10 posts from Friday, February 21, 2025

The number of border crossings have dropped so much under Trump that federal agents now outnumber illegal crossers. The El Paso sector, which saw a peak of 1,800 encounters per day back in 2023, now sees fewer than 100. Across the entire southern border, the number has dropped to an average of just 359 illegal migrants a day. Compare that to the 2024 average of nearly 3,000

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Other agencies of the federal government find themselves under intense scrutiny as Trump's waist-cutting ways continue. President Trump has decided that our government needs a little slimming down. Forget keto. This is the MAGA diet plan for a bloated bureaucracy that is gorged on taxpayer dollars long enough. By ordering an 8% cut to the Pentagon's budget and laying off 6,700 IRS employees, Trump is showing that he means business. So what do illegal immigrants and IVF treatments have in common? Absolutely nothing. But that didn't stop Trump from addressing both issues in his latest round of executive orders. On one hand, cutting benefits for illegals. On the other, expanding access to IVF. It is a classic Trump move, tough on criminals, yet softer than a rom-com subplot when it comes to families trying to have kids. He's basically saying if you want to grow the American family, just do it the legal way. And who could be against that? Foreign aid is feeling the squeeze too. Trump has frozen wasteful foreign aid and put USAID operations on ice faster than a New York sidewalk in February. Critics are hand-wringing and bedwetting. Reasonable people say this is Trump finally giving America a break from being the world's piggy bank. While critics are busy hyperventilating, President Trump continues to execute his playbook with style, flair, and intense focus on righting the wrongs. From cutting bloated budgets to renaming the Gulf of America, every move is calculated. Every decision bold, love him or hate him, you can't ignore that this is President Trump charging on. And isn't that the ultimate Trump card?

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have you caught your breath yet? It's been one month since Trump was sworn in. I do think that we've had maybe more executive orders than CNN has viewers each night. So hello to our friends at CNN. Trump signed more executive orders in the first 30 days than every president since the 80s combined. And we can already see the change. Criminals are going home. The border is sealed shut. America is safe, sovereign, proud, and free. We are a nation that everyone in the world understands all across this planet. You do not come here illegally. You will not get in. You will go to jail. You will go home. You will not succeed. This is the biggest and most successful change in any area of law enforcement that this nation has ever seen. And he did it in under one month. The America we knew under Joe Biden's vanish, poof, like that. President Trump's first month in office has exceeded the wildest dreams of his most loyal supporters and the darkest nightmares of his fiercest attractors. The America that Joe Biden left behind on January 20th is no longer recognizable, erased in four frenetic weeks by an empowered, implacable, and historically popular MAGA presidency. The White House celebrated the one-month anniversary by handing out nine-page packets full of Trump's accomplishments. Give it to the press. Doubt they'll report on it, so I will. Here's some highlights. Border secured. Hostages returned. Girls sports saved. DEI dead. Fraud dozed. Cabinet cleared. Hundreds of billions of foreign investments secured. Drill, baby, drill, and paper straws canceled. Just to name a few. The president also honored Black History Month today with a very special guest. Is there anybody like our tiger? How are you? Would you want to just say a couple of words? He doesn't. He's much more comfortable. It's an honor to be here. It's an honor to be here with you, Mr. President, and to be on the road here with all of you. Thank you so much. Things are going so well. He's thinking about never leaving. I won't be happy the next time. Should I run again? You tell me. There's your controversy right there. There's your controversy. Four more years of Trump. Democrats might actually move to Canada, but by that time it'll be a state. It's been a whirlwind month. That's all part of the plan. Unlike Trump 1.0, the chaos is calculated and explicitly designed to institutionalize MAGA, paralyze the president's enemies, and permanently break the Washington establishment. It's not just DC getting a makeover. He's upending the world order. No one expected Trump to handle global affairs like his predecessors, but few expected him to move so rapidly to reorient U.S. foreign policy away from the course it has charted since 1945. Trump's making our foreign policy more transactional. No more freebies from the U.S. If you want our help, you got to bring something to the table. And the president's taking a different approach to Ukraine. A modestly successful comedian, Vladimir Zelensky, talked the United States of America into spending 350 billion dollars to go into a war that couldn't be won. Zelensky admits that half of the money we sent him is missing. He refuses to have elections, is very low in Ukrainian polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden like a fiddle, a dictator without elections. Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left. Zelensky probably wants to keep the gravy train going. I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job. His country has shattered and millions have unnecessarily died. Is this all part of the negotiation? I have no idea. I think what President Trump, what makes him such an effective negotiator, I've seen this in private, is that he doesn't take anything off the table. When he walks into negotiation, he says everything is on the table. And of course, that makes the heads explode in the American media because they say, why are you talking to Russia? Well, how are you going to end the war unless you're talking to Russia? You've got to talk to everybody involved in the fighting if you actually want to bring the conflict to a close. Senator Josh Hawley is here. So Senator, why did the president rip Zelensky's face off? Well, why did he? It's because he wants to bring him to the negotiating table. That's exactly what the vice president just said, Jesse. And you're right. I mean, listen, this has been an incredible month. President Trump has gotten Russia to the negotiating table after they refuse to come for years. I mean, Joe Biden, they wouldn't sit down with Joe Biden. They wouldn't do anything for him. Trump has them at the table. Zelensky will come to the table. And whether we're talking about Ukraine, whether we're talking about the fraud and waste and abuse that the president is exposing everywhere. Here's how I look at it, Jesse. He is really, he's getting the rot out of our government. Never has this government been so corrupt and Trump is just tearing the rot out of the government. And it's a great thing to see.

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- America's decline is over. - I will declare a national emergency and I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country. - Border crossings this month are on track to be at the lowest in at least 25 years. - The 1,500 troops sent to the border begin their new mission. The first groups of Venezuelan migrants deported from the U.S. - This week I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate with full back pain. - President Donald Trump delivering on yet another campaign promise. - We will begin the revolution of common sense. - The Children's Hospital Los Angeles is pausing all transgender hormonal therapy for patients under the age of 19. - We will defend the proud tradition of female athletes. From now on women's sports will be only for women. - The NCAA announcing it will comply with the order across all sports setting what they call a new clear national standard. - We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again right to the top and export American energy all over the world. With my actions today we will end the green new deal and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate. - President Trump's immediate actions on energy, his declaration of a national energy emergency, restart liquefied natural gas terminal approvals, boost Alaska's energy production, revoke Biden's ban on oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters and Paris climate agreement withdrawal.

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Well, I'll talk to the guys if they're around. Yeah, they are. I'm going to walk into the locker room right now and you can speak to the guys firsthand. Mr. President, can you hear me? I can. You guys are really talented. I have great respect for hockey players. I'm a hockey fan. I love hockey. The talent, the skill that you have is crazy. And just go out and have a good time tonight. And I just want to wish you a lot of luck. You really are a skilled group of people. It's an honor to talk to you and get out there and there's no pressure whatsoever. I can tell you, honestly, every person in here, players, staff, management coaches, we are all proud Americans. We want to represent our country the best way we can and do our best to bring in a win tonight. Thank you again on behalf of everybody. You just go out and have a good time. You're going to win and we love America. We love you guys. We'll be watching tonight. Bring it on. Thank you.

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