Most Americans are anxious to see more pictures from the Epstein files when they're released on Friday.
Based on recent polls, most Americans, and probably everyone else on earth, believe that Trump was far more involved with Epstein than he claims, both before and during the time that Epstein was committing sex crimes.
The forces are starting to turn against Trump, and I believe it's quite possible that we'll see him being impeached by the House once all of the Epstein files (and photos) are released and witnesses of the survivors start coming forward with even more information. If by chance he's found guilty of committing crimes himself than I think it's equally possible that the Senate will vote to remove him from office.
Trump is navigating on pure paranoia right now as evidenced by the totally insane things he's doing in the U.S. and abroad, not to mention the appalling remarks he continually broadcasts to the public. He's totally unhinged. The GOP knows it...foreign leaders know it...and even the MAGA Momma's are starting to wake up.
I truly believe that his day is coming, and coming soon, but not without an attempt to launch a revolt - possibly using U.S. military forces. Fortunately, for Americans, the Generals in the Pentagon who pull those strings will defend the U.S. Constitution, not the will of an insane lame duck President.
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Re: Trump
Remind me to give it a miss. If you want to watch it, you'll have to view it live or when it appears on YouTube because I will NOT be posting it here!
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Trump says he'll deliver live address from the White House tonight
From CNN's Kit Maher
December 18, 2025
President Donald Trump announced that he will deliver a live address from the White House tonight.
“My Fellow Americans: I will be giving an ADDRESS TO THE NATION tomorrow night, LIVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, at 9 P.M. EST. I look forward to ‘seeing’ you then. It has been a great year for our Country, and THE BEST IS YET TO COME!” Trump posted on Truth Social yesterday.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News later that the president will be addressing “the historic accomplishments that he has garnered for our country over the past year.”
Leavitt also said Trump may tease some policy actions coming in the new year.
“President Trump will be talking about what’s to come. The best is truly yet to come, as he often says,” Leavitt said.
CNN has reached out to the White House for more information.
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-n ... qj14qdavpk
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Trump says he'll deliver live address from the White House tonight
From CNN's Kit Maher
December 18, 2025
President Donald Trump announced that he will deliver a live address from the White House tonight.
“My Fellow Americans: I will be giving an ADDRESS TO THE NATION tomorrow night, LIVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, at 9 P.M. EST. I look forward to ‘seeing’ you then. It has been a great year for our Country, and THE BEST IS YET TO COME!” Trump posted on Truth Social yesterday.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News later that the president will be addressing “the historic accomplishments that he has garnered for our country over the past year.”
Leavitt also said Trump may tease some policy actions coming in the new year.
“President Trump will be talking about what’s to come. The best is truly yet to come, as he often says,” Leavitt said.
CNN has reached out to the White House for more information.
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-n ... qj14qdavpk
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Re: Trump
Ready for this? Please excuse me for a few minutes until I finish vomiting . . .
Whoever came up with this, my congratulations for having done such a fine job of kissing Trump's ass.
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Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says
by Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu and Bernd Debusmann Jr.
December 19, 2025
The board of the Kennedy Center has voted to rename the performing arts centre the Trump-Kennedy Center, according to the White House.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on social media that the board voted unanimously to make the change due to "the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building".
Leavitt also congratulated President John F. Kennedy and said "this will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur".
The change will certainly meet controversy, particularly in Washington DC where the centre has been an iconic landmark since it was constructed and named for Kennedy.
Speaking in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said he was "surprised" and "honoured" by the decision. Earlier this month, though, Trump appeared to hint at the possibility by joking about a name change at the annual presentation of the Kennedy Center Honors.
Shortly after taking office, Trump fired all the centre's board members, and replaced them with allies, who then voted to make Trump chairman of the board. His close adviser Richard Grenell became board president.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Second Lady Usha Vance, as well as a number of other administration officials. and political allies are also currently on the board.
The president also secured about $257m (£192m) in congressional funding to pay for major renovations and other costs at the venue, which recently held the Fifa World Cup draw.
"We saved it," Trump said of the centre on Thursday. "It was really in bad shape, physically."
While Leavitt and Trump both claimed that the board had "unanimously" voted to rename the centre, at least one board member has disputed that.
"This was not unanimous," said Ohio Democratic Representative Joyce Beatty, one of the board's members. "I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move."
Kennedy's grandson Jack Schlossberg, a Trump critic currently running for Congress, said on X that the "microphones were muted" and the board's "vote NOT unanimous".
Other members of Kennedy's family have also criticised the reported change.
Joe Kennedy III, a former House member and grandnephew of the late president, posted on X that "the Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law".
"It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says," he added.
Kennedy's niece Maria Shriver wrote that "it is beyond wild" that Trump "would think adding his name in front of President Kennedy's name is acceptable".
"It's downright weird. It's obsessive in a weird way," she wrote.
Work on a national performing arts centre began in the 1950s and after Kennedy, the 35th president, was assassinated in 1963, Congress decided to turn it into a living memorial to him.
Some US lawmakers and legal scholars have been quick to note that because the centre was named in a 1964 law, Congress must vote to make the name change official.
A measure to officially call the centre's opera venue the First Lady Melania Trump Opera House, for example, was introduced as part of a spending bill this summer. The bill has not yet come up for a vote.
That, however, does not necessarily prevent the centre from changing its name on its website or tickets, and potentially on the exterior of the building itself.
A similar name change took place at the Department of Defense - now known as the Department of War - without Congressional approval in September.
Trump's involvement in the centre has been criticised by some political opponents as unnecessary political interference in the arts by the White House. Lin Manuel Miranda and his producing partner canceled a run of Hamilton at the centre and other visiting artists scrapped their planned appearances in recent months.
At the same time, locals appear to have stayed away, with the Washington Post and other local news outlets reporting that ticket sales and subscriptions have fallen since Trump took over.
Earlier this year, the president said he was "98% involved" in the selection of this year's Kennedy Center honourees, which included action star Sylvester Stallone and members of the rock band KISS.
At the time, Trump said he had rejected "wokesters" from being considered for the honour.
In June, during Trump's first appearance at the Kennedy Center since returning to the White House, audience members both booed and cheered him and First Lady Melania Trump as they entered the presidential box.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp84pxvp87eo
Whoever came up with this, my congratulations for having done such a fine job of kissing Trump's ass.
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Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says
by Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu and Bernd Debusmann Jr.
December 19, 2025
The board of the Kennedy Center has voted to rename the performing arts centre the Trump-Kennedy Center, according to the White House.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on social media that the board voted unanimously to make the change due to "the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building".
Leavitt also congratulated President John F. Kennedy and said "this will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur".
The change will certainly meet controversy, particularly in Washington DC where the centre has been an iconic landmark since it was constructed and named for Kennedy.
Speaking in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said he was "surprised" and "honoured" by the decision. Earlier this month, though, Trump appeared to hint at the possibility by joking about a name change at the annual presentation of the Kennedy Center Honors.
Shortly after taking office, Trump fired all the centre's board members, and replaced them with allies, who then voted to make Trump chairman of the board. His close adviser Richard Grenell became board president.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Second Lady Usha Vance, as well as a number of other administration officials. and political allies are also currently on the board.
The president also secured about $257m (£192m) in congressional funding to pay for major renovations and other costs at the venue, which recently held the Fifa World Cup draw.
"We saved it," Trump said of the centre on Thursday. "It was really in bad shape, physically."
While Leavitt and Trump both claimed that the board had "unanimously" voted to rename the centre, at least one board member has disputed that.
"This was not unanimous," said Ohio Democratic Representative Joyce Beatty, one of the board's members. "I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move."
Kennedy's grandson Jack Schlossberg, a Trump critic currently running for Congress, said on X that the "microphones were muted" and the board's "vote NOT unanimous".
Other members of Kennedy's family have also criticised the reported change.
Joe Kennedy III, a former House member and grandnephew of the late president, posted on X that "the Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law".
"It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says," he added.
Kennedy's niece Maria Shriver wrote that "it is beyond wild" that Trump "would think adding his name in front of President Kennedy's name is acceptable".
"It's downright weird. It's obsessive in a weird way," she wrote.
Work on a national performing arts centre began in the 1950s and after Kennedy, the 35th president, was assassinated in 1963, Congress decided to turn it into a living memorial to him.
Some US lawmakers and legal scholars have been quick to note that because the centre was named in a 1964 law, Congress must vote to make the name change official.
A measure to officially call the centre's opera venue the First Lady Melania Trump Opera House, for example, was introduced as part of a spending bill this summer. The bill has not yet come up for a vote.
That, however, does not necessarily prevent the centre from changing its name on its website or tickets, and potentially on the exterior of the building itself.
A similar name change took place at the Department of Defense - now known as the Department of War - without Congressional approval in September.
Trump's involvement in the centre has been criticised by some political opponents as unnecessary political interference in the arts by the White House. Lin Manuel Miranda and his producing partner canceled a run of Hamilton at the centre and other visiting artists scrapped their planned appearances in recent months.
At the same time, locals appear to have stayed away, with the Washington Post and other local news outlets reporting that ticket sales and subscriptions have fallen since Trump took over.
Earlier this year, the president said he was "98% involved" in the selection of this year's Kennedy Center honourees, which included action star Sylvester Stallone and members of the rock band KISS.
At the time, Trump said he had rejected "wokesters" from being considered for the honour.
In June, during Trump's first appearance at the Kennedy Center since returning to the White House, audience members both booed and cheered him and First Lady Melania Trump as they entered the presidential box.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp84pxvp87eo
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Re: Trump
CBS pulled their "Inside CECOT" segment - mainly because Trump didn't want it aired. However it did "accidentally" air in Canada and ended up online.
CBS is trying to have them removed, but some versions are still there.
I found one:
You might want to view it before it gets taken down.
CBS is trying to have them removed, but some versions are still there.
I found one:
You might want to view it before it gets taken down.
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Re: Trump
"Hitler did some good things. I won't say he didn't do some good things. He built the Autobahn."
- Virginia Christine (Mrs. Halbestadt), 'Judgment at Nuremberg'
Here's a list of all the good things Trump has done - in my opinion:
1. He substantially increased the standard deduction for USA income tax.
End of list. I can't think of anything else good he's done - unless you are talking about good for himself.
I can't make a list of the terrible things he's done. The list is far too long, would take too much time to write, and there probably is not enough disk space.
- Virginia Christine (Mrs. Halbestadt), 'Judgment at Nuremberg'
Here's a list of all the good things Trump has done - in my opinion:
1. He substantially increased the standard deduction for USA income tax.
End of list. I can't think of anything else good he's done - unless you are talking about good for himself.
I can't make a list of the terrible things he's done. The list is far too long, would take too much time to write, and there probably is not enough disk space.
Re: Trump
Whatever taxes he has cut appear to be financed by borrowing. Projected to be 5.8% of gdp in 2026 (link below). That's unsustainable.
This will not end well. The most common way to solve debt crises is by printing money, which leads to currency devaluation. It's no surprise that the USD has been weak and gold has been doing well.
https://share.google/aimode/9RESvEjkok1CCAUQc
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