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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/inside-the...
10.03.2026 23:19
👍 14
🔁 2
💬 1
📌 1
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/memory-hol...
10.03.2026 01:38
👍 8
🔁 5
💬 0
📌 0
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/with-a-mad...
08.03.2026 20:00
👍 12
🔁 4
💬 2
📌 0
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/five-days-...
05.03.2026 02:19
👍 5
🔁 2
💬 0
📌 0
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/i-watched-...
03.03.2026 00:38
👍 12
🔁 7
💬 1
📌 0
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-tell...
02.03.2026 01:35
👍 6
🔁 2
💬 0
📌 0
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/he-opened-...
28.02.2026 19:11
👍 6
🔁 2
💬 0
📌 0
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/reflection...
26.02.2026 03:25
👍 9
🔁 3
💬 0
📌 0
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/that-sobs-...
25.02.2026 05:55
👍 4
🔁 3
💬 0
📌 0
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 21:50
👍 5
🔁 3
💬 0
📌 0
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
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/wa-a-a-a-a...
20.02.2026 20:49
👍 3
🔁 2
💬 0
📌 0
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-day-be...
20.02.2026 03:45
👍 6
🔁 4
💬 1
📌 0
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/has-sudden...
19.02.2026 01:42
👍 4
🔁 2
💬 1
📌 0
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-boss-s...
18.02.2026 02:27
👍 9
🔁 4
💬 0
📌 0
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/meet-jerem...
17.02.2026 02:20
👍 7
🔁 4
💬 1
📌 0
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
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.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/halloween-...
12.02.2026 01:44
👍 8
🔁 4
💬 0
📌 0