Prediction: Trump flew on the new Qatari Bribe Plane, so now it has officially been Air Force One. He’s never going to fly on it again as President. This was all a scheme to get the taxpayers to pay for all the upgrades to the plane.
The most honest sentence in this whole story is not from Trump. It is from the business associate who watched him loiter on Fifth Avenue hoping strangers would recognize him: "Trump is never happy, unless he's unhappy. He needs and thrives off the enemy, and the more public the enemy is, the better he feels."
That was written about a man promoting a ghostwritten book in 1987. It reads like a diagnosis of the last decade of American politics. The fake campaign was a marketing stunt. The appetite it revealed was not fake at all, and nobody involved seemed to notice they were feeding something that does not stop eating.
NEW: DC judge orders FBI to respond by July 30 to a lawsuit by watchdog group Democracy Forward, which seeks records/communications from Kash Patel's security team including the following terms:
Alcohol
Asleep
Drunk
Drinking
Hungover
Inebriated
Intoxicated
et al
Tom Nichols is good, very good. Speaking of POTUS:
"Nobody hangs on his words. They kind of do, but mostly out of freakish curiosity to see what kind of wild thing he’s going to say next, not because his words have any inherent meaning or reflect policy."
The lies, deception, and propaganda of the fascist authoritarian Trump regime is why America's allies trust Iran over America's serial lying psychopath.
This photo Trump is touting is not only from 2025, it's also been enhanced by AI.
Taxpayers funding Trump using two jets for a single trip is the actual "waste, fraud and abuse" that they're telling you rural hospital funding, Social Security, or Medicare is.
The absolute worst people are the Republicans who attack Dems on Platner while they cheer a President who has been credibly accused of assault by 13 women. That hypocrisy is off the damn charts.
Trump has pardoned multiple guys who were found guilty of money laundering, tax fraud, securities fraud, taking bribes, and dealing drugs
You don’t get to lecture anybody