Trump’s Secret Service detail to pay $600K for golf carts and port-a-potties to use at his New Jersey club

Monday, June 30, 2025

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Donald Trump's Secret Service detail will spend more than $600,000 on golf carts and portable toilets at the president's New Jersey country club, economists warn that Trump's ICE raids on farms risk US food supply, and a hero dad jumped off a Disney cruise ship to save his daughter after she fell overboard.

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The Big Question 

Apologies for being the bearer of bad news, but the answer is a resounding… no.

"I need to be brutally honest here: putting an emoji over a child's face provides virtually no real privacy protection whatsoever," explains Lisa Ventura, an award-winning cybersecurity specialist and the founder of Cyber Security Unity. Instead, she adds, "this approach is more security theatre than actual security" – in other words, it's a way of performing your concerns about privacy, rather than doing anything truly meaningful to address them. Essentially, it might be a gesture that's more about the parents than the kids.

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