More often than not, a period of time passes after a president leaves office and the tea gets spilled.
Bad manners, things that pissed off someone, out-of-character reactions good or bad eventually turn up in books or extended magazine or newspaper articles.
So it’s refreshing to see a meltdown as it happens, or in the case of President donald j. felon* two days later.
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The adjudicated rapist was in Wisconsin Friday for an event focused on farmers — haven’t they suffered enough? Oh, wait, most farmers voted for him — and taped an interview prior to the event for Meet the Press with Kristen Welker that aired Sunday.
According to reporters at NBC News who fact-checked the elderly golfer’s “series of false, misleading or exaggerated comments,” he brought us many of his familiar claims.
He was asked about the increasing gas prices and claimed they would go down 1) if an agreement with Iran is signed or 2) “after we’re finished.”
NBC News said that oil executives have no such hopes, adding that restoration of oil production will take four to six weeks for the supply chain to normalize, even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens.
The man who encouraged the Jan. 6 rioters once again claimed the FBI brought people into the Capitol Building, in spite of the fact that, as Welker countered, there was no evidence the FBI ushered anyone into the building.
However, the topic that really got under the orange-tinted skin of the manbaby was election rigging — both in the 2020 presidential and the ongoing California primary elections.
Welker replied that “that’s not evidence,” and he accused the media of being “crooked,” lashing out at Welker with insults — his MO for dealing with women reporters.
The exchange is worth a listen:
WATCH: “Where’s the evidence? You’ve never presented any evidence.”Unhinged, lying Trump has a MELTDOWN and WALKS OFF when Welker refuses to let him get away with lying about rigged elections.Finally some pushback.
To her credit, Welker didn’t let him get away with calling her “crooked” or “stupid.”
He was unhinged all the way up to the time he said, “Thank you, darling. Have a good time” and left.
Here’s hoping that the convicted felon has a “good time” at the NBA finals at Madison Square Garden Monday night.
The assembled basketball fans, who are paying tons of money for tickets and are required to get to the arena two hours in advance because of heightened security, need to give him the appropriate greeting for someone as despicable as he always has been and continues to be.
* I’m following what the wannabe king declared on social media that he will only refer to the Supreme Court in lowercase because he has a complete lack of respect for them after the illegal tariffs ruling.
At one point, Iran and the United States were working on a deal. A moment later, Iran and the U.S. weren’t working on a deal. But don’t worry, the leader of the free world said he couldn’t care less if the negotiations are over.
The mayor of Mar-a-Lago is said to be backing off the idea of establishing a $1.776 billion “victimization” fund, but president donald j. felon* hasn’t confirmed it. The “backing off” comes in the wake of a court ruling halting the creation of the slush fund.
After multiple less-than-A-list musical artists said they were pulling out of the Great American State Fair concert because, surprise surprise, it wasn’t non-partisan as they were pitched, the adjudicated rapist said that maybe he’ll just turn the event into a maga rally and headline it himself.
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Shortly before midnight Tuesday, demented don posted again his brag about scoring 30 out of 30 on a cognitive assessment test and said that he looks 14 years younger than he is.
He also endorsed a bunch of GOP candidates via his little social media thingie including Rep. Tom Kean Jr. of New Jersey, saying Kean was “working tirelessly” for the people of the nation and “HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!” The president failed to mention that Kean hasn’t been seen publicly since March and has missed more than 100 votes in the House.
President Epstein Files may also be smarting over a few other decisions, such as a judge ruling against the secretary of war crimes’ decision to ban transgender service members, a judge finding that the president’s name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center and must be removed and the news that the prosecutor for the James Comey “86-47” seashell case stepped down without explanation.
I’m not saying he’s had a few bad days, but maybe the orange makeup man was a little upset when he made the head-scratching announcement that someone who has absolutely no military or intelligence background will add “acting director of national intelligence” to his resume.
Yes, Bill Pulte, who is best known for bringing charges related to mortgage fraud against the president’s political opponents, was chosen to succeed Tulsi Gabbard as the head of the U.S. intelligence and national security apparatus, Mediaite reported.
Pulte, who runs the Federal Housing Finance Agency and is chairman of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, referred New York AG Letitia James, Rep. Eric Swalwell, Sen. Adam Schiff, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to the Department of Justice to investigate them for mortgage fraud.
Since he was confirmed by the senate to his current position, he is eligible to be acting DNI and will be doing all three jobs.
You may remember that Bill Pulte is the guy who stalked people on the streets with disgraced current DOJ 'Pardon Attorney' and fmr far right "weaponization task force" director Ed Martin in order to "build" fake retribution mortgage fraud cases against them ..
Not surprisingly, there are concerns over Pulte’s appointment from both sides of political spectrum.
Conservative radio host Erick Erickson called Pulte “one of the worst members of the President’s team,” who has “convinced Trump to do more stupid stuff than anyone else in the past year,” Mediaite reported.
GOP operative Matt Mackowiak said the choice of Pulte was “indefensible,” while Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia said “the president has chosen an official who has demonstrated not just willingness but eagerness to use the authorities of government to pursue political retribution.”
So someone with no intelligence experience is the choice of a president who has no intelligence.
Fitting, isn’t it?
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Speaking of the Epstein files:
I can think of something that would make me really happy.
* I’m following what the wannabe king declared on social media that he will only refer to the Supreme Court in lowercase because he has a complete lack of respect for them after the illegal tariffs ruling.
I realize there’s not enough time in the day to answer that question — one I’ve been asking on a regular basis since I packed up and moved from the state many, many years ago.
Consider that the state’s Republican voters are just fine with sending someone to the United States Senate who is more unlikable than Ted “Cancun” Cruz.
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Ken Paxton is so corrupt that his own party impeached him (the Senate failed to convict him on any of the charges). Over the years, he’s been indicted on felony securities fraud charges, reported by his deputies to the FBI for abusing his office to help a political donor and accused of having an extramarital affair.
He’s a former school teacher who is studying for a divinity degree.
In a sign that the right is ultra-concerned about the matchup between Paxton and Talarico, lapdogs of the president such as RNC chair Joe Gruters and Stephen “Temu Goebbels” Miller have come out early mocking Talarico.
Gruters called him a “creep” and accused him of being a vegan.
Talarico countered with, “I’ve been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment.”
Miller assumed the shape of a 13-year-old boy to post “The Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender senate candidate.”
Here's the exchange between Stephen Miller and the Dem account. Katie Miller has no standing to complain about anyone else's political rhetoric after what her husband said.
When the official Democratic “Twitter” account called Miller an “ugly f*ck,” Miller’s wife called that “the same violent political rhetoric that is leading people to shooting up the White House Correspondents Dinner or President Trump in Butler.”
Miller’s wifey needs to do a little research and find out the political leanings of the people behind those two events, and she should definitely check out what the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist has said and posted in the last couple of years.
But, alas, with someone like president donald j. felon* in the White House, this is what we get these days in political discourse.
Former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll accused the president of sexual assault and defamation. He was found liable in both cases and was ordered to pay a total of $88 million. He has asked the Supreme Court to overturn one case and said he plans to do so in the second.
At issue, according to the DOJ, is whether Carroll committed perjury in connection with the suits she brought against the elderly golfer.
This is yet another example of demented donald going after people who have, in what’s left of him mind, wronged him.
We already have a process for determining whether accusers are credible. It’s called a trial. And a jury already decided they believed E Jean Carroll. THIS is weaponization. http://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u…
Does anyone really think that shutting down international flights to large cities in blue states is a good strategy for any time and not just right before the midterms?
Trump’s DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin just announced that they are “drawing up plans” to block all international flights into blue cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. thehill.com/homenews/adm…
* I’m following what the wannabe king declared on social media that he will only refer to the Supreme Court in lowercase because he has a complete lack of respect for them after the illegal tariffs ruling.
It’s refreshing that he is taking time out from lying constantly to occasionally speak the truth.
The real question is whether those who will be most affected by his realities will actually hear what he’s saying.
Probably not. The hardest of the hard core who believe the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist can do no wrong will keep on believing he can do no wrong.
To be honest, Johnson is likely afraid to say anything bad about the elderly golfer, so to him lying for the mango Mussolini isn’t really a sin.
Aside the primo ass-kissing by maga House leadership, things are not going well for the grifter-in-chief as far as the Senate setting up his little slush fund for J6ers.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, said he’s “not a big fan” of the so-called legal compensation fund, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, have respectively called it “utterly stupid,” a “galactic blunder” and a misuse of taxpayer money.
All the push back, as welcome as it is, could very well not continue. We’ll have to wait and see if GOP spines keep growing or gradually go by the wayside.
Could Congress — at least some of them — actually be listening to the public or are they seeing that they should be distancing themselves from the man who’s aced all those cognitive tests?
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Speaking of the Epstein files …
Donald Trump has NEVER sued someone for calling him a PEDOPHILE.Discovery would be his worst nightmare and reckoning.
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Ya gotta hand to the old mango makeup man. He just keeps setting new records.
Every day president donald j. felon* keeps raising the bar — especially in finding ways to benefit himself and his loved ones, if he truly loves anyone but himself.
The man who didn’t actually write “The Art of the Deal” negotiated a deal with himself, i.e., the government of which he is the head, to create a $1.8 billion fund, drawn from our taxes, “designed to compensate allies of the president who claim they were mistreated by the Biden Justice Department.” In case it’s not clear, those “allies” riot on his behalf at the Capitol.
The availability of that “Anti-Weaponization Fund” money has already got the sharks circling, with such notables as Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and pillow man Mike Lindell saying they deserve a piece of the slush fund. [A previous version of this column incorrectly said QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley wanted to be compensated from the fund; Chansley does not, but is suing the president for $40 trillion.]
I hope they realize just what their lord and savior more than likely intends to do with all that money, since the funds are designed to doled out by a specially chosen five-person commission that the convicted felon acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will appoint.
We’ve seen what the elderly golfer is like when there in even a whiff of money around, so it is safe to assume that he will be the beneficiary of most if not all of the $1.8 billion.
Because … why not?
Tucked into that agreement to “compensate” those who smeared feces on the walls of the Capitol Building was another eye-popping agreement.
And if that is not enough — for the grifter-in-chief there is no ceiling — it was revealed that more than 3,700 stock trades were made under the president’s name in companies “like Meta, Amazon, and Disney, among others worth up to around $750 million in just the first three months of this year.”
As PBS reported, that is “on top of crypto ventures tied to the Trump family that have reportedly made more than $1 billion in profits so far.”
How much is a gallon of gas where you live?
People said that this real estate/reality show con artist was just running for president to stay out of jail.
Maybe that was true at a time before the corrupt Supreme Court ruled that he pretty much was immune for everything. That and the inability of Congress to say “no” to him.
So he decided that the time was right to literally cash in and become the all-time most corrupt politician in the history of the world.
Keep setting those records, donnie. It’s what you’ve shown you’re good at.
I cannot believe that Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, saw fit to commute the sentence of crooked election denying Tina Peters. What a jerk.
The Colorado Democratic Party censured Gov. Jared Polis for his commutation of Tina Peters in a vote of ~200 state committee members tonight. A resolution declaring Polis "materially harmed" the party and barring him from formal participation in party events was adopted with 89.8% support.
* I’m following what the wannabe king declared on social media that he will only refer to the Supreme Court in lowercase because he has a complete lack of respect for them after the illegal tariffs ruling.
* I’m following what the wannabe king declared on social media that he will only refer to the Supreme Court in lowercase because he has a complete lack of respect for them after the illegal tariffs ruling.
It’s amazing how the owner of a social media site with the ironic name of Truth Social is so infrequently used to impart messages that contain truths.
Yes, I’m talking about president donald j. felon* who has been posting some really out there things on the money-losing site.
Pro Tip: If you don’t want to sully yourself by actually giving Truth Social any clicks, Roll Call has a searchable social media archive of the president’s postings.
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Such as an American flag superimposed over the country of Venezuela with the caption “51st State.” It is not and never will be.
Such as saying it’s “TREASON” for a news organization to report that we haven’t completely devastated Iran’s military ability.
Such as AI slop of former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden along with former House speaker Nancy Pelosi — “Dumacrats” all, according to the grifter-in-chief — floating in a garage-filled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Such the adjudicated rapist saying he didn’t know the contractor who was given the no-bid job on the Reflecting Pool, when it was a firm that had worked on swimming pools at his Sterling, Virginia, golf club. And BTW, the cost of the “renovation” of the Reflecting Pool has jumped from $1.8 million to $13.1 million.
Such as reposting someone else who called “for the arrest of Barack Obama, accusing the former president of treason, without evidence.”
I'm not kidding when I say the news media ought to say, "Trump, who has a long history of lying, said today …"Noting Trump's well-established dishonesty would be valuable context. It would be a public service.
NPR did an analysis of the first four months of 2026 of the president’s “obsessions” on social media May 8.
The news organization found that the president posted 2,249 times during those first four months, averaging just under 19 posts per day.
NPR highlighted an April 9 post that ran 2,700 characters — remember the good old days of being limited to 140 characters? — where the elderly golfer insulted a host of right-wing commentators, but also brought up a whole other range of topics, like Iran, election results, media outlets he hates and his approval rating.
Instead of calling the constant postings what it is, i.e., being batshit crazy and a total media whore, NPR said “the president’s posting can be seen as an extension of his communications strategy of simply communicating a lot.”
That said, the orange makeup man actually told a truth and it wasn’t on Truth Social.
Before he flew off to China, he was asked if he took the financial situations of Americans into consideration when trying to make a deal with Iran to end the war.
Trump on Iran War:Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal?Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation
To the surprise of those who only think that anything coming out of his sometimes drooping mouth can only be a lie, the grifter-in-chief actually told a truth.
“Not even a little bit,” he truthed, adding that he does not think about Americans’ financial situation.
Hey, Dems, the president just wrote your next campaign ad. Make sure you use it wisely and often.
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Sometimes the news just makes you shake your head. Sometimes it makes you shake your fist. Here are some of the recent WTF! headlines.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said that his court — with a six ultra right wing Conservative majority — isn’t political.
So says the chief justice who continues to allow a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, not to mention Pal O’Epstein, to have complete immunity.
Maybe we should ask majority-Black congressional districts which the court said could up and disappear what they think about Roberts and his SCOTUS buddies.
There is something deeply pathological about Chief Justice Roberts insisting the Supreme Court isn’t political while sitting atop the most ideological supermajority in modern history.
If Ka$h Patel, who has never ever been drunk but has his own brand of bourbon, why didn’t James Comey come out with his own line of seashells?
On the same day it was announced that the FBI was investigating journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick after her devastating article on Kash Patel and alcohol…Sarah Fitzpatrick publishes yet another article on Kash Patel and alcohol.GIFT ARTICLE to read/share.www.theatlantic.com/politics/202…
War. What is it good for? Apparently it’s gangbusters for oil companies.
Shell reported huge profits following the surge in oil prices prompted by the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. The earnings were more than double the previous quarter’s and follow similarly strong results of rivals.
* I’m following what the wannabe king declared on social media that he will only refer to the Supreme Court in lowercase because he has a complete lack of respect for them after the illegal tariffs ruling.
During his first run for president, donald j. felon* said that he loved the “poorly educated.”
He had just won the Nevada Republican caucuses in February 2016, and in a victory speech, he said, “We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.”
That was one of many statements he made during the campaign that should have disqualified him for the highest office in the United States.
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But it may very well be the one statement that lives on in what is left of his mind.
All that he’s done, particularly in his second term, is evidence that he wants to keep the people who support him as “poorly educated” as possible.
Look at the constantly changing rationale for the illegal war with Iran. He’s given the American public no consistent reason for the very expensive and deadly bombing.
Look also at the constantly changing rationale for his ever-more expensive ballroom. It’s gone from presidents have wanted this for 150 years to a facility from which he will never emerge due to constant assassination attempts.
And the cost of said ballroom has gone from $200 million — all paid by donors — to $400 million, with the Senate actually proposing to spend $1 billion — yep, that’s not a typo — in taxpayer funds for security upgrades.
Both the president and the Senate must think that we all are “poorly educated” if we are supposed to believe that is necessary.
Even today during a television appearance on Fox Business, the president’s chief financial advisor Kevin “Smiley” Hassett beamed when he said that credit card spending is through the roof now.
“They’re spending more on gasoline, but they’re spending more on everything else, too,” he said.
The “they” he’s referring to, that’s you and me. Hassett, and through him the president, wants us to believe that everything’s coming up more expensive roses and that is a good thing.
But the elderly golfer’s, as well as that of his administration’s, disdain for the American people has not been shown to be more apparent than the decision by the Food and Drug Administration to block publication of studies that support the safety of vaccines against COVID-19 and shingles, according to the New York Times. Not only do they want us “poorly educated”; they want us sick or dead.
The studies, paid for with millions of dollars of taxpayer funds, were conducted by FDA scientists who worked with data firms that analyzed millions of patient records.
The studies found serious side effects to be “very rare” and that both vaccines were safe.
A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services said the studies were withdrawn because “the authors drew broad conclusions that were not supported by the underlying data.”
“The withdrawal of the studies is the latest step by the administration to try to limit access to vaccines,” the Times said. “It has sharply cut research funding for vaccine development, released unvetted information casting doubt on vaccines, and blocked other information supporting their safety, most recently a paper on Covid vaccine effectiveness by career scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
That the conclusions didn’t support the data, according to opinions of administration officials, is highly suspect.
Keep in mind that “Health” Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., whose history shows he has promoted easily disproven anti-vaccine claims, has allowed the release of information critical of vaccines, citing lower standards.
A memo by Dr. Vinay Prasad, the former head of the FDA’s vaccine division, “drew widespread news coverage by claiming that the Covid vaccine had been linked to the deaths of 10 children, a conclusion the agency has not backed up or explained,” the Times reported.
That is what this administration continues to do, from the demented blitherings of the adjudicated rapist all the way down to his minions/toadies.
They lie constantly, never giving the public the real story, and expect us to swallow it hook, line and sinker — like the “poorly educated” they assume we all are.
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Maybe — just maybe — more of the “poorly educated” are seeing that the convicted felon isn’t all that he seems to be.
Even the daily Rasmussen Report, which is widely known for leaning toward a conservative bias, showed Wednesday that only 23 percent of likely voters strongly approve of the job the president is doing, while 48 percent strongly disapprove. That gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -25.
An NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll released Wednesday said that an increasing proportion of Americans say they now disapprove of how trump is handling the war with Iran and that the military action has done more harm than good.
According to Marist, 60 percent of Americans disapprove of the president’s handling of Iran, up from 54 percent in March. Only 33 percent approve. The poll said that while 72 percent of Republicans approve of the president’s approach, more members of the GOP now disapprove (22 percent) than in March (15 percent).
Regarding the U.S.’s role on the world stage, 62 percent of Americans believe we are now weaker due to the president’s decisions. Only 38 percent think the country stronger.
People aren’t thrilled with the economy either. The poll showed that 61 percent of Americans disapprove how the president is handling the economy, up from 58 percent in March.
Additionally, more than eight in 10 Americans said they feel either a major strain (33 percent) or a minor one (48 percent) on their household budget because of the current price of gas. Only 19 percent said they feel no strain at all.
Who is getting the blame for gas price increases? Sixty-three percent of residents nationally place a great deal or good amount of blame on the man in the Oval.
Marist surveyed 1,322 adults from April 27 to April 30. The margin of error is ±3.1. See the full poll through this link.
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JK, I know there was a “60 Minutes” interview where president donald j. felon* said he wasn’t a rapist or a pedophile.
Oh, and there was the incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, too.
CBS’ Nora O’Donnell committed an act of journalism during the interview by reading a portion of an email reportedly written and sent by Cole Tomas Allen, the man arrested after being accused of charging a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday.
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In the so-called manifesto, Allen laid out his rationale for the actions he’s been accused of taking.
After saying he was a “citizen of the United States of America” and “What my representatives do reflects on me,” he wrote, “And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
The last part of that sentence is what O’Donnell read to the president during the interview.
O'DONNELL: In his manifesto, he wrote that 'I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, & traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.' TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from a sick person. You should be ashamed of yourself, reading that. You're a disgrace.
You’ll see and hear the derogatory tone the elderly golfer-in-chief takes with O’Donnell, telling her that she should be ashamed of herself and that she’s a disgrace.
But, to her credit in this instance, O’Donnell asks the perfect question: “Oh, do you think he was referring to you?”
Allen did not mention the mango makeup man by name, but the mango makeup man obviously knew who Allen was referring to.
And one more thing, please prove to us that you are not a pedophile and release all the Epstein files with your name not redacted so we can see if you are telling the truth.
It’s continues to be difficult to believe anything you say if you continue to try to cover up what you’ve done.
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The first “lady” has the sadz over something Jimmy Kimmel said.
In a social media post Monday, flotus accused the late-night talk show host of spewing “hateful and violent rhetoric” about her family.
“People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,” she wrote in response to who knows what, likely the comedian’s mock correspondents’ dinner monologue.
See Kimmel’s whole monologue through the link here.
My response to Melania: “I really don’t care.”
Here’s the brilliant Ann Telnaes’ take.
Another attack on satire, this time by Melania Trump. And note that this is another example of trying to silence speech through control of the news media.
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