The Trump Fuckery Round Up

Again, I must profer apologies for this, the 2nd post of the day on Donald Trump.  The first one was about Li'l Donnie's war. This 2nd one is about everything else.

Or as much as I can stand in one post.

Oh there is SO MUCH fuckery!

Last week I wrote a post called The Winningnest Loser where I dealt with the perplexing dichotomy of Donald Trump's cratering approval ratings (WE fucking HATE him!) vs. his outsized influence (THEY fucking WORSHIP him!) 

Li'l Donnie struck again in Texas.  

Long serving incumbent Republican Senator John Cornyn lost his primary to Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton who had received der Führer's coveted endorsement.

I spent more time that I wanted reviewing Cornyn's record and he has been extremely conservative and pro-Trump.

Cornyn has been consistently anti-LGBGT+.anti-abortion, ant-immigrant, basically a poster child for MAGA era politics. 

He aligned with Trump and his agenda. 

Hell, Cornyn voted to aquit Donald Trump in his 2021 impeachment relating to the January 6th Capitol riot.  

What exactly did Cornyn do to warrant Li'l Donnie's lack of support?

Pre-2024, Cornyn did voice concern about Trump being the Republican nominee for President again but like all the other GOP ass kissers, he fell in line once it became clear Li'l Donnie had the nomination in the bag.

As far as I can tell, John Cornyn's big sin against der Führer was not supporting elimination of the Senate's 60 vote filibuster which Trump wants gone to ram through whatever he wants on a simple majority vote. 

When asked about endorsing Paxton over the incumbent Senator, Trump said  Cornyn “was not supportive of me when times were tough.”

The problem wasn't that John Cornyn was not loyal.

The problem was Cornyn was not loyal enough.  

Meanwhile Ken Paxton represents a race to the bottom of MAGA politics. 

I'm just going to cut 'n' paste this sentence I wrote about John Cornyn:

"Cornyn has been consistently anti-LGBGT+, anti-abortion, ant-immigrant."

And make this edit:

"Paxton has been even MORE anti-LGBGT+, anti-abortion, ant-immigrant."  

As Attorney General, Paxton has been an eager enforcer of virulent anti-abortion laws and anti-trans gender policy as well as such beloved Christian nationalist goals like forcing the 10 Commandments to be displayed in class rooms. 

And as Attorney General, Paxton has also been at the center of a shit ton of corruption and scandal.  Paxton has faced accusations of state securities fraud,  violations of Securities and Exchange Commission rules, state bar professional misconduct.  

And good Christian person Ken had to cop to an extramarital affair.

And he was impeached by Texas State House on about 20 seperate counts of abusing the power of his office as Attorney General.  Paxton avoided losing his gig as AG in a 16 to 14 vote after the Texas State Senate trial.   

Li'l Donnie Trump knows how to pick 'em! 

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator James Talarico must be feeling pretty good about his chances.   

The conventional wisdom is Talarico had a fight on his hands to defeat John Cornyn in November. The odds of winning look better against the damaged package that is Ken Paxton. 

Click here for James Talarico's Wikepedia page. 

Oh my God! This post is going on longer than I planned. Again, I am SO sorry about this. 

BUT... I have more ground to cover.

Last week's post, The Grift That Keeps On Grifting, I wrote about how Donald Trump sued the IRS with a typically Trumpian unmerited lawsuit but before a judge could throw it out for the garbage it is, Acting Attorney General (and Li'l Donnie's personal lawyer) cut a deal for Trump to drop the lawsuit in exchange for an Anti-Weaponization Fund that would pay money to Trump cronies who had their feeling hurt by the DOJ.

As I wrote last week, "Is any of this legal? What do I know? My knowledge of the law begins and ends with Law & Order reruns. But it certainly doesn't sound legal!"   

Well, someone with legal expertise beyond L&O episodes has some questions.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued a restraining order to ensure that no funds are “irreversibly disbursed” before the legal fight over the newly announced fund has a chance to play out.

The judge's ruling is in response to a lawsuit that contends "the fund is an illegal and unconstitutional abuse of taxpayer funds."

My analysis of that? Well, DUH!

Click here for deets on the judge's ruling surrounding that particular bit of grift. 

That's not the only Trump fuckery running up against the rule of law.

When Trump took office again in 2025 after running on a platform of lowering prices on day one, Li'l Donnie looked around and realized the most important question he needed to address:

Who the fuck is running the Kennedy Center?

To all the MAGA idiots who voted for Trump because of the goddam price of eggs, fret not: der Führer is on the case.

• Trump replaced the Kennedy Center advisory board with Trump loyalists.
• And he appointed himself as chairman of that board. 
• The board voted to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center.
• Complete with adding his goddam name to the fucking front of the building.

Just look at this fucking attrocity! 

• Artists scheduled to perform at the center could not cancel their performances fast enough.
• Facing plummeting revenues, Trump declared the "Trump Kennedy Center" would be closed for 2 years for renovations.

Last week, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper issued a ruling that said No, No and Oh HELL No to all that shit! 

Click here for more about that situation.  

Li'l Donnie wrote a long rambling rant on Truth Social that I will sum up: "Judge Cooper is a big ol' meanie who won't let me do what I want!" 

• Hey, did you hear what's going on with Trump's con job about the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool?
• Or the debacle over the Freedom 250 plans for the United States' anniversary celebrations?
• Or the mishandling of the Ebola virus outbreak?  
• Or Trump's---

NO!

NO! NO! NO! 

Enough is enough! 

I am bringing this blog post to an end! I can't take anymore!  

The Hype Machine At War

My apologies. This is the first of two (yep,count 'em ---2!) posts about Donald Trump fuckery.

And their both kind of long. Sorry about that.

The 2nd post is about a wide range of fuckery.

This 1st one is about how Trump fucked up his war.

Last week passed with an interminably shifting narrative about the United States' war with Iran.

• A ceasefire agreement was a comin'. 
• A ceasefire agreement was all but done.
• Iran is gonna make a deal.
• Iran is gonna give us everything we want.

I'm writing this on a Saturday to post on Monday.

Maybe by Monday, some of that may come true.

But I doubt it. 

Even as all those declarations were being made about war's end and we're on the cusp of peace, Iran and the United States were still taking pot shots are one another.

Donald Trump was still making grandiose threats against Iran and boasting of American might.

So far the United States' war with Iran remains intractable. 

Because the truth of the matter is that it isn't the United States' war with Iran.

It's Donald Trump's  war with Iran.

It was HIS idea to start this war.  

OK, after Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu convinved him it was a good idea. Netanyahu has been bitching and whining for YEARS that Iran was close to having a nuclear weapon any minute now. 

Most United States government officials said Netanyahu's warnings lacked credibility.  But in Li'l Donnie, Netanyahu found quite the useful idiot.  Because Netanyahu's desire for war with Iran fit in with in der Führer's own delusional narrative.

• Obama made a BAD deal.
• Iran was cheating.
• Iran is gonna have a nuclear weapon any minute now. 

Let's go down THAT list. 

• The deal was BAD only because Obama made it and Trump was determined to dismantle anything Obama did, whether it was working or not.  
• And it was working. Iran was not cheating and there were multiple resources on the ground confirming Iran's compliance with the deal to not make a nuclear weapon.  These reports were given to Trump who refuted their veracity because of der Führer's deeply held philosophy of "Obama BAD! Iran CHEAT! Hulk SMASH!" 
• Even without the deal, there as been NO verifiable intelligence that Iran was ever gonna have a nuclear weapon any minute now. Without the deal, Iran was certainly ramping up their uranium enrichment program with an eye on developing a weapon. But the immediacy of any such endeavor is in doubt. 

But here we are at war with Iran because der Führer felt like Iran was up to shit. 

Trump was recently asked if he had a plan for Iran. His response: "My plan is simple: Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon." 

So Mr. Big Shot Businessman doesn't understand what a PLAN is. "Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon" is a GOAL, not a PLAN. 

A plan is a process or steps taken to acheive a goal.  

Which brings us to our next point.  

It was HIS premise that all we had to do was show up.

Donald Trump is enamored with being Commander in Chief of a kick ass military force that he can unleash on his say so.

Li'l Donnie has an appointed lackey, the so called Secretary of WAR, who is likewise all hyped up about leading the biggest, most baddass leathal fighting force built for WAR fighting.

 Instead of a cold sober hand at the controls to provide calm, reasoned guidance, the Pentagon has in Pete Hegseth a goddam cheerleader for American to KICK ASS on der Führer's order.

Donald Trump: "I WANT WAR!!" 

Pete Hegseth: "OH HELL YEAH!!"

It's a drunken fraternity bro trying desperately to make his daddy proud.

Hegseth is more interested in running a HYPE machine instead of a WAR machine because it's the HYPE that his daddy wants to hear! 

WE ARE GREAT! 

THE ENEMY SUCKS! 

And it doesn't help that Hegseth's HYPE machine runs on the snakeoil of devine destiny. Peter offers up public prayers for God to guide us as we deliver death and destruction to our enemies.

WE ARE GREAT! 

THE ENEMY SUCKS! 

GOD SAYS SO! 

So Trump and his snivelling syncophant Hegseth are all jacked up on their own super charged war rhetoric that with our massive all powerful expensive military might, we would unleash hell on Iran and the Iranians would fall quivering to their knees begging us to accept their surrender.  

It was HIS belief that the Iranians would not pose a threat.

As a habitual bully, Donald Trump does seem to be genuinely surprised when other people fight back. Working from the baseline of we're bigger, stronger and have more stuff, why would anyone fight back? 

Point of order #1: In 1776, the British army was bigger, stronger and had more stuff. And we said, "Well, fuck it! We think we like the King after all."

Point of order #2:  We did not do that.  

So it's 2026 and the United States is bigger, stronger and has more stuff and Iran is bleeding, broken and on fire.

Iran looks for an option to fight back. What isn't bleeding, broken and on fire? 

Hey guys! Why don't we fuck with the Strait of Hormuz? Yeah the Americans have more stuff but now it will cost more! 

Trump seemed really gobsmacked this was a thing that could happen.  Even among his own syncophants, someone apparently did try to warn der Führer that Iran closing the Strait was an option but he was all "But we're bigger, badder and have more stuff so that won't happen." 

Essentially we're in this mess because Donald Trump bought his own hype.

And just like everything Trump buys, we're overpaying for it. 

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Sorry gang but we're up again in 4 hours with more Trumpian bullshit.

Or you can time travel to Tuesday for TWO Tuesday TV Touchbase posts with the series finale of Hacks and Taylor Tomlinson does stand up in a church.