FAMILY FEUD? Trump Contradicts Jared Kushner on Whether There Are Any Peace Talks With Iran

Posted by on August 18, 2026 at 3:33 pm. 0 Comments :

The war that Donald Trump started with Iran six months ago still has no end in sight. Never mind that he promised it wouldn’t last more than a few days, or that he has declared victory a couple of dozen times, or that he repeatedly claims that Iran is begging to surrender, or that every threat he’s made he has chickened out on, earning him the nickname TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out).

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Trump’s insistence that he has everything under control with Iran is as preposterous as his rat’s nest combover that he thinks hides his baldness. Every other week he announces a new “peace” deal, or ceasefire, or memorandum of understanding, or assessment that Iran lacks any military ability to continue fighting. None of which are connected to reality.

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This week Trump’s purposeful deceptions with regard to the war reached a new level of lunacy. On Monday his son-in-lawlessness, Jared Kushner, who Trump has designated his “Special Envoy for Peace,” was interviewed on Fox News where he made some definitive statements on the situation in Iran. He said that…

“The conversations between the U.S. government and different areas of the Iranian government at all areas is probably more robust than it’s maybe ever been. And so there’s been a lot of good dialogues which I think is very helpful…They are engaging in a very strong way, and that’s quite positive.”

Well, that would all be very good news if it weren’t for the fact that the next day Trump posted a comment on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, that completely contradicts Kushner. He wrote that…

“There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Naval Blockade remains in full force and effect. The Hormuz Strait is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

To summarize, on Monday, according to Kushner, the conversations were “more robust than ever.” But on Tuesday, according to Trump, “There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled.”

So who do you believe? Both are such reliable and accomplished liars. Although Trump may have the edge here, with regard to peace talks, because he agrees with Iran, whose public statements on the war have proven to be far more accurate than any coming from U.S. sources. Of course, everything else else in Trump’s comment was blatantly false.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Will Kushner flip and try to spin that he was actually talking about a new hotel project in Tehran, and not about the war? Or will Trump blast Kushner as a radical lunatic who is spreading fake news? Perhaps he might fire Kushner and replace him with Mike Lindell, who is now looking for a job.

There is one thing that we learn for sure in all of this. Trump has absolutely no idea what he or his minions are doing. They are making it up as they go along. And failing with each new decision. Unfortunately, the American people are paying the price for his ignorance. As are the people of the world, including thousands of innocent Iranians. And how can expect Trump and his team to negotiate an agreement between the U.S. and Iran if they can’t even agree within his own family?

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Fox News Lies that Gas Was Higher a Year Ago (It Wasn’t) But Will Drop When Iran is ‘Finished’

Posted by on August 17, 2026 at 2:00 pm. 1 Comments :

At a time when Donald Trump is scraping the barrel bottom in public approval, it calls for desperate measures by the MAGA media to shore up the ever widening gap between Trump’s Republican Party and the American people, who aren’t falling for the gaslighting they are being fed by the GOP (Greedy One Percent).

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The issues that are dominating the political discourse as the midterm election approaches mainly deal with the economy that Trump has managed to wreck with his inflationary tariffs and his reckless and illegal war against Iran. Trump’s solution to this problem is to pretend that there is no problem, and to insist that everything is going really well – for the wealthy and corporations.

SEE THIS: New Trump Campaign Slogan: The Economy is Doing Unbelievably From the Standpoint of Wall Street

Naturally, Trump’s Ministry of Disinformation, aka Fox News, is coming to the rescue with a report on the price of gas. In this report their correspondent tells one story while their on-screen graphics tell another…

Fox News: “Trump is asking Americans for patience. Just hang a little bit more for gas because the unified message from here is that gas prices will drop quickly once the operation is finished. The president says that he has to do this to make sure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.”

Notice that the reporter acknowledges that gas prices are currently high, but says that, according to Dear Leader, it’s a temporary, but necessary, increase and that people should be patient. He doesn’t say for how long. Two weeks? Six months? Who knows?

Meanwhile, the video shows a chart that says that gas was $4.13 a year ago, and that it’s less than that today. That, of course, is not true. It was only $3.13 a year ago. So it’s nearly 32% more today.

Some people will dismiss this as an unfortunate typo. However, knowing the reputation Fox News has for deliberately lying, there is a good chance that it was a purposeful misrepresentation of reality to make Trump look good. Media professionals know that visuals have a bigger impact on television viewers than dialog. They will remember what they saw long after they have forgotten what was said.

What’s more, the reporter attributed the higher gas prices to the Iran war, and regurgitated the Trump regime’s line that “gas prices will drop quickly once the operation is finished.” Once again…Two weeks? Six months? Who knows?

The reporter also parrots Trump’s contention that this burden is justified in order to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Trump himself reiterated that in a post this morning on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, saying that “The number one Goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a Nuclear Weapon.” Although there is someone else who might have something to say about that…

UPDATE: Fox News has issued a correction of their gas price report. But they waited until the next day so that their lie could sink in for 24 hours. They also attached a comment unrelated to the “error” reiterating Trump’s self-serving claim that gas prices would fall quickly when the operations in Iran end.

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Trump’s Attorney Genuflect, Todd Blanche, Virtually Admits that He’s a Flaming Trump Toady

Posted by on August 16, 2026 at 4:30 pm. 0 Comments :

When Donald Trump nominated Todd Blanche to be Attorney General there were immediate concerns raised about his resume that were overtly disqualifying. Not the least of which was that he was Trump’s personal criminal defense lawyer, a role from which his legal obligations never expire absent extraordinary circumstances.

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Blanche is a devoted election denier. He is one of the architects of Trump’s slush fund to reward insurrectionists who assaulted police officers on January 6th, 2021. His “Justice” Department has launched numerous investigations and prosecutions of Trump critics. He has been instrumental in suppressing the Jeffrey Epstein files. It doesn’t take a stable genius to recognize that Blanche is an imminent threat to American law and order, and even democracy…

SEE THIS: Trump Mulls Declaring a National Emergency to Rig Elections, Says ‘Stranger Things Have Happened’

Upon confirmation, Blanche wasted no time demonstrating that he would always remain loyal to Trump, rather than to the law or the Constitution. He was asked about that in an interview Sunday morning on Meet the Press. The host, Kristen Welker, noted that former Trump Attorney General, Bill Barr, once told him that his election denials were “detached from reality.” Which led to the following exchange with Blanche…

Welker: If you were faced with a similar situation, something that you did not think met this standard, the legal standard in your mind, would you stand up to the president?
Blanche: I will always stand up for what’s right. The president does not expect any of his leaders, including me, to just say yes to him no matter what he says. So of course there’s vigorous back and forth with every Cabinet member and the president of the United States. Which is exactly what president Trump expects.

There is this extraordinarily false narrative that the president wakes up in the morning and calls me and says, ‘Todd, go prosecute X or Y.’ He does not do that. He has never done that. He will never do that. So if there is something that he wants to do, but he needs to know that there is a challenge, or that we can’t do it, of course I will tell him.

There is an abundance of bullshittery in that reply. Let’s break it down, shall we? To begin with, Blanche’s response to whether he would ever stand up to Trump was that “I will always stand up for what’s right.” Which is not the same thing as standing up to Trump. After all, he seems to believe that Trump is always right. Consequently, he’s saying that he will always stand up FOR Trump, not TO him.

Then Blanche says that Trump doesn’t expect his staff to always agree with him. REALLY? Trump is notorious for terminating anyone who isn’t unflinchingly adoring and supportive. Which is why he keeps scheduling Cabinet meetings where he forces his flunkies to praise him for a couple of cringeworthy hours.

Next Blanche shoots down the notion that Trump calls him with instructions on who to prosecute, or to cease prosecution. So we are expected to believe that it’s just a coincidence that only Trump’s critics are being persecuted, while cases against his friends are dropped. Not to mention his blatant bias with pardons.

What’s more, Trump wouldn’t even have to call Blanche. Trump makes his desires known with daily posts to his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. So Trump’s underlings know exactly what he wants of them, and they obey like good little fascist minions.

Blanche wraps up by reiterating that if Trump “needs to know that there is a challenge, or that we can’t do” one of his requests, that Blanche will tell him. Once again, that is not standing up to him if he asks for something that improper or illegal. It only addresses whether it is doable.

So the bottom line is that Blanche will do anything Trump asks if he can. Which makes him unfit to serve as Attorney General. And shame on the Republicans in the Senate who know this and confirmed him anyway.

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MAGA Mike Johnson Chokes When Asked on Fox News What the Republican Alternative to Socialism Is

Posted by on August 15, 2026 at 3:41 pm. 2 Comments :

The Republican Party has been scrounging around for a campaign theme with which to compete with Democrats who are trouncing them in recent polls. They have the distinct disadvantage of being led by Donald Trump, whose approval rating is hitting record lows. If the election were held today the Democrats would sweep into majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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So far the best that Republicans can do is to parrot Trump and his recycled 1950s “red scare” rhetoric. But the strategy of calling all Democrats communists isn’t working because voters aren’t as stupid as Trump and his MAGA cult think they are. Voters aren’t falling for malarkey like this…

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Trump followed up the fish gambit with an economic pitch. He told reporters that “the economy is doing unbelievably from the standpoint of Wall Street.” Unfortunately, from the standpoint of Main Street it sucks. So that campaign theme is likely to bomb as well.

Undeterred by reality, the Republican Squeaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson, is determined to push the economic story. However, his plans are devoid of any substantive proposals for how the GOP will actually resolve the problems that they and their Dear Leader have caused. So Johnson visited Fox News Saturday morning and had the following exchange with host (and former Trump press secretary) Kayleigh McEnany…

McEnany: If you’re a young person watching this and you’re disenchanted, and you can’t afford a home, and you’re having trouble with healthcare, and you feel failed by the economy, what is the Republican alternative to the socialists which might be alluring to someone that doesn’t have the education about its failures?
Johnson: Well, the answer is not to turn everything over to the government, because that never works. That drives prices up. It leads to famine. It leads to human suffering and poverty for everyone. But the answer is limited government and individual freedom and the rule of law. the things that the Republicans have been fighting for.

FOX NEWS: If you're a young person and you're disenchanted, you can't afford a home, you're having trouble with healthcare & you feel failed by the economy, what is the Republican alternative?MIKE JOHNSON: Well, the answer is not to turn everything over to the government, because that never works

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-08-15T16:30:40.892Z

McEnany actually asked a good question about the financial burdens that many Americans are suffering since Trump reoccupied the White House. It was a straight forward inquiry that gave Johnson an opportunity to explain the Republican plan. But for some reason he didn’t even try. Although his reply at least acknowledged that there is a problem, which contradicts Trump’s delusional insistence that we are living in “The Golden Age” with the best economy ever.

Johnson led off with a hackneyed rant about not “turn[ing] everything over to the government.” Which no Democrat has ever advocated. Democratic Socialism – which, for the MAGA-tists reading this, is not communism – merely proposes to make government more democratic and responsive to the needs of the people. For example, Medicare, public schools, and food and product safety regulations.

Then Johnson concluded by rattling off a series of concepts, not plans that can be implemented. And each of them highlights the hypocrisy of Republican politics. They do not pursue limited government by mandating religious practices. And forcing women to obey the government rather than their doctors when planning families is hardly individual freedom. And a party led by a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, who exploits his office to enrich himself, and grants pardons to violent insurrectionists and cop-beaters, can’t rationally lay claim to the rule of law.

This is the sinkhole from which Republicans have to dig themselves out of. But they only have two and a half months left to do it. And if they continue to rely on wild-eyed accusations of communism, and oblivious denials of economic hardship, they might as well just give up on campaigning and spend their time on losing illegal wars in the Middle East, sprucing up the White House with gold-plated filigree, and staging professional wrestling matches. Oh, wait. They’re already doing that.

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New Trump Campaign Slogan: The Economy is Doing Unbelievably From the Standpoint of Wall Street

Posted by on August 14, 2026 at 3:11 pm. 1 Comments :

Democrats are excitedly anticipating the upcoming midterm elections. Every poll shows them winning a majority in the House of Representatives, and likely in the Senate as well. Meanwhile, Republicans are suffering from one of the lowest public approval ratings in modern history.

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The dismal prospects for the GOP (Greedy One Percent) are driven by the record low ratings for their Dear Leader, Donald Trump. He is hovering around the mid-to-low thirties, and trending even lower. Republican candidates are desperately trying to convince voters that everything is hunky dory, and their financial burdens are figments of their imaginations. The MAGA Party seems to be running on a reprise of the “red scare” tactics of the 1950s when there were communists lurking around every corner.

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Apparently the communism fear mongering hasn’t been getting the results they hoped for. So now Trump is trying out a new campaign theme that is virtually guaranteed to be even worse. In a Friday morning press gaggle, Trump told reports that…

“I have a lot of things that are happening. A lot of good things. The economy is doing unbelievably from the standpoint of Wall Street.”

HOORAY! Things are going fantastically well for Wall Street. So if you are a big corporation, or someone with investments in them, you’re on Easy Street. If not, stop your whining and be happy for your capitalist overlords who are generously trickling down on you with minimum wage jobs under slave-like conditions.

After all, the corporatist moguls know what’s best for the little people. And Trump is their messiah. He truly understands what it’s like to struggle through these difficult times. Just listen to what he told his MAGA cult rally in Uniondale on Long Island, New York today…

“I just say this: For you to pay a tiny little bit more for your gasoline, just remember…you’re at $4.00 – it’s okay. I’ll never apologize. I did the right thing.”

SEE? It’s OK for YOU to pay a little more (actually about 30% more) for gas (and for groceries, and housing, and healthcare, etc.). So why are you complaining? And Trump, whose incompetence, negligence, and greed are responsible for it all, will never apologize. Because a messiah is infallible and never does anything wrong.

Trump’s stewardship of the economy has been a flaming fiasco. He has increased inflation, exploded the deficit, and cut services for everything from food for low income families, to medicine for seniors, to education and more. And in the meantime he is spending hundreds of millions on ballrooms and statues, and billions on gift jets from Qatar and illegal wars.

So let’s it y’all: “The economy is doing unbelievably from the standpoint of Wall Street.” And “It’s OK to pay more for gas.” Put that message on some red hats. Have some posters printed up. And be sure to vote in November. Which really, REALLY, can’t come soon enough.

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HELP! WANTED? Who Will Trump Get To Lie For Him Now That Karoline Leavitt is Quitting?

Posted by on August 13, 2026 at 3:51 pm. 1 Comments :

Perhaps the most difficult job in the administration of Donald Trump is that of press secretary. The person tasked with being the spokesperson for Trump has to have the ability to invent and dispense flagrant lies every day with the shamelessness of a tone deaf prima donna. Fortunately for Trump, he found such a person in Karoline Leavitt, a young and eager Trump-fluffer with the devotion of a glassy-eyed cult disciple.

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Donald Trump and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

Unfortunately for Trump, Leavitt has just announced that she will be resigning from her post at the end of August in order to spend more time lying to her family. It’s going to be a challenge to replace Leavitt, who will be best remembered for polluting the White House Press Room with brazenly biased MAGA media.

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In her first week as Propaganda Secretary, Leavitt bragged that “I take great pride in opening up this room to new media voices.” By which she meant partisan hacks from Breitbart and Russian-financed podcasters like Tim Pool. This led to such probing questions about Trump as “He actually looks healthier than ever before. Is he working out with Bobby Kennedy?” That was asked by Cara Castronuova of Lindell TV.

That’s quite a legacy. But now Leavitt is quitting. Ironically it is just a couple of days after Trump left her on Air Force One while it was under threat of an attack by Iran. Trump snuck out in a catering container, but left Leavitt, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant, advisor Stephen Miller, the press corps, the crew, and others, as expendable decoys. If Iran went through with the attack they would have been killed, along with potentially innumerable others on the ground where the plane crashed. He could have just canceled the flight until it was safe. Might that have played a role in her sudden resignation?

Now Trump will need to find a new Propaganda Secretary. And within his MAGA cult there are plenty of candidates. What will make the decision difficult is that no one can live up to Trump’s ability to lie. Some people have been speculating about CNN’s Scott Jennings and Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle. But let’s face it, Trump is more likely to choose another young woman, and preferably a blond. Among the contenders are…

  • Lara Trump – Trump’s daughter-in-lawlessness, wife of Eric Trump, and currently a Fox News host.
  • Rachel Campos-Duffy – Another Fox News host, and wife of Trump’s Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy.
  • Ainsley Earhardt – Another Fox News host, and fiancé of Sean Hannity.
  • Natalie Harp – The former One America News Network (OAN) correspondent who follows Trump around feeding him rosy stories and memes.
  • Kari Lake – The former Arizona news anchor who Trump put in charge of the United States Agency for Global Media, parent agency of Radio Free Europe and other media.
  • Laura Loomer – The MAGA Internet troll who has become close to Trump.

All of these names might seem ridiculous to even consider for an important job like Press Secretary. They have none of the requisite experience or intellect. But that’s what makes them qualified to Trump. just take a look at the rest of his Cabinet. If Pete Hegseth can be Trump’s Secretary of War Crimes, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Lara Trump can be press secretary. It’s not like anyone will take what they say seriously anyway.

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Trump Gets Slammed With a Lawsuit to Halt His Sleazy Truth Social Insider Trading Scam

Posted by on August 12, 2026 at 4:14 pm. 1 Comments :

The continuing saga of Donald Trump and his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, has just posted a new chapter of corruption and criminality. The website that Trump launched after he was banned from Twitter for inciting violence has been a financial fiasco from its inception.

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On Wednesday morning it was reported that a federal lawsuit has been filed against Trump to halt a creative new method of fleecing his flock and extorting funds from conflicted enterprises seeking favors from his administration. The sleazy product offering from Truth Social was a thinly veiled attempt at illegally selling access to insider information.

SEE THIS: Trump’s Scheme to Monetize Insider Trading on Truth Social is Getting Ripped By Republicans

The concept of making people pay for access to official government information that belongs to the public is profoundly corrupt. It gives the wealthy buyers market-moving data before the general public gets it. That’s the definition of insider trading. As reported by the Associated Press…

“The suit comes after his media company, Trump Media & Technology, rolled out a new subscription service earlier this month charging Wall Street firms as much as $100,000 a month to get his posts faster so they can trade off them.

“‘A president selling priority access to news he himself generates for the benefit of a private company he controls is so blatantly corrupt and unconstitutional that it would have been hard to even fathom just a few years ago,” said Seth Stern, chief of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation, a plaintiff in the case along with news outlet The Intercept.'”

A comment by Truth Social tried to dismiss the complaint by claiming that selling such access is common in the media business. That’s true. However, other media companies are selling access to the work product of their own journalists. Trump is selling access to what he is doing himself. And it’s not just him. Other senior government officials are also part of the product, including Vice-President JD Vance, FBI Director Kash Patel, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy.

What Trump is doing is analogous to a quarterback selling his game plans to gamblers so that they can place bets on the game. Except with Trump it’s not a game. It includes national security information. Wall Street brokers are more than willing to shell out for advance notice of Trump’s actions in the Strait of Hormuz. And what would stop a clandestine Iranian operative from buying the same access?

This “service” from Truth Social seems glaringly unlawful on its face. So what would cause them to offer it? It might have something to with the fact that the company is a business basket case. It’s stock is trading in single digits, a 90% collapse from it’s high mark. It is bleeding cash and users.

The company’s most recent quarterly report shows a loss of $238 million on paltry revenue of less than $2 million. What’s more, their users have declined a devastating 36% year over year. And this is the year that Trump returned to office and claims to be enjoying his best approval ratings ever.

MORE HERE: Delusional Trump: ‘My REAL Polling Numbers Are the Best They Have Ever Been’ – OK Grandpa

The lawsuit challenging Trump’s new scam is well founded, and could result in the offering being prohibited. But there would still be plenty of legally suspect activity going on with Trump’s enterprise. In fact, that’s been an ongoing feature of Trump’s business practices. What follows are some examples…

YOU’RE FIRED: Trump Media’s CEO, Devin Nunes, Gets Booted From the Failing Truth Social Company
Devin Nunes, who had no relevant business experience whatsoever, proceeded to run the sham operation into the ground. He packaged it with a variety of unrelated undertakings, such as cryptocurrency, mutual funds, gambling, and even an attempt at AI that seemed to go rogue.

Trump’s Cratering Truth Social Stock Reflects the Catastrophe of Everything That Trump Does
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. plans to issue a new cryptocurrency, which will be distributed among its shareholders. […] The coins won’t represent ownership of DJT shares, and may not be transferable or exchanged for cash.

Trump’s Scammy Media Stock, and Truth Social Parent, Completes a Classic Pump and Dump
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%, but two weeks later reversed course back to around $12.80. So anyone who jumped in on the news is already suffering a 25% loss.

Truth Social Disease: Ads on Trump’s Twitter Ripoff are Mostly Scams and Trump-Fluffing Merch
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Trump Mulls Declaring a National Emergency to Rig Elections, Says ‘Stranger Things Have Happened’

Posted by on August 11, 2026 at 3:17 pm. 0 Comments :

The desperation of Donald Trump and his Republican confederates continues to multiply like measles in MAGAville. With the midterm elections drawing nearer, Trump and the cult that worships him recognize the abysmal prospects of their electoral future.

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Through it all, Trump manages to maintain an impressive degree of delusion. Despite every poll showing his approval ratings at record lows, he insists that he is enjoying historic levels of popularity. Every day he posts multiple comments on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, saying that he’s never been more beloved.

SEE THIS: Delusional Trump: ‘My REAL Polling Numbers Are the Best They Have Ever Been’ – OK Grandpa

Trump’s departure from reality is more than just an old man dwelling in a senile stupor. He still occupies the White House, with all of the powers that go along with it. And his exercise of those powers has never been marked by intelligence, reason, or respect for the law, even when his mental faculties were marginally functional.

On Tuesday morning Trump did another phone-in interview with a shamelessly sycophantic Trump-fluffer and conspiracy crackpot, Wayne Allen Root, who hosts a program on a MAGA media website. Root raised the topic of the imminent elections and sought Trump’s opinion on a dangerously unlawful and anti-American proposal.

Root: Let me put an idea in your head OK. Because it’s so hard to get the Senate to do anything now, they’re at recess, they don’t get anything done. If they never get the Save America Act done, you have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections. And the Supreme Court ruled in 1983, under Reagan…that if you declare a national security emergency as the president of the United States, they can’t challenge it. It can only be overturned by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress. So if you do this in the next month, we will get photo ID, proof of citizenship and a limit to mail-in ballots.
Trump: Let me just say stranger things have happened. I’ll leave it at that.

Root’s advocacy for Trump declaring a “national security emergency for elections” is preposterous. No such authority exists. Particularly by way of Root’s absolutely asinine suggestion that the declaration would be justified if the Senate failed to pass Trump’s “Save America Act” (aka Voter Suppression Act). The inability of a partisan Congress to pass a bill favored by an aspiring totalitarian president is not a national emergency.

To the contrary, the Constitution gives the states sole authority over administering elections. And the “National Emergencies Act” does not supersede the Constitution or suspend of any of its provisions during a declared emergency. So even if an emergency were declared, it wouldn’t give Trump the right to impose voting regulations (i.e. photo ID, proof of citizenship, limit mail-in ballots) on the states. More detail here.

Furthermore, Congress does have the power to terminate a national emergency by passing a joint resolution to do so. Although that resolution would require the president’s signature. If the president vetoes the resolution, Congress can override it with a two-thirds supermajority in both houses. That’s a high bar, but not impossible when considering the stakes. After all, Trump has majorities in both houses of Congress now, but still can’t get his Voter Suppression law passed.

Failing that, the emergency declaration can also be terminated by state governments, businesses, or affected individuals who can sue in federal court if they believe the declaration exceeds statutory or constitutional limits. And contrary to Root’s claim, the Supreme Court can strike down actions tied to an alleged emergency if the president oversteps their authority.

While the prospects of a national emergency declaration by Trump to take over elections should not be dismissed, neither should they feed irrational anxieties and fear. There are still guardrails available in the legislative and judicial branches of government that would defeat Trump’s tyrannical aspirations.

It is worrisome enough that Trump even entertains this idea with flippant comments that “stranger things have happened.” And because Trump and his MAGA-tist cult are open to such breaches of the Constitution, the rest of us must remain vigilant and committed to preserving American democracy and the principles that sustain it.

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Trump Makes Truly Bizarre and Ignorant Pleas for Iran to Pay Reparations for the War He Started

Posted by on August 10, 2026 at 3:08 pm. 0 Comments :

When Trump launched his reckless and illegal war against Iran in February, he made repeated assurances that it wouldn’t last more than a few days. That was quickly amended to 4-6 weeks. And that was amended to say that he had already won the war, despite the fact that he is still fighting it going into the sixth month.

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Trump baby with Iran map

It’s not unusual for Trump to make grossly hyperbolic assertions that are unrelated to reality. He brags about the currently floundering economy being the best it has ever been. He claims to have eliminated illegal immigration. He thinks he is achieving the highest poll numbers of his term in office. And he relentlessly insists that Iran has been defeated and is begging for peace.

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The latest ludicrous claim by Trump about Iran came in a comment that he posted Monday morning to his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social. It was a tediously long tirade that included his flagrant falsehood that…

“Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran are asking for compensation for the damage done to them during the last five month Military Conflict…even though it was never mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings!”

Let’s set aside Trump’s cartoon characterization of the war, that has seen at least 12 American fatalities and hundreds of injuries, as a merely “Military Conflict.” His claim that Iran had never mentioned compensation before as a condition for peace or a ceasefire is just another example of Trump’s ignorance about what is actually happening. To the contrary, Iran has been seeking reparations from the very start of the war. The evidence below was from a report published on March 12, 2026, less than two weeks after Trump launched his attack.

Iran’s demand for compensation was reiterated in June. As reported by The Guardian…

“According to the interim deal signed in June, a schedule to end sanctions and a plan for compensation would be part of the final deal, and negotiations would address frozen assets.”

So does Trump really not know that reparations were discussed in prior negotiations? Or is he lying to pretend that they weren’t? Either way, it would be a disqualifying state of affairs for a commander-in-chief to be either that ignorant or that dishonest.

Trump went on to make some bizarre claims that Iran should pay reparations to the U.S. for things that happened many years ago and had nothing to do with this war. Most preposterous was his call for Iran to pay compensation to the families of the Iranian protesters who were killed by the Iranian regime. So Trump is now acting as an agent for civilians in Iran? What’s more, these are not just suggestions made out of concern for the victims. Trump added that…

“I have instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any, and all, future negotiations.”

Clearly Trump has no intention of making a deal. Not with these insane demands. But there is a strong possibility that he will agree to terms that are favorable to Iran, because he needs to get out of this quagmire, and preferably before the midterm elections. So Trump might just declare victory and retreat. Iran is well aware of this, and of Trump’s weaknesses, and they are prepared to wait him out.

Unfortunately, the losers in all of this will be the exploited American soldiers who are being used as pawns, with no rational objective or benefit, and the American people who are paying for Trump’s foolishness with both dollars and the lives of their families and neighbors. And Trump couldn’t care less about any of it. Which is why he can so easily lie and remain so staggeringly ignorant.

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HALLELUJAH! The Affordability Crisis is Over According to Fox News – After Talking to Some CEOs

Posted by on August 9, 2026 at 3:00 pm. 1 Comments :

The American economy is presently in what is called a “K-shaped economy,” wherein the rich are getting richer and the middle-class and poor are struggling to keep their heads above water. It’s a rather common situation during Republican administrations that favor the wealthy and corporations.

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Fox News, Maria Bartiromo

Under Donald Trump this economic disparity has gotten worse. But the only thing that you will ever hear from him and his MAGA cult cohorts is that things are fantastic because the stock market is rising. Never mind that most Americans have no market holdings to benefit from any of that. The delusions that plague Trump prevent him from seeing the economic realities. Or even the realities of his abysmal approval ratings…

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On Sunday morning Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda (aka Fox News) went to work to shore up Trump’s standing on the economy that he has wrecked. The “Curvy Couch” potatoes of Fox and Friends welcomed their network colleague – and Fox’s Senior Trump-Fluffer – Maria Bartiromo to the program to fire up the gaslighting. Bartiromo engaged in the following exchange with the weekend co-hosts…

Griff Jenkins: So Maria, let me pick up on this past jobs report quickly and get your assessment on the fact that, you know, Trump is constantly talking about record markets you mentioned there, rising wages, and what we also see, fewer layoffs. But this week already we’re gonna be hearing Democrats about how horrible the economy is.
Bartiromo: That’s just propaganda. I mean, look, things are going well. And I think we all feel it. Look at where we are right now. You’ve got job creation. You’ve got economic growth. You’ve got $18 trillion of new investments. The president’s main priority has been to put America first […] But when you actually look at what’s going on, things feel pretty good. I’ve spoken with a number of CEOs who tell me that business is up, strongly. And it has to do partly with the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
Rachel Campos-Duffy: I hear you, and that’s all great news, and that’s what Americans need to hear. But what do you think is leading to the disconnect in maybe some voters and Americans not feeling that way? So why is that do you think?
Bartiromo: I think it’s messaging. I really do. I mean the Republicans need to do a better job of telling their story and communicating what the “Big Beautiful Bill” has done for earnings.

And there you have it! Let’s set aside for the time being that they were all lying that the recent jobs report was positive (there was a decline of 23,000 jobs), about rising wages (they are trailing inflation), and about fewer layoffs (which have exceeded 300,000 year to date). So no one should be surprised if Democrats speak to those facts.

Bartiromo’s response, however, was among the most reality-averse imaginable. She is pitching a preposterously rosy economy that includes such fallacies as Trump’s made up “$18 trillion of new investments,” and his “main priority…to put America first.” Which is only true if you believe that fighting a war in Iran, imposing inflationary tariffs throughout the world, and building vanity projects around D.C. are putting America first.

The most ridiculous part of Bartiromo’s commentary was her conclusion that “things feel pretty good” because she’s “spoken with a number of CEOs.” And who would know better than a bunch of rich corporate executives how it feels to be struggling to pay for groceries, gas, housing, healthcare, etc.?

What’s more, if the ungrateful American people who are complaining about such financial burdens were only subjected to better messaging – i.e. propaganda/gaslighting – they wouldn’t feel burdened at all. So maybe it’s time for Trump to have Congress pass another bill that they call the “Everything is Beautiful So STFU Bill.”

That should solve all of the problems that Trump and his MAGA Republican confederates are whining about. It will juice his approval ratings, and stop the electoral Blue Wave that’s coming in November. And it will accomplish all of that without having to actually do anything that actually helps anybody. So it fits the GOP playbook perfectly.

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