“Travelers make choices: where and when to travel, when to book, and how long to stay and importantly, perceptions of the US matter. Sentiment-headwinds are negatively impacting inbound travel in our latest inbound forecast update (May 12 interim update), we maintain our expectations of a 8.7 percent decline in US international arrivals for the year overall (compared to a 9.4 percent decline in our prior forecast released March 27). Factors contributing to sentiment: Headwinds include Trump administration posturing and policy announcements, such as ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs across long-standing trade partners, as well as media coverage focusing on border security incidents and national travel advisories. We continue to expect the largest declines in visitation from Canada (-20.2 percent) and Western Europe (-5.8 percent). We forecast international visitor spending to fall $8.5 billion (-4.7 percent) relative to last year (compared to a 5.0 percent decline in our prior forecast),” says data firm Tourism Economics in a forecast released Friday.

Florida woman charged after allegedly attacking 72-year-old Trump supporter wearing MAGA hat https://t.co/KZHqeIjOFJ

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 23, 2025

The MAGA crypto chodes who spent roughly at least $1.8 million on $TRUMP shitcoins were kind of disappointed with how Thursday night’s big event – billed as a “Gala Dinner” – turned out, with one telling NBC News the fat fuck “helicoptered in, he helicoptered out. We didn’t really get to shake hands with him or anything,” and another tweeting in Japanese that “After giving a speech of just under 30 minutes, President Trump danced as he left the room… The initial explanation said that we would go around and take commemorative photos at each table, but for some reason that was no longer the case. That’s a bit disappointing.” Kind of a running theme with Trump fans these days.

In what might be a “break glass in case of emergency” moment, “RINO” Texas Senator John Cornhole Cornyn has hired former Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita to help him defeat Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton in what will be a hard-fought primary, Axios reports.

For the mainstream media’s five millionth or so “Let’s go on a little safari into MAGAmerica to talk to these morons” article, CNN this week went to Allentown, Pennsylvania and encountered 55 year-old Robert Harder who voted for the first time in his life last November, casting a ballot for convicted felon President Trump because “There’s no law and order anymore. The smoking marijuana stuff, that is getting out of hand. Go watch TV. You have men kissing and everything else and all the transgenders. You didn’t have that before. You know, there is a God. I’m Catholic.”

CNN then writes Harder “says there are too many Puerto Rican flags around Allentown, too few schools teaching cursive and beginning with the Pledge of Allegiance,” then goes back to quoting him directly: “I was just so disgusted. Just how everything in this world, you know it is going to crap.”

Has anything gotten better for him? Fuck no, but at least he admits it. “My generation, it’s not going to (positively) impact. It is going to hurt us,” said Harder, whose company ProDart makes wooden darts and dartboards in an Allentown industrial park. “In the future, for the next generation, it might possibly help them out. But it’s impacting the people that are here now today… in a not-good way.”

Ximena Cristobal was incredibly fortunate to grow up in a beautiful part of the world—Dalton, Georgia.

She was brought to the United States at just four years old. Why didn’t her family ever pursue a legal path to stay in this country?
 
Today, there are currently 1.6 million… pic.twitter.com/BWI1kVHU6i

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) May 22, 2025

“She was brought to the United States at just four years old. Why didn’t her family ever pursue a legal path to stay in this country? Today, there are currently 1.6 million American citizens living and thriving in Mexico legally. But if I moved to Mexico illegally with my children when they were young, Mexican authorities would enforce their laws. I would be arrested and deported. That’s how sovereignty and the rule of law work. I’m grateful the Trump Administration is upholding our nation’s immigration laws and keeping families together, it’s the right thing to do,” Marjie continued.

College student Ximena Cristobal, 19, who was born in Mexico but has lived in Georgia since she was four, spent weeks in ICE custody after she was detained over a traffic ticket that was dismissed until a judge finally granted her bond on Wednesday. Who knows what’s going to happen but it’s hard to see how it doesn’t end with her getting deported. She might not be family-oriented enough.

“As unions committed to the dignity, rights, and well-being of all working people, Service Trades Council Unions and its affiliates (Unite Here, TCU, UFCW, Teamsters, and IATSE) stands in unwavering solidarity with the Walt Disney World cast members whose Temporary Protected Status was stripped away due to the unjust actions of the current administration. These workers – our colleagues, friends, and neighbors – have contributed immensely to the success of the Walt Disney Company and to the vibrant culture of Central Florida. For decades, TPS holders have filled essential roles with professionalism and pride, helping make the magic real for millions of guests. They are not temporary in any meaningful sense. They are part of the Disney family, and they are part of our union family,” says a Facebook post from Unite Here Local 737 Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, responding to Disney putting 45 Venezuelan refugee employees getting pre-fired on Tuesday.

“The cancellation of TPS was not just a policy decision; it was a cruel and calculated attack on immigrant communities. It disrupted lives, endangered families, and betrayed the promise of protection made by the United States to people fleeing war, natural disaster, and political upheaval.”

While not related to that fucking bullshit they just pulled with Harvard, a California federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump Reich from terminating the legal statuses of or detaining international students nationwide, NBC News reports. “At each turn in this and similar litigation across the nation, Defendants have abruptly changed course to satisfy courts’ expressed concerns,” wrote Oakland-based US District Judge Jeffrey S White. “It is unclear how this game of whack-a-mole will end unless Defendants are enjoined from skirting their own mandatory regulations.”

The Yemen-based Houthi militia on Thursday fired two missiles at David Ben Gurion Airport in Tel-Aviv, Israel, 18 days after convicted felon President Trump had declared victory over the group and that they had agreed to stop this kind of bullshit, the Times of Israel reports. Both of the missiles were intercepted and no damage was reported but that’s not the point of reminding everyone that the fat fuck had acted like they had surrendered to his strength. This is at least the third time the Houthis have tried to strike Israel since Trump’s “victory” that accomplished nothing.

Harvard University administrators tell the New York Times that on Thursday they received a letter from dog murderer Kristi Noem reading “I am writing to inform you that effective immediately, Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification is revoked.”

Maybe the letter was longer, but if it wasn’t it’s interesting how the Trump Reich neglected to mention that “antisemitism” was the pretext for this crusade against the prestigious university.

“A Federal Judge in Boston, who knew absolutely nothing about the situation, or anything else, has ordered that EIGHT of the most violent criminals on Earth curtail their journey to South Sudan, and instead remain in Djibouti. He would not allow these monsters to proceed to their final destination.”

“This is not the premise under which I was elected, which was to PROTECT our Nation. The Judges are absolutely out of control, they’re hurting our Country, and they know nothing about particular situations, or what they are doing – And this must change, IMMEDIATELY! Hopefully the Supreme Court of the United States will put an END to the quagmire caused by the Radical Left.”

“If this is not worked out quickly, and the World is watching, our Country will be under siege again, with hundreds of thousands of hardened criminals, ‘BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS.’ We were also forced to leave behind, in order to watch these hardened thugs, a large number of ICE Officers, who would otherwise be in the United States, protecting our Citizens,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday, along with images of the men sent to South Sudan with their convictions.

This freak seriously just said “Hate has not place in America under Donald Trump.”

🚨🚨🚨 House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Thursday announced yet another major investigation into the Biden White House, this one demanding answers from top aides over the 46th president’s state of mind when they used a device employed by US Presidents since the Truman Administration to replicate his signature on certain documents. Comer, a dogged and determined foe of Biden for years, did not say whether he felt the usage of the autopen was an impeachable offense but observers would be foolish to dismiss the possibility that the investigation could lead to the prize which has long eluded the persistent Kentuckian Congressman. Stay tuned.

“NOAA’s outlook for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, which goes from June 1 to November 30, predicts a 30 percent chance of a near-normal season, a 60 percent chance of an above-normal season, and a 10 percent chance of a below-normal season. The agency is forecasting a range of 13 to 19 total named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher). Of those, 6-10 are forecast to become hurricanes (winds 74 mph or higher), including 3-5 major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5; with winds of 111 mph or higher). NOAA has a 70 percent confidence in these ranges,” says an NOAA bulletin.

“‘NOAA and the National Weather Service are using the most advanced weather models and cutting-edge hurricane tracking systems to provide Americans with real-time storm forecasts and warnings,’ said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick,” and oh fuck. Forgot NOAA and the NWS were part of the Commerce Department and that goddamned greasy shmutsik is in charge. Ughhhh. Fucking Nutlick.

Continued: “‘With these models and forecasting tools, we have never been more prepared for hurricane season. As we witnessed last year with significant inland flooding from hurricanes Helene and Debby, the impacts of hurricanes can reach far beyond coastal communities,’ said Acting NOAA Administrator Laura Grimm. ‘NOAA is critical for the delivery of early and accurate forecasts and warnings, and provides the scientific expertise needed to save lives and property.'”

Maybe it’s the “property” part of that, as in Miami Beach condos Nutlick and his fellow Wall Street chodes own, will get him to take this kind of shit seriously. Then again they’re rich and an insurance payout so they can walk away from the wreckage of properties they couldn’t sell would be just fine.

Still stuck in a hellish Louisiana gulag, Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil was permitted to hold his 1 month-old infant son inside the facility on Thursday, the AP reports. Their first meeting after a federal judge ordered him to be permitted the contact rather than separated by plexiglass, which was ICE’s preferred medium because, they claimed “granting Khalil this relief of family visitation would effectively grant him a privilege that no other detainee receives,” the Trump regime DOJ lawyers wrote in a court filing Wednesday. “Allowing [wife] Dr [Noor] Abdalla and a newborn to attend a legal meeting would turn a legal visitation into a family one.” Great argument, assholes.

An ICE stormtrooper wrote an affidavit saying it’d be “unsafe to allow Mr Khalil’s wife and newborn child into a secured part of the facility,” which sure sounded like an admission that if it isn’t safe for a grown woman then it wouldn’t be safe for a grown man either. Even better argument, assholes.

No, Tim Scott during this brief clip did not specifically mention the $TRUMP shitcoin his Orange Allah is using as a bribery mill and making who the fuck knows how much money off of it, nor does National Zero have even the most cursory grasp of the provisions of or the current status of this bill besides vaguely understanding it to be a bipartisan effort to deliver an ROI to crypto chode donors.

But if this is how Tim Scott is selling the bill then what the hell else does anyone need to know about it? He might as well be pitching fucking “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” books or Creflo Dollar audiotapes.

Oh my God. Guys, you know how convicted felon President Trump was going on and on about how much investment he secured for massive tech projects during his Middle East tour and the number kept changing from like $2 trillion to $5 trillion and $7 trillion? He was right that new partnerships between US tech companies and rich Arab backers would result in huge deals. It’s actually true because Axios just reported that OpenAI will build a huge new data center with UAE backing.

In the UAE. Not in Klanston, Alabama or North Cousinfingerer, West Virginia or New Auschwitz, Idaho but in the good ol UA of E. “By establishing the world’s first Stargate outside of the US in the UAE, we’re transforming a bold vision into reality,” OpenAI’s Sam Altman said in a statement. “It’s a step toward ensuring some of this era’s most important breakthroughs – safer medicines, personalized learning, and modernized energy – can emerge from more places and benefit the world.”

Axios, per usual, carries the Trump-Middle East aurocrat axis’s water, writing “For every dollar the UAE invests in Stargate UAE and the broader data center project in Abu Dhabi, UAE will invest an additional dollar in US AI infrastructure as well — including Stargate,” a sentence composed without condition or extrinsic attribution such as “Officials involved with the project say…” or “According to a factsheet issued by…” No, they just blithely print it as if it were a statement of present reality.

Now maybe one would be more likely to let that slide if, well, you know, the fucking Emiratis had simultaneously announced that they would invest the equal amount to build this or that new major AI center in Klanston or North Cousinfingerer or New Auschwitz and this were mentioned in the same article. But nah. Data center for UAE, Emirati investment and US jobs for hillbilly infidels TBD.

As convicted felon President Trump’s grave state of mental health continues to deteriorate, White House staffers have resorted to removing transcripts of his public remarks from its site, instead now directing visitors to YouTube videos of all of his public appearances, NBC News reports.

It’s pointless for two reasons. One is that they’re still paying official stenographers to bang out the transcripts and, more importantly, you can still find full texts of the stupid shit he says at resources like RollCall’s Factbase. So nice job Streisand Effecting your embarrassment, guys. Great work.

In an article headlined “Ceremony of Launching Newly-Built Destroyer Takes Place” North Korean state media site KCNA kind of buried the lede by leaving out some important details. Sure, it’s technically correct because the “Ceremony of Launching” took place, but the actual launch itself was… Well it sounds like a lot of navy officials are about to be executed. Or have been executed:

“A ceremony of launching a newly-built 5 000-tonnage destroyer took place at the Chongjin Shipyard on May 21. Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, watched the ceremony. A serious accident occurred in the course of the launch of the destroyer. Due to inexperienced command and operational carelessness in the course of the launch, the launch slide of the stern departed first and stranded as the bogie failed to move in parallel, holes made at some sections of the warship’s bottom disrupted its balance, and the bow failed to leave the slipway, leading to a serious accident.”

“After watching the whole course of the accident, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made stern assessment, saying that it was a serious accident and criminal act caused by sheer carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism which should never occur and could not be tolerated. He seriously warned that the errors caused by the irresponsibility of the relevant officials of the Munitions Industry Department of the WPK Central Committee, the Mechanical Institute of the State Academy of Sciences, Kim Chaek University of Technology, the Central Ship Design Institute and other relevant units and the Chongjin Shipyard responsible for the accident that lowered the dignity and self-respect of our state in a moment would have to be dealt with at the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee to be convened next month, and censured them for the fault.”