Trump's foreign policy Archives

Nobody Is Coming Here

April 17, 2025 Buck Banks

$90 billion

Bloomberg: “Arrivals of non-citizens to the US by plane dropped almost 10% in March from a year earlier… Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates in a worst-case scenario, the hit this year from reduced travel and boycotts could total 0.3% of gross domestic product, which would amount to almost $90 billion.”

USAID Debacle: Worst Foreign Policy Blunder Ever

February 8, 2025 Buck Banks

“We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in U.S. history.”

— Former USAID Director Samantha Power, quoted by the New York Times.

FYI, It’s NOT Green

January 9, 2025 Buck Banks

In a couple of weeks Trump takes command,
And we hope he focuses on domestic stuff, like Cleveland.
The polar vortex is nice,
But we have enough ice,
So please let the Danes keep frigid Greenland.

Tag: Trump’s foreign policy

Nobody Is Coming Here

$90 billion

USAID Debacle: Worst Foreign Policy Blunder Ever

“We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in U.S. history.”

— Former USAID Director Samantha Power, quoted by the New York Times.

FYI, It’s NOT Green

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Charlie Cook

“Sharia law seeks to destroy and supplant the pillars of our republican form of government and is incompatible with the Western tradition. The use of taxpayer-funded school vouchers to promote Sharia law likely contravenes Florida law and undermines our national security.”

— Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, introducing an Islamic law scare into the public discourse via an X post magnifying claims that state universal school choice dollars were paying for instruction in Sharia in Tampa charter schools, reported Florida Phoenix.

“I’m the speaker and the president.”

— President Trump, quoted by the New York Times, noting how he’s marginalized Speaker Mike Johnson.

Numerati

$279 billion

18

“President Donald Trump littered his new ’60 Minutes’ interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked,” CNN reports. “We counted at least 18 inaccurate assertions.”

~42 million

$14 billion

“The U.S. economy will lose between $7 billion and $14 billion due to the federal government shutdown, according to a new report released by Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper,” the Washington Post reports.

-18

The Economist finds President Trump’s net approval rating is -18 (39% approve, 57% disapprove) — the lowest it has been since his inauguration and three percentage-points lower than at any point in his first term.