Earlier today there were headlines saying Trump war preparing to fire Jerome Powell as head of the Federal Reserve. I take it that Trump has TACO’d on that plan already. But Powell’s term ends in May 2026, and it’s a sure thing that Trump will appoint someone else to the Fed who will let Trump dictate monetary policy. So we’re doomed eventually.
Trump wants the Fed to cut interest rates to goose the economy. But this would also goose inflation, which is already heating up again because of Trump’s stupid tariffs. So whatever is left of the U.S. economy by then Trump will effectively kill off.
At Talking Points Memo, Hunter Walker reports that Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Apparently Rhonda Santis tapped Florida’s disaster response account to build Trump a prison camp.
And the Houston Chronicle blasts Homeland Security Secretary Gnome for her gross mismanagement of FEMA and the botched federal response to the recent floods.
Trump continues to play the cornered rat over Jeffrey Epstein. Now the Epstein files are a Democratic hoax.
Got that? If you’re a MAGA still talking about Epstein Trump doesn’t want your support. You’re dead to him. So straighten up and do as you’re told.
Trump is a case study in Acting Guilty, in other words.
Josh Marshall asks What Is He Doing? Calling the files a Democratic hoax begs the question of why the Democrats went to all the trouble to create a hoax and then not leak it. Because clearly there was something that people in the Trump Administration were calling “Epstein files” that suddenly had to be erased from collective memory. The best explanation for Trump’s lame handling of this controversy, Josh suggests, is that Trump is a one-trick pony. Blaming the nefarious Dems and calling the controversy a hoax is what he always does.
Like you, I’ve been at this Trump thing for way too long to let myself think this is the pivot where his magic wears off. But I’m kind of struggling to come up with another theory of what’s happening. I don’t think he’s going to be able to sell the idea that there’s some damning information out there but that it was created by Obama to frame him. I guess you could say, “Why, Josh? It’s worked again and again.” And that’s true. But he’s in charge. He’s got an Attorney General who will do whatever he asks. Why not release the proof about what Obama and Hillary did? But he’s going both with the “I was framed” story while the people who run his DOJ and FBI are saying they’ve looked at the materials and there’s nothing there.
So they aren’t keeping their stories straight. It’s just a mess.