In today’s video and audio podcast, I felt compelled to add an extra segment at the end. This came from the heart.
At 3:43 in the afternoon in Turkey, the President of the United States reached for the stairs to his plane with a swollen right hand while his bruised left hand hung motionless at his side. He was not boarding the newly refurbished Qatari aircraft he arrived on but the previous Air Force One, a sudden switch that multiple reports tied to security concerns involving Iran. Trump denied it, then contradicted himself, telling the reporters traveling with him that they were “on a dangerous flight,” that “I’m number one on their list, before you,” and adding, “But if I go, you go. Perhaps someday you want to change professions.” The blinds stayed drawn and the transponder was turned off. Earlier in the day he had called Zelenskyy “President Putin,” claimed “the Islamic Republic of Japan” had fired 111 missiles.
The NATO summit was meant to project unity, and instead it became a stage for one man’s unraveling. Trump told the press he was “very upset with NATO,” called Spain “a terrible partner” and its people “hopeless, bad people,” and ordered his Treasury Secretary on camera to “cut off all trade with Spain.” He invoked the Nazi occupation to demand Greenland, saying Denmark should have never gotten it back, and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen answered that her country was “ready to defend every inch of NATO” and that Greenland is “not for sale.” He declared the Iran agreement he signed at Versailles three weeks earlier “over,” called Iranian leaders “scum,” and announced strikes on more than eighty targets overnight with more coming. Oil surged more than six percent. The Dow dropped six hundred points. And in the middle of it he bragged about being “number one on Tic Tac,” claiming four billion views on an app he cannot pronounce.” Aboard the plane he insisted “billions of votes” vanished in a Los Angeles race, that drug prices fell “four hundred to five hundred to six hundred percent,” and that “fifteen million people had their heads chopped off” in a war his own administration admits is still ongoing.
What makes this dangerous rather than merely absurd is who is telling these lies and who is covering for him. This is the man who controls the nuclear arsenal, commands the military, and is waging war without the consent of Congress. Retired Naval War College professor Tom Nichols said what everyone sees: “There is something deeply wrong with him,” and “our enemies know it, which is why they don’t take him seriously.” Karoline Leavitt called his performance “marathon” and “high-energy.”
Yet even on the darkest day, the system held. A federal judge ordered five $5.8 million released to E. Jean Carroll, and the Second Circuit denied Trump’s appeal hours later, so he lost twice in a single day. In Florida, the Eleventh Circuit struck down the “Stop WOKE Act” as “a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas,” in an opinion written by a judge Trump himself appointed. The courts held firm. November is coming, and the power still belongs to the people. That is why I still have hope for America, and you should too.
See the full story in the video.
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Heather
This video is based on my written post, available HERE, and based on the events of 7-8-2026.
*This commentary represents my personal opinions and analysis of matters of public concern, informed by publicly available information. Any references to individuals constitute opinion and commentary protected under the First Amendment.
Sources:
President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One at Mildenhall Air Force Base, UK, Jul. 8, 2026: YouTube
LIVE: Trump Points At Zelensky, Confuses Him With Putin, Stumbles Throughout NATO Briefing: YouTube
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