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Trump accuses newspaper of ‘treason’ after it questioned what the Iran war had actually achieved


Joe Sommerlad

Mon, June 22, 2026 at 3:54 AM CDT

Donald Trump has again lashed out over negative press coverage of his war with Iran, singling out The New York Times for criticism after it asked what the conflict had actually achieved.

“The way the Corrupt and Failing New York Times is covering stories on a very battered and beat up Iran, through FAKE & MADE UP ‘FACTS’ is, in my opinion, ‘TREASONOUS,'” the president wrote on his Truth Social platform late Sunday.

“I will be adding all of their false and ridiculous reporting to my multi Billion Dollar lawsuit against them. They are Criminals!”

Shortly beforehand, he had vented his fury on the same subject in another post that read: “The headline in the Corrupt and Failing New York Times: ‘What Changed After Almost 4 Months of War? Analysts Say Not Much.’ REALLY?

“Their Military is DONE, their Navy is GONE, their Air Force is GONE, their Launching Pads, Missiles, Drones and Manufacturing of same, is almost GONE, their top two sets of Leaders are GONE, their Inflation is at 250%, their Economy is BROKEN, their Soldiers aren’t being paid, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN, THE OIL IS GUSHING, and the U.S. Stock Market and Jobs are at record HIGHS.

President Donald Trump has again lashed out at The New York Times, calling the newspaper’s reporting on the Iran conflict ‘false and ridiculous’ and its staff ‘criminals’ (Reuters)

President Donald Trump has again lashed out at The New York Times, calling the newspaper’s reporting on the Iran conflict ‘false and ridiculous’ and its staff ‘criminals’ (Reuters)

“That’s what’s CHANGED, you corrupt and unethical cowards, and MORE!!!”

Opinion: The Trumpelstilskin methodology, sue, get issues into the judicial system where it will take time (a long time) to adjudicate. This ties up court time with frivolous lawsuits while keeping the issue in the public space. All the while normal life contracts along with the business sector. MA

Trumpelstilskin, the Grifter Grifts Himself Daily.


The  “Pseudo Midas Touch” is tarnishing by the day. The projects started and unfinished are in reality the M.O. of the Trumpel’s life’s work. Grifters never have any ready cash except when elected president of a rich country. Fortunately and unfortunately the truth is evident in the country’s dignity, the national pride and international prestige. The incompetence of this Presidiot is on display around the world and especially by his heroes in Russia, China and other dictatorial countries. His international persona is that of a “useful” idiot (aka Bumbling) who trips on his own shoelaces.

The Believable Unbelievable!


Over the past several days, I looked at as little news about our Presidot and his minions as I could. I have concluded that Dumnald has told us time and again that he was going to steal from us. Looking back at the uproar created by Watergate and subsequent resignation of the VP Anew first, Then President (Richard M) who declared “I am not a crook!”. It was clear that after being in office he covertly (and overtly in some cases) committed financial crimes, while doing the nation’s business moderately (China Initiative was part of doing business). Watergate was the end and lingered for a while. Now DJT said many times if we did not vote for him, we wouldn’t have a country except he said it backwards, we almost don’t have a country now. We are involved in an unwarranted war, inflation is high, tariffs have crippled our economy, his family and friends have enlarged their fortunes due to his overt actions though “presidential orders”. 

 The cost to the voters (red and blue) is crushing in some cases. All the while the GOP Congress does nothing and defends his negative actions against their supporters as necessary. Underneath all of this Presidiot continues to blame Democrats for all failures. The current administration is politically and morally corrupt and beholding to a gold blinded, self-serving child.

The suspect proved to be unreliable!


Trumpelstilskin’s latest scam inviting the participation of all of the states in a 250th anniversary fete in Washington D.C., some have agreed others have not and will not participate. Each day the “sad” clown thinks of ways to fool the voters with a new scam. We have the renaming of buildings, the tariff scheme, the immigration ruses, the massive pardons, etc. This may become a template on how not to govern from Washington. It is unfortunate that so many currently serving legislators are kneeling before a “needy” leader with a poor track record in business and finance (all of his failures are projected as triumphs on the surface) yet he is still hawking Trump branded merchandise much like a carnival barker. America we are being and have been scammed!

Screwworm: alternate Name for This Administration?


The daily output politispeak and Trumpspeak is as ubiquitous as garbage pickup day. Most of what we see hear and read should be on the curb with the black bags and rolling bins. Clean slate required to upgrade our government. All of our hard earned international political capital is being spent on the personal ambitions of a few self-serving petty leaders who have no idea on how to run a country aka hire smart people who know the business!

Donald Trump’s measly payout to families as he digs up graves for golf course laid bare!


Story by Christopher Luu • 3h • 2 min read Irish Star

President Donald Trump’s golf empire is expanding — at the expense of families having to move their loved ones’ remains. The Trump Organization’s latest golf project is set to cost $1.5 billion and is forcing communities in the Chau Ninh commune of the Hung Yen province near Hanoi to figure out how to remove remains from a local cemetery ahead of construction.

The Financial Times reports that some graves in the cemetery are now marked with large Xs, indicating that families have already removed the remains. The area is largely an agricultural community, and locals are being compensated with $2,660 payments. The resort is set to span 2,446 acres and displace 4,000 households.

“It’s painful,” Hoang Do, 72, told the Financial Times of the payment, which is equivalent to 70 million dong. “I’m outraged by the compensation price.” This comes as Trump took issue with one of JD Vance’s traits as 2028 doubts emerge.

“The grave of my great-grandparents has been there since 1967, before the establishment of this country [after the Vietnam War], so why should I move them?” another local, 50-year-old Hoang Anh Xa, shared. Hoang added that they have five family members in the graveyard that will have to be moved.

In addition to moving their family members to other facilities, Xa noted that the golf course will cause harm to the local community: “I won’t be able to find another job. We do not oppose the policy of the Party and the government. We just ask for one thing only, the land price has to be [higher].”

When the project was announced last year, Reuters reported that “farmers were being offered as little as $12 for 10 square feet of land.” Some residents were being offered even less, with one woman sharing that she was being offered the equivalent of $3,200 and rice in exchange for selling her farm.

Trump’s son, Eric, called the new resort “the envy of all of Asia and of the entire world.” During a trip to Vietnam in 2025, a joint statement between the Trump Organization and real estate firm Kinhbac City shared that they “will focus on developing 5-star hotels, championship-style golf courses, and luxurious residential estates and unparalleled amenities in Vietnam.”

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Podcast Episode: Red States, Blue States All Victims of trumpelstilskin!


Pip: Michael1942's Blog has a message for anyone still sorting themselves into the red pile or the blue pile: stop it.

Mara: That's the territory today — how the red-state, blue-state divide functions as a tool of manipulation, and what michael1942 argues we should be doing instead.

Pip: Let's get into it.

Red States, Blue States: We're All Getting Played

Pip: The argument here is that partisan labels aren't just imprecise — they're actively useful to the people doing the damage. The question the post puts on the table is: who actually benefits from the divide?

Mara: The post is direct about it. The setup is that these are political labels designed to split voters into manipulable camps, and then comes the line that lands hardest: "we have met the enemy and the enemy is us."

Pip: That's the Pogo quote, and it hits differently in this context. The upshot is that by staying sorted into parties, voters are doing the work of division for the people in power — no extra effort required on their end.

Mara: The post makes a specific structural point worth sitting with. The corruption isn't framed as a party problem — it's framed as a vulnerability problem. The argument is that Trumpel, as the post names him, would have bent whichever party gave him the opening. The GOP was the one that did.

Pip: So the party label is almost incidental. The mechanism is the same regardless of the jersey.

Mara: Right, and that's where the post pivots to something concrete. It calls for looking carefully at your representative — individual accountability over party loyalty. The framing is that the war is now between the administration and everyone else, with voters as the ones absorbing the losses.

Pip: Which makes "forget the party, watch the person" less of a bumper sticker and more of a survival strategy.

Mara: The post closes by naming this a civil war — not metaphorically decorative, but as a call to reengage with Congress and the executive branch directly. The arena is the government itself.

Pip: The diagnosis is bleak but the prescription is at least actionable — show up, pay attention, hold the individual to account.

Mara: The core idea here is that the labels are the trap, and the exit is individual scrutiny over tribal loyalty.

Pip: More of that scrutiny next time — keep watching.

Red States, Blue States All Victims of trumpelstilskin!


One of the current tropes is what’s a red state and what’s a blue state. These are political labels to divide us (voters) into camps that can be manipulated. The reality is that any and all evils committed by this administration especially, hits us all. Solution: forget parties and look carefully at your representative. Trumpel has corrupted the GOP and would have corrupted the Dem’s had he taken that stance. At this time Trumpel has trampled the GOP and is at war with the Dems while we are the losers. Simply put “we have met the enemy and the enemy is us”! It is time to reengage in this “civil war” with the Congress and the Executive office aka Government.

16 tons of number 1 Crap!


In less than 2 years this administration has successful impoverished millions of voters while stuffing their own pockets. This puts a large sign on the GOP who are supported by many voters. We (voters) deserve good and honest governance no matter what party we endorse. If the people, we elect allow the travesties we now endure then they should be removed. This is a Democracy that’s being trampled by “Black hatted” individuals and groups whose sole objective is power to run the government as THEY see fit and fill their own pockets. We do not need another Civil War, or do we? Currently the new BS is taking Medicaid money from States who are falsely accused of providing Medicaid to illegals. Illegals cannot, I repeat cannot receive Medicaid under any circumstances! It is my belief they (the misadministration) are looking for ways to get funding for Presidiot’s ill-conceived war and other whimsical projects.

Trump’s presidency is crumbling. The GOP will as well.



Opinion by Rex Huppke, USA TODAY • 5h • 5 min read


There has always been one thing, and one thing only, that President Donald Trump is good at: lying. He has conned and audaciously dissembled his way into a fortune and into two terms as president, always leaving chaos in his wake.
Well, it appears the tornadic chaos of the moment – war with Iran, high gas and food prices, a president with a Caesar complex – has finally overwhelmed Trump’s lies, rendering him impotent against collapsing poll numbers and setting the Republican Party up for disaster in the coming midterm elections.
A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released April 21 showed only 30% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, something that was once his strong suit. That’s down from only 38% approving in March.
In the same poll, a whopping 72% of Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction, and the president’s overall approval rating is a dismal 33%.
Many Americans feel betrayed by Trump’s lies and unmet promises
In a story about its poll, the AP quoted Kathryn Bright, a 60-year-old retired U.S. Air Force captain who supported Trump in the last election: “I feel disgusted with myself, I feel betrayed, like he was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.”

Ouch. Accurate, but still ouch.
A new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll found: “Trump’s net approval on prices/inflation has fallen to -46, the worst rating on any issue we have ever recorded.”
That poll also found that voters prefer Democrats over Republicans by a 7-point margin.
Trump’s poll numbers are circling the drain
Trump has turned Americans against his deportation policies, with a Reuters/Ipsos poll released April 22 showing 52% of Americans less likely to support a candidate who embraces Trump’s mass deportation plans. Only 42% said they’re more likely to support a candidate who is in line with the president’s draconian approach to immigration.

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With approval ratings in the mid-30s, Trump is well into the dreadful range of George W. Bush during his second term, another president who got the United States embroiled in a war in the Middle East.
But what stands out in this particular moment is the failure of Trump’s usually reliable ability to convince a large swath of America that up is down or that bad is good.
Lying worked so well for Trump. Now it’s failing him.
He keeps telling us that the war in Iran is going swimmingly, that we have dominated the enemy, that he is in complete control and that everything will be over soon. But none of that is true, and Iranian leaders appear to be playing him like a fiddle, leveraging their control over the Strait of Hormuz to spike gas prices here at home and outmaneuver Trump in ceasefire talks.
He keeps telling Americans that things have never been better, like in this April 17 social media post: “The U.S.A. is the ‘HOTTEST’ Country in the World right now. Just a short time ago, under Sleepy Joe Biden, IT WAS DEAD, LAUGHED AT ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! But not anymore ‒ Nobody’s laughing!!!”
He’s right that nobody’s laughing, but that’s certainly not because we’re the “HOTTEST” country in the world. Americans are struggling. Trump hasn’t brought down food prices as he promised, and his unnecessary and wildly unpopular attack on Iran has pushed gas prices through the roof.
Even our once-strong allies in Canada have turned on us, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney saying recently, “Many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become weaknesses. Weaknesses that we must correct.”
Tucker Carlson is latest of Trump’s supporters to flee like rats.
Meanwhile, a quick stroll through the president’s Truth Social page shows he’s primarily focused on posting self-aggrandizing artificial intelligence slop, worrying about his precious White House ballroom project and insisting everything is perfect.
Trump is now seeing high-profile departures from his clown car of avid right-wing supporters. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the thing you would get if the word “disingenuous” took human form, recently said he regrets supporting Trump: “We’ll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be. And I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people.”

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has bailed, as have Megyn Kelly and Candace Owens. Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene saw the light before most and hopped off the Trump Train, her opportunistic finger sensing which way the political winds would blow.
As more Americans turn on Trump, Republicans face likely midterm doomThere’s a point when even the most deluded among us, those Trump pulled so effectively into his vast web of lies and false promises, cannot reconcile their reality with the president’s fiction. I think we’ve reached that point, which explains why Trump has recently seemed more unhinged than usual. The magic trick isn’t working. He’s flailing.
That spells almost certain doom for Republicans in November’s midterm elections. GOP candidates now face a choice of either siding with a broadly disliked president who has suckered the American people, or running from that president and being torched by his ire and the hate and threats that will invariably come from the dwindling-in-number-but-still-loud MAGA loyalists.
You’ll pardon me if I don’t feel bad for the Republicans. They invited a liar extraordinaire into their parlor and let him sell them the politics of cruelty, dishonesty and scams.
But when the lying stops working, it all crumbles. And it’s looking increasingly likely the GOP will be well and deservedly crumbled come November.

Follow USA TODAY columnist Rex Huppke on Bluesky at @rexhuppke.bsky.social and on Facebook at facebook.com/RexIsAJerk.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump’s presidency is crumbling. The GOP will as well. |