US EditionTrump touts economic record during Detroit trip, seeking to ease voter anxieties
Trump highlighted his administration's role in boosting U.S. manufacturing and lowering consumer costs, despite ongoing job losses and a 27% approval rating on affordability issues, Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump spoke at the Detroit Economic Club after touring a Ford truck plant, touting the economy and his 2024 victory while defending tariffs as closing the trade deficit.
- With second‑term economic policies on defense, President Donald Trump has defended his handling of inflation and tariffs last month and plans an affordability plan at Davos.
- The December jobs report showed only 50,000 jobs added and overall 2025 job growth slowed, while the Department of Homeland Security reported assaults up 1,300% and death threats up over 8,000%.
- The policy shift on sanctuary funding and outreach to oil executives signal that starting Feb. 1, President Donald Trump will cut payments to sanctuary cities despite federal court blocks, and he urged U.S. investment in Venezuela amid recent strikes and Nicolás Maduro's capture.
- Deployment of over 2,400 Department of Homeland Security agents has raised political and legal questions, with the administration reporting hundreds of criminals found and disputes over an ICE shooting involving Renee Good.
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This issue hurts Trump more than any other. His panicky lies show he knows it
The latest gauge on inflation, released on Monday morning, showed prices increasing 2.7 percent in December compared with the same period a year ago. Food prices were up 3.1 percent. (Reminder: Trump was elected on two issues: bringing prices down, especially food, and avoiding foreign entanglements.)On Tuesday, Trump traveled to Detroit to deliver an address to the Detroit Economic Club. It was about “affordability” and he filled it with lies —…
Infinite Trump clears his throat
Before delivering a speech to the Detroit Economic Club in Michigan on Tuesday, president Donald Trump "cleared his throat," though as throat-clearing routines go it was at the strange end and "raised questions," as reporters put it, about his declining health. — Read the rest The post Infinite Trump clears his throat appeared first on Boing Boing.
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