Trump was asked about his “90 tariffs in 90 days” — his answer: Gibberish

Donald Trump was asked by a reporter on Monday to explain what had happened to his administration’s promise to seal “90 deals in 90 days” with trading partners.

Instead of outlining the dozens of deals with foreign countries that he previously boasted would be completed by Wednesday — the 90-day mark since his so-called Liberation Day in April — the president just waffled, talked about a couple of frameworks and possible deals in place and then appeared to suggest his plan now mainly involved sending letters to foreign governments and telling them the tariffs that their products will now be subject to when they are imported into America.

 

One reason why Trump will never release the Epstein files

COMMENTS:

“Katie Johnson” is a pseudonym.

Yes, she dropped the suit.  Trump told her that if she ever told anyone, she and her entire family would be killed.

Her original lawsuit was filed as a Civil Rights case in CA in April 2016, under the name “Katie Johnson”

She filed the June, 2016 lawsuit in New York City under the name “Jane Doe” and she had an eyewitness named “Tiffany Doe” to verify her story.
After her attorney, Lisa Bloom, arranged for a press conference, it was suddenly cancelled.

She filed that first lawsuit against both Trump and Epstein without an attorney, and it was “dismissed for technical errors.”

Johnson claimed she begged Trump to no avail to wear a condom, the complaint states.  “Trump grabbed his wallet and threw some money at” the plaintiff and suggested she get an abortion.

Let’s be clear, the Attorney General of the Unites States has this file, the logs, everything. She knows he is a child rapist, criminal and a pervert. Yet she does nothing.

Senator Rafael Cruz (R, TX) vacationing while Texas drowns

Sen. Rafael Cruz, Republican of Texas, must have had flight miles expiring soon, otherwise it’s hard to explain the extreme inopportune timing of his luxe family vacation.

Cruz was spotted on a relaxing tour of the Greek Parthenon Saturday as his constituents continued to suffer from deadly flooding, which has claimed at least 95 lives as of Monday—including 27 young girls from a nearby summer camp.

Meanwhile, while on vacation in Athens, Cruz was allegedly approached by a woman who said, “20 kids dead in Texas and you take a vacation?”

“He sort of grunted and walked on. His wife shot me a dirty look. Then they continued on with their tour guide,” she told The Daily Beast.

As for his timeline in Europe, Cruz reportedly jetted across the pond the day after a state of emergency was declared in Texas on July 3, and he returned on July 6.

Of course, as soon as he hit the ground, Cruz was quick to hop on Fox News to pretend that nothing happened.

“In the face of disaster, Texans come together. This is every parent’s nightmare, but we will come through this,” he wrote on X alongside a clip of him on Fox.


COMMENT:  Rafael Edward Cruz (born December 22, 1970, in Canada) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz was the solicitor general of Texas from 2003 to 2008. Since 2025, Cruz has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee.

RFK Jr is murdering people

There have been 1,267 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. this year, almost 4.5 times the total for all of last year and on track to pass the highest annual count since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Why it matters: While the disease isn’t consistently spreading due to immunization campaigns, there have been outbreaks well beyond West Texas, where low immunization rates and high school exemptions stoked spread of the highly contagious virus early this year.

Driving the news: There have been 27 outbreaks reported in the U.S. so far this year, accounting for 88% percent of the cases. In comparison, there were 16 outbreaks across the entire year in 2024 and 69% of cases were associated with those outbreaks.

  • There have been three confirmed deaths.
  • Measles cases have been confirmed in 38 states.
  • Of the 1,267 cases, 360 (28%) were in kids younger than 5 and 464 (37%) were in kids between the ages of 5 and 19 years old.
  • In 92% of the confirmed measles cases, the individuals were unvaccinated or their vaccination status was unknown.

Trump’s record as a failed businessman continues . . . he is being bailed up by being President

New York Times investigation based on internal Trump Organization documents suggests that Donald Trump was a lot shorter on cash before he returned to the White House than commonly understood. It illuminates once more how Trump has exaggerated his supposed business acumen — and what may be motivating his dogged pursuit of new business ventures as president.

The Times reports that last year Trump’s office building in lower Manhattan “generated too little cash to cover its mortgage,” many of his golf courses had too few customers to cover costs, and the money that used to come in from his work in television had “dried up.”

Long before entering politics, Trump had a well-established track record of failed businesses and financial mismanagement. But it’s possible that his first term in office made things worse. The Times reported that a 2021 appraisal of Trump’s highest revenue resort, the Trump National Doral, found that he had spent $379 million renovating it — but that it was worth only $297 million. The appraisal, conducted by the firm Newmark, found that while “Doral, like several of Mr. Trump’s properties, was known to benefit from people looking to buy proximity to a president during Mr. Trump’s first term, his managers believed even more potential customers stayed away because of him.”

Regardless of the cause, the Times’ investigation found that Trump had little cash on hand in recent years given the size of his business empire — and then came the tremendous costs of legal fees during both his trials and hundreds of millions from penalties from civil lawsuits.

The data shows us that as Trump entered office the second time, he was desperate for cash, which might explain at least some the tenacity with which he has hung onto his shares of Truth Social. It also likely explains why he and his family have pursued so many new ventures and licensing deals for the Trump Organization, ranging from watches to cryptocurrency to a mobile phone service. With the power of the presidency once again linked to the Trump name, the president and his family have fresh sources of money coming in to help his longtime businesses and expand his fortune. Trump’s most recently launched businesses have increased his fortune by billions.

To be clear, Trump wasn’t on the brink of becoming a pauper if he didn’t start finding new ways to generate cash — he could’ve sold parts of his business off to become more liquid. But as far as the story of Trump is concerned, the new information highlights the gap between his incessant boasts about being a brilliant businessman and the less glamorous reality of how his businesses were functioning. And it sheds light on the urgency with which Trump launched new ventures which have generated appalling financial conflicts of interest that are even worse in his second term than his first. All in all, it’s less “art of the deal” and more “art of the steal and the flim-flam.”

True, this.

 

Greene to introduce ‘weather modification’ bill

Source: The Hill

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Saturday she plans to introduce a bill aimed at tackling “weather modification.”

“I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense,” she wrote in a Saturday post on X.

“I have been researching weather modification and working with the legislative counsel for months writing this bill,” Greene added.

Is a national reckoning coming? And which side will you be on?

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been stripped down so much it can barely respond to emergencies, yet it’s funding detention centers such as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades.

The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, responsible for some of the areas hardest hit by Friday’s flooding, is missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster, and meteorologist.

The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, is missing a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer who are supposed to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.

The office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package offered by Musk’s DOGE to reduce the number of federal employees.

At both offices, the vacancy rate is roughly double what it was when Trump returned to the White House in January.

It’s the same across much of the federal government. Callers can’t get through to Social Security offices. Hazardous waste sites and drinking water facilities aren’t being inspected. National Park services have been scaled back. There aren’t enough air-traffic controllers to safely guide takeoffs and landings at the nation’s major airports.

Trump’s newly-enacted Big Ugly Bill will take funds out of Medicaid and food stamps. For what? To finance another giant tax cut for the rich, along with 10,000 more ICE agents and a gulag of detention camps.