August 12, 2025

Operating in a legal gray area that deserves its own Catch-22,
Alligator Alcatraz has found some loopholes to latch onto.
Florida built it, but can’t enforce immigration;
Feds run it, but shirk environmental regulation.
Meanwhile, prisoners live in cages sans the legal process they’re due.

Trump Has Made at Least $3.4 Billion Off Presidency in First Six Months

August 12, 2025 Buck Banks

$3.4 billion

David Kirkpatrick attempts an honest accounting of the Trump family’s profits from two presidencies — and conservatively estimates the sum to be $3.4 billion. “By the time I finished adding up the Trump family’s profits, I was almost inured to it all.”

Firing BLS Chief ‘Worst of the Worst’

August 12, 2025 Buck Banks

Day: August 12, 2025

Sending Troops to D.C. Is the Act of a Bully

— Quinta Jurecic

Record Number in Immigrant Detention

60,000

“The number of people in immigration detention reached a new high of more than 60,000 on Monday, breaking a modern record set during the first Trump administration,” the New York Times reports.

Loomer Bashes Taylor Greene

“I wish Marjorie Taylor Greene got on her knees for her lord and savior as much as she got on her knees for men who aren’t her husband. Just another fake Christian.”

— Laura Loomer, on X.

Trump’s Law Will Push Millions Off Food Assistance

2.4 million

“Republican-led cuts to public assistance programs – carried out at the behest of Donald Trump’s administration – will lead to 2.4 million fewer Americans receiving food stamps, among them families with children,” The Guardian reports.

Hades in the Everglades

Trump Has Made at Least $3.4 Billion Off Presidency in First Six Months

$3.4 billion

David Kirkpatrick attempts an honest accounting of the Trump family’s profits from two presidencies — and conservatively estimates the sum to be $3.4 billion. “By the time I finished adding up the Trump family’s profits, I was almost inured to it all.”

Firing BLS Chief ‘Worst of the Worst’

“This is the sort of thing only the worst populists do in the worst emerging economies.”

— Economist Phil Suttle, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, on President Trump’s dismissal of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Donald Trump, at a rally in Pennsylvania last night.

“Please send Trump to every single House swing district. He is so out of touch and in the fantasy bubble you created that he will help Dems flip the House even more.”

— Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) issued a plea to the White House.

“NATO calls me Daddy.”

— President Trump, quoted by Axios.

Numerati

45%

Forty-five percent of small-business owners in the U.S. said inflation was their biggest challenge, according to a survey by the Chamber of Commerce, Axios reports.

45 Minutes

17%

11.6 Million Voters

$110 million

Donald Trump has golfed 79 days out of 317 days since returning to office (24.9% of the presidency spent golfing), according to didtrumpgolftoday.com. The estimated cost to taxpayers for Trump’s golf since returning to office: $110,600,000.