Every single time I think Trump can’t go any lower, he goes much lower. Today’s blog post hits a few of the highlight (or lowlights!) of the past week.
I tried to be a good blogger this week. I made an effort Monday through yesterday to not post about Trump, but I can only remain silent for so long. If you read my blog on a regular basis, you know that.
I cannot and will not sit idly by while I have this platform. I’m sorry this is long, but please stay with it to the end.
Death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller
We found out last weekend just how small and callous Donald Trump is.
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller died at the age of 81. He was respected by people of both political parties. He was a lifelong servant of the people. He volunteered for military duty during the Vietnam War and received a Purple Heart after being shot in the leg.
Upon hearing the news of Mueller’s death from Parkinson’s Disease, President Trump put on his Truth Social account: “Robert Mueller just died. Good. I’m glad he’s dead.”
It is sad that such a civil servant died of a devastating disease at the age of 81; however, it is tragic that the little man sitting in the Oval Office is so self-absorbed and evil-spirited that he wrote such an abhorrent thing.
It was that same Vietnam War Robert Mueller got wounded in that Donald Trump weaseled out of going to after he and his father got a doctor to claim he had bone spurs. He has been ridiculing the veterans of that war ever since.
When a person shows you what they are, believe them. If there is anyone out there who still thinks Trump was sent by God to save America… you might want to look in the mirror and ask yourself which god you and Trump believe in.
Speaking of religion… “Make it for Jesus!”
Has there ever been a U.S. President more devoid of knowledge of Christianity?
On Monday, Trump said he wants photo voter ID with proof of citizenship to be par to the Homeland Security bill. He addressed his remarks to the Republicans and said, “You don’t have to worry about going home for Easter break. Make this one for Jesus. Make it for Jesus. That’s what I tell ‘em. It would be a d_mn good thing.”
Jesus was all about loving your neighbor – and everyone is your neighbor. He was all about taking care of the sick, the poor, the lonely.
Trump is all about hating his neighbors – which is everyone who doesn’t lick his boots. He is all about taking healthcare away from the sick, making poor people pay higher prices for necessities, and ignoring the lonely.
Every single thing I can think of that Jesus demonstrated and asked us to do, Trump demonstrates the opposite and spouts out hate for everyone.
The irony of it all is that the movement is being led by a little orange man who would not know a Christian if he met one.
Can someone please tell Trump that Jesus is not concerned about voter ID or citizenship in the United States? My hunch is that Jesus is more concerned about the way Christians are treating people. For the Republicans to vote a requirement into law that in order to vote in the United States one must present a certified birth certificate would not be a gift for Jesus. Voting for photo voter ID or voter proof of citizenship will not get a single Republican into heaven.
Yet again, the U.S. President is pushing for a solution to a problem that has been proven not to exist.
The United States of America is not a theocracy… yet.
The Inaugural America First Award
Knowing that we have the neediest U.S. President ever, the Republican Party invented a new award this week.
At the National Republican Congressional Committee fundraising dinner on March 25, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, with Congressman Richard Hudson of North Carolina proudly standing by his side, announced the creation of the America First Award to be bestowed upon Donald Trump.
It seems that the Republicans in Congress are so enamored with Donald Trump that they must go above and beyond supporting him through thick and thin, through peace time and war, through government shutdowns, and through the dismantling of our medical research, public education, museums, national parks, clean air, and the East Wing of the White House.
Their unflinching support of their puppet master is not enough. They couldn’t help themselves. They had to create a new award with Trump in mind, claiming it will be an annual award. It boggles the mind to think just how many years they will give Donald Trump the America First Award.
Of course, as everything Trumpian requires, the award comes complete with a gold trophy. It can be proudly displayed in the Oval Office next to the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize he was given in December to soothe his ego for not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Please remember that Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was the recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize and, even though she literally gave him the physical part of that honor, the Nobel Committee was quick to assert that Ms. Machado is still the recipient and it in no way belongs to Donald Trump.
U.S. Department of the Treasury bowing to Trump
The U.S. Treasury Department “has considered” minting a new one-dollar coin with Trump’s image on both sides. Well, isn’t that special?
Fortunately, Americans don’t want to carry around heavy coins. Most Americans don’t even carry paper currency now. They sure don’t want a pocket full of big ugly coins bearing Trump’s likeness!
In another development yesterday afternoon, the Treasury Department announced the printing of a new $100 bill which will have the iconic Donald Trump signature on it. This goes against tradition, to say the least.
It will be the first time in 165 years that the signature of a sitting U.S. President will be printed on a piece of paper currency in the United States.
Since his signature resembles a toddler’s angry scrawling (my apologies to all toddlers), won’t that be a wondrous thing to behold?
Trump’s views on children and adults with dyslexia
Trump has belittled California Governor Gavin Newsome many times for admitting that he has dyslexia. Newsome compensates having dyslexia by memorizing speeches and speaking extemporaneously.
But Trump sees that as a weakness, and he always attacks a person where he sees a weakness. That’s just the great guy he is.
This week, Trump attacked Gov. Newsome at least twice for having dyslexia and, in so doing, he attacked every child in our country who struggles to compensate for having it.
Trump labels dyslexia as “a learning disability” and the insinuation is that having a learning disability is something to be ashamed of. To be hidden. To never be admitted to having.
Trump using the term “learning disability” and “dyslexia” as a cudgel. It is a label he can proclaim to try to ruin an opponent’s political aspirations.
Every time Trump talks about dyslexia he shows his ignorance.
Or perhaps he says it because he knows that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was thought to have had dyslexia, but Wilson went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
We all know how jealous Trump is of every recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
What the U.S. President Worries About
In case you wonder what the President of the United States worries about, I found out last Saturday.
One would think the U.S. President had pressing things to worry about like how to get out a war he started in Iran, but that was not the case last Friday.
On Friday, March 20, 2026, President Trump signed a two-page Executive Order dictating that no other NCAA football games can be scheduled during the time slot for the Army-Navy game.
Since they don’t have anything else to do, the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce are to make sure all colleges, universities, conferences, and broadcasters comply.
In a White House press released titled “Preserving America’s Game,” Trump said, “Such scheduling conflicts weaken the national focus on our Military Service Academies and detract from a morale-building event of vital interest to the Department of War. Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that no college football game, specifically college football’s CFP or other postseason games, be broadcast in a manner that directly conflicts with the Army-Navy Game.”
Besides being a ludicrous thing for the U.S. President to be thinking about, it is a nice gift to CBS Sports which is under contract to televise the Army-Navy game through 2038.
It looks like CBS is going to be in competition with FoxNews to be the official broadcaster for the Trump Administration. Every authoritarian regime needs one.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Meanwhile, the war continues in Iran and Trump is begging other countries to help get him out of it… even as he declares almost every day that we won the war in the first hour.
On Monday, Trump all but said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth started the war. Later in the week, Hegseth said, “We negotiate with bombs.”
Trump claims the peace negotiations with Iran are “going well,” while Iran says the US must be negotiating with itself because there are no such talks taking place with Iran.
Trump claims the peace negotiations with Iran are “going fairly well,” while Iran says the US must be negotiating with itself because there are no such talks taking place with Iran.
Sadly, no one on the planet can believe what either side says.
Trump continues the oil embargo against Venezuela, which is bringing Cuba to its knees… so he can take over … you guessed it: Cuba.
Yesterday, Trump announced in relation to the war in Iran that a “Trump day” is not 24 hours. “A Trump day is eternity.”
For those of us living under his regime, it certainly feels like it!
Looking toward the November Mid-Term Elections
If I were a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I would be more than a little worried about the mid-term elections coming up in November. Even though it appears that all the Republicans in the House want the United States to have a monarchy at the very least, they believe a dictator would serve them better. But that’s not what the American people want.
Deep down in their hearts, I don’t think the MAGA voters really want a dictator. They might think they do but, when push comes to shove, I don’t think they will be happy with the outcome after 34 more months of this firehose form of governance.
Janet
The government should be afraid of its citizens, not the other way around.


Unfortunately Janet, I believe what a wise man once said (whose name I cannot recall at the moment) that if a country has an idiot for a president then the people are well represented. And although I do not think that the US is a nation of idiots, I do believe that there are more of them that will vote for a man like the one elected. But what is even worse than idiots voting is non-idiots not voting. All the best Janet!
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Thank you for this sharp and courageous blog. You put into words what many feel, but struggle to express.
What affects me most is his lack of humanity. Not only in his words, but in his tone, in his attitude; in both the small and the big things. For someone like me, who grew up with parents who experienced the war, this feels disturbingly familiar. Not because it is the same, but because it always starts somewhere: with language, with dehumanization, with the dismissal of compassion.
Please keep writing like this. It is needed.
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I believe you are correct. Have a great weekend!
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Thank you, Matroos. Knowing there are people like you who are reading my blog is what keeps me going. It weighs on me that many people do not realize the danger he has put us in. The macho persona he presents is disgusting coming from a draft dodger. The fact that he surrounded himself with “yes-men” adds to the danger. At least during his first term there were a few people who could stop him from doing some of the things he wanted to do. He made sure this term to only appoint or nominate people who would blindly support him. Thirty-four more months of this? Oh dear! Take care.
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At this point, it isn’t Trump who is the problem; it’s his enablers who jump to his every whim, including declaring war to enrich his own pockets. What is wrong with these people? I just don’t get it. You’d think they would be in self-preservation mode now.
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I can’t figure it out either. How can you be so brain-washed that you can’t believe you own eyes, ears, or wallet? At least in the early days of the first term, he had a few people around him who weren’t “yes men.” This time every one of them is a yes man or yes woman. It’s beyond disgusting. Why aren’t people rioting in the streets?… Oh, I forgot. You get shot by ICE if you even peacefully protest. It was all part of the plan.
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I guess they can’t see that Trump is already throwing “his” people under the bus. To go with another transportation metaphor, they’ve attached their hawser to a sinking ship.
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They certainly have, and I don’t know that they will ever be able to admit to us or even to themselves that they were on the wrong side of history. Trump is laughing all the way to the bank. Can you imagine what how he talks about the MAGA people in private? Don’t you know he thinks they’re idiots?
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Thank you Janet. A lovely weekend to you!
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Of course he thinks they’re idiots.
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I saw today that he now says the ballroom was the military’s idea and there is something very top secret involved. If there is something “top secret” about it, he’ll probably announce what it is!
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Huh?!?!?!
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The only way I can deal with the stupidity of our president is to watch Jimmy Kimmel and laugh at his monologue which is 90% about Trump. Trumps foul mouth, lies and believing his name should be on everything makes me sick. If the next presidential candidate says he will remove everything with Trumps picture or name on it, they will have my vote. Lol
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I agree with you completely, Diane. This train wreck can’t be over soon enough for me. Thirty-four more months??? I can’t bear it! I want everything he has done to be undone ASAP when he finally leaves. Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert’s monologues are what get me through, too. Will miss Colbert after May. Thank goodness they weren’t successful in running off Kimmel!
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Don’t forget how much help he got before he ever was contemplated for office, from Senator Mitch McConnell, in setting up the means to deprive President Obama of his supreme Court and other federal judge nominations, or confirmations rather. That, I fear, maybe the real danger which will long outlast the guy who’s currently remodeling the White House.
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You’re absolutely right, Nia! Between Mitch McConnell denying Obama’s right to nominate a new Supreme Court Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a sitting U.S. President cannot be held legally responsible for anything they do… we are now in this horrendous mess. The current U.S. Supreme Court’s harmful rulings just might outlast us all.
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So, then it seems that we will have to adopt or re-adopt the old strategy used by Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP when he had to go before The supreme Court…
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It appears so. History repeats itself.
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There is a special circle in hell reserved for Mitch McConnell.
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That place is getting bigger by the day!
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There’s an American Experience episode titled, “Settin’ the woods on fire” (episode 1 291 MB). It’s about George Wallace, a man remarably similar to our President. David McCullough introduces the episode:
“…More than anything, [George Wallace] loved the limelight and was driven by a hunger for power. Playing to racial prejudice, he would fan a fire of rage for which countless men, women, and children paid a terrible price. …Was [he], as many who knew him believe, a fundamentally decent man who would say anything to get elected or was he just a plain, old-fashioned, dyed-in-the-wool demagogue?”
Our President is not about self reflection. My fantasy — ain’t gonna happen — is that the President realizes his legacy smells like the sludge digester in a sewage treatment plant. And that realization trigggers a change in his conduct.
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A strong piece once again. Your courage in speaking up is wonderful. A candle it in the dark but growing anyway.
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It would be nice if Trump realized what his legacy is going to be, but I think he is too self-absorbed in his own little world to ever acknowledge what he has done. He only talks to people who praise him and tell him how well he and the country are doing. He has never been bothered with facts. George Wallace did have a change of heart eventually. Miracles do happen. It would take a Paul on the road to Damascus conversion experience to get Trump’s attention.
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Thank you for your kind words of encouragement. With hundreds of thousands of people participating in protests on Saturday’s “No Kings Day,” perhaps there are some cracks beginning to appear in the orange man’s armor. A growing number of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are announcing they aren’t running for re-election in November. That gives me hope.
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Have no fear! There is room enough for everyone.
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It will be “old home week” down there where all the politicians show up. Imagine having to listen to the orange man whine for all eternity!
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A fitting punishment!
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I agree!
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We need Congress to pass a $300 billion supplemetal to make it bigger.
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