July 1, 2025: Ah, summer. Baseball. Hot dogs. Trips to the beach. And Trump grifting. The president gets the month off to a perfect Trumpian start, announcing he will be selling new “Trump fragrances,” called “Victory 45-47.”
Spray this shit all over your body (and it comes in men’s and women’s choices) and you will know that nothing smells so much like “Winning, Strength, and Success,” as the crap Donald wants you to buy.
You can even spray it in your new Alligator Alcatraz hat, our spray it in your Trump brand golden tennis shoes.
Yours for only $249 per bottle.
What a steal!
Also for sale: A special limited-edition cologne for men, called, “Fight, Fight, Fight,” which comes in a generous 3.3 oz. bottle. Yours for only $425.
The blogger would like to suggest a new fragrance, to be sold under the Trump imprimatur: “Smells like Fascism.”
Today, the president suggested that what he’d really love to do would be to start deporting American citizens. You know, he told reporters, “We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that’ll be the next job.”
Priceless!
FUN WITH
FOOLS: The president also found time in his busy day to post a video of himself as a
patriotic-themed rock star, playing the guitar with a vengeance, accompanied by
scantily clad patriotic ladies.
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7/2/25: The January 6 rioters continued to cover themselves in shame. Today, Edward Kelley – he of the blanket presidential pardons in January – is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.
As The New Republic reports:
Kelley
was convicted on the
charges of conspiracy to murder federal employees, solicitation to commit a
crime of violence, and influencing a federal official by threat.
Kelley received his sentencing in front of
more than a dozen of the targets on his “kill list,” which had specifically
taken aim at individuals working at the FBI’s headquarters in Knoxville,
Tennessee.
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Speaking of “shame,” President Trump paid tribute to Jimmy Swaggart, 90, who passed away this week.
“He was an incredible Man of Faith and, as our Nation’s longest serving Televangelist, inspired millions with his Great Love of God and Country,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “Jimmy will be deeply missed!”
What Jimmy was, for real, was a great hypocrite who attacked other leading evangelists for having affairs – and then got caught having affairs of his own. Swaggart also spent lavishly on cars and clothes and palatial homes – and on prostitutes. Jimmy really liked the whores, and was caught multiple times cheating on his wife.
(Trump’s kind of preacher, for sure.)
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7/3/25: The jobs report is better than expected. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 147,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in June. April and May numbers were adjusted, with 16,000 more jobs added than had been thought. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1%.
That brings the total for the first six months this year (subject to slight revisions) to 782,000 jobs added.
Trump magic, baby – 130,000 jobs per month!!!
In the first six months of 2024, we should note that 985,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy, under “Sleepy Joe” Biden.
According to my
math, that would be 164,167 jobs per month – which I believe (blogger
checks his glasses) would be, um…better.
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On a positive note,
the Dow Jone average is up more than 300 points, when I check just before noon.
At 44,814.63, it’s a new record high.
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In other news, Republicans manage to push through Donald’s budget bill, which they swear will put deficit spending into reverse. We will save gazillions, and our children and their children will sing our praises after we are gone.
I decide to check the U.S. Debt Clock – which is always fun. At 3 p.m., give or take a minute, I snap a photo.
The numbers move fast, and never stop rising, but at that moment the national debt tops out at $37,057,124,980,792.
That comes out to $108,111 per person – for every citizen, of every age and sex, in this country.
Team
Trump says the new budget bill is going to save us $1.6 trillion, not add to
the debt. So I will check back periodically in the next four years, and I will be
thrilled to see those numbers go twirling in reverse.
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7/4/25: President Trump covers himself in shame once again, on the eve of this day celebrated by all Americans.
In a speech in Iowa, he wallowed in the hatred he feels for so many of the people he was elected to serve and did his best to rev up the anger the MAGA folks might feel for the targets of his bile.
Taking aim at Democratic lawmakers who had voted against his “Big, Beautiful Budget Bill,” he boiled. “They wouldn’t vote only because they hate Trump, but I hate them, too, you know that?”
“I really do. I hate them,” he repeated. “I cannot stand them, because I really believe they hate our country, if you want to know the truth.”
As the Daily
Beast notes, the president’s “tone was strange given that the event, on the
eve of July 4, was organized as a non-political celebration. Trump’s liaison to the
organizing group, America250, said that it was designed to bring Americans
together.” Which President Bozo did not.
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Sadly, in Central Texas, tragedy strikes, in this case in the form of a raging flood. Scientists have warned that climate change will lead to an increase in abnormal rainfall, and cause catastrophic floods to occur more frequently, and areas along the Guadalupe River saw ten inches of rain in a few hours. The river rose so rapidly that rescue operations hardly had time to act. An all-girls Christian camp was inundated by roaring water – and between 23 and 25 youngsters are missing.
We also know that 24 people are dead.
At times like this, hearts go out to all the families who have suffered great loss, and we are reminded once more that good people of all political persuasions stand ready to help. We live in a good country, surrounded by good people.
That’s my takeaway for the day.
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Eloise Peck, left, Lila Bonner, right – missing tonight. |
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7/5/25: Donald Trump rises from his bed this morning, knowing that he has achieved one of his main goals – to make sure the federal deficit does not grow during his second term…
Okay, no. Not that goal.
To protect the environ…
No. He doesn’t care about the environment.
To pass whopping new tax cuts for billionaires (including himself) – yeah, that’s the one. As he has been insisting since the bill was signed, just before the July Fourth weekend, everyone will love this bill. The American people will be so happy, they will clamor for Donald’s face to be added to Mt. Rushmore – maybe by chipping off Abraham Lincoln to make space.
Ah, reality. What a pain.
Last week, CNN took note of results from several polls. According to the Washington Post the Big, Beautiful Budget Bill had a net approval rating of -19 percent. Pew Research Centre had it at -20, Fox News at -21, Quinnipiac University at -26, and the Kaiser Family Foundation at -29.
That would put the bill just
ahead of leprosy.
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7/6/25: Thank God! Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is on watch and ready to do her part to help the people of Texas, now reeling from a flooding disaster along the Guadalupe River. Congresswoman Greene, ever ready to trot out some bizarre new conspiracy theory, is prepared to pounce.
I mean “act.”
In the wake of this tragedy – 67 known dead, so far – she proudly announces: “I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense. I have been researching weather modification and working with the legislative counsel for months writing this bill. It will be similar to Florida’s Senate Bill 56. We must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering. This is not normal.”
Greene is correct, but for the wrong reasons. Scientists have repeatedly explained how climate change will alter weather patterns, including making disastrous rain events more common. The science is not complicated – and even Greene can probably grasp it, assuming she gets her head out of her ass.
Weather
predictions were calling for up to five inches of rain before the flood
developed. Instead, the Texas Hill Country got ten –in some places fifteen.
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7/7/25: Attorney General Pam Bondi stuns the MAGA faithful when she announces that there is no list of clients for Jeffrey Epstein.
And Epstein committed suicide.
Weeping can be heard in all corners of Trumpistan. The MAGA faithful were sure a million Democratic pedophiles were going to be revealed.
They were sure Obama would be outed as the person who ordered Epstein killed in his jail cell.
(Even though Trump was president when Epstein died.)
It was almost as if all the MAGA talk about Epstein and Democrats, and child-trafficking rings was horse manure.
And you had to wonder why Bondi once said that she had “the list” of Jeffrey’s clients on her desk.
She even staged a White House photo op, calling in several “influencers” and handing them big fat binders marked “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” – and the MAGA believers danced in the streets – and waited for the forces of Satan to be revealed.
And now?
Zippo.
The denouement was so embarrassing that when the Justice Department and the FBI released a two-page memo announcing the end of the investigation, it was not signed by any individual official.
Whoever wrote the memo simply said, “One of our highest priorities is combatting child exploitation and bringing justice to victims. Perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of those ends.”
The blogger could have told you that four years ago, when the right wingers started telling their tall tales.
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Donald and Melania, left with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, right. |
(Note: The blogger would love to see every one of Epstein’s clients go to jail.)
(There can be little doubt that powerful individuals are
avoiding justice.)
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7/8/25: During a cabinet meeting today, reporters keep asking about the on-and-off investigation of Jeffrey Epstein – now officially off, after Attorney General Pam Bondi’s announcement yesterday. When a reporter tried to put a question to Bondi, The Dumpling bristled, then answered for her. “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” he glared at the questioner. “This guy’s been talked about for years. Are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable.”
He continued with his attack, adding, “I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, when we’re having some of the greatest success, and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration.”
(So, yes, Mr. President, they’re still talking.)
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In other news, Donald dipped into his bag of authoritarian tricks, when he suggested that if the wrong person were elected mayor of New York City, he might have to step in. (He did not offer authoritarian details.)
As he put it for reporters, the president said, “We’re not going to have – if a communist gets elected to run New York, it can never be the same. But we have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to.”
Okay, follow along closely, my MAGA friends:
1. If a mayor is elected – sorry, that’s how it works. The voters choose their leaders, not Donald J. Trump (even if he did try to steal the 2020 election for himself.)
2. The U.S. Constitution specifically grants to the states, power over times and places, and general rules, regarding federal elections.
3. The Constitution does not say, if a president doesn’t like a winning candidate, that the president can take over a city.
4. Or a state.
5. The Constitution is silent regarding federal interference in state and local elections. Therefore, one must revert to the Tenth Amendment. You can read it for yourself. So could Donald. It’s only twenty-eight words:
“The
powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
6. If you’re not getting it, that means, if the people of New York City elect a communist, that’s their business.
7. If the people of Oshkosh elected a member of the American Nazi Party, or the people of Bismarck elected a socialist, or the people of Little Rock elected a Scientologist, no president would be empowered to negate such results.
8. The president needs to figure this out: It’s called “separation of powers,” which involves dividing power among the three branches, but in also dividing power between federal, state and local governments.
Dear Donald,
See how easy this is?
Sincerely,
The Blogger
FUN FACT: The “communist” Donald is worried about is Zohran Mamdani, who is a member of the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Socialist Party, That last is not the same as Mamdani being a communist, no matter how often Trump and his right-wing buddies want you to believe it is.
You can call a mailbox a “communist mailbox,” or a leprechaun a “communist leprechaun,” but that doesn’t make what you say so.
As an authoritarian bonus, President Trump also suggested that “we” (as in the folks at the White House) could take over Washington D.C. and run it, and everything would be great. The blogger would like to point out, once more, that D.C. has no voting powers in Congress. What it does have, however, is more people than either Wyoming or Vermont. But those states’ populations are mostly white folks.
So, Republicans don’t ever want D.C. to become a state.
(In case you were looking for a 51st state.)
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I’m not sure you could make this up, but Marjorie Taylor Greene is in the news again. This time, her goal is to save the Utah plastic surgeon who decided not to give children the COVID vaccines – but to make it appear as if he had. You know, by lying, and signing fake documentation.
As Marge explains on X:
I am
writing a letter to the DOJ asking all charges be dropped against Dr. Kirk
Moore. who is facing thirty five years in federal prison for destroying
thousands of vials of COVID-19 vaccine, giving his patients vaccine cards
without taking the shots, and injecting saline into children whose parents
wanted them to believe they got vaccinated without risking the deadly side
effects. This man is a hero, not a criminal.
So. Sure. Kid skips vaccination. Gets fake card saying he or she did. Gets COVID. Infects grandma.
Grandma goes over the rainbow.
Dr. Moore is a hero!
I think Congresswoman
Greene forgets that the spreading infection killed more than 1,131,000 Americans.
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As for Donald, he ended the day pumped, to know, as he posted on Truth Social, that a four-mile stretch of road in Palm Beach County had been renamed “PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BOULEVARD.”
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7/9/25: Never a dull minute in Trumpistan. CNN is reporting that Donald Dumpling recently told an adoring audience of dinner guests at Mar-a-Lago that he had once threatened to “bomb the shit out of Moscow” if Putin invaded Ukraine.
This was Machismo Donald in action –or so The Dumpling bragged – during his first term. So, as he was telling the tall tale, he kept Putin from invading until a weaker Joe Biden took office. Today the Kremlin didn’t deny the story – although it kind of did. That is, the Russians said they couldn’t verify the CNN report.
Did Donald really tell his dinner guests that he scared Putin away, by threatening to touch off World War III?
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not say, however, that, yes, Donald made that threat, and that Russia quailed in fear.
Meanwhile, Donald continues not to end the war in Ukraine, which he said he promised he could do in one day. And he blames Vladimir, with whom he used to say, he got along great. Like two peas in the authoritarian pod.
“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump grumbled to reporters. Vlad? Yeah. “He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
(Who else could have told Donald this – besides the humble
blogger, himself?)
Days since Donald said he could end the war in one day, starting from 11/5/24):
246.
FUN FACT: In July 2015 – and by that time Russia had already invaded and taken over Crimea – Donald still had a soft spot in his heart for Vlad. If elected, he said, “I think I’d get along very well with Vladimir Putin. People say, ‘what do you mean?’ I just think I’d get along well with him.”
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In unrelated Dumpling news, Team Trump has now reset the record for most measles cases in one year, at 1,288, since 2000, when the disease was declared eradicated in the United States.
The old record for measles cases, in the twenty-first
century was also held by Team Dumpling, set in 2019.
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7/10/25: Not content to just be president, Donald Trump has warned Brazil that he will slap a fifty percent tariff on all their goods, unless they promise not to put Jair Bolsonaro, their corrupt former president, on trial. In a valiant effort to make us hated in yet another country, The Dumpling warns the current president of Brazil about a “Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY!”
As per usual, President Trump sides with the bad guys of the globe: Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, Rodrigo Duterte, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and now Bolsonaro, who stands accused of trying to pull off a coup.
(You know: Like January 6.)
FUN FACT: The Dumpling lost his appeal on Thursday, related to his battle to have a defamation award of $5 million, to E. Jean Carroll, set aside. He now has 90 days to carry his case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
(I’m not sure even Justice Clarence Thomas will be able to vote
on Trump’s side.)
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Also, the White House posted this today – clinching the idea that some of the sycophants at work there today have no shame.
Nor does Donald himself.
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To hold
the powerful to account.
7/11/25: Donald Dumpling upped his attacks on the free press on Friday, when a reporter for CBS News dared to ask about the federal government’s response to the flooding disaster in Texas.
For example: You might wonder why, David Richardson, the current head of FEMA, had not yet visited the disaster zone?
Or why, on June 26, Trump had insisted that FEMA should be abolished – but now said it shouldn’t?
Or could it be that federal agencies like the National Weather Service would have been able to give better warnings, had staffing not been gutted by DOGE cuts? That was essentially the question that was asked.
It could be that nothing more could have been expected in the face of a once-in-a-thousand-year flooding disaster; but Trump didn’t care to explain. He certainly didn’t care that the free press must often work to hold government accountable. Nah. He simply lashed out:
Only a
bad person would ask a question like that, to be honest with you. I don’t know
who you are, but only a very evil person would ask a question like that. I
think this has been heroism. This has been incredible, really [he motions to
Texas officials], the job you’ve all done, it’s easy to sit back and say, oh,
what could have happened here? There? You know, maybe we could have done
something differently. This was a thing that has never happened before, and
nobody’s ever seen anything – I’ve never seen anything like this.
So, to recap:
A) One of the primary roles of a free press is to hold the powerful to account, and if they screw up, to reveal it.
B) A reporter is not “evil” just because they ask a question you don’t like. Their job isn’t to feed you marshmallows.
C) If a president ever manages to destroy or significantly curtail the free press, all presidents to follow may decide to adopt the same path.
D) Then
we’d all be screwed.
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Meanwhile, Deputy F.B.I. Director Dan Bongino reportedly called in sick on Friday. Sources told NBC that Deputy Dan was “out of control furious” to discover that Attorney General Pam Bondi had decided not to release the Epstein Report. That included the “client list” she claimed back in February she had “sitting on my desk right now.”
On X, many of the MAGA faithful were equally outraged.
The fury first erupted on Monday, when the Justice Department issued a statement asserting that there is no secret Epstein client list and that no further charges against others are to follow.
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7/12/25:
Because Donald Dumpling cannot live without praise, including praise he lathers on himself, he
wastes precious presidential juice on Saturday afternoon, posting that the
Boston Red Sox have not lost since they came to the White House to meet with
his glorious self. “8 wins in a row!” he exults.
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The Dumpling did not point out that the Department of State has now fired the last negotiators tasked with making progress to tame climate change.
Go
Boston, right?
FUN FACT: Most of Europe has been engulfed in record-high temperatures this summer, partly fueled by the highest water temperatures (by far) ever recorded across the Mediterranean Sea. In late June, the average was 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
On land, it was so hot in France, that the top levels of the Eifel Tower had to be closed.
You
could read about the growing threat of climate change, as laid out by tens of
thousands of scientists around the world. Or you could be a dope, like Donald
Trump, and focus on the glory that is yourself.
7/13/25: On Sunday, Sec. of Defense and Hair-Gel Poster Boy Pete Hegseth attended the “grand opening,” shall we say, of a church in Washington D.C., linked to the Christian nationalist movement.
Standing under an upside-down flag, a sign that the nation is under duress, Pastor Jared Longshore explained, “We understand that worship is warfare,” pausing a moment before adding: “We mean that.”
Longshore told congregants that “liberty and equality are concepts that only make sense if they are attached to conservative Christianity. If you get rid of God, you lose all sense of what equality is.”
First, a note of concern. When we talk of war and religion, the history of the world is stained with blood, with the killings perpetrated by members of just about any religion you can name, including the ever-popular slaughter of Christians by Christians in the 1600s, and the slaughter of Muslims by Muslims in recent decades.
Second, you don’t need to believe in Christianity, or any other religion, to understand the Golden Rule.
It has been laid down, in varying forms, by thinkers from Egypt to China, in ancient Greek and Sanskrit.
Third, though the Declaration of Independence mentions that we are “endowed by our Creator with certain rights,” you don’t need Christians to explain human decency to you. A kind-hearted atheist, or agnostic grasp the point – perhaps more clearly than Pastor Longshore himself. If I accept that “all men are created equal,” and automatically extend it to women, and individuals of indeterminate gender (and such individuals the Mayo Clinic says that there are), maybe all I need is a sense of decency, which my mom, a Catholic taught me, and I (an agnostic) have endeavored to pass on to my children and grandchildren, no matter what church the choose to attend, or no church at all.
Right?
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“And I cannot tell a lie.”
As George Washington once said, when caught with a hatchet in his hand, it is important to tell the truth.
A story apparently lost on Donald J. Trump. During his meeting with faith leaders, he insisted at one point, that “gas has gotten to the lowest level in decades. And you’re seeing $1.99, $1.98 …, I saw $1.95 at certain states.”
Triple A posts average prices daily and when I check on July 15, the lowest states are averaging at least $2.75.
Ohio, where I live is at $3.01.
The national average is $3.15.
In other news, we learn that Donald Trump made time in his busy schedule to win another golfing championship at a club he just happens to own.
On Truth Social, Donald bragged:
In
between meetings and phone calls, it was a Great Honor to win the Member-Member
Championship, at Trump National, Bedminster (Gross, no strokes), with Tommy
Urciuoli as my partner. The Many other competitors were not only great Golfers,
but also terrific people!
According to The Dumpling, this marked his
fifth club win of the year.
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7/14/25: President Trump shows up for a gathering of America’s faith leaders and business people, at least the ones he likes, and assures them that Democrats are “evil,” and says that all his legal troubles were “bullshit,” and claims he got impeached for “a perfect phone call” to Ukraine.
Trump also got into the spirit of the White House Faith Office meeting – because nothing captures the spirit of Christianity quite like insulting a person who is not there to respond – by attacking Rick Perry, his first term Secretary of Energy. To be exact, he blamed Perry for making him make a call to Ukraine – during which Donald was “made” to pressure the Ukrainians to find dirt of Joe and Hunter Biden.
Or else he would cut off their weapons supply.
Yes. All Perry’s fault – even though, incongruously, Trump also says the call was “perfect” that Rick made him make.
“I told
that secretary, who wasn’t the smartest bulb — Rick Perry. You don’t want him
on your debate team, let me put it that way,” Trump told the gathered faithful.
“But he’s the one that asked me to do it. Rick Perry. And I said, ‘Thanks Rick,
that was a wonderful suggestion. I just got [impeached] over your stupid call.’”
Trump added.
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Mr. Trump has blasted the following members of his first administration and more: Sec. of Defense James Mattis, Sec. of State Rex Tillerson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his replacement Attorney General Bill Barr, U.N. Ambassador Nicki Haley, and now Sec. Perry.
Also: Elon Musk who served ever so briefly in Trump’s second administration.
He has never blasted former Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, though – which is odd, because Acosta had to resign his position after it was revealed he had made a sweet deal with Jeffrey Epstein in 2008.
That
deal probably kept Epstein from spending the rest of his life behind bars and made
it possible for him to keep molesting girls for another ten years before justice
could finally be served.
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Never a cross word for Acosta (right). |
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Also on Monday, The Dumpling turned on another one of his friends. Namely, Vladimir Putin, a guy he once called “genius” for invading Ukraine. Still unable to end the war he said he could end in one day – 251 days ago – he put his foot down and warned Vlad that if he didn’t agree to a peace deal in 50 days, he would really lower the boom. Donald is counting on winning a Nobel Peace Prize.
The
president also went out of his way to blame his predecessor for starting the
war – which started in 2022, when Putin ordered the invasion.
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Republicans in Congress – at least the densest members in House and Senate – are warming to the idea of Donald Trump and the White House taking over and running the government of Washington D.C.
Sen. Tommy Tubberville, who once proved unable to name the three branches of government (despite being a member of one), said he’d love to see the president deal with all the litter in the District of Columbia and added that he’d like to help. Tommy added that he thought Washington was a “pigsty.”
(Give that man a pair of gloves and a trash bag and set his ass
to work.)
The smarter members of the GOP, such as people who have read the Constitution, spotted the authoritarian fly splashing in the federal government’s soup. Sen. Cynthia Lummis told reporters she had missed the president’s previous remarks.
“I don’t know what he means by ‘takeover,’” she offered, “but you know the Constitution says D.C. is Congress’ responsibility.”
Sen. Shelly Moore Capito sounded – let’s say – more optimistic, telling a reporter that the president “isn’t going to take over cities.”
Although
we do know Trump also hinted at using federal power to take over New York, if
the “wrong” mayor were elected.
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Cherry trees blossom in Washington D.C. |
(Donald wants a 51st state. Why not D.C.!)
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7/15/25: There’s trouble in Trumpistan, MAGA folks. We learned today that year-over-year inflation numbers ticked up in June, to 2.7% for the year.
Almost as if President Trump’s plans to bring down prices aren’t working any better than President Biden’s plans in 2024.
With
tariffs starting to kick in, it will probably get worse.
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7/16/25: I think we can all agree that Donald Trump is having a no good, stinking, rotten terrible day. Now that his hand-picked minions have made it clear they will not release the Epstein Files, The Dumpling and the dopes have found themselves targets of furious criticism. That has much to do with the fact that Donald has spent his entire political career ginning up conspiracy theories, and the poor MAGA chumps have fallen for them all, dare we say, “hook, line and sinker?”
With The Dumpling’s return to the White House in January, excitement on the right reached fever pitch. Finally, Epstein’s pedophile pals would be revealed and half the leaders in the Democratic Party would be exposed as Epstein enablers and participants in pedophilic bacchanals.
Suddenly, Team Trump announced: Never mind. Nothing to see here. Move on. Move on. Pizzagate is over.
Nothing to see but the pepperoni.
Today, the president erupted and attacked his own followers in a bonkers Truth Social rant. “I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history,” he bragged (of course, he did), “and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”
Suddenly, loyal MAGA types, who had stood by him through the pussy grabbing and the impeaching, and the other impeaching, and the democracy destroying, Donald was accusing of being “weaklings.”
The Democrats’ “new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker,” Trump continued. “I don’t want their support anymore!”
In an Oval Office meeting later, the perturbed president kept up the whine. Why couldn’t his fans just get over all those years of gorging on conspiracy theories, three square meals per day. And snacks.
(Chem trails caused the recent Texas flooding.)
(Obama was born in Kenya.)
(COVID was fake.)
“It’s all been a big hoax,” he said of the Epstein Files story. “It’s perpetrated by the Democrats, and some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net.”
“He’s dead, he’s gone,” Trump added, referring to Jeffrey – whom he once called a “terrific guy.”
“Certain Republicans got duped by the Democrats and the Democrat playbook,” he exclaimed.
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Trump with Epstein, Eric and Ivanka also shown. |
(I think Donald needed a hug.)
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In other MAGA News, Donald complains to reporters about Joe Biden (again), and fault his for appointing Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell to head the U.S. Central Bank, calling Powell a “terrible Fed chair.”
Trump went on to say, “I was surprised he was appointed.”
Yes. Biden…
Oh, no, wait. Trump, now 79, and getting more confused by the week, now forgets that it was he who put Powell in the chairman’s seat to begin. Biden simply appointed him to a second term.
Even
better, Trump this week claimed that his Uncle John, a noted physicist who taught at
MIT, and helped develop radar systems during World War II, worked with Theodore
Kaczynski, later to become known as the Unabomber. Which would be a neat trick,
since Mr. Unabomber never actually attended… MIT.
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Who appointed Powell! |
FUN FACT: He will if he sees the latest poll from Economist/YouGov. His approval rating has slipped to 41%, overall, with 55% disapproving.
To be fair, other polls are not so grim – and when I check the accuracy of these
polls vs. the accuracy of predictions about the 2024 election, I would say (sadly, in my opinion)
that The Dumpling is still not too far underwater – possibly approved by 46%,
disapproved by 51%, rounding up.
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7/17/25: You can’t say Donald Trump isn’t trying to Make America Great Again. This week, he announced that Coca-Cola will start using cane sugar again, and not high-fructose corn syrup. Either way, drinking a lot of sugary sodas will make you fat – and most Americans already are, including the Lard Ass-in-Chief.
Also,
new Pentagon regulations will allow troops to sign up for laser hair removal, and the government (that is, the
taxpayer) will pay for it. And this is all part of ending “woke” policies and
enhancing military readiness!
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“Very savvy” invader.
Meanwhile the war in Ukraine continues, and there is no peace in sight in Gaza, and Donald is really, really frustrated with Vladimir Putin. This is almost funny, because when Putin decided to invade Ukraine in 2022, Trump mused, “How smart is that? And he’s going to go in and be a peacekeeper,” Trump said. “Here’s a guy who’s very savvy. I know him very well.”
When asked by reporters about evidence that the Russians were kidnapping Ukrainian children, Donald said such actions were “terrible,” but stressed that he “got along with [Putin] really well.”
(This did not help the families of the kidnapped children, or
the children.)
On September 17, 2023, Putin responded to another round of kind words from The Dumpling. “We surely hear that Mr. Trump says he will resolve all burning issues within several days, including the Ukrainian crisis. We cannot help but feel happy about it.”
“Well,” Donald said on hearing the news, “I like that he said that. Because that means what I’m saying is right.”
(The slaughter continues apace.)
Putin Love goes back to the earliest days of Donald’s appearance on the political stage. In June 2016, we know – because he finally had to admit it – that his son, his son-in-law, and his campaign manager agreed to meet with Russians offering dirt on Hilary Clinton, to help ensure Trump was elected and not her.
And then Team Trump kept that meeting secret for over a year.
And let’s not forget 2018, when Donald met with the Russian leader in Helsinki, and told a world audience that, yes, U.S. intelligence believed the Russians had interfered in the 2016 election (see above), but you couldn’t fool Donald. After meeting separately with his Russian counterpart, Trump strode to the podium and announced, “President Putin says it’s not Russia. I don’t see any reason why it would be.”
Now we know Donald is frustrated with Putin, and like a weathervane, his views are swiveling, and he’s telling the Russians they have fifty days to agree to negotiate a peace.
Good luck, Mr. President, with that.
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Good buddies. |
7/24/25: The long-suffering blogger continues to fall behind, despite his most valiant attempts to chronicle the inept, unbelievable, cruel actions of Trump 2.0. At this point, it seems impossible to bring order out of chaos.
So, let’s begin.
Denizens of the Trump cabinet seem willing to stand truth on its head, but not until they kick truth in the nuts. Consider the Environmental Protection Administration, an agency now led by Lee Zeldin.
Under Zeldin, the EPA has just announced that greenhouse gases do not pose a risk to people or planet.
As Lee explained in March, he was setting the stage for “the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen.”
He promised, “We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back to the U.S. and more.”
Behind this façade you can be confident that leaders of Big Oil
and Big Coal are dancing round their boardrooms.
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Candace Owens is not dancing, as the right-wing bomb thrower faces a defamation suit filed against her by Brigette Macron, First Lady of France.
Owens has regaled her supporters with lurid tales of Brigette masquerading as a woman, when in fact, Owens insists, she is a man.
This would mean Emmanuel Macron – bane of Donald Trump’s existence – would be gay, and as a gay person, worthy of no respect from any right-wing person. In fact, it could mean that the First Lady of France was a trans, which would be even worse in MAGA land. And anything President Macron said would also be, ipso facto, impossible to believe. Such as: “Jesus H. Christ. Climate change is real.”
Which is what President Macron does say – as do scientists in almost every country on the face of this heating globe.
Let us pause a moment to remind our loyal readers (all of whom could fit in a three-row luxury SUV) that the full list of countries NOT signed on to the Paris Climate Accords, which warn that climate change is a grave threat, is – shall we say – short.)
If each nation unsigned were given a seat in a similar three-row luxury SUV, it would be driven by:
The United States (Donald Trump at the wheel!).
Passengers would include:
Iran
Libya
Yemen
Lee Zeldin
Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost
(That’s the full list.)
FUN FACT: This First Lady/Secret Man Macron
story is a variant of the “Michele Obama is a man” line of right-wing non/thinking. And, of course, many MAGAs fall
for it as readily as children on Christmas Eve believe Santa soon be coming
down the chimney to deliver them the toys of their dreams.
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In happier news, President Trump has announced a bold plan to lower drug prices, which I think we can all agree will have a 91% approval rating.
Possibly 142%?
Speaking to the National Convention for Arithmetic Haters, he promised (for real) not to fiddle fuck with prices and lower them 50% or 60%. No. He was going BIG, like 1000% or 660% or even 1500%.
He
really, really said that.
Josh Johnson's reaction is priceless.
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No doubt Trump supporters missed this story, but reporters for The New York Times filed a story on July 26, noting that the capital of Iran, a city of 9.7 million, was within weeks of running out of water.
Experts
warn that climate change is a contributing factor. In June, the heat index rose
to 149 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of Iran, according to sites that track extreme weather, making
it one of the hottest places on Earth.
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THE BLOGGER RAN OUT OF TIME AND WILL HAVE TO ADD TO HIS JULY REPORT.
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