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February 10, 2025

Insurrectionists released, Nazi salutes – day 1 of Trump 2.0

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Official portrait of President Donald Trump, 2025. Photo Daniel Torok, White House.

Incoming US President and convicted felon Donald Trump delivered on his promise to be a dictator on day one of his second presidency, defying his own country’s laws and rejecting the institutions of international allies as he sought to ‘Make America Great Again’.

Most of the criminals involved with the 7 January 2021 insurrection are being released, including the leader of the far-right Proud Boys group Enrique Tarrio, who was previously sentenced to 22 years in prison.

The family of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who died from injuries sustained in that attack, which was filmed, said the move was a ‘betrayal of decency’.

Trump’s first moves in the Oval Office followed an inauguration ceremony in which tech billionaires dominated proceedings, including what appeared to be two Nazi style salutes from Elon Musk from behind the seal of the United States President.

Among a flurry of announcements following his inauguration, Trump immediately withdrew from the World Health Organisation (which experts say will undermine America’s standing in the global health community), withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement, delayed a federal ban on TikTok (the US was seeking to get 50 per cent control of the social media app), brought in a federal hiring freeze, destroyed racial equity policies and protections for transgender people, and promised tariffs against Canada and Mexico.

As outlined in Project 2025, before the election, Trump has also begun removing more than 1,000 public servants appointed under the previous administration for not being aligned with the MAGA ‘vision’.

He has since begun a crackdown on immigration, with raids expected to begin across the country shortly, beginning with the Democrat-controlled city of Chicago.

While many of the Executive Orders President Trump signed on day one require the support of Congress, are being challenged in court, or both, the exact limits of his control over the various branches of government in the United States, if any, are yet to be seen.

The Diet Coke button has already been reinstalled in the Oval Office, along with a portrait of former President Andrew Jackson.

Trump’s newly created cryptocurrency $Trump, which allows anyone in the world to transfer any amount of money directly to him without any official scrutiny, had a 24 hour trading volume in access of $21 billion.


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20 COMMENTS

    • Remember that time when the Trumpet was president between 2016-2020 and he grew a Hitler mustache and started wars…..

      Yeh, nah…that’s right, was all a figure of left leaning media’s imagination and narrative on repeat.

      • Trump will destroy the us economy by himself: tariffs, lower taxes , unlimited government debt, lining his pockets and his tech bro mates with crypto scams etc. trump will be fine but all those people who voted for him will be scammed.

  1. This reminds me why I don’t read news… whoops !
    Best ignore the freak till his time has passed.
    The laws of nature are that extremes come and go, quite quickly … although that’s not measured by our silly perspective of time.

  2. Behold the power of the corrupted media! For decades of this corrupted media’s brainwashing has turned 30%, of the USA into political servile zombies, mental retards. To even imagine a criminal like Trump and his MAGA cartel of crooks bankrolled by these insatiably greedy billionaires, being elected to any office anywhere is just beyond belief. What is the matter with these crazies he so easily fools into supporting his crimes? They know he’s a criminal yet they are willing accomplices. Australia should be moving to shut down all of these corrupted disinformation media before they too poison this country. Any billionaire bankrolled politician like Dutton in Australia, knowingly supporting Trump and his crimes, should be voted last on any ballot paper and removed from our Parliament and Senate.

  3. That dystopian future we have been warned about in novels for decades has arrived! All because a few lazy Americans couldn’t be bothered to vote?

  4. Yay to all of it, so sick of woke, maybe we will see a return to peace, as he cleans the filthy swamp creatures out. Hope he cleans up the media, the enablers of constant lies to the public. I wish we would exit the WHO. Im thinking it’s a champagne moment 🍾

  5. Wow. It is almost impossible to find a nuanced article on Trump without the usual catch phrases and words – “Nazi, Hitler, end of democracy” bla bla bla.
    Not a Trump fan here but the demise of the mega war mongering, genocidal and ultra corrupt Biden administration and family was at least of some relief.
    Trump et al is a wait and see and am certain it isn’t going to be all good but nor is it going to be as drammatically horrible as stock and trade swamp articles from the fascist left try to make out – and I make that distinction – the fascist corporate nanny state left as against the old liberty loving left that we once knew.

    • When Trumps own VP Vance has called Trump Americas Hitler, its sort of unavoidable to compare him to Hitler isn’t it? Then when you compare what almost every person that has had contact with Trump, saying that he’s unfit for any office, including all the former Presidents and VP’s, military chiefs of staff, his own attorney generals? That ain’t blah blah blah, thats facts!

    • Don’t know what you’re smoking these days Mac, but I think you should know fascism is in direct opposition to the ‘Left’.
      Nazis are fascists, Hitler was a fascist, and perhaps that’s why so many mention the fact that Trump is the very model of a fascist authortarian despot.
      Next, you’ll be trying to tell us Israel is a left-wing , communist, peace icon.
      Get ready for Armageddon, G”)

  6. It’s fantastic to see, from day one, the US President implementing policies that the overwhelming majority of US voters voted him in power to do. World Health Organisation, Paris Accord all in the bin. A crackdown on illegal foreign aliens, mass arrests and deportations of the same, closure of US entry points for the foreign aliens etc etc
    It’s a great time if you’re an American 🇺🇸

    • So Mark, you think next time there is a pandemic we should be guided by people like RFK Jnr? The guy has already demonstrated his ignorance on measles vaccine with disastrous results.

      Chuck Schumacher was spot on when he said this will be the golden age for criminality. There should be more publicity of the fact that Trump has pardoned Ross Ulbricht who made millions on the Dark Web selling drugs, arms and information on how to hack others’ information. Trump stated he gave the pardon because of the support Ulbricht’s mother gave to his campaign. Trump lacks the most basic decency. Let’s hope that ‘the sit on their hands’ majority of Americans who didn’t vote, wake up before the mid term elections and put Republicans into a minority in the House and Senate.

    • Trumps Golden Age for USA, yes siree, bring on those conflicts with Greenland and Panama, a great time if you’re American.🤯

  7. Trump and his policies are so riddled with contradictions and savage knock on effects that they will hurt the middle class and further enlarge the great wealth divide. Take the immigration example. Illegal immigration has overrun many public services and created or enlarged many barrios in US cities. But once inside the US, illegals find work and a roof over their head even if its a big share house or barrack style. Many small business take them on and big US corporate and the Republican party quietly nods. Thats simply because illegals are paid the lowest wages, given the worst conditions, they cant vote or run for office and THEY CAN’T UNIONISE. In the Ronald Regan era legislation was put forward to require employers to record visas , ‘green card’ work permits or birth certificate when they were given a job. Employers who hired illegals could face a fine. Guess what? In didn’t pass.

  8. If your commencing university now is the time to consider becoming a legal practitioner and choosing either the prosecutorial/ethical side of law or the political defence team.
    You will make a fortune! Or there is always to gamble on cryptocurrency with husband & wife [President & 1st Lady] in on the act. They have already made a billion + and counting.

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