Trump is looking to undo decades of racial progress within the military in his first month as president. 

On Monday morning, the president announced on Truth Social that he would be firing the “Board of Visitors” of each military academy, accusing the outside advisory boards meant to guide students of being “infiltrated” by wokeness. These boards are made up of military officers and current members of Congress from both the Democratic and Republican parties. 

“Our Service Academies have been infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years. I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard,” the president wrote on Truth Social Monday morning. “We will have the strongest Military in History, and that begins by appointing new individuals to these Boards. We must make the Military Academies GREAT AGAIN!”

This move aligns with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s well-documented war on racial and gender diversity in the military, and MAGA’s general war on whatever they consider “woke.” Last week, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point eliminated clubs like the Asian Pacific Forum Club, Japanese Forum Club, National Society of Black Engineers, Korean-American Relations Seminar, Vietnamese-American Cadet Association, and the Native American Heritage Forum, among others. In his first week in office, Trump also signed an executive order gutting diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, programs in the military. This purging of basic cultural awareness from the military is in full swing. 

Donald Trump fumbled his way through a pre-Super Bowl interview where he skirted questions about his false promises to lower inflation, and delivered a muddled tirade when asked how he planned to bring Americans together.

Fox News’ Brett Baier asked Trump about whether his plan to impose tariffs will actually help American consumers. The president is expected to announce reciprocal tariffs this week on “every country,” and a 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum imports.

“You said that ‘tariff’ is a beautiful word. There are some signs in the market, consumer confidence that they’re a little jittery,” Baier said. “So, if all goes to plan, when do you think families would be able to feel prices going down, groceries, energy? Or are you kind of saying to them, ‘Hang on, inflation may get worse until it gets better?’”

Even as Baier spoon-fed Trump an answer to sugarcoat his horrible plan to lower inflation, the president chose to divert into a complete nonanswer.

“No, I think we’re going to become a rich—and look, we’re not that rich right now! We owe $36 trillion. That’s because we let all these nations take advantage of us,” Trump said. “Same thing, like $200 billion with Canada. We owe 300—we have a deficit with Mexico of $350 billion. I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to let that happen!”

BAIER: When do you think families would be able to feel prices going down?

TRUMP: I think we're gonna become a rich-- look, we're not that rich right now. We owe $36 trillion. That's because we let all these nations take advantage of us. pic.twitter.com/fyIrfBKrSq

Trump’s nonanswer provided little comfort to consumers who are currently struggling to afford eggs amid an avian flu outbreak. In reality, Trump’s plans are expected to barely make a dent in the national debt and raise prices.

Baier then asked if Trump had “thought about how to try to bring the country together, to reach out or to find common ground?”

“Have you thought about that, or how that might go?” he pressed.

“I’d love to do it,” Trump said. Then, the interview footage appeared to have been cut, and it’s unclear what, if anything, was edited out of his response.

“But, I would say this,” Trump continued. “We have to um, come together. But to come together, there is only one thing that’s gonna do it, and that’s massive success. Success will bring the country together.”

“But it’s hard. And I say it’s hard—I just signed a bill allowing for women not to have to be punished by men in sports. In other words, men are not gonna be allowed to play in sports against women,” Trump said, completely changing the subject again to brag about his transphobic bill targeting a handful of athletes.

Asked what he's doing to try to bring the country together, Trump goes on a rant that culminates in him saying that "I just signed a bill allowing for women not to have to be punished by men in sports." pic.twitter.com/nMSK1g1u9a

In short, Trump’s answer was: I will bring America together by turning its citizens against each other. But even that is too charitable an interpretation, because in the end, he couldn’t really get the words out.

Donald Trump’s attempt to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been met with a lawsuit. 

The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents employees at the bureau, on Sunday filed two lawsuits against Russell Vought, the newly confirmed director of the Office of Management and Budget and the CFPB’s acting head. One lawsuit is seeking to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from gaining access to employee information, stating that three of the pseudo-department’s staffers were granted internal system access. 

The same day that Vought granted DOGE access to CFPB systems, the lawsuit alleges,  Musk posted “CFPB RIP” on X. 

The second lawsuit attacks a directive from Vought issued in an email over the weekend ordering the CFPB’s employees to stop most, if not all, their work, including investigations and issuing new rules. The suit alleges that Vought’s directive “reflects an unlawful attempt to thwart Congress’s decision to create the CFPB to protect American consumers.” Vought also has refused to receive the agency’s latest funding........

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