MAGA Officials Scared Shitless of 2028 Defeat: They Know They Broke the Law

Todd Blanche is Trump's corrupt lackey at DOJ. He and all the MAGA goons know they are breaking every law in the books. But like Cosmo Kramer, they didn't think ahead. And now they are shitting potatoes at the prospect of being investigated and convicted after the monumental defeat awaiting them in 2026 and 2028.

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The entire Trump administration is worried about being prosecuted for unspecified offenses if Democrats take back the White House in 2028.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed these fears to the audience at one of the nation’s largest gatherings of right-wing figures and influencers.

“Even in this administration, everybody’s afraid that the next administration, if we don’t win, we’re going to all be investigated and indicted,” Blanche said Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “And why are they afraid? Because that’s exactly what happened during the last administration.”

“All of Trump’s Cabinet, everybody that worked at the White House… had to go to the grand jury,” continued Blanche, who served as Trump’s personal attorney before taking over the number two spot at the Department of Justice.

He didn’t elaborate on what he meant by “go to the grand jury,” or give any examples of officials who have been targeted.

The Daily Beast has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.

In a grand jury proceeding, the prosecution can call witnesses, but there’s no defendant, defense attorney, or judge present. That would mean any officials appearing before a grand jury would have been called as witnesses, not as the subject of an investigation.

None of Trump’s Cabinet from his first term was the subject of criminal investigations, but the specter of prison did help convince some of the president’s allies to turn on him when he was prosecuted in Georgia for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Attorney Sidney Powell pled guilty to trying to help President Trump overturn the 2020 election. / The Washington Post / Getty Images

Four co-defendants in the Georgia case—including campaign lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesbro—took plea deals and agreed to testify against the other defendants to avoid jail time, while Trump and two others pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors dropped the case in 2025 after Trump won re-election on the grounds that it wasn’t “realistic” to try to prosecute a sitting president.

Also during the Biden administration, two Trump associates, MAGA strategist Steve Bannon and trade adviser Peter Navarro, served several months in prison for refusing to respond to congressional subpoenas.

Other associates—such as attorney Michael Cohen, former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, and longtime Trump associate Roger Stone— were convicted of various crimes during Trump’s first term in office.

President Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts for paying hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels. / Julia Nikhinson-Pool / Getty Images

Cohen later implicated Trump in his 2024 New York criminal trial over hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, but avoided any jail time thanks to his re-election victory.

Cohen's $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels is tied to Trump's 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. / Michael M. Santiago / Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

After he returned to office in January 2025, he instructed the Justice Department to prosecute his political enemies, including New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey.

Blanche’s deputies oversee a “weaponization” task force that was formed for that express purpose.

The deputy attorney general told CPAC he had also purged the DOJ of more than 200 attorneys who worked on the criminal investigations into Trump.

Blanche's deputies oversee a task force at the DOJ that investigates President Trump's perceived enemies, including former FBI Director James Comey. / Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

In addition to the state prosecutions, special prosecutor Jack Smith brought two criminal cases against Trump, accusing him of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss and retaining classified records.

“There is not a single man or woman at the Department of Justice who had anything to do with those prosecutions,” Blanche bragged.

Trump’s allies don’t appear to be safe from scrutiny even with the current administration in charge.

Outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her de facto chief of staff Corey Lewandowski are facing scrutiny over warehouse contracts, a no-bid $220 million ad campaign, and plans to purchase luxury jets for the department.

Pro-Israel US Terrorist Planned to Bomb a Palestinian in NY and Flee to Israel

NYPD and FBI say they disrupted a plot to firebomb the home of a Palestinian activist in New York
Associated Press
Fri, March 27, 2026 


Organizer Nerdeen Kiswani from Within Our Lifetime speaks at a rally for Palestinian Prisoners' Day on April 17, 2025, in New York. - David Dee Delgado/Reuters

A man accused of planning to firebomb the home of a prominent Palestinian activist has been arrested following a weekslong undercover operation led by the New York City Police Department, officials said Friday.

The target of the plot was Nerdeen Kiswani, who frequently leads protests in New York against Israel and the war in Gaza through the organization Within Our Lifetime.

Kiswani, 31, said law enforcement officials informed her late Thursday that they had disrupted “a threat on my life that was about to take place.”

Federal authorities said they arrested Alexander Heifler on Thursday at his home in Hoboken, New Jersey, as he was assembling Molotov cocktails that he planned to throw at Kiswani’s home. For weeks, he had discussed the plot with an undercover NYPD detective who had infiltrated a group chat used by Heifler, according to a police department spokesperson.

An official who was briefed on the investigation said Heifler, 26, identified as a member of the JDL 613 Brotherhood, a New Jersey-based group founded in 2024 that describes its membership as “Jewish warriors” fighting back against rising antisemitism.

A website for the group says they are inspired by the original Jewish Defense League, a group linked to numerous bombings and attempted assassinations of Arab American political activists in the 1970s and 1980s.

Heifler planned to flee to Israel following the attack, according to the official, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the details of an ongoing investigation.

An email inquiry sent to the JDL 613 was not returned.

Kiswani, who lives in Brooklyn with her infant son and husband, said the plot would not deter her continued activism.

“I feel very blessed that they were able to thwart this, but it’s something that is a constant possibility for people who speak up on behalf of Palestine,” she said.

Heifler was charged in a criminal complaint with separate counts of making and possessing destructive devices, which each carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. A message left with his attorney was not returned. He made an initial appearance in New Jersey federal court on Friday afternoon.

“Let me be clear: We will not tolerate violent extremism in our city,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement. “No one should face violence for their political beliefs or their advocacy. I am relieved that Nerdeen is safe.”

According to a court filing written by an FBI agent, Heifler spoke on a video call in February with a group that included an undercover detective about his interest in training for “self-defense” and wanting space where he could throw Molotov cocktails.

The next day, he met with the undercover detective in person and discussed his plan to use them against Kiswani and flee the country, according to the complaint. “We have (Kiswani’s) address,” Heifler allegedly told the undercover. “So it’s like that, that would be easier if you’d be more comfortable with that.”

Heifler and the undercover detective drove to Kiswani’s residence on March 4 to “conduct surveillance” and discussed making a dozen Molotov cocktails to throw at her home and two cars parked outside, complaint said.

On Thursday, the undercover detective and Heifler met at Heifler’s Hoboken residence, where he had assembled components to make the Molotov cocktails, including a large bottle of Everclear, a highly flammable alcohol, the complaint said. Law enforcement officers then executed a search warrant at the residence and recovered the eight Molotov cocktails, the complaint said.

Kiswani co-founded the group Within Our Lifetime, which frequently organizes protests against Israel that draw hundreds of participants and often end in arrests. The group’s calls to “abolish Zionism” and support for “all forms of struggle,” including violence, has drawn fierce criticism. Kiswani denies that her criticism of Israel amounts to antisemitism.

Kiswani has been a frequent target of online vitriol. Earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Randy Fine, a Florida Republican, sparked backlash after writing in a social media post that “the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.” The post was a response to a message Kiswani shared about dog owners, which she said was a light joke.

“That hate against Palestinians has been bolstered by public officials, by Zionist organizations, who are never held accountable,” she said. “This is the inevitable result of that.”

The operation was carried out by the Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremism unit within the NYPD’s counterterrorism bureau, a police spokesperson said.

“This is exactly how our intelligence and counterterrorism operation is designed to work — a sophisticated apparatus built to detect danger early and prevent violence before it reaches our streets,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

Welcome to the Christian Gringo Taliban in Afghanistan-on-Potomac

American women of all colors: You might have to wear a burka some day if the MAGA neanderthals get their way. They already are chasing women out of the armed forces. They want women sequestered in their homes, barefoot, pregnant and waiting for their husbands. Just like in the 1940s and 1950s.

Read what this MAGA imbecile - the American equivalent of the Afghan Taliban, the Saudi Wahhabis, and thre Iranian Mullahs - has to say about unwed American women:

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Trump Official's Daughter Says Unwed Women Vote 'Poorly' Without 'The Security Of A Male'

Marco Margaritoff

Thu, March 26, 2026

Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the daughter of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, argued Wednesday during an appearance on Real America’s Voice that unmarried women tend to “vote very, very poorly” — without “the security of a male.”

Duffy-Alfonso appeared on “Human Events with Jack Posobiec” to discuss rumors of a U.S. military draft, after the Army raised its maximum enlistment age from 35 to 42 amid President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, and his plummeting support among Gen Z voters.

When asked why young men and women are “turning the other way,” Duffy-Alfonso argued that these aren’t the demographics Trump needs to worry about — and that the supposed concern is married men, unmarried men and married women versus unmarried women, in particular.

“And if you think about it, it actually makes perfect sense, just intuitively,” the 26-year-old conservative commentator told Posobiec. “If you’re an unmarried woman, what are you looking for in your life most of all? What is missing? It’s the security of a male.” [Just like in backward third world muslim countries]

She continued, “And so young women and unmarried women, especially, are saying, looking at the Democratic Party, which is entirely based off of offering free things and social programs, and they say, ‘That’s my party. That’s what I want to go towards.’”

Duffy-Alfonso concluded, “And so they vote very, very poorly.”

White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told Newsweek last week that the “ultimate poll” was the 2024 election, and while young voters were integral in returning Trump to office, an actual poll published earlier this month shows that their views have begun to change.

A YouGov/Economic survey conducted between March 6 and March 9 showed that 55% of 1,563 polled U.S. adults disapproved of Trump’s job performance. Among those polled who were between the ages of 18 to 29, however, only 32% approved of his work.

Duffy-Alfonso noted young people are growing even more critical of Trump amid his ongoing war, but argued that this isn’t because of the unnecessary human cost or the potentially global ramifications of Trump’s escalating conflict — but because of vocal concern from Democrats.

“There’s a narrative that this is going to be a 20-year ‘forever war,’” she said. “And there’s also a narrative that President Trump is going to be bring back the draft. I don’t think [White House press secretary] Karoline Leavitt said that, Democrats have spun her words to mean that.”

Duffy-Alfonso added, “And so that is deeply troubling if you’re a 22-year-old, 23-year-old man getting ready to go to the polls. ‘Oh, if I vote for a Republican, I’m voting to go to war overseas.’ And the White House hasn’t done enough to actually correct the record on that.”

A New York Times analysis published on March 10 showed only 41% of Americans supported launching the war, making it the most unpopular U.S war since 1941 — as every other full-scale war since then had been backed by the majority of Americans beforehand.

MAGA Whimps Gloomy Over What They See as Unwinnable Iran War

Trump's dumb blondes - Ingraham and Kelly - don't like the way their idol Trump is running the Iran war into a monumental debacle.

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Megyn Kelly Worries Everything Trump Built ‘Will Be Ruined’ If Iran War Continues | Video

"We cannot send five to 17,000 troops into Iran and ever win a Republican election again for the next 10 to 20 years," the host adds

Jacob Bryant

Fri, March 27, 2026

On Friday’s episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the host fretted over the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Kelly lamented that Trump’s poll numbers continue to plummet with each passing day as those who are not ride or die MAGA grow increasingly annoyed at the U.S.’ involvement with Iran. Per Kelly, Trump’s struggles to find allies to help safeguard the Strait of Hormuz only shows how dire things are becoming for the president.

“We seem to have a new goal in ending this war, which is, we need to open the Strait of Hormuz,” Kelly said. “You mean the strait that was open before we began the bombing campaign? It was open. There was no problem with the Strait of Hormuz. It was fine. The reason it’s closed is because we decided to start a war, and this is the only thing these guys can control, and they know it, and they’re doing it rather effectively.”

Kelly added that despite Trump trying to guilt and persuade NATO and other allies to help defend the Strait, it is not working. The president’s doubling down on the war is continuing to tank his numbers — and talk of a major ground invasion is only making them fall further. It’s gotten so bad Kelly worries the Republicans could struggle for years.

“We cannot send five to 17,000 troops into Iran and ever win a Republican election again for the next 10 to 20 years,” she said. “He cannot do that. Everything he built, the entire coalition we were all part of, will be ruined.”

Kelly has been a vocal opponent of the newest war with Iran from the very beginning. The first show she did after the attacks at the beginning of March called out the operation and, despite being a prominent Trump supporter, she’s stayed adamant that the war remains a bad idea.

“My own feeling is no one should have to die for a foreign country. I don’t think those four service members died for the United States. I think they died for Iran or for Israel,” Kelly said at the time. “I understand how this helps Iran perfectly well. They seem rather jubilant, 80% of the country does not support the Ayatollah. He was a terrible, terrible man. No one is crying that he’s dead, no normal person, but our government’s job is not to look out for Iran or for Israel. It’s to look out for us. And this feels very much to me like it is clearly Israel’s war. Mark Levin wanted it, it’s his war, Ben Shapiro, Lindsey Graham, Miriam Adelson, that’s obvious. They’re the ones who have been pushing us into this.”

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Fox News Host Predicts Iran Awakening for Trump
Leigh Kimmins
Fri, March 27, 2026 at 1:42 PM GMT+2

Fox News host Laura Ingraham is apparently nudging President Trump to wrap up his messy conflict in the Middle East.

Trump, 79, launched the war on Feb. 28 on the promise that U.S. involvement in the region would only last a few weeks, though a quick exit began to seem increasingly unlikely amid a flurry of contradictory claims about negotiations to end the conflict.

The impasse has left the global economy in a state of flux, as calls for clarity from both sides of the political fault line in the U.S. grow louder. Polling suggests that the war has eroded Trump’s favorability, and, with the midterms approaching, Fox News star Laura Ingraham has suggested that Trump will soon retreat from the region.

Laura Ingraham/X [She thinks Trump's brain is normal. Alas, it's more like The Young Franskenstein's monster's brain: Abnormal]

“At some point soon, Pres. Trump will decide that he’s spent enough political capital on this conflict,” she said on X.

Her skepticism marks a departure from the usual White House line her Fox News colleagues dole out. Ingraham regularly shares her unabashed take on the war, despite her network’s clear pro-Trump slant.

On her show, The Ingraham Angle, on Wednesday, she said the Trump administration is getting drawn further into the quagmire of war.

“Iran knows it cannot win militarily, so it’s using the leverage it has by prolonging the conflict,” she said. “Now, what do they want to do? They want to inflict maximum economic pain on the region, on the U.S., [on] the global economy as much as possible until they think Trump relents. But the White House doesn’t seem to be blinking.”

The host played a clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt cautioning during her briefing that “President Trump does not bluff, and he is prepared to unleash hell.”

Ingraham appeared unconvinced by the warning.

“Well, the problem is obviously unleashing hell means destroying infrastructure, which itself causes a series of cascading problems for the region, including maybe outside the region—political problems for the president in a midterm election year,” she said.

Trump, for his part, has repeatedly suggested the war is won. However, reports suggest he is plotting to send 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East. Also, after oil jumped to its highest level this week, and the S&P 500 had its biggest daily decline since January, he said he would extend a deadline for negotiations by 10 days.

The extension follows a warning last Saturday when he threatened to strike Iranian power plants “one by one” if the regime did not open up the Strait of Hormuz, a strategically important shipping lane that connects Gulf energy to the rest of the world.

As Ingraham suggested, Iran is using the narrow passage as leverage in negotiations.

Iran has effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz and is using it as leverage. / JONATHAN WALTER / AFP via Getty Images

Earlier this month, Ingraham grilled Trump’s hand-picked energy secretary, Chris Wright, on the issue. “So, Mr Secretary, three ships near the strait were hit by projectiles over the past 24 hours. What now?” she asked.

Wright immediately danced away from the question, instead launching into White House talking points about Iran’s history of hostage-taking, terrorism, and regional destabilization.

Ingraham wasn’t having it.

“Well, Mr Secretary, we know that,” she interjected. “But, I’m sorry to interrupt. Yeah, well, I said that in the Angle, I couldn’t agree more. And we understand that history. It’s murderous. But what now?”

She went on to try to preempt any more evasive answers as Wright continued to dodge. “We will end their ability to impede traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and ships will flow again,” he eventually spluttered, offering no specifics.

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Ignore the bombast – the Iran war is only likely to end one way
Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN
Fri, March 27, 2026

Strip away the bombast and superlatives. Let the apocalyptic, threat-laden deadlines slide. The dynamics of President Donald Trump’s war on Iran suggest it is likely to end with a whimper not a bang.

Trump has stumbled into the trap of many presidents before him: the illusion of a swiftly executed military operation, bringing enduring political change. But war and peace is never that binary. And as Trump gives his negotiators more time to make headway, the stage is increasingly set for the vague greyness that usually ends conflicts, to limp this one to a close: talks.

Wartime leaders tend to speak in absolutes, and Trump has been keen to exude many. But his most grandiose ambitions for Iran will likely stay out of reach. He cannot guarantee Iran will never have a nuclear weapon – just heavily degrade and delay their chances of doing so. Similarly, he cannot permanently alter an Iranian missile program that was rebuilt quickly after the damage of Israel’s 12-day war last year.

Likewise, Iran will not get the guarantee it seeks of all hostilities ending, forever, and its desire for reparations seems remote outside of possible sanctions relief.

And Israel will not be able to “disarm” Hezbollah – its spoken goal at the start of the conflict, but elusive for decades, as the group remains a stubbornly resilient political and military force in Lebanon. Indeed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday the goal was to “fundamentally change” the situation in Lebanon – an arguably reduced aim. The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah never truly stopped, and may continue to- perhaps at a lower ebb, with Lebanese lands occupied as leverage - regardless of Trump’s war in Iran.

As Trump’s deadline for a deal vaults over this weekend into the next, unsettled stock markets close, and reports of new, madcap US military options proliferate, the Middle East is still dealing with the same set of problems it had when the war began.

Iran’s brutal regime retains a solid grip in Tehran, in Iraq through proxies, and in Lebanese society through Hezbollah. Little violence has been able to dislodge Iran as – to some Shia – a sponsor or protector of sorts.

It is a role Iran loses through political and economic change, not through 2000 lb. bombs and targeted assassinations.

In Lebanon, a shift in dynamics has occurred, where the Lebanese government now openly shares – in terminology at least - Israel’s goal of “disarming” Hezbollah. But they lack the means, and the Iranian backed militants retain the very “monopoly of force” the government seeks to take from them. It is much easier to declare a policy than enact it.

Trump’s diplomatic approach is chaotic and relies on forging a reality that may – or may not – actually gain traction with the facts on the ground. But the current leadership vacuum inside Tehran helps. Iran does not speak with a singular public voice, allowing Trump to try and speak for it.

Iranian state media seemed to reject a reported US 15-point proposal, that the White House later added was not entirely accurate. Given we do not publicly know what the United States’ true red lines or demands are, or what Iran is willing to concede privately, Trump can pluck ideas from the ether and construct a diplomatic triumph of his own liking.

Provided the violence ebbs in some form, energy markets calm, and the Strait of Hormuz opens up enough, Trump can, and will, claim a win.

Despite Iran’s remarkably ferocious response across the region – attacking neighbors like Oman who days earlier mediated between Tehran and Washington - weeks of intense airstrikes against its cities and military has not magically left it a hundred feet tall. It has lost one Supreme Leader, has another yet to emerge in public, and has seen its top brass decimated. An end to hostilities now is vastly in its favor, provided it comes with some sense of deterrent intact.

The United States is also slowly lacking good military options. Its military has bombed 10,000 targets, but the first thousand were likely more valuable than the tenth. The Pentagon is sending a relatively tiny number of Marines and other troops to the region – enough to make a small-scale military operation viable, but nothing like the volume needed for any sort of serious land incursion, or perhaps even the much discussed seizing of Kharg Island or Iran’s enriched uranium. Both options would be prohibitively perilous, even before they had been telegraphed for over a week.

Trump preferred Thursday to speak of the war in the past tense, as “not the big one.” He prefers to call it an operation. He has long searched for an off-ramp, while polishing his veneer of invincibility and military might. But his reality mirrors that of Tehran: neither can blink first, nor hide the damage this month of violence has done to it and its allies.

Both sides need this to stop, and the seminal role information plays in warfare – tightly policed, the propaganda stakes fought over as much today as land and concrete itself – helps both sides define the reality in which they make a deal.

Trump is little bothered by the constraints reality places on what he declares. It is unlikely that will change in the fog of his first war, where arguably truth was never enough of a consideration to be the first casualty.

Diplomacy doesn’t have to yield absolute victory, or “unconditional surrender,” just enough of a slowdown to let the avaricious news cycle move on.

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MAGA Crowd Displays Collective Stupidity at CPAC: Cheer Trump Impeachment

As riffraff morons from the backwaters of America, the MAGA imbeciles are individually moronic. We now discover that they are morons as a group as well.

As a MAGA Trump ally, Matt Schlapp (nice Nazi souding name), was asking a rhetorical question to the crowd of MAGA buffaloes at the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) convention in Texas, “How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?”, the audience cheered loudly.

Apparently they cheer regardless of the comment. That is called a "herd reflex". 

Trump's Answer to Female Reporter's Iran Question: You Still Look Beautiful

The old man in the Whouthouse is a "dirty old man". A pervert who uses his position to unleash his sick libido in front of millions of Americans by demeaning female reporters. For him, women, even the Aryan-looking ones, are sex objects befofe they are professionals (e.g. reporters). This is consistent with his long documented history of sex abuse and filthy comments about women. 

 

What he thinks of African American women is even more disturbing because he always  calls them "Low IQ". Simply put, the senile creep praises white women's asses (i.e. has disregard for their intelligence) and has absolute contempt for black women's beauty and intelligence.  

  

Fox News's Dana Perino was asking the pervert old moron about the war he is waging on Iran. His answer:

“But first, do you remember when we had lunch years ago at the base of Trump Tower, when it was a brand-new building … a long time ago? You haven’t changed ... Now, I’m not allowed to say this. It’s the end of my political career,” he quipped.

Then he goes on, “But you may be even better looking [today], OK?” the assh-l- said. “But I will not say that because that will end my political career. You’re not allowed to say a woman’s beautiful anymore..."

Trump’s critics slammed the president’s behavior.

“He’s such a sick f---,” tweeted former Republican congressman-turned-Trump critic Joe Walsh.

“What a disgusting pig,” posted the anti-Trump X account Spiro’s Ghost.

“This is so creepy, inappropriate, and downright stomach churning,” added Trump critic Mike Sington. “Trump is talking about his war and the plight of the Iranian people, when he stops dead in his tracks to put the moves on Fox News host Dana Perino.”

[updated]: Hegseth Nicknamed "Dumb McNamara" by Pentagon Staffers

[Update 27-Mar-2026]:

AFRICAN-AMERICANS, PAY ATTENTION: RACIST MYSOGYNIST BUT IDIOT TRUMP HATES AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMALES. HE'S ALWAYS REFERRED TO THEM AS "LOW IQ", AND NOW HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE SEEN STANDING NEXT TO ONE OF THEM.

Hegseth is denying black female officers their promotions because "Trump Doesn’t Want to Stand Next to a Black Female Officer".

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth removed two African-American female officers from a military promotions list.
 

According to the New York Times, current and former military administration officials are saying that Hegseth’s chief of staff told a military leader that Trump doesn’t “want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events.” Hence, African American female officers are being denied their deserved promotions by Hegseth because of that reason. 

 

One of the two women is an armor officer who wrote a paper examining why Black service members historically have tbeen given support roles rather than frontline positions. The other is a female logistics officer and is being targeted by Hegseth because she was involved in the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan that both Trump and Hegseth considered a failure.

Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll had refused Hegseth’s requests to deny these promotions. During a discussion of whether to promote Maj. Gen. Antoinette R. Gant to take charge of the Military District of Washington last summer, Hegseth’s chief of staff, Ricky Buria, told Driscoll that President Trump does not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events.

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The drunkard womanizing racist who accepted Jesus Christ as his "personal Savior" to rescue him from binge drinking and fornicating with married women is now referred to as "Dumb McNamara" by his Pentagon staffers.

 

He just hates anyone who is not white anglo-saxon Aryan protestant male. Which is why he has been ransacking the Defense Department and the Pentagon, bleaching them by firing or denying promotions to deserving dark-skinned military personnel, and making it more "manly" by doing the same with female military poersonnel.

Four Army officers, two women and two Black men, are now off a military promotion list to become one-star generals because being Black and female, in Hegseth's opinion, is a detriment to the US Army.

His Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll, has been resisting the move by Hegseth to remove the officers’ names, but now the manly Hegseth has taken matters into his own hands.

The promotion list in question includes three dozen officers, most of whom are white men, though some Black and female officers remain on it. Hegseth disguises his racism and mysogyny by claiming he is eliminating promotions that are not based on merit, which in his lexicon means that "merit = white male". There are literally thousands of white male military personnel that are as dumb as Hegseth himself (and his sleepy senile boss).

It’s unclear what Hegseth’s motivations are for removing the individuals' names, but racism and mysogyny are realistic reasons, although he hides behind such notions as "merit" to implement his Fascist policies. 

Last year, Hegseth reassigned Vice Admiral Yvette Davids, the first woman to lead the U.S. Naval Academy, dismissed Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield as the U.S. military representative to the NATO Military Committee and dismissed Navy Admiral Linda Fagan as chief of naval operations.

All these moves by the Fascists of MAGA are certain to reduce their chances of re-election: Black African-Americans and women are watching. 

Several Pentagon officials have reportedly been referring to Hegseth as “Dumb McNamara,” a comparison to former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who played a central role in expanding U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The former defense secretary pushed so hard for further U.S. involvement in Vietnam that some dubbed it ‘“McNamara’s War.” Hegseth's nickname not only targets his hardline military approach, comparing it to a sad chapter in U.S. history that’s widely seen as a major strategic failure, but adds the eloquent qualifier so engrained in the MAGA culture: DUMB. 

Iran War Makes Trump's Family Richer, Americans Poorer. MAGA Sounds Alarm

Middle East "Peace Envoy" Jared Kushner is raising $5 billion for his investment firm while  his Father-out-Law Trump escalates tensions. Members of Congress are increasingly unnerved by Trump and his family's exploitation of geopolitical tensions for financial gains.

"Donald Trump’s named his son-in-law Jared Kushner Peace Envoy," Warren wrote.

Elizabeth Warren said, "Now, in the middle of a war with Iran, our Peace Envoy is in the Middle East trying to raise $5 BILLION for his private equity firm." It appears that Kushner is trying to convince oil-rich Arab Sheikhs from the Gulf to "safeguard" their money with his firm. Not only did the Trump Administration erect Iran as a scarecrow to scare the decadent Muslim Gulf Arabs (who don't seem to want to fight alongside the Americans and their Israeli militia, despite having bought hundreds of billions worth of weapons from the US) into complying with the Zionist plans, but it is also shaking the stupid spineless Gulf Arabs down and urging them to hide their investments with the Trump family Mafia conglomerate.

Warren added, "While Trump puts American service members’ lives at risk in a war against Iran, his peace envoy Jared Kushner is busy raising money for his own private equity firm... He's looking for five billion dollars from foreign governments....Americans here at home are paying nearly 30% more for gas. And Donald Trump’s inner circle is about making themselves more money."

Earlier, Kushner faced a ten-day deadline to disclose his financial records as Special Envoy for Peace, drawing scrutiny to his $5.4 billion private equity firm, Affinity Partners, which had secured a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia but returned no profits.

Meanwhile, some MAGA diehards are developing ulcers at the prospect of a huge defeat in the polls this coming November. Matt Gaetz says, "the war will make our country poorer and less safe".

Speaking at the conservative CPAC convention in Texas, the disgraced (for sexual controversies. See : https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/matt-gaetz-house-ethics-report/681163/) Gaetz declared,  “I come from the wing of the Republican Party that is only loyal to one nation and that is the United States of America.” He's probably trying to buff his sullied image in anticipation of elections; some jerks don't take no for an answer.

One good thing about disgruntled MAGA morons is that they spill the beans. For instance, Gaetz rejected the notion that Israel has the power to dictate the terms of U.S. involvement in the conflict, which means he knows Israel does exactly that. So he goes into the overused blaming of Obama and Biden (?) for inflation and long TSA lines at airports.

“We cannot move into the midterms with self-inflicted wounds,” the scintillating Gaetz told the crowd of conservative morons. conference. He then plunged into an incoherent soup of drivel about Tucker Carlson, the stale issue of antisemitism behind which Radical Right Jew-haters hide their racism, and other favorite lies.... 

The fornicating MAGA Floridian continued stirring the old soup that Republicans and MAGA can't seem to have enough of, “While I may not agree with the likes of Mark Levin or Ben Shapiro or Mike Huckabee that we have some sort of near slavish loyalty to a country in a far away land, I would walk across hot coals arm in arm with those individuals to stop the Democrats turning America into a more transsexual version of Venezuela (?)... I want President Trump to have every diplomatic tool at his disposal and I do trust that he knows a great deal more than I do. But a ground invasion of Iran will make our country poorer and less safe. It will mean higher gas prices, higher food prices and I’m not sure we’d end up killing more terrorists than we would create.” At least, the moron learned some lessons.

Gaetz admitted that he doesn't like “forever wars” such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq, because (without having the guts to admit it) we keep losing them.

A new poll of registered voters by the Radical Racist Right mouthpiece Fox News has revealed that Trump's approval rating is plummeting amid widespread disapproval of his strikes. Not one of the by-elections that have taken place over the past couple of months have been won by Trump-endorsed MAGA morons. Democrats view this as a harbinger of the crushing defeat of Trump in November, unless he manages - as he keeps hinting - to screw up the elections and cheat like he did after the 2020 elections.

Upcoming Economic Impacts of the USrael-Iran War

Legendary investor Mohamed El-Erian warns that the economic impacts from the Iran war are about to hit a tipping point
Jennifer Sor
Thu, March 26, 2026

Mohamed El-Erian says the Iran war is about to hit a tipping in terms of its economic impact.

The famed economist sees big consequences once supply chains in Asia are impacted by the war.

Hope for de-escalation was waning on Thursday after reports of a US peace plan sent markets higher on Wednesday.

The economic fallout from the Iran war is approaching a tipping point, Mohamed El-Erian says.

The top economist and former chief investment officer at PIMCO said he believes the damage stemming from the conflict in the Middle East has already reached a critical threshold, and it's likely to approach another inflection point within the next few weeks if there's no sign of de-escalation.

The first tipping point occurred in the first several weeks of the war, when both sides began attacking energy infrastructure, El-Erian said. At that point, oil-supply disruptions switched from temporary to medium-term in how long they could last, he said.

The next tipping point will occur when those disruptions start to hit supply chains, particularly in Asia, he said, likely referring to how the region is one of the most affected by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. In 2024, around 84% of all crude oil that passed through the Strait went to Asia, according to an analysis by the research group Zero Carbon Analytics.

"The next tipping point is when actual supplies, actual quantity, do not get to the countries in Asia, in particular. If that happens — and I suspect we are within a couple weeks of that — if that happens, then you're going to see an enormous economic impact because it's not just about the price, but it's also about the quantity available," he said.

Oil rose again on Thursday after prices cooled in Wednesday's trading session, following reports of a US peace plan sent to Iran. Iran has pushed back, sending stocks lower and oil back up. Brent crude rose 4% to $106 per barrel, and US oil was up 3% to $93.

Fears of hotter inflation are at the heart of the economic anxiety around the Iran war. On one level, supply disruptions in the Middle East have sent crude prices soaring, which can impact the prices of other goods and services and lift overall inflation.

Furthermore, if less supply reaches the market, prices will need to rise even further to lower demand for oil and oil products.

It's nearly impossible to predict the price at which oil sees demand destruction, though some economists have floated the possibility that oil prices could rise as high as $200 a barrel before that happens.

Apart from oil, other supply chains have already started to feel the inflationary impact of the war. Flows of helium, pharmaceutical drugs, fertilizer, and other materials have also been impacted by disruptions from the Strait of Hormuz.

El-Erian has been vocal about the economic damage that could accrue the longer the Middle East conflict drags on. Previously, he told BI he believed the odds of a US recession had climbed to 35% due to the war, and that higher inflation was raising the risk for a "financial accident."

Read the original article on Business Insider
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[Irrelevant nugget: "El-Erian" is Arabic for "The naked one"]

Chronic Antisemitism Still Brews in the MAGA-GOP-Conservative Moron Pack

Read: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-right-wing-zionist-digests-trumps-anti-semite-dinner-party

They are all antisemites. Heirs to the KKK, the Nazis and such other white supremacists. BUT, they love Israel. Imagine how well balanced is their sleezy ideology.

Some of them feel guilty, so they complain but they never break rank with the general underpinnings of the republican-MAGA-white supremacist platform.

They may hate the Jews, but for now they keep their hatred under lid, except for the "rogues" among them who once in a while jump off the wagon. I imagine that when they're done with blacks, browns, arabs, catholics, asians, gays, women, hispanics and every other human being who is not a white protestant dinosaur male, and when they tire of their mercenary Jewish colonial militia in Palestine and have no use for it any longer, they will turn back to their fundamental roots of hating Jews. They've always hated them. Since the Roman Empire, the western Dark Ages, and up through the 19th century, all of the 20th century and into our present time.

In fact, the fake Christians who call themselves Evangelicals, the dumbest of all Americans, including that moronic hillbilly from Arkansas who plays US ambassador with the mercenary Jewish colonial militia in Palestine, aim to one day massacre all the Jews who will refuse to convert and persist in rejecting Jesus as the Superhero Messiah at the End of Times when he flies back on chariots of fire and brimstone from Krypton to Jerusalem, where the colonial Jewish supremacists plan to re-build a 3d temple atop the Muslim Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Despite the established facts that the earth is several billion years old and that all life extant today emerged some 4 billions of years ago during the Archean Era, these imbeciles believe that the Big Zombie in the sky (variously named by primitive peoples as Dieu, Gott, God, Allah, Zeus, Vishnu, Ra, Odin, Jupiter, Great Spirit, etc.) created the earth some 6,000 years ago per the garbage of the Torah-Old Testament bullshit.

Just like their Islamic moron brethren and other religious cro-magnons who tell their herds that war is good, that it is all for God's sake, that if they kill other people, their post-mortem seats in the clouds will be reserved. 

The Evangelical imbeciles [per the Guardian] tell their sucker-and-loser US troops that "the war on Iran is all part of God’s divine plan", so much so that the smart suckers and losers have been sending complaints about their superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war. Like the Islamic Taliban or the Iranian suicide mullahs or the Saudi Wahhabi regime, US military commanders talk "extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical end times" to justify the war against Iran, with a promise of a seat at the right of the Revenant Jesus up in the clouds if they kill thousands of Iranian infidels.

One complainant, a noncommissioned officer (NCO) in a unit that could be deployed “at any moment" to Iran, reported that his commander had “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ”. The complaint was filed on behalf of 15 troops, including 11 Christians, one Muslim and one Jew.

These reports indicate an increase in Christian extremism in the military, noting that the complainants “report the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders” who perceive a “‘biblically-sanctioned’ war that is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist Christian ‘End Times’.”

Pete Hegseth, the racist drunkard womanizer US defense secretary, says he has discovered a "personal relationship" with Jesus who, as his Savior, redeemed him from his wayward ways. Not unlike Islamic fundamentalists, Hegseth is an avowed Christian fundamentalist. He endorses a "return" to the extremist beliefs of Christian reconstructionism which calls for killing of homosexuals, herding women inside their homes under a patriarchal system sanctioned by the churches, and ultimately killing those Jews who do not convert upon the return of superhero Jesus the Messiah. 

Hegseth shares these barbaric practices with such outstanding Islamic tyrannies one finds in Afghanistan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, and with the outstanding Jewish tyranny in Israel. Now, Israel obviously cannot condone the killing of the Best Ever Chosen People in the Guinness Book of Records, but Zionists accept - for the time being - the disagreement with their Christian racist supremacist brethren because they help them (weapons, money and racist culture) sustain their colonial genocide of the subhuman Palestinians and other lower goyim humanoid creatures.

Not only does Hegseth want the US "nation" to be an exclusively Christian nation, he wouldn't mind converting the whole world to a Christian world.

Meanwhile, a civil war is brewing inside the MAGA white supremacist universe, on account of this insoluble built-in contradiction between MAGA-GOP's long-standing Jew-hating on one hand, and its transient love for its colonial Israeli militia on the Mediterranean on the other hand.
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Republicans struggling with bigotry among younger conservatives: ‘We don’t think Hitler is, like, the worst person ever’
Ariana Baio
Thu, March 26, 2026

Some Republicans have raised alarm bells at the growing number of young conservatives who have been influenced by far-right online personalities that espouse negative opinions of Jewish people, women, people of color and more.

Streamers and podcasters who have been accused of sharing such views, such as Nick Fuentes, Myron Gaines and others, have grown in popularity over the last few years – appealing to a younger bloc of conservatives disgruntled with traditional politics.

“We don’t think Hitler is, like, the worst person ever,” Alec Beaton, a 23-year-old former Trump campaign staffer, told the Washington Post at a national young conservatives conference. Beaton added that he praises Adolf Hitler to “mess with people.”

Fuentes, a 27-year-old white nationalist with a Rumble platform of more than 600k, said during a recent stream that women “just lie and they’re whores. Not all of them… but it is a serious problem.”

Gaines, a 36-year-old streamer, podcaster and author of a book titled Why Women Deserve Less, wrote on X in October, “Yeah we like Hitler. No one gives a f*** what you woke jews think anymore.”

Nick Fuentes has gained a massive following by sharing alternative conservative views online – particularly negative rhetoric about women and Jewish people (Getty Images)

While the sentiments from the influential political commentators likely do not represent the beliefs of all, or even most, young conservatives, their platforms are growing.

At the Symposium on Antisemitism, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz said, “I have seen more antisemitism in the last 18 months on the right than at any point in my lifetime.”

“It is gaining real purchase, especially with young people,” Cruz said, expressing concern that antisemitism was growing among young conservatives, especially on college campuses.

It’s easy to see Fuentes’ growing influence in the comment section of his Rumble videos, which consistently gain 200k views. Some of his followers, known as “groypers,” share their own racist or sexist views.

“Women and Jews need to Shut the F*** Up.”

“The brownification of America is disgusting and tragic.”

“Jews aren't that smart, they're just incredibly coordinated.”

Laura Loomer, a right-wing influencer and self-described “Islamaphobe,” has also pointed out antisemitism among the Republican Party.

“The GOP has a Nazi problem,” Loomer wrote in November. “And the more we pretend like we don’t, the worse it’s going to get.”

Carlson has also been accused of antisemitism for platforming Fuentes. The former Fox News host has denied allegations that he is antisemitic (AFP via Getty Images)

Loomer’s comments arose after Politico published an exposé of bigoted messages exchanged between young Republican leaders, in which they praised Hitler, used racist slurs, joked about sending people to gas chambers like in the Holocaust, made positive remarks about rape and more.

Republican lawmakers, including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, condemned the messages.

Loomer has also accused former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson – an influential voice on the right – of spreading antisemitism, and even inciting violent antisemitic attacks. Carlson has denied the allegation, calling it “slander.”

“I am ... strongly opposed to anti-Semitism, precisely as much as I am to the anti-Arab hate you promote or the anti-white bias embedded in the US government and our largest institutions. It’s all immoral and indefensible. I believe in the inherent rights of the individual because I believe in God.” Carlson wrote on X this month.

Cruz also accused Carlson of antisemitism, saying: “It is being spread by loud voices, the most consequential of whom is Tucker Carlson.”

In November, Carlson was accused of platforming Fuentes by giving him an interview. Carlson was heavily scrutinized for not pushing back on Fuentes’ antisemitic comments. The former Fox News host later told critics to “Buzz off.”

When President Donald Trump was asked about Carlson’s interview, he defended Carlson and denied knowing much about Fuentes – despite once dining with the 27-year-old at Mar-a-Lago in 2022.

Fuentes was present as a guest of rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who has himself made a series of antisemitic statements.

Donald Trump has promised to combat antisemitism in his administration – targeting college and universities that allowed large pro-Palestinian protests in 2023 (Getty Images)

When reached for comment, White House Spokesperson Davis Ingle said in a statement: “President Trump is focused on making America great again for all Americans, and he has zero tolerance for anti-Semitism.”

“However, Democrats in Congress are being taken over by anti-Semitic and anti-American radicals like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib,” Ingle said.

According to the Washington Post, Beaton and his colleagues boasted about their growing influence at the national young conservatives conference.

“Half the people there were, like, us,” Beaton claimed.

The Independent has asked Beaton for comment.

Trump is Happy. Iran has Gifted him His Most Cherished Prize: Oil and Gas

[Update 27-March-2026]:

Trump: Iran's "present" to the is US is 10 oil tankers passing through Hormuz


The Supreme Moron Donald Trump, flanked by his Imbecile sidekicks "little" Marco Rubio and Whore Secretary Pete Hegseth, rambling on incoherently in the White House.

The Moron-in-Chief Donald Trump said yesterday that Iran gave him a gift by allowing 10 ‌oil tankers transit the Strait of Hormuz. "They said ... we're going to let you have eight boats of oil, eight boats, eight big ⁠boats of oil," Trump said. "I guess they were right, and they were real, and I think they were Pakistani-flagged... ​It ended ​up being 10 boats."

On Tuesday, the Idiot played coy with the media when ​he said that Iran had given ​the United States ​an expensive, energy-related gift but declined to specify the nature of the gift.

But now we know. The Moron now says, "The [Iranians] gave us a present and the present arrived today, and it was a very big present, ​worth a tremendous ‌amount of money," Trump told reporters then. The Great Moron measures everything with the single criterion of MONEY.

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Trump is obsessed with money. He can't seem to have enough of it. He's waging wars for greed. He's willing to send soldiers get killed and maimed, and civilians killed by the thousands so he, Trump, can make a few more billions before his term ends and he goes rotting in his senile demented retirement down in Mar-a-Lago.

You can very safely measure all of Trump's policies according to a two basic principles: One is Money, Two is Racism. And he shares them with all his advisors, secretaries, envoys, family members and other asskissing Republican goons in Congress.

Just like with Venezuela, Iran is Trump's new golden goose. He has just announced that he is VERY PLEASED with the Iranians because they gave him a prize. Not a Peace Prize for sure, but more of a PI$$ Prize loaded with profits. The moron is so happy with it that he blurts it out in public.

He's not only manipulating the markets with his yo-yo War-on, War-off announcements, he's even willing to end the war only if Iran surrenders its oil and gas to him, just as Venezuela did. With Trump, it's not about terrorism or hegemony or human rights or regional stability.... It's about making money out of the suffering of millions of people.

The sick man grew up without love. He's incapable of human compassion or empathy. He doesn't trust anyone around him. His only "friend" is money.

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Trump claims Iran gave him a ‘prize’ related to oil and the Strait of Hormuz - that was ‘very significant’
Josh Marcus
Tue, March 24, 2026 


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President Donald Trump painted an optimistic, if vague, picture of the state of Iran war negotiations on Tuesday, claiming Tehran had given the U.S. a “prize” related to freeing up oil supplies and the Strait of Hormuz.

“They’re gonna make a deal,” Trump told reporters at the White House as he swore in Markwayne Mullin as the new head of the Department of Homeland Security. “They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually. They gave us a present and the present arrived today. It was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize, and they gave it to us.”

“That meant one thing to me,” he added. “We’re dealing with the right people.”

Upon further questioning, the president said the prize was “oil and gas related,” as well as being tied to the strait, a vital waterway for global oil shipments. Elsewhere, Trump claimed the Iranians had agreed “they will never have a nuclear weapon.”

President Trump did not provide further specifics about these alleged concessions, but claimed the U.S. would have control “of anything we want” sometime soon.

President Trump claimed Iran had given the U.S. a major ‘prize’ related to oil and the Strait of Hormuz amid alleged ongoing negotiations around the war (Getty Images)

The president also argued that the Iran war has been more successful than the media is giving him credit for.

"If you read the papers, you'd think we're tied, you'd think we're in a tough battle,” Trump said. “We are roaming free over Tehran.”

“We can do whatever we want,” Trump added, describing how the U.S. was holding off on striking a key electric plant due to what he said were encouraging signs from Iranian negotiators.

Iranian leadership has pushed back against claims it is bargaining for a rapid end to the nearly one-month-old conflict.

A spokesperson for Iran’s top military command said on Tuesday that its armed forces will not stop “until complete victory” is achieved, pouring cold water on the president’s recent claims that the U.S. was engaging in a brief partial ceasefire amid ongoing talks.

Earlier this week, Iran said Trump’s claims about negotiations were “fake news.”

The president is under heavy pressure to forge a positive outcome for the U.S. in the war, which has killed 13 U.S. service members and sent oil prices spiking, while scrambling the global energy system and exposing U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf to regular attacks from Iran.

Polling shows many Americans are not supportive of the war effort, and the president’s approval hit new lows this week amid the ongoing conflict.

Having Trump Derangement Syndrome is a Sign of Mental Sanity

When people accuse you of Trump Derangement Syndrome, you should not take it as a criticism. Take it as a compliment and know it shows you are healthy and normal. 

Turn around and accuse them of suffering from the Trump Cult Syndrome. Just like all cults and cult leaders before MAGA and Trump, cult members are blinded and no longer able to see reality. Fabrications, lies, halluncinations, false perceptions...overwhelm the person's critical reasoning abilities.

When the unmentionable Great American Moron accuses critics of suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, he is pulling a stupid Roy Cohn tactic: You know you are the asshole, but just accuse your opponent of being the asshole, and this childish not-very-smart tactic equalizes the two sides. It works with dumb Americans, and the asshole becomes, at the very least, an acceptable asshole, just like Trump. That is why 77 million idiots voted for the idiot: They were raised to give an equal chance to any jackass who can prove himself to be the best asshole America has ever produced. 

Why is Trump an Idiot?

"If you Google the word 'idiot', a picture of Donald Trump comes up ...

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The Real Reason Trump Talks Like an Idiot: Author
Catherine Bouris, The Daily Beast Podcast
Tue, March 24, 2026 

Acclaimed journalist and author Kurt Andersen has unlocked the secret behind Donald Trump’s appeal to his own voters.

Speaking to The Daily Beast Podcast’s Joanna Coles about the president’s actions overseas, including most recently in Iran, Andersen claimed Trump has “no clue” about the history of Iran and the Middle East.

“He’s an idiot. He’s always been stupid. And his stupidity has been an under-remarked-upon, unheralded part of his—along with the lying, along with the mental disorders—the stupidity is important.”

The Daily Beast has meticulously documented the president’s visible decline since his return to the White House, including interviewing medical experts who believe his obvious cognitive decline is the result of a serious medical event like a stroke. More than 60 percent of Americans believe that Trump has become increasingly erratic with age.

Andersen argues that the president’s stupidity, which predates his recent decline, is a feature that appeals to a broad swath of the voting public.

Discussing his 2017 book Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire; A 500-Year History, which he notes was written prior to Trump’s election, Andersen claims America has a weakness “for being conned.”

He points to the religious history of the U.S. and its role in shaping the country’s national character, highlighting the foundational belief of, “I can believe what I want because it’s the truth and it feels right.”

“All that stuff, which is not uniquely American, but it is definingly American,” Andersen explained. “America has always been the world leader in that kind of weak-mindedness and slippery sense of the difference between reality and fiction.” [Hence, Hollywood's role is shaping the American mind].

Coles mentioned infamous con artist and showman P.T. Barnum, whom Andersen discusses in his book and whom she describes as succeeding at “having people in on the con,” referencing an instance where people lined up to see a woman he claimed was 161 years old.

Barnum is famous for co-founding the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and promoting numerous hoaxes before later entering politics.

“I mean, his first freak show was a 161-year-old woman,” Coles said. “Obviously not true. Who was the nurse to George Washington. Obviously not true. And yet people lined up to see this thing, which they knew wasn’t true. And that’s the sort of sophisticated nature of P.T. Barnum: having the audience in on the con and yet still paying to see her.”

“He didn’t hide it,” Andersen agreed. “He didn’t pretend it was true. He said, ‘How do you know it’s not?’ [That] was basically his response to people. If you can’t prove it’s not and people enjoy it, then that’s entertainment.”

Engraved portrait of Phineas T Barnum, an American showman, politician, author, publisher, and philanthropist from Bethel, Connecticut, 1870. From the New York Public Library. / Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

Andersen labels the question of whether Trump believes his tales as “the operative question with all of them. All of the great ones.” ”In the end, I think his deep animating feature as a person is the most horrible, unpleasant, miserable, wretched, cynicism about human behavior,” he says, but adds, “It’s a good bet that he believes more of it than he did in the past.”

Barnum’s understanding, as Andersen explains in his book, was that attention is what matters, not the truth. This approach would later be adopted by Trump and those who elevated him to national prominence.

“It’s just such an American story,” Andersen said of Trump’s ascendancy. “This combination of religiosity, I guess sincere, and this kind of hucksterism. And that’s part of the story of America and how Trump came to be, even though he is irreligious and a nonbeliever, I think, pretty clearly.”

“But his most devoted supporters are evangelical Christians, because once you get a country in which so much belief in any old thing you want and hear and disbelief in things that are true, anything goes.”

“That wasn’t always the case,” Andersen notes. “It always tended to be the case in America a little bit, but then it got out of control in the last 60 years and, along with the internet, gave us Donald Trump.”

Even Anti-Trump Americans are Earning a Bad Reputation

Why is that? Because Americans are brainwashed from the day they're born into some kind of pathological patriotism (like, for example, making children sing the pledge of allegiance every day in school, something only totalitarian societies require of their children) that makes them afraid of speaking their conscience and mind. 

Despite stated principles of liberty and democracy, Americans don't even realize they live in a totalitarian Gulag of intellectual conformity. America is in a way not a city on a hill, as is often claimed, but more like a village of indentured peasants who live in clusters of mutually hostile neighborhoods and who hate all the other villages around them.

I've known self-declared left-wing, anti-Trump, liberal Americans who would say to an immigrant to "go back if they don't like it here" when said immigrant dares express a criticism. It's OK for an American to say they hate other Americans, but it is not OK for an immigrant to say the same thing. I think growing up in America involves getting a deep scar of xenophobia and perceived superiority over other people with such fantasies as freedoms that are unequaled, a granite-strong democracy, and other genocidal ideas like Manifest Destiny, the destruction of native nations and the acquisition by force of new territories. I think Americans have inherited English racism and colonialism to the bone. After all, the American revolution, though dressed up in sublime ideals, is no more than the refusal by English subjects to pay taxes to their English King. It's always about money in America and the worship of wealth whose contemporary symptom is none else but Trump. 

In reality, the liberties that Americans think they have are very relative and do not rise to the level of a truly free people: Any feeling of freedom is tainted with built-in arrogance against other cultures and peoples. Which is why Americans, by and large, including the liberal ones, tolerate what Trump is doing to their country. They will stand up to Trump on gasoline and groceries, but the vast majority couldn't care less for the persecution of people, including Americans, with dark skin.

As an American who occasionally flew back to the old country, I'd be anxious landing at the airport, what with all the received perceptions and stereotypes engrained in me by the American media and culture. Then, upon returning home to the US, I felt a sense of relief, knowing that at least the system protected me. Now, suddenly, in the Trump era, I am discovering it was all fake. It is America that feels unsafe and dangerous; the system is broken; there is fear and anxiety everywhere. I now feel dread returning to the US while I feel a sense of relief upon traveling overseas. Strangely enough, I feel more free, less chained there than I am in the US. The world has become the mythical America, and America has become the Gulag. Like Belgian singer Jacques Brel said despondently in one of his songs, "Il n'y a plus d'Amérique" [The American myth no longer exists]. Trump has exposed the fallacies of a New World where, we were brainwashed to believe, one could escape the injustices of a world run by despots, tyrants, potentates, kings and dictators.

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Non-Americans Are Sharing Their Thoughts On Americans Who Don't Support Trump
Haein Jung
Tue, March 24, 2026

To put it mildly, US politics has become quite the global fodder these days. It might even be a cause for apology to the rest of the world. In r/greenland, a Redditor shared their views on how some Americans have been pleading their mea culpas on behalf of the president, his antics and threats, and the global citizens have had it. Unfortunately, even for those whose views don't align with the current administration, the rest of the world might as well still see us as the same. It makes you wonder... are the criticisms valid, or harsh? Here's what people said:

1. "Trump is not the disease, rather the symptom."

2. "Americans are figuring it out the hard way: 'Not all men, but enough men' applies to international politics, too. We know not everyone supported this, but enough did."

—Mechakoopa
3. "For some reason, there is this idea that Trump is some kind of isolated phenomenon. He is not. He is the leader of a strong ideology with 100 million supporters. Without those 100 million Americans (and another 100 million passive more), he is powerless. So yeah, it is not one single American — it’s Americans."

Andrew Thomas / Getty Images

4. "The worst part is that it was all televised and broadcast on every social media platform that exists! When someone shows you they're a piece of ****, believe them! It truly makes you wonder whether the misinformation in the US is worse than we think and actually worrisome. Nobody should have been blindsided by the actions of the felonious fool running the joint; he's basically doing exactly what he said he was going to, but why didn't ENOUGH people listen?"

5. "I’ve said it before and will say it again. The world, and especially Greenland, would like to see fewer apologies from individual Americans and more posts like, 'I’m American, and I’m doing these three things to prevent Trump from acquiring Greenland.'"

6. "How many American protests have been held specifically opposing Trump's threats to take over Canada? I count zero. That makes every American complicit as far as this Canadian is concerned."

—outremonty
7. "Also Canadian. I also understand that you’re individuals, and I know how hard it must be for you to live in such a place at this very moment, but we have to see your country as an entity. I live right on the border, near Duluth, and the Americans that come up here, it’s so hard to know which ones are actually wanting to be nice or not. It’s nothing against you as individuals."

—enableclutch
8. "The most infuriating part is that the other 200 million 'sane ones' are just sitting there, clenching their fists in their pockets, and begging for someone else to come save them from the 100 million idiots because they're powerless to do anything about it. From a European perspective, my view of Americans in general is that they've grown spineless. They have none of the fighting spirit left that was exhibited by The Greatest Generation. Americans don't have any fight left in them."

9. "Right on. Where are the Democrats and their leaders? They need to get loud and in their opponents' faces every minute of every day. Where are your mass protests and general strikes? What about petitions or protesting the offices of elected officials, especially those of vile Republicans? What about internal product boycotts, not paying taxes, and withdrawing from organizations that support the current administration? Voting seems to be a failed exercise in your country — vote for God’s sake. Where are the 'I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore' rants? Why does the rest of the world have to clean up your ****? We have had it — a note from another frozen place."

10. "Sometimes I feel like in New Zealand, we're the little sister that just toddles along, aware of the drama but just doing our own thing. I hope that our country has been scared enough to vote our current government out. But even our right-wing parties are super left compared to America."

—Pale-Attorney7474
11. "Americans are not even willing to close their Facebook or X accounts to stop being subjects of propaganda. They could be hurting the oligarchs where it hurt$, but buying **** from Amazon is more important than democracy. They could be dropping their Tesla investments, they could be cancelling streaming services, and stop buying iPhones, they could be putting their money where their mouth is, but it is inconvenient, so they will not even do those basic actions."

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12. "Decadence will do that to a population."

—Blacksmith_Several
13. "I understand that Americans feel like apologizing on behalf of their country because of this Orange idiot, but right now I think it doesn't help because of how we in Europe, and especially the people in the Northern countries, feel threatened. I don't hold a grudge or hate against those who didn't vote for him. I hate those who voted for him and those who didn't vote at all. What you can do is remember to vote in the midterm elections, maybe it will get a little better. But the relationship Europe has with the US now, it could be generations before it gets better again. Just look at how long it took for Germany after World War II."

—deleted
14. "Dutchie here — I feel skeptical towards posts that try to sow division, and I don't agree. Everyone who is not blind knows that a lot of Americans know that what is happening is not ok. A lot of them do protest even though they often feel just as powerless as the rest of us. This could happen to any country. And unfortunately, eventually it probably will, because encouraging xenophobia and influencing a certain group of people through (social) media has proven to be very effective and profitable for the billionaires without ethics."

15. "As a Chinese American, I never thought I’d see the day that I’d rather tell foreigners that I’m Chinese instead of American."

—DiskBusiness7212
16. "What’s frustrating is that for decades, people have pointed out flaws in the US system, and yet the US arrogantly preached how only they were truly free and democratic. The excessive patriotism, with traditions like flags on many homes, is a breeding ground for fascism. This has been a long time coming, and it won't be fixed easily. I just hope the US doesn’t take the rest of us down with them."

—britjumper
17. And finally, "Correct. Let me be clear: I appreciate that there are Americans who are genuinely ashamed. It takes courage to come here and admit culpability. It must feel terrible to watch a government you didn't want turn your country into a global pariah. I feel sympathy for that. I would argue that it does help a little to know you're out there and on our side. Here's the problem: the rest of the world has been watching your country dominate in every way you can find. Our cultures are being suppressed by yours. Even more or less rational Americans will stand there and chant 'USA!' over and over again, saying it's the best country in the world. You're all participants in a diseased and broken system that allowed this to happen. It's an inevitable outcome."