Felon Goes on Bizarre AI Posting Spree. Hello, 25th Amendment?

By Michael Woyton

Lots of stuff, supposedly from president donald j. felon*, gets reposted on social media.

Too much of it is fake, so it is always wise to check for oneself before clicking the share button and adding to the fakeness.

But when I saw a few posts from overnight, I had to put on my big boy pants and navigate over to his ironically named “Truth Social” site and see for myself.

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Now I can’t unsee what I saw, and it feels weird describing what the current nuclear codes-holder thought important enough in the dead of night to share with everyone.

There are several posts of the grifter-in-chief sporting “TRUMP 2028” hats, including one of a much younger real estate developer wearing a pink “Trump 2028 SAVE AMERICA” hat.

One post was of a “TRUMP 2028” coffee mug, surrounded by a crowd made up of the same person with his mouth wide open. It is not clear why the persons’ mouths are wide open; it could be because they are all screaming or maybe they are waiting for the mother bird to come feed them.

Other posts include the mango Mussolini saving George Washington who apparently fell off of Mount Rushmore; the adjudicated rapist standing in front of the White House shoulder to shoulder with JFK; and the convicted felon with three younger images of himself with the caption “The Man Who Saved America.”

It's mental illness from the most powerful nation on earth.Read that again.

Bill (@sporb.bsky.social) 2026-07-27T11:26:23.730Z

Several images show the five-time draft dodger in military settings, something so hilariously ironic that it needs no explanation.

Perhaps the most inexplicable post shows the Capitol Building on a dark and stormy night with lightning striking and a pool of murky water in the foreground. The caption? “PANIC IN D.C.”

Uh … whut?

Granted, it’s obvious he’s not creating these posts — hell, he famously will have emails printed out so he can use his Sharpie to write answers on them. 

But he is approving them for posting.

That is the state of what’s left of his mind.

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Speaking of state of mind, what were the Wall Street Journal reporters thinking when they were smiling at and shaking the hand of the pedophile who sent Jeffrey Epstein a birthday card.

The reporters were being honored for receiving the Katherine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner 2.0 Friday.

I don’t think they showed any courage or accountability by making nice to a reprehensible person who never misses a chance to belittle them.

The grip-and-grin starts around 1:30, but it’s fun/appalling watching the world’s most loathsome man shrug his shoulders when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said he sued the Wall Street Journal over the expose and included one of the reporter’s home address in the lawsuit, forcing her to move.

Odd moment. These WSJ reporters won the Katherine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability, for finding the alleged birthday card that Trump sent to Epstein. Trump has called the card a fake and there is a lawsuit.youtu.be/j4LFjgqQFcA?…

In the process. (@bill05487.bsky.social) 2026-07-26T19:27:58.157Z

I think Katherine Graham would have been disappointed in the reporters.

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Beshear Must Find Out Whether McConnell Is Still Senator

By Michael Woyton

Say you were a Democratic governor of a solid red state and one of your United States senators, a Republican, had been MIA for more than a month and wouldn’t respond to a query about his health.

I think that governor should ask, “WWMD?”

Yes, what would Mitch do?

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I assume you aren’t surprised that this is based on a real life-or-death situation happening right now in the state of Kentucky.

Gov. Andy Beshear has said that he has not heard from Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell or his office about the 84-year-old’s, well, aliveness, since he was taken to a hospital June 14.

The governor calls the lack of communication “concerning.” One wonders if he was doing an imitation of Maine Sen. Susan Collins.

“I haven’t heard a thing,” Beshear said Monday. “Not an email, not a letter, not a call, not a video… absolutely nothing.”

He said if someone has been in a hospital for a month, not showing up for work and missing all the Senate votes, that person owes the boss — the public — an explanation.

“It’s been reported that he’s had 20-minute conversations with different individuals, so call into a news station for 5 minutes or put out a short video,” Beshear was quoted by Newsweek as saying.

The governor has even said he got two calls “from separate agencies” saying that octogenarian senator was no longer among the living.

Gov. Andy Beshear must immediately go on the effin' offense, call a special election, and force a *public* proof of life of Mitch McConnell.

Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) 2026-07-19T18:20:36.346Z

Beshear as governor has the authority to call a special election when a senator dies in office, Daily Beast reported, “prompting several Democratic figures to call on Beshear to get a concrete answer on McConnell’s health — or just call a special election if he cannot.”

So just what would Mitch McConnell do if the roles were reversed?

He sure as hell wouldn’t have waited this long.

McConnell famously blocked Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016 to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for more than 10 months, saying the vacancy shouldn’t be filled until after the next presidential election.

He did a 180 when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died six weeks before the 2020 presidential election by bringing Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Senate and seeing her installed as a justice days before the polls were closed and the votes counted.

In other words, McConnell would not hesitate to do whatever he could get away with, which now seems to be pretending he’s alive until it’s too late to call for a special election which is 63 days before the general — or Sept 1.

Beshear is said to have presidential ambitions.

He needs to step up to the plate and find out whether the 84-year-old public official is still in the land of the living or if he’s received his eternal reward.

Show the people of Kentucky and the U.S. that you can make tough decisions and stop letting Mitch McConnell who has put party above everything else keep screwing over America.

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Congress to Felon’s Sycophants: ‘That’s Your Answer?’

By Michael Woyton

Whether it’s a required appearance before Congress or a necessary step in the advise and consent process, there is usually a combination of frustration and amusement hearing how those who live to serve the grifter-in-chief will perform when they know that the White House’s television machines are tuned in to their testimony.

Occasionally, there’s gold in some of the exchanges.

I can’t stop watching this video of Rep. Rashida Tlaib tearing Russell Vought a new one or two.

The Michigan representative was grilling the director of the United States Office of Management and Budget. Vought, of course, is an architect of Project 2025 and one of its key authors.

This is how it’s done.

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Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, was questioning president donald j. felon’s nominee for director of national intelligence Wednesday during the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing.

Jay Clayton repeatedly refused to answer Ossoff’s question as to who won the 2020 presidential election. He didn’t even offer the usual “Joe Biden was certified” evasion.

It’s been said that one of Ossoff’s remarks to Clayton will rival the rebuke made in 1954 by Army chief counsel Jospeh Welch to commie-hunting Sen. Joseph McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

Every one of the president’s sycophants should be asked how humiliating it must be.

Ossoff: “You refuse to answer a basic question about who won a presidential election? But you ask to lead America’s intelligence community? Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the president’s delusions?”

Kala Gardner (@nanakala.bsky.social) 2026-07-17T08:32:17.385Z

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And here’s another great way to question a nominee of the only president to have to pay $5.6 million to someone he raped. 

What did happen to you, Todd?

If you don’t feel your integrity being questioned like this, you must be 💯 corrupt and dead inside…..

Dutchy Patrick (@dutchiepatrick.bsky.social) 2026-07-16T05:08:14.485Z

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Felon to Lie to American Public Thursday in Primetime

By Michael Woyton

I’m not going to watch the speech from the Oval Office tomorrow night and I recommend you don’t either. 

By not watching in large enough numbers, we can show president donald j. felon* that he doesn’t have anything to say to us any more.

After all, dollars to donuts, when he opens his mouth he is lying. So why shouldn’t we assume whatever he’s going to talk about Thursday evening will not be the truth.

The mango Mussolini has been cagey, as is typical, about the speech’s topic or topics. Maybe he just can’t remember what it’s going to concern.

It’s being reported that the primetime address will “include a focus on elections, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden,” the Associated Press said.

It should help to remember that there were more than 60 court cases where judges examined evidence related to the election fraud claims from the 2020 general election and found there was no widespread fraud.

I'll go with logic.. #politics #logic

@bluevoter24.bsky.social 2026-07-15T11:45:26.866Z

It should also help to remember that the adjudicated rapist, who was just forced by a court to pay writer E. Jean Carroll more than $5.6 million in damages for sexual abuse and defamation, has been preoccupied with voting fraud and election security at least since 2016 when he lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College over Hillary Clinton.

Being the sore winner he is, he “convened a voting integrity commission to support his claims that widespread voter fraud cost him the popular vote,” the AP said, “though the commission disbanded without uncovering any such evidence.”

One would think the grifter-in-chief need only look in a mirror to find voter fraud in the 2020 election. He did, after all, call Georgia’s secretary of state and ask him to find 11,780 votes, which would have been enough to overturn Biden’s victory.

Sen. Lindsey Graham was even enlisted to pressure Georgia election officials to get creative in finding ways to toss out legal mail-in ballots.

The bottom line is the elderly golfer continues to relentlessly cast doubt on the validity of elections in the United States, but only when the elections don’t produce a victory for him.

He wants to require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote through the SAVE Act. He shut down the bipartisan federal Election Assistance Commission, and thinks his office should dictate how local elections are run.

And he cannot take a hint through his very own Department of Justice losing 15 lawsuits — and counting — seeking access to full voter records in such states as Virginia, New Mexico, Michigan and West Virginia. Just why does the DOJ need a state’s complete voter records?

He’s either scared that he is losing control or that he will never have the control that he really wants.

The American people have seen the man behind the curtain and their disgust is palpable.

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Was about to write this but @julieroginsky.bsky.social did it first: "Any television network with an ounce of integrity should refuse to carry Trump’s address live." They should delay, then fact-check the hell out of it, providing context, i.e. journalism saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-medias…

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) 2026-07-15T17:52:59.248Z

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Felon Has 1 Less Sycophant with Graham’s Death

By Michael Woyton

Sen. Lindsey Graham is dead.

As fictional President Jed Bartlett would say, “What’s next?”

Or maybe that should be “Who’s next?”

I know my money wasn’t on Graham shuffling off his mortal coil before a couple of other politicians, [cough, cough] Sen. McTurtle and the mango mussolini.

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Graham’s legacy will always be measured by how he chose to serve the current occupant of the Gilded Oval Office rather than his South Carolina constituents or even the American people.

He will be likened to other closeted persons such as Roy Cohn, the man who helped shape the grifter-in-chief to become the Russian asset he is.

Besides being known as a war hawk and quickly reversing his opinion of what really happened on Jan. 6, Graham has done the LGBTQ community no favors over his decades in Washington.

He voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as being between one woman and one man, voting years later against repealing the act. 

Graham voted against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which forced gay service members to conceal their sexual orientation in order to stay in the military.

He also voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would have prohibited workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

When the Supreme Court ruled for marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges, Graham said he opposed same-sex marriage, calling himself a “proud defender of traditional marriage,” but offered that he would abide by the decision.

He certainly didn’t take advantage of Obergefell; Graham died a life-long bachelor.

While there are those offering up kind words for the likes of Lindsey Graham, there will be none here.

Speaking of Roy Cohn, who would have thought we’d be back to a 1950s way of thinking when the actual calendar says it’s 2026?

With the administration of president donald j. felon* pushing anti-civil rights, anti-women, anti-anyone-other-than-cis-white-male, anti-abortion, the mango mussolini 

has been workshopping another derogatory name for anyone who is not squarely behind him kissing his tush.

No, we are beyond “dumocrats” at this point.

We’ve reached all the way back to the time of Sen. Joseph McCarthy who made it his business to call people he disagreed with “communists.”

Trump is as Christian as Democrats are Communists.There you go.

Brown Eyed Susan (@browneyedsusan.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T16:32:35.790Z

Because he’s panicking over not getting control of state election processes, the adjudicated rapist and convicted felon is fully embracing calling not just Democratic socialists or progressives but pretty much any Democrat a “communist.”

He has mentioned communism 80+ times over the past couple of weeks, The Washington Post editorial board said, calling it a “mortal threat to American liberty” and “the greatest threat to our country.”

Again, projection much?

A Cato Institute survey found that 38 percent of Americans under 30 have a favorable view of communism, while 53 percent of Gen-Zers said they view socialism favorably.

“Yet the reality is that most Americans simply don’t believe that American socialists want to create a Stalinist or Maoist dictatorship,” the Post’s editorial board said.

The board concluded that suggesting that “portraying the Democratic Party as ‘hardcore, godless communists’ — as Trump and other senior Republicans have done ahead of November — is likely to be no more effective than Democrats’ efforts to brand Trump a fascist before the 2024 election.”

Though, I would say that as ICE continues to kill people in the streets branding president donald j. felon* a fascist before the midterms might become more effective this time around.

You literally sound like a communist

Thor Benson (@thorbenson.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T14:59:02.014Z

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Felon Again Defames Sex Abuse Survivor, Reneges on Promise to Pay

By Michael Woyton

As the current occupant of the Oval Office tools around in his gifted 747 that we paid to refurbish, he must be celebrating all the money he’s making when he’s not pretending to be leader of the free world.

During the first year of president donald j. felon’s* second term in the White House, it has been reported that his various grifts businesses generated more than $2 billion in income in 2025 alone.

“That is more than triple his reported income from the year before,” PBS News reported, adding the biggest gains were from his family’s cryptocurrency ventures.

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When asked about the income, the liar-in-chief said something to the effect that it was put into a “blind account” and that he never speaks to any of the people who run it, “but they’re at big institutions” and the lucre is invested in whatever they invest in.

Sure, Scrooge McDuck, whatever.

At this point I think I’m legally, if not morally, obligated to remind everyone that Jimmy Carter voluntarily gave up control of his peanut farm while he was president in order to avoid conflicts of interest. When he regained control of the farm, there was massive debt.

In any event, the mayor of Mar-a-Lago is doing just fine money-wise — that and staying out of jail. Those were the reasons he ran for a second term, after all.

We can agree, I think, that making $2 billion in a year is pretty sweet.

It more than makes up for the fact that the adjudicated rapist voluntarily put $5 million and change into escrow when a jury award went to writer E. Jean Carroll in the first of her two defamation victories against him.

According to legal analyst Joyce Vance, at the time of the judgment, the president stipulated the money would go to Carroll “immediately” if the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal of the civil verdict.

On Monday, the highest court of the land said that it would not be taking up his appeal, leaving the judgment in Carroll’s favor.

Alas, Vance said, “Donald Trump, in fact, did not honor his agreement. He was not, yet again, a gracious loser. He has not paid up.”

He again, via social media, called Carroll’s claims of being sexually abused fake and said he had never met her, contrary to there being a photograph of them together.

The elderly golfer even had his lawyers brazenly contact Carroll’s attorney “to inquire whether Carroll would consent to a further stay of enforcement” so he could try to persuade the Supremes to reconsider taking up his appeal.

Not surprisingly, Carroll said she “does not consent.”

Translation: Pay up.

In her column, Vance expertly explained the process Carroll’s lawyers are using to force the president’s little hands, even asking a judge to shorten the time the president has to respond from 14 days to seven.

The judge agreed, so it’s up to the convicted felon to respond by July 7.

Tick tock, donnie.

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Felon Wanted to Deport Citizens; Supremes Barely Said ‘No’

By Michael Woyton

Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh.

These four Supreme Court justices do not believe the Constitution means what it says.

We know this now even more than we knew it yesterday or the day before that.

What happened today was a decision was handed down by the Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship to virtually all children born in this country, which is embedded in the Constitution.

While we cannot do anything about guns, because of the second amendment, SCOTUS decided it was just fine and dandy to rethink with its supermajority conservative panel whether someone who is born in the United States is actually a citizen of the United States.

We’ve seen what that conservative majority is willing to do to immigrants when they ruled 6-3 that temporary protected status can be removed by a president on a whim.

Up until this morning, we didn’t have any idea the U.S. was one vote away from deporting people born in the United States of America.

The president tried to rewrite the Constitution, and even his handpicked Supreme Court told him he went too far and reined him in. If you’re born in the United States, you are an American. Period. This should have never been up for debate in the first place.

Senator Tammy Baldwin (@baldwin.senate.gov) 2026-06-30T15:29:45.661Z

The question was brought to the Supremes because president donald j. felon*, that noted constitutional scholar who has never read the Constitution, doesn’t believe birthright citizenship as written in the 14th Amendment is guaranteed and issued an executive order barring it for “babies born in the U.S. to parents who either entered the country illegally or who are living and working here legally with temporary visas,” NPR’s Nina Totenberg reported.

The EO, issued on the grifter’s first day back in office, was never put into effect because, as Totenberg said, “every lower court judge who reviewed it concluded, in the words of one judge, that it was ‘blatantly unconstitutional’.”

That certainly begs the question as to why the Supremes wanted to waste their time on a question that lower courts said wasn’t constitutional.

Take another look at the names at the top of this column. My guess is that they wanted to help the orange makeup man “white-ify” the country.

Those four men, sometimes accompanied by Roberts and Barrett, are more than willing to bend their views of the Constitution to favor the felon-in-chief and help him enact the christian nationalism of Stephen “Temu Goebbels” Miller.

Yes, Kavanaugh voted to uphold birthright citizenship but he actually wrote a dissent to Roberts’ opinion offering a way for Congress to enact legislation that establishes exceptions to birthright citizenship. Once again, thank you, Sen. Susan Collins.

I realize that there have been calls for impeachment of a couple of Supremes. I’m dubious that could happen even if  the blue wave takes over both the Senate and the House.

Anyone seriously running for Congress or the presidency needs to stress the importance of — at the least — expanding the number of justices to the Supreme Court and setting term limits.

Thomas was appointed by President George H.W. Bush and took his place on the bench in 1991.

That is more than 34 years. Hell, the average life expectancy when the U.S. was founded was between 30 and 40 years.

Bottom line is that we need to end the out-of-control Supreme Court, and that begins with the midterms this November.

5-4 on "is the constitution constitutional" is a real hell of a judgement

Shivam Bhatt (@shivambhatt.bsky.social) 2026-06-30T15:27:53.950Z

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Hey, adjudicated rapist, pay up.

NEW: Supreme Court to Trump: You still owe E. Jean Carroll $5 million.www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u…

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) 2026-06-29T14:00:31.595Z

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Felon Says ‘Vandals’ Ruined Reflecting Pool, Refuses to Look in Mirror

By Michael Woyton

Let me get this straight. You illegally break into the Capitol Building, while trashing it and threatening elected officials, and you get pardoned.

You touch a piece of paint damaged during an ill-thought-out repair job on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and you can be charged with misdemeanor destruction of government property?

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Right now there are a zillion opinions about what went wrong with the Reflecting Pool that caused the massive algae bloom: the pool was sealed, the sealant wasn’t primed correctly, the paint was painted correctly, the water was from the Potomac River, too much hydrogen peroxide, not enough hydrogen peroxide, and on and on.

In the age of the internet, everyone’s an expert. 

What we know for sure is, a no-bid contract was issued to a company previously used by president donald j. felon* for one of his Virginia properties to renovate and paint the Reflecting Pool and and a second no-bid contract to install a filtration system in the pool was given to the owner of a company who donated extensively to the president’s campaign and associated groups.

Ironically, the company’s name is Green Water Solutions, so it sounds as if we got what we paid for.

And judging from the press photos and stories and social media, it doesn’t take a leap of faith to come to the conclusion that both companies massively failed at what they were supposed to do.

After it was announced the project was completed on June 6, algae growth quickly came back, and after hydrogen peroxide was poured into the pool, the blue lining began peeling off.

Who is the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist blaming for the pool resurfacing failure and algae growth?

“President Trump is now suggesting the issues at the Reflecting Pool are the work of vandals, posting on Truth Social that work will begin immediately to fix what ‘deranged, sick people’ have done,” Fox 5 DC reported. “U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has also alluded to something more than shoddy work being involved.”

Jeanine Pirro vows to track down the vandals who are wrecking the reflecting pool.This really should be easy….

Matt Wuerker (@mwuerker.bsky.social) 2026-06-22T16:44:29.159Z

While there were reports of multiple arrests made on Saturday, the U.S. Park Police has not responded to Fox 5 DC as to how many arrests were made and what the charges were.

One arrest made on Friday was that of three-time Olympian David Hearn who was riding his bicycle by the pool and stopped to see the damage himself, ABC News reported.

He said he saw a piece of the blue coating that was still attached to the bottom of the pool and reached out to touch it.

Hearn said a National Park Service employee told him to stop touching it and he walked back to his bicycle where a National Guardsman said the park police wanted to talk to him.

“I had no idea I was about to be arrested,” he told ABC News. “They didn’t say they were charging me, but they did start to handcuff me. They did not ever read me my rights.”

Hearn also said he wasn’t allowed to make a phone call while he was being held for five hours, nor did they detail what charges would be made against him. He is set to appear in court July 9.

Throw in a dead baby duckling — the poor thing was found floating in the algae-fouled waters, though the cause of its death is as yet unknown — and you have the consummate metaphor for the administration of a demented authoritarian known for never taking responsibility and whose minions are unwilling to point out that he has erred.

Someone who doesn’t much care for the rule of law and has been told by a corrupt Supreme Court that  he can do no wrong as long as its official government business will authorize — indeed, encourage — the arrest of “vandals” to cover up his own failings.

Surely, coming on the heels of a botched effort to bring about the unconditional surrender of Iran — after spending billions of taxpayer dollars — the elderly golfer’s Cabinet and GOPmaga leadership can see that the president doesn’t know what he is doing.

If it were a Democratic president who had caused all this havoc and failed so miserably, there were be no question of bringing up impeachment, much less invoking the 25th amendment.

The founding fathers never dreamed that a president so corrupt and incompetent would end up being continually supported under any circumstance by both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court.

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Interesting that in some countries bad ineffective leaders can be gotten rid of.

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

Thor Benson (@thorbenson.bsky.social) 2026-06-22T01:21:32.715Z

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A Real President’s Library to Open with Recognizable Talent

By Michael Woyton

Bruce Springsteen, Christina Aguilera, Common, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend and Stevie Wonder.

No, that isn’t the lineup for president donald j. felon’s* July 4 bund meeting 250th Anniversary rally.

You know how we know that isn’t a lineup for anything related to the adjudicated rapist and convicted felon?

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Because you’ve probably heard of Springsteen and the others.

The aforementioned artists, along with Eddie Vedder, Marc Anthony Marsai Martin, The Roots, Tems, U2’s Bono and The Edge, were announced as performers who will be appearing on stage at the Obama Presidential Center’s Grand Opening Ceremony Thursday in Chicago.

Photo courtesy of The Obama Foundation

“The ceremony will bring together global leaders, artists, changemakers, and citizens for an inspiring celebration of the values that shaped the Obama presidency and continue to power civic engagement across generations,” according to a news release.

Valerie Jarrett, CEO of The Obama Foundation, said the opening ceremony will be filled with music, performances and hope.

“The Grand Opening Ceremony will reflect a spirit of inspiration and joy, with a big boost from the performers who are sharing their talent with us,” she said. “We hope to inspire people everywhere to believe in their power to bring change home.”

Can’t make it to Chicago? The ceremony will be livestreamed beginning at 11 a.m. Central Time on obama.org and on The Obama Foundation’s TikTok, YouTube and Facebook accounts.

The Obama Presidential Center opens to the public on June 19 — Juneteenth. Unfortunately, museum tickets are sold out for opening weekend, but the rest of the campus is free and accessible for the general public.

Here’s an idea. Let’s all view the opening and drive numbers so high that the elderly golfer will have to tweet on his little social media site that nobody watched it.

BTW, the presidential library of the orange makeup man will be a “gilded glass tower” and could include a hotel and retail sales outlets.

One feature of Obama’s presidential library will honor civil rights and social justice leaders.

Just sayin’.

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Felon Defiles White House with Corporate-Sponsored Birthday Cage Match

By Michael Woyton

What better way to celebrate Flag Day, the 250th anniversary of the founding of our nation and the birthday of the oldest person ever elected president of the United States than by having a bunch of sweaty, over-testosteroned punks beat each other up in the backyard.

We all saw what was done to the South Lawn in preparation for the for-profit event which has been described as a “once-in-a-generation marketing opportunity” for the UFC.

A spider-like arch towers over the White House of president donald j. felon*, complete with lighting rigs, seating for 4,000 people and a giant LED screen, and there is nothing subtle about who is trying to cash in on the event, with corporate logos everywhere: Polymarket, Bud Light, Monster energy drink and Crypto.com to name just a few.

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“Inside a conventional UFC venue, the sponsorships would scarcely merit notice,” Time magazine reported. “But on White House grounds, they take on a different, more complicated character. Some ethics experts have questioned whether corporate branding from companies operating in industries subject to federal regulation creates uncomfortable optics when displayed on government property.”

Oh pish-tosh. This is an administration run by a 34-time convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who continues to enrich himself and his family while pretending to be the leader of the free world.

In other words, we don’t need no stinkin’ ethics and we don’t care about optics.

UFC fighters began their appearance in the Oval Office, with one of them draping himself in an American flag.

But the defining moment will likely be remembered as when heavyweight Josh Hokit chose to insult a former first lady by saying in post-fight remarks, “Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right, America?”

No, Mr. Hokit, no, you are not. You just proved what this administration stands for.

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Most people probably think the Hatch Act is a plan by the elderly golfer to lower the price of eggs.

The People’s House has entered its sponsorship era.The president owns UFC stock. A million-dollar fundraiser is tied to the event. Commemorative merchandise is already being sold.Is the Hatch Act just not a thing anymore?

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-06-15T02:36:25.539Z

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Does anyone not think that keeping the tarps up at the Kennedy Center is the 80-year-old baby’s way of saying “if my name can’t be on it, no one’s name can”?

This CNN photo seems to confirm that Trump is punishing the Kennedy Family and America for making him remove his name from the Kennedy Center—a name he put up illegally, knowing it was illegal to do so—by covering *Kennedy's* name via a *permanent* tarp.I hope he burns in Hell.

Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T02:31:11.347Z

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* 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.

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