The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

What is the point of airing or anybody watching a deranged individual spew baseless lies that have nothing to do with anything right now.

 

Dum and Dumer (cause most people don't know about the "b"....shhhh)

 

The funny thing is they can't even get their propaganda right...

 

Damn. Trump had china helping him and he still lost.

 

So the drop in inflation that trump has been touting for the last few days was mostly caused by companies using the tariff refunds to keep the costs down.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/economy/policy/articles/u-companies-finally-gotten-71-070000840.html


U.S. companies have finally gotten $71 billion in tariff refunds, but they’re using it to offset inflation caused by the Iran war

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued $49.2 billion in refunds in June, according to the U.S. Treasury's monthly statement, bringing total tariff refunds to about $71 billion, or more than 60% of the $166 billion available following the Supreme Court striking down tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in February.
We do expect some more pressure on the business from a commodity standpoint," PepsiCo Chief Financial Officer Steve Schmitt said in the company's earnings call last week. "We will be using the tariff, essentially the refunds, to help offset some commodity inflation that we're seeing and allow us to continue to play offense in the business."

Marcos Gabriel, CFO of spice brand McCormick & Company, noted during an earnings presentation last month that its $31 million in tariff refunds will counterbalance higher costs. The company raised prices twice in the last year as a result of tariffs and limited freight capacity.

"I think it's important to note that the Middle East conflict is really driving more inflation that we had not contemplated before…so we are going to use the majority of the tariff refund to offset these higher costs," Gabriel said.

Bank of America Securities analyst Steve Juneau predicted in a May 20 note to clients that oil and gas costs would remain stubbornly high, leaving tariff rebates as a way to extinguish higher freight costs.
"Importers that receive refunds will likely use the money to offset rising energy and shipping costs," he said. "They may also offer some type of consumer relief, which surveys suggest is more likely to come in the form of slower price hikes rather than a direct benefit to consumers. Therefore, the refunds could be a modest disinflationary force ahead of midterms."

 

Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers
In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.

Sam Biddle
July 20 2026, 5:48 a.m. ET

While they’re not as common as reviews for cafes and dry cleaners, reviews have poured into Google Maps by the thousands for the growing network of jails operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The reviews have come from internet users sharing their often harrowing experiences in the detention facilities.

Google then purges these reviews and blocks the ability to write new ones, according to newly published research.

“Google actively suppresses carceral information, narratives, and digital trace data related to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) detention facilities,” wrote Muira McCammon, a professor at Tulane University’s Department of Communication who has been scraping and analyzing self-reported accounts of ICE imprisonment posted to Google Maps since last year.

Much of this record is now permanently deleted, erasing detailed testimony of people ingested by the U.S. deportation machine.

Last August, McCammon aggregated 1,636 posts from 26 different ICE facilities where Google still allowed users to post reviews and discovered there were 91 other immigration jails on Google Maps with no reviews.

“Google had already turned off reviews for the remaining 91 facilities,” McCammon told The Intercept. “Almost all of the Google reviews that I originally collected in 2025 are now no longer available.”

Only four ICE facilities appear to still permit reviews on Google Maps, she said.

Pulling the reviews has come with no public notice or explanation.

In 2023, Google said in a corporate blog post that it reserved the right to delete Maps reviews for locations that are “consistently unhelpful, harmful, or off-topic. This includes places that people go to without choice or places only accessible to people stationed or assigned there—such as police stations and prisons.”

Unhelpful to whom, however, is unclear: While some of the reviews in question were statements of protest that could have been left by anyone, many appeared to come from people directly affected by ICE. They described a variety of issues that would be of great material interest to anyone detained in the facilities or for people close to them.

“Reviews help people make decisions on where to go,” Google spokesperson Genevieve Park said in a statement, “and we don’t show reviews on several categories of places where people go without choice,” citing the company’s policy of removing Google Maps reviews that are “unhelpful, harmful, or off-topic.”

In the past, Google has complied with requests to censor speech about ICE. In 2025, the company blocked Android users from downloading ICEBlock, an app that alerted people to crowdsourced sightings of ICE agents.

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