Donald Trump winning won’t be the end of the world

1 week, 6 days ago

Key lines from Trump’s interview with Time magazine

CNN

CNN — Accompanying his selection as Time’s Person of the Year, President-elect Donald Trump sat down with the magazine for a wide-ranging interview that published on Thursday. ‘Vehemently’ disagrees with new Biden missile policy in Ukraine Trump said he “vehemently” disagrees with allowing Ukraine to use US-provided weapons to strike inside Russia and that by doing so, the US is …

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2 weeks ago

Trump’s bringing several billionaires — and their conflicts — to Washington

Politico

The billionaires set to join the second Trump administration include Howard Lutnick, a Wall Street CEO who Trump tapped to be Commerce secretary; Warren Stephens, the CEO of an Arkansas financial services firm who he picked to be ambassador to the United Kingdom; presumptive NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman; and deputy Defense secretary Steve Feinberg. Morgan Ackley, a spokeswoman for …

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1 month ago

Trump's brain drain: Fox News personalities tapped to become America's next top scientists, doctors

Salon

A couple of days after the election this year I wrote that I thought a lot of the anti-incumbent movement these past couple of years had to do with unprocessed trauma from the global pandemic. It appears that Trump is intent on stacking the nation's most important health agencies with people who are hostile to modern public health science and …

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1 month ago

Trump taps a surgeon, a former congressman and another Fox News personality to lead public health agencies

LA Times

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday nominated Dr. Marty Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration, selecting a surgeon and author who gained national attention for opposing vaccine mandates and some other public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of a flurry of nominations late Friday night, Trump also tapped doctor and former Republican Rep. Dave Weldon of …

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1 month ago

Trump and the Triumph of America’s New Elite

Bloomberg

A future historian looking back at the social and economic trends of the past decade might be struck by how thoroughly dysfunctional the most powerful nation of Earth has become. Despite extraordinary technological change and respectable economic growth, the well-being of most Americans has been declining. So while Donald Trump ’s election this fall was a surprise to many, the …

1 month, 1 week ago

Donald Trump’s presidency and his ‘end of wars’ promise

Firstpost

Ever since Donald Trump has made history in US politics through a sweep across the political spectrum garnering electoral college votes way ahead along with popular votes and securing the Senate and Congress control, the international challenges and the two wars in the European and Middle Eastern context have acquired the center stage as he often made lofty statements of …

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1 month, 1 week ago

No one 'more damaging': CNN expert says insiders felt 'horror' over Trump pick

Raw Story

Dr. Sanjay Gupta tries to stay above the political fray, said CNN anchor Jake Tapper, but he couldn't remain silent on his opposition to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. "You know, it's not often that the entire medical and public health community will be in lock-step on something, but they're pretty close …

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'Going to get worse': Expert says Trump's homeless plan could unleash 'hell on Earth'

Raw Story

NPR on Thursday examined one of President-elect Donald Trump's recent policy ideas that one expert say is highly unlikely to succeed if ever implemented. Should there be no available mental health facilities, Trump proposes shipping homeless people to government-sanctioned tent cities that one expert say could prove really disastrous. "From Washington, you actually don't have many law enforcement tools to …

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1 month, 1 week ago

America will soon discover how real the ‘deep state really is': columnist

Raw Story

Donald Trump’s promise to tear down the federal bureaucracy could deliver major consequences for public health organizations across the United States, but his efforts will simultaneously expose how “resilient the deep state really is,” which a columnist argued Monday is “actually much more benign” than the president-elect believes. While there “really is a deep state” operating within the federal health …

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1 month, 1 week ago

'Train wreck': Experts sound the alarm on Trump's plan to blindly purge federal workforce

Raw Story

Experts are already worried about the immediate impacts on the country as former President Donald Trump gears up to wipe out much of the federal government workforce, reported The New York Times on Monday. The Heritage Foundation's infamous Project 2025 plan calls for broadly reclassifying much of the civil service who perform basic, nonpartisan government functions to allow the president …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Donald Trump Jr mocks Zelensky by suggesting that he’s just weeks away from ‘losing allowance’

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Donald Trump Jr took a swipe at Volodymyr Zelensky after …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Challenges await US president-elect Trump in deeply divided nation

China Daily

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-11-07 15:11 Supporters of US President-elect Donald Trump react, after he won the 2024 US presidential election, in West Palm Beach, Florida, US, Nov 6, 2024. NEW YORK - US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States, facing significant challenges of "healing" a deeply divided nation. Trump was elected …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Europe reacts to Donald Trump's victory

ABC

Sabra Lane: Donald Trump's win could have big ramifications in Europe, particularly the war in Ukraine, as well as security and trade. Kathryn Diss: Donald Trump has claimed he could end the conflict in Ukraine in a single day and slash funding crucial to sustaining its war effort. Kathryn Diss: Other European leaders followed in their congratulations, but Donald Trump's …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Watch: Furious MSNBC host confronts Trump ally Byron Donalds over president elect's plans

Raw Story

A visibly fuming José Díaz-Balart hammered Rep. Byron Donalds on Wednesday morning after Donald Trump's presidential win, peppering the MAGA lawmaker with questions about what the president-elect has in store with America's immigrants. "First and foremost, the success of the American people is how you unite the American people, unite our country," the Florida Republican replied. That's why his tax …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Celebrities react as Donald Trump wins 2024 US election to become president

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

What a Donald Trump victory in the US election could mean for the UK

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The same poll also shows that 76 per …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump’s victory: ‘America has found its common sense – now we need to find ours’

The Telegraph

Donald Trump has won the 2024 US presidential election, securing a second term as president. “Time for the woke, delusional West to get a much-needed kick up the backside, including us,” Rohan L remarks. Likewise, another anonymous reader hopes the Trump win will see a “dying down of identity politics peddled by the Left”. They add: “Americans who aren’t indoctrinated …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Take a blowtorch’: Trump cronies share how they plan to end ObamaCare

Raw Story

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson say they have big plans to implement "massive" changes to the entire U.S. food, drug, and health care system — from killing ObamaCare and all its protections, to handing over control of all health, food, and drug policies and agencies to conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy …

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2 months ago

Trump's Followers And Allies Shrug Off His Reported Praise For Adolf Hitler

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING ZEBULON, Ga. — While Donald Trump’s reported praise for Adolf Hitler may alarm some Americans, to his followers and Republican allies, it’s just another day that ends in “y” — yet another example of his political opponents attacking him unfairly. I don’t think he would do the things that Democrats are doing.” Retired Marine Corps Gen. John …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Trump fatigue has set: Post-election disruption plans suggest the pressure is getting to MAGA

Salon

Donald Trump can be defeated. Other than a private plane trip to Russia or Venezuela, after another election loss, Donald Trump knows he’s basically, as Martha and the Vandellas sang, left with; “nowhere to run to baby, nowhere to hide.” To be blunt, under no circumstances will Donald Trump accept a defeat because to do so means that he will …

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3 months ago

America’s election is mired in conflict

Hindustan Times

Even without Donald Trump on the ballot, American elections tend to create conflict. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - SEPTEMBER 13: Supporters of Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, hold signs during a campaign rally at The Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas on September 13, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Even if Ms Harris won the popular vote …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: This is where the Trump-Hitler comparison works

LA Times

Former President Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Atlanta on Saturday. To the editor: Some of your letter writers seem to think that making any comparison of former President Trump to Adolf Hitler is inherently more divisive than anything Trump does. He gained power by stoking grievance; accusing the elected government of treasonous behavior; creating a cult of personality; …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Hitler expert gives stunning warning about Trump's 'intellectual nitwit' image

Raw Story

Donald Trump shares a lot of similarities with Adolf Hitler, according to an expert on Nazi Germany. “We tend to see Hitler as a genocidal mass murderer, which of course he was, but not so much as a populist," de Berg said. "I thought looking at it through the perspective of Trump can help us wrap our heads around the …

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7 months ago

Donald Trump invokes Nazi Germany in poll video, calls for 'unified Reich'

Hindustan Times

A video posted to Donald Trump's account on his social media network Monday included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November. The word “Reich” is often largely associated with Nazi Germany’s Third Reich, though the references in the video Trump shared appear to be a reference to the formation of the …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump's hush-money trial: The personal is truly political

Salon

As a practical matter, Donald Trump’s hush-money trial is fundamentally about election interference and hiding information from the American people that could have influenced the outcome of the 2016 election. Legal experts generally agree that the testimony by witnesses for the prosecution — including David Pecker, former publisher of The National Enquirer, and Stormy Daniels’ former attorney Keith Davidson, as …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Is the world getting ready for the return of Donald Trump?

The Independent

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

The "martyrdom" of Donald J. Trump

Salon

Donald Trump has repeatedly shown that he can reasonably be described as evil. You have to have it for your heart, for your soul.” The relationship between Donald Trump and his fascist MAGA movement and the Christian Right is transactional. In a post on X/Twitter, his niece, Mary Trump, was very clear and unambiguous about Trump’s Bible-selling hustle: “He’s never …

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1 year ago

DC Edit | Alarm bells for Donald Trump

Deccan Chronicle

The former US President and 2024 hopeful, Donald Trump, is on a sticky wicket, at least for the moment. Colorado’s Supreme Court, in a four-judge majority decision with three others dissenting, has ruled that his name cannot be on the state’s Republican primary election ballot paper on the grounds that he engaged in an insurrection aimed at the Capitol Hill, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Desperate Trump's 'final battle' is to destroy America — and that's not an exaggeration

Raw Story

"2024 is our final battle. It’s the “final battle,” he told them, an armageddon of sorts—wording that gets them completely engaged — and he needs them “at my side.” But this is also defendant Trump’s final battle for his freedom, and he was admitting it and asking for help from his massive cult following. While on the one hand, he …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Donald Trump has gone off the deep end for real: He's a danger to humanity

Salon

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. Call it the wailing of the banshees or whatever else you want, but Trump now seems the living embodiment of Edvard Munch's famous 1893 painting in oil tempera, pastel and crayon, "The Scream." Trump's rhetoric has been consistently endorsed and …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Donald Trump is doomed. Finally

Al Jazeera

The new indictments don’t bar Trump from contesting. Donald Trump is facing the legal reckoning he has earned after debasing every moral, ethical and legal norm in pursuit of the two defining aspects of his small, grubby life: money and fame. True to his rank, manipulative nature, Trump tried to “get ahead” of the story by breaking word of the …

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2 years ago

Trump's J6 report meltdown ramps up as he demands officials rid country of the 'cancer' behind his election loss

Raw Story

Moments after Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to insist that, in the 2020 presidential election "TRUMP WON, BIG!" Early Friday, hours after the January 6 committee issued a damning report that recommended not only criminal charges against the former president but also bluntly stated he should not be allowed to hold public office again, the twice-impeached former …

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2 years ago

Trump has 'gone farther down the rabbit hole' because he's a 'black hole of need': Mary Trump

Raw Story

Speaking with MSNBC host Alex Witt on Saturday afternoon, the niece of Donald Trump suggested that her uncle is seeking to remain relevant at all costs as his political career sunsets. With host Witt reminding viewers that Mary Trump is a psychologist, she asked her guest, "Is there more to your uncle's most recent interaction with fringe elements and extremists? …

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3 years, 2 months ago

What happens to America's mental health under a second Trump administration? Very bad things

Salon

Donald Trump's presidency and the destructive forces it unleashed are a mental health emergency — as well as a public health emergency in general. Tens of millions of his followers now live in an alternate reality sustained by the Big Lie, an upside-down world in which Donald Trump is still the "real" president of the United States. What will happen …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Column: Donald Trump just won’t go away

LA Times

In his new book “Landslide,” journalist Michael Wolff argues that former President Trump is a madman in want of a straitjacket. Maybe we will someday see an omnibus from Wolff, with new titles like “Phoenix: Trump from the Ashes,” “King: Trump Enthroned” and “Afterlife: Trump Reigns from the Grave.” But even if the future is not that bleak, epochs don’t …

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3 years, 10 months ago

The US media organisations loyal to Donald Trump could struggle to find the same oxygen under President Joe Biden

ABC

A pillow company CEO who has advised former US president Donald Trump has been cut off during an interview with one of the most Trump-friendly media networks in America. The rise of MAGA media In March last year, there was an extraordinary question asked to then-president Trump in the White House Press Briefing room: "Is it alarming that major media …

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3 years, 11 months ago

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s fiction in his goodbye to Washington

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In his final remarks as president, Donald Trump tried to take credit for accomplishments of his predecessor and even those to come under President Joe Biden. to defend the truth and defeat the lies.” A look at some of Trump’s statements to well-wishers at Joint Base Andrews en route to Florida on Wednesday and in his videotaped address …

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3 years, 11 months ago

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s farewell falsehoods

Associated Press

On his way out, President Donald Trump claimed credit for things he didn’t do and twisted his record on jobs, taxes, the pandemic and much more. ___ ECONOMY TRUMP: “We also built the greatest economy in the history of the world.” THE FACTS: No, the numbers show it wasn’t the greatest in U.S. history. ___ TRUMP: “We rebuilt the American …

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3 years, 11 months ago

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's farewell falsehoods

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Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. ___ TAXES TRUMP: “We passed the largest package of tax cuts and …

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3 years, 11 months ago

‘Shameful': US virus deaths top 400K as Trump leaves office

Associated Press

As President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19. “This is just one step on an ominous path of fatalities,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University and one of many public health experts who contend the Trump administration’s …

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3 years, 11 months ago

What next for Donald Trump? Honestly, bankruptcy could be looming

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3 years, 11 months ago

Trump’s last year in office will define his legacy, historians say

CNN

CNN — Historians face a daunting task when it comes time to assessing Donald Trump’s presidency, during which news often moved at breakneck pace, and the ramifications of his one-term presidency have yet to be determined. Jeff Engel, a presidential historian and author of “Impeachment: An American History,” told CNN that he doesn’t “think that anything that President Trump did …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Physician who declared Trump would be the healthiest president in history dies

LA Times

Dr. Harold Bornstein, personal physician to Donald Trump, arrives at his office in New York in 2015. Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, the physician who once declared that Donald Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” has died at age 73. A poet and gastroenterologist, Bornstein treated Trump for decades, once telling an interviewer, “I like Donald …

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4 years ago

Trump's legacy: He changed the presidency, but will it last?

India Today

The most improbable of presidents, Donald Trump reshaped the office and shattered its centuries-old norms and traditions while dominating the national discourse like no one before. “He altered the presidency in many ways, but many of them can be changed back almost overnight by a president who wants to make the point that there is a change.” Trump’s most enduring …

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4 years ago

Opinion: Donald Trump’s long goodbye

CNN

Editor’s Note: Sign up to get our new weekly column as a newsletter. American democracy is beating back Trump’s effort to “steal an election,” wrote Frida Ghitis, as judges and election officials, both Republicans and Democrats, reject his “voter fraud” claims. History will scorn the cowards who meekly complied with Trump’s scheme to tarnish and overturn the election – and …

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4 years ago

Forensic psychiatrists: Donald Trump does not pass the smell test for an insanity defense

Raw Story

Yesterday, renowned forensic psychiatrist Dr. James Merikangas and I published a statement with DC Report that President-Elect Joe Biden should encourage prosecution of Donald Trump if he wishes to forge more bipartisan relationships in Washington. This is because the usual approach of conciliatory gestures, “reaching across the aisle,” or bypassing the law “for the sake of national unity” usually does …

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4 years ago

Expert: Donald Trump’s psychological makeup makes defeat a humiliation he cannot abide — at any cost

Raw Story

The United States has now exceeded 15 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, with casualties at the rate of one Pearl Harbor attack per day. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has not attended a coronavirus task force meeting in 6 months. Rather, in the past week, he sent out 145 “tweets” lashing out at the results of his lost election. According to news …

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4 years ago

Opinion: Trump transition show is jumping the shark

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Editor’s Note: Sign up to get our new weekly column as a newsletter. “Understanding that truth is key to a successful transition to a Biden-Harris administration,” she wrote – and addressing it is equally key to healing from Trump’s strongman tactics. The world is in many ways a more dangerous place than when Donald Trump took office.” Citing the “scary …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Even when Trump leaves the White House, his lie machine will be a powerful force – Meanwhile in America

CNN

Editor’s Note: This was adapted from the November 17 edition of CNN’s Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. “Their last dying words are, ‘This can’t be happening; it is not real,’” Doering said Monday on CNN’s “New Day.” Such is the power of an effort by President Donald Trump and conservative media to push …

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Donald Trump winning won’t be the end of the world

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