Alaska summit Archives

21 Jul, 2026

A Transgressive Missive

August 18, 2025August 19, 2025 Buck Banks

Melania Trump broke protocol to draft a personal note to Putin
In which she didn’t mention the Ukranian shootin’.
She wrote about a world full of dignity,
She wrote about peace, the future, purity.
The letter undoubtably flattered, but indubitably didn’t move him.

Trump the Concessionaire

August 18, 2025August 25, 2025 Buck Banks

<The media’s reporting on the Alaska summit left the wrong impression.
While there, Vladimir Putin conceded that Trump won the 2020 election.
And he conceded the Ukraine fighting
Was the fault of President Joe Biden.
See? Trump did successfully negotiate a couple of Russian concessions.

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A Transgressive Missive

Trump the Concessionaire

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

44%

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

“I think it’s embarrassing, still, even more so. I mean, sure, like, take care of yourself, get healthy, but who gets to take four months off of work because they’re sad?”

— Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) called Rep. Tom Kean Jr’s (R-NJ) explanation on Tuesday for his prolonged absence from Congress “embarrassing” in an interview with TMZ, Mediaite reports.

Numerati

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.

$3.81 billion

53%

A new Cato Institute poll found that only 53% of Americans could correctly identify the adoption of the Declaration of Independence as the historical event marked by July 4. And 46% said they did not know what the day commemorated, including 61% of Gen Z respondents.

$26 million

“President Donald Trump said he had earned at least $26 million in income from an array of new real estate ventures abroad, illustrating how his fortune has grown as his family embraces foreign deal-making in his second term,” Bloomberg reports.