The latest Trump Outrages and the next No Kings rally

Photo courtesy of Asia Times. More Trump outrages from https://www.emorywheel.com/article/2025/09/look-for-humanity-in-ice-raids-not-just-numbers.

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What has President Trump been up to since the last time I offered my reasons to attend a protest rally back in April, 2025? He was bad then. He’s worse now. The Trump outrages continue.

And that leads to why I plan to attend the next No Kings rally on Saturday, October 18, 2025, this time in downtown Minneapolis. Watch for a future blog post with impressions.

Trump outrages – revenge

Remember how Trump screamed about evil Democrats weaponizing the Department of Justice? Well, now that Trump is in charge, he demanded the Department of Justice find a reason to indict former FBI Director, James Comey. One of many new Trump outrages. That task fell to former Eastern District of Virginia US Attorney, Erik Siebert. Trump appointed Siebert at the start of his term in January, 2025.

Siebert – a Trump appointee – declined to prosecute Comey because nobody could find sufficient evidence of wrongdoing. So, Trump fired Siebert and hired Lindsey Halligan to replace him.

Halligan competed in the Miss Colorado beauty pageant in 2009 and 2010. She earned a law degree in 2013 and practiced insurance law in Florida until 2022. She helped represent Trump in the 2022 classified documents case. After the election, Trump hired her to rid the Smithsonian Institution of material Trump does not like.

Halligan has never prosecuted a case. Now she is Trump’s choice for US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. No doubt part of Trump’s comprehensive plan to fight crime.

One of Halligan’s first acts was to return indictments on Thursday, September 25, 2025 for two of three counts against Comey for allegedly lying to Congress back in 2020. Apparently, she bungled handing the paperwork to the judge, but she’s new and no doubt, she’ll get the hang of it soon.

On Thursday, October 9, 2025, Halligan also indicted Letitia James on charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution related to a home purchase in Virginia. Before the 2024 election, James prosecuted Trump for corrupt business dealings in New York and won.

Other revenge indictments are probably in the works.

Revenge Trump outrages get way worse. Trump also bragged about firing Michael Ben’Ary, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in that same Eastern District of Virginia, because Ben’Ary agreed with Siebert that there was no evidence to indict Comey or James. This is a big deal because Ben’Ary was in the middle of prosecuting Mohammad Sharifullah, a suspected plotter in the 2021 Abbey Gate terror attack in Afghanistan, which killed thirteen American service members.

I am just a bald guy from Minnesota, so I don’t know how anyone can claim he supports bringing terrorists to justice while he fires the prosecutor working to bring a terrorist to justice who helped murder thirteen American service members. Try to explain that to the families of the fallen.

General pep talk

On September 30, 2025, Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth brought 800 of our top generals to a meeting in Virginia for a stirring round of speeches. After telling them they could leave if they wanted, but they would lose their rank, he offered these stirring remarks about stairs. Skip to the 53:02 mark and watch about two minutes of the inspirational video yourself.

We were not respected with Biden. They looked at him falling downstairs every day. Every day, the guy is falling downstairs. He said, It’s not our President. We can’t have it. I’m very careful. You know, when I walk downstairs for, like, a month, stairs, like these stairs, I’m very—I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall, because it doesn’t work out well. A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy. We don’t want that. You walk nice and easy. You’re not having—you don’t have to set any record. Be cool. Be cool when you walk down, but don’t—don’t pop down the stairs. So one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a President, but he would bop down those stairs. I’ve never seen it. Da-da, da-da, da-da, bop, bop, bop. He’d go down the stairs. Wouldn’t hold on. I said, It’s great. I don’t want to do it. I guess I could do it. But eventually, bad things are going to happen, and it only takes once. But he did a lousy job as president. A year ago, we were a dead country. We were dead. This country was going to hell.

More Trump outrages – sadistic ICE raids

Barely a day goes by without yet another story about ICE agents dragging people from their apartments in the middle of the night, or attacking or spraying chemicals on protesters and bystanders, while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and a video crew record footage from above. It turns out that Portland was not a war zone, and a federal judge ordered the National Guard to stand down. Similarly for Chicago.

My sister forwarded this eye-witness story from Chicago.

Yesterday started like many others. Craig made us coffee. My neighbor offered us some freshly baked scones. The girls ate their breakfast, excited for a three day weekend and their daddy’s birthday.

At 8:15 AM, we learned that an elderly man had been tackled by border control in a nearby alley.

At 8:30 AM, ICE detained two landscapers near Foster and Lincoln, a few blocks away. The entire neighborhood came out to help by recording and protesting, one of whom happened to be a WGN producer. She was violently abducted.

ICE slammed into a neighbor’s parked car during their rapid getaway and kept right on driving.

At 9 AM, our school principal initiated our rapid response network and hundreds of parent, staff, and communities mobilized to patrol our school in support of our at-risk families and to allow our children to safely play and learn outdoors.

At 10 AM, ICE arrived fully armed near Ravenswood Elementary, a local public school where many of our friends go and teach. I spoke directly with my dear friend who teaches there immediately after it happened and, as you can imagine, she was terrified and traumatized.

At 10:15, ICE was reported outside a local daycare, where many of our neighborhood kiddos go.

As the day unfolded, at least 8 of our neighbors were detained, and there were dozens of confirmed ICE sightings outside local schools and businesses. Craig and I spent a collective 10 hours patrolling our daughters’ school. Several schools went into lockdown, following the same protocol response we’d follow for an active shooter.

Elsewhere in the city, in the last 2-3 weeks ICE has:

• killed a young father after he dropped his son off at school, the agent sustained minor injuries
• shot a woman 5 times and tried to blame her for provocation (body cam footage proves otherwise)
• shot a minister in the head with a pepper bullet while he prayed at a protest
• teargassed dozens of Chicago police
• teargassed reporters and non-violent protestors
• stormed a building with helicopters, arresting (among criminals) US citizens who had done nothing wrong, including zip tying 4 children (according to several residents and witnesses), torn from their beds in the middle of the night barely clothed and not allowed to dress
• detained a family while their children played in the fountains at Millennium Park
• handcuffed an alderperson inside a hospital
• stormed through suburban parks to try and catch nannies walking babies
• they are masked, wear no names, ‘arrest’ with no warrants, and will kill you if you try to fight back
• 71 percent of the people taken have no criminal history, most are just trying to work through the slow process of naturalization

As I write this, I’m seeing live footage of them raiding Home Depot and receiving reports of them detaining 18 Uber drivers at O’Hare.

If you’re outside of Chicago and weren’t aware of what’s happening here, now you know. This is not okay. Nobody should be pretending this is okay.

Chicago is my favorite place in the whole world. I have lived here for 28 years and I have never felt so profoundly unsafe until this week. And it’s not because of gangs or crime or unhoused people or drug users or migrants.

I feel unsafe because there are militarized units with loaded guns in the school parking lots of my district, kidnapping my neighbors.

Now please enjoy my family photo, taken last night while trying to salvage Craig’s birthday and preserve normalcy for our children at one of this city’s incredible restaurants.

I made this post public so that it can be shared. 

I will also post footage and media links in my comments.

ICE is everywhere these days. An ICE raid even shut down construction of a multibillion dollar Georgia battery plant joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution and made South Korea mad at us. But beyond economic stupidity, projects like this raid, Alligator Alcatraz in Florida, and others show how we’re embracing institutional sadism.

Even more Trump outrages – crypto corruption

WLFI leaders include members of the Trump and Witkoff family. Steve Witkoff is President Trump’s United States special envoy to the Middle East and special envoy for Peace Missions. Witkoff began his career as a real estate attorney and later expanded into major property development in New York and Miami.

On January 17, 2025, three days before his 2nd inauguration, Trump launched a cryptocoin he called the $TRUMP. He publicly released 200 million meme coins and kept 800 million in reserve. The initial offering price was $0.18 per token. By January 19, it rocketed to $75 per token. On October 17, it traded for $5.82 per token. Those 800 million $TRUMP tokens make WLFI worth more than $4 billion. WLFI plans to sell the rest over three years.

In April 2025, President Trump offered the top 220 $TRUMP holders dinner with the president. He offered the top 25 holders a special VIP White House tour. Following the announcement, the $TRUMP jumped more than 50%.

Shortly after Trump’s 2025 inaugural, he fired the people who regulate conflicts of interest.

Not a bad gig if you can get it. Get yourself elected, issue a worthless electronic token, and persuade your loyal supporters to bid up the price in exchange for influence.

In the early 1900s, teams of newspaper and magazine reporters exposed corruption of that era. Trumpworld today doesn’t even bother to hide it. I wonder how much a presidential pardon costs. Or maybe you want to bomb a country you don’t like. Or sway a business negotiation. Buy yourself a bunch of $TRUMP or other WLFI meme coins at the next offering. Or maybe buy a couple million shares of Trump Media. The highest bidder wins.

So much for draining the swamp.

Banking

Using the office of president to generate $billions is great way to get rich. But controlling all banking in the United States is better. Do that by firing peaky Federal Reserve governors you don’t like and installing supporters who will do your bidding. The problem is, by law, the Federal Reserve is independent. The president cannot fire anyone just because he doesn’t like them. He needs just cause.

President Trump tried to fire Federal Reserve Chair, Gerome Powell, using the Federal Reserve building remodeling project as a pretext, but backed down, at least temporarily, when that proved cumbersome. Powell’s term as chair expires in May, 2026. His term on the board of governors continues until January 31, 2028.

So Trump went after another Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook. Her term runs until sometime after 2030, but President Trump tried to fire her based on a claim that she committed mortgage fraud. Turns out, the mortgage fraud claim was a lie. A federal court prohibited Trump from firing her. But Trump might appeal.

Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, led the effort against Cook. But sometimes karma wins. Apparently Pulte’s parents committed mortgage fraud themselves by declaring two homes as their primary residence, and so, now the state of Michigan is sending Pulte’s parents a bill for back taxes.

Censorship

Shortly after the Charlie Kirk murder, Jimmy Kimmel made comments on his late night TV show that many considered distasteful. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, Carr doubled down on Fox News. “We at the FCC are going to force the public interest obligation. There are broadcasters out there that don’t like it, they can turn in their license in to the FCC. But that’s our job. Again, we’re making some progress now.”

This is the same guy who helped lead the charge denouncing left wing censorship in an earlier era.

And then Disney/ABC suspended Kimmel and his show. After the uproar, Disney/ABC allowed Kimmel back on the air.

In his opening monolog, Kimmel mentioned a new Pentagon policy from Defense Secretary Hegseth. If reporters want access to the building, they cannot solicit information. They can only report what the Pentagon says they can report. Hegseth is a former Fox News reporter.

Kimmel was right to call this out. The new Hegseth directive is more suitable to the Kremlin then the Pentagon. On Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at the 4:00 p.m. deadline, every reporter from every media organization except OANN packed up and left. Even Fox News and Newsmax left. But not OANN, One America News.

OANN hired Jack Psobiac as a senior correspondent after Psobiac livestreamed a children’s birthday party at a pizza parlor and told the world it was an evil liberal sex ring. OANN fired Pentagon reporter Gabrielle Cuccia earlier in 2025 for writing an online column criticizing Hegseth’s media policies. Now, OANN will bring us Pentagon-approved press releases. Who cares about an independent press anyway?

And more

The Trump outrages never stop.

• Attempts to manage education by offering grants to universities that teach what Trump likes and getting rid of grants to universities that don’t teach what Trump likes.
• Firing people who reported economic statistics Trump didn’t like.
• Covering up Epstein information after screaming for years that Democrats covered up Epstein information.
• Extorting money from law firms who hired attorneys who opposed Trump in court cases.
• Extorting the cybersecurity firm who hired Chris Krebs, the former CISA director, who told the world that the 2020 election was clean.
• Politicizing the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

As I finish composing this, the time is approaching 1 a.m. Saturday. The next No Kings rally starts twelve hours from now. If these Trump outrages bother you, maybe it’s time to speak up.