Mama Mia

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Once close right-wing allies, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Donald Trump are now as compatible as Risotto alla Milanese and Kool-Aid.

Trump's claim that Meloni "begged" him for a photo at the recent G7 Summit has cheesed off the Italian leader, who called the assertion "totally fabricated."

CNN points out that Trump has a lengthy history of lying about individuals begging him for things, especially when the person, formerly supportive of Trump, turns critical, as Meloni has over tariffs, the Pope, and the Iran war. "Rather than risk looking spurned, he pretends that he was the spurner."

It's about "face-saving dominance," the zillionth example of Trump's addiction to hypermasculinity. And telling whoppers.

What former supporter will he use this tactic against next? Don't be surprised if Trump claims that Marjorie Taylor Greene is begging him to appoint her special ambassador of heckling.

June 19 Does Double Duty

 

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Riley Gaines just swam the DC reflecting pool and came in fifth, right after the algae.

Paul Rudnick

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Miss Lindsey's Dream Come True

 

Lordy

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Even by Trumpian standards, this one was bananas.

In the Oval Office on Thursday, Donald Trump declared that states are snatching people's children and forcing them to transition.

"Where your child leaves your house, and they take your child from you, in some cases . . .  Think of it, in six states, they take the child and do what they want to do. What they do is, is— I don’t even want to talk about it! No transgender mutilization of your children."

That's not a typo. He really said "mutilization."

I know it's easy to say our president is a buffoon, but now he actually sounds just like Moe Howard of The Three Stooges, who often threatened, "I'll murderize you!"

Why, I wonder, have states gotten in the habit of kidnapping and performing surgery on kids? Is it a moneymaker, a way of paying for roads and bridges? Or do state officials simply like to dress up as the Child Catcher in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?"

Trump failed to mention which six states are doing this dreadful thing. So I'm forced to guess:  East Dakota, Upper Carolina, Lower Slobbovia, Calisota, Missitucky, and Moosylvania.

And they should all be ashamed of themselves.

Solemn Day

 

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Mace arrived in Congress after flipping a Charleston-area district in 2020 and built a reputation as a moderate who appealed to swing voters. She voted to codify same-sex marriage rights, called herself "pro transgender rights" and urged her party to "meet in the middle" with Democrats on abortion. By last year, Mace had begun repeatedly mocking transgender people as "trannies" and disparaged gay relationships on social media. In recent days, Mace suggested a Republican opponent in the governor’s race came from "a slum in India."

Natalie Allison on Rep. Nancy Mace's dismal finish yesterday in South Carolina's GOP gubernatorial primary

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