Apparently, Trump doesn't believe his own Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who said in a recent interview that there is an annual audit for Fort Knox.


"I'm actually going on this one. All my life I've heard about Fort Knox. That's where the gold is kept," Trump told Republican governors at a reception in Washington.


"We're getting a little bit shaky. We're getting the yips on this stuff. Like I want to find out," Trump said. "We're going to open up the doors. I'm going to see if we have gold there. Did anybody steal the gold in Fort Knox?"

"We're going to Fort Knox to see if the Gold is there!"

"If the Gold isn't there, we're going to be very upset!"

"Then we're going to Long John's to see if the Silver is there"

DiabloWags said:

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"I'm actually going on this one. All my life I've heard about Fort Knox. That's where the gold is kept," Trump told Republican governors at a reception in Washington.

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This is the vision he's had since he was a kid. He wants to see it for himself!

> Maybe we can leave Canada alone for now and just make British Columbia the 51st state? How about American Columbia?



thanks DW, very impressive pic. does the lake / peak have names?
signed, >100 sq foot poster of washington state's Mount Shuksan dominating our dining room.

AunBear89 said:

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DiabloWags said:

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"I'm actually going on this one. All my life I've heard about Fort Knox. That's where the gold is kept," Trump told Republican governors at a reception in Washington.

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This is the vision he's had since he was a kid. He wants to see it for himself!

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He's hoping that there is little gold at Fort Knox, so that chaos can emerge, and he can profit financially and politically out of the chaos.

What a maroon.

The Mexican President, American President and Canadian Prime Minister signing the USMCA trade deal in 2019. Donald Trump said this week that tariffs on Canada will have to be instituted because this trade deal was “signed by a previous administration and leader who was a fool”. pic.twitter.com/W3Gf74RgAM

— Old Canada Series (@oldcanadaseries) February 25, 2025

Yeah, here is the You Tube of him wondering who the hell signed such a bad deal.

Lmfao!

His supporters can't be bothered by facts, of course.

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His supporters can't be bothered by facts, of course.

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The Mexican President, American President and Canadian Prime Minister signing the USMCA trade deal in 2019. Donald Trump said this week that tariffs on Canada will have to be instituted because this trade deal was “signed by a previous administration and leader who was a fool”. pic.twitter.com/W3Gf74RgAM

— Old Canada Series (@oldcanadaseries) February 25, 2025

I won't bother sending to my TX cousin.
Logic doesn't reach him/them.

Stupid or senile?

TRUMP: "We have an interesting deal with Japan, that we have to protect them, but they don't have to protect us.... who makes these deals?"

The United States! After we literally wrote in a pacifist clause into the Japanese Constitution and neutered their military! pic.twitter.com/Qh9m1H6gev

— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) March 6, 2025

Presented without comment though I expect movielover and bear2034 will cheer:

Press release from the EPA website

First paragraph:

"The Washington Post has devolved into the radical left's own Pravda. It should come as no surprise that they jump to toe the line and are quick to defend apparent cronyism instead of actually doing the work to investigate on behalf of the American public. It's no wonder their failing newspaper is hemorrhaging readers. The Trump Administration, however, is committed to accountability and transparency for the American people. "

Oh, hell, I have to comment. W T F?

How disgraceful are GOP politicians these days? They all bend the knee for a tool who is using taxpayer dollars to produce a free commercial to the richest man on the planet in front of the White House.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192623/donald-trump-elon-musk-tesla-commercial-white-house

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Hawaii MAGA!!

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How disgraceful are GOP politicians these days? They all bend the knee for a tool who is using taxpayer dollars to produce a free commercial to the richest man on the planet in front of the White House.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192623/donald-trump-elon-musk-tesla-commercial-white-house

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Trump was shilling for Musk / making a mockery of the office all day.

Trump is STILL - RIGHT NOW - tweeting about Tesla. He's spent more time protecting the richest man in the world's profits than he has protecting healthcare, education, jobs, or veterans in the last 6 weeks as president.

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) March 12, 2025

Pathetic.

Attorney General Pam Bondi stops President Trump to show him that his portrait is hanging in the DOJ. pic.twitter.com/cGGwrpGAfY

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 14, 2025

chazzed said:

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chazzed said:

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How disgraceful are GOP politicians these days? They all bend the knee for a tool who is using taxpayer dollars to produce a free commercial to the richest man on the planet in front of the White House.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192623/donald-trump-elon-musk-tesla-commercial-white-house

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Trump was shilling for Musk / making a mockery of the office all day.

Trump is STILL - RIGHT NOW - tweeting about Tesla. He's spent more time protecting the richest man in the world's profits than he has protecting healthcare, education, jobs, or veterans in the last 6 weeks as president.

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) March 12, 2025

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Isn't his promotion of Tesla at the White House a clear violation of the Hatch Act?
And the dude isn't even allowed to drive.

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Pathetic.

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Satisfying.

Trump is a small, petty man. (And dishonest, as we all know.)

🚨 FREAKING PATHETIC: Trump is plastering his name on infrastructure projects funded by JOE BIDEN’S Infrastructure Act.

He never passed an infrastructure bill. He never built a damn thing.

But, of course, he still wants the credit.

Classic con man behavior. pic.twitter.com/00tDtfYHIv

— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) March 19, 2025

I wonder if the Trump supporters here have any problem with this?



Until recently, a page on the Defense Department's website celebrated Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, as an emblem of the "contributions and sacrifices Native Americans have made to the United States, not just in the military, but in all walks of life."

But the page, along with many others about Native American and other minority service members, has now been erased amid the Trump administration's wide-ranging crackdown on what it says are "diversity, equity and inclusion" efforts in the federal government, a review by The Washington Post found.

Multiple articles about the Navajo code talkers, who were critical to America's victory at Iwo Jima and the wider Pacific theater of the Second World War, were also removed, along with a profile of a Tonawanda Seneca officer who drafted the terms of the Confederacy's surrender at Appomattox toward the end of the Civil War.

Amid DEI purge, Pentagon removes webpages on Iwo Jima flag-raiser and Navajo 'code talkers' - Anchorage Daily News

Johnny Cash performed a song to honor the memory of Ira Hayes:



"There they battled up Iwo Jima hill
Two hundred and fifty men
But only twenty-seven lived
To walk back down again
And when the fight was over
And Old Glory raised
Among the men who held it high
Was the Indian, Ira Hayes

Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Or the marine that went to war

Ira Hayes returned a hero
Celebrated through the land
He was wined and speeched and honored
Everybody shook his hand
But he was just a Pima Indian
No water, no home, no chance
At home nobody cared what Ira'd done
And when did the Indians dance
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Or the marine that went to war

Then Ira started drinking hard
Jail was often his home
They let him raise the flag and lower it
Like you'd throw a dog a bone
He died drunk early one morning
Alone in the land he fought to save
Two inches of water and a lonely ditch
Was a grave for Ira Hayes"

*…and now Trump is completing the circle by throwing the memory of Ira Hayes' like garbage.

DiabloWags said:

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chazzed said:

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chazzed said:

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How disgraceful are GOP politicians these days? They all bend the knee for a tool who is using taxpayer dollars to produce a free commercial to the richest man on the planet in front of the White House.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192623/donald-trump-elon-musk-tesla-commercial-white-house

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Trump was shilling for Musk / making a mockery of the office all day.

Trump is STILL - RIGHT NOW - tweeting about Tesla. He's spent more time protecting the richest man in the world's profits than he has protecting healthcare, education, jobs, or veterans in the last 6 weeks as president.

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) March 12, 2025

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Isn't his promotion of Tesla at the White House a clear violation of the Hatch Act?
And the dude isn't even allowed to drive.

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Seems like it, but Republican politicians no longer think the rule of law applies to them.

DiabloWags said:

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chazzed said:

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chazzed said:

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How disgraceful are GOP politicians these days? They all bend the knee for a tool who is using taxpayer dollars to produce a free commercial to the richest man on the planet in front of the White House.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192623/donald-trump-elon-musk-tesla-commercial-white-house

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Trump was shilling for Musk / making a mockery of the office all day.

Trump is STILL - RIGHT NOW - tweeting about Tesla. He's spent more time protecting the richest man in the world's profits than he has protecting healthcare, education, jobs, or veterans in the last 6 weeks as president.

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) March 12, 2025

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Isn't his promotion of Tesla at the White House a clear violation of the Hatch Act?
And the dude isn't even allowed to drive.

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How about this?

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick went on Fox News and urged Americans to buy Tesla stock.

Is this legal?

pic.twitter.com/mfPhfuy1zJ

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) March 20, 2025

Lutnick is the same CLOWN who said that Tariffs will be used "like a loaded gun on the table for negotiating, but rarely used"

He LIED.

Jeb Bush said he'd be a chaos president. He was absolutely right!!!






Regarding recent tariff news:
even cars built in America come equipped with foreign-made parts and components that constitute 40% to 50% of their value.

"A U.S. car with all U.S. parts made in the U.S. is a fictional tale not even possible today," he added.

President dipstick and his minion idiots have NO idea what they hell they are doing!
The global supply chain took many decades to develop. He is going to have zero impact on re-shoring in 4 years.
All he's going to do is stunt economic activity for 4 years.

You're supposed to work WITH industry, not against it. What an utter fool.

The next president who comes in is going to streamline and usher in new open trade, and a rush of economic activity will happen. He will be heroic, like FDR bringing us out of recession.

News headline:

JPMorgan becomes the first Wall Street bank to forecast a US recession following Trump's tariffs

Just another day in America in 2025.

I shit you not, Trump took Harriet Tubman OFF the National Parks Underground Railroad memorial and instead centered it around White people.

Read it yourself!! 👇👇 https://t.co/VbF3u4TMQ0 pic.twitter.com/iPO29okDFG

— Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 (@RachelBitecofer) April 6, 2025

Racist mother pucker!

Here's a story where Trump is bragging about how he strong armed TSMC.

It will be interesting, after Trump dies, people for many years are going to be answering questions about their dealing with Trump, correcting the historical record. Trump is going to look for bad after historians get ahold of him, and this era.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/biden-administration-gave-tsmc-billions-114700035.html

tmsc?? as happens lots, this fool had to google it..

> Semiconductor foundry company headquartered in Taiwan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's most valuable semiconductor company, the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, and Taiwan's largest company, with headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan

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tmsc?? as happens lots, this fool had to google it..

> Semiconductor foundry company headquartered in Taiwan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's most valuable semiconductor company, the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, and Taiwan's largest company, with headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan

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Perhaps this will be educational. There are many TSMC videos that will get you up to speed.

It is important to understand this company. They are the most important chip company in the world, as I understand it.
But more importantly, it's crucial to understanding China-Taiwan-US politics.

China wants Taiwan, not just because of their historical relationship (and there are videos on that past) but also to control TSMC production.

But US and rest of world relies on TSMC chips and Taiwan is aligned with USA politically, militarily. We've made a commitment to defend Taiwan from invasion.

So, it's tense.

USA would be protected if it can get TSMC to build in USA, and Biden cut a deal to build in Phoenix - but as insurance against invasion (and having USA no longer defend against invasion) Taiwan won't build the most advanced chips in Arizona.

It's actually a very interesting dance by all parties.



I think the solution is for humans to learn to get along, to support one another's sovereignty and to engage in free trade and stop spending wasteful money on military. In this vain, the whole America First slogan is stupid. If all countries take this view, then we are collectively economically weakened, not just for the wasted money spent on military but from the inefficiencies of trade barriers.

Trump and MAGA's mindset is troglodyte thinking.

I think you'll enjoy watching if you do searches on 3, 4, 5 nanometer chip manufacturing and the global chips race (and history of how we got there from the recent nearby advent of "Silicon Valley").

Then research Quantum Computing, which will blow away 2 or 1 nanometer chips, which don't yet exist, for certain applications.


Similarly intriguing is new tech re energy production and storage.


Think about the world your grandparents were born into.
Now think about how the world will be when your grandchildren depart at 100 years old.
It's incredible how much civilization is changing so quickly.

Fighting over a few factories here or there is stupid. Mankind has bigger fish to fry.

You sound like an optimist. I'm thinking more like this: