What we know about rumors Trump admin ordered ‘loyalists’ to wear golden lapel pins of president’s face
Laerke Christensen, Contributing Writer - Snopes
_Stephan: Between 1981 and 1993 I spent about three months each year in communist dictator countries; the worst of which culturally was Romania. But even in Romania, I didn’t see his people going around with gold Nicolae Ceaușescu pins in the labels of their jackets. This … ⌘ Read more
Wall Street execs worried ‘erratic’ Trump ‘maybe isn’t all there’: CNN
Tom Boggioni, Senior Editor - Raw Story
Stephan: I have been telling you for months that based on the Hare psychopathology scale Trump is a psychopath, and may have other mental disorders as well. Others are also beginning to think this. I predict we are going to see more of this.
_Cr … ⌘ Read moreMarco Rubio memo cites Mahmoud Khalil’s beliefs in justifying his deportation
Chloe Atkins and Matt Lavietes, Reporters - NBC News
_Stephan: We are now at a point in the Trump coup where you can be thrown out of the United States for what some official thinks you might think. Note particularly that the coup is using as a justification for its deportations what it calls anti-semitism, whenever anyone opposes Israel’s genocide of the people of Ga … ⌘ Read more
Full: Singapore PM’s Reality Check To Trump Amid Tariff War In Parliament: ‘Just The Beginning Of…’ - YouTube @bender@twtxt.net
ABC Australia is reporting of a potential market manipulation in the US. Potential? I would call it almost certain. For as much as I would like not to be dragged into politics, it is rather impossible these days.
Anker Raises Prices on Amazon Due to Tariffs
Chinese company Anker is one of many companies that will be raising prices due to the tariffs put in place by U.S. President Donald Trump, and prices are already starting to go up on Amazon.
John Hughes, Reporter/Editor - Bloomberg Law
_Stephan: Psychopath “tyrant” Trump, and his fascist servant, Attorney General Pam Bondi, are, as quickly as possible, trying to destroy the judicial system of the United States. As a result over half of the attorneys in the Solicitor General’s office are resigning, and Trump is resentfully targeting law firms, many of whom are caving to his wishes. This a … ⌘ Read more
Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’
Gustaf Kilander, Reporter - Independent (U.K.)
Stephan: This article stood out to me for two reasons: First, this is what the United States and its psychopathic “tyrant” Trump look like to media in the U.K. and other countries. Second, it is one of the first major media pieces I have seen dealing with Trump’s mental illness.
_Stephan: I think history is going to record this period of American history as the most corrupt in 250 years. And it is also blatantly obvious. You suspect as well as I do, I bet, that at least several MAGAt leaders in the “emperor’s” regime made millions in this ongoing manipulated tariff crime. But that is just one piece of what is going on. Just … ⌘ Read more
Trump’s Tariffs Whiplash Is Open Corruption. He Admitted It Himself.
Malcolm Ferguson, Staff Writer - THe New Republic
Stephan: Here is the evidence validating what I said in my comment on the previous article. I find it notable that corporate media is not focused on the corruption that is so notably the hallmark of the MAGAt coup that is tearing the United States apart.
 Military Parade in D.C.
Tom Sherwood, Staff Writer - Washington, D.C. City Paper
_Stephan: I have been waiting for this. All dictators like nothing better than huge ceremonial military displays. Think about Nazi Germany, North Korea, Stalin’s Soviet Union, and Putin’s Russia. So it appears So, that’s where we are headed on Saturday, June 14, for the maximum leader’s 79th birthday. It will cost tens of mill … ⌘ Read more
White House Adviser Peter Navarro Calls Fictional Alter Ego An ‘Inside Joke’
Scott Horsley, Chief Economics Correspondent - npr
Stephan: Here is the proof that both the media and psychopath “emperor” Trump have known for years that Peter Navarro is a fraud and pseudo-economist. Yet how many Americans do you think know anything about this? Why isn’t it mentioned every time Navarro’s name comes up?
_Stephan: I keep watching to see whether American voters are clear that as long as psychopath “emperor” Trump is President nothing is going to be done to prepare and obviate the impact of climate change on their lives. He is completely corrupt and in the service of the carbon oligarchs who bought him his office. Do you think MAGAt … ⌘ Read more
Droits de douane : la manœuvre Trump
Panique et gesticulations, en Occident et sur les marchés : l’administration Trump vient de frapper un grand coup avec l’imposition de droits de douanes salés ! Et même s’il est bien trop tôt pour déterminer si ces droits de douane seront un avantage ou un inconvénient pour les États-Unis dans les prochaines années, cela n’a cependant pas […] ⌘ Read more
Editor’s Note – Thank you
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: I want to thank all of you who wrote to send me good wishes. I really appreciate it. I have some kind of flu-cold, and it is as bad as when I got Covid. But, after spending the day in bed, I felt a little better and decided to come down and try to do SR, inasmuch as the United States, indeed the whole world, has been severely damaged by the madness of psychopath Trump. Anyway, I hope this illness is ending, and I tha … ⌘ Read more
A catastrophe is unfolding at the top US health agency — and it will put American lives at risk
Dylan Scott, Staff Writer - Vox
_Stephan: In 2024 the United States was ranked by the World Health Organization as the worse healthcare, yet by orders of magnitude the most expensive, in the developed democracies. Thanks to psychopath “monarch” Trump American healthcare will now get significantly worse, Almost unbelievably America’s h … ⌘ Read more
Trump Turns Homelessness Response Away From Housing, Toward Forced Treatment
Angela Hart, Staff Writer - MedPage Today | Kaiser Family Foundation
Stephan: In so many ways psychopath Trump, who sees himself as a kind of medieval lord, makes it clear he couldn’t care less about those whom he sees as American peasants. I see example after example of his attitude in the choices he makes; this article reports on his views of the homeless.
_Stephan: I have been predicting since Trump was sworn in as President that the United States will be in recession by June, and the American economic sectors, farming, construction, manufacturing, healthcare and others will be in crisis. If you actually look at the list Trump is holding you will see he is putt … ⌘ Read more
The IRS unit that audits billionaires has lost 38% of its employees since January, new data shows
Spencer Woodman, Reporter - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
_Stephan: As I told you yesterday, it is my view that Trump made a deal with a group of fascist billionaire oligarchs to dismantle American democracy and give them a level of influence and control they have never before attained. If they would buy hi … ⌘ Read more
JD Vance is now in charge of making museums racist
Oliver Willis, Staff Writer - Daily Kos
_Stephan: Psychopath “monarch” Trump has always been a White supremacist, as was his father before him. Now, seeing himself as an authoritarian leader of a fascist pseudo-democracy who can not be overruled, he is rewriting American history, as this article describes. As he does this, the spineless MAGAts in Congress are silent, and the American people themselves, as the voters of … ⌘ Read more
Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, defying Elon Musk
Adam Edelman, Reporter - NBC News
_Stephan: Finally, we have some good news. You have probably already heard that Susan Crawford has beaten Brad Schimel for the Wisconsin Supreme Court despite the tens of millions of dollars Elon Musk spent trying to buy the election outcome for “monarch” Trump and his MAGAt cult. The media is covering all this, but as I have thought about what happened t … ⌘ Read more
Widespread firings start at federal health agencies including many in leadership
Rob Stein, Sydney Lupkin, Selena Simmons-Duffin, Joseph Shapiro, Carmel Wroth, and Yuki Noguchi, Staff Writers - npr
_Stephan: Today psychopath “monarch” Trump gutted your healthcare. The result is going to be not just increased death, as Senator Bernie Sanders said, but a significant increase in avoidable injuries and illnesses. The lifespan of Americans is alr … ⌘ Read more
Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters
Alexis Anderson-Reed, President of State Voices, a non-partisan organization - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan:
_It should be clear to anyone with an IQ higher than their height in inches (78 is considered retarded) that the Trump MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party is doing everything in its power to create a pseudo-democracy. They do not want a fair all-citizens voting election. Here is … ⌘ Read more
Grassley unveils bill to limit reach of judicial rulings
Rebecca Beitsch, Staff Writer - The Hill
Stephan: I hate having to do these stories, but the psychopath “monarch” Trump MAGAt (Republican) coup is the dominant trend shaping America’s future. Sen. Grassley put into office by Iowa voters is one of the most despicable MAGAts in Congress, and he is explicitly trying to dismantle the country’s constitutional judiciary system, as this article describes.
Stephan: The MAGAt monarch and the White oligarchs who seek to create a neo-medieval authoritarian state are doing everything they can to end genuine democracy in the United States. Here is the latest. ⌘ Read more
Republicans, Men Push Trump Approval Higher in Second Term
Jeffrey M. Jones, PhD and Megan Brenan, Senior Editor | Senior Editor - The Gallup Organization
_Stephan: What amazes me is how the percentage of MAGAt monarch Trump’s approval rating remains so high. I see this not only as a political issue but, even more, as a cultural issue. It reflects the weakness, resentment, and insecurity of American men of all ages. It is such a powerful trend in America that it … ⌘ Read more
Trump is a Threat to the Entire Human Species
John B. Alexander, Commentator - Daily Kos
_Stephan: As MAGAt dictator Trump’s regime continues its coup, although I am beginning to see ordinary Americans turning out in opposition, I still don’t see media or ordinary Americans acknowledging that this devastation of the country’s democracy is disordering the entire world and endangering the matrix of life on Earth, and that it is going to take years to repair this damage. John Al … ⌘ Read more
Trump administration to cut vaccine aid to developing countries
Marina Dunbar, U.S. Guardian Fellow - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: MAGAt Monarch Trump’s regime has just ended vaccine aid for millions of children in the developing countries. It is estimated that will result in the death of several million children. It will also ensure that Americans, particularly unvaccinated Americans, both adults and children, who travel to any of these countries may now b … ⌘ Read more
Trump Administration Cancels at Least 68 Grants Focused on LGBTQ Health Questions
, - Med Page Today | Associted Press
_Stephan: In 2025, a Gallup poll found that 9.3% of adult Americans identify as LGBTQ+. The population of the U.S. in the census of 2024 was 340,110,988. Now it is probably greater, but in 2024 that meant 31,630,322 males and females identified as LGBTQ+. So MAGAt Monarch Trump and his regime yesterday degraded the healt … ⌘ Read more
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
Annie Waldman and Sharon Lerner, Health Car Reporter | Health and Environment Reporter - ProPublica
_Stephan: MAGAt Monarch Trump and his regime are very pointedly doing nothing to prepare for climate change. Indeed, they deny it exists as a real alteration in the ecosystems of Earth. So no funding for healthcare to prepare for what is demonstrably happening. It is going to create … ⌘ Read more
Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks
Michael Birnbaum , - msn | The Washington Post
_Stephan: One of the keys to all fascist takeovers of democracies when the democracy is being taken apart is to so threaten and badly damage the legal system that when critics and opponents are attacked by the authoritarian, they cannot even get a lawyer to represent and defend them in the courts while, at the same time, the cour … ⌘ Read more
There are 132 lawsuits against Trump. Pay attention to these two.
Ian Millhiser, Senior Correspondent - Vox
_Stephan: I predict we are within a few weeks of the final threshold to see if the United States still has a functioning democracy-based legal system. As this article describes, the answer to this question will come down to how the Supreme Court rules on these two cases. Speaking as a historian, the two worst Supreme Court decisions, in my opinion, of … ⌘ Read more
‘I don’t care what judges think’: Tom Homan doubles down despite deportation ban
David Edwards, Contributing Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Border czar Tom Homan is a despicable human being. He is also stating out loud what psychopath “king” Trump and his MAGAt servants believe and Project 2025 stated clearly, and which the Supreme Court has ruled is American law. The President is above the law, and immune to any prosecution for his official decis … ⌘ Read more
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
Annie Waldman and Sharon Lerner, Staff Writers - ProPublica
_Stephan: An important part of the psychopath “king” Trump’s coup and strategy to create a kind of neo-medieval society owned and controlled by Trump’s oligarch aristocracy, is to dismantle and disable any attempt to prepare for climate change. This report describes the coup group’s latest move. Why is this happening? The an … ⌘ Read more
Musk PAC offers voters $100 for signing petition against ‘activist judges’
Henry Redman, Reporter - Wisconsin Examiner / Raw Story
_Stephan: It is apparently now legal in the United States for oligarchs to openly bribe American voters to vote for the candidate of their choice. Can this possibly be true? I am ashamed to tell you it is, and here is the factual proof. Psychopath Trump’s Frankenstein co-president Musk, as this report describes, is openl … ⌘ Read more
20% of Americans support boycott of firms aligning themselves with Trump agenda
Lauren Aratani , Reporter - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: Americans, at least some of them, seem to be waking up to what is being done to the democracy, economics, and gender and racial equality of the United States by psychopath Trump and his oligarchs and MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party. I completely support this, and my wife and I are amongst the boycotters.
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List of American Companies That Support President Donald Trump
Katherine Fung and Jenna delong, Staff Reporters - Newsweek
_Stephan: Here is a list of companies and individuals who are supporting psychopath “king” Trump and what he is doing to the United States. If you want to stop the destruction of American democracy, our economy, gender and racial equality, and the place of the United States in the world, don’t spend a dime with any of these companies. (cl … ⌘ Read more
Trump’s funding ax throws colleges into an existential crisis
Erica Pandey, - Axios
_Stephan: The Trumpian authoritarian coup continues, and democracy dissipates; all of this following Hitler’s action list point by point. What stands out for me is how weak the institutional resistance is. Universities are docilely falling to their knees. Law firms are proving equally craven. There is only one way this is going to stop. You – and I mean you – must participate … ⌘ Read more
Bill Gates Is Giving Up on Climate Change as Trump Drains the Woke Out of Washington: Looks like banking on billionaires to solve climate change isn’t gonna do the trick.
AJ Dellinger, Staff Writer - Gizmodo
_Stephan: I confess this report surprised me. I thought Bill Gates, and his cohorts, recognized that no matter what Trump did they would stay the cour … ⌘ Read more
China, Russia eager to fill void as Trump axes US-funded media
, - Agence France-Presse (France) | Raw Story
_Stephan: Because the fascist oligarchal coup now underway in the United States is led by an ignorant psychopath and greedy short-sighted oligarchs, it is being carried out incredibly stupidly. The Putin dictatorship, of course, is very happy, because they have something that controls Trump in matters in which they are involved, i.e., the Ukrainian w … ⌘ Read more
These are the world’s happiest countries in 2025
Marnie Hunter, Reporter - CNN
Stephan: Thanks to psychopath Trump, the oligarchs who own him, and the flying monkeys in Congress who pay obeisance to him, the United States has gone from Ronald Reagan’s description of the nation as a “Shining city on a hill.” to a non-democratic sewer of fascism, racism, resentment, and misery. We are no longer even in the top 20.
_Stephan: This is the way the United States is being described by the leading news service in France. The good news I think is that it is beginning to dawn on Americans that psychopath Trump and the MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party are carrying out a coup, and that the world sees this. The really bad news is that the Trump/Musk/MAGAt cabal have gutted all efforts to … ⌘ Read more
Here are the 60 universities under investigation by the Trump administration
Ray Bogan , Political Correspondent - Straight Arrow News
_Stephan: The Trump coup has made clear it considers the universities of America enemies of its authoritarian takeover of the United States. So completely predictably, like all fascist coups in history, the Trumpers (read neo-Nazis) are attacking and attempting to take control of American higher education. They g … ⌘ Read more
Local food for schools helps farmers and kids. So why is Trump cutting funding?
Sunny Baker, Reporter - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: For hundreds of thousands of American school children their lunch at school is an essential part of their diet, and interrupting these lunches could have horrible lifelong health consequences for these children. So why are the Trumpers sabotaging these school lunches?
U.S. deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, despite court order
Luke Garrett, - npr
_Stephan: You have undoubtedly seen or read something about the shipment of Venezuelans to what amounts, by all accounts, to an El Salvadoran concentration camp, and the ruling by a federal judge that this was an unconstitutional act by psychopath Trump. Four things stood out about this sequence of events for me. First, none of these individuals had any of th … ⌘ Read more
Transcript: Trump’s Rage at Canada Darkens—This Is “Not a Joke”
Greg Sargent and Brian Beutler, - Daily Blast Podcaster | The New Republic
_Stephan: Psychopath Trump has some deep not fully understood by the media or American voters hate about Canada, and is creating an international crisis over it. As bad as that is, however, as this discussion between Greg Sargent and Brian Beutler discusses the failure of the Democrats to stand up to what Trump, his Franken … ⌘ Read more
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Trump Border Czar Says He’ll Ignore the Courts as Much as He Wants
Malcolm Ferguson, - The New Republic
Stephan: The United States in less than two months has moved from authoritarian fascism to a kind of neo-Nazism. Trump appointees are openly bragging they are above the law and need pay no attention to anything a court rules. Tom Homan, psychopath Trump’s border czar, is but one example of this, and he couldn’t be more explicit.
 that is openly fascist, and the other, the Democrats, who are led in Congress by spineless individuals who don’t seem to understand what is going on. And all of this is being observed by all the other countries of the world. As David Brooks describes in his column, f … ⌘ Read more
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
Marin Scotten, Staff Writer - The New Republic
_Stephan: Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering wellbeing that President Jimmy Carter worked with for years, and to which my wife and I have sent support, is one of a number of wellbeing fostering foundations now being attacked by psychopath fascist Trump using as his agents his corrupted FBI. I predict that any 501©3 that … ⌘ Read more
‘This Felt Like a Kidnapping Because It Was’: Family of Mahmoud Khalil Releases Arrest Video
Jessica Corbett, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: As I search the media each day it becomes ever more obvious that psychopath fascist Trump’s idea of government is to mimic Hitler. We are now at the stage where men in plain clothes showing no warrant can break into someone’s home and kidnap them, just as the Gestapo did. You can click … ⌘ Read more
‘Civil War is too woke’: Trump’s anti-DEI crusade comes for Arlington National Cemetery
Daniel Hampton, Senior Editor - Raw Story
Stephan: The conversion of the United States from an equalitarian democracy to a racist fascist autocracy is being carried out by psychopath fascist Trump and his servants down to the smallest detail. This story provides the factual proof of what I am saying.
Stephan: Here is some good news. It tells us that there are still honorable men and women serving as judges. Congressional Republican flying monkeys, of course, are trying to impeach them. However, these judges offer hope that some part of the U.S. government that Trump’s coup is trying to destroy still works.
_Stephan: You may be one of the thousands of federal workers who lost their job without notice, but the psychopath who caused you to lose your job has plenty of time to play golf, does it most weekends by being flown from the White House to Mar-a-Lago in Florida, and American taxpayers, including you, are payin … ⌘ Read more
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Bombshell report reveals staggering amount of government funds paid to Elon Musk
Adam Nichols, Editor-in-Chief - Raw Story
_Stephan: Criminal Trump and and his Frankenstein Elon Musk, are both destroying the economic wellbeing of millions of Americans and, at the same time, enriching themselves with all kinds of schemes and scams. There have been a number of reports of how much Musk has lost from Tesla stock collapse, but what you don’t hear … ⌘ Read more
Department of Education lays off nearly half of workforce
Lexi Lonas Cochran , Staff Writers - The Hill
_Stephan: The United States population is already the most illiterate and innumerate population in the developed world. As I have said before 54% can;t read past 6th grade level, and 43% can’t read past 5th grade; can’t calculate fractions or do conversions from fractions to decimals. Now psychopath Trump, aided by his flying monkey billionaire wrestling magnate … ⌘ Read more
How hard will Trump’s immigration raids hit red states?
Myah Ward, - Politico
_Stephan: As this article describes all those farmers and herders, most of whom voted for MAGAts, are now going to face the economic crisis that will come from that decision. For years at our property in rural Tidewater Virginia, my family raised registered purebred Angus cattle, not for meat, but like a dog breeding operation, to improve the herd genetics. It introduced me to a world I ha … ⌘ Read more
Dow falls by almost 900 points in market rout after Trump says he won’t rule out a recession
John Towfighi and Lucy Bayly, Reporters - CNN
Stephan: I warned you it was going to happen, and two months into this nightmare it is happening. And “king” Trump is admitting the reality. All the men and women who voted for this psychopath I now expect to begin whining because of what is happening to their wellbeing.
 | Raw Story
_Stephan: Well, just as I predicted would happen, now it has been made official. Psychopath Trump has told his flying monkeys that his administration should do nothing to prepare for climate change. and should emphasize carbon energy. We can therefore conclude that because Trump and his Frankenstein have gutted the training o … ⌘ Read more
US Coast Guard Academy Censors ‘Climate Change’ From Its Curriculum
Marianne Lavelle, Staff Writer - Inside Climate News
_Stephan: Psychopath Trump, by his actions and orders, makes it clear that he doesn’t believe climate change is real, and using his foying monkeys, he is doing everything in his power to cripple America’s response to this ongoing disaster. Here is the latest proof of what I am saying. If Trump remains President for the next four years, t … ⌘ Read more