His GOP sycophants in the Senate will suck that outright lie right up. what about the cuts to Medicare and Medicaid that will cause a long lingering death to millions of people.

I guess it's up to the Dems in the House to squelch this boondoggle of a con job bill.

Maybe the Independents will help.

ZED

I would never believe a word Trump says ~~ even less if he stood on a stack of bibles.

The best advice is don't believe anything Trump says. He's a notorious pathological liar who has proven himself, repeatedly, to be a money-grubbing welcher whenever it profits him and screws the other guy. And he does so with antisocial abandonment without conscious or regret.

At Trump's age and impotence, it's how he gets his jollies.

REDIAL

Trump's mind is a mental minefield. Who knows what's really going on in there.

Trump's Devil's Island.

Thanks again for posting the K.D. Lang songs. She's a remarkable talent. "Constant Craving" always stops me in my track.

LAMP

"Why did Pres Trump lie to Americans?

For the same reason he always lies. A certain percentage of his followers out here in voter-land will believe, and even argue the point, on his behalf. Those are the same people who also believe that the media is out to "get" Trump and who are tone-deaf to any facts to the contrary.

Or it could be Trump was self-aggrandizing to get the attention of the Nobel committee. As dumb as that sounds, keep in mind that Obama's Nobel Peace prize has always been a burr under Trump's saddle.

Thank you LAMP

K.D. Lang still gives me chills. I miss hearing to her sing.

AU

When I was escorting foreign tourists over to see Tin City in Naples they stopped and took pictures of the basking alligators on the other side of the fence. It was quite a novelty to tell the folks back home.

As an afterthought, I also remember finding a Caiman in our koi pond. He ate all the fish.

I had an tourist from Ireland once who was amazed to find out that fireflies and walking catfish weren't myths.

CATDOG

"The bond market, most powerful force in the world."

True dat. I'm surprised that the devastating effect of a joint gang sell-off hasn't been used to hammer Trump's "my way or the highway" tariff negations.

AU

Living just a tad south of the I-70 corridor called "Allegator Alley" it isn't unusual to find a python taking a morning sun bath on the hood of your car.

Been there, done that.

Sounds like Trump's plan is to create another Devil's Island.

He musta watched the movie, "Papillon" (1973)

There is a female witness who testified that Trump was kind with her and afterwards, even threw a few hundred bucks on the bed ~ in case she needed to get an abortion.

LEGALLY

Everything the GOP does is to satisfy Trump's personal need for greed.

No mention yet on how the Senate handled their suicide mission to cut Medicaid and Medicare.

And didn't Elon Musk say he wouldn't give financial help in 2006 for any Senator who voted for this bill?

I wonder if Musk will change his mind if Trump vows to cancel Musk's federal grants?

I don't know who has whom by the short hairs this time. They both seem to have boxed themself into a cage match to the death.

REDIAL

I agree. Trump's idea of being "presidential" is to copycat Putin's strongman image. However, I don't know of any Nobel Prize winning dictators who had Trump's maladjusted sociopathic need to hurt and destroy to make himself feel like he's the king of the world and someone to be feared.

Although on a much smaller scale, it has worked on Congress. He has them shaking in their shoes and looking for a work-around.

One has to wonder these days. Where's the Second Amendment Solution when we need it?

I think that we've all forgotten that Trump is still sick with jealousy over President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize (2009) and is hellbent on a one-upmanship.

Actually, Trump is jealous of just about everything "Obama."

As far as Iran's nuclear non-proliferation goes, Obama did it better and without a war.

Then sicko Trump came along and destroyed the accords which were working just fine all these years. Why? Because "Obama."

Trump's stupidity back then is the cause of everything that's going on now. I doubt the Nobel committee gives prizes for stupidity. no matter how many people Trump pays for a nomination.

Trump, Iran, Israel ~~ It's hard to pick sides when they're all rotten to the core.

I'm also reminded of the WMD scam Bush and Cheney pulled off to justify the Iraq War.

Trump's tactics to help Israel seem eerily similar ~~ like deja vu all over again.

DOC

Apply a shade of political ineptitude, a lack of sophistication, wishful thinking (Obama's Nobel Peace Prize), plus a ton of immature dirtbaggery and you'll find your answer.

Obliberated!"

Typical Trump.

Open mouth, insert foot.

He shoulda hadn't messed up the parade.

In a nutshell, Putin, Netanyahu and Xi have all publicly ignored Trump's sniveling demands and now even Ali Khamenei of Iran has given him the middle finger.

Things like this tend to spread, both in intensity and also the effect it has on Republicans in Congress who are watching their own poll numbers sink by association with such an ignoramus like Trump at the helm.

Question is, will these congresscritters grow a pair . . . or will they go down with the ship?

It's Russia who needs the U.S. military control of Greenland to clear the path for Russia's advance into Eastern Europe

Orders to Trump from Moscow: Mr. Putin is getting tired of waiting!

LAMP

It's not JUST for a photo-op or a distraction. It's more like a testing ground for when Trump generates an "emergency" in one or more blue states in order to derail the 2026 mid-term in those states indefinitely and thus secure his majority in the House.

Johnson nearly gave away the scam when he stated (ever so confidently) that the House would gain seats in 2026.

As for the legality of what he's doing in California right now, I seriously doubt the U.S. Supreme Court will come to the rescue. Trump is looking to set a precedent for his plans to stagecraft even more violent uprisings prior to the 2026 mid-terms during which time the House will be missing crucial Democrat Representatives.

Congress has to make a decision before the mid-terms:

Who is the GOP more afraid of? Trump's badmouthing . . . or losing Musk's financial support if they vote for Trump's spending bill?