WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025
The Post's report says no: Last evening, during the 6 o'clock hour, we looked in on President Trump's rally in Macomb County.
We were watching on CNN. As taken from the CNN transcript, he started by saying this:
PRESIDENT TRUMP (4/29/25): We just had the biggest victory in Michigan. They said, "Sir, it's going to be hard." Well, we won it twice.
We won it twice. We actually won it three times. You want to really know this. But I'm thrilled to be back in this beautiful state. I love this state.
Actually, according to official reality, he didn't win the state three times. According to official reality, he lost the state, by 1.8 points, to Candidate Biden in November 2020.
Nor has President Trump ever explained why he keeps making this claim. It's been corrected a million times. The gentleman just keeps saying it.
Not long after that, we were watching again when CNN decided to stop carrying the speech. With a special alert to Blue America, here's what he was saying then.
TRUMP: There's never been such a difference in anything as the difference between the border today and the border, what it was just six months ago. So, I want to say, "Congratulations, America. It's about time."
If we had not won the 2024 election—Oh, does that sound good, right? We won the '24, all that work—the radical left Democrats would right now be importing the next 10 million invaders and giving amnesty to 30 or 40 million illegals, many of them criminals, many of them, frankly, murderers and people of crime at the absolute highest level, real, real bad people. It would only be a matter of years or months until America itself became a failed third world nation.
That was happening to us. We were going to be a third world nation. I'll tell you what. If these guys won, if this group of radical lunatics, and, by the way, you know, Biden, we find out that whoever operated the autopen was the real president and Biden knew nothing about it. You know, we had a group of radical left guys who were very smart and a woman, a particular woman, very, very smart people.
These are not stupid people. These are sick people, but they're not stupid people, and they were very smart. What they're best at is cheating at an election. They cheat on elections. That's their single greatest trait. They cheat like hell. And let me tell you, they tried to cheat on this election, but we made it. Too big to rig, remember? Too big to rig. They tried.
I watched those numbers. I watched those numbers. We had Elon with us. Elon is a smart guy. Elon was with us. Elon Musk and I were sitting with Dana White and Elon Musk, and I'm watching the numbers in Pennsylvania and we are winning so easily, then all of a sudden it flatlined. And I said, "You know," I said, "I think they're cheating again. Look at this. What's going on? I think they're cheating again."
And Elon looking at us, he goes, "No, you are going to win. They just don't know it yet." And about fifteen minutes later, we won. You know, it was sort of crazy.
TAPPER: All right. We've been listening to President Trump celebrating his first 100 days at a rally in battleground Michigan, in Warren, Macomb County. This is a state that he flipped red to win the 2024 election. Today, he's marking 100 days in office.
In fact, Michigan is a state that he "flipped red" in 2024. That of course means that he didn't win the state in 2020.
Is that why CNN dropped the feed? We have no idea. But the president never stops with the inflammatory claims about the stolen 2020 election, and about the alleged attempt to rig last year's election as well.
He says it and says it and never stops saying it. He has also never presented some sort of "white paper" in which he attempts to explain and justify these endless inflammatory claims.
At this site, it seems to us that he may even believe these claims. Then again, it's always possible that he actually doesn't.
In the next few days, we'll return to what the president said in that passage about the southern border. In our view, the bell is tolling for us Blues whenever he makes such remarks.
In our view, those are three million other false claims are the heartbeat of our failing modern politics. The bogus claims so on and on, no matter how many times they're corrected—and they almost never get challenged or corrected at the sites, from the Fox News Channel on down, from which many Red American voters now get their view of the world.
In the next few days, we'll return to what the president said in the passage we've posted about the southern border. In our view, the bell is tolling for those of us in Blue America whenever he makes such remarks.
For today, we'll stick with his flatly bogus claims. How frequent are those bogus claims? At the Washington Post, Glenn Kessler has compiled a lengthy factcheck of the president's recent interview with ABC's Terry Moran. Dual headline included:
One hundred days of Trump 2.0: Falsehood after falsehood, again and again
The president’s Time magazine interview featured 32 false or misleading claims.
President Donald Trump granted a lengthy interview to Time magazine in honor of completing his first 100 days of his second term today. As usual, the interview consisted of bluster and bombast, with hefty doses of B.S. Here’s a guide to the inaccuracies in 32 claims, in the order in which he made them.
We would have added one more "and again." But Kessler fact-checked 32 claims from that one interview. Here's how his scorecard looks:
Census of the 32 claims:
False: 18
Misleading: 1
Exaggerated: 1
Needs context: 1
Trump’s numbers are wrong: 1
Dubious: 2
Poppycock: 1
Fantasy: 1
That's 26 of the 32 claims. Specialized rejections were appended to the other six falsehoods.
Back to yesterday's address:
As we noted this morning, the New York Times mentioned this problem in the third paragraph of its news report about the Michigan speech.
("Mr. Trump was in campaign mode, peppering his sentences with false statements—such as the lie that the 2020 election had been stolen—exaggerations, jokes and insults.")
So said the Times news report. By way of contrast, the Washington Post published a lengthy report about yesterday's speech—one that almost sounds like it was written by the president's messaging team.
On the same day that the Post's owner bowed to one of the president's demands, the Post seemed to pull out the pom-poms and cheerlead the president on. The tone of its news report struck us as astounding. We'll treat you to nine paragraphs, out of 43 total.
Trump rallies supporters in Michigan to mark 100 days in office
“We’ve just gotten started,” the president said after a whirlwind three months that included steep tariffs on imports, massive cuts to the federal workforce and deportations of undocumented immigrants. “You haven’t seen anything yet.”WARREN, Mich.—President Donald Trump arrived here Tuesday afternoon for a rally to mark his first 100 days in office, returning to a battleground state he won last year and to the cheering crowds that marked his campaign but that he has largely eschewed so far in office.
In what aides billed as a “100th Day in Office Achievement Speech,” Trump touted the rapid pace he has kept during three months of dramatic changes to the federal workforce and global economic policy that have served to reorient the country and confuse the world. He chose as his backdrop a place that has lost much of the manufacturing base that once defined the greater Detroit area—but also one that is feeling the effects of his tariff proposals and his threats to occupy nearby Canada.
“In 100 days, we have delivered the most profound change in Washington in 100 years,” Trump said.
In the first three months of his second term, Trump has imposed tariffs on foreign imports, reshaping the global economy and sending markets into a frenzy. He has imposed drastic government cuts, rattling millions in the federal workforce. He has threatened to take Greenland, pressed for significant deportations of undocumented immigrants, issued pardons to those who participated in the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and, as he mentioned here, banned the federal use of paper straws.
“We’ve just gotten started,” he said here, after taking the stage to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.” “You haven’t seen anything yet.”
Trump focused many of his remarks on immigration, the issue that most riles up his base, and at one point paused to show a video of migrants being taken to El Salvador that pictured them in chains and on flights. When it was over, the crowd rose to its feet and chanted, “USA! USA! USA!”
The rally had the feel of a festival. Hawkers sold T-shirts and hats that read, “Trump 2028,” suggesting Trump might be unbound by the Constitution and serve a third term. An ambulance was emblazoned with “Trump Save the USA” on the side.
Lining the stage were signs including “THE GOLDEN AGE” and “100 DAYS OF GREATNESS” and “THE AMERICAN DREAM IS BACK.”
“I love it,” said Charles Bryant, a 53-year-old from Shelby Township who had a career working at Ford and wore a “Gulf of America” T-shirt and a hat he got at the inauguration. “He’s making omelets, just shaking everything up. Tariffs. Trade. He’s confusing everybody!”
The report proceeds for 34 more paragraphs. Did the president make any of his trademark misstatements? In this extremely lengthy news report, the answer was simple:
No.
To our ear, it was a very odd news report. Can this be the culture we've chosen?
This may not ultimately work, but Trump and Rubio may be bringing peace between Rwanda and the Congo.
ReplyDeleteAs part of the peace accord, the Congolese and Rwandan authorities are expected to commit to joint projects in hydropower, national parks and mineral supply chains “in partnership with the US government and US investors,” they state in a declaration of principles.
If things go according to plan — and there is no shortage of skepticism that it will — the US approach could end a more than 30-year-long regional conflict over land, resources, ethnicity and political power that kicked off after the perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide fled across the border into Congo.</i?
“Vladimir, STOP!” Pretty please, with sugar on top?
DeleteEver since Trump first started running for office, he has made provocative false and exaggerated statements. It's no longer news when he does that.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile Trump is involved, for better or for worse, in some terribly important areas: Congo. Rwanda war. Ukraine war. Crazy or brilliant tariffs. Ending (or failing to end) DEI. IMO the media should devote more coverage to these vital issues.
No one cares about the opinions of a Jew who beats off over fascism.
DeleteLet me guess: the Congo/Rwanda conflict will end in two weeks, and Mexico will pay for it.
DeleteDavid,
DeleteDo you support DEI, or are you anti-merit?
"Ever since Trump first started running for office, he has made provocative false and exaggerated statements. It's no longer news when he does that."
DeleteIt may not be "news" but these are still lies and falsehoods. It is reasonable for the American people to expect their president to tell the truth instead of lying all the time.
"but Trump and Rubio may be bringing peace between Rwanda and the Congo"
DeleteAren't you the same fellow who was lecturing folks about making predictions just earlier today?
"It's no longer news when he does that."
DeleteDavid is correct here. When our president says things that are wildly wrong, it's just another day.
I gotta give the felon credit. He has shown how abandoning DEI results in a leadership group of completely unqualified pasty white fools.
DeleteConsidering how well he has done so far with the two conflicts he said he could resolve in a day, it is great news that the people in countries that qualify a shitholes by Trump’s criteria can count on him to help solve their problems.
DeleteDid David mention the Houthis spooked an aircraft carrier and when it swerved under their attack and dumped a $60 million jet into the ocean. So I expect Trump & Hegseth being totally normal they won't over-retaliate and fuck up all the tiny bit of good they could have accomplished. It's what they do.
Delete"It's no longer news..." When, exactly, was it ever news, for Trump cultists? They have exactly zero interest in whether what comes out of the orange Jesus's pie hole has any resemblance to reality. One day, DiC ventures that it would be a really really big deal if the letters MS13 were photo shopped on to the knuckles of a certain El Sa!vadorean prisoner, and when it turns out that they were, well that really really big deal is of absolutely no consequence to the consummate troll.
DeleteHere is another example of ICE over-reach:
ReplyDelete"An Irish woman who has been living legally in the United States for decades has been taken into detention by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a trip to Ireland to visit her sick father.
Cliona Ward (54), who went to the US in her early teens and is the sole carer for a son with special needs, is in an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington state, according to the enforcement agency’s website.
Her sister, Orla Holladay, who also lives in the US, said Ward travelled back to Ireland recently with their stepmother to visit their father, who has dementia.
On her return to the US, Ward, who has been living in Santa Cruz, California, for more than 30 years, was questioned about drug possession convictions from more than a decade ago that have reportedly been “expunged” under state but not under federal law.
A holder of a valid green card, Ward was held when she landed at San Francisco International Airport as queries were raised about the past convictions
She was then released but returned to the airport last Monday to show documentation to officials from US Customs and Border Protection recording how the convictions had been expunged.
However, she was taken into custody, moved to a detention facility outside Seattle, Washington, and, according to reports, is now due before the courts until May 7th next.
Her sister has set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to pay for legal representation for her sister.
On Saturday, Holladay posted a note saying she had spoken to Ward and that her sister, though depressed, was taking comfort from expressions of concern about her case.
“She shared that, although she can’t speak with the majority of the women in there because most don’t speak English, they have been giving each other support and there are lots of tears and hugs between the women.”
Kenneth Cook McKnight, who went to high school with Ward in Sacramento, California, said she had been living legally in the US for more than 30 years.
“She had travelled multiple times back and forth to Ireland to see family over the years and never had a problem, until now, and obviously what is different now is the current political climate here, and the administration.”
US Representative Jimmy Panetta, a Democrat from California, said in a statement it was “unimaginable that a reportedly expunged, decades-old crime could be used as justification for deporting a legal permanent resident who is a productive member of our community.”
As a former gang prosecutor, he said, he understood the need to remove hardened criminals from communities, but Ward’s detention for crimes that have been expunged was “unacceptable and unfathomable”."
Deported MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia ABUSED his children and threatened to KlLL his wife, per yet ANOTHER protective order filing.
ReplyDeletePer Kilmar’s wife, there’s a recording where he “told my ex-mother-in-law that even if he kiIIs me no one can do anything to him.”
Who will protect this violent wifebeating MS-13 gang member human trafficker child attacker and preserve his right to stay in our country and attack our children?
"Who will protect this violent wifebeating MS-13 gang member human trafficker child attacker and preserve his right to stay in our country and attack our children?"
DeleteIt depends. Does Putin want him in Trump's Cabinet?
If so, every Republican in Congress.
Because every Democrat is already in El Salvador pleading for his return to the United States.
DeleteEven if he were a wifebeater (there are no arrests or convictions on record) he still deserves due process, a chance to defend himself from such accusations.
DeletePlease post a link to any final court order of protection.
DeleteWomen go back to their abusers. Democrats side with their abusers.
DeleteWith no final order and no hearing, there was no evidence presented. His wife says they were happy and she wants him back. Who are you to say otherwise? If she were beaten, there would be hospital records. People cannot be deported by accusations and without due process. There have never been charges, arrests or convictions against him. Only smears.
DeleteDemocrats want due process. Even Epstein and Weinstein got trials.
DeletePoor innocent Maryland Man. His wife is a liar and he was just driving the van filled with illegals from Texas to DC in a human smuggler’s van to take them to work.
DeleteMore smears. If he were a criminal he would have been arrested & charged if not convicted. None of that happened. They let him & his car full of “illegals” go because they were legal workers going to a job.
DeleteIt sucks that the Trump Administration can't find anything crimes to charge him with.
DeleteMaybe Trump can lend him some of his many, many felonies.
So now the Cult's legend of Garcia is morphing into driving a Greyhound bus of insane asylum Salvadoran murderers into a fourth of July parade with guns blazing. Try to cling to reality. I am worried about you guys. Step one - Remember if anyone in the Felon's admin said it; there is about a 99% chance it was a lie. 1% chance partially true.
DeleteAnother Trump success. CNN reports
ReplyDelete“ The United States and Ukraine have signed an “economic partnership agreement” that will give Washington access to Kyiv’s rare earth minerals in exchange for establishing an investment fund in Ukraine.”
The felon stealing from the country defending western Democracy from Russian aggression and war crimes, a country that we should absolutely be defending is another disgusting move. What a pig.
DeleteAre you opining from the front lines?
DeleteThe Ukrainians are opining from the front line. They are very good at defending their country.
DeleteICE is doing a difficult, dangerous job. They enforce the law. Their work helps keeps us safe. Sometimes they screw up. It’s reasonable to point out the screwups. But I have two questions;
ReplyDelete1. Why do you seem to take pleasure in pointing out the screwups? You almost seem proud to point them out.
2. Why do you ignore the thousands of things ICE does well and successfully?
They are abusing their power. Citizens have rights. This isn’t a “mistake,” it is a deliberate misuse of their authority. I suspect it is a policy intended to terrorize people, especially minorities. The defense is to focus attention on such abuses and protest them.
DeleteIt is not ICE’s job to arrest citizens. It is against the law for them to do so.
DeleteDoes this sound like they were doing their job:
Delete“ Without warning, ICE agents clad in black tactical gear burst into a quiet family home. Guns drawn, boots pounding on hardwood, they moved like soldiers in hostile territory — except this wasn’t a war zone. It was a suburban neighborhood. A home where children did homework, parents made dinner, and everyone believed, until that moment, that living in America meant having rights.
They were wrong.
In the chaos, the teenage daughter — still in her underwear — was yanked from her bedroom and forced to stand, exposed and terrified, while armed strangers rifled through her belongings. Her screams went unanswered. The agents refused to let her or the rest of the family get dressed. They didn’t explain why they were there, didn’t ask questions, didn’t seem to care that the person they were looking for didn’t live at that address.
Then they started taking things: cell phones, tablets, laptops — anything that might contain information or, perhaps more to the point, value. They seized all the family’s cash, their passports, their children’s devices. When the family demanded answers, they were met with silence and threats. No warrant was ever shown. No charges were filed. No receipts left behind.
ICE simply vanished, leaving the family humiliated, traumatized, and stripped of the basic tools of modern life. The agency has since refused to return the electronics or the money. There has been no apology, no accountability, no restitution — just a void where justice is supposed to live.”
Thom Hartmann says:
Delete“ What happened to that family wasn’t an accident. It was a symptom — a glimpse behind the curtain of what the Trump administration has built: an unaccountable, increasingly lawless deportation regime that functions more like a secret police force than a branch of a democratic government.
And the targets aren’t just undocumented immigrants or criminal suspects anymore. They’re legal residents. College students. People born and raised in this country. Their only “crime” is voicing dissent, having the wrong skin color, or being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
This is why we oppose what is happening. It is illegal and wrong.
Al Quaeda were pikers next to the Trump Administration.
Delete8:31 Agreed. I will never understand why OJ Simpson’s detractors chose to ignore the many things he did well.
DeleteI am so old I remember there was no fucking Nazi ICE agents before Shrub's overreach after 911. Fucking war criminals - should never have let those fucks walk free or teach law at liberal California Universities...
DeleteThe United States and Ukraine have signed the final agreement for rare earth minerals, natural resources, per Bloomberg.
ReplyDeleteThe deal will grant the US privileged access to new investment projects to develop Ukraine’s natural resources including aluminum, graphite, oil and natural gas.
Disgusting.
DeleteKind of like coming upon an injured mugging victim in a dark ally and stealing his watch. Not a whole lot different than threatening to withhold arms for self defense unless the invaded country’s leader comes up with dirt about a political opponent. White trash in the White House.
DeleteI see four positive aspects to this agreement
Delete1. The US government is supposed to act for the benefit of the US, not the whole world.
2. The US is morally entitled to some return. The amount of aid that the US provided to Ukraine dwarfs the cost to Ukraine of the minerals deal.
3. The deal is a step toward a peace agreement that ends the carnage.
4. Ukraine gets something from this deal. The deal sets up a relationship that makes it unlikely that Russia will invade again.
"The US is morally entitled to some return." You might have argued that the US is entitled to some return and in response others would have inquired as to what allies like Canada and Australia should receive from our natural resources in the transactional world you live in, their having fought along side us in the Iraq War. Moreover, you find this to be an issue of morality. Your morality is exemplified by by the notion that we will be more apt to lobby for peace if Ukraine pays us ( bullet point#3). Your morality aligns well with Trump's. That is to say, it is hard to find evidence of such.
Delete1. Who says defending Ukraine from Putin's eastern bloc expansion (without a BS minerals deal full of BD+S #s and fucking with Ukraine's President) is not in the USA's (NATO's) interest? Maybe Putin's puppet?
Delete2. 90% of the money is spent producing arms in the USA. It is a rather modest arms industry stimulus program that has spurred a lot of build-out not just for Ukraine but for us. My SIL's factory is balls to the walls. I saw balls to the walls back in the day. Back before electronics got fancy they would control RPM on rotating vessels by hanging steel balls on hinged arms. As the unit sped up the hinged balls would swing out towards the walls. At full speed the balls are up to the walls. Now you know one thing David.
3. Please explain WTF this has to do with the peace agreement. Also too, what peace agreement? Seriously, why all the hopium? It never pans out man.
4. Ukraine gets a shitty deal that God willing the next President will discontinue as they will know you cannot squeeze blood from a turnip. Russia said it would not invade after Ukraine agreed to have their nukes removed. Russia said it would not attack again after taking Crimea. What the hell is the evidence that Putin (or the Felon) can be trusted?
Remember everything this administration says is a lie. It all starts to make some sort of sense that way.
El Salvador rejects Trump admin's request to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
ReplyDeleteMaryland Man is heretofore known as El Salvador Man.
I voted for Trump to be told to go fuck himself by Latin Americans.
DeleteI guess Bukele made Trump his bitch.
Delete"Heretofore" does not mean from now on.
DeleteI just learned something. Imports are a deduction in the formula for GNP. 2025 Q1 GNP was negative because of the surge in imports.
ReplyDeleteCompanies proactively purchased massive amounts of products in advance of the tariffs leading to an overall increase in imports of 41.3%. Which results in a 5.3% deduction to GDP. Every dollar of those imports is a deduction to the GDP equation, giving the false appearance of lower domestic production.
OK, DiC. So tell us: where did you learn this? Does it happen to be a conduit for other facts you have regaled us with, along the way? Because whatever media source taught you this relies upon the assumption, well earned, that you are a very impressionable 70+ year old who should know better. You will apparently buy anything that feeds your bizarre narrative.
DeleteWho is Iris Figueroa?
DeleteActually, imports are counted in spending. They are then subtracted, netting to zero, because the goods or services were not produced domestically.
ReplyDeleteOversimplified: To calculate GDP, we count everything bought by consumers and government. But some of that stuff was foreign-produced. So we subtract imports (foreign-produced goods and services) to get the amount of domestically-made goods and services - i.e., gross “domestic” product.
ReplyDelete(I said - oversimplified.)
So every dollar of foreign stuff bought is added to and then subtracted from the GDP formula. That dollar has no effect on the size of GDP, despite the crackpot stuff DiC reads.
I try not to think DiC is in an eastern European internet cafe slaving away for a tenth of a penny a post. But his claim to be a numbers guy and then constantly see him post the stupid, even on numbers issues like this, makes me wonder. Probably just old and brain is getting brittle from age and from listening to Limbaugh & watching Fox his whole adult life.
DeleteThank you DG
DeleteThe physicians determined that the average adult produces a median 705 milliliters of gas (nearly 24 ounces, or two soda cans’ worth) every day.
ReplyDeleteMen and women passed equal amounts; farts tended to be more robust following a meal.
The farters varied widely in individual output, with a range of 476 ml to 1491 ml among the subjects during the 24 hours.
The researchers noted that a singular fart, regardless of time of day, gender, or body size, was between 33 to 125 ml, with a median of 90 ml. That’s the equivalent of roughly three ounces of comedy.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/72672/how-much-does-fart-weigh
That’s not accurate. I know for a fact that young boys produce way more gas than that and they produce it on purpose and gleefully. I know because I had to ride in a car with two brothers.
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