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After Donald Trump very mildly attacked Vladimir Putin over the weekend, the Kremlin fired back and accused Trump of being "emotional" and having "emotional reactions" to what's happening around the world. In other words, Putin thinks that Trump is weak and acting like a child with his "emotional" reactions. This is a clear sign that Putin has no intention of giving in to any of Trump's "demands" that he may have for ending the war.Donald Trump and his Republican allies have been insistent that their budget does NOT call for cuts to Medicaid or other social welfare programs. Unfortunately for them, not everyone is on the same page of talking points, and one of Trump's closest advisers accidentally admitted during an interview that the bill DOES cut Medicaid by $880 billion. In other words, he admitted that everyone in the GOP is lying about the cuts. Foreign tourism to the United States has dropped by about 10% this year, all because of Donald Trump and his policies. This drop in tourism is projected to cost the economy as much as $23 billion and up to a quarter of a million jobs. Foreigners may not have a say in US elections, but they are certainly voting with their dollars right now. During his Memorial Day speech in front of families that had lost their loved ones in active duty service, Donald Trump boasted to the crowd that he "has everything." As if that wasn't bad enough, he also managed to make it even worse by saying that God "favors" him. The man is absolutely delusional and dangerous, but he's also the most insensitive person on the planet with a complete lack of empathy for others. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

It turns out that making your most incompetent lawyer a US attorney so that she can go after your political enemies wasn't the smartest move. Alina Habba announced criminal charges against Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver this week, but it was revealed at the time of the announcement that the charges hadn't actually been filed yet. It turns out that announcing charges before filing them is a big no-no in the legal world, and her premature move could make the entire prosecution null and void.Matt Gaetz probably did not expect his career to end up the way that it has. The man who was on the verge of becoming the Attorney General of the United States is now hosting a show that nearly everyone forgot about while also doing paid online ads for an online pharmacy that specializes in prescribing Ivermectin. The ad is about as pathetic as it gets, and so is what's left of Gaetz's career. The White House formally accepted the $400 million "flying palace" junk airplane from Qatar this week, but not before the truth about the situation finally came out. It turns out that Qatar didn't actually offer him the plane as we were all led to believe - Trump and his associates begged the country to give it to us. The plane had been sitting in storage for more than 5 years as Qatar tried, and failed, to find a buyer for it, but sucker Trump fell in love and begged the country to give it to him. The Washington Post decided to go out into rural America to talk with farmers who, as a whole, overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump in last year's election. These Trump-voting farmers now fully understand how bad they screwed up, and they say that their hope for Trump has been replaced with despair, frustration, and anger over his policies that are crippling their businesses. They realize they made a mistake, which is a great step forward.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Deutsche Bank, one of Donald Trump's go-to lenders for all of his businesses, warned this week that the US economy is suffering "death by a thousand cuts" from Trump's policies and those of the rest of the Republican Party. All of these small cuts are causing a massive bleed that is sending our economy into a downward spiral, and not a single Republican seems to even care that they are doing this. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. became insanely irate during a Senate hearing this week when Democratic Senator Patty Murray asked him a simple question about who cut the funding for child healthcare programs. Kennedy first tried to blame Biden, then he viciously attacked Murray for doing nothing to stop diseases, and after he was reprimanded by the Chair of the Committee, he sheepishly admitted that his department cut the funding he was trying to deny was cut. The man is way over his head.Republican governors and the Senators from their red states have resorted to begging Donald Trump's administration for federal assistance after they were ravaged by tornadoes over the last month. So far, the administration has not declared a federal disaster for any of the affected areas, which is preventing any FEMA officials or assistance from being deployed. Again, this is how Trump is treating RED STATES that put him in office - ignoring their cries for help after catastrophe.Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday of this week that he doesn't want the "big beautiful bill" that Republicans are working on to benefit Democratic-controlled states because, as Trump put it, those states and the Democrats running them are ruining the country. He also falsely claimed that Red States are the ones making America great again, which is why they should reap all the benefits. The problem is that the Republican bill doesn't help ANY states - Red or Blue - but it does screw over Red States far more thoroughly. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Donald Trump's poll numbers in every category are worse than ever as Americans watch their president screw up every single thing that he touches. From the economy to immigration and everything in between, the public does not approve of what Trump is doing. And this constant negative feedback is starting to get to Trump as he lashes out more and more about everything under the sun. Marjorie Taylor Greene is starting to realize that things don't work the way that she wants them to, and even the people that she admires the most are nothing but greedy liars. Greene went on a tirade over the weekend about the fact that so many investigations have not happened, and she said that this is unacceptable considering the "we" are in charge, meaning Trump and the Republicans. She's waking up to the fact that Trump is absolutely full of it.Between his failures with his trade war and the severe backlash from the public, Donald Trump appears to be going completely insane right in front of our eyes. He went on a truly unhinged posting spree on Truth Social over the weekend where he called for military tribunals for Barack Obama and an investigation into Bruce Springsteen who has been publicly ridiculing Trump in recent days. The man is so far gone that the media can no longer ignore these glaring mental problems.Small business owners and consumers are sharing photos of their receipts that have gone through the roof thanks to Donald Trump's tariffs. These are the people (small business owners) that Republicans whine about "protecting" the most, and they are the ones getting screwed over worse than anyone. These posts on social media are going viral, and that isn't going to sit well with Tariff Trump.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Just days after it was revealed that there are currently ZERO ships headed from China to US ports, Donald Trump announced that he was temporarily walking back his 145% tariffs on Chinese goods coming into the country. China is also reducing their tariffs on US goods, but details of the temporary reduction are scarce. Trump is being hit for backing down on his signature policy, but the reality is that Trump's capitulation and fear may have saved millions of Americans. The announcement over the weekend that the country of Qatar was going to gift Donald Trump a $400 million "palace in the sky" jet that he can use as Air Force One and then keep after he leaves office caused massive backlash from the public. But it wasn't just those on the Left who were outraged - even MAGA faithfuls like Laura Loomer went after Trump for accepting such an obvious bribe (that is also clearly illegal to accept.) Donald Trump announced on Sunday, and then signed on Monday, an executive order lowering the cost of prescription drugs. Or at least, that's what he wants the press and the public to believe. The truth is that the President has no control over how much drug companies charge, with the exception of charges to Medicare and Medicaid (because he can only control federal spending.) The courts will easily overturn this order, and then Trump will blame high prescription costs on "liberal activist judges" and make himself out to be the good guy fighting for us. Staffers inside Trump's administration aren't the oblivious fools that his Cabinet members seem to be, and they fully understand that Trump is running afoul of the law on a near constant basis. Unfortunately, one source confided to a reporter from Salon that they don't know how to stop it, and the press, Congress, and even the courts have failed to do anything meaningful so far. If staffers are this worried about his behavior then it is likely far worse than any of us realizedText and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Marjorie Taylor Greene laid into Donald Trump's staffers during an interview this week, claiming that they are lying to him about world events and what he needs to be doing. She also took aim at her fellow Republicans in the House, effectively picking a fight with everyone. As usual, Greene is right to be angry, she's just completely wrong about what to be mad at. She's angry for the sake of being angry, and that's causing her to lash out uncontrollably at everyone. Donald Trump had his own boasts used against him by a federal judge as she completely dismantled and struck down one of his oppressive and retaliatory executive orders. Specifically, Judge Beryl Howell struck down Trump's order that targeted the Perkins Coie law firm, and the judge used Trump's braggadocious claim from April that law firms were giving him money and then he would stop going after them as proof that this was a revenge-motivated action.The Trump administration has repeatedly told us that Trump is currently negotiating 200 trade deals (originally it was 72, then 100, now 200), but so far the "art of the deal" guy hasn't announced a single one, nor has he mentioned by name a single country that he's actively talking to. His administration keeps saying deals could be announced "this week," but they've been teasing that for 3 weeks now. The truth is that there are no deals, and Trump is just as pathetic as a negotiator as he is at being a leader. It isn't difficult to make Donald Trump look like an idiot, but so far China has done it in far more clever ways than anyone else. Businesses in China have now found a hilarious way to get around Trump's trade war tariffs of 145% by simply shipping their goods to the US from other countries. This simple maneuver might actually help keep Americans from experiencing the empty store shelves and price hikes that could be just around the corner, so by outsmarting Trump the country has actually emerged as the heroes that Americans need.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been hinting at aiming for a bigger and better position in the government for quite some time, but a new poll out of Georgia basically tells us that this will never happen. Out of the four possible Republican contenders for next year's Senate election, Greene came in DEAD LAST in polling, losing by double digits to her rivals. Greene might easily win her House elections, but that doesn't mean that she has any popularity outside of her district.Staffers at the State Department have had their personal communications combed through by the right wing extremists now calling the shots at their department. According to reports, the request for documents from staffers are specifically looking for any mentions of certain individuals, including Donald Trump and Elon Musk. But other names appeared on the list like Alex Jones and Joe Rogan, suggesting that staffers who criticized these two weirdos could end up fired. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made the absolutely insane and completely false claim this past week that the MMR vaccine contains "fetus debris," which he says is causing some communities to avoid it. This is completely false, as there are no vaccines AT ALL that contain any pieces or traces or even the DNA of fetuses. This lie came just hours after his agency shuttered a lab that studies infectious diseases. This man's conspiracy theories are going to cause the largest death toll from this administration.In a lengthy, unhinged rant on Truth Social last week, Donald Trump began laying the groundwork to start prosecuting media outlets for reporting that he doesn't like. This was the second time last week that he made such a suggestion, which typically means that he's going to follow through with it. This is an all out assault on the press, and it is an assault that could either bankrupt countless media outlets with legal fees, or scare them into submission. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Today marks Donald Trump's 100th day in office, and the damage that he's managed to cause in those 100 days is almost unimaginable. On every issue that matters to voters - from immigration to the economy to the environment - Trump is getting failing grades from the public as he and his wrecking ball crew destroy everything. And the administration is only getting started. The damage is going to increase in the weeks and months to come.Donald Trump announced last week that he would be holding a special, private dinner for the top 220 investors in his meme coin, which immediately caused the coin to surge in value as sales went through the roof. Democrats in the senate are now demanding an ethics investigation into this "pay to play" scheme from the President, and they have good reason to believe that this is 100% illegal.During a press briefing this week, Karoline Leavitt was asked by Fox's Peter Doocy if Trump would consider - hypothetically - arresting Supreme Court Justices if they engaged in "obstruction." Leavitt confirmed that Trump would do so without hesitation, but then demurred and said that such a decision would be up to Pam Bondi and the DOJ. We are in a lawless era in the United States, where even ruling against Trump could be considered "obstruction" and could result in more judges being locked behind bars. Donald Trump signed an executive order this week directing the attorney general, Pam Bondi, and Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, to work together to come up with a plan to legally use the US military on US soil against US citizens. We have officially entered a new era of US history, and our own military is going to be used against us in some capacity - Trump was a little vague about the details in his order, but there is no good scenario where American troops could be used on American soil. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

A very panicked Donald Trump tried to con American workers into supporting his tariffs by telling them a string of lies over the weekend. Trump got on Truth Social and claimed that the tariffs could possibly eliminate ALL income taxes on people making under $200,000 a year, something that's not even remotely possible. Trump's tariffs are barely pulling in more money than we were getting BEFORE the tariffs, nowhere near enough to eliminate income taxes on any income bracket.During an appearance on ABC this past weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered an incredibly smug and insanely stupid defense of Donald Trump's chaotic trade war, claiming that the President is using "strategic uncertainty" to keep our trade partners off their game. Bessent says that this gives Trump an upper hand in negotiations, then completely failed to offer any examples of how and when this has worked. According to a new analysis, Elon Musk's DOGE office has already cost US taxpayers a staggering $135 billion while they claim they have saved $160 billion in federal spending, based on the totals from their "wall of receipts." But because we know that many of those "receipts" were either already spent or otherwise not accurate, it is safe to assume at this point that DOGE has cost taxpayers WAY MORE than they have saved.Trump appeared to call for physical violence against people who interrupt Republicans at their town hall events this past weekend in a post on Truth Social. Trump falsely claimed that Democrats are spending "a fortune" for these people to show up, in spite of a complete lack of evidence to suggest this is happening anywhere. He also said that Republicans need to have these people "ejected" from events, similar to how Marjorie Taylor Greene had people forcibly removed, tasered, and arrested at her recent event. This is little more than a clear call for violence against dissent.Donald Trump is paying close attention to the fact that his poll numbers are in the gutter, he just doesn't believe ANY of the pollsters are telling the truth. Even though every poll across the board has come up with similar results showing that he's grossly unpopular, Trump believes they are all faking it and demanded that they be investigated for "election fraud" in an early morning tirade on Truth Social on Monday.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Donald Trump hasn't even been in office for 100 days yet, and already the polling data proves that Americans hate every single thing that he is doing. From immigration to the environment, respecting the rule of law to the economy, Trump is underwater on every issue that actually matters to American voters. His overall approval rating is somehow even worse than at this point in his first administration, too. The Montana Farmers Union has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration arguing that his tariffs on Canada are not only harming farmers, but also have no legal basis for existing at all. The red state farmers are getting hammered by Trump's trade war, and their lawsuit follows in the footsteps of a recent suit filed by a group of 5 small business owners making similar arguments.Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett appeared on Jimmy Kimmel's show this week where she announced that she would gladly take an IQ test against Donald Trump, after he said that she was "low IQ" last month. Crockett is not afraid to call out people on the Right, and she included some great attack lines against Elon Musk and Marjorie Taylor Greene, as well. If Trump is going to keep calling people low IQ, then he'd better be ready to put up.Donald Trump got on Truth Social this week to rail against Judge Beryl Howell and the law firm of Perkins Coie. Trump was angry because Howell was assigned to oversee the lawsuit he filed against the firm. But there's one problem - Trump is NOT suing the law firm, they are suing HIM. But that didn't stop Trump from claiming that he filed the lawsuit in a moment that seemed to confuse everyone who saw the post. It actually makes total sense if you look at it as a post from someone suffering from dementia.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Marjorie Taylor Greene held a town hall this week that only took minutes to go completely off the rails. She ordered the numerous police officers present to forcibly remove protestors, stopping throughout her lies to tell officers who to grab. At one point, according to reports, one of the people being forcibly removed was even tased by police officers. According to new predictions from financial firms, the tourism "boycotts" taking place among foreign tourists avoiding the United States is projected to cost our economy roughly $90 BILLION this year. Foreign individuals are reluctant to come to the US due to Donald Trump's harsh policies and their general disdain for him, and now American businesses and citizens are going to be paying the price for that. An immigration lawyer in Massachusetts, who is a natural-born citizen of the United States, received a letter from Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security demanding that she "self-deport" within the next 7 days or she would be forcibly removed from the country. The letter was obviously sent by mistake, the lawyer believes, but she cautioned that mistakes like this can be considered proof that people who are NOT at risk of being deported are also getting these letters. Executives at Warner Bros. were contacted by a member of "Trump's orbit" and offered a way to get on, and remain on, Donald Trump's good side. According to the reports, the executives were told that Donald Trump, Jr. wanted to host a hunting show on the Discovery Channel, and giving him the show would be a great way to keep Trump happy and off of their backs. The administration is now abusing their power to force Trump's idiot son onto our televisionsText and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

During a back and forth with reporters for his meeting with the president of El Salvador, Donald Trump proved what a low class piece of trash he really is. He did this not only by slandering the man that he wrongfully deported, but also when he viciously attacked CNN reporter Kaitlin Collins. The man has no class at all, yet he likes to pretend that he does by surrounding himself with gold, which was also on display during the meeting. Republican Senator, and Trump ally, John Kennedy from Louisiana admitted during an interview on CNN this week that he has no idea why Donald Trump is hellbent on enacting his tariff policy because Trump has no idea why he's hellbent on it. This is the first time that a sitting Republican has admitted that Trump is operating without a rudder, and it could be an indication that more Republicans are losing faith in him.European officials travelling to the United States have been instructed to use burner phones for communicating during their trips in order to avoid Donald Trump spying on them. This is the same procedure they use for traveling to countries like Russia and China because they don't trust the government, and now the US has been put on the same level thanks to Trump. Our allies no longer have any faith or trust in us.The Constitutional crisis that many of us had feared is officially here. The Trump administration has made it clear that they are going to continue to defy an order from the US Supreme Court, which means that the system of checks and balances put in place by the Constitution have been thrown away. There's not much that can actually be done about this, but that doesn't mean there's nothing that can be done. The unfortunate thing is that the one remedy is one that is almost impossible to use.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Donald Trump's physical results have left many people scratching their heads, as the doctor said that he is in perfect health in every possible way. But when you actually look at the report, it becomes obvious that Trump is a man that is on borrowed time, as the medications that he's taking are likely preventing a massive health event that could be his last. Donald Trump had an absolutely unhinged meltdown watching 60 Minutes on CBS on Sunday evening, and he demanded that the network lose their license. What set him off was the fact that the program did an interview with Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as a segment about Greenland not wanting to be part of the United States. Trump couldn't take it, so he got on Truth Social and proved to the world that he's a fascist dictator. A recent segment on MSNBC suggested that the United States is going to be the next entity that Donald Trump sends into bankruptcy. That could definitely happen, and if you look at his business track record it should have been completely expected. Trump has more failed businesses and bankruptcies than most people realize, and it is only natural that he would bring that same failed mentality to the White House. According to new reports, the people inside of Donald Trump's White House are just as confused as the rest of the public about what he is doing and why he is doing it. Insiders have admitted that they don't even know what his "endgame" is at this point with his economic policies, and that's a bad sign. If they don't know why he is doing what he's doing, then neither does he, because he is always very vocal about everything.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

The US bond market began to crash this week in response to Donald Trump's tariffs, which is likely the reason that he decided to pause most of them for now. But the collapsing bond market also means something else - it means that Marjorie Taylor Greene's stock selloff and bond buying ended up backfiring on her. She moved her money out of the stock market just days before Trump crashed it (a quasi, though legal, insider trading scheme) and still ended up losing a lot of money.One of the lead supervisors for Secretary of State Marco Rubio's security detail was arrested recently in Brussels, Belgium after becoming belligerent with hotel staff and eventually fighting police officers. Rubio was not present for the incident, as the detail was checking security and location before Rubio arrived a few days later. But the incident shows just how terrible every person in this administration is - from the well-known people to the staffers, everyone is just the worst of the worst.Things were looking great for Newsmax for quite a while after a successful IPO and their owner becoming an instant billionaire. But they came crashing down off that high this week when a judge in Delaware determined that the network DID defame voting machine company Dominion following the 2020 election. The case is now scheduled to go to trial where the jury's work has been made pretty easy following the judge's decision this week.Donald Trump's on-again, off-again trade war sent markets into a tailspin followed by a small correction this week, and none of this is doing anything to ease the lingering fears of investors. In fact, according to one financial research firm, many fund managers have openly pondered whether or not Trump might be literally insane. That is a very fair question, as he seems to have no rationale or logic behind any of his moves and he doesn't seem to care about the damage that he's causing to the global economy. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Billionaires across the country are starting to express buyer's remorse for putting Donald Trump back in power. These billionaires are now watching as their fortunes disappear thanks to Trump's backwards trade policies, and they are now speaking out about how horrible this has been for them. But they can't feign ignorance on this one - Trump made it clear that this was exactly what he was going to do during the campaign.Donald Trump isn't immune from his own horrible policies, and his crashing of the stock market has now cost him half a billion dollars. In the past week, Trump saw his own net worth plummet by $500 million as the stock value of his Trump Media and Technology Group bottomed out, along with most of the stock market. He would rather lose millions than admit that he's wrong, which is quite shocking. Elon Musk's team at DOGE has been using AI to spy on government workers to make sure that everyone employed in the federal government is sufficiently loyal to Donald Trump. The fact that they are using unproven and easily fooled software is actually the least important part of the story - the fact that government employees are no longer allowed to have personal opinions is what really matters. The thought police are active.The European Union has announced some minor reciprocal tariffs on the United States, but for the most part they are just sitting back and laughing at the "stupidity" of Donald Trump tanking the entire US economy. Reports suggest that EU countries are "sharpening their knives" as they wait for the US to become so insolvent that they can take over major trade agreements and business ventures, taking away the main source of vitality for the United States.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt decided that her best course of action was to mock a judge's ruling last week that instructed the Trump administration to immediately retrieve the innocent man that they sent to the prison in El Salvador. Leavitt claimed that the judge didn't have jurisdiction over El Salvador, which was not only rude but incredibly ignorant. In response, the judge issued a scathing ruling over the weekend demanding the immediate return of the man. Donald Trump's MAGA fan base has finally realized that Elon Musk is nothing more than a liar. And they figured it out in a fairly clever way. In a post on social media, a MAGA activist openly asked why there had been no arrests made if DOGE had actually found all of the fraud that they claim to have found. It is a very valid question that people should have been asking for months, and it is a bit ironic that it was put out there by MAGA to prove that Elon is lying.Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared to know that the stock market was about to crash, as just days before the market meltdown she pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the market and invested in treasury bills instead. This move came just a few days before Donald Trump's "Liberation Day," which resulted in tariffs across the globe that tanked the markets. Millions of people lost millions of dollars, but not Marge - it was almost as if she knew something bad was going to happen.Donald Trump told reporters over the weekend that he "loves" the idea of sending Americans to the torture prison in El Salvador. This can't be dismissed as an offhand comment, either, because this isn't the first time he has said it. In fact, Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted weeks ago that he discussed the idea with the leader of El Salvador after Trump first mentioned it. This is where Trump would like to send political dissidents, including those that are protesting Tesla right now, as Farron explains.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Embattled MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has reemerged, and he's just as crazy as he ever was - and maybe even a little worse. Lindell appeared on Real America's Voice this week to make the insane claim that Susan Crawford could not have possibly won the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, so he's going to be "investigating" what happened. We've seen Lindell's "investigations" in the past, and none of them produced any actual evidence of wrongdoing or fraud.Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs on foreign goods are now in effect, and financial analysts and economists are warning that these tariffs will cost the average family a little over $4,000 per year. The cost of food alone could rise by over 3%, and big ticket items could see their prices go up by hundreds or thousands of dollars a piece - everything from refrigerators to cars. Trump doesn't seem to care because he has no idea why he's even doing this in the first place.Elon Musk's America PAC has been hit with a lawsuit from a MAGA canvasser who says that he never received the promised payments for going door to door and gathering signatures for Musk's group. There were allegations during the campaign that these canvassers were not being compensated as Musk had promised, and now those alleged broken promises are going to become a legal headache for the world's richest man.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

According to new reports this week, Donald Trump is preparing to cut Elon Musk loose a lot sooner than expected. Politico says that Trump has been informing his Cabinet members that Musk will not be around much longer, and the speculation is that it is because he has become incredibly toxic to the Republican Party. But Musk's toxicity isn't Trump's main problem, and he'll soon find out that HE is the on driving things down.After Democratic Governor Janet Mills of Maine went against Donald Trump's order about transgender athletes, the Social Security Administration cancelled vital contracts with the state to operate offices. Leland Dudek, the acting administrator of Social Security, personally ordered staffers to cancel the contracts while admitting that this would increase fraud and screw over parents of newborns seeking to get Social Security numbers, but he did it anyway to punish Mills for going against Trump. Leaked emails have confirmed all of this, and now there are growing demands for Dudek to be removed.The latest rounds of polling data have confirmed that Donald Trump's approval rating has hit rock bottom, and will likely get even worse as the weeks tick by. Trump's overall approval rating is NEGATIVE 14 points, and his handling of issues like the economy and trade negotiations get even worse marks. And for the first time, a majority of voters are not happy with aspects of Trump's immigration policies, marking a stark difference from just a few weeks ago. Everything he does is unpopular, as Farron explains.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Elon Musk got utterly humiliated this week when he failed to buy the seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. But even before that defeat, many Republicans were already hoping to LOSE because they want Musk to go away for good. They might be able to get their wish now that Musk has proven to be more of a liability than an asset at this point. The Canadian government has decided to take the trade war directly to the American public by paying to run ads in swing states that explain just how badly Americans are going to be screwed because of Trump's actions. The ads specifically state that tariffs are a tax and that American consumers are the ones who end up paying them in the end. This is a brilliant tactic, and the Canadian government is clearly trying to turn voters against Trump and the Republican Party.National security adviser to Donald Trump Mike Waltz has now been BUSTED using a private Gmail account for official government business. This is the exact same thing that conservatives whined about for years after Hillary Clinton did it, and they wanted her locked away for life. We likely won't see conservatives call for the same punishment for Waltz, but the fact that this scandal continues to get worse is proof that we still don't have all the facts.After reading through every one of Donald Trump's executive orders, the New York Times released an analysis that found that most of the orders don't even make sense. Between weird linguistic and grammatical issues to incomplete thoughts written on paper, most of these orders don't appear to have any point or goal at all. Trump is just signing things for the sake of signing things, and no one bothered to look at them all until now. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Donald Trump is trying to convince the country that the economy is doing better than ever, but it doesn't look like anyone is buying that. At the same time that Trump was telling us that everything was fine, the stock market was crashing and banks were warning that a recession could be right around the corner.  Donald Trump may have lost a very valuable ally, as even Joe Rogan is not happy about his deportations. Rogan came out against the administration's policies in a recent episode of his podcast after he learned that innocent people are being shipped to the torture prison in El Salvador. Rogan had been supportive of Trump's immigration policies in the past, so if even he thinks they've become too extreme then things must be really bad. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced this week that it was "case closed" on the Signal chat leak scandal, and nobody is going to be punished for anything, nor are there any indications that their methods are going to change. The problem for Leavitt and the administration is that it is NOT "case closed," and the American public is still demanding answers and accountability for those responsible for this careless act. Donald Trump doesn't have many allies left across the globe, and the few that he does have are worried that his brand of toxic conservatism is going to hurt them in their own countries. Many had predicted a wave of "populist conservative" victories after Trump won the election, but those expected victories never materialized, and they believe that Trump is to blame for it. If this trend continues, these allies fear that conservatives across the globe will feel the backlash.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Republicans in Alabama are starting to panic over several different Trump policies that are going to devastate their state. From education to farming to automobile manufacturing are all slated to take massive hits from Trump's policies, and Republicans in the Deep South are actually starting to speak out about how bad their state is about to get hit. Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump's top trade advisors, had a complete meltdown during a live TV hit on Fox News the other day, where he started yelling about how tariffs are somehow a "tax cut" for the American people. You likely wouldn't be able to find a single economist that agrees with that take, as it is generally accepted that tariffs RAISE prices for American consumers. Republicans in the Senate are begging Donald Trump and his allies to stop attacking federal judges and pushing for meaningless impeachments. These Republicans seem to understand that attacking the courts is never a good look and ends up making the administration look like a group of wannabe dictators - which is pretty much what they've become.Donald Trump continues to lose his cool - and his mind - about the ongoing Signal chat leak story, and he erupted on social media recently about the "never ending story." He angrily demanded that the media move on from the story because he claimed that it was "boring," but that claim falls flat. A majority of the public believes that it is a big deal and calls for heads to roll continue to increase by the day.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

A self-proclaimed "MAGA Junkie" admitted during a tearful interview that she now regrets voting for Donald Trump after her job at the US Treasury was terminated by Elon Musk and his DOGE force. The former Trump supporter admits that she was all-in on Trump, with flags, shirts, and other MAGA gear all over the place, but now she realizes that she messed up. These people might be reachable after all, as Farron explains. The Trump administration has managed to anger most countries in North America and Europe, so now they've moved on to alienating our allies in Asia. During a recent press briefing, Karoline Leavitt made up an insane claim that Japan is putting tariffs on imported rice and that the US is going to retaliate, but Japanese officials pointed out that this was a complete fabrication from Leavitt. They then, politely, demanded that the administration put an end to the "confusion and chaos" that their tariff lies are causing. Donald Trump appears to be hellbent on making Canada a part of the United States, but according to a new survey, millions of Americans would rather see their state become a part of Canada. Roughly 20% of US residents in a Canadian survey said they'd rather join Canada than vice versa, a shocking number that shows the distaste for Trump and his policies. Furthermore, a survey from the journal Nature found that scientists and researchers are also wanting to become either Canadian or European to escape Trump's assault on science. Steve Bannon thinks that the writing may already be on the wall for Donald Trump following the latest order from Judge James Boasberg, and Bannon admitted on his show last week that he thinks Trump is going to prison - but only if a Democrat wins the White House in 2028. The truth is that Trump should ALREADY be in prison for the crimes he was convicted for, and he managed to avoid that. But Bannon, as usual, has ulterior motives for this claim, and Farron exposes what's really happening.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Republican Congressman Don Bacon is not happy about the economic chaos that Donald Trump is causing, and he admitted during a CNN interview that he would like to take away Trump's power to enact tariffs. He specifically said that allowing Trump to do this at all was a "mistake." Those are strong words for a sitting Republican member of Congress, and Trump probably isn't going to be happy to hear that.New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had harsh words for Donald Trump following Trump's decision to enact 25% tariffs on all automobile imports coming into the United States. Carney said that "nothing is off the table" at this point, and that Canada will be hitting America very hard and very fast in response. The problem that America has is that our leader launched a trade war with no protections in place for Americans, whereas Canada has a fund set up to protect their industries. During a recent press conference that he held from the safety of a foreign country, Secretary of State Marco Rubio boasted about the fact that he has revoked the visas of over 300 foreign students - students that he referred to as "lunatics." This administration is out of control, and these people are innocent of whatever fake excuses that Rubio and Trump come up with. Reporters and journalists were left shocked multiple times last week as a very confused and agitated Donald Trump couldn't answer basic questions. But these weren't "gotcha" questions - they were questions about well-known current events that Trump admitted to having absolutely no clue about. And when he did answer questions, his answers were direct contradictions of reality. The man's mental status needs to be at the forefront because he is barely able to function anymore. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

The news this week that top Trump cabinet officials accidentally added a reporter from The Atlantic to a Signal group text about secret war plans is the definitive proof that this administration is packed with the dumbest people in America. But in addition to being grossly incompetent, they are also clearly corrupt, as evidenced by their secret chat on unofficial platforms about top secret intelligence. This move could have easily put Americans in serious danger, and accountability needs to happen immediately. Donald Trump is glued to the television even more than usual, and he wants to see how the media is covering the fallout from the leaked war plans his morons sent out this week. The White House has already chosen their fall guy for the incident, but Trump is waiting to see how the media handles it and how bad the PR damage is to his administration. Firing a top official right now would be a horrible look, but Trump may be left with no choice.Members of the Trump administration, including Donald Trump himself, have been bending over backwards to help Elon Musk sell more cars and endear him to the public. But according to the latest round of data, these efforts are actually having the OPPOSITE effect, driving Musk's approval rating into the ground. And this change in approval rating is being reflected in a decline in new applications for Tesla vehicles, even as other electric vehicles see a rise in demand - so the desire is there, just not for Tesla.Donald Trump has once again violated Judge Juan Merchan's gag order against him by attacking the judge's daughter in an angry post on Truth Social. This time, however, it felt more like Trump was trying to test the water to see what he could get away with, as his attack on the judge's daughter had nothing to do with the post he put out. This could be a test to see if the judge is going to try to punish the sitting president.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Donald Trump had a complete meltdown over the most mundane issue imaginable over the weekend, when he got on Truth Social and whined like a baby about an official painting of him hanging in the Capitol Building in the state of Colorado. Trump complained that the artist made him look "distorted," but all the artist did was take away his giant wrinkles and sagging skin to make him look a little bit younger and healthier. The IRS is predicting a 10% drop in the amount of taxes that it collects this year - meaning the US government is going to lose about $500 billion. But the drop isn't because people made less money - quite the contrary. The drop is due to the fact that wealthy tax cheats and businesses are using the chaos caused by Elon Musk's DOGE to simply not pay taxes because they are betting on the IRS not having the resources to come after them. Donald Trump's most diehard fans are not extending the love to Elon Musk. In fact, plenty of MAGA loyalists believe that Musk has managed to usurp Trump's power and therefore emasculate him on the global stage. These MAGA fans expressed their frustrations about Musk in a conversation with The New York Times, and their responses don't bode well for the administration. But the concerns of Republican lawmakers could prove to be even more problematic.The White House Easter Egg Roll has been a longstanding tradition in America that allows children the chance to have some fun and relax with the administration on a joyous day. But, as usual, Donald Trump doesn't believe in fun or happiness, so he's decided to turn the event into a corporate-sponsored bribery fest, and he's now offering "sponsorship" packages for high-dollar donors that include a brunch with the First Family. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

A former Republican Congressman blasted Karoline Leavitt after her latest embarrassing gaffe during a press briefing this week where she falsely claimed that the judge that ruled against Trump over the weekend - James Boasberg - was a "Radical Left" Obama-appointee. David Jolly said that critical thinking has clearly died in this country, and that Leavitt is certainly proof of that. But it wasn't just because she got that wrong, it was how she justified it afterward.Donald Trump held talks with both Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin this week and brokered a very weak "ceasefire" deal between the two countries. Just one hour after both sides agreed to the 30-day deal, Russia sent drones into Ukraine and immediately started hitting hospitals and energy stations, a direct violation of the terms of the agreement. This was Putin's way of showing that he doesn't care about ending the conflict and he won't take orders from Trump.Conservative media outlets are finding it harder and harder to justify some of Donald Trump's actions, and they appear to be losing patience with him on multiple issues. With Fox News hosts starting to be more honest about the state of the economy and other outlets questioning Trump's decisions to completely ignore judicial rulings, the cracks are forming in the conservative media echo chamber. A conservative pollster is warning that Donald Trump has completely misinterpreted the results of the 2024 election, falsely believing that he somehow got a "mandate" from the voters to do whatever he wants. He is using that false belief to cause havoc throughout the world, and voters have already lost patience with his antics. The pollster is now warning that Trump, and the Republican Party, could be in huge trouble due to the fact that Trump doesn't understand what actually happened in the election. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts spoke out against Donald Trump's call to impeach Judge James Boasberg this week, saying that the judiciary has independence and that disagreements with rulings are what the appellate process is for, not impeachment. This very mild statement didn't sit well with MAGA world, and they are now going as far as to call Roberts, a Republican appointee, a "deep state asset" and calling for him to "stay out of politics." Donald Trump's Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, announced in a court filing that they were going to continue to defy the judge's order about deportations because, as they claim, the flights were already over international waters and therefore did NOT have to return. They are also defying the judge's instructions to turn over documents regarding the deportations because they don't feel the judge actually needs them. This is a brazen assault on justice, and Pam Bondi is leading the charge. Farmers across the country are warning that the latest moves by the Trump administration could absolutely cripple the agricultural economy, which would then send shockwaves across the entire country. The main issue - beyond tariffs and deportations - is that the Trump administration has cancelled a vital USDA program that accounted for as much as 35% of the total income of farmers. Without that money, many local farmers will not be able to survive much longer. Apparently no one at The Heritage Foundation has ever heard the phrase "be careful what you wish for." The group behind Project 2025 is now suddenly terrified about Donald Trump's economic policies that they concede are not helping the economy at all - in fact, some at the Foundation are warning that things are getting really bad really quickly. But this is what they wanted, so they should be celebrating, right?Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

During a press briefing this week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the administration is encouraging immigrants to "self deport" so that they don't end up in anymore "fun" videos like the ones the administration put out over the weekend showing immigrants being forcibly detained and restrained. She then proceeded to laugh at her own joke, which was really her laughing at human suffering. The woman is an absolute monster, just like everyone else in the administration.Elon Musk sent out a post on Twitter this week, wondering out loud why people don't like him. The post came as Tesla stock continued to nosedive, with the world's richest man continuing to lose money. But Musk ended up answering his own question by claiming that people don't like him because he is a "deadly threat to the woke mind parasite", a statement that doesn't even mean anything. The truth is that Musk HATES that people don't love him and he genuinely doesn't understand why that is.Paul Dans, one of the architects of Project 2025, is boasting about the fact that the plan is being implemented every hour of every day by Donald Trump. In fact, during his interview with Politico, Dans admitted that Trump is going above and beyond Project 2025 and that the results are "beyond (his) wildest dreams." This was always the plan, even as Trump insisted he knew nothing about it. Donald Trump appeared to suffer yet another psychotic breakdown on Truth Social Tuesday morning when he lashed out at the judge that ruled against him over the weekend. Trump went on a rant about the "huge mandate" that he got in the 2024 election - a "mandate" that doesn't actually exist - and then went on to claim that the judge should be impeached. Republicans in the House will take that as a marching order and get right on it, as they have already done with several other judges.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

The Trump administration was ordered by a federal judge over the weekend to immediately return hundreds of Venezuelan migrants that had been wrongfully deported after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, but his administration decided to completely ignore the court's order. In fact, they didn't just ignore it, they decided to openly mock it with Steven Cheung saying "Oopsie, too late." This egregious abuse of power is not going to sit well with the court, but their options for punishment could be limited.Donald Trump has apparently fallen for a string of misinformation coming from The Heritage Foundation (the group that put together Project 2025) and he's now accusing President Biden of using an "auto pen" to sign documents, including his pardons for the January 6th Committee and Dr. Anthony Fauci. Trump has now declared that these pardons are, therefore, null and void, and suggested he may move forward with prosecutions. A left-leaning politician in France told an audience over the weekend that the United States should return the Statue of Liberty because obviously we don't believe in it anymore. This is the latest in a growing string of anger towards the US coming from our closest allies in Europe, and it shows how badly Donald Trump has harmed those relationships in less than two months in office. A Trump voter was shocked that ICE detained his wife as they tried to return from their honeymoon in Puerto Rico. The man told USA Today that he is panicked and doesn't know what he can do to help his wife, and said that he didn't know "how" it was "going to go down" with Trump's crackdown on immigrants. But this is EXACTLY what people were warning about before the election, so there really is no excuse. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Donald Trump has long lived in his own reality, even before becoming President, and the reason is because he made those around him terrified to give him bad news. And now that he's back in the Oval Office, the same thing is happening. Trump continues to insist that things are clearly much better than they actually are, and the only way he could genuinely believe that is if everyone around him is constantly lying to him. Republicans have now changed their tune from "everything is fine with the economy" to "just shut up and suffer in silence." Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville is leading the charge, telling Americans last week that they are going to have to suffer because, as he put it, "no pain, no gain." Tuberville compared struggling families to weight lifters and suggested that it is ok that you can't afford groceries because you will eventually (maybe) be able to. This isn't just condescending, it is flat out WRONG.Allies of Donald Trump are still, mostly, unwilling to speak out against his horrific policies and economic destruction publicly, but that doesn't mean that they aren't letting their voices be heard. According to new reports, Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles is being "inundated" with panicked phone calls from Trump's allies who are complaining and getting angry about the economic devastation that he is causing on a daily basis. For the second time in just a few weeks, Donald Trump wants to know what idiot signed a trade deal with Canada that allows them to "take advantage" of the United States, and also to supply us with energy. The trade deal he's referring to is the USMCA, which was signed into law in early 2020 by HIM. HE is the idiot that he keeps looking for, he's just too much of an idiot to understand that he's the answer to his own question.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

According to reports, the Trump administration is preparing to increase the US military's presence inside the country of Panama, specifically around the Panama Canal, and he's even ordered the military to craft plans to seize the canal "by force." As of now, there appears to be no immediate plan to do so, but that could all change in the very near future. The President is hellbent on creating a new US empire, and history tells us that this never ends well for the empire. Like hundreds of millions of Americans, CNBC host Jim Cramer has no idea what Donald Trump is doing with the US economy. Cramer suggested this past week that Trump could actually be "manufacturing" a recession, which means that maybe he's tanking the entire economy on purpose. That honestly seems very likely, given the fact that everyone has warned him about what he's doing, but it also makes no sense because there's no motive for doing it. From up north in Canada to south in Mexico, and all across Europe to Australia, countries are boycotting American goods as a way to protest Donald Trump. The new President has managed to piss off just about everyone, with the exception of our enemies. Our allies now hate us, or at the very least their citizens do, and that's never good for America. We are already seeing the ramifications of this global hatred reflected in our own economy, but Trump doesn't seem to care.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

During a back and forth with reporters inside the Oval Office, Donald Trump said that he is going to levy more tariffs on Canadian goods on April 2nd, and then he openly admitted that it is going to cause some "disruptions" for American consumers. He then added "sorry", and immediately moved on to explain that we don't need goods from Canada and that they need us, in spite of our $63 BILLION trade deficit with them. A federal judge this week absolutely demolished the legal team from Donald Trump's Department of Justice, accusing them of lying in court and providing "sham" documents. Ordinarily, this level of contempt would get lawyers sanctioned and possibly even disbarred, so these lawyers had better watch themselves. But that is secondary to the ruling, in which the judge ordered the federal government to immediately "rehire" tens of thousands of workers that they had laid off. A former megachurch pastor and former spiritual adviser to Donald Trump has been indicted in the state of Texas and charged with 5 different counts related to sex crimes involving children. Robert Morris, the former pastor, allegedly carried out most of the abuse a few decades ago, before he rose to national prominence as a major political player in both Texas and in the federal government.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Donald Trump went completely insane on Thursday morning and threatened to levy tariffs of up to 200% against products coming into the United States from Europe. At this point it feels like Trump is actively trying to sabotage the US economy, as even Republican lawmakers are starting to warn that his trade war is ill-conceived and is causing irreparable harm. But Trump doesn't care and he still seems to believe that tariffs will solve every problem that he faces. CNN managed to bust the spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management, which is currently overseeing DOGE's activities, making fashion influencer videos from her government office while engaging in massive layoffs. The people that Trump has picked to run our government are not serious people, and they have absolutely no business making the decisions that they are allowed to make. This incident is just further proof of that.Donald Trump thought that he was doing Elon Musk a favor by turning the White House lawn into a car dealership this week, but he actually made things so much worse for the world's richest man. The Model S Tesla that Trump "purchased" this week for nearly $100,000 already has 37 recall notices against it, and most of them are fairly significant. This whole stunt reminded people how Tesla is the most recalled vehicle brand in the country, and that's not helping Musk's stocks. According to multiple new polls, American voters' faith in Donald Trump to handle the economy has tanked in the first two months of his administration, and a plurality of voters no longer believe that he's the man for the job. On top of that, a plurality also now says that the country is headed in the wrong direction. This is a dramatic reversal from where these polls stood less than two months ago, but Trump has managed to shake everyone's trust in a record amount of time.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

It turns out that not even Donald Trump himself is immune from his destruction of the US economy, as he has managed to wipe out billions of dollars from his own net worth in the stock market crash. Trump has lost roughly $2.5 billion since he took office as shares of the Trump Media and Technology Group have been on a steady downward slide. The slide was made worse this week as the stock market crashed, with shares now trading below $20. Investors at some of the largest US banks have now made it clear that they believe Donald Trump is destroying the economy, and they've updated their economic forecasts to show that a recession is far more likely than it was just a week ago. The big reason for the shift to pessimism is that Trump's own team has changed the way that they speak about the economy, and they are now admitting that there is a lot of pain headed for consumers, which is spooking investors. A federal judge ruled this week that the Department of Government Efficiency is operating under an unprecedented shroud of secrecy, and those days are over. The judge has ordered the Department to turn over documents relating to their activities so that everyone can understand what they are doing and how they are doing it. Musk and his allies had been trying to keep these activities hidden for some reason, and we may soon find out what that reason is.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt ran crying to Sean Hannity on Fox News after a reporter with the Associated Press made her look like a complete fool during a press briefing earlier in the day. The reporter called out Leavitt for not understand who pays for tariffs, which forced Leavitt to double down on her false claim that other countries pay them, and after being told she was wrong again, Leavitt got incredibly angry and said that the reporter is insulting her intelligence and then she attacked his outlet.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Donald Trump announced to his cabinet late last week that things are going to be different moving forward, and this warning was meant especially for Elon Musk. Trump and his team have been growing increasingly annoyed with what Musk is doing and the complete lack of oversight of his activities, so Trump has decided to shorten his leash and informed the cabinets that they would be taking a "scalpel" to their agencies rather than the "hatchet" that has been used so far.As the markets continue to reel as a result of Donald Trump's on-again, off-again tariff plan, the President continues to refuse to take responsibility for the volatility that he has created. Instead, he told reporters the other day that the REAL problem was that "globalists" have been manipulating the market to make him look bad. "Globalists" have become the go-to boogeyman for Republicans, which is ironic because that's what they all are, so Trump may actually be correct!Elon Musk, along with Republicans in Washington, D.C., have been repeatedly attacking federal judges for ruling against the Trump administration, often calling for the judges to be removed and even disbarred for "attacking" the administration. Those false claims have real world consequences, and it has now been revealed that many of the judges that have ruled on Trump cases have been assigned security details by US Marshals due to the insane number of death threats they are now receiving. The Trump administration continues to set new records, and not in a good way. The administration has now been sued over 100 times since taking office on January 20th, and that comes out to an average of THREE new lawsuits PER DAY. To make matters worse, the administration has basically been overruled and overturned with all but ONE preliminary ruling that has come down so far - and that includes TWO smackdowns from the Supreme Court.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

During a press conference this past week, Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about Donald Trump's post on Truth Social where he said that Canada could avoid the tariffs if they just became the 51st state of our country, and Leavitt appeared to confirm that this is Trump's stated goal. This actually goes against all of the other reasons why Trump has claimed to be putting tariffs in place because this administration can't seem to keep their story straight on any issue. Fox host Maria Bartiromo completely lost it during an interview with Republican Congressman Brandon Gill this past week, and she ended up demanding that Republicans in the House cut Medicaid. Bartiromo insisted that this was necessary while almost shouting that the Republican Representative, because, as Bartiromo claims, you have to have offsets to pay for the tax cuts Republicans want to enact. She would rather give herself a tax cut than let poor people go to the doctor.Donald Trump's commerce secretary Howard Lutnick wants everyone to know that the prices of certain products are absolutely going to go up because of Trump's policies - but he says that you'd better not call it inflation! In a tense moment during a segment on Fox News, Lutnick conceded the price increases while making his insane demand and all while raising his voice so that people know how serious he is. But there's a reason Lutnick doesn't want people to call it inflation - he wants us to shut up about it and pretend none of this is happening.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Larry Kudlow, a former Trump economic advisor that now serves on the board of a pro-Trump Super PAC, told his Fox audience this week that they will just have to learn to deal with the suffering that comes along with Trump's policies. This came before Trump backtracked on his tariffs against Mexico, but that wouldn't have changed Kudlow's order to Americans. They want you to suffer because they don't care about your well-being and they aren't going to pretend that they do, either.MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was held in contempt of court by a judge this week for failing to turn over court ordered documentation of the traffic that he received to his website for the years 2022 and 2023. This is part of the lawsuit filed against Lindell by software company Smartmatic, and the material that they had been seeking would be used to prove that Lindell profited significantly off of his lies about the company. Plenty of Trump's supporters were happy about his decision to once again temporarily delay tariffs on most of the goods coming from Mexico, but there were loads of MAGA fanatics that viewed it as a sign of weakness. Trump was trashed on his own social media platform by the very people who love him the most as they accused him of being a flip-flopper, a coward, and even a backstabber. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

After speaking with the leaders of the major automakers in America, Donald Trump decided that he would give them a 30-day reprieve from the tariffs that he put in place earlier this week. Critics pounced on this move, accusing Trump of playing favorites and backtracking on his plan, but those criticisms miss the main point: Trump clearly knows that his tariffs are going to cause severe harm to Americans, and he's been knowingly lying to us this whole time about who pays the tariffs.Sales of Tesla vehicles across the globe are tanking and that cratering is directly tied to Elon Musk's embrace of right wing policies and politicians in the US and abroad. In Australia alone, sales have plummeted by more than 80%, and similar numbers are being seen across Europe. In the US, sales are starting to fall off, though not to the same degree as in other countries, but we'll get there. The numbers are in, and Donald Trump's address to the joint session of Congress this week is officially his lowest-rated address as President of the United States. In fact, he lost about 10 million viewers compared to the last time he gave a State of the Union speech to Congress. Americans are increasingly unwilling to listen to this madman rant about things he doesn't understand, and both the low viewership and his tanking approval rating are proof of that.Donald Trump admitted during his address to Congress this week that Elon Musk is the person that is running the Department of Government Efficiency. This contradicts what Trump's own lawyers have told a judge in a case about the legality of the Department. And now the lawyer for the plaintiffs in the case has filed a new piece of "evidence" in the case, using Trump's own words from that address as evidence that Musk is actually the person running the department, which now creates a world of legal headaches for Trump's own lawyers.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Donald Trump's 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico went into effect on Tuesday, but the economic damage was already adding up before the tariffs even began. Trump posted on Truth Social that farmers are going to be selling more than ever because of the tariffs - which is a lie - and he then told us all to "have fun!" As he was typing that, the stock market had one of the largest crashes that we've seen in years, so there's not much "fun" to be had right now for anyone.The Department of Government Efficiency has made another $86 billion error because they really don't know how to do basic math. This is the second time in as many week's that the agency has claimed over $80 billion in "savings" that turned out to not exist at all. The Department is a complete waste of time and resources that continues to lie to the public, either because they are too stupid to know better or too corrupt to care. The Atlanta Federal Reserve released a shocking economic forecast this week, and it shows us exactly what we can expect from Donald Trump's economic policies. The prediction says that the economy is likely to begin shrinking earlier than expected, with the First Quarter possibly seeing a complete retraction of the growth that the country has seen over the last 4 years. In other words, Trump may have sent the country into a recession faster than any other president in history.One of Donald Trump's DOJ lawyers was nearly laughed out of a federal courtroom this week after he provided an answer that onlookers described as "embarrassing." The lawyer was asked by the judge if the Trump administration objected to protecting consumers from fraud, and the lawyer admitted that he wasn't sure of the answer to that question. Laughter ensued, and the judge was not thrilled or amused with this flippant answer to such an easy question.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

 Republican Senator Roger Marshall held a town hall in his home state of Kansas over the weekend, and he ended up cutting the event very short after the questions got too hard for him to answer. The crowd was not happy from the start, and wanted answers on the cuts to Medicaid, cuts to veterans' care, and answers about what DOGE is actually doing. The Senator couldn't handle it and bailed out, and THEN his office blamed Democrats for infiltrating the crowd. Over the weekend, Donald Trump re-stole the classified documents that he had taken to Mar-a-Lago at the end of his first administration, loading up about 15 boxes of documents aboard Air Force One and taking them down to Florida. Since he is now president, he would have the authority to do this if he declassified the documents or issued an executive order, but so far there's no indication that he has done either of those things. Cabinet members in the Trump administration have had enough of Elon Musk meddling in their offices, according to a new report from The Washington Post. These department heads - who were appointed by Trump and confirmed by the Senate - are getting annoyed with Musk's constant interference that is hindering the few people still working in the government from actually being able to do their jobs. Musk's meddling is causing the government to be far less efficient.The Trump administration has decided to recalculate how GDP is determined by eliminating government spending from the equation - but not ALL government spending. They are only planning to stop calculating how much government employees are being paid in order to hide a potential drop in GDP after all the mass firings. This will be a way to convince the public that things are good, when the exact opposite will be true. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Over the weekend, a federal judge ruled that Donald Trump's firing of the head of the Office of Special Counsel was unlawful, and ordered that the head – Hampton Dellinger – be reinstated. The case is likely to head to the Supreme Court after this, but Judge Amy Berman Jackson absolutely torched the administration in her ruling, and that's going to be quite a hurdle to overcome at the High Court. During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience on Friday, the world's richest man and government parasite Elon Musk declared that Social Security was a “ponzi scheme.” This phrase has been used by Republicans for years to describe virtually any financial plan that they don't like, but they have been particularly forceful with slapping this label onto Social Security. Musk and his fellow Republicans want people to suffer and work forever, that's the bottom line.Donald Trump continued his mass firings last week, on Thursday hitting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service. By removing the very people that we rely upon for weather forecasting and warnings, Trump has endangered the entire country – right as severe weather is about to become a major concern for the very Red State citizens who put him back in office. Donald Trump and JD Vance's behavior during their meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky late last week was so atrocious that it may have permanently destroyed alliances that have existed for decades or longer. Following the disaster of a meeting, leaders across the world spoke out in support of both Ukraine and Zelensky, some taking direct shots at the juvenile behavior that US leaders engaged in. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Tommy Tuberville is undeniably the dumbest human being currently serving in the United States Senate, but that might not be giving him enough credit. There's a good chance that he might actually be the dumbest person in the entire country. During an appearance this week on Fox News, he forgot that triangles existed while discussing cuts to the Pentagon, and instead suggested that we turn it into a "trigon," which is not a shape and any kindergartener could tell you that. A federal judge has ordered officials in the Trump administration to sit for depositions - which are sworn testimonies that can result in perjury charges if someone lies - to discuss the role of the Department of Government Efficiency and what they've been up to. This is a massive blow to the administration, as it could force officials to admit that sensitive data HAS been breached by the minions at the agency, and this ruling comes just days after the agency suffered a mass exodus of staffers. A top Republican pollster, Sarah Longwell, says that MAGA voters in the focus groups that she's been conducting are not happy AT ALL with what's going on with the Trump administration. She went as far as to say that many of them are already expressing buyers' remorse for putting him back in power. There have been reports of voters here and there saying this, but when a pollster is constantly running into this theme then it is clearly more widespread than we knew. Farron explains why this is such a positive sign.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Economists in both the United States and Europe are now warning that Donald Trump's policies and actions are about to cause a major recession - and it will be entirely his fault. The main driver at this point is actually not the tariffs or the mass deportations (although those are large factors, too.) The REAL problem we're about to have is potentially hundreds of thousands of unemployed government workers, which economists say will create a "Snowball effect" throughout the economy and send us into a recession. Donald Trump and Elon Musk began the process of firing hundreds, possibly thousands, of air traffic controllers, and now they've realized that they apparently made a huge mistake. Musk took to Twitter this week to BEG former air traffic controllers that had either retired or left the field to return to their old jobs because, as he put it, "we have a shortage." The shortage exists because of HIM and his idiotic decisions.Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt mocked members of the press during a recent podcast interview for not having any fun as they cover the Trump administration, and Donald Trump, specifically. Leavitt claimed that Trump is having "the time of his life" during his second term. But the amount of fun that Trump and Leavitt may be having is not being felt by anyone else across the country, as Trump's poll numbers plummet and the economy barrels towards a recession. Farron explains why this is anything but "fun."Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

During his first cabinet meeting that took place this week, Donald Trump decided that it would be smart to insult the entire country by referring to all of us as "bloated, fat, and disgusting." This is coming from a man that is known for eating fast food multiple times a day and who is visibly obese and admits that he never exercises. In spite of that, this giant ball of lard in the White House had the audacity to insult the rest of us. Republican lawmakers have been experiencing tremendous backlash from their constituents at town hall events for the past week, which have then generated a ton of negative publicity for them. So they've now decided to just stop doing these events so that they don't have to face the voters or face the consequences of their actions in Washington, D.C. This is pure cowardice, and shows that Republicans are not ready to handle the responsibility that they've been given.Tesla is quickly becoming the next MyPillow, as the company continues to tank because the owner decided to get into bed with Donald Trump. Elon Musk's losses from this week's Tesla stock crash were so great that he has now wiped out all of the gains (tens of billions of dollars) that he made following last November's election. And with boycotts taking place at Tesla dealerships across the globe, the stock is likely to dive even further.  Elon Musk's DOGE office isn't discriminating with their mass firings, and tons of Trump voters have been swept up in the efforts and have lost their jobs. Those MAGA folks are now speaking out and whining about the fact that THEY got fired when they thought it was just going to be everyone else. This might be the most perfect "Leopards Eating People's Faces" scenario that we've seen with Trump supporters so far.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

Viral images circulated around the internet this week showing a gigantic bruise on Donald Trump's right hand. The White House claims that the bruise is simply due to a day of "vigorous handshaking" by the President, but that excuse is nearly impossible to believe. There's likely a much more significant reason for the bruising, and those who know the signs know EXACTLY what that bruising looks like.Republican lawmakers have been leaving their Washington, D.C. bubble to go back to their districts and talk to voters. Unfortunately for them, things aren't going the way that they had anticipated. Republicans are being greeted by angry constituents who are fed up with the chaos from the Trump administration - and Republican Congress - and they want REAL solutions to the problems that they are facing.In the span of just 90 minutes on Tuesday, the Trump administration managed to lose three separate preliminary court cases on issues ranging from government funding to immigration. The losses continue to pile up against the Trump administration, and so far they only have one "victory" to speak of (and even that one wasn't worth anything.) The problem is that Trump's lawyers have no idea what they're doing and they keep getting hammered by the judges. Donald Trump announced this week that he wanted to launch a "Gold Card" program for immigrants where they could simply pay $5 million to almost immediately get approval to become citizens of the United States. This is proof that Trump and his cronies are only interested in helping wealthy people - domestically and abroad - and that poor people have no room at the table in this administration. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

This week on Ring of Fire! Donald Trump has picked conspiracy-peddling podcaster Dan Bongino to serve as the Deputy Director of the FBI immediately under Kash Patel. Bongino has no FBI experience, but he has plenty of experience trying to “own the libs” on social media while also spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and COVID. His COVID lies were so bad that he was actually banned from YouTube several years ago, and now he brings his “I hate the left” mentality to the top law enforcement agency in the country. A federal court ordered Donald Trump to immediately pause his pause on federal funding, but that order doesn't appear to have had any impact on Trump's decisions. The administration has continued to halt funding for National Institute of Health's medical research development, meaning that new, potentially life-saving treatments are no longer being funded. This decision along could cost countless lives across the globe. A hunting pal of Donald Trump, Jr. has been installed as the acting deputy commissioner for human foods at the FDA. The man, Kyle Diamantas, has been a hunting partner of Junior for years, and his friendship is being rewarded with a position that he is grossly unqualified to hold. Diamantas is also a lawyer who has spent his career representing major food companies – the same companies he'll now be “trusted” to regulate. Donald Trump appeared to lose his mind this week in a post on Truth Social where he threatened to start suing people who write mean books about him. He then went a step further and suggested that he may start suing any writer or commentator that talks bad about him, and THEN went on to suggest that maybe he'll change libel laws to make that easier to do. This is fascism at work. All that, and much more, on this week's Ring of Fire Podcast!

The young staffers that Elon Musk has working at DOGE either don't understand basic math, or they don't know how to read. The office keeps claiming that they are finding BILLIONS of dollars worth of savings, but analyses keep showing that those savings don't actually exist - or in some cases, they are overstated by billions of dollars. Recently, DOGE claimed that they saved $8 billion by cutting a contract, but the contract amount was only $8 MILLION. Donald Trump is preparing to cut the government office that helps fund recovery efforts following natural disasters, which means that his campaign promise to help rebuild North Carolina after Hurricane Helene is never going to come true. This move would be particularly devastating for Red States, and therefore, MAGA voters, because the majority of natural disasters take place in those states and they'd be left with no federal assistance after the next disaster.According to Donald Trump's fundraising team, the President has raised more than $500 million from donors AFTER the election, most of it coming in the days and weeks surrounding the inauguration. And this wasn't an accident - Trump actually demanded that any wealthy donor who wanted to get some time alone with him pay millions of dollars to make that happen. This is legalized bribery thanks to our corrupt Supreme Court.A MAGA voter that voted for Trump in the last three elections told CNN this week that he can no longer believe the lies that are coming out of this administration - especially the ones being told by Elon Musk and DOGE. This particular voter is a good representation of what's happening with right wing voters all over the country as they start to wake up to reality. But don't get too optimistic - the voter still made it clear he'd vote for Trump all over again if he had the chance. Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

A completely incoherent Donald Trump got on Truth Social on Sunday to launch a lengthy attack on MSNBC after the network announced that they were parting ways with host Joy Ann Reid. But Trump went further than just attacking the hosts on the network and actually demanded that the company pay "vast sums of money" for the "unpardonable sins" they have committed. Those "sins" are calling out Trump's lies and telling the truth about what he's doing, which apparently in his mind means that he's owed money. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth admitted during an interview on Fox News that Donald Trump fired the top lawyers in the military so that there would be no one left to stand in his way and tell him "no." This is a dictator move, and it could be the telltale sign that Trump is preparing, at some point, to order the military to go against the United States Constitution. Whether it is for a foreign or domestic purpose remains to be seen, but smart money is on the latter.More and more local Republican leaders from across the country are warning that Donald Trump's mass layoffs and the termination of government contracts could lead to mass unemployment that would cripple local economies. Economists themselves are now warning of a looming recession thanks to all of the cuts that are taking place, as our economy simply cannot handle the sudden impact of tens of thousands of people being out of work in a single month. This is almost like the COVID layoffs all over again.The Trump administration has been forcing engineers throughout government agencies to scan through hundreds of thousands of documents on government websites to look for what are being called "banned words." These words include things like "woman" and "disabled" in the FDA database, while Health and Human Services is removing terms like "Biden", "transgender," and "diversity." This serves no purpose other than to attack vulnerable parts of society, as Farron explains.Text and and let us know your thoughts on today's stories!Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on all of Farron's content: https://www.youtube.com/FarronBalancedFollow Farron on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarronBalanced Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farronbalanced TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farronbalanced?lang=en

-- On the Show: -- Farron Cousins, host of Farron Balanced and Ring of Fire, fills in for David. Subscribe to Farron on YouTube: youtube.com/farronbalanced (David returns tomorrow) -- A federal judge says that Donald Trump is ignoring his order to resume federal funding -- A federal court prevents the Trump administration from sending immigrants to Guantanamo Bay -- JD Vance writes "judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power" -- Trump gets booed at the Superbowl and claims Taylor Swift was booed out of the stadium -- Trump allies suggest they will target New York Attorney General Letitia James, who prosecuted Trump's business -- Trump again threatens tariffs against Canada and Mexico -- A Trump voter is shocked to learn that Trump is purposefully damaging the economy -- A Minnesota law firm is suing Mike Lindell over unpaid debts -- Farmers are reporting missing millions of dollars from the Department of Agriculture -- Republican senators are largely silent over Trump's abuses of power, in fear that Trump and Elon Musk will retaliate -- On the Bonus Show: Trump fleeced supporters out of billions with meme coin, Democrats already want to impeach Trump, measles outbreak hits Texas, and much more... ⚠️ Ground News: Get 50% OFF their unlimited access Vantage plan at https://ground.news/pakman

-- On the Show: -- Farron Cousins, host of Farron Balanced and Ring of Fire, fills in for David. Subscribe to Farron on YouTube: youtube.com/farronbalanced -- Donald Trump reverses a Biden policy phasing out plastic straws -- Attorney General Pam Bondi instructs the DOJ to investigate DEI, not white-collar crime -- JD Vance convinces Elon Musk to rehire a DOGE staffer who resigned after his racist social media posts surfaced -- A current DOGE staffer was once fired for leaking company secrets -- Trump purges the prosecutors investigating Elon Musk's businesses -- Trump revokes Joe Biden's security clearance just to spite him -- Donald Trump gets triggered by "President Elon Musk" appearing on the cover of TIME Magazine -- Trump speaks to reporters and exhibits signs of cognitive decline -- Republicans are gutting the Department of Education, which will disproportionately harm red states -- Democrats are desperate for a new party leader and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez may be the pick -- On the Bonus Show: Another Capitol rioter going back to prison, Bernie and Josh Hawley team up to help consumers, Trump trying to eradicate "anti-Christian bias," and much more... ☕ Cambio Roasters: Get 20% off with code PAKMAN at https://cambioroasters.com ☕ Beam melatonin hot cocoa: Code PAKMAN for up to 40% OFF at https://shopbeam.com/pakman