“Far-right commentator and ally of Donald Trump, Hugh Hewitt, is telling the incoming administration that they should bar all media from the White House except Fox News,” Raw Story reported on Monday, December 23, 2024 (read story here). Hewitt (photo, left) says Peter Doocy, FoxR[...]
Archive for the ‘Donald Trump’ Category
Trump wants Panama Canal back
President-elect Trump, claiming Panama is “ripping off” America with exorbitant canal fees, is threatening to seize the canal, The Hill reported on Sunday, December 22, 2024 (read story here). The U.S. took over construction from France in 1904, completed the canal in 1914, and returned [...]
Should Biden commute all the federal death sentences?
Forty people are on federal death row. Biden is under pressure to commute their sentences (read story here). I’ll skip over the usual anti-death penalty arguments: Botched executions, racial bias, the danger of executing an innocent person, etc. The best argument for leaving no one on federal [...]
Lara Trump won’t be a senator
Marco Rubio (R-FL; photo, left) is leaving the U.S. senate to become Trump 2.0’s secretary of state. I don’t want to dwell too much on Rubio, because this posting is about Lara Trump, but that doesn’t strike me as a great career move. At age 51, Rubio is young enough to run for pre[...]
Can Musk be president and speaker at the same time?
The U.S. is heading toward one-man rule, but not by who you assume. It’s becoming clear the White House will be a “Weekend at Bernie’s” affair, whereby staffers prop up a physically and mentally defunct Trump, but Elon Musk wields power behind on the throne. Musk isn’t [...]
Meet Trump’s DNI nominee (video)
Is this who should be Director of National Intelligence? I don’t think so. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
December 18th, 2024 - 9:23 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Who paid for Trump’s 2024 campaign?
A handful of billionaire families did. The day before the election, MSNBC reported (here), “The top seven donors and their families, including Timothy Mellon, Elon Musk and Miriam Adelson, have donated $818 million almost entirely to help Trump. Without this support, Trump’s cash-strapped[...]
December 17th, 2024 - 9:47 pm § in America, Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Republicans
Kamala Harris won’t be president
Kamala Harris will never be president. I’m not saying she won’t run; but if she does, she won’t be elected. The 2024 election proved it. Sure, she was dealt a tough hand to play, and played it better than anyone had a right to expect. She was a last-minute nominee, saddled with Bid[...]
Why Democrats lost Latinos and Asians in 2024
Working-class Latino and Asian neighborhoods in Southeast Los Angeles went heavily for Trump in 2024, probably mirroring what happened across the country. Historically, the Democrats have been the party of the working class, while Republicans were the party of the rich. In policy terms, that hasn[...]