MI REPORT – Thursday, February 20, 2025 -

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

OVERVIEW

Trump continues his offensive even in the face of contentious judicial checks and even threats, leaving the Democrats unable to do little more than create interpretive dance protests that only reinforce how tone deaf the party that celebrates hate speech regulations and misinformation censorship truly is.

BATTLING THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE

President Trump quietly gutted the majority of the administrative state’s power with an executive order that will undo 90 plus years of work that increasingly diminished the real power of the Presidency over his own executive branch. This created an unelected administrative class that was left to largely create their own policies regardless of who was President.

Now, decades of work will be undone, and even a return to the White House in 2028 would leave the Democratic Party with the unenviable position of having to recreate their administrative state with a far more sophisticated and informed audience than the ones that allowed this leviathan to rise in the first place.

THE WAR IN UKRAINE

The Ukraine Peace deal that might be is being undermined in part by the heated rhetoric flying between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Zelensky. It appears as if Zelensky thinks he’s running for office against Trump rather than running a country in the middle of a war that is largely being subsidized by the United States.

Methinks the leader is living in a leftist-run bubble of misinformation and false bravado that is void of any attachment to the reality of power around them.

GERMANY AND FREE SPEECH

While Germans prepare to vote this Sunday in an election in which the “far right” party AfD appears to be surging, their country’s anti-free-speech policies were being highlighted on the illegal DNC content marketing media outlet CBS news in a way that seemed more about attempting to normalize such controls, rather than rightly chastise them from an American perspective.

DOGE AND “YOU’RE FIRED”

The wars between DOGE and the courts and Trump and the courts continues, with DOGE highlighting an accounting loophole that allows for trillions of dollars to remain unaccountable. As DOGE is allegedly exposing fraud and waste, Trump is cleaning house from within, axing lawyers hired by the Biden administration.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

So far, the relentless pushback against anti-Americanists, be they domestic or foreign, continues at breakneck speed by the Trump administration, with the one potential early error that might one day come back and hurt the Trump administration, the move to throw out the charges against NY Mayor Eric Adams until a newly appointed U.S. Attorney can reassess the case after the election.

Outside of that glaring exception, this writer is positive on the direction things are going, believing the work being done now would set the Democrats back at least 5 years, maybe more, just in rebuilding up the legacy administrative networking and knowledge these now destroyed institutions are permanently losing.

TOP STORY

TRUMP XO WRESTS EXECUTIVE POWER FROM ADMINS TO PRESIDENT BY ENDING INDEPENDENT ENTITIES

President Donald Trump signed an executive order that effectively ends “independent” boards, commissions and agencies that began to be created 90 years ago under then-President Franklin Roosevelt.

The move effectively cuts off unaccountable administrative power from most government agencies that are currently populated with such entities.

Trump said in his order, “These agencies issue rules and regulations that cost billions of dollars and implicate some of the most controversial policy matters, and they do so without the review of the democratically elected President. They also spend American tax dollars and set priorities without consulting the President, while setting their own performance standards.” Read more

FEATURES

TRUMP, ZELENSKY IN PUBLIC VERBAL SPAR STRAINS U.S.-UKRAINE RELATIONS

Volodymyr Zelensky, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, has accused U.S. President Donald Trump of being trapped by a bubble of “misinformation.” Trump has responded that Zelensky is a dictator who should be more grateful to the American people than he is.

The jabs were followed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressing frustration at Zelensky’s alleged duplicity in promising to introduce legislation to pay back some of the billions of dollars given to it by the U.S. only to later announce publicly Ukraine rejected the request. Read more

HUNDREDS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC-ERA SCIENTIFIC PAPERS GET RETRACTED

During the Covid-19 Pandemic, any information that went against the official narrative was deemed “anti-science” and “misinformation.” Now, many of the justifications for the official narrative, scientific papers, are now being retracted.

Retraction Watch reports 505 studies on Covid-19 have been retracted as of February 17, 2025. Retraction Watch Co-Founder Ivan Oransky told The College Fix, “Why do they feel the need to rush papers through? Well, it’s because that’s how they get or keep their jobs, that’s how they get grants, everything is based on that. When you know that your whole career depends on publishing papers in particular journals, you’re going to do what you have to do to publish those papers. Most of the time that means you work hard, you hire the smart grad students and postdocs.” Read more

TOP HEADLINES

“Experts” Raise Alarm for Potential China Invasion of Taiwan under Chaotic Trump Presidency

A new report by the Lau China Institute and the Policy Institute at King’s College London suggests a Trump Presidency combined with a Pro-Independence government in Taiwan dramatically increases the chances an invasion by China is soon to come.

The report also suggests President Trump himself could “plunge the world into a crisis.” It should be noted the Lau China Institute is subsidized largely by a pro-CCP Hong Kong businessman named Lau Ming-wai. Read more

CBS Appears to Promote German Arrests of Internet Users for Making “Hateful Content”

Following on the heels of CBS News Host Margaret Brennan claiming free speech is what enabled the rise of the Nazis, a segment on 60 minutes that appeared to be promoting German police arresting people for making hateful online content has some concerned CBS may have abandoned the free speech values that make the free press possible in the first place. Read blurb

HOLLYWOOD BOWL WILL HAVE BLACK LESBIAN PLAY CHRIST IN “JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR”

Hollywood Bowl will be casting a black open lesbian to be Jesus in the upcoming production of “Jesus Christ Superstar.” The actress is Cynthia Erivo, who is best known for her role in the film “Wicked.” Read blurb

HEADLINES

DOGE FINDS $4.7 TRILLION “UNACCOUNTABLE PAYMENT” IN BUDGET, ENDS ACCOUNTING LOOPHOLE

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly found $4.7 trillion in payments were not documented sufficiently to determine where those payments were going. Going forward, the option to leave payment details blank is no longer available. Read blurb

MUSK SUGGESTS $5K DOGE PAYOFF POTENTIAL TO AMERICAN TAXPAYERS

Elon Musk suggested the savings DOGE creates through cutting waste and fraud in government could lead to a “stimulus check” for the American people, an idea the President seemed to support later. Read blurb

TRUMP AXES BIDEN-APPOINTED PROSECUTORS

President Donald Trump announced the termination of Biden-appointed Attorney Generals on a Truth Social post, stating “Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before. Therefore, I have instructed the termination of ALL remaining ‘Biden Era’ U.S. Attorneys. We must ‘clean house’ IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence.” Read blurb

WYOMING BILLIONAIRE PUTS HIS HAT IN THE TIKTOK RING

Wyoming Entrepreneur Reid Rasner has made an offer to buy TikTok for nearly $50 billion. Reid hopes to create a new Silicon Valley in Wyoming with his purchase. Read blurb

TOP WIRES

TRANS TERRORIST GROUP LEADERS CAPTURED

The leader, along with two other members, of the transgender-far-left cult called “Zizi” was captured by Maryland Police. The group is believed to behind multiple murders, though the initial charges are not murder related. Read blurb

BIDEN ILLEGALS POORER, LESS EDUCATED THAN PREVIOUS ONES

The Centers for Immigration Studies released a report that shows the poverty levels among illegal aliens that entered the U.S. under Biden’s watch are much higher than in previous migrations. Read blurb

CALIFORNIA APPEALS COURT RULES CHRISTIAN BAKERY MUST DESIGN GAY MARRIAGE CAKE

A California Appeals Court has ruled that a Christian bakery in Kern County does not have a right to refuse cake decorating service to a gay couple. The company offered the couple, Eileen and Mireya Rodriguez, a three-tiered non-symbol-added cake. Read blurb

TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBERS GET “LIGHT SENTENCE” FROM NY COURT

Two members of the gang “Tren de Aragua” saw their felony drug and gun charges reduced to misdemeanors and their bail knocked down to nothing by NYC court. Read blurb

MISSOURI AG FILES LAWSUIT TO OVERTHROW LOCAL “CONVERSION THERAPY” BANS

Missouri’s Attorney General, Republican Andrew Bailey, is seeking a remedy from the courts to end the ban on so-called “conversion therapy,” therapy designed to direct people away from LGBTQ lifestyles. Read blurb

EVEN FORD ADMITS THE EV AGE IS NOT YET HERE

Ford CEO Jim Farley told investors in an earnings call that the market for electric vehicles isn’t there, that “the economics are unresolvable.” Read blurb