One can only hope that asshole Jones is correct at least this one time. The Oval Office decor is becoming comical at this point. Trump looks like a circus peanut sitting in a jewelry case in a Detroit pawn shop.
Unfortunately, it's the best we can hope for....maybe pull a William Henry Harrison and croak in office.
Trump chickens out on EU tariffs. Trump backs down on threats of higher tariffs for E.U. pharma and chips
It's clear that the Donald primarily wants the attention -- and isn't that interested in the substance of his decisions.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/alex-jones-warns-trump-cankles-214452408.html excerpt: The Infowars host pleaded Wednesday, the day after Trump’s comments about “heaven” intensified concerns about his condition, that “if the people around him could just get him to take off one day a week—if he could just go play golf and watch movies and have some fun—he deserves it.”
Alex Jones doesn't understand Trump. Trump's enjoyment is starting fights with people and later claiming that he won them. It's his life.
Trump scores major win in appeals court which throws out penalty amount. NY appeals court throws out $500M penalty against Trump in Letitia James civil case ecerpt: "An appellate court has thrown out the $500 million civil fraud penalty against former President Donald Trump in the high-profile case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The New York Appellate Division overturned the penalty, ruling the disgorgement was an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment. The five-member panel all upheld findings that Trump and his company were liable, affirming that James acted within her authority and that injunctive relief to curb Trump Organization practices was appropriate. The ruling leaves liability intact but eliminates the massive financial penalty of $364 million plus interest, which rises to around $500 million."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/politics/trump-civil-trial-trump-organization-appeal excerpt: In the prevailing opinion, the judges wrote, “While the injunctive relief ordered by the court is well crafted to curb defendants’ business culture, the court’s disgorgement order, which directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution.” CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said the “monumental” ruling was unusual due to it taking the court nearly a year to reach this decision. “This is a huge win for Donald Trump, any way you cut it. And this is a stinging rebuke to the Attorney General Letitia James,” Honig said on CNN’s “The Situation Room.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/politics/trump-civil-trial-trump-organization-appeal excerpt: "The majority decision by members of the appellate panel means that Trump sheds the immense financial pressure he faced to satisfy the $354 million judgment, which with interest totals roughly $500 million. Last year, the appeals court agreed to lower the bond Trump was required to post to $175 million – down from the full amount – to stop the New York attorney general’s office from beginning to collect the judgment while he appealed. Now that money will come back to Trump once the appeals are exhausted."
Trump threatens Colorado with unspecified 'harsh measures' if it doesn't release Tina Peters from prison. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5463191-donald-trump-tina-peters-freedom/
A jury found Tina Peters guilty by a Mesa County jury in 2024 on seven counts (four of them felonies) for aiding others to access the county’s voting equipment as she tried to prove Trump's lies about the 2020 election supposedly being stolen from him.
There's no limit to Trump's corruption. He's issuing more threats because he's upset one of his followers broke the law in the name of his 2020 stolen election narrative..
Whatever 'harsh measures' Trump may end up imposing on Colorado in the name of trying to release Tina Peters from prison, he can hope that the court battle that will ensue will end up in the Supreme Court where the conservatives on the court will allow Trump to do as he pleases until it is determined later (perhaps years later) whether or not his actions are Constitutional.
https://coloradonewsline.com/2024/1...9-years-in-prison-over-voting-systems-breach/ excerpt: Mesa County Commissioner Cody Davis, a Republican, spoke next, telling the court that Peters’ actions cost Mesa County $1.4 million. After the investigation was launched Peters continued to receive her salary while she traveled the country, Davis said. She also cost the county by creating distrust in the electoral system — causing the county to conduct a time-consuming and costly hand count of ballots in 2022, which found no material difference between the machine and hand counts, Davis said. The county had to hire a designated election official while Peters was “gallivanting around the country,” Davis said. And extra law enforcement was assigned to the Mesa County Justice Center during Peters’ trial and sentencing, diverting those resources from elsewhere, he added. As a Grand Valley native, Davis said he was most disturbed that Mesa County’s reputation has taken a hit from being associated with Peters’ actions. “She’s made a laughingstock of this community,” he said.
Those are the type of people Trump defends. Trump says Peters is just an innocent person trying to prove his unsubstantiated claim that fraud is rampant in the voting system (but only if he loses an election).