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Donald can't seem to figure out how many soldiers we have lost in the Iran war. Do you think he even cares about the casualties the US has suffered in his unconstitutional war of choice?

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Pete Hegseth is asking the US Government for more than $80 Billion to continue to fund Trump's war in Iran; a war that has already cost the US taxpayer $37.5 Billion by his own estimate. What does this brazen request mean to you?

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It’s all so obvious and yet much of our traditional media still struggles to say plainly what is happening.

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Donald has always viewed the presidency as an investment opportunity. Long before he returned to the White House, we knew he had no interest in serving the American people unless doing so also served him.

As one commentator recently put it, this is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is so blatant and so obvious that they are not even attempting to hide it anymore. Eric Trump becomes a strategic adviser to defense companies that suddenly begin winning Pentagon contracts. Jared Kushner travels the world after receiving a two billion dollar investment from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, earning more than one hundred million dollars in management fees while the investment itself produces virtually nothing. Donald Trump Jr. continues opening hotels and business ventures in the very countries where his father is conducting American diplomacy. Donald himself is wealthier than he has ever been. His sons are wealthier than they have ever been. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are wealthier than they have ever been. None of that is a coincidence.

It is also worth reminding ourselves that this has nothing to do with competence. None of them possess extraordinary business skills. None of them suddenly became innovators. None of them developed expertise that the rest of the marketplace somehow overlooked. They are becoming richer for one reason and one reason only. Donald is President of the United States.

Eric’s newest venture illustrates the point perfectly. He became Chief Strategy Advisor for Foundation Future Industries, a robotics company that, almost immediately afterward, secured twenty four million dollars in Defense Department contracts to develop humanoid robots for potential battlefield use. We are expected to believe this happened because Eric Trump possesses unique expertise in robotics. The company told CNBC that Eric invested before joining as an adviser. If you believe that, I have a bridge I would be delighted to sell you.

Eric also remains Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization, which increasingly appears to mean Executive Vice President in charge of finding new ways to separate American taxpayers from their money.

The robotics investment is only one piece of a much larger strategy. A Washington Post analysis published on July 13 found that investment funds linked to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump had poured money into more than a dozen defense technology companies that later received billions of dollars in government contracts. There is that remarkable coincidence again.

One of the largest investment vehicles behind those holdings is 1789 Capital. Donald Trump Jr. joined the firm as a partner within days of his father’s 2024 election victory. The company is run by Chris Buskirk, a political strategist for Vice President J.D. Vance, along with investor Omeed Malik. During the past year alone, the firm’s assets under management exploded from roughly two hundred million dollars to approximately three and a half billion dollars. Apparently that just happened because the firm is extraordinarily gifted.

In October 2025, Donald Trump Jr. traveled to Riyadh to promote 1789 Capital at a Saudi investment conference. During the event, he explained exactly why investors should trust the firm.

This is what Don Jr. said:

We understand what the administration wants to do because we helped craft some of that messaging so we can be on the outside but still have that understanding of what they plan to do. And that’s logical. When you look at what’s going on, I mean, one of the first stops was right here. Two trillion dollars in foreign direct investment since the start of the administration.

Think about what he is actually saying.

The selling point is no longer investment expertise. It is no longer financial performance. It is access to the President of the United States. Donald Trump Jr. openly tells investors that his firm understands exactly what the administration intends to do because it helped shape the messaging. He is not even pretending anymore. The value proposition is his proximity to presidential power.

For years we watched Republicans investigate Hunter Biden over allegations that he benefited from his father’s political position. Whether those investigations were justified is almost beside the point. What the Trump family is doing bears no resemblance to that. Hunter Biden did not openly travel the world telling investors they should hand him money because he helped shape White House policy. Donald Trump Jr. is doing exactly that, and he is doing it publicly.

When somebody pointed out that this represented an entirely different level of corruption, I could not have said it better myself. With Hunter Biden, we were talking primarily about nepotism. It was not a good look, but it was not a threat to the integrity of the American government. What Donald, Don Jr., Eric, Jared Kushner, and the rest of the family are doing is something altogether different. It is infinitely more corrupt, infinitely more dangerous, and infinitely more damaging to our institutions because they are monetizing the presidency itself.

Donald Trump Jr. could have saved everybody a great deal of time by simply saying, invest with us because our father is President of the United States and he is for sale.

That, unfortunately, would have been the honest version.

Of course, a Pentagon spokesperson insisted that no company receives preferential treatment and that outside political connections play absolutely no role in funding decisions. We know that is simply not true. Don Jr. has publicly discussed assisting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with personnel decisions, despite holding no government position, receiving no Senate confirmation, and having absolutely no official authority to influence the Department of Defense.

Think about that for a moment.

Don Jr., a private citizen whose primary qualification is sharing DNA with the President of the United States, was reportedly helping decide personnel matters inside the Pentagon. More specifically, those conversations centered on candidates who supported expanding spending on military drones. That is not merely inappropriate. It represents an extraordinary collapse of the distinction between private financial interests and public decision making.

We are watching Donald and his children siphon money from the federal government into investment portfolios that continue growing more valuable as military spending increases. That is not only profoundly corrupt. It presents a genuine threat to national security because every military decision becomes clouded by legitimate questions about personal financial gain.

The timing makes the situation even more disturbing.

The defense investments are only one part of an ever expanding Trump business empire that has flourished since Donald returned to office. Donald’s financial disclosure, released at the end of June, reported that he earned approximately 2.2 dollars during 2025 alone. Roughly 1.4 billion dollars of that came from cryptocurrency ventures. Separate estimates now place Donald’s personal net worth at approximately 6.5 billion dollars.

If Donald truly is the brilliant businessman he has spent decades pretending to be, there is an obvious question.

Why was he unable to generate this kind of wealth before he regained the presidency?

The answer, of course, is that he could not.

During an interview with CNBC from the Oval Office on July 2, Donald attempted to explain how his fortune continues growing while insisting he remains completely detached from the process.

Donald: I’ve made money. I’ve made a tremendous amount of money, more than I would’ve ever thought I would’ve made. And I let people invest it. I don’t even know who they are, but it’s given to big firms that are on your show all the time. My son Eric handles it. I don’t talk to him about things such as this.

No.

That is neither true nor remotely believable.

We should remind ourselves that before Donald became President, the principal source of his wealth was his father. Fred Trump spent decades transferring enormous sums of money to Donald, often through questionable financial arrangements. Donald did not suddenly become a financial genius in his late seventies. He simply acquired something far more valuable than business talent. He acquired the presidency.

That is why World Liberty Financial has become one of the most lucrative enterprises in American political history.

The cryptocurrency venture enriching Donald and his children is operated largely by Eric and Donald Trump Jr. Yet somehow we are expected to believe there are no conflicts of interest. The White House has actually said as much, apparently assuming the American people are incapable of recognizing the obvious.

The remarkable part is that Donald himself effectively admitted the opposite during that same CNBC interview.

After insisting Eric manages his investments independently, Donald acknowledged something that completely undermined his own defense. He admitted that because the presidency is so powerful, virtually anything his children do creates a conflict of interest.

Exactly.

That is the point.

Donald understands perfectly well that his family’s wealth is growing because of the office he holds. He simply does not care. Rather than avoiding those conflicts, he has embraced them. Rather than separating public office from private enrichment, he has fused the two into a single enterprise designed to benefit himself and his family.

The Presidency is not merely another job. It is a public trust. The American people expect the person occupying the Oval Office to make decisions based upon what benefits the country, not what benefits his own investment portfolio or the portfolios of his children.

Donald has rejected that principle entirely.

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The 2026 World Cup came to an end on Saturday in New Jersey, where Spain defeated Argentina one nil in extra time to claim only its second World Cup championship. After six weeks of competition, the Spanish squad finally got its hands on the trophy after an extraordinarily long drought. It was a bizarre match because Spain had something like twenty shots on goal while Argentina, remarkably, had none until extra time.

I honestly could not believe Spain won by only a single goal. Argentina’s goalkeeper was phenomenal and kept his team alive for as long as humanly possible. But in the end, Spain prevailed. When FIFA President Gianni Infantino stepped forward to present the World Cup trophy, however, somebody else apparently decided he had won the tournament. Donald Trump absolutely refused to move out of the way as Spain celebrated its victory.

I do not think anything better encapsulates who Donald Trump is than that truly pathetic moment. Pathetic. Shameful. Humiliating. Embarrassing. Take your pick because every one of those words applies. That is what losers do. They bask in the reflected glory of people who actually earned something. Donald once again managed to make somebody else’s triumph about himself. Thank you, once again, for humiliating America on the world stage.

Fortunately, we also live in the age of Photoshop. Donald may have planted himself front and center during Spain’s celebration, but Spain’s official championship photograph tells a different story. Donald is nowhere to be found because, of course, he did not belong there in the first place. He did not play for Spain. He did not play for Argentina. He would not be able to kick a soccer ball more than a yard if you paid him and, of course, he would happily let you pay him to try.

There is another reason Spain probably was not interested in immortalizing Donald alongside its players. Over the last year, he has repeatedly insulted, denigrated, and threatened the Spanish government simply because Spain refused to capitulate to his demands, particularly regarding his illegal war of choice against Iran. Yet there he was, attempting to insert himself into one of the country’s proudest sporting moments as though none of that history existed. That level of entitlement has become so commonplace that we almost expect it now.

The reaction from the crowd at MetLife Stadium was equally revealing. As Donald walked onto the pitch, which for those Americans unfamiliar with international football simply means the field, the fans made their feelings unmistakably clear.

This is how the crowd greeted Donald:

Boo!

That was not simply a rejection of Donald personally. It was an auditory demonstration of just how respected America has become throughout much of the world under his leadership. It was also a useful reminder that it is no longer just Americans who cannot stand Donald. He has managed to unite people around the globe in their contempt for his behavior. That is quite an accomplishment, although probably not the one he was hoping for.

If this all seems strangely familiar, it should. During last year’s FIFA Club World Cup trophy ceremony, Donald helped present medals to Chelsea after its victory over Paris Saint-Germain. Most Americans probably did not notice because international club football does not receive much attention here. What happened next, however, was vintage Donald. After taking possession of one of the medals, he appeared to slip it into his pocket before walking away.

America has often been described as a kakistocracy under Donald, government by the least qualified people imaginable. Increasingly, however, it also resembles a kleptocracy because nobody steals quite like that guy. I have to admit, I was ninety nine percent certain he was going to try to walk away with the World Cup trophy itself. At this point, that almost would have been predictable.

While Donald was busy embarrassing himself at a soccer match, the consequences of his foreign policy continued to grow more severe. Axios reports that oil prices have now climbed above ninety dollars a barrel, nearly thirty dollars higher than they were before Donald launched his illegal and unconstitutional war of choice against Iran. Gasoline prices have climbed to nearly four dollars a gallon as the conflict enters its fifth month with no sign of ending. Donald continues to demonstrate that he is incapable of reaching a deal while ordinary Americans continue paying the price.

Returning from the World Cup aboard Air Force One, Donald was asked about the Iran war. Once again, the justification for remaining in the conflict shifted dramatically from what he had previously claimed.

This is what Donald said:

Four or five weeks. Well, you keep hitting me. This is a far bigger job that we’re doing. We were doing a little job of stopping them from having a certain capability. Now we’re just ending it. So it’s really not the same thing. What we’re doing now is we’re ending any chance where they can have a nuclear missile. If you look at it after a week and a half, not four weeks, a week and a half, two weeks, we stopped them from probably, but I don’t want to have the word probably.

We stopped them from probably. I do not even know what that sentence means. Donald now insists this has become a much larger mission than originally described. First, we were supposedly preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear capability. Now we are permanently ending every possibility that it ever could. Never mind that Donald spent more than a year insisting that objective had already been accomplished. Never mind that President Obama actually achieved precisely that through the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action before Donald recklessly dismantled it. The rationale for this war changes every time Donald opens his mouth because the war itself has slipped completely beyond his control.

The Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Iran, which Donald repeatedly claimed was on the verge of collapse, is now wealthier and more influential throughout the region than it was before the war began. Donald refuses to articulate a coherent objective because there no longer appears to be one. Instead, he invents a new explanation each time somebody asks why American troops remain trapped in a conflict he promised would be short and decisive.

As this disaster continues, three more American service members have been killed. Two died in Jordan. One was killed in northern Iraq. Another remains missing. Those are not numbers. They are Americans whose families have paid the ultimate price because Donald launched a war he neither understood nor prepared for.

When asked about those losses, this is what Donald said:

Well, we feel very badly, but those great people, those great patriots who are out there fighting that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Iran has been very, very badly damaged. They’ve lost everything almost militarily. They’ve got very little left. They’ve got some missiles. They’ve got some drones. They’ve got some manufacturing ability, not much. We control the Strait. They don’t control anything. So we’ll see what happens, but we hit them very hard again tonight.

There is an obvious contradiction here. If Iran has truly lost everything militarily, why are American troops still dying? If Iran no longer poses a meaningful threat, why does Donald keep announcing new retaliatory strikes? He cannot simultaneously claim complete victory while acknowledging that Iran continues killing American service members. The reality is that Iran still possesses significant military capabilities, continues controlling the pace of this conflict, and has demonstrated that it is willing to absorb tremendous pain in order to drag the war out. Donald is the one desperately trying to negotiate an exit because he has no strategy beyond dropping more bombs.

The New York Times also reported that an earlier Iranian strike injured dozens of American service members and damaged multiple helicopters, yet the Pentagon withheld that information from the public. Military officials defended their silence by arguing that releasing additional details could provide Iran with useful intelligence for future attacks. That explanation might carry more weight if this administration had not repeatedly compromised sensitive information through its own breathtaking incompetence.

Central Command has also stopped releasing daily strike totals inside Iran, making it increasingly difficult to understand the true scope of this conflict. We are receiving less information about American casualties and even less about the number of Iranian civilians who are being killed. The administration that claimed it wanted to liberate the Iranian people appears increasingly determined to prevent Americans from learning what this war is actually costing.

I have said this many times because it remains true. We should never elect somebody who cares about nothing except money and his own enrichment. Anybody who cares about nothing but money ultimately cares very little about other human beings. That is exactly what we are witnessing now. American service members become statistics. Iranian civilians disappear behind classified reports. Human suffering becomes secondary to Donald’s political image and personal ambitions.

We have to do better next time. Above all else, we need to bring empathy back.

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Trump didn't play a single minute yesterday but still managed to log more podium time than half the Spanish squad. Should Rodri be thanking him in the victory speech?

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Mary Trump Media

Welcome back to Trump Trolls Trump, the weekly reminder that the most effective response to authoritarian absurdity is not fear. It is ridicule.

We are now 544 days into Donald’s second occupation of the Oval Office. Somehow, January of 2025 already feels like several geological eras ago, and yet here we are, looking back on Week 78 of a presidency that continues to redefine incompetence in increasingly creative ways.

As it turns out, we did not need to spend two full days watching Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing to understand why he should never be Attorney General of the United States. Republican Senator John Kennedy, Foghorn Leghorn of Louisiana managed to distill the entire problem into a single question.

This is what Senator John Kennedy asked:

Are you and President Trump friends?

This is how Blanche responded:

I’m his lawyer. Was his lawyer.

That should have ended the conversation.

Todd Blanche accidentally admitted exactly what everyone already knew but what he could never publicly acknowledge. He is not an independent public servant. He is Donald’s lawyer. Or, as he awkwardly corrected himself, Donald’s former lawyer. Either way, it is an extraordinary admission from somebody seeking to become the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.

That brings us, naturally, to Donald himself.

Donald spent part of the week in Pennsylvania attending a summit on defense and weapons production. At least, that was supposedly the reason he was there. Before long, his attention wandered toward something he clearly considers far more important than national security.

The midterm elections.

More specifically, Donald wanted voters to remember a brand-new word he believes perfectly captures the Democratic Party. Not affordability, because according to Donald, that is apparently a fake word.

This is what Donald said:

I had my first news conference the day after I took office and they said, Affordability. Affordability. That’s a fake word that they use. They cause the affordability problem. It’s called high prices. They came up with this word. They’re good at coming up with words, but we came up with a good word too. They’re Democrats. Dumb. You take the B out. Most people don’t know that dumb is a B, okay? But the U replaces the E and you have a Dumocrat. And I just don’t understand because their policy is so dumb, what they’ve done to this country and what they will do to the country. If we don’t win the midterms or win the election, everything that I’m talking about, you can just write it off.

There is a lot to unpack there.

First, the only person who apparently did not know the word “dumb” ends with the letter B is the person attempting to explain it.

Second, Donald accidentally revealed what this election is really about for him.

When he warns that everything can simply be “written off” if Republicans lose the midterms, what he is really saying is that accountability might finally catch up with him. Donald understands perfectly well what losing congressional protection could mean. It could mean investigations. It could mean consequences. It could mean that he, along with several members of his family and administration, may finally have to answer for what they have done.


That possibility appears to terrify him far more than inflation ever could.

Donald, of course, quickly moved on to another subject he understands even less than economics.

Physics.

To be fair, narrowing down the subjects Donald fails to understand has become increasingly difficult. We could spend hours discussing water pressure, shower heads, windmills supposedly murdering whales, or any number of other longstanding obsessions. This week, however, Donald returned to one of his favorites.

Magnets.

Nobody has spent more time proving they do not understand magnets than Donald Trump.

Sometimes magnets are dangerous. Sometimes they do not work. Sometimes they stop working because they get wet. Sometimes they are apparently the key to unimaginable wealth.

The rules change from sentence to sentence.

Donald: The elevators are no good, sir. They’re lifted up by magnets. So here’s my deal. I said, when Caterpillar tractor, and I watch more tractors than any human being on earth, rip earth, rip rock, right through a rock. It’s all hydraulic. So I said, when Caterpillar goes into the business of using magnets to lift up their little blades, and when they go away from hydraulic, I’ll tell you what, I’m going to do something. I’m going to start using magnets, but we don’t want to use them. So we’re not letting any... Pete, we’re not letting any more ships be built with the ridiculous... And the same thing with the magnetic elevators. We want them to be made hydraulic, which it can be hit by lightning. It can be hit by anything. When a little water touches the magnets, it doesn’t work anymore. You’re in the Atlantic Ocean with waves at a 60 feet high and the Pacific Ocean with waves at a 70 feet high. And they’re talking about magnets. It makes you want to get sick.

Personally, I would think sixty or seventy-foot waves would make most people sick long before magnets entered the conversation. I also remain completely unclear about which elevators Donald believes are suspended by magnets somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

What continues to amaze me is not simply that Donald says things like this. It is that tens of millions of people still listen to him as though any of it makes sense. There are weeks when it feels impossible for him to become more ridiculous, more uninformed, or more detached from reality.

Then he opens his mouth.

As though the first explanation were not bewildering enough, Donald somehow managed to contradict himself only moments later.

Donald: I hope you’re going to do magnets. Somebody out there, I hope you’re all brilliant people. Magnets. Do magnets. Okay. I’ll tell you how to make money. Do magnets. You’re doing a lot of great stuff. Do magnets because one thing we don’t have, but we’re getting close, but do magnets so... I hope John Gray is listening to me so he can give him a couple of bucks and go into the magnet business. I guarantee it’s going to be a success. It’s one thing we don’t, for some reason, it’s not complex, not hard.

Only Donald could spend several minutes insisting magnets are a catastrophic engineering failure before pivoting seamlessly into investment advice about the magnet industry.

It almost feels as though making sense has become optional inside the Trump regime.

Then again, perhaps consistency has never really been the point. Donald has spent his entire public life saying whatever serves him in the moment, regardless of whether it contradicts something he said thirty seconds earlier. Logic is irrelevant. Facts are negotiable. Reality is simply another obstacle to be ignored.

Unfortunately, that same approach extends well beyond magnets. It now shapes the propaganda ecosystem surrounding Donald, where television hosts, political allies, and administration officials spend every day asking Americans to reject what they can plainly see in favor of whatever fantasy Donald happens to be selling at that particular moment.

And that is where we turn next.

If there is one thing the Trump propaganda machine has perfected over the last decade, it is convincing people that corporations and human beings have exactly the same interests. They do not.

Of course, none of this exists in isolation. It is simply the latest chapter in Donald’s endless campaign to relitigate the 2020 election, a contest he lost by nearly eight million votes despite spending years insisting otherwise. Every recount confirmed the outcome. Every serious investigation confirmed the outcome. Court after court rejected the conspiracy theories because there was never credible evidence that widespread fraud changed the election. Donald lost. That simple reality has become the one fact he appears constitutionally incapable of accepting. So this week he tried again, delivering yet another nationally televised speech insisting that newly declassified documents proved China interfered in the election on behalf of Joe Biden. Thankfully, several major television networks recognized exactly what they were being offered and declined to broadcast another uninterrupted stream of misinformation.

The irony is that Donald’s own administration continues undermining his claims. Even the documents he released fail to support the conspiracy theory he desperately wants Americans to believe.

That is ultimately why these performances have become so predictable. Every week there is another manufactured crisis, another conspiracy theory, another bizarre analogy, another desperate attempt to convince Americans not to believe their own eyes. Donald cannot defend his record, so he invents alternate realities. His allies cannot explain away his failures, so they compare constitutional rights to Costco memberships and Olive Garden promotions. The details change from week to week, but the strategy never does. Distract people long enough and perhaps they will forget what actually happened.

Fortunately for the rest of us, Donald keeps making the same mistake. He never stops talking. Every press conference, every rally, every interview, every rambling explanation about magnets, elections, or whatever new obsession captures his attention provides another reminder that beneath all the manufactured spectacle is simply a profoundly insecure man who cannot keep his own stories straight. These people desperately want to be feared. They want to project strength, inevitability, and power. Strip away the propaganda, however, and what remains is something considerably less impressive.

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As the war of choice Donald started with Iran continues to spiral outward, he insists everything is under control. He points to oil production, praises the American military, and congratulates himself while the ceasefire he touted as a victory has collapsed, regional instability continues to spread, and the economic consequences of his decisions ripple across the globe. Donald continues to treat every setback as a public relations opportunity instead of acknowledging the damage his decisions have caused.

Unsurprisingly, given how feckless and indecisive Donald has been throughout this unnecessary, illegal, and unconstitutional war, the ceasefire between the United States and Iran has now collapsed. Over the weekend of July 11, Iran struck tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, prompting the United States to respond with strikes against Iranian targets. On July 14, the United States reinstated its naval blockade on ships traveling to and from Iranian ports, signaling that whatever brief pause existed has now given way to another dangerous escalation.

Rather than addressing the renewed fighting or explaining how the Trump regime intended to restore stability, Donald once again declared victory. Posting on his failing social media platform that same day, he wrote:

Oil is flowing like never before, thanks to the awesome power of the United States military.

The reality changed almost immediately. Within hours, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned that it would move to close additional export routes beyond the Strait of Hormuz, declaring that regional energy exports are either shared by all or denied to all. That threat completely undermined Donald’s triumphant narrative. If anything, it demonstrated that Iran remains capable of disrupting global energy markets despite Donald’s repeated insistence that its military has been completely obliterated. Every new attack, every new threat, and every additional escalation makes it increasingly obvious that Donald is not controlling events. He is reacting to them.

Those consequences extend well beyond the price Americans pay at the gas station. The World Food Programme estimates that forty-five million additional people could be pushed into acute food insecurity this year if the conflict continues.

The World Bank projects fertilizer prices will increase by thirty-one percent during 2026, driven largely by a sixty percent jump in the cost of urea. Fertilizer affordability has now reached its worst level since 2022, creating enormous pressure on farmers already struggling with rising production costs and increasing uncertainty.

This is not the first time Donald has celebrated rising oil prices as though they somehow represent an American victory. He consistently evaluates economic events through a single question: does this make wealthy people like him richer? If the answer is yes, then he considers the outcome a success regardless of how much pain it causes everyone else.

Months before this latest escalation, on March 12, Donald posted on social media:

The United States is the largest oil producer in the world by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.

That single word, we, reveals exactly how Donald views the presidency. He is not talking about American families paying more to fill their gas tanks. He is not talking about farmers facing soaring fertilizer costs or consumers watching grocery prices continue to climb. He is talking about himself and the extraordinarily wealthy oil executives whose profits increase as energy prices rise. They benefit from higher prices while everyone else bears the cost.

Ordinary Americans do not make more money when oil prices increase. They spend more money. Farmers pay more for fertilizer, transportation becomes more expensive, food production costs rise, and families ultimately pay higher prices at the grocery store. Donald’s wealthy donors and corporate allies may celebrate higher oil prices because they improve quarterly profits, but working Americans experience those same price increases as another financial burden. Once again, Donald’s policies reward the people who need help the least while shifting the costs onto everyone else.

The disruption extends well beyond the United States. Roughly eleven million barrels of crude oil per day have effectively disappeared from global markets compared to the approximately twenty million barrels that moved through the Strait of Hormuz before this conflict began. Before Donald launched this unnecessary war, the Strait remained open and global energy markets continued to function. Nearly all of the world’s spare oil production capacity sits in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, both of which depend on that narrow waterway to export most of their oil. As long as the conflict continues, those supplies remain vulnerable.

As energy prices continue climbing, agricultural production becomes more expensive across the globe. Asia has already borne much of that burden because most Persian Gulf oil is exported there. Pakistan has closed schools in an effort to conserve energy, while India has experienced shortages of liquefied petroleum gas used for cooking. These are the real-world consequences of Donald’s decisions. A reckless war launched without constitutional authority has made it more difficult for families thousands of miles away to cook meals, for farmers to grow crops, and for millions of people to afford food.

Donald continues to boast about military strength and rising oil production as though those numbers alone define success. The rest of the world is left confronting the far more meaningful measure of his presidency: higher prices, greater instability, a widening regional war, and a growing humanitarian crisis that becomes more severe with each passing day.

The political consequences of this war have become just as difficult for Donald to ignore as the economic consequences. Americans were promised that Donald would end wars, lower prices, and restore stability. Instead, they have watched him launch an unnecessary conflict that has driven up the cost of living, destabilized an already volatile region, and weakened America’s standing abroad. Unsurprisingly, the public is beginning to respond.

The idea that anybody ever believed Donald Trump would be better on foreign policy than almost anyone else has always been astonishing to me. Somehow, millions of people convinced themselves that an ignorant, ill-informed man with no understanding of history, diplomacy, or international alliances would excel at managing the most complicated geopolitical crises in the world. The fact that he was trusted more than his opponent on foreign policy says far more about the success of his political mythology than it does about his actual competence. Unfortunately, mythology has a way of collapsing when confronted with reality, and the reality of Donald’s foreign policy has been catastrophic.

Despite those polling numbers, the White House continues insisting that Donald’s presidency has been an unparalleled success. A White House spokesman recently told Newsweek that no president in American history has accomplished more for the American people than Donald, pointing to job creation and efforts to cool inflation as evidence of his success.

Oddly enough, I agree with the first part of that statement.

Donald has accomplished more than almost any president in American history, depending entirely on how you define accomplishment.

He has enriched himself more than any president in American history. He has shattered democratic norms more aggressively than any president in American history. He has demonstrated an extraordinary willingness to place his own interests above those of the country. And he has managed to inflict extraordinary damage on the American economy with remarkable speed and breathtaking efficiency.

If those are accomplishments, then yes, Donald stands alone.

The polling suggests that more Americans are beginning to recognize exactly what this war has cost them. Earlier surveys tied the decline in Donald’s approval directly to the conflict with Iran and the resulting spike in gasoline prices. A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in May found that Donald’s approval rating had failed to rise above thirty-six percent after the United States and Israel attacked Iran on February 28. Only a year earlier, that number had hovered around forty percent.

Even more revealing, three-quarters of respondents—including roughly half of all Republicans—said Donald’s administration was at least partly responsible for soaring gasoline prices, which had increased dramatically since the war began. That should alarm Republicans far more than any overall approval number. General election voters can be persuaded. Members of your own party are much harder to convince once they begin abandoning you

Americans can see those consequences every time they fill their gas tanks, buy groceries, or hear reports of yet another escalation in the Middle East. They do not need economists to explain that their lives have become more expensive. They are living it.

These numbers should be a political death knell, or at least they should be. If I were a Republican running for office this year, I would be doing everything possible to distance myself from this increasingly destructive lame duck president. Every week this war continues, every additional rise in energy prices, and every new escalation further ties Republican candidates to an administration that has become synonymous with instability, higher costs, and failed leadership.

Donald promised strength. He promised peace. He promised prosperity.

Instead, he delivered a war that has destabilized an entire region, driven up the global cost of energy, increased the price of food, damaged America’s credibility abroad, and left millions of people paying for a conflict that never needed to happen in the first place.

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Justice delayed has always been justice denied. That is especially true for survivors of sexual abuse.

While Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche sits before the Senate Judiciary Committee seeking confirmation to permanently lead the Department of Justice, his department continues to face mounting questions over its handling of the Epstein files and its refusal to provide critical records to New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez. Those records are needed to continue an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch on behalf of survivors who have been waiting far too long for justice.

On June 30, Attorney General Torrez sent a letter to Todd Blanche warning that every day those records remain out of reach makes future prosecutions more difficult. On June 9, Torrez publicly expressed hope that the Department of Justice would cooperate with New Mexico’s investigation by providing the requested federal records. He explained that those documents are essential if his office is to fully investigate what happened at Epstein’s New Mexico ranch and pursue justice for survivors.

This is what Raúl Torrez said during an interview with NBC.

Reporter: To do this, to conduct this investigation, you obviously need materials. You need information. And you have asked, and you referenced this yesterday too, that you’ve asked the DOJ for unredacted access to the Epstein files and you still do not have it. Why do you think that is?

Torrez: Well, look, we’re working through a process. It’s called the two week process. It’s complicated, but the bottom line is there is a longstanding practice of federal law enforcement and state law enforcement collaborating, coordinating, sharing information. We have engaged the Department of Justice. We are still waiting for that access. It is frustrating. I’ll tell you that it is hindering our ability to move this investigation forward at the pace that I would like.

As of July 15, two weeks had passed since Torrez sent that letter accusing the Department of Justice of withholding records necessary to continue the investigation into Epstein’s ranch. According to Torrez, those records still had not been produced.

His warning could not have been more direct.

Without complete and prompt access to relevant, unredacted federal records, survivors are being denied justice. Every delay makes accountability more difficult. Witnesses relocate. Memories, already burdened by years of trauma, become less reliable. The opportunity to bring meaningful prosecutions continues to deteriorate.

Torrez wrote:

Every day that the USDOJ withholds these records, the foundation upon which a New Mexico prosecution could be built erodes. Witnesses relocate and become unreachable. Memories, already strained by years of trauma, fade further.

After Torrez’s letter became public, a US Department of Justice spokesperson insisted the agency had already provided a substantive response to New Mexico’s request and remained willing to assist the investigation.

If that is true, then what exactly is the problem?

Provide the records.

Saying you have provided “substantive” materials is not the same thing as providing all of the materials investigators need. More importantly, this Department of Justice has done very little to earn the public’s trust. Since the beginning, first under Pam Bondi and now under Todd Blanche, the department has consistently delayed, obscured, and resisted efforts to fully release the Epstein files.

At this point, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that delay itself has become the objective.

Whether the goal is to protect powerful individuals whose names may appear throughout those records or simply to prevent additional scrutiny, the practical effect is the same. Survivors wait while evidence grows older and opportunities for justice diminish.

That issue followed Todd Blanche into his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 15. During the hearing, Senator Dick Durbin questioned Blanche not only about transparency surrounding the Epstein files but also about the Department of Justice’s obligation to the survivors themselves.

This is what Senator Dick Durbin asked Todd Blanche.

Let me talk to you for a moment about the survivors who are in the room. There are ten individuals who were exploited and abused by Mr. Epstein. They are here today. None of them have had a chance to speak to anyone in the department or FBI, though they’ve asked repeatedly. So can I get your word under oath that within the next thirty days you will personally sit down with these ten victims and hear their case in terms of what needs to be done by the Department of Justice?

This is how Todd Blanche responded:

Chairman, I appreciate them being here today. I also have somebody from my office who’s spent her entire career working on cases like Mr. Epstein’s. She’s in charge of our task force investigating human trafficking. She’s available to talk to them.

Senator Durbin was not asking whether someone else could meet with them.

He was asking whether Todd Blanche would.

Durbin continued.

She can sit right next to you. She can sit right next to you when you meet with these survivors.

Blanche responded:

I have never said I will not meet with survivors.

Durbin pressed him again.

Will you meet with these ten survivors? I’m asking you on the record.

Blanche replied:

If they have lawyers, as you know, I’m prohibited from meeting directly with them. I have met with counsel for survivors, as have many people in the Department of Justice. But if they are represented by counsel, we will work with their counsel. If they don’t have a lawyer, I will certainly make arrangements to make sure the right people at the Department of Justice meet with them.

Durbin continued.

Will you get it done within the next thirty days?

Blanche answered:

I will get it done today if that’s necessary. My point is there’s somebody here who can meet with them today, get their information and arrange to meet with them.

Durbin closed with a point that should never have needed to be made.

I think you ought to be in the room because you ought to hear this. You have singular responsibility for these files.

That exchange speaks volumes.

Todd Blanche repeatedly searched for ways to delegate the responsibility. He pointed to staff members. He pointed to procedures. He pointed to lawyers. At no point did he simply embrace the opportunity to sit down with the survivors himself.

That reluctance stands in stark contrast to the time Blanche voluntarily spent meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted co conspirator in the rape and sex trafficking of girls and young women.

Blanche did meet with the 10 survivors after pressure from lawmakers on Thursday. He also found the time to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell. He has struggled to find the same urgency for the people she victimized. That contrast is impossible to ignore.

As the New Mexico Attorney General continues to make clear, the Department of Justice is withholding records that could allow investigators to continue pursuing crimes connected to Epstein’s New Mexico ranch. Every day those records remain unavailable makes meaningful accountability more difficult.

That is unacceptable.

It also raises an obvious question.

Why does Todd Blanche appear so committed to slowing investigations that could help survivors finally obtain justice? His actions increasingly suggest that his highest priority is not uncovering the truth but controlling access to it.

Time and again, Todd Blanche demonstrates that he is not acting like the Attorney General of the United States. He continues to act like Donald Trump’s personal defense attorney.

That distinction matters because the Attorney General’s client is not the President. It is the United States of America.

The Department of Justice exists to pursue justice wherever the facts lead, regardless of politics or personal relationships. When it instead becomes an institution that delays investigations, withholds evidence, and frustrates efforts by state prosecutors to seek accountability, it ceases to fulfill its most fundamental purpose.

The survivors deserve better.

The American people deserve better.

And until the Department of Justice begins acting in the interest of justice rather than in the interest of protecting powerful people, those questions will only become more urgent.

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A Republican senator just introduced a bill to sanction Canada for wildfire smoke crossing into Ohio. If Canada applied that same logic to American pollution crossing their border, where would they even start?

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