UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President

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The last bit of this video where the woman speaks on ICE's budget and Homan's immigration strategy is wild (around 8 min):



Former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill and President of Media Matters for America Angelo Carusone join Nicolle Wallace to discuss the splintering MAGA coalition as Elon Musk and Joe Rogan begin to criticize Donald Trump and the Epstein report that many in on the right are enraged by.
 




BREAKING: Jaw-dropping report reveals that Donald Trump has cost the American economy at least $29 billion as millions of international travelers avoid the United States due to Trump’s fascist policies.

And it gets so much worse…

“While other nations are rolling out the welcome mat, the U.S. government is putting up the ‘closed’ sign,” said Julia Simpson, president and CEO of the World Travel & Tourism Council.

According to a report from the WTTC, the United States was the only country out of the 184 studied that will likely see a drop in tourist spending in 2025. Such an astonishing feat of economic self-destruction could only have been accomplished by a president as profoundly incompetent as Donald J. Trump.

“This is a wake-up call for the U.S. government,” added Simpson. “Without urgent action to restore international traveler confidence, it could take several years for the U.S. just to return to pre-pandemic levels of international visitor spend.”

As it turns out, fascism is bad for business. Trump’s ICE enforcers have terrorized innocent tourists in numerous highly publicized incidents and our nation’s reputation is in tatters as a result of the MAGA tariffs. His illegal bombing of Iran only deepened the problem.

Forbes reports that Oxford Economics’ Tourism Economics division had similiar findings. In their latest client note, they described “sentiment headwinds” that contributed towards a 20.2% drop in visits from Canada and a 4.9% drop from Western Europe. They blamed Trump’s tariffs, travel bans, cruel immigration policies, and authoritarian rhetoric.

“Given we’re halfway through the year and we’ve seen these impacts, we don't know when the stiffest headwind is, but I think it does stay sustained,” Aran Ryan, director of industry studies at Tourism Economics, said to Forbes.

“We’re generally assuming that this persists for a while and that some of it is going to persist throughout the end of the administration,” he added.

Worst still, Tourism Economics had originally predicted a 9% increase in tourism to the United States in 2025. That would have broken down to roughly $16.3 billion for the American economy. Then, the “Trump Effect” struck.

And who can blame the rest of the world? Until Trump and his Republican cronies are voted out of office, America will keep getting uglier, more brutal, and less welcoming. Of course foreigners would prefer to spend their money elsewhere.

i just want to lay this out there

there a onlgoin thing here in NYC about congestion pricing - where if you drive youhave to pay a toll to be in lower manhattan

and people who stupprt it are going on about how nice it is and how un crowded the streets are...

but the thing is this - i have NEVER seen this 4th of July week as quiet as i have seen it no cars and NO people ... the only time even close was during COVID .....

folk about to get into some shit in the US
 
Donald Trump Was Asked About A Key Promise. What Followed Was Pure Gibberish.

Donald Trump was asked by a reporter on Monday to explain what had happened to his administration’s promise to seal “90 deals in 90 days” with trading partners.

Lee Moran
July 8, 2025


…Here is Trump’s response in full:

“Oh, we’ve spoken to everybody. We know every. It’s all done. I told you. I told you we’ll make some deals, but for the most part we’re gonna send a letter. We’re gonna say, ‘Welcome to the United States. If you’d like to participate in the greatest, most successful country ever.’ I mean, we’re doing better than ever. We have. I don’t think. And you’re gonna see these numbers soon. We’ve never had numbers like this. We’ve never had investment like this. Uh, we have more than 90. We’re gonna have much more than 90. But most of those are gonna be sent a letter. This is exactly what I said. Now, we’ve made a deal with United Kingdom. We’ve made a deal with China. We’ve made a deal. We’re close to making a deal with India. Others, we’ve met with, and we don’t think we’re gonna be able to make a deal. So, we just send them a letter. ‘Do you wanna, do you wanna play ball? This is what you have to pay.’ So, we’re, as far as I’m concerned, we’re done. We’re sending out letters to various countries, telling them how much tariffs they have to pay. Some will maybe adjust a little bit depending if they have a, you know, cause. We’re not gonna be unfair about it. And actually, it’s a small fraction compared to what we should be getting. We should be. We could be asking for much more. But for the sake of relationships that we’ve had with a lot of really good countries, we’re doing the way I do it. But we could be getting a lot more. We could ask for a lot more than what we’re asking for.”
 
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