{"id":375592,"date":"2025-11-13T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/375592\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:08:12","slug":"heres-where-trumps-latest-round-of-jaw-dropping-musings-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/375592\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s where Trump’s latest round of jaw-dropping musings stand"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump<\/a> loves offering outlandish<\/a> ideas and then repeating them until they start to become mainstream \u2014 even if they don\u2019t always come to fruition. <\/p>\n

Some notions that once felt far-fetched are now the norm, like insisting his government has a Department of War<\/a>, imposing global tariffs at rates unseen since the Gilded Age<\/a> and pardoning<\/a> members of the mob that overran the U.S. Capitol<\/a> on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n

But other musings<\/a> force him to find ways to save face without keeping his word. And many disappear as simply unworkable. <\/p>\n

A look at the latest round of Trump\u2019s especially jaw-dropping recent statements and where they stand:<\/p>\n

50-year mortgages<\/p>\n

WHERE IT STANDS: Still talking about it. <\/p>\n

BACKSTORY: Trump posted on his social media site an image of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the heading \u201c30-Year Mortgage\u201d alongside one of himself under a \u201c50-Year Mortgage\u201d title. Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, posted that longer mortgages would be \u201ca complete game changer,\u201d while the White House says it could ease housing affordability pressures<\/a>. Extending loan terms by two decades would lower monthly payments, but it\u2019d also leave mortgage-holders waiting significantly longer to build home equity. After the idea was panned by economists and even some in the GOP, Trump tried to downplay his own suggestion. \u201cAll it means is you pay less per month,\u201d he told Fox News\u2019 \u201cThe Ingraham Angle.\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt nonetheless said Wednesday that Trump\u2019s economic advisers are \u201cseriously looking into\u201d proposals to make it happen. <\/p>\n

Tariff revenue checks<\/p>\n

WHERE IT STANDS: Still talking about it.<\/p>\n

BACKSTORY: Trump suggested online that the tariffs he\u2019s imposed could result in \u201ca dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!).\u201d Experts scoff at the idea<\/a>, noting that American consumers already are stuck paying high import levies passed onto them by exporters. Even Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has since said the idea may not mean Americans get a check<\/a>. The administration has collected more than $225 billion in tariff revenue<\/a>, short of what it would cost to cover so many $2,000 checks, no matter how it defines \u201chigh income people.\u201d Still, Leavitt said the White House \u201cis committed to making\u201d revenue checks a reality. <\/p>\n

Air traffic controller bonuses <\/p>\n

WHERE IT STANDS: In limbo. <\/p>\n

BACKSTORY: Trump floated the idea of sending $10,000 bonus checks to air traffic controllers who stayed on the job without pay during the government shutdown<\/a>. But when asked how he\u2019d pay for it on \u201cThe Ingraham Angle,\u201d the president replied, \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d before adding, \u201cI always get the money from someplace, regardless. It doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Death penalty in DC<\/p>\n

WHERE IT STANDS: Faded away.<\/p>\n

BACKSTORY: Trump issued a September statement directing<\/a> \u201cthe enforcement of death penalty laws in the District of Columbia.\u201d That followed earlier suggestions that those convicted of murder in Washington should be put to death. But the D.C. City Council repealed capital punishment starting in 1981. In a Congress-mandated referendum 11 years later, city voters rejected reinstating the death penalty. The U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and Justice Department report to Trump, but most crimes committed in Washington, even murder, don\u2019t qualify as federal offenses. <\/p>\n

Creating a US sovereign wealth fund<\/p>\n

WHERE IT STANDS: Political off-ramp found. <\/p>\n

BACKSTORY: Trump signed a February executive order<\/a> directing his administration to develop a plan to create a government-owned investment fund. Sovereign wealth funds are typically state-run investment pools derived from surpluses generated by oil wealth in places like Saudi Arabia and Norway. The U.S. has no surplus funds, though, and instead runs up towering budget deficits that have grown since Trump took office<\/a>. As a workaround, the government has been directing funding to acquire stakes in firms like U.S. Steel<\/a>, Intel<\/a> and mineral and rare earth<\/a> companies \u2014 moves the Trump administration says have national security implications \u2014 without necessitating declaring a more formal investment pool of money. <\/p>\n

Changing NFL kickoff rules <\/p>\n

WHERE IT STANDS: Still talking about it \u2014 but maybe resigned to it not changing. <\/p>\n

BACKSTORY: Trump hates the dynamic kickoff<\/a>, which has placed coverage players and blockers close together to eliminate injury-inducing, high-speed collisions. \u201cI think it\u2019s so demeaning, and I think it hurts the game. I think it hurts the pageantry,\u201d Trump told ESPN\u2019s Pat McAfee, repeating a complaint he\u2019s expressed numerous times. He called the rule change \u201cunromantic\u201d and \u201cdemeaning,\u201d while suggesting to McAfee, \u201cI don\u2019t think they have the right to do that to the game.\u201d But Trump also noted that the NFL will \u201cdo what they want to do\u201d and admitted: \u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019ll change.\u201d <\/p>\n

Changing the Commanders\u2019 name\/naming their new stadium after him<\/p>\n

WHERE IT STANDS: Still talking about it.<\/p>\n

BACKSTORY: The White House said recently that it\u2019d be \u201c beautiful<\/a> \u201d to name the Washington Commanders\u2019 new stadium<\/a> for Trump \u2014 an idea the team hasn\u2019t endorsed. The president also has decried the name \u201cCommanders,\u201d suggesting Washington\u2019s NFL team should return to being called the Redskins, a name that was considered offensive to Native Americans<\/a>. Trump previously suggested he\u2019d look to block construction of a new Commanders stadium unless the team went back to its old name, and he\u2019s not said if a venue named for him might change his mind. <\/p>\n

Suspending habeas corpus <\/p>\n

WHERE IT STANDS: Faded away.<\/p>\n

BACKSTORY: White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said in May that the administration was \u201cactively looking at\u201d suspending habeas corpus<\/a> in an effort to speed up deportations. But asked about it during an October event with right-wing influencers, Trump was nonplussed, offering only, \u201cSuspending who?\u201d He then punted to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who said she hadn\u2019t \u201cbeen a part of any discussions on that.\u201d <\/p>\n

US retaking Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan<\/p>\n

WHERE IT STANDS: In limbo. <\/p>\n

BACKSTORY: Trump suggested<\/a> in September, \u201cWe\u2019re trying to get it back,\u201d seemingly hinting that the U.S. might renew hostilities with the Taliban to take back Bagram. He subsequently posted online that if the Taliban didn\u2019t give back what was once the largest U.S. military hub in Afghanistan: \u201cBAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!!\u201d The Taliban has rejected<\/a> that idea, suggesting instead that the U.S. adopt a policy of \u201crealism and rationality.\u201d <\/p>\n

Arrests for \u2018sinister\u2019 behavior at the UN<\/p>\n

WHERE IT STANDS: Faded away. <\/p>\n

BACKSTORY: Trump demanded an investigation into three \u201csinister events\u201d<\/a> against him during September\u2019s U.N. General Assembly<\/a>. There was the escalator coming to a \u201cscreeching halt\u201d with the president on it, which Trump called \u201cabsolutely sabotage.\u201d A U.N. spokesperson said an investigation \u2014 including a readout of the machine\u2019s central processing unit \u2014 later showed<\/a> a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of Trump triggering the escalator\u2019s stop mechanism. Trump still insisted, \u201cThe people that did it should be arrested.\u201d The president also said that a malfunctioning teleprompter went \u201cstone cold dark\u201d during his U.N. address, and that the sound didn\u2019t work as he spoke. Trump said the Secret Service was involved, but no arrests have been made. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump loves offering outlandish ideas and then repeating them until they start to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":375593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93837,64,84,69,71051,57,65,43930,13790,8133,2399,362,12944,80,18244,11203,31132,16618,3676,61,1206,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-375592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bill-pulte","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-district-of-columbia","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-franklin-d-roosevelt","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-information-technology","15":"tag-intel-corp","16":"tag-international-trade","17":"tag-karoline-leavitt","18":"tag-kristi-noem","19":"tag-legal-proceedings","20":"tag-pat-mcafee","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-scott-bessent","23":"tag-stephen-miller","24":"tag-taliban","25":"tag-tariffs-and-global-trade","26":"tag-u-s-department-of-homeland-security","27":"tag-u-s-news","28":"tag-united-nations","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115541606625651083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}