Quick Takes from the Past 24-48 Hours

The ‘Speed of Trump’ continues.

The following is an installment of Trump-Vance team accomplishments (each article is linked for further info):

1. Trump’s USAID Freeze Saves Thousands from Castration in India: This Alone Should Be Nobel Peace Prize Worthy

India’s first three clinics for the transgender community closed last month following a stop-work order from USAID that funded them, disrupting services for nearly 5,000 people, two sources said on Friday.

Yes, 5,000 people in India will not have life-altering surgery performed on them or debilitating medications dispensed to them which will prevent them from marrying, having children, and make them more likely to die prematurely.

If people in India really want to castrate themselves, they can pay for it themselves or go back to using sharp stones, or maybe they will change their minds and live healthy normal lives instead. If population reduction really is the primary goal, celibacy may prove to be a more rational or sensible way of going about it.

2. President Trump to Pardon Baseball Legend Pete Rose

No apologies from me. Pete Rose was a good friend of a good friend. Many of us have been wondering about this for a long time.

President Trump ended the week with an incredible announcement on Truth Social:

Major League Baseball didn’t have the courage or decency to put the late, great, Pete Rose, also known as “Charlie Hustle,” into the Baseball Hall of fame. Now he is dead, will never experience the thrill of being selected, even though he was a FAR BETTER PLAYER than most of those who made it, and can only be named posthumously. WHAT A SHAME! Anyway, over the next few weeks I will be signing a complete PARDON of Pete Rose, who shouldn’t have been gambling on baseball, but only bet on HIS TEAM WINNING. He never betted against himself, or the other team. He had the most hits, by far, in baseball history, and won more games than anyone in sports history. Baseball, which is dying all over the place, should get off its fat, lazy ass, and elect Pete Rose, even though far too late, into the Baseball Hall of Fame!

Pete played to win. He coached to win. He bet to win. The punishment simply never matched the crime.

In a world where violent criminals get second chances in sports, the fact that Pete Rose died while still banned from baseball is tragic.

Thank you, Mr. President.

3. “What They’re Doing Is Evil”: Musk Tells Rogan He Thinks the Media Is Motivating Violence Against Him Like Trump

At his first cabinet meeting under President Trump, Musk reported receiving numerous death threats amid criticism of his leadership at DOGE, which has aggressively cut federal spending, and during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Musk criticized the media for, as he said, labeling him in extremist terms which, he argues, could potentially motivate violence.

Musk said:

At this point, I think I’m at the top of the list for a lot of homicidal maniacs.

They’re doing the same thing to me that they did to Trump, which is they’re making it sound like if you kill me, you’re a hero.

Since taking office on Jan. 20, DOGE has terminated more than 200,000 federal jobs across multiple agencies, citing efforts to reduce waste. Significant cuts include 120 to 150 probationary employees at the Internal Revenue Service in Denver CO and approximately 300 at the Federal Aviation Agency, following directives from the Trump administration.

Meanwhile, the private sector saw a staggering 16.4 million layoffs and discharges in 2024 alone. The contrast highlights the stability traditionally associated with government employment, which peaked under The Obiden Regime with 23.5 million local, state, and federal workers.

4. Trump Scores Another Economic Win As Company Vows $27 Billion Project

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has announced a massive $27 billion investment to build four new manufacturing facilities in the United States.

This historic commitment represents the largest pharmaceutical manufacturing expansion in U.S. history and aligns perfectly with President Trump’s aggressive push to bring critical industries back to American soil.

From The Post Millennial:

The move coincides with President Trump’s push to increase domestic manufacturing and reduce reliance on foreign supply chains. Trump has pressured pharmaceutical companies to invest in US production, warning of potential tariffs for those that manufacture abroad.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick thanked Eli Lilly:

[For] doing exactly what the president was hoping would happen.

The investment will create approximately 3,000 permanent jobs for engineers, scientists, operations personnel, and lab technicians. Additionally, around 10,000 construction jobs will be generated during the development phase.

That’s 13,000 American families with good-paying jobs that cannot be shipped overseas. Not bad for an industry the “experts” said would never come back.

5. ‘To the Ends of the Earth’: Kash Patel Said Era of Criminals Harming Americans and Walking Free Is OVER

FBI Director Kash Patel made it very clear there is a new sheriff in town, and those who harm Americans will face consequences:

What a refreshing change.

This is also due to the Trump administration classifying gangs and foreign cartels as terrorist organizations.

We need law and order.

This is certainly part of why we voted for Trump.

Thank God for you and Dan Bongino. I hope to trust in the institution. You gotta clean it up though. A lot of bad actors in there.

— Julio Murillo (@JEM_el_tarasco) February 28, 2025

LONG overdue.

6. Pro-Hamas Protestors Riot, Seize Building on College Campus in NYC

On Wednesday, 50 anti-Israel protestors seized a campus building. On Thursday, at least 100 protesters gathered at the entrance to Barnard College, wearing keffiyehs and shouting “Free Palestine.”

The NYPD made several arrests after the protests reignited, with around 100 anti-Israel demonstrators gathering in front of the entrance to Barnard, once again wearing masks and keffiyehs and chanting, “Free Palestine.”

This kind of behavior, we should note, is not a First Amendment issue. Seizing a campus building is not a protest. Breaching police barricades is not a protest. These were not “fiery but peaceful” protests. This was a riot and should have been dealt with as a riot. There were arrests, but there should have been more.

Every person who took part in this should have been arrested and prosecuted. Every student that took part in this should be expelled. Every foreign student here on a student visa should have had their visa revoked and been repatriated back to their home countries. These riots will continue until the consequences become serious enough to bring them to an end. And these events will become more virulent as long as they are tolerated.