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NEW -- Trump loves to talk about how other people (but not him, even though he was invited) went to Epstein's island and how bad that is.

Unless, of course, that other person happens to be his own commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick.

Then it's okay.

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Epstein Island Visitor Howard Lutnick Still Has His Job In Trump's Cabinet
Trump has attacked others for having visited Epstein’s notorious Caribbean island, but appears to be fine with his commerce secretary’s apparent trip there.
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February 10, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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NEW -- Trump saddled Americans with the largest tax increase in decades with his tariffs, $181 billion last year.

Now, with the Supreme Court likely to strike down his biggest tariff tool, he's scrambling to find alternatives.

And it looks like he has.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Think The High Court Will Save You From Trump’s 12-Figure Import Taxes? Think Again.
Trump already has the ability to impose replacement tariffs to make up nearly three-quarters of the tax revenue the Supreme Court may strike down as illegal.
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February 4, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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NEW -- Trump said today he asked Vladimir Putin to pause his attacks on Ukraine for a week because of the super cold weather and that Putin had agreed.

That comes as news to Ukrainians, who have been attacked every single day this month, including today.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Says Putin Agreed To His Request To Stop His Attacks On Ukraine. Reality Says Otherwise.
It is unclear what the president meant when he said Putin would not “fire on” Kyiv and other cities, as the attacks and deaths haven't stopped coming.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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NEW -- Captain Queeg had his strawberries.

Donald Trump has his election lies about Minnesota.

And Georgia.
And Wisconsin.
And Michigan.
And Pennsylvania.
And California....

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump’s Minnesota Invasion Appears Tied To This Unhinged Claim
The president promised to carry out “retribution” on the state that he actually lost every time.
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January 29, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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NEW -- Trump creates crisis. Trump ends crisis by completely caving.

Another Trump Major Victory! Yet Again.

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After Creating A Crisis Over Greenland, Trump Declares Victory And Ends It
Trump boasted of a “framework of a future deal” regarding U.S. access to Greenland for military purposes — access it already under an existing agreement.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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NEW — For his first year back in office, European leaders settled on a strategy of treating Trump like a toddler they were trying to coax to eat his vegetables, constantly praising him for every little thing.

It didn’t work.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opinio...
Opinion: Europe’s Strategy Of Treating Trump Like A Royal Toddler Didn’t Work – So Now What?
A year of fawning and constant praise was rewarded with Trump's refusal to help Ukraine and a threat to take Greenland by force because he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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January 21, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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NEW -- A lot of the people who predicted Trump would rule like an autocrat if he returned to power are today confessing they got one key detail wrong.

They did not foresee it could happen so fast.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
They Foresaw Trump’s Rush To Autocracy — They Just Didn’t Think It Would Happen So Fast
From his creation of a ‘papers-please’ police force to unilateral military actions to his disregard of court orders, even those who warned it would happen are alarmed.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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NEW -- ICE and Border Patrol agents do not wear name tags. They don't identify themselves in their encounters with civilians. Many wear masks to hide their identities.

Donald Trump has created a de facto secret police force to terrorize communities.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump And Stephen Miller Have Created A Secret Police Force In Plain Sight
After promising to focus on deporting criminal illegal immigrants, Trump is instead using militarized immigration agencies to terrorize cities where he is unpopular.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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NEW — If you watched Trump’s speech purportedly about the economy today, it might explain why they giving him cognitive exams.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Falsely Claims Economy Is Great As Grocery Prices Rise And Jobs Picture Gets Worse
In a Detroit speech supposedly about the economy, Trump spent the majority of his time on stage repeating his usual lies and grievances about everything else.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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NEW -- Trump and Stephen Miller keep bragging about the might-makes-right imperialism that let them confiscate Venezuela's oil.

They neglect to mention how corrosive and nasty it is -- or how it almost certainly will not bring down gas prices here.

www.huffpost.com/entry/nasty-...
Trump Boasts Of Confiscated Venezuelan Oil But Neglects To Mention How Nasty It Is
The country’s crude oil is heavy, too thick to flow through a pipeline without dilution, and is filled with corrosive chemicals that can destroy refineries.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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NEW -- On the 5th anniversary of his coup attempt, Trump, lying, claims he had nothing to do with the violence that injured 140 cops and left five dead in the coming weeks.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Repeats Lie That He Had Nothing To Do With Jan. 6
The president reminded House Republicans he said "peacefully and patriotically" in his pre-coup rally and blamed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the violence.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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NEW -- Great news for losing presidential candidates!

Used to be that you could ask for a recount and file lawsuits.

Now, thanks to American voters having normalized what Trump did on Jan. 6, you can also attempt a violent coup! Without fear of consequence!

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
With His Post-Jan. 6 Comeback, Trump May Have Normalized Coup Attempts
He was the first president to try to remain in power despite losing reelection, but democracy advocates worry he may not be the last.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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NEW: TAKE THE OIL!!

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
In Venezuela Takeover, Trump Makes It All About The Oil
The president, who claimed to oppose involvement in “nation building,” also said the U.S. would “run” Venezuela for an indefinite period.
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January 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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NEW — Ignore the naysayers. Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs absolutely worked. They liberated Americans from their jobs.

(In addition to making most things more expensive.)

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Worked — They Liberated Americans From Their Jobs
Trump’s economy since he imposed tariffs has created one-tenth of the jobs per month as Biden’s economy, while manufacturing has lost jobs each month.
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December 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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NEW -- What the hell was that?

And why?

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Spews Lies About The Economy In His Year-End Address To Nation
The president keeps claiming Joe Biden left him a disaster and he is fixing it. In fact, Biden handed over a good economy that Trump made worse with his tariffs.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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NEW -- Donald Trump has set free convicted fraudsters, cop assaulters, money launderers, even a drug kingpin who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

So why not a notorious child sex trafficker?

Why not, say, Ghislaine Maxwell?

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Pardoned Fraudsters, Cop-Assaulters And A Drug Lord — Is Ghislaine Maxwell Next?
The president has said he has the right to pardon the world’s most notorious living child sex trafficker and has repeatedly refused to rule it out.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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ACTUALLY NOT NEW AT ALL -- Donald Trump is a deeply damaged human being.

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Trump Stands By Unhinged Post, Calls Rob Reiner ‘Deranged’ And ‘Very Bad For Our Country’
The president claimed that the famed director had been murdered because of his criticism of Trump.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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NEW -- LOOK IF ANYONE DID ANY WAR CRIMES IT WAS THAT ADMIRAL GUY OVER THERE WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT

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Trump And Hegseth: We Had Nothing To Do With That Thing That Looks Like A War Crime
Both blame the commanding admiral for killing shipwrecked survivors of an attack – an act the DoD’s own manual specifically describes as illegal.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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NEW — Admiral Bradley? Allow us to introduce you to the underside of this large bus.

Large bus? This is Admiral Bradley.

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White House Throws Commanding Admiral Under The Bus In Killing Of Alleged Drug Boat Survivors
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the apparent war crime was legal even as she said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew nothing about it.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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NEW -- Trump's golf tab tops $70 million since returning to office and is on pace to exceed $300 million by the end of his term.

Three hundred million.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Second-Term Tab For Trump’s Golf Hobby Tops $70 Million, On Track To Exceed $300 Million
The total would double the $151.5 million taxpayers shelled out for him to play golf during his first term.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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NEW -- Trump calls a female reporter "piggy."

The response from the White House press corps? Not a peep.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
'Quiet, Piggy': Trump Insults Female Reporter Asking About The Epstein Files
The reaction from the White House press corps to a personal attack on a colleague has been muted — in an apparent attempt to avoid losing further access.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Trump was credibility accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women. He said his celebrity allowed him to grab women by the genitals. A jury found he had jammed his fingers up a woman's vagina.

A little context for the WH's denials of any wrongdoing.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump's Account Of His Friendship With Epstein Doesn't Line Up With Trove Of New Documents
Trump frequently socialized with the late child sex trafficker and once said admiringly that Epstein liked beautiful women “on the younger side.”
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November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Since Trump and his aides keep lying about grocery prices, here are the facts:

Food inflation in Biden's last year: 1.8 pct.
Food inflation since Trump began his trade war: 3.1 pct.

Trump has nearly doubled grocery inflation.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Finally Meets A Problem His Lies Cannot Overcome: Rising Grocery Prices
Trump keeps claiming that prices are ‘way down’ — but with food inflation running nearly twice the rate as it was in Biden’s last year, Americans are not fooled.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Your homework for this Friday night:

1) Read his answers out loud.
2) Tell me he's not out of his mind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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You will be shocked, shocked to learn that Trump’s claims about fentanyl and lethal U.S. maritime strikes are false.

Shared my thoughts with @svdate.bsky.social about the real reasons the U.S. is lawlessly attacking these vessels.
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM