I think @FOXSports is doing an exceptional job with their World Cup broadcast — just wish the score wasn’t white font on light blue. Tough to read on a quick glance.
This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.
Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.
IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.
The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.
The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.
Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.”
Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.
The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.
This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.
Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?
https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r
Thomas Massie helped to expose the Epstein files and Trump spent tens of millions against him.
Tells you everything you need to know about Trump’s ongoing Epstein cover up.
BREAKING: Trump-appointed Treasury general counsel Brian Morrissey resigned after the administration announced a $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ slush fund.
Trump ripped up a working agreement, fought a war, took a billion barrels off the market, tanked his own approval, and is now negotiating roughly the same deal from a weaker position.
On June 16th, 2025 Trump announced a new "Trump Phone" available for preorder.
$100 preorder towards a $500 phone.
To date, he's received 590,000+ preorders, taking in an estimated $59 million in sales.
Last month in April, Trump updated the Preorder terms stating there is "No guarantee a phone will be produced or sold".
This is beyond grifting.
And the Trump phone (which will never happen), is the perfect representation of the Trump Presidency:
A bait & switch scam.
He stole their money and told them to cry more.
Trump starts a redistricting battle, thinking Democrats won't retaliate, but they do, and gain more seats. Now Republicans cry foul at their self-imposed problem.
Trump starts a trade war, expecting the world will take it. Instead, the US loses jobs, farms go bankrupt, manufacturing declines, and our trading partners make deals with China rather than with the US. Worst of all, Trump's tariffs are illegal, so the government ends up with nothing for all the trouble.
Trump berates NATO and threatens to invade a NATO nation. Then, when Trump starts a war in Iran without talking to our allies first, he's shocked when they don't show up to help.
Trump bombs Iran, expecting them to cave to his demands a few days later. Instead, Iran attacks US military bases and damages other nations' energy production. It closes the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting global energy markets, sending gas prices over $4 a gallon, and spiking US inflation to the highest in years. The war is in its eighth week.
Trump is outmatched and continues to fail. His first term was a shock to America and the world, but this time, everyone was ready for him.
Trump's bullying no longer works, and that's all he knows.