Happy Birthday to Trump from Denmark.

 

To the sun-baked mafioso in the Oval Office…

Happy 80th birthday, Donald. 

You’ve proven to the entire world that you don’t need to have read a single book, let alone possess elementary decorum, to reach the very top. 

You’ve turned narcissism into an Olympic sport, and the truth into a rubber band measured by the yard.

Today you turn 80, and let’s be honest: you’re celebrating it exactly like the nihilistic Sun King you are. 

While other world leaders your age would have long since retired to write boring, self-righteous memoirs or collect stamps, you choose to transform the White House South Lawn with a massive steel structure and a no-holds-barred cage fight.

It is nothing short of brilliant in its pure vulgarity. Caligula would have wept with envy seeing human beings beat each other half to death in the Rose Garden to honor an 80-year-old Republican birthday boy.

You’re not a politician, Donald. You are a force of nature driven by pure, unadulterated transactional logic. 

You’ve transformed the most powerful office in the Western world into a clan seat, where statesmanship is replaced by quid pro quo, and where you view the Constitution as an annoying lease that just needs to be renegotiated.

You’ve made the truth completely irrelevant; if reality doesn’t suit you, you simply dictate a new one in ALL CAPS on Truth Social.

You’ve turned American democracy into an exclusive, all-you-can-eat buffet for tech oligarchs and oil sheikhs.

You don’t possess a shred of refinement, and that is precisely why you are bulletproof. 

You are the ultimate culmination of the American Dream: the man who can buy his way out of anything, lie his way out of any lawsuit, and convert total chaos into his personal currency.

So now you sit there like a true mob boss in the autumn of your life. Today, you are fighting the only opponent your lawyers cannot sue and whom you cannot intimidate: the relentless march of time…

- But even Chronos, the Greek god of time, will have his work cut out for him to bring you down, because your ego is thicker than bulletproof glass, and you are nowhere near finished bestowing large, vulgar monuments of yourself upon posterity.

Here in Denmark, we raise our long-stemmed crystal goblets today to toast you - not in admiration, but in deep, chilling fascination that the boundless narcissism of a single human being can hold the entire planet hostage.

May the cage on the South Lawn provide the blood you need to stay young.

Cheers and Happy Birthday 🥂

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC

 

JUST SO YOU KNOW

 

This is who is financially benefitting from Trump's tacky UFC wrestling games on the grounds of the White House this weekend:

Organizations financially benefiting from the White House UFC spectacle span corporate sponsors, digital media platforms, and political action committees:

AI Overview: 

TKO Group Holdings (UFC): The parent company is investing an estimated $60 million to produce the event as a strategic marketing maneuver, leveraging the historic backdrop to drive global audience numbers and subscriptions. --The Hill  

Paramount Skydance: The media company owns Paramount+, which holds exclusive streaming rights to UFC events and stands to gain millions of new subscribers through widespread earned media from the White House broadcast. --CT Mirror

Corporate Sponsors: Major brands actively promoting their products and services at the event include Dodge (heavily advertising Ram trucks) and Crypto.com (which is offering a $1 million digital currency bonus pool for top fighters). --CT Mirror 

Fanatics: The sports apparel company partnered with the White House to produce and sell exclusive "USA 250" merchandise and uniform patches. --CT Mirror 

The Trump Organization: The Trump family is directly marketing a series of "Freedom 250" themed silver and gold medallions, including commemorative coins priced as high as $11,999.99. --CNN 

Make America Great Again, Inc. (MAGA Inc.): The pro-Trump Super PAC is capitalizing on the weekend's festivities by hosting a $1 million-per-person fundraising event at the nearby Trump National Golf Club in Virginia. --NBC News

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Reminder: This PRIVATE FOR PROFIT event is being held on PUBLIC grounds. Trump will pocket the millions in sponsorship money and every day Americans won't even be able to watch it without subscribing to a monthly Paramount Cable subscription. 

 Look at all the organizations making huge profits (including the Trump family) off this spectacle on the grounds of the People's House -- OUR House that we, the people, support with our taxes. 

 Are any of you going to get some of that filthy lucre? No, of course not. 

 But! 

At least Trump didn't misstate what he was doing on our taxpayer-paid federal grounds! And he'll probably not wear a tan suit that day either, so it won't be written up by the media, so it's all good. 

I mean, who didn't dream of some day having a bunch of half naked, sweaty men wrassling on the White House lawn as an 80th birthday gala for a sitting POTUS or a commemoration for the 250th founding of this, our beloved country?

It was all Trump's idea; and as the kids say today, "That tracks."

And to close out the week...

 

we heard the POTUS say, "I love inflation."

Trump: Making inflation American again!

WE INTERRUPT THIS WEEK'S POSTING TO REMEMBER WHAT WE ONCE HAD

 

No one, and I do mean not one human being, could imagine Trump even knowing who Reinhold Niebuhr was, let alone understand what his philosophy was about.

We once admired intelligence, leadership, rationality, honesty, and decency in our presidents. Not all of them had those qualities in equal amounts, but most of them had at least one or two.

In my opinion, and millions and millions of people in America and around the world, Trump hasn't one of them.

If I'm wrong in my opinion, please explain.

The person who interviewed Mr. Obama when he explained why he loved Reinhold Niebuhr was David Brooks, a columnist for The New York Times. 

In a 2007 interview, Brooks asked Obama an off‑the‑cuff question: “Had you ever read Reinhold Niebuhr?” Obama responded, “I love him. He’s one of my favorite philosophers,” and then went on to discuss Niebuhr’s ideas with enthusiasm and insight. 

THIS HAPPENED

 

Can anyone give me one legitimate reason for the Trump administration to bar this man from coming into the US for the purpose of refereeing World Cup soccer games?

"The World Cup is supposed to bring the global community together in a celebration of sport and diversity. The Trump regime has absolutely ruined it for millions of fans around the world by injecting their racist, fascist ideology into an event that celebrates the exact opposite." --Truth and Accountability Project

Details of Artan's nightmare immigration journey revealed 

"Per the New York Times, Artan endured an 11-hour immigration interview. He was then moved to a separate holding cell and detained for several more hours before being placed on a return flight to Istanbul in Turkey. 

Speaking to the same publication, Artan insisted he 'had the right papers and everything' required for entry into the US."