Michael Urtuzuástegui Melcher, JD/MBA

@Jack13557913 @AnnCoulter You mean Obama.

@AnnCoulter It is rather nice to see a cabinet meeting conducted by a president that is able to speak in coherent sentences🤣🤡

Would it be possible to have a cabinet meeting without the Kim Jong il-style tributes?

@AnnCoulter Isn't that what you've been working toward your whole life?

@meghan_daum That is my zone on a good day and I feel fat.

This thread of guys talking about how much they weigh in relation to their height is so hot. Total swoon.

@FBIDirectorKash MAGA = Gestapo. Any other evidence required?

Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week. We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest. Thankfully, our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public. We will have more to share soon. Excellent work @FBIMilwaukee.

@jessesingal The farmer and the cowman should be friends . . .

He talks the way they talk in musicals right before they launch into a song

@chamath Will you release your trading records from the past 10 days or so?

I’ve observed a few hi stakes negotiations over the years and one tactic I’ve seen work well over and over is when you find the leverage to bring your opponent to the edge of the cliff, hold them over the cliff so they see the abyss and threaten to push them off. Turns out when you then don’t push them, but back off, they often develop Stockholm syndrome and give you more than you would have otherwise because they are thankful for the reprieve. I don’t know that this is the plan here but the conditions for that are the same. 75 countries are on a 90 day shot clock to get a grand bargain done. Based on what I’ve heard from some of them, they are thankful for a chance to egress off the tariff highway and find a new normal - even if that’s much worse for them than what it was previously.

@meghan_daum I was a latchkey kid and it was great! Although I am officially the last gasp of the Boomers.

Nah. We feared The Bermuda Triangle.

@BillAckman Bill, you've been played. Another reason Harvard should avoid legacy admissions.

How’s this for a simple approach? We keep 10% across the board tariffs for the special privilege of doing business with the U.S. to compensate us for the investments we have made in global defense, health and otherwise, and to compensate our country for historically unfair trade practices that have contributed to our massive deficits and national debt. We keep the pressure on China to resolve materially unfair trading practices, IP theft, currency manipulation, and other practices that have disadvantaged our nation. We pause reciprocal tariff implementation for 90 days so we have time to engage in private negotiations with other countries, focusing first on those whose tariffs and practices have materially interfered with the competitiveness of U.S. manufactured goods in their markets. Lastly, we consider that: (1) it does not make sense to have balanced trade with countries that are smaller than us and that have fewer resources to spend on US goods, i.e., we will forever be buying more from Madagascar than they will buy from us, (2) attempting to bring back jobs in low-wage manufacturing is not good for America, acknowledging, for example, that Bangladesh and Vietnam are better places to produce textiles and athletic shoes than here, (3) U.S. ‘exports’ of software, IP, finance, and other services are high value and important sources of trade that are not reflected in traditional measures of exports and imports, and if included in the calculations would make the balance of trade statistics look much more balanced, (4) our multinationals’ subsidiaries that sell services in foreign countries that are not counted in the balance of trade calculation, but generate profits, value and future dividends are good for America, (5) a goal of generating a dollar of exports for every dollar of imports is not a useful one, particularly on a country-by-country basis in light of our massively higher standard of living, and having the largest economy in the world. Lastly, the current trading system, while far from perfect or fair to the U.S., has served us extremely well so we need to be prudent in how we change it so as not to upset the world order in such a manner that it disadvantages our country over the long term.

@MarioNawfal Keep telling yourself that, @elonmusk. Maybe it will help the rejection hurt less.

🚨🇺🇸EXPOSED: ANTI-ELON PROTESTS ARE STAGED & PAID—BUSSED-IN, SCRIPTED, CLOCKED-OUT The anti-Elon, anti-DOGE, anti-Trump protests in D.C.? They aren’t grassroots. They are payroll-driven theater. - Buses rolled in packed with hired protesters. - Pre-made signs handed out assembly-line style. - Scripts distributed to keep messaging “on brand.” - Protesters all left at once—just like a shift change. The protests are organized astroturf—NGO-backed, donor-funded, and as fake as their outrage. It's a union of grifters and bureaucrats trying to stop Elon from cutting off their taxpayer-funded gravy train. Source: @WallStreetApes

@VivekGRamaswamy You're going to teach Ohioans how to get rich through pump & dump stock plays? That's your specialty.

We’re going to unleash an economic boom in Ohio like we haven’t seen since the first Industrial Revolution & we’ll repatriate so many of our state’s sons and daughters who’ve left to pursue opportunity elsewhere.

@Cluffalo You should read (or re-read) Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique," published in 1963. There was plenty of social contact in the 1950s and it did not save women from feeling desperate and empty.

One of the elephants in the room as to why women want careers is because the decline in socialization means being a stay at home mom can be super isolating for a lot of people Sometimes it’s not that women want to build PowerPoints, they just want to see other adults regularly

@meghan_daum @TheUnspeakPod @esanzi .... And they would come of age during the post-war economic expansion of the 50s and 60s and the massive increase in university slots due to the GI bill.

@meghan_daum @TheUnspeakPod @esanzi In one of Malcolm Gladwell's books, he talks about how 1931 was the best year to be born in (my parents were both born in 1931). There were fewer babies due to the Depression, the women who taught them would become high income achievers ... (1/2)

That hardass English teacher who made us diagram sentences back in the 80s? She'd probably be a law partner today. From my @TheUnspeakPod livestream conversation with @esanzi. theunspeakablepodcast.com/p/livestream-h…

@meghan_daum Weren't there various writers at the New Yorker who were on staff for decades who never really wrote anything? Or is that an urban legend?

This is making the rounds. I'm not saying he's lying and it's true that some people were paid a LOT. But this arrangement sounds extreme in the extreme.

@VivekGRamaswamy Your children are props. If you were a good father, you'd be at home with them.

Favorite moment of the campaign so far.

@sadmonsters Cousin Oliver!

When a failing sitcom adds a little kid in the final season:

@marcorubio What makes you happer, @marcorubio, babies and toddlers dying of HIV in Africa or babies and toddlers dying of HIV in south and southeast Asia?

After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID. The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States. In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department. Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform.

@megynkelly So you're saying we don't have enough public investment In infrastructure. Hmmmm.

1. TSA Precheck now regularly has a longer line than regular. 2. Our airports are not the airports of a first world country.

@NoCongestionTax People should pay the cost of their negative externalities.

I will never understand the "streets are for people" BS. The streets are for vehicles. I mean, be creative. Lobby for public atriums in new buildings, rooftop parks, upgrades to existing ones. This stick some tables and chairs on asphalt b/c you hate cars thing is so transparent.

@sirDukeDevin I'm not a fan of his, but a fair number of poor kids go to Yale, and to similar places. Ivy League schools with big endowments often give more financial aid and attracted poorer students than public places like UC Berkeley.

Who changes their name that many times? 🤔