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President Trump has offered UFC boss Dana White the job as White House Press Secretary in a move that appears to echo his elevation of Stephen Miller to Chief of Staff: “We’re going tough, baby!” “I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States,” the president wrote on Truth Social. White is expected to meet with Trump to discuss the position. Trump even suggested that White bring a bevy of UFC fighters to the fray to help fight the rising tide of leftist politicians. “We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left. Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other. Dana, please take the job!” Meanwhile, Trump’s first Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, appears to be the only member of the Trump administration to have survived her tenure unscathed. She left in August and eventually joined Fox News as a correspondent. She thus escaped the administration’s public repudiation at the polls this past Tuesday. White was in London for a boxing match today as Trump made his social media offer to the UFC head.

Of all the people associated with Donald Trump and his two presidencies, the one person who always reminded me of a leader at a Nazi rally was and is Stephen Miller. With Miller’s appointment as chief of staff to replace Susie Wiles, Trump is now doubling down on what brought devastation to the GOP on Tuesday — arrogance and extremism. Not the best choice for Republicans’ chances of taking the White House in 2029. Which brings up another point: Who will Trump endorse in 2028 to succeed him? JD Vance is out after blaming Trump’s Iran war for widespread GOP losses in Congress and in state races nationwide. That leaves Miller, Pete Hegseth, and Donald Jr., none of whom could ever win more than a handful of states, if any. The overall problem with Trump II is that he and his administration seem to be fulfilling Barry Goldwater’s famous words: “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” I voted for the man three times, and I still think that his basic policies, especially as elaborated under the Trump I administration, are just what the nation needs — if

Ron DeSantis, sole GOP presidential hopeful surviving Tuesday’s MAGA devastation, has smartly come out and pointed the blame where it belongs — at the White House and those in Congress who blindly went along with Trump’s arrogance and blundering. “This midterm, no question, was a rebuke of the president and the Congress by Democrats, independents and some Republicans that crossed over,” he told Fox News. Smart going, there, Mr. Soon-to-Be-Ex-Governor of Florida, you have distanced yourself from the madness that brought down your party in a historic repudiation. With his distance from the Trump administration — not being part of it and not even being seen as an advisor to it — DeSantis can take on JD Vance, who will have Trump errors dripping from him like mud, and hopefully win the nomination and then defeat AOC, Mamdani, or El-Sayed for President in 2028. Yesterday, in another post, I painted DeSantis as the most logical choice for the Republican ticket in 2028. I did this even though Marco Rubio would make the best candidate — and president. But being part of the Trump folly and being unwilling to resign, Rubio is a marked man, muddied like Vance. James Carville, Democrat