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Wake Up Right - February 10, 2025
Wake Up Right
February 10, 2025
The Eagles may have won the Super Bowl, but President Donald Trump won the weekend.
On Saturday, a CBS News poll found that 53% approve of the job Trump’s doing — his all-time high in this poll. It also found that 70% say he’s keeping his campaign promises, and 59% approve his program to deport illegal aliens. The top 3 words folks in the poll used to describe him were: Tough (69%), Energetic (63%), and Focused (60%).
On Sunday, Trump attended the Super Bowl, and when the broadcast put him on camera during the National Anthem, the New Orleans crowd went wild with cheers. Meanwhile, Taylor Swift was roundly booed — illustrating a major shift in the American zeitgeist.
Welcome back, folks! Let’s get into the news.
🏈 Philadelphia Eagles won Super Bowl LIX
⚧️ 54% support Trump banning trans from military
☕️ Starbucks is offering free small coffees today
📺️ A 30-second Super Bowl ad cost $8 million in 2025
Judge blocks DOGE from uncovering corruption
A federal judge has temporarily barred President Donald Trump’s political appointees — potentially including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — from accessing Treasury Department data, a roadblock in the administration’s attempt to cut government waste and abuse.
The details: On Saturday, Judge Paul Engelmayer — an Obama appointee — responded to a lawsuit brought by 19 Democrat AGs, arguing that allowing Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) violates federal law because he has “full access” to U.S. Treasury payments.
Englemayer’s ruling halts DOGE’s access until at least February 14, when a hearing is scheduled.
The lawsuit was spearheaded by anti-Trump New York Attorney General Letitia James, who previously sued Trump in 2022 for “financial fraud” — a case that is currently in appeals.
Zoom in: The lawsuit specifically targets a new policy handed down by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, which expanded access to the department’s payment system known as the Bureau of Fiscal Services (BFS).
This allowed Trump political appointees like Elon Musk to examine the payments made by the Treasury, to look for wasteful spending.
DOGE’s mission is to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse within our federal budget. To date, it has identified $50B in fraudulent entitlement payments — and estimates the total could exceed $100B per year.
Not so fast: Despite the judge's sweeping — and potentially unconstitutional — check on the powers of the executive branch, the Treasury Department has clearly stated that DOGE only has access to "read-only" files — and cannot affect, edit, or terminate any expenditures.
Out of bounds: Some legal minds believe the judge’s ruling is so sweeping it could even bar Treasury Sec. Bessent from accessing department data. Federalist senior legal correspondent Margot Cleveland said:
"The judge’s order is rightly being attacked as, at worse, barring the secretary of the Treasury from accessing the Treasury Department’s databases and at best, at being hopelessly ambiguous and confusing.”
Elon Musk responded to the ruling, writing on X: "A corrupt judge protecting corruption. He needs to be impeached NOW!"
The last word goes to Vice President J.D. Vance, who responded to the ruling, writing on X:
"If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.”
Democrats spent the law four years using lawfare to try and stop Trump from being re-elected. It failed. Now they’re running the same play. Hopefully, it leads to the same result.
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Trump directs Treasury to stop making pennies
President Trump announced Sunday that he’s ordering the U.S. Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing the high production cost.
The math isn’t mathing: The U.S. Mint reports that each penny costs 3.69 cents to produce—more than three times its own face value.
In 2024, taxpayers spent $119 million on the coins that most Americans don’t use.
The penny has cost more than its face value to produce for 19 consecutive years.
Over 4.5 billion pennies were minted in 2023 — nearly 40% of all U.S. coins.
What Trump said: While watching the Super Bowl live, Trump wrote a message on Truth Social calling pennies “wasteful” and adding:
“I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let's rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it's a penny at a time."
Zoom out: Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) flagged the penny’s cost as part of its push to slash $2 trillion in federal spending.
Big picture: The penny is essentially worthless. Since it was first minted in 1793, it's lost over 99% of its value due to inflation. As usual, Trump is right on this.
Your Super Bowl responses
On Friday, I asked you to vote on what you were most excited about on Super Bowl Sunday. Here’s what you said:
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🪶 Kansas City Chiefs (162)
🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🦅 Philadelphia Eagles (261)
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 📺 The commercials (118)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🇺🇸 President Trump (665)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🍗 The food (59)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🏈 Other (47)
🇺🇸 President Trump: “Trump > T. Swift 😆”
🪶 Kansas City Chiefs: “I voted for KC for the record of 3 Super Bowls in a row. No matter who wins, the trifecta of 2 great teams and 1 great president in one place makes for a great day!”
🦅 Philadelphia Eagles: “Rooting for the Eagles because of Saquon Barkley because he is a is a Bitcoiner”
📺 The commercials: “The NFL never really recovered from the woke ideology, so we stopped watching — except to see the Super Bowl game commercials. Go Doritos! 😂”
🍗 The food: “Gonna eat so many elk-stuffed mushrooms that I may grow antlers! ”
🏈 Other: “Waiting for football season to finally be over & get my husband & tv back. Not necessarily in that order. Lol 😂”
🚫 President Trump stripped the security clearances of Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan — as well as Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and NY AG Letitia James. Read more.
✈️ A key safety system was turned off on the US Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines jet last week, killing 67. Read more.
🪙 President Trump said he'll announce 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports today and "reciprocal tariffs" later this week. Read more.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed a proclamation declaring February 9 as Gulf of America Day, weeks after changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Read more.
☄️ Scientists detected an asteroid with a 2.2% chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032. Read more.
🤖 US lawmakers plan to introduce a bipartisan bill to ban Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's chatbot from government devices. Read more.
🆘 "Why did the one guy have six cellphones?" President Trump directed the Secret Service to give him "every bit of information" known about his two attempted assassins. Read more.
🏎️ President Donald Trump plans to attend the Daytona 500 on Saturday, following his high-profile appearance at the Super Bowl yesterday. Read more.
🇨🇦 Canadian PM Justin Trudeau was caught on a hot mic saying Trump wanting to make Canada the 51st state is "a real thing." Read more.
🎥 Taylor Swift was mercilessly booed at the Super Bowl. Watch.
🎥 The crowd goes wild when President Trump is shown during the National Anthem. Watch.
🎥 Unhinged Democrat Rep. Maxine Watters harasses a federal employee. Watch.
🎥 Trump says he'll sick Elon Musk on the Department of Education and Defense next. Watch.
🎥 Trump has a hilarious reaction to TIME Magazine cover depicting Elon Musk as president. Watch.
🎥 Bill Maher nails it: Streaming services are ruining football. Watch. This whole rant is great.
🎥 NFL superstar wide-receiver Tyreek Hill says he's "always been" a Trump fan. Watch.
🎥 Former Biden appointee snickers and acts like a condescending POS when she’s confronted with the Pentagon's reckless spending. Watch.
📺 RFK Jr. wants to ban drug ads on TV. But if Congress rewards Big Pharma, thats not happening... See what Trump & RFK are up against. *
🎥 Fetterman explains why the Democrat party is toxic. Watch.
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