Donald Loses His Marbles - Trump 47 - April 2026

  

Dreams of Dictatorship Dancing in Donald’s Head.

 

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“When the legislative and executive power are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no freedom.” 

Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1750

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April 1, 2026: We start the month with news from Parris Island, where young men and women go to become United States Marines. (The blogger did his time in training there in early 1969.) 

Well, great news, MAGA lovers. ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation ceremonies so they can snag parents or girlfriends or family members of new Marines, who might not have legal immigration status. 

Remember: Team Trump was going to go hard to save us all and target the “worst of the worst.” 

WTF. 

Parris Island, S.C.

 

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FORTUNATELY, on Newsmax, we can still find great patriots, like Ted Nugent, who host Carl Higbie tells us loves America more than all 58,000 Americans killed during the Vietnam War did, and maybe throw in all the Marines who died on Iwo Jima, too. As Higbee insists, “I can’t think of anyone who loves this country more.” 

And Ted smiles and agrees. 

At one point, Nugent adds, “We know freedom is not free.” Which is simple truth, of course.  While Ted talks, a split screen shows the flag flying proudly. Then an eagle can be seen soaring in some woods. 

Sooooooooooo patriotic! 

  

But Ted sees hope. Not for the left-wing “dirtbags,” no, but he reminds the host that Trump got the most votes from young people ever. Glory days ahead. Higbee grumbles a little about how the “media paints a different picture.” 

Yeah, damn free press. 

Higbee closes by telling Ted, “That’s why we have you on, because you’re part of the solution.” 

Ummmm…. 

I remember when I joined the Marines, December 28, 1968, talking to my parents about freedom for the Vietnamese, and I would have agreed with Ted. But Ted had different ideas, then, as did his Orange God, Donald J. Trump. 

The blogger in early 1969.

When more than talk would be required, Ted had his own way of not paying freedom’s bill. He had turned up draft eligible in December 1966. As he once proudly explained, he had a plan to avoid military service, and it worked. 

 

So maybe, Ted shouldn’t be talking so much about “dirtbags,” and “freaks” today among our young. 

Like Trump, Nugent is a Faketriot. 

As for young people today, see 4/15/26, below, to get a sense of their views of Donald’s job so far, during his second term.

 

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Bad people fear the free press. 

WE CAN ALSO REPORT that Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris, and Donald Trump’s former spiritual advisor, is out of prison early. He had been a guest of the State of Oklahoma, after pleading guilty to having forced a teenage parishioner into a four-year sexual relationship, starting when the girl was twelve. Total time served for his crimes: Six months. Morris will serve out his probation, lasting for nine-and-a-half years, at his $1.5 million lakeside home. 

We must also point out that Rev. Morris’ downfall was brought about by the free press doing what the free press does.

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“Kiss the Son or face the beating.” 

4/2/26: Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers promised fellow lawmakers today that he had a plan to raise up Christ as the Ruler of American Government, and he would show them how. As he put it to fellow lawmakers, he would, “Confront [them] with the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ, to awaken holy fear of treason against Christ, and to equip legislators to govern as His servants, so that your laws and priorities and public witness protect the citizen’s right to know and enjoy God forever.” 

Sen. Dusty went on to say that there was a “sovereign authority of Christ to order His world by His word.” 

Deevers finished by warning his fellow legislators if they failed to heed his words: “If you belittle Christ in the halls of power and blaspheme Him by not ascribing to Him glory and authority over the government that rests upon His shoulders, the scepter you grasp will become the rod that breaks you. Kiss the Son or face the beating.” 

I am just going to guess that Deevers is a huge fan of feeding the hungry and caring for the sick and not taking away healthcare from constituents. 

Also, he must hate the moneychangers who keep donating millions to lawmakers to get the kind of laws that Christ would want… 

Ha, ha, I’m joking.

 

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ONE MAN we can assume, who would be on board with Deevers’ arguments, is right-wing Pastor Dale Partridge, who recently called for repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment. That’s the one, ratified in 1919, that granted suffrage to people like your great grandmother back in the day, and now your mom and girlfriend and sisters. “The majority of women are not capable of responsible voting,” Pastor Partridge insists. 

So: Take the vote away.

 

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TODAY, DONALD DUMPLING said he was proud to be able to tell reporters that his Presidential Library will be different than other libraries – by Eisenhower, or Truman, or any other former chief executive. 

“It’s gonna be mostly like a hotel,” he explained. There will be giant gold statues of … Trump … and a giant screen outside will continuously show … Trump’s face. And the MAGA faithful will come from all around to worship their Idol. It will be a skyscraper. And we are guessing rooms will be available at high costs, and fun and profits will be had by all. Mostly, Trumps, making profits. 

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4/4/26: The poor, overworked blogger has been too busy lately to dig into the Epstein Files, but a mention of Paolo Zampolli and his current job, sent me searching for information on how much he was being paid as a member of the Trump administration. 

Zampolli is best known for his claim to have introduced Melania to her husband, and that he ran a modeling agency, with questionable ethics in play. In my own searches, I stumbled upon a story, regarding how Paolo behaved during Donald’s first term as president. No surprise, he moved to D.C., to be close to the action. While he was hobnobbing with the Trump people, he cheated on his partner of seventeen years, and mother of his son, who stayed behind in New York. 

(Another “family values” conservative?)

 

We know Zampolli was doing a little extra-curricular bonking of the young lady, not his partner, because he admitted it. Then he turned to social media to trash his side piece. “Please stay away from my family, you are a pro, all [sic] city knows you are a working girl, since day one you said I had to pay you,” he wrote in one post. 

Now, let us remember. Paolo is a big boy. He was the big boy cheating on his partner. So maybe he was the problem. 

The side piece replied in a statement to Politico, at the time, 

Any accusations about me being a “working girl” or that I trade “sex for money” are entirely false. In no way, shape or form, did I partake in any exchange of sex for money with Paolo Zampolli. We had a brief consensual relationship, but I learned he was dishonest about the nature of his relationship with the mother of his son [emphasis added] and no longer wanted to be involved or associated with him. He proceeded to verbally threaten me by saying false things about my character. I blocked him from all form of communications. 

(Another typical Trump administration predator?) 

 

Zampolli is currently serving as Special Envoy for Global Partnerships, a job created for him in March 2025. 

(No one seems to know how much he is paid.)

Top picture: Zampolli, second from right.
Circled: Ungaro.

 

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WE CAN REPORT that highlights of his career include advocating for Russia to be allowed to return to international sports competition – starting with the most recent Paralympics. That’s ironic, since Russia’s attack on Ukraine has done so much to increase the number of competitors eligible for such sporting events. 

Even more famously, he is now known for asking ICE to deport the mother of his son. Until ICE swung into action, Paolo (an Italian immigrant, himself) and mom were locked in a custody battle for their teenage son. Apparently, the person Zampolli most wanted to stay away from his family was himself. His longtime partner, Amanda Ungaro, a Brazilian beauty, was indeed deported. 

As so often is true, when one looks beneath the rocks of Team Trump, creepy crawlers skitter in all directions. Back in the day, Paolo and Donald used to hang in New York City, and Paolo once told The New York Times that their friendship rested on a solid, simple foundation: “We both like beautiful things.” 

In Paolo’s case, for sure, beautiful teen girls. 

(Not fake news, numbskulls. It’s reporting.) 

 

When I do a search of the Epstein Files, I am relieved to find that Paolo’s name does not show up in thousands of places – like Donald’s – but a search does turn up a victim statement, from a teenage girl, first hired to model by Zampolli, who calls him “sleazy” and says he used to date his own models. 

When he lets her go, she gets recruited by Jeffrey Epstein. It was in that kind of world that Zampolli operated, when he first came to the United States, c. 1994, when he was in his early 20s. 

First, the victim statement: 

 

Well, what kind of guy might Paolo be? We know he was encouraged to move to the U.S. by John Casablancas. 

Should we worry? The Guardian, a British newspaper, with an American edition, did some digging, regarding Casablancas, and his connections with Donald Trump, and I had already summarized the findings for my blog. More on Casablancas in a moment. 

We also know (or so the story goes) that Paolo spotted Melania during a scouting trip to Milan in 1995 and sponsored her to come to America in 1996, when she was 26. That would be old for a model, but Melania had recently posed nude for an adult magazine in France, which may have caught his attention. Paolo himself lived with a Hungarian model, Edit Molnar, when he first came to New York City. 

In 1998, he says he introduced Donald to Melania. 

Four years later, he met Amanda Ungaro, a 17-year-old Brazilian model, and their lengthy relationship began. Since I taught history, I try not to jump from a short springboard of facts into the shallow end of the Swimming Pool of Truth, but we can say this. It is often true that by the people you hang around with, we can know you. And Ungaro had come to the Big Apple aboard Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet, the infamous “Lolita Express.” And Ungaro’s agent at the time was Jean-Luc Brunel. 

We can also report that Epstein joined Zampolli in a bid to buy Elite Model Management, though that bid failed. 

Even better (if you are into conspiracy thinking) in 2013, Paolo was named as one of four partners in Ghislaine Maxwell’s ocean charity project (meant to redeem her public image), the TerraMar Project. 

Epstein you surely know. He’s dead and in Hell, if Hell is real. 

Brunel died by suicide in jail in France, after he was arrested for running a sex-trafficking ring just as terrible as Jeffrey’s. 

He would also be in Hell. 

Maxwell is serving twenty years in prison, down in Texas, so she can’t go to Hell yet, because she’s breathing. 

And Paolo is still good friends with President Trump and the First Lady and Ungaro is back in Brazil.

 

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ONE MENTION of Zampolli in the Files, from 2010, makes one wonder. It’s a little hard to put into context, but Paolo is defending his honor in an email to Jeffrey Epstein. Of all people! 

 

You get the idea that Paolo might not be a Boy Scout when you realize that Jeffrey Epstein warned a Middle Eastern sultan, that sultan being another one of the slimeballs in the Files, “Be careful, zampoli is trouble . Lots” 

After Epstein warns the sultan that Zampolli sells stories to the press, the sultan replies, “I am glad you told me I will tell him that I want to be discreet in my stay here in ny thats why i am not socializing and keeping low profile and ask that he keeps it that way” 

Next, we have a series of emails in the Files, from October 25, 2018, which lack almost all context: 

1:58 am: Redacted writes to Jeffrey: “Killers: Prokhorov and Baibakov (plus all h=s people), Zampolli Paolo [emphasis added], Anna Konchakovskaya and all people who work for=them. Prokhorov has a lot to hide”

 

4:53 pm:  Redacted sends an email to Epstein, with the subject line: “Zampolli put words in my mouth and on paper:” 

That email reads: “Pls I am asking for investigation. I never killed anybody=and I stopped drugs. I swear. And I did had mediation reg Bill Block and w= had Ari"s private business discussed. Pls I am deserve little pub=shent but more psycho treatment. I never kill anybody. I m scared for my s=n”

 

5:22 pm: Redacted again responds, in an email to Epstein, with the subject line, “Did you write deposition against me???” Again, context is lacking, but Epstein seems to have accused Redacted. Redacted responds, “I hardly believe so, who is writing this shit. Zampolli. Pls I am asking investigation and I agree I need little punishment and medical help, pscyco help, therapy. But not death I am not guilty, I swear I stopped drugs.” 

I should also note that the lack of context makes me wonder where any responses from Epstein to these emails might have gone.

 

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SO, I KEEP DIGGING. I learn to my surprise that Zampolli has dual citizenship, both in this country and Italy. 

Then I go back and do a double take – and that’s when I learn that Zampolli acquired his longtime model partner, Ms. Ungaro, fresh of the Epstein plane. As always, I couldn’t help myself and kept looking for details regarding his relationships with Melania, and Donald, and Ungaro’s relationships with both, as well. 

And, what the Hell! How did I ever miss this story from 2016, based on a story in British GQ magazine, from January 2000!!! 

I had seen this photo many times but had never known it was taken during a photo shoot on one of Donald’s personal jets – and had never realized that the seatbelt buckles (which one would hardly notice) were 18-carat gold. 

Then there was this, also from the plane, but I don’t see any buckles: 

 

And this, the cover: 

 

So, you have the future First Lady, nude at 29, just three months short of turning 30, but described as a “Slovenian supermodel” in the text (if anyone read the text), who was “fluent in four languages.”  And now we have accusations from Ungaro that she knows plenty of dirt about the links between a variety of seedy characters, and those characters may include the president (no surprise there) and Mrs. Trump (perhaps inadvertently caught up in this questionable world). 

In dispute, for example: The claim that Zampolli introduced Melania to Trump – and not Jeffery Epstein! 

I make no wild accusations to try to boost traffic to my blog; but mostly dig down to find what truths I can, because I’m a former history teacher, and a decade of Donald Trump has produced a decade of questionable behavior. Mrs. Trump may be completely innocent of wrongdoing. 

And, yes, she did look good without her clothing. 

What is not in dispute: There are a lot of terrible individuals in this story, and Zampolli seems to fit in nicely, as does Donald.

 

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FOR NOW, let’s double back to John Casablancas, the man who coaxed Paolo Zampolli to come to America and work some model magic. 

As I previously wrote on my blog:

 

Old men and aspiring teen models. 

43. The free press continues to do what the free press does best; and the Guardian turned up the story of a 1991 party held on a large New York City yacht. 

Downstairs, a party was in flow. Scores of teenage girls in evening dresses and miniskirts, some as young as 14, danced under disco lights. It could have been a high school prom, were it not for the crowd of older men surrounding them.

 

As the evening wore on, some of the men – many old enough to be the girls’ fathers, or even grandfathers – joined them on the dancefloor, pressing themselves against the girls. One balding man in a suit wrapped his arms around two young models, leering into a film camera that was documenting the evening: “Can you get some beautiful women around me, please?” 

 

Donald was attending, along with the 58 young girls, who were competing to win the Elite Model Management’s “Look of the Year” contest, which came with a $150,000 prize and a life-changing contract. 

 

44. The next year there was another party on another yacht, and Donald and the founder of Elite, John Casablancas, were there. 

One of the girls on the boat was Shawna Lee, then a 14-year-old from a small town outside Toronto. She recalls how the contestants were encouraged to parade downstairs, one by one, and dance for Trump, Casablancas and others. Lee, an introverted teenager who loved to draw but hated school, was in New York for the first time. “A woman at the agency was pushing me,” she recalls. “I said to her, ‘I don’t see why me going down the stairs and dancing in front of those two has anything to do with me becoming a model. And she said, ‘No, you look great, take off your blazer and go and do it.’ So I walked down the stairs. I didn’t dance – I blew a kiss at them, spun around and walked away.” …

 

Another contestant, who was 15 at the time, also remembers being asked to walk for Trump, Casablancas and other men on the boat in September 1992. She says an organiser told her that if she refused, she would be excluded from the competition. “I knew in my gut it wasn’t right,” she recalls. “This wasn’t being judged or part of the competition – it was for their entertainment.” 

 

The Guardian article continues: 

Three decades on, a very different picture of the competition is beginning to emerge.  Over the last six months, the Guardian has spoken to several dozen former Look of the Year contestants [emphasis added, unless otherwise noted]. as well as industry insiders, and obtained 12 hours of previously unseen, behind-the-scenes footage. The stories we have heard suggest that Casablancas, and some of the men in his orbit, used the contest to engage in sexual relationships with vulnerable young models. Some of these allegations amount to sexual harassment, abuse or exploitation of teenage girls; others are more accurately described as rape. 

 

(Melania Trump, then Melania Knauss, was a contestant in the Look of the Year contest in 1992, but finished second in the Slovenia heat, and just missed a chance to take a trip to New York at that time.) 

 

45. Barbara Pilling, another Elite model, talked to reporters about an event in the summer of 1989, when Trump asked her out for dinner. The future president, an enthusiastic pussy grabber, asked how old she was. “I said 17 and he said, ‘That’s just great – you’re not too old, not too young.’” 

(Was seventeen his cut-off age for grabbing? We need to be sure.) 

 

46. In newly revealed footage from this era, Donald can be seen schmoozing with Casablancas, whom he describes as “my friend John.” As the Guardian reports, “Trump now disputes being friends with Casablancas.” 

He just said he was – but who are you gonna believe? 

The president’s representatives told the Guardian that he denies it “in the strongest possible terms.” Trump, “hardly knew him, spent very little time with him, and knew very little about him.” 

Kate Dillon, 17, came in third during the 1991 Look contest, during which Mr. Trump served as one of the judges. She remembers many of the girls as having come from poor backgrounds, and says they were desperate. “It was very clear that there were opportunities to go out and party with Donald,” she says. The contestants were led to believe “that if you were nice to certain people, good things will happen to you, and I think that’s why girls were going out.” 

The Guardian notes that the average age of the aspiring models in the 1992 contest was fifteen. During a photoshoot, a photographer can be heard instructing one of the teens to show more cleavage by pulling her bra lower. 

“More,” he tells her. “More. More.” 

(I’m sorry, but this blogger can easily imagine Trump shouting, “More. More.”) 

(That may be just my bias.) 

 

The Guardian continues: 

Some former contestants recall [Donald] being there as they got dressed for events. “Every time we changed, it was like Trump would find a reason to come backstage,” [Stacy] Wilkes says. A Canadian contestant from 1992 recalls similar incidents. “He’d come by and say, ‘Hey girls, are we ready?’” she says. “I remember thinking, what have I got myself into?” Trump denies, “in the strongest possible terms”, behaving inappropriately with any Look of the Year contestants. His representatives say he was not aware of any predatory environment at the time. 

 

And we have this: 

Others, however, observed a disturbing side to the contest. Ohad Oman, a young reporter for a magazine in Tel Aviv, was sent to cover it in 1991 and 1992. He attended a number of the after-parties, and remembers seeing girls drinking alcohol. He recalls one particularly debauched party, telling the Guardian: “I saw girls sitting on guys’ laps, and I remember one guy putting his hand down a girl’s top. I remember thinking they were younger than me, and I was 17 going on 18.” (The legal drinking age is 21 in the US.) 

 

A plenitude of creeps. 

47. If you’d like to read about multiple young women accusing multiple older men involved with the contests, in multiple ways, read the Guardian story. That would include David Weil, the head of an investment firm, found guilty of embezzling $1.2 million in models’ earnings. Later, he pleaded guilty to statutory rape of a 15-year-old contestant in the 1992 Look of the Year event. 

Casablancas ran into legal problems himself, after he was accused of sexually abusing a contestant who was fifteen. (He lucked out after the civil suit was dismissed, having been filed in the wrong state.) 

But we know he admitted to a sexual relationship with Stephanie Seymour, when she was fifteen. He described her as “a woman-child.” 

That affair ended his second marriage. 

His third bride was 17. 

 

48. Then add this: 

It also appears that Epstein had a Casablancas connection during the 1990s. According to a lawsuit filed in the US three months ago, in 1990 Casablancas sent a teenage model for her first “casting call” at a residential address on New York’s Upper East Side, to meet a “photographer” who, it turned out, was Epstein. The lawsuit states that Epstein ordered the 15-year-old girl to undress before taking photographs of her, pushing her against a wall and sexually assaulting her. 

 

49. Then this. A damning video of Epstein testifying, in 2010, has also resurfaced. Prosecutors can be heard posing a series of questions: 

Q: Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?

A: What do you mean by “personal relationship,” sir?

 

Q: Have you socialized with him?

A: Yes, sir.

 

Q: Yes?

A: Yes, sir.

 

Q: Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?

 

A: Though I’d like to answer that question, at least today I’m going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir. 

 

So where are we today? Did Epstein run a world-wide sex trafficking operation, which catered to the rich and powerful. Yes. 

Who were those rich and powerful? We still don’t know. But we can start filling in pieces of the puzzle if we want. 

Can we trust the current President of the United States to get to the bottom of this sleazy story? Very good question. 

In fact, a key. 

 

50. We are now left to ponder the matter of credibility. Is Donald the type of guy who might molest young girls? Hard to know; but an in-depth investigation might provide a definitive answer. Regardless, we have long known that Citizen Trump was accused by more than two dozen young women of doing just that – grabbing their assorted body parts. And that is a lot of accusers.

 

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I KEEP SEARCHING, and while I am slow to accuse anyone, I will say no one comes out of these stories looking like an upright Christian. 

In a post-deportation interview, Amanda Ungaro has a great deal to say. We learn, for example, that she and Paolo sat at the Trump table for both Inaugurations. She now says that Melania “knows that I witnessed highly compromising interactions over the course of 20 years.” 

Some of her answers to questions from a reporter are as follows. When did she first meet this good friend of the Trumps, Paolo? 

A: The first time I had contact with Paolo Zampolli was when I was 15 years old. I can state that, starting from this first meeting, Paolo Zampolli began harassing me in an attempt to pursue an intimate relationship. 

We know Casablancas and Epstein had no compunctions when it came to having sex with underage teens, and Zampolli makes three. 

Does Trump make four? 

Ungaro was asked about Melania, and how she and Melania both managed to get visas and work in this country, when it was against the law. 

A: I cannot answer that specific detail; however, she was already in a relationship with Trump, and I was already aware that Paolo Zampolli was the person responsible for negotiating visas to legalize his models’ status in the United States. Everyone knew that this was a task he performed. Like everyone else, I know that she worked and earned money for a long time while undocumented – and that, too, fell under Paolo Zampolli’s purview. He circumvented the law, enabling the models to work and earn money illegally. He did the same with me when I joined the agency.

 

Ungaro is asked about her relationship with Melania’s immigrant parents: 

A: Yes, I became very close to her family. Holiday parties, Christmas, the White House, Mar-a-Lago – we were always invited, and for Paolo, our attendance was non-negotiable. This was the core of Paolo’s power strategy: the greater the intimacy, the more assurance he would have that he could be exactly where he wanted to be at any given moment. If you search on X, you can find a video that Paolo had my son, Giovanni, make for Melania – specifically with the aim of further entrenching us within the family circle [A/N: This is the video Amanda is referring to]. It wasn’t enough to involve just me; he had to involve my son as well. He constantly sought to heighten the level of intimacy, as if doing so would guarantee the execution of his ambitious, corrupt schemes – the very kind of schemes he was already engaging in back when he was involved with the United Nations. 

At one point, Ungaro adds, “Paolo Zampolli had business dealings with Epstein; he was a recruiter of girls for Epstein.” 

Her ex-partner denies that. 

Ungaro then paints a damning picture of Paolo; and if even half of it is true, you wonder who would ever put a man like him into a position of power, as Donald Trump has. What was her relationship like: 

A: Paolo Zampolli is a sick individual. He stole from his mother, kicked her out of her home, and placed her in a nursing home. Paolo Zampolli hates women. 

My life with him was something that is difficult, even now, to describe. I was only 17 years old [in 2002] – easily manipulated – and I had come from the interior of Brazil. He seduced me in every conceivable way; given the absence of my family, doing so was all too easy for him. I longed for a family life – the kind I had always known.  

Even before I turned 17, Paolo had already begun harassing me; he was aggressive, constantly sending gifts and flowers – no matter where I happened to be, those presents would always find their way to me. 

Paolo persisted in his advances, and I eventually decided to give him a chance at a relationship – even though he was never the kind of man I had idealized. 

At first, everything felt new and exciting, but as time went on, things took a turn for the worse. He was a man with absolutely no personal hygiene; he would rummage through trash cans to retrieve discarded plastic containers, and he was incapable of even washing his own drinking glass. These were the habits of someone who had always had everything handed to him on a silver platter. 

During a trip to Italy, acquaintances of his told me that Paolo’s youth was already marked by crimes committed against car insurance companies. 

Our family life was another disaster. Lacking any sense of family dynamics, we had no normal family routine. Our home was more like a club – a venue for meetings and business dealings. There was no true family atmosphere, no dialogue between husband and wife. He was the sole conductor of everything, and this came at the cost of my modeling career. 

One night – just before an audition for a fashion show that Paolo didn’t want me to do – I was punched in the face; the blow left me bruised and marked, making it impossible for me to attend. 

I endured every conceivable form of violence. I was treated like a disposable object – used and then cast aside. 

I was subjected to psychological abuse, sexual harassment, false imprisonment, domestic violence, and non-consensual sex. 

After Giovanni was born, things became even worse. People often ask me: “Why didn’t you leave Paolo Zampolli?” Paolo confiscated our passports and became even more violent. When I finally ended our relationship in 2018 [when she was 34], he wiretapped my phone; I was followed through the streets and had no peace. It was one abuse after another. 

Our home felt like a reality TV show. Everything was filmed and controlled by him – hidden listening devices were planted throughout the house, and people would trail me whenever I went out. 

For six years [from age 28-34?], we didn’t even sleep together anymore, as his lack of respect – and his persistent habit of associating and having sexual relations with prostitutes – had become chronic. Whenever we hosted a party at our home, I would retreat to my bedroom; meanwhile – showing a complete lack of respect for both me and my son – Paolo would use other rooms in the house to have sex with the people he had invited over. They were not my guests. Paolo’s sexual partners were exclusively prostitutes. 

In Washington, he would host parties attended by underage girls who were accompanied by older men.

 

Finally, she was asked if she would testify before the House Oversite Committee? 

A: Absolutely. 

 

POSTSCRIPT: A fan of President Trump might call all of this “Fake News,” or call Ungaro a liar; but one is forced to wonder. How does one stay friends with so many disreputable people?

 

POSTSCRIPT #2: Zampolli was accused in October 2023 of raping a Mar-a-Lago insider named Victoria Drake. I am always suspicious of videos I find on the internet; but this one does at least raise questions. And if there is not fire, there is enough smoke to make an unbiased observer cough. 

Drake has given an interview online, which is worth a watch. She claims she was drugged and raped repeatedly one night, woke up the next day, naked, locked in a room with her clothes, shoes and purse gone. 

Drake says she was trapped for a time in the same basement room at Paolo’s house, where she says he used to take his prostitutes. Her story jibes with the stories Ungaro has told; but the two women are friends. 

In any case, Zampolli claims that he is protected from prosecution because of his diplomatic status. He has also said he is a victim of a $650,00 extortion attempt by Drake and her father.

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“Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards.” 

4/5/26: President Trump decides to celebrate Easter, the most holy holiday on the Christian calendar by logging on to Truth Social and posting the following warning to the leaders of Iran: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH!” 

Then he went with: “Praise be to Allah,” for a closing. 

Later, the unhinged Dumpling showed up at the White House Easter Egg Roll, where he told the kids that the Iranians were “tough fighters” – but “not so strong like they were about a month ago,” now that he was bombing the crap out of them. 

Donald was flanked by Melania on one side and – fittingly, the Easter Bunny on the other. And God knows what the performer inside the bunny suit was thinking. Not to mention the poor First Lady. 

 

On Newsmax, Greg Kelly comes to Donald’s defense because that’s what Kelly is paid to do. If Trump took a hammer to the Easter Bunny right there, Kelly would come up with some excuse. 

So, he went with this: 

  

Well, fuck it Greg, you fucking dope. It’s not fucking quite the same when the fucking President of the United States fucking insults Muslims around the world, with his “Prase be to Allah,” closing, and promises to fucking send people to fucking hell. 

War is serious fucking business – and we don’t want a leader who fucking ignores, for example, a fucking U.S. missile strike on an Iranian elementary school. 

Fuck, Greg. That mistake left 175 girls and teachers dead. So, the Iranian people are caught in that “living Hell,” too. 

So go fuck yourself, and tell Donald I fucking told him he could fuck himself, too.

 

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IN OTHER WAR NEWS: Fucking Secretary of War/Defense/Blowing up Schools Pete Hegseth fires Gen. Randy George, heretofore the Army Chief of Staff. 

Praise for General George pours in from lawmakers, including many Republicans. On Fox News, where truth often goes to hide in the closet, retired four-star general Jack Keane, a rare voice of candor, and frequent Fox commentator on military affairs, has this to offer, as reported by The Hill: 

“As far as I’m concerned, I haven’t seen anybody quite like him [Gen. George]. He’s got the intelligence. He’s got the discipline. His war-fighting experience is enormous. He’s got the warrior ethos, and he’s transforming the Army and taken it into the new technology and warfare that is so changing,” said Keane, who served a brief stint as acting Army chief of staff in 1993.

 

“The truth is, he is leading the other services and most of all of that. I don’t agree with his dismissal for sure because of what he is doing to the Army and the change that’s impacting the department writ large.” 

 

Another general is ousted; and we’re still stuck with Whiskey Pete.

 

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AIR FORCE Master Sgt. Alan Hayward James, 51, has pleaded guilty to rigging bids and defrauding the U.S. government out of $37 million. 

So, “Thank you for your service?” 

Two politicians are likely implicated; and it will be fun to see who they are, regardless of party. And goddam, if they’re Republicans, can someone be sure Donald Dumpling doesn’t pardon them too. 

Here, it might be appropriate to update readers regarding some of the fine January 6 rioters who have been arrested again or had serious charges proven against them since the president pardoned everyone involved in the attack on Capitol Hill. 

Because he could. 

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4/6/26: The U.S. military has managed to rescue two crewmen from a downed fighter jet; which is excellent news. But Iranian forces claim to have destroyed two Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport planes on the ground – and even the U.S. military admits two were blown up, but claims they were destroyed because of a technical malfunction. 

This blogger doesn’t all that much about modern military matters – but the idea that you needed two C-130s to rescue a single airman (one had been plucked to safety with relative ease soon after their jet was shot down) strikes me as a half-truth. Or quarter-truth. Or possibly a complete lie. 

Considering Pete Hegseth’s marital history, it’s hard to trust the guy.

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“A whole civilization will die tonight” 

4/7/26: With Donald’s threats to blast Iran back to the Stone Age hanging in the balance, and a deadline of 8 p.m. looming for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, Donald channels his inner demons. On Truth Social, where Donald goes to spin his lies, he warns that this may be one of the most momentous days in world history. 

Open up that waterway or else: 

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? 

 

As numerous experts in international law point out, President Bluster is threatening to commit war crimes.

 

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IN COURTS, unlike on Truth Social, where facts generally prevail, America’s leading election deniers continue to get their asses handed to them, legally. Today, Mike Lindell, the most stubborn of all the dopes who claim Donald won the 2020 election – not counting Donald, himself – was held in contempt by Judge Carl Nichols – a Trump appointee to the federal bench. 

Mike keeps getting punched in the head by Smartmatic, a company he keeps claiming helped rig the 2020 vote, and the court keeps ruling that he owes the company lawyer fees; but Mike says he can’t pay the $56,000 because he’s broke. 

Judge Nichols notes that Lindell’s campaign for governor of Minnesota recently bought $187,000 worth of Mike’s books. 

So, the math… 

Starting today, poor Mike will be dunned $500 per day, until he pays his bills. 

Current polls show that Mike has about as much chance of winning the governorship as I do of being elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame – and I didn’t even play high school football. Independent voters, for example, prefer the Democratic candidate by a whopping 40-point margin.) 

 

POSTSCRIPT (4/29/26): As you have doubtless noticed, President Bluster backed off his threats to destroy an entire civilization; and as the month of April draws to a close, Iran still won’t open the Strait.

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4/8/26: The blogger is just going to throw this out there, in case you missed the story of Greg Phillips, who helps run FEMA in this second version of Donald Dumpling Leads America to Hell. 

Phillips is a man who will fall for any conspiracy, which makes him a perfect person for any job in a Trump administration. For example, he believes the 2020 election was stolen, possibly by gremlins. He also helped push the now-discredited story supposedly told in the movie “2000 Mules.” 

Well, to give you a good sense of the quality of Mr. Phillips’ judgment, he recently told a right-wing interviewer that he had been “teleported” fifty miles to a Waffle House at some point. 

“Teleporting is no fun,” he said on a podcast last year. “It was real.” 

(Sure, Greg, we’re sure it wasn’t)

 

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THIS OLD TWEET from Citizen Dumpling, when he was just a guy grabbing random pussy, because he was a celebrity, and believed he could, seems to have aged badly, I think we can all agree. 

 

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WE MUST also note that according to the scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, March 2026 was the hottest March in recorded history – and not just by a smidge. 

The month was nine degrees warmer than the long-term national average. Phoenix, already one of the cities being hit hardest by rising temperatures, had nine days in March with triple digit highs. 

The total of all March days with temperatures over 100, for Phoenix, with records going back to 1895, would be:

 

1.

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4/9/26: The final reports for GDP growth in 2025 are in and the numbers are grim. In the fourth quarter annual growth slowed to 0.5 percent, and growth for the entire year was revised downward to 2.1 percent. 

This did not beat Joe Biden’s final year in office (2.8% in 2024). Nor did it beat the figure for 2023 (2.9%). 

And this bad news came before the gas price shocks brought about by the misguided decision to go to war with Iran.

 

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IN OTHER NEWS, Team Trump is riven by jealousy, and Donald is attacking some of his most dependable former sycophants: 

To Truth Social, we go: 

  

POSTSCRIPT (4/30/26): As we will see in days to come, anyone who dares to say Trump is botching his handling of the war with Iran will be accused of wanting Iran to have nukes.

It’s Trumpian nonsense, of course.

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4/10/26: We know that the nation’s economy stalled out in the fourth quarter of 2025. But at least Donald is taming the Inflation Beast. 

Uh … 

In fact, he’s not. Year-over-year inflation spiked in March, coming in at 3.3 percent. That would be the exact same rate as in January 2025, when Joe Biden ambled off into the pages of history. 

Meanwhile, Donald Dumpling is laser focused on building a big, ugly, oversize arch in Washington, D.C., which is not helping any of the people who voted for him – except maybe the Big Business guys who will get fat contracts to build it. 

(Will anyone be surprised if he insists the statute at the top look like himself?)

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4/10/26: One glaring problem with the news today is how different outlets tailor stories to fit themes they know their audiences will love. So, on Fox News, we get the “killer immigrant” stories almost every day. 

Do illegal immigrants kill people. Yes. Some do. But where I live, in Glendale, Ohio, most of the likely illegals I see (for example, putting on a new roof for my neighbor’s house across the street) aren’t killing anyone. 

And they have hammers! 

I’m not afraid of Muslim killers either, because I know real Muslims, not cartoon character versions of human beings. 

I’m also not afraid of MAGA folks; but in every category of humans, creeps can be found. Anthony Federline, who really does hate and fear Muslims (as his social media posts indicate), and probably trans people, and Democrats, is a big Trump fan. And now he has been arrested for allegedly raping and murdering his 12-year-old stepdaughter. According to Enfield, Ct. authorities, his DNA is a match for semen found on the victim. 

See: We judge individuals, not groups.

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Does Doctor Trump make house calls? 

4/12/26: On Sunday, down at Mar-a-Lago, where Donald Dumpling goes almost every weekend to ignore the Iran War, the president was feeling frisky on Sunday, and the power of God was flowing through his hand. 

And lo, did The Dumpling post this AI-generated pic: 

 

It came to pass, as the folks who put together the Bible liked to say, that people noticed how Christ-like Donald looked in this meme. Almost as if, Donald thought he was Christ-like, which would be borderline insane. 

It wasn’t just this blogger who thought this was wild and weird – even some of Donald’s staunchest Christian supporters told him this picture was blasphemous, even demonic, and a shock to their faith in him, as well. 

I mean Donald, not Him. 

So, Donald did what Donald does best. He tried to lie his way out of the jam stupidity got him into. Oh, no, no, no. He thought the picture was showing him as a doctor, making America healthy again. Because, as I’m sure we all agree, when I go to the doctor to get my Shingles vaccine, I expect Dr. B. to enter the waiting room wearing a long robe like the Son of God, accessorized with a red cape – and when Dr. B. touches my forehead I know a globe of glowing light is sure to appear. 

Of course, you had to wonder how the MAGA faithful ever swallowed this meme before: 

 

Or this: 

 

Or these:

 

 

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AT THE SAME TIME, Donald Dumpling spent a good part of Sunday, attacking Pope Leo. He said he didn’t think Leo was “doing a very good job,” said he wasn’t “a fan,” and whined about a leader of the Catholic Church “catering to the radical left.” 

Then Donald bent reality, twisting Leo’s call for restraint in the bombing of Iran, into a wild claim. “Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” Trump posted, adding: “I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon.” He repeated that sentiment in comments to reporters, saying: “We don’t like a pope who says it’s OK to have a nuclear weapon.” 

Honestly, is Trump that much of a numbskull? The Pope is calling for restraint on all sides; that doesn’t mean he wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Also, how does that make him “WEAK on Crime?”

 

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IF YOU’D LIKE TO SEE the real Donald shuffle along, wearing his golfing gear, you can check this post on X. 

CLICK THE LINK IN ORANGE, ABOVE.

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IN OTHER SUNDAY NEWS, voters in Hungary turned out to pick a new prime minister, or keep the old one, Viktor Orbán, in power. 

We know that Orbán was a darling of Team Trump, and that the Trump folks went hard to prop up his election odds, because: 

He was pro-Russia. 

He was anti-immigration. 

He had stifled the free press and created a government-run news agency, kind of combining the roles of Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump, under one hat. 

He had fascist tendencies. 

He had held power for sixteen years; and if Donald J. Trump admires anyone, he admires autocrats. Our Dear Leader had previously called Orbán a “strong and powerful” man. 

 

In fact, Mr. Trump sent a few of the heavy hitters from his team to Hungary to tout Viktor’s many glories. 

Paolo Zampolli was there! 

Even better, VP J.D. Vance spoke to a pro- Orbán crowd. At one point, Vance called Trump live and put him on the speaker phone. Trump tells Orbán fans that Trump, “loves Viktor” and then calls him a “fantastic man.” 

“Let me tell you,” Donald continued. “I like him a lot. But if I didn’t think he did a good job, I wouldn’t be making a call like this.” 

During his visit to Hungary, Vance also insisted that next to Donald, Viktor had done more to try to end the Ukraine War than anyone else, and so kudos to Mr. Orbán, who had previously gained a special exception from the White House, regarding sanctions on importing Russian oil. 

Well, we all know how Donald is respected round the world, and beloved on every continent on the globe, not excluding Antarctica, where the penguins have honored him by adopting that weird Trump Waddle we see so often these days. So, the voters of Hungary turned out and … 

… slaughtered Orbán and his ruling party.

 

As Rob Schmitz, an NPR reporter on the scene in Budapest explained, even all the changes Orbán had rammed through to rig the Hungarian Constitution and ensure he remained in power finally failed to save his dictatorial ass: 

So he lost so badly yesterday that his opponent Peter Magyar and his center-right party now have more than two-thirds of the seats in the Hungarian parliament. It's a supermajority that will allow Magyar to push forward his agenda to redemocratize Hungary, and it will also allow him to reverse the changes that Orban has made to Hungary's constitution. And the reason that Magyar got that many votes was because nearly 80% of voters turned out yesterday – more than any other election since Hungary adopted democracy after the Cold War. And last night, Magyar thanked his supporters at a massive rally along the banks of the Danube. 

 

Schmitz explained the significance of Orbán’s overwhelming defeat: 

So Hungary may be a small country of 9 million people – roughly the size of New Jersey – but under Orban, it had enormous power and influence inside of Europe. Orban used Hungary’s membership in the EU to block around $100 billion worth of EU aid to Ukraine. It vetoed budgets and harsh penalties on Russia. The country lodged nearly half of all EU vetoes in the past 15 years. Orban also used Hungary’s EU membership as an entry point for investment and influence from authoritarian countries like Russia, China, Turkey. Orban is close friends with the leaders of all these countries. In fact, members of Orban’s government have been caught handing over internal EU memos regarding Ukraine to Russia. 

 

Good news for democracy, for real freedom, for the Hungarian people, and let’s hope we can deal defeat to our own authoritarians in November.

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4/13/26: In a rare burst of good news, two members of Congress are leaving immediately, after serious accusations of sexual assault and/or abuse boil to the surface. If you are MAGA, and hoping to see Democrats get the heave-ho, you are going to be disappointed. The same is true, if you are a Democrat and think Speaker of the House Mike Johnson looks like he couldn’t beat up a fourth grader in a fair fight. 

The score stands at: 

Democrats      minus-1

Republicans:   minus-1 

 

On the way out are Texas Republican Congressman Tony Gonzales, and following him out the door, California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, who had been flirting with a run for governor of the Golden State.

 

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IN FINANCIAL NEWS, yes, your family finances likely suck. But did you know that one of the major investors in World Liberty Financial, the Trump family crypto venture, is claiming chicanery is involved? 

According to Justin Sun, secret encryptions used by the site give administrators at World Liberty “unilateral power” to “freeze, restrict, and effectively confiscate the property rights” of any token holder, without cause and without recourse. 

The folks at WLF have responded with a threat to sue, posting, “See you in court, pal.” So, let me say, we will have to wait for the courts to decide the matter. 

What we will not need to wait for is the news on how much the Trumps have made by pushing crypto coins on their own site. According to Reuters, after a detailed investigation, in just the first half of 2025, World Liberty Financial pumped $466 million into Trump family bank accounts. 

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4/14/26: Shawn Monper, a 33-year-old Pennsylvanian, is headed for a lengthy stay in prison (and for once we can assume Donald J. Trump won’t do another one of his nutty pardons). Monper’s crimes include making numerous threats to assassinate the president and other federal official. 

As a good American, a believer in free speech, and the rule of law, but also a person who thinks Donald is disgusting and dangerous, let me just say… 

Yay. Rule of law rules! I am glad that Mr. Monper will spend the rest of President Trump’s second and last term in office, watching from between bars. 

 

POSTSCRIPT: As a good liberal voter, I also believe that we can require background checks on people before we allow them to own pistols, rifles, shotguns or rocket launchers Online, Monper went by the name, “Mr. Satan,” and made it readily apparent he was stocking up on guns and ammo. 

On March 17, 2025, he said on YouTube, “Everyone arm yourselves now. We need to kill them all, its the only way nazis go away.” 

On March 20, he added, “‘The left’ needs to arm themselves. I have been buying 1 gun a month since the election, body armor, and ammo.” 

(What could go wrong?)

 

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AT THIS EXCELLENT BLOG, we are opposed to hate speech (for starters), and gunfire (for seconds), where our fellow Americans are involved. 

So, let us celebrate our right to vote – and you go, young Americans! In a spring poll, conducted by Yale University, by overwhelming majorities, young voters disapprove of the job President Lard Butt is doing. 

(I do reserve the right to mock Donald, and sometime his gullible followers.) 

 

The results: 

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“Robbing them blind baby.” 

4/15/26: Good news, taxpayers … um. Now that I think about it, there’s no good news. Unless you own Tesla and your name is Elon. 

Thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill, Tesla will pay $0 dollars to IRS today – or any other day for 2025. Among the 88 giant corporations paying zero dollars, we have: Southwest Airlines, Live Nation, Palantir and Citigroup. 

Citigroup, the folks who charge you 18% annually, if you can’t pay off your balance on your credit cards. 

Meanwhile, the federal deficit continues to explode, and we keep spending piles of cash to bomb or get ready to bomb (and maybe invade) Iran – and Elon Musk and Donald Dumpling get gigundous tax cuts and don’t even help pay for any of the crap we use to blow up the people in Iran. 

  

FUN FACT: While Live Nation was gaming the system and not paying a dime in federal taxes on profits, the people who ran the company were operating an illegal monopoly, as a jury has ruled. 

The company produced roughly $25 billion in revenue in 2025 but managed to pay less to IRS than this blogger. 

In March, the Department of Justice announced that a deal had been reached, and the company would pay 40 states $280 million to settle claims against it, but the judge in charge called the agreement “totally unacceptable,” partly because no one at DOJ had bothered to include him in discussions. 

Most of the states involved also rejected the deal and proceeded to trial, including red state stalwarts like Wyoming and Utah, and dependable blue states, like Illinois and Massachusetts. You figure, if Live Nation is willing to pay $280 million for ripping off consumers, maybe we have a problem. 

You could say the company’s defense was “undercut” in part, when internet communications from two employees were revealed in court, with one man calling customers “so stupid” for paying inflated VIP parking fees, and the other replied, “I almost feel bad taking advantage of them.” 

“Robbing them blind baby,” the first man wrote. “That’s how we do.”

 

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MEANWHILE, MAGA FANS, if you are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Trump Mobile phones you ordered for $499 (or more), oh, about a year ago. The phones are almost ready! 

Once upon a time, the folks at Trump Mobile promised that the devices would be “Made in America.” 

Now, not so much. The parts will be assembled in America. 

As American Bazaar explains, 

Within days of the launch event in June [2025], the company’s “MADE IN THE USA” branding was scrubbed from the website, with the phone described as being “brought to life right here in the USA” with “American hands.” The phone is now described as “designed with American values in mind” and “shaped by American innovation,” with “American teams helping guide design and quality.”

 

Next step: Just say “fuck it.” Made in Bangladesh. 

Or China. 

(Wait will there be tariffs on all the parts to these goddam phones?)

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4/16/26: Another leading election denier – and the man who stood beside Rudy Giuliani on January 6, 2021, and fired up the angry pro-Trump crowd (soon to become an angry pro-Trump mob) – has lost his lengthy battle in the State of California. The California Supreme Court has ruled that John Eastman was lying pretty much every time he opened his mouth to speak about the 2020 election. 

Eastman is therefore disbarred, on the grounds that he “advanced false claims about the 2020 presidential election to mislead courts, public officials, and the American public.” 

And don’t forget, Rudy lied so long, so loud, and so continuously about the “stolen election” that he got disbarred, too, and got hammered in a defamation suit by two Georgia poll workers who did not rig any votes. 

When last seen Rudy was looking at a bill for more than $148 million dollars in that case and fighting in court to keep, at least, his signed New York Yankees’ jerseys and his four World Series rings, once bestowed upon him by team owner George Steinbrenner. 

Rudy liked to claim that the two workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss stole at least 54,000 votes (and once claimed they stole 144,000); and then three counts in the Georgia vote, and F.B.I., and a Georgia Bureau of Investigation reviews showed that the total number of votes they stole was:

 

0.

Rudy, himself, has been disbarred in at least two states and, I hope, every planet in our solar system.

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4/17/26: I think we can all agree now that the people of Texas are doomed. Despite the fact that GOP lawmakers have dominated that state for several decades now, an estimated 10 percent of workers there are undocumented illegals. And even worse, thousands work in Texas restaurants where it is only a matter of time before they poison us all. Or, maybe start serving us our own pets. 

As The New York Times now reports, 

Texas Restaurant Association and business leaders across the country have started a coalition, called Seat the Table, demanding that Congress and the White House create work permits for “long-term, law-abiding immigrants playing critical roles from farms to restaurants.” 

 

So, there you have it folks. Maybe ICE goons in face masks aren’t really a solution, unless they can wait tables, too. 

The Times report continues: 

“I think the vast majority of Americans recognize that there is a large group of undocumented immigrants who have been literally keeping food on our tables,” said Kelsey Erickson Streufert, the chief public affairs officer for the Texas trade group. “And if we remove those people, it is going to hurt everyone in terms of higher prices.” 

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4/20/26: For whatever strange reason, Republicans are trying to turn the Iran War into some weird religious exercise. 

It would seem wise that we all remember that once the First Crusade was launched in 1095, fighting in the Middle East didn’t end for two centuries. Stirring up the bloodlust of Christians and Muslims doesn’t end well for either Christians or Muslims. Or for anyone caught in the middle. 

Congressman Andy Ogles, however, is ready and raring to go hack off a few Muslim heads, apparently: 

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4/21/26: Does Donald Dumpling ever go 24 hours without posting something stupid (or dangerous) on Truth Social? 

Today he tells us why he loves Tim Cook, for ass kissing: 

 

Regarding ass kissing, journalist Scott MacFarlane posts a list of some of the bills lawmakers in Congress have been pushing, in an endless effort to stroke Donald Dumpling’s insatiable ego. 

1) Carve his face into Mt. Rushmore 

2) Rename Palm Beach airport after Trump 

2a) Rename Dulles airport after Trump 

3) Require State Dept to award a “Trump Peace Prize” 

4) Declare Trump’s birthday a federal holiday 

5) Award Trump a Congressional Gold Medal 

6) Mint a $250 bill in US currency w/ Trump’s image 

7) Several resolutions urging Trump be given Nobel Prize 

8) Directing N.I.H. to conduct research on “Trump Derangement Syndrome”

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“Seductive sophistication.” 

4/22/26: I’m not sure who vetted Trump’s choices for positions in his second administration, but a few wild ones have slipped through the cracks. As Fox News now reports and you decide: 

… a high-ranking Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official is on administrative leave after an investigation was launched into the leader’s alleged “sugar daddy” relationship, lavish spending and drug use, according to a DHS official.

 

The probe unfolded after a formal complaint was filed against Julia Varvaro, 29, the DHS deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism, the Daily Mail first reported.

 

The man at the center of the allegations, described as a divorced father named “Robert,” told the outlet he spent $40,000 on her during a three-month relationship that began on dating app Hinge before discovering she had a profile on a website called Seeking, which markets itself as “a space where love and luxury meet.”

 

He alleged that her Seeking profile was under the name “Alessia” and sought “mutually beneficial” relationships with “masculine men.” Varvaro firmly denied the claims when questioned by the Daily Mail.

 

The outlet reported that, prior to the pair’s falling out, Robert took Varvaro on numerous posh getaways to Aruba, Italy and Switzerland, purchasing her a $3,500 Bottega handbag and taking her to the high-end jewelry store, Cartier.

 

He added that, during their travels, Varvaro flexed her government position in TSA security lines and claimed she could get VIP access to the Winter Olympics, allegedly bragging, “ICE works for me.”

 

In his formal complaint to the DHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which was reviewed by the Daily Mail, Robert said he believes Varvaro is “under financial stress” and that her actions pose a severe national security risk. 

 

On X, Occupy Democrats, add a little detail: 

… Varvaro, 29, has been discovered maintaining a profile on http://Seeking.com, a website where young attractive women find older men willing to work out … arrangements with them to fund their lifestyles.

 

The Daily Beast reports that “the profile, which was under the name ‘Alessia,’ said its owner worked for a government agency and offered ‘seductive sophistication.’ It used the same photo as Varvaro’s Instagram account and described Alessia as ‘flirty, fun, and fond of sultry spaces,’ as well as ‘drawn to a masculine man who’s attentive, protective, and quietly playful for mutually beneficial experiences.’” 

 

Clearly, Occupy might have a motive for making Varvaro look bad; but here are two pictures they combined: 

 

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MAWA! And witches! 

IF VARVARO is in trouble, we can say definitively that Secretary of the Navy John Phelan is toast. Today he was canned, apparently because he said the U.S. Navy couldn’t build ships as fast as Donald Dumpling demanded. 

In particular, “Trump class” battleships that represent Donald’s own ego-driven project, naturally named after himself, must be advanced, whether battleships will serve a useful purpose in warfare in this century or not. 

His replacement, Hung Cao (and for the MAGA folks who want to Make America White Again), Cao was born in South Vietnam in 1971), we can definitely say, that the new Secretary of the Navy plans to get those ships built, ASAP; and also, we can note that Secretary Coa is no fan of witches. 

During a failed run for U.S. Senate in Virginia, in 2023, Citizen Cao assured a Christian interviewer that he was anti-witchcraft. 

“There’s a place in Monterey, California, called Lovers Point. The original name was Lovers of Christ Point. But now it’s become – they took out the Christ – it’s Lovers Point. Monterey is a really dark place now, a lot of witchcraft. The Wiccan community has really taken over there,” Cao said. 

“We can't let that happen in Virginia," he said. 

So a few sarcastic comments seem in order. First, I’m not sure why a candidate for office in Virginia was focused on a point of land in California. Second, Wiccan believers have the same freedoms of religion guaranteed to Scientologists, Southern Baptists, and Roman Catholics, or any other denomination or variety of worshipper you want to name. 

Also, Wiccans aren’t exactly a “threat” to take over anywhere, except in Cao’s head. According to one source, 1.5 million Americans currently identify as witches, meaning they are slightly outnumbered by the 330 million Americans who don’t. I, for one, am going to go out on a limb and say that none of the self-identified witches, about half of whom follow Wicca teachings are real witches. 

That is: Able to fly on brooms or turn Secretary Cao and people like him into toads or hex farmers’ cows so that they die. 

(Those dying cows were a real problem at Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, after all.) 

 

In fact, when I decide to check those numbers, I find confirmation, but also this description of Wicca, which doesn’t sound dangerous at all: “Its emphasis on celebrating a Goddess alongside a God, lack of formal institutional structure, and focus on ritual and direct spiritual experience rather than belief set it apart from mainstream religions.” 

So, there’s that.

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We have a ceasefire? 

4/23/26: Today, I’m just going to play catch-up, since the news can get away from any blogger, especially when nutty crap piles up every day. Let’s see. President Trump is going to end Iranian civilization and blow up every power plant and bridge in the country. 

No, wait. 

We have a ceasefire. Iran has agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz and give us all its nuclear “dust,” as Donald calls it, just like North Korea gave him all their nukes in 2018, and then never did. Which is kind of a big deal. Now this morning, we know the Iranians have fired on three ships trying to cross the Strait and captured two. A gunboat from the Iranian navy, which Donald recently said had been wiped out, hit a cargo ship and did “heavy damage to the bridge,” though no crewmembers were injured. 

In other news, Donald told reporters that if he had been president, he could have won the Vietnam War with ease. “I would’ve won Vietnam very quickly if I were president,” he said. “Look at Venezuela. I took it over in 45 minutes.” 

Yes, “I” did it. “I,” the great Donald Bone Spur. “I” hardly even needed planes or soldiers. “I” did it all myself. 

So add that war, and the one in Iraq, which he said he could also have won in a jiff, and the one in Ukraine, which he was going to end in one day, and the eight wars he says he ended in his first 100 days in office this time, and, hell, throw in the American Civil War, too. If you don’t remember, during a campaign rally in 2024, Donald said our civil war resulted because so many mistakes were made – no doubt hoping his rabid followers would say to themselves, Donald would never make such mistakes. 

The Art of the Deal genius wanted loving fans to be clear. “See, there was something I think could have been negotiated, to be honest with you. I think you could’ve negotiated that [emphasis added].” 

Yes, no one ever thought of that in 1861?

 

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THERE HAS perhaps never been a more litigious crew that Team Trump 2.0, but defeats continue to pile up. White House Director and Party Boy Kash Patel had sued Frank Figliuzzi, who used to work at the F.B.I. Figliuzzi’s crime was to show up on MSNBC’s Morning Joe last year, and say of Patel, “Well, reportedly, he’s been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building.” 

Kash planned to cash in on a defamation suit, but this week the judge in the case threw out his claim.

 

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IN SIMILAR NEWS, Laura Loomer’s defamation suit against Bill Maher has been tossed, after a judge ruled that Maher was joking when he said this during one show: “We did an editorial here a few years ago…it was basically, who’s Trump f------?” 

Always a timely topic, since it often appears the First Lady is keeping her distance from the man who banged a porn star and Playboy Bunny while she was pregnant back in 2005. 

In any case, Maher had joked, “I think it might be Laura Loomer.”

 

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The very job of a free press. 

SPEAKING of “thrown out,” we must report the sad news that U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned. In January, we know that the New York Post first reported that an investigation was being conducted into Chavez-DeRemer’s antics. It was alleged she was having an affair with a subordinate, that she was drinking on the job, and using taxpayer-funded travel to visit friends and family. Meanwhile, The New York Times reported that the Secretary’s husband, Dr. Shawn DeRemer had been barred from the department’s headquarters, after “at least” two female staffers complained that he had touched them inappropriately. 

(Who does he think he is, Donald Trump?) 

 

There are those on the right who will scream, “Fake News, Fake News,” at the mere mention of the Times; but the Times reported, 

In January, the women’s concerns about Dr. DeRemer, 57, were raised as part of an internal investigation by the department’s inspector general into alleged misconduct by Ms. Chavez-DeRemer and her senior staff …

 

On Jan. 24, Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department filed a report about forced sexual contact in December at the Labor Department, according to their report, which was viewed by The Times.

 

Then the Times reviewed a message provided by an anonymous source, that said if Dr. DeRemer tried to enter the building, he was “to be asked to leave.” 

Then reporters asked Secretary Chavez-DeRemer to comment, then her husband, then the Department spokesperson. You know. Get their side of the story. And they all declined. Meanwhile the Secretary’s chief of staff and deputy chief of staff were placed on paid leave, likely because they had helped arrange dubious travel arrangements for their boss. Then a third top staffer was fired after she spoke to the Inspector General’s office for four hours. Because members of Team Trump are never supposed to rat out crooks who are members of Team Trump. Plus, members on Chavez-DeRemer’s security detail were also put on paid leave – probably because they knew plenty about her taxpayer-funded travels. Not to mention the fact that she was alleged to be having a sexual relationship with a member of her security detail, and to have spent some of her valuable time taking employees to strip clubs. 

In a second article, the Times explained: 

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and her top aides and family members routinely sent personal messages and requests to young staff members that are now under review by the department’s inspector general.

 

Ms. Chavez-DeRemer and her former deputy chief of staff sent texts asking employees to bring wine to them during trips for the department. Sometimes the requests came in the middle of the workday.

 

Ms. Chavez-DeRemer’s husband exchanged text messages with young female staff members, as did her father. Some of the young women were instructed by Ms. Chavez-DeRemer and the former deputy chief of staff to “pay attention” to the men, according to people familiar with the investigation.

 

The text messages have been reviewed by The New York Times. 

 

In fact, the Times was reporting what was happening behind closed doors, the very job of a free press. Four people have been forced out of their jobs, including the member of the Secretary’s security detail with whom she was accused of having an affair. As a “bonus,” for taxpayers, three staff members have filed civil rights complaints against her and the department, describing a hostile work environment. 

And they’re probably going to sue for damages, and win. 

The Times continues: 

In an April 2025 exchange provided to investigators, Ms. Chavez-DeRemer’s father, Richard Chavez, wrote to a young female staff member: “Hearing u/r in town. Wishing you would let me know. I could have made some excuses to get out and show u around. Please keep this private.” 

 

Eeeewwww… Let’s point out that Secretary Chavez-DeRemer is 57 years old, herself. So her randy-sounding dad must be … 

Gross.

 

We can also report that Dr. DeRemer later emailed the same young staffer to say he was feeling “forgotten.” Then Chavez-DeRemer’s husband allegedly texted the same staffer a few weeks later, writing, “I figured you were still in church repenting after your exposure to the demon state of Oregon.” 

As for Secretary Chavez-DeRemer, she blamed the “deep state” for all her problems – for example, allegedly making her sleep with a member of her security detail. 

And she’s STILL not necessarily the worst person Donald Dumpling ever appointed to be Secretary of Labor. During his first term, he chose Alex Acosta for the job. You know: The guy who gave Jeffrey Epstein a sweet deal in 2008, that allowed him to continue abusing young girls for a decade more.

 

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THANKFULLY, if you’re president, and you need sycophants to constantly stroke your ego, you’ve always got Robert F. Kennedy Jr. At a White House gathering, Jr. wanted reporters to know that yes, you can reduce drug prices by 600%. “One of the Democrats was ridiculing President Trump for his math,” Jr. said, “saying it's mathematically impossible to have any drug drop by 600% cost.” 

Well, you can’t fool Bobby. “And I said, well, if the drug was $100 and it raised the price of $600. That would be a 600% rise.” 

Okay, that’s wrong from the start. An increase from 100 to 600 would be an increase of 500%. 

Ever clueless, Kennedy continued: “If it drops from 600 to 100, that's a 600% savings.” And that would be wrong again. A decrease from 600 to 100 would be a decrease of 83.33%. 

Trump responded to RFK’s math with his own clueless, “That’s right.”

 

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ONCE AGAIN, an election has gone the wrong way, according to Donald Dumpling, which means he doesn’t need to see evidence before he starts ranting about how the election in Virginia to draw new congressional district lines was “rigged.” 

According to The Dumpling, even he couldn’t understand how the ballot measure was written, and he wanted all his fans – and foes – to know, “I am an extraordinarily brilliant person.” 

Let’s just say that a numbskull who followed the news, once every week or two, would have known what was at stake. A “yes” vote would allow Democrats, who control the state government, to redraw gerrymandered maps. A “no” vote would have stopped them. But the “yes” side prevailed. With a little creative mapmaking, it appears Virginia will now have 10 districts likely to vote blue vs. only one likely to vote “red.” 

The old split, a fairer one, by far, had Democrats holding six congressional seats and the GOP holding five. 

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE: As a former American history teacher, I’m going to say that all efforts by both parties to gerrymander additional districts, before the 2026 midterms, will be bad in the end. Members of Congress hardly require more protection when it comes to keeping their seats. 

Trump, of course, was all in on Texas doing the gerrymander nasty, to gain (he hoped five seats) because with his approval numbers, the Republicans might normally be looking at a midterm wipeout. Then California countered, with a plan to create five more redrawn Democratic-stuffed districts. 

Various red and blue states joined in the fun. The only other time, The Dumpling seemed upset was when Republican-controlled Indiana refused to join the gerrymandering dance. 

Donald then called for Republicans in Indiana, who had refused to do his bidding, to be ousted in the next election. Trump blamed the Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore for thwarting the plan, saying he hoped the man would face a primary challenge, adding that he would “certainly support anybody who wants to go against him.” 

Maybe, Chavez-DeRemer? 

She needs a job.

 

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DONALD HAD another burr under his saddle, as cowboys used to say, and decided to attack the liberal justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. Singling out Justice Jackson, the first black woman to serve, he described her as “low IQ.” For that, he was condemned for his racism. 

And I do believe that Donald often deals in racist tones. 

But I am here to defend his honor! Recently, Donald hit all the demographics when he blasted former supporters, who had criticized his current policies. “Tucker [Carlson] is a Low IQ person - Always easy to beat, and highly overrated!!! So are Megyn Kelly, ‘Candace’ (Really Dumb and mentally ill!), and Bankrupt Alex Jones, who is completely ‘fried.’”

 

A large part of the president’s problem with the courts is that he hates checks and balances, and every legal defeat he suffers is unfair, and the judges are “treasonous” Trump haters of some type. 

One of my favorite Trumpian whines, during his first term in office, was when he said a judge had ruled against him because the judge was born in Mexico. Only it was easily shown that the judge was born in Indiana. 

(Which is not part of Mexico.) 

 

“The Republican Justices don’t stick together, they give the Democrats win after win,” he claimed on Wednesday, “like a 159 Billion Dollar pile of cash on a completely ridiculous Tariff decision, and nasty, one sided questions on the country destroying subject of Birthright Citizenship, something which virtually NO OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IS STUPID ENOUGH TO ALLOW.” 

The Fourteenth Amendment, which sets the standard for birthright citizenship, he grumbled, was “meant for the babies of slaves, not for the babies of Chinese Billionaires.” 

(Meanwhile, Trump continues to push his “Trump Gold VISA Cards,” which any billionaire, Chinese, Russian or South African can purchase, good for admittance of one rich person and his or her family” to this country. 

And then, they can have babies here for sure.

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4/24/26: Several reliable Trump sycophants have suddenly turned against him for going to war with Iran. Naturally, Donald has handled the criticism with the same level of maturity we have come to expect. 

On Truth Social, for example, he posted this racist-adjacent image of Candace Owens, who had supported him for years: 

 

This blogger is not going to deny that he finds Ms. Owens’ online rantings repugnant. She’s an anti-Semite, for sure. But when she’s speaking at CPAC, the big conservative gathering, she looks more like this: 

 (Which if you didn’t know about all her twisted ideas you might think she was hot.)

(And then there was the time when she interviewed The Dumpling.) 

(And he looked like he wanted to grab her … well, you know where.)

 

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Like ego masturbation. 

PRESIDENT TRUMP also took time today to congratulate himself for having a bigger crowd at a speech he gave on a July 4, during his first term, than Martin Luther King Jr. had when he delivered his moving, “I Have a Dream” speech. 

Because Donald has a giant ego, and it must always be stroked, either by his toadies, or he will do it himself. 

Like ego masturbation. 

Donald said he was credited with a crowd of 25,000, whereas King had a million. But Donald had pictures that showed his crowd was bigger. 

And we all know, Donald never lies. Except to his wives. And his business partners. And the voters.

 

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THEN, he decided to use valuable presidential time to suggest that history books will need to be changed: 

 

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DONALD IS ALSO SUCKING UP to Argentina, after suggesting that maybe the U.S. will no longer back the United Kingdom’s claim to the Falkland Islands. (If you are too young to remember, a short but bloody war was fought over the islands in 1982, with Argentina getting an ass kicking.) 

Now President Trump is mad because the U.K. didn’t back up his stupid decision to attack Iran. So, let’s see how petty he can be. By my count, Donald has now insulted key U.S. allies including Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany, and all the other members of the NATO alliance, except Hungary. 

He doesn’t like the Ukrainians much, either. 

This is his best pal: 

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Condemned unconditionally. 

4/27/26: Once again, the overworked blogger is reduced to playing catchup, because never a day goes by that Team Trump doesn’t fill the headlines with idiocy and/or criminality. 

But first: Any attempt to shoot the president is to be condemned, unconditionally, and we (who have our wits about us) do condemn the attacker who intended to do bloody damage at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night. 

That would-be assassin, Cole Tomas Allen, has since been charged with at least three federal crimes, and if convicted, will be unlikely to see the outside of a prison for several decades, at least. 

(For once, we can predict with confidence that Mr. Trump will not pardon Allen.) 

 

On X, Matt Royer, a liberal poster points out an oddity in the aftermath of the attempted attack: “Ashley St. Clair [a former MAGA influencer] confirmed the WH [White House] runs group chats telling these accounts what to post. Within minutes of shots fired tonight, before there was any news of casualties and before the President said this exact talking point, this was the chat in real time:” 

 

As a liberal blogger, I’m just going to say that improved security is a fine idea for President Trump and all future occupants of the White House. But his ballroom is still an ugly fucking monstrosity. 

Also, do we really want the White House to be coordinating with “influencers” to spread propaganda of all kinds on social media sites, like X? 

We already have Elon Musk, posting like mad every day, and spreading fear of immigrants, and other groups. 

Not counting white immigrants, like himself. 

 

FUN FACT: No one loves stories of “false flag” attacks, carried out by the government more than the MAGA folks. And now, even some of the dolts are convinced this latest attempt to kill Mr. Trump was a government fake out of some kind. 

Of course, these poor sods still think the January 6, 2021, attack on Capitol Hill was faked by the F.B.I. 

So good luck talking logic in this case. These are the same people who believe Michelle Obama is a man, and Joe Biden was really a robot.

 

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WE MUST also report that the Trump administration has cleared away any scientists who might want to talk about science, having fired all 25 members of the National Science Board. 

In a normal time, America, c. 2015, members are chosen by presidents on a staggered schedule and serve six-year terms. That means members will have a variety of viewpoints and will have the independence to make decisions based on their expertise, free of political considerations. 

No more. 

The board was established in 1950 and has helped guide and support research that has led to MRI’s, cellphones, LASIK eye surgery, GPS, Antarctic studies, and the internet, itself, as examples. 

Now, we have a president, about to pick all 25 members, and a new chair. No doubt, Mr. Trump will be looking at individuals who share his thoughts on important matters of science. For example, that windmills cause cancer, that exercise is a mistake, because a human body is like a battery, and once energy is used, it’s gone forever, that climate change is a “hoax,” that the world’s oceans are rising at a rate of 1/8th of an inch every four hundred years, and that RFK Jr. is the right man to lead Health and Human Services – you know, the guy filling the news again this week, after it is alleged he once cut off a dead raccoon’s penis and took it home to study. 

Raccoon penis, or no raccoon penis, RFK Jr. is working hard to make measles mainstream again. 

As of Friday, April 24, the U.S. has seen 1,792 cases, making it the second worst year since measles were declared “eradicated” in this country, in 2000. 

Yay, Team Trump, you now hold first, second and third place in “worst years” for measles since that date. 

In 2025, we had 2,288 cases. So we’re on pace to break that with ease. 

We can also report that the oceans are not rising slowly, like Donald insists. In four hundred years, the waters are expected to rise more than four feet. My descendants in Ohio won’t have to worry – but good luck Floridians. It’s not going to be great. In fact, waters are rising 1/8th of an inch every year.

 

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IT COULD BE, in the end, that the world will save itself, while Donald Trump does his best to speed our ruin. 

We can now report that the president is losing the “War on Coal,” as the world, for the first time ever, in 2025, generated more electricity from renewable energy sources than from coal. It was close: 33.8% to 33%, but for the first time since 1919, as far back as records go, coal did not have the lead.

 

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THE HUMBLE BLOGGER could be wrong, but it’s hard to trust Pete Hegseth, who enjoys lying to his wife, and it appears the Department of Defense might be covering up losses in the Iran War, at least regarding equipment. Six sources have told NBC, as explained by The Hill, that the Iranians have not lost their abilities to strike back at our forces and have managed to do serious damage at U.S. bases in the Mideast, including “runways, high-end radar systems, dozens of aircraft, warehouses, command headquarters, aircraft hangars and satellite communications infrastructure.” 

Apparently, an Iranian F-5 managed to avoid American defenses (perhaps because it’s a U.S. model) and bomb one base. 

As of April 8, U.S. Central Command has reported 13 deaths in the fight with Iran and 381 wounded – an astonishing ratio of 1 to 29, dead to wounded, as far as this blogger can tell. (I do wonder if President Trump isn’t possibly trying to keep the number of dead at 13, so as not to surpass the 14 dead, killed under President Biden’s watch, as we withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021. 

In the fight in Afghanistan, by comparison, the U.S. had 1,922 killed in action, and 20,769 wounded, a ratio of 1 to 11.

A slightly different number - even more questionable.

 

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WELL, GOOD NEWS, the Iran War is still over, except that Iran won’t surrender, because they don’t understand what a great world leader POTUS is. It can be hard to tell, but I believe the ceasefire has been extended again, even though the Strait of Hormuz is still closed. Let me check this morning: Ahhh, shit. The average price of a gallon of gas is still above four dollars, with AAA posting it at $4.11, nationally.

 

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A total loss of $4.3 billion. 

STILL, IT COULD BE WORSE! You might be one of the unlucky investors who dropped cash into an investment in Trump Media, sometimes known as “Truth Social,” where the President of the United States goes to rant. 

Sadly, CEO Devin Nunes has been given the heave-ho after four years and, essentially, zero profits. 

Stock prices have plunged by 90% since 2022, and revenue has come in slightly lower than predicted. 

In 2021, the fledgling Trump Media announced that revenue in 2025 would hit $1.843 billion. And, oh so close! 

Revenue last year was a stunning $3.68 million, or 99.8% below projections. Even worse, the company lost $712 million last year.

 

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YOU MIGHT also have invested in World Liberty Financial. The Trump family-backed crypto coins have lost 76.39% of their value in the last 52 weeks. 

 

 The Art of the Deal!

 

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THEN THERE’S the Melania Meme coin which is also dropping badly, down by 75% in the last year: 

  

Even worse, more than two million investors in Donald and Melania meme coins find themselves “underwater,” holding coins worth far less than they spent to purchase them – for a total loss of $4.3 billion. 

On the other hand, 45 big-time investors, those in the know, bought the coins early, watched prices soar briefly, sold out, and pocketed $1.2 billion in gains, at the expense of the dupes who fell for the dream of Art of the Deal wealth. 

Mostly ordinary MAGA folks.

 

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AT THE SAME TIME, Donald Trump continues to explore his inner communist – which his MAGA followers, 

A)   Fail to notice.

B)    Or don’t care if they do – because Donald’s their Idol.

C)   And would want to kill, if it were, say, Barack Obama, or any other blue politician or voter, or house pet.

D)   Or house plant. 

 

If you have never noticed, the MAGA faithful will slap the word “commie” on any person they don’t like, as if that magical pejorative ends any and all debate. But they seem too busy howling to notice. Recently, The Dumpling suggested that the U.S. government could buy failing Spirit Airlines, run it, and maybe sell it at a profit. 

Even more Marxian, Donald has decided that the U.S. government should shape the economy by paying two more companies NOT to produce renewable energy. Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind will be awarded $900 million in taxpayer cash to walk away from leases they already purchased – because they believed they could make a profit on wind power. But Commie Don wants the government to run everything. This idiotic move follows close on the heels of a similar deal, which paid TotalEnergies, a French company, to turn its back on wind projects. 

Because Commie Don wants to run the U.S. economy as he sees fit. Also, he’d really like ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel again. 

Republican lawmakers, as callow a lot as has ever wandered the halls of Congress, appear to have had their fill. As Sen. Tillis exploded recently, “It’s horses***,” he said. “My God: 10 percent stake in Intel, 5 to 10 percent stakes in three or four mining companies, ‘golden share’ of US Steel – and now a half-a-billion-dollar stake in Spirit Airlines.” 

Other reaction: 

“It is a terrible idea; corporate bailouts are a mistake,” Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Semafor. “The federal government doesn’t know a damn thing about running a budget airline – so I hope that this ill-conceived idea is put back on the shelf.”

 

Even Sen. Josh Hawley, (R-Mo.) a loyal Trump follower, dismissed the proposal.

 

“I don’t really want to help Spirit,” Hawley told Semafor. “Maybe I don’t get it. But Spirit is one of the worst in terms of how they treat their customers.” 

 

Not to be dissuaded, representatives of all the budget airlines showed up at the White House today, to ask for $2.5 billion in federal bailout cash, because, well, you know, fuel prices are sky high.

 

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IN YET ANOTHER MOVE to fritter away taxpayer dollars, the Department of Justice has agreed to a second settlement with General Michael T. Flynn, famed perjurer of “Russia, Russa, Russia” investigation days, and man who suggested sending tanks into blue states to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. No word yet on how much loot We the People are going to have to shove across the table, as reward for Flynn keeping his mouth shut about what Donald did to stir up the January 6, 2021, attack.

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4/28/26: This blogger believes in polls, when taken in aggregate – with the aggregate of polls correctly predicting the winner of the popular vote in every election since 2000, including 2016, no matter what Dumpling Donald likes to claim. 

So, this could be a great sign for Democrats, or an outlier. According to Texas Public Opinion Research, a new poll shows U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico leading GOP incumbent John Cornyn 44% to 41%, and Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton, 46% to 41%. 

(A guy like me can only dream.)

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4/30/26: As the Month of Fools comes to an end, we appear to be entering “Big Brother” territory, with Donald Dumpling in charge. 

(Not counting all the times that he falls asleep during meetings.) 

 

So, we’re glad you didn’t get assassinated, Mr. President, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t a repulsive human being AND a threat to the Constitution. 

As for the “Big Brother” idea, I fear that by the time your second term ends, your picture will appear on all marriage licenses, and birth certificates, and be required as a tattoo on all newborn baby’s bottoms, to prove citizenship. We know you want it on coins, and national park passes, and the $1million special visas you said would sell great (but haven’t). Now we get to look at your jowly scowl on passports! 

 

So, before it’s too late to make a change, sir, I think this picture would be much more indicative of the man you really are: 

FUN FACT: Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican lawmaker from Nebraska summed up the world in which we now live perfectly. “We laughed at Russia when they had pictures of Lenin and Stalin everywhere” during the Soviet era, he told a reporter recently. 

“Go to China, they had pictures of Mao everywhere. You go to North Korea, pictures of Kim Jong Un.” 

Same concept.

 

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IN OTHER RANDOM NEWS, we know Acting Attorney General and Secret Pen Pal to Ghislaine Maxwell Todd Blanche has written to a federal judge, asking him to rescind a hold on construction of the big, beautiful surely-to-be-named “The Great Presidential Ballroom of the Great Donald J. Trump.” 

In the wake of the recent assassination attempt Blanche has argued that a safe new ballroom is just the ticket we need to punch. In terms of legal precedents for revoking the hold, Blanche is kind of thin on law. His big argument seems to be that people against the ballroom going forward (such as the architects who first agreed to work on the project) suffer from a made-up mental condition that Blanche believes is real. 

In fact, those of us who have working eyeballs, and realize the ballroom will look like a giant monstrosity, dwarfing the iconic White House, understand that our eyeballs aren’t the problem. According to Acting AG Blanche, however, we “suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly referred to as TDS.” 

I don’t suffer from TDS, myself. I just think Trump is a giant asshole. 

Also, a crook.

 

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AND ALSO, a supreme danger to the Constitution – in particular free speech and free press. We now know that Trump wants to take away ABC’s license, because the network won’t fire Jimmy Kimmel, this time because Kimmel joked about Melania looking like a woman waiting to be a widow. 

Now, even jokes are threats. 

I’m sorry. I don’t want anyone killed; but if I were an attractive woman, like Melania, whose husband looks like 280 pounds of lard stuffed into an expensive suit, I’d be glum, too. And what spouse hasn’t thought occasionally that death for their husband or wife might be at least a temporary relief? 

And it gets worse. Team Trump already tried to have former F.B.I. Director James Comey indicted; but a grand jury scoffed and told the DOJ folks to fuck off. Now Comey has been indicted again, this time for posting a picture of seashells on a beach! Yes, those “lovely” shells, as he said, spelled out “8647,” with “86” meaning to get rid of something, and “47” being equal to Donald’s belt size. 

Ha, ha, I mean he’s the 47th president. I do not want to be indicted for saying he looks like a fat oaf. 

So, Comey now faces two charges: threatening a president or his successors and transmitting a threat (the picture) across state lines. 

I’m going to go out on a limb and predict a federal judge will promptly “86” “47’s” cheap attempt at payback, and free speech shall survive. 

  

POSTSCRIPT: Let’s imagine that someday soon, your boss tells you to “86” the proposal your team has worked on for a new ballroom project. Don’t take that as a threat to have you and your team killed. 

On sale at Amazon on April 29. Arrest the people who buy the merch?

Post by right-wing "influencer" on X.

So these are okay?

And these?

 

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IN OTHER COURT NEWS, because with Donald Trump there’s always more court news. We can report that the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused (in simple terms) to help the president out as he continues to try to stiff E. Jean Carroll. Carroll is the plaintiff who sued the Trumpster for defamation and beat his lard butt twice in court, convincing a civil jury that he had indeed raped her. Donald called her a liar and was hit with $5 million in damages. 

He kept yapping, defamed the winner again (repeatedly), and a second trail awarded Ms. Carroll $83 million. 

Trump wanted the 2nd Circuit to rehear his case and maybe give him a hug, and they said, “No.” 

Next stop: U.S. Supreme Court. 

We should also note that this was the fourth time Team Trump lawyers asked the court to hear their demands – and the fourth defeat in a row. For all the good Donald’s legal geniuses are doing, they might as well hire me. 

Judge Denny Chin explained the reasoning behind the decision: 

The record showed that Trump made multiple statements over many years accusing Carroll of lying for political and financial gain, and suggesting that Carroll was too unattractive for Trump to have sexually assaulted her.

 

As a result of Trump’s statements, Carroll was harassed and humiliated, subjected to death threats, and feared for her physical safety for years. And Trump showed no remorse, continuing his attacks against Carroll during and after two federal trials, and even proclaiming two days into the Carroll I trial that he would continue to defame her “a thousand times.” 

Ms. Carroll in her college days, center.

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THE HITS KEEP COMING: You may recall, during Donald Dumpling’s first term as president that he was accused of withholding congressionally mandated financial aid for Ukraine. Well, not “accused.” 

He did. 

The only question was whether he did so for political gain (at the expense of U.S. national security interests) or not. 

His National Security Advisor, John Bolton, later said, unequivocably, that the president did; but came forward only after an impeachment effort failed. So, the question then was partly about “power of the purse,” which the Founding Fathers understood well – placing that power in the hands of Congress. Specifically: The House of Representatives. 

Now we learned, to end this Month of Fools, that the Pentagon had been sitting on $400 million in military spending for Ukraine – despite legislation passed by Congress to spend it. You know: Because Vladimir Putin is a murderous autocrat, who invaded Ukraine four years ago. 

Under pressure, Whiskey Pete Hegseth admitted yesterday that the Pentagon would unstick the money and release it for Ukraine’s defense. 

I suspect even most MAGA fans will understand that if a president can just refuse to spend the money Congress earmarks for specific purposes, then the “power of the purse” is essentially transferred to his hands. 

Not what the Founders intended. 

Ever. 

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AND LET’S NOT FORGET the Epstein Files, which Team Trump has managed to partially bury in the news by going to war and fucking it up against Iran. 

Let us remember what Elon Musk said last summer: 

 

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AND WE’RE STILL NOT DONE: Fridrich Merz, the German chancellor, has summed up Donald’s Iran War strategy nicely. Speaking to university students earlier this week, he explained that the U.S. “quite obviously went into this war without any strategy [emphasis added],” adding that “the Iranians are clearly stronger than expected, and the Americans clearly have no truly convincing strategy in the negotiations either.” 

Trump responded with the same stupid line he’s going to use on anyone who thinks he’s a clueless bonehead. Oh, how terrible!!! Merz “thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon.” 

Nope, not what Merz said. He said Donald doesn’t have a strategy to force the Iranians to give up their nuclear aspirations. 

So, as we approach the spring flowers of May, we’re still in a ceasefire with Iran, the Strait of Hormuz is still closed, gas is still expensive, and except for adding to the blood and wreckage, we haven’t caused “regime change,” either. 

For now, the ceasefire has an “indefinite” ending. 

 

FUN FACT: We should all be aware by now that the President of the United States is losing his marbles. He’s not in his “Hitler in the bunker” stage yet, but it’s clear he doesn’t give a shit about the Constitution. 

Here and there, Republicans seem to be balking at some of his craziest moves. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) may be retiring from office at the end of his term in January 2027, but he’s clear, for now. “Take me at my word,” he said recently, “when I say anybody who equivocated on the Jan. 6 rioters, I just can’t support.” 

If The Dumpling King tries to put any of the friends of the rioters forward for the role of attorney general, he’s voting no. 

 

FUN FACT #2: Sen. Ted Cruz has also blasted FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s plan to force ABC to file new requests for broadcast licenses, after comedian Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about the First Lady, looking like an “expectant widow” during one monologue. “It is not government’s job to censor speech, and I do not believe the FCC should operate as the speech police,” Cruz told Punchbowl News. 

Some of the licenses in question were not up for renewal until 2031, but Chairman Carr couldn’t wait to play Thought Police. 

 

FUN FACT #3: President Trump has been too busy playing with himself and fantasizing about his Big, Beautiful Ballroom to keep his mind on matters of import. So, he reached deep into his Bag of Dopes and plucked out another Fox News contributor, Dr. Nicole Saphier, to be the next U.S. Surgeon General. 

This is his third try to get a candidate confirmed; but senators keep deciding he’s putting forward nuts for jobs to head our healthcare system. 

All jokes aside, Dr. Saphier may be quite talented. But can Donald still stop picking people for jobs because he saw them on television. 

(See: RFK Jr. – raccoon penis – above.)

Gas prices, Glendale, Ohio, April 30, 2026.

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FINALLY, WE END another month with Donald Dumpling bragging about passing a test (three times!) to prove he doesn’t have dementia. 

I’ve taken that same test because I’m 77, and you don’t get a gold star for passing. You just know you’re not losing your marbles. 

Not Donald. Donald thinks he’s the greatest ever because he passed a test where a question is to draw a with the hands showing it’s 3:45. 

Or you have three animals shown – and your job is to name them. Jesus. Who would ever brag about passing this?