Joe Rogan stunned his audience this week when he compared ICE under Donald Trump to Hitler's Gestapo forces. Rogan has become increasingly critical of the entire administration, and his latest comparison to one of the worst regimes in history is going to rattle the administration in ways that they aren't prepared to handle. Rogan was solidly behind Trump a year ago (and in the lead up to the 2024 election), and he brought his audience with him.

During a speech in Detroit this week, Donald Trump showed the crowd just how bad his dementia has gotten by claiming that the state of Michigan - which he WON - was actually rigged. He then clarified that his race was not rigged, but another candidate on the very same ballot had his race rigged somehow. Trump didn't get into specifics about how that works, but he insisted that it was true. This is something that happens in people with dementia, as they attempt to fill in gaps with lies that they create - and they firmly believe those lies, too.

Donald Trump is trying to bully Canada into ending their boycott of American alcohol, but so far all of his bullying has backfired. The country is not only NOT backing down, but a huge majority of Canadians actually support the boycotts. This is costing American producers millions and millions of dollars, with sales for some major alcohol brands falling by 60% in the first half of the fiscal year.

Donald Trump sent out the creepiest email that he's ever sent to his supporters this week, begging them for money. The begging part isn't what was weird - that's standard for politicians. The weird part was that he explained to readers that he was sitting "alone, in the dark, looking at a dying laptop" and apparently thinking of them. That's not the kind of email that anyone wants to get in the wee hours of the morning, but for some reason Trump's team thought it was a great idea.

Donald Trump offered up a new, far more insane reason for why he "needs" Greenland to become part of the United States. He told The New York Times that he "needs" it because it is "psychologically important" for him. He also admitted that other presidents would probably see the situation differently, which appears to be an admission that there is no intelligence to back up his other claims about Russia and China trying to take it over. But now we're supposed to believe that he needs Greenland to act as his emotional support colony?

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A Trump-backed prosecutor quietly opened an investigation into Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell in an attempt to pressure him into quitting. This move has the potential to destroy the economy as we know it, as economists and other global experts have insisted that any attack on the Fed's independence would completely destroy faith in the US economy both home and abroad, sending our currency into a tailspin and putting a halt on investments into the US.

In an interview with The New York Times published this week, Donald Trump came out AGAINST the Civil Rights Act because, as he falsely claimed, it led to white people being treated "very badly." That never happened anywhere in the United States, and there was never any coordinated, state-sponsored "bad treatment" of white people. But Trump knows that he's in trouble with his base, so he's leaning back into the racism that made him their favorite candidate to begin with.

The White House is furious over Kristi Noem's actions and they are now panicking because they fear she's ruined everything they've been working towards (which is to get rid of as many non-white people as they can.) Their racist agenda has been derailed over the killing of Renee Good and Noem's response to the shooting. Thousands of people took to the streets to protest ICE over the weekend, and that's not what the administration wanted to happen as they were already struggling to get the public on their side on the issue of immigration.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz held a Senate hearing last week on a proposal he has to "hold rogue judges accountable." But Cruz, like many Republicans, didn't think about the future when he came up with his proposal, and analysts pointed out quickly that Democrats could use the same procedure to impeach Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon. No judge has made it more obvious that she doesn't care about the rule of law more than Cannon herself, and Cruz's proposal could be exactly what Democrats need to remove her for good.

The German government came out and condemned completely false statements made recently by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The country was forced to remind people of the truth after Kennedy falsely claimed that German doctors were prosecuted for not administering Covid vaccines. The truth is that doctors were free to either give the vaccine or choose not to do so, and not a single person was punished for their decision. But Kennedy lies with impunity because that's all he can do to back up his quack claims.

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A MAGA brawl broke out on social media on Friday between Donald Trump's team and Marjorie Taylor Greene, after the administration accused Greene of setting up Trump to be confronted by protesters. The White House was referring to the episode last September when an angry citizen said "mean" things to Trump at a DC restaurant, and they're accusing Greene of leaking Trump's dinner plans to the public in order to set him up to be mildly inconvenienced for about a minute. The entire administration is just beyond insane.

Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie have been forced to ask a federal judge to step in and force Pam Bondi's Department of Justice to start complying with the law. Specifically, the law is the Epstein Files Transparency Act that requires Bondi to release all available Epstein files, and she has already blown past multiple deadlines without a care in the world. The judge, and Congress, have the option to sanction Bondi in many ways over her failures, the question is whether or not they will use the tools at their disposal to hold her accountable.

Experts are worried that a recession is imminent at this point, and the dismal jobs report that was released on Friday has only exacerbated those fears. The report showed that December job gains were far less than expected, and they mostly happened in low wage sectors. To make things worse, the economy only added half a million jobs throughout ALL of 2025, making it one of the worst years in recent history. Trump is wrecking the economy and the job market, and everything is about to come crashing down.

The Trump administration is currently workshopping an idea to bribe citizens of Greenland with $100,000 a piece to join Donald Trump's side as he continues to push for a takeover of the territory. This sum is not only implausible considering the problems we have in the United States that could be solved with that money, but it is also incredibly insulting to residents to think that they would switch loyalty and be willing to be ruled by an authoritarian for such a small amount of money.

This probably doesn't come as a shock to anyone, but Donald Trump is not sane enough to remain in office, and his diminished mental capacity is exactly why we have the 25th Amendment. But people need to really stop and think about how insane his behavior truly is - the nonstop meltdowns, the manic mood swings, the inability to distinguish fantasy from reality - all of these are things that would get the average person booted from their jobs and possibly placed in a hospital.

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