Jonathan Lemire
@JonLemire
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Co-host: @Morning_Joe, @MSNBC Writer: @TheAtlantic Author: "The Big Lie." Ex-@AP, @Politico. Dad, Mr @carriemelago, Red Sox [email protected]
Joined August 2010
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ACCIDENTALLY TEXTED ME ITS WAR PLANS
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Before pool entered, this exchange was captured on the El Salvador government’s livestream:. Trump endorses sending “homegrown” U.S. prisoners to El Salvador - meaning American citizens to notorious foreign prisons.
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
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“Whoever is elected the 48th president won’t be able to easily rebuild what Donald Trump is busy destroying. Countries can and will move on without the United States. Their firms will establish new supply chains and pursue other markets”
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“But if federal courts cannot order the return of someone exiled to a foreign gulag by mistake, then the administration is free to exile citizens and then claim they did so in error, while leaving them to rot”
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The West Wing told staffers to hammer its messaging about deportations, migrants, even Greenland—really, any issue that could distract from an economy left quaking by Trump’s trade war–inducing tariffs. Signalgate: the Sequel is not what they had in mind
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ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: “Prime, but with human beings”
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A group of white South Africans will be arriving in Washington in a State Department-chartered plane to be resettled in the U.S. as refugees. Their resettlement comes even though Trump suspended the refugee admissions program on the first day of his term
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"Trump would not be the first president to encounter economic turbulence. But he might become the first one to kill off a healthy economy through an almost universally foreseeable unforced error"
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“The official X account of the White House isn’t just full of low-rent 4chan musings, it’s an alarming signal of an administration that’s fluent in internet extremism and seemingly dedicated to pursuing its casual cruelty as a chief political export”
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As the markets crash and retirement accounts vanish:.
A White House statement, per pool just now: “The President won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL, and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow.”.
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“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer”
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President Trump's advisers are seriously considering the likelihood that he would be impeached again if Democrats take the House next year
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Those unaccompanied migrants appearing before an immigration judge included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy
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“Unless Trump’s power is checked, and soon, things will get much worse very quickly. When people lose their freedoms, it can take a generation or more to claw them back—and that’s if you’re lucky”
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“Trump won a second term in large part because voters believed he could boost the economy. Instead, he has shrunk it, and his tariffs have sent the stock market and consumer confidence tumbling. “Republicans in Congress could soon make things much worse”
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“They claim the court is powerless to order any relief”. “If that’s true, the immigration laws are meaningless—all of them—because the government can deport whoever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want, and no court can do anything about it”
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“There is a complete meltdown in the building, and this is really reflecting on the secretary’s leadership”
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“Fetterman was so distraught about the Hegseth vote, as well as chatter in the media that he might switch parties and become a Republican, that he spent part of the day locked in his office, fighting with Gisele and crying while FaceTiming with staff”
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“If the Republican Party does not return Congress to the role it is meant to play and the courts don’t constrain the president, this cycle of destruction will continue and everyone on the planet will pay the price”
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The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its plan to stop sending emergency food to millions of children who are starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent aid, many of these children are likely to die within months
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Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic
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“From almost the moment Adolf Hitler took office as chancellor of Germany, tariffs were at the top of his government’s economic agenda”
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“But now Harvard is changing course, perhaps because it grasped the true takeaway from Columbia’s cautionary tale: Appeasement doesn’t work, because the Trump administration isn’t really trying to reform elite higher education. It’s trying to break it”
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The overall mood in the West Wing has grown dark. Trump and his inner circle are frustrated at having to revisit a damaging storyline they believe slowed their momentum last month, even as the president remains loath to fire a Cabinet member under pressure
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President Trump tries to quell any Republican pushback to his tariffs by dubbing them “PANICANS.”
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"But if a farm family voted for Trump, believing that his policies were good, it seems strange that they would then demand that they, and only they, should be spared the full consequences of those policies"
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“The administration is maintaining that it has the power to send armed agents of the state to grab someone off the street and then, without a shred of due process, deport them to a Gulag in a foreign country and leave them there forever”
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NEW: Inside Trump’s sudden retreat on tariffs. The White House claims this was the plan all along and there’s now more pressure on China. But the bond market crash spooked the West Wing, recession talk grew and more in GOP voiced worry . And Trump blinked
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The Secretary of Education mixing up “AI” and “A1”.
For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce".
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“Giving one person so much influence over picking winners and losers poses a threat to the rule of law greater than any domestic policy in my lifetime”
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“The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat”
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“While Trump has traveled to Florida nearly every weekend since taking office, he chose to leave DC a day earlier than normal, creating a split-screen of being on a golf course in one of the wealthiest enclaves in America as economic worries deepened”
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“Concerns about the use of political appointees—who are supposed to be helping to run the department—to serve food to the secretary later reached the White House”
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“But Trump’s trade war is different because it is unpredictable and indefinite. Even if he were to renounce tariffs tomorrow, Trump has already shaken global confidence in American economic-policy making”
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“A memo obtained by The Atlantic warning about Signal’s vulnerabilities was circulated to former CIA officers this month, just days before the Houthi PC Small Group was formed”
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“If the Trump administration can get away with violating the Constitution because it knows the courts will be too slow to prevent it, then those constitutional rights simply no longer exist”
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Inside Trump’s sudden retreat on tariffs. The White House claims this was the plan all along and there’s now more pressure on China. But the bond market crash spooked the West Wing, recession talk grew and more in GOP voiced worry . And Trump blinked
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Trump says that the future of those deported from the U.S. to El Salvador is “up to” its president - perhaps suggesting that the U.S. will not aim to get them back despite court order
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NEW: Hegseth shared attack plans in a Signal group chat. No, not that one. Some top aides have been ousted, but few know why. And there is talk of a SecDef firing, even as Trump backed him - all while standing near a giant bunny. Inside the Pentagon chaos:
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Trump is not happy with how it is playing on TV; it’s the rare negative story that has broken through, at least some, on conservative-leaning outlets. But for now, Waltz seems safe. “The last thing he wants to do is give you guys [in the media] a scalp”
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“The purge is incomplete—the U.S. DOGE Service continues to seek cuts at more agencies, and litigation has slowed or blocked some of the cuts—but we seem to have already moved into the next stage: revenge”
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“To concede that he will leave office in 2029 would reduce the atmosphere of menace he has cultivated. Why forfeit the power of another term, or at least the threat of one?”
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“Republican lawmakers are now preparing to lavish ICE with a colossal funding increase—enough to pay for the kind of social and demographic transformation of the United States that immigration hard-liners have long fantasized about achieving”
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“America is spinning quickly in the direction of Hungarian populism, Hungarian politics, and Hungarian justice. But that means Hungarian stagnation, Hungarian corruption, and Hungarian poverty lie in our future too”
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NEW: As SignalGate rages, national security officers express horror at the lapse while senior Trump aides downplay it. Resisting calls for firings, the president - for now - refuses to give “a scalp” to the media. But cracks in GOP defenses are emerging
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There Was Never a Master Plan. Trump backed down on tariffs. His supporters think that was the idea all along.
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NEW: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal. Here is @JeffreyGoldberg next story. With screenshots of the Signal group’s war plans
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Trump plans to announce that the U.S. will now refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia. Arab nations have pushed for a change to the geographic name of the body of water, while Iran has maintained its historic ties to the gulf
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“In recent years, the U.S. had already begun to neglect its public-health infrastructure, weakening defenses needed for keeping infectious diseases at bay. Now the Trump administration is going beyond poor maintenance. It’s attempting active destruction”
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“April 2, 2025 is more likely to be remembered as a fiasco—alongside October 24, 1929 (the stock-market crash that kicked off the Great Depression), and September 15, 2008 (the collapse of Lehman Brothers)—than as the beginning of a new era of prosperity”
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Waltz was never MAGA enough. And SignalGate was a crushing blow. Still, Trump was insistent not to give the media “a scalp” in his first 100 days . But on day 101, Waltz was gone
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“Donald Trump and his allies have been using “anti-Semitism” as a pretext to advance a radical agenda that has nothing to do with Jews at all—and that most American Jews do not support”
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“Most likely, the tariffs represent little more than the all-of-government metastasis of Trump’s personality, which sees grandiosity as a strategy to pull counterparties to the negotiating table and strike deals that benefit Trump’s ego or wallet”
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NEWS: Trump ratchets up tariffs against China but signals a 90-day PAUSE with some other nations:
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Robert F Kennedy Jr met with the families of two girls who died from measles in West Texas—and raised doubts about the safety of vaccines. “He said, ‘You don’t know what’s in the vaccine anymore,’” said a man who buried his 8-year-old daughter hours before
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“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer”
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“When senior leadership disregards OPSEC and security protocols without consequences, it undermines the work we do to enforce these standards”. “[Officers] see these double standards and question why they should be held accountable when leadership is not”
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“Even before this week, the frequent presence of Hegseth’s family had raised eyebrows among some in the Pentagon and the White House”
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The Tariff Damage That Can’t Be Undone. Nothing here has ended well. In fact, it hasn’t even ended.
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