The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Fake Messiah]

The US State Department just transferred $1.25 BILLION of taxpayer money to Trump's pocket also known as "Board of Peace"

The State Department has drawn on funds for international disasters and peacekeeping to transfer $1.25 billion to President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, a person familiar with the funding said.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., will introduce legislation Thursday that would redirect $1 billion of that money to the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

The bill, shared first with Semafor, comes as the war in Iran spikes energy costs. “Instead of giving President Trump a $1 billion blank check to fund a ‘Board of Peace’ that has offered no transparency about how it is investing its money, let’s focus on helping American families afford their monthly power bill,” Cortez Masto said.

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/26/20...d-of-peace

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Trump’s Treasury Department is planning to add his signature to all denominations of the United States Dollar moving forward, which will mark the first time in history that the sitting president’s signature will appear on American Currency, with Trump’s signature expected to replace that of the U.S. Treasurer, Brandon Beach, sitting alongside his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s, several sources including Beach himself have confirmed to Vanity Fair.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/tr...r-currency

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European nations gathered $750M to buy US weapons for Ukraine, gave Trump the money, and now he refuses to give them the weapons.

The Pentagon is considering whether to divert weapons intended for Ukraine to the Middle East as the war in Iran depletes some of the U.S. military’s most critical munitions, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Kyiv’s chief European backers have taken the lead on funding and arming Ukrainian forces since Trump took office. The PURL initiative, brokered last year by NATO, offered a work-around for Ukraine to keep getting U.S. weaponry, so long as the Europeans pay the bill. The deal provided Trump a political win and a way for NATO to quell fears that Kyiv could be left exposed by the administration’s ambition for a peace deal with Russia.

European nations now provide the bulk of military support to Kyiv, including direct provisions separate from NATO. But PURL supplies Ukraine with key U.S. equipment, including high-end munitions and scarce air defense interceptors. Countries have committed about $4 billion for Ukraine through the program, according to a U.S. official.

Since the U.S. and Israel launched their attack on Iran on Feb. 28, European capitals have become concerned that Washington is rapidly using up its existing munitions, a pace of fire that could delay their own orders and disrupt deliveries of U.S. systems to Ukraine under PURL, two European diplomats said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe their private concerns.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-...e-defense/

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The US State Department just transferred $1.25 BILLION of taxpayer money to Trump's pocket also known as "Board of Peace"

The State Department has drawn on funds for international disasters and peacekeeping to transfer $1.25 billion to President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, a person familiar with the funding said.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., will introduce legislation Thursday that would redirect $1 billion of that money to the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

The bill, shared first with Semafor, comes as the war in Iran spikes energy costs. “Instead of giving President Trump a $1 billion blank check to fund a ‘Board of Peace’ that has offered no transparency about how it is investing its money, let’s focus on helping American families afford their monthly power bill,” Cortez Masto said.

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/26/20...d-of-peace

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Trump’s Treasury Department is planning to add his signature to all denominations of the United States Dollar moving forward, which will mark the first time in history that the sitting president’s signature will appear on American Currency, with Trump’s signature expected to replace that of the U.S. Treasurer, Brandon Beach, sitting alongside his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s, several sources including Beach himself have confirmed to Vanity Fair.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/tr...r-currency

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European nations gathered $750M to buy US weapons for Ukraine, gave Trump the money, and now he refuses to give them the weapons.

The Pentagon is considering whether to divert weapons intended for Ukraine to the Middle East as the war in Iran depletes some of the U.S. military’s most critical munitions, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Kyiv’s chief European backers have taken the lead on funding and arming Ukrainian forces since Trump took office. The PURL initiative, brokered last year by NATO, offered a work-around for Ukraine to keep getting U.S. weaponry, so long as the Europeans pay the bill. The deal provided Trump a political win and a way for NATO to quell fears that Kyiv could be left exposed by the administration’s ambition for a peace deal with Russia.

European nations now provide the bulk of military support to Kyiv, including direct provisions separate from NATO. But PURL supplies Ukraine with key U.S. equipment, including high-end munitions and scarce air defense interceptors. Countries have committed about $4 billion for Ukraine through the program, according to a U.S. official.

Since the U.S. and Israel launched their attack on Iran on Feb. 28, European capitals have become concerned that Washington is rapidly using up its existing munitions, a pace of fire that could delay their own orders and disrupt deliveries of U.S. systems to Ukraine under PURL, two European diplomats said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe their private concerns.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-...e-defense/

Thieves gonna thieve.

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

No money for school lunches though. Cupboards are just bare you guys, nothing to do about it.

[Thumpalumpacus]

When you deal with crooks, you should expect a fucking.

[Fake Messiah]

The market manipulation and insider trading, the bribery, selling State Secrets, sending Americans to war over real estate developments, stealing gold and oil from sovereign countries, killing people in international waters, protecting pedophiles, and obstructing justice when ICE kills innocent people—everything Trump's administration does is either a crime against America, against humanity, or both.

[The Grand Nudger]

When you're famous, they let you do it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

He's started referring to the Strait of Hormuz as 'the Strait of Trump.'

Boru

[Ravenshire]

He's started referring to the Strait of Hormuz as 'the Strait of Trump.'

Boru

His widespread, international success in renaming the Gulf of Mexico has gone to his head.[/sarcasm]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ironically and hysterically, Trump's elective war in Iraq has effectively crippled his 'Drill, baby, drill' mantra. With crude at near record highs, oil company profits are at near record highs, which pretty much kills any incentive to develop new resources.

'When the shareholders are happy, do nothing.' - John D. Rockefeller 

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

They weren't interested before. Oil companies hold leases on millions of acres of federal land they're not drilling on, and new offers from the fed get no bids, or minimal bids (as in a dollar....). The reich wing just says drill baby drill because they want their drooling base to believe that there is all this prosperity lying around in the ground, to be extracted..as though they'd see a penny of it.... and so the only thing standing between cletus and wealth is that the demoncrats are preventing that from happening with their green new deal scam...which doesn't exist.