Trump holds up an executive order to dismantle the education department, in Washington DC on Thursday.
I think it is horrible that he used some kids as props. Cheers!
I bet to Trump knowing that the food will sit there and rot – and the hungry will remain hungry - is like the cherry on top of his cake. Cheers!
Although I haven’t read the accompanying text, the charts in the link seem relevant, given that extremists currently see themselves as representative of the median: https://www.voteforcox.com/country-bicycle
Yep, I agree. Politically I tend to sit somewhere between centre-left and centre-right, depending on the issue. In the last five UK elections, I’ve voted for three different parties, depending on their visions for the country. It amuses me that xenophobic, compassionless, self-centred bigots believe they’re now the centrists.
Wonder if the students in the photo above know that the guy that is signing the executive order to control public education - once had a University called Trump University and it was shut down because it was a scam.
Cheers and happy weekend!
This post was edited by Nanoose at March 23, 2025 8:48 AM MDTWhen Trump first launched Trump University in 2005, he claimed that the Trump University program was devoted to helping people gain real estate skills and knowledge.
Today, it’s clear that Trump University was far from charitable. In fact, Trump University’s real estate seminars often didn’t provide that much education; at some seminars, it seemed like the instructors aimed to do little more than bilk money from people who dreamed of successful real estate careers. Lawyers eventually filed three separate lawsuits from 2010 to 2013 against Trump University for, among other claims, “deceptive practices. Trump agreed to pay a $25 million settlement to the people who attended Trump University.
Cheers!
Trump listed and called it a University – but a scam by any other name is still a scam. Cheers!
The scariest part is when you realize that people without educations were more likely to vote for Trump. I'm not saying intelligent people didn't vote for him. I'm saying that that if you look specifically at uneducated voters, they leaned right. Meanwhile, educated voters leaned left.
He's not just causing chaos and using innocent children as props. He's attempting to secure a republican majority for generations to come. This was not about improving education at all. It was about keeping wealth and power with the 1%.
There are plenty of sources that prove what I'm saying, but I'll preemptively add a couple:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2024/11/12/trump-election-win-college-educated-voters/76109508007/
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2024/11/08/men-and-white-people-vote-differently-based-education
https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/how-dismantling-department-education-would-harm-students
https://time.com/7261667/eliminating-department-of-education-resegregate-schools/