US is minting a gold coin for its 250th birthday

 

I assume these will become collectors items in the way Nazi memorabilia is.

The rest can be melted down and used to help repair a bit of the damage done by Biff.

Also, is that what Trump thinks he looks like?

It was a short run - 250 years

 

Susan Rice on Trump's enemies list

Of the many mistakes Joe Biden made, one important one that had adverse consequences from the start was choosing Kamala Harris over Susan Rice as his running mate.  Rice was infinitely more qualified and I believe would have had a better chance at beating Trump in 2024.  I also suspect Biden didn't choose Rice because she was in Obama's cabinet.

Biden really fucked the country in so many ways due to his oversized ego and tendency toward petulance.

Heil Trump!

 Great use of taxpayer money.

They do that in North Korea, too.

UPDATE 02/20/2026:

By the numbers

 But you already knew that.

JFC

 He is God.

The constitution is meaningless if no one upholds it

 

Here we go

 

Reuters sat down with U.S. President Donald Trump for an interview in the Oval Office on Wednesday.

[...]

When told that a Reuters/Ipsos poll found tepid support among Americans for taking control of Greenland, Trump called the poll “fake.”

"I don't care," he responded when asked about the pushback by some Senate Republicans against the investigation into Powell. "I don't care," he said again, when reminded of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s concerns that White House interference in the Fed could harm the economy.

When asked about Americans' worries about high prices, Trump reiterated that the economy was the strongest “in history” and said he had to do a better job of promoting his achievements.

[...]

“A lot of times, you can't convince a voter,” he said. “You have to just do what's right. And then a lot of the things I did were not really politically popular. They turned out to be when it worked out so well.”

  Reuters

Delusional. And couldn't give a shit.

Trump appeared to express some sympathy for the death of Renee Nicole Good, after an ICE agent shot and killed her last week in Minneapolis, calling it “a very unfortunate incident.”

If that's all, there's no sympathy for her death.

“I know that it was a tough situation to be in. There was very little respect shown to the police, in this case, the ICE officers,” Trump said.

Sympathy for the devil.

He said he would continue sending armed agents into cities, claiming that his efforts had taken “thousands of murderers out of our country.” There is no evidence to support that assertion.

No shit, Reuters. No shit.

The president expressed frustration that his Republican Party could lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate in this year’s midterm elections, citing historical trends that have seen the party in power lose seats in the second year of a presidency.

“It's some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms,” Trump said. He boasted that he had accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.”

And, there it is.

Actually, I'm glad he said that, because when he declares a state of emergency to block the midterms, there will be good legal footing to counter it.

        source

Every time.

A major mistake to telegraph his intent.

There will be no independence at DOJ

Pam Bondi, as awful as she is, isn't satisfying Trump's craving to punish people he doesn't like.

On Jan. 8, the White House announced the creation of a new division in the Department of Justice for “national fraud enforcement,” to be headed by an assistant attorney general. What makes this move notable is that it will be run out of the White House, under the direct supervision of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance. Never before has the politicization of justice been so blatant or so dangerous.

Having a prosecutor directly answerable to the president and vice president crosses a line that no other administration has dared to cross. It is the kind of thing one might expect in an autocratic or totalitarian regime, but not in the United States.

  Yahoo

Except, the United States now IS an autocratic (or totalitarian) regime.

President Donald Trump's administration said on Thursday it was creating a new division at the U.S. Department of Justice to combat what the White House called "rampant" fraud across the country.

Rights advocates and critics have said the Trump administration has used fraud allegations as an excuse to target immigrants and political opponents. They have also dismissed Trump's ability to tackle fraud, citing pardons from Trump to those who have faced fraud convictions in the past.

[...]

The assistant attorney general for the new Justice Department division will be responsible for leading the department's efforts to investigate, prosecute and remedy fraud affecting the federal government, federally funded programs and private citizens, the White House said.

The White House said the official will advise the U.S. attorney general and deputy attorney general "on issues involving significant, high-impact fraud investigations and prosecutions and related policy matters."

  Reuters

Explaining why the administration is creating the new position, Vance said, “This is the person who is going to make sure we stop defrauding the American people. When we get the bad guys, we want to make sure we get them permanently and they don’t have some legal technicality they can get out of.”

  Yahoo

The courts will be the final arbiter of that. Or they used to be. How is Vance's office going to make sure there's no legal technicality available?

And how did Republicans in the Senate, which will be responsible for confirming the nominee to head the new division, react? Majority Leader John Thune said that the person “would be confirmed swiftly.”

Thune’s response is a clear dereliction of duty. It will now be up to his colleagues in the Senate to resist this dangerous power play.

Don't hold your breath.

And, in a moment of supreme irony, [after national security documents were recovered from Mar-A-Lago,] Trump said, “There could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked, and that’s what they were doing at a level that’s never been seen before.”

He was just foretelling his next administration. Remember: every accusation is a confession.

[T]he jurisdiction of the new assistant attorney general will extend to efforts against what Vance called “domestic terrorism networks” trying to thwart the administration’s immigration agenda. In his view, these supposed networks are “defrauding the United States by inciting violence against our law enforcement officers.”

Vance is not stupid. That's not fraud.

That’s an unusually expansive definition of fraud, but the administration is eager to let its newly created division loose to curb protest without letting niceties of the law — what Vance labeled “some legal technicality” — get in the way. Moreover, it seems not to matter to Trump and Vance that the Justice Department already has a Fraud Section housed within its Criminal Division.

What does matter is that going forward, decisions regarding some fraud prosecutions will be made in the White House and directed by the president and vice president. As Vance said at a press briefing, the new assistant attorney general “is going to kick [them] into high gear.”

That effort is also central to the administration’s ongoing effort to purge the Justice Department of any vestige of professionalism, an effort at war with the very reason the department was created by an act of Congress in 1870.

[...]

If Sen. Thune and his colleagues let this plan succeed, they will be taking a monumental step toward turning the American constitutional system upside down.

The Supreme Court is doing that job on their own quite nicely.

The Justice Department plans to insulate its criminal and civil fraud sections from a White House-run enforcement initiative rather than merge them into the newly established fraud division, according to an internal email reviewed by Bloomberg Law.

“It has been decided that the Fraud Section will remain entirely intact under the current Criminal Division structure and its mission will remain the same,” Tysen Duva, the Criminal Division’s assistant attorney general, wrote to the office’s employees late Monday.

  Bloomberg

They'll just be working on actual fraud cases?

The new Senate-confirmed position, which Vice President JD Vance said Jan. 8 will be supervised directly by himself and President Donald Trump, will “be in addition to both the Criminal Division Fraud Section and the Civil Division Fraud Section,” Duva continued. “When a nominee is confirmed, that individual will hire attorneys to staff his/her own office.”

How very unrepublican. Expanding government.

The Criminal and Civil divisions’ fraud sections based in department headquarters have decades of experience coordinating the government program fraud investigations that Vance and an accompanying White House fact sheet suggested will be taken over by the new office.

[...]

Duva told employees Monday that his division “will look forward to establishing a collaborative partnership with the new AAG-Fraud, such that we can assist and leverage our experience to help identify, investigate, and eliminate fraud of all kinds throughout our country.”

Trying to hold on to some semblance of relevance. Trump is not looking for experience or professionalism.

Duva was sworn in Dec. 23 to head the Criminal Division, after his acting predecessor protected it from politicization and case reversals that have taken place elsewhere in the department.

“I am committed to supporting the great work that you are already doing in this area,” Duva’s email said.

Trump won't care what they're doing, as long as they don't interferer with his agenda of retaliation.

The American dystopia in bloom

 

Evil incarnate

 Translation:  Nothing can stop me.

Mr. Trump’s assessment of his own freedom to use any instrument of military, economic or political power to cement American supremacy was the most blunt acknowledgment yet of his worldview. At its core is the concept that national strength, rather than laws, treaties and conventions, should be the deciding factor as powers collide.

  NYT

The United States will sell Venezuelan oil “indefinitely,” President Trump’s energy secretary declared Wednesday, and the funds from these sales will be “deposited into accounts controlled by the U.S. government.” Maybe even “offshore accounts.” Meanwhile, following this “Oil Deal,” Venezuela will supposedly “be purchasing ONLY American Made Products,” Trump wrote this afternoon. Exactly what all this means, whether it is constitutional, and whether the interim Venezuelan government or U.S. oil companies are on board all remain to be determined.

  The Bulwark

I'm telling you, Venezuelans are not going to roll over.

Trump, keep in mind, invaded Venezuela because he only believes in war for profit, and for years has been saying U.S. military strategy should be guided by the opportunity to make money by seizing other countries’ natural resources.

But Trump is also notoriously a moron who does zero homework.

 

Until somebody stops him

 

Well, there you go

 

With Congressional Republicans home on indefinite vacation and millions of people about to be cut off from food assistance and unable to afford their health insurance, Trump is totally focused on building monuments to himself.

JB calls out Trump's dementia

Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based on fixations that stem in part from his being mentally impaired.

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” Pritzker said in a telephone interview with the Tribune. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head. He can’t get it out of his head. He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.

“And then, unfortunately, he has the power of the military, the power of the federal government to do his bidding, and that’s what he’s doing.”

[...]

“We’re not going to go to war between the state of Illinois and the federal government, not taking up arms against the federal government,” Pritzker said. “But we are monitoring everything they’re doing, and using that monitoring to win in court.”

[...]

“Preparing for and going to court with the law on our side and winning in court is important,” he continued. “It is the most important thing that we can do legally. If there are people who are suggesting there are things that we should do that are illegal. I would suggest to you, we’re not going to do those things.”

[...]

Speaking in the Oval Office on Tuesday, the president reiterated that he was considering employing the two-century-old Insurrection Act to get around legal court orders that would deny him the ability to deploy National Guard troops to cities such as Chicago and Portland over governors’ objections.

[...]

A federal judge in Chicago is expected to hold a hearing this week over the legal effort by Illinois and Chicago to block the deployments, which Pritzker and other local officials say is not only unnecessary but a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act that prohibits the use of U.S. military assets from taking part in law enforcement actions on domestic soil.

  Chicago Tribune

Trump, of course, has called for Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to be jailed.

No need for Trump to count.  He's very practice in pulling numbers out of his ass.

This is no joke

 Democrats are to Trump as Palestinians are to Netanyahu.

So Trump is making laws now?

Vote for Mamdani

 

You can stop whining about something Trump is doing being illegal.  Just assume what he's doing is illegal.  Now. What can we do about it?

 

Trump labels millions of Americans terrorists

 Domestic terrorism is when you say bad things about Trump.

It's neither terrorism nor criminal.

And Trump has drawn up an enemies list.

Out loud

In a now-deleted Truth Social post, the president called for charges against [people he considers his political enemies.]

[...]

"Pam: I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts saying that, essentially, "same old story as last time, all talk, no action. Nothing is being done. What about Comey, Adam "Shifty" Schiff, Leticia??? They’re all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done."

  Fox News

I wonder who persuaded him to delete that.

Trump then turned his attention to the recent ousting of Erik Seibert, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who claimed he resigned Friday after pressure from the White House.

"We almost put in a Democrat-supported U.S. Attorney, in Virginia, with a really bad Republican past," the president wrote in the deleted post. "A Woke RINO, who was never going to do his job. That’s why two of the worst Dem Senators PUSHED him so hard. He even lied to the media and said he quit, and that we had no case. No, I fired him, and there is a GREAT CASE, and many la[w]yers, and legal pundits, say so."

And I wonder why Fox editors inserted that [w] into the quote instead of printing what he actually put with a (sic) notation.

Trump said Bondi could not delay prosecutorial action against his opponents any longer, noting "it’s killing our reputation and credibility." "They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!" he wrote.

[...]

About an hour after the Truth Social post was sent and deleted, the president sent out a much more amiable post, commending Bondi for her "careful" work over the last eight months.

"Pam Bondi is doing a GREAT job as Attorney General of the United States," Trump wrote in a second Truth Social post. "She is very careful, very smart, loves our Country, but needs a tough prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, like my recommendation, Lindsey Halligan, to get things moving. What we don’t need is a Democrat Endorsed ‘Republican.’"

Lindsey, apparently, will do whatever he tells her to do, and do it fast.

Perhaps Pam convinced him to remove it, or she'd tell what she really knows about Epstein and Trump.

Later, as Trump departed the White House for the American Cornerstone Institute Founder's Dinner, he was asked by reporters whether he was upset with Bondi.

"No. I just want people to act. They have to act. But now we want to act fast. You know, they were ruthless and vicious. I was impeached twice. I was indicted five times. It turned out to be a fake deal. And we have to act fast one way or the other. One way or the other. They're guilty. They're not guilty," he said. "We have to act fast. If they're not guilty, that's fine. If they are guilty or if they should be judged, they should be charged. And we have to do it now."

What's the hurry?

Here's the bleat...

No poking fun at the king

When Trump praised CBS for canceling Stephen Colbert, he said "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next."

Late Wednesday, the network pulled the plug on Kimmel’s show before he took the stage by claiming, “Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely."

That followed a statement from media powerhouse Nexstar Media Group, which owns hundreds of television stations, claiming, “Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views or values of the local communities in which we are located.”

  Raw Story

Those people are not watching Jimmy Kimmel. Obviously there is a government watchdog policing speech on TV. Pure authoritarianism. Fascism at work.

[T]he banning of Kimmel was set in motion by Donald Trump’s handpicked FCC Chair Brendan Carr who previously threatened ABC/Disney on a podcast by stating, “This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."

[...]

[H]e took a completely opposite view about censorship in years past.

Everything changed when Trump 2.0 began.

[I]n 2019 [Carr wrote on X (Twitter)], “Should the government censor speech It doesn't like? Of course not. The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in. The name of the public interest.”

“In 2021 he wrote, quote, ‘A newsroom's decision about what stories to cover and how to frame them should be beyond the reach of any government official in 2022.” Brzezinski read.

In 2023 he wrote, "Free speech is the counterweight. It is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian's dream.

[...]

Political satire is one of the oldest and most important forms of free speech. It challenges those in power while using humor to draw more people into the discussion. That's why people in influential positions have always targeted it for censorship.”

So what did Kimmel say about Kirk anyway?

"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it. In between the finger-pointing, there was, uh, grieving on Friday − the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this. "Yes, he's at the fourth stage of grief: construction. Demolition, construction. This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend; this is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish, OK?"

  USA Today

Reveling in Kimmel's cancellation, Trump is going after two more comedians: Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.

"Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done," Trump wrote. "Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!! President DJT"

  TV Insider

Just a few months ago, MAGA was screaming about "cancel culture." Now, they're loving it.

In a couple of months, the only thing we'll have to watch is state TV propaganda.

In reality, ABC claims Kimmel is suspended "indefinitely".  I guess they're waiting to see how much of a backlash it causes.  

Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr took to X earlier on Wednesday to praise Nexstar for not airing the late-night talk show on its ABC affiliate networks in response to Kimmel’s comments about the death of Kirk: “I want to thank Nexstar for doing the right thing. Local broadcasters have an obligation to serve the public interest. While this may be an unprecedented decision, it is important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community.”

The news came after Nexstar, which owns dozens of local ABC affiliates, announced its intention to preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! episodes starting Wednesday night.

[...]

Carr said, “Disney needs to see some change here, but the individual licensed stations that are taking their content, it’s time for them to step up and say, ‘This garbage, to the extent that that’s what comes down the pipe in the future, isn’t something that we think serves the needs of our local communities.’ But this sort of status quo is obviously not, not acceptable where we are.”

  TV Insider

Apparently, Carr is a whore to power.

BTW, Stephen Colbert won Best Talk Show a few days ago.

And, reminder...

UPDATE 03:23 pm:  The orange god king is looking really unhealthy.

Legally, they are.

The Trump administration is full of hateful, evil, vengeful nut jobs.  

UPDATE 09/19/2025:

Apparently, the law is whatever he thinks it is.

And what exactly did Jimmy Kimmel say? Reports are making it sound like he said something objectionable about Charlie Kirk. But that's not true. He said something objectionable about the Orange God King and his minions.

"Thank you for joining us here in Los Angeles, the second largest city in a bitterly divided nation where, like the rest of the country, we're still trying to wrap our heads around the senseless murder of the popular podcaster and conservative activist Charlie Kirk yesterday, whose death has amplified our anger, our differences," Kimmel said on his show last week.

"I've seen a lot of extraordinarily vile responses to this from both sides of the political spectrum. Some people are cheering this, which is something I won't ever understand," he said in the opening monologue.

"We had another school shooting yesterday in Colorado, the 100th one of the year. And with all these terrible things happening, you would think that our president will at least make an attempt to bring us together. But he didn't," Kimmel continued.

"President Obama did. President Biden did. Presidents Bush and Clinton did. President Trump did not. Instead, he blamed Democrats for their rhetoric," he said, shifting his monologue to attack Trump for his past behavior on matters such as the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

[...]

Kimmel said in his opening monologue on Monday that the U.S. had "hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it, but in between the finger-pointing, there was grieving."

He noted the White House "flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this."

Kimmel added: "Yes, he's at the fourth stage of grief: construction. Demolition, construction. This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend; this is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish?"

  Axios

UPDATE 09/25/2025: