Donald Trump had claimed he knew nothing about Project 2025, a right wing radical attack on the federal government.
But now, it is clear that Trump is utilizing the extremism of Project 2025 to declare open war on the federal government!
The shock of Trump ordering a total freeze on all government funding immediately, which was only temporarily paused by a federal judge until a ruling on next Monday, is reeling across all 50 states and our relations with foreign nations as well.
Firing 18 Inspectors General who are committed to open, honest government investigations, and working to decimate the existing civil service protections of federal government workers in order to replace all of them with political loyalists, is also a shocking attack on the concept of honest, good government!
The decision of Trump to fire all those engaged in the Justice Department into his wrongdoings that led to impeachments and indictments, and also to weed out those in Defense and National Security posts who are not slavishly loyal to his vision, is terrifying.
Trump’s disruption of international relations and foreign policy with his aggressiveness toward Panama, Denmark over Greenland, and tariff threats against our Latin American neighbors and Canada, are a danger of massive proportions!
Trump is moving toward authoritarian dictatorship, which was predictable, and there is no time for shock, but rather for action by Democrats, the courts, and the sensible news media to move to prevent in every way possible this grab for absolute power!
Trump’s administration is corrupt and incompetent.
A GOP lawmaker is defending Trump by describing poor kids as freeloaders.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/head-start-free-lunch-rich-mccormick-rcna189702
Trump is planning to put thousands of migrants at Guantanamo Bay.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/politics/guantanamo-bay-trump-migrants/index.html
Republicans are falsely claiming that the funding freeze was due to $50 million taxpayer dollars being used to fund condoms in Gaza.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-cling-false-condoms-gaza-claim-reality-rcna189882
So, Trump is building at concentration camp at Gitmo?
A collision happened overnight in DC between a passenger jet and an army helicopter. Everyone was killed.
Several of the passengers on the plane were young figure skaters, their coaches and their families, returning from US Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas.
Trump is using his Truth Social to fuel crazy theories about the crash that include insults of army pilots.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fuels-crazy-dc-plane-crash-theories-with-insult-to-army-black-hawk-pilots/
Trump’s Inaugural Approval Rating Is Historically Low Again
“At 47%, President Donald Trump’s initial job approval rating for his second term is similar to the inaugural 45% reading during his first term, again placing him below all other elected presidents dating back to 1953. Trump remains the only elected president with sub-50% initial approval ratings, and his latest disapproval rating (48%) is three percentage points higher than in 2017, marking a new high for inaugural ratings.”
https://news.gallup.com/poll/655955/trump-inaugural-approval-rating-historically-low-again.aspx
Russia is reporting that some world champion Russian skaters were also on board the flight.
Another judge is planning to block Trump’s illegal funding freeze.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/29/spending-freeze-blocked-trump-judge-00201341
Trump and his ilk blamed DEI for the plane crash.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/trump-rails-against-dei-after-deadly-d-c-plane-crash-230685253539
Just last week, Trump gutted an aviation safety committee, as well as heads of TSA and the Coast Guard.
https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c
Trump is appointing Christopher Rocheleau as “acting commissioner” of the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA did not have a permanent head because the agency’s former administrator, Mike Whitaker, stepped down on Jan. 20, the day Trump took office. Rocheleau has been serving as the FAA’s deputy administrator since Jan. 21.
It looks like we’re going to have four years of blaming women, Black, Brown and LGBTQ people for everything that goes wrong in this world.
That White House press conference brought back all the worst days of the daily briefings on Covid. He (Trump) has already decided what went wrong and who is to blame.
Trump administration’s halt of CDC’s weekly scientific report stalls bird flu studies.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/health/bird-flu-mmwr-pause-trump-kff-partner/index.html
Trump reportedly wants some space from Elon Musk. He may have found a solution. LOL!
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-elon-musk-space-nasa-rcna189997
There was one air traffic controller working two different tower positions at the time of the collision Wednesday night. Makes me wonder if these cuts to federal workers that Trump is making played a role in this.
In the three years before this collision, at least two other pilots reported near-misses with helicopters while landing at the airport.
It sounds like the amount of air traffic may be a problem. Aviation experts say that the Washington region is a uniquely complex airspace to navigate. Flight restrictions enacted after 9/11 block air traffic from going near government buildings, military and government helicopters regularly traverse the area, and flights are constantly taking off and landing at Reagan, which has the busiest runway in the country.
In recent years, proposals to add more flights to the airport have also sparked heated political fights, with some lawmakers previously arguing that the airport was excessively congested and warning about safety impacts.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/us/dca-plane-helicopter-crash-invs/index.html
Well, there have been near-misses between planes while landing or taking off in recent years at other airports around the country as well.
New DOT Memo Directs Funds To Communities With Higher ‘Marriage And Birth Rates’
The memo also said recipients of federal transportation funding must also cooperate with immigration enforcement, a hit to so-called sanctuary cities.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dot-memo-funds-communities-marriage-birth-rates_n_679bf8d8e4b0e1faebeef9c8
That sounds like something from The Handmaid’s Tale.
Trump’s tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico supposedly go into effect tomorrow. Bloomberg is reporting that he’s going with the 25% tariffs. I haven’t seen that confirmed anywhere else.
He’s only doing it because he’s mad that they haven’t properly licked his boots.
New York Times is reporting that the new FCC chair is probing NPR and PBS.
Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate, has reportedly been criticised by some of the party’s state governors for not resisting Donald Trump’s agenda and cabinet nominees strongly enough.
https://digbysblog.net/2025/01/30/the-govs-are-getting-restless/
‘This is not a joke’: Rubio says Trump is serious about buying Greenland.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/30/marco-rubio-buy-greenland-009030
Rubio should stand up to Trump, but of course he won’t do so.
This harassment of the media is right out of the authoritarian playbook – see Putin, Orban, Modi, Erdogan, etc for examples.
‘Scream night’: Democrats get shouted down by their own activists over climate change.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/30/scream-night-democrats-climate-change-00201714
Notice how these protesters NEVER protest Trump/Republicans, ONLY protest Democrats? Hmmmm…
Uncertainty lingers in Anne Arundel County as “Cluster Fuck, Shit Show Trump” rescinds order freezing Federal Grant Funds!.
Federal grant freeze: Trump White House rescinds order | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pause-federal-grants-aid-6d41961940585544fa43a3f66550e7be
I have concluded that Trump is so angry about the attempts to hold him accountable for his crimes that he just wants to hurt Americans. I also think that he’s showing some serious signs of dementia now.
Now Trump is purging the FBI.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/politics/fbi-agents-who-investigated-january-6-fired/index.html
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-musk-aides-lock-government-200344003.html
Trump officials today quietly scrubbed federal government websites of content that promoted diversity, equity and inclusion, taking them offline at 5 p.m. ET.
Another thing that happened today was references to climate change was removed from USDA’s website.
If Biden were doing this, Republicans would have impeached him immediately.
Musk is trying to gain access to the US Treasury payment system.
Trump’s Pentagon says it will ‘rotate’ out some media from offices.
“…it would also remove National Public Radio, Comcast Corp-owned NBC News and Politico, which must vacate their spaces by Feb. 14. In their place, it would give dedicated office space to the New York Post, One America News Network, Breitbart News Network and HuffPost News.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-pentagon-says-it-will-rotate-out-some-media-offices-2025-02-01/
There are several reasons Musk wants to control Treasury payments. None of them are good.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/musk-doge-treasury-payment-system-rcna190222
Now Trump has fired the Consumer Protection Finance Bureau chief.
The Democrats have chosen Ken Martin as the new DNC chair. He had previously been the head of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. He spent 14 years leading the Minnesota party and eight years as a DNC vice chair.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/democrats-to-pick-new-chair/index.html
Ken Martin seems to mostly be an inside player, as many Democratic political activists don’t seem to be familiar with him.