Trump's Second Term

[Andy_Ross]

Sean Hannity
@seanhannity
They will not show you this on the nightly news: President Trump riding the Freedom Train, a full cavalry escort on horseback alongside him, celebrating 250 years of American independence. Pure patriotism

video in link

 

[dann]

The Reflecting Pool revisited

In a hearing last week, there was yet another example of a Trump appointee who was asked questions and made a show of pretending to answer because actual answers would have upset Donald Trump:

"Did Someone Cut A 350-Foot Gash": Whitehouse Grills USFWS Nom On Alleged Reflecting Pool Vandalism (Forbes Breaking News on YouTube, June 24, 2026 – 6 min.)
During a Senate Environment Committee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse questioned USFWS Assistant Secretary nominee, Kevin Lilly about the Reflecting Pool.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse:
1:51–> I grew up in the foreign service and there were plenty of countries in which arrests made to satisfy a political leader's narrative that had no basis in fact was something that they did. The American system of justice has not operated that way. What can you tell me here today about what damage was done to the reflecting pool, where this 350 ft gash came from, and why tourists are being arrested, what is the factual predicate for these arrests?
(...)
2:48–> So you'd agree with me that arresting tourists to vindicate a political narrative not because of any evidence of a crime would be a wrong thing to do if that were what happened. Correct?
(...)
3:59–> So what's the predicate then? Was there in fact a 350 foot gash done by a vandal to the reflecting pool?
(...)
4:29–> But Mr. Lilly, the question is, was there vandalism? Did someone cut a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? And what vandalism did these individuals do? Is it really vandalism to pick a piece of floating peeled paint out of the reflection pool? People have run through the reflecting pool in the past. The president drove through the reflecting pool apparently.
(...)
5:18–> Was there or was there not a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool?
(...)
5.28–> Your statement doesn't answer the question. (...) Okay. Don't want to answer the question. I can see why you don't want to answer the question. You're in a terrible position because the president has made up a 350 foot gash and unfortunately now police officers are being put in the position of having to make arrests that I suspect are going to fare very badly in court because there's nothing about touching the reflecting pool or picking up a piece of floating peeling paint that amounts to vandalism as a matter of law.

The (...) are all Kevin Lilly pretending to answer but telling the senator only how much he admires and respects law & order, the police in general and the U.S. Park Police in particular. Watch it for those non-answers.

The whole hearing can be found here:
Hearing on the Nomination of Kevin Lilly to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife of the U.S. Department of the Interior (U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, June 24, 2026 – 1:17:58)

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Sean Hannity
@seanhannity
They will not show you this on the nightly news: President Trump riding the Freedom Train, a full cavalry escort on horseback alongside him, celebrating 250 years of American independence. Pure patriotism

video in link

Why did they cut away from the bit where Trump had to manage the six steps down from the train? Is that something else they won't show you on the nightly news?

 

[W.D.Clinger]

Again, Trump said nobody left his speech. Again, that wasn’t true [CNN]

That's the sort of lie a thin-skinned narcissist would tell.

 

[dann]

Sean Hannity
@seanhannity
They will not show you this on the nightly news: President Trump riding the Freedom Train, a full cavalry escort on horseback alongside him, celebrating 250 years of American independence. Pure patriotism
video in link

I doubt that Hannity will show him riding this:

 

[jimbob]

That's the sort of lie a thin-skinned narcissist would tell.

Like Obama? I am informed they are both similar narcissists.


I had to play the straight man to your obvious set-up

 

[Mike!]

 

[shemp]

White House Officials Reportedly Deleted Photos of Trump Rally After President Became ‘Enraged’ by Poor Attendance

President Donald Trump became so enraged by photos of a small crowd at his rally kicking off the Great American State Fair that White House officials deleted the images from their social media accounts, CNN reported on Wednesday.

www.mediaite.com

President Donald Trump became so enraged by photos of a small crowd at his rally kicking off the Great American State Fair that White House officials deleted the images from their social media accounts, CNN reported on Wednesday.

 

[shemp]

US Postal Service cannot carry out Trump order on mail ballot delivery, judge rules

A federal judge blocked the US Postal Service from carrying out its plan for President Donald Trump’s mail ballot executive order, finding that the proposal violated a settlement in a 2020 lawsuit against the agency.

Trump had directed USPS to only transmit ballots for states that submit to the agency lists of their mail-in voters and that meet other requirements for their mail voting programs. Previously, a judge in Boston had halted the Postal Service from implementing the order for two-dozen states that challenged it in court. But the new ruling from US District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who sits in Washington DC, blocks the directives nationwide.

If courts let Trump’s order from March 2026 stand, it would give the federal government an unprecedented role in elections — and could put even more voter data in the hands of Trump officials searching for supposed election fraud.

Trump’s order would also require that mail ballot envelopes have individualized barcodes for automated tracking. That policy is seen as a best practice for election administration but one that many jurisdictions would face challenges in implementing, because of the cost of such a change.

It also directs the Department of Homeland Security to draw from federal databases to assemble lists of voting age citizens in each state, stoking fears that the lists will be used for overly aggressive voter purges.

 

[Regnad Kcin]

Again, Trump said nobody left his speech. Again, that wasn’t true [CNN]

“…using his position to state untrue things for propaganda reasons.”

AKA: lie like a cheap toupee.

 

[Regnad Kcin]

Gut

Obama!

Jessica: The fact that you’re ok with Trump making 2.2 billion is one of the most ludicrous things—-

Gutfeld: He was making billions before and he’ll make billions after. How much did money did the Clintons and the Obamas make?

video in link

Gutfeld looks like a bottom to my eyes. So strongly, it’s even apparent to me, I, who knows zero about such gay things.

 

[Mike!]

 

[plague311]

I'd sooner be treated by Dr Harold Shipman

 

[W.D.Clinger]

That's the sort of lie a thin-skinned narcissist would tell.

Like Obama? I am informed they are both similar narcissists.

Here at ISF, I've been informed of all sorts of things. Just recently, a uniquely qualified source told me I could increase my IQ by at least 95 standard deviations, just by purchasing his dietary supplements listening to music or some such. And I have been informed that my cousin's work on managing development of onboard software for the Apollo program was part of a vast conspiracy to fake the moon landings.

To give an example that's more on topic for this thread, I recall a bunch of natterers informing us that Benford's Law proves the 2020 presidential election was stolen. It seems a lot of people are so unfamiliar with mathematics that they think Benford's Law is a mathematical theorem that applies to all probability distributions.

 

[Mongrel]

One Planck length per fortnight?

What sort of commie measurement is that‽
What's that in thou?

 

[Jack by the hedge]

What sort of commie measurement is that‽
What's that in thou?

Thou shalt not doubt Trump?

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Why did they cut away from the bit where Trump had to manage the six steps down from the train? Is that something else they won't show you on the nightly news?

To be fair, I did eventually find video of his coming down the steps. It was neither impressively jaunty nor amusingly trepidatious. Only the sort of deliberate and careful descent you might expect of an eighty year old.

 

[jimbob]

To give an example that's more on topic for this thread, I recall a bunch of natterers informing us that Benford's Law proves the 2020 presidential election was stolen. It seems a lot of people are so unfamiliar with mathematics that they think Benford's Law is a mathematical theorem that applies to all probability distributions.

Yes.

There are analyses that can show suspicious voting behaviours (other than the examples like the 1927 Liberian General Election with a 1255% turnout).

Some very dodgy results from Russia recently.

 

[Regnad Kcin]

Karoline Leavitt
@karolineleavitt
What a privilege to be aboard the inaugural flight on the brand new Air Force One! A truly unforgettable day

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Okay, Karoline, look at the camera and say: “cheesy rapist.”

 

[zooterkin]

The best always yet to come. It’s always right around the corner.

Trump: The best is yet to come. It will be coming. It’s here. It’s coming at speeds that nobody thought possible

video in link

Jam tomorrow, as my mum used to say (and hers too, I'm sure).