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This is an increasingly common story. Support for Trump is declining as the campaign promises he made and the expectations he created fade into nothing; and his present actions make America weak, not great. Knowing what we know now, if the voters could have a do-over of the 2024 election, Trump...

Trump's New Fed Chair Has Not Lowered Rates Trump's new Fed Chair, Kevin Warsh, has been on the job a short time and chaired his first Fed meeting yesterday and today. At the press conference that follows those meetings, Warsh confirmed that interest rates were not lowered. They were unchanged...

Bankrupt businesses six times! And the $35 billion is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions and perhaps trillions of economic harm the war (not over yet) has caused Americans and people worldwide. And the blood of the dead Iranian schoolgirls and US military killed will be forever on...

Do You Believe It? We've been down this path literally dozens of times. Do you believe Trump this time, after he has lied in the previous 35-40 times? On Saturday (yesterday) he said the deal would be signed Sunday (today). Nothing was signed. What we got instead is the claim that something...

Donald Trump Gives Aging a Bad Name There is lots of talk about Trump's age as he turns 80 today. Let me begin my own with this quote. Notice it is not about Trump but anyone who is 80. The speaker makes a fair point, and Trump deserves that grace. “'Somebody at 80 years old just doesn’t have...

No. We can say abuse of power and blatant corruption.

I heard someone suggest that Trump is doing this UFC thing because he sees in the polls the young men who helped elect him are turning against him. Since many of them are UFC fans, putting a UFC showcase event near the White House this is Trump's way of winning back his fans. I'm not sure I...

Another Terrible Inflation Report for Republicans and Americans The Labor Department reported today that prices climbed at an annual rate of 4.2 percent in May. The price increases are driven by spiking energy costs triggered by the war with Iran ... a war of choice started by Trump and...

I agree and they're not even trying to be all that secretive about it. Donald Trump is an utterly corrupt public official, engaged in self-dealing at a scale never before seen. Trump probably plans on pardoning himself and his family and friends before he leaves office. He may have already done...

How Many Times Has Trump Claimed an Iran Deal is Just Around the Corner? 37 (Source) How many times was a deal actually just around the corner? Zero How do you explain this? Trump lies. The fact is, Trump chose to enter this war and every day, Trump chooses to keep it going.

This is the kind of insanity that manifests in the real world when we have a certifiably insane president in office.

Trump's Weakness Exposed by Netanyahu “I call the shots. I call all the shots. He doesn’t call the shots,” Trump said in a phone interview with the Financial Times, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to Axios, Trump told Netanyahu not to retaliate against Iran...

Steve Bannon: "We're going to lose the Senate."

This is Astounding ... and Sad Politico analyzed every Truth Social post Trump made in May. You can read the full analysis here. The summary image is below. Two things astound and saddened me about this. Trump posted over 800 times in May. That averages to 27 times a day. His late-night...

We may not have to wait 6 months for US gas prices to spike even higher. Oil industry warns Trump administration of price spikes within weeks (Source) “We’re at dangerously low levels already,” said one industry executive who was granted anonymity to discuss private conversations with the...

We just saw another example that it's not always the case that the candidate with the most money wins. In the California primary, Tom Steyer spent $213 million dollars in his campaign for California governor, mostly self-funded from his personal billionaire pocket. The next closest rival in this...

Why Are Americans Sinking in Trump's "Economic Boom?" In his Feb. 2026 State of the Union Address, Trump said, "You’re going to see results in six months to a year. We’re poised for an economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen." Four months later, Trump-friendly spin doctors...

"We Don't Need Anything [Canada Has]" So said Trump at a Mar-a-Lago press conference in Jan. 2025. Canada is responding in kind. In 2023, Canada committed to buy 88 Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters. After Trump shocked Canada with talk of making them an American state, and hitting them with...

More Decisive Leadership From Trump Headline: "Trump says ‘I don’t care’ if Iran talks over: ‘They started to get very boring’" (Source)

Iran's Internal Divisions While Iran has maintained its regime and projected a unified front since Trump started a war with them, and while they largely continue to do so, there are internal divisions and it is wise for us to remember that. Factions include: The pragmatists; civilians led by...