Stephen Miller says India is financing Russia's war on Ukraine. Not acceptable: Top Trump aide accuses India of financing Russia's war in Ukraine
During a cabinet meeting, Trump went on a 13-minute monologue about cosmetics of the White House when he was supposed to be addressing the flooding in Texas. A portion of Trump's remarks. ‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity excerpt: "Here we put out – you know these, these lamps have been very important actually, whether people love them or not but they’re if you see pictures like Pearl Harbor or Tora! Tora! Tora!, you see movies about the White House where wars are being discussed, oftentimes they’ll show those lamps or something like those lamps, something that looks like them. Probably not the reals, because I don’t think they’re allowed to – this is a very important room, this is a sacred room, and I don’t think they made movies from here. You never know what they do. But they were missing, er, medallions. See the medallions on top? They had a chain going into the ceiling. And I said: ‘You can’t do that. You have to have a medallion.’ They said, ‘What’s a medallion?’ I said: ‘I’ll show you.’ And then we got some beautiful medallions, and you see them, they were put up there, makes the lamps look [inaudible] so we did these changes. And when you think of it, the cost was almost nothing. We also painted the room a nice color, beige color, and it’s been really something. The only question is, will I gold-leaf the corners? You could maybe tell me. My cabinet could take a vote. You see the top-line moldings, and the only question is do you go and leaf it? Because you can’t paint it, if you paint it it won’t look good because they’ve never found a paint that looks like gold. You see that in the Oval Office. Er, they’ve tried for years and years. Somebody could become very wealthy, but they’ve never found a paint that looks like gold. So painting is easy but it won’t look right.”
Trump is still doing his 'drip, drip, drip' water faucet story, this time at a roundtable in July 2025. He recited it many times during his rallies during the 2024 campaign. Donald Trump Attends a Roundtable on Immigration in Ochopee, Florida - July 1, 2025 Roll Call Factba.se - Remarks: Donald Trump Attends a Roundtable on Immigration in Ochopee, Florida - July 1, 2025 excerpt: Donald Trump 01:02:48-01:03:19 (31 sec) "I signed more executive orders than anybody in history, times like three or four and I got rid of just one -- I got rid of the other night, you buy a house, they have a faucet in the house, Joe, and the faucet, the water doesn't come out. They have a restrictor. In areas where you have so much water, they don't know what to do with it. You have a shower head, the shower doesn't -- you think it's not working, it is working, the water is dripping out and that's no good for me, I like this hair nice and -- I like that hair nice and wet." Donald Trump 01:03:19-01:03:37 (18 sec) "Takes you -- you have to stand in the shower for 20 minutes before you get the soap out of your hair. And I put a thing in, and it sounds funny, but it's really not -- it's horrible. And when you wash your hands, you turn on the faucet and no water comes out. You're washing and the water barely comes out, it's ridiculous."
After that, he went on to rant about washing machines, dishwashers, and drinking straws that aren't plastic.
Top economist warns the U.S. is ‘on the precipice of recession’ — and it will be hard for the Fed to come to the rescue By Jason Ma, Weekend Editor August 3, 2025 Top economist warns the U.S. is 'on the precipice of recession' — and it will be hard for the Fed to come to the rescue
Trump is like those old mechanical laughing bag toys where the string is pulled and it recites a phrase at random from a limited repertoire.
The way things are going, Vance might want to have plans in place for replacing the Coke button in the Oval Office with a mascara button.
GOP and Trump forging ahead with gerrymandering plan in Texas that will try to net them 5 extra seats for the 2026 midterm elections. Texas Democrats flee state to block Trump-backed redistricting vote in dramatic legislative move excerpt: "The redistricting proposal, which was introduced by Texas House Republicans last week, would likely net five new Republican U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterm elections. Gene Wu, chair of the House Democratic Caucus, defended the Democrats' last-ditch effort in a statement on Sunday. "This is not a decision we make lightly, but it is one we make with absolute moral clarity," Wu said. But leaving the state could expose the Democrats to penalties, including fines, and Attorney General Ken Paxton previously threatened to arrest them over the civil violation. "[T]hey should be found and arrested no matter where they go," the attorney general said."
‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity excerpt: “If you go back and look at film from the 1980s, [Trump] actually was extremely articulate. He was still a jerk, but he was able to express himself in polished paragraphs, and now he really has trouble completing a thought and that is a huge deterioration.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/03/business/trump-suspends-duty-free-shipments-temu-shein excerpt: "Lower-income households will suffer the most from higher prices on Chinese e-commerce sites. About 48% of de minimis packages were shipped to America’s poorest zip codes, while 22% were delivered to the richest ones, according to research in February from UCLA and Yale economists."
Trump will now feel compelled to cut off all funding to UCLA and Yale until they change their 'rigged' figures so that they support him.
Trump converts Rose Garden into Stone Garden. Trump paves over White House Rose Garden lawn with concrete
We do not need any deminimus exception to support state corporations like Temu and Schien. Nor to enable shipments of fentymil ingredients. We don't need any tarriff rebates. This is federal income. No bribe checks please. Cut the deficit. Is anyone complaining about State Sales Taxes? It's 6.625% in my area.
Trump has similar stone paver areas at his outdoor settings at Mar-a-Lago. Trump is also building a $200 million grand ballroom at the White House modeled after the ones at Mar-a-Lago. He erected two giant flagpoles at the White House. Decades ago, Trump started a fight with the local government of Palm Beach by erecting a giant flagpole and flag at Mar-a-Lago that violated city ordinance. He's converting the White House into Mar-a-Lago.