* Beyond ironic: Trump has received the first FIFA Peace Prize for his actions “to promote peace and unity around the world.” Why not start at home?
* The Trump Administration released a security document that criticized European allies as weak and critiqued their policies on free speech and migration. The document nativistically suggested that European allies face the “prospects of civilizational erasure.” “Civilizational erasure”? Sounds like Stephen Miller did more scripting.
* In released Epstein files, Epstein wrote that Trump was “evil beyond belief.” How’s that for vetting?
* The Red Scare and the Orange Scare: They both were fomented by the enemy within. But Orange is worse; the enemy within is the president of the United States.
* Do masked men rounding up brown-skinned people at Home Depot sound like the country we grew up in?
* “Watching this actually turn into a fight has ripped MAGA apart.”—Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over disagreements with Trump–who referenced her as “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene”–regarding the release of the Epstein Files. Hey, whatever it takes, including a MAGA GOPster loon who has shown empathy and support for Epstein victims as if she were Marjorie Taylor Blue.
* Epstein bottom line: “We’ve needlessly dragged this out for four months,” noted Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who helped sponsor the bipartisan bill to release the files. Those in opposition, he pointed out, “are afraid that people will be embarrassed. Well, that’s the whole point here.” Indeed.
* “We are seeing anti-semitism rise on the right in the Republican Party.”—Sen. Ted Cruz. Wonder what Sheldon Adelson would have thought.
* As reported, Pete Hegseth’s “kill them all” order involving drug-trafficking boat strikes is unsurprisingly controversial. It doesn’t sound like America’s secretary of defense. But it does sound like a secretary of war.
* “The word ‘affordability’ is a Democratic scam.”—Donald Trump.
* Spam Bondi: A federal judge dismissed the criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James. It was determined that the prosecutor who brought the charges (Lindsey Hakkugan) had been illegally appointed by the Department of Justice.
* “I’ve never had a drink in my life, and I don’t take drugs.”—Donald Trump.
* “Maybe one of the best endorsements I’ve ever heard for drinking and doing drugs.”—Seth Meyers.
* According to Yale Budget Lab, the current overall average tariff rate is 18%, the highest since 1934.
* “People that are against tariffs are FOOLS!”—Donald Trump.
* “America is no place for the poor man’s Gestapo.”—The Lincoln Project.