State of Friday: TRUMP'S SILLY SELF IMMOLATION
The next generation of Republicans is growing ever more impatient.
Greetings, Dear Reader,
I’ll warn you in advance, many of you might hate me for this.
I’m disappointed and angry. I’m 43. If you slide down the age bracket, that anger and disappointment only become more pronounced.
But hey, did you hear Trump announce the new Patriot Games?
TRUMP’S SILLY SELF-IMMOLATION
If the first three months of Trump’s second presidency were a blitz of wins, successes, and triumphs, then the last three have been a lazy and vain self-immolation.
Just the past week has been mystifying. I would be more enraged if I wasn’t so confused.
The White House announces new plaques have been installed underneath presidential portraits. Trump’s mentioned in the oddest places. He’s somehow mentioned in Andrew Jackson’s plaque.
He follows that up with a late-night announcement of a new war with Venezuela. No follow-up explanation comes. His cabinet simply reposts his unhinged, all-caps, Truth Social post about it with no additional commentary. Is America going to war? Why? How? To what end? Nobody knows.
He reschedules weed to make it more accessible, as if we need more dudes getting high next to daycare centers. He announces the Kennedy Center has been renamed the “Trump Kennedy” Center. He announces not only will Christmas be a federal holiday, but Christmas Eve as well. He announces the “Patriot Games,” in which each state will provide athletes to compete for him at America’s 250th celebration.
Hail Panem!
Every step of the way, his too online heralds shriek about his brilliance. 75-D chess master! A marketing genius!
He spends 15 minutes on prime time TV the day after his war announcement discussing everything but the new war. Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh called it “the most pointless primetime presidential address ever delivered in American history,” which I actually consider an understatement.
It’s been three months since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and I think maybe five antifas total have been indicted. The promised scourge of lefty funding, far left extremists, radical institutions hasn’t materialized the way it would if, say, the left was pulling the strings and 300 Republicans broke some windows in a federal building.
The urgency that once permeated the Trump presidency has given way to a bonfire of vanities. FBI Director Kash Patel is on Katie Miller’s podcast talking about his “girlfriend.” Dan Bongino is heading back to radio. God knows how many people were involved in fabricating those new plaques, how much intellectual capital went into the “Patriot Games” and the Christmas Day designation.
And in the meantime, the next generation of Republicans is growing ever more impatient.
Amber Duke’s beautiful and concise Substack on the matter ought to be read.
“Things now seem lethargic, bored, silly,” she writes. “The black and gold Truth Social plaques might not seem like a big deal, but to me they’re indicative of growing disinterest by this administration in effecting real change for the American people.”
In it, she cites a recent poll out of Rasmussen conducted by Mark Mitchell. His central contention is that the steam running out of the administration is costing him among voters under 30 and “even the under 40s.”
“These people, 49% of them, say Trump hasn’t done enough of what he promised. Only 19% of them say he’s done too much … Three quarters of them think that basically every elected official is using their position for ill-gotten gain. They’re the most likely to want arrests,” he said. “I have all these metrics that Trump just hasn’t delivered.”
“These people are just done with performative politics, they don’t care about ideology at all, they just want brutal order,” he said during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room.
An illegal was just arrested a mile away from where my kids go to school for allegedly killing someone. It’s his second murder charge in five years. He’s assaulted police officers. He’s assaulted citizens. He’s stolen property. And now there are two bodies linked to his crimes and, to make matters worse, rumors that he’s connected to MS-13.
Why was he out on the streets? A corrupt Soros prosecutor.
I’m sure there are several things Fairfax Commonwealth Attorney Steven Descano is good at, but nothing better than looking away. He looked away when Fairfax turned into a hotbed of brothels, prostitution and human trafficking. He looked away when Richard Cox was caught masturbating in front of a mother and child in a women’s locker room (because Cox claimed to be a transgender woman). He looked away when this MS-13 guy murdered someone only to go on to (allegedly) murder someone again.
They “want arrests.”
Let’s start with Descano, Trump.
There was a real moment there when Charlie Kirk was killed. Trump could have actually run that scourge. He could have gone full tilt. Ramped up mass deportations to cosmic levels. Purged the universities. Raided and arrested violent leftists by the 100. Mass incarcerations. Investigated corrupt and negligent far-left prosecutors like Descano nationwide on trumped-up charges.
Those under 40s would have cheered every new development.
“They just want brutal order.”
Instead, they get Kash Patel sitting with Katie Miller to talk about girlfriends. They get plaques and federal holidays and pointless prime time speeches.
They get nothing, and that’s what they’ll give back to the GOP in 2026.
Nothing.
WHAT I’M WATCHING
Australia Is Committing Suicide By Migrant
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