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President Trump tried his hardest to spin the numbers on the Federal Reserve's ongoing construction costs during a rare, tense visit with Jerome Powell today. Trump claimed before cameras that the Fed's renovation bill had soared to over $3 billion, waving a printout as evidence. Powell, clearly taken aback, quickly asked for the document, put on his glasses, and patiently explained that Trump’s total was bogus because it added a third building, already finished years ago, to the real construction tab. Trump’s narrative simply did not hold up, and Powell’s composed, factual pushback was impossible to miss.
Visibly, Powell shook his head in disagreement several times and could not conceal his disbelief as Trump dug in. When Trump insisted that the numbers “just came out,” Powell calmly corrected him, explaining that the supposed “new” costs included renovations already completed in the past. Powell’s direct, live correction made Trump’s usual bluster look deeply unconvincing for all to see.
It is telling that Powell confronted these falsehoods face to face, right there in front of the nation. In one afternoon, the Fed chair did more to puncture presidential spin than much of the press corps has managed in recent memory. There was no hedging or deference—just facts, straightforward correction, and a bit of well-earned disbelief from Powell, all in real time.
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How can I watch the 'South Park' Trump episode? Where to see Season 27
The long-running show "South Park" came back hard, with a Season 27 premiere lambasting their new partner Paramount and President Donald Trump.
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Honey, Trump shrunk the economy! And the lying coward is still blaming Biden. | Opinion
The cowardly president was quick to blame the bad economic news on former President Joe Biden, because, as we've learned over the past decade, nothing is ever Trump's fault.
Rex Huppke
USA TODAY
Here’s the truth, assuming you still believe in such things: After three years of growth, the U.S. economy shrunk in the first quarter of this year, and it’s all thanks to President Donald Trump and his bizarre, old-timey obsession with tariffs.
The cowardly president was quick to blame the bad economic news on former President Joe Biden, because, as we’ve learned over the past decade, nothing is ever Trump’s fault – even when it is.
The president posted this gibberish April 30 on his increasingly inaccurately named Truth Social site: “Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘Overhang.’ This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!!”
So much for Republicans being the party of personal responsibility.
Trump has demolished the strong economy Biden left him
Biden left Trump with an envy-of-the-world economy that was humming along. The tariffs – which for the 10 millionth time are a tax on American consumers that won’t accomplish what Trump thinks they’ll accomplish – are almost entirely to blame for America’s economic shrinkage.
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“If you were looking for a playbook on how to slow a healthy economy, this seems like a good example,” said Scott Helfstein, Global X's Head of Investment Strategy. “The continual sequence of policy reversals has led to very high levels of uncertainty for businesses and investors.”
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Those high levels of uncertainty aren’t Biden’s fault. They’re the fault of the current president, who doesn’t seem to know his tail end from his elbow and keeps slapping tariffs on things like an excited child with a price gun and nothing to lose.
On the economy, all Trump can do is play the blame game
“Growth has simply vanished,” Chris Rupkey, chief economist at the financial research firm Fwdbonds, wrote to the firm’s clients. “Maybe some of this negativity is due to a rush to bring in imports before the tariffs go up, but there is simply no way for policy advisers to sugarcoat this.”
Oh, don’t worry, the coward Trump can find a way to sugarcoat it.
“We came in on Jan. 20. So, this is Biden,” the president said during an April 30 Cabinet meeting. “And you can even say the next quarter is sort of Biden.”
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Sure. And maybe the quarter after that or the possible recession coming later this year will be Biden’s fault as well. Who’s to say?
Let's remember, even when the economy was cooking and post-COVID inflation was going down under Biden, Republicans and the right-wing media could barely contain their outrage at "Bidenomics." But when Trump shrinks the economy for the first time in several years? Crickets from those hypocrites.
Numbers don't lie: Biden's economy was strong. Trump's tariffs killed it.
In 2024, under the aforementioned Biden, the S&P 500 grew 23%.
As The Wall Street Journal reported April 29, the day before stocks reacted to this sorrowful first-quarter economic news: “The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped 6.8% since Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. It was the worst start to a presidency for the index since the start of Richard Nixon's second term in 1973, according to Dow Jones Market Data.”
The two presidents are not the same, and the former isn’t at all to blame for the latter’s financial bungling.
Stock market falling, economy shrinking, consumer sentiment down
According to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers, U.S. consumer sentiment dropped again in April, the fourth consecutive month that has happened.
These are not good developments if you like having job security, money in the bank and the ability to afford groceries.
Making them worse is the fact that Trump waltzed into the White House claiming he would usher in an economic Golden Age. Instead, he has flushed the American economy down a golden toilet. And he won’t admit to any mistakes or show any sign of a course correction.
The only way the man would acknowledge the existence of humility is if it told him how fantastic he is.
Now is not the time to be patient with Trump's handling of the economy
So here we are with our shrunken economy, looking at empty ports and staring at pain yet to be felt, with a so-called leader who’s only capable of blaming others for his own failures.
Trump is imploring Americans to “BE PATIENT!!!” with his economic recklessness. That, quite clearly, is the worst thing any of us could possibly do.
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BREAKING: In a stunning announcement, the Japanese government is refuting the fact that there is a trade deal agreed to between the U.S. and Japan. Trump has been caught lying again.
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Matt Berry
South Park has more balls than ABC, CBS, and the whole journalism society
Jenna Major
It was too hard to find anything to blur anyway, it would only have needed a few pixels, hardly worth the fuss
Mélisse Johnson
It was so small you couldn’t even see it
Terry Tomlin
It’s funny when South Park has teased him for years and now he’s outraged
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BREAKING: TRUMP CALLS FOR KAMALA HARRIS, OPRAH WINFREY, AND BEYONCÉ TO BE ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED.
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BREAKING: TRUMP CALLS FOR KAMALA HARRIS, OPRAH WINFREY, AND BEYONCÉ TO BE ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED.
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BREAKING: TRUMP CALLS FOR KAMALA HARRIS, OPRAH WINFREY, AND BEYONCÉ TO BE ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED.
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It was a failed strategy bartering me and others for political opportunities. The Democrats are going to have to do more.Kamala Harris has announced that she will not run for governor of California.
Anybody coming at me with this nonsense again will get destroyed.
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I got a unique glimpse into one of these auctions. Black women were offering me for some high ranking political opportunity.Kamala Harris has announced that she will not run for governor of California.
Hell no!
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In what world is this breaking news or even worth talking about?Kamala Harris has announced that she will not run for governor of California.
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Cruz Criticizes Hochul for Wearing Head Scarf at Slain Officer’s Funeral
In a social media back-and-forth, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York replied to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas that “anyone with basic decency” would respect the officer’s Muslim faith.
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York at the funeral for Didarul Islam, a police officer killed in a shooting in Midtown Manhattan.Credit...Vincent Alban/The New York Times
By Alyce McFadden
Aug. 3, 2025
As New Yorkers mourned the victims of a mass shooting last week in a Midtown Manhattan office building, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, inserted himself into the discourse.
His comments concerned a photo taken on Thursday of Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, a Democrat, sitting on a folding chair inside a mosque, next to Mayor Eric Adams. To her left, men in kurtas and police uniforms kneel on a carpeted floor. Governor Hochul wears a dark pantsuit, a somber expression and, on her head, a black scarf looped over her hair.
After an anonymous social media user posted the photo and asked — appending an expletive — why the governor was “wearing a hijab,” Mr. Cruz shared the post on Friday and added, “Um, wut?”
The photo was taken at the funeral of Didarul Islam, a New York City police officer who was among those killed in the shooting last Monday at 345 Park Avenue. Detective Islam, 36, who was awarded a posthumous promotion, was Muslim, and his hourslong funeral was held at his mosque in the Bronx, with separate viewings for women and men. Before entering, women donned head scarves in accordance with Muslim religious tradition. Many men wore skullcaps.
Governor Hochul responded sharply to Mr. Cruz’s post on Saturday, saying that for her, wearing a head covering was a simple matter of honoring the fallen officer.
“Respecting a grieving family’s faith is ‘wut’ leaders and anyone with basic decency would do,” she wrote on X.
Eulogized at the funeral for his commitment to his faith, his family and the Police Department, Detective Islam immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh roughly 16 years ago and became a part of a sizable and growing group of Bangladeshi officers in the nation’s largest police department. He had been working an extra shift providing security for the Park Avenue building on the day of the attack, New York City’s deadliest single shooting in more than two decades.
During the funeral, the police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, emotionally addressed mourners from a lectern, her hair also covered by a black head scarf. Outside the building, more than 100 women, most of them uniformed police officers, waited to be admitted for the viewing. All wore head scarves.
In a statement on Saturday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations called on the senator to apologize to Ms. Hochul and to Detective Islam’s family, describing his posts as “despicable and disrespectful.”
The group also noted that Senator Cruz had been photographed wearing a skullcap at a campaign event with Jewish community leaders, which the group said “makes his attack on Governor Hochul for similarly respecting a Muslim space all the more hateful and hypocritical.”
On Sunday morning, Mr. Cruz doubled down, replying to Ms. Hochul, “You should wear a hijab every day because you are so damn decent” and suggesting that she was unconcerned about the rights of women in New York.
Imam Dr. Zakir Ahmed of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York said at the funeral that Detective Islam had lived at a time when people like him were vilified and “made to feel like outsiders.”
“To our city, our nation, you cannot ask us to serve and then silence us,” Imam Ahmed said. “You cannot take our sacrifice and ignore our suffering.”
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A language he understands. In all caps!
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