Tag: Donald J. Trump
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Get Your 50-Year Mortgage Here
President Donald J. Trump’s administration recently floated the 50-year mortgage as something that would help make homes more affordable.
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Trump’s Privately Funded White House Ballroom: Risks, Ethics, and Historical Context
President Donald Trump’s proposal to construct a large, privately funded ballroom on the White House grounds has generated widespread concern over transparency, donor influence, and the preservation of a historic federal landmark. While presidents have overseen renovations to the White House in the past, the scale, financing structure, and political context of this project make…
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Fox News Interview: Healthcare Claims, Murder Statistics, and Economic Assertions
President Trump’s November 10, 2025 interview with Laura Ingraham contained a mixture of false claims, accurate statements, and assertions requiring substantial context. The interview demonstrated a pattern common in Trump’s public statements: mixing accurate observations about economic trends with significantly false claims about policy proposals and immigration statistics. The most serious inaccuracies involved mischaracterizing Democratic…
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Trump Discusses Government Shutdown, China Policy, and Controversial Positions in Fox News Interview
President Trump clashed with Fox News host Laura Ingraham over allowing 600,000 Chinese students in U.S. universities, defended demolishing the White House East Wing for a $250 million privately-funded ballroom, and claimed Democrats wanted $1.5 trillion for healthcare for “11,888 murderers” who entered the country illegally.
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Trump and Orbán Bilateral Meeting: Hungary Seeks Russian Energy Exemption as Leaders Discuss Ukraine Peace, Immigration, and “Golden Age” in Relations
Trump and Orbán Bilateral Meeting: Hungary Seeks Russian Energy Exemption as Leaders Discuss Ukraine Peace, Immigration, and “Golden Age” in Relations.
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President Trump Misinforms America on Thanksgiving Prices
President Trump claims prices of a Thanksgiving dinner have declined, but the data he cites does not support his conclusion.
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The $80 Billion Nuclear Bet: Understanding the Trump Administration’s Westinghouse Deal
The core question is not whether nuclear power has technical merit. Rather, it’s whether this particular arrangement represents sound policy or a costly mistake that mixes industrial policy with crony capitalism. Is this another step towards Trump’s version of state capitalism, or even outright socialism?
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Trump Announces GLP-1 Agreement, Discusses Tariffs, Shutdown, Other Topics
The meeting covered drug pricing details, Most Favored Nations policy, Medicare/Medicaid expansion, TrumpRx.gov platform, manufacturing investments, negotiation process, tariff strategy, Supreme Court case, the medical incident, CEO remarks, FDA vouchers, safety questions, MAHA movement, and extensive Q&A on government shutdown, air traffic control, Thanksgiving costs, India relations, NYC politics, and healthcare reform.
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Supreme Court Hears Historic Arguments on Trump Tariffs: Can Presidents Tax Without Congress?
Can a president tax Americans without Congress? The Supreme Court just heard explosive arguments on Trump’s tariffs – with justices asking if a future president could declare a climate emergency to impose massive taxes. One justice called it a “one-way ratchet” where Congress would never get its constitutional power back. The stakes: trillions in trade…
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Fact-Check: Trump’s Claim About Eliminating Social Security Taxes
The claim contains a sweeping overgeneralization by stating “NO TAXES ON SOCIAL SECURITY” when the actual effect is far more limited and nuanced. The new senior deduction will benefit some seniors but not all, and even for those who benefit, the mechanism is not an elimination of Social Security taxation but rather a general deduction…
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Analysis of Economists’ Amicus Brief Challenging Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs
Analysis of an amicus curiae brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by prominent professional economists, including several Nobel Prize winners and former government officials. There are two consolidated cases before the U.S. Supreme Court: No. 24-1287: Learning Resources, Inc., et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. and No.…
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Remarks: Donald Trump Hosts a Breakfast for GOP Senators at the White House – November 5, 2025
Analysis of remarks by President Donald Trump. He uses an authoritarian-populist influence style that trades procedural restraint for speed and dominance, using fear-laden narratives and high-certainty promises to justify institutional shortcuts and identity-based mobilization.