A clip from Michelle Obama’s new podcast IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson has reignited longstanding questions about her gender — and some massive trolling.

In the clip, Obama is speaking to her guest about raising a child who is “transgender,” which warms her heart, “particularly as a black man, you know?” While she appears to be addressing the guest, the internet ran wild with the clip.

The comment was made on the April 30th episode, featuring guests Damon and Marlon Wayans, the latter of whom has a transgender child.

The idea of raising “a child who is transgender” warms Michelle Obama’s heart “as a black man”

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— ALX (@alx) April 30, 2025

The rumors about Michelle Obama’s gender went mainstream in 2014 when comedian Joan Rivers, shortly before her death, told a TMZ reporter that Michelle Obama was transgender.

In 2023, Marlon Wayans revealed that his oldest daughter, a biological female, was “transgender” and identified as male.

“I have a daughter that transitioned into a son,” Marlon Wayans said on an episode of The Breakfast Club. “My daughter Amai is now Kai.”

The Obama podcast featured discussions about raising children “through challenges.”

The show, which is hosted by the former “First Lady” and her brother, is billed as candid discussions on life, relationships, and current events. However, despite an insane amount of media attention, it has struggled to gain viewers.

On YouTube, podcast viewers have plummeted from 335,000 for the debut episode to around 60,000 for subsequent episodes.

WATCH THE FULL EPISODE HERE:

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A radical judge has stepped in to free a Hamas-loving student after the Trump Administration arrested him in the process of trying to become a U.S. citizen.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, a U.S. permanent resident who was born and raised in the West Bank, was detained on earlier this month by the Department of Homeland Security during a citizenship interview in Vermont.

Mahdawi has supported Hamas terrorists and bullied those who do not share his faith. Mahdawi, the co-founder of Columbia’s Palestinian Student Union, is a vocal critic of Israel defending itself against Hamas and organized protests at Columbia University until March 2024, before he stepped away for an unspecified reason.

The Trump administration used a rarely used provision in immigration law that permits it to “remove aliens who pose serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.” Supporting Hamas in their cruel war against Israel certainly qualifies.

Mahdawi planned to return to Columbia in the fall for a master’s degree. But he would not have had the chance unless a Democrat judge had intervened.

Unfortunately, a federal judge in Burlington, Vermont stepped in and ordered his IMMEDIATE release from custody, as ABC News reported.

“The two weeks of detention so far demonstrate great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime,” U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford, a Barack Obama appointee, said at a hearing. “Mr. Mahdawi, I will order you released.”

Marxists and Hamas supporters greeted him with wild cheers as he exited the courthouse. As the video below shows, Mahdawi can be seen throwing up two peace signs as he arrives to greet his ignorant fans.

WATCH:

BREAKING: MOHSEN MAHDAWI IS FREE!

Mahdawi, a student leader from the pro-Palestine movement Columbia University who was detained by ICE, has officially be released!

In the 2 weeks since his unjust arrest, people across the country and world have waged a committed campaign… pic.twitter.com/r0dqj2QLy0

— Party for Socialism and Liberation (@pslnational) April 30, 2025

Mahdawi proceeded to send a mocking message Trump while speaking outside the courthouse to his fans.

“I’am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,” Mahdawi said.

“What we are witnessing now and what we’re understanding is exactly what Dr. Martin Luther King has said before: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” he added.

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A race-baiting judge in California has decided to kneecap our brave border agents from arresting some of the most violent human beings on Earth and ignored a critical federal law in the process.

As Fox News reported, U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston issued an injunction on Tuesday barring Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in the Eastern District of California from stopping illegal immigrants without a warrant or proving that the person is a threat to flee before they can get a warrant.

As the outlet notes, Thurston’s ruling comes after several individuals were arrested in January during Border Patrol’s “Operation Return to Sender.” This was just part of President Trump’s smashing success in removing illegal aliens from the interior while locking down the southern border.

Unsurprisingly, the Marxist American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) imitated the lawsuit to defend the illegals. They claimed </>in their suit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and CBP officials that Border Patrol agents utilized racial profiling to ‘unconstitutionally’ detain people over the span of a week.

The ACLU also said those detained by immigration authorities were taken by bus to the border and held without being able to communicate with family or legal representation. The illegals were also allegedly forced to sign documents waiving their right to see an immigration judge and had voluntarily agreed to leave America.

Thurston, who was nominated by Joe Biden, agreed with the ACLU communists. She wrote in her ruling that the Border Patrol “engaged in conduct that violated well-established constitutional rights.”

Thruston also ordered the Border Patrol to submit a report every 60 days showing who is being held and who was arrested without warrants, along with the reasoning for both, until the lawsuit is resolved.

The Biden judge also whipped out the race card during a hearing a day before her final ruling.

“You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say, ‘Give me your papers,’” she said during a heated exchange with Trump administration attorneys on Monday.

For their part, attorneys for the Border Patrol pointed out there was a glaring problem that should had rendered the lawsuit by ACLU moot: Thurston did not have jurisdiction to consider the case because federal law dictates that immigration issues can generally only be appealed once an immigration judge has issued a final order.

The government also said the lawsuit was moot because the U.S. Border Patrol has already issued guidance “detailing exactly when people may be stopped or arrested without warrants, and what rights detainees have after their arrest.”

U.S Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) agreed with the attorneys in statement on X lambasting the ruling, specifically pointing the critical law which authorizes warrantless detainment of illegals.

It appears we have yet another judge problem, as U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston has issued an order banning Border Patrol from arresting illegal aliens *unless they have a warrant*

Officers routinely arrest—without an arrest warrant—when they acquire probable cause to believe a crime has been committee. 8 U.S.C. § 1357 expressly authorizes Border Patrol to make warrantless arrests for immigration violations, particularly if the person is entering the U.S. illegally.

I cannot fathom the justification for a judicial order prohibiting the Border Patrol from arresting illegal aliens without a warrant.

It appears we have yet another judge problem, as U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston has issued an order banning Border Patrol from arresting illegal aliens *unless they have a warrant*

Officers routinely arrest—without an arrest warrant—when they acquire probable cause to… https://t.co/YMmt9hWMw7

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) April 30, 2025

This is a developing story.

But Thurston ignored their arguments, saying the policy’s new language in the new policy won’t guard against so-called ‘illegal stops.’ She added that the policy could also be changed again in the future.

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1. Your Excellency, the first question is perhaps the most difficult. Do you still consider yourself a member of the Catholic Church?

I consider myself a full member of the Catholic Church, as Bishop and Successor of the Apostles. Schismatic is anyone who does not recognize the Authority of the Roman Pontiff: I have never failed in my Profession of the Catholic Faith, much less with regard to the Petrine Primacy.

I was convicted and declared guilty of the canonical crime of schism and punished by excommunication for a non-crime by an illegitimate tribunal, on the mandate of an illegitimate “pope.”

What I condemn of the Second Vatican Council, has been already condemned by the popes preceding the conciliar revolution. The usurpation of the Throne by Bergoglio, which I have denounced, would be considered in the same way by all of them. It is the conciliar church, today renamed synodal and Bergoglian, which rejects the perennial Magisterium of the Pontiffs and thus places itself outside the Catholic Church.

We have witnessed a regime change, prepared since Vatican II, intended to strike at the heart of the Papacy and therefore the divine constitution of the Church that Christ founded on Peter. It is the Revolution 2.0: after eliminating the figure of the Catholic King, Freemasonry had to bring down the figure of the Pope, the Vicar of Christ on earth. In both cases, the true target of this satanic hatred is always Our Lord, in His dual role as King of the Nations and Pontiff of the Church.

Using a supernatural gaze, we are able to understand how much Satan enjoys seeing the Church humiliated by its own Ministers, in having good Pastors condemned for the “crime” of not denying the Catholic Faith. This terrible trial is foretold in the Scriptures: the Church, the Mystical Body, must follow her Head even in His Passion, so that She may then triumph over death as He did. The passio Ecclesiæ consists in facing, as an ecclesial body, injustices, slanders, mock trials, torments, and an ignominious condemnation by a new Sanhedrin that is just as corrupt, unfaithful, and illegitimate as the one that condemned Our Lord. But the Cross is the Royal Road to the glory of the Resurrection, and this is an ontological reality that no ideology can even minimally undermine.

2. What do you expect from this upcoming conclave?

The Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis that regulates the Conclave, confirmed by the Motu Proprio of Benedict XVI Normas Nonnullas, peremptorily establishes that the number of Cardinal electors must not exceed 120 individuals. But the Cardinal electors who make up the imminent “conclave” are 136: we are therefore faced with a very serious violation that alone would be enough to undermine the legitimacy of any supposedly valid Conclave.

Furthermore, a College of Cardinals composed of 108 “cardinals” created by a Jesuit who usurped the Papacy for twelve years cannot validly elect a legitimate pope. At most, the College will be able to designate its own representative, someone who will renew and continue the usurpation of the recently deceased predecessor, and see the ongoing fraud further ratified by a complicit or cowardly episcopate.

The Bergoglian experiment has, however, made evident that there is a rift separating the faithful and many good priests from the Hierarchy, a rift that mirrors the one existing in the civil sphere between citizens and their rulers. In both cases, authority has shown itself in its true self-referential and tyrannical nature, and this will perhaps lead to a slowing down of the race towards the abyss, with the election of a moderately conservative “pope.” If this happens, the idea will be that it could be effective to administer a palliative cure to contain the devastating effects of the disease that strikes the Catholic Church, rather than a radical treatment that removes its causes. But such a moderate treatment has already been tried and did not work.

3. What is the profile of your ideal Pontiff, if we can do this exercise of imagination?

That of Pius XII, the pope of my childhood. That is, a Pope who knows how to lift up and give a supernatural impetus to a people who have been brought prostrate – no longer by the material destruction of the Second World War, but by the moral destruction of woke ideology and hedonistic nihilism, by the ruins of the infernal culture of globalism. A Pope in whose words the sheep recognize the voice of the Divine Shepherd, in whose gestures they see Christ the High Priest, by whose dignity and sacredness they are edified.

A Pope who restores to the Catholic Church the honor to which She is entitled, and which Bergoglio has systematically humiliated and deliberately discredited. I would like a Pope who unites the integral proclamation of Catholic Truths with zeal for the salvation of souls. A Pope who speaks as a Pope, acts as a Pope, dresses as a Pope.

A Pope who is simply the Pope – without inventions, without innovations, without demagogy or false humility. A Pope who allows himself to be guided by the Holy Spirit and returns to Tradition, rather than a puppet of the World Economic Forum who seeks the approval of the world.

4. Former Cardinal McCarrick, against whom you fought so hard, is now dead. However, there are other Cardinals belonging to “currents” that you have attacked. Do you consider your battle within the Church lost?

My battle against the rampant corruption in the Vatican began well before 2018. Ever since my appointment in 1998 as Delegate for Pontifical Representations in the Secretariat of State, I fought strenuously to prevent the appointments and promotions to the episcopate of corrupt and unworthy candidates. This earned me a transfer to the Vatican City State Governorate, where I addressed very serious financial dysfunctions: once again I was removed and transferred to Washington as Apostolic Nuncio.

My denunciations, including my denunciation of the crimes and horrible vices of Cardinal McCarrick – which I had already made to the Superiors of the Secretariat of State in 2006 and then in June 2013 to Bergoglio himself, in person – have never been denied. Everything I denounced turned out to be true.

But what is it that unleashed their fury? It is the fact of having brought to light the link between moral corruption and doctrinal deviation; of having shown how Bergoglio’s propaganda in favor of the psychopandemic fraud and the green deal responded to a single script under a single direction. I was among the first to denounce the Great Reset and to unmask the complicity between the deep state and the deep church in the globalist coup we have witnessed in recent years, and in which Bergoglio’s responsibility is immense.

Along with the scandals I denounced, I exposed the network of blackmail and complicity of this “parallel church” that I call the deep church, based on the same vile vices that allow the deep state to blackmail politicians, government officials, institutional figures, public figures, journalists, doctors, actors . . .

A persecution against me followed, even to the point of excommunication, which was imposed on me by a heretic pornographer, Tucho Fernández, appointed by Bergoglio to demolish the former Holy Office.

The McCarrick line of bishops – which includes Cardinals Farrell, Cupich, McElroy, Wuerl, Gregory, Tobin, and many others – has been promoted to key positions in the Vatican and at the top of the American Catholic Church.

These men maintain very close relations with the Democratic Party, whose woke and pro-immigration policies they support, while President Trump is trying to counteract them. The billions of American taxpayer dollars with which USAID has financed the constellation of “Catholic” non-profit organizations in order to fuel the illegal immigration business, are proof of the financial dependence of the American Church on the deep state.

Now that we are in the period of sede vacante, power is now in the hands of two very corrupt figures: the Substitute of the Secretariat of State, Edgard Peña Parra – whose crimes I have extensively denounced – and the Cardinal Camerlengo, Kevin Farrell.

Farrell was a member of the Legionaries of Christ, the religious congregation that was at the center of a very serious scandal related to the sexual abuse and crimes of its founder, Father Marcial Maciel. Farrell was in charge of managing the Legionaries’ enormous financial resources, and of course he “did not notice” Maciel’s aberrant deviations. . . . Also for this reason he preferred to hide this dark part of his curriculum with the Legionaries of Christ, and precisely because of these “merits” and his proximity to Maciel, Farrell was chosen by McCarrick as his close collaborator. McCarrick made Farrell his Auxiliary Bishop in Washington, where he lived for six years in the same apartment as the then-Archbishop.

Once again he “did not notice” anything . . . . McCarrick entrusted Farrell with the financial management of the Papal Foundation, founded in 1988, when the Vatican was emerging with broken bones from the Marcinkus case and the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. In 1990, after only two years, the Papal Foundation had already raised 215 million dollars: a considerable sum for the disastrous accounts of the Holy See, in order to buy silence and solicit promotions. This fundraising ability of McCarrick earned him untouchability by the Vatican, since the time of John Paul II. In 2007, Farrell was promoted and made Bishop of Dallas; then in 2016 he was transferred to Rome as Prefect of the Super-Dicastery for the Laity, the Family, and Life.

In 2019, he was appointed Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, despite his notorious addiction to alcohol. Farrell knows all the accomplices of McCarrick’s crimes and will be able to maneuver the upcoming “conclave” by means of blackmail or promises. His utter unworthiness and the scandal he represents – especially for McCarrick’s victims and for American Catholics – must be denounced so as to induce him to renounce his prerogatives as Camerlengo and as a cardinal with voting rights, following the example of the Cardinal of Edinburgh, Keith O’Brien, who after the denunciation of his unworthiness spontaneously withdrew from the Conclave of 2013.

5. There are those who argue that Bergoglio, beyond his media statements, has not actually changed the essence or depth of Catholic doctrine. What do you think?

Bergoglio’s media overexposure made all too apparent the Argentine Jesuit’s duplicity – I would say his strategy of deception. No one ever knew what was going through his head, or whether what he said corresponded to what he really thought. Bergoglio always used people, without any moral scruples, promoting those who were corrupt and getting rid of those who hindered him in his intentions, raging with unheard-of malice against those who were not to his liking (I am thinking here of an excellent employee of the Vatican City Governorate, Eugenio Hasler, son of the former Major of the Swiss Guard, who was destroyed by Bergoglio in 2017).

Bergoglio did not need to change doctrine: he instead managed to make it irrelevant and negligible, creating a certain liquid inclusiveness without dogmas and without ideals. He never wanted to act as Pope, but he made sure that after him no Pope could obtain from Catholics that obedience that he made hateful, because it was extorted in order to support heresies and moral deviations.

He did everything possible so that no “pope” who will emerge from the upcoming “conclave” will be able to question his “papacy” which he intended to characterize as intrinsically his: his property, his invention, with his rites, his ceremonies, his vestments, and his dignitaries. But all this demonstrates that the “papacy” assumed by Bergoglio in 2013 was never the Roman Papacy, and therefore he was not a true Pope.

6. Since you were excommunicated last summer, have you had contact with other Cardinals or high-ranking members of the Vatican hierarchy? Do you think that your positions are more widely shared than they appear?

I have been able to appreciate the spiritual closeness and moral support of many faithful from all over the world and of many priests, but no Cardinal has contacted me. A few bishops have expressed their sympathy.

I do not believe that among my Brothers in the Episcopate there is anyone who has the courage to clearly state that the Second Vatican Council was a subversive act carried out by emissaries of Freemasonry who infiltrated the Church, with the aim of destroying Her from within and enslaving Her to the plans of the New World Order. Nor do I believe that those who are aware of Bergoglio’s fraud want to compromise their position by calling into question the legitimacy of his claim to be the pope.

7. Is there a possibility of some kind of rapprochement with the Vatican on your part?

I have never distanced myself from the Vatican, just as I have never separated myself from the Catholic Church. On the very day of my seventy-fifth birthday, while still living in Washington as Apostolic Nuncio, Bergoglio ordered my expulsion from my Vatican apartment, which John Paul II had ordered me to have for the rest of my life, and also ordered me to be excluded from the residence for retired nuncios in Rome, the Casa San Benedetto.

Not content with having inflicted excommunication on me, Bergoglio also revoked my Vatican citizenship, my Vatican passport, and my Vatican driver’s license which enabled me to move about independently.

I did not leave the Vatican mea sponte, but I recognize that this forced ostracism has allowed me to speak and act freely, something that is not possible for everyone.

By punishing me in this way, Bergoglio also gave a signal to other officials of the Curia about the fate that would await anyone who dares to criticize the Lìder Maximo. On several occasions I have been able to collect expressions of appreciation and respect from my former lay collaborators. Even the Secretary of State Pietro Parolin himself could not help but praise me for my exemplary service to the Holy See. But then of course he added that he “did not understand what happened to me afterwards” . . . .

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

April 29, 2025
S. Petri Martyris

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Commentary

The current appropriation for the Fiscal Year 2025 Department of Defense budget is capped at $892.5 billion, the largest ever.  However, with the worldwide arson campaign of the Chinese Communist Party, the U.S. Military is finding itself outpaced significantly by China in many important metrics such as shipbuilding, nuclear forces, cyber, and others.  The U.S. Navy is firing missiles at a rapid rate to keep open the Red Sea, but their ships are rusting and behind on maintenance.

Congress is now working on a $150 billion immediate supplemental for the DOD which will bring it to over $1 trillion in spending, another first.  The threat of the Chinese led alliance of Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and South Africa is real and being projected right to the beaches of America with Chinese fighting age males making boat runs into Florida from their forward staging bases in the Bahamas and Chinese and Russian Bombers conducting regular patrols on the West Coast of the U.S.  The increase in defense spending is badly needed – but there needs to be Inspector General and Congressional vigilance to ensure the large budget increases are used judiciously to build capability and lethality not slothful bureaucracy.

Getting the priorities straight

 To properly receive, manage, and project these staggering sums of money, the defense priorities must be clearly communicated.  The good news is that the 12 lines of effort for the supplemental are relatively clearly stated.  Here they are with some editorial:

Servicemember quality of life: About $9 billion will go toward barracks construction, health care and assistance to military families. Well past due, the DOD bases are looking dumpy, worn, and unkept.  DOD has been squeezed in the Base Construction and Maintenance accounts since 2010.  Too much time has been spent on DEI and CRT classes, not enough on basic housekeeping of base infrastructure.

Shipbuilding: This will include the purchase of warships and additional funds for the maritime industrial base, including the domestic production of key components and workforce development efforts. It also includes a “historic” investment in unmanned ships.  Very Very sorely needed.  The four U.S. Government yards look like 1940s backlots.  New shipyards are being proposed that can be built as “greenfield” new start facilities that are state of the art.  China’s capacity is 200x greater than America’s output.  Other than that, everything has been going great.

Golden Dome: Congress will make “significant investments” in interceptors, space assets and counter-drone technology that will contribute to Trump’s goal of establishing a missile shield for the US homeland.  The American homeland is largely defenseless against ballistic missiles, aircraft, cruise missiles, and drones.  China knows this and is challenging the greatly weakened air defense of America.  2024’s very successful defense against massed Iranian strikes on Israel showed that Reagan’s vision of missile defense works.  It must be layered and take care of all forms of threats.

Munitions: These funds will focus on building up the stockpiles of munitions most needed in a fight against China and also includes investments in the solid rocket motor supply chain and measures needed to implement the White House executive order on critical minerals.  The U.S. Navy has used and continues to burn through ammunition at a dizzying pace in the Middle East.  The Houthi conflict is in many ways a proxy conflict by China, intended to exhaust the American ammunition reserves.

 Nuclear deterrence: This will include spending meant to speed up the modernization of the nuclear triad “as well as new capabilities,”.  The Obama/Biden cult of surrender let the nuclear force atrophy into a very poor state.  They fought the simple and logical move to re-attached nuclear warheads to Tomahawk cruise missiles on submarines and surface ships in the U.S. Navy to provide greater theater deterrence.  The joint Chinese/Russian/Iranian/North Korean nuclear weapons count is likely double the American strategic count of roughly 1,400 nuclear warheads.

Scaling innovation: These funds are meant to push funds toward defense technology startups who have demonstrated they are ready to start building their products at scale.  A great vision – passionate follow through is needed and the DOD Acquisition System is not just broken, but destructive to innovation.  Companies like Anduril are attempting to turn the whole model upside down by being innovators of new capabilities as opposed to being a “Defense Contractor” who shakes down the Government for funds to develop what the Government thinks it needs.

Readiness: Congress will put money toward depot maintenance for Air Force and Navy aircraft and ships, as well as address certain capability gaps for the Army, Marine Corps, National Guard and special operations community.  Maintenance and logistics is everything!  The American Military had developed maintenance and logistics into a legendary art form, unparalleled in history.  And then it collapsed with bizarre ideology such as DEI that was corrosive and toxic to these tenets because only white males focus on maintenance and logistics.  The tanks, ships, and aircraft will somehow provision and fix themselves.  That model does not work.

Air Superiority: This will include additional funding for the Air Force and Navy’s sixth-generation fighter programs, existing fighter force structure, and will prevent some planned aircraft retirements.  The Air Force had developed a brilliant “High-Low” mix of the F-15 and F-16 aircraft from lessons learned in Vietnam.  This was an incredible duo.  The F-22 and F-35 were to be the follow on “High-Low” mix.  A paltry number of F-22s were purchased and the F-35 showed up decades late throwing many of the lessons learned out the window.  No bubble canopy for maximum pilot vision, gun absent in two of the three versions, and carriage of missiles minimized in the stealth mode, and so on.  Colonel John Boyd, creator of the “OODA Loop” would not be happy.  The F-35 is software with wings.  Promising capability, but vulnerable to cyber bugs.

 Deterrence in the Pacific: This spending is meant to deter Chinese action against Taiwan and help pay for unfunded priorities for US Indo-Pacific Command.  Much needed, the theme is now Disperse, Harden, and Camouflage.  It has taken almost two decade for this to take hold inside DOD planning culture.  Too many of the U.S. Forces are still postured in a December 6, 1941, mindset.  Aircraft and ships wingtip to wingtip, very convenient for a Chinese first strike.

 Border security: This will help pay bills incurred as the Defense Department augments the border security mission.  Border Security is National Security.  The Border must be militarized.  The situation is now so bad inside Mexico that it has become a sanctuary for Chinese led Mexican Drug Cartels to safely plan and provision their deadly mayhem inside of America.  Venezuela and the Bahamas are additional footprints of Chinese led training and logistics, right in Americas front yard.  The first step is to make the entire border secure, then selectively make exemplar strike at the worst of the worst examples right across the border to teach an important life lesson.

 Pentagon audit: Congress will make a “significant one-time investment” meant to speed up the timeline for the Defense Department to pass an audit.  If the Pentagon were a private corporation, it would have had its leadership arrested under Sarbanes Oxley, twenty years ago.  Basic cost accounting is needed at the Pentagon, DOGE is the tip of the spear at finally making this happen, despite the best efforts of the E-Ring Swamp Monsters.

Military intelligence and classified programs:  This line of effort is classified.  If I told you, I would have to…

Make America Great Again includes transforming the U.S. Military into the most lethal and capable force in the world. A massive re-capitalization of almost everything is needed, but extreme vigilance is needed to make sure the increase in budget is not squandered into the pervasive inefficiency, ideology, and behavior that has ensured America can’t deter conflict, only manage it to an indecisive outcome once it starts, which unfortunately has been the model since World War II.

All viewpoints are personal and do not reflect the viewpoints of any organization

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