The Fact Sheet reminds us that President Trump has worked throughout the 1st year of his 2nd term to ensure US Citizens have the lowest prices for their prescriptions:
On February 5, 2026, the White House published the article President Trump Showcases Historic Successes, Future Vision in Exclusive NBC Interview discussing President Trump's nearly hour-long exclusive interview with Tom Llamas, an NBC news anchor. President Trump touted his progress towards making the US greater than it has ever been. The article highlighted some key moments from the interview covering:
The interview covered other topics as well. Here is the extended 50 minute interview:
On February 5, 2026, President Trump attended the National Prayer Breakfast. In 1953, Abraham Vereide, Methodist minister and founder of International Christian Leadership, founded the National Prayer Breakfast to take place on the first Thursday in February. The event was attended by business and civic leaders in Seattle, Washington starting in 1935. When Abraham moved to Washington, DC, he included Congressmen to his already established business and civic leaders groups.
Of course, the loony left must attack this prayer event that started 91 years ago as a Prayer Breakfast, changed 73 years ago to Presidential Prayer Breakfast, finally becoming today's National Prayer Breakfast 56 years ago:
On February 2, 2023,NPR (which has been defunded for clearly partisan reporting) portrayed the National Prayer Breakfast that year as excluding the approximately 30% of Americans who are religiously unaffiliated.
In Section 1, EO 14205 acknowledges faith-based entities serve individuals, families, and communities using means separate from what the government does (or can do).
Section 2 amends EO 13198 signed January 29, 2001, EO 13279 signed December 12, 2002, EO 13559 signed November 17, 2010, EO 13280 signed December 12, 2002, EO 13342 signed June 1, 2004, and EO 13397 signed March 7, 2006 to reflect White House Faith Office instead of White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives or White House OFBCI and and Center for Faith instead of Center for Faith-based and Community Initiatives or Centers for Faith-based and Community Initiatives. This action standardizes the title of the office and the center.
Section 3 establishes the Faith Office, housed in the Domestic Policy Council, to empower faith-based entities. The Office is headed by a Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office and other positions the President deems appropriate.
Section 4 defines the functions of the White House Faith Office as:
(a) To the extent permitted by law, the Office shall:
(i) from time to time, consult with and seek information from experts and various faith and community leaders identified by the White House Faith Office and other EOP components, including those from outside the Federal Government and those from State, local, and Tribal governments. These experts and leaders shall be identified based on their expertise in a broad range of areas in which faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship operate, including protecting women and children; strengthening marriage and family; lifting up individuals through work and self-sufficiency, defending religious liberty; combatting anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and additional forms of anti-religious bias; promoting foster care and adoption programs in partnership with faith-based entities; providing wholesome and effective education; preventing and reducing crime and facilitating prisoner reentry; promoting recovery from substance use disorder; and fostering flourishing minds;
(ii) make recommendations to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, regarding changes to policies, programs, and practices, and aspects of my Administration's policy agenda, that affect the ability of faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship to serve families and communities;
(iii) convene meetings with representatives from the Centers for Faith and other representatives from across agencies as appropriate;
(iv) advise on the implementation throughout the Federal Government of those aspects of my Administration's policy agenda aimed at enabling faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship to better serve families and communities;
(v) showcase innovative initiatives by faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship that serve and strengthen individuals, families, and communities throughout the United States;
(vi) coordinate with all agencies to implement training and education throughout the country for faith-based entity grantees to build their capacity to procure grants;
(vii) support agencies in developing and implementing training and education regarding religious liberty exceptions, accommodations, or exemptions;
(viii) consult with public and private businesses regarding their policies for employee volunteerism, charitable giving, and payroll deductions;
(ix) coordinate with agencies on identifying and promoting grant opportunities for non-profit faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship, especially those inexperienced with public funding but that operate effective programs;
(x) work in collaboration with the Attorney General, or a designee of the Attorney General, to identify concerns raised by faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship about any failures of the executive branch to enforce constitutional and Federal statutory protections for religious liberty; and
(xi) identify and propose means to reduce burdens on the free exercise of religion, including legislative, regulatory, and other barriers to the full and active participation of faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship in government-funded or government-conducted activities and programs.
(b) Agencies shall, to the extent permitted by law, provide such information, support, and assistance to the Office as may assist the Office in fulfilling this order.
(c) The Directors of each Center of Faith shall oversee their respective agency's efforts to assist the Office in carrying out this order, and shall report on such efforts to agency leadership and the Office. Agencies that lack a Center for Faith shall designate or appoint a Faith Liaison within the agency to oversee the agency's efforts to assist the Office in carrying out this order and to report on such efforts to agency leadership and the Office. All such agencies shall designate or appoint such a Faith Liaison within 90 days of the date of this order.
It will be interesting to see what these, and other, anti-Christian groups have to say about this year's Breakfast. Here is President Trump's speech at the February 5, 2026 National Prayer Breakfast:
On February 6, 2026, the Office of the First Lady published the statement First Lady Melania Trump Announces 2026 White House Easter Egg Roll announcing the 148th White House Easter Egg Roll will take place April 6, 2026, on the South Lawn of the White House. Attendees will be families with children under 13 years of age. The White House Easter Egg Roll began in 1878 with President Rutherford B Hayes. For more info on the event visit the White House's Easter Egg Roll website.
If you want to attend, there will be an online ticket lottery which will open February 26, 2026 at noon ET and close March 4, 2026 at noon ET. Results will be announced March 10, 2026. There is no fee to enter the lottery. Only one application per household. Requires a minimum of 1 child under 13 plus 1 adult (maximum 2 adults per household). There is a limit of 6 tickets per household.
There are also volunteer Opportunities for this event. If you are interested in volunteering, you must do so online using the official volunteer application. Volunteer applications will close February 27, 2026 at 5pm ET. If selected, you will be notified by March 6, 2026 via email. You must be 18 years old or older. You must apply individually (group applications are not accepted). Volunteers are responsible for their travel, accommodations, and personal expenses. Final acceptance for volunteers is contingent upon a successful background investigation.
This year's event will have commemorative eggs which will be given to attending children. A 5-piece set is available for purchase through the White House Historical Association Shop either online or in person. However, the 2026 commemorative eggs are not yet listed on the website for sale.
Video from the White House's 2025 Easter Egg Roll feature President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump:
The Treaty of Alliance with France (aka Franco-American Treaty) was a military treaty formalizing France's financial and military support of the Continental government in the US. This treaty was signed by C A Gerard (France), Benjamin Franklin (US), Silas Deane (US), and Arthur Lee (US). In general, this treaty guaranteed to provide France with a defensive alliance should England attack them. Both France and the US agreed to not make peace with England until England recognized the independence of the US. France also agreed to recognize the US as an independent country upon successful conclusion of the Revolutionary War. The transcript of the treaty reads as follows:
The most Christian King and the United States of North America, to wit, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhodes island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, having this Day concluded a Treaty of amity and Commerce, for the reciprocal advantage of their Subjects and Citizens have thought it necessary to take into consideration the means of strengthening those engagements and of rondring them useful to the safety and tranquility of the two parties, particularly in case Great Britain in Resentment of that connection and of the good correspondence which is the object of the said Treaty, should break the Peace with France, either by direct hostilities, or by hindring her commerce and navigation, in a manner contrary to the Rights of Nations, and the Peace subsisting between the two Crowns; and his Majesty and the said united States having resolved in that Case to join their Councils and efforts against the Enterprises of their common Enemy, the respective Plenipotentiaries, impower'd to concert the Clauses & conditions proper to fulfil the said Intentions, have, after the most mature Deliberation, concluded and determined on the following Articles.
ART. 1. If War should break out betwan france and Great Britain, during the continuance of the present War betwan the United States and England, his Majesty and the said united States, shall make it a common cause, and aid each other mutually with their good Offices, their Counsels, and their forces, according to the exigence of Conjunctures as becomes good & faithful Allies.
ART. 2. The essential and direct End of the present defensive alliance is to maintain effectually the liberty, Sovereignty, and independance absolute and unlimited of the said united States, as well in Matters of Gouvernement as of commerce.
ART. 3. The two contracting Parties shall each on its own Part, and in the manner it may judge most proper, make all the efforts in its Power, against their common Enemy, in order to attain the end proposed.
ART. 4. The contracting Parties agree that in case either of them should form any particular Enterprise in which the concurrence of the other may be desired, the Party whose concurrence is desired shall readily, and with good faith, join to act in concert for that Purpose, as far as circumstances and its own particular Situation will permit; and in that case, they shall regulate by a particular Convention the quantity and kind of Succor to be furnished, and the Time and manner of its being brought into action, as well as the advantages which are to be its Compensation.
ART. 5. If the united States should think fit to attempt the Reduction of the British Power remaining in the Northern Parts of America, or the Islands of Bermudas, those Countries or Islands in case of Success, shall be confederated with or dependent upon the said united States.
ART. 6. The Most Christian King renounces for ever the possession of the Islands of Bermudas as well as of any part of the continent of North America which before the treaty of Paris in 1763. or in virtue of that Treaty, were acknowledged to belong to the Crown of Great Britain, or to the united States heretofore called British Colonies, or which are at this Time or have lately been under the Power of The King and Crown of Great Britain.
ART. 7. If his Most Christian Majesty shall think proper to attack any of the Islands situated in the Gulph of Mexico, or near that Gulph, which are at present under the Power of Great Britain, all the said Isles, in case of success, shall appertain to the Crown of France.
ART. 8. Neither of the two Parties shall conclude either Truce or Peace with Great Britain, without the formal consent of the other first obtain'd; and they mutually engage not to lay down their arms, until the Independence of the united states shall have been formally or tacitly assured by the Treaty or Treaties that shall terminate the War.
ART. 9. The contracting Parties declare, that being resolved to fulfil each on its own Part the clauses and conditions of the present Treaty of alliance, according to its own power and circumstances, there shall be no after claim of compensation on one side or the other whatever may be the event of the War.
ART. 10. The Most Christian King and the United states, agree to invite or admit other Powers who may have received injuries from England to make common cause with them, and to accede to the present alliance, under such conditions as shall be freely agreed to and settled between all the Parties.
ART. 11. The two Parties guarantee mutually from the present time and forever, against all other powers, to wit, the united states to his most Christian Majesty the present Possessions of the Crown of France in America as well as those which it may acquire by the future Treaty of peace: and his most Christian Majesty guarantees on his part to the united states, their liberty, Sovereignty, and Independence absolute, and unlimited, as well in Matters of Government as commerce and also their Possessions, and the additions or conquests that their Confederation may obtain during the war, from any of the Dominions now or heretofore possessed by Great Britain in North America, conformable to the 5th & 6th articles above written, the whole as their Possessions shall be fixed and assured to the said States at the moment of the cessation of their present War with England.
ART. 12. In order to fix more precisely the sense and application of the preceding article, the Contracting Parties declare, that in case of rupture between France and England, the reciprocal Guarantee declared in the said article shall have its full force and effect the moment such War shall break out and if such rupture shall not take place, the mutual obligations of the said guarantee shall not commence, until the moment of the cessation of the present War between the united states and England shall have ascertained the Possessions.
ART. 13. The present Treaty shall be ratified on both sides and the Ratifications shall be exchanged in the space of six months, sooner if possible.
In faith where of the respective Plenipotentiaries, to wit on the part of the most Christian King Conrad Alexander Gerard royal syndic of the City of Strasbourgh & Secretary of his majestys Council of State and on the part of the United States Benjamin Franklin Deputy to the General Congress from the State of Pensylvania and President of the Convention of the same state, Silas Deane heretofore Deputy from the State of Connecticut & Arthur Lee Councellor at Law have signed the above Articles both in the French and English Languages declaring Nevertheless that the present Treaty was originally composed and concluded in the French Language, and they have hereunto affixed their Seals. Done at Paris, this sixth Day of February, one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight.
Mutual most favored nation status with regard to commerce and navigation
Mutual protection of all vessels and cargo when in U.S. or French jurisdiction
Ban on fishing in waters possessed by the other with exception of the Banks of Newfoundland
Mutual right for citizens of one country to hold land in other's territory
Mutual right to search a ship of the other's coming out of an enemy port for contraband
Right to due process of law if contraband is found on an allied ship and only after being officially declared contraband may it be seized
Mutual protection of men-of-war and privateers and their crews from harm from the other party and reparations to be paid if this provision is broken
Restoration of stolen property taken by pirates
Right of ships of war and privateers to freely carry ships and goods taken for their enemy
Mutual assistance, relief, and safe harbor to ships, both of War and Merchant, in crisis in the other's territory
Neither side may commission privateers against the other nor allow foreign privateers that are enemies of either side to use their ports
Mutual right to trade with enemy states of the other as long as those goods are not contraband
If the two nations become enemies six months protection of merchant ships in enemy territory
To prevent quarrels between allies all ships must carry passports and cargo manifests
If two ships meet ships of war and privateers must stay out of cannon range but may board the merchant ship to inspect her passports and manifests
Mutual right to inspection of a ship's cargo to only happen once
Mutual right to have consuls, vice consuls, agents, and commissaries of one nation in the other's ports
France grants one or more ports under its control to be free ports to ships of the United States
Following the signing of these treaties, over 12,000 French soldiers, 22,000 French sailors, and 63 French warships assisted the Continental military in the Revolutionary War. French military leaders such as Lafayette and Comte de Rochambeau had decisive roles in the victories at Chesapeake and Yorktown hastening an end to the War. In 1783, France would play a leading role in brokering the Treaty of Paris (discussed in my January 15, 2026 ANP Article).
Silas obtained a full scholarship to Yale, graduating in 1758. By April 1759, he was a tutor for Edward Bancroft in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1761, Dean was admitted to the bar then practicing law outside of Hartford.
Silas gave up law, becoming a successful business merchant. His foray into politics began in 1768 when he was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives. In 1769, he was appointed to the Wethersfield Committee of Correspondence. From 1774-1776 he was a delegate to the Continental Congress. In 1776, Silas was replaced due to a disagreement over the appointment of Israel Putnam as a major general under George Washington.
On March 2, 1776, Silas was appointed by Congress to act as a secret envoy to France. The goal was to induce the French government to provide financial aid to the colonies. He was "outed" after Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee arrived in Paris. Benjamin brought orders from Congress appointing the 3 men as a diplomatic delegation to France.
Silas recruited several French soldiers to the US cause, including Marquis de Lafayette, Baron Johann de Kalb, Thomas Conway, Casimir Pulaski, and Baron von Steuben. However, the behavior of these French soldiers cause dissention and many in Congress blamed Silas for their behavior. This, among other issues, resulted in Silas' recall on December 8, 1777.
Silas' recall was precipitated by a March 4, 1778 delivery of a letter from James Lovell in which James informed Silas he would be giving a report to Congress leaving Silas to think he would be returning back to Paris after he gave the report. He returned to the US bearing a portrait framed with diamonds from Louis XVI as well as letters of commendation from Vergennes and Benjamin Franklin. Upon his arrival in Philadelphia on July 14, 1778, Congress presented him with accusations of financial impropriety based on reports by Arthur Lee. No final determination was made; but, that did not stop gossip claiming he was a traitor and embezzler. Unfortunately, Silas left his account books in Paris (thinking he would return after giving his report), so he was unable to properly defend himself from Lee's accusations. Nor could he seek reimbursement for his expenses while acting on behalf of the US government.
Silas was defended by John Jay. Silas refused the $10,000 in depreciated Continental currency as compensation because he believed the amount to be too small. Silas was allowed, in 1780, to return to Paris to settle his affairs as well as to assemble his financial records. Unfortunately, when he got there, he discovered his finances ruined because his investments fell and some of the ships carrying his merchandise were seized by the British.
In March 1781, Lord North received approval to attempt to bribe Silas, recruiting him as a spy. This plan was cancelled because they intercepted letters from Silas in which he wrote that the situation in the colonies was hopeless. These letters were published in Rivington's Royal Gazette in New York City, New York which resulted in Silas being accused of treason. However, Rivington may have been a spy as a member of the Culper Ring.
Silas became bedridden in fall of 1787 from an unknown illness which plagued him until April 1789. This time period depleted his remaining funds leaving him subject to the charity of friends. While he was ill, his account book was stolen, then offered to Thomas Jefferson for purchase (with the other option being selling the books to the British government). Thomas ultimately purchased the books at a greatly reduced price.
Silas died September 23, 1789 at age 51 from an illness acquired after boarding the ship Boston Packet in Gravesend, Great Britain to return to the US. Some suggest Silas was poisoned (most likely by Bancroft) over his upcoming testimony to Congress. He was interred in St Leonard's Churchyard in Deal, on the Kentish coast, England.
Silas' legacy was restored when it was proved that the audit by Congress was ex parte, erroneous, and a gross injustice to Silas Deane and his granddaughter, who brought the case, received $37,000 in 1841/2 (well over $1M in today's dollars).
One thing is certain, Silas Deane was instrumental in establishing relations between France and the US. And the subsequent settlement made with his granddaughter indicate that accusations of treason and financial impropriety were unfounded.
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