The MAGAs are big mad about Epstein

And Trump has himself a day at the White House Faith Office Lunch

While we digest the MAGA Supreme Court giving Trump carte blanche to dismantle an entire government agency with zero legislative input even though it was created by Congress (my head hurts), let’s get up to speed with the latest on the files of Trump’s former bestie Jeffrey Epstein. Quick public service message on this: Any Democratic elected official who thinks they are “above” getting into this muck and harping on it is doing us all a profound political disservice: Trump is vulnerable here!!! Pound him with this!!!

As you recall, Trump railed about releasing the files all throughout the campaign and promised to do so as soon as he was elected. Before we knew it, the dipshit AG Pam Bondi said they were on her desk and ready to go but then - voila! - they didn’t exist. Then they existed but they were actually a deep state plant written by Obama and Crooked Hillary so nobody should care about them. Except Trump won’t stop flapping his piehole about them for a hot second.

There are, of course, 2 options: Either Trump and his entire loony clown car of cultists and conspiracy theorists have been lying about the files for years, or they are actively engaged in a coverup. I’m guessing a little from column A and a little from column B.

In any event, the MAGAs are hella pissed. George Conway points out that, as of this morning, there were 46,000 responses to Trump’s ridiculous post over the weekend telling people to stop talking about Epstein and the huge majority were scathing – and this is on Trump’s own site! As Jonathan Chait puts it in today’s Atlantic, Trump may have done the impossible and exceeded the credulity of even his cult: “The Epstein matter is so crucial to Trump’s base, and the excuse offered is so flimsy, that the about-face has raised questions within perhaps the most gullible movement in American history.”

Well, I’ll believe his horrid base will desert his dumb ass when I see it, but he’s got his fellating media echo chamber to clam up and his elected Republican sheep fully on board with the cover-up.

Fake tough guy Charlie Kirk, who has been bleating about the files for years, said today “I’m done talking about Epstein for the time being. I’m gonna trust my friends in the administration.” LOLOLOL

On CNN this morning, weaselly New York Congressman Mike Lawler, who was all aboard demanding the files be released until about 5 minutes ago, whined that “frankly, the fact that you're even covering Epstein is nonsense.” What a putz. The anchor put him in his place by replying “It's being covered because the deputy director of the FBI took work off on Friday to protest the DOJ's handling of this.”

And speaking of extraordinarily unqualified mouth-breathing podcaster Dan Bongino, in what is surely good news for criminals, it appears he is still at his post at the FBI. Although apparently no one in the Justice Department has heard from him since last Wednesday when things blew up with Bondi and he got so overwrought he had to take a mental health day on Friday, he hasn’t quit yet. CNN reports that Trump was “fuming” over Bongino and Patel all weekend, and that the disgusting JD Vance spent the weekend “attempting to mediate,” fielding calls from all three stooges – Bondi, Bongino and Patel. A statement released by the White House today calls the three “heroes of our law enforcement community” and says that “their work will continue in lockstep with unprecedented success.” HAHAHAHAHA

(Quick aside: These clowns simply can’t help themselves with their lunatic hyperbole. Nothing is ever just okay, or good, or even great. It is always – no matter what an unqualified disaster said action is – the freaking best thing in history. Nauseating exhibit A from yesterday’s Meet the Press with ridiculous ICE Barbie Kristi Noem, whose actions knee-capping FEMA clearly led to needless deaths. Noem said of the shitshow response to the tragedy in Texas: “These emergencies need to be conducted exactly how President Trump handled this one…. This response was by far the best we’ve ever seen out of FEMA.” OMG)

Back to Epstein, Media Matters for America took a gander at the coverage on Fox, which was pretty much all-Epstein-all-the-time for years.

Today’s Fox live mentions as this morning until Noon:

Biden: 46

Epstein: ZERO

Sounds right.

Taking a break from watching Fox, Trump has one of his patented batshit Oval Office meetings with dumb and dumber and dumbest – Vance, Rubio, and Hegseth – lined up on the couch next to him. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is in the hostage chair. This is one of two things on his calendar for the whole day, and he’s slurring and he’s incoherent from the jump.

The White House teases in advance that Trump is unhappy with Putin and is making a big announcement about Russia. It is all bullshit.

The "big announcement" on Ukraine turns out to be that Trump has the sads on Putin and he’s going to put big tariffs on him.

Trump: “We are very unhappy -- I am, with Russia.. We will be doing very severe tariffs if we don't have a deal in 50 days. Tariffs at about 100%.”

Reporter: “Why are you giving Putin 50 more days?”

Trump: “I've just really been involved in this for not very long. It wasn't an initial focus. (HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO END IT ON HIS FIRST DAY FFS!!!!) This is a Biden war. This is a Democrat war.” This is unmitigated horseshit. We essentially already have blanket tariffs on Russia so “raising them” to 100% is functionally meaningless. He’s also handing Putin 2 months to do with Ukraine as he will. What a disgrace.

Trump whines about coverage of his non-existent trade deals: "I watched a show this morning, (no way, right?) they were talking about, 'when is he gonna make a deal?' The deals have already been made. The letters are the deals. There are no deals to make." Wow. The outline of a framework for a concept of a deal suddenly sounds concrete in comparison. Now the bitchy and nonsensical letters he sent are the “deals.” Got it.

Things go even further off the rails next when Trump presides at the White House Faith Office Luncheon. It was, as ever, a tour de idiocy.

He tells the good Christians that we can either accept all of his economic policies or the country will be in a depression and “all you rich, beautiful people will be busted.” Wait, what?? Trump: “I said to one guy, he's a very, very unattractive man, but he's smart and he's rich and I said, you better hope we get this thing passed because your wife will be gone within about two minutes.” The group laughs at the thought of the ugly guy whose wife would ditch him if he lost his money, just as the baby Jesus would want them to do.

He cycles through his greatest hits, saying that he got indicted five times and impeached two times and it was “all bullshit.” He whines that he got impeached for making a perfect phone call after Energy Secretary Rick Perry begged him to call Zelenksy because “he wanted to do business with him or something.”

Trump says all he did was congratulate Zelensky on his election victory. He says of Perry, that “he wasn’t the smartest bulb. You wouldn’t want him on your debate team, let me put it that way.” Trump appointed Perry.

He says interest rates should be at one half of one percent but we have a bad fed chairman who is “stupid” and a “knucklehead.” Trump appointed Jerome Powell as fed chairman. (I sense a pattern here.)

Trump tells the faith group that Democrats are “evil people,” and that he believes he was “saved by God to make America great again.”

He makes a joke about a trans athlete and everybody laughs.

He harps on how those 90 deals in 90 days that never happened were really never a thing and that it was all about sending letters. "I really don't want deals. I just want the paper to get sent. It's true." Nothing is true. Like ever. This is nuts.

Extra Credit:

Speaking of things that are not true - Trump squeezed in a little golf (again, shocking) at his creepy golf motel in Jersey yesterday before getting booed when he crashed the FIFA World Cup trophy ceremony at MetLife Stadium.

After what was surely the greatest round of golf in human history, Trump posted this whopper: “In between meetings and phone calls, it was a Great Honor to win the Member-Member Championship, at Trump National, Bedminster (Gross, no strokes), with Tommy Urciuoli as my partner. The many other competitors were not only great Golfers, but also terrific people!” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Thanks so much for reading and stay safe and healthy everyone!!! Remember we are not the crazy ones!!!