BREAKING: DAMN STRAIGHT! Veteran Senator Tammy Duckworth obliterates Trump’s “foolhardy” plan to build a “Triumphal Arch” for “military” purposes — and points out a GLARING risk. This is a total knockout punch… “Wasting time, energy and taxpayer dollars, on yet another Trump vanity project is particularly outrageous given the joint failure of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to effectively implement corrective actions recommended by the independent National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) following the tragic January 29, 2025, midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA); the deadliest aviation incident in the United States since 2001,”Duckworth wrote in a letter to FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The tragic incident in question occurred when a U.S. Army Black Hawk collided with an American Airlines flight, killing 67 people. Despite the horrific loss of life, the Trump administration still hasn’t heeded the National Transportation Safety Board’s recommendation to require collision-warning technology that could have alerted both crews before impact. They’ve also ignored several other suggestions. Critics of Trump’s hideous, wasteful arch are concerned that the 250-foot monstrosity could endanger aircraft. Since there’s no real case to be made for setting more tax money on fire to stroke his own ego, Trump is now absurdly claiming that the arch will be a military installation with drones, snipers, and an ammunition stockpile. By appealing to vague “national security” concerns, he hopes to run roughshod over opposition. The problem here — beyond the obvious pointlessness of the arch and the absurdity of a President without a single real victory to his name building a Triumphal Arch — is that the FAA determined it would pose no hazards to flights coming in and out of Reagan Airport BEFORE Trump declared that it would be a military installation. Drones launching off the structure could obviously pose a risk to planes and so the FAA ruling is now obsolete. Duckworth, who lost both her legs and partial use of her arm when her Black Hawk was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq, urged the FAA and DoD to “reject this foolhardy plan and instead focus on increasing the safety of the airspace.” “Last month, construction of another wasteful Trump pet project, his taxpayer-funded golden ballroom, contributed to radio failures that allowed Marine One to come within approximately 0.82 nautical miles laterally and 700 feet vertically of a passenger aircraft departing DCA,” the senator wrote. “Unfortunately, it appears that this unsettling aviation safety incident has failed to deter President Trump from prioritizing his narcissistic quest to construct monuments, ballrooms and rename performing arts centers to honor himself.” “Of course, President Trump is not solely disregarding the critical needs to improve aviation safety, he is also ignoring the American people who are struggling to afford gas, groceries, housing, airfare and everything in between,” she continued. “All because of a Trump affordability crisis triggered by President Trump’s disastrous foreign war of choice against Iran, and President Trump’s chaotic imposition of tariffs that raised prices across the board for American businesses and middle-class families.” “How can the Trump administration justify another pet project under the guise of a ‘Military Complex’ that would add to congested airspace in the National Capital Region while the FAA and DoD have not closed out the safety recommendations arising from the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster since 2001?” she added. The answer, of course, is that Trump can justify anything to himself so long as it helps distract from his historic failures as President and the fact that the entire world now knows he’s an Epstein-style pedophile. Please ❤️ and share if you oppose the arch!

28,700 trades for Trump. 19,400 for the whole House. 2,900 for the Senate. Per Bloomberg, one man out-traded all 535 lawmakers, and he's the one who sets tariffs. Somebody's on the other side of every bet he makes, and it's your 401(k). #TrumpsCorruptCongress

Republicans are just fine with ICE torture, brutality and lawlessness, because they're invested in the for-profit detention industrial complex. #TrumpsCorruptCongress citizensforethics.org/report…

A $150,000 illegal donation tied to Navatek, then a reported $32 million federal contract two months later: ProPublica’s reporting raises a serious question for Susan Collins, who denies wrongdoing. Senate seats belong to voters, not donors buying access. #TrumpsCorruptCongress

Mike LiPetri is running Tom Suozzi in NY 3rd District on Long Island claiming to be an "Independent." He has scrubbed all photos of LiPetri with Trump from his social. But, the Internet never forgets that he is MAGA and will lie to get into office... #TrumpsCorruptCongress

No service member should have to choose between deployment and protecting a family member from deportation. Tammy Duckworth is right to call out Trump: if citizenship cannot keep military families home, it cannot protect the rest of us either. #TrumpsCorruptCongress

$300,000 for a presidential pardon. That is what pardon brokers told a 60 Minutes source. Not mercy. Not justice. A damn checkout counter for the rich, while everybody else gets crushed by the system they can’t afford. #TrumpsCorruptCongress

Imagine being a Republican in Congress and choosing not to subpoena Trump's tax returns. Just imagine doing that. Just sitting there. Letting it happen. Whew. Anyway, hope your doctor is in network. #TrumpsCorruptCongress PS EVERY President in my lifetime gets a tax audit every year EXCEPT Trump.

Everyday Americans struggle to afford the skyrocketing price of groceries while #TrumpsCorruptCongress approved tax breaks for last night’s ruthless state dinner patrons. Thoughts?

Imagine being this corrupt. Just imagine waking up, drinking your coffee, reading that the Saudi's invested $2 billion into President Trump's son-in-law's company, and going back to bed. Republicans do this. #TrumpsCorruptCongress let's Trump dump on the Constitution.

They aren’t a Congress. They’re a protection unit with parking. We’re firing them in 39 days. #TrumpsCorruptCongress

Trump couldn’t abuse power, gut our healthcare, or bury federal corruption probes without a spineless Republican majority covering his tracks every single day. If you're ready to break this corrupt machine at the ballot box, make some noise. #TrumpsCorruptCongress

Republicans let ACA insurance subsidies expire. Premiums are doubling for millions. A family paying $400 a month now stares at $900. They called that fiscal discipline. It is your family going without a doctor. #TrumpsCorruptCongress

Sen Roger Marshall (R-KS) says the war in Iran must stop immediately while he’s campaigning. Here he is last night voting against the war powers resolution that would’ve ended the war. Come November we will fire all these enablers. #TrumpsCorruptCongress

We haven't forgotten the Russian oligarch who paid for Don Jr.'s wedding. Hundreds of thousands, no strings? Please. If it's a gift, show us the receipts. If it's a payment, tell us what it bought, because we're the ones living with it. #TrumpsCorruptCongress

They even let Donald Trump put a price on poisoning babies. Nothing is sacred to these Republicans. #TrumpsCorruptCongress

BREAKING: LOW IQ! Trump publicly embarrasses himself by bragging that he convinced Xi Jinping to start calling artificial intelligence “super intelligence” instead — even though the Chinese speak Chinese. Just when you thought that he couldn’t get any stupider… “Very productive meeting with President Xi for both the U.S.A. and China,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Tremendous things will be happening. Like almost everyone else, he seemed to like calling the poorly and inaccurately named Artificial Intelligence to a far more accurate and important name, SUPER INTELLIGENCE. That would be ‘SUPER!’ Everyone last night agreed, also. President DJT” The obvious problem with this supposedly massive win is that the Chinese don’t call AI “artificial intelligence” because “artificial” and “intelligence” are English words and they speak Mandarin in Beijing. The phrase that the Chinese use for AI, in its romanized form, is “ren gong zhi neng.” And while that roughly translates to “artificial intelligence,” the language barrier matters. What will almost certainly happen here is that China will simply continue using its current phrasing. Trump’s fixation on renaming AI isn’t difficult to untangle. He knows that AI data centers have become electorally radioactive with voters, but he also knows that the AI bubble is the only thing propping up the stock market. In his confused, deteriorating mind, he seems to have decided that Americans simply dislike the branding because “artificial” has a negative connotation. In reality, people hate data centers because they’re noisy, consume massive amounts of electricity and water, and provide very few local jobs while funneling more and more profits to the neo-fascist tech lords in Silicon Valley. This is so quintessentially Trump: ignore the root causes of an issue and paper over people’s material concerns with cheap, superficial tweaks. Ultimately, this Truth Social post serves to underline the monumental failures of the Trump presidency vis-à-vis China. Rather than hammering out some kind of deal on trade, Taiwan, nuclear weapons, or AI regulation, Trump wastes Xi’s visit rambling about “super intelligence,” which is ironically the term that best describes the Chinese President when he’s standing in comparison to our demented leader. Please ❤️ and share if you miss having a smart President!