Quick Takes from the Past 24-48 Hours

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

1. Trump Called Out Pelosi’s Corruption: ‘Got Rich Through Insider Information’

President Trump has thrown down the gauntlet on congressional (insider) stock trading—and he did not hold back on the strong words when it came to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Speaking with Time Magazine, Trump said he would “absolutely” sign a law banning members of Congress from trading stocks, slamming Pelosi for profiting off insider information during her career in public life.

‘I watched Nancy Pelosi get rich through insider information, and I would be okay with it [a ban],’ Trump stated.

‘If they send that to me, I would do it.’

The comment comes amid long-standing accusations that Pelosi has suspiciously timed trades that coincide with legislation and regulation that passes through Capitol Hill.

Though Pelosi insists she personally does not trade stocks, insisting its her husband Paul’s domain, her financial disclosures tell a different story. According to Quiver Quantitative, the Pelosis’ net worth has more than doubled since 2015, skyrocketing from $121 million to $253 million. Whether she is behind the wheel or just a passenger, the optics are damning.

And Trump is not the only one calling foul. Support for banning congressional stock trading is gaining steam on both sides of the aisle, with Americans increasingly fed up with politicians whose net worth skyrockets while the average citizen struggles.

2. Harvard Donors Side with Trump, Call on School to Strike Deal with President

The first shockwave hit when President Trump announced freezing a staggering $2.2 billion in federal grants destined for Harvard University. The reason was the school’s reported refusal to comply with straightforward demands to root out the rampant antisemitism festering on campus and dismantle divisive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

The administration made it clear:

Taxpayer funds would not prop up institutions

failing basic standards of safety and fairness.

Harvard’s leadership seems determined to martyr itself on the altar of progressive ideology, even if it means sacrificing billions in funding and ignoring valid concerns about campus safety. Their actions smack of an elite establishment utterly convinced of its own moral superiority, unwilling to concede ground or acknowledge their embrace of radical DEI and tolerance for antisemitism has real-world costs.

By choosing defiance over dialogue, and a lawsuit over solutions, Harvard is not just fighting the President; it is actively harming itself, much to the dismay of donors who seem to possess more common sense than the university’s highly credentialed administrators.

What makes this situation even more telling is the frantic activity that occurred before the funding axe fell. According to reports, some of Harvard’s biggest and most influential donors saw the writing on the wall. Men like billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson and Pershing Square CEO William Ackman reportedly pleaded with the university leadership to find a way forward, to strike a deal with President Trump. They recognized the danger, but their warnings apparently fell on deaf ears within the Harvard Corporation.

Harvard’s President, Dr. Alan Garber, chose the path of confrontation. He accused the Trump administration of acting in bad faith and took the astonishing step of suing the Trump administration, claiming the government sought “unprecedented and improper control.”

The lesson here, perhaps:

When institutions prioritize ideological purity over pragmatism and basic responsibilities, they risk discovering their presumed invincibility is merely an illusion, easily shattered by leaders willing to stand firm for American values and taxpayer interests.

3. SecDef Hegseth Is Fired Up After Learning Obesity Rate Among Reserve Troops: ‘FIT, not FAT’

President Trump’s administration has declared war on those who declared war on American citizens.

The Trump administration values freedom, security, merit, and health. And those who declared war on American citizens did so in part by attacking all of those things.

Friday morning on the social media platform X, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded to an alarming new report about the incidence of obesity among National Guard and Reserve troops by calling the situation “completely unacceptable” and pledging a new military made up of “FIT, not FAT” service members.

To be able to respond quickly, safely, and effectively to a wide array of threats both at home and abroad, the reserve component must ensure its service members are fit and healthy. As of 2018, however, more than 65 percent of reserve personnel have been either clinically overweight or obese.

Hegseth wrote:

This is what happens when standards are IGNORED—and this is what we are changing. REAL fitness & weight standards are here.

4. Trump Signed Order to Ramp Up Seabed Mineral Collection

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been directed to expedite the permitting process for commercial recovery and exploration permits of America’s seabeds, a White House fact sheet on the order notes.

The order, Unleashing America’s Offshore Critical Minerals and Resources, aims to establish “the United States as a global leader in responsible seabed mineral exploration, development technologies, and practices, and as a partner for countries developing seabed mineral resources in areas within their national jurisdictions.”

Particularly, it directs streamlined permitting to promote the rapid development of America’s capabilities to explore, characterize, collect, and process seabed mineral resources. This is to be accomplished “without compromising environmental and transparency standards,” per the order.

Under the order, Lutnick, along with Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, are tasked with providing a report that identifies “[p]rivate sector interest and opportunities for seabed mineral exploration, mining, and monitoring in the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf,” per the fact sheet.

The report will also identify “Private sector interest and opportunities for nodule and other seabed mineral resource processing capacity in the U.S. or on U.S. flagged vessels,” per the document.

5. They Fell for It Again: Trump Set Another Trap for the Left on Rogue Judges

Again, totally owned for taking the wrong side of an issue—this time involving judges who broke the law. One New Mexico judge was arrested after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at his home revealed a Tren de Aragua member was living there. The second incident involved Judge Hannah Dugan, who was arrested for helping an illegal escape from immigration officers.

No one is above the law!!

Break the law, get arrested—this IS NOT rocket science. But the Left are unable to grasp the concept of ‘One legal standard for all.’

The Left is trying to make this a ‘tyranny’ narrative against Trump. But that theory will not work. Trump’s communications team is too good, the crime syndicate is too stupid, and the colluding propaganda media do not have the muscle to dominate the airwaves. Conservatism owns them. And the phrase, ‘no one is above the law’ clamped down on the ankles of the communist/globalist cabal like a bear trap as they were each metaphorically strung up.

The arrests are also not unprecedented; a judge was arrested in 2019 for helping an illegal avoid arrest. And the media meltdown and go insane hypocritical. We the People have the receipts.