PRESIDENT TRUMP

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Last week independent Senators Bernie Sanders (VT) and Angus King (ME) introduced legislation that would ban pharmaceutical companies from promoting prescription drugs directly to consumers – including through television, radio, print, digital platforms, and social media. Today, Bloomberg reports that the Trump administration is now ‘discussing policies that would make it harder and more expensive for pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to […]

NUUK, Greenland (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron’s first trip to Greenland, the strategic Arctic island coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump, is aimed at shoring up Europe’s political backing for Denmark and its semiautonomous territory. Macron’s visit on Sunday comes just ahead a meeting of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations next week […]

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) again urged fellow Democrats on Tuesday to condemn violence as mass demonstrations continue to rock Los Angeles — a day after he slammed his party for not doing more to respond to growing unrest at protests over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. “All I said was, when people are setting cars […]

You Treepers know my top two priorities in the world of politics: Economic Nationalism (MAGAnomics), and capital letter Liberty, the fight against the surveillance state.  In these endeavors the “Tech Bros” are opposed to our positions. President Trump is focused on #1, economic nationalism. He eats, breathes and thinks about it all the time.  It […]

Around 2 p.m. ET, the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) will hold a hearing titled “Public Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild.” Under the Trump administration, the NGO-industrial complex has been exposed as nothing more than a money pit for how Democrats have funneled billions in taxpayer dollars into mysterious nonprofits that advance […]

Israeli support for a two-state solution, in which a Palestinian state would be established alongside Israel, has fallen to an all-time low of 21% in a Pew survey that showed support for the idea at 50% as recently as 2013. Pew reported (original emphasis): We find that 21% of Israeli adults think Israel and a Palestinian […]

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Tuesday blasted the megabill featuring President Trump’s tax cut and spending priorities and backed tech billionaire Elon Musk’s recent comments on it. In an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” host Blake Burman brought up an earlier post from Musk on the social platform X in which he called the legislation […]