Many reports indicate that Trump is even more isolated and living in an even more delusional bubble in his second administration than in his first. Trump has filled his second administration with sycophants who support the president’s apparent detachment from reality. For example, Marco Rubio lied to Congress and denied that Trump was asleep while speaking to the president in meetings. Even when presented with several videos of Trump sleeping at public events, the secretary of state denied it. Trump’s media interviews are given to conservative outlets and podcasts. The president rarely does anything close to traditional appearances. Meet The…
Author: Frank M. Everett
The White House will not admit what becomes more and more obvious with each public appearance by Trump. The president’s health does not appear to be good. On Friday, Trump traveled to Wisconsin to participate in a roundtable discussion that allowed him to avoid standing. Trump could deliver his remarks sitting down. PoliticusUSA provides 100% independent, unique and relevant news and opinions. Support us by becoming a subscriber.Trump rarely travels to the United States. Trips like this to Wisconsin are rare during his second administration. Trump’s trips are increasingly to his clubs or to the White House from one of…
Trump learned from Disney’s payment for his bogus defamation lawsuit that the mainstream media could be shaken down for money, and that the threat of a costly lawsuit could be used as a way to dictate media coverage and control the media. After Disney, Trump responded by launching an ongoing campaign to get late nights. host Jimmy Kimmel was fired from the network. PoliticusUSA provides 100% independent news and opinions. Support us by becoming a subscriber.Trump also got paid off through an even more bogus defamation lawsuit he filed against 60 Minutes, but that payoff was more about greasing the…
Trump better get used to it. The process of rewriting and adding Donald Trump to history took its first step when the Kennedy Center began removing Trump’s name and references to the current president from the living monument to former President John F. Kennedy.PoliticusUSA news and opinions are 100% independent. Support our work by becoming a subscriber.For those who don’t remember how we got here. Shortly after returning to the presidency, Donald Trump hijacked the Kennedy Center board and put himself in charge.Trump then had his board vote to rename the center in his name and that of President Kennedy.…
Since he will never face voters again, Donald Trump’s second term has been defined by his open disregard and, in some cases, complete disregard for the needs and concerns of the American people. Trump’s comments that he doesn’t think about or care about the financial concerns of the American people have been defining moments of the midterm elections so far. Given the importance of what the President said and the consequences his remarks have caused, it is not surprising that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked about it while testifying before the House about Treasury Department oversight.Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA)…
While political attention was focused on a major defense gathering elsewhere in Southeast Asia, many missed a major announcement from Manila on May 30 that negotiations on the ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA) were finally over. DEFA is the world’s first regional digital economy agreement, establishing common rules for cross-border data transfers, e-commerce, cybersecurity, AI and talent mobility, among other areas. With Southeast Asia’s digital economy expected to reach $1 trillion by 2030, DEFA is ASEAN’s attempt to write the rules for its digital future. In recent years, the regional organization has also engaged in increasingly ambitious sustainable development…
It’s official. Senate Democrats scored two huge victories in the Republican reconciliation bill to defund ICE and the Border Patrol. Republicans have put themselves in the position of having to fund ICE and the Border Patrol themselves because Trump refused to negotiate reforms to ICE and the Border Patrol.PoliticusUSA provides 100% independent news and opinions. Support us by becoming a subscriber.However, the president also tried to use a simple reconciliation bill to plunder the public treasury and give himself more gifts. Trump wanted $1 billion to build his White House ballroom and $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to pay his…
Read the original version from this story on RFA Mandarin.Hong Kong’s Victoria Park is now much quieter on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and residents told Radio Free Asia they found it shocking.The park was once the epicenter of peaceful democratic resistance, as hundreds of thousands of people turned out each year for candlelight vigils to commemorate the victims of the Chinese government’s June 4, 1989, crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Beijing.Today, on this day, pro-Chinese protests are taking place in the park and local media no longer make any mention of the massacre.”It’s not that the Hong…
Imagine committing perjury and giving false testimony to protect your boss’s ego. That’s exactly what Secretary of State Marco Rubio did Wednesday when he refused to admit what was happening before his eyes as he took the oath of office and testified to Congress. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said, “You’ve attended several meetings with President Trump. In a moment, I’m going to show you a video of one of those meetings. It’s from last December. It’s a cabinet meeting. I’m going to ask you to focus on President Trump and you’ll see that he’s asleep while you’re speaking.”PoliticusUSA provides 100%…
In Central Asia, Soviet Brutalist architecture survives amid the region’s rapidly developing cities, alongside newly constructed buildings, roads and other projects. Meanwhile, the sheer scale of urban reconstruction in Central Asia is exacerbating the impacts of climate change. The urbanization of Central Asia has been accompanied by indiscriminate felling of urban trees, which has transformed large areas into heat islands. In 2025, for various reasons, more than 4,000 trees were slaughtered in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan alone – an increase of 197.7 percent compared to the carnage in 2024. In Bishkek, we noticed vines growing on buildings and cascading…