They have done nothing that I can see in that regard. Petty is as petty does and no I did not leave out an R. For those who insist I use it, here goes:
Trump II is PRETTY Bizarre.
Watch for Trump II to vote by mail yet again while pillorying your right to do same.And everyone was Trump-FU votingCheating faster than lightningIn fact, it was a little bit frighteningBut they did it with expert timing
Trump II could add, "he may not be ethical" or "he may be a criminal, like me." Paxton was charged with securities fraud in 2015 but reached a settlement in 2024 where he performed community service and paid restitution to his victims.
That was not Ken's only brush with financial crime. Texas Attorney General Paxton was turned in by his staff for accepting money (checks) and home renovation services from Nate Paul, an Austin private equity underwriter (PEU).
Last night Trump offered a bounty of $5,000 per adult for electing Ken and other Red Team Congressional candidates such that they retain their majorities in each chamber. That alone sounds unethical and possibly worthy of criminal charges.
His performance based "dividend" would need to be financed and add over $1 trillion to the national debt. That echoes private equity's "liquidity recaps," where an affiliate takes out even more debt in order to pay a huge chunk to the sponsor as a special dividend/distribution.
Trump II and Ken Paxton are the Joe McCarthy (crazed politician) and Roy Cohn (dirty lawyer) of our time. However, the White House is full of similar, unsavory characters.
Corey Lewandowski allegedly approached officials from two Middle Eastern countries seeking work “on the side” while serving as a special government employee — and effective “shadow secretary” of the Department of Homeland Security under Kristi Noem, with massive influence over contracts worth billions, according to a bombshell report in The Wall Street Journal.
Red Team, Red Ink, Red Line, Red Notice....
Sorry PEU boys and your sponsored politicians, my vote is not for sale.
(This is cross posted on PEUReport due to its private equity underwriter connections)
Oil took a heavy handed hit that was a blatant price manipulation with the primary effect of enabling traders connected to Bessent and Trump to make easy illicit profits.For a man to profit by use of insider information, he must have two things. Access to that insider information and a deficient ethical framework that allows him to trade accordingly. Don Tzu has both.
Many call those poor poll numbers feedback on Trump II's job performance. Donald Trump proved long ago that he is refractory to feedback (as well as ethical standards regarding conflict of interest and legal limitations).
Trump delivered the line he would never say without coaching
"They’re called 'Demoralization Operations,' where they try to demoralize Republicans so that they don’t go out and vote — But the actual Polls are tremendous, and the Spirit in our Country has never been higher."
The Art of the One Sided, Unreasonable Decree author is coming off the implosion of his Canada trade deal and the failure of his War of Choice with Iran to achieve any of his ever shifting objectives.
Trump knows how to crap up a relationship. That's because he never is in one. Trump II is the demand maker, requires absolute loyalty and doles out of trinkets for those who comply.
He cares not, he cares little, he cares not, he cares little.....
Trump II, the Great Wizard, introduced the Donnie-pop Guild. His version is more male focused and stresses gold coins and sharpie pens.
Both guilds rely heavily on suckers.
A magical thing occurred around a picture of Trump II with golf legend Gary Player. After the original was published a second image removed Trump's flab and inserted a TRUMP logo on the shirt. Rather than regular sunlight the alteration has a significant gold hue.
One could call it AI. I'd rather call it irreality. It's like the real thing got severely irradiated.
"I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America" he said, adding: "It's like everybody that's arrested is an MS-13 gang member, and it hurts a lot more than it looks like on television."
Add how institutionalized is the surveillance to brutality.
Yada, yada, yada.....therefore I deserve another term.
Stick a sock in it old man.
Update 7-17-26: Jesse wrote:
The war in the Mideast is not going to plan. It never did, despite the bluster and bravado of the Pirates of Perfidy.
We seem to be heading into a very difficult situation, made significantly worse by official corruption, theft and increasingly clumsy deception.
This too shall pass, but not easily.
Update 7-19-26: Former Trump I White House lawyers Ty Cobb joined in on the baby analogy with:
Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb compared President Trump to a toddler whining about losing a toy, arguing the president’s election fraud claims are rooted in his refusal to accept his 2020 defeat.
“You know, I think it’s important that people tonight, as they look at the podium surrounding the president, they should really look at it as a crib,” said Cobb, who served in Trump’s first administration, adding that the president is a “a 2-year-old who lost his toy.”
Did Trump II or his family front-run any of this? How about key members of his administration or their family members? Kushner, Witkoff, Lutnick?
The next NATO Summit will be held in Albania, the site of massive protests over Jared & Ivanka Kushner's luxury development in the midst of a wildlife preserve dear to many Albanians.
This smells like the reason Trump ended on "unification." Pushing the family book once again....
Update 7-10-26: I tired of writing my Congressman on Trump II's savage whims and his wild swings. Peter Atwater summed it up.
Today, the greatest power in America rests with those whose strident tone is now paired with absolute ridiculousness. Put simply, what is now on offer is truly beyond belief. Moreover, it is in everything that matters: American culture, politics, and finance. Our Attention Economy has been taken to its extreme. People are shouting nonsense and no one even blinks.
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t nonsense. Think Adam Neumann, Trevor Milton, Sam Bankman-Fried. Their stories were always nonsense. And the same was true of Michael Saylor. Circus barkers always yell whatever they have to draw a crowd. When the goal is attention – especially when paired with the loyalty, money, and power that now comes with it – truthfulness doesn’t enter the equation.
Without truth, it's insanity or in the case of Trump II, irreality.
Patriot Front is a white nationalist and fascist organization that promotes the idea of a homogenous, white ethnostate in the United States. The group advocates for the preservation of white European culture, viewing multiculturalism, immigration, and diversity as existential threats to its vision of America. Patriot Front also frequently promotes the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which claims the existence of an organized effort to replace “native” white Americans with non-white immigrants. Ultimately, Patriot Front seeks to dismantle the current political system, which it perceives as corrupt and dominated by globalist interests, replacing it with one aligned with its far-right, ultranationalist ideals.Trump II called off law enforcement/homeland security, preventing them from monitoring such groups.
War, what is it good for?
Insider profits.
On a night when he could’ve been dealing with far more pressing issues – soaring living costs, war with Iran, a global economy under strain – Trump flew to New York expressly to watch the Knicks play host to their first NBA finals game.
The common folks were not taken with Trump II given the rounds of boos he received.
With Trump were family and White House staff (USA Today):
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, EP Administrator Lee Zeldin, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Trump's granddaughter, Kai Trump. Also in the suite was Envoy Steve Witkoff, Director of White House Oval Office operations Walt Nauta, long-time Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn, and executive assistant to the president Natalie Harp.
CNN reported that his son-in-law Jared Kuschner was also in the suite.
Witkoff and Kushner enjoyed the game vs. negotiating a peace deal with Iran. The pair served as decoys for Trump II's February attack on Iran in conjunction with Israel.
The Trump administration is pursuing a plan to “use Iranian assets to help U.S. Gulf allies recover from damage caused by Tehran’s regime during the Iran war.”
Did they come up with Trump's latest diplomatic insult within his ceaseless war?
The move to divert Iran’s frozen assets to other nations highlights the acute conflict of interest between Kushner’s dual role as a top negotiator for the Trump administration and the private equity manager of $6.2 billion in funds from foreign governments. Many of the potential top recipients of frozen Iranian assets — including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar — are also Kushner’s top investors at his private equity firm, Affinity Partners.Apparently there are lots of funds in the federal government that Trump II can steer to family/friends.
As a White House special employee Jared has gotten a free pass on filing his financial disclosure form under his father-in-law.
As for the Madison Square Garden booing I expect Trump II to lie and retaliate in a significant way. Those are his gut level reflexes of which he is most prodigious.
New York's unfavorite son returned and Trump II will soon deliver "a full load of me." Time will reveal both the form and level of mendacity.