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So What Did You Accomplish This Weekend? – HotAir

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May 12, 2025
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Being that it was Mother’s Day yesterday, hopefully all of you with a Mom in your life did something revolving around her and what she wanted to do, not just offering to include her on what you wanted to do. But you still had Saturday with which to do something constructive. Maybe it is work around the house. Maybe it’s washing the car, pets, something that needed doing. And technically, you had Friday night to check off some things on the list. You all certainly had the same amount of time the White House had. 

The Trump administration, while you were busy with your own version of a Honey-Do list, was a tad busy as well. 

After another volley of missiles and air strikes between India and Pakistan, two countries that have north of 300 nuclear weapons combined, The White House foreign policy team, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, went to work and negotiated a ceasefire. Here’s the tweet by President Trump announcing it.





Vice-President Vance soon followed with praise for Secretary Rubio’s work. 

How bold a move was it by the United States? Enough so that even CNN had to give the Trump administration credit. 

In a normal world, this all by itself would be a very good weekend for the U.S. But it was only Saturday. In the Gaza Strip, more diplomatic sticks and carrots have resulted in the planned release of the last known surviving American-Israeli Hamas hostage, Edan Alexander. 

Yesterday was his 582nd day of captivity. He’s about to come home. 

Edan’s mother, along with Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, will arrive in Israel to receive him today. Meanwhile, a handful of Congressional Democrats, including the Mayor of Newark, spent their Friday trying to break into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement prison in New Jersey to purportedly show solidarity with their most prized constituents – illegal aliens with violent criminal convictions. None of them had previously said anything about the Americans held hostage by terrorists. 





I don’t know, but that kinda looks a little insurrection-y to me. The bloom has come off the rose for El Salvador Man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Democratic Party’s poster child for the evils of the Trump administration deportation policy. He’s beaten his wife several times, enough that multiple restraining orders were sought by her, including recorded audio testimony of what he did to her. In addition, video out of Tennessee materialized where Garcia was using the van of a convicted human trafficker to, you’ll be surprised to learn, traffic humans, eight of the illegally in this country kind, into Maryland. The overall narrative has not changed for the left, but the name of their cause celebre now has.

Old and busted: Kilmar Abrego Garcia. 

The new hotness:  Martin Diaz. ICE just took him down, cuffed him, and took him in. The left is apoplectic. It’s the outrage at Garcia all over again. 

On the surface, this seems grossly inappropriate for such a fine, upstanding non-citizen. But you know what’s coming, right? Of course, you do.

What’s a rape and two felony convictions between fellow Democratic constituents? The search will continue for the next outrage case of false deportation, but the left has all but given up on even bringing up the situation on the border as a way of attacking Trump. Even Abby Phillip on CNN Friday night had to concede that Trump’s plan worked. 





In conversations with both Donald Trump and J.D. Vance last week, Hugh Hewitt learned that among all sorts of other issues, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, along with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, would be traveling to Switzerland for a round of trade talks with the Chinese. Looks like they hit paydirt. 

I seem to recall everyone in lefty media telling me a recession was coming because of Trump’s tariffs. Even before this announcement out of Switzerland, the markets seem to have shaken off the uncertainty, recovering most of their March and April losses. MSNBC has resorted to this hilarity in trying to keep the narrative alive. 

What’s the old saying by former British PM Benjamin Disraeli? There are lies, damned lies, and statistics? Yes, that seems to be the case now on the anti-Trump cable nets. We’re in a recession, despite what the data shows. 

Secretary Bessent emerged from the meetings with the Chi-coms and said this. 

He was followed immediately by Trade Rep. Greer: 





Pre-market trading indexes were ho-hum this weekend until this news broke. Then, this. 

Anti-Trump, Inc., spent this weekend like they do every weekend – manufacturing a scandal before having any actual evidence one existed. Take this breathless ABC News exclusive by Jonathan Karl. 

The chorus of condemnation by Trump-hating forces, whether it be in the media, in the Never Trump camp, or among elected Democrats, thought they had Trump dead to rights. Impeachable stuff. Lawlessness. Corruption of the highest order. This is the big one, they thought. 

Oh. Cue Gilda Radner’s Emily Litella. Never mind. Not only is Karl’s “scoop” not a scoop, nor is it a scandal, it’s not even news. Donald Trump has been leaning on Boeing to fulfill their contract for two new planes to replace the 40-year-old aged-out ones that are designated Air Force One whenever he’s aboard, and they’re consistently stalling and running over cost. So Trump is doing what any developer would do. He’s engaging in a workaround, in a totally legal way, in order to put the spotlight of shame on Boeing and get them to step up and speed up.  He’s using a used plane Qatar doesn’t need anymore, and having it retrofitted in order to fill in the gap between the current plane that’s way past its shelf life and the ones Boeing have promised but yet to deliver. X on Sunday morning was ready to rend their clothes in two over the outrage. By mid-day, those who waited for the rest of the story, or in some case, the actual story, to unfold, learned once again that you can simply not take at face value any reporting on Trump by Resistance media. They will almost certainly be wrong, and sometimes, entirely wrong. By Sunday night, Anti-Trump’s narrative about Qatargate collapsed completely.





The plane in question is not a gift to Trump directly from the Qataris, but from one nation to the Defense Department of another nation, something that has happened before and does often, without much fanfare. 

Finally, in another bold executive order due to be released Monday but teased by the President Sunday, he’s going after Big Pharma head on. 

“Price controls!”, anti-Trump conservatives say. “This is a horrible idea”, elected Democrats say, the very same ones who suggested something like this a long time ago before Big Pharma lobby money starting lining their campaign chests, too. 

Here’s why I think the price controls critique doesn’t apply here. Price controls are government setting the price of a good or commodity within the confines of single country or market, regardless of the global supply and demand of that good. Santa Monica was infamous in the 80s for instituting rent controls, and without any other outside pressures, what resulted was too much demand for too little supply, and a lot of chaos was left in the wake. 

Trump is not doing that. He’s doing exactly the opposite, taking the global market directly into account for prescription drugs. Big Pharma for a very long time has taken a drug, manufactured in the same way in the same lab at the same time, and sold it abroad for what the market there will bear, which sometimes is one-fifth of what the same drug costs here, or more likely, gets billed out to Medicare. Medicare goes broke, because the politicians getting fat on donations by Big Pharma look the other way as the costs to Medicare keep going up, and the rest of the prescription drug market skyrockets compared to low-cost drugs just over the border in a lot of cases. Not generics, mind you, but the exactly same drug sold here. 

Pharma’s excuse is usually blamed on research and development costs, which are, to be fair, outlandish. But forcing U.S. consumers, either directly through private insurance or publicly through Medicare, to pay for 100% of that R&D cost while a country in Africa gets access to the same drug for the cost of a bottle of Tylenol is outrageous. Trump is going to change that. He’s going to pick the lowest global price for a drug, and that’s what Medicare is going to pay. Period. Drug companies have to have the U.S. market to survive, so what are they going to do? They’re going to jack up the price everywhere else, but the bottom line cost to U.S. patients are going to be lower. It will have an impact of evening out the highs and lows globally. The rest of the world can jolly well help pay for the research costs, too. 

No doubt Big Pharma will jerk the chain of any number of people to file suit and challenge this in court. And I’m sure they’ll find a judge that will block this order by close of business Tuesday. But this will be another challenge eventually requiring Supreme Court action. Can the President, through his Health and Human Services Department, of which he’s Constitutionally elected to manage, decide how to manage a program in its purview – Medicare? My guess is yes, ultimately either an appellate court or the Supremes will rule in his favor. 

In the meantime, Trump is now telling every Boomer left in the country he has their back, and the Democratic Party now has to come out against seniors and for Big Pharma, because Donald Trump, to quote a line out of “There Will Be Blood”, the 2007 film starring Daniel Day Lewis, just drank their milkshake…again. 

I am reminded of this tweet by the Trump administration Friday afternoon. 





Who knew it would be as productive for the White House as it turned out to be? I sure didn’t. 







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