As the world woos Trump amid his tariff turbulence, a defiant Don asks Republicans not to be “Weak! Stupid! or a PANICAN!”
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Cool King Donald instead putted at Mar-a-Lago, his southern white palace, as markets around the world went on a roller coaster ride with his on and off again tit for tat tariffs.
“We are doing really well on our TARIFF POLICY. Very exciting for America, and the World!!! It is moving along quickly,” declared ‘DJT’ after ‘acing’ his cognitive test even as some carping critics questioned his “insane self-immolation tariff regime.”
He “got every answer right,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One after the first physical of his second term showing a “good heart, a good soul, very good soul.”
“CHINA PLAYED IT WRONG, THEY PANICKED – THE ONE THING THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO DO!” declared POTUS 45&47, as his MAGA hat proclaims, raising a defiant China’s tariff to 125% in an escalating trade war, as more than 75 other countries willing to talk turkey wooed him.
Trump also marveled how his predecessors had allowed China to “rip us off” as a country for such a long time. “How people stood for it, sitting in my position, is not even believable. We’re talking about many presidents, not just a couple,” he wondered.
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Then as if to show “No other president would have done what I did,” the White House moved the official portrait of Barack Obama to make room for a new one of a bloodied candidate Trump with his fist raised in the air right after being shot at a campaign event last year.
The switch shown in a brief video on “Some new artwork at the White House” on X, came days after POTUS 44 in a campus speech said he does not think Trump’s new tariff announcement “is going to be good for America.”
However, Obama who had during the 2024 election warned that “Just because (Trump) acts goofy, doesn’t mean his presidency wouldn’t be dangerous,” asserting that he is more concerned with Trump’s efforts to trample dissent, called on citizens, colleges and law firms to resist his agenda.
Earlier, shortly before announcing a 90 day pause on tariffs on most countries except China, because “people were jumping a little bit out of line… getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid,” Trump told his followers on Truth Social to “BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well.”
“The USA will be bigger and better than ever before!” he wrote followed by a tip: “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” prompting calls for an insider trading probe that left the Don unfazed.
The tariff pause came after a very public feud between two of Trump’s boys, his trade guru — “my Peter” Navarro — the key architect of his much maligned tariff formula and first DOGE cost cutter Elon Musk pushing for “zero tariffs” between the United States and Europe.
As Musk called Navarro — and the fake expert he invented, Ron Vara — a “moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks,” dubbing him as “Peter Retarrdo,” the former dismissed the Tesla boss as a mere “car assembler” overly reliant on foreign-made components.
The White House played it cool with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lightly brushing aside the spat saying “Boys will be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue” since the “president takes all opinions in mind, and then makes the best decision based on the best interest of the American public.”
Meanwhile, the friendly neighborhood SCOTUS — with its 6-3 conservative majority, including three justices nominated by Trump in his first term — handed the POTUS a string of victories as he keeps pushing the limits of executive power.
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Among them was one lifting a temporary restraining order against controversial use of the wartime Alien Enemies Act to rapidly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members.
In three of the four major cases the court with a 5-4 majority has voted to lift lower court orders temporarily blocking Trump’s move to freeze millions of dollars in federal grants for teacher training, fire 16,000 probationary federal workers, and deport illegal immigrants.
“The Supreme Court has upheld the Rule of Law in our Nation by allowing a President, whoever that may be, to be able to secure our Borders, and protect our families and our Country, itself. A GREAT DAY FOR JUSTICE IN AMERICA!” exulted the POTUS.
ABC News Supreme Court analyst Sarah Isgur summed up the top court’s response so far as “doing its best to avoid direct confrontation with the White House while planting a flag over its power of judicial review.”
In a series of rulings over the past month, the high court’s conservative majority has been neither a rubber stamp for the president nor an aggressive check on his prerogative, she wrote suggesting “They are punting as much as they can.”
To portray Trump’s aura of invincibility, the White House even turned planting of a new sapling to replace an ancient magnolia named for the seventh President Andrew Jackson, deemed to be a safety threat by experts, into a publicity event.
Nearly 200 years after Jackson planted the tree in memory of his wife, Rachel, Trump ceremoniously planted the 12-year-old magnolia sapling — a direct descendant of the historic “Jackson Magnolia ” — with a golden shovel, rebranding it a “MAGAnolia,” in a nod to his “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan.
Amid ongoing wars with allies and adversaries at home and abroad, at least one of Trump’s executive orders went unchallenged — so far — by panicky politicians or jumpy judges — to repeal a Biden-era rule restricting water flow from shower heads.
“I like to take a nice shower, take care of my beautiful hair. I have to stand in the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet,” said Trump as he signed an order to end the “ridiculous drip, drip, drip” and make ‘showers great again!’