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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

yes, I spelled tacky wrong. OR DID I? maybe I just invented the word 'tscky.' MOVE THE FUCK OVER, SHAKESPEARE

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Victoria Wilson's avatar

Maybe tscky is tacky to the enth degree.Little Donnie’s horrible gilded ball room will surely qualify as tscky.

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rlritt's avatar

Its an old Yiddish word meaning stinking pile of dog shit.

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john augustine's avatar

stinking pile of orange dog shit

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Susan Niemann's avatar

LOL!

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Jan Moon's avatar

That's what i thought.

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Nancy Lent Lanoue's avatar

🤣

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Jeff, I think you are a lot more artful that Shakespeare.

But then I get accused of making up words all the time (like Cockwomble).

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Sorry, "cockwomble" has been used in England for years. Strange origins - in the '70s there was a kid's puppet series called "The Wombles" - a family of small furry creatures who lived on Wimbledon Common and searched every day for rubbish to re-cycle. a "Cock-Wombler" refers to the male habit of rummaging around in their pockets to find and juggle their balls. . .

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Oh, Im well versed in the origin of the world Ems.

I just OFTEN get accused by Americans that dont understand its ACTUALLY a word.

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Not in the OED - yet.

Always hoping!

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Pere Ubu's avatar

Any word I come up with is ACTUALLY a word. If it's understandable in context, who cares if it's in the goddamn dictionary or not? I'm communicating, not doing fifth grade English class.

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.

All mimsy were the borogroves

And the mome raths outgrabe."

One of the most famous poems in the English language, written in 1871 - and people are still trying to work out what he meant.

So, what were you saying about "fifth grade English", my beamish boy?

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Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

Bwahahahaha. I love it !

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David Skoglund's avatar

Also known as pocket pool.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Cockwomble is a stroke of genius.

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Declan's avatar

That's a good one. The one that makes me laugh is 'wanker' 😅

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NEAL O'CONNOR's avatar

"Wanker" is Trump's code name in the UK.

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A.J. Madison's avatar

I'm impressed with how many different slang words/phrases they have for masturbator. Besides Wanker, there is tosser, pickle tickler, fingerer, w-anchor, add Aussie words with connotation of masturbation, like flog/flogger, whacker, plus UK/Irish knobhead.

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NEAL O'CONNOR's avatar

And-- for the adventurous-- "whitewater wristing!"

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Skanky shitgibbon.

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

In Canada they use one called "keener" which ALMOST sounds racist, but really just means a teachers pet.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

The Brits have some good slang, like manky minger

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

My Canadian dictionary defines keener as “a person who is extremely eager, zealous, or enthusiastic” with not much to do about being a teacher’s pet.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

My Scottish cousins still there use that one ALL the time, lol. The other term they use which confounds me is when they describe something good or great as a 'banger'. WTF? The first time John (the one who's most prolific in writing to me and sending his own videos) used it several times in one video: 'oh, THAT's a BANGER' or 'she's a BANGER" I wasn't sure WTF he was talking about. Had to discreetly listen in to other conversations to figure it out.

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Abigail Norling's avatar

"Cockwomble" is a British slang term, in Manchester England it is heard frequently these days!

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Marla's avatar

Cocksplat?

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Jan Moon's avatar

This isn't a word, it's a phrase, but my husband's favorite was "Hell's Pecker Never"! Has a nice ring to it.

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Larry Bushard's avatar

Those Scots sure do know the best words!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

It's easily seen as a typo, unlike covfefe and hamberders and all his idiotic malaprops

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Mary Hall's avatar

I saw that word and wondered if it was Russian, because it looks like it could be, especially since T💩p is trying to make a ballroom just like his overlord Vlad has at his St. Petersburg palace.

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Veronica von Bernath Morra's avatar

Jeff....you can spell anyway you like. Make up words....As long as you keep demolishing that decaying piece of putrid crap....I will, We will continue to read your posts and fight, fight, fight!

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Well those gaudy " gold : tchotchkes ( bespoiling the Oval Office ) are very TSCKY.

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Cindy Watter's avatar

Yes! It’s a portmanteau word, all respect to Lewis Carroll, for “tchotchke” and “icky.” Perfect!

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Kay-El's avatar

At first I thought you were combining tacky and tchotchkes

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

😁😁

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

'tscky.' sounds like your Eastern European grandparents were speaking through you!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

It has a certain elan. I fucking LOVE it.

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Tsky is a little know dialect word in Mongolian. It means "Place where greedy fools gather".

So glad you managed to fit it into a snetence and provoke creative interpretations. . .

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Tacky, meet sucky.

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Tim Trew's avatar

Tscky; adj. 1) Portmanteau combining tacky and sticky: The gold plated toilet in the document room at Mar-a-Lago is tscky.

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Leu2500's avatar

Portmanteau of tacky + suck

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Cyndi's avatar

Maybe you just needed more covfefe this morning?

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VirginiaLife's avatar

You get another A, Jeff. You have correctly stated the name of the new ballroom. And you have accurately described how Tapper would have responded.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

THIS! I can't even look at that sleazebag anymore.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

t-i-sky or tsi-cky - are both FAR too nice/genteel for his HORRID plans for what USED TO BE OUR White House East Wing. I'm SO enraged by what he had the absolute NERVE to destroy, yet his magat cultists STILL DON'T KNOW/DON'T BELIEVE, OR DON'T CARE! Because, Fox is LYING TO THEM. It's beyond anything I could ever have imagined. I BET he was told there was no ROOM for his fucking ballROOM without putting it where the East Wing stood, so his answer was: then tear THAT down, I want, I want, I want MY ballroom, the gaudy, trashy, TACKY pig that he is. His entire life has been about 'me, me, me, me, me' and don't anyone DARE get in his way when the ranting, tantrum-throwing toddler wants his fucking toys!

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ynot1965's avatar

We need new words for all the new lows.

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Tess's avatar

No words…except YOURS: “fuck you, you fucking fuck. don’t you fucking tell me how fucking often I can fucking say fuck.”

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂 Priceless! HAHAHA!!!

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John Nerdrum's avatar

1500 percent!

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

"What the hell am I looking at, when does this happen in the movie?"

"We're at now now. Everything that you see that's happening now, is happening now."

"What happened to then?"

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

1968-1971, we're old now. Look in the mirror.

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

When I quote the Mel Brooks Classic, SpaceBalls, and thats the response I get, I do indeed feel "old". :)

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Runfastandwin's avatar

Me and my son must've watched it 100 times. He's 44 now...

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Joanne Filipo's avatar

Lol, my kids can recite every word of that movie! 🤣

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SPW's avatar

And feeling every year of it too.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

FUCKING A!!!

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Terry O''s avatar

That was once my favorite phrase,

'Fucking A'. Thanks for the reminder.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

I remember when the joke was “How do New Yorker's recite the alphabet?”

“Fuckin’ A, fuckin’ B, fuckin’ C..”

😂

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

I frequently say that. My other, “Jesus Fucking Christ”!

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Pam Humphrey's avatar

Fuck, yeah!

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

You stole my reply before I even thought of it. Fuck Yeah!

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Carol Jacobson's avatar

I suspect that if Uncle Jeff tried real hard he could use the word fuck many more times in a sentence.

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Tess's avatar

Agree…except he won’t have to try very hard!! lol

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Ellyn's avatar

Best words I’ve seen today!!! 💕💕💕

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Now THAT made me laugh SO HARD I couldn't read it to hubby until after several tries. Right there, Jeff sounded just like ME and I couldn't love it more! I'll make a Scotsman out of him yet (a/la Billy Connolly or Robin Williams' brilliant acting of one).

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George A. Polisner's avatar

Thanks Jeff.

Nothing says addressing inflation and healthcare costs as a priority like a $300 million ballroom, sending $40 billion to Musk's Argentina "Chainsaw buddy", a couple of jets for Kristi Noem, and sending bombers to Venezuela.

Wow, when I typed all of that I almost forgot about the Epstein/Trump Pedophile investigative files.

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Someone please tell me why there is still 4 out of 10 people who still support this ahole.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

"Flood the zone with shit"

Only watch MAGAT-approved news channels on the teevee

Only get your news from your friends on Facebook

Never get help from a therapist for your moods and constantly churning anger and fear

Nourish your bigotries with hate

Repeat ad nauseum

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Also - "Never forget what your Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa AND YOUR TEACHERS AND PASTORS taught you. . ."

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Susie's avatar

I know this person. Like, he is a part of my family. Sure, it’s by marriage. But still!!! 😡🤬😡🤬😡😡🤬😡💔🇺🇸

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Thats a million dollar question right there... is this how far our society has fallen?

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George in Atlanta's avatar

That's a mistake. It hasn't fallen, the scum were always with us, believing they were all that. The Founders were afraid of them and their influence, they tried to prevent them gaining ground, but ultimately failed.

Trump didn't create them. He just gave them permission to crawl out of their double-wides and participate in that which they don't understand.

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rlritt's avatar

There are survey responders, maybe 10%, who say the dont know. I get that there are people who don't watch the news or read political opinion. But there are this many people who see this and think, "yeah, way to go."

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Yes, we have. Or, the magas have, and of course, the billionaires.

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Terry O''s avatar

Fuckin' A, peeditchwit has only yet begun!

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Some people think Elvis is still alive, so there ya go 💁🏻‍♂️

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

and JFKJr was coming back from the dead to run as frump's vp. I shit you not. THAT is why they so adore bobby brainworm. They somehow believe HE is still part of the Kennedy mystique despite every single one of the Kennedys telling them the entire opposite.

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Nancy's avatar

It's because they aren't polling most of us. Is it all done by phone still? I don't answer unknown numbers. So it's not representative.

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rlritt's avatar
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Interesting . Landlines? Because I can't remember having one since I was a kid.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Well, I have a landline and they don't call me. Could it be the area code (510)--Bay Area?

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rlritt's avatar

Idk. But I don't know I never answer a phone call if don't know who is calling.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

You know they can track your location from your cell. I survived J. Edgar Hoover, and I try to keep some things from them.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Btw, I DO get those calls - most often ignore them but when I think they're 'political calls' choose to answer but am often hung up on, especially by frumpists, which I find hilarious.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I have MINE and will never give it up until forced to! The reason? WE are the only ones who can still CALL the electric company when the power goes out (and all of our neighbours have lost their cell service and come asking). WE are the ones who can call the Fire Dept. Ambulance Service, etc. as well. We don't LOSE cell service as we do on our own cells because the High School we live near decided to expand their computer department and lab thereby causing a huge 'dead spot' in our cul-de-sac. Drives ALL of the landscapers, contractors and even delivery drivers crazy when they come here and can neitherh get or make calls. AND our wires (including the land lines) are underground within PVC since our builder 50 years ago was very smart and thought ahead.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Well we have solar, and a storage battery AND are within a block of our fire department branch, so we notice that we rarely lose power and it is always fixed first. But the last time we lost power we didn't have the storage battery, so I don't know if we'd lose power now.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Just can’t quit him…

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Because he's such an amiable and handsome character that's going to make us all rich?

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

They're not 'normal' people - they're STEPFORD 'morons' a/k/a magat cultists who don't think, don't comprehend, don't look, don't listen, don't hear anything other than what their pre-set teevees tell them.

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Mingo's avatar

Don't forget these fucking MAGATS lost their shit over a basketball court installed by Obama.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Yeah? Well I'm losing my shit over the East Wing AND the Jackie Kennedy Garden that was also wiped out. You know how the former Rose Garden is on the west side of the building and looks like a patio at a chain restaurant now? Well the Jackie Kennedy Garden, sometimes known as the East Garden because of its location in proximity to the east side of the WH, is now DESTROYED along with the East Wing. Quick! Someone ring up RatFK, Jr. to get his useless opinion. GD MFs!!!!

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PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

This is a fb post by Andrew Kerr, architect. I thought his explanation was interesting.

Here's why the new White House ballroom project is not real. (The demo is obviously real.) Some background - I am a licensed Architect with 20+ years of experience. I have worked on multiple Federal projects with sensitive building programs that required background checks.

*** EDIT 10/24 ***

Some people pointed out the exterior rendering I used was discredited by Snopes. My apologies - I found the image on a reputable news site. I have updated the images to be from White House sources. My analysis remains the same.

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1. With a projected size of 90,000sf and a newly revised budget of $300M, the cost per square foot would be $3,333. No building costs anywhere near that. $1,000/sf is astronomical.

2. Let's assume, since we are drawing in the classical, style, that the proportions of the building adhere to the Golden Ratio. A 90,000sf would be a building with a footprint roughly 380' x 235'. Longer than a football field and 1.5x as wide.

2. The building is projected to accommodate 999 people. 15sf/person is required for a banquet area; 20sf/person is pretty comfortable. What you see in the rendering below is closer to 20sf/person. That's only 20,000sf, or a space that is 200'x100'. It's supposed to be a ballroom, so let's be extraordinarily generous and provide 10,000sf for the ballroom support functions, and another 10,000sf for pre-function. Extraordinarily generous. That's STILL only 40,000sf, not even half of the supposed building.

3. There are no drawings for the building. The renderings are poorly coordinated - exterior views do not match the interior views. See below - the White House is 70 feet tall, to the roof. The interior renderings show a room that is roughly 100' x 200', with a ~20 foot ceiling. The exterior renderings show a building footprint of 4.5x that amount.

Those are renderings that could be produced by young staff in a week or two, at most. Nothing else exists.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Thank you!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

ZO, MY admittedly pissed off dreamt/opinion is that the orange fuckwit really DOES plan to tear down the ENTIRE White House - make it seems as it the rest of it was somehow 'undermined' by the 'needed' removal of the East Wing and 'necessitated' demolition, JUST SO he can THEN have a fucking PALACE he'll call FRUMP PALACE in its place? Am I wrong? PLEASE tell me I'm wrong!

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

I think you meant "GD MFs!!! ETTD! - RIP,WH!"

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Larry Bushard's avatar

Actually, Barack just painted over the lines on the tennis court. Probably got it done for a lot less than $300M!

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Veronica von Bernath Morra's avatar

HOW COULD YOU....THAT IS THE F-ING TOP STORY. RELEASE THE F-ING EPSTEIN F-ING FILES!!!

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George A. Polisner's avatar

Indeed Veronica. I’m certain that’s why the criminal elect is surrounding himself with “hard-hitting, fact-finding ‘journalists’” from outlets such as OAN and MyPillowGuy Media.

Just like any other fascist authoritarian -he wants to control the news and information.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

My Pillow Media says everything, doesn’t it, George? They’re complicit while they’re asleep!

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arne link's avatar

Fuck yeah!

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Cathy 98280's avatar

No worries! We’ll remember for you!

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zuzu's avatar

Don't forget the $230 cash grab bribe payoff settlement to himself!

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George A. Polisner's avatar

Good point. $230 million of taxpayer funds.

I tried to forget (I am on blood pressure medication).

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zuzu's avatar

Todd Blanche needs to be referred to his state bar for ethics violations if he approves that. I'm sure he'd just be given a different job in the administration if he were disbarred, but it would be a good signal that at least someone's holding him accountable.

So does Pam Bondi, though she's barred in Florida, so.

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George A. Polisner's avatar

I think Jeff Tiedrich accurately refers to all of the criminal elects counsel as “Parking Garage Lawyers”.

In a better educated and informed US, Trump would be rotting in prison and his team of so-called lawyers would have their pictures and phone numbers plastered on bus benches everywhere. “Better call Todd!”

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Alina Habba was an actual Parking Garage Lawyer. Like, that was literally her job before she started hanging around Bedminster and attracted Trump's attention because 1) she's pretty; 2) she VERY UNETHICALLY made a sexual harassment suit go away by offering the plaintiff hush money: https://www.notus.org/trump-2024/trump-lawyer-alina-habba-quietly-settles-ex-bedminster-waitress-involved-in-hush-money-deal

Todd Blanche, by contrast, was a real attorney before he got into Trump's orbit. He was a former AUSA in the Southern District of NY and a partner at a big NY law firm, Cadwalader, though he had to leave because that firm didn't want to represent Trump. Who doesn't pay and doesn't listen. You can do one or the other, but not both.

Trump got his revenge on Cadwalader by issuing a facially unconstitutional executive order targeting them. Instead of fighting it, like some other firms did, Cadwalader rolled over and offered up $100M in pro bono services for Trump. It's cost them. https://abovethelaw.com/2025/05/two-cadwalader-partners-exit-over-the-firms-capitulation-to-donald-trump/

A note about the firms that rolled over: many of them did it to save their mergers & acquisitions practices, which rely on government approval. However, in doing so, they obligated their litigation practices, and in particular early-career associates, to take on free work for the government. It's absolutely killed recruiting for them. Students from top law schools are going to the firms that stood up to the government, as are litigation clients, who worry (rightly!) that if they have matters involving the government, a firm that showed its belly to Donald Trump won't zealously represent their client's interest.

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George A. Polisner's avatar

Excellent detail, thank you.

Indeed, a law firm that capitulates to a corrupt authoritarian for the sake of expediency and billings is not a firm positioning itself as a fierce advocate for their clients or, in any case, for justice.

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Chuck's avatar

He hasn't received that yet (or even a promise thereof), has he?

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Geoff Boyarsky's avatar

All that and so much more, George. I still say, when is one of the worthless scribblers going to ask John Roberts if this is what he and the Five Stooges had in mind when they gave Trump permission to do whatever he wanted. They are complicit, if not directly responsible for all of this.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

them and the cretins that vote gop

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George A. Polisner's avatar

Very true Geoff. In some of my previous writing I talk about McConnell blocking Garland (imagine if Garland was a justice instead of Gorsuch), and then if Biden had selected a fierce AG who defended the system instead of one who wanted to avoid the appearance of partisanship while the entire system was burned to the ground.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Good one, George! See how this regime tries to throw us off track? Fuck ‘Em!

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George A. Polisner's avatar

Marlene -thank you for stating concisely what I generally describe in long and winding road (tip of the hat to the Beatles) articles and comments. :)

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Love that polka-dot woman. Genuinely heroic. Inspiring.

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arne link's avatar

Look how she is braced. This isn't her first fight. Bravo!

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

She's got a mean elbow, that

POKE A DOLT lady.

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Declan's avatar

yes....you can tell she works out. Strong legs 🦵...

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I was so proud to see that picture! High heels, too!

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Joyce's avatar

Polka Dot Lady wins the Ginger Rogers Award.

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cablecargal's avatar

Backwards, and in heels!

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Yep, she’s in it to win it! Hats Off to polka dot lady!

That agent she is tussling with looks like a candidate for the next ICE flight to El Salvador himself. WTF is he doing out there rounding people up!?!

Not your typical white magat warrior !

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

I will NEVER understand why there are any brown faces in ICE!

Don't they like their families and friends?

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arne link's avatar

Um, money?

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

The $50,000 bonus methinks? Sickening.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

MY take too - she looks as though she's had some martial arts training. I LOVE HER! I'm going to check in on Instagram to see if they're following her story - see if she's ok. (There's a guy whose handle is TizzyEnt who's a whiz at tracking down the racists and horrids. He also helps out the good guys and girls.)

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

She’s one of my heroes! I wish I knew her name so I could thank her personally.

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P123Sunny's avatar

🇺🇸 version of tiannemen?!!

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Exactly.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

And the woman in the long black coat!

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

Very inspiring she is — brave, classy and ripped!!!

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Marie Drozdis's avatar

Any current news on what she's doing? This can't just be a one-time happening.

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Good point. We ought to commission a statue of her alongside the one of the little girl by the bull on Wall Street.

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David Simpson's avatar

The Gilded Decay of American Power.

Let’s imagine, just for a second, if Joe Biden or Barack Obama --or any other president, Democrat or Republican -- had dared to pull something like this. Imagine Obama announcing plans to bulldoze the West Wing, to tear apart the most symbolically sacred space in American democracy and replace it with a glittering “presidential ballroom,” a gaudy, gold-plated monument to his own ego.

Picture the reaction on Fox News. Picture the congressional hearings, the howling pundits, the 24-hour “constitutional crisis” countdown clock. Heads on the Right -- and half of cable news -- would have exploded like the Fembots from Austin Powers.

But when Donald Trump does it? When he literally tears down the seat of government to build his own Versailles, his own gaudy Xanadu, with corporations and tech billionaires lining up to donate, to sponsor, to brand it? When he turns the people’s house into a pay-to-play monument to self-worship? Suddenly it’s just another day in America’s fever dream. Another shrug. Another “controversy” smoothed out by the worthless stenographers of the corporate press.

“Trump plans major East Wing renovation,” they write. Renovation -- such a neutral word, so polite. As if this were just an overzealous home makeover and not the physical manifestation of an empire collapsing in slow motion.

The new “golden ballroom” is more than a tacky indulgence. It’s a mirror. It reflects the rotting core of American politics we're witnessing and experiencing today: the total fusion of wealth, vanity, and power.

It’s not even corruption in the old-fashioned sense -- it’s something more banal and more grotesque. The donors, the CEOs, the social media moguls -- they’re not being bribed or coerced. They’re volunteering. They’re falling over each other to pay to play. Eagerly, obscenely and without shame underwriting a tyrant’s playground, mistaking access for immortality, thinking their logos will gleam forever in the light of his chandeliers.

And meanwhile, the country around them is unraveling. Homelessness surges. Infrastructure crumbles. Public schools suffocate. Prices for basic necessities are in the stratosphere. But there’s always money for another crystal column, another imported marble staircase. Always another “naming opportunity” for the privileged few to etch themselves into the new temple of Trump.

And the Republican Party’s response? “Let them eat plaster.”

The same party that once screeched about tyranny at the faintest whiff of executive power now bows its head in reverent silence, terrified of a mean tweet. The same “constitutional conservatives”, who spent years railing about the Founders’ vision, now applaud as their chosen king burns that vision to the ground and salts the earth.

Where is Congress? Where is the supposed check on power? Standing in the wings, mute and complicit, hands clasped, whispering excuses into their lapels. They could have stood up to the Orange Menace and shouted the obvious: "What the hell is wrong with you?" But they won’t. They can’t. They’ve long since traded their spines for invitations to the next donor gala.

So here we are: watching a reality-TV pharaoh demolish the architecture of democracy to build himself a throne room, and calling it “progress.” Watching the press treat it as spectacle, not sacrilege. Watching the world’s oldest republic descend into the world’s most expensive theme park for one man’s ego.

Trump isn’t a builder. He’s a vandal with good PR. His “Versailles” isn’t a monument to success -- it’s a mausoleum to shame, a tomb for the last pretense of American decency.

And yet, he remains “a very special boy.” The tragedy isn’t that he believes it. It’s that so many others do, too.

Mad at everything right now. I hate this president and what MAGA is doing to this once great nation. This long piece I wrote yesterday is at the core of my anger. What triggered it was watching all this hypocrisy on the Right. As I state, can you imagine for just a second what the reaction would be on the Right if Biden or Obama had ever pulled such a stunt?! And now, watching all these big tech firms falling over themselves to get in on the action? All this “pay to play”? Meanwhile, inflation is back up to 3% and Rome burns while he fiddles with his new golden bordello… What a hellhole we’ve become.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

Yep. My new pronounceable acronym is WIODI:

what if Obama did it?

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David Simpson's avatar

Great! Gonna swipe that. Thanks! Pronounce like "Coyote"! LMAO!

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Cathy 98280's avatar

Beautifully stated. Thank you.

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Patricia Harmanci's avatar

David: you got it right! Thank you.

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Pam Humphrey's avatar

Brilliant!

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Jerri Berman-Nielsen's avatar

Wow!! Well said!

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Marie Drozdis's avatar

I hope we continue to refer to it as the Epstein Ballroom.. Thank you for your piece here.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

David, a wonderful comment. I'm just exploding.

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Cathy Schmidt's avatar

Nailed it!

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Runfastandwin's avatar

I realized I don't hate them. I am sad and if there was any justice they would lose everything and reside alone and under a bridge. But I don't hate them.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Jeff, I will be brief. My wife and I are sick and tired of being sick and tired over the rule of Donald, Fox hosts playing administration heads and the utter devotion to devastation of our Democracy. We are most upset concerning the east wing of our WH for a fucking ballroom that us commoners will never use. This orange man does not intend to leave office, it’s obvious to all🤮 Best to all fellow travelers.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I was having a disagreement with MS Spouse over this. my belief is that the destruction of the White House plays worse with the public that anything else Donny's done, even though shit like declaring war on our own cities is far more evil. the photos of the white house in ruins is visceral in a way that other fuckery isn't. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

of course wouldn't you know that I just got an email from someone telling me to shut the fuck up about the white house already, there are far more important things going on.

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Claudia Classon's avatar

Of course there are worse things going on with our government and its Orange AntiChrist. But this is a VISUAL, VISCERAL symbol of all of it. This is “why isn’t the fuckwit being tried for treason right now?” And “Why aren’t federal historical preservationists storming the White House with lawsuits?” It feels worse than the some of the more important stuff.

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

Because it’s shoved in all our faces!! He’s probably planning to hold his 4th wedding on the backyard patio. I have to add this, slightly off topic. ICE are now being called out to their faces: ICE-HOLES, as in Are you one of those Ice-holes? It can’t be denied and it isn’t officially a bad word. I read it somewhere on Substack or BlueSky and the originator is happy to share it.

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Tess's avatar

Ice-Holes…..works for me!

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Liberals have their own Karens. The White House is an historical icon, a symbol of enduring democracy. For some, it is representative of the dignity and service to the American people the Executive Branch once embodied, larger than the mere men elected to reside there. It's being converted to a theme park attached to a big box store.

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Kim Steeves's avatar

Yes, Jeff just sane wash the East Wing destruction, for what!?! Yes, there are (sadly) more things happening, but really, you can not just accept what has happened to that beautiful and elegant building, only to be replaced with something so tscky!

Thank you for giving us something to make us giggle, laugh and or snort.

We really appreciate it! And we really need it!

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Pere Ubu's avatar

Der Führer desperately, desperately wants a legacy, and, because he can't manage it by being a diplomat or a statesman or a communicator, he's going to do it the way he's always done it, by being a shitty shallow real estate jerkoff.

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Joyce's avatar

That person is full of shit. The destruction of the East Wing is a visual representation of what Donnie Demento and President Nosferatu and Renfield Brother Johnson are doing to this country. Those mendacious sons of bitches can confuse the hell out of ordinary people with their endlessly spewed lies--but nothing is confusing about seeing a pile of rubble where 1/3 of the White House used to be.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Well, as you clearly know, Opinions are like Aholes- every Ahole has one and no qualms about spewing it out there so the general public can revel in their stupidity with them.

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Yes, there are - many things.

But ALL of them (except maybe Epstein, which is why trump is so worried about it) all of them are "explained" away and forgiven by MAGA.

This is one that seems to have stirred their guts. Some, indeed, seem to have noticed that Wonder Boy LIED! Oh, my God! The horror! And if it starts them thinking " Well, what ELSE has he lied about?" the demolition of the East Wing might be the sacrifice that was needed to demolish trump.

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Norma's avatar

Did you tell them to fuck the fucking fuck off already!

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

email them back and tell ‘em to fuck off.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Jeff, please don't die on that hill! Make the other sorry son of a bitch die on that hill!

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Pam Humphrey's avatar

I’ll die with you! Any American who isn’t incensed by this, has no soul.

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Jan Moon's avatar

The key word here is visceral. It's the deep grief you feel when a loved one dies. Which is exactly the case here. And forgive me, but it's how I feel every day since my-17 year-old doggy, Gus, said Good bye. Gone. The East Wing was OURS.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Or don’t understand what the fuck is really going on. A lot of folks are retreating into purposeful denial.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Much like Nixon cheating on his taxes pissed people off more than his attempt to shred the Constitution.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Wait, Did Nixon cheat on his taxes too!?! I never knew!

Now I hate him again all over!

And speaking of taxes, where are Fat Donnie’s returns? How long is he going to be audited, especially now since he controls Treasury and the IRS?

We’ve been waiting Ten Years for those fabled returns!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I agree with you... seeing the East Wing demolished really made me physically ill. As did earlier when they started to fuck with the Smithsonian. Im just glad I got to see all of it before they destroyed it. :(

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

I love DC. I’ve been there many times. I once spent 2 hours in one wing of the National Gallery of Art. I’m lucky because it’s about an hour and a half plane flight from here. It’s also a gorgeous road trip, especially in the fall, only about 8 hours. My kids went there when they were with the safety patrol in school. I have friends who live in the area. I don’t think my stomach will ever recover from all this.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Oh man, I'm with ya. It's a helluva shock. Especially the mindset of some friends - that is the devastating part for me. I cant look those people in the eye again. And as for DC.... what a cultural center. I took three trips there by myself so no one would nag me to hurry up. I took my sweet ass time in every gallery and had to find a bar for a drink after the Holocaust Museum. That was beyond anything I could ever imagine. 😩

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

You may be young(er) but you are very lucky. I've never been to DC.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Living in Philly made it much simpler. I am very lucky. I’m trying to travel and see as much as I can before they blow it all up. ✌️

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Marie Drozdis's avatar

The best years of my life were spent in Philly. Yes, living there made it simpler.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Yes… it’s a great city. Not at all like the farm in NE Missouri! 😜

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Cyndi's avatar

I keep seeing suggestions that No Kings should sell shirts with the best demolition photo on it as a fundraiser to rebuild the East Wing once the obscenity is dragged out by the scruff of his neck.

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eliza james's avatar

I wonder about this. Has anyone polled the heartland MAGAs about this? Genuinely curious what they would say.

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Cyndi's avatar

My MAGA neighbor told me this morning that he switched his registration from Republican to Democrat yesterday. He is an Iraq vet and he teared up about the East Wing.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Cyndi, that makes me feel a little better. Thanks for sharing that.

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Carol Jacobson's avatar

There are worse things going on, but this is an actual visual that everyone can see that is reflective of every other godawful thing that fucking asshole has done. And he is doing this just to say FUCK YOU to every American who doesn’t kiss his ass. I can’t believe we haven’t had an armed revolution yet.

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george  campbell's avatar

No need to die on any hill if we are all on the same side . And the public is fickle . Some voters who detest a number of things Trump has done in his life , went and voted for him anyway .

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Runfastandwin's avatar

agreed. image is everything these days, not one voter in fifty knows what government actually does.

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Pere Ubu's avatar

Like the assaults during 2020 on various state houses was one thing, but the assault on the Capitol was different.

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Leu2500's avatar

You’re right. “A picture is worth a thousand words”

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Leu2500's avatar

The destruction of the East Wing is a visible symbol of all Trump is destroying.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

He needs to pay for it. I mean money. Charge him.

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Jill Palethorpe's avatar

Fredo, how do your golfing buddies feel about this?

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

I will find out next week.. I will say the member whose only concern is Israel is getting twisted over Donald’s actions. What that maga must realize is the fact Donald does not give a shit about anyone except himself and his wealth.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Hey! Wanna know how my sort buddies feel about it?

“Politics shouldn’t be talked about in public.

But a few do and they are incensed.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

"twenty-nine large? that’s chicken feed. Tom Homan won’t even pick up the phone for less than fifty." 😂😂 I remember being mesmerized by Watergate, Agnew, the whole mess. I was in high school and was shocked and read everything I could get my hands on.

LOL How times have changed. What a fucking mess we're in. Maybe the military can pull a coup outta their pocket??? Or maybe Jack Smith can stir the pot??

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Tess's avatar

Let’s hope they let Smith go public…!

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DuduLovesBubu's avatar

Miedas needs to interview Jack Smith. MAGA heads will explode.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Geeze....I hope so. 🤞

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Who is Smith working for now? Except the World Court in The Hague?

Can’t he speak out now? He has a Lot of dirt on dirty Don Dicktater!

And inquiring minds want to Know!

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Runfastandwin's avatar

He could, but he won't. Too enamored of comity.

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

There wouldn't be much point to that, when no one but liberals will believe him anyway. It was all "law fare" by the Democrats 🙄 Nope, no republican hypocrisy anywhere, move along now, dweebs!

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Brenda McDonald's avatar

Right now the military is doing what they’re told, like blowing up Venezuelan fishing boats for no reason. As a military brat, I’m so effing disappointed by their compliance.

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Joyce's avatar

This is a moment when the military needs to hang its head in shame.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I wonder what its going to take…..

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

We need for many of these military members to remember their oath is to their country, not to the psycho would-be dictator, and refuse to carry out such illegal orders. That takes moral backbone and courage. I hope there are enough who are up to the challenge.

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Jill Palethorpe's avatar

And Highway Patrol cars on CA freeway ramps...

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Veronica von Bernath Morra's avatar

I can tell you this much: The NAVY AIN'T HAPPY!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Good.... America is in trouble.

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Bethie U's avatar

Just release the fucking Epstein files, for crying out loud!!!!! That's all. Whence cometh the fall of many.

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P123Sunny's avatar

6 months of sustained reporting (WaPo) was the solution - not softened headlines & one big protest a month.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

You're right. WaPo was a REAL newspaper then.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

You sweet young thing! If you were older, you'd hardly be able to get up off the floor except for pictures of the polka dot lady.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂😂😂

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Charles Austin's avatar

We're a nation of cowards and monsters.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I think it starts with our "leaders" who will say and do anything to keep us divided and yelling at each other. We're not collectively smart enough to see that.

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Claudia Classon's avatar

Polka Dot Ladies of the world, UNITE! What an image.

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Brenda McDonald's avatar

We shall now start wearing polka dot business dresses in her honor to protests.

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Christine Zepka's avatar

I have Polka Dot teacher dresses, do they count?

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Claudia Classon's avatar

Great idea!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I hope Polka Dot Lady is okay. Wow, she has more guts than the entire fake alpha MAGAs combined. And while well-accessorized too.

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Someone in a comment just called her the "Poke a Dolt Lady"!!!

👏👏👏

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Oh, as a compliment. I thought that was Melania's SS handle

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Wow! That was faster than a speeding bullet!

👏👏👏

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Ann Panda's avatar

My maggot WI 3rd district congressman is posting on FB about how the Democrats are taking SNAP away from people. He also wants to give rump some congressional gold medal. And he campaigned on knowing the importance of snap benefits because his family used them when he was growing up.

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Tess's avatar

He is a complete idiot who will definitely not get reelected! (I assume this is Van Orden!) lol

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Ann Panda's avatar

Yes. Such a tool.

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1dEdited

At this time in 'Murikkka, you cannot belong to that party if you cannot lie with a straight face and a clear conscience

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Tell him to get back to work! He could help get SNAP back.

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Margaret's avatar

Van Orden is a hypocrite and a dissembler. He'll say whatever he must to his Illinois overlords. We Wisconsinites are working hard to bring him down.

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s.Michael Morgan's avatar

Polka Dot Lady deserves the Nobel Peace Prize!!!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Spot on, Jeff. Every single thing, from trade partnerships to security alliances, to our treasured and historical icons, to our norms and laws, have been destroyed intentionally by this fucking traitor. My rage at all the fucking assholes who voted for him, and all the fucking lazy dipshits who could not be bothered to vote, is limitless. We are truly one of the stupidest nations on Earth.

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Mary Hall's avatar

"We are truly one of the stupidest nations on Earth" -- by design. Democracy depends on an informed public, and we have been spoon-fed lies by our traitor media for too fking long. When the autopsy is done on America, I predict the whore media will be the cause of death.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

They sure play a big role.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

So much for our fabled Exceptionalism, huh Doc?

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Individually, there are still those who show that exceptionalism. But as an entire nation, the rest of the world is shaking their heads and laughing at us. To have achieved what America has, only to intentionally throw it in the toilet, is beyond stupid.

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Sheila Riley-Callahan's avatar

Polka Dot woman gave me hope after a very low week due to that fucking pretend president. We need to find out who she is so this country can formally salute her. 💪💪💪💪💪

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Cathy 98280's avatar

No! Then she’ll be maggot-doxxed -

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George in Atlanta's avatar

At some point, the social media sphere will tip over. Not right to left, but from lamentation to action. All we're still getting from either big or small media, is recitations of the outrages and intoning about how 'dangerous' it all is. Polka Dot Lady knows better than this. I predict some time, very soon, there will appear some blogger who becomes internet-famous for the reverse-dox. Hunting down doxxers and their threatening henchmen and hurting them. In a kind and humane way, of course. And all perfectly legal. No one should ever have anything to fear from the likes of us. We are all weak little limp-wristed victims, after all.

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Margaret's avatar

Wow George, yes! Reverse dox the hell out of those creatures!

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Cyndi's avatar

Or shot when she opens her door to some piece of scrap dressed up like an officer of the law. 😫

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Yes, a Medal of Honor!

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SethTriggs's avatar

Folks are going to need to jump their voter suppression hoops now and make sure they are organized and also bringing the non-voters in their lives to the polls. For any outstanding elections in 2025, but especially for the 2026. Take care of registration now.

And those who say they will rig and steal it - they can't steal it everywhere. And even in gerrymandered areas, it is possible to flip things and make good things happen.

Let's mount up!

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zuzu's avatar

Virginia Dems just announced a plan to redistrict, potentially adding up to three more Democratic Congressional seats for 2026.

Check and mate, North Carolina!

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

65% of California voters support Prop 50, which would add three more Democrats to Congress. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made media ads to oppose it, looking like Bad Santa, but he needs to STFU.

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zuzu's avatar

Considering the mess he left for Jerry Brown, he needs to take ALL the seats.

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Brooks R Susman's avatar

She's channeling Tiennemen Square! Bravo!

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

GOOD NEWS! Voters have soured on Trump's economy. Don't tell him!

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show-voters-trust-democrats

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