I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
 
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
 
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.

Trump is (by far) the most unpopular US president in recent history
• In recent weeks Trump's approval rating has fallen to 42%, its lowest level in his second term
• Yet Trump is more popular in his second term than in his first; first term sceptics are now converts

« Plus de justice sociale. Plus de politiquement correct. Plus de déchets idéologiques toxiques qui ont infecté le département. Plus de mois de l’identité. Plus de bureaux DEI. Plus d’hommes en robes. Plus de culte du changement climatique. Plus de division. Plus d’illusions sur le genre. »
 
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m5gv226srs2q
 
« Je ne veux pas que mon fils serve aux côtés de troupes obèses et hors de forme, ni dans des unités de combat avec des femmes qui ne répondent pas aux mêmes normes physiques que les hommes de leurs unités. »
 
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m5gv3ppek22q
 
« Nous n'avons plus besoin d'une armée de barbus. Savez-vous combien de soldats se disent païens nordiques ? Non, c'est devenu une véritable fausse affiliation religieuse au sein du Pentagone, où des soldats se disent païens nordiques pour pouvoir se laisser pousser la barbe sans que personne ne les contredise. »
 
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m5gvfzows22q

X FactPost (@factpostnews)
Trump’s former Chief of Staff John Kelly confirms that Trump called American service members “suckers” and “losers,” refused to visit their graves, and that he didn’t want to be seen with amputee veterans because “it doesn’t look good for me”  

X Sam Stein (@samstein)
Truth Social has a new AI function. And, well... it tells the truth
 
thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the-c...  

X Suzie rizzio (@Suzierizzo1)
OMG the Cincinnati Children’s hospital Pastor speaks after being detained for 73 days by ICE and he is a legal U.S citizen & they knew it when they took him & they’ve known it for all 73 days! He said the there are a lot of people in there that are U.S citizens & no crimes ever!

X Dave DeCamp (@DecampDave)
Al-Qaeda comes to the White House

X Krystal Ball (@krystalball)
MAGA is out here shrieking about Zohran being a jihadist Islamist about to impose sharia law while Trump warmly welcomes a former Al Qaeda leader designated terrorist to the White House.

Trump writes to Israeli president calling for Netanyahu pardon  
In a letter released by Herzog’s office on Wednesday, Trump says he is writing to the president at a “historic time, as we have, together, just secured peace that has been sought for at least 3,000 years”.
 
“I hereby call on you to fully pardon Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been a formidable and decisive War Time Prime Minister … While I absolutely respect the independence of the Israeli Justice System … I believe that this ’case’ against Bibi … is political, unjustified prosecution,” he writes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2 [...] s-minister

Trump Says America Is Full of Dummies—and MAGA Is Pissed  
 
“And does that mean the H-1B visa thing will not be a big priority for your administration? Because if you want to raise wages for American workers, you can’t flood the country with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers,” said host Laura Ingraham.
 
But that’s where the president disagreed, arguing that the country needs foreigners to fill American jobs in order to Make America Great Again.
 
“You also do have to bring in talent,” Trump said.
 
“We have plenty of talented people here,” pressed Ingraham.
 
“No you don’t, no you don’t,” Trump said. “No, you don’t have certain talents. And you have to—people have to learn.”
 
“You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say, ‘I’m going to put you into a factory and we’re going to make missiles’—”, Trump continued before Ingraham interjected.
 
“How did we ever do it before?” she said, likely referring to the mass mobilization of American factory workers during World War II.
https://newrepublic.com/post/203063 [...] ion-talent

Here’s the quick take on the S&P 500 (price index) from the end of Q4-2017 to the end of Q2-2025:
 
Q4-2017 (Dec 29, 2017) close: 2,673.61.  
Q2-2025 (Jun 30, 2025) close: 6,204.95.  
Change over the period: +132.1% (price only), which is about +11.9% CAGR over ~7.5 years.

The US has reported carrying out 14 strikes since September on vessels near the Venezuelan coast. Venezuela says they are illegal, amount to murder and are aggression against the sovereign South American nation.
 
Downing Street did not deny reporting by CNN that the UK is withholding intelligence from the US to avoid being complicit in military strikes it believes may breach international law.
 
Britain controls several territories in the Caribbean, where it bases intelligence assets, and has long assisted the US in identifying vessels suspected of smuggling narcotics.
 
That information helped the US Coast Guard locate the ships, seize drugs and detain crews, CNN cited sources as saying, but officials are concerned the Trump administration's actions may be illegal.
 
The intelligence-sharing pause began more than a month ago, CNN reported, quoting sources as saying Britain shares UN human rights chief Volker Turk's assessment that the strikes amount to extrajudicial killing.

Tom Barrack is currently the US Ambassador to Turkey, was a senior advisor to Trump's 2016 campaign and served as chairman of his inaugural committee

Un livestreamer se fâche contre une réfugiée vietnamienne pour avoir critiqué le communisme
https://www.reddit.com/r/VietNam/co [...] fugee_for/