January 30, 2026

The White Trashy House

January 30, 2026 Buck Banks

We thought that Donald Trump was going to make America greater,
But instead we get the dumbed-down frippery of a low-brow dictator.
Thus, with UFC fights and IndyCar races,
And a Kennedy Center bereft of famous faces,
It looks like Trump is pulling us down to our lowest common denominator.

DOJ Releases 3 Million More Epstein Files

January 30, 2026 Buck Banks

3 million

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department was releasing more than 3 million pages of documents in the latest Epstein disclosure, as well as more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, the Associated Press reported. The files, posted to the department’s website, include some of the several million pages of records that officials said were withheld from an initial release of documents in December.

Trump’s Approval Reaches New Floor

January 30, 2026 Buck Banks

37%

A new Pew Research poll finds President Trump’s approval rating stands at 37%, down from 40% in the fall. By more than two-to one — 50% to 21% — Americans say the administration’s actions have been worse than they expected, rather than better. Today, only 27% of Americans say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans – down from 35% when he took office last year. That change has come entirely from Republicans.

Troop Deployments to U.S. Cities Cost a Half-Billion

January 30, 2026 Buck Banks

$496 billion

“The Trump administration’s deployment of troops to six different U.S. cities last year cost roughly $496 million through the end of December,” CBS News reports.

Generic Ballot Has Dems Up by 6 Points

January 30, 2026 Buck Banks

52%

A new Fox News poll finds that if the midterm election were today, 52% of voters would back the Democratic candidate in their House district and 46% the Republican. The current 52% Democratic support is the highest recorded for either party; the previous high was 50% for the Democrats in October 2017.

Day: January 30, 2026

The White Trashy House

DOJ Releases 3 Million More Epstein Files

3 million

Trump’s Approval Reaches New Floor

37%

Troop Deployments to U.S. Cities Cost a Half-Billion

$496 billion

“The Trump administration’s deployment of troops to six different U.S. cities last year cost roughly $496 million through the end of December,” CBS News reports.

Generic Ballot Has Dems Up by 6 Points

52%

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.