Monday, May 18, 2026

Sunday's Trumper "Prayer Rally" Exposed As An Exercise In Theocratic (& Political) Desperation

 


                      "You will worship me no matter the cost of gas or food!"

"Yes, daddy! Amen!"


Many said they were thrilled to finally see an event that tied the nation and its government so overtly to Christianity.

I guess they'd be the ones who weren't paying attention in civics class about the bit in the US Constitution where the Establishment Clause dictates that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." This effectively prevents the government from endorsing, funding, or favoring any specific religion or religion over non-religion.- WAPO comment

 Millions of tax payer dollars spent to attract thousands of White Christian nationalists. A few close up photos showing many empty seats, but no long range shots to give us a real idea. "Officials expect 15,000.." is hardly a real estimate of size. How much did we pay per cultist and why wasn't the Post outraged at this official Christian/government event? - WAPO comment

These people posturing as “holy” completely disregard the teachings of Jesus. Try reading the beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. Or, how about “love your neighbor as yourself”? - WAPO comment WAPO comment


You can be forgiven if you missed the news about a prayer rally yesterday morning,  transforming a block of the National Mall into an evangelical worship service.   Amazingly, it turned out to be a White House led, day-long prayer festival ostensibly for the country’s 250th anniversary. 

In any case the mixing of Trump with religion is itself cause for cognitive dissonance.  A nation turned over to a power -mad, deranged traitor, grifter, liar and felon -  whose only affinity for religion is to manipulate its deluded white followers- cannot be a "celebration." Until Trump’s second term in office, it had been virtually unheard of in modern times for U.S. government officials to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of religious beliefs. So one wonders if the Trumptards ever heard of the Establishment Clause  (under the First Amendment) which prevents the government from creating or favoring a national religion.

Matthew Sutton, a historian who recently published “Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity,” said Trump’s use of scripture “was Trump at his best and most blasphemous. He takes a verse cherished by evangelicals and offers even more context for it. Except instead of Solomon as the king, Trump here is the king, and instead of the Hebrew temple, it’s Trump’s projects from the East Wing to the arch.” Adding:

The text even comes with a warning: to defy the king — or the president — is to defy God.”

In other words, this convicted felon is identifying himself with God, and few of his gathered multitudes appeared to know any better.

“We welcome Trump….err Jesus, into this place!” worship leader Andy Frank bellowed to no one’s astonishment.  After all, the Orange Fuhrer had already portrayed himself as Jesus:


But this was the latest in a series of Trump regime actions that have energized his deranged, hypocritical evangelical base. Buffoons and low IQ looneytunes wearing t-shirts emblazoned with “Trump is my president and Jesus is my Savior”.


Another moron with red sequined Trump-Jesus jacket quoted in the WaPo bellowed:

“Since Trump came back into office God is giving us a second chance. We’re in a period of grace.”

Second chance? Period of grace?  In what parallel universe are you dwelling? Not this one!  The nation known as the U.S.A. in 2026 has been cast into darkness, hate, insanity and division, best articulated by the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz – whose words from across the pond rip away the delusions afflicting the Maggats:

German chancellor's America warning: "Don't send your kids there"

Merz sees a country(like many of us sentient and sane American  citizens) unraveling under the weight of corruption, vulgarity, fanaticism and madness. He sees a republic consumed by spectacle and poisoned by lies. He sees a political movement that has embraced cruelty as entertainment and ignorance as identity. He sees a nation where the institutions of democratic life are mocked, degraded and hollowed out by a fascist movement led by a man too depraved, too ignorant and too narcissistic to understand the damage he’s done.

 Certainly not the delusional crowd gathered Sunday in the Mall, who pushed their version of White Nationalist Christianity at the center of the American story. Of course this is utter bullshit and a fairy tale. The Founders, as I've noted before, were mainly Deists not Christians.  In the words of Joseph Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of many books on America’s founding:

“It is a falsification of the meaning of the American Revolution. The idea that the founders saw America as an explicitly Christian nation is nonsensical and “dead wrong'".

But one which Trump’s hard core base embraces with a preternatural fervor, given the desperation with which they seek to elevate a proven traitor and felon to sainthood – and even god hood status. But they are wasting their time because no one with an IQ over room temperature digits buys it

All one really needs to know regarding Sunday's bogus ritual is that it's all performative, the culmination of a yearslong effort by a powerful cohort in the MAGA movement. At the same time intentional. In order to take the Maggats' minds off their soaring debts from costly gas and groceries they're distracted by the Trump regime’s extensive festivities.  It is also clearly a means to drive these hypocrites to the polls for the midterms, so the GOP can hold onto the House and Trump can dodge another impeachment.

So, typical of the conservative White Christians parading on the Mall  Sunday, one beheld a reimagined iconography to advance the view that America was founded as a Christian nation.  And tied to it, idolization of Dotard Trump - already in the throes of dementia, i.e.

Trump Has TOTAL PSYCHOTIC BREAK & Threatens To NUKE IRAN ON LIVE TV | The Kyle Kulinski Show

How could so many confer power on a convicted felon who also attempted to overthrow an election in 2020?  Many forget the self- confessed pussy grabber Trump rose to office promising to give Christianity power, and his rallies increasingly fused evangelical worship and political grievance, as right-wing political activity became a kind of holy act for many of his supporters.  In fact, it’s been an act of betrayal of all the principles this nation was founded on, and my Revolutionary War ancestors fought for.

Indeed, Trumpian Christianity is itself an abomination based on a misreading of history, not to mention the use of their maimed gospel citations to justify the killing of innocent school children in a Tehran elementary school. To quote Pope Leo, a real as opposed to a pretend Christian:

The blasphemous comparisons and attributions of Trump's divinity began soon after the attempted assassination in Butler, PA back in July, 2025. Indeed, as soon as Trump did his infamous fist pump, e.g.

It then  became emblematic for his presumed "godhood". Thereby a freak happenstance (a lucky last minute head turn) transmuted into his firm belief that "divine providence" rendered him beyond criticism and above the law. Solidifying this lunacy in the brains of his followers and especially the White Nationalist Christian theocrats salivating at making him their new god. 

Basically, Sunday's mock Xtian 'prayer rally" was another illustration of how deranged the country itself has become losing its moral compass.

See Also:

by Matthew Rozsa | May 18, 2026 - 5:00am | permalink

— from Alternet

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In yet another sign that President Donald Trump is losing support from many in his own base, a three-time Trump voter called C-SPAN on Saturday to say that he regretted voting for a man he described as America’s “worst” president.

“It’s hard for me to say this,” the caller, who only identified himself as Thomas from Hawaii, explained. “I wanted to believe Trump was the real deal for a long time.”

Thomas added that, although he had doubts because of Trump’s controversial business history, he set aside those reservations and voted for him anyway.

“Now I regret my support for him and I should’ve known better,” Thomas explained. Describing Trump as “a con man, a liar” and someone who does not “keep his promises,” Thomas added that “he’s in office all for himself and he doesn’t even try to hide his corruption anymore.”

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And:

by Amanda Marcotte | May 18, 2026 - 4:49am | permalink

— from Salon

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I believe wholeheartedly that you can’t force revival,” Lucas Miles declares in his stump speech for the Make Heaven Crowded tour. Miles is the director of TPUSA Faith, a spinoff of the late MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA organization, that is dedicated to equipping Christians “who are prepared to defend our God-given rights.” And he’s been on the road this spring and summer, insisting to one audience after another that he does not believe you can “manufacture a revival.”

The irony of this is thick — manufacturing a revival is exactly what Miles is trying to do. The Make Heaven Crowded tour, Miles explains to congregations and the press along the way, was started after a late September memorial service for Kirk, who was killed by a gunman’s bullet earlier that month. At the time of Kirk’s death, Miles had been serving as director of TPUSA Faith for 18 months after serving as the pastor of Nfluence, an Indiana church whose name sounds more like a bad tech startup than a Christian congregation. Miles called the memorial, which was held at the State Farm Stadium outside of Phoenix, Arizona, “the most significant gospel presentation in the history of Christendom,” insisting that 170,000 people showed up and “almost a billion” watched it.

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And:

 The Sad and Sorry Spectacle Of Evangelicals All Too Willing To Be Trump's Lapdogs

And:

by Robert Reich | May 17, 2026 - 5:12am | permalink

— from Robert Reich's Substack

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Friends,

My first quote of the week comes from Trump on Air Force One, on his way back from Beijing on Friday — telling David Sanger of The New York Times:

“I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You’re a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actually think it’s sort of treasonous what you write. You should be ashamed of yourself. I actually think it’s treason.”

Note Trump’s use of the pronoun “I.” He didn’t say “we” had a military victory. Trump’s malignant narcissism is worsening.

Also take note of his blatant lie. His war in Iran has been anything but a victory. His delusions and deceptions about the war are escalating.

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And:

Opinion | The Pope Bedevils Trump - The New York Times

Excerpt:

President Trump has been rampaging around the globe like Grendel at dinner time, a rapacious, feral creature. Who could stand up to him?

The soft-spoken, humble Leo, who strives to unify, squared off against the bombastic, solipsistic Trump, who strives to divide. And watching the saintly pope school the amoral president is a blessed sight.

On Easter Sunday, Trump blasted out one of his assorted threats to destroy Iranian civilization, crudely appending the phrase “Praise be to Allah.” Leo called the existential extortion “truly unacceptable,” a transgression against moral law.

Trump escalated. He posted a meme of himself as a Jesus-like figure healing a sick man and he attacked the Holy Father on social media with sinful aspersions, saying the pope is “WEAK on crime” and “I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon.”

Leo, who’s Chicago-tough, hasn’t backed down. On X, he said: “God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”

He reminded the authoritarian, Strangelovian president that he should be promoting peace through dialogue and multilateralism.

“Too many people are suffering today, too many innocent people have been killed,” Leo told reporters, “and I believe someone must stand up and say that there is a better way.”

In a puerile fit of apparent retribution on Thursday, Trump canceled an $11 million federal contract with Catholic Charities in Miami to house and feed migrant children coming to America alone. (Even my Trump-indulging sister found that disgusting.)

It’s hard for the president to give the pope the respect that he deserves because Trump clearly thinks that he’s the Messiah.

And:

Pope Leo Continues Feud with Trump: 'World Being Ravaged by Tyrants'

And:

Opinion | Trump Needs to Get Over the Pope - The New York Times

And:

YouTube videos:

‘He thinks he's smarter than the POPE?: Nicolle and Tim Miller ROAST JD Vance over Vatican beef

Pressure Builds as Trump Doubles Down Against the Pope

FURIOUS Pope STRIKES BACK at Trump after DEATH THREATS!!!


 


Friday, May 15, 2026

Existential Threat Of Ozone Layer Erosion Was Neutralized Thanks To International Cooperation - Can We Do The Same For Climate Change?

 


    Diagram illustrating formation and loss of ozone (O3) molecules.



One of the events that got me interested in solar research occurred when a massive solar flare shredded the ozone layer in the early 1970s. The then Skylab orbital observatory reported up to 80 percent of the ozone layer "eroded" by one single super flare (class 4B optical, and X 9 x-ray). The event also aroused my curiosity regarding the ozone layer and its importance for Earth - or rather the organisms that inhabit the Earth.

By now most people know that ozone O3 - is a form of oxygen - and found from 6- 32 miles  above Earth's surface or at the lower edge of the stratosphere. It basically is critical in protecting life forms from the effects of the Sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Take that layer away and you will behold sunburns the likes of which would rival 20 hours straight in a tanning bed, not to mention an explosion of skin cancers.  Minus the ozone layer, in other words, life as we know it would not exist.

So, it is important what happens to that layer.

What disturbed many space and atmospheric scientists is that the ozone layer over the Antarctic appeared to be especially susceptible to erosion, but not from solar flares. We became aware of this via tracking of ozone concentrations by NASA satellites since the 1970s. This paved the way for a study that tapped into that database thereby discovering the adverse role of chlorfluorocarbons or CFCs.

This ground breaking research by Susan Solomon and her team discovered that these chemicals - often released via hair sprays, spray deodorants etc. - reduced stratospheric ozone concentrations all over the world. At that time (1986) industries also used CFCs in refrigeration and dry cleaning. The reduction was observed to be especially bad over Antarctica hence the term "ozone hole".

One by product of the work was to explicate the processes underlying ozone hole formation. It was known, for example, that CFCs destroyed Antarctic ozone every spring. But only later was it revealed that the process begins even before winter.  It commences, in fact, at the summer solstice or shortly thereafter when the Sun rises causing light to strike the ambient CFCs, breaking its chemical dons and freeing chlorine (e.g. CCl3F → CCl2F. + Cl.    )

The freed chlorine atoms (at the end of the right side of the above equation) then strip the oxygen  (O2) from the ozone (O3) to form other chemicals destroying the ozone itself. This leads to the emergence of an "ozone hole" which generally reaches peak area in October.

Solomon et al more recent research can be accessed at this link:

http://bit.ly/science-ozone

It shows the extent to which changes in atmospheric chemistry and human activity are inextricably linked. Specifically, the authors show how public policy efforts i.e. (to ban CFCs) over decades have paid off by shrinking the Antarctic ozone by more than 4 million square miles (a 16 percent decrease) since 2000.  

But let's back track a bit to set the context. In 1985 the world learned about a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica.  The culprit was later discovered to be an industrial chemical: chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs.  The things became literally ubiquitous because millions - for decades - had been using the likes of spray paints, insecticides (e.g. Raid),  hair sprays and deodorant- antiperspirant sprays. I myself learned I'd been a culprit having used Gillette spray deodorant for years.

But to cut to the chase, atmospheric scientists (like James McDonald in the early 70s) learned these industrial agents were shredding the ozone layer and opening it up to solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation.  Unless action was taken the hole would keep growing- leaving millions to go blind or get skin cancers owing to the absence of UV protection. The CFCs had become an existential threat.

Atmospheric scientists (like Solomon), thankfully made the threat  tangible using colored satellite imagery and clear discussion of the health consequences if no action was taken.  In response, the world got together to get ahead of the CFC threat.  NGOs orchestrated boycotts of the hugely popular commercial brands (like Gillette antiperspirant sprays) while school children worldwide ran educational programs and concerned citizens wrote protest letters - even as the UN put its weight behind public awareness campaigns.

The all-out efforts worked so that by 1987, just two years after the ozone hole was made public, every nation had signed the Montreal Protocol.  The successful cooperation resulting in the signing and subsequent ban on CFCs demonstrated it was possible to quickly reach decisive international consensus even amidst international tensions. (The Cold War was still going on under Reagan).  The sequence of images at the top of this post shows the initial growing then stabilizing hole. 

 One key factor in the success, possibly the biggest one, was that the ozone hole endangered virtually everyone on the planet.   In many respects, unchecked climate change is also an existential threat to everyone on this planet, but the urgency to form a unified front to tackle it dissipated.   Is it exaggeration to say climate change rises to the same threat level as the growing ozone hole once did? I don't think so.

Three years ago the northern hemisphere had just experienced the hottest summer in recorded history, including month by month the warmest June, July, August, and (by a country mile) September ever. Staggering heat records were set in place after place globally. Fires from Canada to Hawaii to Europe broke all records. The southern hemisphere had a “winter” from — yes! — hell. Europe was burning up, Greece experienced unprecedented fires and floods as well. Libya had a significant part of a major city washed away. China, too, experienced unprecedented flooding around its capital, where 1.2 million people had to be evacuated, and in Hong Kong, too. 

Meanwhile the sea ice in the Antarctic fell to the lowest levels (yes again!) in recorded history, as did sea ice in the Arctic, helping to ensure a future in which rising sea levels could flood coastal cities. And Greenland has been lending a hand to that same future, starting 2023 with temperatures unmatched in at least 1,000 years and still setting new temperature records in July. Worse yet, that’s just to begin down a list that increasingly seems unending.

In certain parts of the United States, the summer of 2023 was literally a hell on Earth and, as a New York Times piece headlined it recently, also “A Summer Preview of the Future; Floods, Fires, and Stifling Heat. It felt like the opening minutes of a disaster movie.” 

 So what's different from the 1985 tackling of the ozone hole?  First, the climate threat has not been taken seriously especially by the young.   Thanks to the short sighted voting choices of millions (including Gen Z whose futures will be cratered), the orange felon has returned to power and vowed to burn the rest of the planet to a crisp.  In barely 18 months, Trump has so severely damaged the world’s ability to fight climate change, it may never recover.

 This ignorant tyrant has upended U.S. environmental policy with cynical, short-sighted moves that will have lasting implications for this country, and the planet. With a flurry of bogus executive orders-  that have exceeded the limits of presidential power- Trump has gutted federal climate efforts, rolled back regulations aimed at limiting pollution and given a major boost to the fossil fuel industry. 

Trump has also frozen funds appropriated by Congress for clean energy projects, taking particular aim at wind energy, the country’s largest source of renewable power. He has stopped approvals for wind farms on public land and in federal waters and has threatened to block projects on private land.

He's also abandoned efforts to reduce global warming, even as the world has reached record levels of heat that scientists say is driven largely by the burning of fossil fuels. After all, on Inauguration Day, Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement, making it the only nation to walk away.

Process that! The only nation to walk away.  Bottom line: given the climate havoc he's wrought, the world and particularly the younger generations inhabiting it, will be left to live fraught and destitute lives as the worst of climate change transpires between now and 2100. The critical time threshold to act on global warming has now likely passed and there's little to do except try to help the coming generations- and other peoples of planet Earth - to prepare as best they can.

See Also:

UN Climate Framework Withdrawal By Trumpers Puts The Planet On Path To Runaway Greenhouse Effect

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WSJ: 'Late Night Posts Offer Peek Into Trump's Mind' - Errr... What Mind? The Journal Won't Go There

 

                       A measure of Trump's late night posting derangement

Of course Hamas - as a terrorist outfit - merits a WSJ editorial thrashing ('The Truth About Hamas', p. A14 yesterday) documenting all of its vile, inhuman transgressions.  There's no debate about that. But at the same time, Hamas doesn't control nuclear weapons like Donald Trump.  So why are we not informed about the freaking truth concerning a totally deranged DJT, given the Journal's front page yesterday went into detail about his Trash Social late night postings ('Late -Night Truth Social Bursts Offer A Peek Into Trump's Mind').

Most infuriating is how the story - in the main section - leans into this demented imp's assumed normality, e.g.

"Monday was a typical day for President Trump. He took questions in the Oval Office. He met with members of Indiana University’s football team. And he had dinner with law-enforcement officers in the White House Rose Garden.

After the sun went down, another familiar ritual began: late-night social-media posting. The president’s Truth Social account posted 55 messages between 10:14 p.m. and 1:12 a.m.  The messages, mostly reposts from other accounts falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen, aired frustrations that Democrats hadn't been indicted by the Justice Department and called for the arrest of Barack Obama for, among other things, that he 'fabricated the finding that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump win the White House."

To read these overly-curated and tempered paragraphs you'd think the guy just went about his normal doings on a normal day and then just relaxed over late hours to do some re-posting and la-dee-da.

This in contrast to the more genuine and honest portrayal - showing all dimensions of his derangement - from podcaster Kyle Kulinski, e.g.

Trump Has TOTAL PSYCHOTIC BREAK & Threatens To NUKE IRAN ON LIVE TV | The Kyle Kulinski Show

By contrast, Mr. Kulinski  documents all the mental and physical marks of Dotard's deterioration, with the emphasis on his total unfitness for the job - oh, and proximity to the nuclear codes. Let's also bear in mind that his Monday night Trash Social barrage of unhinged posts was only a fraction of his ongoing insanity.

Last month, the fungal imp even stooped to attacking the Pope, e.g.

Why Trump Is Batting On A Losing Moral Wicket In His Battle With Pope Leo

 In his latest deranged episode he even claimed to "Have a better understanding of the Bible than Leo" e,g,

Trump promotes claim he has a 'better understanding' of the Bible than Pope Leo

But even these attacks were relatively minor compared to his Easter Sunday outburst:

"Open the fucking Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. JUST WATCH! A whole civilization will die tonight never to be brought back again."

Disposing the WSJ weekend columnist Peggy Noonan to write:

"The post left his friends and foes slackjawed. They constituted hitting a new bottom, a new and infernal, face-lit-by -flames bottom, in world communications....The posts weren't showbiz they were sinister. 

You destabilize the world when, as the American president, you say such things. You rob your own nation of a claim to moral seriousness in the military action in which it is engaged."

Again, Ms. Noonan was delivering to the Journal a warning alarm that it needed to get serious in holding this nearly 80-year old senile nut to account. That meant to cease giving him normal portrayals in the WSJ pages, whether for new cabinet picks, the WH Correspondents dinner (and his using it as an excuse for a $1b ballroom) and flip-flopping every other day on the Iran war - resulting in a continual spike on the costs of gas, food, and energy.

Which again makes me wonder, what gives? Why is the WSJ holding back on exposing this orange fruitcake and that he needs to be removed under the 25th amendment?  Why the balking? Is the Journal terrified he will come after them again with another lawsuit? Declare the Journal an "enemy of the state" (i.e. Trump's petty dictatorship?  So what? If you have a scintilla of adherence to objectivity it is your duty to expose this guy as a deluded, demented wackjob not a functional president.   

 A possible hint emerged on the front page  of the WSJ account of Trump's late night posting, to wit:

"The activity is emblematic of Trump's account, which operates as a nearly round the clock, high volume amplification system that blends his own voice with a network of partisan and fringe content. Since the start of his 2nd term his Social account has ballooned to 12.6 million followers, up from 8.6 million."

And there it is: The Journal staff acknowledges his rising claim on attention, likely of his Maggats or other Rightist hardliners from the dregs of the net- who are endeared and totally invested in his every word, fecal meme and vile vomitous insult. So we can say fear of antagonizing these twits is a possible reason. But beyond that, the coin of the realm here is attention, and Trump with his insane antics drives it and knows it is his superpower. 

 As Chris Hayes puts it in his book, The Siren's Call (p. 112):  

"The story of Trump's life is wanting recognition, instead getting attention, and then becoming addicted to the attention itself."

The Journal also has evidently become addicted to the attention Trump gets and 'doubles down' on page A4, showing over a half page of Trump's image memes and insults including the one of him as a Jesus figure, and another of Illinois Governor Pritzker stuffing his face along with the note: "JB is too busy to keep Chicago safe" see e.g.

                                 Some of Trump's memes depicted in WSJ

Prompting podcaster Kyle Kulinski to bark in his own podcast (see earlier link):

"Hey you fat overweight fuck, what about you stuffing your own face?"

The rest of the page included sundry Journal observations, such as Trump saying "Somalia isn't a real nation it's just people walking around killing each other."

Adding: "The posts leave the public with a stew of presidential musings and reposts, many of which are published while people in the U.S. are asleep. Most of the posts get little scrutiny disappearing into the cascade of posts in his account."

And in a separate 'boxed' column detailing the myriad ways Trump "savages his enemies and amplifies his frustrations ...often sharing AI images that cast his opponents as cartoonish and himself as powerful."

Such as the AI cartoon of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes and Trump as the 'king of the jungle' lion.

But again, NO criticism of Dotard in any of the torrent of  his venomous dreck, only noting:

"Natalie Harp, Trump's executive assistant, plays an integral role in Trump's activity. She brings the president stacks of printed -out draft social media posts for his approval."

So we now know at least the orange traitor misfit and felon has an accomplice, who is at least as much to blame as his own narcissistic ego for keeping him up half the night in his deranged posting binges.  As for the Journal, one gets the idea that it's all mostly just harmless entertainment - except maybe for those (like Kyle Kulinski) who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

 Hell, basically the Journal's contributors know if the WSJ plays its cards right some of the Trash Social attention may 'wash off' in new subscriptions. So it walks a tight rope and doesn't hold Trump to criticism too often, perhaps in the odd editorial if then.  And near the end we get the predictable comment from Trump's 'Jabba the Hut' look alike WH Communications Director Steven Cheung:



"Truth Social has never been hotter and it's because President Trump offers his unfiltered and direct thoughts to the American people without the biased media taking him out of context".

This is why it's so important for Americans to gain access to the numerous podcasts and Youtube videos exposing Dotard's dereliction and sheer insanity as well as depravity (in the words of former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb), e.g.

Trump Lawyer Calls For 25th Amendment Over PSYCHOTIC MELTDOWN

So it's important not to be drawn into the rabbit hole (evidently fostered in the WSJ piece) of some kind of Trump normality and novel 'entertainment'. No, hell no, fuck no. There is NO normality there, nor any "entertainment" and no amount of WSJ sane washing can or will  change that.

See Also:

German chancellor's America warning: "Don't send your kids there"

Excerpt:

The warning came from Chancellor Friedrich Merz — a man who has spent decades believing in the American idea. A man who understands the indispensable role America played in preserving freedom in Europe. A man who knows what American power once represented to the world: stability, confidence, aspiration, seriousness, decency and order.

Now, he looks across the Atlantic Ocean, and sees something else entirely.

He sees rot.

He sees a country unraveling under the weight of corruption, vulgarity, fanaticism and madness. He sees a republic consumed by spectacle and poisoned by lies. He sees a political movement that has embraced cruelty as entertainment and ignorance as identity. He sees a nation where the institutions of democratic life are mocked, degraded and hollowed out by a fascist movement led by a man too depraved, too ignorant and too narcissistic to understand the damage he’s done.

He sees Donald Trump.

And:

by Adam Lynch | May 16, 2026 - 5:25am | permalink

— from Alternet

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Congressional lawmakers and Trump’s own former lawyer are panicking over how racked President Donald Trump’s mind appears to be with illness.

“I don't know how anyone can see what he posts or watch him in any meeting and think that he's fit for office,” said one lawmaker speaking to reporters.

Another lawmaker said: “We have strategic ambiguity. But [Trump] is just … He’s confrontational, inconsistent, erratic,” said another congressman, who then fluttered his tongue in a demonstration of Trump’s lucidity.

“I don't trust that man to be able to cognitively make a complete sentence, let alone negotiate with China,” said another.

“I think he's seriously ill,” said still another. “I think Trump needs medical attention and there needs to be an intervention.”

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And:

Trump Suffers MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS As Unhinged Behavior SHOCKS THE WORLD!!! | The Kyle Kulinski Show

And:

Trump's Psychiatric Presidential Crisis

And:

The Scary Detail of Trump’s Late-Night Meltdown w/ George Conway

And:

IHIP News:🚨 MAGA Voters BAILING?! DEMENTED Trump ADMITS He's Not Going To LEAVE OFFICE WILLINGLY!!

And:

by Sarah K. Burris | May 14, 2026 - 5:26am | permalink

— from Alternet

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The downside to spending a year attacking an opponent for his cognition and mental capacity is that your own cognition and mental capacity falls under the microscope. Such is the case with President Donald Trump, who has noticeably slowed as his 80th birthday in June approaches, wrote CNN's Aaron Blake on Wednesday.

In his first year in office, President Donald Trump has appeared to doze off over a dozen times, and there have been multiple questions about it occurring in April and May. The most recent came just this week during a May 11 photo op on maternal healthcare in the Oval Office event. Reuters and other reputable outlets reported video showing the president appearing to doze or repeatedly closing his eyes. It has prompted renewed coverage and White House rebuttals.

Blake recalled Trump blasting the White House a “s— house.” After invading and capturing Nicolás Maduro months previously, Trump openly thought about making Venezuela the 51st state. In another incident, Blake pointed out, Trump couldn't identify Indiana University football coach Curt Cignetti. The coach was standing right next to him and Trump looked directly at him just moments earlier.

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