What Happened Today - 19 Sept 2025

What Happened Today – 19 Sept 2025

Here’s the latest, unfiltered breakdown of how Trump’s 2025 administration stacks up on the promises front, the new war on free speech (especially late night), what MAGA’s fighting, and all the current lies being pushed….

 

Trump came back into office with a laundry list of promises like “ending inflation on day one,” “releasing the Epstein files,” “never touching Social Security or Medicare,” “lowering costs across the board,” “standing by working people,” and “ending all the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.” Big talk, but what’s actually happened? Prices have only gone up—thanks to a trade war that made everything pricier, and inflation sure as hell didn’t end on “day one.” The Epstein thing? Suddenly off the table after his buddies’ names came up. Social Security and Medicare? Massive cuts, millions dropped from coverage, and now seniors are figuring out who they can even trust for medical care. Working people are getting fleeced as tax breaks keep getting sucked up by Trump’s billionaire donors, and his own Treasury Secretary admits his main bill is about privatizing Social Security behind everyone’s back. As for “ending forever wars”? Nothing. Ukraine and Gaza are both flames Trump can’t put out—there aren’t even the beginnings of a peace deal, while death tolls mount and the U.S. is still stuck funding hostilities and arms shipments.

 

When it comes to freedom of speech, Trump literally campaigned on “ending government censorship and restoring free speech.” Instead, he’s weaponized the government against free expression like no other modern president. The Jimmy Kimmel takedown is just the latest: ABC yanked Kimmel for tearing into the administration after the killing of Charlie Kirk, and Trump celebrated, saying anyone critical of him should lose their broadcast license. It’s not just Kimmel—Stephen Colbert’s show got axed too, networks are being forced to put pro-Trump ombudsmen on staff to “review” their reporting, and CBS and ABC are settling huge lawsuits to avoid government retaliation. Even late-night hosts who haven’t been canceled are warning on-air that the regime is dead set on crushing dissent. This is a straight-up assault on basic First Amendment rights, and Americans should be furious. Pulling the plug on late-night comedy? That’s some dystopian-level crackdown. It’s about protecting one guy’s ego, not the country.

 

Want to know what MAGA stands against? Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)—they’re gutting every DEI program in government and the military, even going so far as removing images from Air Force websites because a plane was named “Enola Gay.” If “gay” shows up in a database, out it goes, because they’d rather erase history than accept LGBTQ rights even exist. MAGA wants the LGBTQ community invisible. They’re systematically targeting policies that protected trans people, rolling back every advance made in even basic health care access or workplace protection. The administration’s openly pushing to yank women out of combat roles and cut all “woke” policies from the armed forces—this is about enforcing some 1950s fantasy where everyone who isn’t straight and white gets sidelined, and they’ll use the military and federal agencies to do it. Anything that smells remotely like an acknowledgment of racism or the real, messy history of America gets wiped from the schools and the official record.

 

Now for the steady flow of lies coming from the top:

- Economy “booming”? Prices are through the roof, and any “job growth” they talk about is totally offset by layoffs in health care and public sector jobs. Inflation is higher, not lower, and consumer confidence is down. Deficit reduction is a joke—Trump’s big “beautiful” bill will add over three trillion to the national debt.

- “Tariffs are making us rich”—Nope. Tariff costs fall squarely on U.S. buyers, not China or anyone else. American importers and families are stuck paying the bill, and less money is left over at the end of the month.

- Medicaid “protected”? Hardly. The biggest health care cuts in a generation just stripped 17 million Americans of coverage, and seniors are getting squeezed for more out-of-pocket costs on Medicare, too.

- Vaccines—Trump’s team keeps pushing doubt and conspiracy theories, which has seriously hurt public health and lowered vaccine uptake for both COVID and basic immunizations.

- Job numbers—You’ll hear White House claims about “new jobs,” but the truth is more people are pushed into part-time work or contract gigs with no benefits, while full-time jobs vanish.

- “Resolving wars”—Zero results. Not only are “forever wars” NOT over, but military spending is through the roof, and Trump has made a mess of diplomacy—deadlines for troop withdrawals come and go, and the U.S. is still up to its neck in conflicts abroad.

 

If anyone tries to sell the idea that this is normal, or “just politics,” they’re gaslighting America. MAGA’s agenda: erase minorities, crush the press, use fear and division to control, and call it patriotism. That’s the straight-up state of play in Trump’s America right now.

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There’s been so much MAGA madness this week it almost feels like living in a parody. Trump and crew keep flexing their muscles—yanking late-night hosts off TV, trying to silence anyone in Hollywood who dares to make a joke, and threatening to pull broadcast licenses for “negative coverage.” At this point, late-night satire has become more dangerous than storming the Capitol, and “free speech” seems to mean “free to agree with the boss.” Meanwhile, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and the usual suspects have roasted the administration’s self-importance so hard they might need a presidential pardon just to tell a punchline. The gold-trimmed Oval Office gets flashier, but the sense of humor in the White House has never been thinner.

 

And yet—here’s the silver lining: No matter how hard MAGA tries to stamp out the laughs, the jokes keep getting sharper and the protests keep getting louder. West Hollywood’s weekly protest has basically turned into open-mic night for anti-MAGA stand-up; even with paid influencers and pardoned Proud Boys trying to rattle the crowd, the biggest reaction was laughter at how transparently fake the whole MAGA “victim” routine is. Trump may not be able to laugh at himself, but the rest of the country hasn’t lost its sense of humor. If the best they can do is cancel comedians and gold-plate a ballroom, the punchline writes itself. The resilience and wit of people speaking truth to power? That’s the only kind of winning that actually lasts.

 

Speak Truth!  Keep speaking TRUTH! 

 

Go Cause Good Trouble, with Your Elbows Up!

 

**These are facts that I researched and verified – AI helped put together some sentence structure, but the words and tone are mine. These are my views based upon facts, research and thoughtful consideration using logic. I own the copyright to any images used.  I’m comfortable to stand alone to uphold truth.  Feel free to check me, but do not attack me. I am only causing good trouble.**