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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nGood ruling, bad ruling, the Don always finds a way to have the last say<\/span>Presidents usually have to wait for long years after leaving office \u2014 or die before getting airports and other landmarks named after them. Bill Clinton had to wait 11 years, Ronald Reagan<\/a> nine. For Gerald Ford it took 22 years, according to an AP report. JFK was quickest \u2014 just one month after his assassination.But the present occupant of the White House has no time for such annoying niceties. Saved twice from assassins\u2019 bullets by God to make America great again, Donald Trump<\/a> wants everything pronto, here and now.Not only does POTUS 47 want airports named after him, his family company is seeking to trademark the use of Trump name on airports and dozens of related things found there, from buses shuttling passengers to umbrellas and travel bags to flight suits.Claiming that the Trump name is the \u201cmost infringed trademark in the world,\u201d the Trump Organization is asking for exclusive rights to use three names on airports \u2014 President Donald J. Trump International Airport, Donald J. Trump International Airport and DJT.For now it doesn\u2019t plan on charging a fee \u2014 at least for a proposed renaming of the Palm Beach airport near his Mar-a-Lago, Florida home, but wouldn\u2019t say whether it would do so at other airports or the merchandise sold there.The unprecedented move for a trade mark for the Trump name brought swift reactions with many criticising the idea and questioning the public mandate behind such a move.\u201c\u2018Why not\u2019\u2026he feels he can do anything he wants\u2026while the GOP Congress and SCOTUS have completely abdicated their constitutional duties,\u201d wrote one frustrated EJW with a No Kings meme on X.But for once the friendly neighbourhood Supreme Court did a Trump on the Tariff King, with three conservative justices joining all three liberal justices, to rule that the president did not have the authority to impose tariffs under a 1977 emergency economic powers law.Yet insisting he can still do as he wishes, a defiant Trump decried the ruling as \u201cterrible\u201d and invoked a rarely used 1970s trade law that allows a president to invoke tariffs on countries with which the U.S. has a trade deficit, to impose a new across-the-board 10% tariff.\u201cThose members of the Supreme Court who voted against our very acceptable and proper method of TARIFFS should be ashamed of themselves,\u201d he posted on Truth Social naming two of his own appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett.\u201cTheir decision was ridiculous, but now the adjustment process begins, and we will do everything possible to take in even more money than we were taking in before!\u201d\u201cIn actuality, while I am sure they did not mean to do so, the Supreme Court\u2019s decision today made a President\u2019s ability to both regulate Trade, and impose TARIFFS, more powerful and crystal clear, rather than less,\u201d he claimed in his own interpretation of the ruling.\u201cKEEP CALM AND TARIFF ON,\u201d posted the White House with \u2018WomenForTrump\u2019 exhorting, \u201cLet the Tariffs begin Sir! \u201d with a picture of The Tariff King.Meanwhile, to show who is the boss in Washington, a large \u2018Make America Safe Again\u2019 Trump banner went up at justice department building in a striking symbol of president\u2019s control over the supposedly independent top US law-enforcement agency.His picture is already splashed all over the White House, on multi-storey banners on the side of federal buildings, on annual passes to national parks on federal investment accounts, special visas and a discount drug program.After getting his name etched on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the U.S. Institute of Peace, Trump now wants it on Washington Dulles International Airport and Penn Station in New York too.\u201cWhile Trump has spent a lifetime promoting his personal brand, slapping his name on hotels, casinos, airplanes, even steaks, neckties and bottled water, what he is doing in his second term as president comes closer to building a cult of personality the likes of which has never been seen in American history,\u201d suggested the New York Times.\u201cOther presidents sought to cultivate their reputations, but none went as far as Trump has to create a mythologized, superhuman and omnipresent persona leading to idolatry,\u201d it noted.Trump got the Commission of Fine Arts \u2013 which he has packed with allies, including his 26-year-old executive assistant \u2013 to vote unanimously to approve the design of \u201cwhat will soon be the Greatest Ballroom ever built!\u201dEven as a federal judge considers whether to halt the project \u2013 and outside architects and watchdogs groups say the nearly 90,000-square-foot building is too large, Commission Chair Rodney Mims Cook Jr. described it as \u201ca facility that is desperately needed for over 150 years, and it\u2019s beautiful.\u201d Trump is sure to find a way to cross the next hurdle \u2013 approval of the National Capital Planning Commission.And in another bid to stay in spotlight, Trump directed federal agencies to begin releasing government files related to \u201calien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).\u201dCalling the matter \u201cextremely interesting and important,\u201d Trump ostensibly issued the release order to \u201chelp\u201d his b\u00eate noire Barack Obama after he talked about aliens in a podcast.\u201cThey\u2019re real, but I haven\u2019t seen them, and they\u2019re not being kept in \u2026 Area 51. There\u2019s no underground facility unless there\u2019s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States,\u201d said Obama.Obama \u201cmade a big mistake,\u201d Trump told reporters even as his predecessor later clarified he was sharing a personal view not based on information he\u2019d seen as president.\u201cHe took it out of classified information \u2026 He\u2019s not supposed to be doing that,\u201d said Trump, but he would \u2018help\u2019 by declassifying the files.\u2014 Maybe he will next depute his border czar there to deport the aliens to wherever they came from!(By arrangement with The American Bazaar, <\/span>www.americanbazaaronline.com<\/a>.)<\/span><\/div>\n\n