Hours before announcing his decision
Wednesday to lower tariffs on nearly every country in the world for 90 days, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social urging people to buy stocks.
“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” he wrote
, signing it with his initials.
At least one GOP lawmaker took his advice: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who worships at the feet of Dear Leader.
According to Capitol Trades
, which tracks congressional stock trading, Greene purchased a handful of retail stocks that had taken major hits following Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, including Amazon, Apple, Lululemon, Nike, and Restoration Hardware. All of those retailers rely heavily on trade with China and other Asian countries, on which Trump has placed severe tariffs.
The stocks have all risen since Trump’s lowered some of his tariffs, while at the same time exponentially increasing his tariff on China.
President Donald Trump announcing tariffs on nearly 90 countries during his “Liberation Day.”
For example, when Greene made the trade on Tuesday, Restoration Hardware’s stock had fallen
to 144 points. After Trump’s tariff announcement on Wednesday, the stock climbed to 160 points as of press time—a nice 11% gain for Greene.
It’s a similar story for the high-end athletic clothing company Lululemon, whose stock fell to 244 points on Tuesday—the day of Greene’s trade—and now sits at 256 points as of press time. That’s another roughly 5% gain for Greene.
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Chuck Schumer of New York, Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly of Arizona, Adam Schiff of California, and Ron Wyden of Oregon sent a letter
Friday to the Securities and Exchange Commission chair calling for an investigation.
“It is unconscionable that as American families are concerned about their financial security during this economic crisis entirely manufactured by the President, insiders may have actively profited from the market volatility and potentially perpetrated financial fraud on the American public,” they wrote. “At this critical moment, the SEC must do its part to restore Americans’ faith in the rule of law and to preserve the integrity of the financial system, in accordance with its statutory mission.”
Is Donald Trump’s inner circle illegally profiting off of these huge swings in the stock market by insider trading?
“What did Marjorie Taylor Greene know about the tariff announcements and what stock trades did she make? We need answers,” Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of California wrote on Bluesky
.
What did Marjorie Taylor Greene know about the tariff announcements and what stock trades did she make?
“I have signed a fiduciary agreement to allow my financial advisor to control my investments. All of my investments are reported with full transparency,” Greene said in a statement to The Associated Press
.
We’re sure that Greene—who has a close relationship with Trump that includes helping him plan his unsuccessful effort
to steal the 2020 election—just had a hunch.
The Trump administration is reportedly hitting a new low in its crackdown on undocumented immigrants: declaring them dead—on paper—to cut off access to financial services and pressure them to leave the United States.
According to The New York Times
, the Trump administration wants to void Social Security numbers lawfully obtained by immigrants who’ve since lost their legal status, such as those admitted through former President Joe Biden’s temporary work programs.
The goal is to render their Social Security numbers useless so they’ll “self-deport,” which was supposedly suggested by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—who continues to prove
she has no idea
what she’s doing.
The Times reports that thousands of immigrants whose status was recently revoked have already been added to the Social Security Administration’s “death master file,” effectively terminating their financial lives. Without a working Social Security number, they’ll struggle to access basic services, employment, or bank accounts.
President Donald Trump has long claimed
—without a shred of evidence—that dead people are collecting Social Security benefits. Now he’s trying to make that a reality by treating living immigrants like they’re deceased.
But according to the White House, this is a good immigration policy.
Prison guards transport deportees from the United States to El Salvador’s notoriously violent prison, CECOT.
“President Trump promised mass deportations, and by removing the monetary incentive for illegal aliens to come and stay, we will encourage them to self-deport. He is delivering on his promise to the American people,” assistant press secretary Liz Huston told the Times.
The names were added to the “death file” following two new memos signed by Noem and acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek, claiming authority under the Social Security Act and “national security” grounds, according to The Washington Post
.
But like most things Trump touches, the rollout has been sloppy. On Tuesday, Aram Moghaddassi, an engineer of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, reportedly flagged more than 6,300 immigrants with valid legal status as being on a “terrorist watchlist” or having an “FBI criminal record.”
Among them was a 13-year-old, seven other minors, and people whose supposed crimes include receiving federal student loans or using Medicaid, which Republicans have been trying to gut
for years.
So that’s what DOGE has been up to—not saving taxpayers’ money
but dismantling Social Security for immigrants.
“Immigration enforcement is not within the scope of the Social Security Administration. The potential for errors can be very consequential,” former SSA official Jason Fichtner told the Times.
This is just the latest in a string of deeply authoritarian moves by the Trump administration and DOGE to weaponize sensitive data against immigrants. But these efforts don’t always go smoothly. Just this week, the IRS agreed to share undocumented immigrants’ tax records with Homeland Security, prompting the acting IRS commissioner to resign in protest
.
And in this latest effort, officials have yet to present any evidence linking the flagged individuals to actual crimes or terrorism.
Experts also say the tactic may not even be legal. Several current and former SSA officials told the Post that knowingly adding living people to a database of the deceased likely violates federal privacy laws.
This attempt to coerce immigrants into leaving marks a new low—even for Trump. But it’s perfectly in line with his playbook: Expand government power, eliminate due process, and deport people—including those who are here legally
.
While Donald Trump might be shocking our economy into a recession with poorly thought out trade wars,
he and his administration have been doing everything in their power
to try and protect the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and his many business interests.
The Financial Times reports
that, among the many federal firings
perpetrated by Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency outfit
, around 30 workers from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration were let go. A significant number of these workers were from the “office of vehicle automation safety” which assesses safety for self-driving cars.
The NHTSA has eight active investigations into Tesla’s operations, particularly focusing on its self-driving software. These investigations stem from numerous high-profile crashes
and more than 10,000 public complaints.
Recently, the NHTSA began investigating over 2.5 million Teslas
following multiple reports of crashes connected to a feature allowing owners to control cars remotely. Additionally, 363,000 Teslas were recalled
in February due to unsafe behaviors in the “Full Self-Driving” software.
In December
, before taking office, a document leaked showing that Trump’s transition team wanted to scrap the federally mandated crash-reporting requirements self-driving cars are compelled to give. Scrapping the system would be convenient for Musk, since Teslas have made up more than half of the crashes reported since 2021.
At the same time, the Trump administration has initiated a multi-pronged campaign to boost Tesla’s fortunes. This includes Trump himself hawking Teslas
in front of the White House; Cabinet officials running around to media outlets
urging Americans to buy Tesla stock; and his top cop, Attorney General Pam Bondi, threatening both American citizens
and lawmakers
who criticize Musk or his EV company.
Eliminating the people responsible for evaluating the safety of Tesla’s faulty self-driving software is just the latest example of the neon bright conflict of interest posed by Trump’s top donor.
Donald Trump
is undergoing his annual physical on Friday, potentially giving the public its first details in years about the health of a man who in January became the oldest in U.S. history to be sworn in as president.
“I have never felt better, but nevertheless, these things must be done!” Trump, 78, posted on his social media site.
Despite long questioning predecessor Joe Biden’s
physical and mental capacity, Trump has routinely kept basic facts about his own health shrouded in secrecy — shying away from traditional presidential transparency on medical issues.
If history is any indication, his latest physical is likely to produce a flattering report that’s scarce on details. It will be conducted at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and will be the first public information on Trump’s health since an assassination attempt against him
in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July.
Rather than release medical records at that time, Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson
— a staunch supporter who served as his White House physician and once joked in the White House briefing room that Trump could live to be 200 if he had a healthier diet — wrote a memo
describing a gunshot wound to Trump’s right ear.
In a subsequent interview with CBS last August, Trump said he’d “very gladly” release his medical records but never did.
Trump is three years younger than Biden. But on Inauguration Day of his second term in January, Trump was five months older than Biden was during his 2021 inauguration — making Trump the nation’s oldest president
to be sworn into office.
Presidents have privacy rights protecting their medical records just like ordinary citizens, and that means they have leeway over what details are released. Modern annual physicals, though, have often played key roles in offering the public a sense of the commander-in-chief’s health — despite historic instances of concealing major medical issues, including President Woodrow Wilson’s debilitating stroke in 1919.
Trump has long opted for offering few substantive details about his health. Before Jackson’s memo, Americans hadn’t seen key details since November 2023, when Dr. Bruce A. Aronwald released a letter to coincide with Biden’s 81st birthday
, saying Trump was in “excellent” physical and mental health.
The letter, posted on Trump’s social media platform, lack the basics — such as the Republican’s weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, or the results of any test. Instead, Aronwlad wrote that he’d examined Trump that fall and found his “physical exams were well within the normal range and his cognitive exams were exceptional,” while also noting that Trump had “reduced his weight.”
Trump was treated at Walter Reed for his serious bout with the coronavirus
in 2020. During that, Trump’s physician offered a rosy prognosis on his condition, though White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said some of Trump’s vital signs were “very concerning.”
After Trump recovered, more details emerged that he had been sicker than he’d let on.
But Trump largely refused to say more about his health at the time, instead submitting to a pretaped, remote medical “evaluation” and interview on Fox News Channel. That was conducted by Dr. Marc Siegel, a Fox News contributor who had questioned Hillary Clinton’s physical ability to serve as president in 2016 and later urged the Biden White House to test the then-president’s cognitive acuity.
In November 2019, meanwhile, Trump’s trip to Walter Reed for a physical was omitted from his public schedule, breaking the White House protocol of giving advance public notice of them.
The visit was revealed three days later, with Trump disclosing that he’d had a “very routine physical.”
The White House released a subsequent statement from the president’s then-personal physician, U.S. Navy Cmdr. Sean Conley
, saying it had been a “planned interim checkup” kept “off the record” due to scheduling uncertainties.
Arguably, Trump’s most famous past comments about his own health came during a television interview in July 2020, when he listed off “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV” while attempting to demonstrate his cognitive abilities.
Trump said that a collection of those five nouns, or ones like them, stated in order, demonstrated mental fitness and were part of a cognitive test he had aced.
The commander of the Pituffik Space Base, a U.S. Space Force installation in Greenland, has been removed from her job after she criticized Vice President JD Vance’s failed visit to the arctic territory in March.
“Actions to undermine the chain of command or to subvert President Trump’s agenda will not be tolerated at the Department of Defense,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, a failed congressional candidate accused of domestic violence
by his ex-wife, said in a statement
.
Parnell said the commander, Col. Susannah Meyers, was fired for “loss of confidence in her ability to lead,” adding that “commanders are expected to adhere to the highest standards of conduct.
According
to Military.com, Meyers had written an email to service members at the base after Vance’s failed PR visit
to the island, saying, “I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the U.S. administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base.”
It was that email that got her canned.
Vance, for his part, visited Greenland in March to try to build support
for President Donald Trump’s quest to acquire the semiautonomous Danish territory.
“Denmark hasn’t done a good job at keeping Greenland safe,” Vance said
in an aggressive speech, a comment that Greenland’s prime minister said showed a “lack of respect.”
The trip ended up being dramatically pared back, with the Vances doing a quick visit to the military base before JD gave a bombastic speech and left.
Greenland residents do not want
to be acquired by America. And American voters don’t want the U.S. to buy Greenland, with 54% standing in opposition to Trump taking over the territory, according
to a Pew Research Center poll released April 8.
That is despite Trump’s best efforts
—which now include an absurd idea to give every Greenlander a $10,000 annual payment to bribe them into wanting to become an American territory, according to The New York Times.
“One way or the other, we’re going to get it,” Trump said
at his joint congressional address in March.
