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“Actually, a New York Fed study found American companies and consumers paid about 90% of the cost of last year’s tariffs. The Tax Foundation put it at around $1,000 per household in 2025. The Supreme Court even struck a lot of them down.”

“His own financial disclosure shows more than a billion dollars in crypto income in his first year back, while his administration loosened the rules on crypto. His son-in-law’s fund runs on billions from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE while he negotiates in the Middle East. That’s a funny kind of swamp-draining.”

“Then why does he keep firing them? By this summer, 27 Senate-confirmed officials had left his departments, compared with 11 at the same point in his first term. He fired his own attorney general and his homeland security secretary.”

“He pardoned about 1,500 people charged in the January 6 attack, including people convicted of assaulting police officers. And a jury found him guilty on 34 felony counts.”

“The Government Accountability Office, Congress’s nonpartisan auditor, checked $110 billion in claimed savings and found the numbers were wrong or unsupported. One entry claimed savings on an $8 billion contract that was actually worth $8 million.”

“His golf trips have cost taxpayers more than $101 million in travel and security this term. His administration asked Congress for $1 billion in security funding that includes his ballroom. And the Congressional Budget Office says a missile shield like his “Golden Dome” could cost $1.2 trillion.”

“He had the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool redone in “American flag blue,” a job that was supposed to take two weeks. After a botched installation, it still wasn’t finished months later. And he tore down the entire East Wing after saying his ballroom wouldn’t touch the existing building.”

“He fired the CDC’s entire vaccine advisory panel, and a federal judge ruled the replacement panel wasn’t lawfully set up. Meanwhile, the country is dealing with its deadliest measles outbreak in more than 30 years.”

“He fought for months to keep them sealed and only signed the law releasing them under pressure. The documents mention him more than a thousand times. Whatever you think they show, transparency shouldn’t have been that hard.”

“Pew surveyed 36 countries this year. The median share with confidence in him was 23%, and it fell in 16 of the 24 countries they track over time. He also threatened tariffs on our NATO allies to pressure them over Greenland.”

“A lot of this isn’t even reporting. It’s records: court rulings, inspector general reports, the Congressional Budget Office, and his own financial disclosures. You can read them yourself.”