Want to understand what Trump is doing? Part 2

Ronib take it up with the various organisations that calculate these things, it's not my personal opinion it's based on their calculations and I have taken a conservative position.

foxie48 I prefer to use my energy for my local hospital rebuild before it falls apart completely. Any ideas gratefully received - perhaps Trump could get involved? He knows how to build.

Whitewavemark2

Or of course you could read politicsnerd post😊😊

So sorry Whitewave. The post took ages to write and cross check and I nipped off to get some breakfast on before posting and missed your post.

Oh no! I wasn’t being critical - quite the opposite in fact. I’m too lazy to write an awful lot these days, so your explainer is most welcome.

Wyllow3

The idea to fire people because there are women or people of colour in Starbucks says it all - it may seem small thing but deeply shocking.

It’s far from small and it’s beyond shocking!

Babs03

Next he will be closing down news outlets and burning books.

Indeed! He clearly doesn’t feel education is important!

Thanks for the post PoliticsNerd.

Of course, it will land on some deaf ears on GN, because it focuses on actual facts not populist, emotive hyperbole.

Cossy, I suspect that Mr Trump feels that education is dangerous.
Learning can cause serious damage to ignorance.

Trump has banned the Associated Press from White House events because they refuse to use Gulf of America. He has sued almost every major news organization and they have backed down. He already has the media under his control.

Now then judge that issued the order to resume federal funds being illegally held has had files of impeachment against him. He is going after the judiciary now.

He has begun the process for shutting down the Department of Education. Several states have sued to stop Section 504, which provides access to accommodation for for students with disabilities.

He is hitting all the necessary stops on his way to Dictatorship.

At least 3 states have bills that remove education requirements other then reading, writing and math. No science, no social studies. Oh, they can have Bible readings.

RFKjr has been confirmed at HHS. Trump has tasked him with looking into the use of mental health and ADHD medications.

RFK has stated that people on these medications should instead be sent to farms in the countryside to farm organic food to cure themselves.

imaround

RFKjr has been confirmed at HHS. Trump has tasked him with looking into the use of mental health and ADHD medications.

RFK has stated that people on these medications should instead be sent to farms in the countryside to farm organic food to cure themselves.

Good grief.

I suppose all the “gays” will be rounded up and sent to conversion therapy to “cure” them!

Chocolatelovinggran

Cossy, I suspect that Mr Trump feels that education is dangerous.
Learning can cause serious damage to ignorance.

I think Mr Trump needs educating!

Yes, they are already laying groundwork, but I don't talk about it on GN.

There is an entire group of people being completely erased from society right now. Talk of conversion camps had started.

Very 1930's.

ronib

Trump has set up a friendly meeting with Starmer. Now how will that work out? The UK is so poor we can only acquiesce? I would love to be a fly on that wall.

Starmer requested the meeting. Trump agreed to it.

On a lighter note, there might be a Hugh Grant moment?

I think Rishi Sunak would have perfected coming down the stairs to ‘Jump’ better though, he’s the only PM I can imagine dancing competently.

This.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBmo_xlPILU

Looks like Trump and Musk should.have slowed down and done things legally.

Musk fired 300 Nuclear Scientists "by mistake" and the government wants them back. Oops!

Problem is, no one thought to get their forwarding contact information.

The incompetence is astounding. But this is the same thing Musk did at Twitter.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-wants-un-fire-nuclear-safety-workers-cant-figure-rcna192345

I saw that on CNN imround. It’s hard to believe that they didn’t even check what peoples jobs actually were before firing them. Have they been reinstated?

Not yet Casdon.

That’s really worrying, it’s has to be an urgent priority now, surely even Musk sees that.

You would have thought that if these employees were nuclear security staff they'd have records for them including security clearance documents with personal contact details, home address, telephone numbers, emails.

Church view, I agree. But there is also the question of what is happening with government records overall. There is suspicion that records are being deleted. DOGE is not being at all transparent in what is happening in government systems.

The chaos and incompetence is astounding.

Here is where we have arrived. I am fairly certain we can remember someone who made a similar statement in history.

imaround

Here is where we have arrived. I am fairly certain we can remember someone who made a similar statement in history.

Hitler?
Mussolini?
Stalin?

Aha it is Napoleon.
Just looked it up.
I suppose Trump likes this because Napoleon was an Emperor, though Trump surrounded by his sycophantic numbskulls is more like the Emperor who has no clothes.