Outside the Beltway

Team Trump and the DIA assessment of the Iran bombings.

Is that really a good idea?

For all practical purposes, the Constitutional war powers have been stood on their head.

Well, I feel better now.

No. But it won’t matter.

Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize obsession.

We’re officially past rhyming and into history (or at least rhetoric) repeating.

The challenges and harms of meeting campaign promises.

The prize: sick and dead US children

Spoiler alert: the joke wasn’t funny

Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg.

There’s always a tweet

Resisting gaslighting must be social. It’s crucial for those who oppose Trump’s falsehoods to remind each other, again and again, that 2 + 2 = 4.

Well, most of them.

Hint: another variables may be the key.

Keeping a running list of examples of the dishonesty, unreality, poor governance, and authoritarianism of the Trump administration.

More from the annals of unrealty.

Or does it?

He is either too dishonest or too stupid to hold the office (or, you know, both).

The GOP budget bill.

That’s a problem, given her job and all.

Presidents have wide latitude in this area but many say 47 is exceeding his authority.

A passing observation on the attempt to gift Trump a plane.

Facts are stubborn things.

Trump’s weird rhetoric on trade.

A basic definition.

Even Republicans are balking at some Trump policies.

Public misconceptions about federal waste invite tolerance for questionable workarounds to the constitutionally prescribed manner of determining appropriations.

Being nice at dinner is easy.

There may be no exit.

The Trump administration treats personally disfavored American institutions the way past administrations treated foreign adversaries. His goal is political submission.

They are also considering another US Farmer Bailout while simultaneously cutting funds to help US Farmers and other residents

It’s good to be king.

Be prepared for a rocky day and potentially more changes to “the plan”

Or they maybe happening at 10%… Who knows?! Clearly not the White House.

Things have to be bad when they actually start to speak the truth to the President

Remember Trump cannot fail, he can only be failed!

This one should come with a warning label (especially as it cuts both ways)

* – but the tariffs didn’t start until April 2

A response to an argument based on feels not facts

It’s like tab clearing, but for those with no attention spa… squirrel!

Who would have guessed?

We are at least on the precipice.

Is the DOGE now on a leash?

A seemingly obvious ruling was nonetheless 5-4.

Who’d of thought that Donald Trump would do what he campaigned on doing?!