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How not to handle a national tragedy, Donald Trump rolling out the playbook after gutting government agencies, telling government workers to resign and take this fake buyout package after Elon Musk forced out the head of the FAA. What is Donald Trump now doing? Donald Trump is blaming the horrible tragedy that took place in Washington, D.C., when an airplane that came from Kansas into D.C.
crashed into a helicopter, taking the lives of more than 60 Americans. Donald Trump actually in the Oval Office signing an executive order blaming diversity and blaming President Biden for it, even though Donald Trump's gutted federal agencies will talk about that.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump's been reposting QAnon accounts, taking credit for the rain in California, saying, release the water, watch the water, over and over again. No, Donald, what I'm watching
is you i'm watching the fact that prices are not going down they're going up housing is not more affordable it's less affordable there's not peace in ukraine in 24 hours and your threats of tariffing anybody on any given day based on your arbitrary, capricious and downright dangerous emotions has led to things like coffee reaching records high and other commodities are getting there as well.
Donald Trump engaging in Kim Jong Un like conduct and Putin as conduct as well. He had Meta, which used to be Facebook, enter into a settlement agreement with him to pay him $25 million for some ridiculous lawsuit Trump filed back in 2021 because Facebook exercised its discretion with a platform that it controlled to block Donald Trump back then.
So they're now paying him $25 million, $23 million purportedly, to a Trump presidential library, right? It had a double price. what ABC was paying and then $3 million for legal fees. I guess this is a bribe by another name. Some may have an opinion of that, but I'll leave it to your opinion ultimately to make that determination.
I'll also let you share your opinions about the confirmation hearings that took place as you had Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and RFK Jr., all of those confirmation hearings were set by Republicans at once to try to jam these unqualified, incompetent, and dangerous people through.
And again, to me, whether you're from a red state, blue state, Democrat, independent, Republican, whatever, you should want qualified people, not Hegseths or Gabbards or RFKs or Kash Patels. dangerous incompetent people also the federal reserve did not lower interest rates given all of the uncertainty right now in the economy caused by donald trump and that government freeze
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