What Happened Today - 5 August 2025
What Happened Today – 5 August 2025
Trump’s Rooftop Escapade…
This Afternoon’s Press Conference
Maxwell Update
Olympic “Task Force”
New Concentration Camp – Ft Bliss
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Trump’s Rooftop Escapade….
**I have exaggerated some of this with Diet Coke bribes and unattended phone usage…but for all I know….it may not be far from the truth**
Grandpa Got Loose on the Roof
Early Tuesday morning, reporters on the White House lawn looked up in surprise as Donald Trump suddenly appeared on the low-slung rooftop above the press briefing room. In loafers and a billowing red tie, he wandered across the gravel, surveying the stakes laid out for a $200 million ballroom he insists he’ll pay for himself. One aide shouted up, “Sir, why are you on the roof?” Trump waved a hand and shouted back, “Just taking a little walk—everything I do is financed by me!” He paused to joke about installing “nuclear missiles” up there before making his slow descent down the stairs. It looked—for a moment—like the day would be salvageable.
Inside, handlers gently pointed him toward the Oval Office fridge, where an ice-cold Diet Coke awaited. What they didn’t notice was that a phone had been left on the Resolute Desk, still active and within easy reach. Moments later, the can snapped open, Trump found the phone, and suddenly he was live on air with CNBC.
Over a 15-minute call, he unleashed a flood of headlines. He praised Mexican workers as having “great backs,” then added, “We tried hiring inner-city people. They won’t do it.” That was only the start. He then pivoted to economics, threatening 150 to 200 percent tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals “very soon,” just days after claiming he was going to slash drug prices by “1,500 or even 2,000 percent.” Economists were left scratching their heads—such a reduction isn’t just implausible, it’s mathematically impossible. A product can’t be 1,500 percent cheaper. One moment he was promising enormous savings, the next he was proposing penalties that would drive prices sky-high.
He then turned to job numbers, calling last week’s labor report “rigged,” and claimed he had fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for “cooking the books.” When pressed on his standing with voters, he responded that his approval rating was at “60 percent,” despite it consistently landing well below 40 in public polling.
Eventually, producers at the network cut the feed. But the damage—or spectacle, depending on your viewpoint—was already done. Inside the West Wing, aides rushed in, wrestled the phone away, released a carefully worded statement touting his “America-First economic vision,” and quietly roped off rooftop access. It wasn’t his first unscheduled detour, and clearly staff knew it wouldn’t be the last.
In just one morning, Trump managed to promote a luxury rooftop project, insult and praise entire demographic groups in the same breath, promise drug savings that defy math, threaten tariffs that would cancel those savings out entirely, claim jobs data is fake, and exaggerate poll numbers—because they got Grandpa off the roof, but left the phone sitting right next to the Diet Coke.
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This afternoon’s press conference….
Here’s a rundown in plain language of the biggest, most blatant lies Trump told in this afternoon’s press conference, why they’re just flat-out wrong, and how absurd some of them sounded.
First off, he opened by declaring the U.S. is in the “most dangerous economic position ever,” painting a picture of financial doom. That’s just false—by the real numbers, the U.S. economy is still growing faster than it did during most of his first term. There’s no evidence to suggest the country is on the brink of economic ruin.
He told everyone that “we have no inflation” and claimed prices were back under control because of his policies. Wrong again—the official inflation data still shows prices are up versus last year, so Americans continue to feel the squeeze on groceries and gas.
Then came his jaw-dropper about job numbers, saying the latest jobs report was “rigged,” and the Bureau of Labor Statistics purposely fudged the numbers to make him look bad. He even said he fired the commissioner over it—pure fiction. The numbers he referenced are from standard revisions and benchmarking processes economists have always used, and there’s zero evidence of anyone faking data for or against any president.
On tariffs, he boasted that his new pharmaceutical tariffs “make China pay” and will bring manufacturing home. That’s just not how tariffs work. When tariffs hit, it’s U.S. companies and, ultimately, American consumers who pay higher prices—not China or any other foreign government.
He bragged once again that he’s going to slash drug prices by “1,500 or even 2,000 percent,” like he’s handing out medication for free with cash back. That’s not just hype, it’s mathematically impossible. You can’t cut a price by more than 100 percent—after that, you’d owe people money to take the pills.
He praised Mexican workers as having “great backs” and griped that “inner-city workers just won’t do it.” Besides being an offensive, worn-out trope, it’s also simply not true—labor statistics and hiring data show Americans from all backgrounds are working construction, agriculture, and other physically demanding jobs.
On the foreign policy front, he took credit for “negotiating permanent ceasefires” in several global conflicts. The reality? While he’s been involved in some talks, there’s no evidence he brokered any lasting peace—most agreements have either fallen apart or were just temporary truces arranged by other countries or coalitions.
He repeated that America “gives far more to Ukraine than all of Europe combined,” despite independent tracking showing that, taken together, European countries have sent more overall aid to Ukraine than the U.S. has.
He even said that California has “blackouts and brownouts every week” due to its clean energy policies. In fact, California hasn’t had any rotating power outages for years and is now a leader in grid reliability and clean energy.
He finished with his old favorite—insisting his approval rating is “the best it’s ever been” and sitting comfortably around sixty percent. Public polling puts him consistently below forty, a gap that’s become laughable at this point.
So, in lightning review: He lied about the economy tanking, pretended inflation doesn’t exist, ranted about “rigged” jobs data, twisted how tariffs work, made mathematically impossible promises on drug prices, pushed tired myths about who does physical labor, took credit for peace deals that aren’t his, inflated U.S. aid totals, fear-mongered about California’s power, and grossly exaggerated his popularity. He tossed out so many whoppers, it’s almost impossible to keep up—but these are the biggest, boldest, and flat-out wrong claims he made today.
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Maxwell Update
Maxwell, still living her “Club Fed” life, is under fresh spotlight because the Justice Department is openly talking about releasing the full transcript—and possibly even audio—of her two-day interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. That’s not just any Q&A; by all accounts, she was grilled about roughly a hundred people, covering just about every big name, deal, and scandal that’s swirled around the Epstein circle. Naturally, Maxwell’s lawyers are screaming “absolutely not.” Their argument? She hasn’t even seen the transcript herself, and she says dumping it out to the public would destroy her shot at an appeal, compromise her Supreme Court strategy, and shatter what little due process she’s got left. Her legal team’s whole vibe is: “Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Ghislaine Maxwell is not. The public’s curiosity doesn’t outweigh her rights.” She’s trying to get a judge to block the release entirely.
But the push to make those transcripts—and maybe other grand jury files—public is heating up. Trump loyalists and House Republicans are demanding transparency and looking to dig up names. With political pressure mounting, the DOJ is already prepping redactions, supposedly to protect the identities of victims, witnesses, and “third parties.” But rumors are swirling that any reference to Trump himself, plus other high-profile politicians and business moguls, are being “scrubbed” or sanitized before anything goes out. There’s real suspicion that the files are being combed through not just for privacy, but to avoid embarrassments close to the Oval Office. Meanwhile, Congress—especially the House Oversight Committee—has already filed a stack of subpoenas aimed at everyone from former presidents to cabinet officials, all demanding to see what Maxwell gave up and who might be implicated.
Who’s expected to be on the list? All the usual suspects: high-flying business leaders, celebrities, politicians from both parties, foreign royals, and at least a half-dozen American officials with ties to Epstein’s network. A Wall Street Journal briefing even claimed Trump’s name comes up—not as criminal evidence, but definitely as someone discussed in the context of Epstein’s web.
So to sum it up: Maxwell’s interview transcript could drop any day, her lawyers are fighting tooth and nail to keep it buried, and Congress is chomping at the bit to turn this into televised fireworks. At the same time, insiders say DOJ staff are “polishing” the files, making sure Trump and a few others come out of this with minimal collateral damage. The Club Fed drama just kicked into overdrive—expect bigger headlines (and wilder conspiracy theories) as soon as those transcripts see daylight.
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Olympic “Task Force”
Trump just unleashed one of his classic “look at me” executive orders this afternoon and immediately threw the media into overdrive. The main thrust? He’s creating an Olympics Task Force, supposedly to run the show for the LA 2028 Games. But in true Trump fashion, it’s less about sports and more about picking a new fight in the culture wars. He’s already out there promising this task force will make sure “woke ideology” doesn’t creep into any part of the Olympics—saying America’s traditions and values need to be front and center, and only what he calls “real Americans” should be organizing, competing, or even sitting in the stands. Never mind all the legal or ethical mess that’s bound to cause; for MAGA world, that’s the whole point. It’s pure, undiluted crowd-pleasing stuff. He knows how to serve up a distraction that gets his people fist-pumping—one more “America First” crusade, gift-wrapped as a patriotic power move and a big middle finger to anyone he says is out to ruin the country’s big moment on the world stage.
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New Concentration Camp – Ft. Bliss
So here we are, in 2025, and the U.S. government has quietly ramped up operations at Fort Bliss, turning it into a full-blown concentration camp in everything but name. It’s being run under the Homeland Security umbrella, supposedly as a “temporary holding site” for undocumented migrants and “pending status individuals,” but the truth is staring us in the face: this place is a long-term human warehouse, barbed wire and all. And it’s not just overflow housing—it’s built out, fenced off, heavily surveilled, and shielded from outside oversight like there’s something they don’t want anyone seeing. Spoiler: there is.
The conditions inside are already boiling over. Reports leaked from contractors say kids are sleeping nose-to-knees on metal cots, with no working AC in triple-digit heat and only two-minute “sanitation windows” per day—code for rapid hose-down showers. They’re rationing hygiene supplies and limiting daily movement, with many detainees now in their third or even fourth month without any formal immigration hearing or case updates. And the food? Uncooked rice, overcooked eggs, and whatever expired government MRE packs haven’t fully decomposed yet. If this were happening anywhere but here, we’d be calling for sanctions.
But it doesn’t stop at Bliss. It’s just the worst-visible node in a growing web of “transitional centers,” from southern Texas to the Arizona and California deserts. In several of those camps, there have now been confirmed outbreaks of staph infections, viral meningitis, and lice—and medical staff are voicing concern that even basic supplies are running low while detainee intake keeps climbing. One Tennessee facility even got flagged for keeping detainees in solitary-style units for “noncompliance,” which, in plain English, means they asked for a lawyer or refused to sign paperwork they couldn’t read.
Meanwhile, inspectors who’ve tried to access the camps are suddenly finding “paperwork issues,” just magically denied entry or told to “reschedule through federal channels” that never respond. Families can’t get information. Lawyers are being stonewalled. Detainee advocacy groups are told to mail requests to unmonitored P.O. boxes. It’s designed to be invisible.
And the most grotesque part? Most Americans aren’t even talking about it. Everyone’s hung up on gas prices, election polls, or whatever fresh distraction comes from Trump’s mouth—but off-camera, behind the fences, we are literally running detention centers under desert sun in modern-day America. Call it what it is: inhumane, illegal, un-American—and we should be ashamed this is happening under our watch.
Fort Bliss is not an outlier. It’s the blueprint. Conditions are collapsing, oversight is next to nonexistent, and if it doesn’t make you sick to your stomach, you’re not paying attention. We’ve seen this playbook in history before. We’re just pretending we haven’t.
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Just another day at the circus.
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.**