President Shit’s First 100 Days: Day 80

April 11, 2025 12:44 pm EDT Tiff Editorial (Open Thread) Comments Off on President Shit’s First 100 Days: Day 80
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It’s Friday.

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Friday, April 11 2025
8:45 AM
In-Town Pool Call Time
In-Town Pool
10:50 AM
The President departs The White House en route Walter Reed Hospital
South Lawn 
Open Press
11:00 AM
The President arrives Walter Reed Hospital for his Annual Physical
1:00 PM
Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 
On Camera
2:05 PM
Out-of-Town Travel Pool Call Time
Out-of-Town Travel Pool
3:45 PM
The President departs Walter Reed Hospital en route Joint Base Andrews
4:00 PM
The President arrives Joint Base Andrews
Joint Base Andrews Out-of-Town Travel Pool
4:10 PM
The President departs Joint Base Andrews en route Palm Beach International Airport
Joint Base Andrews Out-of-Town Travel Pool
6:15 PM
The President arrives Palm Beach International Airport
Palm Beach International Airport 
Pre-Credentialed Media
6:25 PM
The President departs Palm Beach International Airport en route Mar-a-Lago
Palm Beach International Airport 
Out-of-Town Travel Pool
6:40 PM
The President arrives Mar-a-Lago
Mar-a-Lago 
Out-of-Town Travel Pool

It’s 8:00 am my time, as I finally found the will to start putting this post together.

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Update to old news…

In January when 67 people were killed after a Blackhawk helicopter colluded with a commercial jet near Reagan National Airport, a twitter account used by Matt Wallace, blamed the crash on transgender military pilot Jo Ellis…

Yesterday, Jo Ellis filed a defamation lawsuit against Matt Wallace; he did delete the post, but then shared two others linking Ellis to the crash.

NBC News (04/10/2025):

A transgender military pilot filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against a conservative influencer who falsely claimed on social media that she was flying the helicopter that collided with a commercial jet near Reagan National Airport in January, killing 67 people.  

“I want to hold this person accountable for what they did to me,” Jo Ellis, a pilot who has served more than 15 years in the Virginia Army National Guard, said in a statement to NBC News. “It’s become too common that people can say horrible things about someone, profit at their expense, and get away with it.” 

[snip]

On Jan. 30, less than 24 hours after the crash, conservative influencer Matt Wallace, who has 2.2 million followers on the social media platform X, shared a post from another account he operates stating that the helicopter pilot was transgender, according to the lawsuit. Wallace included a photo of Ellis, and the post went viral, the lawsuit states.  

[snip]

Wallace deleted that original post, according to the lawsuit, and then shared two others linking Ellis to the crash. One referred to an interview that Ellis did with The Smerconish Podcast, in which she said President Donald Trump’s executive order barring trans people from serving and enlisting in the military made her nervous. 

The second post included photos of Ellis and said she might have participated in “another trans terror attack,” according to the lawsuit. That post received 4.8 million views on X, the suit states.

NBC News (04/10/2025).

This part: “I want to hold this person accountable for what they did to me,” Jo Ellis, a pilot who has served more than 15 years in the Virginia Army National Guard, said in a statement to NBC News. “It’s become too common that people can say horrible things about someone, profit at their expense, and get away with it.” 

She might not win; the case might be dismissed before it even starts, but these people with their “viral” posts and shit, give no fucks about ruining other people’s lives as long as they can cash in on it first.

Economic/Tariff News…

We start at “Lies Social”…

This morning China announced that they would impose a 125 percent tariff on US exports. They also said in the statement (as translated by google), that any further increase by the US, would be ignored.

On April 10, 2025, the US government announced that the “reciprocal tariff” on Chinese goods exported to the US would be further increased to 125%. The US’s imposition of abnormally high tariffs on China seriously violates international economic and trade rules, basic economic laws and common sense, and is completely a unilateral bullying and coercion. 

　　In accordance with the Tariff Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Customs Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Foreign Trade Law of the People’s Republic of China and other laws and regulations and the basic principles of international law, and with the approval of the State Council, starting from April 12, 2025, the tariff increase measures on imported goods originating from the United States will be adjusted. The relevant matters are as follows: 

　　1. Adjust the tariff rate stipulated in the “Announcement of the State Council Tariff Commission on Adjusting the Tariff Measures on Imports Originating in the United States” (Tax Commission Announcement No. 5 of 2025) from 84% to 125%. Given that at the current tariff level, there is no market acceptance for US goods exported to China. If the US continues to impose tariffs on Chinese goods exported to the US, China will ignore it. 

　　2. Other matters shall be implemented in accordance with the “Announcement of the Tariff Commission of the State Council on the Imposition of Additional Tariffs on Imported Goods Originating in the United States” (Tax Commission Announcement No. 4 of 2025). 

statement (as translated by google). 04/11/2025.

In related news…

CNN (04/11/2025):

Consumer sentiment plunged 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the University of Michigan said in its latest survey released Friday, the second-lowest reading on records going back to 1952. April’s reading was lower than anything seen during the Great Recession.

[snip]

“This decline was, like the last month’s, pervasive and unanimous across age, income, education, geographic region and political affiliation,” Joanne Hsu, the survey’s director, said in a release.

“Sentiment has now lost more than 30% since December 2024 amid growing worries about trade war developments that have oscillated over the course of the year,” she added.

[snip]

In economics, surveys are referred to as “soft data” and measures capturing actual economic activity, such as retail sales, are known as “hard data.”

The soft data has clearly deteriorated because of Trump’s tariffs: The latest Michigan survey showed that “the share of consumers expecting unemployment to rise in the year ahead increased for the fifth consecutive month and is now more than double the November 2024 reading and the highest since 2009,” according to a release.

Yet, the hard data still looks decent. Employers continue to hire at a brisk pace and shoppers haven’t convincingly reined in their spending just yet, though retail sales have come in weaker than expected recently.

CNN (04/11/2025).

Currently the stock market is down. It’s been up some this morning, barely, but was green for a few minutes…

In Aliens Enemies Act News…

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued an order that directed President Shitshow’s admin to “facilitate” and be prepared to share with the court “where it can” the steps “it has taken and the prospect of further steps”, the release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from El Salvador prison.

This morning…

A lot of Twitter users seems to think this means, the government doesn’t have to try and return the man, that was sent to El Salvador by error.

Show more =’s “to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.” Yes, the Court says that an order to “effectuate” Abrego Garcia’s release *might* exceed the district court’s authority. But it’s absurd to treat that very modest proposition as a broad limitation that will prevent Abrego Garcia’s prompt return. https://nationalreview.com/bench-memos/some-observations-on-strong-supreme-court-ruling-requiring-trump-administration-to-facilitate-return-of-wrongly-deported-alien/

I found the above after I saw this…

Found in the linked National Review article:

Ed Whelan writes:

1. The Trump administration completely deserves this loss. As Justice Sotomayor points out in her separate opinion, the Trump administration’s position “implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U. S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene.” (The fact that I am agreeing with Sotomayor signals how ludicrous DOJ’s position is.)

2. The notion that the Trump administration could not readily secure Abrego Garcia’s return is difficult to take seriously. Are we really to believe that the “Art of the Deal” president has struck a deal with El Salvador that prevents him from obtaining the return of individuals that have been wrongly deported?

3. Insofar as the district court’s order is (implausibly) interpreted to require President Trump to “effectuate” the return of Abrego Garcia by, say, threatening to break off diplomatic operations with El Salvador or ordering a military rescue, then it would not show “due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.” But if the district court leaves it to the Trump administration to figure out the means and allows for the theoretical possibility that there might be no effective means available, it would be difficult to see any difficulty with the order.

4. Contrary to the DOJ statement, the Supreme Court did not “recognize” that “it is the exclusive prerogative of the President to conduct foreign affairs.” Further, unless it is very narrowly construed, that proposition is not sound. To cite just a few examples: Congress has the authority to “declare War … and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.” The Senate has the authority to approve or reject treaties. The Senate has the authority to confirm or reject the president’s nominees to be ambassadors. Congress has the authority to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.” Congress has the authority to make immigration laws. The federal courts have the authority to interpret treaties as well as all the laws that Congress enacts that bear on foreign affairs. As for the president’s non-exclusive power to conduct foreign affairs: That power has a core and a periphery. Dealing with a foreign country to serve as a prison contractor would sure seem to me to lie near the outer part of the periphery, if not entirely outside it. The Court’s ruling demonstrates its firm judgment that a district court does not “seize control of the President’s authority to conduct foreign policy” when it directs him to “facilitate” and (within broad bounds) “effectuate” the return of a person it has unlawfully deported.

5. In the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court’s order, federal district judge Paula Xinis revised her order and directed the Trump administration to “take all available steps to facilitate the return” of Abrego Garcia. We shall see if, and how quickly, the Trump administration complies. If it doesn’t, or if it drags its heels, a momentous clash may be in the offing.

The DOJ has responded to the court regarding the return of the man wrongly sent to El Salvador.

We are being governed by clowns and wannabe Royal’s–rules for us, but not them, type Royals.

Speaking of immigration…

Yesterday, President Shitshow held a cult meeting where he said they are working on slowing down deporting certain people because “we have to take care of our farmers and hotels and various places–where they need the people”.

We are stopping there…

This is an open thread

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