Remember, as we go through this:
Trump inherited the best economy in the world.
THE WORLD.
And, in 100 days, he has ruined it and we are careening towards a RECESSION.
It never had to happen. Period.
Updated this post with the latest numbers out about the economy:
Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) posted at 8:08 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Economic headlines from this morning:• Inflation higher than expected in Q1 2025
• U.S. economic GDP shrunk in Q1 2025
• Private sector hiring is collapsing
• Big box stores warn of empty shelves
• More major retailers announce price hikes
(https://x.com/mattmfm/status/1917566623558357218?t=LDPETah1KSAgmmQ5ccsQ1Q&s=03)
Steven Rattner
@SteveRattner
US GDP shrunk at an annualized rate of 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025.
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) posted at 8:00 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
The U.S. economy shrank at start of Trump’s second term, with GDP declining at a 0.3% annualized rate over three months ending in March.It’s the first negative reading since the COVID pandemic.
(https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1917564599215481108?t=ihFc1y0Br-TYEgQh9LlPIQ&s=03)
Jason Bell 🇺🇸🦅 (@JBellSATX) posted at 7:45 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
The economy didn’t need invigorating. He’s sinking a good economy he inherited
(https://x.com/JBellSATX/status/1917560875084570945?t=dAIJTmVfpi0s4Tp8vEEZUA&s=03)
Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 (@RachelBitecofer) posted at 6:14 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Well that’s scary then…. https://t.co/ptXui7YOtm
(https://x.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1917356773251637292?t=d7h_-CzwSE3gnjpzjcwKGA&s=03)
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 8:29 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
If this was Joe Biden’s economy, we would be subjected to days of wall to wall RECESSION IS IMMINENT coverage in the media, but Trump will just toss up some shiny object for the media to chase like compliant little puppies and this will all be forgotten by tomorrow.
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1917572106457604228?t=PmlJM_jucZDArqZAvS8wpQ&s=03)
CBS News (@CBSNews) posted at 7:49 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
The economy shrank 0.3% in the first three months of the year, a steep downturn from the pace of growth in 2024. https://t.co/sJg8bZLDJs
(https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1917561845306548642?t=Lye04tGGFCBnEMghFeB5Ag&s=03)
Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) posted at 4:30 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
The U.S. economy is flashing every red light at once.Atlanta Fed just revised Q1 GDP down again:
From -2.4% → now -2.7%
That’s just one quarter away from a technical recession.Consumer Sentiment has plunged to 52.2 (UMich)
-4th lowest reading in history.
-Yes, it is lower than the index at the start of every single recession ya’ll!People feel it before the data says it. And we’ve been feeling it for a while.
Now stack the pressure:
• 97,205 layoffs this month (@MacroEdgeRes)
• Federal student loans hit collections in 6 days
• BNPL activity now reporting to credit reports… yes the subprime ghost is lurking.
• Jobs report drops Friday. Consensus: +130K…
But some models hint at a NEGATIVE print (h/t @MauiBoyMacro)
Call it what you want…
But one meme comes to mind.
(https://x.com/thejobchick/status/1917330702640767480?t=iSpQJFo9SrJmJho11YN1yg&s=03)
Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) posted at 9:44 PM on Sun, Apr 27, 2025:
Rarely has a financial crisis been so easy to predict, because it is caused by the US president:
1. Tariffs drastically reduce shipping to the US.
2. Complete uncertainty minimizes investment in the US.
3. The world seeing US madness sells $,
4. & sells US treasuries. /1This scenario is obvious to anybody who has dealt with emerging economies crisis.
The US economic problems are political, an almighty president, who is as aggressive as ignorant, & his insistence of being surrounded by obedient servants who dare not tell him the truth. /2The natural outcome of this standard emerging economies crisis is:
1. The demand for US treasuries will dry up (=higher market rates).
2. The US government will be forced to slash its budget deficit from 6.5% of GDP ($2 trillion) to zero. /33. Since the US public expenditures are minimal, the US will be forced to raise taxes. Who can pay? The very rich. The US had a maximum federal income tax from World War II to 1962 of 91%. It might not rise that high, but rise it will.
4. Meanwhile stock prices will collapse. My guess is that the current market capitalization will halve (no confidence in US economic policy and very high valuation).
Trump has killed US exceptionalism with his blatant hate of foreigners who have kept US $ & stocks overvalued. /55. The consequences are likely to be radical. The billionaires will probably lose.
Bradford Delong wrote a wonderful article pointing out that the US hardly bred any billionaires from 1930-1980 because of high income taxes & strict regulations.
We are likely to return to that. /6
(https://x.com/anders_aslund/status/1916689434449252360?t=AsHnuTayKMBOHYm8uReV7A&s=03)
The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) posted at 3:00 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
The former NIH director Francis Collins tells @JeffreyGoldberg he fears the U.S. is losing a generation of scientists.
“We have depended so heavily on being the place that everybody wanted to come to to do research,” Collins says. “And now we’re driving those people away.” https://t.co/eVH4pxETAd
(https://x.com/TheAtlantic/status/1917307971060593038?t=psKmXpi_EI34x7E63mIhIg&s=03)
Dr. Allison Wiltz (@queenie4rmnola) posted at 6:15 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
The only ones trying to silence discussions about racism are racists
(https://x.com/queenie4rmnola/status/1917538410148827353?t=IUNkQW9uANJsOBAUh_RfvA&s=03)
Not A Drag Queen.
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻 (@LongTimeHistory) posted at 1:22 PM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Head of Utah charter schools distributed—possibly produced child porn.
Jared Buckley had over 10,000 images of child sexual abuse material—told undercover agents he could produce & sell more “original” material.
He is Director & Superintendent at Leadership Learning Academy in Ogden & Layton, Utah since 2014.
Jared Buckley was 1 of 15 individuals arrested during an online sting operation on April 15-17.
Because of his years of access to children, additional victims are urged to call the Utah State Police—even if it is anonymously.
#DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnitedhttps://t.co/sC3DspjD1D
(https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1917645648330973417?t=BhlzvrGJsLX5QIPvqMgDZg&s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 11:58 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
right-wing America, desperately trying to racially segregate an already deeply racially integrated world
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1917624728665350415?t=Hb-2hbf8y-QtR4LfmIt10g&s=03)
Chris Towler (@blkprofcct) posted at 0:11 PM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
The most important things for Dems to fix going into 2026 and especially 2028 is Black turnout. With 43% of Black people feeling exhausted & apathetic after the election (51% of Black women!) Dems have a real chance of falling further behind in swing states like MI, PA, NC & GA. https://t.co/fg1121Ki1o
(https://x.com/blkprofcct/status/1917627810073698609?t=2QSRnCa6g-XiUuNReUb1yg&s=03)
Symone D. Sanders Townsend (@SymoneDSanders) posted at 10:18 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
The Republican party apparatus is actively deploying their voter suppression playbook right now because the polls and the public are not in their favor.
https://t.co/Kf9crTdhIa https://t.co/FEa8s0vBuR
(https://x.com/SymoneDSanders/status/1917599358536524257?t=GfA2H5-FTwbKZJdfwOFNbw&s=03
Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) posted at 10:45 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
NEW: The Trump admin recently sent a diplomatic note to officials in El Salvador to inquire about releasing Abrego Garcia but Bukele govt said no. All this adds to increasing confusion from the Trump admin about whether it is really trying to comply with court order to return
(https://x.com/nytmike/status/1917606201904464056?s=03)
Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) posted at 0:31 PM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Marco Rubio just essentially admitted that the Trump Presidency is a Dictatorship.
He was asked if he would ask El Salvador to return Abrego-Garcia after ordered to facilitate his return by the Supreme Court.
“Well I’ll never tell you that, and you know who else I would never tell? A Judge… And no one will ever make us discuss it.”
Authoritarianism is here.
Is this what you voted for?https://t.co/qXG5xcQA1S
(https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/1917632881612185953?s=03)
Robert Reich (@RBReich) posted at 1:21 PM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
The so-called “moderate” GOP position on Medicaid cuts is no cuts above $500 billion.
Hello? That would mean 18 million children and 2 million adults with disabilities lose health care coverage, according to the latest estimates.
What’s “moderate” about that?
(https://x.com/RBReich/status/1917645426418716882?s=03)
James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) posted at 11:33 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
There are many cringey things about Trump’s 2nd term. But nothing is as cringey as watching these Cabinet meetings where Trump’s appointees kowtow to him and slather him with praise like they’re courtiers to a king. It’s repulsively un-American.
(https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1917618338814996598?s=03)
Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd on blu sky) (@rothschildmd) posted at 0:31 PM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
He made them sit behind MAGA hats while they top each other with praise for his greatness. Most of the men are wearing red ties identical to his. It’s a cult and a race to the bottom of who can undignify themselves the longest and hardest.
(https://x.com/rothschildmd/status/1917632890403446858?s=03)
ABC News (@ABC) posted at 9:21 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
LATEST: Unaccompanied children will not have to navigate U.S. immigration courts on their own after a federal judge Tuesday evening blocked the Trump administration from canceling a contract that provided lawyers for tens of thousands of children. https://t.co/fahSlknp26
(https://x.com/ABC/status/1917404027064627283?t=Y3FLxframzjHPVBE-gOYIg&s=03)
FactPost (@factpostnews) posted at 1:30 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Lutnick: It’s time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here and your grandkids work here https://t.co/CU8a4HZyil
(https://x.com/factpostnews/status/1917285325870686566?t=T2CvfwQKHnklDSfdgYXsUQ&s=03)
Boston Smalls (@smalls2672) posted at 7:45 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Company towns. He’s talking about recreating company towns. The whole family will work the factories. Along with the children because they’re going to destroy public education and make it either a religious or private affair. Only those who can afford an education will get one. The rest will be in the new factory. Why do you think red states are rolling back child labor laws.
(https://x.com/smalls2672/status/1917561040470172090?t=FHgtStkdA9m-peOBRU0roA&s=03)
Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) posted at 9:40 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
We got the Royal Flush today in markets.
Every single major asset class is down together.
Just a straight exit from assets and into cash. Almost never happens.
Equities down -2% on growth scare.
Bonds down -1% on inflation scare.
Gold down -0.25% on higher real yields.
Oil down -3% on growth scare.
Bitcoin down -2% on risk off.
We are winning bigly!
https://t.co/xtx0cwIiYl
(https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1917589900645523532?t=kDo4YVoiO2nsXk4E8ElabQ&s=03)
Cdseghetti (@cdseghetti) posted at 8:45 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Morning Y’all 🌞🖤💙
White Democrats need to understand that minorities have their own value systems. We do not approve of ageism and disrespecting our elders and eviscerating them in public. We do not punch down on vulnerable groups either to get ahead. Just an FYI.
(https://x.com/cdseghetti/status/1917576000399106192?t=CCreB71R8uD1hlPskoBp0A&s=03)
Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) posted at 10:23 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Donald Trump’s “Unleash the Cops” executive order is being rightly read as a prelude to martial law. But don’t miss the other thing it’s doing: making the cops functionally unaccountable when they commit crimes.
My latest in @thenation
https://t.co/OiwLcSc47Q
(https://x.com/ElieNYC/status/1917600648641577199?t=RqyCtw5SFPLscHcQZvpReA&s=03)
Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) posted at 11:13 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Trump’s public on-camera Cabinet meetings are simply occasions for him to gather each member together so they can go around the table and give a short speech about how amazing and perfect he is, then it adjourns.
(https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1917613227191447895?t=JOZMS1RXLDKdKT57mhIY7A&s=03)
Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) posted at 9:35 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
NEW: Judge Xinis DENIES an additional request by the government to further stay discovery in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. https://t.co/Ez63rFcSaz
(https://x.com/AnnaBower/status/1917588556706386184?t=UvZFB684Jz-nNf2eXd0mRQ&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 10:14 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
.@MattGertz made the key point that Trump’s unhinged claims on ABC about Abrego Garcia’s tattoos show he’s lost in right wing disinfo.
As I argue here, the fake distinction between ORDERING Bukele to return him and merely REQUESTING it can only survive in the MAGA bubble too:
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1917598337575907536?t=f5rNjbLtVPFoxKCm_5gLVQ&s=03)
Oversight Committee Democrats (@OversightDems) posted at 9:47 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
BREAKING: GOP Rep. Mike Turner says he OPPOSES his party’s terrible bill which will strip federal employees of their hard-earned pensions.
“I do not think that it is fair and it represents either Republican values or American values.” https://t.co/EFSTDjoHZ3
(https://x.com/OversightDems/status/1917591568086639103?t=3kNeKrzUHSGOkk1iEKnZig&s=03)
Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) posted at 10:28 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
We’ve learned the Trump Admin has ILLEGALLY withheld $430B in funds approved by Congress — gutting vital services including child care, disaster relief & more.
The courts must continue to hold this lawless president accountable, even if spineless congressional Republicans won’t.
(https://x.com/ChrisVanHollen/status/1917420692347249109?t=S7huaFQod4hmZfDoS72nJA&s=03)
David Frum (@davidfrum) posted at 8:11 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Trump pushed the US economy into decline by his ignorance and malice, enabled and abetted by advisers who were variously obnoxious, stupid, cowardly, and/or crazy
(https://x.com/davidfrum/status/1917567560339411369?t=7wcB6Kchk6AFaeRGRqF-7w&s=03)
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 9:09 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
The media destroyed Joe Biden’s presidency over economic indicators that were much better but since they rely on Trump for clicks, ads, and book deals, and the folks who own these outlets are scared of him, they won’t be nearly as harsh.
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1917582139282931945?t=1fE8QNvX9WA1cFYBtkiNXA&s=03)
THEE ENTIRE PHUCK!!!
abby (@abby4thepeople) posted at 7:58 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Today a lawyer for the DOJ stood in front of the Supreme Court and argued that it is simply too dangerous for an FBI agent to take the time to confirm that they are at the correct address or even on the correct street before conducting a raid
(https://x.com/abby4thepeople/status/1917383022443389087?t=OcIer5QUI6XyRb_Ns1Erdg&s=03)
Molly Ploofkins (@Mollyploofkins) posted at 8:18 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
What did Musk get during his tenure at DOGE? Here’s a start…
– Starlink Broadband: $42 billion
– Starlink for the FAA: $2.4 billion
– Golden Dome: Unknown billions
– NASA telescope launch services: $100 million
– Launch provider for the military: $6 billion
– Eliminating pesky investigations: $2.37 billion
– Free Tesla advertising
– Government data: Priceless
(https://x.com/Mollyploofkins/status/1917569123695079845?t=iJmKOoWeWrEk7eONehclzQ&s=03)
Cdseghetti (@cdseghetti) posted at 9:30 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
The Harm-reductive voting that the Black community practices is the most caring, unselfish, loving, community oriented, and keeping the beloved community alive. That says everything about our community. No matter what we don’t punch down to get ahead. It truly sets us apart.
(https://x.com/cdseghetti/status/1917587353318875449?t=MxGIvP5LxWThp4AN3GcUcA&s=03)
FOH
Fred Krueger (@dotkrueger) posted at 9:22 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
“The new model is where you work in a factory for the rest of your life, and your kids work there and your grandkids work there”
— Howard Lutnick, net worth 3.1 Billion
(https://x.com/dotkrueger/status/1917585476669825280?t=gBVpkAIWyN5Ve0pQvXwLzg&s=03)
Karen Piper (@PiperK) posted at 2:35 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Last month, House Republicans forced Democratic billboards to be taken down that claimed Republicans were cutting Medicaid. They said it was defamation.
Today, Republicans introduced a budget that cuts Medicaid.
(https://x.com/PiperK/status/1917482863282315310?t=U3fQYIvZjoQnBJl2tUBOFA&s=03)
Because. they are unqualified, mediocre hires who got the jobs because of supporting the Orange Menace.
Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) posted at 0:04 PM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
I have a lot of friends both in New York and Washington DC at investment banks, commercial banks, hedge funds, pension funds, etc. that get face time with the administration.
They are almost all unanimously telling me something similar and very disturbing.
Regardless of the policies the administration is attempting to implement, the actual level of competence (especially amongst lower/career staffers) is simply not there.
They say that this is a stark contrast from 2017, when Trump first came in and largely just left Obama’s infrastructure in place at the Treasury, IRS, Commerce, Trade, etc.
This time around, Trump came in and purged the lifelong employees at these places and replaced them with people he owed favors to on his farewell tour.
People that are just simply unqualified to be doing these gloryless jobs.
Regardless of the merits of the actual policy changes, nearly everyone I speak to is saying the incompetency, lack of sophistication, lack of substance, and the elementary level understanding of the global economy and global capital markets, is stunning them on a daily basis.
I cannot get into specifics here, out of respect for my friends privacies, but the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg have all begun reporting on this open secret in depth in the past couple of days.
Feel free to cross examine me with their reporting!
(https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1917626195895537715?t=Ii4awIpTRO33zdSrq6EGZw&s=03)
Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) posted at 8:06 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Trump owes his presidency and freedom to due process.
Now, he’s shredding this foundational constitutional right for everyone else.
Commentary: https://t.co/lvhgpbIL73 https://t.co/mwKYcvMO2M
(https://x.com/RollingStone/status/1917566104014315544?t=9vjHA57MX4GDc2yndC-bkQ&s=03)
Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) posted at 9:21 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
I know there’s a lot going on, but I would like to highlight that Mike Johnson slipped language into an otherwise routine House procedural vote yesterday that now blocks Democrats from forcing an investigation into Pete Hegseth’s Signal scandal, through October.
(https://x.com/jbendery/status/1917585067682972058?t=9hD7jRf-JFi1G7qf8jFPMw&s=03)
Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) posted at 11:52 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Wow. Trump’s deal with Bukele was for convicted criminals only, but Bukele quickly realized that’s not who he was getting: https://t.co/ZfbY2ZUxJA
(https://x.com/jonfavs/status/1917623006509293643?t=tyaJknZuBwKD_lHlfFiUyA&s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 11:44 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
IMO if Democrats lose 2028, the most reductive reason why will be because the party leadership decided to chase white voters when the country is getting browner, and brown people are the ones who need to be spoken to first, because they were the ones who abandoned the 2024 ticket
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1917621108012114169?t=EmHHKII8fY2aISSTjHU8pg&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 10:50 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Lutnick: “The attention on the Trump gold card — I mean, it makes me very popular. Last night, I was out for dinner and somebody came up and said, ‘Can I buy 10?’ And I’m like, that’s pretty good, that’s $50 million for dinner. So it’s paying for my dinner.” https://t.co/TIaxO2bTDG
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1917607590906732970?t=KqXG4qQOMLbUJOtxogsKUQ&s=03)
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) posted at 11:07 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Needless to say this would be ABSURDLY illegal. The EB-5 program requires specific investments that generate U.S. jobs, it’s not just buying a green card.
And NO visa program has ever permitted someone to buy a green card a random other person unrelated to the petitioner!
(https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1917611769540813114?t=DnNuJIpeI0mcvKRiQRVcFA&s=03)
Tina Smith (@SenTinaSmith) posted at 9:17 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
My take on what’s REALLY happening on these tariffs: He’s totally folding.
He lost all his leverage. Americans are furious about the economy and blame his tariffs. He’s capitulating on China, he threw our allies under the bus… he knows he and his party are solely to blame
(https://x.com/SenTinaSmith/status/1917584168936169585?t=LuJiN-x-MqcPNsWVAiv7bg&s=03)
John Garamendi (@RepGaramendi) posted at 1:08 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Republicans are trying to hand Trump and Hegseth a $150 billion slush fund with no plan.
“Have we lost our minds? $150 billion out of the mouths of children who are not going to get a school lunch. That’s what’s happening here.” https://t.co/cBXuY1T7Ar
(https://x.com/RepGaramendi/status/1917279722846716256?t=rUo0Pqfo3Kwgc7SGTJRDyA&s=03)
BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) posted at 3:07 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
In case you missed it, all of the right wing media bubble is in overdrive trying to put lipstick on the pig that is trump’s first 100 days.
But it is an historic DISASTER.
He “flooded the zone” with shit in an attempt to distract from his lack of a coherent plan, to distract from his failure to lower prices and to stop the Ukraine war on day one.
He jacked up prices with his tariffs, and they are about to get much, much worse as the rest of the intelligent world figures out how to move on without his chaos.
(https://x.com/mmpadellan/status/1917309869444551086?t=6B4UxjFzjDcuB4_ZHRekFg&s=03)
Dr. Laura Robinson (@LauraRbnsn) posted at 4:58 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Yeah so let me walk you through how this goes:
1) Companies won’t itemize their bills and will simply raise their prices. This means Trump can keep pretending, and telling you, that he’s not taxing you, it’s just that pesky Bidenflation
2) Trump cuts deals with some of his
(https://x.com/LauraRbnsn/status/1917337832147886188?t=NPE8ebM1P3g7i8XOxQy_3Q&s=0
big_pedestrian (@big_pedestrian) posted at 11:46 AM on Mon, Apr 28, 2025:
Before Hitler shipped people to concentration camps, he spent a lot of time and energy manufacturing consent. That meant convincing Germans that certain groups were the source of all their problems. That’s what this white house is doing now.
(https://x.com/big_pedestrian/status/1916896773186130216?t=NCTCGN-yDnU8N9bvVV0new&s=03)
Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 (@RachelBitecofer) posted at 4:05 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Republicans don’t know it yet but you can’t gaslight people into ignoring your man made recession.
(https://x.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1917324486845816979?t=MEltFxFutX1hdmR5jR8Oiw&s=03)
Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryDems) posted at 3:17 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
BREAKING: Ed Martin, Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Attorney in DC, submits false statements under oath, dodges 80+ questions in written responses submitted to the committee.
(https://x.com/JudiciaryDems/status/1917312186424140254?t=o4GqIqk9HaYE-qFyYzmaCg&s=03)
Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) posted at 11:53 AM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
This is Great: WATCH Democratic voter, Jay, calmly and systematically dismantle Republican talking points, on Fox News, on the rights of people to receive “due process,” even using convicted felon Donald Trump to prove his point.
Priceless.
https://t.co/67Svjv0WLz
(https://x.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1917261060467290117?t=jSWd2QOfdEUZtDhLAC5u1w&s=03)
Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) posted at 9:26 PM on Mon, Apr 28, 2025:
Fun Fact: Conservatives were leading and projected to win the election, but when Canadians saw what Trump and MAGA were doing to America, they said, “Nah, fuck that.”
(https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/1917042808374132796?t=ZgpUYD4iYVLRm9fpRvcqoQ&s=03)
BWA HA AH AHA HA HA HA HA
Conspiratorial Templates (@mynamehear) posted at 10:05 AM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
3 months ago, Pierre Poilievre was the presumptive next prime minister of Canada. Today, he doesn’t even have a seat in parliament.
That’s how toxic the Trump brand is.
(https://x.com/mynamehear/status/1917233682378641682?t=IDxv5wIykaVLw_7s87PXFg&s=03)
unaffiliated followers of the new democrats (@reesetheone1) posted at 3:14 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
I never saw a president kiss unions asses more than Biden/Harris did.
The teamsters played themselves by supporting a republican in 2024.
(https://x.com/reesetheone1/status/1917311467432382731?t=-hLNn5l14GGIZtNkg07YBQ&s=03)
He’s talking about COOK
unaffiliated followers of the new democrats (@reesetheone1) posted at 6:50 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
This county allows IL dems to be FREE 😆😆😆
Such an advantage for my Governor.
The IL GOP will have issues as long as Trump is In office. https://t.co/P5Q79WXjc2
(https://x.com/reesetheone1/status/1917365797267063249?t=Pu-t1gpHUo9slM62oMOYng&s=03)
NewsNation (@NewsNation) posted at 5:23 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
The House GOP’s campaign arm in recent weeks has successfully pressed three advertising companies to pull down Democratic billboard displays bashing vulnerable Republicans over Medicaid — a setback… https://t.co/HUqcMgK0Lw
(https://x.com/NewsNation/status/1917343903147069460?s=02)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 7:39 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
MORAN: You think Vladimir Putin wants peace?
TRUMP: I think he does, yes
MORAN: Still, even while he’s raining missiles?
TRUMP: His dream was to take over the whole country. Because of me, he’s not going to do that … you start hitting me with fake questions. You’re being dishonest. https://t.co/pjRaLrNVmQ
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1917378138293604389?s=02)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 7:29 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
TRUMP: He had MS-13 on his knuckles, tattooed!
MORAN: That was photoshopped
TRUMP: Terry, they’re giving you the big break of a lifetime. I picked you. But you’re not being very nice. https://t.co/NgCpEB8o1S
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1917375813177037212?s=02)
MeidasTouch
@MeidasTouch
U.S. ECONOMY SHRINKS UNDER TRUMP
Just months into Trump’s return to office, the U.S. economy has already reversed course—shrinking by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025.
That’s a stark contrast from the 2.4% growth rate during President Biden’s final months.
8:13 AM · Apr 30, 2025
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 7:50 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
“Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for a gain of 0.4% after GDP rose by 2.4% in the fourth quarter of 2024.”
The WH will spin it and morons will go along with it. Numbers don’t lie… https://t.co/twGIdenoAl
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1917562199343583456?s=03)
General Han Xin is asleep. 🛌 (@General_Oluchi) posted at 10:23 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Weird enough, no one ever talks about what ICE stole from and did to undocumented immigrants before deporting them. It’s good that their recklessness is hitting home so that the average American can feel how others are treated outside their picket fences and gated communities.
(https://x.com/General_Oluchi/status/1917419476368200078?t=T_ClVX1rkala8UyaGsBiqw&s=03)
Agent Self FBI (@RetroAgent12) posted at 5:34 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Recent reports confirm that federal immigration agents, including ICE, mistakenly raided the home of an American citizen in Oklahoma City, traumatizing the family, damaging their property, and confiscating their cash and belongings.
They’re gonna break into the wrong house one https://t.co/0N2eN87XS8
(https://x.com/RetroAgent12/status/1917346801830748407?t=d74ZUMeZ8aZernw27mPH3w&s=03)
Lips so pursed
ABC News (@ABC) posted at 0:23 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
The 2-year-old child of Venezuelan migrants is with a foster family after her mom was deported to Venezuela and her dad was sent to El Salvador, authorities said. https://t.co/jurG6jToci
(https://x.com/ABC/status/1917449706902347999?t=byl1a1_HZRt2PPpb5V610Q&s=03)
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) posted at 9:25 AM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are leaving the Justice Department’s civil rights division, as veterans of the office say they’ve been driven out by Trump officials who want to drop its traditional work to aggressively pursue cases against the Ivy League, other schools and liberal cities.
nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/…
(https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1917223665717911756?t=9Ue_hjFXj-ib6bs0DG96CQ&s=03)
Syncopated Politics @syncpol.bsky.social (@SyncPol) posted at 9:28 AM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Trump & Co definition of “Civil Rights” seems to be decidedly rooted in, shall we say, an earlier time. Certainly pre CRA, VRA, 19th Amendment, 17th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 13th, Amendment, and in many cases 1st Amendment. Not super good with 4th either.
(https://x.com/SyncPol/status/1917224449494962353?t=FBYiP0Py8MfdM77mGy1FIA&s=03)
Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 (@RachelBitecofer) posted at 3:12 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
If Donald Trump was destroying my business with tariffs I’d have Trump’s Tariff Fee on every damn receipt.
(https://x.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1917311066834690225?t=qifnne7Fp12JjWgtku1qzw&s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 6:06 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
the story about a white-passing or white-presenting adult child in the 2030s or 2040s who discovers that their white Evangelical parents illegally adopted them as a baby and they head to Latin America to find their real parents already writes itself
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1917536018993143880?t=bm8ejBF8g11pykWRwaKMkg&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 11:16 AM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
even CNBC’s MAGA-loving host Joe Kernen isn’t buying Rep. Jason Smith’s lies about what the Republican reconciliation bill will do to the deficit https://t.co/ZDqhPwTOBj
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1917251733643780372?t=jKgiaXqLwoVlQjs834GKSQ&s=03)
Dr Nafeez Ahmed FRSA (@NafeezAhmed) posted at 11:00 AM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
EXCLUSIVE: For the first time, the full extent of the influence of Nazi-inspired race science on the Trump White House is exposed via my investigation at @BylineTimes into Curtis Yarvin, the tech bro who has inspired Peter Thiel, JD Vance and beyond /1 https://t.co/yM20n73X95
(https://x.com/NafeezAhmed/status/1917247591038783522?t=DgMGrTqSvyn4k512FA1OXw&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 7:59 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Trump admits that weaponizing the DOJ 👇
MORAN: You are the president now and I’m asking the justification for going after people you don’t like.
TRUMP: No no. People that I think are dishonest. https://t.co/cT7LhW72qN
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1917383214395539944?t=IIJpV5LOchO65oqZAI6OtA&s=03)
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 8:31 AM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
President Trump fired three Democratic appointees to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting yesterday, and now they’re suing to invalidate the terminations. https://t.co/ahoxWV0tnu https://t.co/Vw3lTPkseY
(https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1917210096100143573?t=E5DvzJhf1sQcKwd_ymaohA&s=03)
Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) posted at 7:15 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
His former deputy who was just fired gave an interview this week with Megyn Kelly where he said Hegseth spends 50% of his time obsessing over his press and doing Fox interviews while neglecting his most important work.
Hegseth this morning: https://t.co/C0fDOMFRqy
(https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1917553473509261434?t=N3oU9Z5OdzbAF6Ob-QuNiA&s=03)
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) posted at 2:05 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union says it “unequivocally condemns” the Trump tariffs.
“Tariffs are taxes. These and other reckless, shortsighted policies have begun to devastate American workers.”
“These tariffs are nothing more than a direct attack on the working
(https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1917294241207968169?t=Pvfe7k27il9URnM7FI68Ow&s=03)
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 8:26 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
For the grave sin of competently digging us out of a once-in-100-year pandemic but refusing to give the NYT an interview, Joe Biden was unceremoniously shown the door b/c he had a little hitch in his giddyup and sometimes mangled the pronunciation of a word. 🙃
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1917571186994598310?t=4PK-UG4LHPmbruwrrYP2RQ&s=03)
ProPublica (@propublica) posted at 9:00 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
A DOGE staffer who is helping carry out the downsizing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau owns stock in companies that could benefit from the agency’s dismantling, ProPublica has found.
https://t.co/8ngzlOC0Gj
(https://x.com/propublica/status/1917398518957777203?t=4xHw5bRfw8rMdyVFdNVzYg&s=03)
Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) posted at 8:11 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Jobs Down.
GDP Down.
Consumption Down.
Inflation Up.
If you’re still defending this, you’re either a grifter or a victim of a cult.
Which one are you? https://t.co/bFhjXfg4Qf
(https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1917567515191890401?t=bdbduKYy58gaC7jJIJ_ZTw&s=03)
MM (@adgirlMM) posted at 10:03 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Have @SenatorLankford or @SenMullin given a statement yet on why Trump’s ICE/DHS/FBI busted into the home of a U.S. CITIZEN in Oklahoma, made her and her daughters stand outside in the rain at night while they raided her home and took all her money?
Is America great now?
(https://x.com/adgirlMM/status/1917414394344137184?t=nJ27TprXVdcGzc82GgKnDw&s=03)
Blue Georgia (@BlueATLGeorgia) posted at 0:03 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Rolling Stone has been publishing some bangers lately.
Trump Issues Executive Order Ramping Up American Police State. https://t.co/xefbpVXrnH
(https://x.com/BlueATLGeorgia/status/1917263578219860123?t=O7lp35MNNSu8CyQOZZMMGQ&s=03)
Jose Olivares (@jlosc9) posted at 5:17 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Today’s wild CNN story confirms what we’ve known: Trump’s deal with Bukele has to do with Bukele’s own corruption.
Bukele struck a deal with top MS-13 leaders for political support in 2019.
Last month, one of those leaders was returned to El Salvador.
https://t.co/q9WStQVLpr
(https://x.com/jlosc9/status/1917342511212933553?t=gTbhSAoldDsSarx10RgOJw&s=03)
CBS News (@CBSNews) posted at 10:00 AM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Early in his second term, President Trump is struggling to deliver on his campaign trail promises to invigorate the U.S. economy. https://t.co/OnZwHoetiR
(https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1917232406945227149?t=8bvgzGOD0M9MHq510Cn7jw&s=03)
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 7:17 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
This tweet is its own form of disinformation. It starts from the premise that the economy needed “invigorating.” The reality is that the economy was strong under Biden, wages (and the stock market!) were up, and inflation was coming down. The problems now are all Trump-inflicted
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1917553836429918623?t=VlGT8Zz9nsFwOZvapy7QIQ&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 8:39 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
Now that Trump admitted he can pick up the phone and bring Abrego Garcia back, time to press WH on the fact that their basis for refusing is the word of a cop who was indicted for serious misconduct.
Trump’s ABC interview is full of bullshit. My rebuttal:
https://t.co/qGaThweQQz
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1917574459633946879?t=_6KLJWva6B-YqDQG34ro1A&s=03)
Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) posted at 6:33 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
“Since Trump took office, the DOJ froze all work on pending police misconduct investigations, including high-profile work in places like Minneapolis, where an officer murdered George Floyd, and Lexington, Kentucky, where a SWAT team killed Breonna Taylor.”
https://t.co/z1LxTgFxMq
(https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1917542949090418962?t=dLfeHOUw55bifl6Dq8mqqg&s=03)
Bill Madden (@maddenifico) posted at 10:17 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
I fear Rachel Maddow is correct. Trump’s reign of terror is going to get worse. Fortunately, the American people are increasingly turning against the authoritarian tyrant. 😳👇 https://t.co/A43de3m93M
(https://x.com/maddenifico/status/1917417964028006514?t=2z71Q4DtTydP1duS6iNckQ&s=03)
You Should’ve Said Nicer Things About Joe Biden (@What46HasDone) posted at 7:57 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
The big tell that none of these fucks actually care about Gaza and Gazans is that Trump has been President for 100 days and they still are only interested in talking about Gaza re: Biden. They care 0% about what is currently happening there now that their guy Trump is in.
(https://x.com/What46HasDone/status/1917382756742402348?t=UB8Yd54AI-UE95iaPbuSOg&s=03)
Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) posted at 8:15 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
“Most economists will tell you tariffs will raise prices, so don’t your tariffs cut against your promise you made to bring prices down?”
“No.”
Well. Get ready for another episode of inflation.
https://t.co/Ttso3aMrIz
(https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1917387215900139623?t=WFdKfIOYBGi_-Hkki6OUSw&s=03)
Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) posted at 10:15 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Trump’s crypto coin scam is the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the American presidency and we should start treating it that way. https://t.co/iKNCWOkUfE
(https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1917417471566369175?t=7zWolbUw5qJU89_QqtSN0A&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 8:49 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
“I could,” Trump said when asked if he could pick up the phone and bring Abrego Garcia back.
This wrecks Trumpworld’s fake distinction between ORDERING Bukele to release him and merely ASKING him to do so. OF COURSE Buleke would do this if Trump asked.
https://t.co/qGaThweQQz https://t.co/209AJi8P61
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1917576963352363421?t=Fet5f6nVYnJ22pWxeCxNwg&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 8:55 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
“I’m not the one making this decision,” Trump said. “We have lawyers that don’t want to do this.”
That’s awful. Either Trump is knowingly defying SCOTUS and hiding behind his lawyers to do so, or they are deceiving him about what the court ordered.
https://t.co/qGaThweQQz https://t.co/qQV5T2qLmd
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1917578513403543949?t=H-8fZ9NUGPqtsjZsiZgL6Q&s=03)
Dr. Allison Wiltz (@queenie4rmnola) posted at 9:55 AM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
White people are attacking black history, and at the same time, accusing Black people of starting a culture war
(https://x.com/queenie4rmnola/status/1917231290501255181?t=nN5IcLIwjx9MFwepia5T9g&s=03)
ProPublica (@propublica) posted at 7:18 AM on Wed, Apr 30, 2025:
New: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. https://t.co/btG6yfhmc5
(https://x.com/propublica/status/1917554158187536531?t=Gj0uTrDgWQ6L-fH5dTnhNA&s=03)
Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) posted at 7:10 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
Did you vote for this?
Trump deported home health aide Heidy Sánchez who was breastfeeding her 1-year-old US citizen daughter who has health issues. The baby girl was so traumatized that she had to be taken to the hospital.
The father is in the US legally and Heidy was awaiting a response to a request to become legal. There was no due process. There was no option for her to take her daughter with her.
Did you really vote for this? Or are you just so ashamed that you voted for this that you are in denial?
https://t.co/zGO0PUr7Ak
(https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/1917370907695161351?t=AJ3DQSGCkCyOajHH5F6Xkg&s=03)
Fly Sistah 🪷 (@Fly_Sistah) posted at 5:43 PM on Tue, Apr 29, 2025:
A Haitian woman, Marie Ange Blaise, 44, who was among those held in inhumane conditions, has died. She was stopped at an airport in Saint Croix in mid-February as she prepared to board a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina https://t.co/mEaOnyScdC
(https://x.com/Fly_Sistah/status/1917349045313380602?t=JMjXG0pB9n-v2VF5AYTtzQ&s=03)
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊