Tonight, at 5:44 p.m., the White House press pool gathered outside the Oval Office, before being ushered in to stand just a few feet from the President. Weary, struggling, and slurring his words, Donald Trump sat behind his desk with representatives from the state of Utah standing on either side of him. He struggled to stay awake anytime he wasn't talking and slowly worked his way through the executive actions he was there to sign, slashing the protective status from nearly three million acres of public land in Utah.
For more than twenty minutes, Donald Trump spoke about Utah and public lands, but mostly about things that were either not real or simply made no sense. "When you see a young former soldier, walking around with no legs, no arms, a face that's been horribly, horribly hurt. That was done by Iran."
Midterms are one thing that can stop him, maybe. I'll absolutely be voting in November if we're able to, but I'm not just sitting around waiting. I'm building support to ratify a Constitutional Amendment called No Confidence that will, among other things, end his term, and that of his whole administration, early.
And, because final authority on Amendments belongs to the States, it doesn't matter whether Congress cooperates or not. A world where 38 US states have ratified the No Confidence Amendment is one in which the people of America have decisively retaken political power from a faithless government, end of story.
Great idea and make sure that part of it is to require that all physicians treating the most powerful person in our government be able to openly give their full and complete diagnosis of the state of both his physical and mental capabilities. There should be no protection from total transparency in order for us to have complete confidence in the President’s ability to serve and make life and death decisions that affect the people of the nation.
If this is what it takes to stop the madness, I'm all in! No need to wait to November, I think all of this is coming to a head right now. Yes, a portion of this country is cheering his madness on, but I will never believe the majority of Americans want to give up on our Democracy and live in the soon to be renamed, "United States of Trump"....which he will have carved in stone under his face on Mt. Rushmore. Go ahead, convince me he's not planing on doing it; and who would stop him?
I hold that exact same faith, and I've never once had a reason to question it. No matter how much noise Trump's fan club is making, they are in no way the majority; I simply can't believe that there is any more than a handful of Americans who are actually in favor of what's going on. It goes completely contrary to every experience I have of interacting with other Americans in person, and I've seen a *lot* of America. You will never convince me that the majority of our fellow citizens are anything other than regular working people who just want to end all this madness and live calm and peaceful lives.
I can't guarantee you that No Confidence is the thing that will let us see that outcome; no one can see the future, and there's a mountain of effort between here and there. What I can at least tell you is that, based on the reactions to UTW I've seen so far, it has the *potential* to make it that far. It's over the very lowest of the bars, at least.
There were a lot of possible reactions I'd imagined that would have had me quietly disappearing back into my corner of the Internet once the UTW launch week was over, because I only have so much energy I can devote to the things I care about. If the work hadn't started resonating with people strong and early, I would have known that it would never be able to spread far enough to make a difference—but it did, and that's why I'm still here, pouring my energy into spreading as much hope as I can that we actually have a viable way out.
I may not have made it to Eagle, but I never, ever stopped wanting to help other people at all times.
I agree that we are standing side by side with millions of Americans who don't want to loose our country. At times I feel like we need a modern day Constitutional Convention. Our country has changed in 250 years, but decency, freedom, and the ideals that founded this country remain solid.
What hasn't changed is the fact that humans beings are not perfect and some will do anything to put themselves above the rest in their quest for personal power and wealth. These are the people we are fighting against. They don't share the values our nation was founded and believe in. We The People...with liberty and justice for all.
Heather, I love your writing, and read you faithfully. Tonight's entry was really chilling. But you're making a big error, I think, when you score Trump for using the phrase "take some of the guilt off" with regard to his upcoming Thursday speech. I think he clearly meant GILT (as in shiny gold stuff, which we all know he's very fond of) and not "guilt" as in guilty.
So when is SOMEONE going to check out the 2024 election where he supposedly won. I will always believe elon pulled a fast one since he, as trump said, is so good with the machines.....
I agree that Musk was very active in the election. A master data manipulator. Also not enough attention has been given to Russia’s role in the 2016 election, for which Trump is eternally grateful to Putin.
I lived in Georgia in 2020 and voted in the 2020 elections. They were conducted perfectly. The only interference in that election was Trump himself, with his infamous phone call to Brad Raffensberger, and Ken Paxton’s lawsuit to overturn the vote. Trump is threatening to disinfranchise millions of Georgians who voted in that election.
Yes, Trump is still obsessed about the 2020 elections. He needs to move on and accept his loss of Presidential election. I am tired of Taco’s obsession with the 2020 elections. President Joe Biden, and two senators of GA won in GA period. The Secretary of State and his department did a very good job. Period. I will not watch Taco’s prime time address on TV. Nah.
Another take on Trump’s falling asleep when others are talking: He doesn’t care what others think (pure narcissism). Pretty simple. Add fatigue from not sleeping and voila.
Also, let’s stop being ageist — Trump has been like this all his life.
Heather, I'm seriously worried that somehow Trump will find a way to interfere with the November mid elections. I hope not, but nothing is beyond that malignant psychopath.
That was an interesting diagnosis from your physician correspondent about Trump's confabulation. Let's hope it gets far worse before November so that Trump will have to be removed from power. Well I can dream.
Trump may “ confabulate” on occasion but the majority of the time he simply lies outright. Both he and Miller adhere very much to Hitler’s belief that if you tell a very large lie ( over and over) people will believe it.
And I think we should start holding Trump’s 34 yr old side piece Natalie Harp fully responsible for the majority of his tweets and posts. Start calling her out by name!!
Katherine, I agree about that Natalie. The criminal rapist is god to that simpleton. If she is the author (and I believe she is) of his crazy, deranged posts, she clearly is as mentally deranged as he is and reporters should start looking her up more closely.
tRump is bat shit crazy. How much longer will spineless politicians let him go on like this??? Call your Senators, day and night. All of them, no matter the party. Time is ripe for a new aera, with politicians working for the people and not for any PAC, company or foreign country.
We need to distinguish between what /trump says to himself from within his bubble of insanity, what his sycophants make of that, and what actually results from it. Simply to record what he says and treat that as having dangerous significance in the real world gives him and it far too much credit and plays his game.
I can feel my confidence in our country ever bouncing back from this ebbing. When those khaki and polo shirted, masked terrorists are brazenly walking through the Capitol on July 4th, I feel like we have lost. Do we have militias on our side? Will the National Guards from individual states take orders from the federal government? Will they shoot fellow citizens for exercising the right to vote?
We are on the brink and there are many people who would love to assume the power of a dictator after Twump falls over and doesn't get up. The entire history of mankind is littered with failed states. The government controls our lives and for many generations, that worked. It no longer does. With the advent of social media aka the human sewer, nobody has to tell the truth. The lies just compound and when that is your only source of information, that is your reality.
Rupert Murdoch is a shameful man and he, like Mitch McConnell, wears his evil on his face.
I don’t believe Trump used the word “guilt” either intentionally or unintentionally. He doesn’t feel guilt. I think he might have been saying “gilt” which he apparently is obsessed with. He could have said “it might take some if the gilt off” to mean that revealing what he plans to talk about on Thursday night might make the news less special. Or … he could have meant something else entirely!
“confabulation, deliberate lies, and political spin merge into something indistinguishable.” Yes it us something we have never witnessed from the highest position in our country. So disturbing. In our business, every day brings a new problem with this administration (the government is not issuing money that was already appropriated by Congress unless businesses tie the line or give away equity or do what they say… let me repeat, this money has already been appropriated by Congress to spend on things they already made decisions on). In our personal lives, we don’t know if we have our freedom or if we are safe. When he threatens to stop anti-terrorism money to states that don’t turn over voter rolls, we know he’s not in it to protect his citizens; he is in it for himself. And his people are in it for themselves. I honestly believe they float him untruths, which also confuse his mind, and they know it. They are complicit.
Midterms are one thing that can stop him, maybe. I'll absolutely be voting in November if we're able to, but I'm not just sitting around waiting. I'm building support to ratify a Constitutional Amendment called No Confidence that will, among other things, end his term, and that of his whole administration, early.
And, because final authority on Amendments belongs to the States, it doesn't matter whether Congress cooperates or not. A world where 38 US states have ratified the No Confidence Amendment is one in which the people of America have decisively retaken political power from a faithless government, end of story.
Great idea and make sure that part of it is to require that all physicians treating the most powerful person in our government be able to openly give their full and complete diagnosis of the state of both his physical and mental capabilities. There should be no protection from total transparency in order for us to have complete confidence in the President’s ability to serve and make life and death decisions that affect the people of the nation.
If this is what it takes to stop the madness, I'm all in! No need to wait to November, I think all of this is coming to a head right now. Yes, a portion of this country is cheering his madness on, but I will never believe the majority of Americans want to give up on our Democracy and live in the soon to be renamed, "United States of Trump"....which he will have carved in stone under his face on Mt. Rushmore. Go ahead, convince me he's not planing on doing it; and who would stop him?
I hold that exact same faith, and I've never once had a reason to question it. No matter how much noise Trump's fan club is making, they are in no way the majority; I simply can't believe that there is any more than a handful of Americans who are actually in favor of what's going on. It goes completely contrary to every experience I have of interacting with other Americans in person, and I've seen a *lot* of America. You will never convince me that the majority of our fellow citizens are anything other than regular working people who just want to end all this madness and live calm and peaceful lives.
I can't guarantee you that No Confidence is the thing that will let us see that outcome; no one can see the future, and there's a mountain of effort between here and there. What I can at least tell you is that, based on the reactions to UTW I've seen so far, it has the *potential* to make it that far. It's over the very lowest of the bars, at least.
There were a lot of possible reactions I'd imagined that would have had me quietly disappearing back into my corner of the Internet once the UTW launch week was over, because I only have so much energy I can devote to the things I care about. If the work hadn't started resonating with people strong and early, I would have known that it would never be able to spread far enough to make a difference—but it did, and that's why I'm still here, pouring my energy into spreading as much hope as I can that we actually have a viable way out.
I may not have made it to Eagle, but I never, ever stopped wanting to help other people at all times.
I agree that we are standing side by side with millions of Americans who don't want to loose our country. At times I feel like we need a modern day Constitutional Convention. Our country has changed in 250 years, but decency, freedom, and the ideals that founded this country remain solid.
What hasn't changed is the fact that humans beings are not perfect and some will do anything to put themselves above the rest in their quest for personal power and wealth. These are the people we are fighting against. They don't share the values our nation was founded and believe in. We The People...with liberty and justice for all.
So incredibly well said, and I wholeheartedly agree. 🫡🫡🫡
Inch Allah !
Heather, I love your writing, and read you faithfully. Tonight's entry was really chilling. But you're making a big error, I think, when you score Trump for using the phrase "take some of the guilt off" with regard to his upcoming Thursday speech. I think he clearly meant GILT (as in shiny gold stuff, which we all know he's very fond of) and not "guilt" as in guilty.
Thank you, I was coming in to make the same point!
That’s what I was thinking too! I’m glad I’m not the only one ‼️‼️‼️🇬🇧
Interesting ... and that word (gilt) would make more sense in this context.
Yes.
True. He is unable to feel guilt. Or any other emotions that require caring about any one—or any thing—except himself.
Trump showed a remarkable amount of self-awareness: “memorandums of understanding don’t mean much when you are dealing with sleaze bags”
Referring to himself.
So when is SOMEONE going to check out the 2024 election where he supposedly won. I will always believe elon pulled a fast one since he, as trump said, is so good with the machines.....
I agree that Musk was very active in the election. A master data manipulator. Also not enough attention has been given to Russia’s role in the 2016 election, for which Trump is eternally grateful to Putin.
I lived in Georgia in 2020 and voted in the 2020 elections. They were conducted perfectly. The only interference in that election was Trump himself, with his infamous phone call to Brad Raffensberger, and Ken Paxton’s lawsuit to overturn the vote. Trump is threatening to disinfranchise millions of Georgians who voted in that election.
Yes, Trump is still obsessed about the 2020 elections. He needs to move on and accept his loss of Presidential election. I am tired of Taco’s obsession with the 2020 elections. President Joe Biden, and two senators of GA won in GA period. The Secretary of State and his department did a very good job. Period. I will not watch Taco’s prime time address on TV. Nah.
And poor Brad Raffensberger was promptly rewarded by GA voters by losing his job in the next election
Another take on Trump’s falling asleep when others are talking: He doesn’t care what others think (pure narcissism). Pretty simple. Add fatigue from not sleeping and voila.
Also, let’s stop being ageist — Trump has been like this all his life.
Saying Trump is confabulating isn’t ageist, but I agree that he’s always been this way!
Agreed. I was referencing beyond hid confabulating. Thanks.
Absolutely correct. He has never changed.
Heather, I'm seriously worried that somehow Trump will find a way to interfere with the November mid elections. I hope not, but nothing is beyond that malignant psychopath.
That was an interesting diagnosis from your physician correspondent about Trump's confabulation. Let's hope it gets far worse before November so that Trump will have to be removed from power. Well I can dream.
“Walking around with no legs”—-huh?
Yeah, common thing. He walks around with no brain.
The Mideast is a quagmire, and it’s a metaphor for America with Trump. We’re stuck until we acknowledge that our choice was a mistake.
Not “our” choice. I know I have never voted for that con man
Trump may “ confabulate” on occasion but the majority of the time he simply lies outright. Both he and Miller adhere very much to Hitler’s belief that if you tell a very large lie ( over and over) people will believe it.
And I think we should start holding Trump’s 34 yr old side piece Natalie Harp fully responsible for the majority of his tweets and posts. Start calling her out by name!!
Katherine, I agree about that Natalie. The criminal rapist is god to that simpleton. If she is the author (and I believe she is) of his crazy, deranged posts, she clearly is as mentally deranged as he is and reporters should start looking her up more closely.
I just looked up this Natalie. You guys sure have her number. A real piece of work. Although I am sure Drumph thinks of her mostly as a great piece.
Another problem is if you keep telling the same big lie over and over again you start to believe it yourself.
tRump is bat shit crazy. How much longer will spineless politicians let him go on like this??? Call your Senators, day and night. All of them, no matter the party. Time is ripe for a new aera, with politicians working for the people and not for any PAC, company or foreign country.
We need to distinguish between what /trump says to himself from within his bubble of insanity, what his sycophants make of that, and what actually results from it. Simply to record what he says and treat that as having dangerous significance in the real world gives him and it far too much credit and plays his game.
I can feel my confidence in our country ever bouncing back from this ebbing. When those khaki and polo shirted, masked terrorists are brazenly walking through the Capitol on July 4th, I feel like we have lost. Do we have militias on our side? Will the National Guards from individual states take orders from the federal government? Will they shoot fellow citizens for exercising the right to vote?
We are on the brink and there are many people who would love to assume the power of a dictator after Twump falls over and doesn't get up. The entire history of mankind is littered with failed states. The government controls our lives and for many generations, that worked. It no longer does. With the advent of social media aka the human sewer, nobody has to tell the truth. The lies just compound and when that is your only source of information, that is your reality.
Rupert Murdoch is a shameful man and he, like Mitch McConnell, wears his evil on his face.
I don’t believe Trump used the word “guilt” either intentionally or unintentionally. He doesn’t feel guilt. I think he might have been saying “gilt” which he apparently is obsessed with. He could have said “it might take some if the gilt off” to mean that revealing what he plans to talk about on Thursday night might make the news less special. Or … he could have meant something else entirely!
Right. I won’t watch Taco’s prime time address on TV. He lies. I don’t pay attention to him anymore since 2020. Taco won’t survive his Presidency.
He's certainly more into "gilt" than "guilt." But you may be giving the word choice more thought than he did. Regardless, I'll skip the talk
I’m going to Tommy’s dog play group this morning to ponder why I don’t want grandchildren from my 2 sons anymore 😢🐕
“confabulation, deliberate lies, and political spin merge into something indistinguishable.” Yes it us something we have never witnessed from the highest position in our country. So disturbing. In our business, every day brings a new problem with this administration (the government is not issuing money that was already appropriated by Congress unless businesses tie the line or give away equity or do what they say… let me repeat, this money has already been appropriated by Congress to spend on things they already made decisions on). In our personal lives, we don’t know if we have our freedom or if we are safe. When he threatens to stop anti-terrorism money to states that don’t turn over voter rolls, we know he’s not in it to protect his citizens; he is in it for himself. And his people are in it for themselves. I honestly believe they float him untruths, which also confuse his mind, and they know it. They are complicit.