Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth's stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff's home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail. read more
"All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are, right now, walking around with no legs, no arms," Trump said during the [press conference at his Doral ballroom in Florida on Monday], following remarks to Republicans. read more
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was mocked this week for wearing oversized shoes after it was reported that President Donald Trump had gifted his officials dress shoes they were then too "afraid not to wear." Photos of Rubio's feet on Tuesday went viral on social media after they showed him seemingly wearing a pair of shoes that were too big. The photos were taken just one day after the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was guessing his allies' foot size and then ordering them $145 Florsheim shoes they were subsequently too "afraid not to wear." "All the boys have them," said one unnamed White House official, while another told the Journal, "It's hysterical because everybody's afraid not to wear them."
"Nearly seven months ago, Ukrainian officials tried to sell the U.S. their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made attack drones." read more
According to a whistleblower, a former DOGE employee with access to highly sensitive Social Security databases planned on sharing data with his private employer. As a result, reports the Washington Post, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is investigating what would be among the biggest security breaches in the agency's 80-year history. In letters from the agency's acting inspector general, Congress and the Government Accountability Office were notified of the disclosure and investigation, and the latter has launched its own audit of DOGE's data access. Per the whistleblower, an ex-DOGE software engineer bragged to coworkers that he not only possessed two highly restricted databases containing information for some 500 million Americans both dead and alive, but that he had one database on a thumb drive that he planned on using to provide data to a private company.
Said Petri Dish burst out laughing at Pedo 47's claim of legless dead people walking around.