The End is Near - Donald in the White House - February 2016

 

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“This is a stage that all dictatorships reach; when they do the dictator can no longer afford mistakes and always makes them.” 

Bernard DeVoto

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The End is Near - Donald in the White House - January 2026

 

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“It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be, pursued until it is obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” 

James Madison

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Looking lonely on the world stage.

  

MY APOLOGIES. As a dedicated blogger, determined to record the story of Donald J. Trump as president, and now neo-Fascist, for posterity, I have fallen miserably behind. I have set aside materials to cover January 2026 (and February) but have not yet sorted and assembled a proper narrative.

I admit, I have become bogged down in covering the Epstein Files, which I am addressing in separate posts. 

Trust me, that’s a shit show all its own.

 

IN A TASTE of what’s to come, once I get my act together: Donald flies to Davos, Switzerland, on January 19. He’ll spend the next five days at the World Economic Forum, meeting with 3,000 world leaders, from more than 130 countries. 

There will be much to discuss, such as: 

Tariffs (Donald loves them) 

Wars (The Dumpling brags about ending them) 

Greenland (Donald wants it – and might start a war to get it) 

More tariffs (Give Donald what his heart desires, or he’ll slape you even harder wit the tariffs; did we mention: He loves ’em?) 

NATO (the president hates it) 

Threats to U.S. security (Protesters in Minnesota? People Donald doesn’t like? Reporters? Jeffrey Epstein stories?)

Indeed, representatives from all our longtime allies are there, including leaders from Denmark, Canada and Great Britain, whose troops died fighting beside our men and women in Afghanistan. 

(Look it up, Trump fans.) 

 

As The Guardian, a British newspaper, will soon be forced to remind the world, “A total of 3,486 Nato troops died in the 20-year conflict, of which the majority, 2,461, were US service members. 

 

TRUMP’S PLANE has barely touched down before the President of the United States can get his thumbs warned up and post on Truth Social. For some bizarre reason, he decides to repost a message from “Bobby D” who has 164.7k “followers” on “X.”  

After all, what Leader of the Free World hasn’t relied on social media to pick up ideas on how to address complex issues affecting all the nations of the world? 

In any case, Bobby D posts this nugget: “So at what point are we going to realize the enemy is within? China and Russia are the boogeymen when the real threat is the U.N., NATO and this ‘religion.’ 

“I put ‘religion’ in quotes because it’s not a religion,” Bobby added. “It’s a [death] cult! Yeh, I went there.”

 

 

No insult intended to Bobby D, but I am guessing he has never been to Russia, that he can’t speak Mandarin, that he probably can’t find Denmark on a blank world map. I’m going to bet he knows next to nothing about the Russian and Chinese militaries, or their capabilities to do us harm. 

But Donald Dumpling is going to Bobby D to get ideas. 

A quick look at Bobby’s feed shows me that he basically posts clips of other social media persons, such as “Shannon [American flag emoji] I stand with America.” Shannon does the hard reporting, regarding international affairs, with posts like, “Students trending with teachers. All is not lost! This is a fun watch!” 

I’m a retired teacher, and it is, in truth, a fun watch. But I am not going to Shannon or Bobby D for NATO coverage. 

The Dumpling shouldn’t, either. 

 

ONLY NOW that The Dumpling is on the ground, he makes it infinitely worse. In a speech to gathered world leaders, he denigrates the sacrifices of other NATO members, and questions our allies resolve to come to our aid if we are attacked again. Bah, he says, their soldiers “stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines” in Afghanistan. 

He doesn’t think we can really count on our allies. It is true, of course, that we can no longer count on the 1,025 men and women from other NATO countries who died fighting to help us defeat the Taliban. You know: Those troops who “stayed a little back” but somehow got hit by bullets in the face, eviscerated by shrapnel from rocket-propelled grenades, or burned to death when their vehicles rolled over hidden mines. And we’re not even considering the thousands of allied soldiers who were maimed in combat. 

We do know, however, who can always be counted on to stay “a little back” during times of war. 

Namely: Members of the Trump clan, a family that since Friedrich Trump first landed in this country in 1885, has never sent a single, solitary member off to war.

 

 

The Second Coming of the Dumpling - December 2025 - These Prices Really Suck

 

America Became Great Again. Again.

 

December 2025: With the holidays coming, and my wife running around shouting, “Merry Christmas” at strangers walking past our house, because Donald Trump had made it safe to say “Merry Christmas” again, and because we no longer had to worry about Haitian immigrants eating the family cat, I just couldn’t keep up with all the latest presidential antics.

 

And, so, America Became Great Again. Again. And the Year 2025 went out in a burst of Christian Nationalist glory.

 

So, we cover the final month of the year with a list of all the blessed developments for which we have Donald Dumpling to thank.

 

1. For all of Donald talk of a robust economy, “the best we’ve ever seen,” the unemployment rate ended the year up slightly at to 4.4%.

 

Okay, that was Joe Biden’s fault. Right?

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2. With November and December job numbers still subject to review, we learned that the “jobs added” numbers were the worst for any year since 2009, not counting the COVID decline (which I do not blame on Donald J. Dumpling). If my adding and subtracting are correct we have gained a measly 596,000 jobs this year.

 

 

Okay, that’s still Sleepy Joe’s fault – even though he’s just sitting at home in Delaware and eating his pudding.

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3. Then again, if you go back to June and July 2016, and look at the chart above, you might notice that under President Obama more jobs were added in two months than during this entire year.

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4. Remember when Donald was inaugurated for the first time, and it seemed like Melania might still be sleeping with her man, and the new President of the United States insisted that he had “inherited a mess?”

 

Okay, true. Nothing that goes wrong is ever Donald’s fault.

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5. Then again, I had to wonder a little, because I had listened to White House Press Secretary Karolyn Leavitt brag about Trump job creation policies which were the greatest ever. On April 3, she exclaimed, “The economy is starting to roar.”

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6. On May 2, Karolyn got pumped up again. The April jobs report had dropped, and the 158,000 jobs added were fantastic. And we could all marvel at the magic wrought by Donald J. Trump. “Wages are continuing to rise, and labor force participation is increasing. This is exactly what we want to see. More Americans working for higher wages. More winning is on the way!” she claimed.

 

I, for one, was thrilled and could hardly wait for the magic to continue, as Leavitt promised it would.

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7. Then we had this streak of “jobs added” numbers – and they weren’t really very good:

 

May                 19,000

June                -13,000

July                 72,000

August            -26,000

September      108,000

October        -173,000

November       56,000

December         50,000        

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Total                95,000 jobs added (in the last eight months of the year)

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8. Well, at least the deficit is coming down, just as Donald … WTF? I checked the “Debt Clock” on July 3:

 

The national debt had ballooned to $37,057,124,980,792

 

I checked again on October 23, knowing that Trump magic was going to kick the clock into reverse. And …

 

WTF!!!

 

The national debt had topped $38,000,000,000,000.

 

Well, surely, all the tariff revenues were going to pile up soon, and the clock would go spinning in reverse, and we would see nothing but black ink for as far as we could imagine. And I checked on the morning of December 16, and we had piled up almost another half trillion!

 

WTF!!!

 

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9. This is a little late, but when I checked again on January 16, 2026, we were $38.6 billion in the red.

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10. We should have a contest to bet on the hour and the day when the debt balloons to $39 trillion, with Donald Dumpling in charge.

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11. I remember when Republicans were fiscally responsible, back in 1978, I think. I think all of those Republicans are dead these days.

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12. Well, there could be a couple in witness protection.

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14. In more promising news, for the Fat Cats of this great and glorious Republic, in the last five years the richest twenty Americans have increased their wealth from $1.3 trillion to $3 trillion.

 

Yay!

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15. Donald Trump, standing in a three-way tie, at #201, on the “Forbes 400 Richest” list, has increased his personal wealth to $7.3 billion, up $3 billion in 2025.

 

Yay!

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16. Ha, ha. The MAGA faithful really fear that Democrats are going to turn us into a communist hellhole.

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17. Sometimes I think my MAGA friend will believe anything; but that’s just me.

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18. The MAGA faithful do not seem interested in basic math. Meanwhile, America’s Fat Cats keep buying politicians, wholesale. Last year, for example, Elon Musk spent $291 million on Republican politicians and causes.

 

And what do you know, the man got another Trump Tax Cut, and as 2026 dawned, he was worth:

 

 

And life for Elon was good.

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19. Speaking of purchasing politicians: Trump has now pardoned Oak View Group co-founder Tim Leiweke, following a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment for rigging the bidding for a Texas public university arena. 

 

Sure. Rigging bids means taxpayers must fork over a few million extra dollars. And Leiweke was facing ten years in the slammer if convicted.

 

But 2025 turned out to be good in Tim’s gimlet eyes.

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20. Money talks, my MAGA fans, and I am sure you are thrilled to know that the Fat Cats speak loud and always care about you – and so you can watch illegal immigrant snatched by ICE while working at a car wash, and proclaim, “I voted for this.”

 

Because if we only get rid of the illegals who are taking all the jobs we don’t really want to do, good patriotic Americans will live happily ever after again.

 

Really, Elon promises.

 

 

21. As a bonus, you can watch ICE agents tackle a 79-year-old man, who owns the car wash, and just happens to be a…

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22. U.S. citizen. Oops.

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23. We should point out here, for the Trump fans, that we liberal types are not opposed to arresting and deporting dangerous illegals.

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24. Just so you know.

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25. Hey, more Fat Cat news! To give you some idea of how well billionaires are doing these days, Jeff Bezos, of Amazon fame, spent $50 million on his three-day wedding extravaganza to Lauren Sanchez in June. And this is exactly why we don’t ever want to raise taxes on the superrich.

 

Lauren needs a lot of dough for Botox.

 

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26. Did you know that Amazon has done all it can to fight the unionization of its workforce? Check it out.

 

Well, who needs unions!

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27. In August, a Gallup poll showed that 68% of Americans approve of labor unions. But Jeff does not.

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28. I am guessing, here, but I suspect his wife also does not.

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29. If I understand my MAGA friends,  we should NOT raise taxes on people like Leon Black, because that would mean the radical left lunatics had won, and how would Mr. Black ever pay the U.S. Virgin Islands $62.5 million, related to his suspicious funding of shady business operations by …

 

Jeffrey Epstein!

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30. Of course, the Epstein Files are in the news! And last we checked, Attorney General Pam Bondi had released about 2% of those files

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31. On December 5, we know that Trump administration warned that Europe was facing the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure” and promised that the U.S. would support like-minded “patriotic” parties across the continent to prevent a future in which “certain NATO members will become majority non-European.”

 

Team Trump did not name those parties but did say that the United States should be “cultivating resistance” across Europe by supporting parties that fight against migration and promote nationalism.

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32. The blogger has read Mein Kampf, because he was a history teacher, so he will mention that some of this Trump administration rhetoric sounds a lot like the ramblings of Adolf Hitler.

 

You can even check out my summary of that book.

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33. Some of my favorite neighbors here in Glendale voted for Trump, as did one son-in-law of mine. I don’t think anyone I know personally is a closeted neo-Nazi, and I respect my MAGA friends.

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34. But, Holy Shit. Here in Glendale, we do have at least one neo-Nazi family, which is a bit of a shock.

 

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35. Okay, that’s bad enough, but, WTF, do some reading on Stephen Miller, now the White House aide close to Donald Trump’s ear. If he’s not a closeted neo-Nazi, I badly misjudge the man.

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36. See, for example, his enthusiasm for the ultra-racist book, Camp of the Saints. He called it suggested reading.

 

See #32, above.

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37. Recently, President Trump referred to Somali immigrants – as a category of human beings as “garbage.”

 

I don’t know how my MAGA friends swallow such dehumanizing language, but that’s just me.

 

It’s not “TDS,” either.

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38. As he just said, the blogger once taught history. He remembers an era (which he read about – he’s not 110 years old) – in the 1910s, when racist thinkers warned about polluting our nation with Catholics, “hirsute” types from Southern Europe, criminally inclined Italians, Russian Jews, etc.

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39. They were considered “garbage,” by the racists of the last century, too.

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40. Speaking of racism, Trump has now admitted he did call Haiti and all the countries of Africa “shithole countries” back in 2018. He and his sycophant aides had vehemently denied then that he did.

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41. At bare minimum, the president was admitting he was lying about what he said seven years ago. He just hopes his MAGA fans won’t remember.

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42. No offense, Trump fans, but I’m pretty sure you won’t.

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43. As for the “racism,” the President of the United States was proud to tell a crowd of supporters at a rally in the Poconos this month, that he had said, back then, that wouldn’t it be nice if we had just “a few” immigrants from Norway, and Sweden and Denmark.

 

You know: White people.

 

“Send us some nice people, do you mind?” he says he told Democratic senators in the meeting. “But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

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44. Disgusting. Not white people.

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45. As FactCheck.org points out, “In social media posts on Jan. 12, 2018, Trump said his words at the meeting [regarding immigration] were ‘tough,’ but ‘this was not the language used,’ and he claimed that he ‘[n]ever said anything derogatory about Haitians.’” 

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“Single playboys together.”

 

46. Well, we’re back to the Epstein Files! White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has now admitted that Bill Clinton did not visit Epstein Island, saying that she has read the Files.

 

Whereas her boss has insisted that Bill landed on Little St. James Island something like 28 times.

 

Now, Wiles says there’s “no evidence” those visits happened. A minor detail, according to my MAGA buds.

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47. Maybe it’s just me. But do you ever get the feeling that The Dumpling just makes shit up? From what I’ve read in the Epstein Files, the names of both Clinton and Trump do come up – and not in the best light.

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48. Here’s Bill with Epstein:

 

 

The matching silk shirts really creep me out.

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49. Here’s Donald – with Melania – and Epstein – and Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey’s #1 procurer of young victims:

 

 

This also creeps me out.

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50. By the way, no one is accusing the current First Lady of having committed any crimes. So that’s good. But can we all agree, we need Congress to investigate everyone involved with Epstein and Maxwell in the next session?

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51. In fact, kudos to Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican who has stood up to great pressure, and continues to demand a full release of the files. I’m even going to donate to his next campaign – a first in years, where I support a member of the GOP. So far, he’s been a hero in this story.

 

And trust me, if you read up on the Files, heroes are scarce.

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52. Even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene fought for release of the Files, and I’d call her a hero, too. Never thought I’d say that!

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53. She has now resigned from Congress. So, there’s that.

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54. Guess who pressured both Massie and Greene to stop pushing for release of the Files? Yeah. Donald did.

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55. Well, what about Donald and the Epstein Files? “We know he’s in the file,” Susie Wiles admits, but “he’s not in the file doing anything awful.” From what this blogger has read that’s true – but barely.

 

Trump’s chief of staff also admits what is generally known, that the president “was on [Epstein’s] plane ... he’s on the manifest.”

 

Then she gives her view of the famed Epstein/Trump bromance of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. “They were, you know, sort of young, single, whatever – I know it’s a passé word but sort of young, single playboys together.”

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56. One of whom was a pedophile.

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57. And the other was a self-proclaimed pussy grabber. But again, my MAGA friends, whom I love, don’t care.

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58. By the way, Canada now hates us. Prime Minister Mark Carney has told his people that a “decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship between the Canadian and U.S. economies is now over.”

 

In large part because Canadians are staying home, the U.S. tourist industry was expected to lose $5.7 billion this year, compared to 2024.

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59. Our other NATO allies don’t like us, either. See, for example, Donald’s plans to invade Greenland.

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60. Greenland is already safe from Russian or Chinese invasion, because Denmark, a NATO member claims it, and an attack on one member of NATO is an attack on all.

 

See Article 5 of the NATO Treaty. We don’t need to take over; we just need to back our NATO friends.

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61. Did you know that more than a thousand troops from NATO nations died fighting beside our troops in Afghanistan?

 

Well, you should try to keep up.

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62. That number included 159 Canadians.

 

See #58, above.

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63. Meanwhile, Team Trump continues to thrill the anti-vaxxer crowd – meaning, more measles! The final report for 2025 shows the U.S. with 2,242 cases, more than in any other year since 2000.

 

The disease was considered eradicated in this country that year.

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64. Yay, measles! As the MAGA faithful like to chortle, “I voted for this.”

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65. According to Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, as far as the measles outbreak goes, we don’t need to wait for the smoke detectors to sound the alarm, “we can already say the damn house is on fire.” 

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66. If you have young children, measles can cause brain damage. So, there’s that.

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67. Also, up for the year: Corporate bankruptcies. Through November, 717 U.S. companies had bit the dust, a 14% increase over 2024.

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68. Also up: percentages. In a Harris poll, 67% of Americans agree with the statement, “Billionaires are creating more of an unfair society.”

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69. Almost as many Americans (64%) agree with the statement, “Billionaires don’t pay their share of taxes.”

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70. Nearly 7 in 10 Americans say they wish billionaires paid a smaller role in government; and a straight majority, 53% believe, “Billionaires threaten our democracy.”

 

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71. If could just be me, but Elon Musk seems kind of nuts.

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72. Anyway, “America First,” all the way, as the MAGAs like to say! Only America doesn’t live on a planet all by itself. Three Americans were killed on December 13, including two Iowa National Guard soldiers, fighting ISIS in Eastern Syria. Three other service members were wounded.

 

The problems of the world continue to intrude.

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73. Hey, let’s bomb a few alleged drug-smuggling boats! Let’s show videos of every attack. Let’s show the entire world how tough Donald Trump really is, and how he stands up and makes America Great Again every day, as soon as he finishes his Rice Krispies breakfast and drinks his Metamucil.

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74. But as Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, says, we can’t show you a second boat strike, when two surviving smugglers are still bobbing in the ocean. Because that might make the second attack a war crime.

 

See #32, above. Again.

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75. Most Americans understand that gerrymandering, in blue states, red states, purple states, and states of suspended animation, are bad for voters. Gerrymandered voting districts mean politicians are insulated from removal from office, unless they absolutely screw the pooch. So, it was good, on December 11, when Indiana senators, by a 31-19 vote, rejected an extreme gerrymandering scheme supported by Donald J. Trump.

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76. If you ever wondered why the Founding Fathers lodged the “power of the purse” in the hands of Congress, however, the reaction to this defeat should help you figure it out. The right-wing nuts at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank, warned just before the vote, that “if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state. Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop.”

 

Yeah. Democrats didn’t say that.

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77. As the Indianapolis Chronicle reported, Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith posted on X that the Trump administration was “VERY clear” in its warnings to state lawmakers and the governor of the state.

 

A failed scheme to jigger the map would bring consequences. Fearing backlash, Beckwith deleted the post the next morning.

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78. You know who used to control all the money in governments around the world? Kings and queens. We all should focus again on how that worked. As Louis XIV, once famously remarked, “I am the government.” Look it up. The guy used taxpayer money to build a 2,000-room palace for himself.

 

 

79. Speaking of money, the “Pardon Business” has been going gangbusters all year. Two weeks before Christmas, President Trump freed David Gentile from prison despite the fact he had only just begun his sentence. Gentile was found guilty of defrauding ordinary investors of $2 billion.

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80. As even Louix XIV could tell you, that’s a lot of dough.

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81. Thousands of small-time investors, no doubt including plenty of individuals who favor the famed red caps – lost big chunks of their life savings. In all, Gentile spent twelve days in prison.

 

That is one sweet deal!

 

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82. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Gentile was freed because he had been a victim of the “weaponization of justice” under the Biden administration.

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83. The New York Times noted that the case against Gentile was opened in 2019, under the first Trump administration. And the judge in charge of the case, Rachel Kovner…

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84. … was a Trump appointee.

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“Less talk, more asphalt.”

 

85. We were also blessed in December to see Congresswoman Nancy Mace post proudly on X, bragging: “South Carolina roads are rough, you don’t need me to tell you that. So I did something about it. Almost $400 million for South Carolina roads and bridges in just the last two years. That’s money coming home to fix what’s broken. Less talk, more asphalt. That’s how I work.”

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86. A quick check shows that Rep. Mace voted against the Biden infrastructure bill that allocated those very funds for all of those projects.

 

And that’s how she really works.

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87. “Less talk, more assholes,” I think would be more apt. Remember that Donald Trump, then a civilian, was furious when the bill did pass. Republicans in Congress who had voted for the bill “should be ashamed of themselves,” he said.

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88. Trump was asked in the fading days of 2025, how he would grade his success in creating a booming U.S. economy? With typical modesty, he responded, “A++++++.”

 

“The word ‘affordability’ – I inherited a mess,” Trump insisted during an interview with Axios reporters. “Prices were at an all-time high when I came in; prices are coming down substantially.”

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89. Vice President Vance knocked the grade for Team Trump down to a more modest “A+++.”

 

He didn’t want to sound like he was bragging, I guess.

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90. Inflation for the year came in around 2.7%. To be fair, 2.7% is a little better than “Sleepy Joe Biden” managed his last year. Unless you like beef. Beef and veal prices were up 14.7% in 2025.

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91. The new “Happy Meal” at McDonalds will now include a drink, fries, apple slices, a toy, and four or six possum McNuggets.

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92. Unfortunately, the new “Food Pyramid” (which has somehow been turned upside down – so it’s just a lame triangle – puts steak at the top. If we want to be healthy, like HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who looks like a raisin left out in the desert all year, we need to eat beef.

 

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93. Sadly, a modest reduction in the inflation rate, compared to 2024, is not the same as “bringing prices down.” That is the promise Donald Dumpling made while running for office again in 2024.

 

And to do it, beginning on “Day 1.”

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ADD PICTURE OF MCDONALDS

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94. It’s not just me. In a recent poll, 55% of Americans blamed the president for higher prices, vs. 27% for Joe B. In another poll, 57% of Americans said they disapproved of the way the president is handling the economy.

 

Only 36% approved.

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95. In a third poll, 59% of registered voters said Donald Trump was a bumbling incompetent and they wished they had voted for Melania, to be president, instead. Plus, she’d be a much hotter-looking Commander-in-Chief.

 

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96. Okay. I made that one up.

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97. Donald also promised – way, way back in 2019, that his Trumpcare Health Plan would be ready in two months – whereas it could be that was a slip of the tongue and he really meant, “Two decades.” Republicans in Congress failed once again in 2025 to vote on any plan, even a terrible one, except to let Obamacare subsidies expire. That way, their plan would allow 24 million Americans to pay much higher premiums if they wanted to be able to afford to go to the doctor.

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98. So far, the only plan Donald has appears to involve letting costs rise so that 1.4 million Americans will just say chuck it, “We’ll just pray we don’t get sick.”

 

If you remember, that was the kind of healthcare plan people signed up for in the days when Black Plague was rampant.

 

Only, they also added leeches.

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99. Meanwhile, Bollinger Motors, an electric vehicle manufacturer in Oak Park, Michigan, first told employees it could not cover paychecks in late October. Next, the company went belly up, as Team Trump killed all government aid to electric vehicle makers. Nine hundred workers ended up unemployed for Christmas.

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100. Let’s hope they didn’t need healthcare. Or want to eat beef.

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101. Ford Motors was large enough to survive Donald Dumpling’s war on electric vehicles this year, but the company announced it had taken a $19.5 billion hit to the bottom line, as Donald did his damnedest to ruin the future for vehicles which will not fill the air around us with thick, juicy smog.

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102. In the next three years, under Donald Dumpling’s guiding hand, expect air pollution to make a comeback. Kind of like measles, only this time, ruining even the uninfected air our children breathe.

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103. Is that you, kids? Mom and I can’t see you through this gray haze. Hey, we’re late for your doctor’s appointment, since all of you now have asthma.

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104. At a Hanukah celebration, The Dumpling Man admitted that mega-donor Miriam Anderson had offered him “another $250 million” in support, if only he would violate the Twenty-Second Amendment and run for a third term.

 

Okay, that’s not good.

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105. Even worse: Miriam admitted that she had met with Trump’s lawyer pal, Alan Dershowitz, who “spoke about four more years” for their hero, Donald J. Pussy Grabber. The way Donald’s health is looking, he’d almost surely have to be embalmed to serve out a third term.

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106. Apparently, Widow Anderson has been too busy counting her billions to read the news, because Dershowitz appears with surprising regularity in the Epstein files, and not just because he was Epstein’s lawyer.

 

Alan needs a massage!

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107. Keep spending your loot, Miriam, and maybe the Epstein coverup can continue until all the perpetrators die of old age.

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108. Miriam, of course, has a Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded her by Donald J. Trump during his first term. She didn’t even rescue a cat from a tree. All she did was buy a politician – because she had ample cash.

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109. Did we mention Trump’s second-term tax cuts for billionaires! Which were piled on top of his first-term tax cuts for billionaires?

 

Fun times for America’s Top 1%.

 

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110. In December, the United Nations voted 143-1 in favor of a resolution ensuring the safety and security of humanitarian workers and UN peace keeping personnel in danger zones round the globe. This was the twenty-seventh year in a row that the resolution was adopted, with host nations required to protect all UN personnel.

 

Who voted no? Trump’s version of the United States of America. As in f**k humanitarian efforts.

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111. December also saw the president adding travel bans on even more countries, bringing the total to 39, as he did his best to make people in every corner of the world (except Russia) hate the United States. Pretty much all the countries of African are now blocked from sending people to visit the United States. Also, no more Haitians. Or Afghans. That included Afghans who helped us fight the Taliban.

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112. Hey, how’s grandpa? The poverty rate for senior citizens increased again in 2025, to 15%.

 

ADD LOBSTER AT MAR-A-LAGO

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113. When Donald wasn’t busy tearing down part of the White House, he was overseeing the arrangement of pictures of all his predecessors and lining them up along the colonnade that used to run along the edge of the White House Rose Garden. (That garden has now been paved.)

 

In a truly juvenile move, he had his staff put up a picture of an autopen, where President Biden’s picture should have gone.

 

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114. Donald also spent his valuable presidential time slapping his name on every building in America, and on dumpsters and ally cats. For example, The Dumpling decided to Make America Great Again by renaming the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

 

Henceforth, it shall be known as the Trump-Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. And, of course, he added his name first. A new sign went up on the façade – despite the fact any name change would need congressional approval.

 

Which has not yet come.

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116. Team Trump promised to make the Center “hot” again. Under the new brand ticket sales plummeted 43%.

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117. In “rule of law” news, the Department of Justice tried to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general who handled the case which ended when a jury found Mr. Trump guilty on 34 felony counts. In a row!

 

In a rare rebuke, a grand jury heard the “evidence” being presented in support of an indictment against James.

 

And the jury said no.

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118. The geniuses Trump put in charge at DOJ tried again to indict Ms. James. A second grand jury said no.

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119. Undaunted by defeat, and clearly unable to figure out how the grand jury system wors, the Trump DOJ tried to indict James Comey, another nemesis of the president. It is extremely rare for grand juries to hear the government’s cases for indictment and say no. A third grand jury said no.

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120. In other “rule of law” news, Alina Habba, chosen by Donald to serve as acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, was ousted from her post after a federal judge ruled she had been unlawfully appointed. (You might wonder - does Donald even think the Constitution matters.)

 

 

You may be able to guess what made Donald think Habba was such an attractive candidate for the job.

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121. As the U.S. Constitution makes clear, the president “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States.” See: Article II, section 2, clause 2.

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122. I am of the opinion that Donald J. Trump has never actually read the Constitution. Or, if he did, he didn’t understand what it said: Kind of like a goat trying to decipher quadratic equations, I guess.

 

 

In any case, a second judge – and then a third – ruled against a second U.S. district attorney, Lindsey Halligan – chosen by The Dumpling – but never voted on for her position by the U.S. Senate. The judges ruled that any cases where she was named as a U.S. attorney would be tossed out of court.

 

 

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123. I suppose you could say Donald picked Halligan to serve in an important prosecutorial position because she had never prosecuted a single criminal case. And because she had specialized as an insurance lawyer. And I think – frankly – because he has been kind of horny of late.

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124. We can also report that Dan Bongino, Donald’s choice to serve as second-ranking leader at the F.B.I., called it quits unexpectedly, after less than a year on the job. (He, at least, had been confirmed by the U.S. Senate.)

 

Dan rose to fame and fortune as a podcaster, in large part because in days of yore he told listeners, “Folks, the Epstein client list is a huge deal.”

 

For good measure, he added, “The reason the Epstein client list being revealed is so important is because I want you to understand that there is a class of bekightened [sic] folks … who are not subjected to the same rules you are.”

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125. By the way, that much is true. Also, proofreaders at Fox News need to learn to spell “benighted.”

 

They should hire me.

 

ADD PICTURE FROM MARINES

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126. Trump’s choice to head the F.B.I., Kash Patel also rose to fame in days of yore – such as December 2023, when he was asked why the Biden DOJ had never released the “Epstein Client List.”

 

 “Simple,” Kash replied, “because of who’s on that list.”

 

“You don’t think that Bill Gates is lobbying Congress night and day to prevent the disclosure of that list?” he added.

 

That list was chock full of “pedophiles.”

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127. Who was hiding the Epstein Client List? It was that rat bastard, Sleepy Joe and his rat bastard Democratic Party pals!

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128. Excitement grew, regarding the infamous List, when a new “sheriff” rode into town. That is: Pam Bondi, former Attorney General of Florida, confirmed to be U.S. Attorney General on February 4, 2025.

 

You may recall, if you are not a clueless nincompoop, that soon after she was confirmed, Bondi assured Fox News that she would soon reveal the List. “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review,” she smiled.

 

“That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that,” she said.

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129. Who can forget those glorious summer days, when Bondi could promise Sean Hannity, the master of bombast on Fox News, that there was a “truckload” of evidence,” no doubt including that famed pedophiles List? Swift justice was coming, and Hillary and all the other child molesters were going down.

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130. And the weeks rolled by. And Pam kept reviewing. And reviewing some more. (Apparently, Pam was the kind of person who would go to the grocery store with a shopping list in her purse, and wouldn’t make it home for six months, so that her husband would have to have police issue a “missing persons alert,” which was very embarrassing for the whole Bondi family.)

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131. Then President Trump – who doesn’t really like to read anything, not even warning labels on bottles of aspirin – said he didn’t want the List revealed. And The Dumpling claimed all this talk about Epstein, Epstein, Epstein was just another Democratic “hoax.” Meaning that the President of the United States was claiming the Democrats had hoaxed themselves.

 

And he was hoping that the people of this great nation were dumb enough to believe even that.

 

And some did.

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A favorite right-wing conspiracy theory blows up.

 

132. And it came to pass, in other news, that the MAGA faithful did doff their red caps and didst scratch their noggins. In the waning days of December, another favorite right-wing conspiracy theory was blown sky high and fragments came raining down around all those MAGA heads. The Department of Justice announced that Brian J. Cole Jr., who planted pipe bombs at the headquarters of both the Republicans and Democrats in D.C. on January 6, 2021, was not part of some left-wing plot.

 

In fact, like so many rioters that day, Cole believed the election had been tampered with, to the detriment of Donald J. Trump.

 

According to the [DOJ] memo, he told agents who interviewed him that if people “feel that, you know, something as important as voting in the federal election is being tampered with, is being, you know, being – you know, relegated null and void, then, like, someone needs to speak up, right? Someone up top. You know, just to, just to at the very least calm things down.”

 

He said “something just snapped” after “watching everything, just everything getting worse” and that he wanted to do something “to the parties” because “they were in charge,” according to the Justice Department’s memo.

 

Prosecutors say when Cole was asked why he had placed the explosives at the RNC and DNC, he responded, “I really don't like either party at this point.”

 

(He was only fond of Mr. Trump.)

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133. And it came to pass, that the MAGA faithful didst lose interest in catching pedophiles, and moved on to celebrating whenever ICE agents shot dead American citizens, and they didst cheer, and say, “This is what I voted for,” and loved it dearly when ICE agents dressed like knights of yore in massive body armor didst chase dangerous illegal immigrants delivering packages by bicycle.

 

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134. The red-hat folks were equally excited when ICE agents dragged a pregnant woman out of her car and knocked her to the street and sat upon her. Watching the U.S. citizen-children of illegals cry when their parents were arrested was also a kind of rush for some of the worst of the MAGA types.

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135. Such as the ghouls who thought it was funny to name an ICE holding facility built in the Everglades, “Alligator Alcatraz,” and did chortle at the idea of escapees being gobbled up by gators.

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136. People like Laura Loomer and her type.

 

ADD LOOMER PICTURE

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137. And Loomer thought it would be amusing to post on social media for the enjoyment of all her fans, that alligators now had “65 million meals” waiting (or: the number of illegal immigrants she alleged were living in America today).

 

Because who doesn’t think watching millions of human beings get slaughtered wouldn’t be kind of a gas?

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138. I’m sorry. I am reminded of Nick Fuentes, who once had the honor of dining at Mar-a-Lago. On a different occasion, Fuentes laughed about a comparison of Jews during the Holocaust to six million cookies in ovens. And this is one of many reasons, I can’t stomach the current president and many of his fans.

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139. He’s happy to hang with people like Loomer and he can’t even denounce Fuentes when given a chance.

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140. When not busy golfing, we know Donald stayed busy slapping his name or image on all kinds of inanimate objects. He has now added his name to the Trump U.S. Institute of Peace. The U.S. government is offering Trump Accounts – also known as tax-exempt savings accounts for children.  There’s the Trump-Kennedy Center, of course, and starting soon, Donald’s fat mug will appear on all new U.S. National Parks “America the Beautiful” visitors’ passes.

 

The Park Service has even warned that if you cover Donald’s face on your pass it won’t be valid.

 

 

Coming soon, we will also have Trump coins to jingle in our pockets. It will be the first time any living person will have ever appeared on American currency or coins.

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141. We’re not done yet, either. We will soon marvel at magnificent new “Trump-class” battleships! The U.S. Navy has announced that it will launch a building program regarding a new type of battlewagon.

 

The first of the “Trump-class” will be named the USS Defiant, and in an illustration of the new vessel provided by the White House, the Defiant is seen graced by an image of Trump on its upper deck.

 

“The U.S. Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me,” Donald told reporters, “because I’m a really aesthetic person.”

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142. Did you know that the last battleship to be built anywhere in the world was the HMS Vanguard, completed in 1946?

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143. And did you know that the last battleship the U.S. Navy had was the USS Missouri, which was taken out of service in the 1990s?

 

Because these kinds of ships are sailing dinosaurs.

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143. According to one ship-building savant, this is how the second Trump-class warship will look:

 

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144. So shall it be, that the man whose feet hurt too much to fight for his country when he was young, and who pays as little in taxes as possible (such as zero dollars in his best years), to a government that needs revenue to build battleships – will have an entire class of warships named after him.

 

No other living American has been so honored. In case you’re missing the drift.

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145. The President of the United States has also been insisting that the Washington Commanders name the new football stadium being built in the city of that same name be named after him.

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146. If you haven’t noticed, the right-wing folks love to bring up every traffic accident in which an illegal immigrant kills a good, God-fearing white American. (See: Screenshot below.)

 

You might even get the idea if you watch too much Fox News, that only immigrants are bad drivers, who want to kill you.

 

Probably because you’re white.

 

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147. Any death of any eight-year-old girl is a tragedy, but Fox News doesn’t want you to think about all the other shitty American drivers – particularly those who speed or tailgate like fools. Bad drivers in this country kill about 40,000 people ever year. So, illegals causing highway deaths are exactly alone.

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148. The folks at Fox News also love to run stories about illegals murdering good, God-fearing, Americans – particularly if the victims were wearing MAGA hats. The scarier Fox can make you believe all immigrants are, legal or illegal, the angrier you will become, and the more you will support Donald Trump and ICE and the hateful rhetoric of Stephen Miller and some of the other goons. All the better, then, to keep them out of this country. Or boot them out if they’re already here.

 

Any story making immigrants sound terrifying – from their alleged pet-eating proclivities to their imaginary attempts to turn us all into Muslims – will suffice.

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149. Here’s the kind of story that the right-wing folks won’t focus on to “prove” some point: Jason Kenney, a Florida man, gets into an argument over whether he can finish watching his NFL game on the TV in the living room. His wife is watching another show and says no. Jason shoots her dead. He also shoots his 13-year-old stepdaughter in the face, but the bridge of her nose deflects the bullet upward and out the top of her head.

 

So, she survives – and her stepdad flees and then kills himself in a shed at his late father’s home.

 

Terrible people come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. They can be members of any religion, they can wear MAGA hats, or not. But no individual example can prove a point against an entire class of human beings.

 

And if Fox News makes you think that one individual example proves a larger point, you need to turn off the TV and take a head-clearing walk.

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150. Dangerous immigrants – as I was saying. Well, this story is kind of ironic and fun. I was reading about a Christmas Day party at Mar-a-Lago, and fuming because I went uninvited again. Then I got to thinking about how immigrants are trying to ruin America, as President Trump and his supporters love to say.

 

Then I noticed that Trump was filmed, along with Barron, his towering son, during the festivities, and the filming was done by … goddam it… foreign models! Namely: Valeria Sokolova, “a well-known Florida-based Russian model” and “a Moroccan model and influencer Abla Sofy.”

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151. So, I went looking for photos of the two foreign models who did the filming, and quickly understood why they were invited, whereas my poor American-born ass was never going to see the inside of Mar-a-Lago, even if I lived to be a million years old. I would never, ever see the gold bathtubs in the club spa – which Virginia Giuffre, Jeffrey Epstein’s most famous victim saw when she worked at Trump’s club as a teen.

 

 

That was before Virginia was recruited – right out of that Mar-a-Lago spa – by Ghislaine Maxwell, herself.

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152. If you are following the discussion of the Epstein Files, you may have heard that Giuffre, who did more than any other victim to expose all Epstein’s and Maxwell’s crimes, referred to Ghislaine as the “apex predator” in the whole scheme.

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153. If you are wondering why the current administration is so slow to release the Epstein Files, go back to #124-131.

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154. Then re-read #151.

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155. As the light of day fades, in the final days of 2025, we can also report that Donald Trump has worked hard to make American “energy independent” for the first time, by killing every wind power initiative he can.

 

We should also note that America first became energy independent in 2019 and remained so while Joe Biden was in charge.

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156. According to the President Trump, windmills are noisy, cancer-causing, bird-murdering machines. He now promises that new wind power projects will be okayed only over his dead body. No doubt, the people of red-state South Dakota are going to be wiped out by cancer soon, and the skies will be bird-less, since that state generates 70.1% of its electricity by using, WTF – windmills.

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157. The other top Death Zones for wind power would be Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and North Dakota, which also generate high percentages of electricity using their windmills. All four states voted for Trump in all the elections in which he has been a candidate.

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158. And get ready for 2028!

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159. Assuming you don’t give a shit about the Twenty-Second Amendment. As recently as October, Donald suggested that he might be open to seeking a third term. In fact, he started off 2026, by bragging to supporters that he had done such a fantastic job in his second term, so far, that – well – who wouldn’t want him to keep running the country until the Rapture lifted his lard ass off to Heaven?

 

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160. If you are the MAGA type, you may be wondering in which state have “Libtards” constructed the most windmills?

 

Those commie bastards…

 

Well, it’s Texas actually, a state run by Republicans, with 19,393. That would be four times as many as California, the blue state with the most.

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161. Did you know that Donald just pardoned Jacob Schwartz, who ran nursing homes in multiple states – and failed to pay withholding taxes, even though he pocketed $38 million in employee salaries.

 

Fortunately, Arkansas authorities have ordered Schwartz to show up to serve his prison sentence – on state charges.

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162. We can also report that Mr. Trump has created a new White House Faith Office. And who better to lead this office than Paula White-Cain! White-Cain, a televangelist who preaches the “Prosperity Gospel,” has been Donald’s spiritual adviser for many years. I believe she and the president’s favorite Bible passages are about how to multiply loaves and fishes and hundred-dollar bills.

 

Especially the bills.

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163. When not busy advising the president, Paula has been accused of stealing money from the bank accounts of the rock band Journey. Also, her version of the gospel boils down to this: Send Paula a whole bunch of your money. She will pray really hard, just for you. God will perk up his ears and God will send you more money than you sent her!

 

Life will be great!

 

For Paula, for sure.

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164. This poor blogger has been accused of hating America – just because he thinks Trump is a repugnant idiot and a threat to the U.S. Constitution, Well, if you are a believer in workers’ rights, as is said blogger, then three cheers for the thirteen Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, who joined all the Democrats to vote to restore bargaining rights President Trump stripped away from federal workers.

 

And we should note: Those workers had negotiated fair contracts – which Donald wanted to breach.

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165. That would be as opposed to the 200 Republicans who voted to side with Donald Dumpling over workers.

 

That would make the final vote in favor of workers:

 

YES                 NO

 

Democrats                  209                    0

 

Republicans                13                   200

                                    222                 200

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166. We can also report that the self-proclaimed “hardest-working president, ever” spent a whole bunch of time at his Florida palace this month.

 

Donald did at least spend the first weekend in December in Washington D.C., because he wanted to host the annual Trump-Kennedy Center program, to honor great Americans, whom, for this year’s gala, all had one common quality. That is: They were willing to suck up to Donald Trump.

 

We can also report that Donald was the first U.S. president ever to grab the microphone and host the ceremony.

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167. Donald also stuck around the White House on the weekend of December 12-14, because on Saturday, he wanted to fly to Baltimore and watch part of the Army-Navy football game – and have his big mug shown on the Jumbotron screen.

 

And then he would leave.

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A golfing fool.

 

168. Two whole weeks in the White House, waited on by a staff of a hundred butlers, chefs, and housekeepers proved more than enough. With that, Donald hopped aboard Air Force One and jetted off to Florida. So, the White House staff sat around – at taxpayer expense – and twiddled thumbs and played Yahtzee, and taxpayers also footed the bill for the expensive flight to Mar-a-Lago.

 

Of which trips there have been many.

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169. You may recall those days of your when President Obama was seated in the Oval Office and shocked the conservative conscience by wearing a tan suit, and when Donald used to criticize him for playing more golf in a year than Tiger Woods. But that was then and this is now.

 

So, on December 20, it was off to Mar-a-Lago. And, lo and behold, The Dumpling did play golf. Then he golfed again on December 21, and again on December 22, and on the December 23, he spent a little less than four hours at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

 

Christmas Eve? Yeah. Golfing again.

 

On Christmas, we should note that there was no sign on the official Presidential Schedule that Donald attended church. But on December 26?

 

Golfing.

 

December 27? Golfing.

 

December 28. Okay. Golfing again. Then he skipped a day and finished the year by golfing on December 30, as well.

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BLOGGER’S NOTE: We’re cheating a little here, since this post is supposed to be about what happened in December 2025. But we feel duty bound to report that the president extended his Mar-a-Lago stay and went golfing on January 1, 2026, and golfing again on January 2. On January 4, he played golf again, and finally flew back to Washington, having enjoyed fifteen days in sunny Florida.

 

And I’ll be damned. The man was back at Mar-a-Lago on the very next weekend, January 9-11.

 

Then it was back to D.C. for a few days of labor, and then, my God, he was back at Mar-a-Lago for dinner on January 19.

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170. In other news, weather researchers announced that 2025 was one of the three hottest years ever recorded. Temperatures remained elevated despite the presence of the La Nina effect, a periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters which normally keeps global temperatures down.

 

Scientists call this part of a growing climate change threat. We should also point out that the #1-hotest year was 2024, and 2023 was #2.

 

Incase you are wondering if there has been a trend.

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171. But don’t sweat it. Donald Dumpling calls climate change a hoax.

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172. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under other presidents, used to report on the topic. Now Team Trump has completely shut down the NOAA reporting system.

 

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173. Well, who are you going to believe? A bunch of trained climate scientists – or The Dumpling?

 

For example, Donald could be heard this month, babbling about crime in Washington D.C. and claiming, “We haven’t had a murder in six months,” since he called in the National Guard.

“I wish that was true,” Jamia Vanden told a reporter for The New York Times on December 29, but her sister was gunned down in November, and there had been at least 28 murders in the city in the prior four months.

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174. We can report that D.C. police said murders were down by 31% this year. So, hip, hip, hooray, for Donald J.

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175. Of course, the same police reports indicate that murders were down in Washington by 32% in 2024. You know, with Sleepy Joe at the wheel. And no armed military patrolling the streets.

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176. Donald still wasn’t done making up his own statistics. You might even say, he was just getting warmed up.

 

He also claimed that crime in D.C. was down 87%, all thanks to him, and if you didn’t count little crimes like domestic violence, he said crime would be down 100%. “You know, they’ll do anything they can to find something,” he said of the people tracking crimes in the nation’s capital. “If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime. See? So now I can’t claim 100 percent but we are. We are a safe city.”

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177. It’s hard to imagine that even Donald believes the drivel he spews; so, consider the statistics – which Donald is too much of a dolt to do. There had been 3,926 car thefts in the city in 2025. Unless car thieves decided to take a vacation starting in August, this claim of near-zero crimes was ludicrous on its face. Same with the 2,470 violent crimes reported for the year.

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178. Meanwhile, the Social Security Administration was set to end the year with a backlog of 6,000,000 pending cases in its processing centers and 12,000,000 transactions in its field offices.

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179. All those millions of Americans not being served could thank Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency acolytes for cutting the federal workforce down to size.

 

As in so small workers can’t provide essential services.

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The Dumpling dreams of being our first Censor-in-Chief.

 

180. When not thinking of ways to make Canada our next state, the president likes to devote time to attacking Stephen Colbert, host of the “The Late Show.” Colbert is scheduled for cancellation in May, but Donald just couldn’t resist calling him a “pathetic trainwreck, with no talent or anything else necessary for show business success.”

 

“Now, after being terminated by CBS, but left out to dry, he has actually gotten worse, along with his nonexistent ratings, Trump complained. “Stephen is running on hatred and fumes – a dead man walking! CBS should, 'put him to sleep,' NOW, it is the humanitarian thing to do!”

 

Then the kicker, if you’re a fan of the First Amendment. And if you’re not, your skull may be full of rotting bananas.

 

In a post on Truth Social in the wee hours of one December morn, he railed: “If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J. Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their very valuable Broadcast Licenses be terminated? I say, YES!”

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181. The correct answer, my fellow Americans, is “No.”

 

Or to be more precise:

 

FUCK NO! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING?

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182. The biggest numbskull in the reddest state, with the most extensive MAGA-style wardrobe and a life-size cardboard cutout of the president in his or her o they bedroom should be able to figure this out.

 

If Donald can control the news he doesn’t like, the next Democratic president can control the news you listen to, instead.

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183. Are you fools sure you’re even Americans?

 

FIGURE THIS THE FUCK OUT!

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184. We can also report that early this month, ice coverage on Hudson Bay was 10%. That compared with coverage at the same point, in the 1970s and 1980s, that averaged 82%.

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185. Climate change is not a hoax.

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186. And who can forget that happy day, just before Christmas, when Donald Trump appeared on national TV, to announce that he would be sending out a “Warrior Dividend” in the sum of $1,776 (get it) to all eligible members of our Armed Forces. It was like a gift from The Dumpling himself.

 

What a guy.

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187. Hey, wait a minute! It turned out that money had been allocated by Congress in July, as a one-time supplement to basic housing allowances. So, all Donald really did was hog all the credit.

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188. Even Donald – and his supporters – seemed unconvinced that his prime-time TV appearance was a winner. Trump himself whipped through his speech in eighteen minutes, whereas he usually rambles on for at least an hour-and-a-half, telling everyone about his own greatness.

 

“Trump is speaking so fast he seems panicked,” supporter Trisha Hope posted online. “I’ve never seen him like this, and I have attended 42 of his rallies.”

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189. I’ve been told I suffer from Trump Disorder Syndrome by my MAGA friends. I’m just going to put this out there. I’ve never felt the need to attend 42 rallies by the same politician.

 

Like ever.

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190. I hope I never do.

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“My friends will get hurt.”

 

191. Speaking of big fans of the president – although “former,” in this case – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has now suggested that she was naïve to put so much faith in Donald as she had. In fact, she went into the Lion’s Den and talked to the lions. I mean, of course: Reporters for the “Fake News” New York Times.

 

As she explained, the president told her not to push to have the Epstein Files released, because, release, “My friends will get hurt.”

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192. Greene also made it clear that after she criticized the president, she received credible death threats aimed at her son.

 

Donald never asked his supporters to ease up on her, either.

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193. Certainly, we know that Donald had trouble staying awake in December, nodding off several times during cabinet meetings – and maybe during sex, on the rare occasions when Melania was within a hundred miles.

 

California Governor Gavin Newsom decided to do a little Trump-like trolling of his own (see #113, above).

 

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194. The non-hoax climate news continues to pile up. Somehow, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration managed to sneak out its report covering the period from October 2024 to September 2025. According to the scientists, Arctic Ocean temperatures were 13° F. hotter than the average, from 1991-2020. If you care to imagine what an increase of 13° would mean if air temperatures across the globe rose as high, you will understand what a growing threat climate change represents.

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195. NOAA also announced that lowest 19 annual sea ice levels recorded in the Arctic were the last 19 years.

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196. We can also report that executions rose nationally in 2025, nearly doubling the rate in 2024. (Final numbers are not yet in.) Florida led the way – if you want to call it leading – with 19.

 

We of the liberal brand do not cheer executions because we follow the news and know how often individuals deemed guilty have been proven to be innocent later. See for example: The Innocence Project.

 

Sandra Hemme spent 43 years behind bars for murder, until new evidence proved she was not the killer.

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197. The National Registry of Exonerations lists 3,772 individuals, who served a combined 35,166 years in prison, only to be found not to have committed the crimes for which they were jailed.

 

Oops.

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198. Donald Dumpling is, as you probably know, a big, big fan of executing prisoners and that is another reason why this blogger considers him to be a disgusting human being. See, specifically, his calls to execute the “animals” who became known as the “Central Park Five.”

 

Those five young black men were found guilty of raping and nearly beating a white female jogger to death.

 

DNA evidence eventually proved they didn’t.

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199. We can also report, as 2025 draws to a close, that certain Republican lawmakers have called for all Muslims in America to be kicked out.

 

“It is time for a Muslim travel ban, radical deportations of all mainstream Muslim legal and illegal immigrants, and citizenship revocations wherever possible,” Rep. Randy Fine posted on social media on December 15. That post got 61,000 likes.

 

“Mainstream Muslims have declared war on us. The least we can do is kick them the hell out of America,” Randy Hater continued. “Diversity is not our strength. Diversity has become suicidal.”

 

I think Randy has been getting some of his ideas out of Mein Kampf. (See: #32, above.)

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200. Sen. Tommy Tuberville chipped in with a little hatred of his own. “Islam is not a religion. It’s a cult,” he wrote on X. “Islamists aren’t here to assimilate. They’re here to conquer. … We’ve got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we’ll become the United Caliphate of America.”

 

First, Islam is definitely a religion, with 1.6 billion adherents around the world.

 

Second, we should be safe in America. Muslim Americans make up only 1% of the nation’s population – and most of them are as harmless as Tommy Tuberville turned loose in a library. Assuming Tommy ever visited a library. The U.S. senator was once asked to name the three branches of the government – one of which he’s in.

 

“Our government wasn’t set up for one group to have all three branches of government –wasn’t set up that way,” Tommy told a reporter. “You know, the House, the Senate, and the executive.”

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201. Correct answer: The three branches of government are the legislative, executive and judicial.

 

Tommy is a babble fool.

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202. Even Fox News Business had to admit that the Grinch had a good holiday season in 2025, with parents forced to pay 26% higher prices on holiday gifts, compared to 2024. The cause?

 

Tariffs.

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Slight Delays with peace in Ukraine.

 

203. We can also report that when the ball dropped in Time Square, on New Year’s Eve 2025, Trump was still lashing out at our European allies, claiming their leaders were “weak” and their nations were “decaying.” Singling out France and Germany, he snarled, “I think they don’t know what to do, Europe doesn’t know what to do.”

 

He also claimed, without evidence (which should surprise no one) that the mayor of London, who happened to be Muslim, was elected by scuzzy illegal immigrants who piled into the United Kingdom and, “They vote for him now.”

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204. As for Vladimir Putin, who ordered the invasion of Ukraine, and whose forces have killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, including countless civilians, Donald still likes Vladimir. Vlad just doesn’t have to worry about elections, because the Russian people love him like they love bortsch. When Putin runs for office, they pour out of their dachas, as in March 2024. Before you can say “sacred landslide election,” like Donald claims he won in 2020, Putin piles up 87.8% of the vote.

 

A true landslide.

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205. Asked about the Ukraine War, as this year ended, Mr. Trump said he had little faith in the role of European leaders in trying to end it. “They talk, but they don’t produce, and the war just keeps going on and on.”

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206. This comment struck many observers as tinged with irony, since Donald famously promised that if he were elected in 2024, he could end that war in 24 hours, even before he took office.

 

He won his second term on November 5, 2024.

 

That means the war should have ended on November 6. But it didn’t. It didn’t end on any day in November. And it didn’t end in December. Then it didn’t end on any day in all of 2025.

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207. That meant that when the ball dropped again on December 31, 2025, in Times Square, Donald Dumpling was

 

421 days

 

behind schedule.

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208. I suppose it could be worse. If you ask the MAGA faithful, I am sure they will fondly remember when, on June 17, 2019, Donald told an ABC reporter that his “phenomenal” healthcare plan would be ready “within the next two months.”

 

I am sure they remember waiting, like kids on Christmas Eve, for Santa to put affordable healthcare in their stockings on the mantle.

 

I remember how excited I was myself to see this marvel! A real, live, Republican-created healthcare plan. Well, the days flew by. June 18, 19, 20, etc. …. July 1, 2, 3 … and August 14, 15, and 16.

 

Suddenly it was August 17, 2019. It was my son’s 39th birthday and would have been Davy Crockett’s 233rd.

 

I clicked on ABC News to see the big reveal.

 

Sadly, Davy was nowhere to be seen. Neither was the Trumpcare Health Plan, not the “phenomenal” one we had been promised, and not even one where we all got a $25 supply of Band-Aids and iodine.  

 

And now, as 2025 came to an end, Donald was

 

2,326 days

 

behind schedule.

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209. I don’t know about my many dedicated MAGA patriot friends, but I was growing skeptical.

 

Could it be that Donald had no real plan?

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210. Then again, maybe the MAGA faithful won’t even need healthcare this coming New Year. We know that Jesus is looking over Donald’s right shoulder and touching him with greatness. Maybe we just need to wait for the Rapture in 2026! We won’t need doctors’ visits in Heaven.

 

And if food prices don’t really come down in 2026, that won’t matter, either, Rapture or no Rapture. As Nick Adams, a right-wing influencer with 633,000 followers on X, is telling everyone, hunger in America is at an all-time low, and it’s only going to go lower.

 

Jesus might not be coming anytime soon, but Nick posts this:

 

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211. So, while we all wait for loaves and fishes, let’s end this last post for 2025, with a little fun. We know that Donald has plastered his name on every surface in America where he could.

 

In fact, if he had bonked a porn start this year, he’d have ordered the Pentagon to tattoo her ass with his name.

 

But we would be remiss, if we did not mention that a forward-thinking comedian took note when the President of the United States packed the board of the Kennedy Center with his sycophantic friends and spouses of friends. “He’s going to slap his name on that building, for sure,” the comic reasoned.

 

So, he bought the rights to the domain name: “trumpkennedycenter.org.” And he created a new logo, with the columns on the building appearing to be prison bars:

 

 

212. Then he released the new schedule of musical guests, performers, and assorted cultural events:

 

 

With that, another year went into the books, and all was well, and America was Great Again. Happy New Year, everyone!

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