Voter Suppression
“Mail-In ballots are inherently corrupt.” President DONALD J. TRUMP
Scare tactics, intimidation and sabotage. Mailboxes are targeted for removal.
Trump has repeatedly condemned mail-in ballots as “cheating”—while consistently voting by mail himself.
Which fraud came first?
INSULT TO INJURY
Birds of a feather
“Despite the unfriendly look on this particular picture, there are many where we’re smiling, Kim Jong Un and I get along GREAT!” President DONALD J. TRUMP
Frenemies with benefits: To hell with the more than 70-year alliance and mutual defense treaty with South Korea to counter North Korea and bolster readiness against potential aggression.
A WING AND A PRAYER
Frenemies
“He wrote me beautiful letters… We fell in love.” – Donald Trump, on Kim Jong Un
Bookends: Ties That Bind
Donald J. Trump, Xi JInping, Kim Jong Un.
Round and round and round they go in a circle game – in perpetuity. Three egos, each convinced the music will never stop.
“We’re captive on the carousel of time.”
Joni Mitchell
THE ART OF 47’S DEAL
I came, I saw, Iran.
"I think we'll make a deal with them, pretty sure. But it's possible we won't." President DONALD J. TRUMP
Red lines. Red flags: Never let a crisis of your own making go to waste. Wield a HUGE grudge. And carry on. And on.
“And if it goes well, we're going to end up with settling this. Otherwise, we'll just keep bombing our little hearts out." DONALD J. TRUMP
HAUTE CUISINE
Party of One
"Any consequential presidents have a lot of threats. Non-consequential presidents don't get threatened. And I think that I may be the most consequential president." Donald J. Trump
Recipe for disaster: Free range chicken. A dish, like revenge, best served cold. Season to taste.
How to prep a lame duck president whose AI images portray him as our Lord and Savior and Superman? Scramble and whisk him safely out of Turkey mise en place in a catering truck with no one the wiser.
BOYS WILL BE BOYS
Strategic partnerships, global repercussions.
Frenenemies “Dotard” and “Little Rocket Man,” both obsessed with Putin, power, size and all things nuclear, have a long and colorful history. It’s personal.
Kim Jong Un’s ties, deepening wartime cooperation and expanded role in Vlad’s war against Ukraine marks a “new history of friendship with Russia written in blood”.
Go it-it-alone transactional adversaries with benefits: So. Where’s Donald?
LOYAL TO A FAULT
Preaching to a Choir of One
“The Department of Justice…is part of the executive. Article II of the Constitution gives the power of the executive to President Trump.” Todd Blanche
In a 50 to 49 razor-tight party-line split, Todd Blanche, 45-47’s former personal former lawyer — and the man who has repeatedly defended the president’s “right” to intervene in Justice Department business— has been confirmed as Attorney General.
Stand back and stand by, President Donald Trump has found his Roy Cohn.
“Thank you very much. I love you, sir.” Todd Blanche
NOTORIOUS RGB
Fault Lines
“People are very angry at her, because I got to appoint people instead of Biden.” Donald Trump
A liberal legal legend and feminist icon for gender equality and civil rights, unwittingly altered the ideological balance of the court for a generation. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s decision not to retire during the Obama administration, a critical miscalculation, enabled the 6-3 conservative shift following her death at 87.
Her refusal to step down is a cautionary tale for aging justices to consider strategic retirements under a friendly administration and Senate control of the appointment process. Supreme Court justices are appointed for life.