As you may have noticed, I took a vacation from rambling as we have been relaxing down here at the beach. I just couldn’t get in the mood to write about trophy wives, Al Capone, tacos, grift, and golf over the past week or so. We’re heading back to the mountain on Sunday, so I thought I should sit down on this lovely Friday and recap the crap since I last rambled. So here goes.
I haven’t bought any of tRump’s meme coins, so I didn’t have the opportunity to attend the grifter’s black-tie optional, unforgettable gala dinner at his Virginia golf club, but it sounds like I didn’t miss much from reports I read. Bear in mind, this gala event was limited to the top 220 purchasers of the $TRUMP coin and overall they spent $148 million to attend “this most exclusive invitation in the world.” Also, the top 25 purchasers were promised a private reception and guided tour of the club. One attendee, Nicholas Pinto, said that Trump made a brief 23 minute appearance, gave a short address, and then got on his helicopter and flew off into the night without talking personally to any of the contest winners or having pictures taken.“The food sucked,” Pinto said. “Wasn’t given any drinks other than water or Trump’s wine. I don’t drink, so I had water. My glass was only filled once.” And, as usual, the price of the grifter’s meme coin plunged 16% hours after this unforgettable dinner. In case you missed the invitation, you can look it up here Dinner↗
Two days later the Commander in Chief flew to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and gave a commencement speech, or should I say deranged dementia riddled oration, to the West Point grads and their families. After strutting to the podium in his red MAGA ball cap, and here’s where the ‘trophy wives’ come in, for some inexplicable reason in the middle of his rambling, he starts talking about some friend of his in the real estate business who worked hard, got divorced, and found a new wife. “He was great at what he did. “You see him all over the country, still Levittowns. This was a long time ago, but he was a first of the really, really big home builders, and he became very rich, a very rich man, and then he decided to sell. And he sold his company, and he had nothing to do. He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn’t work out too well, but it doesn’t — that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell ya. A lot of trophy wives.” I’ll bet you’re thinking the same thing I did. What the hell does this have to do with graduates of West Point? He couldn’t stop there, however, because he hadn’t put the focus on himself yet, so he has to go with, “I was investigated more than the great late Alphonse Capone. Alphonse Capone was a monster. He was a very hardened criminal. I went through more investigations than Alphonse Capone, and now I’m talking to you as president. Can you believe this?” No, Donnie, I can’t believe you think this is commencement presentation material. Just another daily embarrassment from the lips of the felonious President of the United States.
On Wednesday, Don had a meltdown when a reporter from CNBC asked him about the hottest acronym on Wall Street right now – the ‘TACO trade’ and man, he was not amused. The term TACO, which stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out” was first coined by Financial Times commentator Robert Armstrong to describe what he says is Trump’s pattern of announcing heavy tariffs on countries causing economic shock and panic causing the stock market to plummet and then later reversing course with pauses or reductions that create a market rebound. Trump became very upset with the reporter and said “Six months ago, this country was stone cold dead. We had a dead country. We had a country that people didn’t think it was going to survive, and you ask a nasty question like that. It’s called negotiation.” Followed by “Don’t ever say what you said because that’s a nasty question.” Of course you know what happened after this — the internet is now swarming with TACO memes. His niece Dr. Mary Trump has always said that Donnie can’t take ridicule, so he must be just seething over this new nickname. From the guy who has given hundreds of people unflattering nicknames, this is a jewel. Oh, hang on for BREAKING NEWS from The Halfway Cafe BREAKING: White House staffers say Donald Trump is “apocalyptically mad” about the TACO acronym, and his doctors are worried it will give him a heart attack.
1500 January 6th Capitol riot defendants; Enrique Tarrio, former Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for seditious conspiracy; Stewart Rhodes, founder of far-right Oath Keepers, sentenced to 18 years; Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, an anonymous platform that facilitated the sale of illegal drugs and other illicit goods using cryptocurrency, sentenced to life in 2015; 23 anti-abortion activists; Brian Kelsey, former Tennessee state Senator, who had pleaded guilty over attempting to illegally funnel money to his failed campaign for Congress in 2016; Devon Archer, convicted in 2022 for defrauding a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme; Trevor Milton, who had engaged in a scheme to defraud investors, and was convicted of two counts of wire fraud and one count of securities fraud; three co-founders of a cryptocurrency exchange who had plead guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act; Michele Fiore, who had been convicted of seven counts relating to wire fraud for stealing $70,000 she had collected for a memorial to fallen police officers, and instead used for personal expenses; Paul Walczak, a former nursing home executive convicted of misappropriating over $10 million in employment taxes for personal luxury spending, and whose mother was a significant Trump donor; Scott Jenkins, the former sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, who was convicted of accepting more than $75,000 in bribes in exchange for appointing individuals as auxiliary deputies; Todd and Julie Chrisley, reality TV stars who were convicted in 2022 of several counts of fraud and tax evasion involving over $30 million, whose daughter, Savannah, is a vocal Trump supporter; rapper Kentrell DeSean Gaulden, known as NBAYoungBoy; Michael Grimm, former Republican Congressman from New York, who stepped down from office following a conviction for tax fraud; Larry Hoover, former Chicago gang leader, who had been serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado. This, my friends, is a roster of convicted felons who have been pardoned or had their sentence commuted by the “law and order” president over the past four months. Do you notice any similarities in the list? Loyalists, Republicans, financial supporters. Yep.
Well, this was a long one, but I guess when one hasn’t mused for a while, there is much to catch up. Time to get outside and do some yard work. Have a great weekend! Ziggyman
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