All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

[macdoc]

let the memes roll.

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[Brian Peacock]

Did he actually put his hand on the Bible when taking the oath?

[JimC]

He knows that if his hand touches the bible, it will go up in flames of brimstone!

[JimC]

In terms of his withdrawal from climate change agreements...

The executive order by Trump places the US alongside Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries in the world outside the 2015 pact.

Great company...

[Tero]

Elsewhere, many of these:

Such a petty tyrant.

My sleep last night was restless and punctuated by thoughts such as, “How many days is 4 years?”

I am going to have to really avoid/filter what I read from this point.

I feel better this morning - maybe it’s acceptance.

There’s such a difference between the anticipation and the actual reality of something.

[Tero]

A Tipping Point -- History has changed

https://esapolitics.blogspot.com/2025/0 ... anged.html

[macdoc]

needs a spell checker

[Tero]

needs a spell checker

Yes, I know. Sorry. Goigle does not spell check there. It does in my gmails.

90% fixed now...at least spelling.

[Tero]

NYT
“For the many billionaires who bought their way in, it was both a flex and act of public deference to be there,” Shawn McCreesh wrote. Read about the awkwardness onstage.
Many guests — including Ron DeSantis and the YouTuber Logan Paul — had to sit in an overflow room and watch the ceremony on a screen.
Melania Trump wore a black hat with a wide brim. “Whatever she was thinking was impossible to see — by design,” our fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, wrote.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Already hard at work Making America Great Again.

'Trump Rescinds Biden Order Aimed at Lowering Prescription Drug Prices'

As part of a flurry of executive actions on the first day of his second White House term, President Donald Trump on Monday rescinded an order signed by his predecessor that aimed to develop programs to lower prescription drug prices in the United States—where residents pay far more for medications than people in peer countries.

News of Trump's rollback of Executive Order 14087—titled Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans—was buried amid dozens of other rescissions the president ordered shortly following his inauguration.

The decision to scrap Executive Order 14087 brings to a halt several pilot programs undertaken by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, including an experiment that involved offering generic medications for a $2 copay to Medicare Part D recipients.

"This act is a good indication of how Trump will approach lower drug prices," Social Security Works, a progressive advocacy group, wrote in response to Trump's rescission of President Joe Biden's executive order.

Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, added that "the big question, which Trump hasn't addressed yet, is what he’ll do with government negotiation of drug prices under the Inflation Reduction Act."

Just days before Trump took office, the Biden administration announced a fresh slate of 15 medications set to be subject to direct price negotiations between the federal government and pharmaceutical companies, many of which have sued over the negotiation program—thus far unsuccessfully.

Reuters reported last week that the powerful pharmaceutical lobby has been pushing Trump's team to back changes to the Inflation Reduction Act that would weaken the price-negotiation provisions.

"Donald Trump is already following through on his dangerous plans to jack up the costs of drugs to appease his billionaire backers after the Biden-Haris administration took on Big Pharma and won," Alex Floyd, rapid response director for the Democratic National Committee, said in a statement. "Trump is again proving that he lied to the American people and doesn't care about lowering costs—only what's best for himself and his ultra-rich friends."

[Tero]

Of course he does. ACA next. Too costly.

[Tero]

Response to a clip of an excited Foxnews host.

[Brian Peacock]

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Melania Trump wore a black hat with a wide brim. “Whatever she was thinking was impossible to see — by design,” our fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, wrote.

She was dressed for a funeral.

[Brian Peacock]

Already hard at work Making America Great Again.

'Trump Rescinds Biden Order Aimed at Lowering Prescription Drug Prices'

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Just sayin