Mad King Ludwig is in a foul mood this Easter Monday because the Supreme Court ruined his weekend deportation plans

 Trump ramps up attacks on Powell, demands ‘loser’ Fed chair lower rates ‘NOW’

 

NY Governor Hochul tells Mad King Ludwig to go pound sand

 

NY Gov. Hochul says congestion pricing will remain despite federal deadline to end the program Sunday

 

... The Trump administration sought to kill the program on Feb. 19, with the president declaring himself “king” in a social media post that celebrated the potential end of congestion pricing. ...

Hochul fought back, declaring: “The cameras are staying on.” ...

Pete Wehner calls Trump America's mad king, lists twenty examples to date fewer than 90 days in

 

 

... He is more impulsive, more vindictive, and more anarchic than in his first term. ... Trump is America’s Mad King. ...  as the second Trump administration careens from one failure to another, as unhappiness with the president rises, as events and reality refuse to bend to his will, he will become darker and crueler and more unstable. ...

 

The whole thing is here.

Crimes in high places: Mad King Ludwig admits he decided to pause tariffs early in the morning on Wednesday when he also posted "This is a great time to buy", which amounts to market manipulation

 

 Trump was asked by a reporter on Wednesday when he decided to put a pause on the tariffs. 

“I would say this morning. Over the last few days, I’ve been thinking about it. Fairly early this morning,” he said.

Quoted here in "Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn't have a tariff plan and that he 'might be insane'".

There is no negotiating with someone who says 0% is not good enough

 

Bessent: Up To 70 Nations Want To Negotiate Over Trump's Tariffs

The tyrant has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy: Mad King Ludwig says zero tariffs not good enough

 

They're all nuts.

 

Vietnam's Zero-Tariff Offer 'Means Nothing'

Peter Navarro, CNBC

Trump's biggest tariff, 50%, was on tiny landlocked poverty-stricken Lesotho inside South Africa, over a minuscule trade imbalance of $234.5 MILLION in 2024, which is under a treaty for godsakes

 

Lesotho's exports to the US in 2024 were valued at $237.3 MILLION lol. Trump now wants 50% of that.

King George III, who also was nuts, was a benevolent king to America compared to this guy.

 Trump's biggest tariff was on tiny Lesotho. Here's what to know about the African kingdom.

... Mr. Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs included a whopping 50% levy on the small, impoverished nation's imports, and the Lesotho government quickly said it would send a delegation to Washington. ...

Lesotho's annual gross domestic product of $2 billion is highly reliant on exports, mostly of textiles, including jeans. ...

The White House claims, by way of [its] formula, that Lesotho imposes 99% tariffs and other barriers on U.S. imports. ...

With an annual gross domestic product of just over $2 billion, Lesotho is largely dependent on South Africa — it biggest trading partner — from which it imports most of its food, selling water in return.

The economy has been heavily reliant on textile exports bound for the United States through the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade deal, which provides duty-free access to the U.S. market for some African products. The Trump administration's imposition of tariffs on African nations has raised questions over how likely the White House is to renew the AGOA pact when it expires in September. ...

Normally you institute protectionist policies like tariffs when you already have something to protect, not before

But our Orwellian Republicans put the cart before the horse.

You can't return to something which no longer exists. The net trade deficit for 2024 is nearly $1 trillion, instead of flat like during the post-war up until Reagan, who first ran in 1976 against Ford, when tariffs still had something to protect but we listened to the siren song of free-trade instead.

That is why the Trump administration has had to cast about for at least six different reasons for instituting tariffs at the present time, none of which are at all convincing otherwise there wouldn't be six of them, not to mention that the math used for them is preposterous, or that they are the farthest thing from reciprocal.

The real reason for them, however, is that the tariffs, like the executive orders which now number over 100, are the immediate strings available to our Puppet Master, which he can pull this way one day and that way another, your ever present reminder of who is in charge around here. Suck up to him and he'll make a deal.

Trump's White House laughably brags about these things.

New taxes, which is what these tariffs are, are liberating don't you see!

Our mad King Ludwig needs this constant adulation. The tyrant has desires which he can never fulfill, Plato warned us.

But of course all this can be undone by the next president, which is no way to run a country. It makes for deep institutional instability and distrust throughout the global economy, for which few can reasonably plan.

The message remains the same: Expect Kaos. 

 

Mad King Ludwig says his tariffs will bring in $1T in the next year lol

 President Trump has argued that some of the tariffs he's imposing this week could help the government raise over $1 trillion in the next year or so

 S&P 500 loses $2.4 trillion in market value, biggest one-day loss since 2020

Mad King Ludwig says pigs will fly

 

You're going to see billions of dollars, even trillions of dollars coming into our country very soon in the form of tariffs.

-- here, 3/25/25, and here

Mad King Ludwig will never get the Nobel Peace Prize now, even if he does end the Russian war in Ukraine

 

US cancels visa of Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias

The former president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, says his US visa has been revoked.

Arias, a Nobel laureate, said he was informed of the decision weeks after he had publicly criticised Donald Trump, comparing the behaviour of the US president to that of a Roman emperor.

The 84-year-old, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in brokering an end to conflicts in Central America, said US authorities had given no explanation. ...

US imports came to $4.11 trillion in 2024: You'd have to tariff this out of existence to pay for the nearly $7 trillion in federal outlays in fiscal 2024

The tariff rate would have to be 170%, not 20% or 25% or even 50%.

Those are not serious proposals.

Humoring Mad King Ludwig about this is an errand worthy only of fools.

I sense a lot of dissension in Mad King Ludwig's palace: Lutnik attacked over crazy tariffs, Lutnick counterattacks over crazy vaccine skepticism fallout from RFK Jr

 

‘I don’t know anyone that isn’t pissed off at him’: Trump world turns on Lutnick

RFK Jr. is a ‘conspiracy theorist’ endangering lives, say analysts at Howard Lutnick’s former firm

 

Putin is much better at cruelty and humiliation than Mad King Ludwig, makes Trump wait an hour, agrees only to a narrowly defined ceasefire with Ukraine, and then immediately breaks it

 

Mad King Ludwig flies into a rage all because a judge told him Nay Nay

Ordinarily after successfully pulling off such a deportation coup, which may or may not be legal, you would think Trump would be gloating, but you would be wrong.

Nothing is ever good enough. He is never satisfied. He is never secure.

"He who is the real tyrant," said Plato, "whatever men may think, is the real slave, and is obliged to practise the greatest adulation and servility, and to be the flatterer of the vilest of mankind."

 

 

 

"He has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy, and has more wants than any one, and is truly poor, if you know how to inspect the whole soul of him: all his life long he is beset with fear and is full of convulsions, and distractions, even as the State which he resembles."

 

Federal Judge William Alsup orders tens of thousands of federal employees fired by Mad King Ludwig rehired

 

 Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules 

... Alsup, a San Francisco-based appointee of President Bill Clinton, ordered the Defense, Treasury, Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs departments to “immediately” offer all fired probationary employees their jobs back. The Office of Personnel Management, the judge said, had made an “unlawful” decision to terminate them. ... Alsup is the first federal judge to order the administration to broadly unwind the firing spree that has roiled the federal workforce during Trump’s first two months in office. ...

It's catching on

 

Mad King Trump's Tariff Disaster

Ryan Cooper, The American Prospect

 

 

‘At Risk Of My Job’: CNBC Reporter Sounds Alarm On 'Insane' Donald Trump Move

 

The White House says Ludwig's tariffs are a tax cut for the American people

 

House Freedom Caucus caves completely to King Ludwig and Prince Elon, House votes 217-213-2 to continue spending at Biden levels through the end of fiscal year 2025

 

Two seats remain vacant due to Trump appointments and one is newly vacant due to sudden death. 

Republican Massie voted Nay and Democrat Golden of Maine voted Yea. Republican Moore of North Carolina and Democrat Grijalva did not vote. 

The bill moves to the Senate.

The Republican controlled House dares Senate Democrats to vote Nay and has gone on vacation until March 24th.

The government will close down on Friday at midnight if the Senate fails to pass the measure.

60 votes are needed in the Senate where the Republicans are in the majority with 53 seats. 

 House narrowly passes six-month funding bill as shutdown deadline nears

 Roll Call 70 | Bill Number: H. R. 1968

 

 

Mad King Ludwig escalates trade war with Canada, imposes 50% tariffs on steel and aluminum

 Trump raises Canadian steel, aluminum tariffs to 50% in retaliation for Ontario energy duties