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Been There, Done That: Trump Turns 80

I have President Trump beat in one regard — not necessarily one to be envious of — in that I’m six months older than Sir Donald. He turns 80 on Sunday; I accomplished the feat on Christmas Eve 2025. I bring this up because the Wall Street Journal, in today’s edition, has an article about troubling signs regarding the president’s aging. The article implies that he exhibits symptoms that indicate “Bye-bye, Mr. President,” a diagnosis and hopeful outcome that the Demofiends and far-left media keep promoting. Here’s one symptom that I know is no big deal: bruising. I’ve read that Trump takes aspirin daily as a stroke and heart disease palliative. I have also done so for more than two decades, and I can say that once you thin your blood through aspirin intake, you can bruise very easily. I get bruises just rubbing up against a doorframe, and I mean gently rubbing up. So, I don’t take bruising as a sign of anything except aspirin consumption. The article also mentions dozing off. Admittedly, this may well be a sign of old age, but I remember dozing off in my 20s and 30s. Now, at 80, I can doze off

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My Vote: Elon Musk for Dictator for a Year, With Congress on Permanent Recess

Okay, here I go with a revolutionary idea, so before anyone comes looking for me for treason or something, let me confess to just playing around with my imagination. No harm, no foul, as Chick Hearn (who he?) used to say on Lakers telecasts. Today, when SpaceX went public, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire. Demofiends, of course, are already cursing him, and if they get the political power, they’ll no doubt go after him criminally and financially. Remember, they did all they could to dispose of him when he was serving as Director of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under President Trump. I thought he was on the right track with DOGE — reduce federal spending by a cool trillion dollars. Instead, I think he managed to get only $9 billion cut before his term expired. Worse, I don’t think he had Trump’s back. Trump, if you haven’t noticed, is not only a big tax rate reducer but also a big government spender. He wants $1.5 trillion next year for the Department of Defense/War, for instance, but I actually think that is a great idea. We need to upgrade and replace our weapons stockpile, which was depleted

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DNI Gabbard Exposes U.S. Funding of Biolabs in 30 Countries Worldwide

The Biden Administration and Covid-19 cover-up artist Anthony Fauci denied leaked reports that the U.S. was sponsoring a secret biolab in Ukraine, where chemical weapons were being researched and developed. Now, outgoing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has pulled back the veil to reveal that the U.S. indeed sponsored more than 120 biolabs in 30 countries. Many of these biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases including dangerous Gain-of-Function research, with very little visibility or oversight. You may recall how the weasel Fauci, who earned more than $400,000 a year to run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), denied that the U.S. funded Gain-of-Function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and also that a leak from that lab resulted in the Covid pandemic. The evidence now is pretty clear that Wuhan is exactly where the pandemic began — with a lab leak. President Joe Biden, in his infinite wisdom — and with a need to cover up U.S. involvement in the global tragedy — pardoned Fauci of any federal crimes before he left office, along with his crooked son Hunter and many other

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Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ in Theory and Practice

In his one-plus year in office a second time, President Trump — to his credit — has been on TV almost daily, responding to reporters’ questions. I’ve seen his TV interactions and heard his comments/responses a lot. What I’ve taken away is that he sticks to talking points, but then exaggerates the hell out of them. For instance, he claims (though now that he’s started a war not as often) to have engineered eight peace deals, or maybe nine with Lebanon, but some of these deals didn’t last very long. Look at Gaza post-ceasefire, or Lebanon. He is also big on saying “America is back,” “foreigners are investing $17 trillion in our economy,” “the border is shut tight,” and so on. There is definitely some truth to all these comments, but Trump makes sure to exaggerate everything. For instance, he knows damn good and well that foreign businesses and governments are not investing — or rather, pledging to invest — $17 trillion in our economy. The figure might be $3 trillion. Kudos on his border claim, as it does seem to be shut tight. Crime statistics are another topic that he exaggerates the hell out of. I think I heard

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Trump Announces New Time Frame for Deal with Iran — Again?

President Trump said he was all set to go ahead with a third night of bombings on Iran when this morning he suddenly announced — drum roll please — a deal with Iran. Let’s see, I’m not sure who’s counting, but that seems like about the 20th time he’s announced an imminent deal. This time, he told reporters today, the deal could be signed in Europe over the weekend. But since it’s Donald’s birthday Sunday, he will be sending Vice-President JD Vance to ink the deal. If you recall, it was Vance who led the one and only American delegation to negotiate directly with Iran in April, only to leave empty-handed. Pardon me for being skeptical, but we’ve heard this before. Hopefully, this time it’s on the up and up, and not just Trump playing president and spinning yarns, as he’s wont to do. Here’s his post on Truth Social proclaiming the deal: “Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening.”  An Iranian foreign

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Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ Morphs into ‘The Art of War’

For two months, President Trump has been touting the success of negotiations with Iran to end the war, open up the Strait of Hormuz, and silence the regime’s nuclear ambitions. For all the world to see, it seemed like a one-sided negotiation. In fact, who was negotiating for the U.S. all this time? Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Vice-President JD Vance were nowhere near any negotiating table except for one day early on. It appears that Trump has finally been forced to admit that Iran has been playing him for a fool all along, just as he has been playing the American public with his endless promises of a deal in “a day or two,” or “this weekend,” or whenever soon happens to be. In remarks to the press this morning, Trump said the bombing of Iran that commenced after their downing of a U.S. helicopter would continue for a second day. Further, he admitted that negotiations were either stalled or, more likely, were never really started in the first place. Question: How were we actually dealing with Iran — relying on Pakistan to negotiate for us? “We were really close to a deal, but

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Gotta Love It: Stephen A. and Sir Donald Squaring Off

A potential 2028 presidential candidate, who now claims he wants only to be involved in the debates, is blaming Donald Trump for the New York Knicks’ Monday night loss to the San Antonio Spurs. ESPN sportscaster Stephen A. Smith, never one short of words, is blaming another media big mouth, President Trump, for causing his hometown basketball team’s loss — just by showing up! According to Smith pre-game, Trump has “got no business here tonight. It has nothing to do with politics. It was everything to do with the fervor that exists around the New York Knicks and he is disrupting everything the Knicks have been vibing with.” Trump, of course, shot back with his overused insults at someone who disagrees with him. “I think he’s a nice guy, but you need a certain aptitude to run for president,” Trump said. “You need a high IQ. I’m not sure that Stephen has that. I don’t think he does, actually.” Smith would probably make a great centrist in the Oval Office, but he has disavowed actually wanting the job. What he wants, he told Fox’s Sean Hannity, is to be involved in the debates leading up to the 2028 presidential nominations.

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