WHINE, WHINE, WHINE! Convicted Felon Trump Clings to Fox News Legal Hacks at Sentencing Hearing

It’s official! Donald Trump is a convicted felon. On Friday morning he was sentenced in the state of New York for having falsified financial documents in order to cover up his affair with an adult film star so that his infidelity would not impair his electoral prospects. He is thus the first convicted felon to be elected and serve as president of the United States.

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Naturally, Trump’s response to this development was a bellicose burst of babbling about what a pitiful victim he is of some imaginary cabal of diabolical enemies determined to destroy him. His mental deterioration is escalating at a rapid pace as he prepares to reoccupy the White House.

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Friday’s sentencing hearing featured Trump in a remote appearance complaining about his being given an “unconditional discharge,” which means that he would not be serving any time in prison or paying any financial penalty. Judge Juan Merchan explained that this was the only option available due to Trump’s reelection and the Supreme Court’s granting him immunity for virtually any crime he committed. But apparently, even that was too harsh a sentence for crybaby Trump. He whined to the court that…

“The top legal scholars and legal pundits in this country, the ones that are quoted all the time on television that are making their views felt and highly respected people, have said everyone, virtually everyone that I know of – I haven’t seen any to the contrary, not one – and these people are not exactly friends of mine, to put it mildly – but they all said this is a case that should have never been brought. It’s an injustice of justice. Very respected, Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy, Judge David Rivkin, a wonderful man who just passed away, by the way, Greg Jarrett, Elie Honig from CNN of all places, CNN said that.”

"Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy … " –Trump during his sentencing hearing today: But Fox News says I'm innocent

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Of course, Trump’s sappy soliloquy was light years removed from reality. There were many legal scholars, on television and elsewhere, who found the charges against Trump to be warranted. He only bothered to mention by name a few who are regular fixtures on Fox News. And if he really believes that those were “everyone that I know of” and that “I haven’t seen any to the contrary, not one,” he is sicker than anyone could have previously imagined. for some accurate analysis, he might want to refer to the highly respected Andrew Weissmann, Neal Katyal, Joyce Vance, or Harry Littman, to name a few.

Trump’s Fox News pundits are staunch devotees of his MAGA cult. Contrary to his claim that they are not his friends, they are longtime Trump-fluffers who have spent years shamelessly defending him on the network that serves as his Ministry of Propaganda. And which also serves as his recruiting pool for his new Cabinet and administration.

SEE ALSO: Trump Names Two More Fox News Flunkies to Join His MAGA Media Infested White House

As for Trump’s fox News pundits being “highly respected,” their analyses were aired on the same Fox News that had to shell out 3/4 of a billion dollars for lying on Trump’s behalf about his “big Lie” that the 2020 election was “rigged and stolen” from him.

Trump followed up his sentencing hearing with a comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, where he dismissed the hearing as “a despicable charade.” He wrote that…

“The Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt. After spending tens of millions of dollars, wasting over 6 years of obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting New Yorkers. […] Today’s event was a despicable charade, and now that it is over, we will appeal this Hoax. […] And I’d just like to explain that I was treated very, very unfairly. And I thank you very much.”

Apparently to Trump, his being sentenced for 34 felonies is a pathetic loss for Democrats. Perhaps so, since he was spared prison time that he deserves, and is headed for the White House to renew his assault on democracy and America. But it is hardly a win for him to make history as the first convicted felon president.

Trump actually makes a good point about “wasting 6 years” on his prosecution. But he fails to grasp that it was all his fault for having committed his crimes in the first place. And he is intent on wasting even more time by appealing the sentence that he says was “very, very unfair.” Indeed it was. Because if it were fair he would have been incarcerated long ago like any other defendant. Instead, Trump resorts to his natural state of whining petulantly. Which is something that he has proudly bragged about…

“I am the most fabulous whiner. I do whine, because I want to win. I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win.”

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THE DAILY SHOW: Trump Gives Us a Reminder of What His Leadership Looks Like in Times of Crisis

During the first occupation of the White House by Donald Trump, he proved that he was utterly inept and incapable of governing in a mature, responsible manner that would benefit the nation and respect the Constitution. He left office by staging a violent coup and stealing hundreds of classified documents.

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From Trump’s deadly mismanagement of the COVID pandemic, to his disastrous failures with the economy and jobs, Trump performed with the same neglect, incompetence, and deliberate malfeasance that marked his business bankruptcies and personal debacles. And now he is gleefully preparing to exceed his own record of ruin.

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The horrific fire storm in Los Angeles has driven thousands of people from their homes and put families and businesses at risk. Yet despite the turmoil and fear, everyone in the impacted communities, and their representatives in state and federal government, have united to combat the threat, restore order, and prepare to recover.

Well, almost everyone. True to form, Trump and his heartless MAGA minions have endeavored to wring every ounce of political animus out of the tragedy. Desi Lydic of the Daily Show noticed and led Wednesday night’s program with an apt description of Trump’s response.

“While everyone else is deeply concerned about what is going on in Los Angeles right now, Trump is handling the tragedy like the statesman that he is.”

Whereupon Lydic played a CNN clip noting that Trump is blaming California Gov. Gavin Newsom for the fires. And in addition to his lying flagrantly, he deploys his infamously infantile nicknaming by calling the Governor “Newscum.”

Trump's response to the LA wildfires is a perfect reminder of what his leadership looks like during a crisis

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However, Lydic only scratched the surface of Trump’s malicious immaturity and callous insensitivity to the real suffering that people are undergoing. On his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, Trump posted six separate, certifiably insane comments attacking Gov. Newsom, President Biden, and other Democrats as somehow being responsible for the fires. Needless to say, virtually all of Trump’s rants were flat-out lies, including that…

ONE: “Fire is spreading rapidly for 3 days — ZERO CONTAINMENT. Nobody has ever seen such failed numbers before! Gross incompetence by Gavin Newscum and Karen Bass….And Biden’s FEMA has no money — all wasted on the Green New Scam! L.A. is a total wipeout!!!”

TWO: “One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground. It’s ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign. This is all his fault!!!”

THREE: Let this serve, and be emblematic, of the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the Biden/Newscum Duo.

FOUR: “NO WATER IN THE FIRE HYDRANTS, NO MONEY IN FEMA. THIS IS WHAT JOE BIDEN IS LEAVING ME. THANKS JOE!”

FIVE: “As of this moment, Gavin Newscum and his Los Angeles crew have contained exactly ZERO percent of the fire. It is burning at levels that even surpass last night. This is not Government. I can’t wait till January 20th!”

SIX: “Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North…He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt…He is the blame for this.”

LATE ADDITION: [Because Trump thinks there’s a big faucet in Northern California] “Governor Gavin Newscum should immediately go to Northern California and open up the water main, and let the water flow.”

Note that, in addition to Trump’s utterly dishonest caterwauling, he doesn’t offer a single word of condolence or concern for the people affected. He is wholly consumed by his political hostilities and his shamelessly childish nicknames and insults. He couldn’t care less about the victims. Trump added to his online harangue in an impromptu press avail…

TRUMP: The biggest homes, some of the most valuable homes are just destroyed.First: There are no fires in Beverly Hills.Second: Trump is only interested the biggest, most valuable homes. He doesn't bother to mention the thousands of working class people who have been hurt.

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And finally, this seems like a good time to recall this throwback from a few months ago…

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Fox News Embraces Dear Leader Trump’s Imperialist Plans to Invade and Annex Greenland and Panama

This week Donald Trump held a press conference that will stand the test of time as testimony to just how mentally diseased he was prior to the start of his second occupation of the White House. It was an hour plus of pure bullpucky and puerile propaganda. In other words, it was exactly the same as every other press conference he has held.

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Among the subjects he mangled were his obsession with filling up on filthy fossil fuels, pardoning his StormTrumpers who assaulted Congress, whining about efforts to bring him to justice for numerous treasonous felonies. And his recent maniacal fetish for confiscating the territories of American allies.

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While every rational observer recognizes that Trump’s fixation on American expansionism is a dangerous escalation of hostilities with which he is emulating his heroes, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Xi Jinping of China, and Adolf Hitler of Germany, Trump’s official Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, is taking him seriously and marching in lock-step with his malevolent machinations. On Wednesday’s episode of Fox and Friends, the “Curvy Couch” potatoes gave Trump their hearty endorsement.

Ainsley Earhardt (co-host and Sean Hannity’s fiancée): Well, Greenland, strategically, it makes sense. Because it’s the halfway point between our country and the U.K. So it would make sense to have that for war purposes, if we ever got to that point. Also, we have a big space facility there as well. As far as Panama Canal, we built it. 1941 we built it. [Note: it was completed in 1914]. In the seventies it was renamed. [Note: No it wasn’t]. And he wants to take that back. It makes perfect sense. And Gulf of Mexico, if it became Gulf of America… But to me the biggest thing that he said, the biggest accomplishment in the beginning, would be getting these hostages back.

Earhardt’s reasoning is something short of coherent. If the United States were justified in taking over any country that is halfway between itself and some other ally, is there any nation on the planet that would be safe from our cravings of conquest? For instance, France is halfway between the U.S. and Japan. Australia is halfway between the U.S. and India. So let’s take them all over, shall we?

Furthermore, Earhardt’s suggestion that it would make sense to take over any country where the U.S. has military assets would likewise lead to taking over nearly half the planet. And the Gulf of Mexico was named that before the United States ever existed. And as Mexico’s president said, it would make more sense to rename parts of the Western U.S. “America Mexicana.”

Earhardt concluded her babbling with her opinion that Trump’s comments about the hostages currently being held by Hamas in Gaza were his “biggest accomplishment,” which of course, he has not accomplished. What Trump said about that in his press conference was simply a bombastic, pseudo-macho threat that if the hostages are not released before his inauguration, “It will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. All hell will break out.”

On this Trump is uncharacteristically correct. “It would not be good for anyone.” Particularly the hostages, who would likely be murdered at the first sign of any Trump led attack. That would be followed shortly by hundreds (thousands?) more fatalities of both innocent Gazans, Israelis, as well as any American soldiers involved. And it would put any hopes of cessation of hostilities or peace agreements much farther away.

Joining the Fox and Friends embrace of Trump’s imperialistic yearnings was Jesse Watters. On his Tuesday night program he explained why he supports Trump’s plan to annex Greenland, saying that “The fact that they don’t want us to take them over makes me want to invade. I want to quench my imperialist thirst.” Which is even stupider that Trump’s explanation that “we need Greenland for national security purposes. People don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it.”

In the meantime, Trump would then be saddled with wars in Panama, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East. Which will surely fulfill Trump’s campaign promises to put a halt to illegal immigration, create jobs, and bring down the price of eggs America. Right?

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Trump’s Press Conference is the Best Evidence Yet that He is Positively, Irreparably Insane

If there is one thing that Donald Trump excels in, it is his unmatched ability to find ways to sink to ever deeper depths of depravity no matter how low his previous descent was. And in that endeavor he is constantly underestimated by well meaning observers who were incorrectly convinced that he had hit rock bottom.

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Get used to it America. There is no bottom for Trump. And the press conference that he held on January 7, 2025, will serve as testimony to Trump’s acutely scrambled psychotic state of mind. And true to form, he exceeded the cognitive collapse that he exhibited just the day before on the four year anniversary of his violent and deadly January 6th insurrection.

SEE THIS: WTF? Trump Marks January 6th Saying ‘Biden is Making the Transition as Difficult as Possible’

There was an abundance of derp presented in the presser. Too much to recap in detail without suffering severe derp-exposure. Consequently, what follows are just a half dozen select excerpts that are more than sufficient to demonstrate how mentally diseased our president-elect is.

FIRST: Trump whined about President Biden’s offshore drilling ban, saying that “625 million acres…That’s like the whole ocean.” However, 625 million acres is only 0.7% of the 88 billion acres of Earth’s oceans.

SECOND: Regarding the January 6th insurrection, Trump was asked if he was “planning to pardon those who were charged with violent offenses.” He replied “We’re looking at it.” Then he went on to demand that “We have to find out about Hezbollah” and their role in it.

THIRD: Trump wouldn’t be Trump if he wasn’t making up stupid stuff like, “This would be the only insurrection in history where people went in as insurrectionists with not one gun. […] And why didn’t they find the pipe bomber. I mean, they know who the pipe bomber is.”

FOURTH: Since he is divinely infallible, Trump insists that “I did nothing wrong.” Well, nothing but inciting an insurrection, sexually abusing multiple women, stealing classified documents and lying about them to the FBI, paying a porn star “Hush Money” and misreporting it on financial forms. And so much more. But other than that…

FIFTH: And then there was this initiative that voters were crying out for: “We’ll be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.”

SIXTH: Finally, when asked if he could assure that he would not use military means to take over Panama or Greenland, Trump responded “I’m not going to commit to that, no.” Because he says that the U.S. “needs Greenland for national security purposes.” Really? Ya mean like Hitler needed England and France and the rest of Europe?

It’s too bad that the 25th Amendment to the Constitution can’t be plausibly invoked once Trump is inaugurated. Because he is unarguably certifiable. However, thanks to Trump and his sycophantic Supreme Court justices, President Biden has “absolute immunity” for “official acts.” Maybe there is some principled, non-violent way he could use that now to save America from the madness of wannabe King Donald.

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WTF? Trump Marks January 6th Saying ‘Biden is Making the Transition as Difficult as Possible’

Without a doubt, the darkest day in American history from a political perspective was January 6, 2021, when Donald Trump sent a violent mob of his motley cult followers to the Capitol to try to undermine democracy by force. The StormTrumpers assaulted police officers, caused millions of dollars of damage, and put Congressional members and their staffs in fear for their lives.

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Perhaps the second darkest political day is January 6, 2025, when Trump is certified to embark upon his second occupation of the White House, despite his prior treasonous activities. In the interim he has also been convicted of 34 felonies and adjudicated a rapist. And he continues to brazenly distort history with his gaslit misrepresentations of the riots that he incited as peaceful and patriotic demonstrations.

SEE THIS: On Fox News (Again) Trump Says January 6th Was a ‘Day of Love’

On this somber anniversary of Trump’s un-American assault on democracy and the Constitution, Trump manages to crawl even farther out on the limb of lunacy with a comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. In a fit of psychotic detachment from reality he wrote (emphasis added) that…

Biden is doing everything possible to make the TRANSITION as difficult as as possible, from Lawfare such as has never been seen before, to costly and ridiculous Executive Orders on the Green New Scam and other money wasting Hoaxes. Fear not, these ‘Orders’ will all be terminated shortly, and we will become a Nation of Common Sense and Strength. MAGA!!!”

It takes an unimaginable heap of chutzpah for Trump to accuse President Biden of making a transition difficult after he literally provoked a riot in an effort to completely halt the last transition. Yet somehow Trump manages to accomplish that feat. He always seems to have the ability to sink lower than whatever lowly. dastardly deed he did before. But this is one for the record books.

And speaking of the record, Vice-President Kamala Harris showed how a decent, patriotic statesperson behaves during a presidential transition. Even while having to deal with the disappointment of having lost to a convicted felon, sexual abusing, pathological lying, wannabe dictator, Harris performed her constitutional duties with grace and dignity, noting in a video statement that…

“The peaceful transfer of power is one of the most fundamental principles of American democracy. As much as any other principle, it is what distinguishes our system of government from monarchy or tyranny. Today at the United States Capitol, I will perform my constitutional duty as vice president of the United States to certify the results of the 2024 election. This duty is a sacred obligation, one I will uphold, guided by love of country, loyalty to our Constitution, and my unwavering faith in the American people.

“As we have seen, our democracy can be fragile, and it is up to then each one of us to stand up for our most cherished principles, and to make sure, in America, our government always remains of the people, by the people and for the people.”

For his part, Biden commemorated January 6th in an op-ed in the Washington Post where he wrote that…

“An unrelenting effort has been underway to rewrite — even erase — the history of that day. To tell us we didn’t see what we all saw with our own eyes. To dismiss concerns about it as some kind of partisan obsession. To explain it away as a protest that just got out of hand.

“This is not what happened. In time, there will be Americans who didn’t witness the January 6th riot firsthand but will learn about it from footage and testimony of that day, from what is written in history books and from the truth we pass on to our children. We cannot allow the truth to be lost.”

Meanwhile, Trump is whining about what a miserable victim he is, barking out orders to his MAGA minions in Congress, and promising to implement an agenda that emulates his authoritarian idols in Russia and China. And he is still promising to pardon the criminals who attacked the Capitol four years ago as a reward for their blind loyalty to Dear Leader. Which makes it all the more imperative for Democrats, and all other patriots, to stay strong and resist the Trump/MAGA cult, and to defend American principles and democracy.

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Two New Crockumentaries About January 6th and Melania Show Trump’s Efforts to Rewrite History

Tomorrow is the four year anniversary of one of the darkest days of America’s history. On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump was so obsessed with unlawfully retaining power after he lost reelection that he sent his MAGA goons to the Capitol to undermine democracy and the Constitution.

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The result was a deadly insurrection that put 140 police officers in the hospital, caused millions of dollars in damage, and threatened the lives of members of Congress, their staffs, and even his own Vice-President, Mike Pence. And four years later, Trump is still deliberately lying about the riots that he incited and describes in glowing terms, saying that “there was a beauty to it and a love to it that I’ve never seen before.”

SEE THIS: On Fox News (Again) Trump Says January 6th Was a ‘Day of Love’

Now Trump is promising to pardon the nearly 1,500 rioters, most of whom pleaded guilty to charges ranging from disturbing the peace to seditious conspiracy. He continues to perversely refer to them as “patriots” and “hostages” who were merely exercising their First Amendment rights.

Sadly, on the eve of the January 6th insurrection’s anniversary, two new “crockumentaries” have been announced purporting to tell the story of Trump and his abhorrent assaults on the principles that define America. And if the old saying that “history is written by the winners,” is true, the history written by Trump about himself and January 6th will be pure pulp fiction.

The first film was the subject of a gala affair that Trump held at Mar-a-Lago this weekend to celebrate, John Eastman, one of the chief architects of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election that he lost decisively to Joe Biden. The party, which for some reason was kept secret, and from which the press was excluded, was revealed by the hosts of “The Weekend” on MSNBC. It’s peculiar that an event announcing a film premiere would be kept under wraps. What were they trying to hide?

Perhaps they had a problem with the public finding out that they, and the film, were honoring Eastman, whose role in attempting to deploy fake electors contributed to his being disbarred. Or maybe they didn’t want publicity about the guests at the affair that included Rudy Giuliani – another disbarred Trump lawyer, Michael Flynn – a Russian asset, Jeffrey Clark – who Trump tried unsuccessfully to install as an acting Attorney General, and ex-con, Peter Navarro.

Then again, maybe they just didn’t want anyone to hear the embarrassingly ignorant remarks that Trump made at the event. Unfortunately for Trump, his remarks were revealed anyway. And they were typically devoid of reason or factual basis. He rambled that…

“I’m a big fan of John Eastman. Ya know, he was right. He happened to be right. That’s why they changed the law and nobody wants to talk about that…They said [Mike Pence is] not allowed to do it. He’s not allowed to do it. And they convinced him he’s not allowed to do it – our vice president. Then right after the election they changed the law so he can’t do it.”

What Trump is referring to is his efforts to pressure Pence into unlawfully refusing to certifying Biden’s election. Which, in fact, he was not allowed to do, according to the Constitution. And the law that was changed afterward was the Electoral Count Reform Act, which Congress amended in a bipartisan vote to prevent future anti-democracy plotters from exploiting the vagaries in the Electoral Count Act of 1887.

The other announcement of a Trump film was made by Fox News. It revealed that filming had begun on a documentary about Melania Trump. She would also be serving as the executive producer, which poses some questions about its credibility and dedication to neutrality and transparency. More likely, it is blatant propaganda and another project to extract money from the Trump Cult by the Grifter-in-Chief.

What Fox News didn’t bother to report was that the Melania biopic is being directed by Bruce Ratner, about whom the Associated Press reports, “marks the first project that Ratner has directed since he was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, including actor Olivia Munn, in the early days of the #MeToo reckoning in November 2017.”

How appropriate for a Trump family project. It fits in nicely with Trump’s own reported sexual misconduct, that includes his being ordered to pay more than $80 million for the defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll. And also his 34 felony convictions for falsifying financial records, aka “hush money” payments, to adult actor/producer Stormy Daniels. And there’s more where that came from. Which should provide an abundance of material for future documentaries. Hopefully honest and accurate ones.

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Trump Names Two More Fox News Flunkies to Join His MAGA Media Infested White House

One of the best measures of someone’s character and commitment to principle is the company they keep. And applying that yardstick to Donald Trump always reveals a man profoundly lacking in the sort of integrity, morality, or decency that should be required in a national leader.

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Trump being a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, who fraternizes with foreign dictators and neo-Nazis, ought to have been enough to convince voters that he is utterly unfit to serve as president. Unfortunately, the power of cults to capture weak minds is difficult to resist for the gullible troglodytes who actually prefer that their leaders lie to them in order to make them feel safe in their ignorance and bigotry.

SEE THIS: IT’S A CULT! Poll Shows Republicans Trust Trump More Than Their Own Pastor

As Trump prepares to reoccupy the White House he is assembling an administration replete with conspiracy crackpots, billionaires, and ultra-partisan bootlickers. And unsurprisingly, many of them are talking heads that he poached from his Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News. It is an unprecedented collection of media minions and devoted television toadies taking positions in a presidential administration – 17 of them so far…

  • Pete Hegseth (Secretary of Defense)
  • Tulsi Gabbard (Director of National Intelligence)
  • Stephen Miller (Deputy White House Chief of Staff)
  • Michael Waltz (National Security Adviser)
  • Lee Zeldin (Environmental Protection Agency administrator)
  • Elise Stefanik (Ambassador to the United Nation)
  • Tom Homan (Border “Czar”)
  • Mike Huckabee (Ambassador to Israel)
  • Sean Duffy (Secretary of Transportation)
  • Sebastian Gorka (Deputy Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism)
  • Janette Nesheiwat (Surgeon General)
  • Monica Crowley (Assistant Secretary of State and Chief of Protocol)
  • Keith Kellogg (special Envoy to Ukraine)
  • Marty Makary (FDA Commissioner)
  • Kimberley Guilfoyle (Ambassador to Greece)
  • Tammy Bruce (State Department Spokesperson)
  • Morgan Ortagus (Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Middle East Peace)

The last two names on that list were just added by Trump this week. In his announcement for Bruce, Trump cited as her “qualifications” that she was a political analyst who “understood the power and importance of ‘MAGA’ early on,” and “saw the lies and fraud of the Radical Left.” Which are not exactly the sort of skills sought for a competent and fair person to communicate with the press.

Trump’s announcement for Ortagus was even more outlandish. It read more like a reprimand and a warning for a poorly performing employee. He said that “Early on Morgan fought me for three years, but hopefully has learned her lesson. These things usually don’t work out.” Oh great. So let’s put her in charge of something inconsequential, like Middle East Peace operations.

In neither of Trump’s announcements did he bother to mention that both of these nominees were contributors on Fox News. Either he’s deliberately hiding that information, or he regards it as unfavorable. He does, after all, have an ongoing love/hate relationship with Fox News.

In addition to these announcements on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, Trump responded to to the news that he will sentenced next week for his 34 felony convictions in the New York “Hush Money” case. Trump posted four unbearably long, unreadable, and lie-riddled rants whining about the whole of America’s justice system, and specifically President Biden, and the judges, prosecutors, and victims involved in his felonious crime sprees. They are too interminably long and deranged to make anyone else suffer through, but here are a few annotated excerpts…

Trump: “Every Legal Scholar and Pundit…have unequivocally stated that the Manhattan D.A.’s Witch Hunt is a nonexistent case.”
Note: When Trump refers to “Every Legal Scholar” he means only those who suck up to him.

Trump: “Justice Merchan, who is a radical partisan, just issued another order that is knowingly unlawful, goes against our Constitution and, if allowed to stand, would be the end of the Presidency as we know it.”
Note: Trump being reelected with 34 felonies is “the end of the Presidency as we know it.”

Trump: “I never falsified business records. It is a fake, made up charge by a corrupt judge who is just doing the work of the Biden/Harris Injustice Department, an attack on their political opponent, ME!”
Note: The charges against Trump were not made up by the judge or Biden. They were established by a Grand Jury made up of citizens who examined the voluminous evidence against him. Then a trial jury found him guilty unanimously on all 34 counts.

Trump: “There has never been a President who was so evilly and illegally treated as I.”
Note: There has never been a president who has committed more crimes than Trump. And nothing about his prosecution was evil or illegal.

Rest assured that the Fox News faction in Trump’s administration will continue act as propagandists and apologists for Trump and his nefarious, anti-American agenda. In other words, they will continue to do exactly the same things that they’ve been doing for years on Fox News. Except now taxpayers will be footing the bill.

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Crybaby Trump Whines About Flags Being at Half Mast for Jimmy Carter During His Inauguration

As the new year begins, Donald Trump is demonstrating the character – or lack thereof – for which he is notorious. And nothing represents the Trump brand more than his incessant and petulant whining. It’s something that he is proud of, having bragged himself – on video – that he is the most fabulous whiner.”

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In addition to his prowess as a whiner, Trump is also proving his mettle as a pitifully sore winner. Despite having been reelected – albeit by a historically narrow margin – he can’t seem to stop complaining about how miserable he is and how put upon as a victim of his innumerable perceived enemies. Consequently, he resorts to venting his spleen by attacking the country he is pretending to serve.

SEE THIS: Trump Insults America and its Justice Institutions as ‘SCUM’ Just Weeks Before His Inauguration

On Friday morning, Trump took to his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, to let loose his wrath on what he seems to believe was a personal vendetta carried out by the late Pres. Jimmy Carter, as a conspiracy to die shortly before Trump’s inauguration. Trump raged that

“The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my Inauguration. They think it’s so great, and are so happy about it because, in actuality, they don’t love our Country, they only think about themselves. Look at what they’ve done to our once GREAT America over the past four years – It’s a total mess! In any event, because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast. Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Let’s begin to dissect this dim-bulb diatribe from the beginning. Trump’s assertion that “Democrats are giddy” has no basis in reality, and he doesn’t bother to cite any examples. The only message that Democrats have in lowering the flags to half mast is one of respect and tribute to an honorable former President.

It is Trump who is only thinking about himself, as usual. He can’t comprehend the notion of paying tribute to someone other than himself. And if anyone else should try to do so, he believes it is a deliberate affront to him. So he lashes out and disparages the whole country as being “a total mess.” All because he is butthurt by the prospect of his exaltation …er… inauguration being screwed up by the inconsideration of Carter choosing to die at a time that is so inconvenient to Trump.

A decent political leader would be proud to be inaugurated with flags at half mast in honor of an esteemed predecessor. They would find a way to pay a personal tribute in their inaugural address. But not Trump. He sees it as a stain on his day of glory that “no American can be happy about.” And he closes by making a veiled threat saying “Let’s see how it plays out.” Is Trump plotting to raise the flags, or otherwise disrupt Carter’s remembrance?

For good measure, that was not the only thing that Trump was whining about on Friday morning. He also complained about President Biden awarding Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson the Presidential Citizens Medal for their work co-chairing the January 6th Committee that investigated the insurrection that Trump incited. And Trump’s whimpering was predictably littered with flagrant lies. Here is what he wrote with annotated fact checks…

Trump: “Biden gave Liz Cheney a Medal yesterday, even though she has proven to be totally corrupt. She, ‘Bennie’ Thompson, and the rest of the Unselect Committee, destroyed and deleted all evidence from their crooked investigation of January 6th.”
Fact: No evidence was destroyed or deleted, and it is still available online.

Trump: “Liz Cheney, Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, Bennie Thompson, and the rest of these dishonest Thugs have gotten away with horrible things under the pretense of January 6th. Nancy Pelosi refused to accept the help which was offered for security.”
Fact: Trump’s own national security staffers denied that any offer of help was made. What’s more, the security of the District of Columbia is the President’s responsibility, which was Trump at the time.

Trump: “They have destroyed the lives of many people, and are rewarded by getting Biden Fake Medals. This is not America.”
Fact: There is nothing fake about the medals. And the people whose lives Trump says were destroyed were the violent rioters who assaulted the Capitol, threatened the lives of Congress members and his own VP, and sent 140 police officers to the hospital. He is still insisting that “Everybody on that committee…should go to jail.” While he also promises to pardon his criminal StormTrumpers.

FOR THE RECORD: All of those charges were thoroughly and repeatedly debunked. See more here.

Trump’s belligerence is escalating as his reoccupation of the White House nears. And his MAGA/Project 2025 agenda is every bit as bad as feared. So can we finally put to rest the nonsense that Trump has – or can – mature and behave like a statesman, or even an adult? He is an imminent danger to democracy and is as anti-American as it gets. And the keyword for Democrats, and all patriots, for the next four years is RESIST!

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Trump Insults America and its Justice Institutions as ‘SCUM’ Just Weeks Before His Inauguration

The new year is less than two days old and Donald Trump is already demonstrating that he has no comprehension whatsoever of how the people of America feel, or what the nation needs during challenging times. When most Americans are still wrapped up in the warmth and hopefulness of the holidays, Trump is affirming that he has nothing but disgust for the country that he is supposedly about to take charge of.

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There has never been a president who has been so openly disdainful of the country as Donald Trump. He never misses an opportunity to disparage the nation’s institutions and leaders. He regards them as incompetent, corrupt, dishonest, and determined to destroy him personally. He sees everything the government does as a conspiracy against him. Even on holidays, he doesn’t get a minute’s rest from his paranoid delusions.

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So it should come as no surprise that Trump spent the days following New Year’s furiously flinging his middle finger at the country for offenses that exist only in his Neanderthal neuroses. He posted a comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, that was drenched in the derangement of his malignant narcissism. In a post-midnight tirade, he raged that

“Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World! This is what happens when’s you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership.”

Oh? So this is what happens “when’s” you have open borders? No wonder the country is a laughing stock. It has just reelected a clown who can’t speak the language. He also can’t tell the truth about anything. There is not now, and never has been, open borders in America. And undocumented border crossings have declined under President Biden to levels lower than during the first Trump administration. But Trump was just getting warmed up. He continued…

“The DOJ, FBI, and Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job. They are incompetent and corrupt.”

Trump’s open hostility toward the nation’s Justice Department and law enforcement ought to have disqualified him from reoccupying the White House. And for the record, the current Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, was appointed by Trump. But in his mind he has a good reason for this rancor. He says that it’s because they have…

“…spent all of their waking hours unlawfully attacking their political opponent, ME, rather than focusing on protecting Americans from the outside and inside violent SCUM that has infiltrated all aspects of our government, and our Nation itself.”

Really? Does Trump actually believe that the DoJ and the FBI have spent “all of their waking hours” attacking him? Trump’s persecution complex may be even more gargantuan than his ego. And does he think that calling “all aspects of our government” “SCUM” is going to endear him to the administrators of the law and civil services that he thinks he will be managing?

Trump closed by saying that “Democrats should be ashamed of themselves.” But he doesn’t say for what. Perhaps it is for not being more aggressive in prosecuting him for his crimes. He also said that “The CIA must get involved, NOW, before it is too late.” Who is going to tell him that the CIA is prohibited from being involved in domestic law enforcement and politics? However, there is one thing that Trump got right. He said that…

“The USA is breaking down – A violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy is taking place all across our Nation.”

That’s true. Because “this is what happens when’s you have” MAGA-driven totalitarians who crave unchallenged power, and despise democracy, threatening their political foes and the free press. Somehow, this country needs to find a way to survive the anti-American aspirations of the incoming American president. Although he’s making it somewhat easier by being so open about his treasonous ways.

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Following the Tragedy in New Orleans, Trump Lies About the Suspect, the Crime Rate, and Himself

New Year’s Eve is a time of celebration and hope for a future filled with the promise of peace and prosperity. This year however, for revelers in New Orleans it has become a nightmare due to a horrific attack by a hateful individual. At this time there are reports of ten fatalities and more than thirty others injured as a truck sped down Bourbon Street deliberately mowing down pedestrians.

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While the investigation is in still progress, authorities believe that this was a terrorist act perpetrated by someone who was either affiliated with, or a sympathizer, of ISIS. It’s an unthinkable act of violence that has taken the lives of innocent people for no reason other than pure prejudice and hatred. But as awful as it was, it was made even worse by Donald Trump, who has an abhorrent compulsion to lie about everything in order to exalt himself.

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On Wednesday morning Trump took to his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, to express his thoughts about the monstrous crime New Orleans. And true to form he couldn’t help but lie flagrantly, while giving himself wholly undeserved credit for his previous lies. He posted that

“When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true. The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before.”

Trump’s opening remarks were typically boasts about something that he believes is evidence of his magnificence. Then he lashes out with insults at his arch enemies, Democrats and the free press. But as anyone who has observed Trump over the years knows, none of what he said was remotely related to reality.

Trump began by bragging that he was right about the dangers posed by “the criminals coming in,” directly implying that the suspect in New Orleans, Shamsud Din Jabbar, was an immigrant. However, it has already been reported that he is a U.S. Army veteran born and raised in Texas. And it was Democrats and the media who were right to refute Trump’s xenophobic attacks on immigrants.

Trump also reiterated lies he has been telling for years about crime in America being “at a level that nobody has ever seen before.” That would be true if he meant that it is lower than it has been in many years. But, of course, he’s implying just the opposite. In fact, crime has been declining throughout the Biden administration.

Trump’s post is a grotesque response to a tragedy that he is trying to exploit for his own benefit and ego. It proves that he couldn’t care less about the victims, or their families, or the safety and welfare of the nation. But it is also a predictable response that is a hallmark of his malignant narcissism.

By blaming immigrants for a crime that was committed by a son of Texas, Trump is not only deflecting responsibility from the real perpetrators, he is endangering the lives of innocent people who emigrated to the U.S. legally, as well as those who came undocumented as refugees from violence and poverty.

But don’t try to explain that to his MAGA minions. They are already parroting his prejudice and telling similar lies about the suspect. Don Trump Jr, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and others have already posted false allegations that the suspect’s truck crossed the southern border two days ago. They got that from Fox News, who has already retracted the story.

In MAGA World, the suspect had to come from Mexico. Because to them immigrants are responsible for all manner of evil. That is, unless they are H-1B foreign workers that wealthy corporatists like Trump and Elon Musk need to hire at lower wages so they can fire Americans.

UPDATE: Rather than deleting or correcting his maliciously dishonest post, Trump followed up with a sickly insensitive post-midnight comment preposterously asserting that “TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!”

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