"Want Musk To Be More Aggressive In Reform Push": Trump

02/22/25 7:06 PM

US President Donald Trump said Saturday he would like his billionaire advisor Elon Musk to get "more aggressive" in implementing his reform agenda to cut back the federal government.

'25th Amendment remedies' mulled as Trump Fox interview goes off the rails

02/21/25 6:21 PM

Donald Trump once again refused to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin and instead blamed Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the destruction in his own country.The U.S. president appeared Friday on Fox News host Brian Kilmeade's radio program, where he lamented that important cultural sites had been destroyed since Russian troops launched a full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022 – but he refused multiple opportunities to blame Putin for the devastation."You have a man who has let a country that had the more beautiful cities get demolished," Trump said, apparently referring to Zelenskyy, "had the most beautiful domes. Those domes are the most beautiful in the world."Kilmeade stepped in to gently correct him, saying "that's Russia's fault, Mr. President," but Trump was undeterred."They're all demolished, a thousand-year-old domes," Trump continued, "and everything's demolished, it looks like a demolition site. It's sort of like Gaza. In fact, it's more – at least Gaza has a couple of buildings standing. This place, you take a look at demolition of so many of those cities, also, those people are killed, never to come back again. They're all killed."ALSO READ: 'Getting out of control': Ohio Republican gives Trump a warning"But Mr. President, that's Vladimir Putin's fault, don't you agree?" Kilmeade interjected.Apparently not, and Trump then attacked Zelenskyy for complaining that his country was shut out of talks in Saudi Arabia between U.S. and Russian officials on a peace deal to end the invasion that Trump wants conditioned on giving up perpetual control of his nation's resources and infrastructure."I get tired of listening to it, I tell you what," Trump responded. "I've seen it enough, and then he complains that he's not in a meeting that we're having with Saudi Arabia trying to intermediate peace. Well, he's been at meetings for three years with a very – uh, with a president [Joe Biden] who didn't know what the hell he was doing."Critics were shocked and appalled that Trump was attacking Zelenskyy and refused to blame Putin for starting the war."He will not critize Putin," noted The Tennessee Holler account."If Brian Kilmeade had a soul left, you'd hear it leaving his body," said writer Gary Legum."At the risk of pointing out the obvious, Zelensky is negotiating with a very big card: 3 years of thwarting Putin's attempted conquest, at an immense cost to Russia which they cannot sustain," added Nicholas Grossman, international relations professor at the University of Illinois. "We can be confident Trump gets, at some level, how big that card is, because he keeps trying to weaken it.""If Biden was this detached from our shared reality, Trump and co. would be talking about 25th amendment remedies," posted conservative writer Noah Rothman. "Oh, that's right: he was and they were.""No matter how many chances he’s had, Donald Trump has never — ever — condemned Vladimir Putin," said the account Republicans Against Trump. "Putin’s puppet."“'Oh please Mr President, please say it was Putin’s fault. Please. Pretty please?'” posted former GOP congressman Joe Walsh. "Bless your heart Kilmeade." — (@)

'He picked the wrong Latina': Trump border czar warned he's stumbled into brutal fight

02/20/25 4:23 PM

President Donald Trump's "border Czar" Tom Homan, who has been tasked with deporting millions of undocumented migrants from the United States, made an enemy out of "the wrong Latina" when he went after Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), argued MSNBC columnist Julio Ricardo Varela.Homan has repeatedly made a point of threatening AOC with a Justice Department investigation for hosting a webinar to teach undocumented migrants how to respond if they're confronted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The webinar is titled, "Know Your Rights," but Homan has suggested its purpose is to "impede law enforcement" from doing its job.Varela wrote, "In multiple media appearances, Homan insulted her intelligence, mocked her credentials and claimed she was undermining law enforcement. And he said he was 'working with the Department of Justice' to see whether the congresswoman was 'crossing the line.'”ALSO READ: 'Gotta be kidding': Jim Jordan scrambles as he's confronted over Musk 'double standard'AOC wrote on social media Monday, “This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail & call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else."After Homan confirmed that he did alert the DOJ to the congresswoman's activities, she wrote to Varela, "The Trump administration understands that it does not have absolute power and that it must rely on creating a false illusion of power to create a chilling effect to get everyday people to respond to fear, comply in advance, and censor their own free speech. Ultimately, in clear scenarios such as these, the best way to handle paper tigers is to call their bluff.""The country’s most prominent Latina politician is doing exactly what needs to be done," Varela wrote. "With people now impersonating ICE agents, the need for accurate information has never been greater. Politicians need to be there for immigrant communities, even if it means going toe to toe with the Trump administration. Ocasio-Cortez’s grace under pressure is what true community leadership is all about."When Homan started a fight with Cortez, Varela wrote, "he picked the wrong Latina."Read the MSNBC article here.