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It’s Monday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Monday, December 8 2025
9:00 AM
In-Town Pool Call Time
The White House
2:00 PM
The President participates in a Roundtable
Cabinet Room White House Press Pool

President My Tariffs Are So Awesome is set to unveil a new $12 billion aid package for farmers hammered by those same “awesome” tariffs. Today’s roundtable, now confirmed to be with farmers, looks less like policy planning and more like a make-nice session for an economic mess entirely of his own creation.

WSJ (gift link-12/08/2025):

The Trump administration is planning to announce $12 billion in aid to U.S. farmers, according to administration officials, as the agriculture sector grapples with the fallout from President Trump’s far-reaching tariffs.

The aid package is expected to be unveiled at the White House on Monday afternoon, where Trump is holding a roundtable with farmers, the officials said. Top administration officials have been discussing the bailout behind the scenes for months.

Much of the aid—$11 billion—will be in the form of one-time payments through the Farmer Bridge Assistance program, which helps U.S. crop farmers. The remaining $1 billion will go toward commodities not covered under the bridge assistance program, the officials said. Bloomberg earlier reported the details of the bailout.

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It has been a challenging year for the American farmer. Crop prices have remained low, especially after harvesting the largest crop on record this fall. In the first half of 2025, farm bankruptcies rose by about 60% compared with 2024. 

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The American farm economy had been struggling before Trump took office. A glut of corn and soybeans after several years of bumper crops has depressed prices, while costs for key items such as fertilizer and crop seeds have risen, squeezing farmers’ bottom lines. A year ago, Congress passed a $10 billion bailout package for farmers to help with low commodity prices.

WSJ (gift link-12/08/2025).

If you’re feeling a flicker of déjà vu, it’s because we’ve already done this rodeo back in President Tariffs-Are-Awesome’s first term, when farmers needed bailing out from the last round of his self-inflicted trade wounds.

The first bailout for $12 billion dollars was announced in July of 2018. The second bailout was announced in May of 2019 in the amount of $16 billion.

But sure, Jan, tariffs are making us “victorious”…

Speaking of the “economy” sort of if you squint…

Friday, Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc., announced “they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO.”

Snips from the full statement:

Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO.

The cash and stock transaction is valued at $27.75 per WBD share (subject to a collar as detailed below), with a total enterprise value of approximately $82.7 billion (equity value of $72.0 billion). The transaction is expected to close after the previously announced separation of WBD’s Global Networks division, Discovery Global, into a new publicly-traded company, which is now expected to be completed in Q3 2026.

This acquisition brings together two pioneering entertainment businesses, combining Netflix’s innovation, global reach and best-in-class streaming service with Warner Bros.’ century-long legacy of world-class storytelling. Beloved franchises, shows and movies such as The Big Bang Theory, The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, The Wizard of Oz and the DC Universe will join Netflix’s extensive portfolio including Wednesday, Money Heist, Bridgerton, Adolescence and Extraction, creating an extraordinary entertainment offering for audiences worldwide.

“Our mission has always been to entertain the world,” said Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix. “By combining Warner Bros.’ incredible library of shows and movies—from timeless classics like Casablanca and Citizen Kane to modern favorites like Harry Potter and Friends—with our culture-defining titles like Stranger Things, KPop Demon Hunters and Squid Game, we’ll be able to do that even better. Together, we can give audiences more of what they love and help define the next century of storytelling.” 

“This acquisition will improve our offering and accelerate our business for decades to come,” continued Greg Peters, co-CEO of Netflix. “Warner Bros. has helped define entertainment for more than a century and continues to do so with phenomenal creative executives and production capabilities. With our global reach and proven business model, we can introduce a broader audience to the worlds they create—giving our members more options, attracting more fans to our best-in-class streaming service, strengthening the entire entertainment industry and creating more value for shareholders.”

“Today’s announcement combines two of the greatest storytelling companies in the world to bring to even more people the entertainment they love to watch the most,” said David Zaslav, President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery. “For more than a century, Warner Bros. has thrilled audiences, captured the world’s attention, and shaped our culture. By coming together with Netflix, we will ensure people everywhere will continue to enjoy the world’s most resonant stories for generations to come.”

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Under the terms of the agreement, each WBD shareholder will receive $23.25 in cash and $4.501 in shares of Netflix common stock for each share of WBD common stock outstanding at the closing of the transaction. The transaction values Warner Bros. Discovery at $27.75 per share, implying a total equity value of approximately $72.0 billion and an enterprise value of approximately $82.7 billion

In June 2025, WBD announced plans to separate its Streaming & Studios and Global Networks divisions into two separate publicly traded companies. This separation is now expected to be completed in Q3 2026, prior to the closing of this transaction. The newly separated publicly traded company holding the Global Networks division, Discovery Global, will include premier entertainment, sports and news television brands around the world including CNN, TNT Sports in the U.S., and Discovery, free-to-air channels across Europe, and digital products such as Discovery+ and Bleacher Report.  

The stock component is subject to a collar under which WBD shareholders will receive Netflix stock valued at $4.50 per share, provided the 15-day volume weighted average price (“VWAP”) of Netflix stock price (measured three trading days prior to closing) falls between $97.91 and $119.67. If the VWAP is below $97.91, WBD shareholders will receive 0.0460 Netflix shares for each WBD share. If the VWAP is above $119.67, WBD shareholders will receive 0.0376 Netflix shares for each WBD share.

The transaction was unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both Netflix and WBD. In addition to the completion of the separation of Discovery Global (WBD’s Global Networks business), completion of the transaction is subject to required regulatory approvals, approval of WBD shareholders and other customary closing conditions. The transaction is expected to close in 12-18 months.

Moelis & Company LLC is acting as Netflix’s financial advisor and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is serving as legal counsel. Wells Fargo is acting as an additional financial advisor and, along with BNP and HSBC, is providing committed debt financing related to the transaction.  

Allen & Company, J.P. Morgan and Evercore are serving as financial advisors to Warner Bros. Discovery and Wachtell Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP are serving as legal counsel.

About.Netflix.com. 12/05/2025.

President Tiny Fingers Ruining all the Pie was asked his thoughts on the merger on Sunday.

He said “I’ll be involved in that decision” and that the merger “could be a problem”.

President Tiny Fingers Ruining All the Pie:
Yes, I did. I met with Ted. I think he’s fantastic. I think he’s, in the history of Hollywood, has really been almost, you could say, nothing like what he’s done. You’d go back to Louie B. Mayer, maybe. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM. Ted has done an incredible job. I mean, he had a company that was very troubled seven or eight years ago, and he took it over and he’s really done a legendary job.

Reporter:
Should they be allowed to buy Warner Brothers? Should that…

President Tiny Fingers Ruining All the Pie:
Well, that’s the question. They have a very big market share. And when they have Warner Brothers, that share goes up a lot. So I don’t know. That’s gonna be for some economist to tell, and also, I’ll be involved in that decision too.

Reporter:
Did they—

President Tiny Fingers Ruining All the Pie:
But they… and they have a very big market share.

Reporter:
Did he make any guarantees to you about the merger, if they do merge, that—

President Tiny Fingers Ruining All the Pie:
No. No, not at all. He came up. He was in the Oval Office last week. I have a lot of respect for him. He’s a great person. But he’s done one of the greatest jobs in the history of movies and other things. And he’s got a lot of interesting things happening aside from what you’re talking about.

President Tiny Fingers Ruining All the Pie:
But it is a big market share. There’s no question about it.

Reporter:
[Inaudible]

President Tiny Fingers Ruining All the Pie:
It could be a problem. Yes?

Roll Call.com. 12/07/2025.

This morning CNBC News reported that Paramount Skydance has launched a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after they lost out to Netflix.

Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflix in a months-long bidding war for the legacy assets, the company said Monday.

Paramount will go straight to WBD shareholders with an all-cash, $30-per-share offer. That’s the same bid WBD rejected last week and equates to an enterprise value of $108.4 billion. The offer is backstopped with equity financing from the Ellison family and the private-equity firm RedBird Capital as well as $54 billion in debt commitments from Bank of America, Citi and Apollo Global Management, Paramount said in a news release.

Shares of Paramount were 4% higher in early trading Monday. Shares of Warner Bros. Discovery were up about 6%. Shares of Netflix fell 3%.

“We’re really here to finish what we started,” Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” Monday. “We put the company in play.”

Paramount Skydance began its hunt for Warner Bros. Discovery in September, submitting three bids before WBD launched a formal sale process that ultimately brought in other suitors.

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Ellison argued Paramount’s deal will have a shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration. He called Trump a believer “in competition” and said Paramount’s combination with WBD will be “a real competitor to Netflix, a real competitor to Amazon.”

“Allowing the No. 1 streaming service to combine with the No. 3 streaming service is anticompetitive,” Ellison said.

CNBC News. 12/08/2025.

Short Ellison–Paramount has already bought the President, so…

Speaking of President I Can be Bought and Paramount Skydance…

The only reason Marjorie “Traitor” Brown (Green turns Brown under stress!) went BAD is that she was JILTED by the President of the United States (Certainly not the first time she has been jilted!). Too much work, not enough time, and her ideas are, NOW, really BAD – She sort of reminds me of a Rotten Apple!

Marjorie is not AMERICA FIRST or MAGA, because nobody could have changed her views so fast, and her new views are those of a very dumb person.

That was proven last night when washed up, Trump hating, 60 Minutes “correspondent,” Lesley Stahl, who still owes me an apology from when she attacked me on the show (with serious conviction!), that Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP FROM HELL was produced by Russia, not Hunter himself (TOTALLY PROVEN WRONG!), interviewed a very poorly prepared Traitor, who in her confusion made many really stupid statements.

My real problem with the show, however, wasn’t the low IQ traitor, it was that the new ownership of 60 Minutes, Paramount, would allow a show like this to air. THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP, who just paid me millions of Dollars for FAKE REPORTING about your favorite President, ME! Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE! Oh well, far worse things can happen.

P.S. I hereby demand a complete and total APOLOGY, though far too late to be meaningful, from Lesley Stahl and 60 Minutes for her incorrect and Libelous statements about Hunter’s Laptop!!! President DJT

He’s such a fucking baby.

During her 60 minutes interview MTG said because she’s stood up for women raped when they were 14, and for that the President called her a traitor.

She also directly blamed President Asshole for increased death threats against her and her son. She went on to say that she sent those threats to VP Vance and President Asshole. Vance she says wrote back that they will look into it. While she didn’t repeat what President Asshole said she did say the message wasn’t very kind.

*Flashback*

11/16/2025:

President Woman Hater was asked about the reported threats against MTG and said he didn’t think her life was in danger, adding, “frankly, I don’t think anybody cares about her.”

Reporter:
Greene said her life would be in danger because of the rhetoric?

President Woman Hater:
Her life is in danger? Who’s that?

Reporter:
Marjorie Taylor Greene. She says…

President Woman Hater:
Marjorie Traitor Greene. I don’t think her life is in danger. I don’t think, frankly, I don’t think anybody cares about her. Okay? What about you?

Roll Call.com. 11/16/2025.

Flash News

I gave him a pardon and he showed me no loyalty

The Text:

Can you imagine??? The Democrats, under the Crooked Joe Biden Administration, who always use extreme force and jail-time to destroy their political opponent, wanted to put Congressman Henry Cuellar, and his wife, Imelda, in PRISON, for 15 years, which I predicted these Radical Left Lunatics would do – And they never stopped wanting to fulfill this evil quest!

The Dems mercilessly went after Henry with everything they had! They were looking to destroy him, his lovely wife, his two young daughters, and anyone close to them.

When the Democrats overwhelmingly lost the 2024 Presidential Election, and power with it, they, regardless, did everything they could to keep going after the Cuellar family.

The Dems were vicious, and all because Henry strongly wanted, correctly, BORDER SECURITY! He was against illegals pouring into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted.

The Congressman didn’t want gang members, drug dealers, violent prisoners, people from mental institutions and yes, even murderers, in the good ol’ USA.

It was all very unfair what they were doing to him and his family, so much so that his daughters wrote me a beautiful letter about their parents (Just posted on TRUTH!).

After reading it I decided, in the interest of justice, and based on the daughter’s loving request, that I would give Henry and Imelda a Full and Complete Pardon.

I never spoke to the Congressman, his wife, or his daughters, but felt very good about fighting for a family that was tormented by very sick and deranged people – They were treated sooo BADLY!

I signed the papers, and said to people in the Oval Office that I just did a very good, perhaps life saving, thing. God was very happy with me that day!

THEN IT HAPPENED!!! Only a short time after signing the Pardon, Congressman Henry Cuellar announced that he will be “running” for Congress again, in the Great State of Texas (a State where I received the highest number of votes ever recorded!), as a Democrat, continuing to work with the same Radical Left Scum that just weeks before wanted him and his wife to spend the rest of their lives in Prison – And probably still do!

Such a lack of LOYALTY, something that Texas Voters, and Henry’s daughters, will not like.

Oh’ well, next time, no more Mr. Nice guy!

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Admits he wants quid pro quo in return for his pardons.

Cuellar told reporters the day he was pardon that he was ready to run for reelection. He thanked President Reward Me for my Good Works, but said he had no intention of switching parties.

Show more =’s Cuellar w me again thanked Trump and said this “opens up the skies and clears the road” for him to do work ahead.

Cuellar and his wife were indicted last year on more than a dozen corruption charges including bribery.

Mid-terms 2026

This morning Colin Allred announced that he was dropping his bid for the Senate and instead would focus on running for the House in Texas’ newly drawn district CD-33.

There is speculation that Rep. Jasmine Crockett will announce her bid for the Senate as early as Monday following Allred’s drop for the same Senate seat. I have googled and found one story that says the announcement is set and she does intend to run for the seat, but other reporting says there are “rumors” swirling on her plans.

Stay tuned.

That’s all for today.

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