While Trump floods the zone, here's a trickle of snark
By Jon Bauer / Herald Opinion Editor
Fortunately for us, wiseacre satire requires no confirmation hearing before the U.S. Seante:
Shhh, you’ll ‘woke’ the kids: President Trump on Wednesday rescinded a directive issued Monday night that froze about $3 trillion in congressionally approved federal funding that threatened assistance programs including Medicaid, Head Start, Meals on Wheels, suicide call lines, substance abuse treatment, food banks and more. The Trump administration sought to suspend the programs until they could be vetted for Marxist and “woke” ideology, but lawsuits from 22 states, a judge’s order and vocal opposition forced Trump’s reconsideration. Yet, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary insisted: “This is NOT a recission of the federal funding freeze.”
Give Leavitt credit. It only took Trump 1.0 Press Secretary Sean Spicer two days following Trump’s swearing in to insist he had “the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration.” Leavitt lasted more than a week before rolling out an “alternative fact.”
In deep-something: The release of a Chinese-developed artificial intelligence chatbot — DeepSeek — sent U.S. tech markets tumbling early in the week, because the Chinese AI is on par with OpenAI’s and Meta’s most advanced models, yet was cheaper to develop and consumes less energy. This after President Trump announced Stargate, a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment involving OpenAI and others tech firms.
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