I don't like whitewashing what is *really* happening by using photos from 2025.
No scissor lifts or cherry pickers were used in the operation yesterday. Scaffolding and a tarp was used to deliberately miss a federal deadline *and*—maybe permanently—hide the front of the edifice.
Most stunning here—but unlikely to be covered by corporate media—is Trump blissing out over the possibility of signing a deal on his birthday.
That's *grotesque*. Seeking to do a deal on his own birthday only *further* confirms he makes military decisions purely out of *vanity*.
One thing I can promise is that any deal Trump signs with Iran will be lied about as to almost every particular, be categorically worse than the JCPOA he nixed in almost every particular, and betray the interests of the US at every turn. If you think otherwise, you're a *sucker*.
I'll believe a deal of any kind between the US and Iran is going to be signed on Trump's birthday—and that it's a real deal, not utter BS—25 years from now if historians write about it.
*That's* how little I trust this reporting.
STOP TRYING TO KICK THE FOOTBALL, CHARLIE BROWN.
Hey, remember when those of us following and reporting on the Reflecting Pool story told trogs like Libs of Tik Tok that Trump spent $20 million on a kickback-riddled no-bid contract with an unqualified pal that would do *nothing* to fix the algae issue?
We were right.
*Again*.
We have to get much better at recognizing people who believe in absolutely nothing and have spent their entire life doing nothing but lying and chasing paper
A good start is presuming that that is the case with literally anyone who self identifies as a MAGA influencer
Now for the next question: does that conspicuously unnecessary giant tarp stay up in front of the Kennedy Center for *the entirety of the litigation process* this summer—and even beyond—to contemptuously obscure *both* names (removed and remaining) on the Center?
I have a guess.
BREAKING: Team Trump is 30 minutes from federal Contempt of Court—no letters have been removed. What may happen soon: work stops for the night; *all* letters are taken off the building; the Trustees announce it’s shuttering forever. But clearly his name won’t be gone by midnight.
It's past 11 PM and a large crowd is cheering as construction crews finish the scaffolding ahead of the removal of President Trump's name from the facade of the Kennedy Center.