President Trump

In Trump they trust. While pundits and protesters have called it 100 days of hell, talk to Donald Trump’s most faithful supporters and you will hear them use words such as “amazing”, “fantastic” and “ecstatic” about his presidency.

The Trump base, that amorphous group that has long intrigued pollsters, remains rock solid in its support for the 78-year-old and quite ingenious in finding new ways to eulogise his leadership.

Interviews with 10 Trump fans at a campaign-style rally in Warren, Michigan, on Tuesday seemed to occupy a different planet from opinion polls that give him the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years.

I think the author is so sophisticated he no longer understands anything.

Late on Thursday night, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The text was posted on the Trump team’s “Rapid Response 47” account on X.

It said: “@POTUS just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS — which receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.’”

President Donald Trump slammed CBS, Paramount, and the television show “60 Minutes” in a long post on Truth Social.

The president on Wednesday said his lawsuit against the three entities “is a true WINNER” and claimed they “cheated and defrauded the American People at levels never seen before in the Political Arena.”

President Trump says the case against 60 Minutes, CBS, and Paramount is a TRUE WINNER:

“They cheated and defrauded the American people.” pic.twitter.com/AvhVaX0Qe0

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 30, 2025

The president has learnt the lessons of his first term and is more willing than ever to trust his political instincts

President Donald Trump’s impatience was evident the first time he chatted with journalists at the back of Air Force One after returning to power.

I was among the small press pool as we flew from Las Vegas to Miami, and listened to my colleagues soften him up: “Is it nice to be back on Air Force One? Are you still planning to change the paint scheme?”

Mr Trump scanned the faces in front of him with a bemused expression as if to say: “Jeez, I’m the commander in chief. Is this the best you’ve got?”

Eight out of 10 Americans surveyed in a fresh ABC News/Washington Post poll oppose President Donald Trump serving a constitutionally barred third term in office, one of several high-profile Trump goals that a majority of respondents rejected.

President Trump has signed an executive order creating a United Sovereign Wealth Fund and Strategic Cryptocurrency Reserve. Sovereign Wealth Funds have been created in countries with surplus revenue, such as the oil-exporting Gulf states. The federal government is projected to incur deficits and accumulate debt for the foreseeable future. President Trump states that the Sovereign Wealth Fund will not be financed with debt or increased taxes, so the question is how will the Fund be financed? There are several scenarios, all of which pose problems for the Federal Reserve.

CBS News entered a new period of turmoil on Tuesday after the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” Bill Owens, said that he would resign from the long-running Sunday news program because he had lost his journalistic independence.

In an extraordinary declaration, Mr. Owens — only the third person to run the program in its 57-year history — told his staff in a memo that “over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience.”

h/t DS

Bill Maher, Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart are among comedians warming to US president

For more than a decade, the relationship between Donald Trump and Bill Maher had been marked by bad blood, legal action, and mud-slinging.

That changed earlier this month, when Maher said in a monologue on his HBO show that he had accepted the US president’s invitation to dinner at the White House, in a visit brokered by their mutual friend: Kid Rock.

What was even more incredible is that the comedian walked away charmed by the meeting, calling Mr Trump “gracious and measured”.

President Trump on Sunday resurrected one of his favorite Easter traditions by going on an epic tirade against foes including former President Joe Biden — who he called a “highly destructive Moron.

“Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country,” Trump, 78, wrote on Truth Social.

The American economist Thomas Sowell once wrote: “People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right – especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.”

So it seems with President Trump. He has been proven right about pretty much everything and now he is trying to do something about it, the elite is howling with indiscriminate outrage.

The White House has hung a painting of President Donald Trump depicting a moment after an assassination attempt against him last summer — bumping the official portrait of one of his predecessors, Barack Obama

Trump signs order to ‘make America’s showers great again’

Donald Trump is going to “make America’s showers great again” by easing rules restricting water flow, the White House says.

The US president is ordering the energy secretary to rescind a change introduced by Barack Obama that restricted multi-nozzle showers from discharging over 2.5 gallons of water per minute overall.

This served “a radical green agenda that made life worse for Americans”, the White House said, as Trump criticised the “ridiculous” amount of time he says it takes to wet his hair in the shower.

There’s a lot of chatter about Bill Maher meeting with President Donald Trump. The noted and vocal Trump critic accepted a private dinner invitation from the president, which the comedian and late-night HBO host graciously accepted. He doesn’t care if his liberal audience finds this a deplorable act, promptly saying these people could f**k off: it’s the president of the United States. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime invitation. You go no matter who occupies the White House. Maher reportedly came with a copy of every insult he hurled at Trump; he autographed it.

h/t DS