Monday, June 22, 2026

Chump is a joke


Comb-over or hair piece? That is the question when it comes to Donald Trump. Well, that’s one question that people tend to think of when considering what Trump is hiding from the American people. It might also be one of the more innocent conundrums about the president, since there are plenty of other things that people are curious about.
But in a TikTok video of Trump meeting with the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, one thing that stands out for some is Trump’s hair. Or, rather, his hair “flap.” Has Trump ever actually admitted to wearing a toupee or anything in his hair to make it appear fuller than it really is? Of course not. But the speculation is real.
But in a TikTok video of Trump meeting with the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, one thing that stands out for some is Trump’s hair. Or, rather, his hair “flap.” Has Trump ever actually admitted to wearing a toupee or anything in his hair to make it appear fuller than it really is? Of course not. But the speculation is real.


A comb over or a hair piece?  Ah, Chump and his bald spots.  Meanwhile, Molly Sprayregen (LGBTQ Nation) notes:

As Donald Trump continues his ego-driven efforts to secure a legacy both domestically and abroad, one columnist is calling out his endless failed attempts.

“Trump sees himself as a strongman and wants the world to see him in the same way,” wrote James Ball for The i Paper. “He thinks Congress and the Supreme Court work for him. Laws are things he gets to write, not things he has to follow. He seems to believe that every other nation has to do what he wants. But it is a lot harder to project that image when you can’t even manage a home renovation or fix the pool at the bottom of your garden.”

Ball is referring to the fact that the president was convinced he could solve the algae issue in the Washington, DC reflecting pool, which has been plaguing the National Mall since the pool was built in the 1920s. Over $14 million dollars later, Trump’s renovated pool is having the same problem.

“Donald Trump, then, can hardly be blamed for the reflecting pool’s woes,” Ball said, “but he did seem absolutely confident that he, with his decades of experience in the construction industry, knew how to fix them.”

“Trump dispensed with plans to rework the filtration system, or deal with any of the complex issues plaguing the pool, and decided it could instead be fixed by painting it a darker shade of blue. Instead of taking years, it would be sorted in weeks… Today, the pool is blue, open for business… and absolutely full of algae.” Ball pointed out that some folks even believe the darker color is helping the algae grow because it is making the water a bit warmer.  


Chump is a joke.  

Here's C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"


Monday, June 22, 2026.  Chump's deal remains in limbo, Tulsi Gabbard took orders from guru Chris, Chump continues attempting to kill foreign aid and much more. 


Ben (MEIDASTOUCH NEWS) explains there's still no deal and that Iran is making the US prove itself in the talks.




MS NOW's Ali Vitali notes talk of JD Vance being snubbed at the meetings. 


Today on MS NOW's MORNING JOE, Joe noted that deal being discussed is far less than what Barack Obama negotiated in July of 2015.



Neil MacFarquhar (NEW YORK TIMES) reported yesterday:

In igniting a war against Iran on Feb. 28, President Trump billed the U.S. campaign as an unprecedented step toward transforming the Middle East and terminating the threat from what he called a “wicked, radical dictatorship.”

Roughly 100 days later, as the United States and Iran have reached a somewhat vague memorandum of understanding to end the war, skeptics are expressing bafflement over what exactly has transformed.

Neither the war nor the agreement ended what U.S. and Israeli officials regard as the main threats emanating from Iran. The country’s nuclear program, while heavily damaged, was not eliminated — its fate punted to future negotiation.

The same goes for its ballistic missiles, which the deal does not address. Iran’s authoritarian regime endured, albeit with new leaders. Its proxies remain a threat to the region. Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia in Lebanon, persisted in attacking each other.


Chump wrongly started a war and now as he keeps faltering at ending it, he has nothing to show for it.  He doesn't even have a signed deal.  He is a loser.  THE ART OF THE LOSS is his autobiography.  He's a loser who posed as some master deal maker.  But he's not and he's never been.  He was always just a con artist.  A liar.  And now the world sees that.

By the way, Ashleigh Fields (THE HILL) notes Chump's had a meltdown over this NYT report and insists he's adding it his lawsuit against THE NEW YORK TIMES.  

Falyn Stempler (THE MIRROR) notes one of Chump's  lies:

U.S. President Donald Trump was forced to backtrack on a previous claim that the U.S. doesn't "need" oil from the Middle East.

An embarrassing video clip montage created by MediasTouch shows Trump making remarks on at least two occasions amid the Iran war that the U.S. has "so much oil and gas" and is "totally independent of the Middle East." However, while speaking at length about the Iran deal struck earlier this week, Trump admitted that global oil reserves were running low, which put pressure on the White House to strike a deal with Iran to reopen the Hormuz Strait.



CBS News’s Margaret Brennan began her interview with UN Ambassador Mike Waltz Sunday by citing some uncomfortable statistics on American attitudes toward the Iran war.

“Our CBS News poll out this morning shows that more than three-quarters of Americans want to end the conflict now,” Brennan said of the war with Iran — as a graphic on screen showed the exact number to be 78%. “With 69% saying the conflict with Iran was not worth the costs for the U.S. More than half — 57% — say the president’s war with Iran created more problems than it solved. And two in three say the administration reached agreement with Iran mainly because it wanted the conflict to be over.”

Brennan turned to Waltz saying, “Ambassador, the war is unpopular, as you just heard, but how it ends matters, as you know.”

She continued, “CBS’s Olivia Gazis is reporting that senior members of Trump’s national security team, including Secretary [Marco] Rubio, remain doubtful Iran will comply with this deal’s terms. The CIA director presented [President Donald] Trump with intelligence indicating inconsistencies with Iran’s commitments. So, if even the president’s own team doubts this is a win, how do you sell this to the public?”


But Chump is no where near ending the war.  Despite promising two weekends ago that he was ending it.  It continues and doesn't stop.  He said it would be brief, two weeks.  Its now over 100 days.  And he doesn't appear to know how to end it. 



This morning, Vice President JD Vance touched down in Switzerland for the first round of talks with Iran. The stated goal: extending last week’s interim mediated ceasefire and the Memorandum of Understanding signed by President Donald Trump into a more permanent peace in the 110-day US-Israeli war on Iran. But as those talks continued, Trump lost no time in taking to social media and Fox News to threaten Iran.

“Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble,” Trump wrote on his platform Truth Social Sunday morning. “Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble. If they don’t, we’ll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder!!!” 

Lebanon’s civil defense reported that Israeli strikes had killed at least 16 people on Saturday morning, and the country’s health ministry said at least 47 people were killed on Friday. In response, Iran once again closed the Strait of Hormuz shipping pathway, which before the war carried a fifth of the world’s oil and gas, saying the US violated its deal to end the war by allowing Israel to continue to bomb Lebanon.

Meanwhile, in the Bürgenstock resort near Lake Lucerne where the talks are being held, Vance said that “great progress” was being made, without being explicit about the steps that had been taken. He noted that the gathering would “allow us to sit together as teams for the first time in history,” with the goal of turning “over a new leaf to transform our relationship with the people of Iran, and to extend an outstretched hand.”  

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a lead negotiator, said Iran’s military is prepared to react to Trump’s verbal aggression. “They better be careful with their statements; our armed forces are ready to respond in a different way,” he wrote on X. Iranian officials reportedly walked out of Sunday’s talks, protesting Trump’s threats.

A Washington Post report today reveals the devastating human toll of the war. “Months after the war began with a wave of US and Israeli airstrikes on February 28, the scale of civilian casualties and destruction in Iran remains difficult to measure,” Post reporters Dylan Moriarty and N. Kirkpatrick wrote. 

In a single airstrike, 100 buildings were damaged in one civilian neighborhood in Tehran. Almost a third of the city has been hit by US and Israeli missiles. One report on civilian harm puts the death toll from late February to mid-April at 1,701 civilians, including 307 children. Across both Iran and Lebanon, over 7,000 people have been killed since mid-February, according to official casualty figures. 




He is also a failed politician who is losing more and more support with each passing day.  Kathrine Frich (DAGENS) reports:
 

Agricultural workers historically form a massive pillar of Republican support. That traditional loyalty is cracking ahead of the midterm elections.

According to The Washington Post, more than 300 farms filed for bankruptcy last year. Agricultural debt will likely hit a staggering $624.7 billion.

Rural approval for President Donald Trump fell to 50 percent in a recent Reuters-Ipsos poll. High fertilizer prices linked to the conflict in Iran have left families struggling.

Nebraska farmer Scott Thomsen shared his shifting views with the newspaper.

“I’m pretty disenfranchised as a voter right now, and I think I’m not the only one,” Thomsen said. “Either I’m going to completely sit these elections out, or I’m going to vote down the line, incumbents out.”


Midterms are the start of November. Basically four months from now, people will be voting.  And Chump's not giving them reasons to vote for Republicans.  His actions have annoyed and pushed away voters.  John Stoehr observes:


White working-class voters who supported Donald Trump are probably going to stay home.

“I don’t even want to vote for anybody in the next election,” Annette Dombrowski told the Post last month. The 64-year-old janitor in rural Ohio voted for the president three times. She used to vote in the midterms, but not this time. “I don’t care, because they’re all crap.”

Dombrowski represents an "extraordinary swing," as the Times put it last week. Though his unpopularity, especially among affluent white women, hurt the GOP in the 2018 midterms, white working-class voters stood by their man. They approved of Trump's "management of the economy by margins of 30 percentage points or even more," the Times said. Now, however, as inflation climbs ever higher, his base is falling out from beneath him. The Times: "Now, recent polls show them disapproving by anywhere from 14 to more than 30 points."

That's why a GOP pollster who has worked with Trump is sounding downright panicked. “It’s working-class voters who are not happy with the Republican Party, and they may not come out and vote,” John McLaughlin told the Times. The day before the 2018 midterms, Trump's approval rating on the economy among white working-class voters was 66 percent, according to a CNN poll. Now, his disapproval is 57 percent, a recent CNN poll said. If the Republicans fail to mobilize them, McLaughlin said, "we lose the House and the Senate.”


Donald Trump has been dealt a humiliating blow by a new poll about his Iran peace deal.

Trump announced the long-awaited peace deal during his trip to the G7 conference in France last week.

The 14-point memorandum of understanding, which halts the fighting for 60 days, follows months of negotiations, with Washington and Tehran struggling to reach agreement on such key issues as the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the future of Iran’s nuclear program.

But his opponents have blasted the arrangement for containing significant concessions to the Iranian regime while deferring U.S. demands to later negotiations.

New polling shows that most Americans do not believe the deal has accomplished its primary objective.

According to a CBS News/YouGov survey conducted June 17-19, 2026, among 2,519 U.S. adults, 69 percent of Americans believe Iran’s nuclear program has not been stopped, undermining one of the central justifications for the military campaign.




After the Trump administration upended the world’s largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan for the agency was clear: Eliminate it entirely.

But because it is a congressionally created agency, President Donald Trump needed lawmakers’ permission to do so. So this year, Trump officials asked Congress for permission to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development and dramatically reduce federal spending on food, medicine and lifesaving work around the world. 

Congress said no. Lawmakers, who hold the government’s purse strings and have oversight of federal agencies, wanted USAID to remain, even in its diminished form. They detailed precisely how much the State Department should spend on foreign aid and for what, including $9.4 billion on global health to treat and prevent maladies like HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, and more than $5 billion on emergency humanitarian aid. They also insisted on regular, detailed reports about how the administration was spending the money. 

Trump signed the bill, enshrining their orders into law.

Now, eight months into the fiscal year, Trump officials are failing to follow many of those orders, ProPublica has found. Officials have delayed spending on global health, have not issued funds for some projects and have labeled money destined for humanitarian aid as “unallocated” to control how it can be spent, according to a ProPublica review of government records and interviews with legal experts, current and former government employees, and members of Congress. And when lawmakers have asked about their actions, officials often have not responded.

The White House and Congress have been battling over federal spending since Day 1 of the Trump administration, setting up a constitutional crisis — a breakdown of the division of power among the three branches of the federal government, according to several legal scholars. 

Nowhere has that crisis been more visible than with foreign aid. Last year, the administration took the unprecedented step of gutting USAID, terminating thousands of aid programs and letting funding expire, all without permission from Congress. Lawmakers did little to stop it.

Now, in defying Congress on foreign aid that Trump himself agreed to spend, the administration is quietly escalating the battle.

“It is a huge grab of power from the president, taking powers away from Congress,” said David Super, a professor of law and economics at Georgetown University and a leading scholar on administrative and constitutional law.

USAID was created by Congress decades ago as a means of promoting American diplomacy and soft power around the world. As ProPublica previously reported, when Trump officials dismantled the agency last year, stopping payments on thousands of lifesaving programs that provided food, medicine and other supplies to impoverished nations, many people died, including children. 

Even with USAID in shambles, Congress has made clear that it expects the administration to continue providing foreign aid — in some cases, at nearly the level it did in previous years.

“It’s proof that there is still broad, bipartisan support for America showing up in the world, helping people and working with our allies and partners on shared challenges, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it directly benefits us,” said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, the ranking member of the Senate committee with oversight of foreign aid funds. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the committee’s chair, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.


In other news, Trina and I both warned repeatedly ahead of Tulsi's confirmation hearing and vote that Trashy Garbage's relationship with Guru Chris should prevent her from being named head of DNI.  Well . . . Jennifer Bowers Bahney (MEDIAITE) notes:


A wild new story on former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her Hare Krishna guru’s influence on her policy actions has sent shockwaves through social media.

Sunday’s Washington Post article by investigative journalist Jon Swaine comes just days after Gabbard stepped down to manage her husband’s cancer treatments.

Swaine wrote that Gabbard grew up in “eccentric religious leader” Chris Butler’s breakaway Hare Krishna group that has been described by some ex-members as a “cult,” although the group denies that characterization.

Swaine set out on a year-long investigation to learn whether the “reclusive guru been secretly trying to steer Gabbard’s actions as a public official.” He reviewed tends of thousands of documents, declaring that “Their content was extraordinary.”

“Dozens of attached memos appeared to document directives and advice for Gabbard from her time in Congress. Some contained instructions on what legislation she should propose, which policies she should embrace and how she should conduct herself on television. They had an air of authority,” Swaine wrote.

Research fellow Kareem Rifai wrote on social media, “This is an utterly insane story: 25,000 documents reviewed by WaPo indicate that throughout Tulsi’s career, her political moves were controlled by her guru, cult leader Chris Butler. This woman was leading the world’s largest intelligence apparatus.”


For example, November 26, 2024, we noted:  "So while holding the office of Director of National Intelligence, she would be serving 'guru' Chris?  And that's acceptable how?"  We noted this repeatedly -- Trina and I both.  It's a shame people didn't wish to pay attention.  Here for Trina's posts covering the guru. 


The Washington Post obtained more than 25,000 memos and other documents exchanged between Gabbard and Butler that appeared to reveal instances in which Butler gave Gabbard direction on several issues, according to the report. There were other instances in which Butler sharply criticized the former Representative from Hawaii as "mealymouthed" over one bill she introduced.

"Dozens of attached memos appeared to document directives and advice for Gabbard from her time in Congress," the report reads in part. "Some contained instructions on what legislation she should propose, which policies she should embrace, and how she should conduct herself on television. They had an air of authority. A memo about a proposal to partition war-torn Iraq into three states quoted an unnamed person as saying it was 'time for TG to come up with this idea.'"


Let's note John Oliver.



Let's wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren:


Democrats’ new report exposes how Trump and Republicans have driven up costs and broken promises to American families

“While Donald Trump and Republicans dream up new ways to line their billionaire buddies’ pockets and give giant corporations even bigger tax breaks, Democrats are united in the fight to lower families’ costs and deliver universal child care.”

Warren Remarks (Youtube) | Child Care Affordability Agenda (PDF)

Washington, D.C. - Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) in announcing the next pillar of Senate Democrats’ affordability agenda: a new Senate Democratic vision to make child care more affordable, more available, and higher quality for families across the country. Democrats’ policy framework stands in stark contrast to Republicans’ policies, which have led to skyrocketing costs and exacerbated the child care crisis.

“Universal child care is the best investment we can make in bolstering the middle class,” said Senator Warren. While Donald Trump and Republicans dream up new ways to line their billionaire buddies’ pockets and give giant corporations even bigger tax breaks, Democrats are united in the fight to lower families’ costs and deliver universal child care. Together, we’ll get it done.”

“Trump and Republicans have made finding reliable and affordable child care an impossible feat," said Leader Schumer. “They have waged an all-out war on the child care sector, hurting those who are the most vulnerable among us: children. Senate Democrats are focused on a Day One solution to the child care crisis that includes affordable child care that meets parents’ needs while investing in the infrastructure, workforce, and early childhood programs. As Republicans continue to fund tax cuts for their billionaire buddies, Democrats are laser-focused on the issues that Americans actually care about — affordability.”

“When I go back home there is not a single parent saying, ‘What I really want—is higher prices and more war mongering.’ That may seem fine to an out-of-touch billionaire like Trump but working families don’t ‘love’ inflation. Instead, the issue that comes up the most is no surprise to any parent: It’s child care. Trump’s latest budget short changes child care, while blowing up war spending,” said Senator Murray. “Trump says we can’t afford child care. The truth is we can’t afford to ignore child care. This year, Senator Warren and I announced our Child Care for America Working Group—a coalition dedicated to lowering costs and delivering affordable and accessible high quality child care for all families across the country. Now, we’re making this a central focus of our caucus’s long-term affordability agenda with Leader Schumer. This is a priority for families—so Democrats will make it a priority in Congress.”

Child care costs are one of the largest financial burdens facing American families today. President Trump and Republicans have abandoned American families, leaving many unable to find affordable, high-quality child care. In the wake of this crisis, the senators released the Democrats’ vision to lower child care costs and expand access to high-quality care for American families across the country, helping parents, children, and child care workers alike.

Earlier this week, the senators released a new “Broken Promises” report exposing how Republicans' policies have wreaked havoc on child care and harmed families across the country. The report detailed how families cannot afford child care, how it’s hard to find affordable high-quality child care, how Trump is attacking our federal child care and early childhood education experts, and how Republicans are actively undermining the child care sector. This new report is part of Senate Democrats’ year-long initiative to address the cost of living crisis Trump and Republicans have created. So far, Democrats have focused on the rising cost of housing, historic food and grocery prices, skyrocketing energy costs, and slashes to health care.

Senator Warren has led the fight to make child care available and affordable for working families:

  • In May 2026, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined the Center for American Progress’ IDEAS Conference to deliver a speech on the need for universal child care.

  • In March 2026, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), longtime leaders on child care, along with Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.), established a new working group as the latest major push in Democrats’ fight to lower costs and deliver child care for every American family.

  • In March 2026, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani published an op-ed in USA Today calling for the Democratic party to commit to making universal child care a central part of its platform.

  • In February 2026, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), along with Representative Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), led over 40 colleagues in pressing the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children & Families (ACF) on how the Trump Administration’s immigration policies are shrinking the child care workforce and driving up costs for American families.

  • In February 2026, at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, Ranking Member of the Committee Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned military leaders on the impact of poor barrack conditions and inadequate child care on service member morale and readiness.

  • In February 2026, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) teamed up in the fight to deliver universal child care for American families.

  • In February 2026, at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) delivered opening remarks calling for improving the quality of military barracks, better pay for child care workers so military families can have the child care support they need, and tracking the impact of Republicans’ health care cuts for service members and their families.

  • In January 2026, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) led Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) in announcing a new investigation into how the Trump administration’s cuts to affordable child care programs are affecting rural families.

  • In September 2025, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) led over forty lawmakers in reintroducing the Child Care for Every Community Act, legislation that would expand access to affordable child care to every American family, offer high-quality early education to every child, and create good jobs for our early educators.

  • In May 2025, In a response to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) letter to the Department of Defense (DoD) demanding clarity on the department’s plans to address allegations of child abuse in its Child Development Centers (CDCs), the DoD revealed a pattern of incompetence in its oversight of child care services.

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Friday, June 19, 2026

Chump's a fake

Some rather big news from  Kathryn Wilkens (Mediaite):

An excerpt from The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s upcoming book, published on Thursday by the Daily Mail, revealed that White House staff allegedly needed to monitor President Donald Trump’s trash after it was discovered that “he was sometimes throwing out” sterling silver utensils.

[. . .]

The journalists added, “The President’s redecorating generated such a flurry of activity that staff often felt caught between the two Trumps, who were the only presidential couple to regularly use and maintain separate bedrooms since Richard and Pat Nixon.”


Not since Richard and Pat Nixon?  And Chump tries to play the man.  He's not having sex.  He hasn't had sex in years.  He's a withered up old man whose body is decaying before our eyes.  

He tries to pretend he's not a senior -- even said that in public a little while ago.  But he's an 80 year old man.  And an 80 year old man in poor health.  Eating garbage.  Unable to sleep at night and nodding off in public during the day.  He can't get a hard on.  And he's not someone who's ever been interested in a women's pleasure so he's not doing any eating out.  His life is over.  And he knows it.  His life is now about nothing except waiting for his own death.


And with his health, that could be any day.  


But he pretends for the MAGA bros.  And the idiot ones like Joe Rogan join him in pretending.  Rogan hits 59 this year and he's not young.  He's probably suffering from erectile dysfunction just like Chump.  Him pretending Chump is a functioning man is about him pretending he himself is not old


Here's C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"


Friday, June 19, 2026.  Chump's deal or 'deal' has already hit a snag, Republicans in the US Senate don't see themselves as Chump's drones, Pete Hegseth faces more problems, Kristi Noem's errors and mistakes continue to surface from her time as Secretary of Homeland Security, in Chicago Barack reminds how a real president conducts themselves and honors this country, and much more.

 


As Ben (MEIDASTOUCH NEWS) notes above, Israel's attacked Lebanon and it appears the 'deal' or 'memo' may be off.  


The nascent U.S.-Iran deal faced fresh challenges on Friday after Switzerland said that the next phase of talks had been postponed and as Israel launched new strikes in Lebanon following a deadly attack on its soldiers there.

Israel said its military had struck more than 80 targets belonging to the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, killing dozens, in response to an attack on an Israeli tank crew that left four soldiers dead in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that Israeli airstrikes overnight had killed at least 18 people and injured 33 others.

The upsurge of violence showed how Lebanon remained a major obstacle to the durability of the preliminary U.S.-Iran agreement. Israel is not a party to the U.S.-Iran talks, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has indicated that he is not bound by the deal, which calls for a cease-fire on all fronts, including Lebanon.

Mr. Netanyahu said on Friday that he had ordered the Israeli military to respond forcefully to the deaths of the tank crew, warning that Israel “will exact a very heavy price from Hezbollah for these attacks.”

Some lawmakers in Israel, and some Republicans in Congress, have strongly criticized the deal, which President Trump and President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran signed this week. Critics say it gives Iran significant economic relief while punting tougher negotiations, including on Tehran’s nuclear program, down the road.

Vice President JD Vance had been expected to fly to Switzerland for talks with Iranian officials, but the White House said late Thursday that his trip would be delayed. The United States was looking forward “to beginning technical talks as soon as possible,” a White House statement said.


Prior to everything falling apart, JD Vance was talking up the deal and inflating it.  Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Rebecca F. Elliott and Erica L. Green (NEW YORK TIMES) point out in great detail how JD was misleading everyone.  Malcolm Ferguson (THE NEW REPUBLIC) focuses on three lies about the nuclear aspect of the deal JD told.

MS NOW notes JD's trip is off for now and details some of the lies Miss Sassy has been telling about the proposed deal.



On  the 'deal,' 'memo,' 'cease-fire,' 'chain letter' Chump's been pimping as the greatest deal ever.  Holly Baxter (INDEPENDENT) notes that Vice President JD Vance tried to talk up the effort yesterday:

As he pointed out himself during this very press conference, he has absolutely zero experience in conducting diplomatic negotiations. “Progressive critics” say he can’t do “hostile negotiations,” he said, with a smile, “but just two days ago I went on The View.”

Nobody laughed. He tried again: “Joy Behar is way more hostile than the Iranians and she and I are best friends now.” The room remained silent. Notwithstanding the fact that Joy Behar seemed to quite openly dislike Vance when she encountered him on The View, this joke doesn’t really work unless you follow it up with solid proof that you actually do have good political credentials and the “progressive critics” are wrong. Instead, Vance merely moved on.

When pressed why this deal was better than Obama’s, Vance couldn’t offer a lot of specifics. He kept going back to the idea that “Gulf states like this deal” and they didn’t like the old one, “and I trust their judgment”. He didn’t seem to know exactly why they’d come to that judgment.

Is Cuba next? “You guys would have to ask Marco [Rubio] about Cuba,” he said, before adding that the administration is talking with the Cuban government and hopes they “make smart decisions.”

Is he still going on his promised trip to Switzerland Friday to sign the deal that has, it turns out, already been signed? Apparently not. There are other people going “on the ground” in Iran to do “technical negotiations”, possibly over the weekend, and the Geneva signing may or may not happen after that.

“So you’re not going tomorrow?” one reporter asked. Vance equivocated and, again, moved on.
Then we entered the weirder portion of the presser. When told that the Pope had hailed the end of the war, Vance said, in a tone of voice that skirted a little too close to sarcasm, “My response to that is: Praise Jesus!” When someone said they noticed his voice is hoarse, he said, “I’ve been on a book tour,” thus reminding everybody of the fact that the chief Iran negotiator has been wasting his time this week on daytime talk shows soft-launching a 2028 presidential run by shilling a book about Christianity.


Once, we had wars of choice. Today, we have wars of distraction.

Call the catastrophically misguided war in Iran and the blink-and-you-missed-it war with Venezuela the Epstein Wars.

These were not wars fought to defend U.S. national security. They were not wars fought to advance our national interests.
They were wars conjured up not by generals or seasoned foreign policy advisors but by a frightened old man and his public relations team to distract from a scandal he fears will be his undoing.

On the topic of Chump's dead friend the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Matthew Chapman (RAW STORY) notes:

President Donald Trump's director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons is firing back after a Democratic lawmaker accused the administration of giving luxury treatment to Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Maxwell, who authorities said helped run Epstein's child trafficking operation for years, was controversially moved from a facility in Florida to an amenity-filled "prison camp" in Bryan, Texas generally reserved for low-level offenders, breaking the rules that usually would prohibit sex offenders from such a facility — right around the time the administration was trying to get her testimony to turn down the temperature on public outrage over the Epstein case files.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, broke down the apparent injustice of it all in an interview on CNN this week.

"Oversight and Judiciary Dems visited Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison today, it is essentially a pristine park with fountains and ample green space," said Garcia, posting his reaction to X. "She’s the only convicted sex offender there ... this isn’t justice."
He demanded answers as to why then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, now Trump's acting attorney general and nominee for the permanent role, sent her to that facility.

This comes amid separate reporting that prison staff at the Bryan facility refused to answer basic questions from lawmakers on the tour.

The statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons did not say anything that mattered or was factual.  And, as Tom Latchem (DAILY BEAST) notes, "The agency did not explain why a convicted sex offender was placed at a camp that, under its own rules, bars such inmates without a special waiver."

As you may recall, last July Blanche, who was serving as Deputy Attorney General, conducted a two-day interview with Maxwell while she was seeking clemency. After making favorable comments about Tr*mp, she wasn’t granted a pardon, but she did see her fortunes turn for the better.

From the minute Maxwell stepped into Camp Bryan, her presence “disrupted” the lives of her fellow inmates, all of whom are non-violent offenders serving much lighter sentences for far less serious crimes.

Last August, she was allowed to take meetings outdoors while the rest of the women had to stay inside. According to WSJ, the warden even scheduled a talk with other inmates after one incident where he warned that any aggressive behavior toward Maxwell would be punished. He also allegedly cautioned inmates not to speak with press about Maxwell, a move which, according to Jamie Raskin, violates the inmates’ rights.

“Every inmate I’ve heard from is upset she is here,” one reporter said of the facility where Theranos grifter Elizabeth Holmes is also serving time and where former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah recently finished 33 months.

Since the start of Maxwell’s sentence, she’s also had access to special meals, a specialized response team, and other privileges seemingly denied the other inmates, none of whom have committed crimes anywhere near the scale of Maxwell’s.

Money might be able to buy you plenty of privileges in prison, but they don’t buy you that much.

House Democrats have been asking Blanche what the deal is for months, when a Wall Street Journal investigation broke the story of Maxwell’s special treatment wide open. So far, they haven’t gotten any clear answers.


In other news . . . 

Time for Convicted Felon Donald Chump to preen and pose.  The ego maniac has set some new standards.  David Edwards (RAW STORY) reports:

President Donald Trump just broke three of his own records in a new poll, and none of them are good.
The NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll, conducted June 8–11 among 1,340 adults with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, finds Trump hitting simultaneous lows: his worst-ever economy approval rating, his worst-ever approval spread, and a disapproval rating that ties the highest ever recorded for him.
Just 33% of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy — the lowest Marist has recorded since it began asking the question in 2019. Sixty percent disapprove.
Trump's overall approval sits at 36%, with 59% disapproving — a 23-point gap that is the widest Marist has ever measured for him across either term.


He's a loser on a losing streak these days.  Jordain Carney and Katherine Tully-McManus (POLITICO) note:

President Donald Trump is calling for Republicans to pass a $350 billion bill to fund the military while notching conservative policy victories — and GOP senators aren’t exactly scurrying to action.

House Republican leaders and committee chairs have been meeting for weeks about what to include in a new party-line reconciliation package. Speaker Mike Johnson has also had conversations about the House’s vision with Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
But the Senate has taken no concrete steps toward advancing a bill, and GOP senators and aides said this week it was becoming clear any “Reconciliation 3.0” would be a House-led effort. Multiple Senate Republicans — including members of leadership — say they don’t currently see a path that could marshall 50 votes behind such a measure on their side of the Capitol just months before the midterms.

“Everybody has a different concept of what they want, which is going to be the problem,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said in an interview this week.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said a third bill “doesn’t look to me like it's got a lot of life in it,” while Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) separately warned that if his party was going to pass a third reconciliation bill, Republicans need to “saddle up and ride hard, because we’re running out of time.”

Wait.  They aren't marching in lockstep behind him?  Singing a hearty tune?  Chris Brennan (USA TODAY) explains there are hostilities currently:

President Donald Trump has groused repeatedly during his second term about the sometimes lengthy nomination process needed for key administration officials to be approved by the U.S. Senate.

Republicans who control the Senate this week were ready and eager to fast-track the nomination of Jay Clayton for approval as Trump's next director of national intelligence. There was a confirmation hearing set for June 17, creating the potential for a full Senate vote on June 18 that could have had Clayton on the job by the end of this week.
That was, until Trump derailed the fast-track with a petulant, early morning social media post just before 4 a.m. on June 17, catching his Republican allies in the Senate off guard hours before Clayton's hearing.
Those Republicans had a motivation not centered on Trump's past annoyances about nominations. They wanted to head off Bill Pulte, a federal housing official and enthusiastic participant in Trump's retribution efforts against perceived enemies, who is now set to take on the role of acting director of national intelligence on June 19.

That annoyed Trump, who lobbed his bombshell into the nomination process from the G7 summit in France on June 17, where the six-hour time difference meant he was tossing his tantrum about 10 a.m. local time while Senate Republicans were likely sleeping back home in America.




President Donald Trump is making life almost impossible for Senate Republicans — and these days fewer of them are willing to just let it slide.

Some lawmakers that were once happy to brush off impulsive and disruptive behavior by saying they hadn’t seen the president’s social media posts or that it was just “Trump being Trump” are increasingly willing to speak out against what they view as bad decisions that undermine their ability to deliver legislative wins as the midterms approach.
The latest irritation was the early-morning Truth Social post Wednesday that upended GOP hopes of quickly confirming a new director of national intelligence and reviving a surveillance bill that Trump already derailed earlier this month.

The chaos that followed Trump’s sudden U-turn on Jay Clayton’s nomination, just hours before a scheduled confirmation hearing, further loosened tongues in the Capitol hallways — even from lawmakers who tend to be reliable allies.

“The president’s timing and communication needs improvement,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said. “I think it’s unfortunate. It throws a kicker into the system when we get going and then we have to readjust.”

Asked about frustration within the conference about the recent lack of coordination, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) added, “Well, duh.”

Kennedy added, “No, I don't,” when asked if Trump takes senators into consideration: “He wants what he wants, and until he gets it, he just keeps pushing.”

This ill will has been percolating for some time now. Lindsay Wise, Meridith McGraw and Siobhan Hughes (WALL STREET JOURNAL) note:


President Trump wants Republicans in Congress to do exactly as they are told.

But recently he has been hearing a lot of “no” from John Thune, the Senate’s top Republican.

That has led to open conflict as Trump tries to push through a voter-ID law that he has said is crucial to Republicans’ winning the midterms but lacks enough support to pass. It is one of a series of disputes that have intensified pressure on Thune, the lanky South Dakota conservative who finds himself in an increasingly difficult political position just months ahead of the elections.
[. . .]
Thune has had to deliver a series of unwelcome news to Trump. Before they agreed to pass a recent $70 billion border-security package, Senate Republicans rejected funding for Trump’s White House ballroom and forced the administration to scratch a $1.8 billion fund that could have been used to compensate Trump’s political allies. Also, lawmakers loudly objected to Pulte in the role as interim director, saying he lacked national-security experience and airing concern that he would politicize the position.


Republicans are at a "boiling point" over tensions between President Donald Trump and Senate GOP leadership, Punchbowl News reported on Thursday morning.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has been "bearing the brunt of the fallout from Trump’s erratic behavior, expressing his frustrations with the president in an intentional but very reserved manner," said the report.
For the last week, the report noted, Thune "was being stiff-armed by a White House that was refusing his request for a briefing on the U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement" — then things kicked into high gear after Trump publicly blew up a hearing for one of his own critical nominees and triggered a standoff.

Things have gotten so tense that Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told reporters Trump is "taking shots" at Thune, and lamented, “Who doesn’t like John Thune? If you don’t like John Thune, you don’t like golden retrievers.”



Let's turn to one of the charm experts from Chump's cabinet.  Lorne Cook (AP) reports, "U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashed out at NATO allies on Thursday, announcing a six-month Pentagon review of American forces in Europe whose outcome will depend on how fast the Europeans take responsibility for their own security. The threat of a review was yet another surprise for European allies and Canada as they learn to deal with an increasingly unpredictable ally. U.S. officials and senior military officers had promised to coordinate closely with the Europeans as America draws down."  Fresh from disgracing the United States at Normandy, Hegseth's just spreading the ill will around,  The man who only got confirmed in the Senate thanks to JD Vance's tie breaking vote has been a serial screw up going back to the Signal chat.  Remember that?  Remember when the report from the Pentagon's Inspector General found that, in that chat, Hegseth gave out the exact timelines, launch sequences and even the specific weapons that would be deployed in the strike on Yemen. 

Yet he remained in the job.  Loose lips Hegseth?  He's apparently the cold sore America can't get rid of.  Tom Boggioni (RAW STORY) reports:

While Donald Trump is being excoriated by Republicans over his Iran deal, which one GOP lawmaker called “… a tremendous foreign policy blunder,” MS NOW’s Bill Rohde stated on Thursday morning that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can expect that his role in advising the president to launch the war has put his job at risk.
Discussing the blowback Trump is facing over the war that, for the moment, has ended in a stalemate, Rohde claimed that Hegseth is already a prime target instead since he is already on the outs with a substantial number of Republican lawmakers.
“At some point. President Trump is the person most responsible for this strategic defeat and failure,” Rohde told the "Morning Joe” co-hosts. “But I would argue the person second most responsible, who is in the most dangerous position politically, is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. He repeatedly lied to the American public in his press conferences about the progress of the war, and he also refused to give basic information to members of Congress. There's a lot of ill will among senators and House members towards Pete Hegseth.”

Senators and House members have ill will towards Hegseth?  That would explain what Eren Waris (MEAWW) reports: 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing a bipartisan congressional rebuke as lawmakers move to restrict his travel budget over long-running complaints that the Pentagon has kept Congress in the dark.

The proposed restriction comes as senators demand records related to military strikes that have drawn scrutiny from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. The effort turns months of frustration over limited access to information into a direct funding measure aimed at forcing greater transparency from the Pentagon.
A Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee proposal filed Tuesday would block Hegseth from using more than 25 percent of his travel budget until the Pentagon turns over key documents related to military operations.

Under the defense policy bill, lawmakers are demanding "unredacted civilian harm investigations" and other records connected to strikes in the Middle East and Latin America.
Committee members, led by Republican Sen Roger Wicker, highlighted the April 2025 strikes in Yemen that resulted in dozens of casualties and the February 2026 strike on the Minab girls' school in Iran that left at least 150 students and staff among the reported casualties.

Hegseth is notorious for so many things -- most of them hideous.  That would include his refusal to wash his hands.  Hygiene isn't a big thing with Hegseth nor are vaccines.  And that's coming back to haunt him.  Greg Jaffe and Maggie Haberman (NEW YORK TIMES) report:

A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.

The outbreak at the base in San Antonio raced through an Air Force Basic Military Training wing, where new recruits sleep on bunk beds in open bays and share meals at large communal tables.

A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release. It was not immediately clear whether the death of the trainee, Keon McDaniel, was related to the flu outbreak.

A comprehensive medical review into his death is underway to determine the cause, according to the Air Force.

In the weeks since Mr. Hegseth’s vaccine policy took effect on April 21, only about 40 percent of Air Force trainees have opted to take the vaccine, which had previously been mandatory, an Air Force official said.

And this is happening right now.  Imagine what awaits come winter.  Hegseth, ruining America just a little bit more each day. 

As James Ball (THE I PAPER) observed yesterday, "Hegseth is not a serious man, so few European leaders take him seriously."


Moving over to air head Kristi Noem.  As Chump's Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas, Kristi continues to screw up.  She was laughed at earlier this week when asked which country in South America would qualify as the US' best friend and she responded, "Well, we've worked so much with El Salvador and migration issues and third country agreements. But also Ecuador's been fantastic; we did a joint operation with them with the Department of War against the cartels in their country. We work very well with Argentina; their economic policies line up with ours. Costa Rica's been fantastic; they have a new president" -- Stop.  El Salvador and Costa Rica are not South American countries, they are part of Central America. 

It's the sort of mistake a freshman in high school could make but not one that the Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas should be making.  Prior to her current role, Kristi was the Secretary of Homeland Security where she did so many things wrong.  This included buying up facilities to turn into ICE prisons.   Hamed Aleaziz (NEW YORK TIMES) reports:

The idea was meant to supercharge President Trump’s mass deportation plan.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement would purchase more than a dozen empty warehouses across the United States to massively expand its capacity to detain people deemed to be in the country illegally, which in turn would spike deportations. A year into Mr. Trump’s term, it had bought 11 facilities at a cost of $1 billion.

But in a major turnabout, the agency is planning to offload seven warehouses purchased for more than $700 million by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

The decision to sharply scale back the warehouse plan is a rejection of a signature initiative under the previous homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, who pushed the boundaries of what the government can do to aggressively round up potential deportees. The new secretary, Markwayne Mullin, who had privately expressed skepticism about the plan, has said publicly that he wants the agency to be quieter about how it carries out immigration enforcement.


Yesterday, America was reminded of what a president can be as Barack Obama spoke in Chicago. 



The opening of the Obama Presidential Center drew thousands, including A-list celebrities, to celebrate the facility honoring the 44th president's historic legacy.

Former President Barack Obama, joined on stage by his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, oversaw the grand opening ceremony that also featured other living former presidents: Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

"Everybody's got an opinion, and that means getting stuff done, involves reconciling the demands of a couple of 100 million people," Obama said as he reflected on America's political history. "Democracy can be frustrating, it can be slow, it can be inefficient, and yet more than anything, I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is, and remind us what we can achieve when we embrace our shared responsibilities as citizens."

Michelle Obama also commemorated the former president's work during a speech about his tenure and the center's many community-oriented amenities: "You were unflappable at every turn, always focused, always calm, always looking at the long view," she told her husband.




The entertainment was first-rate.






People came together and did so with a purpose that was beyond greed.  It was a reminder of what the country could be -- and will be again once Chump is out of the White House.

Let's wind down with this from Senator Tammy Duckworth's office:


[WASHINGTON, D.C.] — U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation—is demanding the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reject any pressure to rubberstamp President Donald Trump’s latest taxpayer-funded vanity project, the so-called “Triumphal Arch,” that could jeopardize the safety of the flying public. In a letter to FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford, Duckworth warned against wasting time and resources reviewing the proposed 259-foot “Triumphal Arch,” which would be constructed in one of the most complex and congested airspaces in the country.

Aviation Subcommittee Ranking Member Duckworth wrote, “President Trump choosing to force the FAA to invest limited staff and resources into a distracting review of his gaudy and disgraceful arch is merely the latest example of Trump putting his pet projects first, while neglecting America’s needs. This wasteful and dangerous project is particularly irresponsible given the FAA’s ongoing efforts to implement safety enhancements in and around DCA following the preventable DCA collision in late January 2025, the deadliest domestic air crash since the 2009 Colgan tragedy.”

In the letter, the Senator underscores the critical importance of exercising the highest level of caution in DC airspace after the tragic DCA collision claimed 67 lives. Initial reviews of the Arch project were conducted on an expedited timeline, raising concerns about undue pressure from the Trump Administration to advance a needless project which could put people’s lives in danger.

“Your mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world. Accordingly, the FAA must commit to upholding the highest safety standards and be firm in rejecting any improper or irresponsible pressure from President Trump to prioritize the construction of his gaudy, vanity arch over the safety of the American people,” concluded Ranking Member Duckworth.

Full text of the letter is available on Senator Duckworth’s website and below:

Dear Administrator Bedford:

I write to demand the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) uphold the highest safety standards and reject any efforts from President Donald Trump to pressure the FAA into wasting time and resources modifying the complex National Capital Region (NCR) airspace as part of a wasteful campaign to rubberstamp Donald Trump’s newest vanity project, the so-called “Triumphal Arch.” The Trump arch—which Donald Trump’s arch designer noted is a distinct memorial because unlike the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, President Trump’s arch is intended to celebrate the living—would offensively desecrate the hallowed symbolism of Arlington National Cemetery by destroying the historic sightline between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington House that has symbolized post-Civil War unity for decades.

Furthermore, the vanity arch’s proximity to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)—which, as the Trump administration is well aware, is one of the most complex, constrained and airspaces in the National Airspace System—reflects a flagrant disregard for the operational integrity of the airspace, aviation safety and the priorities of the American people.

President Trump choosing to force the FAA to invest limited staff and resources into a distracting review of his gaudy and disgraceful arch is merely the latest example of Trump putting his pet projects first, while neglecting America’s needs. This wasteful and dangerous project is particularly irresponsible given the FAA’s ongoing efforts to implement safety enhancements in and around DCA following the preventable DCA collision in late January 2025, the deadliest domestic air crash since the 2009 Colgan tragedy.

As you know, the FAA has failed to secure full funding for the Trump administration’s “Brand New Air Traffic Control System” despite Republicans controlling the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate since 2025, and jamming through not just one, but two, massive partisan Republican reconciliation spending bills. Some may brush off wasting millions, if not billions, of taxpayer dollars on Trump’s vanity arch as only an annoying nuisance. However, FAA should know better than anyone that such flippant dismissals are reckless and wrong.

The NCR is an extremely challenging airspace because of complicated flight paths, restricted airspace and complex civil-military operations. Even minor disruptions can have cascading, fatal effects—a sobering reality that our country witnessed just last year when a midair collision involving a commercial aircraft and an Army Blackhawk helicopter killed 67 people. The DCA midair collision underscores the consequences of inadequate coordination and the need for extreme caution when evaluating any new obstruction in this environment.

The FAA’s initial feasibility study was a “limited review” and far from the required full aeronautical study that must be conducted. However, even this limited examination confirmed that the proposed 259-ft Trump vanity arch structure requires red lighting because it constitutes an obstruction under Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 77. FAA’s initial review appears to have been completed on an expedited timeline, raising questions as to whether Donald Trump or his White House aides are already improperly pressuring FAA to prioritize rubberstamping Trump’s vanity arch over public safety.

Importantly, the finished structure is not the only potential hazard Donald Trump is forcing into this highly congested, complex DCA airspace. The National Park Service (NPS) indicated that construction of Trump’s vanity arch would require cranes reaching 300 to 320 feet in height and NPS estimated construction could last 20 hours per day for two to three years. On final approach to DCA, commercial jets can fly as low as 500 feet above ground level (AGL). Introducing construction equipment approaching the AGL limit in an already congested airspace raises additional operational and safety issues.

There is already evidence that the Trump administration is dismissive of, or simply avoids, advanced aviation safety planning in coordination with FAA experts. In addition to the Trump administration’s chaotic testing of Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the NAS, commercial pilots reported that during evening approaches to DCA, the bright lights from Donald Trump’s personal UFC playground—which was installed on the White House lawn for his taxpayer-funded birthday party—impaired pilot visibility as they worked to navigate one of the most challenging approaches in the NAS.

Your mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world. Accordingly, the FAA must commit to upholding the highest safety standards and be firm in rejecting any improper or irresponsible pressure from President Trump to prioritize the construction of his gaudy, vanity arch over the safety of the American people.

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