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Holy Cow: Trump and Mark Cuban Share the Limelight

It was only a little more than a year ago that Mark Cuban, he of “Shark Tank” fame and of billions in assets, said nasty things about Donald Trump in his bid for a second term in the White House. Cuban supported Kamala Harris. That support was not overlooked today as President Trump and 2024 critic Cuban shared the stage in announcing an expansion of the TrumpRx.gov drug website to include generic drugs. A reporter, during the follow-up Q&A, asked Trump what he thought of being on stage with a notable Harris supporter, and he replied, “He [Cuban] made a mistake.” Cuban smiled at the joke and the reporters laughed along. “’This has been the greatest breakthrough in lowering health care costs in modern history, but we’re just sort of getting started,” Trump said, calling the expanded TrumpRx the “hottest thing in medicine.” The announcement today adds some 600 generic medications to the site. Cuban himself also started a low-cost drug company called Cost Plus, and he seemed more than happy to join with Trump in bringing more affordable medications to the American public. “Everyone wants me to rip on TrumpRx,” Cuban wrote in a recent social media post. “Reality

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Rubio Goes to China — and Builds Credentials for 2028

Marco Rubio, once a fierce Trump debate opponent and now President Trump’s Secretary of State, is building momentum — and credentials — to be the 2028 Republican presidential nominee. To wit: When Rubio hosted a press conference in the White House recently, he shone like none other and kept the audience wrapped up in his hands. When he was in Europe a while back, he assuaged the Trump-phobic leaders assembled to hear a diatribe but instead received reassurances. When he was in China recently, he seemed more honest and confident than our own national chief executive, Donald John Trump. When he speaks of Cuba, as a refugee he sounds the right notes. Frankly, I find Rubio more fit for the nation’s highest office than our Vice President, JD Vance. Vance seems to have morphed his experience as a Marine Corps press spokesperson into a political career. Rubio, although obviously also a politician, seems to have a better first-hand grasp of what’s going on in the world. What’s interesting is that Rubio was banned from China in 2020 because of his outspoken criticism of the People’s Republic’s stance on Hong Kong democracy and on the enslavement of the domestic Muslim Uyghurs.

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Add President TOFU to the President TACO Nickname Parade

None dare call it obsequiousness, so I won’t. But it comes close. Did anyone else notice how Donald John Trump, 47th president of the United States, went out of his way to kowtow to Chinese Premier Xi Jinping at every opportunity during his recent summit, while speaking tough in interviews with Sean Hannity and with reporters aboard Air Force One on the way home? Look at the photo above. Do you notice how Trump not only shakes Xi’s hand but also repeatedly caresses it with his left hand? Notice also that Xi does not reciprocate the affection. That’s just one example of President TOFU — Trump Often Fawns Unrelentingly — in action around powerful people. In his position as president, of course, the only two really powerful people he would feel a need to kowtow to are Xi and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, though he showed some similar traits when meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his first term. So, I hereby nominate my new nickname — President TOFU — to the Trump Observers’ Hall of Fame, to join the President TACO formulation. Unfortunately, this presidential fawning has led to dire potential results for Taiwan. Word has it that

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Trump Returns from China with Illusion of Some Sort of Victory

That’s two world leaders and two comeuppances for our president. First, Russia’s Vladimir Putin handed Sir Donald his lunch in Anchorage, Alaska, after the president arrived, convinced that his good pal Vlad would simply end his war in Ukraine after Trump treated him like a king. Then, for the past two days, President Trump went to China, convinced that Xi Jinping, that country’s formidable leader, would squeeze his client state Iran to agree to a peace deal with Trump on Trump’s terms. Instead, he got a lecture on America’s stance toward the independence of Taiwan. Xi warned Trump that war between China and the U.S. might be on the table if we try to stop China’s takeover of Taiwan. Trump answered with silence, basically. No major announcement of any sort of deal or agreement was aired by either China or the U.S. after the two days of talks. Trump in his remarks, both with Fox’s Sean Hannity and at a luncheon with Xi yesterday, claimed that Xi had agreed that the Strait of Hormuz should be a free waterway and that Iran should never have a nuclear weapon. Nothing confirming that statement was ever issued by anyone in China. In short,

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While Trump Goes to China, the CIA Covers Its Ass in the JFK Mess

Ever since November 22, 1963, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been hard at work ensuring that its involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) stays hidden. There’s no secret that the CIA was more than upset when JFK decided to shake up the organization. Did the organization, in response, seek to end the threat of its Deep State unraveling by moving against the president, either in conspiracy with Lee Harvey Oswald and/or others, or, as depicted on a TV documentary, by having one of its agents finish the job from a trailing vehicle in JFK’s Dallas motorcade? There is also speculation that the CIA had its hands in the removal of President Richard Nixon after he remarked to the CIA Director, “I know who killed JFK,” meaning the CIA, of course. Now, decades later, one Donald John Trump, as the 47th president of the United States, has ordered all government agencies, including the CIA, to make public all files relating to JFK’s assassination. Today, as that same Donald John Trump is in Beijing to meet with China’s Premier, Xi Jinping, the CIA ransacked the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard to remove

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Iran War Negotiators Searching for Ghost of Ayatollah Khamenei I or II — Can’t Find Either

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Ayatollah Khamenei, presumably the son of the late one, is MIA and can’t be located for his nod or turndown over the latest peace proposal from the U.S. The article makes the startling assertion that no one has seen Khamenei II since being elevated to the position of Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic. Gee, ya think? Mojtaba Khamenei hasn’t been seen or heard since the U.S.-Israeli airstrike in February killed his father, wife, and son. The only semblance of his existence has been messages reportedly released by him, but never in his actual voice, and images that are no doubt AI-generated. His nonexistence or partial existence — it’s been said he cannot talk and needs plastic surgery, among other medical challenges — will play a crucial role in the acceptance of a final peace deal, according to the article. It appears that only the Supreme Leader can sign off on such major decisions. Meanwhile, the same WSJ edition reports that Iran has submitted a response to the latest U.S. peace/end-of-hostilities proposal. Doublessly, it still refuses to turn over its nuclear “dust,” as President Trump calls it, to the U.S. Word has

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Trump’s ‘ Beggar Thy Neighbor’ Policy Suffers Another Court Upbraiding

President Trump initially announced the details of his plan to increase tariffs on imported goods on April 2, 2025, which he hailed as “Liberation Day.” This came after a campaign for king, er, president, in which he proclaimed “tariff” to be the most beautiful word in the English language. In announcing his “beggar thy neighbor” policy, the man from Mar-a-Lago thus turned back U.S. clocks to the days of President William McKinley, before the enactment of the 16th Amendment in 1913, which created the income tax and ushered in the age of Woodrow Wilson and the rise of the modern Demofiend party. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump lacked the authority to impose most of the tariffs announced on that April day, Sir Donald immediately imposed a 10-percent across-the-board tariff on all imports. This week, that “most beautiful word” plan to somehow bring manufacturing back to America was again ruled beyond the president’s legal reach. Two days ago, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled 2-1 that Trump’s 10-percent, post-SCOTUS tariff was “invalid, and the tariffs imposed on Plaintiffs are unauthorized by law.” The two affirming votes came from Obama appointees, the one dissenting nod from a Dubya

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