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There's Donald Trump heading out to golf yesterday while vacationing in Florida at Mar-a-Lago. Such a small individual in a big car right there. And while Donald Trump was vacationing at Mar-a-Lago and playing golf, This was the event that he was hosting at Mar-a-Lago. You see it right there where they had a giant pink Croc Birkin bag on display. The theme was expensive purses and pocketbooks.
By the way, that pocketbook that they're, I guess, showcasing there is for sale at the price of $447,000. $447,000. So as Donald Trump is gutting your Medicaid, calling your social security a Ponzi scheme, firing veterans, cutting 60 to 70,000 jobs at the VA, tanking our economy, destroying your 401k and pension,
It's great to know that at Mar-a-Lago, while Donald Trump's been vacationing this weekend, they're throwing a party where they're honoring the pink Birkin Croc bag that's for sale for the price of $447,000. Now, while Donald Trump was vacationing, he also invoked wartime powers. He invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Yes, Donald Trump put in an executive order that the United States of America is currently at war. He describes it as a hybrid war between Venezuela and the Venezuelan gangs against the United States, whereby Venezuela and the gangs fight. have created such an invasion that it is a war, that Donald Trump needs to invoke wartime powers in order to deport people who he believes to be war criminals.
And he says it's just gonna focus on the gangs, but if you actually read the text, It would give Donald Trump unilateral authority, basically, to declare anybody a gang member and deport them without their constitutional rights. The Alien Enemies Act has only been invoked three times before in history. The War of 1812, World War I, and World War II.
And now, as Donald Trump is alleging, Venezuela has invaded Venezuela. the United States of America, which it has not. Let me also be very clear. Nobody wants gangs here in the United States. There are already laws on the books that deal with gangs and how to deport them, as well as how to criminally prosecute them and how to throw the book at them. You don't need to invoke phony wartime powers.
And as I've said before, I believe Donald Trump is doing this as a precursor to invoking other wartime powers to eventually declare martial law, put curfews on and try to rule like an authoritarian. That's what this moment is about. And we have to perceive it as such. As I've said, I don't call the Trump regime a government because it's not by the people for the people.
It's by the bullies for the billionaires and for Putin. Speaking of Putin, this was an interesting headline that I read. Donald Trump appoints Keith Kellogg as special envoy to Ukraine and removes him from dealings with Russia. I found that headline quite interesting because I remember back on November 27th of 2024, this headline from the Associated Press and others, and we reported as well.
Trump selects longtime advisor Keith Kellogg as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia. I put that X over the word Russia, and you see I circled there November 27th, 2024. So what Donald Trump did, by the way, this was at Vladimir Putin's request, was to remove Kellogg from having any dealings with Russia. So right now, Kellogg is just the envoy to Ukraine.
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