The Apprentice Season 2 - The Second Presidency of Donald Trump

[LordMortis]

It was all right here in the business plan where he brings the cost of health care down by repealing Obamacare



(hard to believe pictures of that event are hard to come by)

Edit found one!!!

[Smoove_B]

I guess people aren't going to care when the FDIC is abolished?

In recent interviews with potential nominees to lead bank regulatory agencies, Trump advisers and officials from his newfound Department of Government Efficiency have, for example, asked whether the president-elect could abolish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., people familiar with the matter said.

Advisers have asked the nominees under consideration for the FDIC, as well as the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, if deposit insurance could then be absorbed into the Treasury Department, some of the people said.

Any proposal to eliminate the FDIC or any agency would require congressional action. While past presidents have reorganized and rebranded departments, Washington has never shut down a major cabinet-level agency and rarely closed other agencies like the FDIC that are not.

[LordMortis]

Wow. And that's not even two years after the VP Elect's puppeteer, who set up all the DOGE introductions, teamed up with other "founders" to intentionally tank, and profit from tanking, the regional bank system. Fuck these guys down throat.

[Holman]

I'm sure their motives are pure.

[Smoove_B]

Who needs all that government insurance bloat when Trump can just set up a strategic Bitcoin reserve!

[Smoove_B]

Up next - The USPS:

Donald Trump in recent weeks has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the US Postal Service (USPS) because of its financial losses, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing three people with knowledge of the matter.

Trump, who begins his second US presidency on 20 January, has discussed his desire to privatize the USPS with Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary, at his Mar-a-Lago home, the report said.

As the Post noted, the move could disrupt consumer shipping and business supply chains while pushing hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of government.

Note:

Trump’s specific plans for possibly overhauling the USPS and privatizing it were not immediately clear. But he feuded with the agency during his first presidency, seeking to compel it to turn over key functions – including labor relations, managing relationships with its largest clients, rate-setting and personnel matters – to the federal treasury department.

Meanwhile, before his defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 election cost him his first presidency, Trump argued that the USPS was incapable of facilitating mail-in voting because he was blocking the agency from accessing emergency funding. Ultimately, as the Post noted, the USPS delivered nearly 98% of voters’ ballots to election officials within three days despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

The USPS is older than the US itself, having been founded in 1775. It became a financially self-sustaining agency in 1970 and is one of the most well-liked federal agencies, according to a 2024 Pew Research Center study cited by the Post.

In the fiscal year ending 30 September, the USPS lost $9.5bn after modernizing facilities and equipment did little to offset declines in mail volume as well as a parcel shipping business that was slower than anticipated, according to the Post’s reporting. The postal service’s annual financial report disclosed nearly $80bn in liabilities.

He's just talking though, I guess.

[Zarathud]

The Founding Father Benjamin Franklin intended a national postal service. It is only inefficient due to the incompetence of Congress to fund it properly as a service. Recent investments will make for a fire sale of capacity before there’s a chance to make any return. But pillaging government functions for financial profit and kickbacks is Trump’s way.

[LordMortis]

Funny how many people tried to warn us about this guy for how long. I've been listening to old CDs

Don Henley from the 80s