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It's funny. People who support the Trump administrations current actions claim that since voters knew what he said, that means that they support what he's doing now. Do you and they have some kind of magic wand to tell when he means it and when he doesn't? As for it being a negotiating position...a position that is sure to antagonize the Arab world? A position that will make it harder to negotiate whatever it is he's looking to gain in the mideast. If it is a negotiating position, and unlike you I don't read Trump's mind, it's a remarkably stupid one. Well, considering the source, maybe not so remarkably.

False: "The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip," Trump said in a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "We'll own it ... We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal ... the Riviera of the Middle East." https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5287576/trump-gaza-takeover

Utterly false. The big enchilada were the lies propagated by Giuliani. Such as that Dominion was founded to fix elections for Hugo Chavez.

Violent speech bad. Violence against police, not so much.

Fox was sued on a lot more grounds than that..

More conspiracy nonsense.

"Trump is not proposing a permanent move. It is temporary, to allow the rapid rebuilding and development of the area." False “I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza,” Mr. Trump said. “I heard that Gaza has been very unlucky for them. They live like hell. They live like they’re living in hell. Gaza is not a place for people to be living, and the only reason they want to go back, and I believe this strongly, is because they have no alternative.” He suggested that nations in the region could finance the resettlement of Gazans to new places — perhaps “a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land” — that would provide better living conditions, either as a single territory or as many as a dozen. “It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn’t want to return,” he said without offering details of what that would entail." https://archive.ph/waJg0

This story was about a drug bust in Canada. No reference made to the USA. Much less to Trump Canada has its own domestic market for fentanyl. Spare us your paranoia. Looks like you're suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The share of Republicans who say they want tech billionaire Elon Musk to have significant influence in the Trump administration has fallen substantially in the months since President Trump was elected. In The Economist/YouGov poll taken in the days after the November 2024 election, 47 percent of surveyed Republicans said they wanted Musk to have “a lot” of influence in the Trump administration, while 29 percent wanted “a little” and 12 percent wanted him to have “none at all.” Today, however, the share of Republicans who say they want Musk to have “a lot” of influence has fallen substantially to 26 percent. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5129353-gop-support-for-musk-influence-with-trump-falls-dramatically-poll/ The article goes on to say that 43% of Republicans want him to have a little influence and 17% who want him to have no influence.

I read a couple of articles about this bust and there's just a tiny little problem with your characterization of it: nowhere did I find any claim that this fentanyl was being exported to the USA. I did find this though: "Fentanyl is a main ingredient in much of the toxic illicit drugs that have killed nearly 48,000 people across Canada between January 2016 and March 2024, according to the Canadian government." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-drug-super-lab-busted-fentanyl-guns/

Not just that. Even if the Mediterranean diet had begun in Italy, the Italians are no longer following it. So what's the point? Why make the diet the target? In addition, the data on that chart is never explained. What are these "hidden health costs of the agri-food system:? Also, the article takes no account of population. For instance, Italy's population is about 43 times as much as Estonia's. Which means that those costs, whatever they may be, are actually higher than in Italy on a per capita basis. It would make much more sense for that chart to be based on a per capita basis.

Deflecting much? The evidence you offered in the case of Saudi Arabia was obviously irrelevant. And what does it mean that both sides of the issue are inextricably linked? Ii will say that it's nice that, unlike Trump, you wish Ukraine well.

Bust used to justify ‘massive’ jump in fentanyl was not from Canada The White House used 43 pounds of fentanyl crossing into the US at its northern border to justify tariffs on Canadian imports, but the drugs came from within the US, media reports said Wednesday. The 43-pound total represented a “massive 2,205 increase” the White House said in comparison to the previous year’s total of two pounds, the Globe and Mail Newspaper reported. But according to the US border agency, about one-third of the total, 15 pounds, was actually seized in July in Spokane, Washington, not entering the US from Canada, court records show https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/bust-used-to-justify-massive-jump-in-fentanyl-was-not-from-canada/3473198

Well, he's certainly given Israel an incentive to assassinate him. Although, I don't know if the Israelis can count on his claim of what would happen afterwards. Maybe he plans to come back from the dead?

Saudi Arabia Reiterates Support for a Palestinian State "Saudi Arabia reaffirmed its support for an independent Palestinian state on Tuesday and said establishing diplomatic ties with Israel would depend on the creation of such a state, hours after President Trump proposed permanently moving all Palestinians out of Gaza and making it a U.S. territory. The Foreign Ministry’s statement early Wednesday local time, which said that Saudi support for a Palestinian state was “firm and unwavering,” contradicted Mr. Trump. While hosting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House on Tuesday, the president had said that Saudi Arabia was not insisting on a Palestinian state." https://archive.ph/QFyNd And the clown wants to get the Saudis to cooperate on lowering oil prices and on actively opposing Iran.

Exactly.........wrong: Historic gains: Low-income workers scored in the Covid economy 05/29/2023 For the past three years, low-income workers have made historic gains in wages even after inflation, reversing the trend of advances for upper-income workers and stagnating pay for laborers that dominated the previous four decades, according to a POLITICO analysis of data from the U.S. Labor Department... At the same time, price spikes have eaten away raises for the highest-earning employees, leading their inflation-adjusted income to drop roughly 5 percent over the past couple of years. The result, according to one new paper: One-quarter of the 40-year growth in the yawning gap between higher-income workers and lower-income workers has disappeared in just a few years. https://archive.ph/wv7G1#selection-1087.0-1102.0

More empty taunts. You've got nothing.

And of course if Trump makes a claim or a promise, it's bound to be true. Remember that 200 billon dollar deal with China? The one where China promised to up its imports of US goods by that amount. It ended up being zero.

And you can't even manage to use accurate vote totals. Which means not only do you have nothing, you have less than nothing, https://www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker/2024/electoral-college

Another empty taunt. You have produced no evidence to support trump's claim that $50,000,000 was used to buy condoms in Gaza. You've got nothing.

Thanks for the heads up about the links. Here are corrected versions: https://archive.ph/nzzjy https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/072215/can-fracking-survive-60-barrel.asp#:~:text=Fracking is expensive%2C but still,low as %2430 per barrel. As for the Saudi threats.. I'm not even going to bother to look at what you claimed. Not because I disbelieve you. I'm sure it's true. But were I to take a look at it, I'm sure the record would show that the Saudis were using that threat to bring other oil producers in line and to stop overproduction. Their threat was in the interest of keeping rates higher than they otherwise would be. Not in keep rates lower for the long term. Which is what Trump is pushing for.

Do you take all official statements from heads of state as representing what they really believe? That there is no such thing as being diplomatic?

Thanks for the empty deflection.

No more tariffs? As for the statement released by Justin, do you think it might just possibly be the case that is private opinion might vary from what he's offered to the public?

It was truly disgraceful how the American economy massively outperformed all the other major developed economies and most of the smaller ones as well.