
It’s Friday.
President Shitshow’s public schedule for…
Friday, May 23 2025 |
1:00 PM The President signs Executive Orders Oval Office Closed Press |
3:00 PM The President departs The White House en route Joint Base Andrews South Lawn Open Press |
4:30 PM The President arrives Trump National Golf Club Bedminster Trump National Golf Club Bedminster Closed Press |
I made my own skinny version of his schedule.
As we embark on the 3-day Memorial Day weekend, President Shitshow has decided to fuck around with the economy.
“Lies Social”…
His morning on “Lies Social” started at 5:43 AM D.C., time:
Announces a prisoners swap with Russia was completed and it will go into effect “shortly”.

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A major prisoners swap was just completed between Russia and Ukraine. It will go into effect shortly. Congratulations to both sides on this negotiation. This could lead to something big???
No link to truth social. Not gonna do it…
AP News (05/23/2025): The swap was taking place at the border with Belarus in northern Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly, Moscow did not immediately confirm the exchange was underway.
Tells a country what to do…

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Our negotiated deal with the United Kingdom is working out well for all. I strongly recommend to them, however, that in order to get their Energy Costs down, they stop with the costly and unsightly windmills, and incentivize modernized drilling in the North Sea, where large amounts of oil lay waiting to be taken. A century of drilling left, with Aberdeen as the hub. The old fashioned tax system disincentivizes drilling, rather than the opposite. U.K.’s Energy Costs would go WAY DOWN, and fast!
It’s still a nope.
“Costly and unsightly windmills”…
Breaking News: Reversing a previous order, the Trump administration allowed construction to restart on a huge wind farm off the coast of Long Island. https://t.co/VN9n8ElNlj
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 20, 2025
New York Times (gift link; 05/19/2025):
The Trump administration on Monday allowed construction to restart on a huge wind farm off the coast of Long Island, a month after federal officials had issued a highly unusual stop-work order that had pushed the $5 billion project to the brink of collapse.
In a statement, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Democrat of New York, said she had spent weeks pressing President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to lift the government’s hold on the wind farm.
The project, known as Empire Wind, is being built by the Norwegian energy giant Equinor and when finished is expected to deliver enough electricity to power 500,000 New York homes.
“After countless conversations with Equinor and White House officials, bringing labor and business to the table to emphasize the importance of this project, I’m pleased that President Trump and Secretary Burgum have agreed to lift the stop work order and allow this project to move forward,” Ms. Hochul said on Monday evening.
New York Times (gift link; 05/19/2025).
Promotes old half-truths and lies.

DC Dranio is part of the “new” media that Shitshow supports.
His full post…

No, the IRS isn’t taxing your Venmo transactions (excerpt from CNBC newsletter (01/12/2022):
It starts with the author saying she received crazy texts messages about this new tax thing that appeared in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
She went to google and twitter and found that as is typical people were mistaken on what the new tax reporting would do and who it would impact.
Searches on Google and Twitter quickly yielded a flurry of panicked and angry responses to a change in tax law put into effect by the American Rescue Plan last year that lowers the reporting threshold for business transactions on mobile payments apps. But users were largely mistaken to believe the change applied to them. The IRS is not requiring individuals to report or pay taxes on individual Venmo, Cash App or PayPal transactions over $600.
Rather, small business owners, independent contractors and those with a side hustle who use third-party payments apps for commercial payments will have their total transaction value over that threshold reported to the agency by the apps. Previously, it was $20,000 and 200 transactions. This also applies to those who run an eBay shop, for example, or any other online store that accepts payment cards, according to the IRS.
“There’s been a lot of misunderstanding about the tax reporting changes,” says Garrett Watson, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation. “It doesn’t change anything about if any transactions are taxed or not.” In other words, the IRS is not starting to tax individual transactions between family and friends.
Splitting dinner with your friend, sending your roommate money for rent or gifting your cousin a round of birthday drinks? Don’t sweat it. “It’s not taxable,” Watson says.
No, the IRS isn’t taxing your Venmo transactions (excerpt from CNBC newsletter (01/12/2022):
That 87,000 IRS agents bullshit has been debunked several times. It’s true that the plan was to hire more IRS agents, over the next decade from when the Inflation Reduction Act was signed. In part the goal was to make wait times on processing returns faster, wait times on phone lines faster, and free up agents to finally start collect monies owed to the IRS for past years.
He wrapped up his morning on “Lies Social” by threatening to impose new tariffs…

And…

The market is reacting as you’d expected…

Twitter is being a pain in the ass; it’s broken, it gets fixed, only to break again.
Luckily for us, Justin Wolfers is also on Bluesky.
Just going to blast this on repeat, as it becomes newly relevant every day.
— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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In random news…
FOX: This bill adds trillions to our debt. How is that acceptable to the administration? BESSENT: You're referring to the CBO scoring I believe, which is DC-style scoring
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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DC-style scoring =’s math.
Harvard is suing the DHS…
How it started…
Noem on Harvard: "Today, I sent them a letter that said they will no longer be allowed to participate in this student exchange visitor program, and that's up to 27% of their enrolled students. So it's significant." pic.twitter.com/1Gi2nhlKgs
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 22, 2025
How it’s going…
JUST IN: Harvard sues the Trump administration, saying it has made 7,000 foreign students pawns in an unconstitutional bid to bludgeon the university over its First Amendment-protected viewpoints. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us…
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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I think we’ve found the “weaponized government” the MAGA’s were looking for.
That’s a wrap…
Twitter is very busted now, and bluesky is slow going, so…
HAPPY FRIDAY!
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