The lunacy and craziness around Donald Trump continues, with talk of a Trump third term, which will never happen, as it would require a new constitutional amendment and a repeal of the 22nd Amendment!
Both would need a two thirds vote in the House of Representatives and in the US Senate, followed by three fourths of the states (38) ratifying by a majority in both houses of the state legislatures in 49 states plus the one house legislature in Nebraska.
Additionally, Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna has, crazily, proposed that Donald Trump be put on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt!
First of all, putting anyone else on Mount Rushmore is a massive job, and highly unlikely ever to occur!
But if such a suggestion was to be followed through on over time, it should be Franklin D. Roosevelt, not Donald Trump!
And if one was to propose a Republican President, it would be more reasonable to put Dwight D. Eisenhower or even, although not something this author and blogger would promote, Ronald Reagan!
As it is, Mount Rushmore has a Federalist (Washington); a Democratic-Republican (Jefferson); and two Republicans (Lincoln and TR), so the argument for an additional President should be for a Democratic President, with FDR clearly the major example, or possibly Harry Truman!
All this is silliness, as there will never be additions to Mount Rushmore!
And with Trump rated either number 45 or at best number 43 tied with Franklin Pierce and above James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson, in surveys of historians and political scientists, it is truly delusional to consider him worthy of being on Mount Rushmore!
The way Trump is beginning his second Presidency will only insure that he will be number 45 in all rankings of intelligent, educated scholars, and with any American who has a brain, and ethics and morals!
This kind of stuff is a distraction to keep people’s attention diverted away from the unlawful power grabs that Trump is making.
Trump’s attempt to seize control of funding is straight out of Project 2025.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/donald-trump-project-2025-previewed-federal-grant-freeze-118186265
If Biden had done that, Republicans would be rushing to impeach him.
Trump’s funding freeze awakened the Resistance.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/29/trump-funding-freeze-democrats-resistance
Now Trump is offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by next week — an unprecedented move to shrink the U.S. government at breakneck speed.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-federal-buyouts_n_6799682ae4b0535cbc5f7e03
Americans sour on some of Trump’s early moves, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-sour-some-trumps-early-moves-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-01-28/
Trump administration may pull money from TSA, Coast Guard to help ICE afford costly deportations.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/administration-may-pull-money-tsa-help-fund-deportations-rcna189387
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
“Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.”
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-office-personnel-management-opm-neuralink-x-boring-stalin/
Trump order aims to end federal support for gender transitions for those under 19.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-transgender-transition-executive-order-301e4130233b411311978f66f455f1c4
(These decisions should be 100% made by doctors and the families of these kids – NOT by Trump!
Trump expected to sign executive order prioritizing federal funding for school choice programs.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-federal-funding-school-choice-programs/
My thoughts exactly! The Dems have finally woken up out of their stupor!
https://digbysblog.net/2025/01/28/finally-6/
Trump is now backtracking on the funding freeze.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-administration-rescinds-memo-freezing-federal-assistance-grants_n_679a6cdce4b00bc22235c283