Cal88 said:

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Not sure if that one is true either, maybe somebody can verify.

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When they did the Abe Lincoln First Lady documentary, it was called "The Marriage With Two Beards"

bearister said:

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Trump sues IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over tax return leak | CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/business/trump-sues-irs-for-usd10-billion

" LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: Trump is suing the federal government, which he heads, for $10 billion with a "b"so his personal lawyers are going to square off against a bunch of government lawyers, some of whom probably also used to be his personal lawyers."
-Adam Keiper

The IRS will settle with Trump for $15B.

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$15 Billion with a B? Are you sure? That has to be something like 2 to 3 times his total net worth.

PAC-10-BEAR said:

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bearister said:

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Trump sues IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over tax return leak | CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/business/trump-sues-irs-for-usd10-billion

" LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: Trump is suing the federal government, which he heads, for $10 billion with a "b"so his personal lawyers are going to square off against a bunch of government lawyers, some of whom probably also used to be his personal lawyers."
-Adam Keiper

The IRS will settle with Trump for $15B.

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$15 Billion with a B? Are you sure? That has to be something like 2 to 3 times his total net worth.

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I just laugh at Trump suing for reputational damages because someone at the IRS leaked the truthful contents of what Trump submitted in his tax returns.

US foreign policy is now medieval https://iol.co.za/ios/opinion/2026-02-04-us-foreign-policy-is-now-medieval/

"Trump does not use tariffs, or the threat of them, as way of mobilizing state power but as "a rent-seeking strategy, a regime based on arbitrary decisions, aimed at extracting maximum wealth for the clique."

In this regime, the leaders of countries he targets have to offer special access to him or his family and associates. The tithes and tributes can range from gold crowns (South Korea) to fast-tracked Trump-branded golf courses (Vietnam, for instance), luxury jets (Qatar) or crypto-currency deals with the Trump family (United Arab Emirates).

One aspect of explicit tribute-seeking by the neo-royalist clique is of course the accumulation of vast riches. The Trump clan's businesses apparently made at least $4 billion since he returned to the White House.Non-family members of the clique are also doing well, as Trump re-channels, say, the oil riches of Venezuela, a country that he recently attacked and subdued……

Neo-royalism also sheds light on Trump's approach to legitimation. "I don't need international law," he recently said; "the only thing that can stop me" is "my own morality, my own mind."At home and abroad, Trump subscribes to what Goddard and Newman call "legitimation by exception: stories that explain why some actors are uniquely endowed with the right to wield sovereign power."

In his second inaugural speech, Trump said that he "was saved by God to Make America Great Again," and in prayer services at the Pentagon he has been praised as "divinely appointed." Such notions come rather close to the Mandate of Heaven once claimed by Chinese emperors, or the default notion by sovereigns in past centuries that "l'etat, c'est moi."