Speaking to Kristen Welker on Meet the Press Sunday, the vice president vigorously defended Trump's push to end the war through give-and-take negotiations -- rather than the sanctions and ceasefire demands he once leveled at Vladimir Putin. Using the Second World War to illustrate his point, Vance claimed concessions and diplomacy are vital to end major conflicts -- but seemingly forgot that the war ended due to unconditional surrender. read more
A posthumous and "unsparing" memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published this fall, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf said Sunday. "Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice" is scheduled for release Oct. 21, the publisher confirmed to The Associated Press. Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at age 41, had been working on "Nobody's Girl" with author-journalist Amy Wallace and had completed the manuscript for the 400-page book, according to Knopf.
Officials in a large North Texas county decided this week to cut more than 100 Election Day polling sites and reduce the number of early voting locations, amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year's midterm elections. The 3-2 vote on Tuesday by commissioners in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, came one day after President Donald Trump vowed to end the use of mail-in ballots. read more
U.S. President Donald Trump renewed a threat to impose sanctions on Russia on Friday if there is no progress toward a peaceful settlement in Ukraine in two weeks, showing frustration at Moscow a week after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. "I'm going to make a decision as to what we do and it's going to be, it's going to be a very important decision, and that's whether or not it's massive sanctions or massive tariffs or both, or we do nothing and say it's your fight," Trump said. He said he was unhappy about Russia's strike on an American factory in Ukraine this week, which caused a fire that injured some of the facility's employees. "I'm not happy about it, and I'm not happy about anything having to do with that war," Trump told reporters at the White House.
Many 79-year-old men aren't exactly eager to show off what they're working with below the knee. Donald Trump, per usual, is an exception. Speaking at the White House on Aug. 22, the president boasted about the appearance of his lower legs. "I look extremely good in shorts," he said, responding to a question about whether he plans to participate in the FIFA World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in December.
Donald Trump doesn't enter the Oval Office anymore " he oozes into it, like a melted wax figure in a crumpled Men's Wearhouse clearance suit. Those "suits" aren't clothes; they're tarps. Rumpled, puckered, over-sized disguises stretched across a failing contraption of braces, wraps, elastic bands, and God knows what kind of medical plumbing just to keep this cholesterol scarecrow upright. He's less president, more Wizard of Oz malfunctioning animatronic: smoke, mirrors, and machinery groaning underneath the polyester, all staged to convince us this collapsing flesh parade is still "vigorous."
His cankles aren't ankles anymore " they're swollen meat balloons stuffed into black loafers, crying out for mercy. So grotesque that the White House literally parked a giant model airplane in front of him during a Zelensky meeting to hide them from the cameras. That wasn't foreign policy; that was prop comedy. This is the leader of the free world, reduced to peekaboo with a toy plane because his legs look like Easter hams left in the Saharan sun.
And hovering above those swollen honey baked horror shows he calls ankles is the real sideshow: the hand. Always the hand. Every -------- press gaggle, every forced photo-op, he performs the same little trick: bruised, mottled paw smeared in foundation, then carefully hidden under the other like a guilty toddler hiding cookie crumbs. He's not answering questions; he's playing patty-cake with himself. That hand isn't presidential. It's a crime scene in CoverGirl. A swollen claw so heavily spackled in pancake makeup it looks like a drag queen tried to contour a kielbasa. And he sits there gripping it, white-knuckled, pretending no one notices.
Except we do.
And through all this, MAGA's still out here chanting that he's strong. Sharp. Powerful. Give me a ------- break. He's "powerful" the way a swamp cooler is powerful when it's coughing out one last lukewarm fart before it bursts into flames. This is a guy who repeats himself mid-sentence like a busted Alexa, slurs names like your drunk uncle after five Fireball shots, blanks on words, forgets countries, muses about medians, and stares into space like somebody hit pause on the remote. Cognitively, he's not "declining." He's already face-planted off the cliff, splattered at the bottom, and the cult is down there lighting candles to the stain. He once bragged about acing a dementia test by pointing at a camel. Now he looks like he'd flunk a coloring book. Strong? This guy is one ---------- away from accidentally launching a nuke and calling it a birdie.
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