Biden gave the perfect answer to the most important question at the NATO Summit. Did the MSM miss the importance of his response? Joe Biden hits this out of the park See full episodes here. As I watched the President’s interview, I found it boring at first. There was nothing...
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OMG Queen Elizabeth II appears to recognize the US election results. Sunday will be the second visit with the queen this weekend for Mr. Biden and the first lady after a reception and dinner on Friday, as the royal family made an unusually robust presence around the edges of the...
Former President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP) within 18 days in his last coronavirus relief bill in December 2020. More inexplicable sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) will be released for public scrutiny in June — including a UFO that broke...
Canadian Primer Minister Justin Trudeau has quite wisely declined to risk sickness and death just so Trump can have a photo-op “celebrating” the new agreement between Canada, the US, and Mexico — which is pretty much the same as the old agreement, the most important part being that Obama’s signature...
Article III of the US Constitution defines treason: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt...
It’s now been confirmed and it was in the Presidential Daily Brief: Trump and Pence knew of the Russian bounty on US troops and did nothing. The Lincoln Project has gotten right on it: x Putin paid a bounty to kill American soldiers. @realDonaldTrump knew about it but did nothing....
Trump is no Nixon, but like Nixon, he could still win a second term, extending the latest national nightmare. x Going back further, the Kerner Commission reported in 1968 that frustration over racism and policing had been at the center of the riots in Newark and Detroit. President Nixon pivoted...
A little over a week ago, Trump announced he wanted to have the G7 leaders meet in person in July. (The United States is this year’s host.) First it was going to be at Camp David, which is bad enough as a pandemic breeding ground, but then he changed to...
A little over a week ago, Trump announced he wanted to have the G7 leaders meet in person in July. (The United States is this year’s host.) First it was going to be at Camp David, which is bad enough as a pandemic breeding ground, but then he changed to...
Each year, the G-7 summit is hosted by one of the member countries in rotation. In 2020, it’s the turn of the United States. Trump had always planned to use the summit to boost his re-election chances (and boost his income by hosting it at his Doral property in Florida,...
I often find, in history as well as in current events, that having a timeline can be very useful in sorting out just what happened and when, and for judging claims made later on. It is, unfortunately, impossible to do a full timeline on Trump’s mishandling, misadministration, and maladministration of...
Our rapturous Secretary of State not only insists on calling the coronavirus by the racist monicker “Wuhan virus,” he’s trying to force the G7 foreign ministers to go along: UK Independent: Coronavirus: Mike Pompeo insists G7 use 'Wuhan Virus' – but world officials refuse Ministers of the G7 – the...
Will scripts get flipped, as the silly season continues. Trump led his Super Bowl appearance whining about how unfair impeachment has been, calling Bernie a communist because he got married in Moscow (he didn’t), and about Hillary Clinton and emails. x Trump claims to Hannity, without any caveats whatsoever, that...
We already know that Donald Trump cheats at golf. (He cheats at life. Why wouldn’t he cheat at a game?) So it’s clearly no shocker that Trump cheats at golf resorts, too. As in, getting them added to the list of potential G7 venues at the 11th hour in order...
So Donald Trump — very loudly — proclaimed last night that next year’s G7 summit won’t be at his Doral resort after all, because the media and Democrats are so, so awful and simply don’t appreciate his largesse: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1185726931611852802? No one knows what he means by “no profit” and “zero...
BWAHAHAHAHA Darn, another line of the articles of impeachment removed. Mr. Trump added: “Therefore, based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020.” Breaking News: President Trump said he would no...
Anyone who believes this crap will in any way defray even one dollar of taxpayer expense is an idiot. x A reminder: House Democrats can and should make Trump's spectacularly corrupt G-7/Doral decision part of the impeachment inquiry and possibly part of an article of impeachment. Here's @RepRaskin laying out...
Occasionally, someone at Fox other than Sean Hannity gets to put forth an opinion. And even though Shep Smith’s recent departure has knocked the average IQ at Bizarro World down at least 20 points, you still have a few people over there willing to call out egregious hijinks. Like, say,...
The Trump Doral-G7 announcement was designed to draw attention from Turkey-Syria warfare and #Trumpeachment. Unfortunately, Mick Mulvaney’s set-to with the press over the Ukraine quid pro quo did demonstrate the continuing messaging incompetence of the WH. Hours later, Mulvaney made a clumsy attempt to disinform the confession of what seems plainly...
You’re not the only one surprised that Donald Trump is corruptly using his office to boost his own company’s profits. (Okay, you’re not surprised. Who are we kidding?) Apparently, Juan Carlos Bermudez, the mayor of Doral, Florida, where Donald Trump’s very posh and expensive bedbug hatchery is currently located, was taken...
More enriching of Trump’s bank accounts at taxpayers’ expense: WASHINGTON — President Trump intends to host next year’s G7 conference at his Doral International Resort in Miami in June, the White House confirmed Thursday, a controversial decision certain to raise conflict of interest questions given the financial benefit to Trump’s business. There...
I watched Rachel Maddow interview Ambassador McFaul this evening, and a number of things about this whole unholy mess became clear. Let me see if I can lay it out: In 2014, Russia invades the Crimea. In response, Obama and the EU impose sanctions and kick Russia out of the...
The intelligence whistleblower states that White House lawyers moved the transcript of Trump’s phone call to Zelensky to a stand alone secret server in the White House. This was done as part of the coverup. But the whistleblower also states that this is NOT the only time this abuse of...
Sometimes the shit he says and does is so gobsmackingly weird, I almost feel like I've fallen into a wormhole when I write these. But, alas, I’m still on Earth — and it’s still fucked until at least 2021. From the Wall Street Journal via Raw Story: “Inside a room...
I never cared for Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. I didn’t like her buddying up to Bashar-al-Assad. And her early work against the LGBTQ community doesn’t give the warm fuzzies either. But she has come out against impeachment of Trump because it would cause further division in the U.S. “I don’t [support...
That is a direct quote from a Republican strategist as reported two hours ago by Business Insider: “He's deteriorating in plain sight,” one Republican strategist who's in frequent contact with the White House told Insider on Friday. Some of the new concern is related to Trump’s continuing insistence on saying...
The late columnist and tv personality Charles Krauthammer railed against the Obama administration’s, ‘The Obama Doctrine: leading from behind’ in a column written in 2011 based on an interview of Obama staffers conducted by Ryan Lizza. Krauthammer’s piece was one of many political hit pieces that ignored nuance and sought...
If only we could see that the real enemy of America is our former tan-suited president, not the vicious, lying, land-grabbing leader of our bitter rival. Then Donald Trump’s job would be so much easier. But, alas. Trump telegraphs his obeisance to Vladimir Putin nearly every day — and especially when...
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. 1549. Ramped up the trade war with China by raising...
Wow, he’s a marketing genius! Rule No. 1 in hotel management is to place the word “bedbugs” and the name of your resort one word apart from each other as frequently as possible. Remind us all that your hotel isn’t infested with awful biting parasites that are nearly impossible to get rid...
Donald Trump wants to hold the next G7 summit at his Miami resort, because how else is he going to recoup all the money he’s losing for being an egregious asshole who ruins everything? In the clip below, a somewhat muted Trump — who has possibly been away from his Adderall...
Okay, she was kinda-sorta diplomatic about it, but still. After Donald Trump blathered some nonsense about never, ever doing things for political reasons (really?), and claimed that he ran in one election (false) and won, and that he’s ahead of the 2020 field based on polls (wrong again), he said...
Hey, don’t worry about anything — particularly not the environment. Donald Trump is on it. Trump is an environmentalist — an environmentalist, I tells ya: From his logorrheic assault on logic and consensus reality at the G7: “I think I know more about the environment than most people. I want clean...
It doesn’t take a psychiatrist to figure out that the president’s behavior is that of a madman. Whether it’s an act or intentional is immaterial: The damage that Donald Trump has caused both nationally and internationally over the last two-plus years will take many more years to rectify. Early on in the...
On a good day, listening to top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow discuss economics is like watching the chief herpetologist at the Bronx Zoo run around screaming in the gift shop with a Gaboon viper latched to his scrotum. Today, he looked even more out of his element. In an...
They want to talk about issues on which Trump is merely an idiot instead of a dangerously ill-informed über-moron. It’s not fair! The Guardian: Macron whisked the US president away for an impromptu meal for two on an oceanfront terrace at the Hotel du Palais. Trump initially appeared frosty but later...
They want to talk about issues on which Trump is merely an idiot instead of a dangerously ill-informed über-moron. It’s not fair! The Guardian: Macron whisked the US president away for an impromptu meal for two on an oceanfront terrace at the Hotel du Palais. Trump initially appeared frosty but later...
At a G7 breakfast meeting, Donald Trump appeared to show a moment of reflection and introspection with regard to his trade policy. Wait, that can’t be right. Roll tape. REPORTER: Any second thoughts on escalating the trade war with China? TRUMP: Yeah, sure. Why not? REPORTER: Second thoughts? Yes? TRUMP: Might...
We still don’t know how Donald Trump will treat our cherished allies at the G7 summit, but please no one tell him about the Marshall Plan. Because I have no doubt he’d send Angela Merkel a past-due invoice if he ever found out about it. Luckily his knowledge of world...
I mean, he could be setting the world record for most Chicken McNuggets crammed into a U.S. president’s mouth at one time. But instead he has to go to this stupid G7 thing. CNN: [I]n conversations with aides over the past weeks, Trump has questioned why he must attend [the...
Already branded by a survey of historians as America’s worst ever, the presidency of Donald Trump may also live in infamy as the most ironic. After all, the man who ran to “Make America Great Again” has already ceded global climate leadership to China and Europe, withdrawn from the Pacific...