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Friday, August 29, 2025

Musk's "Spaceships" Often Burst into Flames. So do his Tesla Trucks

Musk is bullshitting the world about going to Mars. At the height of the space race in the 1960s-1970s there were idiots like him who predicted that "we will have humans colonizing Mars in 2025". Here we are in 2025 and the only ongoing colonization is Donald Trump's squatting illegally in the Outhouse and the Zionist terrorists colonizing Palestine.

In 1969, Americans landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong walked on its soil. Here we are 60 years later and although we learned many things, no human has returned there since 1972 with Eugene Cernan aboard Apollo 17.

Musk is like Trump, but with a little more education: egocentric, megalomaniac, high on unachievable science fiction ideas that tickle the pauper minds of most people. So he throws these grand ideas about colonizing Mars, ideas tailored to make it look feasible right now which, in turn, magnifies the megalomaniacal character of the man. Many people think he is smart because he throws around big ideas that are really - and he knows it - big lies.

Do people know the amount of research and money that are needed to make people land on Mars and establish a viable colony? It takes 6 months to get there, and no one yet has any idea how to provide for such a long voyage, let alone carry all what is needed to build a viable colony there. NASA scientists are worried that Musk's SpaceX hubris might translate into hurried, and therefore shoddy work, just to get the headlines.

For instance, sending a rocket to land on Mars WITHOUT CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF THE FORMS OF LIFE HUMANS MIGHT CARRY WITH THEM TO THE RED PLANET AND CONTAMINATE IT, THUS DESTROYING THE POSSIBILITY OF FINDING REAL NATIVE LIFE ON MARS.

CAN YOU IMAGINE THE AMOUNT OF TESTING AND RESEARCH ON EVERYTHING LOADED ON THAT ROCKET TO MAKE SURE, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, THAT EVERYTHING, INCLUDING HUMANS, ARE STERILE AND DO NOT CARRY EARTH BACTERIA AND VIRUSES UP TO MARS?

I guess we may be on the order of two centuries behind in performing a human landing on Mars, let alone establishing a viable colony. Musk hypes the fictional aspect of it to egg on morons like Trump not only to brag, but to also fund Musk's adventures. Much of what Musk does is funded by federal grants.

Jules Verne wrote Voyage to the Moon in 1865. Yes, people imagine these achievements long before scientists invent the technology that makes them remotely possible.  Neil armstrong landed on the moon in 1969, a century later.

Columbus landed on the American continent in 1492. The first permanent European colony in America was St. Augustine, Florida, established by the Spanish in 1565, some 73 years later and much before Plymouth and Jamestown. The "conquest" of the New World back then was like the conquest of space in our time. Full of dangers and uncertainties, and based on much erroneous information (round earth, easy western access to India, monsters lurking in the ocean, etc.). 

While it is a lot easier to secure money from a medieval monarch, build a ship and set sail due west with very little scientific information, in the hope of haphazardly finding land somewhere, going to Mars is a million-fold more complicated. So the 73 years that separated Columbus's first landing and the first permanent colony in the American continent would have to be multiplied many times over before 1. landing a human on Mars, and 2. establishing a viable colony there.

We've got to have rockets that don't burst into flames once every two launches. Tesla truck human barbecues on earth cannot be allowed for astronaut barbecues in space. 

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Family sues Tesla after Cybertruck owner dies in 5,000-degree inferno, causing bones to disintegrate
Ariel Zilber
Thu, August 28, 2025

A Tesla owner was burned alive in his Cybertruck after the stainless-steel beast erupted in a 5,000-degree inferno so intense it caused his bones to disintegrate, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed in Texas.

Michael Sheehan, 47, bought the futuristic pickup in April 2024. Just three months later on Aug. 3, the truck veered off-road, slammed into a culvert and burst into flames near Beach City, around 30 miles east of Houston.

The raging fire trapped Sheehan inside the vehicle as the batteries powering the $100,000 SUV went into catastrophic failure, court filings say. The blaze was so hot Sheehan’s skeletal system literally fractured from the heat.


Michael Sheehan, 47, died on Aug. 3 of last year after his Tesla Cybertruck crashed about 30 miles east of Houston. Peevey Funerals

“He was eight inches shorter in length than he was before he burned,” attorney S. Scott West told The Independent. “That’s thermal fracture.”

Sheehan’s widow, Shannon, and his parents filed the suit in June, accusing Tesla of selling a vehicle so defectively designed it transformed a survivable crash into a fiery death.

“This was a single-vehicle crash,” the petition states. “The crash forces were survivable… except for the fire, ergonomic shortcomings, and deficient crashworthiness.”

West, a former industrial design engineer turned trial lawyer, blasted the company’s priorities.

“Not only are you riding on top of 3,000 pounds of batteries, this ‘spaceship’ design is a double-edged sword,” West told The Independent.

He alleged Tesla put aesthetics ahead of basic safety, making it nearly impossible for Sheehan to escape once the truck lost power. Instead, Sheehan found himself locked in a firetrap.

The lawsuit says the Cybertruck’s electrically operated doors can’t be opened once power is cut. Exterior handles fail, and the manual release latches inside are “unreasonably difficult to locate in an emergency.”

Tesla, the filing continues, gave owners “insufficient warnings or training” on how to exit post-crash.

“Michael was a Mensa-level guy, very, very smart,” West told The Independent.

The suit claims the Cybertruck’s battery system was “hyper volatile” and prone to “thermal runaway,” a chain reaction of short-circuits that unleashes uncontrollable heat.

“But when Tesla delivered this [Cybertruck] to him, the instructions they gave him were woefully inadequate to handle a situation like this.”

West acknowledged that Sheehan had alcohol in his system, a fact noted in the complaint. But, he argued, “that shouldn’t sign his death warrant.”

In fact, the lawsuit also targets 3180 Bar, LLC, doing business as The Barn Whiskey Bar, where Sheehan was allegedly overserved on the night of the crash.

Attorneys accuse the bar of continuing to serve Sheehan despite his condition and failing to intervene or provide safe alternatives.

The raging fire trapped Sheehan inside the vehicle as the batteries powering the $100,000 SUV went into catastrophic failure, court filings say. The image above is a file photo of a Tesla Cybertruck. NurPhoto via Getty Images

Sheehan, who worked as a registered nurse, was remembered by loved ones as a devoted husband with a “gentle spirit.”

His obituary said he loved cooking for family and friends, was passionate about zombie movies, and lived life “authentically” and “unapologetically.”

“Knowing and loving Michael was a true joy,” his obituary read. “He made a profound impact on so many lives. He was unique, authentic, caring, funny and he lived his life unapologetically.”

Sheehan was the first person to die in a Cybertruck crash since the model launched in November 2023. Sheehan’s widow, Shannon, and his parents filed suit in June 2025, accusing Tesla of selling a vehicle so defectively designed it transformed a survivable crash into a fiery death. Christopher Sadowski

Months later, three college students in California were burned to death in another Cybertruck wreck.

In April, USC basketball recruit Alijah Arenas — son of former NBA star Gilbert Arenas — was placed in an induced coma after a fiery Cybertruck crash in Los Angeles.

Tesla has recalled the Cybertruck at least eight times since launch for problems ranging from accelerator pedals that detached to body panels that delaminated.

West said he hopes the Sheehan case forces Tesla and Elon Musk to finally confront the dangers of their vehicles.

“Every religion has a version of hell, and every version of hell has fire,” he told The Independent.

“It is the most excruciating and longest torture of any death. The nerves are literally exposed to everything. It’s horrific.”

He added: “There’s my challenge to Elon. Put me out of business. Make these vehicles so safe that I don’t have to do this anymore.”

Tesla and The Barn Whiskey Bar did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump's Radical Revamping of White House Signals Plan to Stay beyond 2028

Donald Trump's radical (paving over lawns, tacky shoddy gold everywhere, including his personal toilet seat which he doesn't like to share with Melania) revamping of the White House appears to send a signal to the country that he is planning on staying there a long, a very long long time. Plenty of factors (age, no third term, extreme unpopularity...) would in principle make that possibility unlikely, but with a demented narcissistic criminal felon like him, he'll use any illegal way he can muster to stay in power beyond what is constitutionally allowed.

Since the start of his second term, Trump replaced the White House Rose Garden lawn with a cement patio. The formerly lush, green garden, which has undergone various changes by former administrations, has been replaced with a concrete slab that included the same striped patio umbrellas as the ones in Mar-a-Lago.


The White House Rose Garden was formerly a space of greenery. / HUM Images / HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Trump also plans on building a 90,000-square-foot ballroom similar to the Mar-a-Lago club’s Grand Ballroom, not to mention that the Oval Office have been speckled with tacky disgusting gold embellishments and decals, echoing the tune of the Trump brand.

Those drastic remodeling changes augur an underlying conviction in Trump's head that the White House will become his permanent dwelling, which is normal for a dictator. As for his age, there are no legal impediments to having very old presidents, including those who cheat their way past their constitutional limits. 

Indeed, as reported by the Hollywood Reporter, American political writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh recently said: “There’s still integrity in America right now but as somebody said recently, we’re in existential crisis right now. And the president is a man who wants to be here for life. He wants to be commander of America. My belief is that’s his absolute sole mission. He wants to not have another election, because under the Constitution he cannot…. That’s what he’s going to be doing for the next three years....And I will tell you, I don’t have the kind of access to him, but I’m working on it…. This a bad time for America, and because of that, because of this man’s megalomania and lack of information, it’s a bad time for the world.”

Cronyism, Corruption, Shady Deals, Bigotry: Hallmarks of Republican Politics

Pam Bondi’s DOJ is her own little turf. Trump bought it for her to play, so she keeps making shady deals to get her corrupt brother off the hook.

I think Trump lied to his MAGA morons when he said he'd drain the swamp. Instead, he brought more corrupt criminals - the MAGA species - into the swamp. Pam Bondi is one of them.

Another case against Brad Bondi’s clients facing felony wire fraud charges has AGAIN been dropped by Pam Bondi's Department of Justice.

If this is not the corruption that Trump lied to his MAGA morons about stamping out, I don't know what is.

At Pam Bondi's instructions, Missouri federal prosecutors suddenly and without explanations agreed to dismiss an indictment against Sid Chakraverty, a property developer represented by Brad Bondi, Pam's brother.

In 2024, Biden administration prosecutors accused Chakraverty of lying about hiring women- and minority-owned subcontractors on a housing development allegedly to secure a favorable tax incentive. For MAGA racists and fascists, hiring women and minorities is now a crime after Diversity, Equity Inclusion (DEI) programs have been slashed by the Trump administration.

Therefore, Pam Bondi instructed on Wednesday a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri to file papers with the court informing the judge overseeing the case that it would be “prudent for the government to end this criminal prosecution.”

The question in this case is not whether DEI is or is no longer acceptable practice. The question is whether Brad Bondi cheated and lied to profit from a tax incentive.

The dropping of charges against Chakraverty marks the second time in less than a month that Brad Bondi was able to clinch a favorable result for one of his clients. Former Florida House Rep. Carolina Amesty was facing up to 20 years in prison for two counts of theft of government property related to COVID-19 relief funds when the DOJ U-turned on pursuing charges.

In June, Brad Bondi was ejected like a bag of dirt by 90% of members (38,000 strong) of the Washington D.C. Bar Association as he ran for the seat of president of the association. His association with Trump and his sister, the devoted Trump slave Attorney General Pam Bondi, appears to be toxic and radioactive and does not bode well for any Head-up-Trump-Rectum MAGA candidate running for the 2026 elections. 

Watch how these morons will start peeling off Trump as campaign season begins. They can't even hold town hall meetings without being cursed and insulted. Their only hope to survive the blue tsumani is to race with Trump to the bottom of the corruption barrel, since he is expected to attribute the inevitable MAGA loss to cheating by Democrat enemies and opponents. He did it in 2020 with his seditious attack on Congress. There is even more reason to believe he'll do it again, now that he is even more demented and senile, and essentially has nothing left to lose and will likely use the Samson option: Destroy democracy on top of both his enabling Republican criminals and the Democrats.

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Cities with Highest Per-Capita Crime Rates are Mostly in Red MAGA states

Trump’s biased focus on cities in Democrat- and African American-led states (Democratic governors and Black mayors) is absurd. Some of his own MAGA-moron-led states have higher crime rates.

For 2024, as tabulated by the FBI: 

Memphis:  2,501 violent crimes per 100,000 people

Detroit: 1,781 per 100,00 and a rate of 31.2 homicides per 100,000 residents.

Baltimore: 1,606 violent crimes and 34.8 homicides per 100,000 people.

Kansas City, Mo. 1,547 violent offenses per 100,000 people

Milwaukee: 1,431 violent crimes per 100,000 people.

Albuquerque: 1,182 violent crimes occurred per 100,000 residents.

Houston: 1,148 crimes per 100,000 people last year.

Nashville: 1,124 violent crimes per 100,000 people.

Denver: 993 violent crimes per 100,000 people.

Washington, DC: 926 per 100,000 in the nation’s capital.

 

Antisemitism Move Over: Hello Anticatholicism. Evangelical Trump isn't Doing Enough

White Protestant Terrorism is rampant in the US. It takes various forms, from the KKK to its military supplied the NRA, from the GOP to MAGA, from the Proud Boys to Aryan Nations, from Atomwaffen Division and the American Nazi Party to Earth Liberation Front, from Kahane's Jewish Defense League to Oath Keepers....

All are right wind extremists who have committed countless acts of terror on US soil. 

Robin Westman, US-born white American terrorist shooter in Wednesday's deadly attack at a Minnesota church appears to have been influenced by a broad spectrum of "white nationalists" ideas. 

In his videos online, he displayed an arsenal of weapons including a rifle, a handgun, a shotgun and several magazines of ammunition, scrawled on with a mishmash of political messages and in-jokes. Westman is a former student at the Annunciation Church and Catholic School in Minneapolis where he killed and mained many children.

The fact is that ALL white anglo-saxon protestant terror organizations in the US include Catholics as one of their enemies, a hostility that goes back to the Reformation and the anti-papal movement in late Middle Ages Europe.

There are clues the shooter was active in hateful online communities. The word “Skibidi” was written on one magazine of ammunition found at the scene of the attack, a possible reference to a short-lived online extremist message board taken down a few weeks ago.

The writings also reference two other mass shooters. The name “Rupnow” is written on a rifle, a possible reference to Natalie Rupnow, who killed three students at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, last December and injured six others, and “Breivik,” an apparent reference to Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in an attack in Norway in 2011.

An analysis of Westman's writings reveal that he shared all of the White Christian Nationalist Terrorist organizations' ideology against Catholics, Jews, Black people, LGBTQ+ individuals, Muslims and Hispanics.

FBI Director Patel said the attack is being investigated as "an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics.''

 

Donald Dumb Thinks World Leaders 'Respect' Him

The imbecile should know that they respect the office, not the man. 

Like any dictator nut (I am thinking Idi Amin, Kim Jong-Un, Mouamar Qaddafi....) who is dangerously full of himself, visitors will lavish praise on the nutcase criminal when facing him in public, but behind his back they hysterically laugh at him.

President Donald Dump has bragged about how much “respect” other world leaders have for him. My own aging and senile father was obsessed with "being respected", hence his reaction once when I told him that I had been in China on a business trip: "How did 'they' receive you? Were they respectful?". He was always big on "respect", once starting a fight in a restaurant because people who walked in and were sat at a table literally 20 seconds behind us were served water before us.

Think of senility and dementia when an old man begins worrying about "respect".

So, California's governor, Gavin Newsom, yesterday reminded all of us how much foreign leaders, even the sycophantic tariff-terrorized among them, really think of Donald Dump.

“I’ve had the privilege of meeting a lot of foreign leaders,” Newsom said at a Politico event in California on Wednesday. “They’re laughing behind his back.” These comments are based on “dozens and dozens” of encounters with foreign leaders and officials. “They’re laughing behind his back,” Newsom said. “He’s being played everywhere. It’s an embarrassment.”

My own experience in conversations with people from around the world - not political leaders, but ordinary people - confirms Newsom's comment. With Donald Dump, people tell me now that they finally understand what the "dumb and ugly American" adage means: Don't look it up, just look at Donald Dumb and you'll understand.

Newsom’s comments call to mind footage from Trump’s first term in office that many believe show world leaders snarking behind his back at a reception in Buckingham Palace.
World leaders also openly laughed at Trump at the 2018 United Nations General Assembly as the president bragged about his supposed accomplishments. His closest associates who were whirling around - in and out - the White House door ALL spoke of a "moron". 

Well, the moron lies spleepless at night in his deserted bed - I don't blame dumb Melania who obviously married him for his money - and rages against those who disagree with him and calls them, guess what? .... Disrespectful!

President Donald Trump spent the early-morning hours digging up year-old dirt on his newest political enemy and bashing him on social media. Wes Moore of Maryland has become the latest Democratic governor to take on Trump over his partisan gerrymandering and threats to deploy National Guard troops to blue states, inviting the president last week to walk the streets of Baltimore with him.

Trump responded over the weekend with a social media rant in which he threatened to pull federal funding from Baltimore, leading the governor to mock the president’s physical ability and lack of military service. 

Just after 2 a.m. Washington time on Thursday, Trump posted a year-old article from The Hill about Moore and declared that he "was very disrespectful!” Trump complained in a Truth Social post.

Trump has already been swapping insults over the past few weeks with two other Democratic governors, Gavin Newsom of California and JB Pritzker of Illinois.

During his war of words with Trump this week, Moore called out the president for avoiding military service during the Vietnam War. A Queens doctor who was a Trump family friend diagnosed him with bone spurs to help him get a medical exemption.

“President Bone Spurs will do anything to get out of walking—even if that means spouting off more lies about the progress we’re making on public safety in Maryland,” he wrote on social media. “Hey Donald, we can get you a golf cart if that makes things easier. Just let my team know.”

White House Bimbo Angel Leavitt on Minneapolis Carnage: Demons Did it

It's not the guns that dumb Americans can buy at their grocery stores. It definitley is not the incompetence of Donald Dump at stopping school shootings in the US. It's not the actions of a deranged teenager who has watched too many violent Hollywood movies and played too many gory bloody video games. It's not the abysmal failure of the US to move into the 21st century and to deliberately remain stuck in the primitive mindset of 1791.

The White House's blonde and very Christian Bimbo-in-Chief  has the answer: Demons. Now can the National Guard fight demons? No. If there are any forces out there that even the greatest ever Messiah hero that God has sent humanity, one Donald Dumb, cannot vanquish, it is the Demon. Karoline hit it on the nail by pointing with precision at who was behind the murder of children in Minneapolis: The Beast. Lucifer a.k.a. Satan. Yes, there are billions of idiots out there in the world, under the leadership of evangelical imbeciles from Texas and the southern united states, who believe that demons, not humans, are responsible for the degradation of human civilization that we are living in this 21st century. 

I can't thank God for sending us one of his prophets, Donald Dumb, because no one, not even God backed by millions and millions of prayers and deep thoughts, can fight the devil. Not even the voodoo shaman in charge of our health, RFK Jr., who has special connections with the underworld, can do it.

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Karoline Leavitt Shares Post Blaming ‘Demonic Forces’ for Minneapolis Shooting
Catherine Bouris
Thu, August 28, 2025 


Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared a post to Instagram that asked people to pray for the victims following the tragic shooting at a Minneapolis church that claimed the lives of two children. However, not all is what it initially seems.

A look at the full post, originally made by The Conservateur, a conservative lifestyle magazine, reveals a second slide that blames a “demonic force” for the shooting.

The full post reads, “There is a demonic force moving when a transgender maniac sprays bullets at pews of Catholic school children. Shame on the progressive leaders and lawmakers who make this about the man in the White House, the second amendment or so-called trans bigotry.

“This is a corruption of minds to commit horrific acts of violence. We pray for the victims, their families, and the entire annunciation community during this grueling time. And yes, prayers do count and do work.”

Language similar to that used in the post has been liberally deployed by Trump allies and supporters in the hours since the shooting, which took place at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

According to these deplorables, there is nothing that Americans can do to stop the constant and recurring killings in the US. This time they are blaming the "transgender" quality of the killer. But 10, 20, 30 years ago when no one knew what a transgender individual is, who was doing all the killings and shootings in schools, churches, bars, social clubs,....??

Yes, they will all go to heaven because they are so "poor in their spirit", but after having burned and slashed through every bit of civilization that humans have managed to extract over millennia from their primitive past.

America's ACELA Fast Train is 75% Québecois and 25% French

Dictator Trump's military just took control of Washington DC's Union Station, in a sweeping campaign to militarize and take control of the streets of Democrat cities which Trump claims are rampant with crime.

His Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was inaugurating the launch of a new fleet of high-speed Acela trains for Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor route (linking Democrat cities like Baltimore, Boston, New York). The achievement of high-speeed rail in the United States is decades behind Japan and Europe and other countries, and testifies to the misplaced priorities of a US that is recalcitrant to join the 21st century.

US automobile manufacturers have long lobbied against high speed rail because people would abandon their cars for cleaner, cheaper and safer travel across the US. Be that as it may, Trump's priorities are completely out of wack with what the country needs. The country has lots of big balls and muscle and very little brains.

It was Barack Obama and Joe Biden who established high speed rail as a priority in US transportation, but they couldn't find US manufacturers who could deliver because the US, again under pressure from the automobile lobby, had invested very little in the sector. Right now, the ACELA trains that MAGA imbecile Sean Duffy was inaugurating and bragging about as a Trump achievment were orderd by Barack Obama and made in Québec (75%) by the giant Québecois manufacturer Bombardier and France (25%).

And as Trump is badgering and bullying all other countries and fighting silly windmills in Washington DC, crimes by NRA-lobbied and MAGA-approved guns continue to plague schools, churches and other places where people gather. Some nut carrying LEGALLY-OBTAINED GUNS in Minneapolis just killed two children and injured 17 others at a Catholic school church.

All these events point to the misplaced priorities of Trump's white christian nationalist government. His priorities are to "bleach" the country of non-whites and foreigners, legal or otherwise, take military control of the country so he can cheat in the upcoming elections, create a cult around his stupid self, protect his disgusting involvement in the Epstein scandal, installing a lawless dictatorship and combating judges and the separation of powers, and maintain power in the hands of a dwindling white majority of anglo-saxon stock immigrants.

Trump's priority is to institutionalize racism against decades of constitutional adjustments aiming at repairing the American holocaust of African slaves and Indigenous Indians that is at the heart of the nation's birth. He wants to erase that history from textbooks and museums. He keeps firing intelligent and highly qualified African-American women from administrative positions in the US government afer insulting each one without exception as "low IQ", he the ignorant illiterate idiot who can barely read what is written for him on the teleprompter. With a teleprompter, his "speeches" are a diarrhea of incoherence, mispronounced words and names, and utterly unintelligible drivel. His problem with African American women is two fold: They're women (whom he likes to grab by the pussy when he feels like it) and they're Black (which for a pro-slavery racist like him is by definition "inferior").

Trump is militarily occupying Washington DC to fight the homeless, while his gun-toting idiots in the Midwest and the South go on shooting random people in their places of assembly. Crime is intrinsic to the US. The US was born out of the rape of the American continent by white European colonial thugs pretending to do it for God.

Because of corporate lobbies, the executive and legislative powers on the US remain at the mercy of established corporations that are too lazy to make the changes necessary and too fearful of upsetting their greedy stakeholders.

Trump is inaugurating high speed rail whose components are made in Canada and France, while he is fighting universities (because the Zio-Nazi Stephen Miller tells him that they are antisemitic) and gutting all basic research and stripping the US of any advantages in novel technologies.

Trump is encouraging fossil fuel economies (combustion engines....) while the entire world is slowly switching to state-of-the-art renewable energies. The US is way behind China, Japan and Europe in electric vehicles because the gas-guzzling US automobile industry doesn't want to switch and upset its sister oil companies.

For many foreigners who visit the US, the first impression they get is that the US is the Third World of the First World: Electric lines run along and disfigure streets with above ground poles (advanced countries have them all underground), electric power is still 110 volts (all other countries have switched to 220 volts), still stuck in 19th century vintage Fahrenheit degrees, inches, yards, and miles while the entire world runs on centimeters, meters and kilometers.

Trump's anger at the world is not the world's fault. Trump's anger is because of his own backwardness and refusal to embrace change. As the world changes, the very conservative and ultra-religious US waxes nostalgic of times that are never coming back, and the more attached to this archaic past, the further behind it will fall.

The US is still en experiment. It is not a "finished, polished" country. It is work in progress. Despite claims otherwise, the US is not yet a nation. It is an experiment in governance, it is an experiment in demographics, it is an experiment in inter-cultural integration.

In biological evolution, when members of one species become separated from their original group and isolated by a mountain, an ocean or on an island, they begin to genetically drift into another species. But at first, as soon as that separation or isolation takes place, this new group stops pauses, stops evolving as it adjusts to its new environment. This is where America is. It has stopped evolving and is making itself an identity before resuming its evolution. Just like a teenager transitioning from childhood into adulthood, it has acne, it has bouts of hormonal violence, it is still silly and doesn't understand the world, it hates its parents and hates school....

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Trump Seizes Control of Train Station After Vance and Miller’s PR Stunt Humiliation
Ewan Palmer
Wed, August 27, 2025


Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images - The Hillbilly, the Drunkard and the Nazi strolling in Union Station and taking illegitimate credit for what Obama did in cooperation with Canada and France.

President Donald Trump’s administration is taking control of Washington D.C.’s Union Station after three of his top officials were loudly heckled during a botched PR stunt at the transit hub.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy—a former contestant in Road Rules—announced Wednesday that his department would reclaim management of the nation’s second-busiest rail terminal as part of the administration’s sweeping efforts to tighten control over the capital.

Duffy was at Union Station to launch a new fleet of high-speed Acela trains for Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor route between D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston—trains which were first ordered under President Barack Obama in 2016, and which will benefit from infrastructure investments made as part of President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.



Duffy was at Union Station to launch a new fleet of Amtrak high-speed trains ordered by Obama which he claimed were part of Trump's vision. / Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

The controversial federal takeover of D.C. has included deploying National Guard soldiers to patrol the streets, assisting police in tackling crime, and picking up trash.

“Instead of being a point of pride, Washington’s Union Station has fallen into disrepair,” Duffy said in a statement reported by The Washington Post. “By reclaiming station management, we will help make this city safe and beautiful at a fraction of the cost.”

The Zio-Nazi Stephen Miller, the drunkard womanizer Pete Hegseth and the inbred hillbilly JD Vance visited the historic Union Station to defend Donald Trump's federal takeover of the capital. / Al Drago/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

The move came a week after Vice President JD Vance, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were booed and jeered with chants of “Free D.C.” as they attempted a photo op with National Guard troops stationed at Union Station, complete with boxes of cheeseburgers.

The officials were also greeted with shouts of “f---ing Nazi” and “get the f--- out of my city.” One heckler even called Vance a “couch f---er,” a reference to a baseless meme claiming the vice president wrote about having sex with a couch in his Hillbilly Elegy memoir, which became a meme during the 2024 election.

During the chaotic visit, Vance was asked by the press why troops were being stationed in the rail station instead of areas of the city with higher crime rates.

In response, Vance suggested Union Square, one of the country’s biggest rail hubs, was full of “vagrants, drug addicts, the chronically homeless and the mentally ill,” which makes visitors to the capital feel unsafe.

He said he had brought his children there “a couple of years ago” and claimed, “they were being screamed at by violent vagrants.”

The station had been badly hit in 2020 by the collapse of travel but has been recovering since. It is second only to New York Penn Station for passenger use although with 70,000 a day using it, it is small by international standards.

The nonprofit Union Station Redevelopment Corp manages Union Station. The Trump administration’s plans for a full takeover of Union Station are expected to be completed in September, according to Reuters.

The Department of Transportation now plans upgrades to lighting, elevators, and the roof as part of its takeover. However the nonprofit was already working on an expansion and upgrade using money from the Biden administration’s spending plans.

The ownership and management of the station was handed to the nonprofit in 1983 after the building underwent a major restoration. Since then it has been responsible for its upkeep while it is now policed solely by Amtrak Police, already under the command of Duffy.

A year ago, while Joe Biden was still president, the DOJ published an article on declining crime and homelessness at the station.

But this year MAGA supporter Scott Jennings witnessed a fatal shooting inside the terminal and posted about it to X, while the Washington Post reported that Duffy’s wife—Fox News weekend anchor Rachel Campus Duffy—passed through the station not long after the killing.

Joe Rogan's MAGA Coup: No Evidence of Stolen 2020 Elections BIG LIE

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Joe Rogan Turns On Trump To Shut Down His Signature Claim

Podcast host Joe Rogan on Tuesday said President Donald Trump and his minions failed to produce evidence that the 2020 election was stolen from him. And if Trump were serious about making his argument, Rogan added, he would have 10 minutes of facts at the ready to rebut doubters.

Rogan ― the right-wing star who had Trump as a guest in a pivotal interview just before the 2024 election and endorsed him ― punched big holes in the president’s longstanding claim that has been branded the “big lie.”

Guest Dave Smith, a comedian and commentator, noted how Trump has “stuck to that story for many years” of how Joe Biden became president because “they cheated the election.”

“So I’m gonna need to know who ‘they’ is, and I’m going to need to know when we’re gonna see ’em perpwalked,” Smith said. “All of us on some level don’t really think they’re gonna start arresting people over the stolen election of 2020.”

“I don’t think they have any evidence,” Rogan interjected.

The podcaster claimed “there’s a lot of speculation” around 2020 and a “record of shenanigans,” but Trump “didn’t have an answer” in their interview last October when asked about it.

“If that was you or if that was me, and there was some reason why I knew that they did something, and I could give you all the facts, I would have that ready for anybody,” Rogan said. “For four fucking years they’ve been telling him he’s crazy for questioning the election. So after four years I’d have a fucking tight 10 minutes on the election where I could just rattle off at you and rock your world with it like, ‘These are the facts, Jack.’”

Rogan has also challenged Trump on his shifting attitude on the Jeffrey Epstein files, his treatment of foreign-born students protesting Israel and Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids snaring people who are not criminals.

 

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

It's Around the Corner Just in Time for Holidays: Trump's Recession




The Trump Recession Is Coming

Alex Shephard
Wed, August 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM GMT+3·5 min read





Speaking at a North Carolina campaign rally almost exactly a year ago, Donald Trump painted a dire picture of the American economy should Vice President Kamala Harris win the presidency in November. “If Harris wins this election, the result will be a Kamala economic crash, a 1929-style depression,” Trump said. “When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand new Trump economic boom.”

Trump was talking then about the election’s most important issue: post-pandemic inflation, for which voters blamed Harris’s boss, President Joe Biden. In May of last year, a clear majority—including 49 percent of Democrats—wrongly believed the country was already in a recession when Trump delivered that speech. Americans hated the economy and wanted a change. That is, more or less, the story of how Trump won the 2024 election (though it certainly helped that Trump spent the majority of the campaign running against an 81-year-old who wasn’t up to the challenge, to put it mildly).

You don’t hear much about a recession anymore. That’s not because Trump was right when he was speaking in North Carolina last August. True, he won and the country certainly hasn’t entered into a second Great Depression. While a Day One boom didn’t take place, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is a few thousand points higher than it was then. But the economy is in significantly worse shape than it was a year ago, thanks in large part to actions Trump himself has taken. The public recognizes this, as polls show a clear majority of Americans disapprove of his handling of the economy and blame him for rising prices. Still, media attention has lagged: There is nowhere near the coverage of consumer attitudes that there was last spring.

To be fair, there has been a lot to cover since Trump took office: the gutting of the federal government, the deportation of law-abiding immigrants to foreign gulags, the militarization of L.A. and now D.C., the weaponization of the Department of Justice, airstrikes on Iran, and so much more. But Trump has also done everything possible to push the country toward recession.

His “Liberation Day” tariffs have destroyed relationships with key trading partners, cost thousands of jobs across the country, and caused prices to soar (with much worse to come). Trump has repeatedly insisted that this abrupt return to the protectionism of the late nineteenth century would revitalize American manufacturing and deliver a windfall so enormous it would replace the income tax. The math does not add up, alas. In July, the federal government brought in $29 billion in tariff revenue—a sizable increase from the previous year. Over a full year, that would amount to about $350 billion, which pales in comparison to the nearly $3 trillion generated by the income tax. As for the manufacturing gains, well, just last week John Deere announced hundreds of layoffs, which the company attributed partly to Trump’s tariffs.

And surely most Americans don’t even care how much money the U.S. raises from tariffs unless it somehow improves their own finances, which of course it does not. The Tax Foundation, no one’s idea of a left-wing shop, says that Trump’s tariffs “amount to an average tax increase per US household of $1,304 in 2025 and $1,588 in 2026.” The tariffs also will hurt the economy overall, causing a nearly 1 percent decrease in the GDP over the next decade, the organization estimates.

Trump’s ongoing war with the Federal Reserve also makes a recession more likely. Since taking office, the president has been hounding Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to cut interest rates. He is now attempting to oust Fed governor Lisa Cook on what seem to be trumped up mortgage fraud charges so he can install another loyalist on the board who will back the rate cuts he desperately wants.

Trump’s war on the Fed is just as reckless and unconstitutional as his tariffs, but it does make a bit more economic sense. The president just signed a massive corporate tax cut into law and thinks—with reason—that lower interest rates will boost the economy and lift his presidency. What Trump doesn’t seem to understand or care about is that launching a war with the Federal Reserve could just as easily do the opposite. Crushing the body’s independence could cause the stock market to crash and the dollar, which has been steadily falling since inauguration, to collapse. Those lower interest rates could juice inflation that has been ticking upward.

In addition to his likely illegal tariffs and aggression toward the Fed, Trump has a growing interest in taking a government cut of large corporations like Intel, Nvidia, Nippon-U.S. Steel. The overall goal here is clear: Trump wants full control of the U.S. economy. That’s reckless no matter who the president is. But it’s a ruinous mission for a president who obviously has no idea what he’s doing. 

It’s hard to overstate just how dire the situation is. The economy that Trump inherited was the envy of the developed world. For all of its problems—such as lingering high prices and longstanding inequality—Biden and his advisors navigated post-pandemic inflation better than almost anyone, thanks to the administration’s industrial policy and several key pieces of legislation aimed at boosting infrastructure spending. In just a few months, Trump has wrecked that progress. And he has done so for no compelling reason whatsoever—simply because he has always, going back to his first term, taken pleasure in destroying his predecessor’s accomplishments.

Any Republican president would have signed the tax cut that Trump signed in July. But no other president from either party would have launched a trade war that has already pushed the U.S. economy to the brink, and it’s highly unlikely that anyone else would have launched such a destructive war against the Federal Reserve. Such are the consequences of an electorate that was angry about high prices, and then unwittingly voted for even higher prices. If there is a recession in the next three years—something that grows increasingly likely with each passing week—Trump will own all of it.

Early Signs of Blue Tsunami in 2026: Recent Special Elections Results




Key takeaways from Tuesday’s special elections in Iowa and Georgia

Jared Gans
Wed, August 27, 2025



Key takeaways from Tuesday’s special elections in Iowa and Georgia

Democrats continued their winning streak in key special elections this year with another victory in a contested state Senate seat in Iowa.

The party eyed the seat as a pickup opportunity to break up a Republican supermajority in the body and demonstrate further enthusiasm among the Democratic base in an off-year election. The party’s candidate in a Georgia state Senate election also appears poised to advance to a runoff against a Republican opponent in a deeply conservative district.

Here’s what to know from Tuesday night’s results.

Democrats get another notable win

The Democratic Party has been struggling to unify itself and get energized in the aftermath of its devastating loss to President Trump in the 2024 presidential election and other key races last November.

But even amid voter dissatisfaction with party leaders and disapproval with the party brand as a whole, one positive sign for Democrats has been the multiple victories they have achieved in the handful of elections this year.

Democrat Catelin Drey’s win in Iowa Senate District 1 by more than 10 points, as of the latest vote count, over Republican Christopher Prosch is just the latest in a string of Democratic electoral successes this year that is likely to give the party hope heading into the midterms.

The first one came in January in a neighboring state Senate district in Iowa, when Democrats flipped that seat from red to blue, just after Trump took office. They did the same in an equally Trump-friendly state Senate district in Pennsylvania in March.

Trump had carried both Iowa districts and the Pennsylvania one by double digits in November.

Along with a win for a contested seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Democrats have put up impressive wins in these lower-turnout off-year elections. The data is limited as far as being indicative of what’s to come in larger races later this year and next year, even in a statewide contest in a battleground like Wisconsin.

But the results give Democrats some reassurance that they have momentum with voters most likely to turn out. And the Democratic National Committee’s effort to rally voters in the district appears to have paid off.

A race with outsized impact in Iowa politics

Drey’s win will also alter the political dynamic in Des Moines in a small but significant way.

The GOP controls both houses of the state legislature, as well as the governor’s mansion. But Drey will help break a supermajority in the state Senate, which carries an important implication.

Nominees from the governor to state agencies, boards and commissions need a two-thirds vote in the state Senate for approval. With Drey’s win, the split in the Senate will now be 33 Republicans to 17 Democrats, denying the GOP that two-thirds and requiring that nominees from Reynolds need at least one Democratic vote in favor to be approved.

The two-thirds margin is also symbolic in Iowa, as that’s the amount needed to override a veto from the Gov. Kim Reynolds (R). Iowa hasn’t elected a Democratic governor in more than a decade, but Democrats are hopeful that they may have a chance to win the gubernatorial race next year, particularly as Reynolds has struggled with her popularity in office.

If they can win the office, keeping Republican control of the state legislature under two-thirds will be key to protect the governor’s veto from being overridden.
Georgia outcome will likely get punted to next month

Georgia also had a contested state Senate race Tuesday to replace former state Sen. Brandon Beach (R) after Trump chose him to become the U.S. treasurer.

Democrats have a much steeper battle in this district than they did in the Iowa one, but they’ll likely get a second chance to try to pull off an upset. Democrat Debra Shigley appears poised to advance to the runoff against one of her Republican opponents.
Shigley and a half dozen Republicans all competed on the same ballot for the seat Tuesday, and with no candidate likely to win a majority of the vote, the top two will advance to a runoff set for next month.

Shigley appears likely to finish in first, ahead of the rest of the pack, while her Republican opponent will look to unify the GOP behind their candidacy.

Winning in this seat would be likely even more challenging than in any of the other special elections where Democrats won this year. The district, located in the northern Atlanta suburbs, voted for Trump by 34 points, much higher than either of the Iowa districts or the Pennsylvania one.

Still, Shigley consolidated Democratic support behind her and appears on track to perform somewhat better than former Vice President Harris did in November, the sign Democrats are looking for in the deep red areas.

Trump Puts Retirees Private Information at Disposal of Identity theft Criminals

...And he claims to be fighting "crime".

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Social Security at risk of breach exposing 300 million to identity theft and loss of benefits: Whistleblower
Mike Crisolago
Wed, August 27, 2025 


Elon Musk

A bombshell whistleblower is sounding the alarm on what could be the biggest risk to Social Security data in history.

Charles Borges, chief data officer for the Social Security Administration (SSA), filed a complaint on Tuesday claiming that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) violated the law by saving copies of all federal Social Security Numbers to a cloud server in June.

As reported in Forbes, the complaint notes that only DOGE has access to the server. The SSA and other oversight bodies are shut out.

Borges warns that this lack of security and oversight creates “enormous vulnerabilities.”

The DOGE cloud database — Numident — contains “the name of the applicant, place and date of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, parents' names and Social Security numbers, phone number, address, and other personal information.”

Here’s what’s at risk.
What does this mean for your Social Security number?

The New York Times describes Numident as “one of the nation’s most sensitive repositories of personal information,” in its report on the case.

While there is no evidence of a breach yet, the database is a prime target for hackers.

“Should bad actors gain access to this cloud environment, Americans may be susceptible to widespread identity theft, may lose vital healthcare and food benefits,” the complaint reads.

How did DOGE access this goldmine of SSA data?

Earlier this year, former DOGE head Elon Musk and President Donald Trump claimed that millions of dead Americans were still receiving Social Security payments — even though a 2024 SSA report found that less than 1% of the trillions of dollars paid out by the agency between 2015 and 2022 were “improper.”

Opponents fought DOGE in court to prevent the department gaining access to such sensitive information. But at Trump’s urging, the Supreme Court overruled lower courts that blocked DOGE’s access to sensitive SSA info, allowing the department to proceed.
What to do if you think your Social Security Number has been breached

Of course, the whistleblower revelation will have many Americans wondering what could happen if their Social Security numbers are hacked.

An identity thief can do any number of things with your Social Security Number, including apply for a new line of credit in your name, max it out and leave you with a battered credit rating. They can also file a tax return under your name and claim the refund.

It’s important to stay vigilant so that if your SSN is stolen, you can act quickly:

Monitor your mySocialSecurity account, credit reports and IRS notifications regularly

Be on the alert for any sudden changes to your address on any accounts, unexplained issues with your Social Security benefits or tax returns — or messages from debt collectors regarding services you never requested. Allstate Insurance warns these could be signs your SSN has been stolen.

Identity Guard, an identity theft firm, recommends signing up for a Social Security number monitoring service, which “scans the Dark Web, public forums, and data brokers for your SSN and alerts you if your personal information is found.”

If your identity is stolen, the SSA recommends reporting it to IdentityTheft.gov online or at 1-877-IDTHEFT (TTY 1-866-653-4261). This service, run by the Federal Trade Commission, will help you through the process of recovering your identity.

As well, the SSA advises contacting the IRS online or at 1-800-908-4490 and filing a complaint with
the Internet Crime Complaint Center.

OOps! Here's another one

US-Born white criminal sexually abuses his 15-year old employee. You don't have to be a migrant or an immigrant. YOu don't have to be from Washington DC or Chicago. All you have to do is to be a dumb white asshole like Donald Dumb to be a criminal. The Dumb Moron-in-Chief should send the troops to Long Island to stem the epidemic of white trash crime. 
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Long Island pizzeria owner accused of sexual abuse against 15-year-old employee
Spencer Gustafson
Tue, August 26, 2025


Long Island pizzeria owner accused of sexual abuse against 15-year-old employee

OCEANSIDE, N.Y. (PIX11) — The owner of an Oceanside pizzeria has been accused of sexual abuse following an alleged incident involving a teenage employee, according to the Nassau County Police Department.

Joseph Piccolo, 61, owns Pizzaiola Oceanside at 3191 Long Beach Rd. According to detectives, Piccolo invited one of his employees, a 15-year-old girl, to his private office in the Italian restaurant on Aug. 10.

He allegedly told the employee to meet him in the back of the restaurant after work when nobody else was there, so that he could give her extra money without others noticing. Once she entered, Piccolo handed her $200 and then began touching her inappropriately, according to detectives.

The employee quickly left the restaurant and told her father what had happened. The incident was then reported to the police.

Piccolo was arrested on Aug. 15 by police and charged with sexual abuse, forcible touching and endangering the welfare of a child.

Trump-appointed Judge: Trump is Smearing the US Justice System




Judge tosses Trump administration’s lawsuit against Maryland’s 15 federal judges, calling it a ‘constitutional free-for-all’
Devan Cole, Katelyn Polantz, CNN
Tue, August 26, 2025

A federal judge on Tuesday threw out an aggressive, unusual lawsuit the Trump administration brought earlier this year against all 15 federal judges in Maryland, rejecting a bid by the Justice Department to limit court power in fast-moving immigration cases.

The opinion on Tuesday framed the lawsuit as a major constitutional standoff, with Judge Thomas Cullen writing the Justice Department couldn’t pursue a “constitutional free-for-all.”

Cullen, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, also wrote a scathing rebuke of the Trump administration, saying it is intentionally trying to smear the justice system.

“Over the past several months, principal officers of the Executive (and their spokespersons) have described federal district judges across the country as ‘left-wing,’ ‘liberal,’ ‘activists,’ ‘radical,’ ‘politically minded,’ ‘rogue,’ ‘unhinged,’ ‘outrageous, overzealous, [and] unconstitutional,’ ‘[c]rooked,’ and worse,” Cullen wrote.

“Although some tension between the coordinate branches of government is a hallmark of our constitutional system, this concerted effort by the Executive to smear and impugn individual judges who rule against it is both unprecedented and unfortunate,” he added.

The Justice Department has appealed Cullen’s ruling to the 4th US Circuit of Appeals, which is based in Richmond, Virginia.

The ruling from Cullen, who was brought in from another district to handle the case in Maryland, said the government lacked the legal right — known as standing — to bring the challenge and that the judges are immune from such suits brought by the executive branch.

“Any fair reading of the legal authorities cited by Defendants leads to the ineluctable conclusion that this court has no alternative but to dismiss. To hold otherwise would run counter to overwhelming precedent, depart from longstanding constitutional tradition, and offend the rule of law,” Cullen wrote in the 39-page decision.

The Justice Department sued all federal judges on the lower-level District Court of Maryland in late June, after the court’s chief judge put in place a rule that would automatically and temporarily block the Trump administration from removing an immigration detainee from the US if the detainee had gone to court to challenge their removal.

That rule was on full display Monday in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to El Salvador in mid-March and eventually returned to the US. The Trump administration has indicated it was to deport him immediately, but Abrego Garcia filed a new case in Maryland that triggered the protection from the court against immediate deportation.

Tuesday, Cullen found he wouldn’t have the authority the Trump administration wanted from him to immediately block the Maryland judges it sued, and that the executive branch doesn’t have a reason within the law where it can sue the judges as it did.

“Dismissal of the Executive’s suit is appropriate because it has not pointed to a cause of action that permits this court to entertain a lawsuit between two coordinate branches of government, and this court will not be the first to create one,” he wrote.

CNN has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.

The Justice Department had argued that the automatic orders from the Maryland court in certain immigration cases were unlawful because they didn’t involve the usual analysis by a judge to determine whether such a temporary block against a removal was warranted.

In finishing his opinion, Cullen underscored the unusual nature of the lawsuit, which came as the Trump administration faced a slew of immigration-related cases amid its effort to deport an unprecedented number of undocumented immigrants from Maryland and elsewhere.

“Much as the Executive fights the characterization, a lawsuit by the executive branch of government against the judicial branch for the exercise of judicial power is not ordinary,” he wrote. “Whatever the merits of its grievance with the judges of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, the Executive must find a proper way to raise those concerns.”

White-Skin Trump is Jealous of Dark-Skin Obama for Nobel Peace Prize

Countries around the world are mocking the United States for electing a moron. They, of course, fear economic disasters and agree to make stupid "deals" with the tailless albino primate, but not because they respect him or have a good opinion of him. Behind his back, they see in Trump the confirmation of the "Dumb and Ugly" adage.

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'Never Seen Anything More Pathetic': Trump Envoy Mocked After Public Groveling Session
Ed Mazza
Wed, August 27, 2025 




President Donald Trump’s Cabinet meeting on Tuesday featured a moment that was over-the-top even by the usual standards of the events.

The meetings are known for having each member of the Cabinet and other high-level officials deliver a report that’s mostly just praise for Trump.

But on Tuesday, Steve Witkoff ― Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East ― laid it on thick.

“Mr. President, working for this government, for you, is the greatest honor of my life,” he said. “I tell it to everybody and I really do feel that way and I thank you.”

He claimed Trump solved “more than seven conflicts” since taking office, and said the president should get the highest level of recognition.

“There’s only one thing I wish for: That that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate, since this Nobel award was ever talked about, to receive that reward beyond your success is game-changing out in the world today and I hope everybody one day wakes up and realizes that.”

The room burst into applause.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a sore spot for Trump, who has complained repeatedly about not receiving one during his first term in office. Trump has said he should have had “four or five” of them by now, and seems really bothered by the fact that President Barack Obama was awarded one.

Trump has sent the military into U.S. cities, refused to rule out taking Greenland by force, and made similar comments about the Panama Canal. He even wants to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

Trump’s critics put the president and Witkoff on blast over the very notion of Trump getting the Nobel Peace Prize:

They’re all trying to out sycophant each other. Never seen anything more pathetic in my life. And for Trump of all people! https://t.co/msu8Q2nm6v
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 26, 2025

kinda grotesque that our supposed point man in two efforts to forge peace only wishes for “one thing”: that his boss gets a prize for peace, not, you know actual peace. https://t.co/HSlOqQ0yhk
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) August 27, 2025
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Multiple moments from Donald Trump’s marathon Cabinet meeting went viral Tuesday for the sycophantic way top officials appeared to compete in showering the president with praise.

The progressive MeidasTouch Network compiled several of the most cringeworthy comments into a damning supercut that also quickly spread online.

“Another successful cabinet meeting with Dear Leader,” the group mockingly captioned the 85-second montage, which by early Wednesday morning had racked up more than 1.5 million views on X, formerly Twitter.

The video includes footage of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer inviting Trump “to see your big, beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor, because you are really the transformational president of the American worker”; Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, saying serving under Trump is “the greatest honor of my life”; and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declaring, “Our country has never been so secure thanks to you,” adding that Trump “brought us back from the edge.”

Gag me with a MAGA maggot!