Late last week, Donald Trump threatened to slap 100% tariffs on China on top of the 30% he had already imposed after the country announced that they were tightening restrictions on the export of rare earth metals. The markets immediately went into a tailspin, causing Trump to have to chicken out of his latest threat - even though China didn't make any concessions and is keeping the new restrictions in place.
Donald Trump showed off his dementia once again this past weekend when he declared on Truth Social that "Biden" placed 274 FBI agents in the crowd during the Capitol Riot, alleging that the former President implanted these agents to instigate a riot. The only problem, obviously, is that Trump himself was president on that day, and Biden had absolutely no control over the FBI at the time. To complicate things further for Trump, his own FBI Director, Kash Patel, debunked this conspiracy a month ago.
The Trump administration has effectively killed special education (ESE) funding for the United States by firing every member of the office of special education at the Department of Education. Education Secretary and former wrestling magnate Linda McMahon said that she wants the entire thing shut down so that the states can run their ESE programs on their own - without any federal assistance. This is a disaster waiting to happen, and the backlash from teachers and their unions has already begun.
Trump's Department of Labor quietly made a rather shocking announcement recently about how Trump's immigration policies, raids, and mass deportations are ruining your life. The Department pointed out that there is now a massive labor shortage in the agriculture sector, and there aren't enough Americans willing to take those jobs. Add all this up and you end up with a massive spike in food prices in the United States due to the increased cost of getting food from farm to table - along with the scarcity created by the loss of crop yields. Those are the warnings coming from Trump's own government.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is facing major public and corporate backlash after her latest stunt. The Department put out a meme video set to the theme of Pokemon and they also used the catchphrase of the popular game by captioning the video with "Gotta catch 'em all!" The company came out and said they had nothing to do with the video and that the department did NOT have permission to use their copyrighted materials. Members of the public are calling on the company to sue Noem and her department over the stunt, but that may be the least problematic thing about the video.
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