I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw that Donald Trump has a new idea for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, posting an AI image of his face in the pool. You of course can’t get closer to the story of Narcissus, the hunter in Greek mythology who saw his image in a still pool and fell madly in love with himself. Trump thinks everyone else is in love with him too, even as polls show him in the toilet. Stumping in South Carolina on Friday as the midterms approach, he implored voters to “pretend I’m on the ballot!” This is exactly what Democrats could hope for—and what Republicans are surely freaking out about…
Now that the bombing has stopped and the U.S. is low on munitions and Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz—while Trump is focused on the reflecting pool and his ballroom—Iran’s leaders are stating they have officially won the war. The leadership states that the “entire world” recognizes that they won and that the “U.S. is hated” around the world. It’s hard to disagree…
I read White House aide Natalie Harp’s intimate letters to Trump on my SiriusXM program yesterday. Reading them out loud, they sound even more deranged. This woman is deeply immersed in a cult of Trump, spilling her guts and seeming to portray an abusive relationship, writing, “You are all that matters to me,” and “I don’t want to ever let you down,” as she apologized for bothering Trump and for walking on the grass at a golf course. She reads like the obsessive outsider who somehow became an insider.…