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Aug 29 8 tweets 3 min read Read on X
🚨 TRUMP JUST DID IT AGAIN.

Last night, President Trump CUT ANOTHER $4.9 BILLION in foreign aid—using a bold maneuver that bypasses Congress.

It's called a "pocket rescission".

American tax dollars will no longer bankroll globalist schemes. America First is back. 🧵 Image
2/ How did he do it?

👉 By using a rare move called a “pocket rescission.”
If Congress doesn’t act before the fiscal year ends (Sept. 30), the money simply expires.

Better yet: it's removed from the budget baseline for next year!

Result: taxpayers save billions, permanently. Image
3/ This isn’t the first cut.

✅ In July, Trump used a rescission bill to slash $9.4 billion in foreign aid & public broadcaster funding.

Now another $4.9 billion is gone.

That’s nearly $15 billion in just two swipes—and the end of USAID and PBS/NPR.

4/ Of course Democrats are furious.

Chuck Schumer called Trump’s cuts “proof” Republicans are “rejecting bipartisanship.”

Translation: Schumer is mad that elections have consequences.

Odd that he never felt so "bipartisan" when he ran the Senate. Image
5/ Remember: every dollar spent on foreign aid is a dollar NOT spent on…

🇺🇸 Securing our border
🇺🇸 Rebuilding our cities
🇺🇸 Supporting veterans & families
🇺🇸 Repaying our national debt

Trump gets it. Charity begins at home. It has to. Image
6/ And here’s the kicker:

Pocket rescissions are so rare the last attempt was in 1983 under Ronald Reagan.

Trump is the first president since Reagan bold enough to use it—on a much bigger scale.

If it sticks, get ready for FAR more next year. Image
7/ Bottom line:

Trump just cut billions in America Last foreign aid without a single vote from Congress.

But the means is even more important than the cuts. If this works, the President just clawed back BIG budget powers!

Not power to spend. Power to CUT.💥 Image
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Aug 30
🚨 Trump just checkmated India’s oil game.

🇮🇳 Saved $17B buying Russia’s “discount” crude.
🇺🇸 Trump’s new tariffs will cost them $37B.

Wipeout.

And that’s just the warning shot, to ALL Putin's customers. It can get much worse.

They'll start pushing Putin to make peace.

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2/ After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, India became Putin’s lifeline—snapping up cheap oil no one else would touch.

Today, nearly 40% of India’s crude comes from Russia.

That cash pays for Putin’s war machine.

Trump decided: enough. Image
3/ On Wednesday, Trump’s 25% general tariff + 25% penalty tariff for Russian oil imports went live.

Result: India’s “savings” from cheap Russian oil → totally erased.

They’ll LOSE about $20B this fiscal year compared to sticking with free-world suppliers. Image
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Aug 30
🚨 TRUMP JUST FIRED 500+ DEEP STATERS AT VOA

Voice of America was hijacked decades ago—turned from anti-communist truth-telling into a taxpayer-funded megaphone for globalist propaganda.

Now Trump is dismantling it, job by job.

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2/ The U.S. Agency for Global Media (which runs VOA, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, etc.) is slashing 532 jobs.

That’s HALF of what's left of the agency.

Why? Because Trump refuses to let American tax dollars fund unaccountable Democrats who hate America. Image
3/ VOA was born in WWII to counter Nazi lies.

It carried freedom’s message through the Iron Curtain.

But under Obama & Biden, it morphed into an echo chamber for the Left, soft-pedaling China, trashing Trump, and boosting globalism. Image
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Aug 30
🚨 BOMBSHELL: Trump may deploy a private army to Ukraine.

No U.S. troops. No endless wars. No blank checks.

Instead: American contractors protecting our interests, deterring Putin, and making peace possible.

This is brilliant. 🧵 Image
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2/ Here’s the genius:

🔹 Trump promised no U.S. troops in Ukraine.
🔹 He also promised effective security.
🔹 The solution? Use private American contractors — not soldiers — to secure bases, borders, & U.S. business.

Smart. Legal. Deterrence without an offensive army. Image
3/ They would:

⚡ Rebuild fortifications & bases
⚡ Guard American businesses & interests
⚡ Deter Putin by putting Americans (with U.S. passports) on the ground

If Putin breaks the peace, he knows he risks a U.S. response. But there's no army he has to fear invading Russia. Image
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Aug 30
🚨 BREAKING: Bolivia just threw out its socialist rulers after nearly 20 years.

This isn’t just local politics. It’s a massive opening for President Trump — to reclaim a vital country, secure lithium, crush cartels, and push China out of our hemisphere.

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2/ On Aug. 17, Bolivians voted the socialist MAS party out.

Why it matters:

🔹 Bolivia has the world’s largest lithium reserves
🔹 It was aligned with China & Venezuela
🔹 It became a narco-state fueling cartels across the Americas

Trump now has the chance to flip it. Image
3/ Lithium = VITAL for anything that needs a battery.

China spent years bribing MAS officials to secure billion-dollar lithium mines.

The U.S.? Blocked by red tape, frozen out of contracts, and forced into “joint ventures” with socialist state firms.

Trump can change that. Image
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Aug 30
🚨 A speaker at a Rashida Tlaib-linked pro-Palestinian conference just said this:

👉 “We live in an evil country.”
👉 “We must destroy the idea of America in Americans’ heads.”

And the crowd APPLAUDED. 🧵 Image
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2/ This wasn’t a fringe basement meeting.

It was the “People’s Conference for Palestine” in Detroit — featuring multiple extremist speakers, foreign prisoners released in Hamas deals… and sitting Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. Image
3/ One panelist, Sachin Peddada, didn’t hold back:

🇺🇸 “America is evil.”
🇮🇱 “Israel is a carbon copy of the United States.”
🔥 “We have to dismantle American exceptionalism.”

The crowd erupted in cheers. Image
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Aug 30
🚨 TRUMP VS. THE FED: Of COURSE the President Can Fire Lisa Cook!

President Trump just moved to FIRE Lisa Cook, a Biden-nominated Fed governor—something no president has ever done.

The media screams “norm violation.” The truth? Trump has EVERY constitutional right to do it. 🧵 Image
2/ The cause? Serious.

Cook is charged with lying about her residence to score a better mortgage rate, then failing to report rental income.

That’s called mortgage AND tax fraud—and it undermines the legitimacy of the very financial system she's supposed to safeguard. Image
3/ But the bigger story isn’t Cook.

It’s the administrative state.

For a century, unelected “independent agencies” have acted like a 4th branch of government—unaccountable, untouchable, unconstitutional.

Trump just declared: NO MORE.

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