Trump's Platform

[Herman]

Trump's appointed border czar Tom Homan joined "The Sean Hannity Show" to clear up any confusion.

"Are you planning on deporting American citizens?" Hannity asked.

"No, exactly not. Look, 'The View,' it's like the island of misfit toys,"' he chuckled. "They don't know what the hell they're talking about."

Homan then explained Trump's actual plan: To "prioritize public safety threats and national security threats first," meaning they're going to seek out "convicted criminal aliens in this country" and issue "orders of removal."

However, that doesn't mean that if you're an illegal alien who's not a convicted criminal that you're safe.

"If you're in the country illegally, you shouldn't feel comfortable — absolutely not," Homan added. "When you enter this country illegally, you have committed a crime. You are a criminal, and you're not off the table."

We're finally getting the guy we've been waiting for.

[DKG]

Well you knew Musk was going to be have some influential role in the Trump administration and thus he has been handed an advisor role in creating greater government efficiency.

Congress controls spending. Trump must assume he will lose the house or the Senate in 2026. He has to work with congress now to control spending. That has never been a priority for Trump, but with fiscal hawks like Musk and Ramaswamy as key advisors, that is bound to change.

[Brent]

In Donald Trump's bombshell interview on "The Joe Rogan Experience," the president-elect floated the idea of abolishing the income tax as well as raising tariffs.

"If you replace a tariff, which is basically a sales tax, but it's one that focuses on imported goods, if you replace that with either reducing or, in our dream scenario, abolishing the entire income tax, it is absolutely rocket fuel for the economy," said Heritage Foundation visiting fellow Peter St Onge.

"If you replace a tariff, which is basically a sales tax, but it's one that focuses on imported goods, if you replace that with either reducing or, in our dream scenario, abolishing the entire income tax, it is absolutely rocket fuel for the economy," he explains, noting that Trump's plan is reminiscent of the 1800s.

"That was before we had an income tax, was also before we had a Fed, and back then, the federal government had to live off tariffs," St Onge says. "That was the greatest period not only of economic growth but of cultural achievement."

"It was really the golden age of humanity, and the key there was that we did not have an income tax, we did not have a regulatory state, we did not have a Fed. So if Trump can take us back there, and all we have to do is like an 8% sales tax on Chinese stocks, that is the deal of the century," he adds.

[Prof Emeritus at Fawk U]

Abolish the IRS and simply let the states collect their own taxes.  Federal programs can be funded by having the states collect 20% above what they need.

Problem solved.

[Brent]

Rather than waste time, money, and energy indulging the delusions of those suffering from body dysmorphia, Health Secretary Robert Kennedy has signaled he will actually try to improve their health and the health of the nation at large.

"We have a generational opportunity to bring together the greatest minds in science, medicine, industry, and government to put an end to the chronic disease epidemic," Kennedy said in his response to Trump's announcement. "I look forward to working with the more than 80,000 employees at HHS to free the agencies from the smothering cloud of corporate capture so they can pursue their mission to make Americans once again the healthiest people on Earth."

Kennedy has offered some hints and specifics in recent months about what he would do if put in a position to take meaningful federal action.

Protecting youth from the sex-change regime
In May, Kennedy tweeted, "The more I learn, the more troubled I have become about giving puberty blockers to youth. Minors cannot drive, vote, join the army, get a tattoo, smoke, or drink, because we know that children do not fully understand the consequences of decisions with life-long ramifications."

The future Trump nominee stressed that the brain's prefrontal cortex, "responsible for skills like planning, prioritizing, and making good decisions, doesn't fully mature until the early to mid-20s."

"I don't think children can genuinely consent to repurposed castration drugs (puberty blockers) and surgical mutilation, which have permanent, irreversible effects," said Kennedy.

A Kennedy-led HHS would help Trump make good on his vows to revoke the Biden-Harris administration's "cruel policies on so-called 'gender-affirming care'"; cease all programs promoting the concept of gender transition; and cut "any hospital or healthcare provider participating in the chemical or physical mutilation of minor youth" off of Medicaid and Medicare.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is one of the HHS agencies Kennedy would oversee.

When threatening federal funding, Kennedy might want to look at the medical advocacy group Do No Harm's new database of hospitals and medical facilities that are apparently subjecting children to sex-change mutilations and sterilizing chemical treatments.

[DKG]

might get the 'keys to the intelligence community kingdom.'
There is a pattern developing with regard to President-elect Donald Trump's recent nominations: He announces someone apparently well suited to executing the agenda he successfully campaigned on; those with vested interests in the status quo panic; and establishmentarians viciously attack the nominees, pleading with nominal Republicans in the U.S. Senate to prevent their confirmation.

This pattern has been repeated for multiple picks, including former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Although virtually all of Trump's nominations have ruffled feathers, his choice of Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard to serve as the director of national intelligence appears to have inspired a special kind of unease among Democratic lawmakers, the liberal media, and elements of the intelligence community.

[Herman]

Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth had this to say about the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "First of all, you've got to fire the chairman of Joint Chiefs." He explained how the Trump administration could course correct after a disastrous four years under the Biden administration.

"You're going to bring in a new secretary of defense, but any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that was involved in any of the DEI, woke s***, has got to go," he continued.

"You've got to get DEI and CRT out of military academies so you're not training young officers to be baptized in this type of thinking, and then whatever the combat standards were say in, I don't know, 1995, let's just make those the standards," he added.

While Hegseth admits the trust has been broken between the military and the people, he doesn't believe it's too late.

"You have to reestablish that trust by putting in no-nonsense war fighters in those positions who aren't going to cater to the socially correct garbage," he concluded.

[DKG]

Donald Trump's incoming border czar said he would prioritize locating or rescuing 300,000 unaccounted-for children who entered the United States as illegal immigrants and are at risk of exploitation.

"The third rail is we got over 300,000 missing children," Tom Homan said Monday, likely referring to a government report issued earlier this year. "Over half a million children have been trafficked into the United States. This administration released them to unvetted sponsors, and they can't find 300,000. And based on three-and-a-half decades, some of these children are in forced labor."

Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general released a report finding that 323,000 illegal immigrant children are unaccounted for inside the United States. As of May 2024, more than 32,000 children who were served notices to appear in court did not appear, while the safety of an additional 291,000 could not be verified because they were not placed into removal proceedings, making monitoring their status challenging.

[Brent]

Trump picked Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer for for secretary of labor.

Chavez-DeRemer, who lost her reelection bid earlier this month, is seen as an unusually union-friendly voice for a Republican administration. She was among only three Republicans in the House, for instance, to co-sponsor the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which would have made joining unions easier, boosted penalties for employers that break labor laws, and weakened "right-to-work" laws.

The Teamsters lobbied Trump to choose Chavez-DeRemer, Politico reported. A Teamsters spokesperson called her an "excellent choice" for the role.