Donald Trump doesn’t want to see Democrats on the cable news network that functions as state TV for him. Trump seemingly especially doesn’t want to see Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who is one of the two driving forces behind getting truth for the Epstein survivors, along with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).

Khanna is one of those Democrats who has no reservations about appearing on Fox News, which he did again on Sunday, but what the California congressman had to say deeply triggered Trump.

You may be thinking that Khanna said something about the Epstein files to get Trump going, but that wasn’t the case.

The California Congressman who has been doing a tour of states talking about American competition with China, was asked about what he would like to see out Trump’s upcoming trip to China.

Khanna said:

 I hope the president's gonna get a better deal for our soybean farmers. I mean, the reality is that our soybean farmers are hurting. Our corn farmers are hurting. We need to have more export markets opened in China and around the world.

The second thing we learned is that China has been bringing in investment into the United States, uh, and having some of these factories open up that are hiring people who are undocumented, abusing hours. There's a glass manufacturer in Ohio. That cannot go on. The president needs to make it clear to China that they should not be opening up manufacturing in the United States, subsidizing it, and violating the law.

And the final point is that they shouldn't be engaged in subsidies of their steel industry and dumping. When I was in Cleveland at the Port of Cleveland, I was horrified to see Chinese steel there. Why aren't we getting that from Cleveland-Cliffs or an American steel company?

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Khanna hit on all of Trump’s sore spots involving China, and the president lost it.

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The Supreme Court majority’s hypocrisy regarding congressional districts and gerrymandering has not gone unnoticed by elected officials and voters. The same Supreme Court majority had previously ruled that majority-minority districts were constitutional, but later ruled that districts drawn on the basis of race were not constitutional.

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The question after the ruling on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is, what is going to be done about it?

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) highlighted the problem on NBC’s Meet The Press:

Well remember, there’s a corrupt shadow hanging over the Supreme Court. Some of these same members that are voting on decisions like this are accepting gifts from billionaires. We have RVs, lavish vacations. It’s a corrupt court. The highest court in the land has the lowest ethics laws. Number two is the Supreme Court, clearly within our power — I lead one of these pieces of legislation with Senator Whitehouse and others — to give term limits to Supreme Court members.

That could go a long way in curing this. The Supreme Court desperately needs reform. It is a corrupt court. And in my opinion, it is a court that needs reform. And I will continue to lead on those things.

Booker also talked about the steps that the country needs to take to be order to reform the court.

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When politicians of either party think about elections, they often don’t see voters as people. Voters may be broken down into groups that candidates want to appeal to, or numbers in a poll, but too many political operatives don’t see voters as human beings.

One of the elements that has been ignored in the gerrymandering arms race of 2026, especially in the rushed redrawn maps in already heavily gerrymandered red states, is that those “numbers” that are being shifted from district to district are human beings who vote in elections, and human behavior combined with math can create unintended consequences.

For example, Texas Republicans thought they were creating five new Republican seats with their gerrymander, but, according to election analysts, the reality is that they are more likely to win only 2-3 due to Hispanic voters in these newly carved-out districts swinging back to Democrats.

Human beings don’t always play along with the expectations of the politicians who construct these maps, which is something that Southern states that are rushing to gerrymander out majority-minority districts after the Supreme Court’s recent ruling gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act need to keep in mind.

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), who is facing the possibility of his district being eliminated in South Carolina, was on CNN’s State Of The Union, where he issued a warning to Republicans.

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Remember the good old days of last month, when Trump’s White House ballroom was privately funded and using no taxpayer money, at least according to Trump?

Then a gunman showed up at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and Trump decided that this would be a great time to hit up taxpayers to pay $1 billion for his ballroom under the pretense of national security, which Republicans have redefined to mean protecting our unpopular president by not allowing him to go out in public anymore, so taxpayers have to build him a tacky gold trimmed playroom in what used to be the East Wing.

This idea is not popular. As in, only 28% of polled Americans support Trump’s ballroom. The bad numbers for the ballroom aren’t surprising, as many Americans can’t afford food, rent/mortgage, gas, utilities, and basically any essentials needed to live.

Trump raised money from private donors to supposedly pay for the ballroom, but those donors’ names have not been released, and no one has said what their donations are going to be used for. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested that the private donations be used for “plates.”

$350 million has been raised from millionaires and corporations, which is a whole lot of plates, and no one has said a peep about where that money will go if Trump gets his billion taxpayer dollars.

The problem is that Republicans in Congress don’t want to vote to give Trump the money.

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The corporate media invested heavily in getting Donald Trump elected in 2024, and they have done everything in their power to ignore the fact that the candidate is backed in cognitive and physical decline while also being historically unpopular with voters.

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Trump’s attempt to rig the midterm election through mid-decade gerrymandering was always based on the assumption that the 2026 election would be close, but the Democratic overperformance in special elections indicates that voters are angry and want change.

This dynamic is no different from 2024 when voters were angry about the economy, costs, and inflation, and demanded change. The difference is that Democrats are the party of change in 2026.

The political shoe has changed feet, and it is now the Republican Party that is trying to figure out how to survive with an unpopular president and a brutal economy. The difference is that Trump is actively taking steps to make the economy worse and is trapped in a war in the Middle East.

Even with the conservative Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, and the new Virginia map being thrown out by the state Supreme Court, not much has changed.

Kyle Kondik is an American elections analyst and the Managing Editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, and he broke down the numbers.

Kondik posted on X:

Following VA and new TN/FL maps, 211 at least Leans R, 208 at least Leans D, 16 Toss-ups. I do think it's reasonable to think Ds will win the bulk of the Toss-ups, though, and quite possibly more beyond that.

Kondik’s analysis doesn’t include three more majority minority districts that might be eliminated in the South, but that still isn’t enough to save the Republican majority, and we’ll examine below.

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The system still works. No matter how often or what angle Donald Trump uses to attack and attempt to get around the checks on his power, the system keeps pushing back and reminding him that he is a president, not a king or a dictator.

Trump can’t govern unilaterally, and each day of his presidency that slips through his fingertips as the famous soap opera voiceover goes like sands through the hourglass, the more the system of checks and balances takes back power from Donald Trump.

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The president thought that he could unilaterally impose tariffs in any amount that he wanted, completely on his own whim, but the Supreme Court told him otherwise.

As Trump still hasn’t gotten over the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling, the administration replaced the individualized tariffs with a 10% flat global tariff, but a trade court has ruled that the replacement tariffs are also illegal.

Trump’s dreams of an imperial presidency are unraveling right before his eyes.

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After a federal judge blocked Pete Hegseth from taking away Sen. Mark Kelly’s military pension, and the administration appealed, Sen. Mark Kelly stood outside the federal court of appeals and called Trump and Hegseth.

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Sen. Kelly said:

 Even after a federal judge ruled earlier this year that his attempts to silence me were unconstitutional, he wouldn't stop. And today, this administration argued in federal court that not only do I not have the same freedom of speech rights as other Americans- But that the millions of other retired veterans across the country don't either, including many of the individuals standing besides me today.

According to them, any time a retired veteran says something that the Secretary of Defense doesn't like, they can be punished. So the people who have given the most in service to this country wouldn't be free to say what they believe. It's absurd, and it's outrageous. It is an outrageous violation of our constitutional rights.

One of our most fundamental rights is the right to speak out about the government. It's the right that guarantees all others, and it's how we hold our government accountable, and it's especially important right now. Donald Trump is two months into a war with Iran that he started without a strategic goal.

Mark Kelly said nothing controversial, but his remarks defending liberty and the Constitution set MAGA off.

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is the first cabinet official to testify before the House Oversight Committee in its Jeffrey Epstein investigation, and Oversight Committee Democrats briefed the media during Lutnick’s testimony, where they accused the Secretary of lying to Congress.

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Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) said:

 After what we have seen so far in this transcribed interview, I feel very comfortable saying that Howard Lutnick is a pathological liar who is enabling the most egregious cover-up in American history.

We have now gone through the timeline of events with him in detail, in excruciating detail, from when they met in 2005. This is Howard Lutnick and his wife meeting Jeffrey Epstein. He described it himself in great detail on a podcast last year, where he said that they went to his home, they took a tour, and allegedly were so uncomfortable after seeing the massage tables in Jeffrey Epstein's home that Howard Lutnick went on on this podcast to tell the American people that he himself, and, and my colleagues referenced the, the definitions he tried to, uh, change of, of what he meant there, but he said that he would never socially or professionally be involved or be in a room with Jeffrey Epstein again.

Then in 2012, he took his family and his staff to Jeffrey Epstein's island. I focus my questions today on how he could have done that if him and his wife were truly so uncomfortable, especially when in 2008, we know that Jeffrey Epstein was accused, and the sweetheart deal took place, for soliciting a minor. Howard Lutnick tried to tell us in that room that he essentially didn't know any of that.

I asked him, how did I, as a child at the time- see this all over the media about Jeffrey Epstein, and you, an adult who was this person's neighbor, who had engaged with him before, how could you possibly not have known? I mean, the level of the lies that are taking place inside that room without video is unbelievable, and part of this egregious cover-up. I recommend that every single American, when this interview is released, read the document in full. You will see Howard Lutnick use phrases like, um, uh, how it's inexplicable and unsettling that he went to the island. That's how he defines it himself. It's inexplici- i- inexplicable how this happened. He also tries to define all of their interactions as, quote unquote, "Meaningless and inconsequential." I think he's used those terms about 20 times so far, and continues to use them.

So I will just end by saying that there are real victims here. There are potentially over 1,000 women who were abused and raped when they were children, and even at the bare minimum, Howard Lutnick was aware of these things. He knew. It just demonstrates the culture of enabling these crimes, and allowing rich and powerful people like Jeffrey Epstein, and all of the other disgusting rich and powerful men who committed these crimes, to continue. Because people like Howard Lutnick knew these things were happening, because they were all over the news, and continued to engage and legitimize somebody like Jeffrey Epstein.

Howard Lutnick is accused of lying to Congress and changing his story about Epstein, and Democrats zeroed in on whether Lutnick talked to Donald Trump before the Commerce Secretary testified.

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There is perpetual activity surrounding Donald Trump, but most of it is not related to governing. The second Trump administration is defined by a cyclone of activity that intended to destroy guardrails and norms. The destruction of guardrails is paving the way for corruption on a scale the American people have not seen in the presidency in centuries.

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Traditionally, former presidents stay out of day-to-day politics. They might campaign for their party in an election year, but they don’t sit on the sidelines and criticize.

Trump shattered this tradition by refusing to leave the spotlight and by constantly criticizing the Biden administration.

The country has needed someone with credibility and status to put these pieces together and explain that what Trump is doing is not normal and is bad for the country.

During his interview with Barack Obama, Stephen Colbert asked the former president what powers he thought a president should not have.

Obama answered, “There are a couple that I followed even though they weren't law, and I want us... we're gonna have to do some work to return to this basic norm, and we probably now have to codify it. The White House shouldn't be able to direct the attorney general to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants prosecuted.”

Colbert pointed out that the DOJ is under the Executive Branch, and Obama continued, “The norm is that it's independent. The idea is that the attorney general is the people's lawyer. It's not the president's consigliere.”

Obama went on to talk about something that doesn’t get discussed enough, and that is the need to restore and fix the damage that Trump is doing to the DOJ:

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Donald Trump’s mental and physical decline is the great unspoken in the vast majority of corporate media.

Trump’s own administration spouts North Korea-level propaganda about the strength and fitness of the president, but the truth keeps showing up on camera.

On Tuesday, Trump signed a proclamation restoring the presidential test on physical fitness to America’s schools, and during the event promoting fitness, Trump fell asleep.

One of Trump’s guests in the Oval Office bragged about his mental fitness, “ Bobby, thank you for reminding us of your uncle and your father, of how important it is for us to be to look at the man holistically, spiritually, morally, physically, mentally. And I think America historically has been the leader in all of those areas. But we are at a critical function in our nation, and so I would encourage everyone, this transcends politics.”

As Trump’s brain was being praised, this was what he was doing:

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Trump was in a struggle to stay away while his physical and mental sharpness was being praised.

This wasn’t the only time that the president struggled.

RFK Jr. has shown himself to be Trump’s human Ambien.

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Governing is all about priorities.

Earlier this year, when tens of millions of Americans were facing skyrocketing health insurance premiums, and millions were facing losing their coverage, congressional Republicans refused to spend the funds necessary to help them.

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According to the Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget:

With the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced subsidies set to expire soon, several policymakers have proposed plans to extend the enhancements. You can read more about the ACA subsidies here. We estimate that extending the enhancements without offsets would increase deficits by roughly $30 billion for a one-year extension and $350 billion over ten years for a permanent extension.

In part to reduce these costs, several plans have added proposed income cut-offs to subsidies, incorporated new program integrity measures, or added additional reforms. Many have also suggested temporary rather than permanent extension.

The cost could have been brought down or offset by making the extension temporary or adding reforms to the subsidy program.

People’s lives are on the line, but Republicans said that the country could not afford it.

Fast forward a few months, and Republicans are tripping over themselves to give Donald Trump $1 billion to pay for his supposedly privately funded ballroom.

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There has been an interesting theory floating around that one of the reasons Donald Trump improved his standing with voters age 18-34 in 2024 was that the youngest among that age group were not old enough to remember how bad the first Trump term was, thus, they were susceptible to Trump’s campaign style of lies and promises that will never come true.

After getting the full Trump treatment for a year plus of his second administration, those voters have come back to Democrats in a big way.

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Politico reported on a new poll of young voters from the nonpartisan Generation Lab:

It shows young Americans planning to vote Democratic in November by a margin of 52 percent to 19 percent. Broken down by party, the data indicates that the GOP has a significant base problem: Just 58 percent of young Republicans say they’ll vote GOP — with nearly a third selecting “neither” or “won’t vote.” By contrast, 85 percent of young Democrats intend to show up for their party at the ballot box.

Just as in 2024, deep discontent with the state of the economy is driving anger at the party in power. Now, 81 percent of young Americans rate U.S. economic conditions as bad or terrible — including 68 percent of Republicans. The younger the age bracket, the more optimism diminishes.

President Donald Trump leads the way, with 41 percent of voters who rate the economy negatively naming him as the top culprit, plus 9 percent who select congressional Republicans. But it’s not just the GOP: Another 31 percent finger corporate greed/large companies. Just 6 percent blame Joe Biden or congressional Democrats.

Young voters aren’t buying the Trump administration’s Biden Derangement Syndrome.

What is deeply interesting is who young voters potentially support for president in 2028.

Kamala Harris leads all polled candidates at 22%. In second place is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at 15%. Vice President JD Vance is third at 8%. In fourth, there is a three-way tie at 5% between Pete Buttigieg, RFK Jr., and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA).

Among young Republicans only, JD Vance leads RFK Jr. 25% to 13%. Kamala Harris is in third among young Republicans at 11%.

Kamala Harris’s standing could be real momentum, or it could be name recognition from her 2024 campaign. I suspect we will see.

What’s clear is that candidates like Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg, who might appeal to older Democrats, may have a problem gaining support with young people.

JD Vance looks dead in the water with the youth vote, and the damage that Trump is doing with this group of voters may be catastrophic for Republicans in 2026 and impossible to overcome in 2028.

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When King Charles visited the US recently, it was meant to be a diplomatic mission to repair the US/UK relationship that Trump had damaged.

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Charles addressed Congress and showed more support for democracy in the United States and around the world than Trump ever has, which is amazing because King Charles is a monarch and Trump is a democratically elected president, yet a king is more pro-democracy than an American president.

Trump doesn’t understand anything beyond the most superficial elements, but he really wants to be a king.

He wants to be what he thinks a king is, which is why he has turned the Oval Office into something that a person with no concept of taste or regalness thinks a palace should look like.

This is what Trump has done to the Oval Office:

Now imagine being a person on a diplomatic mission who gets overpaid for his ceremonial duties, but his only job is to be as polite and diplomatic as possible, and he walks into the image above, as Donald Trump beams with pride.

At an event in the White House, Trump showed his cluelessness by volunteering to reporters what he thought was a compliment from King Charles, but it definitely was not.

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One of the points of governing that Donald Trump has never grasped is that threats are not a form of policy. Trump’s Iran war has been characterized by the presidents and making threats to drop more bombs. Iran has responded to these threats by ignoring or mocking them.

Threats are only effective if they are taken seriously. Trump has been threatening for months, but he never follows through, so Iran doesn’t seem to believe him.

After bombing didn’t force Iran to surrender, and the Iranians responded by closing the Strait of Hormuz, Trump responded with a blockade of the Strait that he said as designed to force the Iranians to the negotiating table, because they would run out of storage capacity for their oil, and be forced to shut down production.

Javier Blas, a columnist at Bloomberg posted on X, that Trump’s new efforts to reopen the Strait are an admission that the blockade failed:

The push to re-open the Strait of Hormuz today, with two US warship crossing it and two US-flagged merchant vessels, signals the White House realises it can not keep waiting for the blockade to force Iran into the negotiation table.

Effectively, it's an admission the blockade isn't working (if the blockade is seen as a means to get Iranian concessions, rather than an end in itself). The timeline of what the blockade would do to the Iranian oil industry was completely wrong.

The blockade was intended to instill urgency in Iran to end the war by making it face the same pressures that the Trump administration had imposed, but since it didn’t work, Trump is returning to threatening Iran.

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Republicans based their entire midterm election strategy on massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations disguised as no taxes on tips and no taxes on Social Security.

Trump and his party thought that they could fool the American people, but experts warned them, even before they passed the tax cuts, that counting on tax returns as a campaign strategy was going to fail, because high inflation would eat up any increase in tax returns that people might receive.

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The Iran war has caused gas prices to reach a five-year high, and the increase has come so quickly that comparisons are being drawn to the energy crisis of the 1970s.

The result is that voters see no taxes on tips and respond with a resounding “So what?” No taxes on Social Security have been met with, “Who cares?”

Something even worse than a failed campaign strategy is unfolding.

The American people are rejecting the Republican Party’s economic ideology on taxes.

The latest Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found:

Americans disapprove of his handling of the situation with Iran by 66 percent to 33 percent. His rating on the economy has declined by seven points, to 34 percent, as gas prices have spiked. His approval rating on inflation has fallen five points in that time to 27 percent and his lowest rating comes on perceptions of his handling of the general cost of living, with 23 percent approving vs. 76 percent disapproving.

The whole midterm election campaign for Republicans was supposed to be based on immigration and taxes. Trump is negative on both issues.

On taxes, just 38% Americans approve how the president has handled taxes. Sixty one percent of respondents disapprove. That is a net approval rating of (-23) on taxes.

The high disapproval on taxes indictates that the American people aren’t being fooled by the tax cuts for the rich, and crumbs for everyone else approach that Republicans have been using for nearly half a century.

The con isn’t working anymore. Many Americans now understand that the only thing trickling down to them are higher prices.

By pushing Republican economic ideology to the extreme, Trump has done one favor for the American people. He has opened their eyes to the fraud behind Republican tax cut math.

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The American people are getting hit hard by Donald Trump’s war. Not only does the Pentagon want taxpayers to pick up the tab for a war that two-thirds of the country does not support, but Americans are also facing higher prices for food, goods, gas, and utilities.

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Trump keeps raising prices on one hand, and demanding more money to pay for his war with the others.

Republicans have offered no remedy or solutions to ease the suffering of the American people.

Trump and his party have chosen to ignore the crisis, but Democrats have ideas to ease the pain.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) was on Meet The Press where Kristen Welker asked him, “Let me ask you about the impact here at home, obviously the center of it, those high gas prices. They rose to a four-year high this week. Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico has called to suspend the federal gas tax of 18 cents per gallon until prices start to fall. Is that something that you would support in the Senate, suspending the federal gas tax?”

Many states are discussing or, in the cases of Indiana and Georgia, have already suspended their state gas taxes, but the federal government hasn’t done anything about it yet.

Sen. Adam Schiff would like to change that and make Big Oil pick up the tab.

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Voters who were not paying attention were fooled in 2024. The media convinced a portion of the electorate that Joe Biden was physically and mentally unfit to be president, while helping Republicans sell voters on the false perception that Trump was a man of vigor and energy who would jumpstart the US economy and reduce costs.

Less than a year and a half later, the American people now see that they elected a corrupt and dishonest president who falls asleep in the Oval Office during meetings.

Trump and the corporate media both believe that the American people are stupid and not paying attention, but a growing majority of Americans can see that Trump is in decline.

The latest Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found:

A growing share of Americans question Trump’s mental acuity for the position. Nearly 6 in 10 (59 percent) say he does not have the mental sharpness and a majority (55 percent) say he is not in good enough physical health to serve effectively. Both are slightly more negative than they were in the February survey and are significantly more negative than last September.

The media had no problem questioning Biden’s physical and mental competence, but they refuse to speak out about Trump.

However, the poll showed that Trump’s decline isn’t his own problem, and replacing Trump with another member of the administration won’t fix anything.

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The American people see the truth. The vast majority, usually somewhere between 65%-80% of respondents in a poll, blame Donald Trump for the economic problems and things that are going wrong in the country.

Yet, the administration continues to blame Joe Biden even though he has not been in office for nearly a year and a half.

Spirit Airlines had been struggling for years. In fact, all airlines are currently struggling, so it is important to be realistic about the situation that Spirit was in before the Iran War.

A budget airline that was hanging on by its fingertips before Trump came back into office was pushed over the edge by Trump’s destruction of the economy.

That is the common-sense explanation for what happened to Spirit, but that isn’t the explanation that the Trump administration is using.

At a Saturday press conference, Transportation Sean Duffy gave a weird explanation for why the administration couldn’t come up with a deal to save Spirit, “Again, they have the final say of whether they want to do a deal with the government But also from the government’s perspective, we oftentimes don’t have a half a billion dollars laying around in a spare account that we can put into a bailout of an airline. So, there was creative thinking on how it could happen. Those two things never materialized.”

The administration has no problem coming up with money to bail out foreign governments that are friendly to Trump, but they can’t come to a deal to save 17,000 jobs.

Duffy said the person to blame for this job loss is Joe Biden.

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Trump is now trying to disguise his taxpayer funded trips to his club in Florida under the pretense of work, so he stopped by in Florida to hold an event that was supposed to be touting his bogus no tax on Social Security.

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Since this is Donald Trump, things went off the rails, and Trump ended up talking about his dementia tests and bragging about being the first president in history who had to be tested for dementia.

Trump also claimed that he is a young man, which was just weird:

 Now, I don't happen to be a senior. I'm much younger than you. I'm a much younger man than you. Look at you old guys. Wouldn't you like to be my age? It's young, vital, vibrant. No, I'm much, much younger than the people in this room, but I feel I can relate to you anyway. See now the fake news will go tonight and they'll say, "He's claiming to be younger than the people.”

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Trump doesn’t have much of a sense of humor, so his “joke” is likely a reference to the fact that questions are growing about Trump’s mental competence.

The president wasn’t satisfied with calling attention to his age.

He also had to brag about his dementia test.

Trump told his supporters that they could not pass a dementia screening:

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If you are a Republican running for office in any part of the country that is not dark red in 2026, how are you supposed to run in this mess?

That is what Republicans all over the country are asking themselves. Some Republicans like Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) have chosen to deny reality and claim that everything is wonderful.

The truth is clearer in the Washington Post/ABC News/IPSOS poll:

President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is as unpopular among Americans as the Iraq War during the year of peak violence in 2006 and the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, amid growing economic pain and fears of terrorism as a result of the military campaign.

Sixty-one percent of Americans say that using military force against Iran was a mistake, with fewer than 2 in 10 Americans believing that the U.S. actions in Iran have been successful. About 4 in 10 say it has been unsuccessful, while another 4 in 10 say it is “too soon to tell.”

Trump’s Iran war is the inverse of Bush’s Iraq war, which became unpopular when it was clear that Americans were getting injured and dying and there was no hope of winning.

The Trump conflict has turned on the economic pain that the Iranians have been able to inflict on the American people in a war that also looks impossible for the US to win.

Trump’s war has taken a bad economy and made it worse.

The president has inflamed an already angry electorate so much that even mainstream people like CNN’s John King are calling the war a disaster.

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