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Inside the pure babble of the Trump twilight zone Someone wrote on Facebook – I don’t know who, I’ve lost the post – describing Donald Trump as he walked away from the press conference at his Doral golf resort yesterday.

Does it matter that Trump ordered the U.S. military to carry out an operation to kidnap a foreign leader that resulted in his gaining access to and control of $2 billion?

All this is reported as if these are normal things that happen in the United States.
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10.03.2026 23:19 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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Memory hole, meet Iran war. Donald Trump, speaking at a press conference at his golf club in Doral, Florida, because of course that is where you announce big decisions, today said that the war against Iran will end “very soon.”

“I have a plan for everything. You’ll be very happy,” Trump said today.

He also said he doesn’t remember ever meeting Jeffrey Epstein, his poll numbers are higher than anyone has ever seen, and tiny plastic pigs will fall out of the sky.
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10.03.2026 01:38 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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With a madman in charge Where do you start?

I can assure you that after this war, as it has been true after every war, the dead will speak louder than any of the noise we hear from the man who ordered them into a war nobody wanted and that neither they, nor the world deserved.
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08.03.2026 20:00 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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Saturday new cat report Tiger, our rescue stray whom we’ve begun calling Little Cat because she’s about half the size of our big home-born tomcat Uno, has been settling into life in the Harris/Truscott Manse and is well on h...

It’s really something to be witness to a stray becoming a housecat. Little by little, she’s moving into the crew and becoming one of the Harris/Truscotts.

Welcome inside, Little Cat. We love you!
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08.03.2026 01:07 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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How does this end? It ends when Iran says so, not Donald Trump. The most important thing General David Petraeus did during his multiple tours in Iraq and his command of allied forces in Afghanistan was not “the surge” he conceived in Iraq in 2007.

Our military should pack up and go home before more of its members die in Trump’s fruitless attempt to distract from everything that is driving him crazy here at home. It’s not our war, it’s Trump’s war, and after just one week, he is already losing it.
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07.03.2026 02:01 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Luxo-jet dog-killer Kristi Noem is out President Donald Trump announced today that Kristi Noem is out at the Department of Homeland Security and will be replaced by Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin, whose difficulties with stringing two s...

Noem’s departure is the first instance of Trump getting rid of one of his disastrous cabinet officials. Watch this space. He will soon be looking for someone to blame for his chaotic “war” with Iran.
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05.03.2026 19:52 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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Five days of bombs, over 1,000 dead, and they’re quibbling over the word “war.” I have tried to avoid writing the following sentence for more than ten years, but the day is finally here:

Maybe they should just call it a “special military operation,” Vladimir Putin’s term for "war."
It’s perfect, in a twisted, horrid, unthinkable way: They not only don’t know what they’re doing, they can’t even agree on what to call it.
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05.03.2026 02:19 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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How to plan for a war of choice you didn’t have a plan to plan for The problem with a country that is protected on its east and west and south by oceans and to its north by a sheet of ice is that everything you do to practice defending your nation is done by pretendi...

Don’t you get it? Real men don’t prepare for war. They make war! Watch out! I see a bearded Mullah who’s getting away! Lethality that evil bastard! We don’t need no stinking plan! It’s in God’s plan!
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04.03.2026 00:28 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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I watched Trump’s Medal of Honor ceremony today. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. This is a photograph of an explosion in Tehran.

“When I hear that sound, that beautiful sound behind me, it means money," Trump said. We will learn at some time in the future what Donald Trump’s war has been all about.
He can hear the pile drivers for his ballroom, but he can’t hear the bombs.
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03.03.2026 00:38 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump tells Iran: “You better not shoot back! It will make me very mad!" What he actually said was, “WE WILL HIT THEM WITH A FORCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE!” But whatever.

He’s bombing and killing little girls in Iran and partying at Mar a Lago wearing a gold tie. We’ve been wondering if there could be a new low that is even lower than the older low that Trump could reach, and ladies and gentlemen, we have our answer.
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02.03.2026 01:35 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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He opened his mouth and lies came out and bombs fell and people started dying The only difference between the way George W.

Donald Trump isn’t afraid of Iran having a nuclear weapon. He’s afraid of an even bigger bombshell that might drop right on his cotton candy noggin.
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28.02.2026 19:11 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Paramount-Warner Bros. deal: They think they’re buying a casino. They should ask Trump how that worked out. There is nothing that Hollywood likes better than making a meal out of amateur lunch meat, and that’s what happened today when Paramount/Skydance bought Warner Brothers Discovery for a reported $110 b...

I can’t wait for Paramount and Warner Brothers under the ownership of the Ellisons to start generating right-wing red hat crap for the masses. You’ll be able to ski down the graphs of their companies’ profits and ratings. It’s harder than it looks.
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28.02.2026 02:51 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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What the hell was the House Oversight Committee doing questioning Hillary Clinton today? Here’s the story: House Republicans eager to kiss the ass of Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton to be questioned about Jeffrey Epstein today in Chappaqua, New York.

Republicans questioned Hillary Clinton for six hours about a man she had never met and did not know. Why aren’t they interested in talking to a whole bunch of men who did know him, who traveled with him, who stayed overnight at his properties?
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27.02.2026 04:26 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Reflections of Trump in the Epstein files wilderness of mirrors This is a story about how difficult it is to maintain a coverup and what happens when it begins to unravel.

Now the DOJ is scrambling to re-insert some, but not all, of the “302” interviews back into the Epstein files, but they are still withholding the interviews with victims that mention Trump.
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26.02.2026 03:25 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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That SOB's voice was in these things for almost two hours I watched the speech on my phone so you didn't have to.

he awarded the goalie a Presidential Medal of Freedom. That got another flood of applause. He was on a roll, so he also gave out two Medals of Honor, and he probably would have thrown a Bible up there to someone if he had thought of it.
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25.02.2026 05:55 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Will Trump announce attack on Iran tonight at SOTU? They call the State of the Union speech the “biggest stage in the world.” But of course that is what politicians do, especially Donald Trump – pat themselves on the back, exaggerate, posture, lie, and...

Trump has said his speech tonight will be at least two hours long and could go to three hours, getting into Khrushchev and Castro territory, which is fitting for an authoritarian full of shit-shoveler like Donald Trump.
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25.02.2026 01:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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On the eve of Trump's State of the Union, Americans are in a foul mood We just had a power outage here at the Truscott-Harris Manse, now restored, and it has caused a late start, so I’m going to write about two recent polls tonight, and then I’m going to tell you what I ...

Tomorrow night, Trump is going to do what he always does when he’s mad, and he’s mad as hell right now: He’s going to double down. He just did it on tariffs, and he’ll brag about that.
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24.02.2026 03:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The storm is here. We’re still in a blizzard warning, and there are several different predictions for snowfall, anywhere from 6 inches to 16.

Good luck to you, if you’re in the path of the storm. Stay safe, stay warm, and watch your step.
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23.02.2026 02:11 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Donald Trump’s air-conditioned war on Iran The Trump administration has been engaged in a massive military buildup in and around the Middle East preparing for an expected attack on Iran.

So, buckle up. He’s going to spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars on his insane plans, and if we’re lucky…very very lucky…he won’t get a new crop of young Americans killed in the process.
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21.02.2026 21:50 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Donald Trump’s air-conditioned war on Iran The Trump administration has been engaged in a massive military buildup in and around the Middle East preparing for an expected attack on Iran.

So, buckle up. He’s going to spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars on his insane plans, and if we’re lucky…very very lucky…he won’t get a new crop of young Americans killed in the process.

luciantruscott.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

21.02.2026 21:49 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Wa-a-a-a-a-ah! Donald Trump’s Supreme Court surprised him today by taking away the emergency tariff power he’s been playing with since taking office last year.

What a day. Three card monte tariffs turn into global tariffs as the most criminally corrupt administration in our history continues to accrue wealth for its Master and Commander.
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20.02.2026 20:49 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The day before Stonewall The Trump administration took down the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument across Christopher Street from where it all began.

The Trump administration took down the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument across Christopher Street from where it all began. What they really want to do is turn back the clock to the day before Stonewall.
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20.02.2026 03:45 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Has Elon suddenly grown a conscience? Stick with me.

I guess it will remain a mystery why Elon Musk did not bar Russian use of Starlink technology right from the start, since he is the one who makes all the decisions about how Starlink is used and by whom.

But he’s done it now.
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19.02.2026 01:42 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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The Boss strikes back! I’m going to do some cheerleading tonight, and let me tell you right now that I am not ashamed of it.

There is strength in numbers. There is strength in talent. Put both together, and we can turn these assholes and their hate inside out with their jealousy and anger.
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18.02.2026 02:27 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Have you had a look at the pantload Trump has nominated to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations? His name is Jeremy Carl, a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, a parking garage for right-wing fools and outright racists.
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17.02.2026 02:20 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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A balmy 43 and sunny! Our glorious Gracie taking advantage of the glorious day in the sun room.

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14.02.2026 23:41 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Reach out As a lifelong cynic, I have always hated feel-good pieces like the one I’m about to write.

We can…here’s that phrase again…reach out. To our families. To our friends. To people we know casually, people we work with, even to people we encounter in our daily lives.

Pick up the phone, write an email, send a text.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/reach-out

14.02.2026 01:10 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Minneapolis showed us why Trump and his fascists will lose Trump’s Stupidity Czar, Tom Homan, announced today that the “surge” in Minneapolis is over.

MAGA or no MAGA, this is not a fascist country. Fascism doesn’t work. Trump’s refusal to learn this is going to cost him dearly.
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13.02.2026 02:45 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Halloween for cowards Here are two things that definitely don’t belong together: guns and masks.

ICE and Border Patrol agents are beyond the reach of the law and the courts. Masks and not displaying names are violations of the Constitution’s provisions against unreasonable searches and seizures and guarantee of the protections of due process of law.
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12.02.2026 01:44 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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How many more times will we have to read the words, “It’s way worse than you think?” That phrase was uttered this time by, of all people, Marjorie Taylor Greene after she had visited the ultra-secure room in the Department of Justice where members of Congress can read, but not copy, t...

When you’ve lost Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, both of whom have had a look at the unredacted Epstein files, you have a whole lot to worry about. Trump is cornered by the life of sexual abuse he led in the past.
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11.02.2026 01:18 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0