The felon always wants to project strength. Inevitability.
These stories are chosen to weaken him, so we are elevating them.
I must say, the MSM seems to be waking up. More and more people are pushing back.
And the people working for him are often demoralized. Like contractors and new ICE guys and the poor prosecutors left at the DOJ.
Note this is just a small sample of the negative stories about the felon this week (both you and I have other things to do in our lives). But, if you have more stories you want to suggest, please put them in the comments.
🐔 TACO
The felon always chickens out.
You know he renamed the Kennedy Center with the belief that all these wonderful, glamorous artists would finally give him the homage he thinks he deserves. Instead, all the good artists cancelled. Can’t advertise a new season when no one will perform!
So, he’s closing it for two years, pretending it’s for renovations, even though it was just renovated.
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"The Kennedy Center has been a living memorial for 55 years to President Kennedy, to the arts, and it's been nonpartisan. And in just one short year, (Trump) has destroyed all of that," said former Kennedy Center board member Barbara Comstock. https://to.pbs.org/45ObjTQ
— PBS News (@pbsnews.org) 2026-02-03T02:35:01.206481355Z
I wonder if it will survive? Possibly not. He may be so pissed off that he knocks it down.
And there was that amazing special election in TEXAS!
The felon also recently chickened out about Greenland.
Now he’s threatening elections: how do we make him chicken out there?
💩 Epstein
There was a lot in the release last Friday! People are still going through it, and boy, some of it’s disgusting.
I posted a story on this on Monday (as I type this, it’s still up).
The felon is not believed:
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Most Americans say Trump is covering up Epstein Scandal
Over half of Americans disapprove of the way Trump is handling the Epstein scandal.
Reuters/Ipsos poll found 70% said they believe govt is hiding info about people tied to Epstein’s victimization of young women
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
— Hedy Lamarr (@chudonew.bsky.social) 2026-02-02T13:11:55.063Z
Wow, the guy who was behind 4chan was friends with Epstein
Not just Elon Musk. but his brother, too:
The Clintons are now planning to testify. Of course, they don’t want to be held in contempt, but one of their conditions for testifying was that all the files be released. They have not all been released, but there’s enough out there to implicate some of the very guilty.
With the Clintons agreeing to testify, that (a) keeps the story alive, which we want, and (b) sets a precedent for others coming in to testify (like the felon and the melon). The Clintons are pretty capable of defending themselves, so they should do OK.
💵 Economy
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This is bad!
Wholesale prices just spiked way above expectations. PPI up 0.5% in one month, core PPI up 0.7% when experts expected 0.3%.
Translation: costs that hit companies are climbing fast, and they do not magically disappear. They get passed straight to you and me.
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-01-30T15:58:11.624Z
Credit cards
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Trump claims he wants to cap credit card interest rates.
But before his announcement, his own regulators filed a legal brief opposing a Colorado law that would do just that.
Don’t believe his fake populism for a second. He will always govern for the rich and powerful — not you.
— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2026-02-03T00:01:08.280499Z
We haven’t heard much about health insurance, because of the firehose of news, but many people have to be suffering at this point.
Not sure if this belongs in the economy section or the corruption section, as it is such a blatant lie:
From the article:
At the most recent Cabinet meeting, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler parroted, “The $18 trillion you brought in created an economic boom like none we’ve ever seen before. We are going to have 7% GDP growth. GDP Now is probably being underestimated where it is.” Actually, the latest GDP Now estimate, from the New York Fed, is 2.7%. But that muted “boom” was last year, and it lasted only one quarter. It tells us nothing about 2026.
No matter how often Trump minions keep repeating it, this hyperbolic $18 trillion number is still as unfathomable to everyone who has tried to explain or find it. Not one of the several hundred economists in the White House and Cabinet agencies has even tried to explain what the number is supposed to measure or how it was fabricated.
What could it possibly mean to say that Trump “brought in” $18 trillion? That number is nearly as big as China’s GDP in an entire year. Where did it come from? Where has it gone?
If some fraction of this unseen $18 trillion that “Trump brought in” was already creating an economic boom, then why hasn’t anyone shown us the booming economic statistics for manufacturing, employment, construction, or foreign investment?
💰Corruption and Incompetence
The corruption is staggering.
$500 million from Abu Dhabi
Shaking down everyone he can.
Unfortunately, the 10 billion would come from us, the taxpayers, and the felon has influence on both sides, by arranging a settlement rather than going through court.
IANAL or a Constitutional expert. Is there a way to stop this?
Some of the felon’s fans realizing they’re getting ripped off (crypto version) Tim Craig DL News via Yahoo Finance
When Trump fans snapped up $550 million worth of WLFI, the token tied to the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial crypto project, they thought they were getting the deal of the century.
Tokens bought for between $0.015 and $0.05 between October 2024 and January 2025 soared to an all-time high of $0.33 when they started trading last September, turning modest purchases into small fortunes overnight — at least on paper.
But there was just one catch.
World Liberty Financial’s creators, which include US President Donald Trump and his sons Eric, Donald Jr., and Barron, granted themselves the sole power to decide who can sell and when.
The project has so far released 20% of the tokens and has promised a vote among holders on when the rest will be made available for trading.
But months have passed, and that vote hasn’t materialised.
Now, dozens of token holders are taking to the World Liberty Financial forum, begging the protocol’s creators to let them cash out as they watch WLFI’s value evaporate.
The token has fallen some 54% over the past five months.
“Nearly 80% of WLFI presale tokens are still locked after almost two years,” said one WLFI holder. “We held through volatility and silence because we believed. But at what point does patience turn into neglect?”
Um, it’s not neglect; taking their money was always the point! But they are slow, not understanding the money only flows one way.
🔫War Crimes and Cruelty
Greg Sargent talks with Parada about how ICE is organizing the opposition (that’s to say, us, especially Democrats) Tne New Republic
Sargent: I think that’s a critical point that we should dwell on a sec. They are locked into this in the sense that they have gotten Congress to appropriate truly enormous sums of money for this operation. And that is now being spent. They’re scaling up ICE in a major way. They’re buying—who knows what the hell—equipment, weaponry?
They’re talking about buying warehouses now to put people in detention, even though right now the detention system is absolutely maxed out at, I think, over 60,000. This is something that is becoming kind of a non-controllable carceral state—a real kind of juggernaut that can’t really be controlled anymore. And I think they’re on the verge of losing control of this. It reminds me a little bit of what happened with the buildup of the War on Terror bureaucracy under George W. Bush. Does that sound right to you?
Parada: That sounds exactly right. This is a runaway train. They have lost control. Even when Trump tries to be surgical in enforcement actions, that is not what happens on the ground. And by doing so, they’re organizing the opposition. This police state is actually creating opposition. I wouldn’t even say across party lines; I’d say regardless of party lines.
I just met with some organizers in Roxbury, New Jersey, where a town council of all Republicans stood up and said that they were opposing the warehouse being opened up there. And then in Hanover, in Virginia—everything is frozen in Virginia right now; I can barely get out of my driveway—literally hundreds of people turned out to a town council meeting. And the vote out of the town council in a really deep-red part of Virginia was that, no, they do not want the warehouse.
And so the videos that—I don’t know what the administration thought they would accomplish by taping all of the abuses—but by doing so, they are turning people against what is happening because it’s no longer viewed as reasonable or “law and order.” It is like a terrifying police state that no one thinks they are safe under.
One reason they may not be able to go after all of us is because they don’t have the staff.
Prosecutors are leaving (FOX 9) Nick Longworth
(FOX 9) - Less than a month after six federal prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota announced their resignations in the wake of allegedly being told to investigate the widow of Renee Good, sources have confirmed eight more are leaving now over mounting frustrations with continued immigration enforcement policies handed down by the Trump administration and Department of Justrice.
Those who remain are having a really hard time of it:
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According to FOX 9, a Minneapolis federal judge demanded to know why DOJ is missing deadlines & AUSA Julie Le said, "The system sucks, this job sucks" & asked to be held in contempt so she could sleep.
PACER shows she got assigned to defend the govt in 88+ cases since Operation Metro Surge started.
— Jose Pagliery (@josepagliery.bsky.social) 2026-02-03T21:27:53.210Z
😄 Unpopularity.
New poll shows majority think the felon is doing worse than Biden. That is despite all the felon fluffing and Biden bashing of the media over the years.
❤️ As we know from above, the felon lost in Texas. A very red seat!
This is a video from Rick Wilson with his son Andrew Wilson, where they look at recent polls:
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Don’t want to watch? Here are some salient points:
- A Pew poll: Republican support for the felon’s agenda has gone down from 67 to 56 %
- Republicans think that GOP Congresspeople do not need to support the felon when they disagree with him.
- Talks about how important firearms are to many in the GOP base, and how the felon’s attitude toward the 2nd Amendment really disconcerted them.
Another Rick Wilson video (sorry, when I start doing one video, I do them all):
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Again, I understand if you don’t want to watch, and the key points are summarized well in the show description:
This week’s Elephant in the Room is simple: Trump is losing—and everyone can see it. Inflation is still squeezing voters where it hurts, and no amount of fear-mongering can spin grocery bills, rent, or gas prices. On immigration, the administration’s answer has been to let U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement run feral—escalating raids, brutality, and spectacle that dominated headlines this week and triggered backlash even among swing voters. The result? A political own-goal: cruelty without control, chaos without results, and optics so toxic they’re pushing the middle further away. In this episode, Rick breaks down why Donald Trump is hemorrhaging trust on the economy, why extreme ICE tactics are backfiring in real time, and how this week made painfully clear that fear politics doesn’t beat inflation—and never has.
In other words, he’s losing on his core issues: the economy and on immigration. Yeah, he never should have had any cred in the first place, but now reality is hitting people hard enough that they — at least some — are not denying it. The big issue before was The Apprentice; thanks to that stupid reality show, many people believed he was a good businessman.
Note Wilson also talks about how the felon’s policies are especially hard on farmers, and how rural bankruptcies will be numerous later this year.
💉Health and Cognition
Some people think that elevating stories about the felon’s health issues is irresponsible. That it causes false hope.
I maintain these stories weaken him and his enablers. First, it’s obvious that the felon has medical issues, as evidenced by many symptoms (and I bet they are hiding many more). Second, it’s clear they are lying about it in order to stay in power themselves (which should make them even less credible in the post-felon era).
Third, even if it doesn’t give you hope, it may give you some Schadenfreude. After all, the felon has done so much damage to our country and to the planet.
Anyway, this is a video from the David Pakman show, where he has a conversation with Adam James, a physical therapist.
James has a lot of experience with people who are sick, and he predicts only a few months for the felon (some of the felon’s words indicate a near-term expiration date as well). Most likely diagnosis, in his opinion, for those enormous cankles is congestive heart failure.
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There’s also a video from a press conference where it was speculated that the felon pooped his pants:
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I cannot say for sure the president pooped himself in public, but it's generally odd for the president to be acting as if he's pooped himself in public.
The good news is Bobby Jr. certified it organic.
— 🗽LOLGOP🗽 (@thefarce.org) 2026-02-02T11:51:42.069Z
This is not the only evidence of his having bowel movement issues. Adam Kinzinger once wondered why no one ever reports on how bad the felon smells, and there are golfing pictures where it seems as if the pants are covering a large diaper.
Of course, many people have issues with continence and there is no shame in it. But this is not an example of a guy in great health.
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