The Memorial Day Weekend continues…..

Things are becoming typical for the administration…..EOs, accusations, shuddering government offices, etc….there was so much silliness that it was difficult to decide what to include in this week’s post.

The big news from last week was the dinner that Donny had with the big investors in  his private crypto scam…..

President Trump will be dining at his DC golf club on Thursday, and he won’t be alone. With him will be the 220 top holders of his memecoin $TRUMP, reports Reuters.

• One of those guests will be Justin Sun, a crypto entrepreneur who is the top $TRUMP investor of all. He tweeted this week that he is Trump’s “TOP fan” and will be at the dinner. The BBC explains why his presence is notable: The SEC under President Biden accused him of fraud and market manipulation, but that inquiry has been put on hold by the Trump administration.
• The dinner—as well as the digital currency itself and the contest that encouraged people to buy them up in order to meet the president—has drawn lots of criticism from those who say Trump is using his presidency to make a personal profit, reports NBC News.
• “This is the Mount Everest of American corruption,” Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, who will attend a protest outside the dinner, tells Politico. “This isn’t about raising money for a campaign. This is about personal profit, and what he’s selling is influence on himself and his Cabinet and the US government.” The White House, however, dismisses the criticism and says Trump abides by all conflict-of-interest laws. Trump is “working to secure GOOD deals for the American people, not for himself,” says a spokesperson.
• A New York Times investigation found that most of those who will be in attendance are based outside the US.

You caught that right?  Investor in HIS scam…..not that it has anything to do with running this country….when will this asshole start working for the country?   Here’s a clue….NEVER!

If you will recall Donny was under investigation for possible corruption and now the unit that did these types of investigations has been ordered to shut down..

The FBI squad that investigates allegations of fraud and corruption against members of Congress and other federal employees is being shut down. The unit worked on the leadup to special counsel Jack Smith’s election fraud investigation of Donald Trump and his allies, NBC News reports. The move is another in a series by the Trump administration against units and officials handling public corruption cases, per the New York Times. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley recently complained to FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi that the unit had been misused to execute political attacks, especially against Trump, and Grassley praised the decision. An advocate for Justice Department employees did not.

“This is yet another sign that it’s open season for political corruption,” said Stacey Young of Justice Connection, a network of department alumni. “The administration gutted the Public Integrity Section, neutered the US Attorney’s Office in DC, and is now shuttering the FBI’s pre-eminent federal public corruption squad. This isn’t what voters had in mind when they heard, ‘drain the swamp.'” An FBI official said the Washington field office is being reorganized, per the AP, and added that investigations into alleged corruption will continue.

But members of the squad apparently will be reassigned, per the Times, possibly to do immigration enforcement work. The special agent in charge of criminal matters at the Washington field office also was ousted from his job. Patel is shifting FBI resources into immigration enforcement, per NBC, in keeping with Trump’s priorities. More changes at the Washington office are on the way, an FBI official said.

Retaliation plain and simple….plus it gives a nod to his wealthy butt boys.

Speaking of investigations……Donny wants some because his feelings got hurt and in his butt hurt temper tantrum…..

President Donald Trump has called for a “major investigation” into Bruce Springsteen night after the rock legend delivered a scathing critique of the president during his UK tour.

In a Truth Social post late Sunday night, Trump accused Springsteen of having been paid by former Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris for a campaign performance and endorsement – without offering any evidence.

Trump also floated similar claims about Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, and U2 frontman Bono, all of whom publicly supported Harris or the Democrats during the 2024 election.

The president wrote:

HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT? WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN’T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONCÉ? …AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO??? I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter. Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment. In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds. IT’S NOT LEGAL! For these unpatriotic “entertainers,” this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!

Trump Demands ‘Major Investigation’ Into Springsteen, Beyoncé, Oprah for Backing Kamala Harris: ‘CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL!’

What foolishness….but then that is one of Donny’s traits…..being foolish.

When questioned about the slash in food assistance Donny went off the rails….

Donald Trump seems to think that cuts to food assistance mean cheaper and more abundant food for everyone.

“You campaigned on lowering the price of groceries. How can you justify cutting food assistance in this [budget] bill?” a reporter asked the president, on Capitol Hill Monday, after he emerged from a meeting with House Republicans.

The president’s response didn’t make any sense.  (Nothing he says makes much sense if you have a functioning brain)

“Let me just tell you, the cut is going to give everybody much more food because prices are coming way down. Groceries are down,” Trump said. He added, “You know that eggs now? Way down. Everybody’s buying eggs. Grocery’s down. Energy’s down. Gasoline? They’re now buying—they’re buying gasoline now for $1.99.”

First of all, gasoline is not selling for that price anywhere in the United States, except possibly in wholesale markets. And cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, commonly referred to as food stamps, would not lower food prices. As the head of a Nevada food bank told NBC last month, “These reductions don’t just affect people facing hunger—they also hurt the retailers, farmers, and businesses that supply fresh, local food to our region.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/195496/trump-cut-food-assistance-budget-bill

Do people still think he knows what he talks about in these babbling rants?

Recently Donny went after internet access…..

An initiative started under former President Biden to expand internet access in communities with lousy access might be on the rocks. President Trump said Thursday he intends to end the Digital Equity Act, reports Bloomberg. “No more woke handouts based on race!” Trump wrote in a scathing Truth Social post, one in which he also called the program “totally unconstitutional” and an “illegal” $2.5 billion giveaway. “I am ending this immediately,” Trump wrote in all-caps.

However, the New York Times reports that court challenges are certain. The newspaper, along with Newsweek, notes that the law signed by Biden does not emphasize race. The measure was part of a $1 trillion infrastructure bill signed by Biden, and it’s administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Its stated goal is to “ensure that all people and communities have the skills, technology, and capacity needed to reap the full benefits of our digital economy,” according to an NTIA website.

Trump’s move is part of his administration’s sweeping push against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, but a post at Broadband Breakfast suggests that the internet-access initiative doesn’t fit into the usual framework of DEI programs. The terms “digital inclusion” and “digital equity,” it notes, “date back to the launch of the movement for public computer centers and ensuring that poorer, less-educated, and less tech-savvy individuals also enjoyed the benefits of computing and communication.” It was not immediately clear if any grants had yet been canceled.

All rural people need to suffer to make sure that people of color in rural areas cannot have access to the internet…..what a f*cking racist!

Then out of the mouth of #2, Donny’s butt boy…..Vance….it seems he wants to control your dating habits….

Dating can be awful, a fact we already know. Now, the vice president is weighing in on the matter, blasting the apps that he believes make the process much worse. “If you look at basic dating behavior among young people … the dating apps are probably more destructive than we fully appreciate,” JD Vance said in a wide-ranging interview with Ross Douthat for the New York Times. “Technology has just for some reason made it harder for young men and young women to communicate with each other in the same way.” The 40-year-old VP, who Mashable notes met his wife Usha in law school, also offered a clue as to why dating struggles are even on his mind.

“Our young men and women just aren’t dating, and if they’re not dating, they’re not getting married, they’re not starting families,” he said. The topic was broached as part of a larger discussion about artificial intelligence, with its potential for “profoundly dark and negative” consequences in an online romantic sense, in Vance’s eyes. “One of the great things about marriage in particular is you have this other person, and you just have to kind of figure it out together,” Vance noted. “But if the other person is a chatbot who’s just trying to hook you to spend as much time on it, that’s the sort of stuff that I really worry about with AI.”

He talked to the pope about this?  You mean with all the strife in the world and this idiot wanted to talk about dating habits?

Again I am so proud of our government.  (sarcasm)

Finally….the penny is going the way of the dodo…..

The end of the American penny is near: The US Mint will stop making new ones within a year, reports the Wall Street Journal. Specifically, the Treasury Department this month ordered its last “blanks” from which the pennies are made, and it won’t make any more once those blanks are gone, per CNN. That’s expected to be in early 2026.

• Context: The penny has long been a source of debate in terms of usefulness, particularly since it costs nearly 4 cents to make one, and many end up under couch cushions. The US Mint produced more than 3 billion pennies last year and lost more than $85 million in the process, per Axios.
• Impact: People will still be able to use pennies as long as they have them. But as the supply continues to shrink, stores will likely have to start adjusting their pricing, notes the Journal.
• Trump: The move is a follow-up on President Trump’s directive in February. “For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents,” Trump wrote at the time, understating the cost. “This is so wasteful!

There is the round-up of the week that was at the Sh*t Show….we have so much to be proud of…..and this government is not one of them.

Be careful if you are celebrating this Memorial Day weekend.

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