Trump Fumbles ‘Congratulations’ To Education Pick In Massive Announcement Goof-Up

Posted on 19/01/2025 by Boris Clair

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday used his Truth Social platform to reveal that he wants “Peggy Schwinn” to serve as the deputy secretary of education in his new administration.

But his announcement didn’t get a passing grade, as he misstated the name of his own pick, former Tennessee Commissioner of Education Penny Schwinn.

Trump, who praised Schwinn’s “strong record of delivering results for children and families” and pointed to her résumé, repeatedly referred to his pick as “Peggy” in the post.

“A former teacher herself, Peggy became the founding principal of a charter school, because she believes in the power of School Choice, and is committed to delivering the American Dream to the next Generation by returning Education BACK TO THE STATES,” Trump wrote.

“Congratulations to Peggy and her wonderful family!”

The post with the “Peggy” error remained on Truth Social as of early Saturday morning.

Trump has a history of fumbling or outright forgetting names, once misspelling his own name on social media.

Last year, after questioning President Joe Biden’s mental acuity and urging him to take a cognitive test, Trump referred to Representative Ronny Jackson — a White House physician for part of his own first term in the Oval Office — as “Ronny Johnson.”

Trump, while on the 2024 campaign trail, memorably mixed up the names of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi before suggesting that he “purposely” meant to “interpose” their names. (Critics noted that he didn’t accurately use the word “interpose” at the time).

Trump has also called officials by the wrong name as they sat next to him, referred to his future vice presidential running mate JD Vance as “JP” and “JD Mandel,” called former President Jimmy Carter “Jimmy Connors” and used the name “Rick Gates” while talking about then-Representative Matt Gaetz.

Donald Trump Compares Himself To Nelson Mandela In Wild Rant

Posted on 07/04/2024 by Boris Clair

Former President Donald Trump likened himself to late South African leader Nelson Mandela as he ranted on social media about his various court cases on Saturday.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee took aim at Judge Juan Merchan, writing that it’d be a “GREAT HONOR” to go to jail for violating a gag order against him in his upcoming New York hush money trial.

“If this Partisan Hack wants to put me in the ‘clink’ for speaking the open and obvious TRUTH, I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela – It will be my GREAT HONOR,” wrote Trump on his Truth Social platform.

He continued, “We have to Save our Country from these Political Operatives masquerading as Prosecutors and Judges, and I am willing to sacrifice my Freedom for that worthy cause.”

The former president has previously compared himself to Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison over his anti-apartheid activism.

Trump told a New Hampshire crowd in October that he wouldn’t “mind being Nelson Mandela” while declaring himself to be a victim of political persecution.

The former president attacked Merchan and his daughter via his platform before the judge expanded the limited gag order imposed on Trump last week.

Page 3: Now, we have Merchan, who is not allowing me to talk, thereby violating the Law and the Constitution, all at once. It is so bad what he is trying to get away with – How was he even chosen for this case??? I heard he fought like hell to get it, and all of the rest of them…

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) April 6, 2024

Former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart that Trump’s posts on Saturday could lead to a stricter gag order but it’s the “kind of stuff” the judge is allowing him to say.

“If it is simply sort’ve political speech that isn’t targeting anybody in particular, I think the judge is gonna give him a lot of leeway to say this,” said McQuade, a law professor at the University of Michigan.

“What the gag order specifically tries to proclude is doing anything that might intimidate witnesses, threaten witnesses or call into question the motives of the parties here. I think this kind of thing is probably going to be allowed to pass.”

Trump’s Truth Social Bled Tens Of Millions Of Dollars Last Year

Posted on 02/04/2024 by Boris Clair

Truth Social, the conservative social media network that former President Donald Trump launched in 2022 after being banned from other platforms, lost more than $58 million and generated a mere $4.1 million in revenue last year.

The revelations about Truth Social’s current situation came in a Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory filing from Trump’s company, Trump Media & Technology Group, on Monday. The financial situation is so dire, an auditor warned in the filing, that it raises “a substantial doubt” about whether TMTG can “continue as a going concern”.

In other words, Truth Social may have to shut down, going the way of Parler ― another conservative social network that had to shutter after just a few years in business.

The news comes a week after TMTG completed a merger with a shell company, Digital World Acquisition, to go public, infusing Truth Social with $300 million. But shares in the company dropped more than 15% following Monday’s news.

To put Truth Social’s precarious finances into context, Twitter, now known as X, generated more than $660 million in revenue in the year leading up to its going public, and it generated $5 billion in the year before Elon Musk bought it and took the company private.

Truth Social had fewer than 500,000 monthly active users in February.

Per the SEC filing, all of Truth Social’s money comes from advertisers buying space on the platform, and most of its expenses involve paying interest on debt.

The biggest problem Truth Social faces is that its user base is microscopic compared to that of other social platforms. In February, it had just 494,000 monthly active users, according to statistics obtained by CNN. That’s about 150 times smaller than Twitter’s roster of active users, and 290 times smaller than Facebook’s.

Despite its small community, and despite other social platforms lifting their bans on Trump, Truth Social remains the former president’s go-to forum for attacking his opponents and issuing reactions to news events. His posts there have repeatedly landed him in hot water, forcing various judges to impose gag orders on Trump while presiding over cases against him.

Last week, Trump came under fire for posting a video on Truth Social showing an image of a hogtied President Joe Biden painted on a truck. The Biden campaign accused the post of suggesting physical harm toward the president.

“Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously,” Michael Tyler, the campaign’s communications director, said in a statement.

Trump Sends Warm Christmas Wishes To Foes: ‘ROT IN HELL’

Posted on 26/12/2023 by Boris Clair

Donald Trump read off his political naughty list in a hellish holiday rant on Christmas Day.

The former president hopped on his Truth Social platform to unwrap a number of festive screeds to foes including one that criticized Jack Smith, the special counsel who has brought two cases against Trump.

“Merry Christmas to all, including Crooked Joe Biden’s ONLY HOPE, Deranged Jack Smith, the out of control Lunatic who just hired outside attorneys, fresh from the SWAMP (unprecedented!), to help him with his poorly executed WITCH HUNT against ‘TRUMP’ and ‘MAGA,’” the former president wrote on Monday.

The unhinged, frosty rant comes just days after the Supreme Court, on Friday, rejected Smith’s request to fast-track consideration of Trump’s presidential immunity claim in his 2020 election case.

Trump, who celebrated Christmas by launching into a rant full o’ caps last year, later directed his holiday wishes to “both good and bad” world leaders before comparing them to his adversaries in America.

He continued: “But none of which are as evil and ‘sick’ as the THUGS we have inside our Country who, with their Open Borders, INFLATION, Afghanistan Surrender, Green New Scam, High Taxes, No Energy Independence, Woke Military, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, All Electric Car Lunacy, and so much more, are looking to destroy our once great USA. MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!”

Trump has used several holidays to air his grievances this year including Easter, Mother’s Day and Memorial Day.

The former president – elsewhere on Christmas Day – claimed Biden would interfere in next year’s election, warned of looming “MADNESS & DOOM,” boasted about his polling performance and declared that people “will be happy, not sad” with his Obamacare alternative.

Trump remains the GOP presidential frontrunner, leading Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by over 50 percentage points in an average of national polls, according to polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight.

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