As he nears his 100-day blinding blitz as POTUS 47, the Donald looked back smugly at all the havoc he had wrought at home and around the world with his beautiful executive fiats despite a hundred hurdles.Since his January 20 return to the kingdom after a four-year exile, a ‘new improved’ disruptor-in-chief has triggered a global trade war with ever shape-shifting tariffs, gutted much of the civil service, hobbled entire agencies, launched a no-holds-barred deportation drive —and a lot more to upset the established order.
“I have solved more problems in the world without asking for or getting credit,” he boasted to Time, casting his innings so far as “an unbridled success” in a cover piece that would surely join other framed copies of such magazines lining the walls of his inner sanctum in the White House.
But not to worry, if he didn’t get any credit, he would celebrate by putting up “beautiful, almost 100-foot-tall American flags” on the North and South Lawn of the White House: Two 100ft flag poles—courtesy of President Trump.”
“PRESIDENT TRUMP LOVES THE AMERICAN FLAG! ❤️” he posted on his Truth Social, adding, “We’re— top-of-the-line, paid for by Trump,” making sure nobody misses that money for the flags, or at least the poles, came from his own deep pockets.
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“What I’m doing is exactly what I’ve campaigned on,” Trump told Time while acknowledging for once that his promise to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on his first day in office was “an exaggeration.”
But a day later, as he flew into Rome for Pope Francis’ funeral, Trump was quick to claim that Russia and Ukraine were “very close to a deal” after a day of discussions about bringing the war to an end.
“Most of the major points are agreed to,” he wrote on Truth Social. Trump encouraged both sides to “finish it off,” adding, “We will be wherever it is necessary to help facilitate the END to this cruel and senseless war!”
The optimistic post came just a day after he had to tap pal Putin on the knuckles with a “Vladimir, STOP!” message painted as a rare rebuke of Russia by the media.
Then he lashed out again at Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky for not signing “the final papers on the very important Rare Earths Deal with the United States. It is at least three weeks late.”
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“Hopefully, it will be signed IMMEDIATELY. Work on the overall Peace Deal between Russia and Ukraine is going smoothly. SUCCESS seems to be in the future!” he wrote, resuming his anti-Zelensky tirade.
Calling himself “THE GREATEST FRIEND THAT AMERICAN CAPITALISM HAS EVER HAD!” Trump also suggested that his tariff policy would lead to a flurry of trade deals “over the next three to four weeks.”
Amid a trade war with China that has rattled financial markets, Trump said he had spoken with the Chinese president Xi Jinping “numerous times,” even as Chinese officials insisted that no negotiations were going on.
Continuing his war against institutions at home, Trump’s Education Department opened an investigation into whether the University of California, Berkeley, is violating laws that require disclosure of foreign contributions and contracts worth more than $250,000. The probe came one week after it opened a similar investigation into Harvard University after it refused to acquiesce to Trump’s demands.
“Harvard is an Anti-Semitic, far-left institution, as are numerous others, with students being accepted from all over the world that want to rip our country apart,” he thundered, calling it “a liberal mess, allowing a certain group of crazed lunatics to enter and exit the classroom and spew fake anger and hate. It is truly horrific!”
Meanwhile, he hoped the friendly neighbourhood SCOTUS would check out-of-control judges as it hears oral arguments next month in a case weighing the use of nationwide injunctions, or orders issued by lower court judges that block a president’s policies nationwide.
Trump told Time that he would not defy the top court. But he hasn’t acted so far to “facilitate” the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, saying, “I’m doing what I was elected to do, remove criminals from our country, but the courts don’t seem to want me to do that.”
Trump also suggested he is open to deporting U.S. citizens who commit crimes to foreign prisons, telling Time, “I would love to do that if it were permissible by law. We’re looking into that.”
Then, in a major escalation in its battle with local authorities over deportations, FBI agents arrested a Milwaukee judge on Friday on charges of obstructing immigration agents, sending an ominous message to recalcitrant judges.
While Trump’s desi top cop, Kash Patel, claimed Judge Hannah Dugan “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” an immigrant being pursued by federal authorities, attorney general Pam Bondi branded her “deranged,” taking a leaf out of Trump’s playbook.
Amid a growing resistance and pushback from a few brave ones, sitting in his revamped Oval Office with gold-accented trimmings, Trump must have looked wistfully at that box with a red button on the Resolute desk to nuke them all! Pitifully, it only summons Diet Cokes!
But if they don’t let him make America great again over the next four years, wouldn’t he have to come back to finish the job, loopholes or no loopholes!
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In readiness for that, the Trump Organization has begun selling $50 red hats online with the slogan “Trump 2028” embroidered in bright white along the front, as well as $36 T-shirts with the slogan “Rewrite the Rules.”
“The future looks bright! Rewrite the rules with the Trump 2028 high crown hat. Fully embroidered with a snap closure in the back, this will become your new go-to hat.” So goes the sales pitch!