Kent Wolgamott

Donald Trump's net approval rating has collapsed to a historic negative 17 points. He is the most unpopular president in US history.

I’m receiving reports this morning regarding two successful campaigns that occurred over the weekend. 1. No Kings. As of this morning, there are (still) no kings in the United States of America. 2. No Dukes. As of this morning, there are no Dukes in the NCAA tournament.

In the unlikely event that there’s even one person remaining in America who’s not agonizingly-embarrassed by the demented caveman MAGA foisted upon us, this latest video clip will resolve that deficit straight away.

He is repeating every foreign and domestic policy mistake the US has made over the last five decades, but he's doing it with a gracelessness, cluelessness, and corruption that has no precedent.

What is happening….

Trump is everything our Founding Fathers objected to.

Check your bingo card ladies and gentlemen for talking sex with an 79yo man held liable for sexual abuse and defamation and named in the #EpsteinFiles 38,000 times.

He said it.

Won’t be the first time strippers have gotten to see his signature.

Well...an R+13/Trump +11 seat in Palm Beach just went all #ETTD. Huh. Weird.

Big week for dads who make the family arrive to the airport 5 hrs before boarding!

President Trump, who is in the midst of pressuring senators to curb the use of mail-in voting, voted by mail ballot in Tuesday’s special election in Palm Beach County, Florida. wapo.st/47fVUwf

@Steven_Hyden Ray is right..saw him Saturday at first tour show in Omaha..he was behind a small electric keyboard in the middle close to the back of the stage..Hoodie was on, but I could see him just fine from the 8th row

I am seeing* Bob Dylan tonight! (*actually a sliver of Bob Dylan visible between a hoodie and an enormous piano.)

Visiting the residence of a man who had god awful taste in home furnishings, got fat from fast food and pills and liked sleeping with very underage girls is a bit on the nose, big dawg.

Look what someone dug up. The internet is forever. #DV1 #USDemocracy #DemsUnited

Imagine explaining to someone a decade ago that the President of the US and the Iranians put out contradictory statements on a Monday morning and everyone knows the US President is full out lying and the Iranians are telling the truth.

as a seasoned Trump watcher it's clear to me that his tale about Iran reaching out to make "a deal" to end his war of aggression is mostly if not entirely fabricated and represents a desperate attempt to find an offramp before the economy and his political standing totally tank

BREAKING. Thirty-six hours ago President Donald Trump said “obliterate.” This morning he said “productive conversations.” The question every trader, diplomat, and general is asking: what broke between Saturday night and Monday morning? Six things broke simultaneously. Not one of them was Iranian. First. The bill arrived. The Pentagon requested over $200 billion in supplemental funding. The war cost $11.3 billion in six days, $16.5 billion in twelve. At $1.38 billion per day and accelerating, congressional resistance to the supplemental is real. The money that was supposed to fund “days not weeks” now needs a vote that may not pass. Second. The Fed killed the rate-cut thesis. On March 18, the Federal Reserve held rates at 3.5 to 3.75 percent and revised its 2026 PCE inflation forecast to 2.7 percent from 2.4, citing the Iran war energy shock. The dot plot shows one cut in all of 2026, down from two. Every basis point of delayed easing is pain for housing, credit, and the Magnificent Seven. The war that was supposed to demonstrate strength is demonstrating inflation. Third. The allies revolted politely. Twenty-two countries signed up to coordinate on Hormuz. Zero committed a warship during combat. Japan is releasing strategic reserves. South Korea’s Kospi has fallen 12 percent. Europe’s gas surged 35 percent after Qatar’s LNG was knocked offline & declared force majeure up to 5 years. Trump called NATO “cowards” and got a press release. The coalition of the willing is a coalition of the waiting. Fourth. TSMC sent the signal. Taiwan imports nearly 97 percent of its energy. Its LNG reserves cover 11 days. Qatar supplies a third of global helium, which TSMC needs for chip fabrication. The helium is bottled behind a closed strait. Every Nvidia GPU, every Apple chip, every AI cluster depends on a fab in Hsinchu counting its gas in single-digit days. The Magnificent Seven have shed hundreds of billions as energy rotation crushes tech. Fifth. Birol named the damage. The IEA chief told Australia this morning that 40 energy assets across nine countries are severely damaged, global oil supply has fallen 11 million barrels per day, the crisis exceeds both 1970s shocks combined, and no country is immune. He named fertilisers and helium as interrupted flows. The man who runs global energy security called the war Trump started the worst energy crisis in modern history. Sixth. The midterms. Gas prices are up 93 cents per gallon. Sixty-six percent of Americans call this a war of choice. Sixty percent disapprove. Fifty-seven percent say it is going badly. The numbers that matter in Washington are not barrels per day. They are approval ratings in swing states where voters fill their tanks every Tuesday. Six pressures. One post. President Trump did not discover diplomacy. He discovered arithmetic. The 48-hour ultimatum was a threat. The 5-day pause is a confession that the threat’s consequences were worse than its target. Destroying power plants would have sealed the strait permanently, triggered Ghalibaf’s promise to “irreversibly destroy” Gulf desalination and energy infrastructure, crashed TSMC’s supply chain, spiked inflation past 3 percent, and handed the midterms to the opposition on a platter of $7 gasoline. The pause is real. The relief is not. The strait is still closed. The 40 assets are still damaged. The fertiliser is still blocked. The planting window is still closing. The five-day clock is already ticking. The molecules do not negotiate. The molecules wait. Full deep dive analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Oh, that's a real shame. Sad.

Trump is fighting hard against wokeness during this event in Memphis