Tag: trump

  • Trump Action Tracker

    Informative and depressing: the Trump Action Tracker. Tracks all the actions and orders taken and what they affect.

  • The use of Fortunate Son

    Like Born on the Fourth of July, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Fortunate Son is up there with most misunderstood songs of all time. Why or how Fortunate Son, about a draft dodger, ended up on Trump’s parade playlist is a new height for irony.

  • FAFAnomics

    Recent economic policy has turned into FAFAnomics – Fuck Around and Find Out Economics,

    F*ck Around and Find Out Economics, something that feels like the policy equivalent of a TikTok influencer doing increasingly dangerous stunts off the side of a building for views. The goal isn’t good governance; it’s capturing attention at any cost. And it’s working! While we debate whether each new crisis is legal, ethical, or even real1(as we should) the broader transformation of American fiscal policy continues.

  • White House social media strategy

    Washington Post explores the new White House social media machine

    After years of working to undermine mainstream outlets and neutralize critical reporting, Trump’s allies are now pushing a parallel information universe of social media feeds and right-wing firebrands to sell the country on his expansionist approach to presidential power.

    For the Trump team, that has involved aggressively confronting critics like Gomez, not just to “reframe the narrative” but to drown them out, said Kaelan Dorr, a deputy assistant to the president who runs the digital team.

    Ghoulish behavior through propaganda.