Trump Throws Tantrum as Bad News Grows

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I can't unsee this photo. So you now have to see this photo.
The ridiculousness of this all when you have this individual who is gutting our Medicaid, who is attacking our government institutions, who is sucking up to Putin, who is making posts on his social media platform, referring to Gaza now as Trump Gaza and trying to distract Americans from the fact that prices are surging, inflation is surging again, the markets are doing bad right now. This is what Trump posted before holding a cabinet meeting yesterday.
This is a real post. It was a video.
He was calling it Trump Gaza, and it was an AI video where they had golden statues of Trump. And Elon Musk was on the beaches in Gaza throwing up money in the air.
And then after committing genocide, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were at the Trump Gaza Hotel together in this AI that they created. And then here on the Gaza beach, there are these bearded men with big chests.
And well, you can judge for yourself that Trump actually posted that. So when I go and show you that photo of him, what he looks like without his orange plaster on his face, I mean, like, what the hell is going on here? Then let's go to that cabinet meeting that took place yesterday, which Donald Trump essentially had Elon Musk lead, where Elon Musk's like, I'm going to be making mistakes a lot, you know, like we made a mistake about Ebola, and then we fired the Ebola people.
I mean, I'm like watching this. I'm like, what the hell are these people talking about? I mean, as they're firing central government workers, government workers, veterans, spouses of veterans, people who have just sacrificed in general for us working for the government, and then lied and said they were firing people for cause, for performance reasons when it was not based on performance reasons.
Here, take a look at this. This is from the cabinet meeting.
Here is Donald Trump blaming the rising costs of everything and like egg prices on the administration. But Trump's like pretending that he's not the president and he's attacking a phantom administration.
Here, play this clip. Eggs are a disaster.
The Secretary of Agriculture is going to be showing you a chart that's actually mind-boggling what's happened how low they were with us and how high they are now but i think we can do something about it madam secretary and i think you're going to do a fantastic job in that position then kim jong-un style donald trump assembles this kind of cabinet of the most spineless men a few women but, but mostly men, and the most spineless people. And he goes, let the cabinet speak.
Raise your hand right now if you are unhappy with Elon. Here, just watch this clip.
You could ask me or Elon. Go ahead, please.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you, Mr. Musk.
I just wanted to ask you that President Trump

put out a truth social today saying that everybody

in the cabinet was happy with you.

I just wondered if you had heard otherwise

and if you had heard anything about members of the cabinet

who weren't happy with the way things were going.

And if so, what are you doing to address those,

any dissatisfaction?

I'm gonna let the cabinet speak just for a second. Anybody unhappy with Elon? If you are, we'll throw him out of here.
Is anybody unhappy? I have a lot of respect for Elon and that he's doing this. And some disagree a little bit, but I will tell you, for the most part, I think everyone's not only happy, they're thrilled.
So, yeah, this is like some North Korea stuff right here. Elon Musk would make multiple posts yesterday where he would mock the federal workers who were fired and celebrate their terminations.
It's ghoulish behavior. But back to that cabinet meeting here, Elon Musk, this is where he says, I'm going to make mistakes, you know, like Ebola.
I will sometimes fire Ebola people, but it's okay. We will just sometimes, you know, fire people who do nuclear weapons, you know? Here, play this clip.
And I should say, also, we will make mistakes. We won't be perfect, but when we make a mistake, we'll fix it very quickly.
So, for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola, Ebola prevention. I think we all want Ebola prevention.
So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately, and there was no interruption. But we do need to move quickly if we are to achieve a trillion dollar deficit reduction in financial year 2026.
It requires saving $4 billion per day every day from now through the end of September. But we can do it and we will do it.
Well, that's my Elon Musk impression right there. Tell me what you think.
As our friend Greg Sargent says, another mistake they made was firing USAID people who oversee contracts like the one that supplies life-saving treatments for kids who are suffering from extreme malnutrition or on the edge of starvation. It should be noted as well, though, that last night, right before a deadline where federal governments ordered the Trump administration to have to make the payments to USAID contractors, John Roberts, Chief Justice of the MAGA Republican right-wing Supreme Court, jumped in and blocked the order compelling Trump to fund USAID.
The Supreme Court over and over again has blood on their hands. How many kids, how many people are going to die because of the cruelty of having their funding ripped away? And then when other federal courts order that that funding be paid, by midnight last night, Chief Justice John Roberts, the same person who took away women's reproductive rights, basically changed the law to stop the separation of church and state.
The same Supreme Court that basically celebrates AR-15s by schools, that gutted climate change legislation, that gutted voting rights. Chief Justice John Roberts said, we're going to temporarily stop this order requiring the funding to USAID.
Here, Donald Trump says this country has gotten that America's bloated, fat and disgusting. Play this clip.
I have a question back on these cuts to the federal workforce. You mentioned you're interested in doing another round of this email.
When would you like to see that? What would be the deadline? And this time, would it be mandatory? I think Elon wants to. And I think it's a good idea because, you know, those people, as I said before, they run the bubble.
You got a lot of people that have not responded. So we're trying to figure out, do they exist? Who are they? And it's possible that a lot of those people will be actually fired.
And if that happened, that's OK, because that's what we're trying to do. This this country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting and incompetently run.
I think we had the worst president in the history of our country. He just left office.
I think he's a disgrace what he's done to our country by allowing millions of people to come into our country like that. And all of the other things, the inflation, which he caused because of energy and stupid spending, to spend hundreds of millions, trillions and trillions of dollars on the Green News scam, a total scam.
Donald, are you looking in the mirror? Is that what you're referring to? Then they had conspiracy theorist RFK Jr., who's the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He then talks about how there are that the measles outbreak right now, which has killed somebody in Texas.
This is like one of the biggest measles outbreak in recent time because people aren't getting vaccinated for measles. RFK Jr.
at this cabinet meeting was like, this is normal. This is this is what usually happens.
There's measles outbreaks like this all the time. There is not.

Here, play this clip.

Bobby, do you want to speak on that?

We are following the measles epidemic every day.

I think there's 124 people who have contracted measles at this point, mainly in Taines County, Texas.

Mainly, we're told, in the Mennononite community there are two people who have died but the watching it and there are about 20 people hospitalized mainly for quarantine I were watching it put out a post on it yesterday and we're going to continue to follow it.

Incidentally, there have been four measles outbreaks this year in this country last year. There were 16.
So it's not unusual. We have measles outbreaks every year.
You sound a little under the weather yourself right now. I have a permanently bad throat.
Then Donald Trump insults Canada and says, Canada can't subsist or exist as a nation without America.

Play this clip.

It's not fair for us to be supporting Canada.

And if we don't support them, they don't subsist as a nation.

Boy, people are pissed in Canada. That boycott of all things American in Canada is still going strong and it'll start showing in our economy.
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As Christopher Webb points out as well, not gross, not too gross y'all out, but it's not just the bruise on Trump's hand. These are not the fingernails of a healthy man.
And the White House issued an official statement yesterday saying that all of these bruises and the discoloration on his hands and what that looks like is because he shakes so many hands every day is what they're saying. Cue in Marjorie Taylor Greene, MAGA Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was too scared to allow Democratic Congress member Jared Moskowitz at the Doge hearings.
She rejected his request to attend. So here she talks about, though, how federal workers need to get real jobs.
They don't deserve their paychecks. They're not really working real jobs, she says.
Play this clip. You can protest all you want outside of departments of this government.
You can protest all you want, but the American people disagree with you. You're protecting the bureaucracy.
The bureaucracy is not a business. Those are not real jobs producing federal revenue.
By the way, they're consuming taxpayer dollars. Those jobs are paid for by the American tax people who work real jobs, earn real income, pay federal taxes, and then pay these federal employees.
Federal employees do not deserve their jobs. Federal employees do not deserve their paychecks.
And these are jobs that can be fired at will. Again, when did it become so normal to just insult hardworking Americans? I don't get it.
I mean, what? Just because you're not on TV, that does it what? That means that someone

who works at our national parks is not good enough for MAGA? The person who works in the

Department of Education or Department of Labor or Department of Agriculture or USAID or the people

who work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or whatever government entity, what,

because it's, why? They don't get

on TV, so they're not glamorous. That means they're not real workers.
I mean, who talks about human beings in that way? Oh, MAGA. The same MAGA that is shaking down President Zelensky of Ukraine for a rare earth mineral deal.