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HUH? Stable Genius Trump Threatens to Tariff Mexico for its Lettuce and Canada for its Smoke

Posted by on July 24, 2026 at 3:53 pm. 0 Comments :

In the midst of an economic downturn that has most Americans struggling to afford basic necessities such as gas, groceries, healthcare, housing, etc., the current occupier of the White House, Donald Trump, is working diligently to make things even worse.

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Typically, Trump is demonstrating that he couldn’t care less about the hardships that are burdening the American people. But he is also ignoring the harm he’s causing to the electoral prospects of his Republican confederates, whose looming defeats will contribute to his becoming the lamest of ducks for the last two years of his term.

SEE THIS: LOL: Trump Posts Democratic Governor’s Memo Proving He ‘Has Zero Credibility on Election Security’

So how is Trump responding to the economic crises that he faces as the midterm elections approach? He’s persisting with, and even escalating, his reckless, illegal, and expensive war against Iran. And on top of that, he’s threatening America’s allies with expanding his inflationary tariffs, which will result in even higher prices for American consumers.

On Friday morning Trump announced that he is increasing tariffs on our Europe Union trading partners, supposedly because they levied fines on American technology companies for violations of EU laws. That’s a profoundly stupid way to react to the judicial rulings by foreign courts against private corporations. But it wasn’t the stupidest thing that Trump did Friday morning. Have a listen to the following exchange with Peter Doocy of Fox News…

Doocy: There’s a nasty parasite that is giving people in nine states explosive diarrhea. When is it gonna be safe to eat lettuce again.
Trump: I don’t know. I haven’t thought about it. First time I’ve been asked that question. Are you eating a lot of lettuce recently?
Doocy: There’s this food coming in, I guess from Mexico. It’s tainted. It’s making a lot of people sick. That is the CDC’s terminology.
Trump: I think what it is, we’re gonna put a major tariff on Mexico because of the lettuce, and we’re gonna put a big tariff on Canada because of the smoke.

Q: When is it going to be safe to eat lettuce again?Trump: I don't know. I haven't thought about it. There's this, there's this food coming in, I guess. From Mexico. We're gonna put a major tariff on Mexico because of the lettuce, and we're gonna put a big tariff on Canada because of the smoke.

— Headquarters (@headquartersnews.bsky.social) 2026-07-24T19:47:42.284Z

Let’s break down this episode of Trumpian trash-talk, beginning with his admission that, before this, he has never thought about the health crisis that is sickening thousands of Americans, and when it might be resolved. That should bring comfort to a nation reeling with anxiety about what is safe to eat for themselves and their families.

More troubling is when he does get around to addressing his solution to the problem, it is a kneejerk, all-purpose proposal to slap tariffs on the “offending” country. Where Trump gets the idea that a tariff will result in untainted produce is anyone’s guess. It will just make all produce more expensive in the U.S.

Making matters worse is Trump’s threat to add more tariffs to Canada. He seems to think that making everything that the U.S. imports from Canada more expensive is a good way to put an end to wildfires and the nefarious actions by those evil, anti-American global wind patterns.

So Trump is punishing America’s top trading partners for ridiculous reasons that lean more toward satisfying his bruised ego, than resolving real problems. What’s next? Will Trump slap tariffs on France for not awarding him the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival? Will he tariff McDonalds for making him fat? Will he tariff Blue States for not voting for him? Oh wait…he already did that, sort of…

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LOL: Trump Posts Democratic Governor’s Memo Proving He ‘Has Zero Credibility on Election Security’

Posted by on July 22, 2026 at 1:01 pm. 0 Comments :

The midterm election is just a little more than three months away. And the closer it gets, the more riddled with anxiety Donald Trump and his MAGA-tists become. Trump’s approval ratings continue to be dragged down by his reckless and illegal war against Iran, his mismanagement of the domestic economy, and his overall distasteful demeanor that is comprised mostly of his noxious hatred and relentless lying.

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Trump’s response to his persistent and spreading unpopularity has been to focus his attention on a subject that he seems to think is uppermost on the minds of the American people: Alleged election fraud in 2020. It’s a strategy that is simultaneously outdated, while actually being aimed at rigging future elections, which his White House minions are boldly admitting in public.

SEE THIS: Trump’s Homeland Security Honcho Threatens to Arrest and Imprison Disobedient Election Officials

On Tuesday night Trump was engaged in what he appears to believe are the essential duties of an American president: Shit-posting on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. He unloaded more than thirty rants before noon on Wednesday. They were all teetering on the brink of sanity, while serving no purpose other than to exalt himself.

In one particular comment, Trump reposted a memo from New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill regarding a technical glitch in the state’s voter registration system. In her memo, Gov. Sherrill disclosed that a software error resulted in some non-citizens mistakenly being added to the state’s voter registration rolls. There was no nefarious plot by Democrats or evil foreigners, or any deliberate intent to deceive. It was clearly not a case of election fraud by any rational standard. The mistaken registrations were recorded for Democrats, Republicans, and Unaffiliated voters.

What’s more, fewer then 6% of the errors – 0.009% of all voters – resulted in invalid votes mistakenly cast. No election outcomes were affected. And on top of all of that, Trump’s “Save America Act” (aka Voter Suppression Act) would not have prevented any of it. Nevertheless, Trump declared that it was “Rigged Elections!!!” at the top of his post.

What’s funny is that the memo that Trump posted also had some decidedly negative assessments of Trump’s own disingenuous and self-serving efforts to interfere with the conduct of free and fair elections. Gov. Sherrill wrote that…

“As the Trump Administration tries to weaponize elections for political gain, I am ensuring we protect our elections. Let me be clear: Donald Trump has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity. For more than ten years, he has worked to undermine Americans’ faith in our elections by spreading lies about legitimate election results, attempting to overturn a free and fair election, encouraging an attack on our Capitol when he couldn’t accept the will of the voters, and defunding election security at the federal level.”

That’s a damn good summary of Trump’s un-American, anti-constitutional, scheming to accomplish what he has been falsely accusing Democrats of doing. And in a subsequent comment Trump actually made the case against his Voter Suppression bill. That comment attempted to counter the valid arguments that his Voter Suppression bill would place too big a burden on legitimate voters. It proposed providing free access to “birth certificates, citizenship-marked IDs, mobile units in rural areas, digital options, and assistance for elderly/disabled.”

However, none of those things are in Trump’s bill. So that post is, in effect, conceding that Trump’s bill actually does pose unacceptable burdens for legitimate voters. And combined with the fact that it doesn’t prevent invalid voters, there is no other conclusion than that Trump’s bill should be rejected.

America needs more voter participation, not less. And Trump needs to STFU until he has some verifiable evidence that to support his complaints. Which he hasn’t been able to provide for over six years now.

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Trump In His Own Words: To Make Military Decisions ‘All We Do is Read the Fake News’ – REALLY?

Posted by on July 21, 2026 at 1:42 pm. 0 Comments :

Living in the Era of Trump has burdened the American people with the depressing dilemma of having to awaken each morning wondering whether Donald Trump will say something mortifyingly stupid that day? Sadly, the answer can always be ascertained by determining whether it is a day that ends in “Y”?

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There are very few people left who will voluntarily defend the intellect and reason of Trump. And most of those who will are in his embarrassingly sycophantic Cabinet, where they spend hours in televised reality show style meetings praising His MAGA-sty as if he were the Second Coming.

SEE THIS: Trump Gathers His Cabinet Members to Conduct Another Festival of Feckless Trump-Fluffing

So no one will be surprised to hear that Trump humiliated himself again during a press avail with the president of Lebanon on Tuesday morning. During that event Trump took some questions from the White House press corps that he despises, dispensing his usual abundance of idiocy. But in the following exchange he went above and beyond his customary quota of crazy.

Question: Do you believe that Iran has moved nuclear centrifuges into Pickaxe Mountain?
Trump: They may have. We don’t have it on record. All we do is read the fake news. You know, we see the news is so wrong so many times. So you know, maybe this one they have right. It doesn’t mean anything unless they have the material…We’ll be hitting that area probably pretty soon.

Q: Do you believe Iran has moved nuclear centrifuges into Pickaxe Mountain?TRUMP: All we do is read the fake news. Maybe this one they have right. But it's okay. It doesn't mean anything unless they have the material. We'll be hitting that area pretty soon and very heavily.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-21T15:43:05.422Z

SERIOUSLY? Trump is admitting that he makes life and death military decisions that he bases wholly on what he reads in the papers. He’s not saying that he includes the media as a source for his decision making, but that “All we do is read the fake news.” So his judgments are formed solely by content that he regards as “fake” and “wrong so many times.”

The president of the United States is generally considered to be a uniquely well informed individual. He or she has access to the most advanced and comprehensive intelligence operations in the world. But Trump prefers to read newspapers and watch television (that he doesn’t believe), rather than review the product of the nation’s agencies that are responsible for compiling and validating the data necessary to protect the homeland.

If all he does is “read the fake news,” what do we need the CIA for? Or the DIA, or the FBI, or the NSA, or the DNI, or any of the other 14 intel agencies, including those in the armed services? In fact, what do we need Trump for? Clearly he has been grossly negligent. He has stated publicly that he doesn’t receive or read the Presidential Daily Briefings.

All of which explains why the nation is currently embroiled in a reckless and illegal war with Iran for which Trump has no plan for progressing or concluding. It likewise explains why we have a president who is threatening more nations, including Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Cuba, Canada, Greenland, and Denmark.

Is that stupid? Well, coming from Trump who thinks that windmills drive whales crazy, that stealth jets are actually invisible, that we should nuke hurricanes, that George Washington’s Army took over airports, and that injecting bleach will cure COVID, it’s just more of the ravings of a man who calls himself a “stable genius.” And if the sane among us don’t manage to rein in his insanity, we are all in big trouble.

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Trump FREAKS OUT Over a Democratic Proposal: ‘They Do This, and the Republican Party is DEAD!’

Posted by on July 20, 2026 at 2:21 pm. 0 Comments :

The desperation of Donald Trump continues to boil over as we get closer to the midterm elections in November, and Trump sinks farther down the rabid hole with record low approval ratings and no clue as to how to turn things around.

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Trump’s ongoing fiasco in Iran, with the resulting tragic loss of life, for both Americans and Iranians, and the fragmenting of international diplomatic relations, is just one reason why he is floundering. He is also presiding over an abysmal economy that is pressured by rising national debt and skyrocketing costs for gas, groceries, housing, healthcare, and more.

While Trump has no one to blame but himself, he still blames everyone else, especially his Democratic predecessors, Presidents Obama and Biden, who have been out of office for years. The only way out, from Trump’s perverse perspective, is to rig the election.

SEE THIS: Trump’s Homeland Security Honcho Threatens to Arrest and Imprison Disobedient Election Officials

Another red flag alarm indicating how badly worry is gnawing at his already mushy brain, is a comment that he posted Monday on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. Typically, it is an emotionally enraged outburst that is devoid of any coherent substance. He wrote simply that…

“They do this, and the Republican Party is DEAD!”

Trump on Truth Social: "They do this, and the Republican Party is DEAD!"www.politico.com/live-updates…Trump is afraid that positive reforms like expanding the Supreme Court, and term limits, and a code of ethics will kill the GOP?Well, that's just another great reason to do it.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-07-20T09:29:35.880Z

That petulant whine was accompanied by a link to an article about a Democratic proposal for Supreme Court reforms that was published by Politico. (Wait, aren’t they fake news?) The proposal by progressive Democrats called for expanding the number of Justices on the Supreme Court, imposing term limits, and mandating a code of ethics. It’s telling that Trump believes that those common sense reforms will kill the GOP.

That’s kind of like worrying that passing laws to prohibit extortion and murder will kill the Mafia. Of course Trump is adamantly opposed to making the Court more honest, accountable, and representative of the nation. Notably he didn’t cite anything specific about what would be killing the Republican Party. And since his MAGA-tists won’t ever read the Politico article for themselves, here’s an excerpt…

“The leaders of several prominent House Democratic caucuses are proposing a Supreme Court overhaul as well as the Senate filibuster in response to the justices’ decision to narrow the 1965 Voting Rights Act earlier this year.

“Their resolution obtained by POLITICO calls for the expansion of the Supreme Court and to establish term limits and a code of ethics for justices. It also calls for the elimination of the 60-vote filibuster in the Senate.”

Scary, isn’t it? Trump failed to mention that the Democrats also proposed terminating the filibuster in the Senate. Perhaps because Trump has been pushing for that for months. He also left out that the article said that “the resolution stands virtually no chance of adoption.” That may or may not be true, but it would definitely be an uphill battle.

Trump leaves things like that out precisely because it’s his intention to stir up fear. So he has to make his MAGA cultists believe that it’s imminent. Although he may be working against himself with the warning about killing the Republican Party. Because that would just be another great reason to do it. It would likely drive millions of voters to the polls who would be thrilled to see that outcome. So go for it Donny. Your strategy here would give a fantastic lift politically – for Democrats!

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Trump’s Homeland Security Honcho Threatens to Arrest and Imprison Disobedient Election Officials

Posted by on July 18, 2026 at 3:10 pm. 1 Comments :

The authoritarian aspirations of Donald Trump have been well documented. He began by inciting a violent insurrection on January 6, 2021, to retain power after losing the election. Followed by his pardoning of the seditious traitors who stormed the Capitol and assaulted police officers.

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Donald Trump calls for a "Unified Reich"

In the intervening years Trump has repeatedly demonstrated his ravenous hunger for power and his disrespect for the laws, including the Constitution, that was designed deliberately to limit it. He has assembled a Washington politburo that acquiesces to his every fascistic whim. Recently Trump lashed out at the media that he refers to in Stalinist terms as “the enemy of the people,” threatening to prohibit them from reporting honestly about him.

SEE THIS: Herr Trump Threatens to Muzzle the Free Press in His Unhinged Infomercial for Voter Suppression

Stridently continuing to goosestep down this path, Trump’s newly installed secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, held a press conference wherein he delivered some of the most disturbingly fascist remarks of the Trump era. Mullin was reiterating Trump’s message from his televised infomercial for his “Save America Act” (aka Voter Suppression Act) when he responded to a question about how he would react if states declined to go along with Trump’s unconstitutional decrees. Mullin ranted that…

“If the states choose not to participate in securing the elections, we will make sure that we make those states a priority, to look at who voted in their states, and hold them – the election officials – accountable. If the election officials, once we gave them the information they need to secure their elections, and they chose not to, then those individuals can also be held accountable. By fines, by penalties, and even depending on how far it goes, prison time.”

Let’s break down that bucket of bullshittery. First of all, the Elections Clause of the Constitution (Article I, Section 4, Clause 1) mandates that “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.” The executive branch of the federal government has no role in it.

Therefore, neither Trump nor Mullin can “look at who voted,” or “hold election officials accountable,” whether or not they chose to comply with legally unenforceable demands by the occupant of the White House or his flunkies.

The fact that Mullin is publicly threatening election officials with severe penalties, including potentially imprisonment, is one of the clearest signs yet of Trump’s intention to undermine democracy, dismiss the results of future elections, and declare himself president for life.

The election securing measures that Mullin is referring to have no basis in the law. They would require states to turn over their voter registration rolls with data including the voters’ names, addresses, party preferences, etc. Trump says that he would use this data to identify illegally registered immigrants. But his prior attempts at this have proven to be extraordinarily unreliable. Thousands of allegedly illegal registrants were in fact naturalized citizens whose records weren’t up to date in the files that Trump used.

The result is that Trump would improperly invalidate thousands of valid voters. Which is also the purpose of his Voter Suppression Act. He knows that he can’t win a free and fair election, so he is resorting to shrinking the electorate, and intimidating the state personnel who actually make the elections free and fair.

It’s notable that Trump’s complaints about election security have been replete with allegations of interference from Russia and China. But the only people he is threatening to punish are Democrats, American election officials, and the free press. Russia and China apparently have some sort of immunity.

Trump is just so far off from any rational response to the phony election crisis that he invented that he posted the following bizarre comment on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, reiterating the nonsense that he dispensed in his Voter Suppression Act infomercial.

Who wants to tell Trump that…? The documents he released are not new.? He was president "during the 2020 election cycle."? There was no compromise of election data. Everything he refers to was publicly available.? Registering to vote is not a "nefarious activity."

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-07-18T17:17:59.197Z

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Herr Trump Threatens to Muzzle the Free Press in His Unhinged Infomercial for Voter Suppression

Posted by on July 17, 2026 at 11:39 am. 0 Comments :

The most media adverse president in American history, Donald Trump, lived down to his reputation for despising the free press – and the Constitution that protects it – in an entirely predictable half hour harangue on Thursday night. As if on automatic, Trump praised himself, disparaged his foes, and lied repeatedly.

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Trump’s hopes for capturing the attention of America were dashed by most news networks recognizing the total absence of newsworthiness, and the political nature of his tirade. So NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MS NOW chose not to air Trump’s speech live, but offered it on their streaming platforms. The Fox broadcast channel and Fox News on cable were the only national networks that aired the speech in full live. Which must have been a huge disappointment for the Trump regime who expected more just because…

SEE THIS: Karoline Leavitt: Everyone Should Watch Trump’s Speech Because Nobody Knows What He’ll Say

The media acting responsibly Thursday night is precisely why Trump hates them so virulently. And it perturbed him so much that he even addressed it in the speech…

“In a rare move, NBC and ABC fake news have both said that they would not cover this speech – they knew what it was about – because of the fact that they don’t like the topic, because they know how corrupt our system is and they don’t want to reveal it. They and others in the media are part of a plot. They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They want to keep it going. They want to protect the radical left.

“They can’t have a great country, and that’s true. You can’t have a great country without free and fair elections. Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses. They use our public, multibillion dollar in value airways for absolutely no money. They pay nothing.”

Trump: "NBC and ABC fake news both said that they would not cover this speech…because of the fact they do not like the topic because they know how corrupt our system is… They and others in the media are part of a plot…Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses."

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-07-17T01:30:18.184Z

First of all, while it is relatively rare to decline a presidential request for airtime, it is not unprecedented. Presidents Obama and Biden also had time requests refused. But that didn’t cause them to whine petulantly that it was a plot against them, or that the media wanted to protect a corrupt system. Nor did it result in hostile threats to revoke the broadcast licenses of the networks that failed to obey Dear Leader.

It’s interesting that in his speech Trump only criticized and threatened ABC and NBC specifically. CBS, which is now owned by Trump-friendly billionaires David and Larry Ellison, didn’t air the whole speech either, but for some reason their license wasn’t threatened. And by the way, national broadcast networks don’t actually have federal licenses to revoke. So once again, Trump doesn’t have the slightest idea what he’s talking about.

[UPDATE: Trump’s threat that “Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses,” is being carried out by his FCC boss, Brendan Carr, who now says he he is considering penalties for ABC because they didn’t carry his Voter Suppression infomercial live]

The rambling and self-serving dishonesty of the rest of Trump’s speech (here on YouTube, for those with strong stomachs) justified the networks’ decisions to pass on it. It took Trump five minutes to stumble through lies about his alleged “accomplishments” before he got to the promised topic of the speech: election integrity. Then he devoted the next 20 minutes lying about having released documents that supposedly prove his election conspiracy theories. They don’t.

Most of those documents, that he described as “brand new and irrefutable” are neither. And they don’t contain any verifiable information not previously known. He even accused his own staffers of withholding intelligence data from him in his intel briefings about China’s alleged efforts to disrupt U.S. elections.

Arguably the worst thing that Trump claims to have “discovered” is a couple hundred thousand voter registrations, out of hundreds of millions, by non-citizens. But he didn’t identify a single incident of any non-citizen who actually voted. And even those registration numbers are wildly inflated by immigrants who properly registered after becoming citizens, but whose records weren’t up to date in the federal study that Trump cited.

In the last three minutes of the speech Trump finally got around to what is his real objective, which is to undermine confidence in U.S. elections and to pass his so-called “Save America Act” (aka Voter Suppression Act). He made an impotent demand that it be passed by the GOP-controlled Senate, that doesn’t have the votes even among their own party. Trump insisted that the bill is imperative to prevent cheating by Democrats. But he also said that the Democrats’ “policies are so bad” and that their “candidates are so pathetic,” that it makes you wonder why he and the Republicans can’t just beat them at the ballot box.

Trump closed by asking viewers to call their senators to demand that they vote for the Voter Suppression bill. Which affirms that the sole purpose of this speech was to serve as a long, meandering, lie-riddled, infomercial for Trump to convince Americans that our elections are irredeemably corrupt, so that he can corrupt future elections. And on Friday morning he posted a comment on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, that sums up his deceitfulness, saying…

“Great reviews on speech last night. Big audience. Pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!!!”

For the record, the reviews by non-MAGA media were uniformly terrible. Even many reviews by MAGA-tists were decidedly negative due to his focus on phony election issues, rather than what matters most to the American people, such as the high costs of living, and the war in Iran.

As for his claim of having a “big audience,” well that’s just another lie. He couldn’t possibly know since the ratings will not be released for a couple of days. And the expectations are for low numbers considering all the networks that ignored it. But Trump’s fantasies will always take precedence over reality. And his small and shrinking cult will obediently concur.

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Mike Johnson Warns the Media of Threats By Communists, But Ignores the Real Threats By Trump

Posted by on July 14, 2026 at 2:37 pm. 0 Comments :

The flailing desperation of Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican confederates is ramping up feverishly as the midterm elections get closer, and their prospects for holding Congress are deteriorating at – as Trump might put it- levels never seen before.

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Donald Trump and Mike Johnson

The form that the Trumpist retreat is taking is a replication of the “Red Scare” of the 1950s, when Republicans saw communists in every shadow and around every corner preparing to pounce on vulnerable Americans and infecting them with the poison of Pinko propaganda. Trump himself posted a comment on his own personal propaganda platform, Truth Social, proposing to outlaw political thought and speech that he doesn’t like. Just like his hero Vladimir Putin does in Russia.

SEE THIS: Putin Prodigy Trump Calls to Criminalize Democratic Socialism and Deport Its Leaders

Taking his orders from Dear Leader Trump, House Squeaker MAGA Mike Johnson is mow also fear mongering about scary, but imaginary, communists. Johnson’s morning press briefing was a full blown “commies are on your doorstep plotting to kill and your family” tirade. He let loose a blast of explosive diarhetorical bombast warning that the long-fabled “red scare” is upon us, and our literal survival is at stake. He said in part (because in full it’s too tedious and insane) that…

“These crazy little Mamdanis who are popping up all around the country, they are a danger to you and your family. This is not a game…So we are here as the Republican Party to stand on the founding principles of the greatest nation in the history of the world. It is our duty to do that.

“And we’re doing it on behalf of all of you. Even the journalists who don’t agree with our policies all the time. You better agree on these principles because that’s what keeps you free. By the way, it’s what keeps the press free, okay? This is essential for your well-being and your family…We’re arguing whether or not freedom is going to survive…We’re in a war.”

Mike Johnson: "Even the journalists who don't agree with our policies all the time — you better agree on these principles. Because that's what keeps you free."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-14T15:19:48.074Z

OH NOES! Not “crazy little Mamdanis” popping up all the place. Never mind that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is one of the most popular public figures in America today. That’s what makes them such a threat to me and my family, in the eyes of Trump’s MAGA-tists.

That’s pretty frightening, isn’t it? But Johnson’s alarm at what he sees as threats to the free press is even more frightening. Not because there is anything rational about it. But because he is so utterly oblivious to the actual threats that Trump poses to the media.

Trump has been referring to the free press in Stalinist terms as “the enemy of the people,” for years. He has filed dozens of lawsuits intended to punish and intimidate any journalists who dare to report honestly about him. He shepherds corporations run by sycophantic, right-wing, billionaires through the regulatory hurdles that Trump controls in his administration. He has even had journalists arrested for accurately reporting his documented words and deeds.

MORE HERE: WHAT 1ST AMENDMENT? Trump Regime Threatens NYT Journalists to Compel Them to Give Up Sources

Ironically, Trump is the one who is implementing communist-like control over the “means of production” by taking a role in corporate mergers, demanding multimillion dollar payments from corporations seeking government favors, forcing corporations to sell parts of the businesses to the government, and defunding public media such as PBS, NPR, and Radio Free America.

What’s more, Trump and his radical, totalitarian, comrades couldn’t even define communism. They just use the word as an all-purpose pejorative to whip up fear in their equally ignorant cult followers. So they call all Democrats – and particularly Social Democrats – communists. But in reality, Democratic Socialists are in the mainstream of American politics. They are responsible for things like Social Security, interstate highways, public libraries, Obamacare, and more.

It’s not a coincidence that those are among the most popular programs in the nation’s history. And that’s another thing that frightens the MAGA-tists and Trump. It leaves him so discombobulated that he does pitiful and preposterous things like this…

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Putin Prodigy Trump Calls to Criminalize Democratic Socialism and Deport Its Leaders

Posted by on July 13, 2026 at 2:37 pm. 1 Comments :

The desperation of Donald Trump is revealing itself in ever more obvious and troubling ways. Despite his notable mental impairment, it is difficult to believe that he isn’t aware of just how unpopular he and his policies are. If were were truly as oblivious as he appears, he wouldn’t be acting out with such frenzied panic as his electoral prospects deteriorate.

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Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin

As the midterm elections approach, Trump is escalating his war on democracy. He has installed a political crony, Bill Pulte, in the position of acting Director of National Intelligence for the express purpose of weaponizing the agency in order to obstruct Democrats from voting in November. He is also pressuring Republicans in Congress to pass his phony “Save America Act” (aka Voter Suppression Act) by any means necessary, and for the same purpose.

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However, Trump may feel that he wasn’t making himself clear on his intentions to subvert free and fair democratic elections. So he took the additional step of posting a comment on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, to clarify his his commitment to totalitarian rule. The comment said simply “DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM MUST BE CRIMINALIZED; LEADERS DEPORTED.”

Trump is reacting to the recent electoral victories of progressive Democrats that he ignorantly calls “communists.” But now he has escalated his reaction to an outright advocacy of criminalizing political thought that he doesn’t like. Just like his hero Vladimir Putin does in Russia. The fact that Trump thinks it’s appropriate to outlaw political speech, and punish people with whom he disagrees, should outrage American patriots who cherish the Constitution and the principles it embodies.

That wasn’t the only outrageous commentary by Trump today. He also addressed his war against Iran that he is losing. In another Truth Social comment he raged that…

“The Hormuz Strait is OPEN [but also that] We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE [and that the U.S.A] will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped.”

So Trump is declaring (for the umpteenth time) that the Strait of Hormuz is open. But at the same time he declares that he is blockading it. And to make matters worse, he announces that the U.S. will charging 20% on all cargo for every ship that seeks to pass through the Strait. That, however. is not keeping it open. Rather, it is holding it hostage. And even though he has no legal jurisdiction to follow through, he issues the threat that will impede trade and raise the cost of all products that traverse the Strait.

Finally, Trump’s dementia is flaring up in a big way. He also posted a comment on Truth Social declaring – without any link to a corroborating source – that he has a “59% Approval Rating.” But it appears that he mixed up reports that were actually of his disapproval rating. There are no surveys that put him anywhere near 59% approval. On the other hand, there are many that found his disapproval at that level. (Click on this tweet for more polls).

You would be really hard pressed to find better examples of cognitive incoherence. It would be bad enough if it were your uncle. But it’s totally intolerable for the president of the United States. And yet, Trump’s MAGA confederates continue to tolerate it. Hopefully they won’t be around to fluff their Dear Leader after the midterm elections.

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WTF? After Lauding Lindsey Graham, Trump Rants ‘We’re Trying to Have CNN Go On a Normal Path’?

Posted by on July 12, 2026 at 3:25 pm. 0 Comments :

The unexpected passing of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has produced the highly expected eulogizes and criticisms that occur whenever a prominent political figure checks out. Graham was a complex character who once called Donald Trump a “jackass” and “a race-baiting bigot,” who was “unfit for office,” before becoming a devoted Trump sycophant.

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Lindsey Graham, Donald Trump

For his part, Trump wasn’t always so complimentary toward Graham either. As usual, when anyone disagrees with Trump about anything, they become his enemy. That was the case when Trump and Graham had a difference of opinion on abortion and Trump complained that “Graham should spend more time focusing on…the millions of people dying in senseless, never-ending Wars that he constantly favors and promotes.”

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Now that Graham has shuffled off this mortal coil, Trump is predictably exploiting his passing for his own political benefit. During an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN, Trump expressed his desire to to reign tyrannically over the media…

Tapper: I know you don’t want to talk about any other issues out of respect for Lindsey Graham, but we would love to have you back sometime because I do have a lot of other questions for you.
Trump: Sure. We will do that. We’re trying to have CNN go on a normal path.’

TAPPER: I know you don't want to talk about any other issues out of respect for Lindsey Graham, but we would love to have you back sometime bc I do have a lot of other questionsTRUMP: Sure. We're trying to have CNN go on a normal pathT: I'm on a normal path right here, sirTRUMP: Good. You are.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-12T14:22:09.966Z

REALLY? Trump says the quiet part out loud again. His intention to “have CNN go on a normal path,” means that the network transforms into another Fox News with its pending acquisition by his billionaire pals, David and Larry Ellison. His definition of “normal” isn’t normal. And he isn’t shy about admitting his aspirations to reign over the media the way his idols in Russia and North Korea do.

However, Trump wasn’t finished “grieving” over the loss of his cult disciple. Trump had the following exchange with Tapper later In the same segment:

Tapper: The US and Iran have been engaging back in forth in strikes over the last few days and overnight. Are we back at war? And who controls the Strait of Hormuz?
Trump: Well, out of respect for Lindsey, I’m not talking about that. We hit them very hard last night. So I don’t want to talk about it. But I will say we hit them very hard last night. We had a deal with them yesterday. They were giving up everything. Then all of a sudden two hours after that they hit a ship with a drone. And I said ‘these people, there’s something wrong with them.’

Notice that Tapper asked Trump a question about Iran, a war that Lindsey Graham strongly supported and wanted to escalate. Trump says that “Out of respect for Lindsey, I’m not talking about it.” Then he just keeps talking about it anyway. So respectful. How about having some respect for the American people who oppose the war?

In addition to that, Trump also used Graham’s demise to boost his crusade for his “Save America Act,” aka the Voter Suppression Act. Trump said that…

“Where he was really becoming strong was the SAVE America Act. And I think he was gonna be there very strongly on the filibuster. He was against terminating the filibuster. And I think he was doing that because he said we have a budget coming up, and we have debt ceiling coming up. And the Democrats are deranged, and they’re not gonna be able to do it. And he was coming aboard, I think for the filibuster, terminating the filibuster.”

Notice here that Trump told Tapper that Graham “was against terminating the filibuster.” Then, 14 seconds later says that “He was coming aboard for, I think, terminating the filibuster.” Which is about as grossly exploitive of the recently departed as you can get. Trump was literally putting words into a dead man’s mouth to selfishly help himself politically.

Not to worry though. Trump just wants for CNN go on a normal path. Where normal means making everything – including the mortality of your friends and colleagues – about yourself and what you want for your own benefit. Which has been a core personality trait of Trump’s for as long as he has been in the public eye. Some things never change.

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WHAT 1ST AMENDMENT? Trump Regime Threatens NYT Journalists to Compel Them to Give Up Sources

Posted by on July 11, 2026 at 2:07 pm. 0 Comments :

The hostility that Donald Trump has for the free press is nothing new. He has been referring to the media in Stalinist terms as “the enemy of the people” for years. And he viciously attacks reporters and news organizations every day simply because they are doing their jobs.

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Donald Trump, Constitution

Trump actually has a perverse love/hate relationship with the media. He hates them when they report the truth about him. But he loves being the center of attention. He never lets his aversion to the Constitution’s protection of the free press get in the way of his exploitation of it. While he blames it for all of his problems, he also clings to positive news about himself, if he’s making it up…

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Trump’s assault on the First Amendment has taken many disturbing forms. He frequently sues journalists and media companies as a means of punishing them for their honest reporting. And he orders his federal agencies to clamp down on companies that have the audacity to reveal his personal and professional flaws. Which is what just happened with his “Justice” Department issuing subpoenas to several New York Times reporters. As reported by the Times…

“The Trump administration issued subpoenas on Friday to several journalists for The New York Times, after the news outlet reported this week on security concerns involving President Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One. […] The subpoenas — which seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan on Wednesday — were an extraordinary escalation in President Trump’s efforts to threaten and intimidate independent news organizations.”

The Times noted that “the subpoenas contain few specifics,” other than demanding that the journalists testify before a Grand Jury “in regard to an alleged violation of federal criminal law” having something to do with a Times story about Trump departing Turkey on the “old” Air Force One because of “a security precaution at the urging of the Secret Service.”

Trump’s press office responded to the Times’story by insisting that it was false. It was, however, a legitimate story that exposed the carelessness of the Trump administration and it’s lack of concern for operational security. They claimed that Trump switched planes and diverted the new Qatari bribe jet to a military base in England because some soldiers there really wanted to see it (yeah, right).

Therefore, any allegation that the Times broke a law, or that the leaker did, is moot. You can’t be accused of leaking sensitive or classified information if what you wrote wasn’t actually sensitive or classified. And according to the Trump propaganda team it wasn’t. So either Trump and company are lying, or there was no violation of the law.

What’s more, the Times’ story was published after Trump switched to the properly secured Air Force One from the Qatari bribe jet, and was already safely at home. and you can’t be accused of endangering the president if what you wrote was published entirely after the fact, and there was no risk to the president.

To the contrary, the Times actually made the president safer by insuring that the Qatari jet would not be used by the president unless and until it is properly upgraded to Secret Service standards. Consequently, the Times responded to the subpoenas in a blunt statement by their attorney, David McCraw:

“The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects. Our journalists report the facts and advance the American public’s right to know how their government is operating and their taxpayer dollars are being used. This brazen act should be seen as nothing more than an attempt to prevent the public from knowing what is happening in their country by intimidating journalists from doing their jobs.”

The morning after this legal brouhaha Trump once again lashed out at the media. He posted a tediously long and incoherent comment on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, attacking New York Times reporters, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, in his typically infantile manner, saying in part that…

“Maggot Hagerman has covered me incorrectly for ten years. Her book is a joke! 90% of it is Fake News…Maggot is a loser! […] Anyway, don’t buy their book, it’s garbage!”

For the record, Haberman and Swan’s book “Regime Change” is currently #1 on Amazon. Trump went on in this comment to boast that he has “just finished a perfect physical at Walter Reed, I do it every six months, and I requested another Cognitive Test.” There are reasons that he needs to take annual physicals three or four times a year, along with repeated cognitive tests. Doctors wouldn’t do them if he wasn’t showing signs of mental impairment.

Trump followed up that comment with an even longer and less coherent harangue, whining about “The Failing New York Times,” along with the Wall Street Journal, MS NOW, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC. Adding that they should all just say that “We give up, we can’t beat him.” Which is wishful thinking on his part. He wouldn’t be freaking out this badly if he weren’t really afraid of losing the upcoming midterm elections and finding himself under investigation by Democrats in Congress who intend to hold him accountable for his multitude of crimes. for a change.

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