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.

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.