What DOJ prosecutor or FBI agent would want to slip their neck in that noose. (Breaking Trump's transparency law.)

Best to punch the time clock and try not to get caught leaving by the front door. (Use the janitors' entrance.)

LAMP

Should, coulda, woulda. The FBI "shoulda" questioned the tipster (1) for the names of "everybody" at the party, (2) how long was she forced to remain at the party (3) was she ever invited or coerced in any way to participate in the meme and (4) what did she witness herself.

The information is too sketchy to determine what the FBI did . . . or didn't do . . with the tip.

On the dark side, if the tipster's claim about a "party for prostitutes," was true it sounds like Trump was helping his good friend, Jeffrey Epstein, "audition" future candidates for his sex trafficking enterprise for his stable of VIPs.

It would also answer the question of . . . How much did Trump know and when did he know it.

In short, Was Trump both a user and a facilitator and (possibly) did he get first pick

REDIAL

Well, Trump is a pathologically compulsive liar so what else is new?

All glitter and no gold, so to spea.

REDIAL

"soon enough"

You mean before he gets impeached? The Senate seems to be building up a head of bipartisan steam lately and Trump's poll numbers are dropping like a lead balloon. They already forced him to sign the Epstein Transparency Act with a threat to override a veto.

Of course, that could've been a one-off. But it could be that the Senate is starting to feel a sense of their former pre-Trump power.

Talk in the cloakroom is rumored to be much different than they say in public.

Is there such a thing as a concept of a concept?

And here I predicted he was just going to name an aircraft carrier after himself. How Naive am I?

LAMP

Why? Apparently, everyone is satisfied with the budget committee's explanation.

I don't really much care. There are more important things to consider. Plus, Patel can't take it with him when he gets canned anyway.

Maybe Vice President Vance is the one who should be shopping for a private armored car as he and Erika Kirk finish Charlie's "Turning Point" tour together. Vance's wife looks like she could get really nasty any day now. She has her sights on being the next First Lady.

But then, Erika Kirk could be thinking the same thing.

LAMP

"why a German car instead of a US-made car?"

You tell me. Is there even such a thing?

On the other subject, Patel is unofficially, maybe, sorta, kinda, almost like dictator military Brass.

No doubt he and his girlfriend have received assorted threats. But then, maybe they wouldn't be such a tempting target if they avoided drunken parties.

What? They can't afford up armored SUVs for their brass?

In December 2025, the Trump administration and nine major drugmakers agreed to cut prices by up to 70% on key medicines and will offer discounted prices directly to consumers under a new platform ...

BOAZ: READ THE FINE PRINT.

Trump Rx

" Target Audience: It is designed for individuals to pay out-of-pocket, particularly those without insurance or those choosing not to use it.

Evidence of prior bad behavior but only if Trump tries it again to ram another candidate (Jared Kushner) into the Oval Office.

Trump is a creature of redundancy.

LAMP

That's not the Johnny 5 I remember from Short Circuit.

Trump lies so much how do we even know if this "Warrior Dividend" story is even true?

Knowing him, there will be a vague excuse and the military housing assistance money will end up in the pot to pay for the tax break for his wealthy friends. The one that exploded the national debt. The debt he's trying to cover with cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. The debt he's trying to pass off on the backs of the poorest of the poor and the elderly.

LAMP

My guess is that he likes putting his name on things.

An aircraft carrier must be close to the top of the list.

(Along with a SS Pete Hegseth on a destroyer.)

What he's really taking credit for is NOT cancelling this AND the housing assistance.

Trump thinks he can buy everything. We'll see.

Trump is bigley in need of brownie points and the military vote is the biggest voting pool he has now that his MAGA base is turning against him.

Fear is setting in.

"What Went Wrong in 2024"

The price of eggs???

That's when Trump promised to lay the biggest egg the world has ever seen.

Then by golly, he went and did it.

SPEAKS

"What Went Wrong in 2024"

IMPEACH ASAP the whole kit n' kaboodle that are crawling around the White House like German cockroaches.

SPEAKS

"Jeffries is a useless corporate stooge like pelosi and biden. He'll do nothing to fight fascism just like they didn'

I think you need to take your crystal ball in for a tuneup.

Jus' sayin'

Wait for Jeffries becomes Speaker and then impeach both Trump and Vance.

Then all this MEGA ------- will be reversed and we can go back to living normal again.

What say everybody?

This must be a real feather in Tucker Carlson's bonnet.

As in, since when did a pipsqueak like him become so important.

Even Moscow has kicked him to the curb. Guess what. They don't like traitors either.

With Trump's job low disapproval numbers sinking to a miserable 61%, now might be a good time for the Senate GOPers to remove Trump's choak chain from around their neck.

Trump isn't an asset any more at GOPers re-election campaigns. He's a liability. They're begging him to stay away.

I remember a poster I saw at one of Trump's failed attempts to 'build over' a cultural icon. Whether by ignorance or Trump hubris, the Trump organization was stopped in its tracks for failing to get the required approval from the community.

The poster said: "T-H-I-M-K ..... A-H-E-A-D

And no, that's not a typo.

MORRIS

"The oil companies have never gotten over having their "investments" in Venezuela being nationalized by Chavez and that resentment has been guiding US policy toward them ever since.

Yes, of course. That seems to be the most reasonable reason. Trump is not a student of history so somebody must have briefed him about the good ol' days (1970s) when American Oil Companies were pumping Venezuelan oil. I seem to recall that U.S. meddling in Venezuelan politics (perhaps with undercover CIA operatives as I recall) is what caused Chavez to nationalize their oil fields and kick American oil companies out.

So Trump, being such a dishonest broker, is using his standard "by hook or by crook" modus operandi, is using the false pretense of drug smuggling to cover up his real intentions ~ and continues to murder a lot of people in the process. Murderers have no conscience. Just greed.

Trump's highly touted real "Art of the Deal" is on full display. He has no talent whatsoever. Just puffery and bluff.