HEROIC!
As JD Vance walked to lunch, he heard screams a block over. A manhole had collapsed under Elizabeth Platt, 84, as she crossed the street, and she could barely hang on.
Without thinking twice, Vance ran over and hoisted her Ms. Platt to safety.
This is leadership!
Sometimes I wonder if people realize how cruel they can be toward Trump.
He's constantly mocked, poked at, humiliated, disrespected, hated, and verbally abused. Every mistake becomes entertainment, and every insult becomes a joke.
Whatever happened to basic human decency? 🇺🇸💔
🇺🇸 The Resume, the Fake Bar and the Chinese Toilets
Trump’s new press secretary told the world she passed the bar “when I moved to China”, then conceded she never passed it anywhere, then said China has no bar exam at all, then finished by wondering how a country without “proper toilets” could ever rise up.
Katie Zacharia took a JD from Pepperdine in 2011 and failed the California bar. The State Bar of California has no record of her being licensed under either her married name or her maiden name, Black, nor any record in another US jurisdiction.
Trump introduced her last week as “an attorney”. She has called herself a lawyer on television and she listed herself as an associate at Zhong Lun in Beijing from 2011 to 2013.
China does have a bar exam. The national legal professional qualification examination is run by the Ministry of Justice and only Chinese nationals may sit it, so foreigners cannot be licensed as lawyers there at all.
A partner at Zhong Lun has since described what foreigners did at the firm as language assistance rather than legal practice, closer to a paid internship than a qualified lawyer’s job.
She says the California result was “somewhat inconsequential” because she knew she would not need the bar in China. Then came the line still doing the rounds: “There’s no Chinese bar. I had enough credentials, which was my law degree.”
That is not how it works. A law degree is not a licence. Holding yourself out as a lawyer without one is precisely the question a California watchdog has now put to the State Bar. The communications team answered by calling the group “rabid numbskulls” and offering nothing new on her credentials.
The toilet line is the part that shows how little she absorbed. She spent nearly two years in Beijing and still reduced an entire country to a plumbing stereotype from the 1990s.
Anyone walking around Beijing, Shanghai or Shenzhen in 2011 already saw modern hotels, clean facilities in the commercial districts and high-speed rail going up. By the time she left in 2013 the direction of travel was clear.
China did not wait for American commentary on its bathrooms before building the largest high-speed rail network, the biggest mobile payments system and the largest electric vehicle market in the world.
“No proper toilets” is what people say when they never left the expat compound or the hotel lobby and then pretend it is a geopolitical insight.
Trump appointed her, called her an attorney and put her in front of the press. Her first week has been spent explaining that she failed the only bar she sat, inventing a Chinese bar that foreigners cannot take and reading China’s rise off the quality of its plumbing.
That is the resume. That is the analysis.
The rest of the world has been watching the actual country for years.
BREAKING: The Mayor of San Diego hits back hard after Trump publicly urged Iran to nuke his city and Los Angeles.
Every patriotic American should be enraged right now…
“San Diego is not collateral damage. We are not expendable. And we are never a ‘small price to pay,’” Mayor Todd Gloria wrote on X. “Keep our city out of your reckless war talk.”
Last night at a rally in Nebraska, Trump told his mindless supporters that the higher prices caused by his Iran War are “a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe.”
“They can take out a city,” Trump said. “Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.”
True to bloodthirsty form, the crowd erupted in applause at the prospect of millions of their fellow Americans dying in a nuclear holocaust. The garbled nature of Trump’s dementia-tinged speech has given some MAGA supporters wiggle room to insist that Trump is being misinterpreted in the media, but his words speak for themselves.
This is the President of the United States, our sworn commander-in-chief, urging the nation that he started a war with to retaliate by destroying two beloved American cities because he perceives them as Democratic strongholds. The fact that over 1 million Republicans reside in Los Angeles County alone is apparently irrelevant to him, since they aren’t enough to swing the city red.
This is, unfortunately, the natural rhetorical terminus for a President who believes in representing only those Americans who voted for him. He has regularly threatened to withhold federal aid to blue states and cities. He has encouraged his followers to see Democrats as demonic, America-destroying creatures. Is it any surprise that they get excited by the idea of nuking us?
Thankfully, there is zero chance of this scenario unfolding because, despite Trump’s lies to the contrary, Iran does not possess nuclear weapons nor do they have the ballistic technology necessary to deliver such a payload to the West Coast of the United States. That reality is nonetheless immaterial to the matter at hand. Our President has turned against half of his own country. He must be removed from office.
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Trump is going through an array of emotions as protestors loudly crash his White House State Dinner with President Xi.
I got fatigue, anger, fear, shame and humiliation.
If Trump weren't President, what profession would've suited him in your opinion?
"CHURCH FATHER" for me, cause he's such a pure soul, great Human being, Gentleman and Best President.
Agree or disagree?