Trump has been trying to block the opening of a new Canada-US bridge which would end the monopoly of a single (toll) bridge owned by a billionaire who has recently made significant cash contributions to Trump funds. As of now, it seems that this blatant bit of quid pro quo has been kaiboshed by the combined resistance of Canada and Michigan.

This video covers a wide range of aspects of Trump’s rule, including his latest Cabinet performance and the attempts by those who are ‘managing not serving’ him to hide his deterioration. It claims that: We connect the dots between Trump’s monument obsession, federal funding leverage tactics, attacks on education, ICE enforcement expansion, and the historical parallels that experts have warned about for years. This isn’t partisan outrage. This is pattern recognition. History matters. Memory matters. Accountability matters. And it ends with the comment: Future generations aren’t going to ask Was Trump a great president? They going to ask How on earth did American s fall for this twice? His name isn’t going to stand for greatness; it’s going to stand for American decline, the weakening of democracy and con man who nearly destroyed a republic. TBH, it seems to be an AI concoction but a pretty accurate one.

I read this today about Putin: He correctly surmised that lies united, rather than divided, Russia’s political class. The greater and more obvious the lie, the more his subjects demonstrated their loyalty by accepting it. One wonders if Trump was taught this by Putin early in his political career, if not before, when persuading Trump to run for president. With Russia’s help.