Jeffrey Summers

Neither new nor improved

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Late mail-in ballots usually lean more progressive

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Jeffrey Summers @jc_sum]

@MargoGontar Amazing! Slava Ukraini

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Here's how the corruption works:

Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump

Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it

Friday: FDA changes the policy
https://t.co/Udu1RhYtKI

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization. I am visiting China this week in a personal capacity as a supportive son.

Normal people visit their mothers in a personal capacity. Normal people attend funerals in a personal capacity. I do it beside sixteen CEOs, five billionaires worth $870 billion, and a 500-aircraft Boeing order being finalized with Beijing during the trip. Goldman Sachs. Citigroup. Mastercard. Visa. Tim Cook. Larry Fink. Stephen Schwarzman.

In a personal capacity.

I am also the Chief Strategy Officer of American Bitcoin. My qualifications for this role include mowing lawns on my father's golf courses, laying tile at his properties, and serving as a boardroom judge on The Apprentice from 2010 to 2015. I have no documented experience in cryptocurrency, blockchain, or Bitcoin mining. My stake in American Bitcoin alone was worth $548 million by September 2025 — eight months into my father's second term.

We purchased 16,000 Bitmain mining rigs for $314 million. Bitmain is Chinese. Bitmain is headquartered in Beijing. Beijing is where I am visiting in a personal capacity. In March we bought 11,298 more. The terms were "unusual" — hundreds of millions in equipment for "future considerations." I'm not sure what "future considerations" means in this context, especially when your father sets the tariff rate on your supplier's home country. I can tell you it is not a "conflict of interest." It is a "supply chain relationship."

On May 12, the day I boarded this plane, my father announced a trade agreement with China. Tariffs on Chinese goods dropped from 145 percent to 30 percent. That is a 115-point reduction on the country that manufactures my equipment, announced the same day I flew there. I did not know. I did not ask. I did not need to ask.

My family owns 60 percent of World Liberty Financial. We receive 75 percent of every token sold. The New Yorker's running total is $4.2 billion. Politico documented $12.9 billion in trading volume. Let me tell you about our team.

My brother Barron is our "DeFi visionary." He was eighteen years old. His prior experience is being tall.

My brother Don is "Web3 Ambassador." His prior experience is selling condos and shooting elephants.

I handle "strategic planning." My prior experience is tile.

My brother-in-law Jared received $2 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund six months after leaving the White House. The fund's own advisory panel flagged his "lack of private equity experience" and called the due diligence results "unsatisfactory." They gave him the money anyway.

My sister Ivanka received Chinese government approval for 16 trademarks during my father's first term. The categories included handbags, sunglasses, perfume, baby blankets, and voting machines. Voting machines. From China. While her father was president. That is not "corruption." That is "brand diversification."

My father spent four years on Hunter Biden. Four years. The charge: Hunter sat on the board of Burisma for $83,000 a month with no energy experience. My father called it the greatest corruption in American political history. He withheld $391 million in military aid to Ukraine to pressure an investigation. He was impeached for it. He did it again. A special counsel was appointed. Total cost to taxpayers: millions. Total Hunter earnings: $11 million over five years.

Let me do the math my father never did.

Hunter Biden made $6,027 per day. My family makes $8.75 million per day. That is 1,451 times Hunter's rate. We earn his entire five-year scandal every thirty hours.

Hunter had no energy experience. I have no crypto experience. Hunter sat on one board. I run the operation. Hunter met one banker for a coffee. I sit on Air Force One beside $870 billion negotiating with the country that manufactures my equipment.

But here is the part that makes me proud.

We launched a cryptocurrency in my father's name. It peaked at $73. It trades today at $2.43. Retail investors lost 95 percent of their money. We collected $400 million in transaction fees regardless of price. We hosted a dinner — the top 220 holders gained entry by holding enough of my father's coin. The top 29 received a champagne toast with the President of the United States. Price of admission: approximately $3.28 million in tokens. A public school teacher earns $3.28 million in 47 years. We call that "community engagement." Not "selling access." Access is what Hunter Biden sold for a cup of coffee.

Three days before I boarded this plane to Beijing, our team moved $12 million in memecoin assets to custody platforms. Routine. Unrelated. Everything is unrelated to everything.

In a personal capacity.

On January 24, 2025 — four days after the inauguration — my father fired seventeen inspectors general in a single night. Without explanation. Without notice to Congress. Seventeen. The people whose job is to look. He removed them all at once and no one replaced them. There is no inspector general for a son's "personal capacity." There is no disclosure form for love. There is no ethics office for a champagne toast priced at $3.28 million. He didn't bend the guardrails. He fired the people who hold them.

He built that. I fly in on it. $4.2 billion at cruising altitude. Every thirty hours, another Hunter Biden.

Hunter Biden got a special counsel for a cup of coffee and a board seat that paid less per month than one champagne toast with my father costs per million.

I am the Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization. I am the Chief Strategy Officer of American Bitcoin. I am the Web3 strategic planner at World Liberty Financial. I am visiting the country that manufactures my mining rigs, approved my sister's trademarks, and funds my brother-in-law's private equity firm, on a plane beside $870 billion and a president who spent four years calling $11 million treason.

In a personal capacity. As a supportive son.

[Jeffrey Summers @jc_sum]

@QuietPart_Loud @Amy_Siskind Wow. You seem kinda creepy

[Margo Gontar 🔱 @MargoGontar]

! This might be hard to watch ! Hiding with your kid under a tree so Russian FPV drones don’t see you, only to fall to the ground to shelter from glide bombs coming next .

Kramatorsk, Ukraine, May, 2026

(+eng subtitles)

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Bon Appetit to all of those dining at the McDonalds built on the spot in Milan, Italy, where Mussolini and his mistress were hanged upside down today 1945:

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

We're being led by an increasingly needy, increasingly panicky, and increasingly ill idiot.
He's ignorant, compromised, pathologically askew, old, and in decline.
He is transactional, without vision or expertise, purely a creature of TV - and the worst TV at that.
He only sees a zero-sum game, unable to understand humanity, moderation, compromise, or a greater good.
He cares about professing and reclaiming his grandiosity, supremacy, omnipotence, legacy, and air of legitimacy.
He cares about protecting his heinous secrets and lies, covering up his crimes, suppressing his deep feelings of illegitimacy, and doing whatever distraction and deflection is necessary to avoid humiliation.
But THAT'S IT. That's ALL he cares about. He, his craving for grandiosity, and his fear of humiliation, comprise his entire universe. Everything else is an afterthought, an appendage - some useful to him, some not.
He is dark. Deluded. Demented. A detriment to everything ... and to all things.

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

The ceasefire gives Iran control over the Strait of Hormuz, which it did not have before Trump launched the war. The regime is still in place, it still has enriched uranium, the capability to shoot missiles at drones at its neighbors. What, other than chaos, did Trump achieve?

[Jeffrey Summers @jc_sum]

@JustTheTweets17 Oh please. Own you failure

[Bill Oram @billoram]

I think the High Point band has identified the proper amount of cowbell.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

**** We can really summarize everything about the sticky and dangerous situation America is in, by two questions during the Tulsi Gabbard hearings. ****
Gabbard danced around both of these questions and offered no answer. Every one of us needs to take this in. This is our PREDICAMENT.
One question was whether Intelligence advised Trump that if Iran was attacked, they'd very likely close the Strait of Hormuz as a retaliatory tactic. (Shallow State: Of course they did.) Gabbard stammered and evaded the question in her non-response.
The other question was whether Intelligence had affirmatively determined that Iran posed an imminent nuclear threat. (Shallow State: Of course they did not.) This question was laid out brilliantly by Jon Ossoff, who pretty much showed that Intel HADN'T done so, and Gabbard's way of dealing with this, was to say that only the President had the ability to determine what threats are or are not imminent. Ossoff nailed her in his response, but she stayed awkwardly silent.
Let's process this. We're IN a war. The Strait of Hormuz IS closed; this IS strangling supply and increasing price. It's not something that is "imminent" - this is something that IS happening. Moreover, allies have uniformly REFUSED to put their troops in harm's way to help Trump navigate ships through the Strait. And moreover, the top aide to the cabinet official testifying just RESIGNED because, he said, there was NO imminent nuclear threat leading to the attack.
Despite these REALITIES, the choice made by Gabbard was to sit there and look dumb rather that buck Trump, to sit there and deny what her Intelligence showed, rather than put it forth. In other words - she chose to protect her fealty to Trump over her oath to America and the Constitution, during war.
So - sports fans- tell me, what does this show? It shows we have a President WHOSE PATHOLOGY DEMANDS that fealty to him be protected EVEN WHEN it hurts America, its people, allies, and the world, in a significant and obvious way, and EVEN WHEN all that pain is because the President f*cked up.
NOW LET'S GET TO THE PUNCH LINE: This is a midterm election year. And Trump's pathology which creates the dynamic that led to Gabbard's disingenuousness, NEEDS to be put out there!!! Who is going to do it? As the midterms approach, Dems will mostly speak to the economy, some will speak to other issues (like immigration) which are asked about in every freakin' political poll. These polls NEVER ask about Trump's stability, decline, or pathology - NEVER. Legacy media won't focus much on it either. It has to be Independent Media with potential to cross over.
And THIS is why we're making the film UNFIT TOO, to be released before the midterms. Because the predicament that we're in - the predicament we're REALLY in - IS pathological, and it's not out there much at all, and it NEEDS to be out there - truthfully, by experts, science above partisanship, with Democracy on the line.
I'm going to rest now. For a minute or two.

[Margo Gontar 🔱 @MargoGontar]

Today 73 ago Stalin, monster guilty in genocide of millions of Ukrainians, finally died. Died after being left, powerless and alone, on the floor, for hours (or even days).

Let this be a reminder that even most seemingly all powerful evil eventually
dіеs
like a sad piece of dirt

[Jay Christensen @JayByrdFilms]

Minneapolis You're So Many Things To Me

[The Wild North @TheWildNorthTV]

ICE incidents in Minnesota yesterday, 2/18/26. They have NOT left.

[Jeffrey Summers @jc_sum]

Never gonna keep us all down https://t.co/EbKXza4IIC

[Reed Galen @reedgalen]

All you free speech absolutists, this is what the 1st Amendment expressly prohibits.

[Jeffrey Summers @jc_sum]

@CheyCab @BillKristol I agree. It’s an incredible photo

[Jeffrey Summers @jc_sum]

@PeteHegseth And you will lose. Fuck off