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Trump’s Scammy Media Stock, and Truth Social Parent, Completes a Classic Pump and Dump

Posted by on December 30, 2025 at 12:50 pm. 1 Comments :

As the first year of Donald Trump’s second occupation of the White House winds down, the evidence of his failure is glaringly apparent. His administration has presided over economic debacles, executed foreign policy blunders, and is mired in domestic scandals, including the Jeffrey Epstein affair that is breaking apart his previously devoted MAGA cult.

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Trump Baby on Cash Pile

Trump’s own financial endeavors have been on a descent into ever deeper depths. Although he has structured his business ventures much like the Mafia, where they produce gains for him regardless of how they actually perform. Any other investors have likely lost a bundle.

The latest example of that is the merger of the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) with TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion startup. TAE’s energy products are at present speculative and they have no facilities generating any power resources. Nevertheless, the news caused TMTG’s stock to surge 33% from about $11.00 per share to a high of about $16.80. That gain, however was short-lived. Two weeks later TMTG is hovering at around $12.80 again. So anyone who jumped in on the news is already suffering a 25% loss.

That’s typical of the tribulations of investors in Trump and his business misadventure. Throughout 2025, TMTG’s stock has spiraled downward. It has crashed more than 62% year to date. And this is the year that Trump returned to power, causing many of his supporters to assume that he and his businesses would be a good investments.

There is no reason to believe that the TAE merger will turn anything around. The last major news from TMTG was that it was entering the crypto business. It represented a major departure from its core media technology pursuits to a sort of cryptocurrency treasury. They made a huge and poorly timed $2 billion bet on Bitcoin, which then promptly plummeted from their $118,000 purchase price to about $88,000. Trump’s economic advisors are proving to be no more capable than his political advisors.

Despite the financial fiascos that Trump has presided over, he continues to shield himself from the losses suffered by his flock of cult followers, who keep getting fleeced, but seem to like it. Even more troubling is that his shady practices are providing a path for disreputable parties to grease his palm for political favors. That includes foreign operatives from adversarial nations and conflicted corporate leaders seeking legislative largesse. All of whom are more interested in buying influence than investing.

Trump’s fiscal failings are mirroring his political plunges. He is stuck at the bottom of the political pothole that he has dug for himself. Although you wouldn’t know by the celebratory gushing of his perky Propaganda Secretary, Karoline Leavitt. For a more reality-based appraisal of Trump’s misfortunes, here’s a brief summary of the ongoing disaster we know as Trump World…

Trump Media (Truth Social) Falls to Its Lowest Point Ever – And So Does Donald Trump
Reflecting the animus that Trump inspires in America, his scam business venture, Trump Media and Technology Group, is suffering its worst week since it went public a year and a half ago. It has lost a whopping 80% of its asset value since then.

Trump’s Truth Social AI is Woke AF: Even His Own Social Media App Hates Him
Truth Social’s Artificial Intelligence app is going woke. It is actually telling the truth about Trump and contradicting his flagrant lies on numerous subjects.

The Trump Media and Technology Group (Truth Social) Scam Reflects His Fondness for Fraud
During an interview on CNBC, Trump complained that he has been treated “very badly” by banks that he alleged were discriminating against him. Of course that might be because of the 34 felony convictions he has for defrauding banks. Not to mention a civil lawsuit finding of liability that cost him about half a billion dollars.

Trump’s Truth Social is Creating ‘Non-Woke’ Investment Portfolios for MAGA Cult Investors/Dupes
The focus of the Trump investment portfolios rests on buzzwords plucked from his political rhetoric. And what could possibly have more income potential than “non-woke” enterprises that pursue the anti-democratic goals of the MAGA movement?

Truth Social, Trump’s Pathetic Personal Propaganda Platform, Continues to Bleed Cash
In what may be the least surprising news of the year so far, Donald Trump’s flagship social media enterprise, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) – the parent holding company of his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social – released its annual report on Friday that revealed just how big a failure it is.

Trump’s Truth Social is Shedding Users Like a Miserable Childless Woman’s Mangy Cat
The Donald Trump-controlled Truth Social platform recorded its third straight month of declining traffic. Truth Social attracted 2,112,000 unique visitors, down 38% compared to June 2023 when the site generated 3,407,000 unique visitors. It was the platform’s second worst traffic performance since June 2022 when Truth Social had only 1,891,000 unique visitors.

Trump Crime Syndicate: Investors Arrested for Insider Trading in Failing Truth Social Scam
Trump’s associates in his truthless, anti-social media venture were arrested and charged with insider trading. Reports indicate that “the three individuals together made more than $22 million in illegal profits.”

Truth Social Disease: Ads on Trump’s Twitter Ripoff are Mostly Scams and Trump-Fluffing Merch
Advertisers are afraid of their ads being juxtaposed with hate speech and other noxious content. Consequently, the only advertisers who are willing to shell out are sketchy scammers, conspiracy theorists, and junk peddlers.

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Trump Takes Putin’s Side (Again) on Charges that Ukraine Attacked a Putin Residence

Posted by on December 29, 2025 at 2:19 pm. 0 Comments :

On Sunday Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy at his putrid Palm Beach palace, Mar-a-Lago. It went a bit better than the last meeting they had at the White House, where Trump and his cronies ambushed Zelenskyy and failed in their attempts to humiliate him. But that doesn’t mean that it went well this time.

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Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin

Prior to the meeting it was revealed that Trump had spoken first to his boss, Vladimir Putin. Presumably to get his instructions for how to conduct the meeting. And Putin must have been pleased by what he saw. Trump could not have been more obedient to the agenda of his Russian master. There was little of substance that Trump could deliver afterward.

When asked by the press how the meeting went, Trump rattled off some cliché talking points about the it being “productive” and/or “constructive,” but no plans were laid out for peace, and no agreements were announced. It was typical Trumpian blather that was utterly devoid of anything meaningful, or even coherent. And it didn’t further the peace process any more than his prior diplomatic charades…

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However, the lack of progress didn’t deter Trump from dispensing more of his hallmark bullshittery on Monday morning to the media gathered for an unrelated meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu.. Included was Trump’s absurdly unwarranted opinion that this time Putin is serious about peace, and “wants Ukraine to succeed.” He has a funny way of showing that, by bombing civilian targets in Ukrainian cities and slaughtering untold numbers of innocent people. And when challenged on that, Trump actually tried to equate Ukraine’s defensive actions with Russia’s savage aggression.

One especially disturbing issue arose when Trump was asked about reports that Ukraine had bombed one of Putin’s many residences in Russia. Trump replied that…

“I don’t like it. It’s not good. I heard about it this morning. You know who told me about it? President Putin told me about it. Early in the morning. He said he was attacked…I learned about it from President Putin today. I was very angry about it.”

Trump on a report that Ukraine tried to strike Putin's residence: "I don't like it. It's not good. I heard about it this morning. You know who told me about it? President Putin told me about it … I was very angry about it."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-29T18:41:54.298Z

That’s interesting considering that there has been no confirmation of any such attack, and Zelenskyy explicitly denied that it happened. Zelenskyy said that…

“Russia is at it again, using dangerous statements to undermine all achievements of our shared diplomatic efforts with President Trump’s team…This alleged ‘residence strike’ story is a complete fabrication intended to justify additional attacks against Ukraine, including Kyiv, as well as Russia’s own refusal to take necessary steps to end the war. Typical Russian lies.”

So Trump is once again taking the word of Putin, an American adversary, over that of Zelenskyy, an American ally. And even over the word of American intelligence. [UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal reports that “U.S. Finds Ukraine Didn’t Target Putin in Drone Strike.”]

It’s more proof that Trump is, knowingly or otherwise, a Russian asset who is working against the interests of the United States. This was further affirmed in the press avail on Sunday when Trump tried again to dismiss credible allegations of his collusion with Russia…

WHUT? Trump is defending himself against charges of his collusion with Russia by saying that "he'd call me, I'd call him. [and that] A lot of success could have been had by trading with Russia."He's literally admitting to colluding.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-12-29T10:03:35.459Z

Meanwhile, Russian newspapers are reporting on the meeting with Zelenskyy, and they couldn’t be happier about how it all went down, saying that “The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president.” That’s true. And it’s troubling that the Russian media is reporting it, but that the American media isn’t..

In case you were wondering how the meeting with Putin's puppet (Donald Trump) and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is being viewed in Russia…

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-12-29T17:05:00.795Z

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HUH? Trump Flunky Tells Fox News that Small Businesses Are ‘Excited’ to Pay Taxes Thanks to Trump

Posted by on December 28, 2025 at 1:29 pm. 1 Comments :

It’s high time that Trump gets credit where credit is deserved. And truth be told, no president in U.S. history has been as averse to the truth as the current occupant of the White House. His record of flagrantly lying about all matters, great or small, is unsurpassed. And while he isn’t particularly good at it, he is devoted to it.

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Donald Trump, Stock Market

Fortunately for Trump, he doesn’t need much skill to pass off his lies to the cult followers he is lying to. They hungrily eat them up and beg for more. And they can’t be persuaded that Trump’s lies are completely removed from reality because cult followers are brainwashed to believe only their Dear Leader and assume that everyone else is lying to them. Which allows Trump to take credit for virtually anything.

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In addition to the barrage of flagrant falsehoods that flow from Trump himself, the Confederacy of Trumpists that populate his regime are similarly trained to disseminate untruths to the loyal MAGA-tists. Case in point is Trump’s SBA Administrator, Kelly Loeffler. She was at her post on Fox News Sunday morning to unleash a litany of lies to the willing believers…

“Small business optimism is really spiking under president Trump after four very difficult years under Joe Biden….I don’t think small business owners have ever been so excited to pay their taxes thanks to President Trump.”

Kelly Loeffler: "I don't think small business owners have ever been so excited to pay their taxes thanks to President Trump."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-28T15:16:50.293Z

Those comments are typical of the sort of gaslighting that Trump et al engage in. She expects people to accept the notion that business owners are actually “excited” to pay their taxes now that Trump has made it so much fun. Can’t you just imagine all of these taxpayers grinning ear to ear as they sign their tax returns and skip merrily down the street to deposit them in the mailbox?

There’s just one little problem. None of what Loeffler is saying is remotely true. To the contrary, small businesses are struggling to keep their heads above water in Trump’s collapsing economy. The Washington Post just published a detailed analysis entitled “Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs.” The article began…

“Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades.

“At least 717 companies filed for bankruptcy through November, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. That’s roughly 14 percent more than the same 11 months of 2024, and the highest tally since 2010.”

For the record, the 11 months of 2024 that saw far fewer bankruptcies were presided over by President Biden, who Loeffler falsely accused of leading through “four very difficult years.” While there were some challenges during Biden’s term, they were resolved before Trump was inaugurated. After which his policies just made things worse.

Had Loeffler ever actually spoken to any small business owners, she would know that that are not “excited” about paying taxes. Nor are they thrilled with the present economic conditions. She would know that they are suffering through hard times that are the direct result of Trump’s ignorance, negligence, and even deliberate malfeasance.

As for the business owners, they know that they are paying more for imported goods thanks to Trump’s tariffs. They know that it’s harder to hire and retain employees thanks to his short-sighted, xenophobic immigration policies. They know that there is anxiety inducing uncertainty caused by Trump frequently shifting his actions and rhetoric. And they are all to aware of the abysmal consumer sentiment ratings that are near historic lows. The University of Michigan’s “Index of Consumer Sentiment“ is down 28 points from the same time last year when Biden was finishing his term.

Yet somehow Trump’s SBA chief has the gall to go on Fox News and tell their viewers that they are all “excited” to pay their taxes. You have to wonder how many of them just nodded their heads and said “Yeah, it’s so exciting.” But it’s more likely that most of them furrowed their brows and thought “WTF is she talking about?”

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Did Trump Just Post a Death Threat to Stephen Colbert After Watching His Kennedy Center Flop?

Posted by on December 24, 2025 at 1:14 pm. 0 Comments :

The seething hatred that Donald Trump embodies for his many perceived enemies is well documented. He frequently disgorges it in rabid rants on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. And it is aimed at anyone who is even mildly critical, or less than drooling with adoration.

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Stephen Colbert & Trump Baby

Naturally, much of his acrid anger is directed at journalists who dare to report the unvarnished truth about his policy failures and his personal foibles. Of course he also regularly unleashes venomous acrimony aimed at both Democratic and Republican politicians who have the audacity to disagree with him on matters great and small. His flaming fury has none of the limits of decency practiced by his predecessors. When Trump gets mad at you, he wants you terminated permanently.

SEE THIS: Trump Accuses Democratic Members of Congress With ‘Seditious Behavior, Punishable by Death’

Late Tuesday night Trump had just finished watching the CBS broadcast of himself hosting the Kennedy Center Honors award show. You might think that he was enjoying his evening at home and preparing for bedtime. You would be wrong. Trump was wide awake and in a foul mood. As he was hate-watching one of his archenemies, Stephen Colbert, he fired off a series of comments on Truth Social that put his acute animosity on vivid display. He whined that…

“Stephen Colbert is a pathetic trainwreck, with no talent or anything else necessary for show business success. Now, after being terminated by CBS, but left out to dry, he has actually gotten worse, along with his nonexistent ratings. Stephen is running on hatred and fumes ~ A dead man walking! CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW, it is the humanitarian thing to do!”

That comment was posted just minutes after Colbert’s monologue that included jokes about Trump hosting the Kennedy Center awards. But Trump may not have realized that it was a Colbert rerun from December 8.

Nevertheless, in his delusional and dishonest state, Trump fails to accept that Colbert is a beloved comedian who hosts the top rated program on late night TV. Trump also fails to note that Colbert was canceled by CBS as a favor to Trump, and likely demanded by Trump.

However, the the most disturbing part of Trump’s comment is where he calls Colbert a “dead man walking” and says that “the humanitarian thing to do” would be to “put him to sleep.” No doubt some of Trump’s deranged cult disciples would be happy to oblige him.

If Colbert ever said anything like that about Trump, the FBI would be banging down his door and interrogating him for having made a death threat against the president. But apparently it’s okay for Trump to make death threats against anyone he wants to, including politicians, journalists, and now entertainers. And he had the gall to appoint himself chairman of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts? Even so, Trump wasn’t finished ranting. He continued…

“Who has the worst Late Night host, CBS, ABC, or NBC??? They all have three things in common: High Salaries, No Talent, REALLY LOW RATINGS!”

And also…

“If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J. Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their very valuable Broadcast Licenses be terminated? I say, YES!”

Trump’s question is actually pretty good. But, as usual, is answer is wrong. If there is so much negativity directed at Trump, maybe it’s because Trump is a monstrous abomination who has earned that opposition. As to whether the networks should have their licenses terminated, they would first need to have licenses. They don’t. The federal government does not license television networks. So Trump is in favor of terminating licenses that don’t exist.

Trump may have had a few other reasons to be upset by this evening’s affairs. First, CBS refused to identify either the Center or the awards as the “Trump Kennedy Center,” as Trump had illegal proclaimed it to be. According to the Washington Post…

“In lead-up advertising, logos and voice-over throughout the broadcast, CBS referred to the show as the 48th annual Kennedy Center Honors, at the Kennedy Center. […] CBS News’s standards department last week instructed staffers to maintain the original Kennedy Center name [because] it would take Congressional approval to officially change the name.”

Secondly, the network left most of Trump’s hosting duties on the cutting room floor…

“The televised broadcast presented a pared-down version of Trump’s opening remarks, cutting his introduction from about 12 minutes live to two minutes for viewers at home — and leaving out several of his looser jokes, including a reference to the laughing audience as ‘miserable, horrible people.'” […]

“Throughout the ceremony, Trump made limited appearances onstage, instead introducing remaining honorees in video segments prerecorded from the Oval Office.”

And last but not least, the ratings for the Trump-hosted awards show were horrible. Programming Insider Insider reports that…

“According to preliminary Nielsen data, ‘The Kennedy Center Honors’ on CBS drew its smallest audience ever on the night of December 23, 2025, averaging an estimated 2.65 million viewers. To put that in perspective: the 2024 broadcast averaged 4.1 million.”

That’s gotta sting. A few weeks ago, when Trump announced who the honorees would be, he made a prediction about the broadcast saying that “It’s going to be something that I believe, and I’m going to make a prediction: This will be the highest-rated show that they’ve ever done.” Oops.

Also, in Colbert’s monologue, there is a clip of Trump slamming prior hosts, saying that “I’ve watched some of the people that host. Jimmy Kimmel was horrible. If I can’t beat out Jimmy Kimmel in terms of talent, then I don’t think I should be president.” Okay! Although Kimmel never hosted the Kennedy Center awards. But Colbert did, three times. And no, Trump couldn’t beat either of them. And no, he shouldn’t be president, for so many other reasons.

Trump’s humongous ego is notoriously fragile. Plus, he has been remotely diagnosed as a malignant narcissist. So numbers like these will bring out the worst in him. The problem is that these sort of tantrums suffered by someone with presidential powers is extremely dangerous. And for the welfare of the nation – and the world – he should be removed from office ASAP.

Trump is having a bad night, so he's up rage-posting about TV comedians.He wants Stephen Colbert to be "put to sleep." And he thinks that networks have broadcast licenses (they don't) that should be "terminated."Poor baby isn't getting enough sleep at his Cabinet meetings.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-12-24T10:18:01.635Z

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Trump Declares the New York Times a ‘Threat to National Security’ that ‘Must Be Stopped’

Posted by on December 23, 2025 at 12:30 pm. 1 Comments :

The seething animosity that Donald Trump has toward the free press and the Constitution’s First Amendment is well known and thoroughly documented. He regularly refers to the media in Stalinist terms as “the enemy of the people.” And even mild criticism is met with savage insults and ludicrous lawsuits intended to intimidate and silence anyone who dares to find fault with His MAGA-sty.

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Donald Trump, Newspapers, Baby, Hate

However, if you thought that Trump was satisfied with his constant barrage of vile invective, you are vastly underestimating his unquenchable capacity for deep seated loathing and voracious appetite for vengeance. There is nothing that triggers a Trump temper tantrum more than a news story that reveals his multitude of glaring flaws. He demands unflinching adoration at all times.

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On Tuesday morning Trump escalated his war against the free press with a spine-chilling comment posted to his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. The hostility in his most recent rhetoric should be of concern to every freedom loving American patriot who cherishes the Constitution and it’s protection of liberty. Trump raged in a late-night outburst against one of his perennial foes, the New York Times, over some unspecified offense to his massive, yet fragile ego…

“The Failing New York Times, and their lies and purposeful misrepresentations, is a serious threat to the National Security of our Nation. Their Radical Left, Unhinged Behavior, writing FAKE Articles and Opinions in a never ending way, must be dealt with and stopped. THEY ARE A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! Thank you for you attention to this matter. PRESIDENT DJT”

It’s impossible to decipher precisely what specific story set Trump off late last night. It could be related to the latest bombshell incriminations in the newly released Jeffrey Epstein files. Or he might be upset that the Times caught him napping during recent Cabinet meetings. Or maybe he’s whining about not being praised for having crashed the economy and making everything more expensive with his inflationary tariffs (aka taxes). Or perhaps people aren’t properly elated by his extrajudicial murders of possibly innocent people in small boats off the coast of Venezuela. There is just so much to choose from.

Trump may just be outraged by an all-of-the-above batch of reporting on atrocities for which he is responsible. In any event, he is embarking on a path of psychotic fury over what he claims – without any rational basis – are “FAKE Articles and Opinions.” Of course all articles and opinions are constitutionally protected, even if the subject of them disapproves. But since Trump doesn’t bother to cite any of these alleged misrepresentation, his claims can’t be confirmed or believed.

What’s even worse about this outburst is Trump’s allegation that the allegedly “Unhinged Behavior” of the Times is a “serious threat to the National Security of our Nation.” That’s the sort of language that Trump commonly unleashes to justify violent military assaults on whoever he is angry with at the moment.

Consequently, it’s fair to assume that he is craving an opportunity to treat the Times the same way he is treating the people in those boats in the Caribbean. After all, he used the very same language for both of these situations. Just one week ago he justified bombing those boats by asserting without evidence that they were transporting drugs, and that “drug trafficking cartels POSE A THREAT to U.S. National Security.” And now he’s saying that about the New York Times.

It is clear that Trump has descended into a state of schizoid delusion and is suffering from severe cognitive impairment. It is Trump who is the imminent danger to the national security of the United States. And he needs to be deprived of power before he causes real, irreparable harm. Whether his removal is done by Congress, his Cabinet, the judiciary, his doctors, or his family, it needs to be done. And soon!

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COMING SOON: The Trumpsonian Institution to Replace the Smithsonian and it’s Too ‘WOKE’ Museum

Posted by on December 22, 2025 at 2:56 pm. 1 Comments :

The American experiment in democracy has faced many challenges in the past 250 years. They include the founding War for Independence, a bloody civil war, a couple of world wars battling authoritarian regimes bent on global domination, and struggles with internal liberties that saw the assassinations of a beloved president and a revered civil rights leader. But has America ever faced the sort of threat represented by Donald Trump?

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There is a strong possibility that historians will regard the current state of affairs in America to be equally as challenging as those that came before. The White House is currently occupied by a wannabe dictator who is openly defying the nation’s laws and principles in pursuit of his own domineering aspirations. His intentions are evident in his acutely narcissistic endeavors to remake America in his own perverse image. And his hunger for exaltation is insatiable.

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In recent weeks Trump has actually had the gall to unlawfully attach his own name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and various new egocentric antics such as plastering his face on National Park passes, giant banners hanging on federal buildings, and phony immigration Gold Cards.

Now it is being reported that Trump’s next target is the Smithsonian Institution, a renowned resource for historical information and an acclaimed museum of America’s past. Naturally, Trump is upset by what he regards as the Institute’s preservation of materials that document everything about America, including some things for which is understandably ashamed. As reported by CNN…

“The Trump administration has signaled to the Smithsonian Institution that the White House could withhold federal funding from the museum organization if it does not comply with the administration’s unprecedented, sweeping review.”

This is typical of the Mafia-style bullying that is such a familiar part of Trump tactics to get what he wants. Russell Vought, a co-author of the totalitarian playbook, Project 2025, and Trump’s White House director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a threatening memo that…

“The American people will have no patience for any museum that is diffident about America’s founding or otherwise uncomfortable conveying a positive view of American history, one which is justifiably proud of our country’s accomplishments and record.”

So in the skewed perspective of Trump and his regime toadies, only America’s proud accomplishments should be preserved by a historical museum. Anything that reflects negatively on the nation – no matter how truthful – should be ignored and discarded. And if an honest and reputable museum declines to comply with that deliberate deceit, it should be starved of federal funding and allowed to be shutdown.

Of course, there is another option available. Trump could just appoint himself the chairman of the board of directors and force the institution to obey his irrational and dishonest edicts. In which case, it could then be renamed in Trump’s honor as the Trumpsonian Institution. This may actually be on Trump’s mind. Back in August he posted a comment to his failing Titter ripoff, Truth Social, that raged…

“The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of ‘WOKE.’ The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was.”

Right! We certainly wouldn’t want to preserve any part of American history that had the audacity to present slavery as something bad, would we? Trump went on to whine that the Smithsonian is too focused on the negative things in America’s past, and “Nothing about Success.” Which makes you wonder if he has ever even been to the Smithsonian.

In his anger he said that “I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums” to identify all of the bad things that should be removed. Notice that he didn’t give that instruction to historians or academics, but to his attorneys.

Trump wants the Smithsonian to capitulate to his demands in the same way that he has gotten some weak-kneed media companies, law firms, and universities, to do so. That’s how dictators roll. And if we allow him to get away with this, we can expect him to make ever more preposterous demands. If we’re not careful, pretty soon we could be saluting the flag of the United States of Trump. Gawd forbid!

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MAGA Mike Johnson Just Gave the Best Reason For All Americans to Vote for Democrats Next Year

Posted by on December 21, 2025 at 1:30 pm. 1 Comments :

This weekend the MAGA cult is gathering in Phoenix, Arizona, for their annual “AmericaFest” rally, an event launched by the late Charlie Kirk’s white nationalist “Turning Point USA” organization. The roster of guests is who’s-snooze of ultra-conservative disciples of Donald Trump and the newly canonized Kirk.

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Among the featured speakers is the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson. He is conveniently available because he has once again shut down the House in order to avoid having to take votes on embarrassing issues such as the extension of the health insurance premium subsidies in the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). The last time Johnson shut down the House was to prevent the swearing in of Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva, and having to vote on releasing the Epstein files.

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During Johnson’s speech for the AmericaInfest crowd he made a point of raising an alarm about the potentially disastrous prospects for the GOP in the upcoming midterm elections. Johnson and others in the Republican Party are terrified of being blown out in a massive “Blue Wave” election that would return majorities in the House and Senate to the Democrats. Most polls provide ample justification for those fears. So Johnson warned the MAGA-tists of the troubles they face, saying that…

“Everything that is said here – everything is on the line in the midterms of 2026. And we have much more to do. If we lose the House majority, the radical left, as you’ve already heard, is gonna impeach President Trump. They’re gonna create absolute chaos. We cannot let that happen.

GOP House Speaker, MAGA Mike Johnson, just gave a great reason to vote for Democrats across the board in the midterm elections next year. Thanks MJ! #ImpeachTrump

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-12-21T18:06:00.160Z

And there you have it. Johnson has just provided what is perhaps the best reason for the American people to vote in unprecedented numbers for Democrats up and down the ballot next year. Trump is already a convicted felon. He has been found civilly liable for sexual harassment and abuse. His companies have been ordered to pay multimillion dollar judgments for having committed fraud. And that’s just looking at the recent past.

Currently Trump is using his office to enrich himself and his wealthy friends. He is committing war crimes in the Caribbean. He is embracing our enemies and abandoning our allies (i.e. Ukraine, NATO, the EU). He is deporting law abiding migrants to foreign gulags. And his domestic economic policies are creating financial hardships for millions of Americans.

All of the above – and there is plenty more – is more than enough reason to impeach Trump. And the American people appear to be ready to take that step. Trump’s polling is dreadful. Even the latest Fox News poll has him floundering in deeply negative territory.

SEE THIS: Trump’s Propaganda Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, Celebrates Trump’s Approval Ratings – That SUCK!

What’s more, Trump is seen by most voters as being oblivious to their concerns. A quick look at the issues that the voters care most about shows how thoroughly out of touch he is with what the people want.

THANKS FOX NEWS!Check out the top 3 issues that the American people want Trump to focus on. He's ignoring all of them, or making them worse.But he's laser focused on the other 5 issues. Which he is also making worse.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-12-21T17:52:09.367Z

Instead of paying attention to the interests of the people, Trump is demolishing parts of the White House to build a golden ballroom. He is attaching his name to a memorial for John F. Kennedy. He is directing his “Justice” Department to persecute his political foes. He is imposing inflationary tariffs (aka taxes) on American businesses and consumers. And he still finds time to play golf, attend sporting events, watch TV, and rage-post.

Those may not be impeachable offenses, but they contribute to the sentiment that is spreading like wildfire. Except, of course, among the MAGA cult. Although Don Jr had something to contribute during his speech at AmericaInfest that might have a different meaning for most Americans than he intended. He bragged that “This isn’t the Republican Party anymore. It’s the America First Party. It’s the MAGA Party.” In other words… IT’S A CULT!

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Trump’s Propaganda Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, Celebrates Trump’s Approval Ratings – That SUCK!

Posted by on December 20, 2025 at 2:35 pm. 0 Comments :

The trials and tribulations of Donald Trump continue to gnaw at him and his MAGA movement mavens as his policies continue to fail and cause grievous harm to the American people. Not surprisingly, his approval ratings are scraping the bare bottom at depths that are – as he might describe it – 200, 500, 1,200% lower than anything that has ever been seen before.

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Donald Trump and Karoline Leavitt

In the midst of Trump’s miserable showing in the polls, his Press/Propaganda Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, is spinning as fast as she can to try to present a palatable impression of her Dear Leader’s position in the political hellscape of his own making. But so far, it doesn’t seem to be doing any good.

SEE THIS: POOR BABY: Trump Whines that Polls Don’t Give Him Credit for ‘the Greatness of America’

On Saturday morning Leavitt posted a comment on Twitter/X that was likely intended to raise the spirits of he boss. And he really needs it, considering the pitiful performances he has been giving lately.

A primetime television address showed Trump barking like a rabid hound at a national TV audience to berate them for not adoring him enough. And at a follow up rally in North Carolina he appeared to be on heavy sedatives as he babbled incoherently about everything from his repeated cognitive tests (that generally are not repeated unless there’s a problem), to Melania’s “perfect” panties. Leavitt’s comment gushed that…

“President Donald Trump’s approval rating rose to 50 percent in a new RMG Research poll, marking his strongest showing by the pollster in more than a month.”

WOW! Trump’s approval rocketed up to less than a clear majority by RMG Research (Rasmussen), a notoriously biased, right-wing pollster. How proud he must be. Certainly Leavitt is thrilled by this achievement. So thrilled that she forgot to post some of the other findings in the same Newsweek article to which she linked. Such as that…

“…the poll found more respondents strongly disapprove of Trump than strongly approve, with 38 percent saying they strongly disapprove and 27 percent saying they strongly approve.”

For the record, here are some other recent surveys of Trump’s sagging popularity…

SO SAD! Propaganda Secretary Karoline Leavitt has to pump up Trump's ego with pathetically biased polls that aren't even very good for him.And every other poll is even worse.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-12-20T21:09:51.934Z

This is the current state of Trumpian affairs that Leavitt is so overjoyed about. Needless to say, it’s a sad exhibition of failure by a felonious, ignoramous and pathological liar who whose inability to govern is painfully obvious. But that “pain” (especially for the people) notwithstanding, Trump’s ego must be constantly massaged, and it’s the unpleasant duty of Trump-fluffers like Leavitt to do the dirty work. You might almost feel sorry for her. Almost.

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Trump Brags (Lies) That the Unemployment Rate Rose Because He Fired Lots of Federal Workers

Posted by on December 19, 2025 at 3:16 pm. 0 Comments :

The November jobs report revealed that unemployment increased to a four year high of 4.6% eleven months after Trump’s reoccupation of the White House. Although Trump routinely tries to blame everything bad on the “fake news” and/or President Biden’s impressively enduring impact on the government that he left nearly a year ago, he has been unable to make any of that stick.

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Undeterred by his prior failures to shift blame, Trump is trying again to evade responsibility for the harm his neglect, ignorance, incompetence, and deliberate malfeasance has imposed on the nation and its people. Unfortunately he has the assistance of the media that he pretends to despise, but which is actually his partner in spreading his perverse distortions of reality.

SEE THIS: ENOUGH! American Media Disgraced Itself Again By Airing Trump’s Lie-Riddled Harangue-a-Thon

While Trump can lie about pretty much anything, the troubled state of the economy is a harder con to sell, because people know what everything they are buying actually costs. Trump can’t just tell them that they are paying less when they know that isn’t true. Well, he can and does tell them that, but they know that he’s lying.

The same thing is true with regard to the just released job numbers for November. The new report showing a 4.6% unemployment rate reflects the reality that the American people face everyday. But in Trump’s world it is a fluid figure that he can falsify because it doesn’t affect him or anyone he knows or cares about. Consequently, he posted the following comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, as his explanation for the higher unemployment numbers…

“The only reason our Unemployment ticked up to 4.5% is because we are reducing the Government Workforce by numbers that have never been seen before. 100% OF OUR NEW JOBS ARE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR! I could reduce Unemployment to 2% overnight by just hiring people into the Federal Government, even though those Jobs are not necessary. I wish the Fake News would report the 4.5% correctly. What I am doing is the only way to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

First of all, Trump incorrectly says that “our Unemployment ticked up to 4.5%,” when it actually ticked up to 4.6%. But that was the least important error in his comment. Trump’s statement that unemployment worsened because of a reduced government workforce has no factual basis. Nor does his claim that he “could reduce Unemployment to 2% overnight by just hiring people into the Federal Government.” And he doesn’t bother to provide any support for those claims. Although he did repeat the same lies to the press a few hours later…

“The only reason our unemployment tucked up and went up to 4.5%, which it went up to 4.5%, which is quite a low number, but still, it is because we are reducing the government workforce by numbers that have never been seen before.”

Trump: "The only reason our unemployment tucked up and went up to 4.5 percent [it's actually 4.6 percent] is because we are reducing the government workforce by numbers that have never been seen before."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-19T19:24:51.296Z

“I could reduce unemployment to 2%, 1%, or practically zero by just hiring people into the federal government even though those jobs are not necessary. Which is what we had before. Millions and millions of people having jobs that they never even showed up. So I wish the media would report that the 4.5% is an amazing number.”

Trump: "I could reduce unemployment to 2%, 1%, or practically zero by just hiring people into the federal government even though those jobs are not necessary"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-19T19:25:40.527Z

It’s rather bizarre that Trump is bragging about having raised the unemployment rate by putting hundreds of thousands of productive Americans out of work. These are people who performed critical services for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Veterans Affairs, the Social Security Administration, and more. So not only is Trump hurting those fired workers, he’s hurting every American who relied on those services.

As for Trump’s preposterous claim that rehiring fired federal employees “could reduce unemployment to 2%, 1%, or practically zero,” that is another example of his mathematical illiteracy. The number of federal workers that were fired during Trump’s term since January is estimated to be around 317,000, according to his own Office of Personnel Management. While that is a significant amount of people and families that Trump has hurt, adding those people back into the workforce would only reduce the unemployment rate from 4.6% to about 4.4%. Which is a long way from “2%, 1%, or practically zero.”

This is par for the course for Trump. It mirrors his claim that he will cut drug prices by as much as 1,200%, when any cut greater than 100% would mean that the drugs would be free, or even result in the drug company paying the customer to buy the drugs. That doesn’t compute. Nor does Trump’s unemployment stats. Nor does his claims about tariffs revenue. That only thing that we can depend on with regard to Trump is that he will lie shamelessly about everything. And so will his sycophantic minions in Congress and the MAGA media.

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ENOUGH! American Media Disgraced Itself Again By Airing Trump’s Lie-Riddled Harangue-a-Thon

Posted by on December 18, 2025 at 2:19 pm. 3 Comments :

Wednesday night Donald Trump delivered a primetime address from the White House that was billed as an important communication to the American people concerning matters that would be of great interest to them. And every major national network carried the speech live. Ordinarily those networks don’t give up that valuable airtime unless they have been assured that there is a valid justification for it.

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Donald Trump TV Set

However, on this occasion, the networks don’t appear to have done even a perfunctory review of what the content of Trump’s speech would be. Consequently, they greenlit his speech so that he could eat up half an hour of primetime to literally yell at the American people for not being sufficiently worshipful, and for failing to recognize the magnificence of his performance during the first year of his second occupation of the White House. It’s something that he is preoccupied with given his abysmal standing in national opinion surveys.

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Trump’s psychotic display of rabid rage and unrestrained ego was unprecedented in U.S. presidential politics. The entire speech was nothing more than a bellicose, live-action version of the tantrums that he posts daily on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. It was an outburst of explosive diarhetorical™ fury aimed at the peasants who failed to properly adore him.

As a public service, the video of his speech will not be posted here. It’s widely available for those with the stomach to endure it. And that’s precisely the problem. This speech should never have aired live on television by any reputable news network. It was entirely devoid of any substance that would have any appreciable impact on the lives of the American people. It was pure bitching and whining from an emotionally stunted malignant narcissist. The media could have taped it and later aired any part that had actual news content. But no. They caved to Dear Leader Trump who began his address saying that…

“Eleven months ago I inherited a mess, and I’m fixing it. When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years, and some would say in the history of our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans.”

And that is where every network that was foolish enough to air Trump’s speech should have cut the feed and returned to their regularly scheduled programming. Those opening lines were pure fiction. Trump not only didn’t “inherit a mess,” he inherited what the right-leaning magazine, “The Economist,” said was “The Envy of the World.” And most other economics experts agreed.

What’s more, inflation was not nearly “the worst in 48 years” when Trump took office, While inflation did rise to about 9% in the U.S. – and even more worldwide – during President Biden’s term, he was successful in reducing it to about 2.7% before his term ended. That’s what Trump inherited. And he proceeded to make that worse. Today inflation is about 3%. And predictions about the economy are mostly dire due to Trump having no policies that could reasonably produce a positive result. Or more accurately, due to his policies being overtly detrimental.

Furthermore, if Trump really cared about “making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans” (he doesn’t), he wouldn’t be imposing billions of dollars in taxes (aka tariffs) on them. And he wouldn’t be allowing health insurance subsidies to expire. And he wouldn’t be deporting the labor that builds our homes, works in our factories, and cares for our children and elders.

The rest of Trump’s speech was an excruciating, insufferable, offensive, and incomprehensible exercise in self-serving blather. It offered nothing that could have benefitted anyone but himself. And it even failed on that level. It’s a safe bet that his already cratering poll numbers will sink further after this oratorical debacle.

In Trump’s defense, what else did anyone expect from him? He delivered exactly the sort of bullshittery that he is known for. And with the predictable quantity of blatant lies. The bigger problem with respect to his speech was that it was aired live by every news network. At what point do they realize that his temper tantrums are not newsworthy? When will they stop kowtowing to him and providing a platform for his deception and propaganda? Will they ever take their responsibility as journalists and patriots seriously?

Those are questions that the American people are going to have to answer. They must make their voices heard so these alleged “news” networks know that we expect more of them. We expect them to be honest and probing and fearless. But if they persist in being sycophants to wannabe dictators, they will have no audience left for their shameless and worthless garbage-casting.

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