ICYMI📱: Our buddy Chris Cillizza put me in the hot seat — watch our Substack live here
Must read📰: Cillizza dropped a GREAT piece this afternoon about Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario: “‘Lake America’ Is a Distraction. Don’t Make It the Story.”
“He is doing everything he can to change the subject. He desperately wants Democrats to freak out over ‘Lake America’— so that he can paint the party as America haters who think we are the bad guys!”
Look back🔙: As we have told you — of all Trump’s political skills, making his enemies lose their minds about things the American people either like or don’t care about is unmatched.
Watch: John Bolton explains the strategy
Jason Cohen 🇺🇸@JasonJournoDC💥NEW: John Bolton tells hilarious Trump story from first term🤣 "I was in the Oval Office one day and I walked in to tell him something. And Trump was in the middle of dictating a tweet to Dan Scavino." "And he turns to Scavino at one point and says, 'Capitalize every word in9:06 PM · Aug 27, 2026 · 14.1K Views14 Replies · 36 Reposts · 215 Likes
GOP Divide ➗: There’s a civil war inside the GOP over immigration — and who wins the fight decides who controls the party next.
Immigration was the No. 1 issue for Republicans in 2024 and what got Trump back in the White House — now, it’s dividing the party.
Tucker Carlson and his crew say Trump is too soft on immigration now.
AF Post@AFpostTucker Carlson's monologue explaining why Trump's immigration message was so successful, highlighting the destruction that mass immigration causes in small-town America and how liberal elites never suffer the consequences of their policies. "It's awful." Follow: @AFpost4:18 AM · Aug 27, 2026 · 18.5K Views14 Replies · 44 Reposts · 390 LikesFormer Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, who helped Trump with his immigration crackdown, now says the White House wants him dead
Gregory K Bovino@GregoryKBovinoI sat down with Tucker and told him what they didn’t want said out loud. I was removed by status quo bureaucrats for going hard. The war should be fought on American soil. You are being gaslighted. They want you to think mass deportations are happening. They’re not.
Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlsonThere are more than 100 million illegal aliens living in the United States. Donald Trump has no intention of deporting them. Greg Bovino ran the Border Patrol until earlier this year, and saw the betrayal firsthand. Now he says the administration is threatening his life.4:01 AM · Aug 27, 2026 · 615K Views1.16K Replies · 2.65K Reposts · 13K Likes
Reality‼️: Trump is trying to champion his deportation numbers, but the fact remains that he’s not nearly as hawkish on immigration as Republicans want him.
Politico headlines, “Trump tries to quiet his mass deportation campaign. Voters aren’t moving.”
Tonight📺: Former U.S. Congresswoman Mayra Flores, R-Texas, where Republicans might give up massive wins with Hispanics and lose their newly gerrymandered House seats — is that about immigration or the economy?
World War III🚨
💣Vladimir Putin wants us all to believe he’s going to nuke NATO — more accurately, a NATO country.
There’s a reason Kremlin insiders are floating this idea and why CIA Director John Ratcliffe went to Moscow — Putin feels he’s on the ropes
📰The Wall Street Journal reports Ratcliffe went to Moscow to “warn Russia not to attack NATO”
Look back🔙: A year ago after the Alaska summit, we were told the Ukraine war was going to be over in two weeks, and Trump sold out the Ukrainians
Today📅: Turns out the Ukrainians are winning — and Putin knows it
“The Russia-Ukraine Air War Has Entered a New, Deadlier Phase” headlines The Wall Street Journal
Game plan📃: So what does Putin do? He escalates to deescalate
Back home📺: Democrats and much of the media love nothing more than a good Trump/Russia story — they can’t give it up
Be fair⚖️: Ukraine is doing better in the war against Putin with Trump as president vs. Biden
Americans Want Woke Over‼️
🤦Democrats can’t escape their first love: woke — but the rest of America is done with it.
Reality‼️: Wokeness is the vocabulary of socialism and Marxism — and what has replaced it is the actual policies of socialism and Marxism.
Normie Americans are against socialism, and yet Democrats can’t seem to provide that.
📰Axios headlines, “‘Allyship’ and ‘birthing people’: Democrats confront vocabulary problem,” writing:
“Several Democrats eyeing 2028 runs for president say the party has a vocabulary problem as much as a messaging one. The left’s embrace of ‘woke’ buzzwords alienated working-class voters and drove many of them to Donald Trump, they say. To get them back, they want more Democrats to start speaking more like ordinary people — and less like progressive politicos or liberal arts professors.”
What I’m thinking💭: How does a 2028 Democrat get traction if it’s not by calling for impeachment and playing for the DSA game?
The party keeps acknowledging they need to moderate but can’t because their base doesn’t want them to
📊In recent polling, 54% of Democrats would describe themselves as ‘woke’
📰There isn’t a market for a moderate Democrat. The New York Times showed us, headlining:
“What Ever Happened to the Young, Exciting Moderate Democrats?”
I’ll answer that question — they lost. Actually got crushed in elections.
More than half of Americans say they would not vote for a Democratic socialist, reports The Washington Post.
Watch tonight📺: Chuck Todd on more centrist Democrats trying to find normie Democrats and realizing they don’t exist.
Plus, the same problem applies to the base of the party only wanting to talk about impeaching Trump.
Americans Are Cool with Assassinations🚨
🤷It shouldn’t surprise us that, in a country where women are protesting outside a courthouse over the case of a woman who killed her children, 1 in 6 Americans now say political assassination is “acceptable.”
🧑⚖️Jury deliberations began today in the Lindsay Clancy trial after she killed her three kids.
Yes, the issues of postpartum depression are certainly real and not talked about enough —
But the response by her supposed supporters is over the top
Hundreds of women showed up outside the courthouse during the trial in support of Clancy, and she has received even more support on social media.
‼️Clancy’s support is part of a bigger problem — violence in America is becoming more and more acceptable — and justified — as long as the perpetrator fits our political narrative
📰The Wall Street Journal headlines “Americans Who Find Killing Acceptable,” writing:
“One in 6 voters tell pollsters they’re OK with assassination…Public opinion had every opportunity to self-correct and hasn’t. It means that Americans’ tolerance for political violence is becoming hardwired into the public consciousness. ”
People justified Luigi Mangione killing the UnitedHealthcare CEO because of their frustrations with the health care system in America
Women are okay with Lindsay Clancy killing her children because she had mental health issues — and that’s a much bigger issue than killing your kids…
People called the case against Carmelo Anthony racist — after he stabbed his fellow teammate
‼️This kind of justification is becoming inherently Marxist — only judging people on their identity and perceived oppression/position in life rather than their actions
And this is what Democrats have started to embrace more and more of
Watch tonight📺: Isabel Brown and John De La Torre
To get them back, they want more Democrats to start speaking more like ordinary people — and less like progressive politicos or liberal arts professors.”....it is not just the vocabulary, the messaging. They have a problem with credibility...we still remember "Biden is sharp as a tack"....how can they ever be trusted again? They don't call out what is morally wrong....i.e. fraud
Great topics to discuss tonight, Leland! Looking forward to your show ❤️