As the multi-day festival organized in part by President Donald Trump designed to celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary continues to fall apart, formerAs the multi-day festival organized in part by President Donald Trump designed to celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary continues to fall apart, former
Trump fumbles easiest 'layup' is presidential history for one reason: analysis
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As the multi-day festival organized in part by President Donald Trump designed to celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary continues to fall apart, former presidential speechwriter David Frum flagged on Sunday what he believed was behind the event’s ever-increasing list of problems.
Dubbed the Great American State Fair, the event was organized by the Trump-linked organization Freedom 250, with Trump himself being "actively involved” in the process. A live music concert was initially planned for the event but may be cancelled after “nearly all” performers backed out after learning of the event’s connections to Trump.
“You might have thought that presiding over such a celebration would be an easy success for Trump. He is a showman after all,” Frum wrote in an analysis published Sunday in The Atlantic.
“He loves parades and extravaganzas. It was all an easy layup, a gimme, a chance for a now-unpopular second-term president to reinvent himself as the leader of all of the American people.”
The Trump administration scrambled in the wake of performers bailing on the event en masse, with Trump later proposing to replace the artists with himself, and at an event to be held at the “same time” and “same location” as the fair, except with “only great patriots invited.”
And, as the chaos continues to unfold, Frum believes he knows exactly why the event has appeared to crumble.
“The only thing he had to do was – for once in his life – not act like an insane egomaniac," Frum wrote. “He couldn’t do it.”
Frum argued that the event’s failure was all but admitted to by Trump, citing a social media post the president published on Saturday evening, which Frum described as an “indictment of his own program.”
“Cancel it,” Trump wrote, referring to the Great American State Fair.
Frum continued, “Trump knows he has botched the anniversary. He says so himself.”
Donald Trump's Fed chair nominee is basically using "common core" math to deceive the president, according to an ex-insider.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former Georgia congresswoman who lost her seat after breaking with the president, took aim Sunday at Donald Trump's own Federal Reserve chairman, accusing Kevin Warsh of manipulating inflation measurements to justify cutting interest rates and stay in the president's good graces.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Warsh has been urging the Fed to adopt a lesser-known gauge called "trimmed mean" inflation, which filters out the most extreme price moves, rather than the standard "core PCE" measure. The difference is significant: core PCE showed inflation running at 3.3 percent over the past year, while trimmed mean put the figure at just 2.3 percent.
Greene, whose X account now identifies her as "Former Congresswoman," argued the switch would effectively hide the prices that hurt ordinary Americans most. "Changing the inflation measurement gauge to trimmed mean inflation means the new rate of inflation will no longer measure the volatile high cost items like food and energy that hit Americans the hardest," she wrote.
She compared the approach to a controversial education policy. "It's like switching from traditional math to common core in order to get the inflation rate needed in order to justify lowering interest rates."
Her sharpest line took direct aim at the dynamic between Warsh and the president who appointed him. "Fuzzy math doesn't lower the cost of food and gas," Greene wrote, "even if it allows the new Fed Chair to lower interest rates so he doesn't get called a loser by the president who appointed him."
Trump has repeatedly pressured the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and has clashed publicly with Fed leadership in the past.
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During an appearance Sunday on Fox News, comedian Rob Schneider morphed himself into his character from Adam Sandler’s 1998 film “The Waterboy” to attack Democrats and endorse a GOP mayoral candidate.
That candidate is Spencer Pratt, a registered Republican who is vying to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, California, and oust incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. Spencer has been fiercely promoted by right-wing figures, though remains several points behind Bass in recent polls.
“We want to ask you to answer this one, if we can, as your character in 'The Waterboy' – do you think Spencer Pratt can do it?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked, referencing Schneider’s role in the 1998 film as a “townie,” whose catchphrase was “you can do it!”
Schneider was happy to oblige.
“You can do it! But I don't trust the Democrats!" Schneider said, eliciting an excited air fist pump from Doocy.
“That’s exactly how I was hoping you would say that!” Doocy exclaimed.
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Donald Trump threatened a federal judge by name Sunday and attacked a female plaintiff as a "serial" litigant in a Truth Social post defending his plan to build a military drone port on top of the proposed White House ballroom, warning the judge that he "will be held responsible" if anything goes wrong.
"Judge Richard Leon should stop playing games with America's Security!" Trump wrote, posting side-by-side images of the proposed DronePort — one showing a festive aerial view of Washington and another depicting military aircraft and troops. "If anything happens, he will be held responsible for the Death and Destruction caused to our Country."
Trump claimed the drone port would be "perhaps the most sophisticated anywhere in the World" and argued that modern threats have made traditional defenses obsolete. "With the advent of highly sophisticated, and powerful, modern day weaponry, we can no longer defend Washington, D.C., with rifles and pistols, alone," he wrote.
He also turned his fire on the woman whose lawsuit is challenging the project, calling her "a highly litigious woman (serial plaintiff!)" and mocking her stated concern that the structure would disturb her strolling in the area. Trump said she had "absolutely no STANDING" and demanded the case "be dismissed, IMMEDIATELY."
Trump also accused the judge of allowing "Top Secret" information to be released through the litigation, framing the judge's handling of the case as a national security threat.
Leon is a George W. Bush appointee who has served on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia since 2002. He has not publicly responded to Trump's post as of the time of writing.
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