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Trump’s newest order on birthright citizenship blocked in federal court

A federal judge in Maryland Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s second attempt to redefine birthright citizenship. 

https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/09/03/repub/trumps-newest-order-on-birthright-citizenship-blocked-in-federal-court/?

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Trump Admits Real Reason He’s Building Monuments to Himself

The president was shockingly candid about the sad reason he is remodeling much of the capital in his image.

President Donald Trump has made a stunning admission while revealing why he’s obsessed with remodeling Washington.

Trump, 80, has candidly told New York magazine that he is building monuments for himself and slapping his name everywhere because he knows that nobody else will do so when he is gone.

 

Reporter Ben Terris shared with Trump an attack line from Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, who says that Trump’s obsession with vanity projects stems from knowing he is the only person willing to memorialize him.

“That’s true,” Trump responded. “Nobody will do it once I’m gone. When I leave here, nobody will.”

That same report peeled back the curtain on Trump’s fixation with remodeling even as his approval rating craters to record lows, war with Iran has entered its sixth month, and gas and grocery prices remain higher than they were when he took office.

From the White House residence, the president can see the construction site of his new ballroom, which he tore down the entire East Wing for without permission. New York reports that he “often starts and ends his day by gazing out the window to check the progress.”

“He will call me at 9:30 at night and say, ‘I’m going to walk over and check the construction of the new ballroom,’” Eric Trump tells the magazine. Eric also said that his father is having “more fun building this ballroom than I can possibly tell you.”

Trump has also reportedly ordered a helicopter pilot to circle around Hains Point so he could see a golf course he’s planning to redevelop from a bird’s-eye view. These matters appear to be top of mind for Trump, who has brought up the topic of grass during 45 public events this term, or about once every 12 days, according to an Associated Press review last month.

The ballroom is just one of many Trump projects in MAGA 2.0.

At the White House alone, Trump has paved over Jackie Kennedy’s iconic Rose Garden to create a new patio, installed two massive flagpoles to tower over the executive residence, blinged up the Oval Office to rival Saddam Hussein’s palaces, defaced the White House’s iconic colonnade by making it a Presidential Walk of Fame, and even built a granite helipad on the South Lawn.

Elsewhere in D.C., Trump has botched a Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation, shamelessly slapped his name on the Kennedy Center, and intends to build a 250-foot-tall “Arc de Trump.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admits-real-reason-hes-building-monuments-to-himself/?

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Trump Fires Off Deranged Ultimatum in All-Caps Meltdown

The president threatened to stop trading with some countries if the Fed doesn’t cut interest rates.

Donald Trump’s crusade to cut interest rates took a bizarre new turn on Friday when he threatened to cut off trade with some unnamed countries if the Federal Reserve doesn’t do his bidding.

The president’s ultimatum came after the release of a surprisingly strong jobs report.

His brag about the better-than-expected jobs market on Truth Social quickly morphed into a capital-letter rant about why the United States doesn’t have the world’s lowest interest rates.

“Great jobs number just announced, breaking all estimates (except mine!) by double and triple—And you haven’t seen anything yet! EMPLOYERS ADDED 162,000 JOB IN AUGUST,” he wrote.

“Lower the interest rates because the U.S.A. is a much stronger credit than it was just a short time ago! A STRONG COUNTRY MEANS A LOWER INTEREST RATE—IT’S A BETTER CREDIT…Very simple! We should have the LOWEST RATE of any country in the World, like ‘the old days.’ Without the United States agreeing to allow them their big surpluses, and we could stop that immediately, they would no longer be considered financially ELITE! LOWER THE RATE OR I’LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT, which the U.S. Supreme Court, in its ridiculous and very costly Tariff decision, strongly acknowledged ‘the President’ has an absolute right to do."

Trump ramped up the pressure on his new Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, to act and cut rates.

“IT’S BETTER THAN TARIFFS! The Fed Board, with its great new leader, must get smart—BE PATRIOTS for a change. High interest rates put the U.S.A. at a very unfair disadvantage, and I won’t allow that to happen!”

The countries the U.S. has a deficit with include China, Canada, Mexico, and European Union nations, with the goods-and-services gap widening to its biggest in 16 months in July.

Trump instituted his tariffs to try and close that gap, and hasn’t forgiven the Supreme Court for shutting them down.

Trump finally got his way and replaced Jerome Powell with Warsh, but the Fed has continued to resist the president’s demands for an interest cut, keeping rates steady since last December. Economists suggest the Fed may act as soon as later this month to counteract inflation.

Friday’s jobs report suggests that employers have moved past concerns about the Iran war and AI to grow the workforce.

The Labor Department reported an addition of 162,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate held firm at 4.1 percent, the same as July.

June and July job gains were revised up by 55,000.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fires-off-deranged-ultimatum-in-all-caps-meltdown/?

ps:What a pathetic fool!!!!!

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Trump Is Building More Than a Ballroom—He’s Claiming the White House Forever

He’s making himself permanent.

Big, sore-thumb, a--hole buildings have become Donald Trump’s signature brand, and part and parcel of his public identity. His aesthetic is not just about vulgarity, but an opposing force—so of course he would build in Washington. Of course, he would look to reconfigure the White House! The White House ballroom, however, will not be completed—if it’s completed—until the end of his term. So if he’s not going to be able to get much use out of it, what’s its real use? Just being able to build it, for one thing. Nothing motivates Trump so much as provoking a fight and then winning it (or just prolonging it). His skills here are relentlessness; his true pleasure, nearly in a sexual sense, comes with crushing his opponents, disregarding civility and the rules of the game. Plus, he has additional expertise when it comes to actually building something in the face of people trying to stop him. The more you build, the harder it is to stop you. Doing most of the things that presidents have to do on a daily basis—so boring!—doesn’t give him pleasure. He barely pays attention. But having a big building project restores him. His ballroom will tower over the White House. It will effectively be the White House. The perpetual Trump White House. Will anyone even remember what used to stand in its place?

ps:Just pathetic!!!!!

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Federal judge extends block on Trump executive order seeking to limit mail voting in the midterms

A federal judge on Friday extended her prohibition against the U.S. Postal Service implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail voting during the midterms, putting another major obstacle in the way of the administration as the first states begin sending out mail ballots.

https://apnews.com/article/election-2026-trump-mail-voting-postal-service-ce207ff2d0533de05cc2d299e91a0198?

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Trump Makes Jaw-Dropping Insult to the Dead of His Own War

The commander in chief appears to have no respect for those who die because of his orders.

President Donald Trump has dismissed his war in Iran, in which 18 U.S. service members have been killed, as “small potatoes for us.”

The president, 80, was taking questions in the Oval Office on Friday when he was asked how he would describe the conflict with Iran.

The question came after Vice President JD Vance insisted on Thursday it wasn’t a war despite the U.S. carrying out new strikes this week.

“Can you explain to the American people, if this is not a war, what exactly is it?” ABC News’ Rachel Scott asked Trump.

“Well, I’ll tell you what, a lot of people don’t call it a war. I call it a military conflict because it’s, it’s small potatoes for us. It’s not a big thing,” Trump said. “We did Venezuela, and we did this.”

But the president did not stop there. He went on to compare war casualties to back up his claim that the conflict in Iran was “small potatoes.”

“In Venezuela, we lost nobody, and this, we lost 18 people,” Trump said. “In Vietnam you lost 100,000 people, and in other conflicts, you lost tens of thousands of people.”

Trump, who himself received five military draft deferments during the Vietnam War, went on to say that he would call the conflict with Iran “intermittent strikes” and agreed with Vance that it was not a war.

“We’re not fighting right now. There’s no fighting,” Trump rambled.

“We’re taking out a lot of oil. We control the Hormuz Strait. We control it very strongly. We did a hit on certain areas around the Hormuz Strait,” he babbled about the crucial waterway between Iran and Oman.

More than 50,000 U.S. troops are currently serving in the region.

The U.S. carried out a series of new strikes against Iranian military targets on Tuesday, including air defense sites, radar systems, maritime facilities, and mine-laying capabilities, after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attempted to carry out attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and against U.S. service members, according to CENTCOM.

Since the start of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 18 American service members have been killed. Most recently, Sgt. Michael Swinton was killed on July 19 at Erbil Air Base in Iraq during the disposal of a downed Iranian attack drone.

Trump attended the dignified transfer of the four service members killed in July at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on July 22.

“It’s a military conflict, but it’s very intermittent. I could see somebody not calling it a war,” Trump said Friday.

Scott was quick to push back on his “small potatoes” comment, noting that 18 service members had been killed since the war began.

Trump did not respond to her pushback noting the number of service members killed, but seized on her comment about “record-long deployments” after the USS Lincoln set a record with 286 days at sea without making port before it docked in Thailand this week.

“Why is it record-long? How long were we in Vietnam? How long were we in Vietnam?” Trump shot back.

Scott tried to clarify that she was referencing the USS Lincoln, but the president refused to let her respond and instead spoke over her, arguing about preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon before bringing up those killed.

“We lost 18 souls, 18 great souls. I was there to greet the families of those people at Dover, and they’re great. I got very friendly with some of the families. They were incredible families, but—and one is too much. But in Vietnam we lost tens of thousands of people. In Afghanistan, we lost a lot,” Trump said.

ps:What a pathetic draft dodger!!!!!

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The all-about-me campaign
 
Photo illustration of President Trump pointing at himself with confetti falling around him
 

Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

 

President Trump is hitting the campaign trail and doing the last thing many Republicans want: making the 59 days to the Nov. 3 midterms a referendum on him, Axios' Marc Caputo reports.

  • Why it matters: Most Republicans are too scared to bluntly tell Trump how unpopular he is. Timidity aside, Republicans need Trump's low-propensity voters to turn out. So they're going along with a Trump-focused strategy that many believe could cost them credibility — along with seats in the House and Senate.

"We have no choice. We're stuck on the boat with him whether we like it or not," said a top Republican campaign official who's in contact with Trump's political operation.

  • "Now, a rising tide raises all boats," the official added. "But the only ones who sound sure about the tide rising is the White House."

🐘 Coming attractions: At Trump's urging, the GOP on Wednesday and Thursday will host an unprecedented midterm convention in Dallas, headlined by the president.

  • Trump plans to appear both nights, with Vice President JD Vance as keynote on Wednesday and Trump on Thursday.

📱 Trump is also the star of his political operation's first two TV ads:

  • The first 30-second ad, "Toughest Guy," is all about you-know-who.
  • The second, "Tax Cut Prices," features Trump and would be more conventional for a campaign in which he's on the ballot.

📺 Inside the room: Trump essentially demanded the ads focus on him because midterms are referendums on a president anyway, and he wanted to tout his accomplishments, The Atlantic first reported (gift link).

  • "I'm not on the ballot, but I'm on the ballot," Trump told one confidant who relayed the conversation to Axios.
  • A Trump adviser told Axios: "Our job is to turn Trump voters into midterm voters."

🔎 The intrigue: The ads, however, are a de facto compromise between Trump and his political staff.

  • "This is for the audience of one," Trump's confidant said, referring to the president. "If the boss wants it, he gets it."
  • One Trump adviser said to expect more conventional ads: "We will be stripping the bark off of Democrats and supporting our candidates. ... It's not all Trump-focused ads."

🔎 Between the lines: Trump's message in his tax cut ads is good, Republican strategists say, but their research increasingly shows voters blame him for the war in Iran that's raising gas prices.

  • "Diesel's at an all-time high. Gas is about $4 a gallon. We can't message that away," said another Republican who runs campaigns for a few federal candidates.

🔮 What's next: At a Rose Garden dinner Wednesday with dozens of House Republicans, Trump promised to campaign across the country in 35 races "to see if we can get everyone elected."

  • If Trump wants to campaign for a candidate, it's going to be hard for them to say no, said one of the consultants involved in talks with MAGA Inc., the super PAC that backs Trump.
  • "Say no to Trump, and he could punish you," the consultant said. "Say yes to him, and his presence might not help. This is the world we're in."

Convention lineup ...

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Trump administration makes another appeal to the Supreme Court to allow mail ballot restrictions

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Sunday renewed its appeal to the Supreme Court to allow new restrictions on mail ballots in time for the midterms.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-mail-voting-executive-order-lawsuit-65067233db6ebda8dedcdc3f6714a96c?

ps:Pathetic

 

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Heavily Armed Republican Attacks Dem Candidate in MAGA Heartland

An armed man attacked Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton at an Ohio fair on Sunday.

A heavily armed man attacked Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton at a fair in Ohio’s MAGA heartland on Sunday afternoon.

The man “lunged at Dr. Acton, injuring multiple people” while Acton, 60, was attending the Canfield Fair in northeastern Ohio, a campaign spokesperson said in a statement.

“Dr. Acton and [her husband] Eric are grateful for the swift and decisive action of law enforcement and are praying for the recovery of those injured. This kind of violence has no place in Ohio,” the spokesperson said.

The suspect who attacked Acton has been identified as 38-year-old Patrick Havas, a registered Republican.

Havas barged into the Mahoning County Democratic Party’s tent and shoved his way through the crowd, knocking two people to the ground as he made his way to the front, officials on the scene told WFMJ.

WFMJ said he was carrying two firearms.

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine later said that Acton was unhurt and condemned political violence in an X post.

Havas has been arrested and has been charged with two counts of assault and one count of disorderly conduct, according to the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office inmate list.

A graduate of Youngstown State University, Havas is a licensed nurse and lives in Canfield, according to public records the Daily Beast reviewed.

The Daily Beast has reached out to Acton for comment.

This isn’t the first time the Havas family has had a brush with the law: Patrick Havas’ brother, Andrew Havas, was charged with sexual misconduct with a minor following a 2008 incident involving a 15-year-old in Mahoning County, according to court records reviewed by NBC News.

Andrew, who was 22 at the time, was accused of knowing that the minor was older than 13 but younger than 16 and of being reckless about the minor’s age.

As part of a plea deal, the sexual-misconduct charge was reduced to a single misdemeanor assault count.

Andrew pleaded guilty to the reduced charge in 2009 and was sentenced to 90 days in jail, ordered to pay a fine, and barred from having contact with the minor.

Andrew later served as a volunteer Franklin County campaign chair for Republican Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. He resigned in July after NBC News contacted the campaign about the case.

Husted’s campaign said Andrew had not disclosed his criminal history and that it immediately accepted his resignation after learning about it.

Patrick Havas’ alleged attack on Acton drew condemnation from both sides of the aisle.

In his X post, DeWine wrote, “We are grateful for the quick work of the Ohio State Highway Patrol and other law enforcement on the scene at the Canfield Fair today when a man tried to forcefully push himself toward Dr. Acton as she was speaking and injured other attendees at the Mahoning County Democrat booth.”

He added, “Violence or the threat of violence at political or public events is always unacceptable. This case is now in the hands of law enforcement and will be investigated thoroughly.”

The attack also drew condemnation from Acton’s Republican opponent, former DOGE boss co-chair Ramaswamy.

“Candidates should be able to meet with voters without having to worry about threats or violence. What happened today is completely unacceptable and has no place in politics, and we hope that no one was hurt,” his spokesperson said.

The Ohio gubernatorial contest is razor-thin, with Ramaswamy edging Acton by 2 percentage points in a Fox News poll conducted last month.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/heavily-armed-man-attacks-dem-candidate-in-maga-heartland/?

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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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Trump Rebrands State in Bonkers Posting Spree

80-year-old Trump floated his plans to give the map of the U.S. a very MAGA makeover.

Donald Trump has announced his latest in a string of plans to rename key markers of geography and history.

The 80-year-old president embarked on yet another Truth Social rampage on Sunday. In one afternoon post, Trump shared a crudely altered map proposing a new name for the entire state of New Mexico.

With ‘Mexico’ crossed out, Trump floated his idea: ‘New America.’

Democratic New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham responded to Trump’s post on X: “New Mexico’s name isn’t up for debate — it’s been ours since before the United States existed,” Grisham wrote. “While the President tries to distract Americans from his disastrous war in Iran, the price of gas —and everything else — keeps rising. Under Democratic leadership here in New Mexico, we’re providing families with free childcare and college, protecting access to health care and investing in housing. While the White House wastes time coloring on maps, Nuevo México is busy doing the work.”

On Sunday evening, Trump made another Truth Social post on the topic, stating “Many people suggested changing the name of New Mexico, one of the great vote cheating states of all time, to NEW AMERICA. So much more prestigious and beautiful for the people of that potentially incredible State. Wow, I Love It!!!”

The post also included an AI slop video of Trump putting “America” over a “Welcome to New Mexico” sign, before doing his trademark dance to the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.”

Elsewhere on X, viewers of the naming proposal seemed torn between fury and incredulity.

“Why stop there? New York should also be New America. New Jersey and New Hampshire, too. Pennsylvania could be Americasylvania. you should call all dogs America, and all cats, too. rename the periodic table the America Table, and call Oxygen Americagen,” one person mocked.

A second slammed: “Bro stop renaming things and fix the economy.”

Trump certainly has a penchant for rechristening landmarks with more MAGA-coded names.

The president kicked things off at the beginning of his second term in January 2025, when he signed the executive order “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness.”

As part of this order, he infamously renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

Last month Trump was at it again, when he officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America,’ with Apple Maps bowing down to the change after Trump reportedly urged the company to make the change.

The move followed rising trade tensions with Canada, but was met with clear resistance in the form of a sign declaring that Lake Ontario’s name would never change.

“Just in case President Trump or anyone else forgets, we’ve set up this sign to remind them. It’s Lake Ontario, now and forever,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said as the sign was unveiled.

Trump has also suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz after himself. Even place names unrelated to other nations have been swept up in the president’s narcissistic renaming streak.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on March 30 signed legislation to allow the renaming of Palm Beach International Airport to the President Donald J. Trump International Airport.

The president has also made demands for Washington Dulles International Airport and New York’s Penn Station to be named after him, following the legal challenges to the attempted renaming of the Kennedy Center.

While Trump’s latest social media spree—which included an AI fantasy of himself as a McDonald’s worker—is overall bizarre, experts have warned that it might be worth reading between the lines.

A psychiatrist has suggested that Trump’s Truth Social flights of fancy could be signs of mental illness or fatigue, as speculation about the president’s health reaches a fever pitch.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rebrands-state-in-bonkers-posting-spree/?

ps:Absolutely pathetic!!!!!!

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Keystone Kash Mocked for Boast About Five-Person Crime Wave

Patel’s findings appear to run contrary to Trump’s assertion that millions of noncitizens are voting.

FBI Director Kash Patel’s latest boast about his apparent crime bust is not going over well.

Patel, the conspiracy theorist turned FBI boss, said his agency charged five people in three states for casting ballots illegally over the past two election cycles. The FBI claims that four noncitizens voted illegally in either the 2022 or 2024 election, and one U.S. citizen has been charged with allegedly aiding his wife’s illegal voting.

“Election integrity is a top priority for this FBI. We will investigate every credible allegation of election fraud and illegal voting, following the facts wherever they lead,” Patel wrote on X.

President Donald Trump has been fixated on the 2020 election, which he lost but has been obsessing over for nearly six years now. The president has claimed repeatedly, and falsely, that the election was stolen from him due to voting irregularities, which his legal team at the time could never prove in court nor present to the public.

Even so, nearly every chance he gets, Trump repeats his lies that election irregularities made the results of the 2020 election fraudulent, including in a recent primetime address in which he rambled again about nonexistent voter interference in that election.

He has filled his entire administration with only loyalists who believe his election claims.

The second Trump administration has been fixated on the idea of noncitizens voting, even though, as proven by the FBI’s latest “bust,” cases of noncitizen voting are extremely rare and are not happening en masse as the Trump administration portrays.

Patel was widely mocked for hailing this five-person arrest as some kind of proof of widespread voter fraud.

“Five people across three states spanning two whole election cycles—you really cracked the code on ‘widespread voter fraud,’” one user wrote sarcastically. “At this rate, you’ll hit double digits by 2040. Pack it up, folks, the 160 million other votes were just a distraction.”

“But Trump claimed millions of illegals voted in our elections. You got five?” another wrote.

“You found a total of FIVE people and that’s a win? You’re basically telling us Trump was lying about his election fraud claims then,” another noted.

Trump and his MAGA supporters have invoked voter fraud while pushing the SAVE America Act, which would require voters to present photo identification when voting and documentary proof of citizenship when registering..

U.S. citizenship is already a requirement to vote, and cases of noncitizen voting, as evidenced by Patel’s not-so-big bust, are very rare.

The bill does not appear to have the 60 Senate votes needed to overcome a filibuster, despite Trump furiously pressuring Senate Majority Leader John Thune to just blow up the filibuster to get it passed.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/keystone-kash-patel-mocked-for-boast-about-five-person-crime-wave/?

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