Trump: “We have total control over the Strait of Hormuz.”
We also have total control over the moon, the sun, the weather, the ocean, the spinning of the earth, the Reflecting Pool, the ballroom, the Kennedy Center, measles, my Iranian war, earthquakes, Putin, Mars, Venus, Jean Caroll, Melania, inflation, RFK Jr., teenage girls on Epstein Island, the Constitution, and my brain.
OK, maybe not my brain.
Fortunately, my MAGAs believe all of this stuff because, well . . . what can I tell you? They believe what I tell them to believe.
The Treasury and US Mint have not yet said when the coin will go on sale. They have also not announced its price or how many coins will be produced.
Rumor has it that Epstein Island also might produce a (fake) gold coin to commemorate Donald Trump’s support for the Island’s economy (See sample illustration, above.)
Trump is desperate to get out of the stupid war he started.
Trump seeks an exit from his Iran war as Mideast violence spreads
Story by The Associated Press
Iran is rejecting comments by President Donald Trump that since Iran is seeking compensation as part of any peace talks, he’ll demand the same.
He was thinking of sending manly Pete Hegseth over there to punch those mullahs in the nose. That might terrify them. But if that doesn’t work, Trump has something even better
It was part of a larger pivot by Trump, who’s arguing that Iran is on the cusp of financially collapsing, even though the decades of financial sanctions it faces aren’t an immediate conflict-ender.
Trump has a solution.
I’ll just tell the mullahs I have HEEL SPURS. That little lie got me out last time.
Hunter Biden Says His Father’s Cancer Has Gotten Worse
On Friday, in an emotional interview with the BBC, Hunter Biden gave a painful update on his father. Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer last year, and his son says it has gotten worse.
When Biden’s diagnosis was first announced, this is what Donald Trump chose to say about a decent man fighting cancer:
“I mean, look, he’s been a sort of a moderate person over his lifetime. Not a smart person, but somewhat vicious person, I will say. If you feel sorry for him, don’t feel so sorry, because he’s vicious. What he did with his political opponent and all of the people that he hurt, he hurt a lot of people, Biden. And so, I really don’t feel sorry for him”
Whatever you think of Joe Biden’s politics, this is a moment for basic human compassion. A family is watching a father and a grandfather suffer. Your politics shouldn’t affect how you feel that news. And Biden himself is a good man, who peacefully transferred power to a president that belittled him and insulted his sons and family countless times during the 2024 election cycle.
I know we don’t expect much from this guy. But for all the young folks watching, when anyone’s father is dying of cancer, there is exactly one decent thing to say. “I’m praying for him and his family.” That’s it.
Guess what Biden said after the assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania?
“I’m grateful to hear he’s safe and doing well. I’m praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally as we await further information. Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. There is no place for this kind of violence in America.”
It’s a sign of how much Trump has corrupted our politics that just hearing gracious words from a President feels almost foreign. Trump couldn’t manage a statement like that if he tried, because cruelty is his whole brand.
We all have to be better than that, and remember that electing somebody with kindness and human compassion is important too. This is about basic human decency, and it’s part of the job.
Basic human decency; kindness; compassion; these are alien words to the oh-so-religious patriots of the right wing, who proudly broadcast their deep love for Jesus (on Sunday mornings), and the rest of the time, proudly support abject cruelty that would be abhorrent to Jesus.
Oh, how they strut and laugh at the hardships being thrust upon men, women and children who hurt no one, and whose basic crime was to try to work for a better life.
The religious patriots justify and defend their cruelty because, after all, immigrants don’t have documentation, and they are poor, and probably not white — so piling them into fetid concentration camps, separating them from their children, then sending them impoverished to strange lands is what patriotic Americans do, isn’t it?
Hey, that Alligator Alcatraz — what a hilarious hoot that was, right?
Let us pray that these religious patriots similarly will be deported from heaven in the very unlikely event they manage to sneak in.
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