GOOD	BAD
Stopped DEI: Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Removes DEI From the Foreign Service – ]	JD Vance attacking Niall Ferguson: https://x.com/JDVance/status/1892569791140946073?ref=quillette.com
Stopped border crossing: CBP releases March 2025 monthly update \| U.S. Customs and Border Protection	Blamed Zelensky for the war: Trump blames Zelensky again for Ukraine-Russia war
Supported Israel	Claimed Zelensky “dictator without elections”, He has also falsely claimed that Zelenskyy’s approval rating is as low as 4%, despite polls indicating much higher support.: Trump attacks Zelenskyy as a ‘dictator without elections’ who duped US - POLITICO
DOGE	Withdrawing Ukraine support: Trump orders a ‘pause’ of US military aid for Ukraine \| AP News
Europe to pay equally for NATO	Tariffs, uncertainty + Not aligning with allies instead pushing them towards China Tariff Arguments
Trump Manufacturing Investments Boost U.S. Economy	Embracing Andrew Tate: Why Donald Trump embraced Andrew Tate - New Statesman
	Not correctly following legality of deportation: ICE arrests Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil \| AP News
	JD Vance’s Anti-Due Process Rant: A Constitutional Crisis in the Making \| National Review
	Take Greenland by force
	JD Vance aligned with fringe far-right figures
	Deportation: Is Donald Trump Breaking the Law? Seven Experts Weigh In.
	Russia appeasement: GpSnD7uWoAARxYB
	Trump’s persecution of Law Firms Experts say Trump’s targeting of law firms is unprecedented In Trump’s Second Term, Retribution Comes in Many Forms
	Memecoin: How Trump team turned a dinner invite into a crypto boon worth millions Trump dinner for meme coin buyers prompts senators to demand ethics probe Trump’s meme coin dinner contest earns insiders $900,000 in two days
	U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland
	Trump Gold Statue in Gaza 0fa9b3f34f7fa1d7194f6c95897a87fc_MD5.mp4 (file not included in this release)
	Trump Organization eyes multi-billion-dollar projects in Vietnam amid tariff risks
	Trump’s scrapping of corporate transparency will strengthen… \| TBIJ
	Trump administration poised to accept ‘palace in the sky’ as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources - ABC News
	Lawrence: Trump is too stupid to keep his story straight on Qatar’s gift of a $400M plane
	’Mad King’ Donald Trump Torched Over ‘Especially Jarring’ Claim To U.S. Troops In Qatar
	Trump debuts new product line: Watches selling for up to $100,000 - CBS News
	100 days of corruption trump
	How the American’s relied on a Russian plant in negotiations about Ukraine - YouTube
	Since taking office, Trump has moved to roll back government oversight of the crypto industry. The Securities and Exchange Commission has paused or dismissed more than dozen cases against crypto companies, including a case against Sun, who is World Liberty’s largest known outside investor.
	Trump Family Has Held Deal Talks With Binance Following Crypto Exchange’s Guilty Plea
	Pakistan has reason to hope its relationship with the Trump administration will be better this time. In late February, the administration exempted from its foreign-aid freeze $397 million in security assistance to Pakistan. Trump thanked Pakistan in his State of the Union address for its assistance apprehending a terrorist, delighting Pakistani officials. In April, Pakistan signed a deal to pay $200,000 a month to a lawyer and two advisers close to Trump—his former bodyguard, Keith Schiller, and a former top Trump Organization lawyer, George Sorial—to help the country establish a “long-term economic partnership” with the U.S., specifically related to rare earth and critical minerals, according to foreign-lobbying records. Around the same time, Binance’s Zhao traveled to Pakistan and was named a strategic adviser to the Pakistan Crypto Council. (link)
	Democrats Fear Trump’s Crypto Entity Will Pose Regulatory Conflict\|
	The Growing Scandal of $TRUMP \| The Ezra Klein Show - YouTube
	Chinese entrepreneur sued for fraud invests $30 million in Trump crypto venture - ABC News
	Ukraine fault for Russia attack because they did a successful attack
	Trump Disclosure Shows $57 Million in Earnings From Early Crypto Push
	Tell the Iranian people to keep protesting and saying help will come…will it? (01/15/2026)
	Judge says Immigration and Customs Enforcement has violated 96 court orders this month in Minn. : NPR

Keli Whitlock, the chief business officer of a U.S. blockchain firm. Whitlock’s sister is married to Hegseth, the U.S. defense secretary.

Polls

Trump has lowest 100-day approval rating in 80 years: POLL - ABC News

JD Vance

Isolationist: JD Vance’s role in Signal chat angers senior Republican lawmakers

College oversight

People close to Harvard say the task force is now escalating the fight to protect its own reputation. The government’s demand letter to Harvard received blowback after the university released it, including from some on the right who publicly said it was overreach.

Ukraine

Most analysts contend that the current terms are a far better deal for Russia than Ukraine. “Without any real pressure, the Russians are not budging and playing for time, and they are getting what they want: a U.S. that is so frustrated with the negotiations that they seem to just want Ukraine to say yes to accepting Russia’s maximalist demands,” said Alina Polyakova, president and chief executive of the Center for European Policy Analysis, a Washington think tank. “If the U.S. gives up and moves on, the Russians would consider this a win.”

Articles

Hegseth Faces Heat After New Signal Chat Emerges and Claim of Pentagon ‘Chaos’
Trump Administration Irate at Harvard, Plans to Pull Additional $1 Billion in Funding

Trump Personal Business

The intensifying threat of Donald Trump’s emoluments - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

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