What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Zoupa]

That's peanuts. Why didn't he go for a few billions? He makes way more via his crypto corruption.

[crazy canuck]

That's peanuts. Why didn't he go for a few billions? He makes way more via his crypto corruption.

That was my thought

[Tonitrus]

In this case, I suspect it might be more of the lurid satisfaction/pOwnaged than the $$$.

[Tonitrus]

Also, I suspect that most of the money will "have to pay my lawyers" before any goes to charity.  The same lawyers approving the payoff of course...

[crazy canuck]

Fair points

[The Brain]

The ideology of who cares what happens to me just so long as you get hurt.

Republicanism isn't for everyone.

[Tonitrus]

Pelosi says police may arrest federal agents who violate California law
Oct. 22, 2025 at 9:04 pm Updated Oct. 23, 2025 at 8:48 am 

By Kellen Browning and Heather Knight
The New York Times

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Wednesday that local police could arrest federal agents if they break California law while conducting immigration raids that are expected this week in the San Francisco Bay Area.

With Border Patrol agents due to arrive, Pelosi issued the stark warning along with Kevin Mullin, a fellow Democratic representative, who represents the small slice of San Francisco that Pelosi doesn't. President Donald Trump has said several times in recent weeks that he wanted to send federal forces to the city.

[Tonitrus]

Trump calling off plans for federal deployment to SF, mayor says

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said that he had a phone call with President Donald Trump Wednesday night in which the president said he was calling off any plans for federal deployment to the city. The mayor said he had a follow-up conversation with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in which she reiterated the president's direction.

"Late last night, I received a phone call from the President of the United States. I told him the same thing I told our residents: San Francisco is on the rise," Lurie said in a statement Thursday. "Visitors are coming back, buildings are getting leased and purchased, and workers are coming back to the office. We have work to do, and we would welcome continued partnerships with the FBI, DEA, ATF, and U.S. Attorney to get drugs and drug dealers off our streets, but having the military and militarized immigration enforcement in our city will hinder our recovery."

"In that conversation, the president told me clearly that he was calling off any plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco," Lurie continued. "Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem reaffirmed that direction in our conversation this morning."

On Thursday, President Trump confirmed he'd spoken to the mayor in a lengthy post on Truth Social.

"The Federal Government was preparing to "surge" San Francisco, California, on Saturday, but friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge in [sic] that the Mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress," Trump said. "I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around."

"I told him that I think he is making a mistake, because we can do it much faster, and remove the criminals that the Law does not permit him to remove," Trump continued. "I told him, 'It's an easier process if we do it, faster, stronger, and safer but, let's see how you do?'"

Trump went on to say that "the people of San Francisco have come together" in taking on crime and said that "great people" like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had called him to say "the future of San Francisco is great."

[Syt]

Before/after pics of the demolition of the White House East Wing.

[Valmy]

The White House has already been a freakzone since 2017. Whatever dignity it once had is long gone.

Still, sucks to see a historic building treated this way. Ah well.

[Tonitrus]

The White House has already been a freakzone since 2017. Whatever dignity it once had is long gone.

Still, sucks to see a historic building treated this way. Ah well.

No respect for Bubba. 

[Admiral Yi]

The glass is half full in that Trump is continuing Ukraine aid at all, but half empty in that it's a big drop.

https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine

[grumbler]

The White House has already been a freakzone since 2017. Whatever dignity it once had is long gone.

Still, sucks to see a historic building treated this way. Ah well.

The king decides what is historic.

[Zoupa]

The glass is half full in that Trump is continuing Ukraine aid at all, but half empty in that it's a big drop.

https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine

Considering the US signed the Budapest Memorandum, giving less per capita than Slovakia is definitely glass 99% empty.

[Valmy]

The White House has already been a freakzone since 2017. Whatever dignity it once had is long gone.

Still, sucks to see a historic building treated this way. Ah well.

The king decides what is historic.

I guess we should be glad the Plaza escaped relatively unscathed.