{"id":15379,"date":"2025-05-01T18:51:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T01:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15379"},"modified":"2025-05-01T19:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:02:38","slug":"trump-losing-streak-continues-without-pause-into-second-hundred-days-bradcast-512025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15379","title":{"rendered":"Trump Losing Streak Continues Without Pause into SECOND Hundred Days: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 5\/1\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TrumpWalkAway_050125.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>: If the 101st Day is any indication, it doesn&#8217;t look like the <i>second<\/i> hundred are gonna go any better for him than the first. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among our coverage today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On our roundtable program <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15377\">yesterday with Digby and Driftglass<\/a>, we discussed who was likely the first top Trump Administration official to be tossed under the bus in the wake of <b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s dismal and worsening approval ratings.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/05\/01\/politics\/mike-waltz-national-security-adviser-depart\">Today we know<\/a>: Trump National Security Adviser and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/the-trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans\/ar-AA1ByMHr\">Signal group chat enthusiast<\/a>, <b>Mike Waltz<\/b>. At least he outlasted Trump&#8217;s <i>first<\/i> (of four) NSAs in the first term. The disgraced and loony Lt. Gen. <b>Michael Flynn<\/b> survived just 24 days before being tossed and eventually pleading guilty to criminal charges of lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians. At least Waltz gets a consolation prize. Trump tapped him to be U.N. Ambassador.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Last week, Senior U.S. District Judge <b>Royce Lamberth<\/b> &#8212; a Reagan-appointee &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/voice-of-america-trump-f30c48df0c16de622ec5fd99ee6c627c\">ordered<\/a> the rehiring of staffers and contractors at the Congressionally-mandated and funded <b>Voice of America<\/b> and its similarly critical global sister networks <b>Radio Free Asia<\/b> and <b>Middle East Broadcasting<\/b> after the Trump-order <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15337\">shutdown<\/a> in March of its parent agency, the <b>U.S. Agency for Global Media<\/b>. This week, Judge Lamberth ordered the Administration to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/radio-free-europe-5e0b2355ad9cee4ad09a3e03b53df8fa\">restore $12 million in funding<\/a> to another VOA sister network, <b>Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty<\/b> &#8212; broadcasting to dozens of countries in dozens of languages since the Cold War &#8212; while issuing both a history lesson and an important Constitutional lesson for the Trump Administration (and, arguably, for Congress) about the important roles of the three <i>co-equal<\/i> branches of Government in his <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524.48.0.pdf\">order [PDF]<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In still more Trump-is-a-Loser news today, a <i>Trump<\/i>-appointed federal judge in <b>South Texas<\/b>, issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/05\/01\/politics\/alien-enemies-act-trump-rodriguez-ruling\">first-of-its-kind permanent injunction<\/a> on Trump&#8217;s &#8220;unlawful&#8221; use of the wartime <b>Alien Enemies Act<\/b> of 1798 &#8212; in peacetime &#8212; to deport alleged gang members from <b>Venezuela<\/b> to a gulag in <b>El Salvador<\/b>.  &#8220;The President&#8217;s invocation of the AEA&#8230;exceeds the scope of the statute and is contrary to the plain, ordinary meaning of the statute&#8217;s terms,&#8221; U.S. District Judge <b>Fernando Rodriguez Jr.<\/b> wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.txsd.2000771\/gov.uscourts.txsd.2000771.57.0_1.pdf\">order [PDF]<\/a>, concluding that Trump&#8217;s attempt to falsely proclaim the U.S. was being &#8220;invaded&#8221; by Tren de Aragua gang members at the direction of the Venezuelan government was patently false, &#8220;exceeds the scope of the statute and, as a result, is unlawful.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Also of note today, the Board and shareholders of one of the companies most closely associated with America, <b>Coca-Cola<\/b>, flatly <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nancylevinestearns.bsky.social\/post\/3lnzurtbmk22j\">rejected<\/a> two proposals to abolish the company&#8217;s anti-discrimination programs, often smeared by Trump and fellow wingnuts as &#8220;DEI&#8221;. Shareholders and the Board of Directors at yet another iconic American company, <b>Levi Strauss<\/b>, reportedly did the same <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nancylevinestearns.bsky.social\/post\/3lnir2krqyk23\">last week<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s not just courts and a few iconic U.S. companies that are pushing back at Trump&#8217;s nonsense of late. Even Democrats, if you can believe it &#8212; at least a couple who are clearly eye-balling Presidential runs in 2028 &#8212; are now more aggressively doing the same, especially now that the public has turned so clearly against out tinpot dictator-wannabe. Last night, at an event in San Francisco, former Vice President and Presidential nominee <b>Kamala Harris<\/b> offered her first substantive public remarks since losing to Trump last year, deriding his <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kamala-harris-speech-california-trump-democrats-governor-7f3fe64bfb93fcd39a5d06c39b2935f7\">&#8220;wholesale abandonment&#8221;<\/a> of American values. That came on the heels of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/27\/us\/politics\/jb-pritzker-2028-new-hampshire-trump-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EE8.STHB.P5HoNPkGer_9&#038;smid=url-share\">stem-winder<\/a> by Illinois&#8217; Democratic Governor <b>J.B. Pritzker<\/b>,  taking on Trumpers and go-along, get-along, &#8220;do nothing&#8221; Dems alike, at a fundraiser on Sunday in <b>New Hampshire<\/b>. We share extended excerpts from both speeches today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And finally, Desi Doyen is here with <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15378\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> to help us close things out near the end of a week that began with a <i>huge<\/i> loss for our failing President, as his attempts at hectoring our neighbor to the north and meddling in <b>Canada<\/b>&#8216;s elections <i>completely<\/i> backfired, producing not just another Liberal Party Prime Minister, whose election might have been unthinkable last December, but a climate and energy action champion at that&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-WaltzOut-FundingRestoredRFE-AEABlockedTX-HarrisCA-PritzkerNH_050125.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-the-bradcast-w-brad-friedm-30973643\/\">iHeart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast: If the 101st Day is any indication, it doesn&#8217;t look like the second hundred are gonna go any better for him than the first. 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