1 Minute Political Update

Donald Trump is willing to accept a gift of a super luxury jumbo jet to replace Air Force One from the royal family of Qatar (a clear violation of the Emoluments Clause) while accepting white refugees from South Africa and not Black refugees from Sudan. Is anyone surprised?

After the first American pope was elected—one who has been critical of the administration’s immigration policies—Donald Trump posted that the Holy Father doesn't always know best. Then he hired Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro to be interim U.S. attorney in Washington, DC, a move that sent Lady Justice into cardiac arrest.

Donald Trump says he’s planning to place a 100% tariff on foreign films, which no one could understand because his announcement didn’t come with subtitles. He also looks to fix the country’s aging air traffic control technology by firing aging air traffic controllers.

When Donald Trump was asked if he had to uphold the Constitution as president to protect due process for non-citizens as required by the Fifth Amendment, he said “I don’t know” then added that the Founders were leftwing radical nutjobs who loved open borders.

Donald Trump wants to stop federal funding for PBS and NPR—he says their reporting is not only biased but features too many big words—and plans to rename Veterans Day after the doctor who got him out of Vietnam with a phony bone spur diagnosis.

Description: According to a new CNN poll, Donald Trump’s approval rating dropped to 41%. Trump dismissed the poll because it was taken by dead people who are collecting social security. 

In Rome yesterday, 50,000 people saw Pope Francis lying in state while Donald Trump spent the day lying in the White House.

Democrats in Congress say it’s time for Pete Hegseth to go as defense secretary for two reasons. One, he shared classified information with his wife and brother. And two, he needs them to explain what that classified information means. 

The Supreme Court will hear a case that has the potential to kill free preventive-care services under the ACA and, in turn, make millions of Americans DOA.

The visit to mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador by Senator Chris Van Hollen was called disgusting by the White House. (Spoiler alert: That’s like the pot calling the kettle black.)

While Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen visits illegally deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia in an El Salvador prison, Donald Trump’s DOJ snaps into action—and sues the state of Maine for allowing transgender athletes to play women’s sports. 

The president of El Salvador has refused to return the Salvadoran man from Maryland who had been mistakenly deported, citing Trump’s 50% tariff on returned innocent migrants as the reason.

The Supreme Court has followed a district court’s ruling, instructing the government to return a Salvadoran migrant it wrongly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison. Of course, the Supreme Court added that the district court also needed to respect the foreign policy initiatives of the executive branch. In other words: never mind.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to lift its ban on the Associated Press, allowing it to rejoin the White House press pool. Although with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in charge, it’s more like a cesspool.

Donald Trump lowered the tariff boom on 180 countries and regions, including an island inhabited by penguins. In retaliation, the penguins placed their own tariffs on U.S. imports, including crustaceans and tuxedos.

Donald Trump is set to hit Canada with extreme tariffs that will raise prices on American consumers while at the same time piss off our neighbor to the north. He sees it as a win-win, which it is (if you’re a sado-masochist).

Donald Trump says he is very angry with Vladimir Putin for not negotiating a ceasefire in Ukraine. How angry? Trump has threatened to never send the Russian President another Valentine’s Day card.

At a Women’s History Month event at the White House Wednesday, Donald Trump crowned himself the “fertilization president.” Why? Because “convicted felon” was already taken.

While he didn’t think he did anything wrong after revealing military attack plans in Yemen in a Signal group chat, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said he would take more precautions next time—instead of Signal, whose messages can be intercepted, he will use signal flags.

The IRS will be handing over the tax returns of illegal immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement so they can track them down and then thank them for paying their taxes before deporting them.

Donald Trump has ordered Arlington National Cemetery to remove materials from its website related to Black, Hispanic, and female troops buried because to him DEI is DOA.

Donald Trump is dumping Voice America—the radio service that was set up during World War II to counter Nazi propaganda—saying American taxpayers have better things to spend their money on, like $80 bottles of Canadian maple syrup.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer believes it’s better to vote for a flawed GOP-led funding bill that screws average Americans than to let the government shutdown and screw average Americans.

Donald Trump turns the South Lawn of the White House into a Tesla dealership while the Department of Homeland Security hopes a new app will help illegal immigrants will turn themselves in.

While Donald Trump told reporters he remains sanguine about the stock market downturn—despite having no clue what sanguine means— Bernie Sanders was rallying voters in Republican districts to take back their country from the guy who took their country from them and plans to sell it on eBay.