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The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper Meets Melania Moviegoers (It Totally Bombed. I Did the Math)

Posted by on February 4, 2026 at 2:35 pm. 3 Comments :

One of the most consistent features of Donald Trump’s severely impaired persona is his compulsion to exalt himself at every opportunity. He does so with no regard whatsoever for any factual basis. His representations of alleged success are wildly overblown and riddled with inflated – and often just made up – numbers. When asked for verification he responds with angry insults and wanders off.

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This past weekend Trump celebrated the premiere of the CROCKumentary about his former mistress, and current wife, Melania. He described it on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, as a “BLOCKBUSTER! [that is] on track for best opening weekend of any documentary in last 10 years” Which, typically for Trump, is a blatant lie.

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The film has already broken records. However, not the ones that anyone would brag about. It has achieved an abysmal rating of 5% on Rotten Tomatoes. And on IMDB it is scored as the “The Lowest-Rated Movie Of All Time.” But not to worry. Trump watched it twice and loved it. And the same is true for some MAGA cult followers who attended the premiere at the Trump Kennedy Center. They were interviewed by Jordan Klepper of the Daily Show, who got some revealing commentaries…

Attendee: Everyone loves that narrative arc where someone comes froma a small European country and ends up becoming the First Lady of the United States of America.
Klepper: It’s truly an immigrant story.

Exactly! A true immigrant story of a high fashion model who comes to America on a fraudulent visa, poses nude for a lot of money, and marries a nepo-billionaire. It’s the classic American rags to riches tale. Klepper also addresses the recent report that the director, Brett Ratner, was found in the Epstein files, and that his career was upended due to allegations of sexual abuse by numerous women. Which makes him a perfect fit for a film by the Trump family. In a hilarious display of mockery, Klepper entraps some oblivious attendees by simply saying “Me too.”

For the record, the film is as big a financial fiasco as most of Trump’s other business ventures. Never mind the mindless cheering from Trump and his cult disciples. The math doesn’t lie. Jeff Bezos and his Amazon/MGM Studios paid Trump a $40 million bribe for the rights. Then he spent another $35 million on marketing. And its premiere only managed to bring in $7.8 million.

MAGA World, however, is crowing about that take because it beat extraordinarily low expectations. But that is not how success is measured. Here are the facts…

  • Melania opened on 1,500 screens. Each screening seats on average about 150 people. And there are five showings per day on each screen. So for the three day weekend that’s about 3.375 million available seats.
  • The reported $7.8 million at $13.00 each (average ticket price nationwide) is only 600,000 seats/tickets sold. Or about 27 tickets per showing (1,500 screens, five shows each, for three days).

Selling an average of 27 tickets per screening isn’t anyone’s idea of a blockbuster. In fact, it’s a full-blown bomb. It means that some screenings in Mississippi or Wyoming might have sold out. But others in New York or Illinois would be empty. And there have been numerous reports of empty theaters. A hit film selling out 1,500 theaters would have earned nearly $44 million dollars in the opening weekend. Melania did less than 18% of that. And with a short theatrical run it’s going to earn even less streaming.

Nevertheless, the people who did go, as represented in Klepper’s video, will go away satisfied. Because their standards are so low that just seeing Melania on the big screen will send them into fits of ecstasy. And it won’t matter to them this “documentary” was produced by her as a piece of pure propaganda and a vehicle to funnel money to the Trump family. Consequently, as a bribe it truly is successful.

UPDATE: The Melania CROCKumentary “added 300 theaters in its second weekend but dropped steeply with $2.4 million in ticket sales, down 67% from its much-discussed debut…[it is] likely heading toward flop territory.”

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Melania Trump Crocumentary Crew Want Their Names Removed From Credits and Hope the Film Flops

Posted by on January 28, 2026 at 2:24 pm. 0 Comments :

The primary occupation of Donald Trump for the past couple of decades has been to host reality programs on television and to organize grifting operations to enrich himself. And that includes the time that he has been occupying the White House. He is entirely consumed with PR and self-promotion to the detriment of everything else that he pretends to engage in.

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The latest scam in Trump’s bag of tricks is an alleged “documentary” revealing the private life of First Lady Melania Trump. The film is executive produced by Melania herself, and it is being produced and distributed by Trump suck-up, Jeff Bezos, and his Amazon Studios. So it can hardly be presented as an independent record of Trump’s mistress and third wife. Naturally, it’s already getting rave reviews from Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, who haven’t seen it.

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In advance of the film’s release on Friday, reports are circulating about the regrets that many of the crew members have after working on the project. Their participation is turning out to be a source of shame, and they are anxious to distance themselves from it completely. As reported by The Guardian…

“Rolling Stone reports that two-thirds of Melania’s New York crew requested that their names not be added to the film’s credits. […] Another told the publication they’re hoping the film – which required ‘really long hours,’ in a ‘highly disorganized’ and ‘very’ chaotic environment – ‘flops.'” […]

“One Melania crew member told Rolling Stone that [director Brett] Ratner was ‘slimy.’ […] Melania is the Rush Hour director’s first film following the sexual assault allegations that saw him ousted from Hollywood. He has denied any wrongdoing.”

That’s hardly a vote of confidence. Trump is planning to premiere the film – which Bezos paid $40 million for the rights to, and another $35 million for promotion – at the Kennedy Center. Partly because Trump demolished the White House theater that was located in the East Wing, and partly because he’s using the Kennedy Center as his personal entertainment complex. Which is why so many entertainers have refused to perform there.

However, the film is unlikely to provide much, if any, return on that $75 million investment. Ticket pre-sales have been pitifully lacking and, in some place, almost nonexistent. Never mind Trump’s boast (aka lie) on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, that “the Movie is a MUST WATCH. Get your tickets today – Selling out FAST!”

It’s safe to assume that this history making documentary will not include much of Melania’s actual history. For instance, her many nude photo shoots, her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, her disparaging remarks about Christmas, her phony “Einstein” visa, her chain migration for her family members and anchor babies, nor the fact that she doesn’t live with Donald at the White House or Mar-a-Lago, preferring to spend most of her time in Manhattan.

None of that, though, will dampen the party for Trump and his MAGA cult comrades, who will gather to celebrate the fluff film in luxury while the rest of the country is struggling to make ends meet, suffering through a massive winter storm, and mourning the loss of two honorable citizens who were murdered by Trump’s ICE thugs. Which is business as usual for Trump, who has never shown any ability to relate to, or care about, the people he allegedly serves.

UPDATE I: Pre-sales for the Melania movie are still in single digits. And now there is more evidence for why. She is ranked dead last in a survey of American First Ladies. A position she shares with her husband, who ranks last in surveys of presidents.

Enten: "Historical critics don't really like Melania Trump either. Just take a look, historians' First Lady rankings — dead last! Melania Trump"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-29T14:55:00.496Z

UPDATE II: The Melania opening weekend was a disaster. But of course, Trump and Fox News are lying about it.

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Fox News Trump-Fluffers Preview – and Gush Over – the New Melania Trump Crocumentary

Posted by on December 17, 2025 at 1:53 pm. 0 Comments :

If Donald Trump spent half as much time running the country as he does on disseminating dishonest and self-serving propaganda, the country would be…well, much worse off than it is now. So perhaps we should all be grateful that Trump is neglecting his job and devoting himself to golfing, tweeting, and watching Fox News.

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Trump’s television habits are well known. On any given morning he can be found live-posting what he’s watching on his Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News. His favorite show may be the morning panel of “Curvy Couch” potatoes on Fox and Friends. He was once a regular on the program himself with weekly “Mondays with Trump” segments. But now they just lavish him with fawning adoration…

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On Wednesday’s episode of Fox and Friends, the MAGA hype team were beside themselves with gleeful infatuation as they introduced what they described as “an exclusive first look for the trailer of the new movie [that] hits theaters January 30th, Here’s a look at ‘Melania, the Film.'” Whereupon they played the whole trailer – which is a 60 second commercial – free of charge.

The trailer begins with Melania looking into the camera and saying “Here we go again.” Which sounds more threatening than welcoming. That was followed by a series of rapid-cut video clips of Melania being glamorous while, according to the trailer’s text, “making history.” Then they return to the Curvy Couch where Brain Kilmeade and Ainsley Earhardt (Sean Hannity’s fiancé) react to what they just watched…

Kilmeade: You know what would be great for us? To go to the White House to watch it.
Earhardt: That is a great idea. If the White House is listening…Is there a movie theater at the White House? With recliners and all?

of all of the things I am going to not watch, this is the thing I am going to not watch the most

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-17T15:24:41.961Z

Well. there used to be a movie theater in the White House. FDR put it there in 1942, where it was enjoyed by presidents and their families and guests for more than 80 years. There is just one problem. It was in the East Wing that Trump demolished to make way for his gaudy, faux-gold, $400 million elitist ballroom that nobody but Trump wanted. So much for that fantasy.

The Melania documentary will be distributed by MGM, which is owned by Amazon Studios, which in turn is owned by billionaire Trump backer, Jeff Bezos. He reportedly paid/bribed $40 million for the rights. Melania herself is the executive producer. And Brett Ratner is returning to the director’s chair after a long hiatus from filmmaking due to his having being accused of sexual assault by multiple women. Something he has in common with Donald Trump.

The deal covers both the theatrical release and a potential follow-up series. Melania is expected to earn $28 million as part of the licensing agreement, making it one of the largest documentary deals ever, according to the Wall Street Journal.

It’s safe to assume that this history making documentary will not include much of Melania’s actual history. For instance, her many nude photo shoots, her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, her disparaging remarks about Christmas, her phony “Einstein” visa, her chain migration for her family members and anchor babies, nor the fact that she doesn’t live with Donald at the White House or Mar-a-Lago, preferring to spend most of her time in Manhattan.

It’s also safe to assume that this project will lose a fortune, just like so many other Trump business ventures, such as his Truth Social website and crypto exchange. The only people who will pay to see it are the glassy-eyed MAGA cult disciples who attend his rallies and buy his red hats. And there aren’t enough of them to make this blatant historical puff piece into anything but a historical flop.

However, look for it to be aired in the near future on Fox News for free. Even the trailer ends with Melania on the phone with Donald where he asks her about some event he had done, saying “Did you watch it?” And she replies “I did not. I will see it on the news.”

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Does Trump’s Racist Pledge to Deport Naturalized American Citizens Include Melania?

Posted by on November 28, 2025 at 12:30 pm. 0 Comments :

Leave it to Donald Trump to grossly exploit a true human tragedy in order to exalt himself and divert attention from his multitude of failures. The latest example stems from the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. by an Afghan refugee.

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Consistent with his inbred bigotry and compulsive self-interest, Trump immediately embraced this news as an opportunity to malign all Afghans, including those who risked their lives to help American soldiers fighting the Taliban. He is predictably blaming all Afghans for a crime committed by one. And he’s doing it because he thinks this display of racism will reverse his collapsing approval ratings.

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Late Thursday night, while most Americans were winding up their Thanksgiving day festivities, Trump was awake and rage-posting on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. He disgorged an interminably long and tedious comment aimed at disparaging and threatening virtually all migrants in America. And he began with his trademark infantile sarcasm that he thinks is funny…

“A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World, for being ‘Politically Correct,’ and just plain STUPID, when it comes to Immigration.”

Heartwarming, isn’t it? It’s clear that Trump truly understands the meaning of this holiday and the peace and unity that it represents. But he was just getting started. He continued…

“The official United States Foreign population stands at 53 million people (Census), most of which are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels. […] This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America.”

Trump’s foreign population estimate of 53 million includes naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), temporary migrants, and unauthorized immigrants. About half of all foreign-born residents are naturalized American citizens. Another 12 million are legal green card holders. That’s about 75% of the total. Trump’s claim that most of them are on welfare and are criminals or mental patients is just outright racism and patently false. And nothing contributes more to the “social dysfunction” in America than the antics of Trump and his MAGA cult.

For some reason, Trump then lashed out at Somali migrants in Minnesota, who had nothing to do with with the shooting in D.C. But he may have just seen it as an opportunity to lob a childish insult at Minnesota governor Tim Walz, who Trump called “seriously retarded,” and at Rep. Ilhan Omar, who he mocked for being “always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally.” But he still wasn’t done. He closed by saying that…

“I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen. […] end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.”

Notice that Trump is only threatening to pause immigration from the third world countries that he has referred to as “shit holes.” He’s fine with white migrants from Europe. What’s more, he makes a bizarre reference to migrants being approved for admission by “Biden’s Autopen.” That’s not how immigration works. Presidents don’t personally sign off on immigration papers. This sounds like more evidence of Trump’s cognitive impairment wherein he is conflating things that are unrelated.

However, the most troubling part of Trump’s rant is his threat to “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility.” He doesn’t bother to define what he means by “domestic tranquility,” He’s likely talking about stripping citizenship from, and deporting, Americans who he doesn’t like, or are critical of him. And he proposes to halt federal benefits for migrants who remain, even if they are are legally entitled to them.

Trump’s standard for determining whether any migrants should be permitted to stay or be cast out appears to be an ambiguous designation of being “compatible with Western Civilization.” Whatever that means. Consequently, Melania should be worried. Because if she ever falls out of favor with Trump, she fits all of his criteria for having her citizenship revoked and being deported back to Slovenia. Yes, that’s precisely how stupid all of this is.

LATE BREAKING: Trump just posted another comment on Truth Social wherein declares that almost all of President Biden’s executive orders are “hereby terminated,” unless he signed them directly (i.e. without the autopen). Never mind that most of Trump’s executive orders were also signed with an autopen. In the same comment Trump threatens to bring perjury charges against Biden if he disputes Trump’s ludicrous claims. This entire comment has no legal standing. But it will serve nicely as evidence if Trump’s mental acuity and fitness to remain in office is ever challenged via impeachment or invocation of the 25th Amendment. 8647!

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

Posted by on January 5, 2025 at 2:03 pm. NO Comments :

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Fox News Embarks on a Campaign of Shameless Exaltation of Donald and Melania Trump

Posted by on December 6, 2024 at 2:08 pm. 3 Comments :

From its inception 28 years ago, Fox News has relentlessly pursued its mission to advance the interests of ultra right-wing politicians and policies. That mission has been unencumbered by the principles of ethical journalism or honesty. The network’s objective of promoting arch-conservativism on behalf of the wealthy and corporations has been paramount in their “reporting” at all times.

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With the emergence of Donald Trump and the cult that has arisen around him, Fox News has managed to do what many may have thought impossible. They got even worse. Their devotional embrace of Trump has exceeded the adulation of history’s most notorious cult leaders. Fox News has helped Trump to prove that he was right when he said that he could “shoot someone on 5th Avenue” without losing any support. And as a result of Fox’s reverential propaganda, Trump’s clan regards him as their only source of truth.

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This week Fox News has outdone itself. On Thursday their Fox Nation streaming network aired an awards ceremony wherein Trump was declared the “Patriot of the Year.” To be clear, that’s a choice that is honoring a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, draft dodger, who incited a coup, and said he would terminate the Constitution, as the most patriotic person in America. You have to wonder who the runner-ups were. Steve Bannon? Vladimir Putin? Hannibal Lector?

This award could be in appreciation of Trump’s nominees to his still forming administration. At least 14 of them (so far) are Fox News hosts, contributors, or frequent guests. Among these unqualified, morally bankrupt appointments is his embattled nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.

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As if that weren’t enough, Fox News also invited Melania Trump on to chat with the “Curvy Couch” potatoes of Fox and Friends (Hegseth’s old haunt). That segment actually turned out to be their version of a right-wing Home Shopping Network where viewers could purchase grossly overpriced trinkets designed by Melania herself. Who wouldn’t want a $90.00 Christmas tree ornament by the woman who once said “Who gives a f**k about Christmas stuff?”

This combination of Trump getting a made up award by his Fox News disciples, and giving valuable airtime to Melania to cash in on the rubes who watch Fox, is just the beginning of the media supplication to Dear Leader Trump and his attempt to transform the United States into an authoritarian dystopia. And if you think it’s bad now, just wait. Or better yet, don’t wait – RESIST! If there is one thing that Trump has shown us throughout his public life, it’s that he is incompetent and defeatable. LFG!

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Fox News Excuses Trump Quoting Hitler to Bash Immigrants Because Melania is an Immigrant

Posted by on December 19, 2023 at 1:18 pm. 1 Comments :

Watching Donald Trump sink ever deeper into the abyss of totalitarianism is a painfully difficult thing for Americans who cherish the principles of democracy and liberty upon which this nation was founded. But as his legal perils mount, Trump is losing whatever threads of morality and decency that he might have pretended to be hanging onto.

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At his recent cult rally in New Hampshire, Trump elevated his authoritarian aspirations with language derived straight from the playbook of Adolf Hitler. Referring to immigrants and refugees seeking shelter in the United States, Trump complained that they were “poisoning the blood of our country.” Which is precisely how Hitler described the Jews in Germany that he yearned to exterminate.

Trump’s adoption of Hitler’s fear mongering was quickly condemned by Democrats and other decent Americans who recognized just how repugnant and dangerous that sort of hateful rhetoric is. But sadly, many Republicans defended Trump and attempted to dismiss his hate speech as harmless jargon that need not be taken seriously. That was also the position of the GOP’s Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News.

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Having had several days to reflect on Trump’s language, Fox News is still failing to appreciate the heinousness of Trump’s words. In a segment on their allegedly “news” driven program hosted by Bret Baier, they came up with a novel notion to excuse Trump’s Nazi inspired speech. Baier and fellow anchor David Asman engaged in the following exchange…

Asman: Some of things that Trump has been saying are quite difficult, even for his supporters. He said one the other night…

Trump Video: They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done. They poisoned mental institutions, and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America. Not just in three or four countries that we think about. But all over the world. They’re coming into our country from Africa, Asia, all over the world. They’re pouring into our country. Nobody’s even looking at them. They just come in. The crime is gonna be tremendous. The terrorism is gonna be — terrorism is going to be – and we built a tremendous piece of the wall and then we’re gonna build more.

Asman: Bret, nobody argues that it’s not a disaster. It is, and of course it’s being reflected in cities all over the country. But to use that phrase, “poisoning our blood,” that really got under the skin of a lot of people. Even his supporters. Is there any sign that anybody in his campaign is gonna try to answer that?

Baier: Not really. Listen, it’s the word he chose. I think it raised a lot of eyebrows, not only on the democratic side but in Republican circles. Obviously it hearkens back to some writings. And it’s been written about in numerous articles.

But it’s also important to point out the former president is married to an immigrant who just did a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives to welcome immigrants into the country. So there’s a disconnect there if that’s the dog whistle he’s sending. Some people are saying it is, but other people are saying it’s just the words he chose. Republicans even know – are uncomfortable with that phrasing.

Asman: Sometimes he does like to tweak people too. You wonder whether there was something of that in the whole thing. Meanwhile Biden’s poll numbers are just awful.

There’s a lot of bullcrap to unpack in that. Let’s begin where Asman began, with his contention that Trump’s remarks were difficult “even for his supporters.” It is pitifully obvious that Trump’s glassy-eyed disciples are not particularly bothered by Trump’s language. In fact. many of them are specifically drawn to him because of it.

Then Baier responds to Asman’s question noting, correctly at first, that no one in Trump’s campaign is likely to answer the criticism of his remarks. But Baier couldn’t even bring himself to describe Trump’s source as Hitler. He referred only vaguely to words that “hearkens back to some writings.”

However, Baier then thought he came up with the perfect apologia for Trump. He couldn’t possibly be calling for the elimination of immigrants in America because his wife is an immigrant. In fact, he married two foreigners, providing them and their anchor babies with citizenship. But that doesn’t indicate any affinity for the immigrant population in America. It just indicates the hypocrisy of Trump who is capable of condemning the vast majority of mostly immigrants of color, while separating his White European wives from the hordes of those that he and his followers hate.

Baier seems to notice that there is a “disconnect” there, and that Trump is blowing on his racist dog whistle. But Baier fails to notice that he is the one responding to the whistling with a ludicrous defense for Trump’s fascistic vulgarity. And it’s predictable that Asman closes the segment by trivializing Trump’s offensiveness because “he does like to tweak people,” and then diverting to an attack on President Biden’s polling.

At no point in the segment did wither Asman or Baier condemn Trump’s adoption of Hitler’s words or criticize his tyrannical leanings. So it’s fair to conclude that Fox News is comfortable with all of that. Therefore, it’s safe to assume that we can expect them to continue to advance Trump and his hate speech for the foreseeable future.

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Trump Threatened to ‘Blow Up the Company’ if Truth Social Execs Didn’t Give Their Shares to Melania

Posted by on October 16, 2022 at 10:10 am. 9 Comments :

Two days after the January 6th insurrection that Donald Trump incited, Twitter permanently suspended his account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” That eventually led to the creation of the Trump-branded Twitter clone, Truth Social, where he could mouth off interminably and unconstrained by facts or decency.

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Ever since, Truth Social has proven to be another pitiful failure in the Trump stable of ego-driven business ventures. That, however, didn’t stop him and his minions from pretending that it was not only a success, but an Earth shattering advance in the evolution of the human race. In reality, it was a fiasco on every level. It lost money, failed to attract users, betrayed its promise of free speech, stiffed its vendors, and is mired in multiple legal quagmires.

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Adding to the unfolding apocalypse of Trump’s social media scam and its parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), is a new report revealing the expanding scope of Trump’s greed and corruption. One of TMTG’s executives, Will Wilkerson, has emerged as a whistleblower with allegations that he and other company principals were pressured by Trump to “give up some of his shares to Trump’s wife, Melania?” According to the Washington Post…

“Trump Media, the owner of the fledgling social network Truth Social, had just been boosted by a huge merger agreement and a flood of investment that had made the stake worth millions of dollars. Trump had already been given 90 percent of the company’s shares in exchange for the use of his name and some minor involvement, leaving everyone else to split the rest.

“[Company co-founder Andy] Litinsky tried to brush it off, telling Trump ‘the gift would have meant a huge tax bill he couldn’t pay,’ Wilkerson said in an interview. ‘Trump didn’t care. He said, ‘Do whatever you need to do.'”

The Post goes on to report that “Five months later, Litinsky, who first met Trump in 2004 as a contestant on the TV show “The Apprentice,” was abruptly removed from the company’s board.” Furthermore, Trump embellished his pressure campaign in an email wherein he threatened to “‘blow up the company’ if his demands are not met.” Now Wilkerson has filed a whistleblower complaint with the SEC “alleging that “the company’s bid to raise money … relied on ‘fraudulent misrepresentations … in violation of federal securities laws.'”

The Post’s article details at length the soap opera melodrama that went on at TMTG for months. That includes episodes where company founders were terminated and replaced by Don Trump Jr, and associates of Trump’s hand-picked CEO, former GOP congressman and ultra-right-wing Trump-fluffer, Devin Nunes, who had no experience whatsoever in the technology field.

With the company reportedly in violation of SEC regulations and other laws, and investors backing out, its offices were moved from a prestigious commercial building to a mail box at a UPS store. Shares of the shell company that was formed to take TMTG public, Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC) have crashed from a high of $175.00 to less than $18.00.

This is a story that would make a compelling fictional drama. But it’s facts are meticulously researched and well documented. It is also easy to believe considering the history of Trump’s unscrupulous business practices.

Like virtually everything else in Trump World, Truth Social and TMTG appear to be geared toward fattening Trump’s wallet through shady machinations. And like virtually everything else in Trump World, it’s failing miserably, and taking down everyone connected to it. But it’s hard to feel sorry for people who so willingly signed on to a sham operation by a known fraudster like Trump.

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Holy $@!&: Are Fox News – and Melania – Taking Over National Security for the Trump Admin?

Posted by on November 13, 2018 at 3:18 pm. 1 Comments :

A pair of stories are burning up the wires this Tuesday afternoon. And they have nothing to do with the California fires or the still cresting Democratic “Blue Wave” that washed over the midterm elections. Nope. These stories have to do with the perpetual state of chaos in Donald Trump’s National Security operations.

Donald Trump, Melania Trump

First of all, it is being reported that Trump is expected to fire his secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, after less than a year on the job. But staff shake ups in and of themselves are not uncommon in the Trump administration. He’s already had far greater turnover than any other president.

What’s of interest here is who Trump is considering to replace Nielsen. And the top name being mentioned is the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Thomas Homan. He is a rabidly pro-Trump partisan who defends the administration’s horrific policy of separating migrant children from their parents. But the reason cited for Trump’s interest in Homan is that Trump likes his appearances on Fox News where he fiercely defends and praises the President. And that’s the most important criteria for a leader in protecting the United States from terrorists, isn’t it?

The other story making the rounds is that Trump is about to fire his deputy national security advisor, Mira Ricardel. She’s also a fierce Trump supporter, but lately she has gotten into trouble with the First Lady. And now Melania is asserting herself in these staffing decisions:

“The first lady’s office released a statement calling for Ricardel’s ouster as reports surfaced that President Donald Trump would fire the official, deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel.

“‘It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that (Ricardel) no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House,’ the first lady’s communications director Stephanie Grisham said in a statement on Tuesday.”

Some reports say that Melania’s problem with Ricardel stems from a seating scuffle on Air Force One. Ricardel, for the time being, reports to national security advisor John Bolton. But she has reportedly also raised the hackles of Trump’s chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly. Making matters even more confusing, Kelly has been an advocate of Nielsen, and her imminent departure might result in Kelly joining her in the White House exodus.

If all of this sounds like the melodrama whipped up by a reality TV show, well guess why. Donald Trump was an incompetent boor from the start and never had the experience to run an enterprise as large and complex as the White House. So he relies on his TV Shadow Cabinet (Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs the “Curvy Couch” potatoes of Fox and Friends, etc.) to make decisions for him. That is, when he isn’t hiring people (Bolton, Heather Nauert, Bill Shine, etc.) directly from Fox News. And while this might be entertaining if it were a Hallmark Movie of the Week, it’s downright frightening when it’s real life.

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Donald Trump Delivers a Chilly Mother’s Day Message and Forgets the Mothers in His Life

Posted by on May 13, 2018 at 11:43 am. 2 Comments :

Happy Mother’s Day everybody. On this annual day of celebration America is honoring the women who bring life into the world and nurture new generations of citizens. It’s day that is generally marked by the happiness that motherhood spreads and the devotion that is the foundation of many families.

Donald Trump, Melania Trump

In keeping with the spirit of this holiday, Donald Trump posted a video on Twitter to express his feelings about the person in his life who helped to shape him as a human being. In other words, he was fingering the culprit who deserves the blame for the suffering we are all going through. See for your self:

Have you ever seen a more joyless Mother’s Day message? It looks like a hostage video with terrorists just off screen forcing him to read a script he clearly doesn’t believe. But there is something missing in this message that a sensitive person with normal human emotions would not have forgotten. Donald Trump makes no mention of the mothers in his life that are closest to him. He doesn’t wish Melania or Ivanka a happy Mother’s Day. What sort of man does that?

The easy answer to that question is: a narcissist who doesn’t care about anyone else and is only reading this statement because an aide warned that it would make him look bad if he didn’t. But his dismally bleak reading actually makes him look worse than if he had said nothing. As for the startling omissions, apparently even his handlers didn’t think to include the mothers in Trump’s family in the address. Which says something about the whole administration.

Not that anyone should be surprised. Trump’s presidency is notable for its insensitivity to women. His policies have made it more difficult for women, especially mothers, to get health care. Reproductive health decisions are being handed over to the state. Employment opportunities and wages are still hampered by Trump’s agenda. And his harassment and abuse of women for decades is hardly the sort of respectful attitude that should prevail on this day.

When Trump tried to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program he put thousands of mothers and their children at risk of separation due to deportation. Also notable is the decision by Trump’s Justice and Homeland Security Departments to separate mothers from their children when seeking asylum at the border. There is no other reason for that than pure sadistic evil.

So happy Mother’s Day America. Try and enjoy this day with your families in the manner it was intended. Spread love to those around you and be grateful for what you have. But keep those less fortunate in your thoughts as our heartless president continues to whittle away the values we hold dear. And in the meantime, here’s a video that all mothers should hear and heed:

How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
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