All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

[Tero]

Soon: Trump writes executive order banning polls with the words Trump or president in them.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/1b3 ... f3200a57c4

[L'Emmerdeur]

Those rotten communists at The Lancet are sticking their noses in where they're not wanted. Something should be done.

'Supporting medical science in the USA'

The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science. On April 14, Edwin R Martin Jr, the Trump-appointed interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, sent a letter to at least one medical journal, CHEST, saying “that more and more journals and publications like CHEST Journal are conceding that they are partisans in various scientific debates”. The letter asked the journal to respond to five questions on topics such as how it handles misinformation and different viewpoints. This is an obvious ruse to strike fear into journals and impinge on their right to independent editorial oversight. The Lancet stands with CHEST and the other medical journals that are being intimidated by the Trump administration.

The harassment of journals comes amid wider radical dismantling of the USA's scientific infrastructure. The US Office of Management and Budget's response to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) draft budget for fiscal year 2026 was leaked on April 18. The Food and Drug Administrations's (FDA) request for fiscal year 2026 is US$2·9 billion, down from $3·6 billion in 2024. Of concern, food inspection could shift to the states, weakening federal oversight and coordination. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are subject to large cuts, totalling $84 billion. Meanwhile, Robert F Kennedy's new Administration for a Healthy America with a proposed budget of $20 billion, aims to have “an initial focus on childhood chronic diseases”. Kennedy has been clear that his primary interest is on finding a cause for autism—which he previously claimed, as recently as 2023, was due to vaccines, and in his first press conference said was “due to environmental toxins”, a misguided agenda at the taxpayer's expense.

HHS aims to cut the NIH budget from $47 billion to $27 billion. 27 institutes and centres are to be consolidated down to eight, and while the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Cancer Institute stay, hundreds of NIH grants are frozen or cancelled, harming universities, researchers, and study participants. The CDC budget could be slashed from $9·2 billion to about $5·2 billion—a 44% reduction. Although the new proposal says the CDC will focus on “emerging and infectious disease surveillance, outbreak investigations, preparedness and response and maintaining the nation's infrastructure”, the budget eliminates the Global Health Center, which oversees the CDC's global health mission, including the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the President's Malaria Initiative, global polio eradication, and outbreaks. How will the CDC maintain its leadership in global health? Other cuts target programmes on health disparities, HIV prevention, lead toxicity, infant morbidity and mortality and maternal health surveillance, LGBT+ people, teenage pregnancy prevention, homelessness prevention, and early child mental health, among others. Grants for rural health clinics and hospitals—already inadequate—are also to be cut.

A misinformed narrative is being used at HHS to attempt to trick the public into thinking that these cuts are about improving Americans’ health. Yet, one of the intents of authoritarian governments is to destroy independent science at government institutions and to silence academia. Science becomes a tool of state sponsored propaganda. Kennedy's actions at HHS are merely one piece in President Trump's overall plans to remake the global order, which threatens the USA's role as the leader in science and global health.

It goes on from there. The piece and what it's describing both are bound to make some people happy--letting those corrupt scientists know who's boss and trolling the libs on a monumental scale. So what if thousands die as a consequence. Sometimes sacrifices must be made for the LOLs.

[Brian Peacock]

Surely Mr Junior Martin is simply protecting free speech, because if a stray thought or desire bubbles up to float across a dullard's forebrain it deserves the same consideration, respect and attention as any amount of diligently evidenced research and rigorous logical analysis?

[Tero]

In 70 years there was only one president worse than Trump. And it was also Trump.
CNN
Trump’s 41% approval rating is the lowest for any newly elected president at 100 days dating back at least to Dwight Eisenhower – including Trump’s own first term.

Approval of Trump’s handling of the presidency is down 4 points since March, and 7 points lower than it was in late February. Just 22% say they strongly approve of Trump’s handling of the job, a new low, and about twice as many say they strongly disapprove (45%).

[JimC]

Buyer's remorse...

[Svartalf]

well, buyers were chretinous, given they already had had a taste of what a frumpy administration would be like.

[macdoc]

or the repuglies suppressed the dem vote. And they did.
Watch this and then ask yourself if it was a valid election


Elons kid called it...

[Tero]

Trump is really mad! He could have accomplished so much! But the polls and courts came in his way.

[Tero]

Trump now to prosecute pollsters.
https://www.threads.com/@deanobeidallah ... Sx_X6R3WSQ

[Tero]

aaron.rupar
25m
the first "question" to Leavitt during the WH "new media" briefing: "I can attest to the deportations in Florida. My Uber drivers finally speak English again."

[Tero]

Stock up on everything. Every shelves are coming.

[Tero]

TRUMP: "I just had a conversation with President Sheinbaum of Mexico. She will stop rapists and criminals from coming here."
SHEINBAUM: "I told President Trump the best way to make rapists and criminals feel unwelcome in the US is for their citizens to stop electing them.”

[Brian Peacock]

Some might say that it's a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose, but golf can also be a point of diplomatic convergence and agreement...

Whitehall officials ‘pushing for the Open to return to Trump-owned Turnberry’

Senior Whitehall officials have asked golf bosses whether they can host the 2028 Open championship at Donald Trump’s Turnberry course after repeated requests from the US president, sources have said.

Officials had asked senior people at the R&A, which organises the world’s oldest major golf championship, what the hurdles would be to hosting the 2028 Open at Turnberry.

One source described the talks as direct lobbying from the government, although others said officials had asked about hypothetical problems with the idea, rather than insisting that it happen.

One person with knowledge of the discussions said: “The government is doing everything it can to get close to Trump. One concrete thing is that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have been involved in pushing for the Open to return to Trump-owned Turnberry.”

Both the DCMS and Trump Turnberry declined to comment...

[Tyrannical]

100 days of Trump, my he certainly has been busy

Which reminds me, there is still a silly site that keeps track of how often Trump plays golf, as if Trump doesn't do other things when and while he plays golf

https://trumpgolftrack.com/

[Tero]

Some sort of problem in article layout: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng- ... -president

‘The EU was invented to screw us over’
Trump has called European allies “freeloaders” who have relied on the US to pay for their defense and said he would not defend allies who didn’t meet a spending threshold of 2% of GDP. He has accused European allies of conspiring to “screw over” the US by forming the European Union. “The west as we knew it no longer exists,” the European Commission..

Trump increasingly relies on executive orders
Trump has signed 140 executive orders in his first 100 days, including 36 in his first week in office. His use of the presidential pen is unprecedented in modern US history. Below are the number of executive orders presidents signed in their first 100 days.
(Trump 140, Biden 42)