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“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.” Carl Sagan My substack newsletter. I write about politics, media and culture: https://joethomascrespo.substack.com
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Trump, talking about the Air India flight that crashed, said he spoke with Indian officials and “gave them a couple of pointers” about why he thinks the plane crashed. I laughed; it’s just so embarrassing. As an Aussie, I’m so sorry to the majority of Americans who didn’t vote for him. Sad.

Fun Fact: Kamala isn’t in the Epstein Files, but Trump is.

White House press secretary Leavitt: "With President Trump in charge, the days of criminals being put over victims are over." * January 6 rioters and white-collar criminals not included.

I had a nightmare last night that the new Trump appointed head of FEMA, David Richardson, didn’t know that hurricane season just started. I also dreamed that the head of Health didn’t believe vaccines were good and the Defence Secretary couldn’t keep secrets. Looking forward to waking up.

open.substack.com/pub/joethoma... Hunter Biden a flawed human being but not as flawed as the Trump family

Just when you think Trump can’t sound more deranged, he just reposted a conspiracy that Biden was “executed” in 2020, and the current Biden is a clone. This is the person who won the election. Jake Tapper I have an idea for a new book!

Trump, the most prolific user of derogatory nicknames in the history of mankind, getting angry about being given a nickname, TACO, was very funny. It was like he was horrified that anyone could even think about doing something so mean and childish… umm…Donald…

open.substack.com/pub/joethoma... In my latest newsletter I wrote about how nobody has more contempt for the MAGA movement than Trump and his administration

Trump: “We were a laughing stock, an absolute laughing stock, but we're not a laughing stock any longer. And, as I said, I was talking to President Putin for two and a half hours. That was being very seriously listened to.” As an Aussie, I can confirm he is a laughing stock here.

open.substack.com/pub/joethoma... I had the pleasure of speaking with ex-congressman Joe Walsh on Substack today.

Trump just posted: “CHINA SHOULD OPEN UP ITS MARKET TO USA — WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR THEM!!! CLOSED MARKETS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!!!” This will go down in history as one of the least self-aware statements. And he did in all caps.

Trump: "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls, they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five." I wonder if Trump and MAGA would apply the same logic to billionaires' toys and assets?

Congratulations to the Australian Labor Party and its leader Anthony Albanese, another center-left-wing party winning an election and beating a right-wing, Trumpian-lite party. Trumpian politics is toxic all around the world.

Trump has helped make Canada great again 🇨🇦

Anyone who bought the book The Art of the Deal should demand a full refund.

Fun Fact: the anti-DEI Trump administration is the most inept party in American history. It’s time to bring back DEI.

Journalist: "Mr. President, why are you not putting more pressure on Russia?" Trump: "I'm putting a lot of pressure. You don't know what pressure I'm putting on Russia. You have no idea what pressure I'm putting on them." Trump is going to put Putin’s face on Mount Rushmore.

open.substack.com/pub/joethoma... In my latest article I write about the history and connection of RFK Jr., the granddaddy of “vaccines cause autism,” Andrew Wakefield, and Trump

Harvard University is sueing the Trump administration, but wait till Trump unleashes his own lawyers from Trump University. Game, Set and Match.

Trump and MAGA are trying to divert the attention away from DUE PROCESS for García and others and turn it into a trial by MAGA media and Trump himself.

open.substack.com/pub/joethoma... In my latest Substack newsletter I write about the debate between Dave Smith & Douglas Murray

Trump: “No other president would have done what I did. No other president…“ Finally, we agree on something.

The same people who are saying Trump planned all this to a tee as a way for America to get massive concessions from other nations are the same people who believed Trump was going to release the Epstein files.

Billionaire, Bill Ackman thanking Trump for putting a temporary pause on tariffs above 10% after deliberately crashing the markets, is like thanking RFK Jr for his work on stopping the measles outbreak.

At some stage MAGA will need to accept that Trump is not playing 4D chess; he is only playing golf, a lot.

Musk has called President Trump's adviser, Peter Navarro, a "moron" over comments he made about Tesla’s & tariffs. Hilarious, all these insanly rich & powerful men too frightened to attack the president so they go after his advisors like Trump hasn’t been obsessed with tariffs since the 80’s.

open.substack.com/pub/joethoma... Buyer's remorse is rampant after the Trump tariffs, even among the Trump-supporting billionaires, Bill Ackman, etc.

Trump posted, "ONLY THE WEAK WILL FAIL!” Trump wants to turn the population of America into contestants of The Apprentice. It's all a reality TV show for Trump.

“You are gambling with world war three, give Putin half your eggs”

Basically, Trump wants to replace Chinese workers with Chinese robots in American factories.

Trump’s presidency could be the best advertising for implementing DEI.

Every day I wake up I thank god that Trump got rid of DEI and replaced it with the “best and the brightest.” Trump has placed tariffs on Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, and the main inhabitants of those islands are FURIOUS.

open.substack.com/pub/joethoma... Podcast: After the Wisconsin results, Elon could be pushed aside by Trump. A new trend could be emerging: Elon campaigning is turning off voters:

open.substack.com/pub/joethoma... Elon says often that the Dems are no longer the kind party. The lack of self awareness by Elon is astonishing.

JD Vance: “The president said we have to have Greenland. We cannot just ignore this place. We cannot just ignore the president’s desires.” Everything the vice president said was bad, but the last bit was just creepy and disturbing. It gets weirder by the day.

Pam Bondi: “want to talk about classified information, talk about what was in Hillary Clinton’s home, talk about the classified documents in Biden’s garage, that Hunter Biden had access to.” Investigation cleared them, but who can forget Trump’s documents sitting in his bathroom at Mara la Go?

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Nobody has despised DEI more than Pete Hegseth; ironically, no one has done more to promote DEI than Pete Hegseth.

Thank god, Pete Hegseth eliminated DEI in the defense force. Otherwise we might have ended up with a non-white male official accidentally leaking classified military information to a journalist.

JD Vance was on Fox talking about taking land from Greenland. MAGA is the 2025 version of the George W. Bush neocons with one exception: the MAGA version only goes after friendly countries. I'm sure Don Jr. is begging Daddy to take over Colombia so Junior can have an endless supply of cocaine.

Joe Rogan was criticizing Trump on his podcast for saying he wanted to make Canada America’s 51st state. Rogan was also complaining he was being called right-wing. Rogan has said nothing on Trump threatening Denmark, making CNN and MSNBC illegal, and Elon wanting to “dismantle” Social Security.

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Trump pardoned domestic terrorists and rioters who destroyed property and assaulted police officers on Jan 6. Trump wants to imprison people who destroyed Tesla’s for 20 years. For Trump, destroying property and assaulting police officers is ok as long as you believe Trump won the 2020 elections.