And passing gas very loudly during the slapstick session at the Michigan capitol while spouting stolen election narratives to legislators. It was also the session where Mellissa Carone testified and claimed that food trucks at the MI election counting facility were used to smuggle in tens of thousands of illegal ballots for Biden. YouTube video:
SNL did a spoof of the Giuliani-Carone session. It was difficult to make it any more humorous than real life. In the sketch, Carone had a martini in her hand. In the real world session, she sounded like she was intoxicated. She was slurring words and juxtaposing syllables.
White House blames "outage" for locking out Medicaid, Head Start, health centers from funding site - CBS News excerpt: "The White House blamed an "outage" for locking out a wide range of organizations and agencies on Tuesday from the online systems responsible for drawing down federal health dollars. Multiple state Medicaid programs reported late Tuesday they have been able to resume accessing their payment systems after the nationwide lockout. The interruption had sparked outcry from state governments, nonprofits and lawmakers in the wake of the Trump administration's move to freeze spending across the federal government. After legal challenges were filed against the funding freeze, a federal judge issued a stay temporarily halting the move until she can hear arguments in the case."
It sounds like she was talking about Trump as a threat to Denmark and Europe in general. Denmark to increase military spending in North Atlantic by $2 billion amid row with Trump over Greenland excerpt: Frederiksen didn't directly mention Trump's threat in comments at a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, but she said that "we are facing a more uncertain reality, a reality that calls for an even more united Europe and for more cooperation."
Trump is damaging a healthcare system that is already stretched thin. White House blames "outage" for locking out Medicaid, Head Start, health centers from funding site - CBS News excerpt: "Even as the payment systems come back online, those who rely on the grants say they worry that new "delays" on payments imposed by the Trump administration could inflict permanent damage on stretched-thin healthcare systems. The HHS website currently warns that due "to Executive Orders regarding potentially unallowable grant payments, PMS is taking additional measures to process payments. Reviews of applicable programs and payments will result in delays and/or rejections of payments.""
'This idiot would’ve been impeached': Trump faces Americans' rage after horrifically pausing all federal grants and loans. Sarah Fimm Published: Jan 29, 2025 1:31 AM EST https://www.themarysue.com/this-idi...fically-pausing-all-federal-grants-and-loans/ excerpt: "Trump administration officials called the pause a necessary step to overhaul federal spending in service of the president’s executive order to trash DEI initiatives across all government agencies and roll back transgender rights. The administration wants to ensure that federal agencies are in total compliance with these orders, otherwise their funding will be paused indefinitely. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt put any speculation behind the cause of the financial freeze to bed, telling the press that the Trump administration wants to sure that government agencies receive “no more funding for transgenderism and wokeness.”
'This idiot would’ve been impeached': Trump faces Americans' rage after horrifically pausing all federal grants and loans. Sarah Fimm Published: Jan 29, 2025 1:31 AM EST https://www.themarysue.com/this-idi...fically-pausing-all-federal-grants-and-loans/ excerpt: "In December of 2024, former president of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in an attempt to hold onto power in the face of multiple government scandals. The declaration lasted less than a day. South Korean citizens protested en masse, causing Yeol’s attempt at self-coup to be over before it began. Yeol was swiftly impeached, and has since been charged with insurrection, a crime that carries a life sentence as punishment."
‘No rebuilding without them’: Trump’s immigration crackdown will affect disaster recovery excerpt: “Like farm workers in the fields, immigrants are indispensable to fire, flood and hurricane recovery in the US. There is absolutely no rebuilding without them,” said Saket Soni, director of Resilience Force, a labor organization with almost 4,000 members, who are primarily immigrant workers. “Mass deportations would completely upend the ongoing recovery in Florida, Louisiana and North Carolina from last year’s hurricanes. It would stall the rebuilding of LA after fires … and at this point, anyone anywhere is at risk of having their home impacted by a climate disaster. So everyone need these skilled workers.”
85% of Greenlanders reject Trump's idea that it join the U.S. Greenlanders Reject Trump With 85% Majority Against Joining US
Trump has already tried to fix that by sending his son to Greenland to do a PR stunt making that attempts to make it appear that Greenland wants to become a U.S. state. The next stunt could be to send Musk to Greenland and have him jump up and down while wearing an 'Occupy Greenland' t-shirt (his usual is Occupy Mars).
Trump's sweeping order to further restrict trans care. Trump signs sweeping order to further restrict trans care for minors nationwide
U.S. consumer confidence drops for second consecutive month. US Consumer Confidence Retreated in January
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/01/28/g-s1-45030/pepfar-trump-drugs-stop-work excerpt: "Engage Men's Health, a nonprofit organization in South Africa, offers testing and medications to prevent and manage HIV at three clinics throughout the country — all for free. That is, they did until Monday. That's when the clinic, which has been funded by the U.S. initiative PEPFAR, says it received orders from the U.S. government to stop all work immediately. It is now closed until further notice, according to notices on its website and social media. This development is the consequence of the Trump administration action on Friday ordering a stop-work for all global health funding, including PEPFAR (U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief). That action had an immediate impact."
Luna files bill to put Trump's face on Mt. Rushmore. Florida congresswoman wants Trump's face on Mount Rushmore
In 2018 Trump told then Rep. Kristi Noem of SD (location of Mt. Rushmore) that he wanted to be on Mt. Rushmore. Noem is now the head of U.S. Homeland Security even though she has no work experience in law enforcement. Trump nominated her because she will assist him with his immigration crackdown. Donald Trump on Mount Rushmore? President has lofty 'dream,' Kristi Noem says
During Trump's first term, a cartoon showed Trump meeting with construction workers with blueprints at Mt. Rushmore and saying, "Make me slimmer and get rid of the other guys."
Homeland Security confirmation is latest leap in a life of risks for Kristi Noem • Minnesota Reformer excerpt: "The biggest story of that campaign was a revelation of 20 speeding tickets on her driving record. It turned out to be the first of many scandals, controversies and negative headlines Noem would overcome on her climb to national prominence. Following Senate confirmation Saturday, Noem resigned from her position as governor and was succeeded by her lieutenant governor, Republican Larry Rhoden, who became the state’s 34th chief executive and will fill the remainder of Noem’s term through 2026. Noem now heads to Washington, D.C., to lead an agency that oversees two of the most important issues to Trump and his millions of supporters: border security and immigration enforcement. It’s a high-risk appointment that could end in failure, or serve as a launching pad for a Republican presidential primary run in 2028 when Trump will be unable to seek office again due to term limits."