Year: 2025
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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Factless, Partisan Plaques
Donald Trump has added plaques to his “Presidential Walk of Fame,”
He penned them himself, with two to accommodate his self-acclaim.
Caroline Leavitt calls him a “student of history,”
Though where he get his “facts” remains a mystery;
They’re just the rantings of a weak old man playing the same old blame game.
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.
Oh Vanity, Thy Name Is Susie!
Vanity Fair is a magazine that concerns itself mainly with styles,
Its pages abound with celebs sporting collagen lips and botox smiles.
But once in a while a Vanity Fair interviewer
Gets candid quotes from one who should know better,
And this time the bean-spiller was Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
Majority Are Having Challenges Buying Groceries
53%
A new NBC News Decision Desk survey shows that 53% of adults have changed their grocery-buying habits to stay within budget, while 55% have cut back on entertainment and “extras” so that they can afford life’s necessities.
Most Disapprove of Trump’s Recent Pardons
66%
A new Economist/YouGov poll finds 66% of Americans disapprove and 15% approve of the pardon of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and his wife, who had been charged with accepting $600,000 in bribes. And 66% disapprove and 13% approve of the pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Gift Keeps on Grifting
There’s a failed state park in New York named for Donald J. Trump.
He donated the land after his golf course plan hit a slump.
It’s just trash, asbestos, brambles and no amenities,
Though he took a $100 million tax cut with a grifter’s ease,
May we suggest a new name: the Donald J. Trump State Dump.
