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December 19, 2025 1:02 pm EST Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
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It’s Friday.

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

12/19/2025:

9:00 AM
In-Town Pool Call Time | The White House
The press checks in, everyone pretends transparency is happening, and we all brace for leaks that will somehow be more informative than the official readout.

1:00 PM
The President makes an Announcement | Roosevelt Room
According to Propaganda Barbie, the President will be announcing “more incredible deals” that will lower drug prices. Details TBD, mechanisms unspecified, timelines imaginary. Expect a victory lap over negotiations we can’t see, savings we can’t verify, and an instruction to “tune in” as if this hasn’t been promised, rebranded, and re-announced roughly a dozen times already.

5:45 PM
Out-of-Town Travel Pool Call Time | Joint Base Andrews
Cue the motorcade shots and reporters sprinting for planes while trying to figure out if the earlier “announcement” actually announced anything at all.

5:45 PM
The President participates in a Christmas Reception | Grand Foyer | Closed Press
Because nothing pairs better with secrecy than holiday cheer. Smiles, handshakes, and absolutely no witnesses who can quote anyone accurately.

9:00 PM
The President delivers Remarks on the Economy | Rocky Mount Event Center, North Carolina
Prime time for economic storytelling. Expect cherry-picked numbers, heroic self-congratulation, and claims that somehow manage to be both vague and wildly confident. Facts optional. Applause mandatory.


News Rewind:

Officials announced Thursday that the suspect in the shooting at Brown University, where two people were killed and nine others were wounded, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities also believe the same suspect is responsible for the death of an MIT professor at his home.

Here is the latest:

CBS News:

Law enforcement officials say the same gunman who opened fire at Brown University also shot and killed an MIT professor two days later. The suspect in both shootings has been identified as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente. 

Authorities said he was found dead in New Hampshire Thursday night following an intensive manhunt. 

[snip]

The suspect in the shootings was identified by authorities as 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente. 

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts posted a photo of Neves Valente on social media late Thursday night.

He was a Portuguese national whose last known residence was in Miami, Florida, officials said during a news conference Thursday night. 

He studied at Brown in 2000-2001 and then moved to the U.S. in 2017 after receiving a green card through a visa lottery program, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a social media post late Thursday.

CBS News. 12/19/2025.

In light of the shooting, Puppy Killer at the direction of Nazi Miller is suspending the program.

Show more =’s In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and murdered eight people.  At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.

The DV1 program was started in 1995, following the passage of the Immigration Act of 1990 (I copied the name from google and can’t remove the highlight).

Here’s where I am. I usually don’t give a lot of fucks about the killer. He killed people. The victims are who should matter. But this administration is using the killer’s legal status and how he entered the country as a shield to justify punishing people who did not murder anyone. That’s the point. It’s all in service of a hate-filled agenda, and it pisses me off. No, I am not defending the killer. He killed people. I am defending the other 49,999 people who entered through the same program and are not killers. For fuck’s sake.


Flash News

TikTok Makes a Deal…

TikTok CEO Shou Chew told employees of the social media app Thursday that its owner, China’s ByteDance, has signed binding agreements to create a joint venture for the app in the United States, as agreed to in a deal with the Trump administration.

That deal means the U.S. version of TikTok will become majority-owned by American investors, according to a memo obtained by NBC News.

[snip]

An employee who received the memo said that the internal reaction to the news was generally positive among TikTok’s American staff but that most of their colleagues in Asia and Europe had not yet seen the memo or had not yet weighed in on it if they had.

As part of the deal, TikTok U.S. will also be overseen by a “new seven-member majority-American board of directors,” Chew said.

“The U.S. joint venture will be responsible for U.S. data protection, algorithm security, content moderation, and software assurance,” Chew wrote in his memo. “It will also have the exclusive right and authority to provide assurances that content, software, and data for American users is secure.”

[snip]

The formally signed agreement is the latest sign of a slow thaw underway in the U.S.-China bilateral relationship.

Initially, little progress was made despite multiple meetings between Bessent and his Chinese counterparts.

But after Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in October, Beijing has resumed buying American soybeans and eased export controls on critical minerals.

Now, it appears, the TikTok deal will finally get over the finish line, as well.

NBC News. 12/18/2025

Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife, their two children were the seven killed in a plane crash on Thursday.

A retired Nascar driver was among the seven people killed when a business jet crashed while landing at an airport in North Carolina Thursday, according to the association.

Retired racer Greg Biffle, 55 years old, his wife Cristina and their two children were killed in the crash, Nascar said. The other victims were identified by the sporting body as Craig Wadsworth, and Dennis and Jack Dutton.

“Greg was more than a champion driver, he was a beloved member of the Nascar community, a fierce competitor, and a friend to so many,” a Nascar spokeswoman said.

The Cessna C550 plane crashed at Statesville Regional Airport, roughly 40 miles north of Charlotte, N.C., around 10:20 a.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Statesville Regional Airport manager, John Ferguson, said the plane was consumed by fire after it crashed off the end of a runway. “We have no information on any cause,” Ferguson said.

The airport provides corporate aviation facilities for Fortune 500 companies and several Nascar teams, according to its website.

WSJ. 12/18/2025.

Propaganda Barbie doesn’t know JFK is dead.

President Buffoon is shocked by the news…

It wasn’t unanimous.


Epstein DOJ File Release Watch.

Show More From Aaron =’s President Trump has said for years that he wants full transparency … now, the most important thing that the AG has talked about, that Director Patel has talked about, is that we protect victims. We are looking at every single piece of paper that we are going to produce making sure that every victim, their name, their identity, their story to the extent it needs to be protected, is completely protected.”

That’s a wrap.

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