If Barack Obama said…

“[We are] Jack’s complete lack of surprise.”

Can’t wait for him to compliment leaders from Acadiana, Appalachia, and South Boston on their beautiful English.

Is this all just an high school performance of Ender’s Game where one of them is Demosthenes and the other Locke debating on the Nets? If so, I’m betting on the Formics.

Raise your hand if you’d get fired for approving or signing off on something you didn’t read.

“Full transparency, I did not [read] the OBBB [before voting for it].“ — Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Trump Denies Posting a Purported A.I. Image of Himself as Pope The president suggested Catholics, who have criticized the apparently A.I.-generated image, were not offended, and said that anyone who was “can’t take a joke.”

“There are lies, dumb lies, and social media.” Pretty sure that’s how Mark Twain would’ve said it that way if he were around now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

If President Biden—actually Catholic—had posted this…

If FDR had suggested to European allies in 1940 that they, say… negotiate a peace granting the Axis powers all territory they had gained…

Always willing to take credit for market rises, is he suggesting the “BOOM” is the sound we’ll hear when it hits rock bottom?

Is he:
A) poorly briefed and advised;
B) ignoring good counsel;
C) lying; or
D) ALL OF THE ABOVE?

Circa 2016: “I think she should be in jail for what she did with her emails.” And then his team…https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

Trump’s foreign aid demolition hits major Christian charities In a closed-door meeting, U.S. officials touted their success in “zeroing out” foreign assistance, but the downsizing has clipped religious allies, too.

If the Biden administration had done this, it would be deemed proof of the Democrats' hostility to religion. But Trump is doing it, so his Christian allies turn against Christian ministries and gut their ability to serve the poorest of the poor. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

He doesn’t really have that many playbooks, so he recasts plays that have worked for him elsewhere. Here, he’s just applying the logic of the domestic/sexual abuser to parties in international conflict. It’s worked for him time and again.

President Zelenskyy and Ukraine won’t be his last victims.

“We will have Gaza,” Mr. Trump said. “It’s a war-torn area. We’re going to take it. We’re going to hold it. We’re going to cherish it.” [As reported by NYT, February 11, 2025.]

“We will have Seoul. It’s a war-torn area. We’re going to take it.”—China, June 1950

Representatives for Nine Inch Nails claim, “Despite what he said, Trent really just wanted to cuddle.”

45/47’s Canadian banking comments are akin to if 44 had suggested Canada and Mexico don’t allow U.S. auto manufacturers to operate assembly plants in their countries.

Meanwhile, the Canadian Banking Association notes: U.S. banks account for half of all foreign banking assets in Canada.

The Chaotic and The Collected both speak volumes beyond their words.

“He hates one of the people in the deal. I have certain hatreds of people too.”—45/47

"We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred[.]”—44

Can anybody find President Nixon’s comments/Tweets/screeds on the American flag flying half-staff during his second inauguration after the passing of President Harry S. Truman?

“We need Greenland for national security purposes," Trump said on Tuesday.

“We need the Philippines, Guam, and Hawaii for national security purposes,” Japan said in 1941.