Donald Trump

Grok  - According to trackers like DidTrumpGolfToday, Trump has visited golf courses 99 days out of 427 since Jan 20, 2025 (23%). Estimated taxpayer cost for security/travel: $138.6M.

NY Times - Fired federal workers who are worried about losing their homes ask not to be quoted by name. University presidents fearing that millions of dollars in federal funding could disappear are holding their fire. Chief executives alarmed by tariffs that could hurt their businesses are on mute. ...

“When you see important societal actors — be it university presidents, media outlets, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors — changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism,” said Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard and the co-author of the influential 2018 book “How Democracies Die.”