The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

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After high-profile missteps, Trump seizes on a new feud and a new potential adversary

Whenever Donald Trump is in political trouble, he seeks a fight and a foil.

He will get both on Friday after one of the most misjudged weeks of his two presidencies, after his own choices eroded his political authority over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Trump is embroiled in a bitter new feud with Democrats over national security, provocative rhetoric and presidential power that he deliberately turned nuclear. And at a White House meeting Friday, he’ll go head-to-head with the next mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist he’s planning to brand as the unacceptable “communist” face of the Democratic Party next year.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/politics/...d-analysis

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Judge Rules Against DC Deployment

A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump’s deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., was illegal, concluding he lacks authority to send in troops “for the deterrence of crime.”

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb said that while Trump may be the commander in chief of the Guard, his power is constrained by federal laws that limit how those troops can be federalized and deployed, particularly in Washington, D.C., which is controlled by Congress.

“The Court rejects Defendants’ fly-by assertion of constitutional power, finding that such a broad reading of the President’s Article II authority would erase Congress’s role in governing the District and its National Guard,” Cobb wrote in a 61-page ruling.

That duck is limping.

Boru

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The Trump administration is under fire for using music from Wicked to celebrate the detention of people by ICE.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/24/w...ty-wicked/

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Nursing no longer considered a professional degree by Trump administration

https://www.wpr.org/news/nursing-not-con...nistration