Thursday Terrible Trump Administration Tabs
It was hard to lead off with the first two links, let alone move into the others, and use a cat picture. I know that the tab-clearing is rarely happy, but these are a bit worse than usual. We start with ICE abuses and slide into various kinds of corruption in the administration. This is as much an “In front of our noses” post as a tab-clearer
- Via the AP: Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked.
- Via the Irish Times: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September.
- Via CBS News: Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump’s 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows.
- Via CBS News: Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show.
- Via Politico: Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations.
- Via ABC News: Trump wants Penn Station, Dulles Airport named after him in funding deal with Schumer, sources say.
- Via NBC News: EPA to repeal its own conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the planet and threaten health.
- By David S. Bernstein at Good Politics/Bad Politics: Bunny Hopping.
- From Dan Drezner: The Trouble With Tulsi Gabbard.. and America.
- Performing for an audience of one:
Jimmy Kimmel had a great line about Pam Blondi (sic), “if she were your neighbor, you’d move.”
I know that news stories, like history rhyme, but frankly looking at the a day’s headlines are dogrel.
Trump is the canary in the mine, the exposed reality is the Presidency has accumulated way too much power.
Re Lutnick, saying “Yes, I went too pedophile island, but just for lunch and I brought my wife and kids and some young women with me,” is an admission of null moral character and not an excuse.
Does Trump really, truly, seriously want Penn Station and Dulles Airport renamed after him, or is this just his idea of a joke?
@CSK:
Yes.
In the case of the airport, it could be worse. They could be replacing the name of someone worthy of the honor.
A shithead who drinks with their pinky finger above the rim and carries themself with learned, classy dignity is still a shithead.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/trump-administration-officially-rejects-climate-change-as-something-that-can-be-addressed-via-regulation
President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.
The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases that scientists say are supercharging heat waves, droughts, wildfires and other extreme weather.
Led by a president who refers to climate change as a “hoax,” the administration is essentially saying that the vast majority of scientists around the world are wrong and that a hotter planet is not the menace that decades of research shows it to be.
It’s a rejection of fact that had been accepted for decades by presidents of both parties, including Richard Nixon, whose top adviser warned of the dangers of climate change and the first President George Bush, who signed an international climate treaty.
And it is a knockout punch in the yearslong fight by a small group of conservative activists as well as oil, gas and coal interests to stop the country from transitioning away from fossil fuels and toward solar, wind and other nonpolluting energy.
“This is about as big as it gets,” President Trump said at the White House as a smiling Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency stood by. “We are officially terminating the so-called ‘endangerment finding,’ a disastrous Obama-era policy,” he said.
Mr. Trump called it a “radical rule” that became “the basis for the Green New Scam,” a label the president gives to any effort to curb emissions or develop renewable energy.
Mr. Zeldin called it “the single largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States.” The administration claimed it would save auto manufacturers and other businesses an estimated $1 trillion, although it has declined to explain how it arrived at that estimate.
At issue is what’s known as the endangerment finding, a 2009 scientific conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to Americans’ health and welfare.
@Kurtz:
Call me stupid, but who’s the shithead? It’s true Trump is a shithead, but rather than walking with “classy dignity,” he lumbers around slump-shoulders like the oaf he is.
@CSK:
I was referring to JF Dulles. He and his brother were tutored throughout their childhoods by their maternal grandfather, a former Sec. of State. They both attended Princeton.
@Kurtz:
Thanks; that’s what I thought. Didn’t his brother Allen get shitcanned by JFK uver the Bay of the Pigs disaster.
@CSK:
Really and truly. He is quite proud of his massive ego to a degree I believe qualifies as megalomania. He is trying to re-make the world in his image. Perhaps even with an awareness that it will likely all be undone after he is gone.
@dazedandconfused:
I watched the video to which you linked. All I can say is “G00d G0d.”