The chronicles of the Donald

The Trump administration deported two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants who had not been given a hearing, potentially in defiance of a federal judge’s orders. The planes unloaded them in El Salvador, whose President Nabib Bukele, is lobbying the Trump administration to pay his country to hold American prisoners. Bukele mocked the American judge on Twitter saying, “Oopsie… too late.” First of all, we’re not sure if they are all Venezuelans. Rumors have it that the group included hundreds of employees of the Department of Education, Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who prosecuted Trump, and the President of Columbia University. Trump responded, “They are all hardened criminals, okay? They are very bad people. They are terrible people. They’ve done nasty things to me. No one is going to miss them.”

The Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, John Roberts, issued a rare public statement after Trump called for the impeachment of the federal judge who tried to halt the deportation flights. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose,” Roberts said in the statement. Trump shot back on Truth Social, his social media platform, “Elon thinks we should impeach Roberts first. I might be okay with that as long as he keeps writing a hundred million dollar check every month.”

Israel’s military broke its ceasefire with Hamas this week, launching airstrikes in what became one of the deadliest days of the war in Gaza. The truce lasted a mere eight weeks and largely held only because the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, was distracted by a kidney stone. Netanyahu has vowed to drive out all Gazans out of Gaza, even if it meant wiping out half the population in the process. Last week, he implored the global community to not term this a genocide. “It’s wrong to call this a genocide because we asked them very nicely to leave, at first.”

During phone calls with Trump, the leaders of both Ukraine and Russia agreed to temporarily halt strikes on their respective energy infrastructures. They agreed to a 30-day pause in attacks on energy targets so “we can all charge our cell phones.” Speaking to reporters, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy alleged that the US Vice President, JD Vance, was sending him texts from a burner phone pretending to be furniture salesman. “I get up in the morning and I have a hundred messages asking me buy couches, and I can’t help think this must be JD,” rued Zelenskyy.

A federal judge in Maryland ruled this week that Elon Musk’s efforts to dissolve USAID were likely to be unconstitutional. The ruling was based on the finding that Elon Musk, who is leading efforts to downsize the federal work force, had acted as a US officer without having been properly appointed to that role by President Trump. This marks the first time a federal judge has acted to restrain Musk. Elon responded, “The judge seems to have this the other way around. I appointed Trump and not the other way around. One more impeachment incoming.”

The US government released 64,000 documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The documents appear to reveal many tangentially related or unrelated things such as the interception of Cuban military messages during the Cuban missile crisis, social security numbers of congressional staff members, covert operations in Greece, Finland, Brazil and Cyprus, as well as the secret presence of CIA agents in US embassies. What they do not reveal is any clear evidence of a second gunman in the President’s assassination. Speaking to reporters on the White House lawn, Trump said, “The second gunman was Ted Cruz’s dad. Everyone knows this.”

Harvard University announced this week that it would make tuition free for students from families with an annual income of $200,000 or less. Less than five percent of applicants who apply to Harvard get in. The other 95% of Americans were busy checking their Insta, and unavailable for comment. A small group of Asian students at Harvard whose parents make exactly $201,000 a year have formed a sub-reddit group and now plan to sue the university for discrimination.

Two American astronauts, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, splashed down on Tuesday, ending a nine-month trip to space that was supposed to last eight days. They originally blasted off on a test flight of the Starliner, a Boeing spacecraft meant to provide NASA with an alternative to Space X. But the Starliner experienced problems with its propulsion system, and NASA sent it back to Earth with no crew. The astronauts returned on Space X’s Crew Dragon capsule. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump mused from behind the Resolute Desk, “Have you seen that woman’s hair? It’s wild. It’s everywhere. Wild hair. She’s not playing any games with her hair, I tell you.” (Note: This is not a parody. This is actually what Trump said).

The NCAA men’s and women’s college basketball tournaments began last week. There are 64 teams in all. The odds of picking every result correctly in a betting pool are 9.5 quintillion to one. Just you know, a thousand billion is a trillion. A thousand trillion is a quadrillion, and a thousand quadrillion is a quintillion. The odds are staggeringly low that you can predict of all the matches correctly, but they are slightly higher than the chances of Howard Lutnick, the US Commerce Secretary, making any sense whenever he opens his mouth.

Robert F Kennedy Jr, Secretary of Health and Human Resources, announced that his team was working on a program that “would allow Americans to perform their own surgeries in the safety of their homes.”

In other news,

Forever 21, a favorite mall destination for young people, filed for bankruptcy. Their CEO rued, “It’s hard to sell to people who don’t have money.”

Klarna, a Swedish fintech company, and DoorDash, a food delivery company (think Swiggy), are joining forces to offer customers the option to buy food now and pay later. Let me say that slowly. They are offering to loan money to buy six-dollar Burger King whoppers and four-dollar tacos. Back in the day, when people borrowed money to buy food, we called them poor and no one would lend them money. My take? I think the Klarna and DoorDash guys should get on a call with the Forever 21 folks. I don’t know, man. The Federal Reserve Chairman, Jay Powell, said earlier this week that the fundamentals of the economy were “in strong shape.” I’m not sure anymore. If someone sees a market need to lend people money to buy food, something is seriously off.

That’s all, folks. There’s room this week for a serious note. Maybe I’ll write one later mid-week. Have a great weekend!

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After weeks of decline, the S&P 500 index entered correction territory last Thursday, which is defined as a drop of ten percent or more from its all time high. Responding to reporters on the White House lawn, President Trump said, “It’s not that big a deal. Most Americans don’t have much money anyway. They’re not going to notice anything. Also, the fake news media is publishing these stock market charts upside down. It’s terrible. Just turn the fake news chart the other way and it looks beautiful.”

Federal agents moved to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist, born in a Syrian refugee camp, with Algerian citizenship and a US green card. Khalil entered the US in 2022 on a student visa to attend the School of International Affairs at Columbia University. In 2023, he married Noor Abdalla after a 7-year long distance relationship, which paved the way for him to receive a green card and permanent residency. Khalil is accused by the US State Department of acting in ways that are detrimental to US foreign policy interests. Speaking to reporters, Secretary of State Marco Rubio also accused Khalil of playing fast and loose with trial accounts. “We have uncovered evidence that shows that Khalil has created hundreds of Gmail accounts and used them to sign up for free trials from Spotify, Netflix, Paramount+ and Peacock, and then cancel them when the free trial period ended. We’ve got 46 complaints from Youtube TV alone about Khalil in the last year. This cannot be allowed to stand. He needs to go.”

Ukraine and US officials negotiating in Saudi Arabia agreed to a 30-day cease fire with Russia. Ukraine agreed to the US proposal to cease land and air hostilities against the Russians until they are able to catch their breath, recruit new soldiers, and regroup for a new bout of vigorous fighting. Reports say that Volodymir Zelenskky, the President of Ukraine, has politely rebuffed a US proposal for him to relocate to Belarus for a month where he would be hosted by KGB agents in a tall building with lots of windows.

Canada’s Liberal Party chose a new leader, Mark Carney, giving the country a new Prime Minister. Political pundits have lauded the development saying, “His name is not Trudeau, and that is all Canada needs in this moment.”

In his latest round of mayhem, President Trump signed an executive order to gut the Education Department by laying off more than 1,300 workers on Friday. President Trump remarked, “I don’t think anyone is going to miss them. Frankly, I think they colluded with the CIA to assassinate JFK. Think about it. JFK might have been alive today if we had not had an Education department. He would be 108 years old but he would be alive.” Trump also signed executive orders to allow Robert Kennedy Jr to gut dead bears and beached whales with a chain saw without fear of recrimination or public shaming.

Last week, Trump hosted a news conference in front of the White House that was, in essence, a car-show to promote the sales of Tesla cars. “I have no idea how to drive a car. I’m not allowed to drive cars. That is a good thing, trust me. I am allowed to be the President with my fingers on the nuclear button, but I am not allowed to drive cars. It’s very strange but true. Very strange. But I’m going to buy this car, and Zelenskyy has agreed to drive me around for 30 days during the cease fire.”

In other news,

Lady Gaga released a new studio album titled “Mayhem.” Seems appropriately named, given what’s going on today, isn’t it?

Taylor Swift is rumored to have hired McKinsey and Company to advise her on executing a peaceful and orderly break up with Travis Kelce, her boyfriend and tight end for Kansas City Chiefs, after their Super Bowl loss. Speaking on a condition of anonymity, a McKinsey partner revealed that “Tay Tay has accumulated enough material to write a dozen songs about Kelce in an unflattering light. The situation has become untenable now that she wants to release the album. This project is now top priority for us, above the Greenland and Canada annexations that until recently were our top projects.”

On a somewhat serious note: Emojis are creating havoc

There is a lot going on these days. You’d be surprised to hear that the use of emojis has been creating quite the ruckus in social networks these days. Emojis have been with us for decades now. They were initially born out of necessity. NTT DoCoMo in Japan introduced “pictograms” to help users of their pager service to get around character limitations in messages. Since then, emojis have grown to become a global phenomenon and a universal language, transcending language barriers. They are a testament to the power of visual communication and the creative spirit of digital culture.

They are also causing a good deal of consternation in certain quarters. Increasing numbers of social media users are exploding in anger daily over what they deem inappropriate or insulting uses of emojis. What used to be seen as a fun and innocent way to communicate could now carry huge personal safety and legal risks. In the last decade, courts have been increasingly accepting of emojis as evidence in civil and criminal cases.

In 2017, the Supreme Court of Queensland ruled that an unsent text message on a mobile phone acted as a valid will. The text message contained a smiley face which convinced the judge that the deceased had indeed authored his will out of full consent. In 2020, a high profile lawyer sued a colleague for defamation for the use of the “zipper-mouth-face” emoji. The judge ruled in favor of the plaintiff saying that the meaning of zipper-mouth-face is ”a secret” or “stop talking,” and the plaintiff had been the subject of “an adverse result” from its use.

There is a lot of potential for miscommunication and misunderstandings these days. People are revved up and on the edge. They have chosen their teams and keenly parse social media for allies and enemies. They are easily insulted these days, less likely to forgive and even less likely to apologize for the simplest of mistakes. Everyone is doubling down. Emojis are adding to this environment of distrust and antagonism, not helping alleviate it. You can use a smiley face to be sarcastic or you can use it to be friendly. To complicate matters, social media platforms each use their own versions of emojis. A laugh-out-loud face on Twitter is not the same as on WhatsApp and could potentially convey different intents and energies. When someone sends an emoji that is a water pistol, is that a threat or is it just a joke?

Let this be a warning to you before you send me that thumbs down to this.

Have a great week ahead. Cheerio!

It’s us.

The stock market has crashed, and experts are describing this as the classic rotation into poverty. At least everything is more expensive, services are getting crappier, and more people are getting measles. To be fair to Trump, his administration is finally delivering the reductions in air traffic controllers and National Park rangers that we have all been clamoring for.

Per Trump, the people have been allegedly begging for the elimination of Daylight Savings Time, the ritual of setting clocks forwards or backwards that happens twice a year in America. Commenting on the issue, Trump told reporters, “This is one of the great divisive issues of our time. Elon’s Twitter polls show a 50/50 split between those want it gone and those who don’t. Some people don’t want to take their children to the school in the dark. Other people like to drop their children off under the cover of darkness. Don’t ask me why. Maybe they are ugly people. Who the hell knows. And, you have people like Elon who use their children as human shields whenever they’re out and about. It’s hard for me to get excited about any of this. Maybe I’ll force the Canadians to stop adjusting their clocks and see what happens.”

With everything going on, I don’t want to add to your worries, but Trump just announced that he has asked Elon “to work with a scalpel instead of a hatchet.” I don’t know about you but this is giving Hannibal Lecter vibes bigly.

Have you noticed?

Have you noticed that ChatGPT is only about 40% right about the things you already know, but is 100% right about the things you don’t know?

Have you noticed the MAGA white supremacists? They are all uniformly UGLY, like something the cat dragged in. To the white supremacy guys, I say, stop and think about it. If you want to push the supremacy of white men, you should consider getting George Clooney or Tom Cruise to join the ranks. Not a single person is buying your story at this point.

In other news:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly run up a five-million-dollar bill at a DC area restaurant after wrongly assuming that the cocktails were complimentary.

A Secret Service agent is being lauded for heroically throwing himself in the way and saving President Trump from being embraced by Marjorie Taylor Greene after his State of the Union speech.

New studies show that by replacing your daily cup of coffee with a cup of green tea, you can lose up to 92% of whatever little joy you have in your sorry little life.

On a serious note-

A lot has been said about the polarization in America. That the country has divided itself into two, the right and the left, and has stopped talking to each other. Blah blah blah and so on.

At some level, I can understand people on opposing teams not wanting to talk to each other. I am not saying that it’s correct, but I can see why that might happen. But what I cannot understand is how people on the SAME team are not letting each other speak. The entirety of the Republican party has silenced themselves for fear of offending the Emperor. There is practically no debate among the Republicans. Trump has steamrolled everyone into submission. There is no dissent allowed. Game over.

It’s a little different on the left. The Democrats are leaderless and yet there seems to be an equally insidious group think at work. Take the example of a recent bill introduced by the Republicans in the Senate seeking to block the participation of transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports. All 45 Democratic Senators voted against the measure, which over 78% of Americans would like to see happen. Without even getting into the merits of the bill, are you telling me that there is not even a single Democratic Senator who is willing to break ranks and vote with the Republicans on this? Seriously? What are they afraid of?

California Governor Gavin Newsom broke ranks earlier this week and spoke out on the “deep unfairness” of allowing athletes who were born biologically male to participate in women’s sports. He caught flak immediately from his own party.

This is exactly the type of zombie-sheep-like culture that led to Nazism in Germany and Fascism in Italy. Forget Trump and his dictatorial bent. The Democrats and democratic voters need to first unshackle themselves from their self-imposed tyranny before they can even begin to resist Trump.

The younger folks especially need to understand this. We are all supposed to be on the same team. If we are not allowed talk to each other and say things, there is really nothing else to talk about. I am not saying that we abandon our ideals. Yes, we must ensure transgender, gay and other minority groups don’t face victimization and bullying. But there is a line somewhere along this path of ideals that we must not cross. At the least, we must learn to respect those who choose to not cross that line even if we choose to.

There is no such thing as a perfect union. Harmony is a mirage. We are not soul mates looking to get married to each other. We are not in some race to find out who amongst us the most virtuous of all. We are just trying to build a better community, society and nation. We must learn to take the good with the bad. We need to roll with the punches. We need to cut each other some slack. This is what friends do for each other. If we can’t stay friends with each other, who needs enemies? Right?

Stay cool. Stay chill. Happy weekend!

The reign of the Mad King has begun

I don’t know if you have been reading the news lately. It has been depressing, I must admit. How does one get over Timothy Chalamet losing out on the Best Actor prize at the Oscars for his portrayal of Bob Dylan. Timmy spent the last five years on learning to play the guitar, and mumbling like Dylan. He even sang forty of Dylan’s songs and wore a yellow suit to the Oscars. What more is a lad to do?

If that wasn’t bad, last week, a foreigner marched insolently into the Oval Office, dressed in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions and billions in dollars from the US government, and demanded that American taxpayers keep paying more and more in billions and subsidizing him for decades to come. Well, enough about Elon Musk.

I really don’t know how we went from Brat Summer to Nazi Winter, but to those who voted for Trump because “he is not a politician,” I hope your next colonoscopy is done by the neighborhood plumber.

Last week, Robert Kennedy Jr, the guy in charge of our Health, responded to a measles outbreak in Texas by asking mothers to let their babies to inhale exhaust fumes from cars as an antidote. RFK Jr also said that he is working on making asbestos great again.

There is a man in America named Pete Hegseth. He used to be a weekend talk show host on Fox News. He has a habit of drinking so much that he throws up every time he drinks. He once tried to kill his ex-wife by choking her. His ex-wife denied accusations of physical abuse in the marriage by saying, “Can you guys please let it go? I don’t feel like being strangulated again.” It feels like Pete has already unlocked several achievement levels in one lifetime. He is now America’s defense secretary. He fired the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a black man, and the head of the US Navy, a woman, all within a week of taking office.

You’ve all seen videos of robots from companies like Boston Dynamics that can dance and perform acrobatics. Now, the robotics industry is promising to develop two legged humanoid robots that will be intelligent and help with day to day tasks like doing the laundry and fetching groceries from cars. Marc Raibert, the CEO of Boston Dynamics, added, “Yes, we’re developing exciting new humanoid robots, but first, we are working on trying to get Elon Musk to walk normally and more confidently.”

The sexual tension between tech billionaires, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, reached a new high with Musk filing a lawsuit and asking a California judge to stop Altman from converting his company, OpenAI, into a for-profit enterprise. The judge struck down the case, asking Musk and Altman “to get a room and sort this out.”

Last night, Trump delivered the State of the Union speech to the US Congress. It’s a tradition for American presidents to let the Congress know what their vision is and how the country is doing. Trump decided to use his speech instead to let the American people know what he thought of himself. “Many say I am better than George Washington. Some say he is better than me. I don’t know. I think I am better.” There is yet another George that comes to mind. Mad King George.

In the speech, Trump assailed his predecessor Biden (“the worst President ever”) and hailed his own “America First” agenda as a game changer for the country. He announced that wokeism was dead and promised a return to “common sense.” Trump announced that the US government would set up a “Strategic Reserve” funded with billions of taxpayer dollars, which would be used to buy cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ether, Ripple, Solana and Cardano. He also directed the guys in charge of the reserve to buy large quantities of Superman comics, Pokémon cards, Barbie dolls and Pez dispensers with rare action figures. I don’t know about you, but I have a bad feeling about the return to “common sense.”

In his speech, Trump did NOT touch on his campaign promises to bring inflation and prices down, to end the war in Ukraine “within 24 hours of becoming President,” and to provide a lasting solution to illegal immigration. Instead, he praised Elon Musk (“he doesn’t have to do this, you know”), and claimed there were millions of dead people in the social security database who were over 150 years of age to whom 500 billion dollars of money was being sent every year. He also said that the nadir of Western Civilization was reached at 4:23PM on a Saturday sometime last July during Biden’s term.

Trump touted tariffs as “fair” and that they would “make America rich again.” Trump announced confidently, “We’re going to do a lot of tariffs. What a beautiful word. Tariffs. I love saying tariffs. Tariffs. We’re gonna do a lot of tariffs. There are over 200 countries in the world. Imagine how many tariffs we could do. I think we’re gonna make a lot of money. Tariffs. A lotta money. The stock markets are going to go so high you’re not gonna believe it. The only thing I can think of that will be higher than the stock markets is Elon Musk.”

That’s all, folks. Have a great week ahead!

Trump 2.0

What a year this last week has been!

Right after he was sworn into office, Donald Trump signed a series of sweeping Executive Orders, which promise to disrupt and shake up status quo in Washington DC. Trump vowed that he would leave no stone un-thrown in his quest to rid the nation’s institutions of “parasites and leeches that have been preying on us.” Rumor has it, one of Trump’s executive orders allows the US Government to pay him fifty billion dollars in exchange for resigning from the Presidency if he ever chooses to. “It’s a great deal that I negotiated myself, with myself, for myself,” said Trump.

Trump also announced tariffs against America’s biggest trading partners – Mexico, Canada and China. And he withdrew them within a few hours taking members of his own administration by surprise. Speaking to reporters, VP JD Vance said, “I stand by everything President Trump does, even though I haven’t the faintest idea what he will do next. This also confirms my suspicions that there is a group chat between the President and Elon Musk and some others that I am not part of.”

Trump blamed the recent tragedy in Washington DC in which an army helicopter crashed into a commercial plane killing 64 civilians on diversity and inclusion initiatives of the Biden administration. “Black and brown women shouldn’t be allowed to drive even cars, let alone aircraft. They’re crashing too many things,” said the President. Later in a meeting with the families of victims, he assured them he was doing everything within his means to bring back segregated neighborhoods and ensure an endless free supply of hoods to Klansmen.

In the meanwhile, Elon Musk has been on a cocaine fueled rampage in Washington DC, shutting down entire government departments and putting workers out of jobs over the weekend. The actions of Elon, a private citizen and an unelected official with seemingly unlimited powers to reshape the government spending, has raised alarm levels around the country. However, the Hitler Center for Democratic studies, a think tank based in DC issued a statement earlier this week assuring Americans that “this is all legal and quite normal.”

The Democratic leadership has been conspicuously absent from the national conversation in the last several weeks. David Axelrod, a Democratic strategist and former Obama campaign manager, issued a statement on behalf of the party saying, “As you might be aware, all is not well between Michele and Barack. All the resources of our party have been diverted now towards a peaceful resolution of the greatest crisis of our times. We request Americans to respect our privacy while we withdraw from public life to spend more time talking to Jennifer Aniston about this. In the meanwhile, we urge everyone to read Nancy Pelosi’s Substack on how to make money off insider trading.” President Biden could not be reached for comment. Rumor has it he suffered a mishap over the weekend when he inserted his hand into a fruit blender.

On a serious note:

You can easily describe Trump as a narcissistic maniac only out to punish those who have slighted him. You wouldn’t be wrong. But that would not be the entire picture. I think we are seeing another side of Trump that we did not see in his first term. He appears to be displaying a far greater conviction in his ideas, and a greater resolve to solving the biggest problems of our time. And he doesn’t care how he solves them. He has already admitted that Americans will have to endure some pain to reshape the country.

He has authorized Elon Musk to cut a trillion dollars from the Federal Government budget. This is NOT a crazy idea by any stretch of imagination. The US government today spends about 7 trillion dollars a year. Not too long back, in 2019, we were spending about 4.5 trillion. I’d say cutting a trillion dollars is not aggressive enough. Maybe two trillion is the right target. Let’s get it back to 2019 levels.

He ordered tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China. While economists and academics are wringing their hands over the economic implications of trade wars and such, Trump is focused on entirely something else: the influx of fentanyl into America. The drugs are manufactured in China, smuggled through Mexico and the money is laundered through Canadian banks. Last year alone, 400,000 Americans died from fentanyl overdose. The Biden administration sat for four years on their hands on this issue. Trump is vowing to bring these three countries to heel. Will this work? I don’t know. But I do know that sitting on my hands has never worked. When Trump calls for Canada to become the 51st state of the US, what he means is “Your laws and your enforcement are not working for us on the drugs issue. If you don’t do the right thing, I’ll force you to become a part of my country and enforce my laws on you.”

Today, he called for America to take over Gaza. The thing I’ve noticed about Trump is he gets the timing impeccably right on his zany ideas. Americans taking over Gaza, developing it into an economic center, and then presumably handing it over to Israel is about as crazy an idea as it gets. It wouldn’t have been met well even 4 or 8 years ago. Previous American presidents spent all their time getting Israelis and Palestinians merely to talk. A photo of the two shaking hands was the prize. No one ever tried to solve the problem. Today, no one cares how it is solved. Here comes Trump with his zany “Let’s make Gaza into a resort,” and there is nothing anyone can do about it. There is nothing anyone WANTS to do about it. We are all tired and exhausted. “You want to get rid of Hamas? Sure, go for it.”

Most of us have a problem with Trump’s methods. Few of us have disagreements with what he is trying to solve. We’d rather someone else solve these using more ethical methods. Unfortunately, some problems are better solved by gangsters. In the movie, “A Few Good Men,” Jack Nicholson when grilled about his unethical practices as an Army General says,

You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? <snip> And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said “thank you” and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to!”

Trump does not give a damn about what we think we are entitled to. The Democrats pretend that methods matter while deploying unethical methods. Old school Republicans have really bothered with ethics or morality, except when it comes to business and making money. I don’t blame the American citizen who says, “Listen, I want a functioning government that does things. At this point, I don’t care how you do it.”

I don’t know what Trump is going to end up achieving in his second term. He has already killed wokeism in America. That’s a huge win right off the block. If he solves the fentanyl problem, cuts government spending by a trillion and settles the Palestine issue, his Presidency will be regarded as the greatest since FDR, maybe since Lincoln. A Nobel Peace Prize awaits. They will put his face on Rushmore. And he will receive the highest honor of all – a Hollywood biopic.

I, for one, am strongly rooting for Donald Trump to succeed because if he does, America will be on the path to truly becoming great again.