A Trump quote without his voice or face - Trump without Trump. This quote is unedited and 100% accurate. It is from a press gaggle Trump had outside the Lincoln Memorial on May 7, 2026. The Eagles are up!

Science! 🙋🏻‍♂️

The MOU designed to keep the strait open for at least 60 days…didn’t last 60 hours. So. Much. Winning. Are you tired of it yet?

Because of course:

Many of Trump’s campaign promises have turned out just like this

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

Stable, high-IQ genius who has common sense borne from from years of doing laundry, shopping for himself, fixing his car, and assorted other normal people tasks we all have mastered, easily clasps a simple clasp any third grader could figure out. Or not:

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

“You’d be good looking if it weren’t for your face,” as my dad likes to say.

Somebody ought to write a book about how absurd is the idea that white rurals are more “real” than other Americans. Oh, wait, @paulwaldman.bsky.social and I already did—and were *slammed* for even daring to suggest that city folk are just as American as anyone else. share.google/xF7bpcLHF7tL...

The Iran deal is, in every way, an unconditional surrender by the U.S. And given the position Trump put the whole world in, that’s the best of the available options. This was truly a screwup for the ages. My latest at The Cross Section: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/a-screwup-...

Trump bullying Powell (a Trump appointee) to leave to Fed so Trump could appoint Warsh—only to have Warsh signal Fed may soon *raise* rates is chef’s kiss for Loser Donny, Mad King of Loserville!

A judge ordered the Admin to restore all National Parks signs it removed—including info at Acadia about indigenous history + climate change.   Visiting these parks isn’t just about the scenery. It’s also about knowing our history, the natural forces that shaped these places + the threats they face.

My man looks like Uncle Fester taking his First Communion.

I predicted this two months ago, just for the record:

Guy who spent years insisting that he was a true free speech champion has had his second speech-suppressing SLAPP suit against a critic dismissed. He insisted he had to sue these people over their speech to "protect free speech" which should really tell you all you need to know about Matt Taibbi.

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

“.. at least 37 times. That’s the number of times he’s said directly — in social media posts, public appearances and phone calls with the media — that a deal was nigh or claimed Iran was desperate ..” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/p...

Since the start of his tenure as secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth has sought to delegitimize the accomplishments—and the very presence—of Black people in the military, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes.

To recap: Trump ruined the game for everyone and derailed the Knicks 45-day winning streak just to get booed and fall asleep

reminder that the last time trump was at madison square garden was for a literal nazi rally

The "both sides are the same" mantra hits differently when the government comes knocking. Read the latest from @kmezdoesit.bsky.social for Lincoln Square: lincolnsquare.substack.com/p/hasan-pike...

“As I watched a millionaire Twitch revolutionary nervously discussing federal subpoenas on stream, I found myself wondering whether Hasan has considered that perhaps there actually was a meaningful difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump after all.”

Cappy Anniversary to all who celebrate the Washington Capitals’ 2018 Stanley Cup championship!

I cannot believe I have to say this, but we can live without AI. We cannot live without water.💦🤬🤬

Markets tanked today. Must be Biden’s fault.

Spine detector: Detected

Great thread about race and the dangers of false equivalency from Nathan here:

The museum there is amazing. Highly recommend

Give the Right about, oh, two hours and: A) there will be a fact-free conspiracy circulating that explains the boom as something sinister; and B) the left, liberals, Biden, Obama, professors, or some such combo thereof will be blamed.

so birth control makes women smarter, got it

I’d pay more. You?

Today: 1. A judge temporarily blocked the $1.8B slush fund 2. A judge ordered Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center 3. A judge asked the govt to answer charges of a fraud on the court in Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS 4. A judge asked DoJ to explain why he should dismiss the Oath Keepers’ charges

Yessssss

She didn’t merely *accuse* him. A court confirmed her claims. But Jeff doesn’t want you guys to say so. And he’s watching.

It speaks so badly of our attention economy that John Fetterman is the topic of endless conversation for being an unhinged jerk, while Andy Kim from right next door gets such little hype for being a decent human being

Canada middle fingers us, again:

The thing that makes “gutter racism” an appropriate term for this is that it goes beyond even what segregation’s savviest defenders were willing to say in public 60-70 years ago. They understood that this level of explicit racial animus was embarrassing to the cause.

Not a drag queen. Not a transgender human being. Not an undocumented immigrant.

Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” which vowed to help rebuild Gaza, has no real funding despite receiving billions of dollars in pledges, according to a new report.

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

Just late in day re-upping my new piece in @atrupar.com Public Notice explaining the triple damage citizen-consumers suffered thanks to Trump’s insanely ignorant tariff policy. Read, and if you like it, plz share. Thx all! www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-tari...

I wrote two recent pieces for Public Notice basically covering arguments 1 and 6 by Moynihan, but his is a much more comprehensive and integrated account of this “personalist” regime. And that’s a new term to me.

This might fit better as a Labor Day than Memorial Day piece but it’s timely now: My latest for @atrupar.com Public Notice about how the wind down of Trump’s tariff policy is triply bad: substack.com/@tomschaller...

In leaked audio recordings, Peter Thiel revealed he told JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral issues, including the development of ethical AI. Calling Leo XIV the “woke American pope,” he also suggested the American pope was a tool of the Antichrist. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/new-jd-van...

The Supreme Court has “agreed to hear from Catholic preschools that say it's unconstitutional to exclude them from a state-funded program because they won't admit kids from LGBTQ+ families.” 4/20/26 … 1/ www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

There is no strict Constitutional prohibition against looting the Treasury to give money to traitors, so it's hard to see what Democrats are upset about. by Jonathan Turley

Just re-upping this prediction I made TWO MONTHS AGO:

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...