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By  Juan Benn Jr. President Donald Trump and White House Senior Advisor Elon Musk sit in a Tesla Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11. | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images LIKE, FOLLOW AND SUBSCRIBE  — Every White House works hard to amplify the president’s message, communicate an administration’s accomplishments and generally burnish the image of POTUS. But the Trump White House has an ambitious communications goal that reaches beyond traditional practice: Owning the libs. Through the use of an aggressive social media strategy, the White House is both highlighting its policy accomplishments and attempting to rub the left’s face in it with a stream of content designed to delight the GOP base and provoke the opposition. Their efforts to do so are frequently going mega-viral. A  video of undocumented immigrants, handcuffed and shackled, boarding a deportation flight  with a caption that read “ ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight ,” posted from the offici...

  This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 92 Ron Filipkowski Mar 16, 2025 … NYT reported that investors are pulling their money out of the US stock market in recent weeks and investing overseas. The S&P 500 had outpaced foreign stock markets for years, but it has fallen 6% just since Trump took office while the DAX index in Germany is up 10%, Europe’s STOXX 600 is up 4%, the Hang Seng in Hong Kong is up 20%, and Mexico’s IPC is up 5% over that span. …  Jitania Kandhari , Dep. Chief Investment Officer for Morgan Stanley: “It is definitely time to be looking outside the US.” … WaPo reported that over 5 million Americans work in industries that could be impacted by retaliatory tariffs from China and Canada that just went into effect, and the vast majority of them live in counties that voted for Trump. New tariffs from those two countries primarily target the agricultural, manufacturing and energy sectors. Counties that face the greatest potential impact from retaliatory tariffs we...