President Trump

The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes.

Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the PhDs employed in investment and finance that the U.S. was headed toward a downward, if not recessionary, spiral.

Most economists lectured that trade deficits did not really matter. Or they insisted that the cures to reduce them were worse than the $1.1 trillion deficit itself.

They reminded us that free, rather than fair, trade alone ensured prosperity.

Republicans on Thursday notched the first major legislative victory of President Donald Trump’s second term, a mammoth tax and immigration agenda the GOP hopes will reshape the U.S. economy and unwind many of the Biden administration’s accomplishments.

The House, in a 218 to 214 vote, passed Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a $3.4 trillion measure to extend tax cuts from Trump’s first term and implement new campaign promises — such as eliminating income taxes on tips and overtime wages — while spending hundreds of billions of dollars on immigration enforcement and defense. It raises the country’s borrowing cap by $5 trillion, staving off a debt default that the Treasury was weeks away from breaching.

President Trump teased plans to “have a lot of fun” with “nut job” socialist Zohran Mamdani if he becomes mayor of the Big Apple — and called New Yorkers “crazy” for voting for him.

“I think we’re gonna have a lot of fun with him,” Trump told reporters on the White House South Lawn Tuesday, “because he has to go right through this building to get his money. Don’t worry, he’s not gonna run away with anything.”

President Trump shreds communist Zohran Mamdani:

“Frankly, I have heard he is a total nut job" pic.twitter.com/ZHMG6Vk3ta

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 1, 2025

We’ve had a big week. We’ve had a lot of victories this week,” Donald Trump boasted on Friday as he made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room after securing a win in the Supreme Court towards ending birthright citizenship. It capped off, a grinning president explained, a great week for his administration.

President Trump blasted Zohran Mamdani’s politics – and looks – Wednesday after the socialist’s stunning upset in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary.

“Democrats have crossed the line by elevating a 100% Communist Lunatic,” Trump railed in a Truth Social post.

“We’ve had Radical Lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous,” he added.

President Trump says Demcorats have “crossed the line” following Muslim Communist Zohran Mamdani’s primary victory in New York.

“He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he’s not very smart.”

“Even our great Palestinian Senator, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is groveling over him.” pic.twitter.com/yWVpLYh57v

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 25, 2025

“Iran’s appetite for acquiring and developing nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them has only grown larger,” Bill Clinton claimed in 1995. “We have tried to stop its quest to acquire weapons of mass destruction, which would make it a threat not only to its neighbors but to the entire region and the world.”

“For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” George W. Bush declared.

President Macron has long sought to cultivate the image of a “Trump whisperer” who handles his unpredictable US counterpart better than any other western leader.

However, President Trump has now dealt a severe blow to Macron’s credibility by mocking him as an attention seeker who “always gets it wrong”.

Like the late David Horowitz, David Mamet, now 77, was a red-diaper baby who, after spending the first act of his career as a prominent member of the left, eventually had second thoughts. Horowitz announced his change of mind in a 1985 Washington Post article, co-authored with his writing partner Peter Collier, headlined “Lefties for Reagan”; Mamet went public with his own political metamorphosis in a 2008 Village Voice essay entitled “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal.’” In the years since, Mamet, whose oeuvre already included first-rate plays like Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and top-notch screenplays like Wag the Dog (1997) and Hannibal (2001), has published a slew of wise – and wise-ass – books about politics, culture, and the arts, including Recessional (2022), which I summed up as follows: “What, you ask, does he write about? Answer: What doesn’t he write about?”

Happy Memorial Day from President Trump pic.twitter.com/pKXJBKnNPL

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 26, 2025