As the clock struck midnight on Christmas morning at one Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, at least one someone was stirring.
Starting in the early hours of December 25 and ending in the evening, President Donald Trump posted over 100 times on Truth Social.
Hours before Trump sat alongside first lady Melania Trump to answer the calls of children dialing into the North American Aerospace Defense Command, during which he told kids from Oklahoma that “we’re not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa,” the president shared posts attacking Rep. Nancy Pelosi, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and former President Joe Biden, amongst several others.
At 12:01, Trump began the spree by sharing an over-eight-minute video by someone explaining “The DEMOCRAT FRAUD PYRAMID.”
Throughout the day, concluding around 7 o’clock, the president repeated many times that the 2020 election was stolen. He also shared a post that praised White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s handling of the “fake news,” another of someone who called Democrats a “criminal organization,” and one where Trump said, of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), “Throw her out of the U.S., Now!”
Hate was the message Chump chose to send. He's evil and he has hate on the mind. That's all he has to offer. He's probably creating hell on earth to prepare himself for being damned eternally in the pits of hell. There will be no pardon for Chump, no clemency. Just a lifetime in the pits of hell -- a sentence he deserves and a sentence he's earned. He has destroyed so many lives this year alone. There is no repentance from him, no acknowledgement of the harm he's done, no awareness. Just the desire to spread more hate.
He feeds on it and then he pukes it back up all over this still great country which will survive him. He will not survive his own presidency. All that hate churning in him? The idiots around him encourage it. They ignore the fact that he's morbidly obese. They ignore the fact that he eats garbage. They ignore the fact that golfing isn't exercise -- especially when you lean so heavily on the cart as Chump does. His already poor health is only getting worse and that will continue. Will a stroke result in a President JD Vance? That's highly likely as his health continues to deteriorate.
And, again, he invites cardiac problems with his weight, his eating habits and his inability to get off his fat ass and exercise. He can't even manage walking. All the footage of him in the last weeks, when he's trying to walk, it's a huge effort. And, yes, he's morbidly obese so that's a lot of weight to carry around but it's more than just his weight. His balance is off. His feet drag. A family that cared wouldn't have let it get this far. His family either is in denial or they're paying him back for the asshole he's always been. The monster who used to make Don Jr. cry. Don Jr. tries to play like their best friends, but there's not a woman that Don Jr.'s slept with who can't tell you the way he was damaged by his own father.
There will be no heartfelt tributes for Chump when he passes. There will be relief and there will be celebration. But no one outside of his dwindlilng cult is going to mourn him.
He's losing his hold on his cult and he's losing his hold on Republicans in Congress and on Republicans in this country. Why? Because you can't "Make America Great Again" by destroying democracy. And he hates democracy. It's a built-in for a number of trashy people who get wealthy. Look at Zuckerberg. Look at Bezos. They're garbage trash. Both know better and, during Chump's first term, did better. They weren't huge defenders of freedom (though Bezos pretended he was and cheap whores like Meryl Streep lied to make him come off like one). But they didn't join him in attacking our country. Now they have. Political conversion?
No, trashy greed. They're his partners in crime because one hand greases the other.
Chump will be out of office by January 2029.
Donald Chump made Florida his base because NYC society never welcomed him and never will. But he could find a home in all the other trash that moved from New York to Florida. Most of them, like him, that moved in disgrace. They're 'eccentrics' and 'oddballs.' They're Donald's people -- people who are so disgusting that all the money in the world can't wash the stink off him.
And history won't let Chump shake off his own stink. David Smith (GUARDIAN) explains:
Wendy Schiller, a political scientist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, said: “He promised to secure the border but the deportations have gone too far. City after city, community after community has expressed frustration and dismay at the tactics.”
Trump had also promised to fix the economy but his signature legislation, the “one big, beautiful bill” – rebranded as the Working Families Tax Cut Act – will, critics say, transfer wealth from the poor to the rich and strips healthcare from millions of people. Meanwhile the president’s disruptive policy centred on aggressive tariffs that caused market volatility and fuelled higher prices for consumers.
Schiller added: “The greatest self-inflicted wound that the president has brought on himself and the Republicans are the tariffs. In the first administration, they were primarily directed at China and you can make an argument about that.
“In this administration they are so much broader and more sweeping and it’s showing in supply chains, in consumer purchasing, in pricing, in every corner of people’s lives. Whether it’s a supermarket or it’s holiday gifting or whatever it is, they’re feeling it.”
Trump’s appointment of Robert F Kennedy Jr helped fan anti-vaccine sentiment, leading to a resurgence of preventable diseases and a politicisation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He withdrew the US from the Paris agreement and systematically dismantled climate science infrastructure.
At his political zenith, Trump’s embrace of authoritarianism appeared unstoppable. He quickly fired 17 independent inspectors general in apparent violation of federal law. He ordered the justice department to investigate perceived enemies including James Comey, the former director of the FBI, and Letitia James, the New York attorney general.
The administration targeted law firms that represented adversaries, stripping contracts and security clearances to extract multimillion-dollar settlements. Billions in federal funding were frozen for universities including Harvard and Columbia, leveraging antisemitism and DEI policies to force changes in curricula and leadership.
Trump also pursued an aggressive campaign against mainstream media, suing news organisations such as CBS/Paramount, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, pushing the Federal Communications Commission to revoke broadcast licences and restricting access for some outlets while promoting “Maga media”.
It reads like a rap sheet -- and it reads like that because he is a convicted crook and because he truly is enemy of democracy. And that's why his popularity fades just as his health does. Before our eyes, the braggart lose his hold and that's one thing we can all be grateful for as 2025 draws to a close.
Again, how did you spend your holiday because there was nothing peace & joy about how Chump spend his. He continued his attacks on immigrants and those mistaken for them. It's part of his campaign to spread hate all over the country. And his hate campaign was not put on hold for Christmas. Malcolm Ferguson (THE NEW REPUBLIC) reports:
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers in Yakima, Washington, spent Christmas Eve arresting a man in a Walmart parking lot—even taking his already purchased groceries for themselves.
Four ICE officers in masks and tactical gear can be seen in a video surrounding a man with a car full of food while he loads it into his car. A woman watching the arrest asked ICE if she could take down the phone number of the man’s wife to let her know her husband had been detained. The ICE agents refused.
“No, guess he should’ve complied,” an agent said.
The agents then start to divvy up the man’s groceries, as the bystander tells them they had previously detained and deported her husband.
Having kidnapped the man at Walmart, they then divvy up the man's groceries? Guess that's how the knuckle dragging gestapo decides who to harass -- based on who leaves the store with the most groceries. That's disgusting and a real world of justice would find those ICE agents behind bars for a long time. It's theft, don't pretend it's anything else.
And the American people are rejecting Chump's hate. Joe Kohut (ABC NEWS 16) reports from Pennsylvania:
Dozens of tiny points of light illuminated a street corner in downtown Danville.
Friends and strangers held candles in solidarity for Sergio Chavez Jimenez, a business owner detained this weekend by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Jimenez, 46, wasn't born in Danville, but they made him their own.
"What we were promised is that immigration enforcement would go after criminals...hardened criminals, murderers and rapists and drug dealers," said Trevor Finn, a Montour County commissioner who has been in contact with members of Jimenez's family. "What has happened instead is that they're picking up somebody like Sergio, (who) doesn't make this a worse place but makes this a better place for us."
"He's the type of person we really, really need to keep around here."
Jimenez is the proprietor of Amigos Pizzeria & Mexican Restaurant, a Mill Street eatery he opened around five years ago. Brought to the country from Mexico as a young boy, he's worked to try to get legal status. Now nearing 50, he's married, a father and a business owner, Finn said.
And they are rejecting it across the country. In New Haven? Richard Chumney (NEW HAVEN REGISTER) notes:
Billboards protesting Avelo Airline's contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport people who enter the U.S. illegally have returned to Interstate 95 after a legal battle.
The signs are located near Tweed New Haven Airport and urge travelers to reconsider flying with Avelo while the airline operates ICE deportation charter flights for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The signs are part of a larger nationwide campaign protesting deportation flights and the airlines that participate in the ongoing effort. On Sunday, demonstrators gathered at Tweed to protest Avelo’s contract with ICE.
The billboards were created earlier this month by Seth Miller, an aviation journalist and state lawmaker from New Hampshire. Miller said he funded the signs with his own money and through public donations.
“U.S. government agencies are snatching people off the street, moving them multiple times to evade the judicial process and putting them on planes before they can appeal,” Miller said in a statement. “Avelo is actively complicit in this process, placing detainees in dangerous environments."
People are outraged by what's happening and "people" include judges who know the law. One example there, Maxine Bernstein (THE OREGONIAN) reports:
A federal judge earlier this month ordered the immediate release of a Beaverton man who had been detained by federal officers when he was leaving his apartment to go to work.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers were targeting another man they believed was in the country illegally based on a nearly two decade-old photo and had staked out the Beaverton apartment for hours when Fernando Pichardo Medina emerged from the complex. Pichardo Medina got into his work van, went back to his apartment to grab his coffee and breakfast, returned to his truck, then realized he forgot his headphones.
“He sounds like me on most mornings,” U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane said.
Ashleigh Fields (THE HILL) notes:
Former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh (Ill.) on Friday decried the Trump administration’s immigration raids that were carried out throughout the Christmas holiday.
“I did my best yesterday to turn off the news from Christmas Eve on and not think about anything and not tweet anything,” Walsh, a frequent critic of President Trump who became a Democrat earlier this year, said on “The Social Contract” podcast.
“But I scrolled a few times and ICE, those masked federal agents, were out on Christmas Day detaining immigrants. They were out on Christmas Eve detaining immigrants. What the f—?” he added.
Exactly Jacob Crosse (WSWS) reports:
The claim that the operation targets “criminals” is a lie. ICE has shifted away from jail-based arrests to mass workplace raids at car washes, construction sites and food processing plants. Immigrants are targeted whose only “crime” is seeking work.
Political opposition is also being criminalized. Yaa’kub Vijandre, a longtime Dallas resident and DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipient, has been detained for nearly three months and faces deportation to a country he has not lived in since childhood. His “crime” is refusing to become an FBI informant and continuing to speak out against US imperialism and the genocide in Gaza. If this is grounds for detention, it is grounds for the persecution of anyone.
Those seized are routinely denied basic constitutional rights. The recent CBS 60 Minutes investigation, which was pulled from airing, documented the illegal rendition of nearly 300 immigrants to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison under the Alien Enemies Act. They were held for months without lawyers under conditions amounting to torture. Similar conditions have been documented at detention facilities across Florida, Texas, Arizona, California, New Jersey and Louisiana.
What is being built is a nationwide deportation machine. ICE acting director Todd Lyons has openly stated that the goal of the Trump administration is to become the “Amazon” of deportations: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
Overcrowding and neglect have already produced a surge in detainee deaths. At least 30 immigrants have died in ICE custody this year, several under highly suspicious circumstances. Earlier this month over a 4-day span, four immigrants died in ICE for-profit prisons.
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