#Trump was loudly booed at Madison Square Garden [#MSG] during the #NBA Finals.
The screen at center court showed Trump during the National Anthem & the crowds’ boos drowned out the song. His hometown team, the Knicks, went on to lose, giving further evidence that Trump is bad luck.
The #IMF said that even if the #war is short-lived, the damage to the #GlobalEconomy has been done. In that best-case scenario, the fund expects global growth to fall to 3.1% this year from 3.4% in 2025. That is down from the 3.3% that the fund projected in January. It is also lower than the 3.4% growth that it was prepared to project before the war broke out & #oil shipments through the #StraitOfHormuz were halted.
In its latest World Economic Outlook, the #IMF sharply downgraded its growth forecasts, exposing the economic fallout from a #GeopoliticalCrisis that has roiled #energy #prices & injected a new bout of uncertainty into the #GlobalEconomy.
“The global outlook has abruptly darkened following the outbreak of #war in the #MiddleEast,” Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the #IMF’s chief economist, wrote in the report. “The war interrupted what had been a steady growth trajectory.”
So, less than two months after the #antipresident hijacked the #KennedyCenter , he will now shut it down for two years since the performers fled? ( #ETTTTS )
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/politics/trump-kennedy-center.html
#Trump announced Sunday that he would shut down the John F. #KennedyCenter for the #PerformingArts this summer for two years to allow for a “reconstruction” project that he said would permit it to become “without question, the finest Performing Arts Facility of its kind, anywhere in the World” of course all the performances were getting canceled because he sucks, but I’m sure that has nothing to do with it /s
#ETTTTS
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/politics/trump-kennedy-center.html?smid=url-share
#Investors have piled fresh bets on #gold & European #defense stocks in response to #Trump's threats to take control of #Greenland, fearing a geopolitical rift that could end #NATO, shatter the global order & damage the #dollar.
Although gains in both are expected to continue regardless of what happens to Greenland, investors face the dilemma of how to position for any longer-term fallout.
#GlobalEconomy #NewWorldOrder #ETTTTS
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/trump-greenland-threat-triggers-search-shelter-beyond-gold-defence-2026-01-12/
Perhaps most worryingly for #Trump, who’s become increasingly synonymous with his party, he’s slipped on issues that were major strengths. Just a few months ago, 53% of Americans approved of Trump’s handling of #crime, but that’s fallen to 43% in the new poll. There’s been a similar decline on #immigration, from 49% approval in March to 38% now.
The new poll starkly illustrates how Trump has struggled to hold onto political wins since his return to office.
Nonilex
bk
@GottaLaff