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Yahoo
27-05-2025
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'Deranged Lunatic': Critics Blast Trump After 'Utterly Unfit' Holiday Rant
Critics are calling out President Donald Trump for marking Memorial Day with a wild all-caps rant in which he slammed the previous administration as 'scum,' attacked former President Joe Biden, and railed against judges who've blocked parts of his agenda. Trump on Monday wrote: Memorial Day is typically a somber holiday intended to honor the nation's war dead. Trump, however, spent at least part of the day airing his grievances. In addition to the all-caps rant on his Truth Social page, he also fired off another threat at Harvard University, gave a speech at Arlington National Cemetery in which he bragged that he has 'everything' during his second term in office, and reposted a message calling Biden a 'decrepit corpse.' Trump's critics put him on blast: Donald Trump is a deranged lunatic who wouldn't be allowed to manage a Wendy's. But I guess we all have to pretend like this is normal and not 25th amendment behavior. People who treat this as acceptable are the insane ones. — Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) May 26, 2025 This is what's baffling about the "Trump wins because he talks like a normal person" argument: if anyone you knew went on a rant like this, you'd say, "Chill the fuck out, man." This is not what a normal person sounds like. — James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) May 26, 2025 Truly amazing to consider how much time has been spent the last few weeks taking about Joe Biden's mental health — Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP'S FORMER FIXER) (@speechboy71) May 26, 2025 Is there even a conventional wisdom for why he posts like this on every holiday now? Or is it just something embarrassing and obscene that we all agree we're better off just pretending isn't happening? — Andrew Egger (@EggerDC) May 26, 2025 Trump can't even show basic respect on Memorial Day. Utterly unfit for office. — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 26, 2025 This is how Trump chooses to memorialize Americans--Republicans, Democrats, whites, people of color, men, women--who died fighting for their is about as unpresidential as one can get. — Steven Pifer (@steven_pifer) May 26, 2025 Nothing but a pathetic dishonorable old man. — Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) May 26, 2025 Thank you sir, for this uplifting message of unity on Memorial Day. You are literally the greatest Commander-in-Chief since President Ben Franklin broke bread with the Native Americans at the very first Memorial Day to honor the lives lost during the Trade War of 1812. — Boston Globe Pitchbot (@BostonSatire) May 26, 2025 His bone spurs must be bothering him today, or maybe he is using this Memorial Day to remember how he harrassed military heroes like John McCain. Or how he said that those who defend our country and died are "losers." — Bustopher Jones (@lwqpas) May 26, 2025 Remember the outrage when HRC used the term Deplorable. Trump is deplorable. — Michael Snell (@nickdangerca) May 27, 2025 Your president is insane. — Jeff Talks (@JeffFromNH) May 26, 2025 Inspirational as fuck — ^^Liz^^ (@LizMpersonal) May 26, 2025
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
'Deranged Lunatic': Critics Blast Trump After 'Utterly Unfit' Holiday Rant
Critics are calling out President Donald Trump for marking Memorial Day with a wild all-caps rant in which he slammed the previous administration as 'scum,' attacked former President Joe Biden, and railed against judges who've blocked parts of his agenda. Trump on Monday wrote: Memorial Day is typically a somber holiday intended to honor the nation's war dead. Trump, however, spent at least part of the day airing his grievances. In addition to the all-caps rant on his Truth Social page, he also fired off another threat at Harvard University, gave a speech at Arlington National Cemetery in which he bragged that he has 'everything' during his second term in office, and reposted a message calling Biden a 'decrepit corpse.' Trump's critics put him on blast: Donald Trump is a deranged lunatic who wouldn't be allowed to manage a Wendy's. But I guess we all have to pretend like this is normal and not 25th amendment behavior. People who treat this as acceptable are the insane ones. — Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) May 26, 2025 This is what's baffling about the "Trump wins because he talks like a normal person" argument: if anyone you knew went on a rant like this, you'd say, "Chill the fuck out, man." This is not what a normal person sounds like. — James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) May 26, 2025 Truly amazing to consider how much time has been spent the last few weeks taking about Joe Biden's mental health — Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP'S FORMER FIXER) (@speechboy71) May 26, 2025 Is there even a conventional wisdom for why he posts like this on every holiday now? Or is it just something embarrassing and obscene that we all agree we're better off just pretending isn't happening? — Andrew Egger (@EggerDC) May 26, 2025 Trump can't even show basic respect on Memorial Day. Utterly unfit for office. — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 26, 2025 This is how Trump chooses to memorialize Americans--Republicans, Democrats, whites, people of color, men, women--who died fighting for their is about as unpresidential as one can get. — Steven Pifer (@steven_pifer) May 26, 2025 Nothing but a pathetic dishonorable old man. — Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) May 26, 2025 Thank you sir, for this uplifting message of unity on Memorial Day. You are literally the greatest Commander-in-Chief since President Ben Franklin broke bread with the Native Americans at the very first Memorial Day to honor the lives lost during the Trade War of 1812. — Boston Globe Pitchbot (@BostonSatire) May 26, 2025 His bone spurs must be bothering him today, or maybe he is using this Memorial Day to remember how he harrassed military heroes like John McCain. Or how he said that those who defend our country and died are "losers." — Bustopher Jones (@lwqpas) May 26, 2025 Remember the outrage when HRC used the term Deplorable. Trump is deplorable. — Michael Snell (@nickdangerca) May 27, 2025 Your president is insane. — Jeff Talks (@JeffFromNH) May 26, 2025 Inspirational as fuck — ^^Liz^^ (@LizMpersonal) May 26, 2025
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Business
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‘His voters will be most negatively impacted': Trump unable to run from his own economic mess
Sarah Longwell, Publisher for The Bulwark and Robert Armstrong, US Financial Commentator for The Financial Times join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss who appear to be bearing the cost of Trump's tariffs in the short term, and how many of his own voters are the most negatively impacted by the price hikes for every day goods.
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Politics
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Trump's Republican critics hit his flip-flop on weaponizing the IRS
The Trump Administration's pressure campaign against Harvard University and threats to go after the prestigious school's tax-exempt status go directly against the president's previous pledge to 'never allow the IRS to be used as a political weapon,' his critics say. The administration froze $2.2 billion in funding for the university last week after school leaders refused a collection of government demands for top-to-bottom reforms. Further escalating its attacks on Harvard, the administration also requested last week that a top official at the Internal Revenue Service rescind the university's tax exemption, according to CNN. That move did not sit well with Sarah Longwell, a Republican political strategist, critic of President Donald Trump and publisher of the Bulwark, a conservative news website. Under former President Barack Obama, some Republicans believed the IRS was targeting conservative groups, Longwell said. Because of that, there are scores of years-old videos of Republican officials 'passionately arguing that the government targeting the tax-exempt status of groups because of their political beliefs is un-American and illegal,' Longwell wrote on the social media platform X. 'I will never allow the IRS to be used as a political weapon‚" she quoted Trump saying in 2019, accompanied by a video of the president's remark. Republican Accountability, an anti-Trump conservative group, also posted a video compilation of leading national Republicans criticizing attempts to politicize the IRS. 'If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country,' Vice President JD Vance said in one resurfaced clip. 'Were this a Republican president, a Republican attorney general and a Republican IRS that were targeting Democrats, I at least would speak out just as vigorously against it,' Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said in another clip, from a 2014 Senate hearing. 'Because if we are going to respect the rule of law, the apparatus of the federal government cannot and should not be used as a partisan tool to bludgeon your enemies.' The video compilation showed similar clips of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota, all Republicans. The government has issued a variety of demands to Harvard purported to focus on fighting antisemitism at the school, and threatened up to $9 billion in federal grants to Harvard and its affiliates. The demands include a push for Harvard to review its programs and departments for evidence of antisemitic harassment and adopt reforms to 'improve viewpoint diversity and end ideological capture.' The administration also pushed Harvard to allow audits of staff and student viewpoints, change its disciplinary policies, and report information to the government on student discipline, admissions and foreign investments. Harvard was the second university, after Columbia University in New York City, to receive a detailed list of demands from the Trump administration. However, where Columbia initially accepted some of the government's orders, Harvard has resisted. 'The administration's prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government‚' Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a letter to the school community last week. 'No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.' 'Tax-exempt status, I mean it's a privilege, and it's been abused by a lot more than Harvard,' Trump said last week at the White House, when asked why it was acceptable for his administration to threaten Harvard's tax-exempt status after he criticized politicization of the IRS in the past. Mass Gov. Healey: Trump's funding cuts, attacks on Harvard are 'bad for science' Trump administration plotting additional $1B cut at Harvard amid ongoing battle Suspect shot 4 to 5 times at 'targeted individual' at Harvard Square station, police say Shots fired at Harvard Square MBTA station; shelter-in-place alert sent by university
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Business
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Clips of Vance and Cruz saying they'd stop the IRS from political attacks resurface after Trump's Harvard threat
As Donald Trump pursues his campaign to make Ivy League schools bend to his will and accept what Harvard's president said amounted to a federal takeover of the insitutions, his critics say that the Republican Party is leaning fully into hypocrisy. News broke on Wednesday that the White House plans to escalate its war against America's most prestigious universities by hitting them where it hurts: their endowments. A report in Semafor revealed that Republicans are looking at ways to tax profits from university endowments while the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) debates stripping Harvard and other universities of their tax-exempt statuses. The Department of Justice formally asked the IRS to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status this week, an agency spokesperson confirmed to news outlets on Wednesday. 'It is past time for American universities to stop supporting foreign adversaries with their investment decisions, much as they should stop granting university access to supporters of terrorism,' read a February memo from the White House reported by Semafor. The move is a classic case of Trump-style escalation, and comes as Harvard this week said that it would refuse a list of demands issued by the federal government. Now, critics of the president are attacking Trump and two of his closest allies — Vice President JD Vance and Senator Ted Cruz — for their past statements complaining about supposed politicization of federal agencies by Joe Biden's administration. 'I will never allow the IRS to be used as a political weapon,' the president vowed in a 2019 clip posted by the publisher of an anti-Trump news site, The Bulwark. 'I will never allow the IRS to be used as a political weapon.' —Donald Trump, Oct 2019 — Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) April 17, 2025 'If the IRS can go after you because of your beliefs, we'd no longer live in a free country,' Vance, in a resurfaced clip, says to Fox News host Laura Ingraham. This you @JDVance?"This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.' — Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) April 16, 2025 Cruz, in particular, was on record vowing to 'speak out' if a Republican attorney general or IRS commissioner began targeting institutions tied explicitly or implicitly to the left or the Democratic Party — a promise he has not addressed in the midst of the president's campaign to impose conservative belief systems on America's institutions of higher education. Sen, Ted Cruz: "I can also assure you that were this a Republican president, a Republican Attorney General, and a Republican IRS that were targeting Democrats, I at least would speak out just as vigorously against it because if we are going to respect rule of law, the apparatus… — Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) April 16, 2025 Speaking at a Judiciary Committee hearing in 2014, when Barack Obama was president, Cruz said: 'I can also assure you that were this a Republican president, a Republican Attorney General, and a Republican IRS that were targeting Democrats, I at least would speak out just as vigorously against it because if we are going to respect rule of law, the apparatus of the federal government cannot and should not be used as a partisan tool to bludgeon your enemies.' Democrats have eagerly bashed their Republican opponents over the scope of Trump's widespread cuts to federal agencies since January, and the reports of billionaires including Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos seeking access to the president alongside lavish gifts to his adminsitration and related political causes have only fueled their attacks further. The president is now setting his party up for an all-out war with the heads of America's colleges and universities, which (with the early exception of Columbia University) are increasingly using the courts to seek refuge from the Trump administration's directives. Administration officials slashed $2.2 billion in federal grants and related funds from Harvard on Monday over the school's refusal to comply with its demands, which included that it end diversity-based hiring practices, ban face masks on campus, cooperate with federal immigration authorities, and more. Harvard's president Alan Garber said in a letter to the university community in response: 'No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.'
