Great headline.
Senate Passes Megabill as Murkowski Stays Bought
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-01-big-beautiful-bill-trump-murkowski/
Record debt and inequality gap?
It's almost like 40 years of Republican tax cuts failed. And this is from 2019! https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/10/03/republican-tax-cuts-fail-record-debt-and-inequality-gap-column/3833546002/
DID YOU KNOW: For the $2.3T cost of the 2017 GOP tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy, we could instead provide $10,000 of student debt relief to 230,000,000 struggling students!
#EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
June 30, 2017 – MSNBC news anchors Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski alleged the White House tried to blackmail them with an article about their relationship in the National Enquirer. The newly engaged co-anchors claimed they had texts and phone records from Trump advisers threatening to publish the Enquirer article if the pair did not contact Trump directly.
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June 30, 2017 – For the position of senior adviser in the Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, Donald Trump appointed an activist who led a campaign to restrict transgender access to bathrooms.
Under the Obama Administration, the Office of Gender Equality supported LGBT empowerment both domestically
and abroad.
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June 30, 2017 – Referring to the House’s passage of a second repeal-and-replace bill, Donald Trump tweeted, “If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!”
If Obamacare were repealed without an alternative to replace it, 32 million Americans would lose health care coverage.
#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
June 30, 2020 – Fireworks at Mount Rushmore were banned a decade ago over fears of wildfires, but the Trump administration announced that he would host a Fourth of July fireworks celebration at the park. South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem, who organized the event with Trump and the Department of Interior, said, “we will not be social distancing.”
WE. KNOW. TAX. CUTS. FOR. RICH. DON'T. WORK.!!!
50-year study of tax cuts on wealthy shows they always fail to "trickle down" https://www.salon.com/2020/12/27/50-year-study-of-tax-cuts-on-wealthy-shows-they-always-fail-to-trickle-down/
Will Republicans try to override the Byrd Rule? How can they, when it was named after the great West Virginia (reformed) racist and KKK Exalted Cyclops, Senator Robert Byrd?
#EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
June 27, 2017 – Scott Pruitt and the EPA rolled back Obama-era protections that ensured DRINKING WATER was clean and safe for consumption.
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June 27, 2017 – The Trump Organization framed a March 1, 2009 cover of Time magazine and hung it on the walls of at least five Trump resorts.
The cover features Trump with his arms crossed beside the headlines “Donald Trump: The Apprentice is a television smash!” and “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS…EVEN ON TV!” Time magazine has confirmed the cover is fake.
#SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
June 27, 2019 – Customs and Border Protection officers detained eighteen-year-old American Francisco Erwin Galicia for twenty-six days.
Under Trump, border officials can now fast-track deportations. Galicia was carrying a Texas ID, a Social Security card, and a copy of his birth certificate.
#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
June 27, 2020 – Reports emerged that staffers of Tulsa’s BOK Center, which hosted Trump’s June 20th rally, affixed DO NOT SIT HERE, PLEASE! stickers to arena seats to create social distancing.
Before the event, however, Trump’s campaign had thousands of the stickers removed.
#EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
June 26, 2017 – Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke flew on a charter plane from Las Vegas to his hometown in Montana, which cost taxpayers $12,375.
Zinke and his staff used private and military aircraft multiple times.
#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
June 26, 2020 – Russia offered Taliban-linked militants bounties to kill American troops.
According to the New York Times, Trump and his administration had known about the bounties for months, and in response, had done nothing to punish or confront Russia.
#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
June 26, 2020 – Holding the first briefing of the coronavirus task force in almost two months, Vice President Mike Pence cited “remarkable progress” in its fight against the virus.
COVID-19, however, was spreading at a record rate across the country.
#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
June 26, 2020 – With an hour to spare before a midnight deadline, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
The brief was submitted at a time when millions of Americans had lost their jobs and health care during the pandemic.
#EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
June 25, 2017 – Donald Trump tweeted, “Hillary Clinton colluded with the Democratic Party in order to beat Crazy Bernie Sanders. Is she allowed to so collude? Unfair to Bernie!”
At the time, Trump was under investigation for colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
#SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
June 25, 2019 – A day after the United States imposed sanctions against Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Trump increased tensions by threatening Iran in a tweet.
“Any attack by Iran on anything American,” he wrote, “will be met with great and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration.”
#SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
June 24, 2019 – When asked about E. Jean Carroll’s sexual assault accusations, Trump responded, “I’ll say it with great respect, number one, she’s not my type.”
