A PERFECT METAPHOR FOR WHAT TRUMP IS DOING TO AMERICA:

  

Destruction of the White House's East Wing begins for Trump's Imperial Ballroom:

Trump lied about this. 

Trump pledged that the new ballroom addition to the White House would not "interfere with the current building" or involve any demolition. However, demolition of the East Wing's facade began in October 2025 to make way for the project. 

What Trump promised:

 1) "It won't interfere with the current building. It won't. It'll be near it, but not touching it and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of. It's my favorite. It's my favorite place.” 

2) "You know, we're building right behind us. We're building a ballroom. They’ve wanted a ballroom for 150 years, and I'm giving that honor to this wonderful place.” 

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration has quietly ordered federal workers to keep the demolition of the White House’s East Wing out of public view as construction crews begin clearing the site for a massive new ballroom funded by private donors. 

 According to several officials briefed on the directive, employees in nearby federal offices, including the Treasury Department, were instructed not to photograph or discuss the ongoing teardown, which began Monday morning. 

The East Wing, traditionally home to the first lady’s offices and social staff, is being razed to make room for what President Trump has described as a “world-class ballroom worthy of America’s greatness.”

Trust nothing that comes out of this convicted felon's lying mouth.

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them..." --Maya Angelou

Between the thousands of texts we saw written by up-and-coming young Republican men and women, extolling Nazis, Hitler, making jokes about gas chambers and rape, and approving slavery, and now this, I no longer listen to anyone who tells me "it's just kids talking and satire."

This is the moral rot and degeneracy Trump has inflicted on our country that reflects Trump's corrupt, indecent character, and which many of us knew he possessed. It is now infecting our government.

Trump nominee says MLK Jr. holiday belongs in ‘hell’ and that he has ‘Nazi streak,’ according to texts 

"Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday. 

 

Using an Italian slur for Black people, Ingrassia wrote a month earlier in the group chat seen by POLITICO: 'No moulignon* holidays … From kwanza [sic] to mlk jr day to black history month to Juneteenth,” then added: 'Every single one needs to be eviscerated.' ”

*The term moulignon is an anglicized and derogatory slur used by some Italian-Americans for a Black person. It is not a standard Italian word. Its origin comes from Southern Italian dialects, including Neapolitan and Calabrian, where the word mulignana means "eggplant" or "aubergine". The slur uses this word for its dark color. The standard Italian word for eggplant is melanzana.

Paul belongs in the Hitler Youth with Ubergruppenfuhrer Steve Bannon

PI

I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I will admit it

Paul Ingrassia to a group of Republicans, according to texts viewed by POLITICO

“I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I will admit it,” Ingrassia responded, according to the chain. One of the people in the text group said in an interview that Ingrassia’s comment was not taken as a joke, and three participants pushed back against Ingrassia during the text exchange that day.

Paul Ingrassia:

From Occupy Democrats:

BREAKING: Top Trump nominee gets caught in a horrifying Nazi text leak scandal as it’s exposed that he admitted to having a “Nazi streak” and wants “white men” to lead.

 

You read that right: Donald Trump’s handpicked nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel — the agency meant to protect whistleblowers and fight discrimination — is a white supremacist who called Martin Luther King Jr. Day “a holiday that belongs in the seventh circle of hell.”

His name is Paul Ingrassia, and his texts read like something torn from a neo-Nazi group chat.

Ingrassia, a 30-year-old Trump loyalist with a law degree and a God complex, bragged that he has “a Nazi streak,” ranted that “we need competent white men in positions of leadership,” and declared the Founding Fathers were wrong to say that all men are created equal.k

Yes, the guy Trump wants in charge of civil rights complaints literally said equality was a mistake.

Ingrassia didn’t stop there. In text messages obtained by POLITICO, he slurred Black Americans, mocked Juneteenth and Black History Month, and smeared Dr. King — the man who helped redeem America’s soul — as “the 1960s George Floyd.”

And when called out by other Republicans in the chat for sounding like a racist, Ingrassia didn’t back down. He doubled down.

“We should celebrate white men and Western civilization and I will never back down from that,” he wrote.

This is the kind of man Donald Trump and his MAGA cronies think deserves a lifetime job overseeing fairness, equality, and accountability in the federal government.

Let that sink in.

This isn’t “edgy humor.” It’s not “out of context.” It’s open, unfiltered white nationalism — in 2025, in the highest levels of government.

And the excuses are even more insulting. His lawyer claimed the messages were “self-deprecating humor” and said Ingrassia “has incredible support from the Jewish community.” Oh, please. That’s like claiming a Klan rally is just a “costume party.”

Meanwhile, Trump — who once called white supremacists “very fine people” — hasn’t said a word to condemn him. Instead, his White House is quietly trying to ram through this nomination while hoping the headlines fade.

But they won’t. Not this time.

Because this is who the modern GOP is:

A party that nominates racists to civil rights jobs.

A party that shrugs off hate speech as “satire.

A party that would rather burn down democracy than admit moral failure.

Dr. King dreamed of an America that judged people by the content of their character. Trump’s America judges them by the color of their skin — and then gives the racists a government paycheck.

A COMMENTER CAME TO P.E. TODAY AND...

 

posted this:

Susan commented on "I'M STILL ASTOUNDED BY THIS:"

18 mins ago

NO, I didn't take part in that silly, stupid ridicules No Kings Day, Because in this country we don't have "Kings", we have duly Elected Presidents. And That Is What Donald Trump Is!

Dear Susan,

Perhaps you've never read American history. See below to understand why 7 million+ Americans marched in the "No Kings" rally.

It is depressing to know that so many of my fellow Americans know so little about their country's history and why the American Revolution was fought. 

NOTE:  Trump did NOT win the popular vote. More Americans voted for someone else than voted for Trump. Trump did not win the popular vote in 2016 either. Hillary won it by 3+ million votes.

I'M STILL ASTOUNDED BY THIS:

 

That video was approved by Trump when he posted it on his social media account, "Truth Social."

The current Republican Party of the United States is being led by a puerile, unprincipled, wretch, who enjoys making America look weak, stupid, and degraded in front of the world.

A commenter aptly labeled Trump in the post below this one: Trump: The Shit King of America! (SKoA!)

“The Depth of MAGA’s Moral Collapse.” ‘How we got to “I love H1tler.”’

And how we got to having a POTUS posting a fake video of himself on his "Truth Social" media platform in a fighter jet labeled "King Trump" flying over the "No Kings" marchers and dumping shit on Americans.

More evidence of his complete mental and moral decline, as well as the people who continue to support this despicable, loathsome man.

NYTimes, Oct. 19, 2025 Updated 11:16 a.m. ET 

President Trump has posted what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media that showed him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid (shit) on protesters.8

The short video, shared on Mr. Trump’s Truth Social account late Saturday, was posted on the same day that protesters participated in a daylong mass demonstration, known as “No Kings,” against the Trump administration. The protests were held in cities and towns in all 50 states, with participants holding signs such as “I Pledge Allegiance to No King” and chanting slogans against the president, accusing him of acting in authoritarian ways.

The fake video, set to the song “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins, shows the plane dropping a brown liquid resembling feces onto the heads of protesters, who appeared to be gathered in a city. 

The White House on Saturday also posted on social media an A.I.-generated image of Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance wearing crowns. “Have a good night, everyone,” the post said, with the crown emoji.

 

“The Depth of MAGA’s Moral Collapse.” ‘How we got to “I love H1tler.”’

By George Packer. The Atlantic. Oct 17, 2025, 2:06 PM ET.

“When leaders of Young Republican groups around the country exchange texts that say “I love H1tler,” that joke about gas chambers & rape, approve of slavery, sneer about “watermelon people” & monkeys in zoos, & throw around words like “faggot” & “retarded,” they aren’t just exposing their own anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, & misogyny. To see only the varieties of bigotry with which we’re painfully familiar is to miss the depth of MAGA’s moral collapse.

Professing love for H1tler is more than anti-Semitic—it’s antihuman. It’s a proud refusal to be bound by the most basic standard of goodness, a deliberate expression of contempt for everything decent. The texts degrade all of us.

And they’re hardly surprising. Cruelty & humiliation have become the Trump administration’s common currency. With permission from President Donald Trump’s coarse rhetoric & vows of hatred, Elon Musk’s Nazi salute, Tucker Carlson’s flirtation with Holocaust denial, & Stephen Miller’s rage-filled threats, the young loyalists who wrote the texts were speaking the language of the people they admire most. Nor was it surprising when, the day after “Politico” revealed the texts’ existence, the image of an American flag altered into the shape of a swastika appeared on the cubicle wall behind a staffer in the Capitol Hill office of a MAGA congressman. In that culture, the rehabilitation of the man who stands for the worst in humanity was inevitable.

Having been given permission from the country’s most powerful person, the Young Republicans received forgiveness from its 2nd-most-powerful. Vice President J. D. Vance refused to condemn their words, explaining: “I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke—telling a very offensive, stupid joke—is cause to ruin their lives.”

But the authors of the texts have already grown up—they’re men in their 20s & 30s, climbing the rungs of Republican Party ladders in Kansas, Arizona, Vermont, & New York, firm in the belief that the viler their language, the higher they’ll go. One is already an officeholder.

For Vance, ethical judgment has become a pure matter of partisanship, to the point of overcoming his most personal bonds. When a DOGE member was revealed to have posted “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity” & “Normalize Indian hate,” Vance—married to an Indian American—scoffed at the ensuing outrage & demanded that the offender be rehired.

But when private citizens anywhere said something ugly about Charlie Kirk, the vice president went after their livelihood. Once morality is rotted out by partisan relativism, the floor gives way & the fall into nihilism is swift.

The abandonment of a universal morality isn’t just philosophically wrong—it’s politically stupid. Any successful opposition to Trump has to begin with a lucid understanding of what’s at stake: not just past & present harms done to the marginalized, but everything that Americans once believed they cared about, including the values that were co-opted by the right before MAGA abandoned them—respect for law & custom, patriotism, family ties, common decency. To some liberals & progressives these values came to sound old-fashioned, corny, even dangerous.

But anyone frightened by the country’s downward spiral has to believe that our society still shares them, & can still respond to them if someone makes the appeal.

If the Young Republicans’ texts are seen merely as attacks on the groups they name, then they become the problem of Black & gay people, Jews, & women. But the texts represent a larger atrocity, one that has befallen all of America. Once you base moral judgments on group identity & political convenience, it becomes possible for people on the left to be anti-racist & anti-Semitic, & for people on the right to embrace Muslim haters in Israel & Jew haters in Germany.

If moral values aren’t simple & universal—if they require a facility with the language of graduate seminars & single-issue activism—they won’t move the immobilized, alienated, numb Americans who still haven’t given up on their country’s promise. The dehumanization of any group dehumanizes everyone. There will never be an end to learning this lesson.”

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

  

NO KINGS RALLY ACROSS AMERICA (and the world).

 

HAPPY NO KINGS DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Washington, D.C.:

Charlotte, North Carolina:

Chicago, Illinois:

Times Square, NYC

CBS News: Crowds gathered across America and the world:

Outside the US Embassy in Berlin, Germany

London, England

THERE IS NOTHING MORE AMERICAN THAN "NO KINGS!"

 

From the original town that emphatically said NO! to King George.

We now say NO! to King Donnie!

And there are millions and millions of us saying that today all over America!

Boston's Old State House from which the Declaration of Independence was read on July 18, 1776.

I'M ANTIFA...

 

So is this hero:

REMINDER:

 

TRUMP IS A HIGHLY UNPOPULAR POTUS.

Forbes:

"President Donald Trump’s approval rating dropped to 45%, a low point for his second term, and his disapproval rating increased to 53%, a high point, in the latest survey, as other polls show 

Americans blame Republicans more than Democrats for the government shutdown."

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From what I've read, this weekend's "No Kings" marches across the country (and even the world), has Trump and his courtiers worried.

The millions and millions of Americans across this country will show MAGA and the world how unpopular and disliked Trump and his administration is.

Trump thinks his minority MAGA represents America. MAGA does not. 

The anti-Trump and anti-authoritarians are the majority in America.

THIS IS TODAY'S SHAMEFUL, DISGUSTING REPUBLICAN PARTY

RAW STORY:

"Vice President JD Vance would like you to do anything but pay attention to those abhorrent leaked texts from young Republicans that Politico covered on Tuesday. And if you do read them, he wants you to think they’re just 'kids' saying 'edgy, offensive' things. Except that they appear to be full-grown adults, according to Mother Jones’ analysis of public records and reports of the participants’ ages," she wrote. 

The outlet came to the conclusion by scanning public records and media reports, and determined that eight of the 11 participants in the chat appeared to range from 24 to 35. The ages of three other participants weren't publicly available. In fact, the report noted, one chat member is a 27-year-old state senator in Vermont." 

These are not "kids." These are grown men and women, and they represent today's Republican Party under the leadership of their corrupt leader, Donald J. Trump.

Disgusting.

POLITICO:  "US Capitol police are reportedly investigating after a US flag bearing a swastika was discovered inside the office of Republican House member Dave Taylor of Ohio. 

The image, obtained by Politico, shows a modified flag featuring red and white stripes arranged in the form of a swastika – which is virtually synonymous with the Nazis’ genocidal regime. 

The flag was displayed on what appears to be a cubicle wall behind Angelo Elia, one of Taylor’s staff members, during a virtual meeting."

When Republicans show you what they are, believe them.

Trump's Conservative Party:

THIS ISN'T SHOCKING: TRUMP'S YOUTH

These are NOT a "few bad apples." These repulsive young people are the future of the Republican Party:  Fascists. (They didn't think they'd be exposed, but here they are in all their ugliness):

From Politico:

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape

🚨 YOUNG REPUBLICAN LEADERS EXPOSED IN 2,900-PAGE LEAK — SLURS, SLAVERY, GAS CHAMBERS 🚨

Jim Heath:

Young Republican leaders joked about gas chambers. Used racial slurs. Called rape “epic.” Praised slavery. And said outright: “We love Hitler.”

POLITICO just obtained 2,900 pages of private Telegram chats that reveal how some of the GOP’s rising stars talk behind closed doors — and it’s worse than anyone imagined.

These aren’t anonymous trolls. These are vice chairs, national committeewomen, and future party leaders — and their messages are soaked in hate.

They:

– Referred to Black Americans as “monkeys” and “the watermelon people”

– Used racial slurs like “n–ga” and “n–guh” dozens of times

– Joked about rape, slavery, and suicide

– Called rape “epic” and said slavery had its political upsides

– Fantasized about putting political opponents in gas chambers

Peter Giunta, then–chair of the New York State Young Republicans, said:

“Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”

“I’m going to create some of the greatest psychological torture methods known to man.”

Joe Maligno, legal counsel for the group, responded:

“Can we fix the showers?”

Annie Kaykaty, national committeewoman, chimed in:

“I’m ready to watch people burn now.”

William Hendrix, Kansas Young Republicans Vice Chair, used the words “n–ga” and “n–guh” more than a dozen times

Bobby Walker, New York’s vice chair at the time, called rape “epic.”

And they all knew it was a risk. They talked about what would happen if these chats leaked. They worried. Then they kept typing.

This is not an isolated scandal. It’s the inevitable result of a party shaped by Trump — where cruelty is the currency, and the next generation is even more radical than the last.

What you’re seeing here isn’t the fringe.

It’s the future.

"The young guy in this photo is Bobby Walker a leader of Young Republicans.

The older guy is Mike Johnson leader of the Republican held House.

Bobby says "rape is epic".

Mike is the one who sent the entire House on a 6-week vacation to protect the child molesters who are in the Epstein files." --L. Spencer

SHAME ON MIKE JOHNSON AND ALL WHO SUPPORT HIM.

 

When the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America makes a statement like the one quoted below, it should chill the blood of every American who cherishes our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the rule of law.

Mike Johnson has betrayed his oath of office and showed us that he doesn't know what it means to be an American and to believe in the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. Does he even know what it is?  

The First Amendment gives Americans the right to protest and assemble, and it prohibits the government from abridging the right of people to assemble peacefully for social, economic, political, or religious goals.

When one hears Johnson attacking Americans, implying they're enemies of the state for exercising their Constitutional rights, one wonders who Johnson is actually loyal to. It appears he's chosen a convicted felon/sexual assaulter, and friend of notorious pedophiles over the U.S. Constitution, and it also appears that he's sworn an oath to a man, not the rule of law, which is guaranteed to every American by our Constitution

History will harshly judge Johnson and deliver to him the resounding ignominy he so richly deserves.

TRUMP’s CORRUPT DoJ

Vice President Vance accused ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos of caring about a “fake scandal” regarding White House border czar Tom Homan on Sunday. 

Stephanopoulos, during Sunday morning’s edition of “This Week,” asked Vance whether Homan kept or returned a reported $50,000 bribe. Vance deflected, saying the media is “going after” Homan “because he’s doing the job of enforcing the law.”

Armand Domalewski:

There is absolutely zero chance JD Vance would describe a Biden administration official accepting a $50,000 cash bribe in a paper bag as "fake scandal"

“There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.” — George Conway

TRUMP FORGOT HE WAS POTUS ON JAN. 6, 2021!

Remember how MAGA and certain commenters at P.E. wondered who was actually in charge when Biden was POTUS?

Where’s that concern now? Trump is so confused and doddering that he is unaware that HE was the POTUS on J6, not Biden!

He’s calling for something to be done about what HE was doing on J6, and calling what HE did a “ scam!”  

Who’s running the country? Melania? Or The Heritage Foundation? Trump has lost his marbles. 

“Donald J. Trump

@realDonald Trump

THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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