Sunday, June 01, 2025

The obesity is accelerating Donald's dementia

They say obesity impacts Alzheimer's so I guess we shouldn't be surprised out how quickly Donald Chump's dementia is increasing.  Savannah Kuchar (USA TODAY) reports:

President Donald Trump reshared a post falsely saying former President Joe Biden was "executed in 2020," among other incorrect allegations.

The false claims, made by another user on Truth Social and reposted by Trump on May 31, also included that "clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities" have since substituted for the ex-commander-in-chief.

Biden was not executed, and he is still alive today. He served four years in the White House from 2021 to 2025. He sought a second term as president before ending his campaign last summer following a bombshell debate against Trump.


Isabel Keane (THE INDEPENDENT) adds:

Trump’s supporters were quick to get behind his message, some sharing side-by-side memes of Biden claiming “these are not the same people,” and others egging on Trump for “trolling.”

Some commentators pointed to Biden’s earlobes, claiming that before 2020, they appeared to be unattached to his head, whereas now they are. Another even insisted that the government televised giving Biden a “funeral cannon salute at Arlington” on his Inauguration Day.

Detractors of the president, meanwhile, branded his sharing of the post “concerning.”

Trump’s wife, Melania, has also been the subject of similar conspiracy theories, with some claiming a body double replaced her during his first term. The White House at the time dismissed the theories as a “non-story.”


Keane notes that Chump also lied on social media Friday when he insisted that a 2015 interview he did with Stephen Colbert had been deleted from the internet despite it still being available all over the internet including at the YOUTUBE channel for THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT.   

The mind is going, going, gone.  Chump's sinks further senility with each day.


The crazy does not go unnoticed on the world stage.  Simon Marks (THE I PAPER) reports:


A fortnight ago, government officials in Singapore wondered whether US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth was even going to attend this weekend’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. On Saturday, the former Fox News presenter used his speech at the year’s most prominent Asian security summit to sound loud alarm bells about China. 


But those assembled are not buying the latest offering for laughable Pete.  Marcks notes:


But the EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, rejected Hegseth’s proposals, telling the Shangri-La Dialogue that European and Asian security issues were “literally interlinked”. Citing efforts by Chinese-flagged ships to disrupt undersea cables in the Baltic, and Chinese cyber attacks on European nations including the Czech Republic, she insisted the bloc would not outsource its ongoing efforts to confront China and will continue “standing up for international law because it protects us and everybody else”. She pointed to Europe’s deepening security ties with Asian partners, citing defence alliances with Japan and South Korea, and saying plans were now afoot to enhance security relationships with India and Australia as well. 

For the UK, Admiral Sir Anthony Radakin, the Chief of the Defence Staff, also asserted a determination to remain engaged in the Asia-Pacific theatre, with Royal Navy ships participating in freedom of navigation operations in the Taiwan Straits and the South China Sea. He told the forum that “freedom of navigation in this part of the world matters to us, just as it matters in the English Channel … we are an active, responsible and reliable partner in the shared cause of global stability”. 

Hegseth’s coming-out party at the Shangri-La Dialogue presented him with a new world order in which European and Asian governments are not buying the US-dominated vision that Trump is attempting to sell. In Singapore, they made it clear that they do not believe they can automatically trust Trump to take the lead role in the region, nor to come to their own aid in the event of any Chinese or Russian attack. As China expands its “Belt and Road” development initiative to more than 140 countries, its partners in that endeavour now include Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore itself. 


Hegseth's coming-out party bombed and the world's not interested in Chump's lies.   Meanwhile, Chump continues his efforts to wreck the US economy.  Josephine Harvey (DAILY BEAST) explains:


With courts threatening to unravel his global trade war, Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Sunday to send a not-so-subtle signal to the judges standing in his way.

The president suggested he expects an appeal to go his way following a week of legal whiplash over his signature economic policy. On Wednesday, a federal trade court struck down his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs on global trade partners, ruling he had overstepped his constitutional authority. But just a day later, an appeals court put that decision on hold while it reviews the case.


And then he put on his turban to predict that if the courts didn't see it his way, the economy would collapse.  The fat lady has sung, Chump insisted pointing to himself.

While the dangerous and delusional Donald continues with his insanity, people are suffering.  Lisa Eadicicco (CNN) zooms in on the reality for small businesses: 


The confusion has made it challenging for some small companies to plan, business owners told CNN. In certain cases, they have had to consider changing their product strategy, looking into shifting their supply chains, reducing staff hours or delaying products.

“My fear is, if this continues, there’s going to be like the mass extinction of small businesses,” Julie Robbins, CEO of Ohio-based guitar pedal maker EarthQuaker Devices, told CNN.

Trump announced blanket tariffs across the globe on April 2, and since then, his plans have changed on a regular basis.

In early April, he issued a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs almost everywhere except China. Then, after ratcheting up total tariffs on Chinese imports to 145%, he declared smartphones and certain other electronics would be exempt from the reciprocal tariffs. The US and China agreed in May to roll back reciprocal tariffs for 90 days. And in late May, he threatened smartphone makers like Apple with 25% tariffs if they don’t make their phones in the US. He also agreed to push back levies on imports from the European Union until July 9.

Those are only some of his changes, which can come at any time of day via the White House, social media posts or other avenues.

The whiplash has been hard for companies to keep up with. Even major brands like apparel giant Gap are feeling the impact of tariffs, but small companies with far fewer resources are in an even tougher spot. The National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Optimism Index fell by 1.6 points in April, dipping below the 51-year average for the second consecutive month. The organization’s chief economist, Bill Dunkelberg, cited uncertainty as a “major impediment” for small business owners in a press release.

“It’s the sort of more smaller, kind of more niche… brands that are going to really, really get hit by this,” Jack Leathem, an analyst at market research firm Canalys, told CNN in April.

Some small business owners have had to make difficult decisions as they’ve grappled with the impact of tariffs. EveAnna Manley, whose company Manley Labs makes high-end electronics for recording studios, has had to cut her employees’ hours by 25%.


You can't plan with a crazy person trying to crash the economy and changing his plans to do that every five minutes.  Katherine Li (BUSINESS INSIDER) notes:

  • US manufacturing is struggling to fill existing jobs as tariffs aim to bring back more.
  • The manufacturing industry faces a skills gap, an aging workforce, and negative perceptions.
  • Trade experts say China has advantages in manufacturing from subsidies and low-cost labor.

The US manufacturing renaissance may need a lot more than tariffs.

President Donald Trump wants to bring back manufacturing, but even if his tariffs manage to stimulate growth in this sector, the industry faces a skills gap, an aging workforce, and negative perceptions — not to mention the potentially mounting cost of hiring domestic labor in comparison to countries like China.

Experts and researchers in trade told Business Insider that the manufacturing sector is struggling to fill the existing open positions.

"Manufacturers have faced a structural challenge for multiple years now," said Carolyn Lee, president and executive director of the Manufacturing Institute. "The heart of that is most people don't know what modern manufacturing is all about, that we still are challenged by a perception of what the industry used to be."

"Our workforce, a lot of them are also retiring, and they are older," Lee added. "Manufacturers have averaged about 500,000 open jobs every month for several years now."


Here's a thought.  Maybe next time we don't trust the US economy with a failure who's had to declare bankruptcy -- let alone had to do so multiple times. 

Former President Bill Clinton spoke to CBS NEWS this morning. 


Tracy Smith (CBS NEWS) reports:


President Bill Clinton criticized President Trump's actions attacking the rule of law, and predicted that the president would pay a price among those who believe his actions are un-American.

"We've never seen anything like this before in my lifetime – somebody that says, 'Whatever I want should be the law of the land. It's my way or the highway.' And most Americans don't agree with that," Clinton said in an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning." "But I like to think that he's paid a price for this, you know, name-calling and throwing his weight around … I think it's made him less popular."

He said opposition to Mr. Trump would be bolstered if Democrats win governors' races at play this year, and win back the House in 2026. 

"Look, only elections are going to change this," he said. "But I do think the courts are getting their dander up. I think that him shutting law firms out of representing their clients before federal agencies and in federal buildings, because he doesn't agree with their position – that ain't America. We've never done that. The whole purpose of having a legal system is to have both sides be heard."


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