The Trump Presidency, Part Deux

It's pretty common in what's left of the professional circle I cruise in. Half as common as marijuana.
 
Trump blasts the UN for not ‘living up’ to its potential

“It’s too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them...I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal.”

“Not only is the U.N. not solving the problems it should. Too often it’s actually creating new problems for us to solve,”


.............and that's why, I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. No person, no President has done more than me. For peace. For life. For the world. There shouldn't even be a consideration of anyone else. Who else would do more than what I did.
 
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Sabotage? Leavitt demands answers to UN escalator malfunction with Trumps: ‘What it appears to be to me’

Donald Trump faced a stalled escalator and frozen teleprompter during his United Nations General Assembly address, prompting White House criticism.
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"If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately,"

"That's definitely what it appears to be to me..There's was some concerning reporting over the weekend from the London Times… that U.N. globalist staffers were basically plotting to set up the President of the United States."

"If we find that these were U.N. staffers who were purposefully trying to trip up, literally trip up the president and the first lady of the United States, well there better be accountability for those people,"

Defend your President!
 
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Trump announces deal with Pfizer to lower drug prices, including 'TrumpRx' website

The deal is part of Trump's broader effort to tie the amount the government pays for certain drugs to the prices paid overseas.
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"As part of the deal, Trump said, Pfizer will sell some of its drugs on a new 'direct to consumer' website called 'TrumpRx.' Trump said the website would be operated by the federal government,"

If I order the same pills President Trump is on, do I get the Trump special on top of the Pfizer special on TrumpRx?
 
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Trump says he has final say on paying himself $230m for past investigations

President says government owes him ‘a lot of money’ for federal investigations during and after first term
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I want 230M!

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Who Is Paying for Trump’s $250 Million Ballroom—and What They Might Get in Return

Trump has begun demolishing the White House's East Wing to make room for a ballroom paid for by private donors.
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"Trump confirmed on Monday that some of the money for the ballroom would come from his personal funds."

I have 230M to pay for this ballroom!
 
Trump is still polling well with pedophiles.


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Grandpa is off his meds again! Looks like he is crashing out about the pending Epstein file release and his ‘legacy’
 
"I am hearing that the people of Greenland are 'MAGA.' My son, Don Jr, and various representatives, will be traveling there to visit some of the most magnificent areas and sights. Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!"

And Dropbear thought the target was only Venezuela.
 
"Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!"

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Trump says he ordered strikes on ISIS targets in Nigeria

The president said numerous strikes were conducted against alleged Islamic State terrorists whom he accused of targeting Christians in northwest Nigeria.
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So glad the 51st state wasn't me.... but now there will be pressure to make a deal, any deal because according to Rubio so many deals were offered and Maduro could have been living in exile in a nice place...

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A few people are surprised when I say the subjugation of Venezuela isn't about oil, and I get why that can be confusing considering the US' past history (Iraq) and Trump's constant comments about getting Venezuela's oil.
But here is why I don't think it's the primary motive.

Firstly, the US has been a net exporter of oil since 2020. It doesn't desperately need oil supply to sustain its economy, even if it has a few refineries in Texas that are being under utilised.
Venezuela, meanwhile, is currently only producing around 1.1 million barrels a day, a fraction of what the US produces itself. To put that in perspective, Canada alone currently sells the US more than 4 million barrels a day.

Yes, Venezuela has massive reserves of oil, but it's not as simple as tapping into a reservoir. Most experts agree it would cost as much as $100 billion and at least a decade just to get it back to the production levels from the late 1990s, which peaked at around 3.7 million barrels a day.

So... will American oil companies be jumping picking up that debt? Probably not... it's not really worth it.
Putting aside the inescapable instability of the country, and the fact the country remains under the rule of the same corrupt regime that seized their assets last time they were in the country, the financial case just doesn't stack up.

Oil prices have dropped 23% in the past year and 2026 is predicted to see the biggest global surplus of oil in history. In most instances, the oil price is already too low to break even for existing operations. So even if the oil companies were able to finance the massive infrastructure developments needed to get the industry pumping out oil into the market, this would only decrease the price of oil even further. It's not in there interests, which is why Trump is now talking about subsidising the oil companies, which really isn't going to fly domestically.

Yes, the USA could cut off supply to China. But Venezuela currently supplies only about 4% of China's seaborne oil imports. It can easily recoup this from other suppliers with very little inconvenience. They wouldn't be happy, but it's not the strategic master stroke some people are suggesting.
Even if a war were to break out over Taiwan and the US wanted to cut off its supply from Venezuela at the same time as cutting off supply from the Middle East, its control of the Panama Canal would be sufficient, or it could simply park a carrier fleet off its coast as it has done for the past month. Substantially easier than what it's doing now.

As I first stated in October last year when I first covered this: "What I suspect this is about is the establishment, or perhaps re-establishment, of an enforced sphere of influence throughout the Amercias."
Everything I have seen and heard since then has confirmed my suspicions. This is about regional dominance and removing Chinese and Russian influence from the Americas.

So, why does Trump keep talking about Venezuela's oil? Because he's entirely transactional. In his mind, it's what you do when you're powerful, you take what you want. He thinks his base will see it as "winning", and there's also a very good chance he thinks it's that simple to take.

Essentially, he's a a bully. In his world, if you're going to beat up a kid in the school yard to intimidate everyone else, why wouldn't you take their lunch money?

In my eyes, this doesn't actually change the immorality of what is being done. Trump isn't demanding democracy be established in Venezuela, he's demanding their compliance. The new President is just as illegitimate as Maduro was, she attained her position through the same electoral fraud... but so far she's doing what she's told. That's all Trump wants.


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A few people are surprised when I say the subjugation of Venezuela isn't about oil, and I get why that can be confusing considering the US' past history (Iraq) and Trump's constant comments about getting Venezuela's oil.
But here is why I don't think it's the primary motive.
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I thought most people knew the States became the number one oil producer and exporter a decade ago. They learnt from the Iraq war not to be beholden to the Saudis and others.

But I also thought most people are aware we are either at peak oil or a few years from it as China is moving towards being self sustainable with other energy sources. Simultaneously the EU is bludgeoning themselves into clean energy.

So taking over a country for its inaccessible oil reserves is more a statement. We will still use petroleum for plastics. And if shale oil is going to dry up as I read last week, leave it to the Americans to come up with new technologies. They invented fracking and the complex deep sea drilling from nothing. I am sure their technical prowess means they will invent something else.

I am more surprised they find themselves behind the eight ball on rare earths and processing of rare earths.
 
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