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today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—

Donny says talks with Iran are going well — so well that he's threatening to bomb the shit out of them again.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-strait-of-hormuz

Kay-El's avatar

If there’s an afterlife, can Ted do something about Scott Jennings?

Bob's avatar

A bolt of lightning would do.

Jean Jacoby's avatar

Oh no! That might reanimate him.

Bob's avatar

You’ll never guess where the debris from the East Wing, which you’ll never guess is contaminated with toxic metals and PCBs, got dumped. Big piles o’ debris have been deposited around the East Potomac Golf Course. The one some FA wants to tear up to remake as a Drumpf course as part of his goal to turn Washington, DC, into Trump National Capital and Club LLC.

arne link's avatar

Wow, imagine that. Such a coincidence.

Sooz Hall's avatar

😆😂😆🤣😂

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Great place to dump a few truckloads of highly contaminated waste Bob…it will find its way into the Potomac, to join the raw sewage that flowed previously.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

RFK Jr. is like "where's my swim trunks? Grab the grandkids! Let's go!"

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Perfectly executed post Sharon!

Jan Moon's avatar

Washington DC is rapidly becoming a 43,700 acre toxic landfill known as the TRUMP DUMP. So sad.

Tracy Sondeen's avatar

Oh, does dear leader need space to bury other loved ones?

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

This is why I no longer read Iran coverage, especially if it refers to something Trump or anyone in his administration "said." It will be contradicted within an hour.

James Starr's avatar

meidastouch network got you covered.

Kim Steeves's avatar

I have to admit to trying to verify anything Preznut et. al. say with an Iranian source! How bad is that?

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

I pretty much assume everything he says is just the voices in his head.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Brian Stelter had this item in his newsletter today:

With President Trump, sometimes a seemingly random aside can reveal something much bigger about his media consumption and understanding of the world.

"I am at, according to CNN, 100% approval within the Republican Party," he said yesterday.

There is no such CNN poll. But Trump, during a photo op with schoolchildren, said, "I'm at 100% approval. Did you see the CNN poll? Nobody talks about it."

Nobody talks about it because it's not real. But Trump invoked this stat repeatedly in March, April and now May, apparently reacting to a segment that CNN's Harry Enten led back on March 18. He showed a poll by NBC News, not CNN, that showed him with a 100% approval rating among self-identified MAGA voters.

Kim Steeves's avatar

And lies on his lips!

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Billion dollars says his “talks with Iran” are really just him drooling and mumbling to his own reflection.

Hey! Now I can afford an Epstein dance hall too!

Wendymae's avatar

If Axios reports it, it's just a set up for the next stock market insider trading scheme.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

But he just TACO'ed on escorting boats through the strait.

Robert Eckert's avatar

I think the military brass may have gotten through to him how terribly unpopular he would be if one of our ships was sunk.

DebJS's avatar

According to the CNN article (I only read the blurb at the top), Netanyahu is worried and is asserting his control over Donald and the negotiations so he doesn't give up anything important to Bibi. Bibi does not GAS about Donald's popularity.

Lucius's avatar

That implies he's capable of understanding that concept, or even caring about it to begin with.

Lisa Bieber's avatar

The concept of unpopularity or the concept of a sinking ship?

SethTriggs's avatar

Well the idea of submarines with batteries eludes him, so that's entirely possible.

Lucius's avatar

The concept that he could ever be unpopular.

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Possibly, although not likely Robert. Trumps mind has gone fucketey-bye-bye. He can’t be bothered with expert opinion, only those of quislings and goniffs!

rlritt's avatar

I think he just says shit that he thinks will shut people up. He hates to hear complaints and objections. So, he'll just spout off nonsense and walk away. He doesnt care what people think because people are just props. . He's done with the Iran war. He is on to better things like a gaudy ball room and monuments to himself. Most triumphant arches are built to honor some great accomplishments, and usually when the person is dead. He has done nothing great ever in his whole pathetic life.

SethTriggs's avatar

The Straits of Schrödinger are a dimension from where there is no escape!

Vee Cross's avatar

In Trump's defense talking about dark, dank, catastrophic repercussions is normal conversation for a man who has constant chaos churning in his noggin.

Mary K Cronin's avatar

I’m becoming concerned that the ballroom isn’t about the ballroom. It’s about the bunker. It’s a place for him to hunker down and refuse to leave the White House if he either isn’t allowed to run for a third term or if he runs and loses. Am I nuts? Is my foil hat showing? Someone please talk me down from this.

Susan P Thatcher's avatar

We let him go in there, then nail the door shut.

arne link's avatar

Can we plug the air intakes? Maybe some Anthrax spores?

Bob's avatar

Zyklon B. “Right this way, Donny, 5 minutes in this room and you’ll be germ free.”

Frank Nuts's avatar

Right this way Sir. Right through the door…and look over there at that rack of pretty dresses…click

Kathleen Weber's avatar

Susan that's exactly what I was gonna say.

My version: If we lock the door behind him, it'll be worth 100 times what we paid!

myhoopbabies's avatar

I like starting my day with this kind of happy fantasy. Thank you.

Susan P Thatcher's avatar

Oooh, nice touch.

MB Kiefer's avatar

Nails might not be enough. How about a layer of bricks, then a layer of boulders, followed by a layer of reinforced concrete, then sealed with titanium. Oh, and sensors to detect any efforts to tunnel out. In fact, don't leave any metal objects in there; just cheap plastic silverware. That oughta do it.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

"For the love of God, Montressor..."

Nancie's avatar

If it were pre-J6 2021, this theory would be 100% tinfoil hat nonsense. Now? Your theory makes perfect sense.

George in Atlanta's avatar

Uh, no. That has been on the table from the git. My guess? Donny watched "Downfall", but just the yelly parts. He liked it so much that he thought that the bunker life would be swell and could protect him from the meanies who want to make him actually leave office. Again.

What Donny does or doesn't do is becoming secondary to all of the other moving parts he's set into motion. The future is uncertain, and it's not running in straight lines.

Joyce's avatar

I wonder if some of the cost is for the installation of a golf course in the bunker. I mean--surely he realizes that, if he chooses to spend the rest of his life in an underground burrow (he must've gotten tips from Hamas), it's going to be tough to get to a golf course. Unless they build a secret exit tunnel so he can pop up on a golf course like a woodchuck.

Bob Bowden's avatar

Send in the golf course woodchuck exterminator, who strongly resembles Bill Murray

Sharon C Storm's avatar

I wonder if they’re building a golf course in the bunker? He wouldn’t be happy if he couldn’t play golf.

Joyce's avatar

Exactly my train of thought! LOL!!!!

rlritt's avatar

At least a putting green.

Beth's avatar

I think he needs to watch "Civil War", then.

George in Atlanta's avatar

Ken Burns is 72, but pretty spunky for an old guy. I hope he's got another slow-paced, understated blockbuster in him. "Trump" could be his magnum opus.

PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

I saw a “plan” for the bunker that included three levels below the “ballroom” including an AI data center, work/office command central level, and on the lowest level, living quarters and storage for everything he’d need to survive in order to not be kicked out of the white house. It seems plausible considering how batshit crazy everything else is right now. And the secrecy about it all gives cause to think he’s up to no good.

SethTriggs's avatar

It is totally a bunker.

Amykk's avatar

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just build a nursing home?

Joyce's avatar

And just coat it in that fake "gold" crap and tell him it's the bunker and Epstein Memorial Dance Hall and Airplane Hangar.

Kay-El's avatar

If you’re nuts, then I am too. There’s no way the fugly building alone would cost that much. It’s all the tech and fortification of that bunker.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Lindsey Graham said the $300 million donated upfront can be used for china, silverware, and stuff like that. He's already envisioning attending the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.

Cathy Wray's avatar

Mary , I suspect you're correct... but this scenario is scary!!

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

I'm not concerned about the bunker. Yes, you're wearing a tin foil hat. I'm concerned about the tone deafness of using a billion dollars of taxpayer money when people cannot afford rent, food, health care and gas.

Jean Jacoby's avatar

But but but all the oligarchs have their bunkers, why can't Donny? He never pays for anything anyway.

Ellen McKenzie's avatar

It is absolutely about the bunker.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Nah. A billon dollars is just a big fat wet kiss from the Republicans to Trump's coffers. And anyone else who can get on that gravy train.

Lucius's avatar

That's what it's always been about.

More than "security features" I'm worried that it'll have hardline access to the nuclear arsenal...

Sister Artemis's avatar

I've had the same thoughts, especially when the price jumped so drastically in the last round of "what the fuck are we doing NOW?"

Carol's avatar

Bunker. Didn’t anyone read “The Cask of Amontillado?” We know what to do!

RZolu's avatar

It’s absolutely about the Bunker… I DO like the idea of cementing the door shut once he’s in there…

Has anyone seen “Paradise”? Funded by a billionaire? They just put to death anyone who worked on it…

Robin Barfoot's avatar

My understanding is that there was already a bunker under the East Wing. I'm sure some of the billion would be to fortify and modernize that space. What we need is an event where It (trump) needs a bunker RIGHT NOW while there is no bunker because It tore the East Wing down!

Mike Hammer's avatar

Did anyone cringe when Trump was talking to the children? What kind of parent allows their child to play with a sex predator of underage girls.

rlritt's avatar

I read a few years ago some stupid MAGA woman who said she would be honored if Trump slept with young daughter. Many of his supporters are really sick and perverted.

HI2thDoc's avatar

They are so cult-indoctrinated that anything he does is fine with them. So disturbingly sick, as you said

Eva's avatar

Blame the idiot parents who lets these kids anywhere near this melting fat puddle

Joyce's avatar

Just keep in mind that Alabama or Arkansas (no difference--who cares?) wanted to lower the age for child brides............

Mary Greenwald's avatar

and lower the age of workers so 10 year old children can be sent out to work in factories.

Lucius's avatar

Republicans.

Susan Slesnick's avatar

I wouldn’t let that pedophile near my children or grandchildren. I would love to be a fly on the wall at those kids dinner table 😆😆So mommy, why did that mean man say all those scary things to us today?

Bill Corbett's avatar

We are living in the strangest times possible, like the never ending "Twilight Zone", please Rod, make it stop!

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

You know he was itching to describe in detail what "trans mutilization" entails.

Bill Corbett's avatar

Makes you wonder where they dig up these people and what ends of the earth they come from.

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Scary thought, bringing children into a room with that perverse queen!

Jane's avatar

And the look on those kids faces… Geezzzzz 😱

Kathy Notaro's avatar

We don’t need an ugly ballroom to satisfy a mad man who doesn’t even dance except for that stupid Hand movement looks like he’s jerking off

Troll Slayer's avatar

Ahem. “Looks like he’s jerking off 2 giraffes”

Thank you for your attention to this matter

Kathy Notaro's avatar

The vision in my head is hilarious and should be broadcast on every TV screen

HI2thDoc's avatar

That fucking ballroom

Is a gargantuan waste

Another ego project

Devoid of any taste

To the party of suckups

A billion here or there

Is worth his approval

What do they care

They give him our money

Like it grows on trees

Sycophantic crooks

Down on their knees

Mingo's avatar

Doc, the suckup GOP is still on their knees devising ways to cheat at the upcoming mid-terms. They know they can't win on their ideas, so it's yes sir we will rig the elections, anything you say sir. Hell isn't good enough for any of them.

Cathy Wray's avatar

💙great poetry!!

Richard's avatar

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Frank Nuts's avatar

One of your best Doc! Keep up the good work!

Susie's avatar

Excellent, Doc. Perfect encapsulation of my rage. 😡

Jane's avatar

👏👏👏🤣

Babette's avatar

Thank you for sharing Claudia with us. I love these memories to cleanse our pallet at posts end.

Tess's avatar
2hEdited

I read somewhere the east wing demolition materials were dumped on a public golf course and is loaded with toxic materials…. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Such a lunatic in charge- who the hell would take their kids to see that idiotic?!????

Yes- please support teachers!!! Thanks!!

Beth's avatar

I've always wondered if they actually even salvaged anything that was in there (furniture, artwork, etc), or if they just scrapped it all

Nancie's avatar

Rachel Maddow mentioned the demolition dumping on her show this past Monday, 5/4/26

kdsherpa's avatar

Claudia was SOOOO lucky to have a husband who cherished her.

($72 billion is what I read today)

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

I hate to say this but why couldn't it have been Trump? Claudia added value to the world; Trump takes it away.

Joyce's avatar

I don't hate to say it. I wish this every day.

Joanne's avatar
2hEdited

Two things keep nagging me about the ballroom. 1) Is it really a smart idea to build a military installation on the grounds of the president's residence? 2) The ballrooom wouldn't need bullet- and bomb-proof windows and a drone-proof roof IF THE BALLROOM DIDN'T EXIST. OK, a third thing. 3) Can we think of any ways $1B could better be used?

HI2thDoc's avatar

At the same time the pedophile protector party slips that $1B into their bill, Sec. of Ag Brooke Rollins crows about kicking 4.3 million people off of SNAP because "a lot of that is fraud." And now "it's just a better economy" so these lazy losers don't need those bennies, right, Rollins, you delusional lying cun. . .

Joyce's avatar
2hEdited

Imagine if we sent checks to every family living below the poverty level, instead. Of course, we can't do that because all of the gazillionaires (who, for instance, spend their money extremely wisely, like getting a yacht built so big a bridge has to be taken down so the boat can get out to sea, or renting Venice for a party) get very concerned about poor people "wasting" that sort of "government handout" on outrageous stuff like a 6-pack of Pepsi or a steak. Or rent. Or the electric bill.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Proof that years of rw media lies and the grievance sowing that Reagan did have paid off handsomely. Rethuglicans have succeeded in brainwashing many that the poor are the grifters and thieves rather than the oligarchs. Look at the money Bezos spent to turn his wife into a living sex doll.

Mingo's avatar

And she looks worse than what her natural self was.

HI2thDoc's avatar

She was attractive before. Not now. Bezos must need eye surgery

Sooz Hall's avatar

He must need psychotherapy.

Lisa Bieber's avatar

I like "personal flotation device"

rlritt's avatar

And most of those poor are Fox News viewers.

HI2thDoc's avatar

That's part of the "beauty" of the lying rw media's mission: the gullible, delusional cultists don't realize they're being scammed so onerously

rlritt's avatar

I swear, its diabolical. As much as we expose the craven lies spread on Fox News, founded by Far right fascist Rupert Mordoch, they keep winning viewers with their propaganda. I heard Murdoch is trying to disenherit three of his children from getting Fox because they are opposed to the lies. His 1st son is just like him and wants to continue to ruin the US for fun and profit.

HI2thDoc's avatar

I guess being a piece of shit was only inherited by that son, Lachlan.

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Almost all the "fraud" in government is at the Pentagon where the fraud likely surpassed the total cost of all social services programs.

HI2thDoc's avatar

This is the most corrupt regime in history. Remember Noem and her love plane? $200+ million PR contract? Yes, the DOD gets the most, but waste, fraud, and abuse is this regime's MO

Mary Greenwald's avatar

Yes, but Melania gets the love plane now!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Who's she gonna share it with? Does the plane come with Corey Lewandowski?

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

When the Qatar jumbo jet is made aviation-worthy again, Trump and Melania can have "his and hers" flying bordellos.

Kim Steeves's avatar

No, she has a secret service "friend", supposably!

Mary Greenwald's avatar

Democrats who voted AYE to place America First Rollins at the head of the Agriculture Department: BALDWIN, BENNETT, BOOKER, CORTEZ-MASTO, DURBIN, FETTERMAN, GALLEGO, HASSAN, HEINRICH, HICKENLOOPER, KLOBUCHAR, PETERS, ROSEN, SHAHEEN, SLOTKIN, SCHIFF, OSSOFF, WARNOCK, WELCH. Rollins was a bad choice and a known assailant of those in need of food. They voted AYE anyway!

rlritt's avatar

I like several of these politicians, I wonder their reasons were. They normally dont vote for hacks.

Frank Nuts's avatar

Doc, I think I’m gonna puke.

Suzanne Tollefson's avatar

The ever-increasing numbers are hilarious given the Administration’s attempts to prosecute Jerome Powell for construction overruns. Hypocrite says what?

Joe Bacon's avatar

Wait a couple weeks...when the tab for his ballroom and Super Hitler Bunker goes to $2 billion...

arne link's avatar

Golly, if Mrs. Bezos tits get any bigger they might explode. It must take courage to stand within range.

HI2thDoc's avatar

The cosmetic surgeon who committed those atrocities on her face and body oughta be ashamed, but we know he or she is not. Bank account went up by many zeroes.

arne link's avatar

She used to be a pretty woman. Now she is just a Merde a Lardo freak.

Mary Greenwald's avatar

But she fits in quite well with the Mar-a-Lago Big Boobs and Big Lips. Her only plus- she is young and Bezos wants her.

rlritt's avatar

Not that young. She's closer to 60 years than 50 years.

Richard's avatar

I agree with you 100%!

Joyce's avatar

I wonder if Jeff carries around one of those portable bike repair kits--you know, the ones with duct tape and an air pump, incase there's a blow out.

Jane's avatar

😂😂😂

Cheri Collins's avatar

I think they really do look inflatable - I’m talking literal balloons. And, if her nose gets any smaller, and her lips any bigger . . .! Why in the fucking hell would anyone do that to her body? Repulsive and pitiful.

HI2thDoc's avatar

She coulda done the balloons under the shirt on the cheap like Bryon Noem

Cheri Collins's avatar

My thoughts exactly.

HI2thDoc's avatar

This is from April 3rd or so, when the Bryon cross dressing thing came out:

Them fun, fun Noems

Keep inspiring more poems

Turns out Bryon's fetish

Is acting coquettish

With balloon boobs that look like domes

myhoopbabies's avatar

How long do you think it took her to perfect that "raging rich bitch" facial expression she sports in every picture?

Mary Greenwald's avatar

She went to the same expressions school as Melania.

Suzeebee's avatar

Can’t make expressions. Face too frozen.

myhoopbabies's avatar

Yes! The school of "I really don't care, do you?"

Derek Smith's avatar

The word grotesque was coined just for her.

rlritt's avatar

I wonder if there is a special factory these wealthy trophy wives are sent to. They go in looking normal and they come out all looking lije Red-lipped Batfish and ridiculous silicon filled balloons on their chests.

Frank Nuts's avatar

Good one Arnie! “Duck, I think she’s gonna blow!”

Kim Steeves's avatar

And I'm sorry but they look REALLY uneven. For what they paid for those they should at least match, am I right?

Unity In Defiance's avatar

FIFY

pro tip: don’t put Sundowning Grandpa Fuckbrain in the same room with children…..

he is a pedophile and only knows how to be inappropriate with them.

Could’ve said something a lot worse there but keeping it PG, unlike that disgusting fartbag.

RZolu's avatar
2hEdited

That’s exactly what I thought! You bring your children to stand next to a pedophile? What exactly is wrong with these people? And he’s got zero control as dementia people do…wtaf?

Ann Anderson's avatar

Bezos is selling his $500 million yacht because it costs $30 mil per year to maintain and it's too big to dock anywhere. Speaking of rich a-hole problems, a judge has stayed further ballroom construction for now. I hope Donny keeps fighting for it because nothing says out of touch like building a palace while your voters struggle to eat and fill the tank. He's gonna need that bunker when the mob shows up with torches and pitchforks.

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Oh no, poor Jeff Bezos. I must send him a sympathy card.

RZolu's avatar

And I believe that is just a matter of time…at some point this country is going to go all “French Revolution”…

Troll Slayer's avatar

We should be thrilled that he’s building a bunker. Remember what Adolf famously did in his

HI2thDoc's avatar

He's too much of a coward to do the Hitler thing

JoJoRa's avatar

He's too big a narcissist to Hitler himself. He can't imagine what the world would be like without him at the center of his own planet. Who would the cultists worship?

PollyP's avatar

Maybe Hitler got help. The word "bunker" does cheer me up in that context.

arne link's avatar

Well, we can dream...

myhoopbabies's avatar

My thought exactly.

Kacey's avatar

Thanks for your posts about Claudia. I am 52 and lost my mother almost 33 years ago and I still think of her every single day. Your posts about Claudia help me with my own mourning that never goes away.

Lisa Bieber's avatar

I miss my mom too.