There’s a babbling idiot on my TV right now – standing behind a lectern somewhere, dressed in a blue suit, red tie that’s hanging down to his knees – he seems to be an old man who is in mid-stage dementia.

The speech he’s giving is so unhinged, rambling, and nonsensical that I don’t even know what to say anymore. It’s bone chilling stuff. He’s ranting about Ilhan Omar in the same speech he’s making threats about Greenland?  Or is it Iceland?  He can’t tell the difference.   It’s stream of consciousness garbage and to this audience it’s completely deranged. Which it always was.

Now he is speaking about a young woman who was murdered by his own Gestapo:  “Her parents, and her father in particular, I hope he still is . . . but I don’t know, were tremendous Trump fans.  He was all for Trump.  Loved Trump, and it’s terrible.  I was told that by a lot of  people.  They said: ‘Oh, he loves you’ . . . I hope he still feels that way.”

This blabbering old fool is standing in a roomful of the world’s most powerful and richest people, rambling almost incoherently about how they should give Greenland to him.

That’s all he wants. Just an entire country. Just give it to him. “A piece of ice. Cold and poorly located … It’s a very small ask.” (ACTUAL QUOTE.)

The good news is that he says he’s not going to take it by force, even though he could take it easily, and by the way, he’s building battleships which will be 100 times more powerful than the big beautiful battleships that you saw in World War II.

So he just wants the world to give Greenland to him. He needs it. Just give it to him. Also, Canada. He’s got big plans for Canada.

He said that NATO has never and would never answer the call for the US.  Which is a lie because the only time NATO’s Article 5 has been invoked was in response to 9/11 when 18 European countries came to our aid in Afghanistan where the country who suffered the most per capita  casualties is the very country he is targeting now, Denmark.

And to thank that 46% of Virginia voters voted for this incoherent, deranged fool with the mental maturity of a 6-yr-old.  No doubt they are as deranged as he.

Three days ago, in response to Ghazala Hashmi being sworn in (on a Quran) as Virginia’s Lt. Governor – the first Muslim woman to be elected statewide in U.S. history – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (DINGBAT-Alabama) posted an unhinged, virulently Islamophobic comment on Twitter in which he complained that, because of Hasmi’s election “The enemy is inside the gates”. So obviously, it should go without saying that this type of blatant anti-Muslim bigotry is disgusting, unacceptable and un-American.

But it’s not.

Sad to say, though, Tuberville knows his voters VERY well – after all, these are the same voters who ousted the superb Doug Jones and replaced him with the mouth-breathing troglodyte Tuberville, with 60% of the vote (overwhelmingly white people, btw) no less.

Alabama voters must like what they see in Tuberville. Same thing with the tens of millions of Americans who voted once, twice, or even three times for Trump. And yes, we can blame the political media because they generally suck, but in the end, if these far-right-extremist bigots, imbeciles, and lunatics had nobody willing to buy what they’re selling, then the likes of Tuberville, Trump, DeSantis would  just be some random old man ranting on the street corner, without any power to do anything, as opposed to being a U.S. Senator, President, or Governor  with TREMENDOUS power to do harm.

By the way, as of Tuesday morning – three days after Tuberville’s noxious tweet – has a SINGLE Virginia Republican condemned Tuberville’s ugly rhetoric and/or defended Ghazala Hashmi? If not, can we assume that those Virginia Republicans agree with Tuberville’s appalling anti-Muslim bigotry and/or that they’re too afraid of their own voters to speak up? Either way, it’s ugly and it’s bad.

 

One year ago, Donald Trump delivered his second inaugural address. He made promises he has since broken. He painted a future of safety and unity that all but his most ardent supporters now acknowledge was a lie. Yet, with everything that has happened over the last 12 months, one sentence stands out:

“Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law.”

Nearly every word of that sentence is a lie. Every clause is a broken promise.

His betrayal of those 17 words sums up the cold cynicism of his administration. It is a quiet indictment of Republicans in Congress and a loud condemnation of his sycophantic cabinet. It explains nearly every grotesque action he has taken. Most importantly, it is a warning of the challenge we face over the next three years.

Let’s start with the simplest truth: Donald Trump aspires to be an authoritarian, not a leader. Leaders inspire confidence, foster cooperation and persuade people to follow. Authoritarians demand obedience and rule through fear. They do not seek to persuade; they seek to punish. Most importantly, they elevate power above principle.

Public threats against government workers, the private sector and our foreign allies do not convey the confidence of a leader. They reveal the petty insecurity of a wannabe dictator. Attacks on the media and the rule of law are not leadership; they are the tactics of tyrants.

Likewise, Trump has not promoted fair, equal and impartial justice. Quite the opposite: He has turned the Department of Justice into his personal law firm, using it to seek vengeance while pardoning his supporters.

“Fair” justice does not target political opponents while shielding allies. There is nothing fair about threatening critics, rewarding loyalty and signaling openly that accountability depends not on conduct but on allegiance. Justice for friends and punishment for enemies is the opposite of fairness. It is arbitrary and designed to intimidate.

“Equal” justice does not mean one system for powerful friends and another for everyone else. While everyday Americans face dire consequences for peacefully protesting, those involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection are pardoned. Anyone who has crossed the president risks investigation, while those inside his orbit break the law with impunity.

“Impartial” justice does not mean controlling who gets investigated and who does not. More importantly, it does not tolerate public threats against judges, prosecutors, jurors or law enforcement officials who refuse to bend to the president’s will. In just his first year, Trump has attacked the legitimacy of courts that rule against him, smeared investigators who follow the evidence, and demanded loyalty from every institution of government.

As for the “constitutional rule of law,” Trump has treated every constitutional constraint as an obstacle to be ignored, mocked or bulldozed. He has claimed powers he does not have while ignoring his constitutional obligation to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

He has stretched executive power beyond its breaking point and derided lawyers and judges for holding him accountable. He has tried to curtail the right to vote and has even lamented not seizing ballot boxes in 2024, while suggesting that perhaps we should not have elections at all in 2026.

Trump’s failure to abide by the 17 words in his inaugural address cannot be dismissed as a series of isolated incidents or rhetorical excesses. The erosion of justice in his first year has been deliberate, systematic and relentless. It shows up in efforts to pressure state officials, manipulate federal agencies, and delegitimize any institution that refuses to comply.

To be clear, the danger is not merely that the president lied in a major speech. The danger is that millions of Americans are being conditioned to accept the idea that justice is partisan, that courts are political tools, and that the law exists to serve those who control it. Once entrenched, that belief is extraordinarily difficult to reverse.

A democracy cannot function if citizens believe government outcomes are determined by brute power rather than the force of reason and principle. Courts cannot function if judges are treated as enemies for doing their jobs. Elections cannot function if losers refuse to accept results and instead attack the legitimacy of the system itself. The rule of law is not self-executing; it survives only if it is defended — actively and without apology.

This is why the betrayal of those 17 words matters so much. They were meant to reassure a nervous nation. They were meant to sound normal and presidential. They were also a lie.

All presidents enter office as part of a foundational bargain of American democracy: We grant them power but only if they act under law, not by force; through institutions, not intimidation; through accountability, not loyalty tests. That is what our founding document means when it says governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

One year later, that bargain at the heart of the Constitution is under assault by the very person sworn to uphold it. History will remember Trump for his contempt for justice and the rule of law — but history’s verdict is not enough.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Putin’s dream is to destroy NATO.  Trump is doing that for him.

Yes, he is a Russian asset.

For some, there has never been any doubt.

But his threats against Greenland and the NATO alliance have removed all doubts.

All the countries of the world have denounced his intentions to invade Greenland, except one.

The newspapers in Moscow do not have one unkind word for Mr Trump. They applaud his “historical” actions. They stroke his ego and massage all the right places.

But to everyone else, he has gone insane.

He has shown over and over again that his loyalties are with Putin and Russia. From his very first day, when he kicked the American press out of the White House, and was photographed thru the window laughing and joking with Lavrov and the Russian Ambassador. From when he stood on the stage at Helsinki and tore down our own country in defense of Putin, that seemed to be the last straw. But then, he accuses Ukraine of being at fault for Russia invading them. He deserts the NATO alliance to side with Putin as he attempts to conquer Ukraine.

And now, he wants to finish the job for Putin. He is single-handedly tearing down the NATO alliance, the lifetime dream of Vladimir Putin. There can be no more denial. There can be no more excuses. Donald Trump is working for Russia. Putin could do no more damage to America if he was sitting in the White House.

Trump spent last night posting private messages from other world leaders.  Of course, as we all know, at the end of his first term he stole a truckload of highly classified documents, took them to Mar-A-Lago,  then gave copies to Putin and the Saudis.

 

President Donald Trump went on an overnight online posting spree early Tuesday, sharing private text messages with European leaders — and in doing so sparked a wave of outrage from critics who compared his behavior to that of a teen in the “middle of his first high school drama.”

Trump shared screenshots of private text exchanges with two European leaders: French President Emmanuel Macron, who appeared perplexed by Trump’s fixation on acquiring Greenland, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who seemed to express support for the idea.

The unorthodox behavior for a sitting U.S. president didn’t go unnoticed by critics, including X user “War Monitors,” who provides news and commentary on world events and has amassed more than 1.2 million followers.

“The ‘president’ is sharing private messages with world leaders online as if he’s in [the] middle of his first high school drama,” they wrote in a social media post on X Tuesday.

Another critic, Areih Kovler, a writer and political analyst, expressed confusion as to Trump’s intent behind sharing the messages, particularly his private text exchange with Macron.

“There’s nothing embarrassing in this message for Macron. No gotcha. No obvious tactical reason to break diplomatic protocol by releasing it,” Kovler wrote to their more than 80,000 followers in a social media post on X. “It makes every world leader reluctant to put anything in writing. Just another sign Trump is losing it.”

Tommy Tuberville is a worthless turd.

Three days ago, in response to Ghazala Hashmi being sworn in (on a Quran) as Virginia’s Lt. Governor – the first Muslim woman to be elected statewide in U.S. history – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) posted an unhinged, virulently Islamophobic comment (see screenshot, below) on Twitter (“The enemy is inside the gates”). So obviously, it should go without saying that this type of blatant anti-Muslim bigotry is disgusting, unacceptable and unAmerican.

As Sen. Tim Kaine writes, in response:

“Ghazala Hashmi is my friend, was my state Senator and now is my Lieutenant Governor. (Also a scholar of American poetry.) Tommy has never met her. But he brands her an ‘enemy.’ Because she’s an immigrant? A Muslim? A woman? A poet? Or more likely . . . because he thinks trashing this accomplished and patriotic American will make Alabamians rally to his campaign for Governor. Wow—he really thinks poorly of his voters . . .”

Sad to say, though, Tuberville knows his voters VERY well – I mean, these are the same voters who ousted the superb Doug Jones and replaced him with this mouth-breathing troglodyte, with 60% of the vote (ovewhelmingly white people, btw) no less. So, this is the thing; those voters could have rebuked Tuberville by NOT ELECTING HIM, but apparently they liked (and still like?) what they saw in him. Same thing with the tens of millions of Americans who voted once, twice, or even three times for Trump. And yes, we can blame the political media for sucking, which it overwhelming does, but in the end, if these far-right-extremist bigots, imbeciles, lunatics, etc. had nobody willing to buy what they’re selling, they’d just be some random old man ranting on the street corner, without any power to do anything, as opposed to being a U.S. Senator – or even president – with TREMENDOUS power to do harm. Ugh.

By the way, as of Tuesday morning – three days after Tuberville’s noxious tweet – has a SINGLE Virginia Republican condemned Tuberville’s ugly rhetoric and/or defended Ghazala Hashmi? If not, can we assume that those Virginia Republicans agree with Tuberville’s appalling anti-Muslim bigotry and/or that they’re too afraid of their own voters to speak up? Either way, it’s really, really not good…

P.S. Of course, during the 2025 LG campaign, Hashmi’s far-right-Republican opponent, John Reid, repeatedly demonized her based on her religion, and basically there was “crickets” from Virginia Republicans…

If so, remember:

Asked on Anderson Cooper 360 whether there was any hope for European leaders to “de-escalate” and “reason with the president” over his repeated threats to annex Greenland, Senator Rueben Gallego (D, AZ) said, “No, and I’ve been very clear. He is a madman. He is insane. He’s only thinking about himself.”

“You really think he’s insane?” pressed Cooper.

“Yes! I’m sorry, where are we at this moment where we don’t understand what’s happening in this country?” Gallego responded. “The man is threatening war against a NATO ally and we’re all thinking this is rational. Let’s accept what’s happening here. He is not rational right now. He is destroying our world reputation, potentially our economic opportunity, economic mighty power around the world because he is being petty.”

He argued, “None of this is rational. Everyone needs to stop pretending this is rational.”

We need to support Democrats who are willing to take the risk to become direct in trying to remove Trump from office.

But first we need more Democrats like Gallego who are willing to take the risk.

Why?  Because they are just like him — ignorant of the rest of the world; ignorant of their own history; selfish; bigoted; mean; phony “Christians;” gullible.

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What was certain was that, by the end of 2025, Trump did not seem to be acting crazy like a fox: he just, by that point, seemed crazy, period.  Or more precisely, he seemed in the grip of a kind of demented megalomania, which inspired him to do things such as demand that Washington D.C.’s NFL team name its soon to be constructed $3.5 billion stadium after him, or risk losing the federal subsidies helping to finance the project (“Imagine if Obama . . . “).  Nor did any of this seem to be part of some sort of kayfabe or schtick: he simply appeared to have become even more stupid than formerly, as creeping dementia merged with a lifetime of ignorance and laziness, and a coterie of Rasputin-like courtiers swept into the White House to take advantage of their boss’s deteriorating state.

Indeed, by the concluding days of the first year of his second term, Trump’s speech and behavior had become so consistently bizarre that numerous observers began to wonder publicly if the regular bruising that appeared on his hands, which he often tried to disguise with makeup, might indicate that he was being given the new generation of intravenous drugs, that slow the progress of the Alzheimer’s disease he may well have inherited from his father.   (In his final years, as he slid further and further into dementia, Fred Trump was sometimes given fake contracts to sign, to distract him from the terrible fate that had befallen him.)

As 2026 began, it was evident that similar measures might have to be taken with the president of the United States, before the expiration of his second, and hopefully final, term — although already some especially shameless enablers, such as Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, were busily concocting purported legal workarounds, to allow Trump to remain in office beyond 2029.

Trump’s boasting that he had “aced” yet another dementia test – at least the third such test his doctors had given him during his first year in office – only added to the surreal atmosphere surrounding his obviously deteriorating cognitive condition.  That atmosphere took an even more surreal turn the very next day, when Trump announced he had ordered an invasion of Venezuela to kidnap the country’s president and his wife, because the president wasn’t really the president, but rather the head of a drug cartel.  (This action took place just a few weeks after Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras, who had been sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for moving tons of cocaine into the US).  He then announced that the United States was going to occupy the country indefinitely, while US oil companies extracted what his advisor Stephen Miller characterized as oil that had been “stolen” from America.

A few days later, in the midst of threatening to annex Greenland by military force, Trump hosted Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, and humbly accepted her purported transfer of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to him, as she handed him a medal symbolizing the prize.  Nobel winners are given several gold-plated replica medals to go along with the “real,” solid gold medal they are awarded, and it was unclear which medal Machado gave Trump.  What was clear was that Trump had ordered the invasion of Venezuela in large part to extort the Nobel Peace Prize from Machado, and for a moment it seemed he was both sufficiently childish and demented that he believed this pathetic farce did in fact magically transform him into the Nobel Peace Prize winner he so desperately longed to be.

That illusion was shattered a few days later when, on the eve of the first anniversary of his second presidency, Trump sent the following letter to the prime minster of Norway:

Dear Jonas:  Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize [Nobel prizes are awarded by an independent committee that has no connection to the Norwegian government] for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.   Denmark [Denmark and Norway are different countries] cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway?  There are no written documents, [the United States signed multiple treaties many decades ago recognizing Denmark’s sovereignty over Greenland] it’s only a boat that landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there also.  I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States.  The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.  Thank you! President DTJ.

The theme that ties together this year-long adventure in various forms of deranged absurdity and flagrant criminality is this:  We who are horrified witnesses to Trump and Trumpism have come to understand exactly why his most fanatical supporters love him – because he’s just like them.