Will, Thanks for clarifying the devious workings of the demented mind. Trump's supposed mandate has come and gone faster than a spooked rabbit. Or the record, what was said during the campaign was gang members, murderers and rapists. Unfortunately, too many American voters have yet to realize that Trump is all of the above. If anything, crime and corruption have reached epic proportions under this Mussolini impersonator. The sycophants and cowards are enabling a mad man to serve their own personal interests. They have betrayed their country and as such are traitors. When mentioning anyone of them it should be with their well earned moniker, example, the traitor Vance, the traitor Johnson et al.
You know what else he didn't campaign on? Project 2025.
This effort is part and parcel of Project 2025. Fake problems in Blue Districts and send Red State National Guard into Blue Districts to solve the problems that don't exist. Get it comfortable for people to accept it.
Will, you act like this is a line he crossed and it should be "THE LINE" that we all see and revolt against. But, the problem is that he didn't read Project 2025. He didn't come up with all the heinous things embedded in it. He just ran on not wanting to go to jail. That's it.
So, now he has advisors named Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Kash Patel and Tom Homan telling him their ideas. He doesn't care. If he cared, he'd step up to RFK, Jr. and his ridiculous attack on Tylenol. Donald Trump is in office for one thing...money, greed and power.
Every anti-Trump person continues to pick on specific instances where he did something he said he wouldn't like it's the one thing that we all have to pay attention to. But, it's not. He's in it to do whatever he wants. His view is that he is the dictator we elected. He said, "I'll be dictator for a day." But, he never said how long that day was. He never said that he wanted to govern. He just wants to be dictator.
Now, Stephen Miller has been very transparent. He hates minorities. He hates illegal immigrants. He has always wanted to use the military to execute his vision of purifying America into the image he sees fit based on his universal bigotry. And, what Stephen Miller wants to do gets done because Donald Trump doesn't care.
RFK, Jr. wants to ban vaccines. He wants to find the boogeyman under the bed of autism. He wants to make American's more exposed to horrible illnesses. And, Donald Trump doesn't care.
Donald Trump cares about taking money and getting fatter, wealthier and not go to jail. He'll say whatever he is advised to say for issues of domestic abuse and negligence because those causes cost him nothing and make him nothing. So, he defers to the people with their "pet projects" as long as it doesn't get in the way of him finding more ways to rape and pillage the American economy for his own personal gain.
He'll stand in front of a group of generals to try to help Pete Hegseth gain more validity as their boss because it costs him nothing. The Bulwark jokes at how underwhelming Trump was in that setting, but you think it was an event for Trump. No. It was a favor for Hegseth to get credibility.
You think the East Wing of the White House is atrocious because he took a recking ball to it. But, let's see how much money he made off of the bidding process to get the construction started. He wants the American people to build him a monstrosity because that's one of the latest gifts to himself that he wants America to pay for.
The $230 million lawsuit is nothing more than him just trying to find another way for America to pay him gobs of money to exist.
The $40 billion the Treasury Secretary sent to Argentina to bail out his buddy's bad investment? Again, it cost Trump nothing. It's paid for by us. It's a pet project for Bessant.
As Trump resides: What's in it for me? Does it cost me anything to do? If both answers are, "I'll owe you, Mr. President." and "Nothing." Donald Trump tells his minions to just, "You do you."
This is the presidency of Donald Trump 2.0. Rape and pillage the coffers of the American economy for your own benefit and leave the damage for the next guy to clean up...or continue.
The only thing that could lift the curtain to the Wizard is Jeffrey Epstein. Why? I don't know. But, there must be some horrible things in those files against Trump. So, distract and pardon George Santos to get MTG off the scent. Threaten to invade Venezuela and continue bombing tiny boats off the coast. Call the late Charlie Kirk and tell him to stop asking questions. All things that happened to avoid Epstein-gate. So, why? Because he clearly doesn't want any of the information coming out.
Howzabout you start supporting the President in his campaign to make the US great again, instead of finding fault all the time?
You could start by deporting - oh, say third generation immigrants from Germany. Not all of them, obviously, just the ones who commit crimes, like fraud, theft, sexual assault, vindictive trolling of, well anybody, really, offences against National Security - that kind of thing.
If CECOT doesn't do cheeseburgers, I hear that the Russian Federation has vast open spaces crying out for gaudy hotels, bankrupt casino buildings, country clubs in Siberia and the like - seems like a win-win to me...
Does it matter? Trump always bends reality to whatever he wants it to be. He isn't running for re-election. He probably won't even live that long even if he could run. Polls are against him. So what? He doesn't care. He's going to do what he wants until he is stopped by his own party or the 2026 election.
These people have turned me into a patriot. I never considered myself one before, I was neutral about being born here by chance, it didn't seem like a point of pride or anything I should get haughty about. Now that authoritarians are trying to take it from all of us and turn us into West Russia, I realize how much I love my home country and the aspirational values I was taught we stood for. I stood at a protest this past weekend holding up an American flag I bought with my own money. I'm shopping for a bigger one. I've never felt so American in my life.
He is a mentally ill fabulist. Some brave, clearsighted acolyte (close to him) needs to grasp the nettle firmly and invoke the 25th. Also, since this seems unlikely, we all need to continue to go to the protests (4 for me so far) and honor any sort of more total National Civil Uprising that comes our way. This, BTW, leaves us with Vance, not a joy making outcome for me. . . "MAGA is starting to notice." is written above, words to cherish.
I assume the “Black women in MAGA hats” are the same as the “beautiful Black women” who were supposedly begging him to go into Chicago a few months ago? Both figments of his fevered imagination.
Trump claims he has a mandate for the deployments and it was one of the reasons he was elected, and Will observes: "No, it wasn’t. Trump admitted just days ago, twice, that voters didn’t elect him to do what he’s doing to our cities. Now he’s pretending they did. It’s an egregious about-face, even for Trump. He has no mandate, and he has no shame." But two things are true at the same time here: (1) Trump is lying (no surprise there) and (2) a sizeable chunk of the 49.8% of 2024 Trump voters (especially the rural Trump voters) love the deployments because it's yet another opportunity for them (through their hero Trump) to "stick it to the libs" and have them shed lib tears. It may not officially be a "mandate" but no doubt it's a sizable portion of Trump voters. Can we at last stop pretending that there are a reasonable number of Trump voters that are anti-authoritarian and believe in the rule of law (although even the rule of law itself now seems suspect as SCOTUS and federal appeals courts bow to the Mad Orange King)?
A big strong man came up to his computer, tears running down his face and typed, "Sir, federal personnel have no legal basis to enforce state laws. Federal personnel may, only, enforce federal laws. It's called Federalism and it's codified in the Constitution by the 10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Now, I don't like murder or rape or robbers, but states have personnel to enforce their laws and given the balance between freedom and safety, I'm all for leaving it up to the state. What's the GOP talking point; the states are closer to the problem, understand it better and know the will of their citizens.
When I hear the regime talk about protecting me from crime I hear Karoline Leavitt forked tongue darting through the air, "We've planned for your protection because Donald J. Trump loves you. Each and every great patriotic household will soon have their own, in house DJT Protection Officer for your personal safety. Yes, 24/7 customized DHS protection right where it does the most good. You'll no longer need to call 911 because your security is under his loving care right in your very own home. But you say you can't afford to feed and house a custom care officer. No problem! Trump in conjunction with Peter Thiel's Palantir Technologies will install Trumpstapo AI for a small monthly subscription fee, the every room, on all the time, electronic threat detection system."
The cruelty has been around for a decade and somehow not even a year ago more people voted for it than not. Depressing huh... maybe we get what we deserve and in the end it will work out OK. 🤞 that's a big ask huh? Well it's where we are............
There is a decent chance that he does not actually know what the word "mandate" means and therefore misspoke when he made those acknowledgements.
Nice piece, Will!
Trump himself is doing nothing. He is watching TV and playing golf as he sinks rapidly into dementia and congestive heart failure.
And NOBODY elected Stephen Miller, Russell Vought, or Samuel Alito.
Will, Thanks for clarifying the devious workings of the demented mind. Trump's supposed mandate has come and gone faster than a spooked rabbit. Or the record, what was said during the campaign was gang members, murderers and rapists. Unfortunately, too many American voters have yet to realize that Trump is all of the above. If anything, crime and corruption have reached epic proportions under this Mussolini impersonator. The sycophants and cowards are enabling a mad man to serve their own personal interests. They have betrayed their country and as such are traitors. When mentioning anyone of them it should be with their well earned moniker, example, the traitor Vance, the traitor Johnson et al.
Whether a woman, an East Wing, or a city, if you ask permission you risk getting a “no”, so you don’t chance it.
Here's the thing: He didn't campaign on it.
You know what else he didn't campaign on? Project 2025.
This effort is part and parcel of Project 2025. Fake problems in Blue Districts and send Red State National Guard into Blue Districts to solve the problems that don't exist. Get it comfortable for people to accept it.
Will, you act like this is a line he crossed and it should be "THE LINE" that we all see and revolt against. But, the problem is that he didn't read Project 2025. He didn't come up with all the heinous things embedded in it. He just ran on not wanting to go to jail. That's it.
So, now he has advisors named Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Kash Patel and Tom Homan telling him their ideas. He doesn't care. If he cared, he'd step up to RFK, Jr. and his ridiculous attack on Tylenol. Donald Trump is in office for one thing...money, greed and power.
Every anti-Trump person continues to pick on specific instances where he did something he said he wouldn't like it's the one thing that we all have to pay attention to. But, it's not. He's in it to do whatever he wants. His view is that he is the dictator we elected. He said, "I'll be dictator for a day." But, he never said how long that day was. He never said that he wanted to govern. He just wants to be dictator.
Now, Stephen Miller has been very transparent. He hates minorities. He hates illegal immigrants. He has always wanted to use the military to execute his vision of purifying America into the image he sees fit based on his universal bigotry. And, what Stephen Miller wants to do gets done because Donald Trump doesn't care.
RFK, Jr. wants to ban vaccines. He wants to find the boogeyman under the bed of autism. He wants to make American's more exposed to horrible illnesses. And, Donald Trump doesn't care.
Donald Trump cares about taking money and getting fatter, wealthier and not go to jail. He'll say whatever he is advised to say for issues of domestic abuse and negligence because those causes cost him nothing and make him nothing. So, he defers to the people with their "pet projects" as long as it doesn't get in the way of him finding more ways to rape and pillage the American economy for his own personal gain.
He'll stand in front of a group of generals to try to help Pete Hegseth gain more validity as their boss because it costs him nothing. The Bulwark jokes at how underwhelming Trump was in that setting, but you think it was an event for Trump. No. It was a favor for Hegseth to get credibility.
You think the East Wing of the White House is atrocious because he took a recking ball to it. But, let's see how much money he made off of the bidding process to get the construction started. He wants the American people to build him a monstrosity because that's one of the latest gifts to himself that he wants America to pay for.
The $230 million lawsuit is nothing more than him just trying to find another way for America to pay him gobs of money to exist.
The $40 billion the Treasury Secretary sent to Argentina to bail out his buddy's bad investment? Again, it cost Trump nothing. It's paid for by us. It's a pet project for Bessant.
As Trump resides: What's in it for me? Does it cost me anything to do? If both answers are, "I'll owe you, Mr. President." and "Nothing." Donald Trump tells his minions to just, "You do you."
This is the presidency of Donald Trump 2.0. Rape and pillage the coffers of the American economy for your own benefit and leave the damage for the next guy to clean up...or continue.
The only thing that could lift the curtain to the Wizard is Jeffrey Epstein. Why? I don't know. But, there must be some horrible things in those files against Trump. So, distract and pardon George Santos to get MTG off the scent. Threaten to invade Venezuela and continue bombing tiny boats off the coast. Call the late Charlie Kirk and tell him to stop asking questions. All things that happened to avoid Epstein-gate. So, why? Because he clearly doesn't want any of the information coming out.
Howzabout you start supporting the President in his campaign to make the US great again, instead of finding fault all the time?
You could start by deporting - oh, say third generation immigrants from Germany. Not all of them, obviously, just the ones who commit crimes, like fraud, theft, sexual assault, vindictive trolling of, well anybody, really, offences against National Security - that kind of thing.
If CECOT doesn't do cheeseburgers, I hear that the Russian Federation has vast open spaces crying out for gaudy hotels, bankrupt casino buildings, country clubs in Siberia and the like - seems like a win-win to me...
Does it matter? Trump always bends reality to whatever he wants it to be. He isn't running for re-election. He probably won't even live that long even if he could run. Polls are against him. So what? He doesn't care. He's going to do what he wants until he is stopped by his own party or the 2026 election.
We just had an ICE raid in NYC. Very proud to read that the NYPD tweeted that they had nothing to do with it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/nyregion/nyc-raid-canal-st-agents-ice.html
These people have turned me into a patriot. I never considered myself one before, I was neutral about being born here by chance, it didn't seem like a point of pride or anything I should get haughty about. Now that authoritarians are trying to take it from all of us and turn us into West Russia, I realize how much I love my home country and the aspirational values I was taught we stood for. I stood at a protest this past weekend holding up an American flag I bought with my own money. I'm shopping for a bigger one. I've never felt so American in my life.
He is a mentally ill fabulist. Some brave, clearsighted acolyte (close to him) needs to grasp the nettle firmly and invoke the 25th. Also, since this seems unlikely, we all need to continue to go to the protests (4 for me so far) and honor any sort of more total National Civil Uprising that comes our way. This, BTW, leaves us with Vance, not a joy making outcome for me. . . "MAGA is starting to notice." is written above, words to cherish.
Voters won't show up for Vance. Without their orange figurehead, MAGA will splinter as its incompatible wings fight for dominance.
I assume the “Black women in MAGA hats” are the same as the “beautiful Black women” who were supposedly begging him to go into Chicago a few months ago? Both figments of his fevered imagination.
Trump claims he has a mandate for the deployments and it was one of the reasons he was elected, and Will observes: "No, it wasn’t. Trump admitted just days ago, twice, that voters didn’t elect him to do what he’s doing to our cities. Now he’s pretending they did. It’s an egregious about-face, even for Trump. He has no mandate, and he has no shame." But two things are true at the same time here: (1) Trump is lying (no surprise there) and (2) a sizeable chunk of the 49.8% of 2024 Trump voters (especially the rural Trump voters) love the deployments because it's yet another opportunity for them (through their hero Trump) to "stick it to the libs" and have them shed lib tears. It may not officially be a "mandate" but no doubt it's a sizable portion of Trump voters. Can we at last stop pretending that there are a reasonable number of Trump voters that are anti-authoritarian and believe in the rule of law (although even the rule of law itself now seems suspect as SCOTUS and federal appeals courts bow to the Mad Orange King)?
A big strong man came up to his computer, tears running down his face and typed, "Sir, federal personnel have no legal basis to enforce state laws. Federal personnel may, only, enforce federal laws. It's called Federalism and it's codified in the Constitution by the 10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Now, I don't like murder or rape or robbers, but states have personnel to enforce their laws and given the balance between freedom and safety, I'm all for leaving it up to the state. What's the GOP talking point; the states are closer to the problem, understand it better and know the will of their citizens.
When I hear the regime talk about protecting me from crime I hear Karoline Leavitt forked tongue darting through the air, "We've planned for your protection because Donald J. Trump loves you. Each and every great patriotic household will soon have their own, in house DJT Protection Officer for your personal safety. Yes, 24/7 customized DHS protection right where it does the most good. You'll no longer need to call 911 because your security is under his loving care right in your very own home. But you say you can't afford to feed and house a custom care officer. No problem! Trump in conjunction with Peter Thiel's Palantir Technologies will install Trumpstapo AI for a small monthly subscription fee, the every room, on all the time, electronic threat detection system."
Um... have you trademarked "Trumpstapo"? You probably should.
Trump tells a lie.
Dog bites man.
Imagine the mental cruelty it takes to eviscerate USAID and deport people in straight jackets to 3rd world countries.
Imagine the budget Trump has to weaponize ICE.
Imagine the cruelty they have planned for America.
A small silver lining: Trump can’t find enough fit personnel to do his bidding. ICE is way behind on its recruitment goals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/ice-recruits-fitness-test-trump/684625/?gift=CzrCo3qZbra-8o4aTllnJoj-NL7DkksHDo3f6BjhelI
The cruelty has been around for a decade and somehow not even a year ago more people voted for it than not. Depressing huh... maybe we get what we deserve and in the end it will work out OK. 🤞 that's a big ask huh? Well it's where we are............