Donald Trump warned that “nothing will stop me” as he reveled in his use of executive power to reshape the government during a rally in Michigan that marked his 100th day in office.
The president rifled through his accomplishments, denigrated migrants, and roasted his political opponents during a nearly 90-minute “achievement speech” Tuesday evening at Macomb Community College, just north of Detroit.
“In 100 days, we have delivered the most profound change in Washington in 100 years,” Trump said in front of 3,000 supporters. After taking the stage to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” the president said his administration had “just gotten started,” before adding: “You haven’t seen anything yet.”
Trump also tussled with ABC News journalist Terry Moran in a heated interview broadcast Tuesday evening, which devolved into the president stating the reporter was “not being very nice.”
He stirred up further controversy by claiming he “could” return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, and doubled down on his assertion that an edited photo of “MS-13” appearing across his knuckles was legitimate.
Just in: US economy stalls under Trump stewardship, BEA report states
The U.S. economy has stalled since Donald Trump returned to the White House, according to a new quarterly report from the Bureau of Economic.
Real gross domestic product—inflation-adjusted GDP—unexpectedly slipped by 0.3 percent, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s advance estimate. It was expected to increase by 0.2 percent.
Negative GDP growth has occurred just three times over the last decade: the first and second quarters of 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic; and in the first quarter of 2022 when the Fed imposed its first interest rate hike in more than three years.
“The decrease in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected an increase in imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, and a decrease in government spending,” the BEA said in a statement.
“These movements were partly offset by increases in investment, consumer spending, and exports.”
James Liddell30 April 2025 14:02
Jon Sopel: I was at Trump’s 100 day rally – but the MAGA crowds were missing
Columnist Jon Sopel was struck by the hundreds, maybe a thousand protestors lining the highway outside Macomb Community College – and cars were honking their horns to show their support.
Walking across the vast parking lot, he expected to see the long lines of the Trump lovers, queuing in the already humid heat to get a prime spot in the venue.
Over the Jon says he has seen Trump speaking at venues holding 20,000 – and those places have been packed to overflowing. But yesterday there were no lines.
Read about Jon’s experience at Trump’s 100-day rally in Michigan:
James Liddell30 April 2025 14:00
Kamala Harris to make rare public appearance in California today
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to make a rare public appearance in California today, one day after President Trump marked his first 100 days in the White House.
The 2024 Democratic presidential candidate is scheduled to deliver a keynote speech at Emerge at the organization’s 20th Anniversary Gala at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The group recruits, trains and provides support to Democratic women eying political office.
Harris is expected to criticize Donald Trump over his aggressive push to fulfill his agenda and how she believes his administration is failing Americans.
“There is a clamoring for her voice right now,” a former Harris senior adviser told NBC News Wednesday. “No one can better prosecute the case while inspiring a call to action than the former vice president.”
James Liddell30 April 2025 13:41
Elon Musk is leaving Trump. Or is he?
Stepping on the stage at Madison Square Garden, nine days before Donald Trump was declared president a second time, Elon Musk told a crowd of screaming fans that their “money is being wasted.”
Musk — dressed in all black, topped with a black “MAGA” hat in blackletter type — vowed to cut “at least $2 trillion” in federal spending, a figure he apparently came up with on the spot. He pledged to put his so-called Department of Government Efficiency to work getting the “government off your back and out of your pocketbook.”
Nearly six months later, after pumping tens of millions of dollars into the president’s campaign and deploying an army of loyalists across the government to fire workers and slash budgets, the wealthiest person on the planet announced plans to “significantly” withdraw from the White House to focus on his company, Tesla.
DOGE’s cost-cutting crusade isn’t going anywhere, officials told The Independent’s Alex Woodward.
James Liddell30 April 2025 13:20
Hegseth decries ‘perfect score’ as he garners ‘100% negative’ press coverage
A recent analysis by the Media Research Center suggests that 100 percent of network media coverage of Pete Hegseth was negative since Donald Trump had taken office.
Sharing a screenshot of the unsavory accolade from Fox News, the Defense secretary said in jest that he had a “PERFECT SCORE.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and Department of Government Efficiency lead Elon Musk had received 89 percent and 96 percent negative coverage, respectively, per the analysis.
“Come on,” Hegseth tweeted, tagging RFK Jr and Musk. “You guys can do better!”
James Liddell30 April 2025 13:18
Watch: Crowd chants ‘USA! USA!’ after Trump shows video of El Salvador mega prison
“For years, Joe Biden and the media told us that stopping the flood of illegal immigration was absolutely impossible,” President Donald Trump tells his 3,000 followers in Michigan. “But it turned out that all we needed was a new president.”
“We are delivering mass deportation, and it’s happening right now. And the worst of the worst are being sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador,” he says.
Trump then played a video of deportees being manhandled off planes and buses, having their heads shaved, and then being herded into cells.
“USA! USA!,” the chants amid wild cheers.
James Liddell30 April 2025 13:00
US economy expected to have slowed under Trump stewardship, analysts predict
The U.S. is expected to release its first quarterly GDP report of Trump’s second term on Wednesday.
The data is expected to show a sharp economic slowdown over recent months after the president attempted to foment a global trade war and stoked uncertainty amongst U.S. businesses and consumers, analysts told ABC News.
According to a Reuters poll of economists, the economy is expected to have expanded at a 0.3 percent annualized rate from January through March, down from 2.4 percent in the final quarter of 2024.
The data covers a period before Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs went into effect in early April.
James Liddell30 April 2025 12:43
Analysis: The Trump administration is trolling all of us
Taking their cues from the right-wing culture warriors and edgelords who make up the MAGA media sphere, the Trump administration has made performative cruelty its media strategy blueprint.
With a staff largely comprised of former Fox News hosts, pro-Trump influencers, made-for-TV politicians, and Trump’s “first buddy” Elon Musk, who just so happens to own one of the largest social media platforms in the world, each day has seemingly brought about a new rage baiting stunt in the conservative media complex.
The goal, writes Justin Baragona, for online behavior and mainstream media engagement remains the same: titillate Trump supporters while angering the left. In a word, trolling.
The Trump administration is trolling all of us
The White House’s goal for online behavior and mainstream media engagement remains the same: titillate Trump supporters while angering the left. In a word, trolling, according to Justin Baragona
James Liddell30 April 2025 12:21
Mapped: Trump’s widespread firings in administration’s first 100 days
James Liddell30 April 2025 12:14
Scott Jennings admits he got ‘caught up in moment’ after rant about ‘owning libs’ at Trump rally
CNN’s Conservative commentator Scott Jennings bragged about “owning libs” after he was briefly invited on stage at Donald Trump’s Michigan rally Tuesday.
“CNN, this is the end of Scott,” Trump joked after Jennings took the floor. “Oh, who cares? Don’t worry, we’ll take care of you, Scott.”
Jennings told Trump’s Michigan base that the rally was “flying.”
“I said, ‘Look at these farms. I gotta get a farm in Michigan,’” he continued. “Because when you own as many libs as I do, you got to put a place to put them all. Thank you all very much.”
After the rally, Jennings posted a video on X, stating he “got caught up in the moment.”
James Liddell30 April 2025 12:03
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