https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-mount-rushmore-bill-anna-paulina-luna-2022609
A bill to add a carving of President Donald Trump to Mount Rushmore has been introduced by a MAGA politician.

Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna announced the bill Tuesday calling for Trump to be added to the South Dakota monument with the message: "Let's get carving."

Newsweek has contacted the White House and Luna for comment via email outside of regular working hours.

The proposal is the latest attempt to commemorate the Republican following his return to the White House, signaling that Trump's staunch supporters continue to show strong support for the president in his second term.

Luna, who represents Florida's 13th Congressional District, introduced a bill calling for a carving of Trump to be included on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial alongside former Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

The bill is unlikely to receive the bipartisan support needed to pass Congress.

North Carolina Representative Addison McDowell introduced a bill last week to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after Trump.

Tennessee Representative Andy Ogles also introduced a long-shot bill to amend the Constitution to allow Trump to run for a third term.

Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor who carved the Mount Rushmore memorial, selected the four presidents because they represented the "most important events" in U.S. history, according to the National Park Service.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-presidential-power-executive-congress-grants-freeze-60fa3a9fabf6328f9aa3c45ed34e2cc3

Just a little over a week into his second term, President Donald Trump took steps to maximize his power, sparking chaos and what critics contend is a constitutional crisis as he challenges the separation of powers that have defined American government for more than 200 years.

The new administration’s most provocative move came this week, as it announced it would temporarily halt federal payments to ensure they complied with Trump’s orders barring diversity programs. The technical-sounding directive had enormous immediate impact before it was blocked by a federal judge, potentially pulling trillions of dollars from police departments, domestic violence shelters, nutrition services and disaster relief programs that rely on federal grants. The administration on Wednesday rescinded the order.

Though the Republican administration denied Medicaid was affected, it acknowledged the online portal allowing states to file for reimbursement from the program was shut down for part of Tuesday in what it insisted was an error.

Legal experts noted the president is explicitly forbidden from cutting off spending for programs that Congress has approved. The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to appropriate money and requires the executive to pay it out. A 50-year-old law known as the Impoundment Control Act makes that explicit by prohibiting the president from halting payments on grants or other programs approved by Congress.

“The thing that prevents the president from being an absolute monarch is Congress controls the power of the purse strings,” said Josh Chafetz, a law professor at Georgetown University, adding that even a temporary freeze violates the law. “It’s what guarantees there’s a check on the presidency.”

Democrats and other critics said the move was blatantly unconstitutional.

Buying and supplying items including food and drink could cost businesses as much as a fifth more this year, which they will pass on to consumers, according to the international trade association, which represents 64,000 member organisations in procurement and supply chains across 150 countries.

International shipping costs have been rising in recent months as global freight companies faced a string of challenges in moving goods around the world.

Tensions in the Middle East and attacks on vessels travelling through the Red Sea by Houthi rebels prompted many major shipping firms to re-route their vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, adding cost and time to journeys.

The prospect of Trump following through on his threats to impose tariffs of 10% on global imports into the US, along with a higher 60% tariff on Chinese goods has already prompted some companies to bring forward container shipments of goods to avoid such changes.

However, pre-emptive measures such as stockpiling would only temporarily delay the impact of price rises, trade experts said, warning that any new levies could push up costs, disrupt trade flows, and spark retaliation against US exports.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/07/consumers-price-rises-trade-experts-warn

Mexico, crippled by trumps tariffs, announces that they will deploy their military to protect the Mexican/American border in return for trump dropping the tariffs
Can we even handle this much winning, bros?
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/03/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-china-sheinbaum-responds.html
Trump pauses Mexico tariffs for one month after agreement on border troops

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said the United States agreed to pause for one month the implementation of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods from her country.
Sheinbaum said Mexico will immediately reinforce its northern border with 10,000 National Guard soldiers “to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, particularly fentanyl.”

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday that the United States has agreed to pause for one month the implementation of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods from her country.

Sheinbaum also said in a tweet, that after speaking with Trump, Mexico “will immediately reinforce” its northern border with the U.S. with 10,000 National Guard soldiers “to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, particularly fentanyl.”

“We had a good conversation with President Trump with great respect for our relationship and sovereignty; we reached a series of agreements,” Sheinbaum wrote in the tweet, according to a translation from Spanish.

“The United States is committed to working to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico,” she wrote.

Europe is pre-kneeling
>we were gonna d-do that anyway!


"we were gonna d-do that anyway!" bros... i got nothing... when is the next democrat party narrative update dropping? We need it and fast.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-wants-early-us-talks-avert-trump-tariffs-2025-02-04/

Trump made Colombian president fold like a lawn chair.
Gustavo Petro is ordering all Colombian illegal immigrants to return back to the country. He is offering to pay cash to illegal aliens if they return home immediately .
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/colombian-president-asks-undocumented-colombians-united-states-return-rcna190129
Colombian president asks undocumented Colombians in the United States to return
Colombian air force planes carrying deportees from the U.S. have arrived in Bogota this week.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Friday urged undocumented Colombians in the United States to quit their jobs “immediately” and return to Colombia.

He added in a post on X that the Department of Social Prosperity would offer credits to returnees who enroll in its programs

Colombian air force planes carrying deportees from the U.S. have arrived in Bogota this week.

Petro over the weekend averted an economic disaster after diplomats from his government and the U.S. reached a deal on deportation flights in a dispute that had led both countries to threaten tariffs and the U.S. to impose visa measures.