Looking for a WIN 👀
A year ago, Trump was in control — now, he is no longer in control, and that's a really scary place for a president (and a country).
Democracy is still ending🤯: “Morning Joe” didn’t much like our take that Victor Orban’s defeat in Hungary is proof democracy works.
Great minds🧠: Turns out The Wall Street Journal thought the same thing, headlining, “Democracy Lives in Europe, After All”
Watch📺: Joe Scarborough trashed their editorial this morning
🎤Scarborough: “One of the worst Wall Street Journal editorials, one of the most cynical Wall Street Journal editorials I’ve read in a very long time. And we usually quote them because on issues of freedom and democracy, they’ve been very good during the Trump administration. But yesterday they suggested, ‘Oh, this is just libs crying wolf. There was never any real problem with Orbán.”
Look back🔙: The alarmist Left often pointed to the mutual love between Trump and Orban as proof of coming authoritarianism.
Predictable👀: The refusal by democracy alarmists to admit they were and are wrong creates a dangerous dynamic.
Look forward▶️: The real threat to America isn’t a threat to democracy, it’s to western and classically liberal values — as Ronald Reagan predicted, “If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism.”
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Out of Control💥
😵💫Trump, like the country, feels out of control. Trump, like the country, is looking for a win.
Be fair⚖️: There are a lot of material wins for Trump that are universally good for America
📈The S&P 500 is near record highs
👍Much of the Arab world is now allied with the United States and Israel against Iran
Massive promised investment in America
Lower than expected inflation
💪People often refer to the president of the United States as the most powerful man in the world — or at least the free world.
☑️They are right — and yet Donald Trump seems in control of very little right now.
He claims the Iranians are desperate for a deal — yet any objective reading shows he needs one far more.
🤦A staged DoorDash delivery to highlight the president’s “no taxes on tips” didn’t go as planned.
📃The White House put out a fact sheet titled, “Bigger Refunds, Job Growth: Working Families Tax Cuts Are Transforming Tax Season”
Forever truth✅: Fact sheets and staged deliveries are the political harbinger of doom — or an acknowledgment by the White House they have lost control of the story.
🗣️His supporters, like Bill O’Reilly, are left saying Americans need to toughen up and accept the sacrifice of fighting Iran.
🙄Many of his more fervent supporters on the Right aren’t so much angry but exasperated — his Trump as Jesus tweet didn’t help.
‼️The Epstein files continue to dog him
Not because there is any evidence of his wrongdoing, but because they continue to feel icky.
😬For any president heading into the midterms — that’s a very bad place to be.
‼️These are the signs of a desperate man — desperate for a win.
🚛Compare that to the man of big trucks on the White House South Lawn
Good read: “Trump Is Failing the ‘Big-Ass Truck’ Test” by Josh Barro.
🍟Working the drive-thru of a McDonald’s
🚚Showing up with the garbage truck
Look back🔙: They seemed authentic and met the mood of the country
Looking for a win👀: A year ago, Trump was in control, and he no longer feels in control, and that’s a really scary place for a president
🤜Picking a fight with the pope
💣Threatening to wipe the Iranian civilization off the map, only to give the mullahs a win by announcing a ceasefire
📱Posting an AI slop of him as Jesus
🚗Inviting DoorDash grandma to the White House
Reality☑️: None of it’s working; wins don’t come easily for the country or for a president — just ask Joe Biden.
Problem‼️: The more Trump searches for the easy win, the more desperate he appears.
Watch tonight📺: Former Pennsylvania Congressman Charlie Dent, Mark McKinnon and Jessica Anderson
Calling Beijing📱
President Trump likes to say he has all the cards in dealing with the Iranians.
🃏Right now, President Xi of China has all the cards.
‼️The Chinese largely control what Iran does or doesn’t do, and Trump is unwilling (so far) to change the dynamic.
Trump’s need for a win (see above) means he’s unwilling to exert his will on either the Chinese or the Iranians.
✈️Trump goes to meet with Xi next month
🛢️China gets most of its oil from Iran
Ballgame⚾: We don’t know the exact orders for the blockade — if a Chinese oil tanker or shadow fleet tanker heading for China leaves Iran, will the U.S. Navy fire on it?
Interesting👀: Reports of the Chinese running the blockade appear unfounded
Reports cited this Chinese tanker that actually picked up a load in the UAE, not Iran
💥This is how wars start — and ceasefires end.
Watch tonight📺: Retired Vice Admiral John W. “Fozzie” Miller and former Pentagon official Brent Sadler
Washington’s Golden Rule
‼️The rule in Washington has become: Do worse onto others than has been done onto you.
⚔️The Department of Justice is becoming a political weapon
TBH🤷: It probably always was — Eric Holder was President Obama’s wingman, but in the past, those in power wielded it with more plausible deniability.
Now, even the mere appearance of judicial independence is gone
‼️For example, the FBI says it’s opening a federal investigation into the assault of a Turning Point USA reporter
The reporter was knocked to the ground by protesters at an anti-ICE rally in Minnesota
☑️Yes, the people who assaulted this woman should be investigated — no question.
On the other hand⚖️: It’s been three months since the death of Renee Good — and there is still no federal investigation.
‼️The attempt to appear nonpartisan and nonpartial no longer exists — it’s a standard set by the Democrats years ago
Today📅: We now know the January 6 and anti-abortion activists were way overcharged and disproportionately punished
🚨And this is going to happen to Republicans again after the Democrats take back the DOJ
🗣️That is why Trump is saying he is going to “pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval [Office]”
🤷The DOJ’s weaponization has become increasingly acceptable because the other side did it … so now we can do worse.
🤦In kindergarten, we learn just because someone shoves us doesn’t mean we can hit them — somehow, Washington is now worse than kindergarten.
The Epstein Smoke Machine💨
Democrats are now doing to Republicans about the Epstein files exactly what was done to them.
Sad👎: Epstein truthers will never be forced to put up or shut up.
Reality check ☑️: Anyone in Congress can view as many of the redacted Epstein files as they want. Yet no one has shown me a single paper or accusation that someone else should be prosecuted.
😡Democrats are outraged today after former Attorney General Pam Bondi did not appear at her scheduled House Oversight Committee meeting on her handling of the Epstein files.
🎤Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Va.: “It’s ridiculous that now because she’s not in her position, she’s somehow absolved.”
🎤Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt.: “Just because she’s not attorney general anymore doesn’t mean the subpoena goes away”
🎤Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.: “Obviously very disappointing that Pam Bondi didn’t come today….We’re going to be working to make sure in a bipartisan way that her deposition gets rescheduled or she will be held in contempt.”
🗣️Today, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was clear that the Department of Justice released everything in the files
🎤Blanche: “We have released everything. We are not sitting on a single piece of paper. If we didn’t release it, it’s because it was not responsive to the law … so the misguided assumption that there is more to be released is because we reviewed millions and millions of pages within the department, millions of which had nothing to do with Epstein.”
Watch tonight📺: Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., one of many who keep alleging wrongdoing by turning on the Epstein smoke machine and yelling fire.