Trump Re-elected: The True MAGA Era Begins, Now What?

Very interesting. Very possible they will blame Iran for this. It is all just big show. And probably the real mastermind is the usual suspect.
 

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With this latest threat against Trump at the dinner I noticed a possible connection to the weather again. I had posted about the 'heat dome' over the US in relation to the Butler assassination attempt and a change to the weather situation:

Mike

Post in thread 'Failed Trump Assassination Attempt at Campaign Rally in Butler, Pennsylvania'

There has been a ‘Heat Dome’ over the US and the East Coast of the US since about the middle of June.

It is summer, but it has been pretty hot and oppressive in some areas of the US. Here are some links about the heat dome:

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/14/record-breaking-heat-wave-set-for-us

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/17/weather/heat-wave-east-us-climate-monday/index.html

Expanding heat dome has 100 million people in 27 states bracing for extreme tempertures

A Blast of Heat in the East

Life-threatening heat heading to East Coast as high temperatures...
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In late March and into a significant portion of April the US had a big heatwave, especially in the western part.

Currently, the US has been in extreme drought with something like 60% of the US under drought conditions.

The below article is the best overview I found, though I'll provide a couple other links below it.

While not totally breaking the drought, we had a good rainfall here in the Southeast yesterday and I know Maryland had significant rain go through yesterday from talking to a family member. Also, if you look at the rain map of the US, there is significant rain fall in large part of the Western US right now.

4D battle represented as weather?

ktvz.com

Worst spring drought on record grips US, fueling wildfires and water worries

By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — Drought in the continental United States has expanded to its record-highest level for spring, and it’s fueling wildfire and water shortage concerns as the summer’s drying heat fast approaches. Varying levels of drought covered 62.78% of the country as of...
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(CNN) — Drought in the continental United States has expanded to its record-highest level for spring, and it’s fueling wildfire and water shortage concerns as the summer’s drying heat fast approaches.

Varying levels of drought covered 62.78% of the country as of April 21, with the worst of it centered on much of the South, West and Plains. Put another way, dryness in the Lower 48 states has never been this expansive in spring in the history of the US Drought Monitor, which has data back to 2000.

The Southeast in particular is facing unprecedented levels of dryness, with 94% of the area from Florida to Virginia officially in severe or worse drought, the highest on record. Bone-dry vegetation is already feeding at least 20 large fires across the region as of Wednesday, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

This year’s footprint of parched conditions is also just 2 to 3% behind the monitor’s record for any time of year, set on September 25, 2012.

The April data comes on the heels of a March that had the third-worst drought conditions in over 130 years of records, based on another way the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calculates long-term dryness across the continental US. Only two 1934 Dust Bowl-era months were worse off.

Drought intensifies after record-dry start to 2026​

A dearth of rain and snow in the first three months of 2026 has helped stoke this spring’s drought. Precipitation for the continental US as a whole was less than 70% of average from January through March, which ranks as the lowest in records dating to 1895, according to NOAA. The previous record was set in 1910.

La Niña likely played a role in the lack of rain, especially across the nation’s southern tier, while in the West, storms have tracked farther north this winter and early spring, avoiding the Rockies.

Parched conditions in the Southeast have worsened significantly through winter and early spring, with over 99% of the region experiencing some level of drought.

In Georgia, extreme drought now covers 71% of the state, the highest since 2012. It’s prompted the first-ever mandatory burn ban in the history of the Georgia Forestry Commission for 91 counties in the lower half of the state.

That includes Brantley County, about 20 miles west of Brunswick, Georgia, where the Highway 82 Fire has burned at least 54 structures — including homes — and forced evacuations this week. More than 99% of the county is now in exceptional drought, the highest category, for the first time on record. No injuries or deaths have been reported so far, forestry commission spokesperson Seth Hawkins told CNN Thursday.

Brytney Quinn’s family lost everything in the Highway 82 Fire, she said.

“My house is gone,” Quinn said tearfully in a video she shared with CNN showing the remnants of her home.

After authorities told her to evacuate the area, Quinn grabbed her daughter, her animals and anything else she could and left their house, she said. About 30 minutes later, she checked her surveillance cameras, and the house was in flames, she said.

“Now we have nothing to go to, but rubbage,” she said. “How are we going to recover from this?”

Crews are also battling a fire in southeastern Georgia’s Clinch County, near the Florida border, named the Pineland Road Fire.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Wednesday declared a state of emergency for 91 counties in response to the ongoing fires and drought conditions, freeing up resources and allowing for state National Guard troops to be deployed to the affected areas.

Wildfires in Florida are feeding off of vegetation made tinder-dry by a double-whammy of depleted rainfall from La Niña this past winter and a lack of rainfall from tropical storms last fall. Nearly 1,800 wildfires have charred parts of the state so far this year, according to the Florida Forest Service.

In the West, an unprecedented March heat wave made worse by planet-warming pollution also further depleted the dismal snowpack from a winter filled with more blue skies than snowflakes. Colorado’s state climate center said in early April, “This has been the worst year for Colorado snowpack in recorded history.”

That’s raising concerns about water shortages as many western states rely on melted snowpack to feed reservoirs and rivers ahead of the drier summer months. That includes the already-shrinking Colorado River, which provides water to tens of millions of people in seven Southwest states.

Minimum inflow from the Colorado River into Lake Powell over the coming months is expected to be just 29% of its historical average, and one of the lowest on record for the reservoir along the border between Arizona and Utah, according to a Bureau of Reclamation forecast. Low water levels at Powell will also impact Lake Mead — the nation’s largest reservoir — downstream, as well as its hydropower operations at the Hoover Dam. Reduced water releases from Powell could be a significant hit to Hoover’s hydropower, cutting it 40% as early as this fall, according to the agency.

Wildfires nationwide had burned more than 1.7 million acres as of April 17, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. That’s nearly twice the average acreage burned by that date for the previous 10 years. A big chunk of that was Nebraska’s Morrill Fire, which became the largest in the state’s history in March after strong winds caused it to spread rapidly across over 640,000 acres of drought-starved vegetation.

Fire concerns are expected to grow more dire in the West over the next few months. Above-normal fire activity is forecast to expand from the Plains to the Four Corners states into Northern California and parts of Oregon, Washington and Idaho from May through July, according to an outlook from the fire center.

Florida is also expected to face more above-average fire activity through at least June, when the summer’s rainy season ramps up to bring relieving downpours.

In the shorter-term, the South is expected to see some much-needed rainfall over the next week.

Drought-suffering locations from eastern Oklahoma to Tennessee, northern Alabama and northern Georgia could see 1 to 3 inches of rainfall, but that will be just a drop in the bucket. Parts of the region would need to pick up 20 inches or more of rain within the next three months to dig out of the current drought, according to NOAA.

Portions of the central and southern Rockies need over 10 inches of precipitation to end the drought within three months. That’s not expected to happen as the region is heading into its drier late-spring and summer months, though rainfall from the Southwest monsoon could help the region from July through September.
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Potomac Hits Near-Record Lows as Drought Deepens
southernmarylandchronicle.com

Potomac Hits Near-Record Lows as Drought Deepens

Potomac River flows sit near historic lows for April, with 31 percent of the D.C. region in severe drought as of April 16, 2026. Southern Maryland faces groundwater warnings while ICPRB forecasts above-normal chance of backup reservoir releases this summer. Conservation urged as temperatures rise.
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Most of Maryland under drought conditions due to dry weather
www.yahoo.com

Most of Maryland under drought conditions due to dry weather

Most of Maryland is facing drought conditions.
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Konstantin said:
Very strange. Trump is gaslighted beyond his imagination i guess. We will have wait and see what was the goal of this performance.
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Not really strange. That guy is a famous magician/"mentalist". He was the "act" at the dinner, instead of the usual comedian, because Trump probably didn't want to be roasted on Iran too much, because he's very sensitive about it :lol: .

Anyway, him holding up the paper was the "reveal" of a trick he was in the process of doing for Melania and the others. He did it just before shots were fired outside of the large room, in the entrance area of the hotel. 5 shots were fired, maybe by the shooter guy or maybe by police. From the CC video it's pretty clear that the guy was tackled and arrested quickly, and gave no resistance. Neither he nor anyone else was actually shot, despite 5 shots being heard.

This was a pretty amateur attempt at an "assassination"

https://twitter.com/x/status/2048330207237484771
 
Beau said:
The shooter has 3 names, essentially a calling card of a mind-controlled patsy at this point. But yeah, pretty pathetic attempt at scaring Trump.
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www.mirror.co.uk

Trump shooting suspect given award at odds with White House attack mayhem

Cole Tomas Allen, 31, was pounced on by law enforcement officers after gunfire erupted at the White House Correspondents' dinner. The president was spirited away uninjured
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A man branded a ‘lone wolf whack job’ by Trump after gunfire rang out at the White House Correspondents’ dinner was previously the recipient of an award.

Cole Tomas Allen, aged 31, of Torrance, California, was described as ‘intelligent and nice’ by the students he helped as he was named Teacher of the Month.

He’d reportedly booked into the Washington Hilton Hotel where the annual dinner was taking place attended by 2,500 people. Drama erupted when shots rang out as the gunman allegedly tried to get through a security checkpoint.

One officer who was wearing a bulletproof vest was shot and was taken to a hospital. President Donald Trump and first Lady Melania were rushed offstage along with others.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said the gunman had been apprehended and posted a photo of the suspect captured and lying on the ground at the hotel. Police said Allen was armed with a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives.

www.aljazeera.com

What to know about alleged White House correspondents’ dinner attacker

Donald Trump evacuated from stage after firing at media gala; suspect Cole Tomas Allen in custody.
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A LinkedIn profile under the suspect’s name describes him as a “mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth”.

Allen contributed $25 to a Democratic Party political action committee in support of Kamala Harris for president in 2024, according to federal campaign finance records.

Meanwhile, speaking to reporters, Trump said it was unlikely the shooting was linked to the US-Israel war on Iran.

“It’s not going to deter me from winning the war in Iran. I don’t know if that had anything to do with it, I really don’t think so, based on what we know,” Trump told reporters.

What do we know about past attacks on Trump?​

Trump has been the target of several assassination attempts and numerous death threats during both his presidency and his campaigns.

The most serious incident occurred in July 2024 at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a gunman reached a rooftop overlooking the stage where the then-candidate was speaking. A spectator was killed, Trump was wounded in the ear, and Secret Service agents shot dead the attacker, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Crooks.

A few months later, in September, authorities said an armed man lay in wait near Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, intending to kill him.

Prosecutors said the suspect, Ryan Routh, spent weeks planning the attack and aimed a rifle through bushes as Trump played golf, but a Secret Service agent spotted him before he could shoot, and he was arrested shortly afterwards. Routh was convicted last year of attempting to kill the president and received a life sentence in February.

The same month, 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin was shot dead after entering Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida with a shotgun; Trump was not on the property at the time.

Coincidentally, on the same day, in the morning hours, two buses collided near a bus stop in the vicinity of the Pentagon transit
center/south parking lot, injuring 23 people, including 10 Department of Defense personnel.

wjla.com

23 injured, including Department of War personnel, in Pentagon bus collision

A crash at the Pentagon bus terminal.
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73K views · 188 reactions | Two buses crashed head-on near a Pentagon bus stop on Friday local time, injuring 23 people, including 10 from the US Department of War, according to media reports. The accident altered mass transit operations for several

Two buses crashed head-on near a Pentagon bus stop on Friday local time, injuring 23 people, including 10 from the US Department of War, according to media reports. The accident altered mass transit...
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Mike said:
Currently, the US has been in extreme drought with something like 60% of the US under drought conditions.

Varying levels of drought covered 62.78% of the country as of April 21, with the worst of it centered on much of the South, West and Plains.
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After seeing that Iran is now getting copious rain since they destroyed the US radars, is it not suspicious that the "bread basket" and other agricultural regions of the US are in severe drought?
The "bread basket of America" refers to the Great Plains and Midwest regions, primarily Kansas, North Dakota, and surrounding states (Iowa, Nebraska, etc.), known for high-volume wheat and grain production. These areas are top producers due to fertile soil, supplying the nation with wheat, corn, and soy.

Key Agricultural Regions:
  • The Wheat Belt: Covers the Great Plains from Texas to the Dakotas, with Kansas leading in winter wheat.
  • The Corn Belt: Extends across the Midwest (Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri), producing about one-third of the world's corn.
  • Other Regions: California's Central Valley is often referred to as a breadbasket supplying 40% of US table food, while historically, the Mid-Atlantic/New York served as the colonial breadbasket.
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Joe said:
Neither he nor anyone else was actually shot, despite 5 shots being heard.
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One officer was shot and his bulletproof vest saved his life. Again, several people (Congress critters and other key persons) were injured by security being violently tackled to the floor to "protect" them. A lone woman's party shoe (with a buckle strap) laying on the floor was shown more than once during coverage of the event. I'm trying to imagine how that could have come off and left on the floor like that - pretty dramatic don't cha think? Apparently, it didn't belong to Erika as she faux cried exiting the event.

Hard not to think this was a setup as the main result is cries of unity being played large plus sympathy for Trump for a third assassination attempt. This will be milked for everything it can get. Also, gotta have that new ballroom! The military in particular says it's essential!

Konstantin said:
Very strange.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2048306973507260809
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Weijia Jiang, President of the White House Correspondents' Association who was sitting to Trump's left, had a very noticeable reaction to the "card" or whatever it was being shown, so much so I thought she was reacting to disruption in the room. She opened her mouth wide and covered it with her hand. Seconds later, Secret Service started appearing followed by swat team looking security.
 
JEEP said:
Weijia Jiang, President of the White House Correspondents' Association who was sitting to Trump's left, had a very noticeable reaction to the "card" or whatever it was being shown, so much so I thought she was reacting to disruption in the room. She opened her mouth wide and covered it with her hand. Seconds later, Secret Service started appearing followed by swat team looking security.
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She reacted to the "reveal" and then immediately focused on the disturbance at the back of the room.
 
You are all wrong. It was a staged attack so that the White House ballroom could be built with no further delay :lol:
I am kidding, but the following are real tweets. I checked because I thought somebody made it up (you can go to each person's account and see what they posted about 9-10 hrs ago). I haven't followed the "build the great ballroom" affair, I had no clue it was so important to so many :lol:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2048347927542984881
 
Interesting anecdotal report from last night of someone who went to the Correspondent's dinner:

my best friend and i went to the WHCD, and we ended up leaving early because something felt off

it started the second we got there.

every event we’ve ever been to, especially at this level, there are layers of security. bags checked, IDs checked, actual process

this time, nothing. we were just asked if we had tickets, said yes, and got waved through

no bag check. no real screening. no line. just thousands of people packed together, being pushed through the doors as fast as possible

it felt wrong immediately. like, viscerally wrong. my bestfriend literally turns to me and says “i think something is going to happen”

and then it did

this cannot happen. not here, not at something like this

praying for everyone, but there needs to be accountability because this should never happen again
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