It’s Still the Kennedy Center

“Perhaps the board isn’t aware that the Kennedy Center is the memorial to the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Would they rename the Lincoln memorial? The Jefferson? That would be an insult to great presidents. This too is an insult to a great president. Notwithstanding their short-sighted action, it is and will remain the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.”

— Tim Shriver, nephew of President John F. Kennedy, quoted by Deadline.

Trump’s ‘Unhinged’ Second Term

“It all might make more sense if he actually were drinking. By all accounts, President Trump doesn’t touch the stuff. So when his own chief of staff said that he has ‘an alcoholic’s personality,’ she was talking about his larger-than-life nature rather than his consumption. … Yet in some ways, it may be an apt description for a president who seems even less inhibited than ever in a way that has many in Washington and beyond shaking their heads or even wondering if the leader of the free world has lost it. The word often whispered by Republicans and shouted by Democrats and Never Trumpers is ‘unhinged.’”

New York Times

Our Fascist Idiocracy: Old Man Shouts at Crowd

A blizzard of lies.

The Independent: Trump holds national address in rally style speech blaming Biden for the state of his nation. Over the course of the more than 10 minutes of shouted boasts he delivered, the president also offered up a series of demonstrably false claims and baseless assertions about his economic record.

The Atlantic: The president of the United States just barged into America’s living rooms like an angry, confused grandfather to tell us all that we are ungrateful whelps.
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Massie Calls Out GOP Over Trump’s Comments About Reiner Murder

“Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they’re afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it.”

— Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), on X.