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class="image-link-expand"></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Trump wants to go down in history as one of the great US presidents, but what is unfolding is one of the biggest presidential trainwrecks in American history. Through a series of bad policy decisions, Donald J. Trump has wrecked the economy. Corruption in this administration is approaching levels that haven&#8217;t been seen in the country since the 19th Century.</p><p>The president started a war with Iran, which he lost, and negotiated a ceasefire extension that he will not let Congress or the American people view.</p><p><strong>PoliticusUSA is independent news and opinion delivered directly to you. Support us by becoming a subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>A <a href="https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2026/06/16/al-arabiya-obtains-14point-draft-usiran-deal">leaked version </a>of the ceasefire extension (memorandum of understanding) was published by Saudi Arabian media, and if this is what the Trump administration agreed to, it is a total defeat for the United States.</p><p>Let&#8217;s begin with money. The Iranian regime, which Trump failed to change, is about to get a lot of it. </p><p>Here are points 6 and 7 of the memorandum of understanding:</p><p><em>6. The United States undertakes, together with its regional partners, to create a comprehensive plan agreed upon by both parties for the rehabilitation and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran, While ensuring financing of at least $300 billion. The implementation mechanism of this plan, as part of the final agreement, will be formulated within 60 days.</em></p><p><em>7. The United States commits to ending, on a schedule to be agreed upon as part of the final agreement, all types of sanctions currently facing the Islamic Republic of Iran, including resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and all unilateral U.S. sanctions, both primary and secondary.</em></p><p>Iran gets $300 billion, and the lifting of sanctions. That&#8217;s really bad, but Trump wasn&#8217;t done giving away cash.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[House Democrats Bust Kash Patel's Illegal FBI MAGA Slush Fund]]></title><description><![CDATA[House Judiciary Committee Democrats have uncovered an illegal slush fund that they allege FBI Director Kash Patel is directing funds to MAGAs within the FBI who carry out private illegal orders.]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/house-democrats-bust-kash-patels</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/house-democrats-bust-kash-patels</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:56:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xmqc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5aa6311c-a1ca-4f26-9b41-559f43ae2983_604x355.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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There has long been an idea among Trump critics that once Trump is gone, the corruption will go away with him, but the corruption within the second Trump administration appears to be much deeper and more systemic. </p><p>One of the most important functions of the federal government is national security and law enforcement. Trump has made it a priority in his second administration to politicize and the federal government&#8217;s law enforcement functions.</p><p>Trump has accomplished this by getting loyalists who share his contempt for good government into federal law enforcement positions </p><p><strong>PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. Support us by becoming a subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>An example of the sort of person that Trump wanted overseeing federal law enforcement is Kash Patel. <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/politicususanews/p/kash-patel-gets-humiliated-over-his?r=f805&amp;utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">The current FBI Director has been accused of excessive drinking, </a>abuse of government travel, and he was seen partying with the men&#8217;s hockey team at the Winter Olympics on the taxpayers&#8217; dime.</p><p>According to House Judiciary Democrats, Patel has also been operating a slush fund with taxpayer money that rewarded MAGA loyalists within the FBI.</p><p>House Judiciary Democrats posted on X:</p><p><em>Judiciary Democrats have uncovered that FBI Director Kash Patel directed over $1 MILLION in unlawful taxpayer-funded bonuses to a small group of MAGA agents and members of Patel&#8217;s personal security detail.</em></p><p>As the House Judiciary Democrats pointed out, Patel appears to be breaking the law.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump's Support Has Collapsed In Rural America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump won the rural parts of the United States by 40 points over Kamala Harris, but less than two years later, his approval rating is a net (+2).]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/trumps-support-has-collapsed-in-rural</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/trumps-support-has-collapsed-in-rural</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:29:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Ceg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a0d12d7-a5a4-4ef5-a0b3-256a38f738e7_874x355.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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One of the greatest contradictions, or some would say con jobs, in American history was pulled off as a New York City creature passed himself off as relatable and sharing the concerns of rural America. </p><p>To anyone with a discerning eye, it was clear that Trump didn&#8217;t understand or care about rural America. Even rural Americans would admit this fact on occasion, but they liked Trump because he talked about them, and he played on their mistrust of elites by selling himself as an outsider who had been inside enough to confirm their suspicions about &#8220;the swamp.&#8221;</p><p><strong>PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. Support us by becoming a subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>The myths that Trump created caused his support to grow even more with rural America by 2024, to the point that he was able to expand his margin of victory with these voters to 40 points over then-VP Kamala Harris.</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/politicususa/p/poor-people-who-voted-for-trump-had?r=f805&amp;utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Many of these people didn&#8217;t seem to know what they were voting for. </a>Trump kept talking about tariffs and mass deportations during the campaign. Republicans even held up mass deportation signs and Republican National Convention, so these folks can&#8217;t say they weren&#8217;t warned. </p><p>There were plenty of signals about what was coming. It is their fault if they chose not to see. </p><p>With the economic pressure growing on an economically depressed population, it was only a matter of time until the dam broke, and it finally has.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Refuses To Release The Text Of The Iran Deal And Brief Congress Because It Doesn't Exist]]></title><description><![CDATA[If the memorandum of understanding is a good deal for the United States, why is Trump refusing to release the text or brief Congress on it? The answer is that a final agreement doesn't exist.]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-refuses-to-release-the-text</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-refuses-to-release-the-text</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:30:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IbJ3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe385bd68-1b2b-44d5-89f5-c86f89930c38_453x343.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IbJ3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe385bd68-1b2b-44d5-89f5-c86f89930c38_453x343.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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all but admitted that there is no final deal.</p><p>Vance said:</p><p><em>Well, I think the best outcome is a good deal for the American people, which we have. Fundamentally, we're dealing with everybody in the Iranian system. You know, there's the IRGC, the sort of regime hard liners, the military side, there's the political leadership, and within the political leadership you have people who are more hard line and less hard line. We expect to have a full spectrum of representatives at the negotiation on Friday. Again, we've been talking to these people, sometimes indirectly, but sometimes directly, and that's what's fundamentally changed under the President's leadership. We are now speaking directly to the Iranian system. We have some good relationships there. So, this is going to be a successful negotiation, because we're not passing messages through various back channels anymore. </em></p><p>Video:</p><p></p><div id="youtube2-fZiaU8LXubw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;fZiaU8LXubw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fZiaU8LXubw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><em>We're actually talking to them. And when you talk to them, you figure out what's real, what's fake, what are they serious about, what are they not serious about. And the thing I would add to that is we fundamentally have all the cards here. We don't have to give the Iranians anything if they don't make the commitments that we want long term on the nuclear program, and even if we just stopped here, what would be true? Their military is destroyed, the Straits of Hormuz are open, their nuclear program has been destroyed, and we have incredible economic leverage over them that we didn't have a year and a half ago. So we've got a lot of leverage here, but we also have the President saying to them, we're extending an open hand.</em></p><p>If you cut through Vance&#8217;s propaganda and talking points, the most important thing he said was what he didn&#8217;t say. The vice president gave no details, because there is no deal, but Congress wants to see what Trump has agreed to.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Attacks The Weather Channel As Storm Threatens To Obliterate His White House UFC Event]]></title><description><![CDATA[The forecast for Trump's UFC card on the White House South Lawn includes wind, thunderstorms, and bugs- lots of bugs- so the Trump administration attacked the Weather Channel.]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-attacks-the-weather-channel</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-attacks-the-weather-channel</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:26:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VYe8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22241751-0684-435a-9a6a-b1c522964361_834x457.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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The White House belongs to the American people, not any president. The current president has vandalized the White House many times over, but his destruction of the South Lawn to hold a birthday party for himself is especially twisted. </p><p><strong>PoliticusUSA is 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>No one asked for a UFC card to be held at the White House. The event is not free to the American people. The White House grounds are a national park. A commercial event is being held for profit in a taxpayer-funded space. </p><p>It is very fitting that a man who fails at everything is about to see his birthday party wiped out by what sounds like a biblical event. </p><p>Here is The Weather Channel&#8217;s forecast for Sunday night&#8217;s event:</p><p><em>UFC Freedom 250 is facing a chaotic weather setup on the White House South Lawn, with a 60% chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, and wind gusts up to 34 mph threatening to delay the outdoor fights. </em></p><p><em>On top of the storm risk, brutal D.C. humidity is driving a triple-digit heat index alongside massive swarms of mosquitoes and gnats that fighters will have to battle inside the cage. </em></p><p><em>While the venue&#8217;s massive 92-foot overhang will keep the octagon dry, a single lightning strike within eight miles will trigger an automatic 30-minute freeze on the entire event.</em></p><p>The White House responded by blaming The Weather Channel for the forecast.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth Tried To Defend The Iran War And It Was A Complete Disaster]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth went on CBS's Face The Nation to defend Trump's Iran war, and efforts to rewrite history were met with facts in what turned into a disaster interview.]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/pete-hegseth-tried-to-defend-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/pete-hegseth-tried-to-defend-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:08:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r8qO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc384f978-34ef-47df-955c-043828abd150_999x466.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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Hegseth&#8217;s official and legal job title is Secretary of Defense, and that is how he will be referred to in this publication.</p><p>Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth appeared on CBS&#8217;s Face The Nation to discuss the supposed deal that is coming any minute now to end the Iran war that Trump and Hegseth started and proceeded to lose. </p><p>Even though CBS is now owned by Trump ally David Ellison and CBS News is being run (into the ground) by Bari Weiss, the Face The Nation interview was not a Fox News-style fluff piece. The Iran war is so unpopular that some pushback was required on it.</p><p><strong>PoliticusUSA is 100% news and opinion that is supported solely by readers like you. Support us by becoming a subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>The issue was that Hegseth made so many absurd claims that were detached from reality that they could not be ignored. </p><p>Despite multiple reports from Pentagon sources, US weapons stocks are dangerously low, and Hegseth testified to Congress that the national weapons stockpile is low; the Secretary of Defense claimed that everything is fine.</p><p>Face The Nation host Margaret Brennan asked Hegseth, &#8220;&#8202;Ukraine's President Zelensky was on this program a few weeks ago. He made a plea, not just for more interceptors, but for the ability to produce them for friendly governments to be able to produce Patriots. Some Republican lawmakers support this idea. Do you?&#8221;</p><p>Hegseth answered, &#8220;&#8202;Ukraine's President Zelensky was on this program a few weeks ago. He made a plea, not just for more interceptors, but for the ability to produce them for friendly governments to be able to produce Patriots. Some Republican lawmakers support this idea. Do you? Nobody makes better and more munitions than the United States of America, and we are open to co-production wherever we can. And because of this administration, we're supercharging our arsenal of freedom, building more, building faster, opening up the Pentagon, ripping through the Pentagon bureaucracy to force industry to move faster.&#8221;</p><p>Brennan said, &#8220;&#8202;There is a crisis with those stockpiles right now..Is, there is a crisis with those stockpiles right now?&#8221;</p><p>Video:</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;3e9343af-d5d4-4486-a070-e6b3ddd4d416&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>Hegseth replied, &#8220;No, there is not ... that is a manufactured story that the media wants to peddle.&#8221;</p><p>So the stockpile crisis that Hegseth testified about in front of Congress was real, is now made up? Does this mean that Hegseth lied to Congress?</p><p>Hegseth ran into more trouble when he tried to defend the Trump deal with Iran that may or may not happen.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Has Been Officially Erased From The Kennedy Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump tried to stall, delay, and appeal, but by Saturday, his name was gone from the Kennedy Center.]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-has-been-officially-erased</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-has-been-officially-erased</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:40:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p4W0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1ea7b6c-34e7-409b-b10a-1bb3aa50fa78_904x565.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 426 (2009) (quoting Hilton v. Braunskill, 481 U.S. 770, 776 (1987)). Nor have Defendants demonstrated that they &#8220;will be irreparably injured absent a stay,&#8221; id. (quoting Hilton, 481 U.S. at 776), given both the de minimis resources that would be required to restore the Center&#8217;s current name in the event of a successful appeal and the lack of record evidence linking increased donations to the current name.</em></p><p>Hundreds of thousands of Americans were watching online streams late into the night as crews covered the lettering on the building with tarps and began their work. At one point, the work was halted due to what the administration told the court was a risk of thunderstorms.</p><p>On Saturday, a Kennedy Center official told the court that Trump&#8217;s name was gone.</p>
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Support us by becoming a subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Each increase that is caused by Trump&#8217;s policies add up to an overwhelming total. </p><p>The Joint Economic Committee is the congressional counterpart to the President&#8217;s Council of Economic Advisers. </p><p>Democrats on the committee released a new report on Friday detailing how much having Donald Trump in the White House has cost American households. </p><p>According to the<a href="https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/efcfa784-b7a0-4430-b0d8-e0780c3f77cd/us-inflation-fact-sheet.pdf"> Joint Economic Committee Minority,</a> this is how much Trump is costing Americans.</p><p><em>As of May 2026, the average household in United States has had to spend $3,100+ more on goods and services under President Trump. </em></p><p><em>Despite President Trump&#8217;s repeated pledges on the campaign trail that his administration would &#8220;end inflation&#8221; and bring down costs for families, Trump has instead caused costs to continue to rise significantly, including through his reckless tariffs and war in Iran. </em></p><p><em><strong>Housing Costs- </strong>American families have had to spend $622 more on housing costs such as rent and mortgage payments since President Trump took office. </em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Has Lied Dozens Of Times About A Deal With Iran That Isn't Even A Deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump has claimed at least 40 times that the US was close to a deal with Iran, but what is being negotiated isn't the final deal, but the terms for negotiations of a final deal.]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-has-lied-dozens-of-times-about</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-has-lied-dozens-of-times-about</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:02:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9qhP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F366375cd-ddff-49c1-8fc2-2f43da1c1a9f_604x339.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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Support us by becoming a subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper recently played a slew of Trump&#8217;s claims going back months that a deal was close with Iran:</p><p><em>We have major points of agreement. They want to make a deal, and we are very willing to make a deal.<br><br>Well, I think we're going to end it. I can't tell you for sure.<br><br>But they want to make a deal so badly. You have no idea how badly they want to make a deal.<br><br>They want to make a deal so badly.<br><br>I can see a deal in Iran.<br><br>We were very close to a deal.<br><br>I think it's close to over. I mean, I view it as very close to over.<br><br>It's looking very good that we are going to make a deal with Iran, and it's going to be a good deal.<br><br>This process should go very quickly.<br><br>We're going to end that war very quickly. They want to make a deal so badly.<br><br>We think were close to a deal and that's okay.<br><br>We're in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal.<br></em><br>At this point, the only thing that is a fact is that Trump is a pathological liar, and when it comes to his Iran war, he has repeated some version of the same lie over and over again that the war will end soon. </p><p>Trump also flipped out when Iran released a list of points that were supposedly in the memorandum of understanding.</p>
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From doing most of his events sitting down to having difficulty when he does move</a>, the president appears to be having some physical issues. Those issues could be associated with normal aging or with a chronic condition. The American people don&#8217;t know because the administration won&#8217;t provide any information. </p><p>Trump also appears to show signs of cognitive decline, which could be age-related, or it could be different issues. The American people have no idea, because according to the White House, Trump never sleeps and is sharp as a tack.</p><p><strong>PoliticusUSA is news and opinion that doesn&#8217;t bend the knee. Support us by becoming a subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>We know that the administration&#8217;s favorite claim about Trump never sleeping isn&#8217;t true, because<a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/politicususanews/p/trump-falls-asleep-multiple-times?r=f805&amp;utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web"> the president falls asleep during meetings in front of the cameras on a regular basis, </a>but there has to be a middle ground between the president is perfect and he has one foot in the grave. </p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/politicususanews/p/25th-amendment-time-as-trump-thinks?r=f805&amp;utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Trump has admitted to taking four dementia screenings in less than two years</a>, so why is this president being examined so often by so many specialists? </p><p>It is a question the White House regularly dodges.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[House Republicans Keep Not Showing Up And Putting Democrats In The Majority]]></title><description><![CDATA[House Republicans who are either running for other offices or facing tough primaries have stopped showing up to work and, on multiple occasions, put Democrats in the majority.]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/house-republicans-keep-not-showing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/house-republicans-keep-not-showing</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:02:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ol4S!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f347762-df44-4398-ae27-b5025480e5dd_745x640.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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Support our work by becoming a subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>This circumstance doesn&#8217;t mean that Hakeem Jeffries becomes temporary Speaker; Mike Johnson still retains the gavel, but it has resulted in Johnson having to cancel votes, scramble, and get defeated on an Iran war powers resolution that would end Trump&#8217;s war in the Middle East.</p><p><a href="https://www.notus.org/congress/house-republicans-absent-majority">NOTUS reported:</a></p><p><em>In recent weeks, because of resignations and deaths, Republicans have had 217 members, along with an independent, California Rep. Kevin Kiley, who caucuses with them, while Democrats have had 212 seats.</em></p><p><em>A review of the roughly 40 House votes held since May 20 shows an alarming number of instances when GOP absences left the House in unusual circumstances:</em></p><ul><li><p><em>At least four times on recorded roll call votes, more Democrats were present than Republicans, effectively giving the minority party the majority status briefly;</em></p></li></ul><p>It is one thing to have a small majority, but quite another to have no majority.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats Have All The Info They Need To End Trump And Vance With A Real Epstein Investigation]]></title><description><![CDATA[An upcoming book spells out how the Trump administration colluded to hide the Epstein files because Trump didn't want anything released.]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/democrats-have-all-the-info-they</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/democrats-have-all-the-info-they</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:48:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3Wwg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa5ce845-05f1-48b7-8f94-ba90d9fc30b2_1110x559.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magazine/trump-epstein-files-white-house-vance-doj.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pFA.M5pN.OYVfhsDwo1L9&amp;smid=url-share">According to the book excerpt:</a></p><p><em>Vice President JD Vance took a seat at the head of the table in the John F. Kennedy Conference Room of the Situation Room complex. &#8220;This is a huge problem,&#8221; he told the group. Arrayed around him were the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles; the White House counsel, David Warrington; the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt; the deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich; the communications director, Steven Cheung; the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche; the associate attorney general, Stanley Woodward Jr.; and the deputy chief of staff James Blair. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, joined on speakerphone.</em></p><p><em>&#8230;</em></p><p><em>But there was one major obstacle in the path of a solution: The president himself still had no interest in transparency. He wanted the whole Epstein issue buried, and he was snapping at anyone who mentioned it. His staff largely avoided the subject in their conversations with him, forced to worry among themselves.</em></p><p>House Democrats responded to the details in the story by making it clear that if they win the majority, the Trump cover-up will be investigated.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Claims He Loves High Inflation In New Disaster For Republicans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump's inability to ever admit that things are going badly or he was wrong caused a new problem for Republicans as the president responded to new high inflation by saying that he loves the numbers.]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-claims-he-loves-high-inflation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-claims-he-loves-high-inflation</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:22:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rkpf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b5a386d-7569-4ad8-ad80-936870f45a37_988x565.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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During Joe Biden&#8217;s last month in office, inflation was 2.9%. Trump is solely responsible for inflation, as most of the increase is caused by his Iran war.</p><p>PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. Support us by becoming a subscriber.</p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/06/10/nx-s1-5853077/inflation-over-4-cpi-gasoline-prices">NPR reported:</a></p><p><em>A report from the Labor Department on Wednesday showed consumer prices in May were up 4.2% from a year ago. That&#8217;s the biggest annual increase since April of 2023. By contrast, the Labor Department says average wages have risen only 3.4% over the last year, so workers&#8217; real spending power has declined.</em></p><p><em>Prices rose 0.5% between April and May, with higher energy costs accounting for more than 60% of that monthly increase.</em></p><p>These are horrible numbers that would have any president scrambling to figure out a solution, but not Donald Trump.</p><p>Instead of holding a press conference to assure the American people that he is working on the problem and that, on a more basic level, he understands the problem, Trump did the opposite. </p><p>Trump tried to downplay inflation and sell the economic struggles of the American people as a good thing.</p><p>It was an insane answer to a question that should have been a moment where any other president would have expressed concern and empathy.</p><p>The president was asked, &#8220;&#8202;Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning? Could that be a detriment-&#8221;</p><p> Trump interrupted, &#8220;No, I love it.&#8221;</p>
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Steve Scalise (R-LA) are claiming that proof isn't needed to claim that an election was stolen.]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/republicans-go-off-the-rails-and</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/republicans-go-off-the-rails-and</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:00:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q3Nu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf686ed6-c2f5-47e9-8276-b7c7506fa1dc_730x345.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q3Nu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf686ed6-c2f5-47e9-8276-b7c7506fa1dc_730x345.png" 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Some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream, it is impossible to prove, but I think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here, and that&#8217;s a concern. We need people to believe in the integrity of our election system. It is critical to maintain a constitutional republic. We&#8217;re gonna keep working to pass the Save America Act because it requires, as you know, proof of citizenship and a photo ID to vote.</em></p><p><em>That, those are also 90%-plus issues in public opinion, and 70% of Democrats understand that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s necessary. We have to have free and fair elections-</em></p><p>Johnson seemed to be claiming that there is no proof that the California primary election was rigged because Democrats in the state are &#8220;diabolical.&#8221;</p><p>It sounds like Republicans are saying that they don&#8217;t need proof to claim that an election was rigged.</p><p>In case you weren&#8217;t clear, House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) wasn&#8217;t as subtle as Johnson.</p><p>CNN&#8217;s Manu Raju asked Scalise during his weekly press conference, &#8220;&#8202;The president keeps saying that the California election was rigged. What evidence have you seen to show that there has been widespread fraud that has caused this election to be stolen, according to the president?&#8221;</p>
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Trump wants the country to believe that <a href="https://www.politicususa.com/p/trumps-latest-medical-report-is-an">his health is perfect, </a>but this president keep showing in public that his health is clearly not perfect and there are legitimate questions that need to be asked about the soon to be 80 year old&#8217;s fitness to do the job of president.</p><p><strong>PoliticusUSA&#8217;s news and opinions are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>After Trump tried to make a dramatic exit and walk off an interview on Meet The Press,<a href="https://www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/trump-almost-falls-over-while-trying"> but he struggled to maintain his balance and seemed to limp, </a>the president followed up that concerning display by appearing to fall asleep in the middle of a loud and <a href="https://www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/weakened-trump-booed-thunderously">rowdy Madison Square Garden where the New York Knicks were facing the San Antonio Spurs.</a></p><p>Clip of Trump catching some nappy time, like all presidents do when they are out in public:</p><div id="youtube2-rTXZLI_aYwM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;rTXZLI_aYwM&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rTXZLI_aYwM?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>By his own admission, Trump has been screened for<a href="https://www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/trump-admits-that-he-has-been-tested?utm_source=publication-search"> dementia four times in less than two years,</a> and he is taking annual physicals twice as often as any previous president. </p><p>There is something, or many things, clearly wrong with this president, and it wasn&#8217;t for the White House and the president insisting on telling the American people nothing, this might not be such a big story, but members of Congress are increasingly asking questions and demanding answers from the White House.</p><p>Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) posed questions about Trump&#8217;s health to reporters on Tuesday.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The BBC Has Trump Running Scared From His Own Defamation Lawsuit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump tried his bogus defamation lawsuit stunt on the BBC, but the British broadcaster responded by requesting Trump's financial documents, so now the president is missing deadlines.]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/the-bbc-has-trump-running-scared</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/the-bbc-has-trump-running-scared</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Jones & Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:30:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y4U_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10818394-ee50-4bf4-95a2-e1bc640ed3a4_542x322.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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After Disney made the mistake of paying off the president&#8217;s bogus defamation lawsuit against ABC News, and CBS paid off Trump&#8217;s bogus lawsuit against 60 Minutes, the president clearly thought that he had found both a new cash cow and a way to intimidate and control the corporate media.</p><p>Trump probably thought this gimmick was unstoppable. He was two for two in suing broadcasters, so he accused the BBC of editing some 1/6 footage of him and filed a defamation suit for $10 billion. </p><p>There was one big difference between the BBC, CBS, and ABC. Trump has no power over the BBC, and no means of threatening them. It is difficult to execute a shakedown when the intended victim has nothing to fear.</p><p>In response to Trump&#8217;s lawsuit, the BBC did what lawyers for ABC and CBS advised those networks to do. The BBC didn&#8217;t settle. Instead, the case went to discovery, where the <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/politicususanews/p/trumps-lawsuit-against-the-bbc-has?r=f805&amp;utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">BBC served a subpoena related to Trump&#8217;s revocable trust, </a>which is run by Donald Trump Jr., and contains information on the family&#8217;s assets and business relationships.</p><p>This is not a path that Donald Trump and his family want to take, so the tone of the lawsuit has shifted.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mike Johnson Has Surrendered His Power As Speaker Of The House To Trump]]></title><description><![CDATA[It turns out that the idea that Trump is the real Speaker of the House wasn't completely a joke, as Mike Johnson has surrendered some of his powers as Speaker to Trump.]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/mike-johnson-has-surrendered-his</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/mike-johnson-has-surrendered-his</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:50:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y2lh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7495ebc-8765-4ee9-a5a3-0246b870bd08_1048x520.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Jeffries has been telling reporters and the American people that Johnson is bowing to Trump. What many people assumed was metaphorical is turning out to be literal. </p><p>Trump has joked that he is the Speaker of the House. There have even been rumors that some Republicans wanted Trump to be the Speaker of the House before he returned to the White House. </p><p>Sarah Jones talks about Trump and power:</p><div id="youtube2-LTm_CIefzvo" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;LTm_CIefzvo&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LTm_CIefzvo?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>However, NOTUS <a href="https://www.notus.org/congress/mike-johnson-speaker-of-the-house">reported </a>that Johnson has surrendered some of his power as Speaker to Trump:</p><p><em>But it&#8217;s not just winning votes. At times, Johnson has handed over other powers that usually rest with the speaker.</em></p><p><em>According to two sources who spoke with NOTUS, Johnson has in several instances directed members seeking to bring legislation to the floor to obtain the administration&#8217;s approval first.</em></p><p><em>&#8220;It is a total shirking of responsibilities to the White House,&#8221; another House Republican told NOTUS. &#8220;Everything has to be preordained and pre-blessed, and there&#8217;s very little that we&#8217;re able to have our own will on. We should be empowered to pass our own priorities, not just follow what the mandate of the day is.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>A senior GOP aide pushed back on the idea that relying on the president is a bad thing.</em></p><p>The fact that a senior House Republican aide defended this practice, which is a defense of gutting the Constitution, is a big part of the problem.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hakeem Jeffries Goes On Fox News And Calls Them Out For Ignoring GOP Bigots]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jacqui Heinrich was not happy when she tried to paint Democratic candidates as bigots, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called out Fox News for ignoring GOP bigots in Congress.]]></description><link>https://www.politicususa.com/p/hakeem-jeffries-goes-on-fox-news</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.politicususa.com/p/hakeem-jeffries-goes-on-fox-news</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Easley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:35:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6V6s!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb45993b0-b8c8-43a2-841e-5c2f09e21c59_1047x454.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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At least 24% of Independents say that they get their news from Fox News.</p><p>There is a sizable audience tuning into Fox News who aren&#8217;t Republicans and may be open to the Democratic message. </p><p><strong>PoliticusUSA is no BS news and opinion. Support us by becoming a subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>It is also important for Democrats who go on Fox News to tackle the structural bias of the network&#8217;s coverage. </p><p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) appeared on Fox News&#8217;s The Sunday Briefing, and  he was asked, &#8220;How much are Democrats willing to stomach at the, you know... When they're trying to unseat Republicans in Congress, are, are they willing to let their values go?&#8221;</p><p>Jeffries turned the tables:</p><p><em>&#8202;It's very interesting that you've asked me about candidates, many of whom haven't even confronted a Democratic primary yet, but haven't asked me a single question about the hatred, the xenophobia, the Islamophobia, the outright racism that we see being peddled by actual members of Congress in the Republican conference sitting in the House of Representatives right now. </em></p>
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Trump has filled his second administration with sycophants who support the president&#8217;s apparent detachment from reality. </p><p>For example, <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/politicususanews/p/marco-rubio-busted-lying-to-congress?r=f805&amp;utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Marco Rubio lied to Congress and denied that Trump was asleep while he was talking to the president during meetings. </a>Even when presented with multiple videos of Trump snoozing during public events, the Secretary of State denied it. </p><p>Trump&#8217;s media interviews are with conservative outlets and podcasts. The president rarely does anything close to mainstream appearances. Meet The Press and Kristen Welker get regular interviews with Trump, which is a tell because this White House keeps a list of &#8220;friendly&#8221; media, and only friendly media get interviews with Trump.</p><p><strong>PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. Support us by becoming a subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Welker isn&#8217;t Fox News. She does push back, but she is never as challenging as she could be. Generally, Welker&#8217;s pushback can be described as fact-based but gentle. It is the kind of approach that Trump used to eat up before he slipped into even greater decline. </p><p>In an interview that was taped on Friday in Wisconsin, where <a href="https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-holds-event-seated-in-wisconsin">Trump turned a roundtable on agriculture into a showcase for his decline, </a>the president demonstrated how far he has fallen in his latest interview with Welker.</p><p>Trump claimed that the recent California primary was rigged: &#8220;&#8202;The election was rigged. It was a dirty election. And it's happening again right now in California.</p><p>Welker responded, &#8220;You've never presented evidence that the 2020 election was rigged.&#8221; </p><p></p>
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Trump could deliver his remarks sitting down. </p><p><strong>PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion that is unique and to the point. Support us by becoming a subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.politicususa.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Trump rarely travels within the United States. Trips like this one to Wisconsin are rare during his second administration. Trump&#8217;s travel has increasingly been to his clubs or back to the White House from one of his public clubs. </p><p>Since Trump doesn&#8217;t have a property in Wisconsin, this trip is unusual for his second administration.</p><p>Trump was supposed to be in Wisconsin to talk to farmers about the economy, but instead, the president showed no interest in hearing about how farmers were really doing. </p><p>Donald Trump was in Wisconsin to tell farmers who are going bankrupt due to his policies that everything is great.</p><p>Trump rambled about the war with Iran:</p><p>&#8202;<em>One way or the other it's finished. It's either finished with a piece of paper or finished a more difficult way, although you could say a much easier way. Uh, as you know, with Iran, they have no navy. 159 ships in four days. . Four days, 159 ships at the bottom of the sea. Not that we like that, but that's the way it is, and the blockade is unbelievable. There's never been a blockade like that. </em></p><p>Video:</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;34903c18-9e4d-419d-9818-a4fca8cc86c3&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>Trump demonstrated how far gone he is, and kept saying things about the Iran war that don&#8217;t mean anything:</p>
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