Without me digging into the details, there are a metric crap-tonne of things that the Executive gets to do/not do in the interest of “National Security” or “Emergency Powers.”
And Trump is wielding those exceptional powers as if they were air freshener.
Things like the Presumption of Regularity, Basic Human Decency, and the Constitutional guardrails that always depended on these things and people of good character and motivation at the helm … used to keep these things from running amok.
I’m now well old enough to remember that quixotic notion
I know that we all know this, but … like so many things in 2.0 … I’m just gobsmacked by it all, all the time.
dougrb
September 20, 2026, 11:54pm
9002
Lutnick has changed the rules so government agencies can fudge statistical data. MeidasTouch
This is a club we don’t want to belong to.
You have my earnest sympathy, but 70 million votes over 3 election cycles casts some doubt over the composition of “we”.
Monty
September 21, 2026, 1:22am
9005
Denmark has something to say.
Donald Trump has faced ridicule from Danish commentators following his celebration of a major security agreement for Greenland that analysts describe as merely maintaining the “status quo” and offering little beyond a cosmetic rebranding of current arrangements. The US President’s triumphant declaration of the deal has backfired dramatically, with Danish politicians and experts labeling it a “spectacular defeat”.
Taking to Truth Social, President Trump proclaimed a “historic” achievement, asserting that Washington had obtained “permanent control” over security matters on the Arctic island at “NO COST to the United States”.
He declared the pact a “dream come true” that would permanently prevent American rivals from making strategic investments or establishing military installations on the resource-rich territory. It comes after Trump committed a disgustingly disrespectful act in front of the cameras at the 9/11 memorial.
Yet the announcement drew sharp criticism throughout Copenhagen and Nuuk, where observers noted that the agreement preserves Danish sovereignty entirely and introduces virtually no substantive changes.
Yet the announcement drew sharp criticism throughout Copenhagen and Nuuk, where observers noted that the agreement preserves Danish sovereignty entirely and introduces virtually no substantive changes.
After months of combative language - including warnings about forcibly taking the island and calls to absorb the NATO partner’s land - Mr Trump secured no territorial gains whatsoever.
Torsten Jansen, a leading US analyst for Danish broadcaster TV2, offered a withering assessment of the US President’s self-declared victory.
“Even though Trump is trying to blare it out as a victory, it is, as I see it, a spectacular defeat,” he said. Danish media proved equally unsparing in their coverage.
One national newspaper correspondent joked: “Shhh. Don’t tell Trump that it’s the Kingdom of Denmark that has prevailed.”
His fourth wife accompanies him back to what’s left of the White House.
The aide who sticks to Donald Trump like glue tottered back to the White House after the president cut short his weekend stay at Maryland’s Camp David on Saturday.
Natalie Harp, 35, the always-at-Trump’s-side “human printer” who churns out copies of positive articles about the 80-year-old president, climbed into a separate helicopter just before Trump boarded the Marine One presidential chopper, according to the pool report.
There was no obvious reason for Harp to be with Trump at Camp David, other than that she accompanies him everywhere.
And here’s what happens when she whispers sweet nothings to the felon.
President Donald Trump announced his ban against CNN, MS NOW, and Politico just hours after executive aide Natalie Harp showed him a clip of MS NOW bashing his administration, according to a Sunday report from The Wall Street Journal .
MS NOW’s critical coverage added to months of irritation about how the press has been covering his second term, but the video Harp showed Trump made his frustrations reach a “fever pitch,” the report said.
“Behind the scenes, the president has told aides he doesn’t have enough political allies defending him on television and making the case for his second-term achievements, according to people familiar with the matter,” the report continued. “White House spokesman Steven Cheung said Trump’s allies have ‘done an incredible job of getting the message out to voters.’”
Evidently Killer Kennedy as HHS secretary and Musk’s DOGE haven’t destroyed the country’s health enough.
Donald Trump ’s latest executive order is expected to establish a board responsible for approving National Institutes of Health grant funding, marking another attempt by the Trump administration to censor topics that do not align with the president’s agenda.
The executive order, reported by outlets including the Washington Post and Politico , was discussed in a meeting on Friday where senior administration officials accused the NIH of funding “woke” initiatives that went against Trump’s political priorities.
Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s office of management and budget (OMB), and other administration officials proposed an executive order that would create an external committee that could veto awards in biomedical research that do not align with Trump’s goals, according to several people who spoke to the Washington Post.
The board would include Vought and the NIH director, Jay Bhattacharya, according to Politico, and it would be required to reach unanimous decisions on grant awards. The OMB is the White House agency in charge of implementing the president’s policies in the executive branch.
Establishing an external commission to award grants based on the president’s ideological agenda breaks with the agency’s traditional process of evaluating proposals on scientific merit. Bhattacharya has resisted cuts to federal research spending and defended the NIH’s grant-making process on Friday, while Vought expressed a desire to reshape federal spending.
He’s posting again about changing the name of AI. If you ask me, he missed a great opportunity by not having a choice be “Tremendous Intelligence”. That would be a sure winner.
TBI
Odesio
September 21, 2026, 2:16am
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Guest-starring_Id:
The Best Intelligence.
Many people are saying TBI is the best choice. Smart people.
Isn’t “Supreme Intelligence” who they claim to pray to?
It’s the name of the organic supercomputer which rules the alien Kree race in Marvel Comics.
Bonus that it is usually depicted in the comics as a large and rather fat face.
DWMarch
September 21, 2026, 3:43am
9011
And one again, life imitates Idiocracy. That movie had the “Extreme Court”.
I’m pretty sure we are also running out of french fries and burrito covers.
It is a game to them. Asked about a visit by Xi, when he heard the reporter describe China as “repressive”, the orange mush brain Felon had to say (video warning – but it is brief) that we are repressive too. The reporters have stupidity-bingo cards the size of the Viet Nam memorial wall.
Monty
September 21, 2026, 4:50am
9013
Even he realizes he cannot rename it Superior Intelligence. How would he handle that after he renames Lake Superior after himself?
What a deluded piece of shit.
