| second: In 2025, Trump said he would balance the federal budget, but in fact, thanks largely to his tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, the deficit is growing. Also in 2025, Trump promised that his new tariffs would enable him both to cut taxes and to pay down the deficit; in fact, the national debt relative to gross domestic product (GDP) is about to break the record set during World War II. More at: [go to link] |
| second: “This government has done some (expletive) that no government has ever done before and one of them is the crypto stuff,” Rogan said. “The crypto stuff is nuts. Trump has made billions in crypto. Then you got his sons and his sons are involved in these weird business deals, and there’s a lot of money flowing around that you could dig in and start arresting people.” So much more at: [go to link] |
| second: President Donald Trump went on a rant Wednesday over the helipad construction, grass, his ballroom project, the Iran war and his relationship status with Kim Jong Un "Of course he gets along with another fat delusional nepo-baby": [go to link] You don’t believe the written description? You should because there is video: [go to link] This really happened. |
| second: There is a contest that Trump is winning: ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History.’ [go to link] |
| second: From Friday through Sunday, Trump continued his now-habitual weekend flooding of social media with fantasies that he is smart, beloved, and powerful: [go to link] |
| second: On Tuesday 18 August 2026, President Donald Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz as US territory in a new post on Truth Social. Two things he wrote: 1) “NEW US territory”. 2) “The Hormuz Strait is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated.”
However, only ten vessels passed through compared to 130 to 140 before the outbreak of war. [go to link] Sadly for Trump, neither 1) nor 2) are true. |
| second: President Trump’s Billionaire Boy’s Club – A new investigation by Public Citizen reveals that 57 individuals within the Trump administration, excluding President Trump, are individually worth as much as $100 million, eight of whom are billionaires. The analysis underscores the growing economic divide between the average American worker, who earns $65,000 a year, and the politically-connected individuals who hold power: [go to link] |
| second: The Top 10 Ways Trump Has Made America Weaker.
He’s been one of the most consequential presidents in U.S. history—in all the wrong ways: [go to link] |
| second: Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more. A database of federal law enforcement officer misconduct records. A survey measuring physical, sexual and emotional violence against children and youth. Real-time pollution readings collected by air quality monitors from US embassies around the world.
These are among the hundreds of federal datasets that the Trump administration has taken down or altered as part of its aggressive campaign to wipe all mentions of data findings that do not align with the administration’s priorities. [go to link] |
| second: A New Level of Trumpian Evil.
North Korea is the worst government on Earth; Trump prefers it to the prosperous democracy next door. Why? Because North Korea isn’t simply a bad government, just another murderous authoritarian regime. It is something that has become rare, even among dictatorships: a full-blown totalitarian state, in which the government controls every aspect of life and even thinking dissident thoughts is a crime: [go to link] |
| second: Trump, not surprisingly, like he does with everything else, blamed the press for covering it, accusing reporters of trying to turn warriors into victims.
As if the press loves to make up stories about sailors living in squalor and trying to take their own lives: [go to link] |
| second: What's The Difference Between Iran & Vietnam?
Trump Had A Plan To Get Out Of Vietnam [go to link] |
| second: Trump bows to pressure from North Korea's Kim Jong Un, scales back military exercises with South Korea [go to link] |
| second: Trump Is Turning His Back on Most of East Asia—and Embracing Kim Jong-un. He is saying, explicitly, that he has warmer regards for Kim Jong-un—one of the world’s most vile and murderous dictators—than he has for the democratically elected leaders of South Korea: [go to link] |
| THG:
Ossoff Just WENT THERE with 'NATALIE' Dig at Trump
[go to link] |
| THG: Supreme Court tells Trump to go kick rocks on E Jean Carroll case
[go to link]? |
| second: Canadians petition Parliament to expel US ambassador Hoekstra for normalizing annexation threats and US diplomatic interference in Canadian unity. — The New York Times [gift link] [go to link] Canadians’ opinion of the United States has rapidly gotten worse since Mr. Trump took office and began targeting Canada with tariffs and talk of making it part of the United States. |
| second: Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences. The service is evaluating the feasibility of moving the multistory tower that acts as the carrier’s command center farther forward, toward the middle of the ship, to resemble older vessels, the officials said. The review, which has not been previously reported, is in response to Trump’s concerns about the “look” of the new Ford-class ships, where the tower is near the rear, these people said.
The Navy also examined the issue during his first term as president. A study found that moving the island would cost billions of dollars in redesign costs and significantly delay the program. More at [go to link] |
| second: The buck stops somewhere else: A look at Trump’s tendency to avoid blame when things go awry. Concerns about a weak economy and still-high inflation? His predecessor, Joe Biden, saddled him with that, he says, despite Trump promising an immediate turnaround. The war in Iran? Actually, this was Trump making up for timid earlier presidents who, he argues, squandered 47 years of opportunities to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Accepting the 2016 presidential nomination, Trump said, “Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.” But as president, he has often suggested that the solution and blame rest elsewhere. Much more at: [go to link] |
| second: Trump asks the Supreme Court to let White House ballroom construction continue, arguing the 65% built project is impossible to deconstruct. — SCOTUS blog [go to link] “Quite frankly, if the building were tragically ordered to be taken down, or even altered, by the court, there would be no way to do so.” The concrete that has been used in the project is “the type used in nuclear power plants” and is “virtually impossible to deconstruct.” |