Trumpiana: From Superman with love — tariff TACO & pink slips
As a peace Nobel seemed distant for DJT on a street named desire, “the Great State of Florida” gifted him a boulevard
His one big beautiful bill spilling trillions in red ink signed and sealed, Daddy Donald returned to his favorite sports and pastime — throwing tariff tantrums, firing people and dissing enemies.
Bragging that his massive tax cut and spending law will “ensure the United States of America will remain the strongest country anywhere on this beautiful planet of ours…,” the POTUS set out to tame the world with his tariff tango.
By the weekend, Donald Trump had shot off dozens of ‘deal or else’ love letters with “great honor” to heads of state around the world, as his awe-struck chief of staff, ‘Ice Maiden’ Susie Wiles, marvelled to New York Post at the “superhuman pace” set by her boss to “notch up wins at breakneck speed.”
Trump singled out Brazil for special treatment — a threat to impose 50% tariffs for “doing a terrible thing on their treatment” of former President Jair Bolsonaro” and demanded Brazil stop the “WITCH HUNT!!!” and leave his political ally alone.
Besides Brazil “any Country aligning themselves with the Anti-American policies of BRICS, — Brazil, Russia, India, China and Russia will be charged an ADDITIONAL 10% Tariff” without any exceptions,” he fumed.
Before carping critics could throw a TACO — short for Trump ‘Always Chickens Out’ for frequently rolling back the tariffs — Trump effectively pushed back the July 9 deadline to Aug. 1, all with a clenched fist and a warning there would be “no extensions.”
READ: Trumpiana: Bold and beautiful — one big bill, one big bully! (July 5, 2025)
Then the friendly neighbourhood Supreme Court delivered what the White House called another “definitive victory for the president” by “temporarily” green lighting mass firings of federal workers.
Thousands of federal employees braced to become toast at a score of agencies from the agriculture department to NASA to the State department where some 1,400 workers started getting first pink slips Friday. The already shuttered USAID agency started clearing its sprawling office in downtown Washington for the FBI’s new digs.
In his first 100 days in office, Trump sent some 260,000 civil servants packing by firings, resignations and buyouts before ex first buddy Elon Musk left cost-cutter DOGE after going completely “off the rails,” essentially becoming a “TRAIN WRECK” to start a “ridiculous” third political party.
The top court’s latest ruling came after it blocked a judge’s order to rehire thousands of fired employees and limited sweeping nationwide injunctions impeding presidential policies.
Trumpiana: Hey, hey, hey, Daddy! What a big beautiful win! (June 28, 2025)
Yet a federal judge in New Hampshire had the temerity to block his birthright-citizenship order across the country — through a gaping loophole left by SCOTUS, a class action suit on behalf of four immigrants including a mother- to-be.
A desi federal judge Indira Talwani too took a swipe at his beautiful bill by blocking Medicaid funding cuts to Planned Parenthood’s health centers, while a third judge put a halt to indiscriminate immigration arrests based on race and denying access to lawyers.
Time to go knocking again to SCOTUS, where Trump has notched victory after victory — from letting him ban transgender people in the U.S. military to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own.
Meanwhile, amid reports that his Justice Department was launching criminal investigations into two of his bêtes noires — “crooked as hell” former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey, Trump suggested “maybe they have to pay a price for that.”
“I believe they are truly bad people and dishonest people, so whatever happens happens,” he said thanking “The GREAT Gregg Jarrett,” Fox News legal analyst, for his “AMAZING REPORTING!” about how “Comey’s hatred of Trump drove the Russia hoax” and how they manipulated “to peddle their fairy tale.”
At home, Trump notched yet another victory by asserting his presidential authority to commandeer for the White House a beautiful antique grandfather clock he’d seen in Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s office, as he teasingly recalled at a cabinet meeting.
But his big stick wasn’t working so well abroad with India’s Modi refusing to acknowledge his role in brokering a truce with Pakistan and preventing a nuclear war and pal Vladimir Putin, who is “very nice all the time,” ignoring his repeated entreaties for peace with Ukraine.
“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, [if] you want to know the truth,” said a “very unhappy” Trump threatening once again to punish him pretty soon “… because he’s killing a lot of people.”
But at least a fawning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had come calling with a letter he had sent to the Nobel Prize committee “ nominating you for the peace prize, which is well-deserved” for “forging peace as we speak, in one country and one region after the other.”
“Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize. He’s achieved more than those who’ve won before,” echoed USA TODAY to earn a “Thank you. So nice!” from the President.
Meanwhile, even as James Gunn, creator of the DC Studios latest remake of “Superman” earned the ire of “MAGA” brigade for describing the action hero from the planet Krypton as an immigrant, the The White House was quick to embrace the Ice Maiden’s compliment.
Calling the President “THE SYMBOL OF HOPE. TRUTH. JUSTICE. THE AMERICAN WAY. SUPERMAN TRUMP. 🇺🇸,” it lost no time in coming out with a meme complete with a costumed Trump soaring into the sky.
Then the Superman flew – on Air Force One – to take a look at “the hell of a situation” in flood-ravaged areas of Central Texas after his aides “fixed it up in no time” the disaster management agency FEMA that he wanted to shutter not long ago.
Superman or no Superman, a Nobel Prize or a place on Mt. Rushmore, seemed all too distant on a street named desire. But “the Great State of Florida, which I won BIG three times,” obliged by renaming an important four-mile stretch in Palm Beach County, to “PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BOULEVARD.”