CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT DONALD TRUMP IS NOW PRESIDENT OF THE USA?

These President Trump actions were reported the past few days by the New York Times.

The Interior Department says the Gulf of Mexico is now, officially, the “Gulf of America.” Is this legal? Apparently yes.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum earlier this month, JOKINGLY, suggested North America be renamed Mexican America, a name used in early maps.
Trump’s retreat from clean energy makes the U.S. an outlier in the world and risks ceding a global market to China.

House Republicans are considering tariffs and Medicaid cuts to pay for Trump’s tax cuts and immigration bill.
About mass deportation.

I've long wondered how people can support Trump when he almost always lies or exaggerates. For example, during his presidential campaign, he made it clear that his campaign had little to do with Project 2025, the controversial conservative policy blueprint created by the Heritage Foundation.

Yet, just about everything he is now doing follows this plan. Furthermore, he has already hired a large number of people from the Heritage Foundation to join his staff. How many? 144!!! And most of them worked on Project 2025.

Did you know that in his first term alone he lied more than 30,000 times? He delivered two speeches on Inauguration Day. CNN counted 20 untruths. If this continues, he will only lie 29,200 times in his second term. I can't imagine anyone maintaining any kind of friendship with anyone else who lies even a couple of times, during a lifetime. But 20 times/day? Incredible. And he is our president, the most powerful person on this planet. We (well, not me) put him back into the White House knowing all this. Amazing.

Maybe even worse, from The Columbus Dispatch, 10 of the nastiest cons Donald Trump has tried to pull on America:

1. Told a total of 30,573 lies and misleading claims while in office (and thousands more lies since, with the pace picking up even more in the last two months).
2. Has a long history of not paying vendors and using bankruptcy six times to abdicate his responsibility to investors, suppliers and others.
3. Is a convicted felon who has 91 criminal charges and dozens of rape and harassment allegations against him.

4. Ducked the draft himself and called out as “suckers” and losers” those who served and died in defense of our country.
5. Has fawned over Putin and praised other dictators while demeaning some of our strongest allies.
6. Has been denounced as immoral, dishonest and a threat to democracy by numerous high ranking former officials in his administration, including his chief of staff.

7. Created a fake charity and a “university” that were exposed as fraudulent and closed down.
8. Has convinced his followers that any media who opposes him is “fake news” and that he is a victim.
9. Has convinced his Evangelical followers that he is God’s agent, even though he couldn’t quote one line from the Bible when asked. (As those in Oklahoma know, Trump was due to get a percentage on China-made “God Bless America” Bibles he endorsed. They cost less than $3 to make and were selling for $60.)

10. Worst of all, tried to rig the 2020 election and lost/had dismissed dozens of lawsuits his followers filed to try to overturn it. (The day after the election, he began seeking donations to an “Election Defense Fund” that was never created, and the money was funneled to organizations headed by his cronies.)

This list was published on 23October2024 before the presidential election.

The Columbus Dispatch is #2 in circulation in the state of Ohio, has been publishing since 1871, and is known as Ohio's Greatest Home Newspaper.
Donald Trump still got 3.2 million (55%) votes, while Kamala Harris received 2.5 million (44%).

Oh, The Columbus Dispatch also published 13 cartoons about Donald Trump's gag-worthy hush money case, Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels. There were a lot more in every state. Here are a few more.

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