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I think the relationship is more resilient than this panic-attack indicates.The U.S. Wooed India for 30 Years. Trump Blew That Up in a Few Months.
—> Opinion | Trump Has Obliterated America’s 30-Year Courtship of India
“… Bill Clinton, who laid the foundations of the modern U.S.-India partnership, called the two democracies “natural allies.” George W. Bush described them as “brothers in the cause of human liberty.” Barack Obama and Joe Biden both cast the relationship as one of the defining global compacts of this century.
To Washington, India was a vast emerging market, a potential counterweight to China, a key partner in maintaining Indo-Pacific security and a rising power whose democratic identity would bolster a rules-based international order. For its part, India — mistrustful of the West after nearly a century of British colonial rule — shed its Cold War suspicion of Washington, which had armed and financed its archnemesis Pakistan for decades, and moved steadily closer to the United States.
It took Donald Trump one summer to obliterate these gains.
… This abrupt falling-out has profound implications. Mr. Trump’s insults have, to some degree, united India’s permanently clashing political parties — a striking development in a country where Mr. Modi’s divisive rule has left little political common ground. For the first time in decades, the United States is the common foe of almost every political faction in India….”
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So what is the 2025 annual budget? $5 trillion? So the national debt should have been paid down with all this extra money, why are we not seeing it?
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Labor Day gas prices are expected to average $3.15 per gallon this year— the cheapest since 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to GasBuddy. That’s down modestly from $3.29 last Labor Day.
Drivers in some parts of the country will find sub-$3 gas. As of Thursday, the average price is below $3 per gallon in 15 states, including Georgia, Texas, North Carolina and Iowa, according to AAA, the automotive and trip-planning group.…”
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I’m sorry but that is goddamn genius.The grift never ends with the guy. And unlike the article, I believe Trump will find a way to send out Trump checks (going to buy the election to keep power).
Trump is dangling the idea of government checks to get people to donate to his campaign
Trump is dangling the idea of government checks to get people to donate to his campaign
Trump hasn't actually committed to sending DOGE checks or tariff rebate checks to Americans. He's still mentioning them in fundraising emails.www.businessinsider.com
President Donald Trump is fundraising off of checks from the government that he's unlikely to send.
In recent months, Trump's political operation has sent several fundraising emails that mention either the "DOGE Dividend" or tariff rebate checks, both of which theoretically involve sending checks to some Americans worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
In the case of DOGE checks, tax-paying Americans would receive checks of up to $5,000 based on purported savings from DOGE. With tariff rebate checks, some of the revenue from tariffs would be sent primarily to lower-income Americans.
While Trump has said publicly that he's considering pursuing both ideas, he has neither committed to nor made any concerted public push for either.
And even if he did, Trump would have to seek approval from Congress, where Republicans are overwhelmingly against both ideas.
That hasn't stopped the president's campaign from using both concepts — sometimes simultaneously — to solicit donations.
A fundraising email sent by his leadership PAC on Thursday included the subject line, "Do you want a DOGE check?"
But the body of the email included a "Rebate Check Poll."
A screenshot of the Trump fundraising email sent on Thursday. Never Surrender, Inc PAC
"Should bonus revenue from tariffs go back to the American People VIA CHECK SIGNED BY TRUMP?" asks the email. "My team tells me that gathering ONE MILLION RESPONSES TODAY is the best way to send these so-called "representatives" a message they won't be able to ignore."
Two large buttons in the body of the email — labeled "QUESTION #1" and "RESPOND TO TRUMP" — send recipients to a donation page.
Trump's political operation has sent at least two other emails about tariff rebate checks this month. One email sent on August 3 asks recipients: "SHOULD BONUS REVENUE FROM MY HISTORIC TRUMP TARIFFS GO BACK TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE VIA REBATE CHECK SIGNED BY TRUMP?"
Before Thursday, Trump had most recently mentioned DOGE dividends in an early June email, with the subject line: "I've got a $5,000 question for you."
"Would you take a DOGE dividend check signed by yours truly?," asks the email. "RESPOND IMMEDIATELY."
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump has not floated the DOGE checks idea since February, and DOGE has so far resulted in a much smaller cut to government spending than initially predicted.
Meanwhile, the president said on Wednesday that while there's a "concept" of tariff rebate checks, he "primarily" wants to put additional revenue from tariffs toward paying down the debt.
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“… Trump argued that barring another country’s students from coming to the U.S. would be “insulting” in an interview with The Daily Caller, the right-wing website co-founded by Tucker Carlson.
“I have a very good relationship with [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping]. I think it’s very insulting to a country when you say you’re not going to take your students,” Trump said.
He argued that admitting Chinese students is “good for our system,” particularly for “lesser colleges.”
Trump made comments at the marathon Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, saying that he told Xi he was “honored” to have students from China in the U.S.
The president’s curiously accommodating remarks, which come as trade negotiations continue between the two countries, sharply depart from his administration’s previous stance. …”
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