MAKE SHIPBUILDING AMERICAN AGAIN: Trump hails $20 billion investment by shipping firm CMA CGM.

Its CEO Rodolphe Saade, who joined Trump in the Oval Office, confirmed the $20 billion investment and said it was expected to create 10,000 jobs.

The shipping line industry is faced with uncertainty as the Trump administration’s plans for import tariffs and port fees on Chinese-built vessels threaten to shake up maritime trade.

The $20 billion investment over four years would include expansion of container ports and the creation of an air cargo hub in Chicago supported by five new Boeing 777 freighters flown by American pilots, CMA CGM said in a statement.

Saade, a French-Lebanese billionaire who controls CMA CGM with other family members, told Trump at the White House that his group was also looking at supporting building of container ships and would make an announcement “in the coming weeks”.

The company further plans to raise its number of U.S.-flagged vessels to 30 from 10 currently, he added.

This is a very big deal but it’s barely a down payment on what needs to be done.

How about Congress resurrecting the Two-Ocean Navy Act?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems’ Voter Outreach to the Clinically Insane Continues Unabated. “They should be wrapping up a painful journey through the five stages grief, or at least deep into it. Instead, they’ve set up camp in stage one: denial. That’s really not a good place from which to plan a political comeback; a focused one, anyway. They’ve been flailing a lot, but these past few days have really been out of control.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

While some of the policy choices are questionable, let’s be clear- the economy was not previously strong. It was propped up with war-time levels of deficit spending. We were headed down this path already… https://t.co/F5jtJ3UPBf

— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) March 6, 2025

Trump, like Reagan in ’81, is willing to take the hits in his first year or so to deliver lasting results later.

Hey, like Milei, too.

ICYMI: More Evidence — From Space! — That Joe Biden Was a Tiny, Petty, Vindictive Prez.

IT’S A WINNING ISSUE, SOMETHING THE CONGRESSIONAL GOP NEEDS TO HAVE TATTOOED ON THEIR FOREHEADS: 61% Of Voters Favor Moving Control Away From Department of Education.

Sending a dollar to Washington only to get back 85 cents wrapped in the Department of Education’s red tape was never a good idea.

HE’S REPOSITIONING FOR 2028: Gavin Newsom Comes Out Against Boys Playing on Girls’ Sports Teams.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Starship Super Heavy Booster stuck the “chopstick” landing.

Starship’s Raptor engines ignite during hot-staging separation. Super Heavy is boosting back towards the launch site pic.twitter.com/9oK3m4xJaq

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 6, 2025

Watch Starship's eighth flight test → https://t.co/alyJTRtgTh https://t.co/7xtpEucyQB

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 6, 2025

Breathtaking.

UPDATE: But they lost the Ship second stage, damn.

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Story here. Remember, we’re learning from iterative failure.

FIRST, IT WAS AN ARMY OF DAVIDS. NOW IT’S An Army of DIY Drones.

MISSILE DEFENSE: Space Force general: ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield requires Manhattan Project-scale effort. “Golden Dome would be a comprehensive shield to protect the U.S. from an array of threats, including ballistic, hypersonic, and advanced cruise missiles. The system’s core components would include space-based sensors and missile interceptors, leveraging orbital vantage points for early detection and rapid response. Additionally, terrestrial and maritime platforms would provide layered defense, complemented by advanced communication networks to ensure seamless data-sharing and swift decision-making.”

MAROONED: More Evidence — From Space! — That Joe Biden Was a Tiny, Petty, Vindictive Prez.

SKYNET SMILES: Judge denies Musk’s initial bid to halt OpenAI’s for-profit shift but sets trial for fall.

IT WILL STILL TAKE A LAW TO UNDO THE SPENDING DAMAGE: Trump Will Sign Order Abolishing the Education Department.

SKYNET SMILES WITH THE PEDAL TO THE METAL: Driverless Maserati racing car sets world record for autonomous speed. “Italian automobile brand Maserati has set a new land speed record with its driverless MC20 Coupe, which reached 197.7 miles per hour without a driver at the helm during a racing event at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.”

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: A Biological Male for ‘Miss Georgia’?

ON BRAND FOR GOVERNOR HAIR-GEL:

Ah, the title that was settled upon is "This is Gavin Newsom."
Not "Serving California" or "The California Governor Chat" or "California's Bits and Pieces."
No, the show is titled instead like a network daytime talk show, focused squarely on @GavinNewsom, and not at all on his… https://t.co/loJBE3BpUS

— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) March 6, 2025

Newsom is trying to become a podcast media star so he can run for president as one of those instead of as the former governor of a failing state.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Dem Congresswomen Just Released the Most Cringe Video Ever.

JOANNE JACOBS: Dear Colleague: Do what the Ed Department wants — or else. “Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn boys won’t be able to cut much from the U.S. Education Department, because the multi-billion-dollar items go to programs Congress has legislated, he writes. ‘Title I’s $18 billion for poor kids? Mandated. IDEA’s $15 billion for special education? Same deal. Pell Grants topping $30 billion? That’s the Higher Education Act, not some rogue educrat’s hobbyhorse.'”

BREAKING:

BREAKING 🔴

Florida: Active Shooter Situation Reported at Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station.

“Our security team is responding swiftly and expertly with our local law enforcement partners,” said Capt. Chandra Newman. “Our top priority is the safety and welfare of our… pic.twitter.com/xfa2mYlWxb

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 6, 2025

GOOD NEWS FROM THE NINTH CIRCUIT: Court Just Spanked Gavin Newsom Over the First Amendment.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

FULL TRANSCRIPT OF MACRON’S SPEECH: 🧵

Macron delivered a very important 15 minute speech to the nation tonight in which he announced he will offer France’s nuclear weapons umbrella “to all allies on the European continent”

Tomorrow, the EU leaders will meet to decides on… pic.twitter.com/Ev5NWDFeGQ

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 5, 2025

I’ve been wanting Europe to spend more on its defense since high school, 40 years ago. But France expanding its nuclear umbrella to perhaps cover Ukraine…?

A MATTER OF TRUST: Trump Names COVID Contrarian to Head NIH, Restore Faith in Science.

DEEP SPACE: NASA squeezes more life from 47-year-old Voyager probes.

Voyager 1 and 2 continue to make history every day, as they transmit data back to Earth while traveling further into deep space. But there will come a time when amassing distance is all they are capable of accomplishing. At some point, the batteries aboard each 47-year-old spacecraft will finally die, rendering the scientific probes into interstellar monuments to themselves.

However, NASA isn’t ready to say goodbye just yet, and is taking measures to get as much life out of the pair as possible. On March 5, Voyager mission engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California confirmed they have already turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment. NASA plans to do the same for Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument on March 24. Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd explained cutting each program is a matter of life-or-death for both machines.

“Electrical power is running low,” Dodd said in a statement. “If we don’t turn off an instrument on each Voyager now, they would probably have only a few more months of power before we would need to declare ‘end of mission.’”

Incredible.

CUE THE WORLD’S SMALLEST VIOLIN: MSNBC Ghouls Are Killing Their Network.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

If only George Stephanopoulos hadn’t felt the need to defame the president, some of these jobs might have been saved. https://t.co/9BXekthzx2

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) March 5, 2025

Exit question: Did Stephanopoulos offer to take a cut to his estimated $15 million annual salary to spare any of his show’s production crew?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: If There Are Any Decent Democrats Left, They’re Awfully Quiet. “The dregs of humanity populate the upper tiers of the Democratic Party and its propaganda wing in the mainstream media. Mother Teresa would have struggled to like the bitter, confrontational idiots in the Dem upper echelon.”