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President Donald Trump will not serve out his full second term in office, argues political strategist James Carville, but rather, he will resign and “walk away.”Carville points to two major reasons looming over Trump as to why he believes the 47th president will exit the office.“I want to be very clear on something,” says Carville. “I’m not doing this as a crazy a—— prediction. I’m doing it because I genuinely think that he will resign next spring.” “He’s going to walk away because the pain that is coming for him, both the emotional pain and the physical deterioration, you watch it right in front of your eyes,” said Carville. “I don’t have to be a doctor to see this guy can’t move. He can’t get out of a chair. I know what it’s like to be in the 80s. And unlike a lot of people, I know what that job is like, and it’s not compatible. You know, maybe there’s some people 80 who could do that. He’s not one.”Acknowledging that he is not a medical doctor, Carville does note that he is close to Trump’s age: the president is 80, Carville is approaching 82.He highlights Trump’s “rate of decline from Election Day to now,” and warns that “it’s not linear. You don’t lose a quarter of a percent a month. When it goes down, it goes quickly, and you can look at him and see just how fat and unhealthy he is.”The other reason Carville believes Trump will exit the White House next spring: he suggests a tremendous loss in the November midterms for Trump, and explains how devastating that will be.“I know what it’s like to lose a massive off-year election,” says Carville. “We did in 1994. It’s so monumental. It’s so massive. It hurts so deep. You just can’t imagine it. The entire world around him is going to change after November of this year.”“People don’t pay attention to you,” says Carville. “They’re making jokes. Everybody knows you’re on a short leash. You got two years left to go. You don’t have any power. Everybody around you is being subpoenaed for everything that you can imagine. Your life is miserable.”Carville went on to declare, “I’m doubling down on this prediction. He is just going to walk away.”Trump, Carville predicts, will tell Vice President JD Vance — who would become president should Trump resign — that as president Vance can likely pardon himself. And while there is “some uncertainty as to whether you can do that,” there is “no uncertainty” as to whether a President Vance can pardon Trump and his family.“So, I’m sticking with my prediction,” says Carville. “I think the son of a b—— is just going to walk away.” - YouTube www.youtube.com
It's not an elimination game, but Czechia and South Africa will be desperate to get a result on Thursday.
President Donald Trump signed an agreement aimed at ending his war in Iran, but many noticed the symbolism of the location he chose to do it.The 80-year-old president signed the so-called memorandum of understanding Wednesday during a dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron in Versailles, the historic setting of the 1919 treaty that ended World War I, and CNN's Audie Cornish asked her panelists about his choice."This was signed at Versailles," she said. "Lots of things have been signed at Versailles. But usually when you call something a Versailles treaty, it's, in foreign language policy land, kind of an insult, right? It's a self-defeating agreement. What's your response to the critics out there who are making those analogies?"Germany signed the original Treaty of Versailles under protest, and the severe penalties it imposed ultimately destabilized its government and led to the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the "CNN This Morning" panelists agreed the symbolism was strange."President Trump didn't have to sign that peace deal at Versailles today," said Middle East expert Sina Azodi. "He could have had an agreement in February before he decided to go to war. He was dragged into a war of choice that didn't have to [and] 13 Americans died, billions of dollars [were] spent. He could have taken the deal that the Iranians had offered, and it was a pretty good deal compared to the [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action], and I know that President Trump is very sensitive to the war and JCPOA and Obama. But that was a very good deal that he had on Feb. 26 in Geneva.""Well, the hope is from the White House that 60 days from now, whatever they have will be much better than happened in 2015," Cornish added. - YouTube youtu.be
President Donald Trump's costly attempt to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has blown up in his face, with the Daily Beast reporting that he is now taking drastic emergency steps to fix the algae bloom before July 4.As part of his broader campaign to renovate and remodel Washington D.C., to his own personal taste, Trump undertook a $13.1 million project to paint the city's iconic Reflecting Pool a new shade of blue, which he insisted would make it more "patriotic." After rushing through the process and awarding a no-bid contract to a Virginia firm for the job, the project was completed last and promptly went sideways when the pool became infested with a massive bloom of green algae, making the watery landmark so green that it could be seen from planes thousands of feet in the air.Still hoping to have an "American Flag Blue" Reflecting Pool ready for the country's 250th birthday next month, Trump's National Parks Service is now in crisis mode. As the Daily Beast noted in a Thursday report, the government is "desperately seeking additional workers to help address the issue," and has upgraded the situation internally to a "regional and national priority.""An email addressed to National Park Service employees and reviewed by the outlet stated that officials were working on 'critical pre-July 4th operational needs' and were seeking 'additional personnel to assist immediately,'" the report explained. "Specifically, workers are needed to support 'scrubbing and pump out operations' at the pool. They are being asked to work 12-hour shifts starting this week and continuing through the weekend."It continued later: "The algae bloom appeared within 24 hours of the end of renovation work earlier this month. Workers have already been deployed to vacuum algae from the pool and disperse hydrogen peroxide into the water, but the algae and resulting green tint to the water have remained."Different theories have been floated around to try and explain what is going on with this sudden algae bloom. Some have suggested that the light waves reflected off the new blue paint job are more conducive to producing algae, while Cochise Wanzer II, president of the Pool Service Company in Arlington, Virginia, told the Associated Press that the development was wholly unsurprising, given the type of water used.“What do you expect?” Wanzer said. “You’re basically taking natural, untreated river water, pumping it in and expecting it to do something different from what it would do out in the open.”Wanzer also added that the navy blue paint job made the pool "nice and dark," increasing the pool's temperature to a level at which algae grows better.The Trump administration, as the Daily Beast noted, has attempted to defuse criticism of the situation, claiming that the algae bloom is typical of the immediate aftermath of such a project and being handled, while also taking the opportunity, unsurprisingly, to hail Trump as an "expert builder" while denigrating Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Congressional reporter Myles Morell contributed to this report President Trump’s extraordinary public rebuke of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the G7 summit has ignited fresh tensions inside the Republican Party — and Sen. The post ‘Israel Is Our Only Friend in the World’: Sen. Kennedy Defends Israel After Trump G7 Slap (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
According to former CIA official Marc Polymeropoulos, Donald Trump’s Iran deal, which has set off a deluge of criticism within the Republican Party, has left the leadership of Israel in a state of shock.Appearing on MS NOW with “Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist, Polymeropoulos, who just returned from Tel Aviv, claimed he found a sense of betrayal during his visit. Geist prompted the 26-year veteran of the CIA with, “Marc, take us to Tel Aviv this morning. And what Bibi Netanyahu must be thinking; that he got his man in the White House in Donald Trump, that he went to the Situation Room, sold the war successfully. He thought that Donald Trump, the United States military, would come in and finish off Iran, take out the regime, and now he sits here this morning with this memorandum of understanding anyway, with explicit language that says there can be no attacks on Lebanon.”“So the Israelis I speak with are in a state of panic, one former Mossad official said, literally, ‘I can't believe this is happening,’” he reported. “But in some ways they should have known better,” he explained. “And one analyst actually told me, ‘Look, you know, Benjamin Netanyahu decided to ride the tiger — that's Donald Trump. And the tiger just turned around and just bit him on the rear end.’”“And like many of us predicted he would, he continued, “Because Trump was no dedicated, you know, savior. He was not the messiah for Israel. He's too transactional.”“Let me just add one quick thing, Willie,” he insisted. “Let's not forget at the end of the Biden administration, if you calculate what President Biden did after October 7th, he gave the Israelis $18 billion in military aid. Yet somehow, he is seen as not a supporter of Israel. That was preposterous. And right now, I think the Israelis are realizing that Trump was not who they thought he was, and that this MOU actually puts them in a very precarious national security situation, particularly in terms of ballistic missiles and what to do about Hezbollah, a terrorist entity sitting on their northern border.” - YouTube youtu.be
President Donald Trump's administration is quietly diverting over $350 million from the Secret Service to pay for "security" elements in the president's White House ballroom project.According to The Washington Post, the Office of Management and Budget "did not specify the purpose of the unusually large shift in response to questions on Wednesday." However, an anonymous source involved with the budget for the Secret Service "told The Washington Post the funding was to help pay for a new White House East Wing that includes a large ballroom."The diverted funding was intended to pay for training and retention for Secret Service agents.A White House spokesperson did not deny this when asked by reporters, saying simply, “The East Wing Modernization Project is inextricably tied to the security of the President, the White House grounds and the certain security infrastructure assets.”Trump initially promised that the White House ballroom project, which has already seen the summary demolition of the old East Wing, would be paid for entirely by donations from corporate benefactors, which was itself controversial since it opened up the White House to bribery and conflicts of interest.But in recent months, as the cost of the project has doubled and tripled, the Trump administration has grown more insistent in finding a taxpayer source for at least some of the funding, pushing hard — though unsuccessfully — for "security" funding to be included in the GOP's Homeland Security reconciliation bill.Federal courts have called out the Trump administration for trying to claim that anything they deem to be a "security" feature in the ballroom project automatically is one and can divert money from elsewhere.
CNN's Audie Cornish schooled a former Donald Trump staffer who pooh-poohed the opening of Barack Obama's presidential library.The 64-year-old former president will be joined at his library's grand opening Thursday by George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and the event will include performances by legendary artists like Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Eddie Vedder, Jennifer Hudson and The Roots, and Cornish couldn't help but compare that to President Donald Trump's lackluster Freedom 250 lineup."It's very Obama era in terms of all the celebrities being there, and we made a list of, like, who's going to be, who's going to be at this Obama event and their global record sales, and then what's going on with the Trump-backed Freedom 250, which pretty much kicked off a few weeks ago in terms of who was leaving it," Cornish said. "In the end, it's Lee Greenwood, a president, the president's favorite, and a handful of other artists. Is this a reminder of, like, kind of where Hollywood's heart lies or the complication that Trump has his relationship with pop culture?"Mike Dubke, a former communications director in Trump's first term, seemed caught off guard by the question."Is this to me?" he said. "I don't know that it's a fair comparison."Cornish disagreed, saying they were both massive events taking place within weeks of one another."I love presidential libraries," Dubke filibustered. "I think they are, and especially to the point that they tell the story of the president in their own words. So I've been to a few. I've been to Bill Clinton's down in Little Rock, I've been to Ronald Reagan's out in California. I think it's incredibly interesting to walk through each of these libraries, and I'm in Chicago, I will probably go to Obama's presidential library because I think they're fantastic things.""Trump is not invited," Cornish prodded, "just so we're clear.""No, that's fine, but I don't – I will take a little issue on this pop culture thing because I don't know that comparing America's 250 and all the politics that are surrounding this with what should be a celebration for Obama," Dunke said. "I'm not sure I'm there. We should be celebrating America's. 250 but look, this is this is a celebration for Obama and the folks that really enjoyed his presidency, and, you know, good on them for having a go."Cornish then offered to provide some historical context to Obama's event in comparison to Trump's partisan takeover of the celebration of the United States' semiquincentennial."In an era where [diversity, equity and inclusion] has been completely, not just DEI, when Black American history has been carved out of the halls of the federal government with a with like a butcher knife, them doing this library on Juneteenth week is on purpose and is significant because maybe for Black Americans, that is a historic moment that this nation will no longer celebrate under the Trump administration," Cornish said. "They are not interested in talking about the history of slavery. So it feels like the Obamas are doing something very purposeful. They're creating an alternative historical celebration for people who feel like part of their history is forgotten."
President Donald Trump erupted in a profane outburst at the G7 Summit in France when asked to compare his Iran agreement with former President Barack Obama's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA. While sitting beside Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Trump claimed Obama bribed Iran with $1.7 billion in cash flown on a Boeing 757, falsely stating Iranians mocked Obama. He asserted his deal was superior, though he has refused to disclose its details publicly. Commentators, like political scientist and former diplomat Michael McFaul, highlighted that Obama's JCPOA prevented Iranian nuclear weapons without military conflict or massive spending.Veteran journalist John Harwood suggested, "Trump is tormented by jealousy of a superior human being," adding, "Obama's superiority, as a president and a person, hurts Trump especially badly because he's a huge racist and Obama is black."The incident sparked widespread criticism on social media regarding Trump's fitness for office and his erratic behavior on the global stage.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.