1. To start off, let’s survey today’s headlines and anti-Trump spin at the President Trump Jeering Society, aka. The New York Times:

• Many Cities Say Yes to Federal Police Help, but No to ‘Occupation’

• Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Wave of Charges Under Trump’s Crackdown
• How Trump’s Blunt-Force Diplomacy Is Pushing His Rivals Together
• Three Opinion Writers on Whether Congress Can Rein in Trump [Note: All three are vocal anti-Trump pundits]
• Will Trump’s Caesarism Last? [Quote: “Barack Obama and George W. Bush were far more successful at consolidating presidential power, and Trump 1.0 mostly demonstrated that an inexperienced, incompetent president could still be pinned down like Gulliver….” Response: Well yes, when two partisan impeachments and a lengthy investigation weaponized by his Democratic predecessor effectively made it difficult for him to govern…]
• Will Trump Have to Run From the Economy?

• Second Weak Jobs Report Undercuts Trump’s Claims of a Booming Economy

There are no positive stories about the Administration in the Times at all. A few are arguably straight reporting, like “What Has the Trump Administration Gotten From Law Firms and Universities?”

2. On Stephen Colbert’s “I Hate Trump” late night show, the one-note progressive comedian began his monologue saying,“When I came back into the office, I was shocked to learn that, this weekend, the biggest story was frenzied social media rumors speculating whether Donald Trump had died. For the record, Donald Trump is very much alive.” His “Late Show” audience loudly booed and jeered that revelation. Yet Colbert had the gall to chide his audience, saying, “No. We like our presidents alive. Donald Trump is very much alive.” Asshole! YOU are a not-insignificant reason they want the President of the United States dead. Colbert is ethically estopped from telling anyone that “we like our Presidents alive.”

3. I am officially apologizing for ever implying here that Jake Tapper was intelligent, a decent journalist, or had an ethical bone in his body. Last night, while the whole Axis was freaking out over Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr.’s announcement that his department was looking into whether Tylenol caused autism in children born after heavy use by their mothers, Tapper angrily declared that the idea was preposterous and that there was “no evidence” whatsoever that this could be true. He then slammed Trump’s “anti-science” administration typified by RFKJ’s fact free zealotry. “Here’s CNN medical commentator Dr. Sanjay Gupta with more,” Tapper said. Then Gupta went on to say that the science was inconclusive, that Tylenol studies are difficult to do and track, and that there have been studies that suggest that link to autism is possible, essentially contradicting Tapper, who said, “So this is like saying that pregnant women eat pizza, so pizza causes autism!” No, Jake, it isn’t like that at all.

4. The Rose Garden. Ugh. Since 1900, First Ladies have re-imagined the White House Rose Garden, formally named that by Edith Wilson (you know, the First Lady who devised the strategy of secretly acting as President when her husband was disabled, an example Jill Biden happily followed), several times with the news media always unanimously praising the effort. I remember the gushing over Jackie Kennedy’s update in 1961, but then Jack Kennedy was a wonderful so anything connected to him was beyond reproach, whereas Trump is evil incarnate, so Melania can do nothing right either. She redid the Rose Garden in 2020, and the results were almost universally panned, but the President’s version is being attacked too, so I guess Melania’s design wasn’t so terrible after all.

5. The Epstein obsession. Unbelievable. The Axis is really digging deep into the crumbs at the bottom of the cracker barrel for this one. There was virtually no attention paid to the Epstein materials when the Democrats were in a position to release them.