Amanda

Good. There’s no fucking way he should get a dime of our money let alone $10B. Fuck him.

Breaking news: The Trump administration provided a lower level of security for the White House correspondents’ dinner than it has for other gatherings of high-ranking officials, according to officials familiar with the plan. wapo.st/4eb1pRg

Trump a month ago:

He was not exonerated. Trump was found liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll by a jury of his peers. He was ordered to pay her over $80 million.

And there it is……

Stop. Staging. Fake. Assassination. Attempts.

Trump just fired all 24 members of the National Science Board. Every single one. By email. No warning. No reason given. The board has existed since 1950. The National Science Board is the independent body that oversees the National Science Foundation, the agency that distributes $9 billion in research grants every year. Its members are scientists and engineers from universities and industry. They serve six-year staggered terms specifically so they cross presidential administrations and stay independent of whoever is in power. On Friday, every single one of them got the same boilerplate email from Mary Sprowls of the Presidential Personnel Office: "On behalf of President Donald J Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service." That's it. That's the whole letter. For 76 years of institutional independence. The NSF funds the basic science behind MRIs. Cellphones. LASIK eye surgery. GPS. The internet itself. The Antarctic research stations. The deep-space telescopes. The research vessels mapping the ocean floor. Every breakthrough that made America the world's leader in science for the better part of a century traces back through grants this agency made and this board approved. The board chair, Victor McCrary, was actively advising Congress on Trump's proposed 55% cut to NSF's budget. The board was helping fight back. So Trump fired the board. Marvi Matos Rodriguez, one of the fired members, told reporters she had been reviewing an 80-page report as part of her board duties just days before being terminated. Keivan Stassun, a physicist at Vanderbilt, said NSF's leadership had already stopped responding to board oversight requests months ago. "We would ask them, 'Are you following board governance directives?' And their answer would be, in effect, 'We don't listen to you anymore.'" Now there's no board to answer to. Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House Science Committee, called it "the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation. Will the president fill the NSB with MAGA loyalists who won't stand up to him as he hands over our leadership in science to our adversaries?" That's the actual question. Because while Trump is firing American scientists, China is building research universities at a rate we cannot match. The CDC just buried a study showing vaccines work. RFK Jr. runs HHS. The EPA is gutted. The Forest Service is being broken. Half of American children are breathing dangerous air. And now the people who decide what gets researched in the United States have all been fired by email on a Friday afternoon.

Trump has skipped EVERY correspondant's dinner across his presidencies. Except this one. His ratings are down, failed at Iran and his ballroom won’t be built. And all of a sudden there's a shooter in the lobby. Ok.

And there you have it, folks.

If your initial thought after a shooting is: “Our president needs a luxury ballroom funded by hundreds of millions of dollars from anonymous donors who are excluded from conflicts of interest oversight,” and not: “Dangerous people who are a threat to others shouldn’t be allowed to legally buy guns” then you’ve lost the thread.

Let me get this straight. Trump has forgone the White House Correspondents dinner every single year. This year, not only was he there, his entire cabinet was there including the VP, the head of the FBI, the Secretary of Defense (while we're at war) - and Erika Kirk. Ok. 👌

trump is now using the WHCD shooting as a means to justify the building of his stupid ballroom. There it is.

This feels just as weird as the Butler photo op moment. I’m no conspiracy theorist but if there were actual shots fired here - why the hell would the President return to that location tonight? Secret Service would have no way of confirming if it was a single gunman or larger plot so fast and would *never* let the program continue with officials there

Trump just used the shooting to sell his illegal ballroom to the American people.

... Press conference right after a "shooting" better check the bullets to make sure they say "anti trump" on them. Get Kash in there with his bic pen.

THIS IS CRAZY: 🇺🇸 Weeks ago we started tracking a whale. 11 oil trades. 11 wins. Perfect timing. Every time. BBC validated it. White House denied it. Now a reporter asked Trump directly. "Are you concerned about insider trading?" Trump: "The world is a casino. It is what it is." Trade on a tip from your friend. Federal prison. Front-run a war decision with $17 million. No consequences. The President just told you the rules don't apply to everyone. The game is rigged. He just confirmed it.

MASSIVE: 🇺🇸 The BBC just validated everything we've been saying. A clear pattern of trades right before major Trump announcements. Iran war. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. We tracked a whale for weeks. 0 losses. 11 wins. 100% win rate. You would go to prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. They front-run war decisions with billion dollar bets. Now the BBC has the receipts. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. The game is rigged. And now the world knows it.

Oh my god.

WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES? WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES? WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES? WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES? WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES? WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES? WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES? WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES? WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES?

“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began. That’s a pattern.” “And what that suggests is that there’s rampant corruption and insider self-dealing going on with the president’s up and down predictions of what’s going to happen tomorrow in the negotiations and in the markets. And I’m sure that that’s being investigated. We can’t prove it, but it seems like the corruption that we’re seeing in our government, maybe not the President, but people who are in the know and the markets, is having a priority over the actual negotiations to end the war. And that’s a crazy thing that our system has never seen before.”