I write southern historical fiction, local history, and I've written a devotional book. The two novels I'm writing are set in Virginia and the Carolinas in the 1760s. My weekly blog started out to follow my journey as a writer and a reader, but in 2025 it has been greatly expanded to include current events and politics in the United States as I see our democracy under attack from within. The political science major in me cannot sit idly by and remain silent.
Non-writers have no idea what those of us who try to write books have to put up with.
Not a week goes by that I don’t receive a phone call from someone with a very heavy accept (and I don’t mean Southern) claiming to represent a production company. Every call – and I have received hundreds of them – claim that a company wants to make a movie out of one of my books.
Sounds like an author’s dream phone call, right?
My first book!
There’s a catch. Every single one of them wants to make a movie out of my book, The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
Does that still sound good?
Not exactly. In case you didn’t know, The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, by Janet Morrison, is a book of vintage postcards.
Just imagine: A full-length feature film showing vintage postcards!
The latest scams
I was contacted several weeks ago by “Robbie who claimed to be representing the “Stimulating Book Club” in Washington, DC. Robbie said they were interested in reading Harrisburg, Did You Know? Cabarrus County History, Book 1 and even referenced several of the topics I wrote about in the book.
Keep in mind that this is a book of local history articles about Harrisburg, North Carolina, some 325 miles south of our nation’s capital.
Harrisburg, Did You Know? Cabarrus History, Book 1, by Janet Morrison
The whole thing sounded fishy to me, but I kept reading the email. “Fishy” turned into “You’ve got to be kidding!” when I got to the part that said I only had to pay them $200 to read my book!
Then, this week “Olivia Scarlett” with “The Vermont Book Club” contacted me. (I know Vermont is a small state, but really?)
Believe it or not, The Vermont Book Club wants to read … wait for it… Harrisburg, Did You Know? Cabarrus County History, Book 1. Just like “Robbie” of Washington, DC fame, “Olivia Scarlett” also referenced some details from my book – details anyone could lift from the book description on Amazon.
What were the odds?
Granted, I have touted my book of local history as perhaps being of interest to people outside of Cabarrus County, North Carolina; however, for book clubs 325 to 750 miles away to suddenly show an interest in it just a couple of weeks apart, using almost identical wording?
I was born at night, but I wasn’t born last night!
The icing on the cake came when Olivia Scarlett of The Vermont Book Club emailed me again on Friday with a “clarification” for purposes of “transparency”. She wanted to clarify that the $150 her book club charges an author is only a “logistics and promotional fee, which helps cover event organization, marketing, reader outreach, and related expenses. We understand if it’s not the right fit for everyone, but we wanted to be transparent about what the fee is used for.”
Funny… In her earlier email, Olivia Scarlett didn’t mention needing any money.
The gig is up, y’all.
When you contact me as one book club wanting $200, but then contact me as a different book club to clarify what you need the $150 for… you have committed a serious scamming error.
I belong to a book club. At our June meeting, I plan to propose that we have a fundraiser: Require authors to pay us $200 or we won’t read their book. I guess we’ll need to elect a treasurer and open a bank account. Things could get complicated.
Janet
Never take your right to read for granted.
You even have the right to read Harrisburg, Did You Know? Cabarrus County History, Book 1 – no matter where you live! After all, as I closed Saturday’s blog post about a D-Day veteran from Harrisburg, “All history is local, but no history is just local.”
Today’s blog post got even longer after the news broke about the removal of 900 scientific deep-sea instruments and Trump’s plans for the Lincoln Memorial.
Pour yourself a glass of sweet tea and settle in for a wild ride.
Golf Resort in Vietnam
Not satisfied just to destroy farmland and forests, etc. and rip people off in the United States, the Trumps are developing a $1.5 billion golf resort in the Hung Yen province in Vietnam.
Besides farmers being forced off their land for very little compensation, they are also having to exhume the bodies of their ancestors and bury them somewhere else.
It seems that Eric Trump is in charge of this project, which he says will be “the envy of all of Asia and of the entire world,” according The Daily Beast, which included a photo of Eric at the indoor ground-breaking ceremony.
Can Gaza be far behind?
Kushner’s Resort in Albania
Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners firm is building a $4 billion luxury resort, including 10,000 hotel rooms in the Vjosa-Narta “protected” coast in southern Albania.
At the mouth of the Vjosa River, the land became a protected national park three years ago. Flamingos, Mediterranean monk seals, loggerhead turtles, 200+ species of birds. Sounds like a beautiful place. No wonder it was given “protected” status.
But blatant corruption is not limited to Washington, DC. The Albanian Parliament conveniently changed the rules just weeks before Kushner submitted his resort plans. Would you believe the rules were changed to only allow five-star resorts? Surely that had nothing to do with Kushner’s father-in-law being the U.S. President.
You can’t make this stuff up!
Thousands of Albanians are protesting in the streets of the capital city of Tirana. They are demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama. Power to the people!
CBS fires Scott Pelley
The Trump Administration did not fire Scott Pelley… directly. However, the current leadership at CBS has cow-towed to the Trump Administration on every turn.
“60 Minutes” was the longest running new magazine on TV. It was a highly-respected broadcast. CBS is destroying it. Bit by bit. Piece by piece. And with it goes a bastion of exceptional investigative journalism.
Long-time CBS journalist and regular “60 Minutes” contributor Scott Pelley dared to stand up to the CEO of CBS on Monday, so he was fired on Tuesday.
CBS fired one of its giants. I hope a more wise and honest television broadcast company will give him a job, if he wants it.
I include this news item in today’s blog because it is one more piece of evidence that Donald Trump’s campaign to rid our nation of truth in journalism and truth in history is trickling down into the corporations that for nearly 100 years stood for integrity. The example he sets as an alleged businessman now stands as the example the wealthy and influential capitalists in our country aspire to emulate.
Seeing the collapse of CBS in real time is sad. It is also infuriating, because it is being done on purpose by either short-sighted or evil people. I don’t know which.
Another thing that infuriates me
This month, the National Science Foundation will begin (or perhaps has begun) to bring up more than 900 deep-sea instruments that track the collapse of climate as we have enjoyed it.
The instruments, placed and monitored by the Ocean Observatories Initiative are off the coast of North Carolina (where the Gulf Stream famously collides with the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean), and off the coasts of Oregon and Alaska. They are also in the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland.
These instruments were collecting and transmitting data in real time about ocean temperatures, carbon absorption, chemicals, and geological and biological conditions.
But the Trump Administration is not interested in people knowing about trends in the climate or the conditions in the world’s oceans. After all, Trump hasn’t figured out yet how to build a money-making resort on the ocean floor.
He isn’t interested in people knowing about hurricanes until they hit. We saw that demonstrated in the Oval Office when Trump took a Sharpie pen and literally thought he could thereby change the path of a hurricane.
Congress tried twice to try to stop Trump from slashing the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s budget by 80%. By ordering the more than 900 climate measuring instruments to be hauled up from the oceans, he is essentially giving Congress the middle finger. Again.
“Threatened” Grizzly Bears are now threatened by U.S. Government
Grizzly bears in the lower 48 states were already officially “threatened,” but that did not satisfy the U.S. Government when it came to the grizzlies living in the Helena – Lewis and Clark National Forest in Montana.
For decades, scientific research has proven that a female grizzly bear needs 2,500 acres of land that is free of roads and other human activity, but the U.S. Government has decided that in order to cut down part of the forest, a female grizzly in the Helena – Lewis and Clark National Forest only needs just one acre.
The 2,500-acre policy still stands elsewhere… for now.
That particular area is crucial to the healthy genetic exchange between the grizzlies in Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park.
Cut down the forest and squeeze a huge grizzly bear onto one acre of land surrounded by logging roads and see what you get. For starters… starving bears run over by logging trucks.
Maybe that’s the goal?
The “Greatest Show on Earth” invitation has a catch
Trump says he loves the military. He says he has done more for the military than any other U.S. President. (He also says he has done more for people of color, Puerto Ricans, children, the elderly, the poor, the middle class….)
He issued an invitation of sorts to our military personnel. He wants hundreds of them to come watch the display of men fighting on the White House grounds on his birthday. They must have a waist to height ratio of .55 or less. They must wear short sleeve dress uniforms. They cannot be stationed in the Washington, DC area, and … there’s just one other thing. They must pay for their own transportation.
Thank you for the invitation, Sir!
Too bad thousands of them were deployed to the War with Iran in March and April and won’t be able to make it to Washington on June 14. Of course, where they are, they’ll probably take a moment to remember that it is Flag Day.
“Rally to End all Rallies!”
I was ready to schedule this blog post last night when I read Trump’s announcement about his celebration of America’s 250th birthday has changed names. It is no longer “The Great American State Fair” or whatever he was calling it a few days ago. It is now, “the Greatest Rally, EVER! It will be special at every level – A Rally to end all Rallies!”
All I can say is, “I hope it is the rally to end all rallies. We don’t need any more Trump rallies.”
Trump said that Christopher Macchio will sing “Ave Maria”. I don’t know what “Ave Maia” has to do with the 4th of July. Am I missing something here?
There is no end to the tacky or the expense
It was revealed on Friday that without going out for competitive bids or getting permission from Congress or anyone, Trump had the two matching bronze statues of horses on either side of the street from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery… you guessed it… painted with 23.75 karat gold leaf. They and two other bronze statues were painted gold by a company in Maryland.
Want to know what we, the American taxpayers paid for this? A mere $5 million.
How does that sit with you?
They look like something one would see in China… or the Land of Oz.
This is the same Administration that created DOGE to rid the government of all waste. That was just a year ago. Thousands of medical and scientific researchers were fired and the USAID program was ended, but I don’t think we were ever told how much waste was identified by the teenagers Trump and Elon Musk hired to do the job.
The price for painting of the bottom of the Reflecting Pool bright blue has increased from $13 million to $20 million.
Even tackier than that…
I didn’t know until yesterday that the tacky arch on the White House lawn over where the big birthday fights are going to be held has a name. It is “The Claw” and it holds the lights so the men can fight all night if they want to, I suppose.
“The Claw” is huge, tacky, and ugly. It dwarfs the White House and makes the place look like a poorly planned amusement park.
It prevents the Marine One helicopter from landing at the White House, which seems like a National Security issue to me. (The President must now be transported via motorcade to and from Andrews Joint Air Force Base for his weekly excursions to play golf.)
Lo and behold, Trump thinks it is so beautiful that maybe it will never be torn down. He even compared it to the Eiffel Tower, saying it was supposed to be there temporarily but the people liked it so much they left it up.
“The Claw,” Mr. President, is no Eifel Tower.
Comparing apples and oranges?
Was I the only one who found it bizarre that Trump displayed a large poster in the Oval Office on Wednesday to show us that the Reflecting Pool is longer than some skyscrapers are tall?
He also said it had never worked since it was built in 1922. Who knew? I’ve seen it several times. I didn’t realize it wasn’t working.
Trump takes aim at Lincoln Memorial
Photo of the Lincoln Memorial, apparently in the pre-Trump days when the reflecting part wasn’t working? (Photo by Andy Feliciotti on Unsplash.)
Yesterday, in addition to claiming to know about numerous times someone attempted to build an arch in Washington, DC, Trump spilled the beans on his latest project: Corrections made to the Lincoln Memorial.
He claimed from the Oval Office yesterday afternoon that the Lincoln Memorial is facing the wrong direction and two streets were built that shouldn’t have been built so he is going to add a promenade to the Lincoln Memorial. He, of course, sneaked in his favorite phrase: “some are even calling it the Trump Promenade.”
At that point I was literally in tears. The Lincoln Memorial is my favorite building in Washington, DC. It is devastating to think of what it will look like when TACO gets through with it.
Will it resemble the current East Wing of the White House? (A big hole in the ground.)
Will it have gold paint poured all over it? (Like the bronze horses at the entrance to Memorial Bridge.)
Will it be 80 stories high? (So it can be a tall as the Reflecting Pool is long.)
Will the exquisite statue of a seated Abraham Lincoln be replace with a triumphal statue to Trump with his fist in the air and that ever-present scowl on his orange face?
Ending this post on three positive notes…
On Friday, a federal judge ordered that Donald J. Trump’s name must be removed from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts because it is a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy!
Trump’s minions have two weeks to remove his name from the building and all signage.
The judge also called a halt to the two-year long “complete rebuilding” of the Kennedy Center that had been announced by Trump after he appointed himself as Director of the Board of the Center. That was set to begin after the 4th of July.
Thank goodness parts of our judicial system are still working for the American people and not for the sitting U.S. President!
That was the best news I’d heard in a long time.
Then, on Monday, June 1, the White House announced that it will abide by the federal court ruling that paused Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund! He’s going to have to find another way to financially compensate his people who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Of course, when asked by CNN’s Caitlin Collins on Wednesday if the fund is dead or just on hold, he said he did not know… he’ll have to ask his lawyers.
Also on Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill (215 to 208) to force Trump to end the war against Iran if he fails to get Congressional approval for the war he threw us into without Congressional approval. Will the Republicans in the Senate have as much courage?
Light at the end of the tunnel? It’s too early to tell whether it is the light of justice on the horizon or an on-coming train. I know one thing: this is exhausting.
Janet
The government should be afraid of its citizens, not the other way around.
Bees and the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
The Trump Administration is closing the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland.
When 1.6 million bee colonies collapsed between June 2024 and March 2025, the scientists working there immediately looked into the situation. In six months, they determined that the cause was a virus spread by pesticide-resistant mites.
Photo by Simon Kadula on Unsplash
Would someone please tell Trump that 80% of the crops in the U.S. are pollinated by bees? Please tell him that food does not originate in the kitchens manned by his chefs. It comes from farms.
This is a man who marveled recently over the “old-fashioned” word “groceries” and didn’t know what a “corner store” was.
The safeguards for our nation’s health are falling like dominoes at Trump’s command. I guess he was serious last week when he said he might run for Prime Minister of Israel when he is through here – I guess when there is nothing left to break or destroy.
And some of y’all thought I was being overly dramatic when I accused Trump of hating nature.
A White House App
Government phones will now have a White House app installed per White House mandate. It includes a feed of the President’s social media posts and a button with a pre-written text message: “Greatest President Ever” to be sent to Trump.
The app reportedly also includes “Stuck in line at La Guardia? Blame a Democrat.”
The Hatch Act of 1939 is not being enforced. Perhaps it will be again after the mid-term elections.
U.S. Government is asking for Volunteers
With fears that the Ebola virus will enter the United States on someone entering the country via one of four major airports, yesterday the government asked for volunteers to screen people.
What could possibly go wrong?
This is what happens when your alleged-businessman President decimates the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health.
Nondisclosure Agreements
The Trump Administration is laying plans for all federal employees to be required to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
Trump claims that his regime is the “most transparent” ever, so what is it that he does not want us to know?
The U.S. Government is not a business. People within the government who work with classified information already know that they are to never disclose state secrets, etc.
Trump wants to silence everyone who works in the government.
This is what you get when you elect a corrupt businessman.
The University of North Carolina (UNC) Board of Governors goes off the rails!
All the crazies aren’t in Washington, DC.
The 24 members of the UNC Board of Governors are appointed by the North Carolina General Assembly (our state legislature).
Peter Hans. the President of the UNC System oversees 16 universities, a specialized high school (The NC School of the Arts), the UNC Healthcare system, and a statewide public TV network.
He has a lot of responsibility and, for all I know, he is doing a fine job.
His annual salary is $600,000. Apparently, Mr. Han is having trouble making ends meet – even as each of the member institutions of higher learning in the system he oversees are constantly having to tighten their belts, layoff underpaid professors, eliminate some vice-chancellor positions, slashing some degree program, and the UNC-TV network is reeling from Trump taking an ax to public TV.
This week, the UNC Board of Governors gave Mr. Han a bonus of $493,500.
I don’t know of any printable words to say to that.
Support animals and HUD
The New York Times obtained a memo sent out by the U.S. Department of Housing and Development’s (HUD) Fair Housing Office last Friday.
HUD will immediately stop recognizing emotional support animals and will tighten its definition of what qualifies as a service animal for disable tenants.
Photo by Jeswin Thomas on Unsplash
The Trump Administration is hard at work protecting the American people… at least, that’s what Trump says.
We have a U.S. President who wants $1.776 billion for a slush fund to reward his minions who attempted a coup for him on January 6, 2021, and he wants $1 billion for a ballroom. He has gotten us into an endless war in Iran.
But the biggest problem we have in America today is apparently too many military veterans with PTSD are living in subsidized housing with a support dog?
Anything to draw our attention away from the Epstein Files.
How does anyone still defend and support this?
The Republican “talking heads” on TV still defend everything Trump says and everything he does.
They laugh when other guests on talk shows express concern over the demolition of the East Wing of the White House, the $1.4 billion ballroom, the 250-foot tall Trump Arch, the $1.775 billion Trump slush fund, Trump’s face to go on the proposed $250 bill – although it is against the law for a living person’s likeness to be put on our currency, his weekly flights on Air Force One to Florida to play golf, his falling asleep regularly during Cabinet meetings, his vulgar mouth, his sweet deal that he and his family are forever immune from Internal Revenue Service audits, his more than 3,700 personal stock trades in the first quarter of 2026, his desecrating the grounds of the White House for pugilists to perform for his birthday, the cementing over of the White House Rose Garden, the tackying-up of the entire White House with gaudy gold doo-dahs, directing his personal law firm (formerly known as the United States Department of Justice) to go after anyone and everyone who has ever hurt his feelings (such as E. Jean Carroll), and his inability to speak in a complete sentence.
I could go on. The things I have listed off the top of my head are the tip of the iceberg.
I feel like we are on a ship of fools heading straight for that iceberg.
It is baffling. I will never understand it. Never.
Janet
The government should be afraid of its citizens, not the other way around.
If you are a woman, you have been subjected to unwanted comments in a work environment and/or in public. You have had a man you did not know press himself up against you in an elevator. You have experienced other unwanted touching by a man.
Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash
If you are a woman of a certain age… say 73 … you have probably experienced a man saying to you in a job interview, “I don’t think a woman can handle this job” even though you held a master’s degree in the field in which you were being interviewed.
Carefully read the words of Project 2025. Look at the policies being pushed by The Heritage Foundation. They are anti-female. In the Trump Era, it is becoming increasingly acceptable for men in high positions or those seeking positions of influence and responsibility to say that they don’t think women should have the right to vote.
Before you cast a vote in November for a U.S. Representative or U.S. Senator… or a Governor… or a city council member… or a county commissioner… or a school board member, find out where they stand on gender equality and racial equality.
Don’t blindly vote for a state’s constitutional amendment or for anyone of any political party without knowing their opinions on these things. Your future and the future of your descendants hang in the balance.
I hate to throw North Carolina under the bus again, but here we go.
Keith Kidwell represents the 79th State House District in eastern North Carolina. He is out to imprison a lot of women in the state.
Kidwell, who will be 65 years old in June, was born in Passaic, New Jersey. (I don’t want North Carolina to take all the blame for his existence.) He has represented the 79th State House District since January 1, 2019
Kidwell is a member of the Oath Keepers. Need I say more?
Even if that’s all you need to know about him, I’m going to tell you more.
He is a health and life insurance salesman. That seems a strange occupation for a member of the Oath Keepers but, for all I know, that’s what they all claim to do for a living. You know… taking care of people.
On May 14, 2026, Kidwell filed House Bill 1232 in Raleigh. It proposes an amendment to the North Carolina Constitution that states that human life begins at the moment of fertilization – and that microscopic embryo is a person under the law.
Anyone doing anything to stop that embryo in its tracks will be charged with murder
It doesn’t stop there.
It goes on to legalize the “use of deadly force” against the woman or the person performing an abortion.
The wording is, “Any person has the right to defend… the life of another person, even by the use of deadly force… from willful destruction by another person. The State has an interest and a duty to defend innocent persons from willful destruction of their lives and to punish those who take the lives of persons, born or unborn, who have not committed any crime punishable by death.”
The bill makes no allowances for rape, incest, ectopic pregnancy, profound deformity of a fetus, or the mother’s age or health. The mother is fair game for anyone who wants to kill her.
Bottom line: The embryo has the right to live, but the mother does not have the right to live. In the split-second of its inception, an embryo has more rights than the woman carrying that embryo, regardless of the circumstances under which that embryo came into existence.
Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash
If this bill is approved, it will be effective as of January 1, 2027, and an amendment to the Constitution of the State of North Carolina will be on the ballot on November 3, 2026.
Kidwell was defeated in the Republican Primary in March; however, he will serve in the North Carolina House of Representatives until his term expires in January 2027.
The State of North Carolina might soon codify that a one-second-old embryo is a person with all the rights of a person. The United States Supreme Court has already ruled that a business is a person.
The people making such laws and rulings apparently only see the world in terms of black or white. It must be nice to not be bothered by any gray areas or “spirit of the law” considerations. Or common sense. Or humanity.
It must be nice to be a defeated old white man in the state legislature proposing laws that have nothing to do with you or your body.
I’m merely advocating for women’s rights. The trend I’m seeing in America in 2025 and 2026 is a serious widespread effort to take our rights away from us. Men don’t seem to understand that women were also made in God’s image, and Jesus Christ never belittled or pushed women and their concerns off into a corner. So don’t start quoting the Bible to me to try to prove me wrong.
It would be helpful for you to read my blog post from yesterday before you read today’s. Here’s the link to yesterday’s post: Public education is still under attack.
November 3, 2026 is Election Day in the United States. Political campaign ads will start any day now. We will be bombarded by hundreds of hours of smear campaigns
Photo by Cyrus Crossan on Unsplash
The GOP reportedly plans to spend $100 million to campaign against former Gov. Roy Cooper in North Carolina as he runs for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Thom Tillis.
I think the right-wing conservatives have taken an ounce of misinformation and grotesquely twisted it to fit their agenda. What we have now are members of Congress making statements and laws denigrating public education. They probably don’t personally know a public-school teacher, a public-school administrator, or a public-school student.
That’s been part of the grand plan ever since the birth of the Tea Party. Day-by-day, these people chisel away at public education. We’ve certainly seen it played out by the North Carolina General Assembly!
I happen to know some public-school teachers. They are too busy trying to teach Johnny and Jane how to read and do basic math to spend time trying to force Johnny to become Jane or Jane to become Johnny.
It doesn’t help when we have a U.S. President who says that you send your son to school in the morning and he comes home that afternoon as a girl.
I know that transgenderism is an issue. I know that there are children and adults who feel trapped in a body with genitalia that does not feel right for them. My heart breaks for them. It has to be miserable to feel like you are not living in your authentic body.
Transgender people do not scare me, but right-wing regular folks and right-wing politicians who hate and fear transgender people do scare me.
As for their fear that a transgender person might enter a public restroom? That does not bother me as much as the time I was in a public women’s restroom when a man walked in and urinated in the sink.
The usage of keywords and catch phrases in campaign material should give you a clue where a candidate stands on a lot of issues.
I believe the Republican Party’s favorite word is indoctrination. Sadly, the “indoctrination” they seem most afraid of is that students might learn to be accepting of others.
They might learn that it is not right to bully others, even though the U.S. President does that daily.
They might learn that each individual should be allowed to aspire to and attain whatever occupation and level of achievement they strive for, even though daily the U.S. President berates journalists – especially those who are female and those who are female and of skin color other than white.
They might learn that girls have an equal opportunity to excel in education even though the U.S. President brags about grabbing women by their genitalia.
Politicians who spend their time worrying about non-existent problems while turning a blind eye to the horrendous corruption of the Trump Administration and its evil actions that cause the deaths of innocent people and animals do scare me.
All this right-wing broken record hoopla is pushed through the use of catch-words like “indoctrination,” “transparency,” and “parental rights.” But those hot-button words are not what’s behind this. They are just convenient ways the right-wing conservatives rely on to get our attention and try to scare us.
It will be tempting to turn off the TV from now until November 3 to avoid hearing the thousands of campaign ads. Don’t rely on what the ads say. Research a candidate’s track record. Look into the things they say when they think the microphones are muted. Look at their voting record if they’ve held public office before.
You owe it to yourself and everyone else living in the United States today and in the future.
Watch for my blog post tomorrow when I will write about a proposed anti-abortion bill under consideration in North Carolina.
Janet
The government should be afraid of its citizens, not the other way around.
With so much chaos being thrown at Americans every day, it is difficult to keep up. I have blogged four times already this week, but there are a few things I failed to mention. In fact, the first one of the items is from three weeks ago.
I started compiling the list for today’s post on Tuesday night. At first, I was going to blog about two items. As usual, though, the fire hose of egregious actions perpetrated by the Trump Regime continued to come at us. The result is seven items.
I could have added more.
White House Records
Every Presidential Administration is required to preserve all correspondence and documents and turn them over to the National Archives at the end of that President’s term.
The Trump Administration can’t be bothered with such evidence, so White House Counsel David Alan Warrington sent out a directive to the White House staff three weeks ago to alert them to major changes.
Those changes were not ordered by Congress or by the National Archives or by the U.S. Supreme Court. That leaves one source: The Trump Administration itself.
Mr. Warrington was quoted as saying the new guidelines are a “significant departure from historical practice.”
Maegan Vazquez of The Washington Post interviewed University of Maryland Professor Jason R. Baron about the policy change. Baron told the newspaper that there was nothing in the memo to prevent “the White House from directing the transfer or destruction of White House records, including tens of millions of e-mails, either before or after the end of the president’s second term in office.”
The article went on to describe the lackadaisical tenor of the memo as it told White House staffers they are “free to retain” previous policy. The article quotes Baron as saying, “The new guidance says such texts must be preserved only ‘when they are the sole record of official decision-making, government action, or contain unique information not available elsewhere. Staffers are ‘encouraged’ to memorialize the information in those exchanges ‘in a more accessible format, such as an email or memorandum,’ … rather than directly taking a screenshot or otherwise sharing the relevant exchange in its entirety.”
With Trump’s track record of the handling of government documents, what could we possibly have to worry about?
UPDATE: Federal Judge John Bates of the DC District Court ruled on May 20, 2026 that the White House must comply with the Presidential Records Act and preserve ALL presidential records. That includes text messages. It remains to be seen if Trump will comply or if there will be consequences if he doesn’t. It also isn’t known how many records have disappeared since Mr. Warrington’s memo was issued in April.
The $1.776 Billion Slush Fund & an Even Sweeter Deal
Surely you heard about it this week, unless you live in a cave.
Trump sues the IRS for $11 million.
Trump withdraws his suit against the government he leads.
The U.S. Department of (In)justice, formerly known as the Department of Justice, sets up a $1,776,000,000 slush fund for anyone who was treated unfairly by the Biden Administration to apply for compensation. This, of course, includes the MAGA rioters who assaulted police officers and trashed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, with the encouragement of Donald Trump.
These are the people who constructed a gallows on the U.S. Capitol property and chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” These are the people who would have killed or severely wounded Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi if they had found her that day.
It wasn’t enough that Trump pardoned them. Now, he wants the American taxpayers to pay them $1.776 Billion for their “suffering.”
This is the same President who promised to bring prices down, promised to end inflation, and said a week or two ago that the United States can’t afford to pay for healthcare or childcare. I guess not. We have too many ballrooms, blue paint, and gold doo-dahs to pay for while giving money to the criminals who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
This week, Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal attorney who is now the acting U.S. Attorney General drew up a sweet deal for not only Trump but his entire family. In a Congressional hearing on Tuesday, Blanche would not rule out a convicted felon being considered for the slush fund. I guess includes President Trump, since he is a convicted felon. Perhaps Trump will get the entire $1.776 billion.
Is the 1776 figure supposed to make us feel patriotic about this ruse?
Two police officers who were assaulted in the attempted coup on January 6, 2021 have filed suit to try to stop this slush fund from being created.
Since Congress holds the federal purse strings (at least on paper/according to the Constitution), we can hope Congress will put a stop to this corruption before it can go forward.
In return for dropping the suit, Trump and his family and any and all of their businesses are immune to Internal Revenue audits. This is from the person who is head of the U.S. Justice Department.
Every single day gets worse.
Come to think of it, Trump never shared any of his tax returns with the public during his first term. He claimed he could not because he was under an IRS audit.
Hmmm… looks like he just lost that excuse, but somehow it won’t matter.
This slush fund for Trump to use to monetarily reward the rioters who trashed the U.S. Capitol, assaulted police officers, and tried to stop a peaceful transfer of power on January 6, 2021 coupled with the Trump family’s virtual “Get out of jail free” card from the IRS is without a doubt the most egregious (even by Trump standards) and blatant act of corruption to ever be perpetrated by a United States President.
And yet… he still has supporters. Go figure!
Trump’s Ballroom
The Republicans in Congress want to set aside $1 billion for Trump’s ballroom, which started out at $200,000 and was going to be completely paid for by Trump’s friends.
A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there… pretty soon we’ll be talking about some real money.
On Tuesday, Trump said the ballroom will have six stories underground. A few seconds later, he said it will have three stories underground.
Either way, I’m sure Putin knows more about it than the American people who are paying for it. Anything the Russians can’t see from their satellites; Trump is bound to tell them. Anything he knows, he announces, and if he doesn’t know it, he just makes it up. He’ll probably give Putin a tour when it’s finished.
Ebola Outbreak in Republic of Congo
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a public health emergency of international concern.
You may recall that Trump pulled the United States out of WHO. He also ended USAID. He also decimated the Centers for Disease Control.
Not only can the United States not help Congo, we don’t have doctors or scientists to officially send there to analyze the current strain of Ebola. It is caused by the Bundibugyo virus. There are no approved drugs or vaccines to fight it.
Famine in much of Africa
Meanwhile, the worst famine in decades is spreading in Africa.
The United States Government won’t be there to offer aid, unless the famine outlasts the Trump Regime.
Cyanide bombs on public lands
The Bureau of Land Management has gone off the rails.
The Biden Administration banned the use of spring-loaded cyanide bombs to kill wildlife on public lands in 2023.
Of course, the Trump Regime has reinstated the practice on 245 million acres of public land. Animals are baited by the scent. When they pull on the scented bait, a sodium cyanide pellet is fired into the animal’s mouth. This results in convulsions, paralysis, and then death.
Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash
It never ceases to baffle me at the joy this administration takes in killing any living thing.
More than 50 family dogs have been killed by these cyanide bombs since 1990. The bombs are an equal-opportunity killing machine. They can’t tell the difference between a coyote, an endangered species, or a child.
Way to go Trump!
Please contact your Representative in the U.S. House and ask them to vote for H.R. 4180 and you U.S. Senator and ask them to vote for S. 2179. Known as Canyon’s Law, passage of the bill would ban the use of M-44 cyanide bombs on public lands.
It is called Canyon’s law for 14-year-old Canyon Mansfield who was sprayed by a cyanide bomb along with his dog in 2017. The dog died, and Canyon was rushed to a hospital and survived. Canyon and his dog had gone for a walk in the hills behind his family’s Idaho home.
Netanyahu – Trump’s puppet
On Wednesday Trump said that Netanyahu “will do whatever I tell him to.” Actually, he said it twice.
Trump also said he has a 99% approval rating in Israel, so he might run for Prime Minister there.
Please! Go!
It seems that our Republic has slid right into a dictatorship. Trump can do anything he wants to do and there is no one to stop him. He promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington, DC, but instead he has widened and deepened it. He has given “political corruption” a whole new meaning.
However, … “We the people….” Election day is November 3, 2026.
We the people can drain the swamp. We the people will drain the swamp. I have to believe that.
Janet
The government should be afraid of its citizens, not the other way around.
Here are a few random things Trump and his administration have going on this week, in case you have turned off the news.
Bison
The Trump Administration wants to move more than 1,000 bison off federally-owned grazing lands in Montana so the land can be sold to individuals. We’ll be lucky if we have 100 acres of federal land left when Trump vacates the White House.
Ballroom
After telling us for more than a year that the $100 million$200 million $400 million ballroom would not cost the American taxpayer one cent (if you don’t count maintenance – which apparently doesn’t count), Trump now has supporters in Congress proposing that we pay $1 billion for it. Don’t forget that Trump sees the White House as his personal property and tore down the East Wing almost overnight without permission from anyone. If I so much as wrote graffiti on a federal government building, I would be fined and imprisoned. Must be nice to be above the law.
“Magic Paint”
President Trump wants to use some selicate-based “magic paint” to brighten up the granite exterior of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, ignoring some experts who have said it might not be compatible with granite.
This may or may not be magic paint. Photo by Taelynn Christopher on Unsplash
The War in Iran
Trump flipflops between saying we won the war, the war is over, the ceasefire is working, the Strait of Hormuz is open, the Strait of Hormuz is closed, the price of gasoline isn’t up, the price of gasoline will plummet when the war is over. (Wait! I thought in March you said it was over.) He even said this week that the war started six weeks ago, although it started ten weeks ago. Perhaps he stopped calling it “an excursion” and started calling it a war six weeks ago. No one knows what he means or what he thinks. He says he’s talking to the leadership in Iran. The Iranian leadership says they haven’t talked to him. When both parties deal regularly in lies, we are left with no one to believe.
Another key problem, in addition to Trump getting us into this war without Congressional approval or a forthright reason for going to war, is that he insists on talking about the ending of the war as “a deal.” Mr. Trump, it takes diplomacy to end wars in which there will be no military victory. That’s what the U.S. Department of State did for almost 250 years. It’s called diplomacy. It’s called negotiations. It is not and has never been called “a deal.” It is not a business transaction. It is international relations. Perhaps you should have stayed out of politics and continued to just try to enter business deals. You obviously don’t know the difference. A few civics and history classes would serve you well.
After weeks of this “excursion,” all we have accomplished is the closing of the Strait of Hormuz and probably gaining more enemies around the world.
Continued Oil Embargo of Cuba
Trump is almost silently enforcing an oil embargo in Cuba. Although he seems to think it will bring the Cuban government to its knees, what it is accomplishing so far is an almost complete lack of electricity on the island nation and $40-a-gallon gasoline. And Americans are complaining about $4.50-a-gallon gasoline. I guess the endgame is to take Cuba in as part of the United States. One must wonder if the Cubans who survive the embargo will desire to become citizens of a country that elected Donald Trump as President … twice.
Children in the Oval Office
This week Trump regaled a group of children with details of the murder of 42,000 protesters in Iran. Seems like unusual behavior for someone who brags about making a perfect score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test three times. Just because he can identify a horse, a tiger, and a duck and draw the face of a clock doesn’t mean he should be turned lose unfiltered to talk to children. He went on to brag that his doctor gives that test for a living and told him that he rarely sees someone ace it.
A note about my Congressman
I occasionally mention my Congressman’s e-newsletters in my blogs. I’m not a fan of his, so I thought it was appropriate that his weekly newsletter last Saturday went to my spam box with a bright red warning: “This message might be dangerous. It contains a suspicious link that was used to steal people’s personal information. Avoid clicking links or replying with personal information.”
You can’t make this stuff up.
Janet
The government should be afraid of its citizens, not the other way around.
I have not blogged this week. I had planned to post on Monday and again on Tuesday, but the topics I had planned seemed frivolous in light of world events.
Photo by Rostislav Uzunov on Unsplash
Here in the United States, we find ourselves in a war no one wanted. We find ourselves with a President and Vice President who have no internal restraint when it comes to saying stupid things.
My last blog post (When the U.S. President has no moral compass on April 8) was written several days before Donald Trump decided to publish an AI-generated image of himself pretending to be Jesus Christ. That was a few days before he criticized Pope Leo for being “weak crime.”
If one needed proof that the totality of what Trump knows about Christianity would fit on the head of a pin with enough room left over for his 90,000-square-foot ballroom, that image should suffice.
That was a few days before he criticized Pope Leo for being “weak crime.”
He is attacks Pope Leo as if the Pope is running for political office against him. He insults Pope Leo as if the Pope is the President, Prime Minister, or Dictator of a country he wants to take over. (Trump, please don’t start calling The Vatican the 51st state! You already have too many countries on that list. You don’t need to start going after city-states.)
That wasn’t enough, though. Vice President J.D. Vance said that Pope Leo needed to be careful what he says about theology and should try to speak the truth… like he (J.D. Vance) does. As if J.D. Vance is a theological authority!
Vance works for a man who sells Bibles that include the U.S. Declaration of Independence, who autographs copies of that Bible, who holds the Bible upside down for photo ops in front of churches he knows nothing about, who tried to quote Second Corinthians but called it “Two Corinthians” and then said lots of people call it that.
In less than a week, the U.S. President and U.S. Vice President have scolded Pope Leo for during exactly what he is called on to do in his role as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
Trump is not a member of any denomination and Vance claims to have converted to Roman Catholicism five years ago.
Trump eventually took down his image pretending to be Jesus. He explained it away with a lie. He claimed he wasn’t portraying Jesus, he was portraying a doctor. If his doctor dresses like that, I think we now have a good idea of why Trump keeps “acing” cognitive tests.
If I opened my eyes and my doctor was dressed like that, I would think I had died and gone to heaven. If he had Trump’s face, I would know I was not in heaven.
Yesterday, Trump poured salt in the wound his Jesus image had among caused among real Christians (and some atheists!) last week by posting a new AI-generated image of Jesus embracing Trump around the shoulders. Trump doesn’t know when or how to stop. His advisors are just as misguided as he is.
That’s all just in less than a week. If you go back eleven days, you have Trump posting “Praise be to Allah” on social media on Easter Sunday. Can you imagine if President Obama had ever done that?
The White House Press Secretary told us yesterday that Trump’s sense of humor is the most underreported thing about him. He thought it was funny to mock a disabled journalist. He thinks it is funny to call people names and mispronounce people’s names. You know… the types of things that are funny to 12-year-old boys. It’s not a sense of humor I want to see in a U.S. President or any 79-year-old man.
Trump told a reporter yesterday, “I hate to be controversial.”
My question: “Since when?”
I wish I could visit the future for just one day so I could read what historians will write about “the golden age of Trump.” No doubt, it will be looked back on as one of the lowest points in the history of the United States. Right down there with the American Civil War, slavery, and the almost 100 years of Jim Crow laws.
Of course, my train of thought is in direct opposition to the Republican who represents me in the U.S. House of Representatives. His newsletter on Saturday stated, “There is no better time to be an American.” I’m not feeling it.
No doubt, future human beings will puzzle over how the American people elected such an incompetent narcissist not once, but twice. They will, no doubt, be baffled that such an incompetent little man could hoodwink half the voters into thinking he was a better candidate than either of the two highly-qualified women he defeated.
I am sure future human beings will wonder how this could have happened, because for the first 65+ years of my life I wondered how Hitler tricked the Germans.
I no longer wonder. I have now witnessed such a massive brainwashing in real time.
Janet
The government should be afraid of its citizens, not the other way around.
Today’s blog post is a continuation of Sunday’s, Various telling things about Trump Administration, (which I meant to schedule for today but hit the “publish” button instead of the “schedule” button my mistake.)
As I said in Sunday’s blog, the nightly TV network news programs cannot cover everything in a half hour. Here are some things you might have missed hearing about.
Columns at what’s left of the White House
President Trump wants Corinthian columns on the new White House ballroom. Rodney Mims Cook, Jr., Trump’s appointee who chairs the Commission of Fine Arts, says there are Corinthian columns at the U.S. Capitol and the U.S. Supreme Court building, so he can’t imagine why the lowly Ionic columns were put on the White House 200 years ago.
The White House, Washington, DC. (Photo by Melo Liu on Unsplash)
Cook says he has not yet discussed with the President that the existing Ionic columns on the North Portico and South Portico of the White House should be replaced with Corinthian columns.
Example of an Ionic column. (Photo by Maik Winnecke on unsplash.com.)
As reported by The Washington Post, “The Corinthian would be inappropriate for the Executive Residence,” said Steven Semes, a professor emeritus of architecture at the University of Notre Dame and an expert in classical architecture, warning that it would ‘harm’ the original design of a building long known as the ‘People’s House.’
Example of a Corinthian column. (Photo by Ruben Hanssen on Unsplash)
“He added that the White House’s Ionic columns evoke ‘the character of dignity, grace and a kind of intimacy or domesticity,’ whereas Corinthian columns are ‘used to express the height of formality and monumentality’ for buildings such as the Capitol.”
The official White House response earlier this week was that there are no plans to replace the Ionic columns at the White House. How many times have we heard the Trump Administration say, “There are no plans,” only to see something like the East Wing of the White House become a pile of rubble?
The truth is not in these people.
Just you wait. We will wake up one morning to see piles of rubble where the Ionic columns now stand. Money is no object to the Trump Administration, unless you want to spend money to benefit human beings.
The wrecking ball being used at the White House is a metaphor for what the Trump Administration has done to our country and everything it stands/stood for.
Shoes
Perhaps the latest fiasco within Trump’s inner circle is that he decided to order wingtip shoes for each of the cabinet members (or, I’m assuming, only the male cabinet members), but he overlooked one detail. Shoe size.
He (or one of his minions) guessed at what shoe size each person needed. It seems that Secretary of State Marco Rubio now must wear shoes several sizes too big. The pictures are laughable, but I doubt Secretary Rubio is laughing as he tries not to walk out of his gigantic shoes.
Do we not have one single department head in the Trump Administration who is brave enough to tell the President that they aren’t going to wear the shoes?
I read that he has also given these shoes to other VIPs and lawmakers he likes. I refuse to say the brand name and give the company any more free publicity.
It’s not enough that his people must mimic Trump’s every word; they must also wear the shoe brand he prefers, no matter what size they are.
It is more than a little jarring to know that in the middle of an illegal war, the U.S. President is thinking about buying shoes for his rich friends.
Has there ever been a more out-of-touch U.S. President?
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Since President Trump put his own name on The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts last year, numerous artists have cancelled their appearances in protest.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC. (Photo by MIKE STOLL on Unsplash)
As a result, Richard Grenell, Trump’s appointed director of the facility, has now lost his job.
Trump could not let us think that the cancellations were a result of his naming the building for himself. It had to be someone else’s fault. It just had to be.
The beautiful, iconic living memorial to President John F. Kennedy will close on July 5 for two years for “renovations” and “upgrades.” I doubt it will resemble its old self when Trump gets through with it.
I choose to remember it the way it was. Trump can put his name all over it in flashing neon lights if he wants to, but it will always be remembered as it was in its original elegant form, and it will NEVER be thought of as “The Trump Center.”
Another baseball cap faux pas
It wasn’t enough that President Trump wore a baseball cap to the Dignified Transfer of the remains of the first five Americans killed in the war in Iran. Even after receiving criticism – or perhaps because he received criticism – for his inappropriate choice of head gear, he then used a photo of himself at the somber event to launch a “pay-to-play” scheme.
It begs the question, “Was the white “USA” baseball cap all part of a grander money-raising plan?”
It is inappropriate and disrespectful to our fallen military personnel and their families to use photographs of one of their flag-draped coffins and his baseball cap adorned head to raise money, and it is beyond the pale that he is using this photograph to offer donors national security briefings.
You didn’t know that? Please keep reading.
The soldiers killed in the first day of Trump’s war were Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa; Capt. Cody Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota; Sgt. 1stt Class Noah Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska; Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien, 45, of Indianola, Iowa; and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, 54, of Spotsylvania, Virginia.
Mr. President, they were human beings. They were part of our all-volunteer armed forces. They volunteered to put their lives on the line from the people of the United States of America. They swore to defend the United States Constitution. Unlike you, they took their pledge seriously.
And now, Mr. President, you use a photograph of yourself in a ridiculous baseball cap along with the top of one of their flag-draped coffins in a pay-to-play scheme.
The request was signed “President Donald J. Trump.” Never Surrender Inc. paid to send it out for him. By paying to play, donors were told they would have “National Security Briefing Membership.”
“’I’m the strong commander who stares down tyrants, obliterates terrorists, and never backs down,’ Trump states in the email. ‘This is for patriots ready to stand with that kind of unbreakable strength. Not for the weak or the wavering.’
“The email promises donors a series of private national security briefings and updates on ‘threats facing America… border invasions, foreign adversaries, deep state sabotage, and every danger the fake news hides.’
“’You’ll get the inside scoop DIRECT from me, President Trump,’ the email continues, ‘the leaders who’s rebuilt the greatest military in history, and put America First like no one else.’”
This scheme goes way beyond being inappropriate. What national security briefing details does Trump and/or Surrender Inc plan to share with donors? This goes beyond stupid and reckless.
Add this scheme to the trash pile of never-ending Trump money-making schemes. We can only hope this scheme fails like many of his other schemes. I mean, you have to be pretty inept to bankrupt a gambling casino, don’t you?
Janet
The government should be afraid of its citizens, not the other way around.
I really try not to write about politics every day on my blog, but there are things happening that do not get coverage on the nightly news programs because there are just too many things for journalists to report on.
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
There’s the war in Iran. There are shootings and terrorist attacks. There’s Punch the monkey and his stuffed animal from IKEA in Tokyo. There’s the Kīlauea volcano blowing its stack in Hawaii. There are the women who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein and his rich friends who apparently are not going to face consequences in the United States like they are in Great Britain.
In a 30-minute news broadcast, minus eight to ten minutes of commercials, a host of happenings fall on the editor’s floor. Today I will touch on a few of those.
Trump’s attitude about the war in Iran
President Trump wants other countries to police the Strait of Hormuz. We’ll see how that goes. He also wants the crews on oil tankers to just be brave and go through the strait. Easy for him to say.
He wants China, France, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and “others” to send warships there to secure the two-mile wide passage. He says things will go “well” with the U.S. coordinating things.
The President said the U.S. may hit Iran’s Kharg Island a few more times “just for fun.” His cavalier attitude over putting American military personnel is harm’s way and spending U.S. tax dollars is deplorable. This is not a video game.
President Trump says he will know when the war is over because he “will feel it in his bones.” He started the war because he “had a feeling.” As a student of history, I don’t recall any other U.S. President approaching a war based on “feelings.”
Can you imagine the misogynistic outcry there would be if a female U.S. President ever said such a thing? She would be the last female U.S. President!
One day he calls the war “a war.” The next day he calls it “an excursion.” The objectives of the war change hourly.
If we get to have a Presidential election in 2028, I hope voters will remember the ramifications when we elect a President who is unable to communicate their objectives or their dependence on facts.
The FCC
After President Trump accused the news media of “intentionally misleading” the public in their coverage of the war in Iran, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr threatened to revoke broadcasters’ licenses.
We’ve heard these threats before from the Trump Administration, as they try to dictate news coverage.
This is an attack on the free press and a major foundation of our nation. Countries like Russia, China, and North Korea have state-controlled television. We cannot allow this to happen in the United States! If you want to watch and listen to state-controlled TV, you can watch Fox News.
Carr warned that a network’s coverage of the war in Iran will be taken into consideration when their broadcast licenses come up for renewal. In a social media post, Carr warned them that they still had a chance to “correct course” and stop broadcasting “fake news” and distortions of the war.
Carr wrote, “The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not.”
He accused broadcast networks of “running hoaxes.”
Carr doubled down on this in an interview with CBS News later on Saturday.
The trouble is that the law is left to interpretation now. Until recently, it was generally agreed that the news media should be free to report facts. Under the Trump Administration, they are being pressured to only report things that put Trump in a good light. This is what they have in autocracies like Russia, China, and North Korea.
Carr has encouraged broadcast networks to air “patriotic pro-America content” this year as we mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. But when a politically-appointed FCC Chair starts to dictate broadcast content, we and the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution are under attack.
When the politician in power gets to decide the definition of “public interest,” freedom of the press is in peril.
We have not heard the last of this. If push comes to shove, I imagine we will see a case going before the U.S. Supreme Court.
I only took one Constitutional Law course in college, so I’m no expert; however, I know under the First Amendment to the Constitution it is illegal for the government to censor free speech.
Print media
The President criticized The Wall Street Journal for reporting last Friday that Iran had damaged five U.S. Air Force tanker planes in Saudi Arabia. It seems he did not want that reported to the public. He insisted that four of those planes had “virtually no damage and are already back in service.”
He is so thin-skinned that he takes honest journalism as a personal affront.
He called The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal “Lowlife ‘Papers’ and accused them of wanting the U.S. to lose the war. He called journalists “sick and demented people.”
Janet
The government should be afraid of its citizens, not the other way around.
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