Groundhog Day,
Groundhog
Week,
Groundhog
Month
May 1-2, 2026: It’s a new month. We’re off to a great start, with flowers blooming, birds warbling, and America on a Donald-Trump-themed “winning streak.”
It is hard not to notice that our beloved President Dumpling continues to insist that the Iran War is “terminated,” yet the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Iran still has all its enriched uranium. You might notice that description fits the situation the day the U.S. and Israel decided to launch the attacks.
Except the Strait was open.
Also: Gas was not $4.33 per gallon.
Who dares deny that our “greatest president” is laser-focused on the issues that matter? On Truth Social, Donald’s own media site, we have this:
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Deficit reduction? Not by a mile.
HOW ABOUT all the great deficit reductions we’re reaping because of Donald’s first term tax cuts (which he promised would pay for themselves), from the money he said we would be raising by imposing tariffs, from the massive DOGE cuts, and from his One Big, Beautiful Bill, passed just last year!
Ah… one can only dream.
Last week, the cumulative national debt surpassed the size of the U.S. economy. No matter what politicians tell us, that’s an unsustainable path. The deficit now equals 100.2% of the nation’s economy. It is highly unlikely that President Dumpling will dent the deficit during the rest of his term.
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is bringing back a hundred former FEMA employees – made “former” last year by DHS head Kristi Noem, now “former” herself. Those hundred employees were cut in a “cost-saving move.”
Then leaders at the Federal Emergency Management Agency realized they needed those workers, who were among the first on the ground to help victims of tornadoes and flash floods.
(This was a particularly stupid DOGE “cost-cutting” move.)
We now know that Director Noem needed to “save money,” so that DHS could buy two Gulfstream G700 jets (price: $200 million). She really needed one with a bedroom in back where she would allegedly boink her subordinate, Corey Lewandowski, while both she and Cory cheated on their spouses.
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Director Noem enjoyed her rides during her time in office. |
(It was like Jeffrey Epstein’s plane, but without the teenage girls.)
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IT’S HARD not to be grossed out by some of what we hear from the nutty fringe folks on the right – but those nuts do adore Trump! Christian nationalist Pastor Joel Webbon could be heard recently, grumbling about “suicidal empathy” and how we must pursue the “full removal of feminism” from politics. He believes, “virtuous, ambitious, masculine men” must forcefully take away power.
You can figure out from whom.
A growing number of right-wing religious leaders are clear. The Nineteenth Amendment, granting the vote to women, should be repealed.
In the spirit of suppressing women’s rights, Trump appointee, Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, has ruled that the abortion drug mifepristone cannot be provided to women by mail. The mechanics of the ruling mean that the drug will not be available by mail until as late as November.
Now women must pay to go to
their doctors – and then the doctors can proscribe it. Until now, you could
rely on telehealth – which also meant consulting your doctor – but now you
can’t. “This isn’t about science,” complained one abortion rights’ advocate.
“It’s about making abortion as difficult, expensive, and unreachable as
possible. Telehealth has transformed healthcare. Selectively stripping that
away from abortion patients is a political blockade.”
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Bombs away with Bible literacy!
JUDGE DUNCAN made even more news when he wrote the majority opinion in a Circuit Court case decided 9-8, allowing Texas schools to require posting the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom.
In Judge Duncan’s view, this was not a case of the government “establishing religion,” which is forbidden under the First Amendment. So, can a blogger ask? If we believe in Bible literacy, shouldn’t we encourage children to ask teachers, “If the Bible says adulterers should be “put to death,” doesn’t that mean Donald Trump?”
Kids could also ask, “If we stone adulterers, is there an age limit on who can throw stones?” (Leviticus 20:10)
Among those doomed to get drilled by rocks, we know Secretary of War and Hair Gel Pete Hegseth (adultery at least five times – in his first marriage) would be a key target. And he kept cheating in his second marriage.
And third.
(Maybe we should just squish him with a giant boulder.)
How about RFK Jr.? That horny fucker one kept a record in his journal of the 37 times he cheated on his first wife.
Jesse Watters for sure. He committed adultery.
And very possibly Sean Hannity, as well.
Speaking of Texas, what about Ken Paxton, Trump’s pick for a seat in the U.S. Senate from that very state! He cheated on his wife with a “Christian influencer, and the mother of seven children of her own.
(A dose of Christian hypocrisy as a bonus!)
And then you’d need a mountain-sized pile of stones to deal with all the people in the Epstein Files.
Kristi Noem would have to dodge the rocks, of course. Her husband says she was cheating on him and there was nothing he could do.
Corey Lewandowski would be
targeted too.
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More Bible literacy!
JUST ONE STEP below the Commandments, we have various admonitions, which could be included on another excellent chart and posted in every Texas school room. No tattoos, for example (Leviticus 19:28).
No charging interest on loans (Deuteronomy 23:19).
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” (Exodus 22:18).
Teachers, feel free to discuss.
Then you have stoning to death for gay men.
And stoning for individuals guilty of blasphemy.
And stoning for children, over the age of sixteen, who curse their parents or refuse to obey.
Or we could leave religious instruction out of our schools and leave it to ministers and priests and imams.
No! Forget the imams! According to the president’s pals, we can’t trust any Muslim Americans.
The poor blogger has great respect for all the excellent Christians and Jews he knows, who cherish the Bible, and whose beliefs may well be far more correct than mine. I just don’t think we need the Bible in school.
Or the Quran.
Or The Book of Mormon.
What next? Do Texas schools bring in Pastor Webbon (above) to speak to boys and girls about their proper places in the scheme of governance?
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Trump can still recognize a camel.
The president is still bragging about passing a cognitive test three times. This blogger is 77. He has taken the same test twice and “aced” it, just like Donald Dumpling. Except, you don’t really “ace” it at all. You answer a bunch of simple questions. For example, you are given three words near the start of the test and must remember them until the test is over – about fifteen minutes.
Frankly, if you miss even two or three questions on the test it’s a sign you may already be developing dementia.
Oh no, oh no. Donald brags about his scores. Because Donald brags about everything. If his lips are moving, you know he’s bragging.
For example, he said recently that he was shown three animals – including a camel. I think the other two were an elephant and a dog. So, Donald bragged because he knew which one was the camel. Wow!!! That also meant he knew the elephant and the dog weren’t camels. Wow!!!!!!!
Other questions may include, “What year is it?” “Where are you now?”
Unfortunately, the President of
the United States may be starting to hallucinate. In a recent speech, Donald gave an example of what he said was a “tough
question” on the cognitive test. “You know, they say, ‘take a number, any
number’, ‘OK, I’ll take 99’, ‘multiply times nine’, ‘OK’, ‘divide it by three’,
‘good’, ‘add 4,293’, ‘that’s good’, ‘divide by two, subtract 93, divide by
nine, what’s your answer?’”
I’m not sure anyone listening to Donald is dumb enough to believe that story. Then again, the MAGA faithful seem willing to believe almost anything the man says.
Not to be rude, but if you
believe Donald could do that problem in his head, you might need to take the
cognitive test yourself.
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THE PRESIDENT has also been busy lying to himself. Having “fixed” the Reflecting Pool in D.C., by having it painted bright blue, using swimming pool paint, he posted a picture of himself and some of his biggest toadies, bobbing in the waters. Trump hasn’t been this thin (as shown in an AI-generated photo) in twenty years. There’s a lady in a bikini who looks good. Not sure who she is.
In another late night post, Donald added to an extensive list of individuals he has described as “low IQ,” this time tagging Hakeem Jeffries, whom he also labeled a “thug.” There are some who will insist Trump is racist, since Jeffries is black – and Trump has also called several African Americans “low IQ.”
But let’s give the man his due.
He has also called Tucker Carlson “low IQ,” and described his first Secretary of State, Rex
Tillerson, as “dumb as a rock.”
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Could the next president take away the license for Fox News?
TRUMP also took time on May 1, to attack freedom of the press and free speech again. The New York Times, he said, was offering coverage of the Iran War that was “actually seditious, in my opinion” mostly because the Times was reporting that we might be losing the fight. Donald also felt the urge to call CNN “stupid,” and describe the news channel as “the enemy,” for the same reason.
I believe that making fun of Donald is the best way to show others who he really is. Unfortunately, his attacks on the free press and free speech are never funny – and always danger signs.
If you are MAGA down to your panties, figure out how dangerous it will be if the next president, probably a Democrat the way the country is going, started saying he wanted to take away the license of Fox News.
Really, who can be so clueless as to miss that?
(See: Donald Trump threatening ABC.)
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Let’s 86 47?
WE CAN REPORT, in similar fashion, that Donald is a threat to free expression. He has ordered Todd Blanche to indict James Comey for posting a picture of seashells, formed to read “8647,” which is supposedly Comey calling for the president to be killed. And Blanche has done as ordered.
This diligent blogger would like to note examples of others making much more real threats to presidents, vice presidents, etc. And Todd Blanche isn’t going to indict them. Because Todd is a tool.
How about Ted Nugent – now considered by people on the right to be a hero and a great patriot? Remember the good old days when Nugent told President Obama to “suck on my machine gun?” That sounds more menacing than “seashells by the seashore.” In 2013, a Republican member of Congress invited Nugent to the State of the Union Address – even after that.
“I am excited to have a patriot like Ted Nugent joining me in the House Chamber to hear from President Obama,” Congressman Steve Stockman said. “After the Address, I’m sure Ted will have plenty to say.”
In February 2014, Ted also called Obama a “subhuman mongrel.” If that doesn’t sound like racism to you, it’s probably because you’re a racist, yourself.
Also not being indicted: Fox News Bullshit Artist Jesse Watters, who recently celebrated the “killing” of ABC News Anchor Terry Moran, “86’d” for calling Stephen Miller a hateful bigot, and David Hogg of the Democratic National Committee, whom Watters also said had been “86’d.”
Don’t forget, Jesse will need to be stoned.
We can also include former congressman Matt Gaetz, once Trump’s first choice for attorney general in a second term, who made it clear he was thrilled to see blood flow with several Republicans – members of his own party- “86’d” for daring to balk the machinations of Donald J. Dope.
Plus, we have the right-wing influencer, Joe Propisco, not being indicted for making the same exact “threat” when Joe Biden occupied the White House.
Not being indicted – but in fact pardoned – we would have all the people who made threats to former presidents, current vice presidents, members of Congress who wouldn’t kiss Donald’ fat ass, etc. – during the January 6, 2021, riot, including the fools who called for the hanging of VP Mike Pence.
(Below: See the Trump plan to pay the same people money.)
Meanwhile, Air Force veteran Mark Davis can be seen driving around Florida with an “8647” license plate and wearing an “86 47” hat. He’s running for office and sells “86 47” hats and t-shirts to raise campaign funds.
He says he dares Trump’s goons to arrest him.
You don’t have to like it, but
freedom of expression, so long as it survives, means we are still safe from
government overreach.
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IN RELATED NEWS, Donald feels that it is appropriate to post pictures of himself – apparently hunting RINOs.
Other violent posts by Trump include:
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News involving money.
THE STOCK MARKET is doing well, at least. But another Trump family business, American Bitcoin, once touted by Eric Trump, has lost 92% of its valuation. Good news for original investors – like Eric – however. He has somehow managed to increase his stake by $90 million.
The U.S. economy grew in the second quarter of 2026, at an annualized rate of 2.0%. GDP grew by 2.2% in 2025. That was down from 2.4% growth during President Biden’s last full year in office.
During Donald’s first term he claimed GDP growth was going to soar. “We're bringing it from 1 percent up to 4 percent,” he bragged. “And I actually think we can go higher than 4 percent. I think you can go to 5 percent or 6 percent.” That meant the tax cuts would pay for themselves.
That growth never happened. Not even close. The tax cuts did not pay for themselves. The blogger is pretty sure they never will.
Donald started this term with the same promise. Tax cuts would make the U.S. economy boom. There would be 25 million new jobs in the next ten years, or 2.5 million annually, meaning he would create jobs when he was no longer president, and very possibly moldering in the grave.
For the entirety of 2025, only 181,000 jobs were added, or 93% fewer than Donald
predicted. A very poor prediction, for sure.
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THE PRESIDENT’S manic posting on Truth Social might also concern an ordinary American in possession of his, her, or they faculties. For example, nothing smells of emotional stability so sweetly as calling political foes “Human Garbage.”
And why are all the people who oppose this president always “treasonous?” I, for one, oppose the president because he routinely uses dehumanizing language. I don’t ever think that’s healthy.
It’s not “treasonous” to point that out, either.
Also, we have the President of the United States wasting time to attack some random rock band. Until now, I had never heard of Along Came Jones. Why is Trump picking a fight with these people.
They aren’t the Beatles.
If that isn’t a waste of time, Donald also attacked the political pundit Bill Maher. This is both concerning and pathetic. Again, we have the dehumanizing language, “Newscum,” the “low IQ” insult, and of course, the all-caps, “MORON.”
Frankly, I don’t think this is healthy:
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Epstein Files news.
HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE Chairman
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) has been floating the idea that
maybe a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell might be worth it. As he told Politico,
“A lot of people” believe a pardon-for-testimony swap would be worth it, but
that his committee remains “split.”
Now Newsmax, the media outlet that carries water for Trump every hour of every day 366 days in every Leap Year, offers a headline: THE PUSH FOR A MAXWELL PARDON IS BUILDING.
This seems interesting, since Maxwell’s best bet for a “Get Out of Jail” card is to say that Donald Dumpling is a saint – and also interesting because The Dumpling tried so hard to block release of all the Epstein Files – and interesting, in addition, because Acting Attorney General Blanche has said there’s really no way to indict anyone whose names appear in the Files.
Did you know: Alex Acosta, the former U.S. attorney who did more to make it possible for Epstein to keep molesting young girls for an additional decade, is now a member of the Newsmax board of directors?
Well, he is.
If you are one of the MAGA faithful, did you know about Acosta’s role – since he also served as Trump’s Secretary of Labor during his first term? If not, you need to read more. And maybe not spend half your life showing up for dozens of Trump rallies like you’re in some weird cult.
Never mind, you already are.
On the topic of cults, let us consider
the practices of The Word of Faith Church in North
Carolina, where congregants can assault a gay member of the church to “save”
him in the end. I am pretty sure they would approve of putting up lists of the
Ten Commandments in every American classroom. Not sure about their position on executing
witches, though. Probably not good.
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Trump left, Epstein second from left, Ingrid Seynhaeven, right. |
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Hatred: The new Republican brand.
HATRED OF OTHERS is now a big part of the Republican brand. Congressman Randy Fine continues to pile up groups of people he hates, recently adding Armenian Americans to his list. “We don’t want Armenians to be able to serve in Congress,” he explained in a interview rant.
The blogger suspects that Fine’s condemnation is an extension of his hate for Muslim Americans – that is, that he thinks most Armenians are Muslim. (Something tells me Rep. Fine couldn’t find Armenia on a blank map, even if you told him that it bordered Turkey, and was west of the Caspian Sea.
There are currently 1.5 Armenian Americans living in this country, most of whom are Christian.
I don’t think Rep. Fine could find the Caspian Sea, either, but he might be able to identify the Atlantic Ocean.
Previously, Rep. Fine said that if he was forced to choose between dogs and Muslims, he’d choose dogs. He’s that kind of guy.
Other groups that Republicans
now fashionably hate would include: pet-eating Haitian immigrants, black and
brown immigrants, transgenders (all colors), socialists who want to increase
taxes on billionaires, Dumocrats (a new category created by President Trump), reporters,
etc.
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5/3-4/26: The blogger checked the Presidential Schedule on May 3 and noticed an anomaly: An entire day was missing.
Was Donald raptured?
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Donald is ready for a third term – or is it a fourth!
PRESIDENT BLUSTER keeps telling Congress that the Iran War is “terminated,” so he doesn’t have to comply with the deadline set by the War Powers Act. That act requires a president to consult with lawmakers if any military action continues for more than 60 days. Today, Iran attacked oil facilities in the UAE and struck a South Korean ship attempting to pass through the Strait of Trump (see map, above). The Pentagon says we sunk six fast enemy boats that were harassing shipping.
This left Donald with nothing to say, except that Iran would be “blown off the face of the Earth” if they didn’t agree the war was over soon.
Also today, Donald said that opinion polls showing that most Americans thought he sucked at his job, were “rigged.” With very little positive news to report, he decided to go to Truth Social and post a crappy meme:
The results of opinion polls vary. This one seems accurate: 59% of Americans say they don’t think Trump has the mental sharpness needed to lead the country.
A majority, 55%, also said they do not think Donald Dumpling has the physical health to be serving as president.
If gas prices go down, yes, Donald’s approval rating should rise. As of today, where I live, gas prices have spiked.
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Gas prices - Glendale, Ohio. |
Strange but true. The White House has posted a video lasting 67 minutes and consisting of one-second clips of Donald saying, “Winning,” and repeating that word thousands of times. That’s loco.
What a waste of taxpayers’
money.
(The guy who tasered him may also apply for a cash payout.)
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IN OTHER NEWS, the president was busy celebrating the end of Stephen Colbert’s show on CBS – after he pressured the honchos at CBS to get rid of the comic, a fierce critic. You could say Trump won and got his way.
Only the First Amendment suffered.
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5/21/26: Since I was a public-school teacher, nothing the Department of Education does ever surprises me. Still, this AI created image, part of an effort to get more young people to train for jobs in the trades, makes me wonder what kind of plumbers these people are.
Maybe, terrorists?
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5/24/26: We present here the lovely thoughts of a Trump-loving Christian Nationalist preacher. I notice that Rev. Partridge calls for repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
I am surprised he doesn’t call
for repeal of the First, since his program effectively does. I am also
wondering: In a Christian nation, could I still mock the Bible.
When I check up on the good man of God, I see that he has written two books that I am sure are quite exciting, The Manliness of Christ and Jesus and My Gender. He also has his own podcast.
I am actually wondering, does Jesus have a gender since he’s not really a human but some part of his own Dad God, and then there’s the whole other Holy Ghost issue. What gender is a Ghost?
I also learn (no surprise) that
Partridge voted for
Trump in 2016 and 2020, he voted for Donald, and
despite Donald’s glaring flaws said he would do so again in 2024, explaining, “I’m
looking for the best available candidate to lead our nation according to my
values. In this election, it’s Trump. It’s really that simple.”
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5/25/26: It’s Memorial Day again, when we honor all those Americans who have served honorably in the Armed Forces.
Which would, of course, be zero members of the president’s direct family line. Donald’s grandfather dodged service in Germany – and America – landing on our shores in 1885 and establishing the family tradition. Donald’s father would have been old to serve during World War II but chose not to take any risks.
Patriot Donald? Bone fucking spurs.
Don Jr. and Eric and Ivanka would have been the perfect age to serve after 9/11, but you know … family tradition.
Now we come to the president’s grandchildren. Some of them could serve, and Barron Trump, too. Kai Trump could rush down to the recruiters’ office tomorrow; but she’s busy being an “influencer.” The most dangerous experience she’s had lately is going to an upscale grocery store and vlogging about it.
No. I take that back. She attended the Ryder Cup – and could have been conked on the noggin’ by an errant shot off the tee.
Donald J. Trump III turned 17 in February, so he can enlist in the Marines, as soon as Don Jr. grants permission. The next possible candidate to break the Trumps-don’t-serve streak is Tristan, Don Jr.’s second son. He’s 14, but he can start planning now. Parris Island beckons. And Don Jr. can also stress to Spencer, his 13-year-old son, that patriotism cannot come from the tongue alone. Also approaching service age: Arabella Kushner, Ivanka’s daughter, who will be fifteen in July.
President Trump has 11 grandchildren, and if this blogger lives long enough, he hopes to see all of them prosper, and have children of their own, and finally break the family streak where all we get is hot air.
As for Memorial Day, I vote Democratic and I was happy to march in a parade with other veterans today. My older brother, who used to vote Republican but now votes Democratic, and I both served during the Vietnam War. I didn’t go to Vietnam, although I volunteered twice.
My brother didn’t want to go but did get shot at, which was no fun.
So, when President Dumpling posts another one of his holiday hate messages, I have a math problem for him – and his often amazingly clueless fans. How many wars could a country win, if everybody “served” like people in the Trump clan?
My brother and I outnumber the Trumps, all by ourselves.
We lead: 2 to 0.
The answer (how many wars could we win) would be 0.
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Tim Viall in Vietnam. |
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The blogger in the Marines - and thank you for your service. |
Trump also spent valuable time raging at political foes of every shape and size, including former supporters:
I laugh at all of the Dumocrats, RINOS, and Fools who know
nothing about the potential deal I am making with Iran, things that haven’t
even been negotiated yet, weak and ineffective people like failed Senator Thom
Tillis (Soon out of office!), Bill Cassidy, who just suffered a massive Primary
loss, really bad Congressman Thomas Massie, a major sleazebag who lost in a
landslide to a great American Patriot (Endorsed by “TRUMP”) after showing
tremendous disloyalty to his Party (and Country!), and almost all Dumocrats,
people that have totally lost their way, constantly supporting bad policy and
even worse candidates, but are constantly critical of each and every fantastic
win I have.
These people should go home and rest, they do nothing but create division and loss. In other words, they are losers! The deal with Iran will either be a great and meaningful one, or there will be no deal. It will be the exact opposite of the JCPOA disaster negotiated by the failed Obama Administration, which was a direct and open path to a Nuclear Weapon for Iran. No, I don’t do deals like that! President DJT.
Can we quickly point out that Massie’s major sins were:
A. Pushing for release of the Epstein Files, in which his name does not appear.
B. But Donald’s does (thousands of times)
C. Voting against many of Trump’s favorite tax cuts – which Donald claimed would pay for themselves.
D. Those tax cuts have not.
And might we also note that President
Obama served two terms in the White House (and Congress never had a need to
impeach his ass) and during those eight years the “open path” to a nuclear
weapon stayed unopened. Which, if you’re a MAGA fan should tell you something,
but sadly, won’t.
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5/26/26: May
may be winding down. But the crimes and blunders committed by the president and
members of his mendacious inner circle just keep piling up. Earlier today, the U.S.
launched a series of
attacks on Iranian targets along the Strait of Hormuz. The
Iranians still don’t know the war is over nor do they understand that they have
lost. And as President Dumpling likes to say (for example, on April 4), we
hold all the cards, and all the ayatollahs hold are their wieners.
Somehow, the Strait remains closed.
Gas prices are now incredibly high; and Americans are not buying The Dumpling’s excuses. In a recent poll, only 25% of those asked said that they approved of Trump’s handling of inflation and prices. Almost everyone else (72% of respondents) said they did not, with 57% “strongly” disapproving.
That 25% approval shrinks rapidly, if we remove grifting members of the Trump family, all their grifting pals, all the billionaires who get to enjoy massive tax cuts, all the people who got bargain pricing on pardons they bought, and all January 6, 2021, rioters, who now dream of cashing in big on what I think should be called the “Trump Police Beaters’ and Pedophiles’ Relief Fund.”
The plan to pay off all January 6 rioters, and all the liars who said the 2020 election was rigged and then lost defamation cases because they had no proof– at a cost to taxpayers of $1.176 billion – now appears headed for the dumpster. In a closed-door meeting with Acting Attorney General/Ghislaine Maxwell’s Best Bud Todd Blanche, Republican senators blasted the payoff plan.
The New York Times noted:
One participant … speaking on the condition of anonymity [emphasis added], said most Republican senators were incredulous that they were just learning the details of the fund and noted a lack of criteria for any payouts, including a specific prohibition against paying anyone who had been involved in violent actions.
You didn’t read that wrong. Blanche could not even promise that rioters who clubbed cops with baseball bats would not be paid.
Or rioters who tasered cops, or sprayed them with bear spray, or mace or punched them in the face.
In fact, the whole fund was to
be overseen by a board of five members – four picked by President Trump. One
would be chosen by Congress.
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Attack police with a baseball bat - and get rewarded. |
The plan was a taxpayer rip off from the first capital letter of the first sentence to the last exclamation point at the end of the agreement. If you ever wonder why “the power of the purse” rests in the hands of the U.S. House of Representatives, now you may understand. Members of the House are elected every two years, giving us the quickest chance to vote them out if they waste our money, and they control how the federal government spends the cash we hand over.
Well – that some of us hand over. If you have forgotten, President Dumpling fought for years to keep his tax returns hidden from the public, even though every other modern president voluntarily released theirs. The leaked documents obtained by The Times in 2020 showed that Citizen Donald paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, when he originally ran for president – even though he was telling potential voters that he was a wildly successful billionaire businessman, himself.
Then, in 2017, during his first year in office, he paid $750 again. I know I paid way more than that, myself. Go check your own tax records. You probably did, too.
In 10 of the previous 15 years, Donald paid $0 income taxes to the federal government, simply by reporting large business losses.
So, this plan stank from the start. But to make it worse, Republican lawmakers were afraid to criticize the plan publicly because they feared crossing Donald J. Trump. Not even if he had a plan to rip off taxpayers.
(It’s like a job requirement for Congress to be a coward, I guess.)
Even stranger, since the fund was supposedly set up to provide compensation to victims of “weaponization” by government agents or agencies, the entire fund would either be spent, or simply go off the books on December 15, 2028, just weeks before Dumpling Don would waddle off to Mar-a-Lago once and for all. No future president would have any money or power to pay off victims of “government weaponization.” Only Donald J. Trump would wield such power.
Trump didn’t even have to play dumb – because the whole idea was dumb. And crooked. “I guess they made a settlement of some kind,” he told reporters – as if he, the most powerful man in the world, and never heard even a whisper about the deal. “I wasn’t involved in the settlement,” he claimed, but then added, “I could have been involved. But I didn’t choose to be.”
Because he didn’t need to be. The Department of Justice was
working for him – not the American people.
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Why would anyone trust the Trumps and their friends?
If you’ve missed most of the facts over the last ten years, you may not understand why those of us who don’t like Donald don’t like Donald. It’s not Trump Derangement Syndrome, either. That’s just a made-up term without validity in the real world. Look: We know that the Trump Organization, wholly owned by the Trump family, was convicted on seventeen counts of tax fraud before. That scheme involved falsifying business records and then handing out “off-the-books perks to some of the Organization’s top executives. That led to the company getting hit with the maximum fine of $1.6 million.
Donald Dumpling’s chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg, pleaded guilty to fifteen felony counts, and spent several months in jail.
And who can forget when the Trump children got barred from doing any future charity work in New York, after it was shown the Trump Organization was funneling donation money to Dad’s first presidential campaign.
But wait, there’s more! We now know that the president executed more than 3,700 stock trades, forty to sixty per day, in the first three months of 2026. Many involved companies whose owners he favored with access or rewarded with policies highly advantageous to their operations.
To sweeten the deal, President Trump bought stock in companies run by 15 of the 17 chief executives he brought with him to China earlier this month.
We know the Trump family has profited enormously from its cryptocurrency business, while at the same time Donald Dumps was rolling back regulation of the industry. In fact, “Old Man Dumps” pardoned the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, which had helped the Trump family build its crypto start-up.
We also know that Jeff Bezos, whose businesses receive federal contracts and depend on U.S. Postal Service rates, paid something close to $28 million to Melania Trump, to make a movie about her life.
Mr. Trump’s sons and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are involved in multibillion-dollar business ventures in the Gulf Arab states “at the same time the president is making those nations favorites of his foreign policy.”
As The New York Times has reported, “An investment firm tied to the United Arab Emirates made a $500 million investment in the Trump crypto firm just days before his inauguration.”
Can you guess which country has been doing most of the shooting, since the Iran War began, to protect the U.A.E.?
I bet you can.
Call me a cynic, but I smell a
whole bunch of rats – and I’m not alone. A poll by YouGov in
March found that 54 percent of Americans believed the term “corrupt” applied “a
lot” to the President of the United States.
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THE WHITE HOUSE press team spent most of today trying to beat back reports that “Old Man Dumps” often starts to snore during important cabinet meetings and public appearances at the White House.
In an absolute waste of taxpayers’ money, they cobbled together a series of a dozen posts of reporters blinking on air – making it look as if they, too, were asleep on the job.
The problem being – the pictures came from reporters who were on the air, talking. Or standing up, in front of the White House talking. So, this was just dumb.
Or “dum.”
If you’ve missed that little extra nugget of Trumpian genius, he has been pointing out how he has cleverly come up with a new name for the Democrats. It’s now “Dumocrats,” he says. It’s like Donald is seven.
And not a smart seven-year-old, either. Donald went to the trouble to tell reporters that he had replaced only one letter, and then claimed that most people didn’t know there was a “b” at the end of dumb.
I think we can now expect the
president to come out and call Noah Webster “a loser” and a “low-IQ”
individual.
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DONALD ALSO tried his hand at writing fan fiction (post presidency, I think he should write erotic novels for octogenarians and make himself the cover boy stud of the Social Security- demographic).
Here’s the little tale he penned (posting it last week – but then posting it again today – because he liked it so much):
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Non-Disclosure Agreements hide the truth.
5/27/26: Team Trump has devised a new way to keep all the crimes and corruption the top members of the administration commit secret. Hey, let’s force government employees to sign non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs.
The new way of governing.
Imagine a member of some future congressional committee questioning Employee B, who works at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Congressman A: “Sir, you were in the room when Mr. X took a $50,000 bribe from the CEO of the West Virginia Big Coal Corporation, were you not?”
B: “I cannot tell a lie.”
Congressman A: “Well, did you.”
B: “I cannot tell the truth, either. I was required to sign an NDA.”
FUN FACT: Famous individuals who forced employees, victims, etc. to sign NDAs:
Donald J. Trump: After paying off a porn star and others, so his first run for president wouldn’t be derailed (and Melania wouldn’t kill him).
Harvey Weinstein, Roger Ailes: Paying off victims of sexual abuse, so they could avoid prison and keep up the sexual abuse.
Jeffrey Epstein: Making sure his
employees couldn’t spill the beans on any of the crimes they might have seen
him commit.
FUN FACT #2: Someone working for President Trump (or the president, himself) is wasting a great deal of time (and therefore taxpayer money) posting idiotic AI memes every day, all day.
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5/28/26: The U.S. and Iran have traded fire again. So, the ceasefire isn’t working the way Donald says it should.
Meanwhile, Sen. Lindsey Graham has suggested that if Saudia Arabia will agree to recognize the right of Israel to exist (as the president is pushing the Saudis to do) then the Nobel Peace Prize should be renamed.
For Trump!!!!
BLOGGER SUGGESTION: I think it is time all Americans start sucking up to Donald Dumpling. I hereby recommend that the NFL rename the Lombardi Trophy, given to the winning team after each Super Bowl. Clearly, it must be, from this day forward, the Trump Trophy, and the silver football at the top shall be replace with a silver model of Trump’s head, bad hair and jowls perfectly crafted and lifelike.
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THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE has decided to waste even more taxpayer dollars by opening a perjury investigation into E. Jean Carroll’s claims against … of course … President Trump. Her crime? Probably none. But she did convince two juries in two separate civil trials, that Donald had defamed her after she said he had sexually assaulted her while she was working in a New York City department store.
The probe is expected to focus in part on the Reid Hoffman Trust, the entity that helped pay some of Carroll’s legal expenses.
The blogger is pretty sure this is just another example of abuse of power; but he does admit he was surprised to see the Hoffman Trust involved. Reid Hoffman surfaces way too often in the Epstein Files.
For example, one email seems to set up a dinner at Fuki Sushi restaurant, on April 8, 2106, with Hoffman. But the sender and recipient’s names are redacted – which is usually a bad sign.
By law, the names of victims were supposed to be covered up. Meanwhile, Mr. Hoffman’s name shows up in the Files almost 2,700 times.
Donald?
Him, too. His name is slapped on
those files almost as many time as he has lied to the American people,
including his three wives.
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5/29/26: In Science News, we know that if a woman gets pregnant in 2026, she will have a much higher chance of catching measles. This year is the second worst since 2000, with 1,983 cases (as of yesterday) – and seven months left to go.
If your child is under the age of five and gets infected, he or she will have a 10% chance of being hospitalized.
Way to go RFK, Jr.
Team Trump is responsible, in just the last sixteen months, for more cases, than have been diagnosed under the following presidents combined: George W. Bush (eight years), Barack Obama (eight years) and Joe Biden (four years). My math may be off a bit; but I am too lazy to double check. Those three presidents saw 2,877 cases in twenty years. Donald Dumpling and his Doctor Dopes have piled up almost 4,200 cases since they took charge again. If we add those to the 1,787 cases during his first term …
Yeah, not good.
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5/31/26: May comes to an end. So, we’ll just have to pile up all the other reasons I don’t like Donald Trump, nor respect him, nor trust him, nor ever want to be invited to dine at Mar-a-Lago with his bimbo babe friends and their billionaire sugar daddies. And I don’t ever want to be within a thousand miles of White House aide Stephen Miller, a racist down to his warped core.
We now know that Sarah Kellen, once one of Jeffrey Epstein’s key aides, testified that Philip Levine, Frederic Fekkai, and Patrick Demarchelier were among those clients to whom she was also trafficked. Levine, a Democrat, was the mayor of Miami Beach, from 2013 to 2017, adding to questions about the lax treatment of Epstein by the Florida justice system. Fekkai is a prominent hair stylist and entrepreneur. Demarchelier, now deceased, was a famous fashion photographer.
It would be simplicity itself
for the Department of Justice to start interviewing individuals like Levine and
Fekkai, to see if a case could be built against them or any of the other
alleged clients named in the Files.
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IT’S A FULL-TIME JOB to keep track of all the outright crooks and grifters in the Trump 2.0 administration. But honest individuals, some inside the government, others digging up dirt for the free press, keep exposing them. The New York Times had this to say about one of the grifters and/or crooks:
For most
of last year, Calley Means, a top aide to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
Jr., was advising on changes to the American health system while running a
rapidly growing wellness company poised to benefit from Trump administration
health policies.
Records
released to The New York Times by an ethics office at the Department of Health
and Human Services show that Mr. Means held between $25 million and $50 million
in stock in the company, Truemed, through November, as he continued to serve as
its president.
Until that time, Mr. Means worked as a “special government employee,” without pay, which allowed him to fly under the radar – and keep giving advice that could easily have boosted his company’s business by millions.
In other grifter news, Clark
Construction, the company tasked with building Donald Dumpling’s little
ballroom got a sweet no-bid contract to refurbish fountains in Lafayette Park,
across the road from the White House. The Biden administration had estimated
the job would take $3.3 million. Clark Construction got a deal to do the work
for $11.9 million. Then a few added perks (I mean: “tasks”) pushed the total to
$17.4 million. The National Parks Service got around the requirement to call
for bids by declaring the fountain repairs an “emergency” status.
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JEANINE PIRRO, the U.S. attorney in Washington has had (shall we say) an unusual change of mind. With Donald clamoring for her to launch a criminal investigation into the workings of Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, Pirro got the ball rolling. Then it turned out a Republican senator was going to block Trump’s nominee to replace Powell, if the Department of Justice kept pushing a questionable revenge indictment.
So, Pirro dropped the case.
Then Donald’s replacement, Kevin Marsh, got the votes he needed for confirmation.
May Fools? Pirro now says she thinks that an indictment of Mr. Powell, whose real crime has been to resist the president’s demands to shape fiscal policy solely on what Donald wants done, may in fact be a wonderful idea.
A grand jury already quashed a
request for subpoenas in the case, mostly because there’s not enough evidence
to indict even a ham sandwich. This is equivalent to a grand jury telling DOJ,
“Fuck off.”
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NOT SERVING in the military is a Family Trump tradition and piling up money by relying on the family head to abuse his position is the latest chapter in a sad saga.
First, Don Jr. invests in a startup company – sort of a corporate newborn – with the baby squalling for milk. (In this case: government largesse.) Second, a White House advisor, Peter Navarro, calls the Pentagon and makes it clear that a contract worth $620 million should be awarded to the baby company, Vulcan.
Third, Don Jr. and other investors cash in big.
Vulcan will work on expanding the search for rare earth materials, essential to many advanced weapons systems, in the United States. A noble goal – since China controls virtually all existing facilities to refine rare earth elements.
The problem is Don Jr. getting
preferential treatment. As one expert says of that $620 million, “This is our
money they’re spending. This is corruption we pay for.”
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WE CAN ALSO REPORT that Sergey Brin – a Russian immigrant and co-founder of Google – has decided to spend some of his $273 billion to start pushing politicians and local, state and federal governments toward policy positions he favors. It’s kind of like when Big Tobacco paid doctors to appear in advertisements and tell smokers, “Don’t worry, these cigarettes are perfectly safe.”
Or Big Coal saying, “Hey, our miners are paid well, and we care about their safety and who ever heard of ‘black lung?’”
Or Big Pharma pushing the benefits of fentanyl as a pain killer.
That worked out well.
Brin has been pushing hard this month to block proposals in California to institute a “billionaire’s tax.” So far, he has put $57 million into that fight – because, let’s face it, no billionaire wants to lose even one of his or her many billions.
Brin’s parents came to America as refugees, fleeing anti-Semitism and in the Soviet Union. And if it were up to him, this blogger would welcome anyone fleeing communist oppression, as Sergey’s parents did. Now his girlfriend, Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto, is “a Trump-loving gut-health influencer.”
Brin went so far as to pull California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom aside at a party last December – given at the home of billionaire Chris Larsen – to make his opposition to that new tax proposal clear.
That idea calls for a one-time 5% tax on billionaires – or, roughly, $13.65 billion in Mr. Brin’s case – reducing him to a paltry $259.35 billion.
I’m not sure it helps a great deal to have another billionaire, Tom Steyer, running for governor on the Democratic ticket; but at least he favors the new tax proposal.
Chris Larsen is a crypto dude; his personal wealth has nearly tripled since Trump took office for the second time. He’s now worth $9.2 billion. Steyer, who started his own hedge fund, is estimated to be worth $2.4 billion – which has allowed him to spend $192.4 million of his own on his race to be governor.
I suspect that if you added up
the personal wealth of all the people who have ever attended the same parties as
you, that you would not get a combined worth of $1 billion.
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THE DOJ was humiliated again after charges were dropped against six protesters in Illinois. Those protesters, who had supposedly gone too far in blocking ICE agents and damaging a federal vehicle, were first hit with felony charges. Okay, those charges weren’t going to stick. So, prosecutors settled for misdemeanor charges. Then the judge in their case chastised prosecutors for misconduct related to the grand jury and those charges were also dropped.
The U.S. attorney for the
Northern District of Illinois, Andrew S. Boutros, was reduced to defending
prosecution missteps, promising, “No one acted with the intent to mislead your
honor.”
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WITH DONALD TRUMP’S plans for a huge Freedom 250 concert collapsing, as artists pull out, the president has a creative new idea. Hey, what if he made himself the main attraction! Who’da thunk it!
Trump would get up on a stage and talk about himself, about his greatness, the greatest president ever. It would be the perfect way to celebrate the United States of America.
Right?
FUN FACT: We must also report that a federal judge has told The Dumpling that he must remove his name from the Kennedy Center. The building was named by Congress and only Congress can change its name.
Trump handled this development with all the maturity we love to see him display. With his name slapped on the façade, he was all-in on renovations and making the Trump-Kennedy Center great.
Now, if his name isn’t going to
be on it, he says he’s washing his hands of the mess, and the Democrats can
have it and go f**k themselves.
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