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The president of the United States, hot to acquire Greenland, actually sent this text to the prime minister of Norway over the weekend.
"Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America."
Petulant? It's crystal clear we're being led by Veruca Salt.
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The entire planet knows that Donald Trump lusts after the Nobel Peace Prize. This week he got it—sort of.
The 2025 winner, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, presented Trump her golden medal in a golden frame at the golden White House as a "personal symbol of gratitude on behalf of the Venezuelan people."
I assume Trump's booby prize, the hastily created peace prize FIFA awarded him last month, will now be moved to a West Wing bathroom.
The Nobel Prize committee said that Machado's decision to fork over the medal doesn't change who won. The prize can't be "revoked, shared, or transferred to others."
But Trump's grin on receiving the bribe—I mean gift—showed how happy he was to be the new owner of a lightly used, second-hand medal.
Machado didn't leave the White House empty-handed. She carried away a red gift bag bearing Trump's signature in gold on the outside. As to what, if anything, was inside the swag bag, my bet is a Steven Miller Pez dispenser.
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Pedophile protector!
Ford plant worker TJ Sabula to Donald Trump, who twice mouthed an expletive and flipped him off in return
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A friend in Vermont sent me this photo taken at an anti-ICE protest in Brattleboro this past weekend. I needed the levity.
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American forces invade Venezuela to capture its president? An ICE agent fatally shoots a woman in Minneapolis?
That's what the Trump administration brought us in just the first week of 2026.
I want to turn this year in already, but I can't find the receipt.
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You got to win the midterms because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be -- I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached.
Donald Trump to Republican lawmakers—and threatening the rest of us with a good time
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The White House today rolled out a new website for the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 riots.
CNN reports the new site claims the violence "was instigated by law enforcement and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It recasts the rioters as the victims that day, and depicts President Donald Trump as a hero for granting sweeping pardons for the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the deadly attack."
Sure. And George Washington grew up on the planet Venus, and currently works as a chiropractor in Poughkeepsie.
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It's hard to know where to start with Donald Trump's having dispatched American forces to capture the Venezuelan head of state and his wife.
So I'll start with this: Both Trump and Nicolás Maduro carry the title of president, but both are dictators. And both are as crooked as Steve Buscemi's grin.
When I heard the news of the capture this morning, I immediately wondered what Trump's base would make of this. They voted him in, we're told, largely to bring down prices. MAGA is allergic to foreign affairs, yet lately that's what Trump has been fixated on, while dismissing concerns about the cost of living as a Democratic hoax.
Will MAGA forgive him for blowing them off so he and his ego can earn a place in history? Heaven knows they've forgiven him for everything else, from sexual assault to Constitution assault, so the chances are decent, alas.
I also wondered, of course, why Trump took such an aggressive step. One answer is oil. Also, a friend reminded me that Trump sees the world as divided into his portion, Xi Jinping's portion, and Vladimir Putin's portion. Trump needs to shore up his piece of the pie. Which means the polar bears of Greenland better start worrying.
While thinking about what I'd write, I decided I needed to come up with new names for Venezuela, since Trump's narcissism has recently had him naming things after himself. "Trumpela?" "Donvenez?" "The Republic of The Donald?"
Then I found out the man-child beat me to it. In his press conference hours after Maduro was snatched, Trump invoked the Monroe Doctrine, but he called it the "Don-roe Doctrine."
Someone please explain to me how a man with an ego that size doesn't simply explode?
