Fred Friendly

You gave the country’s credit card to a guy who bankrupted casinos. What did you think would happen? $11 trillion added to the national debt. He tripled his wealth, and his useless kids are cashing in. Are we GREAT yet?

The Dow Jones is on track for its worst month since 2022.

Donald Trump has endorsed Michael Whatley for the Senate. A reminder that Michael Whatley knowingly appointed convicted child sex offender Harvey Lee West for leadership roles at the North Carolina state GOP party. West was imprisoned for charges of statutory rape involving three girls, two aged 14 and one aged 16. Michael Whatley also didn't want the Epstein files released.

Tucker Carlson asked the question tonight that should have been asked before the first bomb dropped. “Was Iran about to get a nuclear weapon?” Joe Kent — Trump’s own Director of the National Counterterrorism Center: “No. They’ve had a religious ruling against nuclear weapons since 2004. We had no intelligence that ruling was being disobeyed.” No nuclear program. No intelligence of a threat. A religious ruling against it since 2004. Hegseth told his 13-year-old son: “They died for you so your generation doesn’t have to deal with a nuclear Iran.” There was no nuclear Iran. Kent confirmed it. Warner confirmed it. Murphy confirmed it from a classified briefing. Kent resigned over it. 14 Americans dead. $21 billion spent. An F-35 hit for the first time in history. 175 schoolgirls killed. Zero allied warships. Pearl Harbor invoked to Japan’s face. And the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center just said on camera: We had no intelligence justifying this war. None. Never stop connecting the dots.

Absolute bombshell. The US Treasury Secretary admits on live TV that they are unsanctioning Russian and Iranian oil just to manipulate global prices and save their own economy after starting a disastrous war. The hypocrisy of Washington is fully exposed.

Markwayne Mullin has never served a day in the U.S. military. No enlistment. No deployment. No combat. But he talks about the “smell of war,” hints at secret missions, and lets people think he’s a combat veteran. That’s not honor - that’s stolen valor-adjacent BS. Real vets earned their stories. He’s role-playing theirs. Cosplaying war doesn’t make you a warrior.

JUST IN: Trump’s handpicked Commission of Fine Arts approved a general design for a 24k gold commemorative coin for the U.S. 250th anniversary featuring Trump’s image. “I motion to approve this as presented, and with the strong encouragement that you make it as large as possible, all the way to three inches in diameter,” the commission’s vice chair, James McCrery, said. Separately, the Treasury has said it plans to issue a $1 Trump coin that the Commission of Fine Arts approved in January. Straight-up banana republic stuff.

Pete Hegseth just declared he only wants Christian prayers for this war. No Jewish prayers. No Muslim prayers. He even dictates how you should pray. This is the Secretary of Defense acting like a religious dictator. Absolute insanity.

It’s so weird that bank after bank are settling with Jeffrey Epstein’s victims for something Donald Trump keeps saying is a hoax.