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Trump’s obsession with repressing voters has gotten the best of him 70%
By Zeeshan Aleem96%
7/11/2026, 10:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 5 faulty reasoning types, including Ad Hominem, Politically Left Leaning Bias, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 24.6% saturation with 176 hits. Analysis detected 494 faulty-reasoning hits from 714 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 65.6% and a BS Rank of 70% (4,290 of 14,081 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 69.50% of the article peer group.
President Donald Trump loves to slap his name on things: hotels, merchandise , stimulus checks and even a cultural institution Congress named for a former president.
But Trump pointedly refused to affix his name to a major housing bill that both houses of Congress recently passed with huge veto-proof margins.
The bill became law Saturday without his signature.
The president declined to sign it because he is still seething over another piece of legislation: his repressive anti-voting bill he calls the Save America Act.
Senate Republicans (fortunately) failed to pass that bill, and Trump’s resulting political tantrum is so baffling and self-destructive it beggars belief.
The passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act marks an extraordinarily rare event in today’s Washington: Congress forming a huge bipartisan majority to achieve something genuinely good.
The bill, which addresses the national housing shortage, was the product of a partnership between progressive firebrand Sens.
Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Tim Scott, R-S.C., who is a staunch Trump ally.
The White House initially backed the bill.
Trump’s description of the housing bill as a “yawn” before refusing to sign it reveals how completely he’s lost the plot.
Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect, a progressive policy publication, called the bill a “medley of good ideas.”
Among other things, it would streamline environmental reviews (without scrapping standards), make the construction of certain kinds of housing units cheaper, offer economic incentives for local governments to support new construction and make it easier for some consumers to get mortgages.
It’s the biggest piece of housing legislation in decades
But just hours before the signing ceremony to sign the housing bill into law, Trump canceled the signing .
Monomaniacally fixated on his voter suppression bill, he later called the housing bill “a big yawn .”
Then he announced on social media Friday that he would never sign the housing bill — as a symbolic protest.
“I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,” he wrote .
He also warned that the “non-passage” of the SAVE America Act “is CRAZY, and a serious threat to any politician who votes against it!”
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Trump didn’t threaten or attempt to veto the housing bill — likely because he knew that his veto could easily be overridden.
Instead, he let the bill become law automatically.
It was all a strange bout of theater.
Trump saw himself as an activist for a pet project, the SAVE Act.
But there’s no reason that he couldn’t have observed the old adage of comedic improvisation: “yes and.”
He could have supported the housing bill and called for passage of the anti-voting legislation.
They’re not mutually exclusive.
Trump pitting one against the other speaks to how zero-sum his attention span is and how lost he’s become in his political obsessions.
Trump’s description of the housing bill as a “yawn” before refusing to sign it reveals how completely he’s lost the plot.
The high cost of living is the defining policy issue in our country, and Americans’ struggle to make ends meet has been exacerbated by the president’s failed “excursion” in Iran .
This housing bill was his one legitimate opportunity to say he was addressing the crisis.
All he had to do was slap his name on something and sell it — something he reflexively does even for things he had nothing to do with.
But this time, he’s burying the best policy he could have cited as the midterm elections approach.
On top of that, he’s rambling about a voter fraud problem that doesn’t exist and touting a bill that would make it harder to vote.
The heart wants what it wants, apparently.
But for Trump, who most wants power, his refusal to affix his name to an overwhelmingly popular bill indicates that he doesn’t understand his best path to keeping it.
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