Donny’s shit-show is a total disaster as Fox News broadcasts from a completely empty Mall

scenes from a five-alarm clusterfuck

‘hey, let’s go down to Dear Leader’s Big Empty Shitpile of Nothingness over on the National Mall,’ said nobody.

literally nobody.

yesterday, for the fifth consecutive day, the vapid happy-talk bobbleheads at Fox News had to go on live TV and pretend that Donny’s fucktacular tumbleweed-strewn pity-party debacle was some kind of rousing success.

this time, as they were doing just that, there were exactly ZERO people on the Mall.

that’s hilarious. there is not a single person to be seen on the Mall as the Fox hosts mindlessly chatter away.

once again, Preznit Fuckwit has failed. just like he failed at running a real estate empire, and failed at running casinos, and failed at running an airline, and failed at running a football team, and failed at running a country, and failed at fighting a pandemic, Donny has now failed at throwing a national party.

and the colicky piss-baby in the Oval Bordello, you’ll no doubt be delighted to learn, is shitting a massive red-hot brick over this.

remember, this dipshit’s entire fragile ego is wrapped up in some childish fantasy about how eternally ginormous his crowd sizes are — and apparently, Donny had been deluding himself that everything was going just swimmingly, until he saw aerial footage of the nearly-empty Mall, at which point the Ol’ Ketchup Flinger flipped the fuck out.

The visual enraged him, the sources said, and multiple White House officials who had posted the photo deleted their posts. The revelation led to a defensive Trump lashing out on social media, claiming that the crowds were “packed to the brim.”

Donny made his flunkies delete their social media posts! how deliciously infantile is that?

oh yeah, shoot that shit right into my veins.

speaking of going swimmingly, this whole thing has been a total disaster from the word go. was a coven of witches convened to put a curse on it all? kudos, ladies.

it’s a legit question to ask, because look at what happened during a rehearsal yesterday. the shoddily-constructed stage started falling apart.

holy shit, did you hear how loud the crash was when that plank hit the stage? Jesus H. Christ, that fucking thing could have killed someone.

in the hallowed name of Responsible Journalism and Everything™, let’s gif that shit for posterity’s sake.

so, performers are now expected to risk their lives standing under some piece of crap stage that could come crashing down on their heads at any moment.

and then there’s that stupid miniature arch that’s literally coming unglued under the hot sun.

all this stuff is falling apart because once again, Donny cheaped out. this has been Dear Leader’s modus since forever: promise the moon, rake in the bucks, and then pocket most of the moolah while delivering some duct-taped-together shithole mess that collapses into pieces almost immediately.

and speaking of raking in the bucks — it’s looking more and more like the defrauding fraudster who defrauded the banks that backed his failing casinos, and defrauded the students who enrolled in his fake university, and defrauded the donors who thought they were giving to a charity for cancer-stricken children, has been defrauding the donors who thought they were kicking in to America 250.

you’ll be shocked, I’m sure, to learn that Donny’s ‘Freedom 250’ has been a shameless grift from the word go.

Most notably, the authors of the report — Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee — raise questions about whether Freedom 250’s fundraising practices could amount to “potential wire fraud and charitable solicitation fraud.”

basically, donors who thought they were giving to the bipartisan, Congressionally-created ‘America 250’ celebration were tricked into donating instead to Donny’s personal ‘Freedom 250’ clusterfuck-a-thon on the Mall.

The report cites “sources interviewed by the committee Democrats” who claimed that donors who intended to give to a bipartisan commission created by Congress a decade ago to spearhead the semiquincentennial “were instead given wire instructions with Freedom 250’s banking information-including its routing number and account number — so that contributions would instead flow to Freedom 250.” The report does not provide further specific evidence or name the sources.

and you’ll never guess into whose pockets that money ended up going.

The report also accuses Freedom 250 of potentially steering “lucrative taxpayer-funded contracts to the president’s own operatives” and selling “presidential access to the highest bidder.”

pro tip: don’t ever give your money to Donny, for any reason at all. just find the nearest three card monte dealer and fork over your whole wallet. you’ll have a better chance of not getting ripped off.

hey, you know how Donny’s always bragging about how America is the hottest country right now? he’s right, but not in the way he thinks.

tell me, is it a bad thing that today, the only places on the planet with higher temperatures than DC will be the Sahara and Gobi Deserts?

D.C. will find itself in the top 1.1 percent of the planet’s hottest places on Friday, when high temperatures will soar toward 105 degrees.

Only a few, far-flung places will be hotter.

what a great idea it was to hold a weeks-long event in the middle of summer on a bare field that has absolutely zero shade.

that’s the kind of dumbfuckery that comes from acting first and thinking never.

and forget about bringing a blanket, or adequate sunscreen, into the Mall. that shit will just get confiscated.

check out this video that journalist Amanda Moore produced for Mother Jones magazine. in it, she explains that even getting into the Mall is an experience akin to going through TSA airport security — with even greater restrictions.

you can’t even bring a bag with you.

no wonder no one is showing up to this piece of shit. come on, I just want to hang out in the park. don’t make me deal with militarized robot dogs.

who thought this was a good idea? sure, let’s make the whole experience as onerous as possible. what could go wrong? let’s have a fucking party, but let’s make sure no one has a good time.

in fact, let’s just pollute all of downtown Washington DC.

Fireworks for this year’s July Fourth celebration are expected to cause hazardous levels of pollution around the National Mall and “very unhealthy” conditions in central D.C., according to internal National Park Service documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

The show, billed by the Trump administration as the largest pyrotechnic display in history, will include some 850,000 fireworks in a roughly 40-minute show expected to start at 10:30 p.m. or 11 p.m., according to organizers.

fun fact: a 40-minute barrage of 850,000 fireworks is about 20 to 50 times larger and roughly double the length of your average July 4th show, and it’s going to blanket DC with fine particulate matter — and that shit is hazardous as fuck.

The combustion from large fireworks displays typically causes significant pollution because it generates fine particulate matter, also known as PM2.5. These small particles can penetrate deep into the heart and lungs, causing irritation and in some cases asthma attacks and other illnesses.

this has the childish hand of Donny all over it. everything has to be big, bigger, biggest. Donny can’t just have a large fireworks display. it has to be stupidly large. it has to be complete overkill. he has to have a fireworks display like few thought possible. maybe the greatest fireworks display of all time.

big strong fireworks with tears in their eyes.

it’s all so fucking stupid. stupid and reckless and dangerous. and We the People get to stand under it. lucky us.

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here’s your hero of the day: the Man Who Convicts War Criminals In The Hague.

Jack Smith isn’t finished with Donny. he’s planning on pouncing the second Dear Leader is no longer in office.

Jack Smith says he’s ready to hit Trump with new trial when his term ends

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith told MS NOW in a Thursday interview that he’s still prepped and ready to relaunch his case against President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents and his actions surrounding the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack.

“After the Supreme Court grants Donald Trump immunity you filed a superseding indictment. You’re still ready to bring the case to trial, right?” asked MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace.

“Yeah. Correct,” Smith confirmed without hesitation.

fuck yeah, shoot that shit straight into my veins as well.

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it’s Friday, and we made it through the week in one piece! let’s reward ourselves with some Daily Claudia.

here’s Ms Spouse in our living room, on January 9, 2019.

and here’s Katie and her mom, enjoying a laugh — probably at my expense — in Ft. Davis, Texas, on April 20, 2022.

have a great Friday, everyone. enjoy the fireworks. just try not to breathe.

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here’s your daily reminder that I can be found on Blue Sky at this link.

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