A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on May 24, 2025.
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Some days Trump produces one gigantic meltdown. Some days he just keeps feeding the same machine and calling it momentum. May 24, 2025, was the latter: a day when the real story was the bill coming due on earlier decisions, with tariffs and legal overreach still doing the slow, expensive damage.
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In April 2025, small businesses and then a multistate coalition sued to challenge President Donald Trump’s tariff authority, arguing he could not use emergency powers to impose sweeping import duties on his own. The cases were still pending, leaving the legal fight over the tariffs unresolved.