July 27, 2025

It’s the end of July and we’re in the heart of the tourist season in the good ol’ USA. Unfortunately, the many folks who rely on international tourists for providing them a paycheck to pay the rent, mortgages, gas, eggs, and other monthly expenses, are instead getting laid off as the tourists have given the U.S. “the finger.” Visitors from Canada are probably the largest group to avoid travel here following the rhetoric from the current president and administration to make Canada our 51st state and the tariff issues. According to numbers from the U.S. Travel Association, Canadian visitation was down 26% in June from the same period a year ago. Last year, Canadians spent $20.5 billion during their visits to the U.S. Resorts and hotels in Northeastern states including Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and New York are experiencing a steady stream of cancelled reservations and tourists failing to arrive to spend money in their state. The World Travel and Tourism Council says that the U.S. is on track to lose $12 BILLION this year. This loss isn’t just hurting corporate America’s bottom line, but local communities feel the ripple effect from the displaced workers in retail, hospitality, air travel, lodging, and so on. A lack of tourists and an increase in unemployed workers result in a loss of tax revenue from sales taxes and income taxes. Where other countries are putting out the welcome mat, the U.S. is putting up a closed sign. It’s not just international tourism, but domestic travel is also showing a decline. Data from Bank of America indicates that travel-related expenditures, particularly lodging, attractions, and airline spending is seeing a pullback as Americans are prioritizing their purchases amid the economic uncertainty from the tariff nonsense.

But hey, while ordinary Americans have to prioritize their expenditures and maybe forego those summer travel plans, we should feel good that we are gifting Donnie a five day trip to Scotland to play a few rounds of golf and do some business for the Trump Organization. According to the Huff Post this little trip will cost us at least $10 million. Thus far, since Inauguration Day, Don has spent an estimated $60,200,000 golfing. Yep, $60 million. And that is not counting the $600,000 the Secret Service is spending for golf carts and portable toilets at Trump’s New Jersey golf resort, Bedminster. Per federal records, the Secret Service signed contracts with Associated Golf Car Service and Restroom Resources for the carts and port-a-potties. Make America Great Again! Pretty unbelievable ain’t it?

As much as the Guardians of Pedophiles are trying to make EpsteinGate go away, it just doesn’t look like that’s going to happen soon. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, this week, met for two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice in the sex-trafficking operation to probably get information to help the cover-up plan. This meeting was totally inappropriate and had immediate blowback for Trump. 3 Republicans joined 5 Democrats on a House Oversight subcommittee to subpoena DOJ documents related to Epstein. Like I said earlier, this may end up to be Trump’s Watergate.