Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump of Arabia

Yesterday was a very newsy day.  President Trump is on his first foreign trip of the new term, visiting countries in the mid east in an attempt to gin up investment in the US. The inflation report came in lower than expect, and JP Morgoth downgraded their recession prediction. It was revealed that the Biden campaign planned to put Joe in a wheelchair, once the election was safely over. DOJ indicted Judge Dugan for scheming to allow an illegal alien defendant to escape ICE, and some South African refugees set the internet on fire. 

Sundance at CTH is all over the Middle East trip of course, with President Trump Arrival Ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Video, President Trump Participates in Official Pageantry During Saudi State Visit – Video. President Trump and Mohammed bin Salman Celebrate on Stage During YMCA Performance Exit and President Trump Delivers Remarks During U.S-Saudi Economic Forum. Cutie Pavlich at TownHall reports Trump Signs Major Deal With Saudi That Has a Special Bonus “The $600 billion in Saudi investment in the United States builds President Trump’s record in 2017 of securing billions in commercial deals and agreements with Saudi Arabia for the defense, energy, technology, and infrastructure sectors,” . . .. As a bonus, the United States will receive an Arabian Leopard at the Washington, D.C., National Zoo." Ace, Trump Lands in Saudi Arabia, Announces $600 Billion in New Investments in America. "Trump and some of his advisors and cabinet heads landed in Saudi Arabia late last night. This morning, he announced a pledge from the Saudis to invest $600 billion in the American economy." Anxious anxiously whines Trump announces U.S. will remove sanctions on Syria at the request of bin Salman. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair thinks Trump is Giving the New Syrian Boss Rope to Hang Himself With...or Not. At PJM Matt Margolis says Okay... Here's the Truth About the Qatar Jumbo Jet Story, "Naturally, the left is already losing its mind, but here’s the reality: this is a win for taxpayers" and Vicky Taft says Shaddup, Already! The Air Force One 'Gift' Is Having Its Intended Effect "The mediacrats are shilling the fake news that Trump only wants the Qatari 747 for himself because they can't expand their minds to consider that what Trump really wants is for Boeing to get off their backsides and get these done. That's applying pressure on Boeing." Matt Vespa, Wait, That's Why Cryin' Chuck Schumer Put a Hold on Trump's DOJ Nominees?

Hat Hair's Dave Strom happy to report JP Morgan says The Recession Has Been Called Off. And we know they successfully predicted 21 of the last 3 recessions. Streiff at RedState is ecstatic as the Annual Inflation Rate Hits Four-Year Low; Groceries Have Biggest Decline in Five Years. Sundance, April Consumer Prices Reflect Lowest Inflation in Four Years. "Wait,… wha? Prices were supposed to skyrocket, so said the experts, pundits, Wall Street analysts and all the ‘talking heads.’ Alas, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) releases the April consumer price index [SEE HERE] and, shocker, prices on the critical consumer goods that matter most are dropping." Ace, Inflation Falls "Faster Than Expected," Reaching Lowest Level Since 2021 "But but but Trump said he would immediately cut inflation and taking two or three weeks isn't "immediate"" Driscoll at Insty has YOUR PERIODIC REMINDER THAT THE DNC-MSM REALLY HATES LOW GAS PRICES. Beege Welborn notes End O' the World Tariffs B-B-Bring in Bah-Bah-Bah-Billions in April. "This headline had to kah-kah-kah-KILL CNBC. Oh, you know it did. Tariff receipts topped $16 billion in April, a record that helped cut the budget deficit. Sit back for a minute and let that sink in. Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta "A few observations from this European trip. BLUF: Our European allies—at least some of the largest ones—do not fully appreciate that we are in an economic war with China. As I wrote here, how Europe rolls on China will define transatlantic relations. 1/8." AMAC announces Trump Seizes the Momentum Back. Matt Vespa at TownHall, Donald Trump Jr. Is Investing in America. The Media Is Investing in Smears. Dave Strom considers the question Is President Trumps EO on Drug Prices 'Price Control'? "Well, yes and no. Maybe. It depends on how you look at it. And it depends on what the results will be. It's hard to say. It's complicated. How is that for a non-answer? Pretty good, eh?" Real Clear Defense, The U.S. Defense Budget Must Be an Instrument of Lethality. At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.13.25, EBL, US China Trade Deal? Vox Popoli, Will Trump Put America First.

Beege Welborn reports Alberta Tells Carbon Tax Carney to Suck a Cold Stone.

We need to annex Alberta. It is literally propping up the rest of Canada by itself. pic.twitter.com/CANz4lEdFB

— bumbadum (@bumbadum14) May 4, 2025

Drew Berquist reports Elon Musk’s DOGE Replacement Revealed, Democrats Are Not Going to be Happy. Are they ever? Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE "Introducing the DOGE Deregulation Leaderboard! Comprehensive list of repeals of burdensome or obsolete regulations, including the cost savings to the American taxpayer. $28.7B so far. https://doge.gov/regulations" NewsBusters, 60 Minutes Admits U.S. Gov. Loses Up to $750 Billion in Fraud Per Year, Knock DOGE Anyway. Da Caller reports House GOP’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Would Put States On The Hook For Outrageous Food Stamp Fraud. Ace, Trump Blasts "Neocons," "Liberal Non-Profits" for Screwing Up the World.

Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius "In case you missed it, the below EO is a big deal. Trump is forcing the federal government to spell out everything that is a crime under federal law. The other thing the EO does is to force the government to add a "mens rea" element to most of these "crimes"; i.e., you have to be aware of the fact that you are committing a crime in order for it to be a crime. Thus, if you decide to build a pond on your property and the EPA has some obscure regulation saying that is a crime, you would need to be aware of the criminal nature of the act before you did it in order to be guilty of anything. This is great. . . . "

Hat Hair's John Sexton reports Grand Jury Indicts Judge Hannah Dugan. Sundance, Wisconsin Judge Indicted for Assisting Illegal Alien Avoid ICE Agents in Court. John Sexton also thinks Federal Judges' Ability to Issue Nationwide Injunctions Could End This Week (Resistance Hardest Hit). "The case probably won't decide whether birthright citizenship is legal under the 14th Amendment. What the case is really about is the nationwide injunctions different courts have used to block Trump's executive order on the topic." 

Chris Queen at PJM reports Library of Congress Staffers Block Access for Trump Administration's Nominees to protest the firing of Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress.  Fire. Them. All.

John Solomon at JTN, DNI Tulsi Gabbard says Biden-era domestic terrorism policy 'must end,' calls it an abuse of power, "Dissent is patriotic again: Just the News reported last week that a June 2021 domestic terrorism policy memo allowed federal agencies like the FBI and Homeland Security to surveil and question Americans if an agent believed they had been involved in “concerning non-criminal behavior.” Gabbard is nullifying that policy." Sundance approves as DNI Tulsi Gabbard Yanks National Intelligence Council from CIA Silo and Fires Top Officials and DOJ Weaponization Working Group Head, Ed Martin, Holds a Press Conference in Washington DC.

VodkaPundit at PJM, Just When You Thought Biden's Health Cover-Up Couldn't Get Any Worse... Anxious anxiously admits Biden aides discussed wheelchair use if he were re-elected, new book says. Althouse, "Biden's physical deterioration — most apparent in his halting walk — had become so severe that there were internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair, but they couldn't do so until after the election." "Write Jake Tapper and Thompson in a book they call "Original Sin," quoted in "Exclusive: Biden aides discussed wheelchair use if he were re-elected, new book says" (Axios)." Ace, Hacktivist Clown Jake Tapper: Biden's Doctor Thought He Needed a Wheelchair (But I Didn't Report This During the Campaign). Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, Biden Aides: He Runs Rings Around Us ... But in What? UPDATE: The Owen Maneuver; UPDATE: Supercut. Da Mail, Excruciating moment Biden couldn't recognize A-list star who'd backed him for years, as top Dems leak grim new details of plot to trick Americans. HuffPo, Jake Tapper Accuses Biden's White House Of Lying About Ex-President's Declining Health. "A book co-written by the CNN host says Biden's team worried their boss would have to use a wheelchair if he won reelection." Ace, Democrat-Media Party In Full Conspiracy to Blame Only Biden and His Six Closest Advisors for the Greatest Electoral Fraud Ever Perpetrated on the American People. At Fox Dave Marcus opines on Joe Biden in a wheelchair? At least Democrats would have been honest. "The only thing worse than being lied to is knowing you are being lied to. That is the position that Biden’s team put voters in until he exited the race in disgrace." At NYPo the Divine Miranda Devine: Old Joe Biden haunts demented Dems as they desperately try to flip the script to claim Trump is ‘losing his mind.’ Dave Strom, 'Original Sin' Is the New Hotness. I Find That Depressing "Some people feel vindicated now that the truth is coming out. I just feel depressed. Why? Because the liars who are producing these "now it can be told" books will get credit for uncovering the lies they helped propagate and get rich off doing so. Awards will be given, glowing reviews will be showered on the hoaxers, and the Biden aides they quote will remain sources and even become commentators and "journalists" despite having been exposed as liars."

From Ace, David Hogg Tried to Appeal to Young Men By Calling Them All Shiftless F*ckboys. But Even That Was Being Too Nice to Men for the Democrat Party. "David Hogg went on Bill Maher to attract straight young men. No, I don't mean attract straight men in piano bars, I mean he wants to appeal to them politically." Capt. Ed, thinks it's Too Good to Check: DNC Mulls Whether to Cancel Democracy as Mary Chastain at LI reports a DNC Panel Starts Process to Remove David Hogg as Vice Chair, "The move came after a member alleged the DNC “violated its own rules and made it harder for a woman to be elected vice chair.”" varifrank @varifrank "Face it, you cant tell if this is real or not can you?" Quote Leading Report @LeadingReport, "BREAKING: DNC panel has voted to oust David Hogg and nullify his victory because it violated gender diversity rules."

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.13.25. Twitchy, Venezuelan Gang Targets Rural America Louder With Crowder, Nashville Mayor sells out taxpayers, creates new fund to help illegals with housing and more. TownHall's Guy Benson reports Another Deportation Sob Story Has Gone Viral. There's Just One Minor Problem With It and Sarah Arnold has First-in-the-Nation: U.S. Indicts Sinaloa Cartel Leaders for Narco-Terrorism. From Fox, ICE cracks down on DC-area businesses, nearly 200 illegal immigrants arrested. "Federal agents targeted businesses across Washington in a four-day operation." Dave Strom notes Democrats Always Outraged When Criminals Are Punished. Spencer Lindquist @SpencerLndqst, "Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell fumed after ICE carried out deportation raids that resulted in the arrest of gangsters, rapists, murderers. @MaryMargOlohan and I obtained exclusive info on the criminal illegals captured by ICE. Now in @realDailyWire."

PJM's Stephen Kruiser is pissed that When Media Hacks Stumble Upon the Truth, They Bury It. Dave Catron at Am Spec, looks at The Democrat-Media Codependency "Their deeply dysfunctional relationship is destroying the credibility of both." At Splice, Mark Judge (remember him?) thinks Journalism Needs a Pugnacious Asshole Like Norman Mailer. Maryanne Demasi, reports When ideas become too dangerous to platform "TED, a platform that claims to champion bold ideas, has censored University Professor Gigi Foster, who spoke out in defense of free speech and the right to dissent."

Bonchie at RedState wants you to WATCH: Someone Should Be Fired After CNN Analyst Goes on Wild, Racist Rant Against White South Afrikaners. Twitchy, Scott Jennings Gets Lefty to Admit Why They HATE South African Refugees in BRUTAL Back-and-Forth. Webmiester @YourWebmiester "So to get this straight… An El Salvadoran born in El Salvador who is a criminal shouldn’t go home. But South Africans born in SA and probably at least third generation or more SA, should return to… the country if their great grandparents? These aren’t serious people." Matt Vespa thinks How Libs Reacted to the Arrival of 59 White South African Refugees Was Beyond Predictable. Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando, "You need to pay attention to this outrage cycle and think about why they’re mad. See, those sinful Whites were supposed to stay there and be punished. To be dispossesed, robbed, tortured, and eradicated. That’s “justice” in the eyes of our media. Trump stole it from them." Quote CBS News @CBSNews "A plane carrying dozens of White South Africans arrived at Dulles International Airport on Monday, a State Department official said, after the Trump administration granted them refugee status in the United States. https://cbsn.ws/4iXPO6I." Althouse, "In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church..." ""... the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Trump's administration...." NPR reports." Beege Welborn asks Someone Please Explain the National Episcopal Braintrust to Me Like I Was Five. Calling-all-RushBabes has a A hearty warm welcome to the genuine refugees from South Africa.

Capt. Ed, 'Breeding Ground for Virtue Signaling and Discrimination': Trump Squeezes Harvard -- Again. Politico whines Trump administration pulls $450M more from Harvard.

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.13.25, Louder With Crowder, Male pitcher from Tim Walz’s state is dominating girls’ softball, but he says he’s trans. Breitbart is happy to report a 2nd Maine School District Repeals Pro-Trans Policy After Nearly Unanimous Board Vote.

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