A little behind the scenes.

THE ECONOMY IS STRONG BECAUSE HE SAID SO.

“Grocery prices will come down on day one”

Lost elections are rigged, won elections are fair. Good job numbers are real, bad ones are fake. Sex trafficking is bad, unless the traffickers will blame your enemies. Crime is bad, unless the criminals are pro-Trump. This isn’t 4D chess, or even tic-tac-toe, just Autocracy 101.

Trump on CNBC: "I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, as you probably know, and we are entitled to five more seats." Fact check: Trump's 56% in Texas 2024 isn't even in the top 10. He ranks 15th, historically. He won less than Nixon, Reagan and George W. Bush.

You can't have a moral compass in the Trump Administration.

Breaking News: U.S. consumer prices rose 2.7% in July from a year ago, as President Trump’s tariffs intensified price pressures. nyti.ms/3UU522W

Goldman Sachs analysis finds that through June foreign exporters absorbed just 14% of the cost of U.S. tariffs while American companies paid 64% and American consumers paid 22%. Goldman predicts that consumer share will rise to 67%. qz.com/us-consumers-t…

Just shameless lying. Boston has had 17 murders all year, and is on pace for its lowest or second-lowest number of homicides. Homicides in New York are down 24% from last year, and on pace to be the lowest since 1944.

DOJ is employing Jared Wise, a Jan. 6 defendant who called cops "Nazis" and urged the crowd to "kill em" as they stormed the Capitol. npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-…

From D.C. crime rates to census collection to labor statistics, this month marked an escalation in President Trump’s war on data as he repeatedly undermines statistics that threaten his agenda and distorts figures to bolster his policies. wapo.st/4mkxffs

#Trumpflation #Fridayvibes

Spoiler: There are no consequences.

Q: "We don't know what any of that progress is." Rubio: "And you're not going to." Q: "POTUS went into that meeting saying he wanted a ceasefire...so where are the consequences?" Rubio: "That's not the aim of this." Q: "The president said that was the aim."

Multiple DC National Guard vehicles at the Lincoln Memorial, which is not a crime area

The fascist far right secret police are here.

No red carpet. No greeting from Trump.

Jimmy Kimmel on CBS canceling Stephen Colbert and #TheLateShow: "[It's disappointing] we don't see more people on the right stepping up and saying, 'Hey, this is no good.' Silencing comedians, commentators, whatever you want to call people... I have to say, if Joe Biden had used

Bring your license plate to the polls, folks. Trump’s orders.

TRUMP: President Stubb of Finland. He's uh, somebody that, where are we here? Huh? STUBB: I'm right here TRUMP: Oh.