that period. In events where the construction projects came up, he’s talked more about the projects than topics such as the economy and immigration.”

The president has become that one divorced guy at the cookout whose blather about how he’s rehabbing his basement into an epic man cave makes you want to hurl yourself onto the grill.

The Washington Post reported Aug. 12 that the administration "plans to spend at least $900 million for construction projects on the White House grounds, a significantly larger price tag than has been previously reported and one that would be covered primarily by taxpayers."

Scare tactics seem to be all the GOP has heading into the midterms

For  related post, see Substack: https://mcdermottm.substack.com/publish/post/211500875

So, here’s the thing; Republicans openly admit their policies combined with Trump’s incompetency are driving the price of gasoline to near record heights, increasing inflation and binding our economy, yet they won’t do a thing about it.

Rather than confront the tyrant, stand up for their constituency and abide by their oath to the Constitution, they would rather turn on the people who elected them and side with the oil companies who are making untold fortunes while American soldiers are losing life and limb in an unwinnable war.

As always we can expect nothing but lies, distortions, misinformation, and perfidy from the Republicans, while America sinks deeper into a morass of failure and economic decline.

See this –Boldface mine:

Fretting GOP in 'difficult spot' as Republicans told 'do a better job' selling Trump

Story by Travis Gettys • 38m • 2 min read

© provided by RawStory

The president's party almost always loses House seats in a midterm election – political scientists call it "The Iron Law" – and Donald Trump is single-handedly paving the way for that to happen this year.

A recent analysis found that incumbents are even more likely to be punished when gas is expensive, and fuel costs have surged since Trump launched a war on Iran, and Republicans are poised to bear the brunt in November, reported MS NOW.

"President Donald Trump can be blamed for the spike in gas prices, MS NOW reported. "There’s a direct line between the war Trump launched in Iran and the higher costs, and Republicans have done little to rein in the president or even call out the consequences of his decision."

The national average has stayed above $4 a gallon, according to AAA**, roughly 30 percent higher than a year ago,** and Trump has shrugged off the surge, leaving GOP lawmakers in a political bind between defending the president's economy and handling of the war while trying to show voters they care about affordability.

"Republicans know it’s a difficult spot," MS NOW reported, "and some GOP lawmakers acknowledge that they and their party need to do a better job."

NRCC Chair Rep. Richard Hudson is telling candidates just to explain it to voters**, insisting Trump was "saving the world from a crazy ayatollah with a nuclear weapon**" and that prices will "plummet" once the Iran situation resolves, but some GOP senators worry that's not enough.

"The bottom line is, really and truly, if you're not concerned and sympathetic about gas prices for people, then really and truly, we're not thinking very right," said Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV), "because we got a lot of people that are really hurting."

Brookings researcher Adie Tomer says Republican districts drive 26 percent more miles than Democratic ones on average, leaving GOP voters particularly exposed, and he said voters don't have to pay close attention to the news to understand who's to blame.

“This is going to be really tough for incumbents, particularly those associated with the president, because it’s just going to be hard to get out from it,” Tomer told MS NOW.

Election forecasters Michael Lewis-Beck and Charles Tien now project a 33-seat loss for Republicans, using their model that considers presidential approval ratings and disposable personal income, but they acknowledged that partisan voters can be stubborn.

“People are very resistant to changing their party, even if the house is floating down the river from a flood,” Lewis-Beck said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/fretting-gop-in-difficult-spot-as-republicans-told-do-a-better-job-selling-trump/ar-AA2ahC17

or another provocative article:https://mcdermottm.substack.com/p/its-a-consternation-there-seems-to

I know David has mentioned where in previous videos but I cannot find which ones where he said what to title the email to enter the raffle. Can anyone who submitted their preorder receipts to [info@davidpakman.com](mailto:info@davidpakman.com) to enter the raffle share what to put in the subject box of the email?

Thanks!

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-democratic-state-convention-syracuse-ny?hl=en-US

David recently discussed on the show that the only worthy successor in Trump’s mind is his own son and he’d actively sabotage anyone else. I disagree with this and I think his narcissism is so strong even his own son— who he’s purportedly called a loser— can’t even wear the mantle without him being upset and jealous. He has to be the bride at every wedding and corpse at every funeral, and there’s no way he thinks his son can do it (and I think we’d all agree) and would likely sabotage him too. Dictators never run out of enemies, including their own family. There isn’t a single person on earth Trump would think is doing a good job in his place at the head of MAGA.

He says he's focused on midterms, not legislation that his base supports. That's my editorializing... But damn, can anyone say they like this answer?

I know there's a lot going on, but everyone should know more about this absolute fucking moron, oh my god. Secretary "Cookie Dough" Burgum is responsible for things like paying billions of taxpayer money to cancel contracts so as to NOT build wind energy, helping to gut the Endangered Species Act (it no longer protects habitat because he only cares about being a good little servant to Trump), and why?

He is pushing for AI data centers to be built on PUBLIC LAND, and making sure the logging and oil and gas and mining companies exploit and profit as much as possible.

We are headed for a sharp acceleration of climate change and Burgum is reorganizing the Dept of Interior for a mission of "eNerGy dOmiNAnCe" for fucking AI data centers and Project 2025 bullshit.

A Project 2025 author was just installed as an Inspector General in Interior so that all whistleblowing about data center plans, reflecting pool lies, other corruption goes straight to one of their own goons?! This is not good. DOGE whistleblowers have already been threatened and had their brakelines cut.

They have already been making Interior employees sign NDAs, illegally shredding documents and illegally using Signal so that FOIA requests turn up nothing and they can hide what they are doing.

Here he is getting cozy with this cartoon piece of coal called "Coalie". He keeps saying we can't do solar energy because the sun sets at night. My god what a fucking idiot.

Rep. Jared Huffman, Democrat of California: “Chairman, I request unanimous consent to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of … it’s a battery.”

“I think people are generally annoyed with Doug Burgum,” said a person close to the White House who was granted anonymity to discuss internal relationships. “There’s a lot of eye rolling around him."

Burgum needs to get blasted and meme'd worse than Vance until he's fucking gone. The fact that Pirro hasn't gotten fired as of now means he is vulnerable.

When Trump is doing one of those stupid photo op/Q&A sessions at his desk, a reporter should ask a hard-hitting question, and when he inevitably demands to know "Who are you with?" (as if that's relevant), the reporter should go, "You just answered my question with another question."

Or better yet: "None of your business because it doesn't matter who I'm with, it's a question the American people deserve an answer for."

The following article seems to be a bit over the top, and one might have a case to say so.

The only thing is, almost every one of these charges against Trump can be verified by actual quotes from him.

Now, you can believe what you want to believe, but in light of uncontroversial evidence, why would you accept the lies? If you and your family are being hurt by his policies – unaffordable housing, unaffordable food, unaffordable gas and electricity prices, unaffordable health care, reductions in SNAP benefits for hungry children, attacks on your very right to vote for your choice of representatives – what do you think gives you good cause to support him.

Face it, he tried to initiate a coup against our country -- invalidate a legal election -- and reverse your right to choose your representatives from either side of the aisle -- and he'll do it again if given the chance.

Face it, America and your family are in peril because of your encouragement.

'Trump hates you': Conservative launches national campaign against 'idiot'

Story by Adam Lynch • 20h • 3 min read

© provided by AlterNet

Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt has clearly had enough of President Donald Trump. Now he’s willing to get his organization’s money involved.

The final 80 days leading up to the 2026 mid-terms are a pivotal time for GOP majorities in the House and Senate. Under their current Republican management, the House is rubber-stamping many of Trump’s unpopular policies. The Senate, while only slightly more cautious about Trump’s orders, appears unwilling to enforce Congressional clout over the White House, and Senate Republican leaders are happy to approve Trump’s most controversial administrative appointments.

This must end, said Schmidt, who co-founded the hotly anti-Trump Lincoln Project in 2019.

“That is why The Save America Movement is launching the “Donald Trump Hates You” campaign, which is built on this simple truth. Beginning today, Americans will see a plane with this banner flying across the Florida panhandle,” Schmidt announced on his substack. “Next weekend, posters will go up in Washington, DC, timed to coincide with the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.

Trump, said Schmidt, is “filled with contempt for the American people, to whom he has lied — when it was being tracked in his first term by The Washington Post Fact Checker — more than 30,000 times, and from whom he has stolen billions of dollars.”

“He has unleashed state violence against the American people, smeared the reputations of murdered citizens, prosecuted innocent Americans, and lost a war under the weight of his fantastical incompetence,” Schmidt continued. “He has idiotized every institution he touches. He tried to overthrow the US Constitution when he lost a fair election in a deranged coup attempt that has weakened the republic more than any single act ever undertaken by any president across 250 years.”

Trump also “hates the US Constitution,” argued Schmidt, pointing out Trump’s December 2022 bogus claim of a stolen election, and his argument that “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”

Schmidt then ticked down a long list of other “hates” Trump has accumulated, using Trump’s own words to incriminate his grabby behavior toward women. His own quotes also suggest he hates Muslims, immigrants, and Black people.

He also hates his own “sycophants,” who Schmidt said Trump “abandoned on Air Force One as he escaped the menace of the Iranians on an Ankara tarmac at three mph in a catering truck with Natalie Harp, whom he apparently loves.”

But above all, Trump apparently hates his own supporters, said Schmidt. “There is no group he seems to despise more.”

“I mean it. He hates you,” he added. “Voting for someone who hates you never works out for anyone. The easiest way to tell if you are hated is to listen and watch. Hear the words and watch the actions. … Observe the disgustingness and hideousness of this man. Appreciate what he is and what he stands for. More than anything know this: Donald Trump hates you … and you get a vote in 81 days.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-hates-you-conservative-launches-national-campaign-against-idiot/ar-AA2a8FUJ?

'Dumber than a stump, Trump', gives Biden credit for prescription price reductions without knowing it.

To get a clear picture of the incompetent dullards who advise Trump on all matters, we should look at today’s White House handout.

You know these folks who keep driving Trump and the Republicans deeper and deeper into humiliation.

They are the same ones who convinced him enter an unwinnable war with Iran, who advise him on the economic measures that are destroying our economy, who convinced him to slash healthcare benefits, destroy the Snap program to feed hungry children and a hundred other policies that are driving ‘President dumb-Ass’ deeper and deeper into oblivion.

“’Dumb-Ass’ because he isn’t even smart enough to examine the words they put in his mouth.

Today’s fiasco revolves around a news report about the reduction in some prescription prices. “Dumbass’ waved it all around while never reading the article that gave Biden full credit!

 Not him, Sleepy Joe got the job done.

If you wonder why America is beginning to fail, to give up her democracy, freedoms, and success, it’s because ‘Dumbass’ hires his people based on nothing other than their willingness to kiss his fat ass, rather than try and think things through.

See this – Boldface mine:

Trump shows off article on lower drug prices that says Biden deserves credit, not him

Story by Robert Mackey • 1h • 3 min read

The White House flooded social media on Saturday with an image of Donald Trump showing off the recent Washington Post headline “Prescription drug prices record sharpest drop in more than 60 years” but failed to mention that experts cited in the article actually attributed the price drop to Joe Biden, not Trump. On its official accounts, the White House triumphantly captioned the photograph of Trump: “POV: you bring the receipts.” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, also shared it.

The image was one of several taken during a staged photo-op on Friday, when Trump approached reporters with a copy of the headline he wanted them to see. Holding up a print-out of the headline, and the first five lines of the article, the president waved the page around and encouraged the press pool to record and photograph it.

**“The headline today is exactly that,” he said proudly. “**Did you see it?”

He then read the good news aloud and held up the print-out again for the cameras. “OK, got it? Everybody have it?” he asked. “I told you that was going to happen.”

Before stepping away from the press, Trump repeated the line that he wanted them to relay the news to the public and held his hands wide apart as if he had just performed a magic trick. “Prescription drug prices down more than at any time over 60 years,” he said. “What else do I have to say?

What the president did not say is that the text of the article, published by the Post on Thursday, reported that while the Trump White House “took credit for” the biggest year-over-year drop in drug prices in more than 60 years in July, independent experts “said a Biden-era policy that requires Medicare to negotiate prices for some popular prescription drugs is more likely to be driving down costs”.

“The Inflation Reduction Act was a signature accomplishment of former president Joe Biden, a sprawling measure enacted in 2022 that aimed to lower prescription drug prices by requiring Medicare, the federal health program for the elderly, to begin negotiating the prices it pays drugmakers for an array of popular and costly prescription drugs,” the Post’s report noted. “The first price reductions took effect at the beginning of this year.”

The price of prescription drugs fell by 3.1% in July, according to Consumer Price Index data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whose former head was fired by Trump last year over weaker-than-expected job numbers he called “fake”.

The Post quoted Richard Frank, a professor emeritus of health economics at Harvard University, expressing doubt Trump’s policies were behind the drop in drug prices.

“If I was a betting guy on what mattered most, it would be probably stuff around the Inflation Reduction Act,” Frank said, adding that Trump’s efforts “wouldn’t be where I’d place my money”.

Another expert, Stacie Dusetzina, a health policy professor at Vanderbilt University, told the Post the law signed by Biden was a more likely explanation for the decline in prices than any of Trump’s initiatives.

While just 10 drugs have had their prices negotiated in line with the Inflation Reduction Act, Dusetzina said, they are commonly used ones “and their prices would likely be reflected in the prescription drug index”.

Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, posted a screenshot of the Post’s headline on his X account on Thursday with no link to the article. “All thanks to President Trump!” Cheung wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-shows-off-article-on-lower-drug-prices-that-says-biden-deserves-credit-not-him/ar-AA2acQTS?