Posts on Sunday, February 9, 2025
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin.
“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!” Trump wrote in a post Sunday night on his Truth Social site. “I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies.”
The move by Trump is the latest in what has been a rapid-fire effort by his new administration to enact sweeping change through executive order and proclamation
Delusional Rep. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is doing his best to pretend that Democrats are not being systematically beaten by President Donald Trump at every turn.
On Sunday, Booker appeared on CNN to share his bizarre and unfounded belief that the Democrat Party’s plan to beat Trump “is working.”
CNN host Dana Bash asked Booker why his party didn’t have a better plan even after “warning” voters about Project 2025.
Booker responded, “Well, again, I think the plan right now is working in four parts.”
President Donald Trump released a powerful new ad on X Social and Truth Social in support of the US Secret Service prior to the kick off to Super Bowl LIX.
The ad covers several significant moments in US history including the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in New York City and President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Here is the text to the ad:
America was founded on an idea of freedom.
America’s always stepped forward in time of need throughout our short but powerful history.
The crowd at Super Bowl 59 went wild as Caesars Superdome cameras focused on Donald Trump during the national anthem.
As singer Jon Batiste warbled the national anthem ahead of the game in New Orleans, the cameras toured the stadium, observing the coaches and players as they swayed to the song. But when the cameras focused on Donald Trump, who stood giving a proud salute, and his daughter Ivanka, the crowd broke out in loud cheers.
Watch: (X Video) Ivanka had taken to her X account earlier in the day to let fans know she was headed to New Orleans:
Trump Steals the Spotlight from Taylor
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Swift at the Super Bowl and Her Reaction
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At the Super Bowl on Sunday, President Donald Trump received a roaring round of cheers from the crowd, while singer Taylor Swift faced boos from some spectators. The contrasting reactions came during the high-profile event, with Trump being spotted in the stands and Swift making headlines due to the unexpected response to her appearance.Trump was spotted at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, where he watched the Philadelphia Eagles face off against the Kansas City Chiefs. The president drew significant attention for his presence (Snip) In contrast, Taylor Swift, one of the most iconic celebrities, faced a very different reaction from the crowd
The Eagles’ boo birds came out strong for Taylor Swift on Super Bowl Sunday.
When the superstar singer, 35, appeared on the Jumbotron inside Caesars Superdome as Super Bowl 2025 between the Chiefs and Eagles got underway in New Orleans, Philadelphia faithful booed Swift, who appeared to do a subtle double-take before smiling. (Video, Photo) She appeared right after comedians Adam Sandler and Paul Rudd. Tennis superstar Serena Williams told Swift to shake off the boos in a message on X, writing, “I love you @taylorswift13 dont listen to those booo!!”
Revisiting Benghazi
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In this writer’s opinion, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton committed treason surrounding the debacle in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012. In this 1950s, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for treason, for supplying nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviets. Obama, Hillary and possibly several others knowingly provided similar game-changing technology to several of our enemies in bad judgment that amounts to treason.
Kendrick Lamar was slammed by fans for having the 'worst halftime show ever' after he hit the stage at the Caesars Superdome for his Super Bowl halftime performance in New Orleans on Sunday.
Fresh of his Grammy wins, the rapper, 37, didn't seem to carry that momentum into his performance during the showdown between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs.
The LA native showcased his lyrical prowess as he started out the performance on top of a car before taking a swipe at his hip hop rival Drake.
President Trump ordered the Secret Service on Friday to provide him “every bit of information” about his two would-be assassins. “I’m entitled to know,” he told The Post. “I want to find out about the two assassins. . . . Why did the one guy have six cell phones and why did the other guy have [foreign] apps?“No more holding back because of Biden. . . . I’m entitled to know. And they held it back long enough.
“No excuses. Six cellphones were allegedly found in the car of Ryan Routh, the 59-year-old suspect in the second assassination attempt on Trump last September ....
Last year Karen Poth decided it was time to rename the museum she runs in Mobile, Alabama, to better reflect its unique status.
To do so, she first had to line up support from elected officials and her board of directors before raising money for the project. Next, she needed to update the museum's website, logo and printed materials. Then in April 2024, she finally unveiled the new name in letters stretching 50ft across the eight-storey building: the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico, the only museum in the world dedicated to the history, folklore and culture of the largest gulf on Earth. So, imagine her response
President Donald Trump has arrived at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans for Super Bowl 59 between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Trump is making history by becoming the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl. He made his way down on the field ahead of kickoff and “met family members of the victims from the New Orleans terror attack, as well as local police and first responders,” as Bloomberg News’s Josh Wingrove noted. (X's, Videos) On his flight to the game, from Palm Beach International Airport to Louisiana, the president signed a proclamation declaring February 9, 2025, Gulf of America Day as Air Force One flew
Trump doesn’t plan to deport Prince
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Harry, saying Meghan Markle is enough
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President Donald Trump on Friday said that he isn’t interested in deporting Prince Harry, who famously left Britain with his wife, Meghan Markle, in 2020, eventually settling in Montecito, California. The Duke of Sussex is in hot water after conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation filed a lawsuit last year against the Department of Homeland Security to have his immigration records released following Harry admitting to illegal drug use in the past in his 2023 memoir "Spare."
"I don’t want to do that," Trump told the New York Post on Friday after being asked if he would deport the royal. "I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife.
President Donald Trump is headed to the Super Bowl in New Orleans and will be the first sitting president to ever attend the game.
On board Air Force One Sunday, Trump signed a proclamation establishing February 9, 2025 as Gulf of America Day. “We’re flying right over it, right now, so we thought this would be appropriate,” Trump said. “Even bigger than the Super Bowl, this is a big thing…make America Great Again, that’s all we do.” (X Video) In the middle of the signing, the pilot came on the loud speaker to announce their location, for the first time, over the Gulf of America.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, has been a godsend. Prior to Trump taking office and the subsequent founding of DOGE, too many Americans were slumbering happily away, not knowing that their government was misusing their tax dollars for culturally insane and politically problematic purposes, and giving them the shaft.
This is the Crime of the Century. The corruption and graft run both wide and deep.
Those in numerous federal government agencies didn't just squander Americans’ money, they stole their freedom, dignity, and trust in their government
In the renewed vigor of the Oval Office, President Trump doesn’t take meetings in the traditional sense, where one guest leaves before another arrives.
Instead, in gregarious fashion, the president rolls one meeting into another and introduces the principals to each other, creating a burst of high-energy chemistry and humor that has transformed the White House from a mausoleum into a symphony of personal interaction.
He has shaken so many hands that the back of his right hand is almost permanently adorned with a large skin-colored Band-Aid to cover bruises and scratches from enthusiastic well-wishers.
The establishment media and all too many government and law enforcement officials continued to treat the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as if it really were the neutral civil rights organization it claims to be, but it’s getting ever more difficult to sustain that façade. Too many CAIR officials keep letting the mask slip.
The latest is Noora Shalash, who reportedly is or was the Director of Government Affairs for CAIR-Kentucky. She was recently caught on video assaulting a Jewish man and screaming: “I demand jihad, I want ISIS to kill all of you.”
Now, virtually all of the politicians who have happily stood next
Politico issued an emergency "Note to Our Readers" on Thursday about evidence uncovered by Team Doge that Politico has been paid at least $8 million indirectly via high priced government agency subscriptions to its Politico Pro service.
Bizarrely in the entire note the agency at the center of the scandal dares not mention its name. Yes, you will not see the word "USAID" even once in the note issued by Politico's CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Global Editor-in-Chief John F. Harris.
The damage control starts with the subtitle of the emergency note: "POLITICO has been the subject of debate on X this week. Some of it has been misinformed, and some of it
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry made a surprise appearance at an NHL game on Saturday.
he Duke and Duchess of Sussex were photographed holding hands as they entered the Rogers Arena in Vancouver to watch the Vancouver Canucks play against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Markle, 43, kept warm in a black coat with red lapels, a black turtleneck sweater, jeans and boots, while Harry sported a black coat over a gray sweater and jeans.
President Trump golfed with Tiger Woods on Sunday morning at Trump International Golf Club in Florida before his expected visit to New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX, a White House official told Fox News. Trump is expected to head to the Caesars Superdome for the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. The president’s interview with Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier will also air at 3 p.m. ET.
Energy experts blast failed billion-dollar
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A major solar power plant project that was granted over a billion dollars in federal loans is on the road to closure, with energy experts blasting the project as a “boondoggle” that harmed the environment. In 2011, the US Department of Energy (DOE) under former President Barack Obama issued $1.6 billion in loan guarantees to finance the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, a green energy project that consists of three solar concentrating thermal power plants in California.
A federal judge rejected a motion on Friday seeking to prevent the Labor Department from giving the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to its sensitive information systems.
U.S. District Judge John Bates stated that while the court harbors concerns about DOGE’s alleged conduct to access the data, the plaintiffs have not demonstrated legal standing to pursue the lawsuit.
“This data includes the medical and financial records of millions of Americans. But on the current record, plaintiffs have failed to establish standing,” Bates stated in his nine-page ruling.
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are now unplugged from Russia's electricity grid and have joined the European Union's network. Plans for the move - which have been in the works since 2007 - were seen as essential for European security and had been brought brought forward after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. "Today, history is made," EU chief Ursula von der Leyen told a ceremony in Lithuania's capital. "This is freedom, freedom from threats, freedom from blackmail."
In a stunning and sweeping emergency injunction that has even stunned the people who demanded it, a Manhattan-based District Judge has just removed Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent from his authority over the Treasury Department; blocked any political appointee from accessing records within the Treasury Department; blocked any “special appointee” of President Trump from records within Treasury; and demanded that all information previously extracted be destroyed. (snip) comes as a result of 15 (Soros installed) attorneys general , (snip) all filed suit in New York seeking to block Elon Musk and DOGE from access to information that would reveal how activist groups in their states
Here we go again. At the beginning of his first term as president, Donald Trump issued an executive order temporarily banning travel from several countries—Yemen, for example, Sudan, Libya, and four others—that had been identified as major exporters of terrorism. The left went nuts, excoriating Trump for his “racist” “Muslim travel ban.”
It wasn’t a “Muslim travel ban,” but try telling that to Seattle District Court judge James Robart. He sniffed the air, sensed the pleasing hysteria and press coverage, and issued a cursory restraining order against Trump’s executive order. The humorous part of Robart’s order came towards the end. As I wrote at the time,
He doesn’t want DOGE on a short leash.
Space and electric car magnate Elon Musk has suggested that judges who have thrown up roadblocks to his Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) crusade to trim bureaucracy should be impeached.
Musk’s ire against the judiciary comes after a New York-based judge temporarily restrained DOGE from accessing the Treasury Department’s payment systems on Saturday and other legal setbacks in recent days. (Photo) “A corrupt judge protecting corruption,” Musk, 53, raged early Sunday against US District Judge Paul Engelmayer, who blocked DOGE’s access to Treasury data. “He needs to be impeached NOW!”
Who ran the White House?
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During the last months of Joe Biden’s presidency, he obviously was not fit to serve as president. So who ran the White House during that time?
Lindy Li is a former Democratic National Committee insider who was heavily involved in Kamala Harris’s campaign. Li answers that question:
"According to Li, Joe Biden, already staggering from public scrutiny, effectively lost control of the White House after that fateful debate [with Donald Trump in June 2024]. The event reportedly prompted an audacious power shuffle at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—one spearheaded by none other than Hunter Biden.
Li alleges that, following Biden’s disastrous debate drubbing, Hunter essentially took over White House operations. Speaking with podcaster
The loudly announced policy of the new Trump Administration is for the US to regain global “energy dominance.” Most of us would first think, “drill Baby, drill,” so that we can increase our exports of liquified natural gas (LNG). However, there is another energy source that the new administration should encourage, and that is nuclear power. But if the public thinks that means that American citizens working for American companies can now build a complete nuclear power plant either in the US or abroad, they should think again—we can’t. Will future reactor sales go to Russia or China instead?
Americans invented the nuclear reactor and, for decades following World War II,
You may have noticed the absolute meltdown of the left over the existence of Elon Musk and the DOGE team doing exactly what Donald Trump was elected to do. I phrased it that way because that’s exactly what is happening – someone is finally going through the government’s books and records to figure out what people do, how much it costs, where the rest of the money is going and whether or not we can live without it since we’re more than $36 trillion in debt. Why would anyone meltdown over that? There’s a very simple reason: Democrats cannot afford for the American people realizing
Over the past two weeks Elon Musk and his cadre of young computer geniuses have cracked the code. Like Toto pulling the curtain on the Wizard of Oz, they’ve pulled back the cover on government secrecy. They've shown how oceans of tax revenue have flowed through Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), charitable-sounding foundations, the UN, and others to fund terrorists, disrupters like BLM, and reporters to promote Democrats and censor the opposition, most often to enrich Democrat politicians and their friends, families, and allies. The news you thought was news wasn’t independently and honestly generated. The charities you thought were genuine, weren’t. It’s one big gaslighting grift and you paid for it.
Daniel Penny Has ‘Meet-Cute’ at New
York City Bodega Sparking Speculation
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York City Bodega Sparking Speculation
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Ahead of Valentine’s Day, Marine veteran Daniel Penny’s “meet-cute” moment sparks speculation that he and notable podcast host Aubrey Strobel may be a couple.
Strobel ran into Penny while he was picking out flowers outside the shop. “I was leaving the gym and was walking on the street, and I saw a guy that looked like Daniel Penny – you know, he has that very unique look,” Strobel, the host of the Aubservation, a financial technology and cryptocurrency podcast, said.
Democrats have been losing their minds over DOGE looking into the finances of the various executive branch agencies. They've resorted to arguing that the president, the head of the executive branch, can't review or designate people to review said agencies, arguing that's somehow "illegal." It's a bizarre argument. One of the most problematic things has been all the things uncovered about USAID. They also want you to think that it's all just defensible aid.
Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) tried that tactic on CNN with Michael Smerconish. Smerconish asked if funding an Iraqi version of "Sesame Street" was a "judicious use of soft power." Coons argued it was
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) laid out some of the most egregious discoveries of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), noting that the American people know exactly what Elon Musk is doing in weeding out the waste.
“Musk is doing what the American people have wanted for years,” Kennedy said in a Capitol Hill speech, laying out some of the shocking realities. “But in Washington, common sense is illegal.” “They understand what Musk is doing,” he said of Americans who have suffered under Bidenflation. “They understand spending porn and wasting taxpayer money.” Kennedy said, describing it as “fascinating”:
Karoline Leavitt is a bit cross with the California Democrat who accused her of faux faith.
The White House press secretary fired back at freshman Rep. Dave Min, who attacked Leavitt on X last week, labeling her “a Fake Christian.”
“I think it’s pitiful for an elected member of Congress to say that about a woman who he’s never even met,” she told The Post Saturday.
(Photo) Min’s remarks came in response to the White House rescinding an Office of Management and Budget memo that ordered a freeze of all federal grants and loans that contradict Trump’s executive orders.
President Trump is not done laying down the law on corrupt officials who sought not only destroy his political career and but also lock him in prison for life.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Kristinn Taylor reported, Trump announced Friday evening he has revoked Joe Biden’s national security clearance and is stopping his courtesy presidential daily intelligence briefings.
The president cited Biden’s precedent of doing the same to him in 2021, as well as the report by Special Counsel Robert Hur on Biden’s “poor memory” in his investigation about Biden stealing and mishandling classified documents as reasons for his action.
Trump has now told the New York Post in an exclusive interview
Another GOP politician has signed on to the mission currently underway by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk, at the direction of President Trump, to right the ship of state that was unapologetically rammed into iceberg after iceberg by the Biden administration since Jan. 2021.
Among those federal government entities getting dismantled by the DOGE whirlwind is the US Agency for International Development (USAID). And when the USAID's entrenched bureaucrats tried to thwart their efforts to clean things up for the American people exactly one week ago--by locking engineers out of the headquarters--Trump didn't stand by in silence, as my colleague Bob Hoge wrote on Feb. 2:
Pentagon's Rapid Response to Media Accusations
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The Pentagon press office caused something of a kerfuffle last Friday when they announced the previously sacrosanct onsite work areas assigned to a few privileged outlets would be subject to an annual rotation. Under the new plan, the New York Times (print), NBC (television), National Public Radio (NPR), and Politico (online) would lose their respective slots to the New York Post, OANN, Breitbart News Network, and the Huffington Post. Needless to say, the people being rotated out of that plum real estate were not happy;
Canada's outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told a group of business leaders he believes President Donald Trump might be serious about annexing his country. Trudeau suggested Trump has floated the idea of taking over Canada and making it the "51st state" because he wants to access the country's critical minerals. "Mr Trump has it in mind that the easiest way to do it is absorbing our country and it is a real thing," the prime minister said.
A hot mic moment has sparked controversy as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was caught on tape suggesting that President Donald Trump is "serious about annexing Canada." The candid remark, made during a private conversation, has raised eyebrows and sparked debate, with some questioning whether Trudeau was joking or expressing genuine concern over the future of U.S.-Canada relations. On Friday, Trudeau was caught saying he thinks Trump is serious about making Canada the 51st U.S. state.
In the renewed vigor of the Oval Office, President Trump doesn’t take meetings in the traditional sense, where one guest leaves before another departs.
Instead, in gregarious fashion, the president rolls one meeting into another and introduces the principals to each other, creating a burst of high-energy chemistry and humor that has transformed the White House from a mausoleum into a symphony of personal interaction.
He has shaken so many hands that the back of his right hand is almost permanently adorned with a large skin-colored Band-Aid to cover bruises and scratches from enthusiastic well-wishers.
His days start at 6 a,m, and often end close to midnight over small convivial dinners
BREAKING: President Trump Bars Alvin Bragg
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President Trump is on a roll.
On Saturday, President Trump stripped the security clearances of at least 8 corrupt ‘antagonists’ who worked for Biden or targeted him for ruin over the last several years:
Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken,
Former NatSec Advisor Jake Sullivan,
New York Attorney General Letitia James,
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg,
Biden’s Deputy AG Lisa Monaco,
Corrupt prosecutor Andrew Weissmann,
Deep State lawyer Mark Zaid,
Norm Eisen – the man behind all the lawfare against Trump