New Republic - President Donald Trump suggested earlier this week that Venezuela should be annexed by the United States. He reportedly told Fox News correspondent John Roberts—not to be confused with the chief justice—that he was “seriously considering a move to make Venezuela the fifty-first state.”
This is a far-fetched idea, to say the least. Venezuela has no interest in voluntarily becoming a U.S. state, as its acting President Delcy Rodríguez told reporters on Monday. “We will continue to defend our integrity, our sovereignty, our independence, our history,” she said, adding that Venezuela was “not a colony, but a free country.”
Alternet - During President Donald Trump’s second term, one of his key goals has involved reshaping U.S. cultural institutions to suit his ideological project, and the Smithsonian in particular has become a target of his culture war against diversity and historical narratives that he perceives to be “woke.” Shortly after he entered office, he signed an executive order calling for the museum to remove “anti-American” narratives, which took special aim at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, arguing that aspects of it portrayed American and Western values as “inherently harmful and oppressive.”
While many speculated that this could mean the closure or radical whitewashing of exhibits involving issues like slavery or the struggles of minority communities, according to the Washington Post, the Smithsonian “has managed to push back and mostly hold its ground.” While it has been impacted by what the Post describes as “a few key losses,” it has succeeded at maintaining the majority of its programming through a strategy of sticking strictly to the facts.
For example, as the Post explains, “No single exhibition in Washington may be more scrutinized than the Portrait Gallery’s ‘America’s Presidents,’ and among its critics, apparently, was Trump, whose administration took issue with the wall texts that mentioned his impeachments among other low points of his first presidency.”
Alternet - Congressional lawmakers and Trump’s own former lawyer are panicking over how racked President Donald Trump’s mind appears to be with illness. “I don't know how anyone can see what he posts or watch him in any meeting and think that he's fit for office,” said one lawmaker speaking to reporters.
Another lawmaker said: “We have strategic ambiguity. But [Trump] is just … He’s confrontational, inconsistent, erratic,” said another congressman, who then fluttered his tongue in a demonstration of Trump’s lucidity.
“I don't trust that man to be able to cognitively make a complete sentence, let alone negotiate with China,” said another,,,
Back in the studio, MS NOW host Ari Melber interviewed Trump’s former attorney Ty Cobb, who offered little good news to deliver on that front.
“In 2017, Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist and president of the World Mental Health Coalition, a well-respected psychological professional trained at Harvard and Yale and highly regarded at the national institute of mental health, and 26 of her colleagues and other respected psychiatrists around the world, posted a lengthy article commenting on Trump's malignant narcissism, and the appearance of early frontal lobe dementia,” said Cobb, who served Trump’s White House in his first term. “The symptoms have only gotten worse from there. They are remarkable at this stage of the game, and the wake sleep reversal is a very common symptom highlighted by mental health professionals when discussing Trump's cognitive decline.”
“The reality is what he does late at night causes him to sleep during the day. And that is a very well-known symptom of cognitive decline, frontal lobe dementia, and Alzheimer’s and because he has no impulse control left, he is guided solely by his malignant narcissism now,” Cobb continued.
A spokesperson for the Trump Organization told Reuters that the president’s investment holdings “are maintained exclusively through fully discretionary accounts independently managed by third-party financial ?institutions with sole and exclusive authority over all investment decisions.”
“Trades are executed and portfolios are balanced through automated investment ?processes ?and systems administered by those institutions,” the spokesperson said. “Neither President Trump, his family, nor The Trump Organization plays any role in selecting, directing, or approving specific investments. They receive no advance notice of trading activity and provide no input regarding investment decisions or portfolio management ?of any kind.”
White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told NOTUS after it published its own report on Trump’s disclosures on Friday that the president “only acts in the best interests of the American public –– which is why they overwhelmingly re-elected him to this office, despite years of lies and false accusations against him and his businesses from the fake news media.”
Ingle added that Trump’s children manage his assets and that there are “no conflicts of interest.”
The disclosures also show that Trump was months late in disclosing tens of millions of dollars in stock trading. Presidents are required to publicly disclose stock transactions exceeding $1,000 within 45 days, with records showing that he was assessed with a $200 fee for being late.
Trump is mengally ill, gave away the store to china, and stealing form the American people. that he is not in jail is a travesty, and if wer ever get back to democracy every person who carried out his illegal oreders oor helped him steal should be locked up forever.
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