Trump Hijacks News Cycles

American Thinker ^ | August 11, 2025 | Douglas Schwartz

[E. Pluribus Unum]

While Congress vacations, Trump dominates the media spotlight.

August 1 began this administration’s second full six months.  August 31 marks Iran’s deadline for abandoning its nuclear ambitions.  In between those dates, tariffs are pouring in, Ukrainian peace is on the front burner, sowing division within BRICS proceeds nicely, 80-year-old Marshall Plan policies are being dismantled, and Nixon’s opening to China is being reversed.  Then comes September, when Congress returns.  Among August’s consequential developments and proposals are the first negative net immigration in decades, exclusion of illegal aliens from census counts to permanently cripple Democrats, and targeting Venezuela for regime change. 

These were the Dow Jones August 1 top news feed headlines:

1. Trump Orders Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief
2. Trump Administration Blocks Funding for CDC Health Programs
3. Trump Positions Nuclear Submarines Following Threats From Former Russian Leader
4. Nonprofit Funding PBS and NPR Stations to Shut Down Next Month
5. Labor Department Skirts Senators’ Questions on Inflation Data
6. Manhunt Under Way After Four Killed at Montana Bar
7. Ukraine’s Supporters Plan New NATO Fund to Buy U.S. Weapons
8. Under the Rubble in Kyiv, a Rising Death Toll From a Russian Strike
9. Former Colombian President Is Sentenced to House Arrest in Witness-Tampering-Case
10. U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff Visits Gaza as Trump, Under Pressure, Seeks Aid Plan
11. Climate Skeptics Are Tapped by Trump Administration to Justify Regulatory Rollback
12. In a Country Trump Says Nobody’s Heard Of, Tariffs Bring Chaos
13. Trump Should Get Nobel Peace Prize for Brokering Cease-Fire Deal, Cambodian PM

Contrary to Autopen’s underground presidency, Trump dominated most of the list above.  He controls events; events don’t control him.  By August 1, through force of will, he had remade the world in 193 days, 13% into this term.  Number twelve, the nation nobody’s heard of, is Lesotho.  Number two relates to OMB director Russ Vought’s bipartisan wrestling with Congress.  Vought asserts that congressional appropriations represent spending...

[xp38]

He hijacks nothing. When you’re the President everything he does is news.

[blitz128]

And the medias reaction just makes it better

[Owen]

Upcoming.

The present CR expires 30 Sept.

[SteveH]

I suspect that abolishing the federal income tax will become one of the primary proposals under discussion during the 2026 or 2028 election seasons.

[dadfly]

ok maybe, but i can’t really celebrate until at least two things happen:

1. Michael Byrd is rotting behind bars with all his swamp supporters.

2. Tina Peters is free as a bird and suing the state of CO, Smartmatic, and Dominion into oblivion.

[SuperLuminal]

Life is good when the communists are on the run...

Although:
The only good communist is a dead communist...
It is our duty as citizens to help everyone be as good as possible...

If we are unwilling to do our duty, maybe we should not complain...

[lewislynn]

Trump Hijacks News Cycles

Everyday without breaking a sweat.