This week’s Economist/YouGov national survey finds convicted felon President Trump’s approval rating on “Inflation/prices” – rated the most important single issue among respondents overall at 18 percent – at just 35 percent, down a fifth from March when it was at 42 percent.

Even 20 percent of the fat fuck’s own voters disapprove of his handling of the issue. Overall Donald’s job approval rating is down to 41 percent, not far from the 38 he scored in last week’s Quinnipiac national poll. The best issue for him was “crime” and even that was 1 percent underwater at 44/45 percent approve/disapprove. On immigration he’s 8 percent in the red at 44 to 52 percent approve/disapprove, on which 13 percent of his own voters don’t like what they’re seeing.

Other questions revealed some pretty interesting non-zero percentages from Trump 2024 voters too: 12 percent say he’s “Not honest and trustworthy,” 6 percent of them each said they personally either dislike him “Somewhat” or “A lot,” 11 percent said they don’t think he has the temperament to be president and another 8 weren’t sure if he does. On “Are you confident in Donald Trump’s ability to deal wisely with an international crisis, or are you uneasy about his approach?” 11 percent of MAGA voters said no, another 6 percent were unsure. On every one of these questions the negative rating from Trump’s own voters was larger than the opposite rating among those who voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris last November. Probably should come up with a formula or something for that, like “exclusive net negative” to offset the idiots who say they voted for Harris but also that Trump is honest and trustworthy. That was 6 percent of Harris voters, by the way.

“Advance estimates of US retail and food services sales for May 2025, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $715.4 billion, down 0.9 percent (±0.5 percent) from the previous month, and up 3.3 percent (±0.5 percent) from May 2024. Total sales for the March 2025 through May 2025 period were up 4.5 percent (±0.4 percent) from the same period a year ago. The March 2025 to April 2025 percent change was revised from up 0.1 percent (±0.5 percent)* to down 0.1 percent (±0.2 percent)*. Retail trade sales were down 0.9 percent (±0.5 percent) from April 2025, and up 3.0 percent (±0.5 percent) from last year. Nonstore retailers were up 8.3 percent (±1.4 percent) from last year, while food service and drinking places were up 5.3 percent (±1.8 percent) from May 2024,” says the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s monthly report. According to Bloomberg Wall Street geeks had expected a 0.6 decrease meaning the Trump economy beat expectations by negative 0.3 percent. Excluding auto sales, they had expected +0.2 but expectations were beat again at -0.3 percent. Such MAGA, so winning.

A new Washington Post/Ipsos national survey on the Big Beautiful Bill finds 42 percent of respondents opposed, edging out 34 percent with “No opinion,” showing that Americans who actually pay attention instead of listening to fucking Joe Rogan talk to “Gary Brecka” about “How Seed Oil’s [sic] Are Made and Why it’s Bad” or ponder questions like “Is the Statue of Liberty Based on a Satanic Painting?” somewhat outnumber the “seed oil’s” and satanic Lady Liberty crowd.

However combine the 23 percent in favor with the 34 percent Joe Rogan-Barstool Sports-Draft Kings set, for which the word “retards” is demeaning to folks born with intellectual disabilities as they had no choice in the matter and thus could never be guilty of the fucking abysmal moral failures of the deliberately disengaged dipshits who got America here, and you get a glide path to passage for a bill in which “Reducing federal funding for food assistance to low-income households” is 2 percent underwater among Republican respondents to the poll. That’s a functional GOP majority.

As with everything about Michael Wolff’s reporting on the Trump White House, it feels true but it just may not actually be true: This time he tells the Daily Beast that convicted felon President Trump was less than pleased with the way his big birthday parade went on Saturday, specifically that he wanted a “menacing” display of America’s military might but got a “festive” celebration instead, leading the fat fuck to rip into white nationalist alcoholic Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

“He’s pissed off at the soldiers. He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face,” said Wolff and again, it feels true.

“He kind of reamed out Hegseth for this. Apparently, there was a phone call, and he said to Hegseth, the tone was all wrong. Why was the tone wrong? Who staged this? There was the tone problem. Trump, he keeps repeating himself. It didn’t send the message that he apparently wanted, which is that he was the commander in chief of this menacing enterprise,” Wolff continued and, it’s unclear if this has been corroborated by reporting from people like Maggie Haberman, Josh Dawsey, Andrew Feinberg, etc but it does line up with the loose, casual way that the soldiers marched past the Orange God Emperor’s viewing stand. Asked to comment on Wolff’s reporting, large-headed White House comms director Steven Cheung was characteristically belligerent, calling Wolff a “lying sack of shit” who “routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe debilitating case of TDS that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”

Cheung has gotten just as angry and defensive about things that were independently verifiable.

Hard to nail this down, especially since it’s coming from Fox News, but at some point in the last few hours the IDF ordered a mass evacuation of a district in Tehran home to 300,000 people.

The FBI has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP.

I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to the Chairman Grassley for further review. pic.twitter.com/sBVNUgN2BJ

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) June 17, 2025

FBI Director K$H Patel on Monday announced he had handed a 91 year-old man a stack of printouts of unsolicited tips from MAGA voters claiming the ChiComs printed out fake ballots and somehow replaced valid voter ballots in the 2020 election – a nefarious plot which they somehow were unable to repeat in the 2024 election. “Sry Mr Patel that I thot u wer guy frm 711 n Cris Ray is stil dirctr of FB1 // My mistke. I like u arabs, u R vry nice ppl. Apologez // Im nt racist. I will look at ur paprs 2 see if orientls printd them // Will look 4 chingchong letters. Hav frend tht owns chop suey restrnt, I ask hm ‘Ping pong, I rike u rong time, need big fvr, pls help read importnt FBI paprs.’ Vry serius problm if oriental chnese ppl could of prnted fake paprs n sneked them nto FB1 file cabnets,” Grassley may or may not have written in an email to Patel after receiving the no doubt large tranche of files.

“We write to inform Your Honor that Plaintiff Jennifer Eckhart and Defendant Ed Henry have reached a settlement. Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a signed stipulation of discontinuance with prejudice as to Plaintiff’s claims against Defendant Henry. Separately, Plaintiff respectfully requests that the Court enter final judgment in this action as to the claims brought against Fox News Network, LLC, so that Plaintiff can (respectfully) appeal Your Honor’s summary judgment Order dismissing the claims against Fox News Network, LLC. We thank Your Honor for the Court’s time and consideration of this matter,” wrote lawyers for plaintiff Jennifer Eckhart to a judge in Manhattan on Monday, notifying the court that her nearly five year-long case against now-Newsmax anchor Ed Henry has been settled.

“I have not reached out to Iran for “Peace Talks” in any way, shape, or form. This is just more HIGHLY FABRICATED, FAKE NEWS! If they want to talk, they know how to reach me. They should have taken the deal that was on the table – Would have saved a lot of lives!!!” posted convicted felon President Trump at 5:20 AM EDT on Tuesday, which would’ve been 4 hours and 5 minutes after “Publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macron, of France, mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to DC to work on a ‘cease fire’ between Israel and Iran. Wrong! He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that. Whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong. Stay Tuned!”

Convicted felon President Trump’s reich has again reversed course on ICE raids at farms, hotels, and restaurants, now ordering agents to go arrest whoever they want wherever they want, ending for now the exceptions the fat fuck gave to those industries, the Washington Post reports.

President Trump had a great day at the G7, even signing a major trade deal with the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Much was accomplished, but because of what’s going on in the Middle East, President Trump will be leaving tonight after dinner with Heads of State.

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) June 16, 2025

Said Krazy Karoline in a statement published somewhere else: “President Trump will return to Washington tonight so he can attend to many important matters,” per Bloomberg’s Josh Wingrove, who added a “🚨🚨🚨” to his tweet. Trump was supposed to stay in Canada about another 24 hours.

It must be a very urgent matter since the fat bastard posted “Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, ‘IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!'” and “AMERICA FIRST means many GREAT things, including the fact that, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.”

Minnesota Dem Senator Tina Smith, who was among the targets on a hit list carried by MAGA terrorist Vance Boelter over the weekend, was spotted at the Capitol on Monday getting in chemically imbalanced Mormon colleague Mike Lee’s face over his unhinged and blatantly false tweets about Boelter, saying shit like “This is what happens (w)hen Marxists don’t get their way,” and “Nightmare on Waltz [sic] Street,” that he has yet to delete or otherwise address.

“I needed him to hear from me directly, what impact I think his cruel statement had on me, his colleague,” Smith told reporters about their conversation, per Axios. Smith did not share any specifics other than “I think that he, honestly, he seemed a little surprised to be confronted.”

“Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign. What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Monday.

Yeah, maybe the headline’s an exaggeration but he seems to be legitimately freaked out about something that hasn’t happened yet. Why else would he be warning a city of 10 million to evacuate?

Convicted felon President Trump is at 54 percent and 53 percent job approval ratings from Black and Latino respondents, respectively, Breitbart reports triumphantly, writing “What must be especially demoralizing about these polling results for Democrats is that it was during this same time (June 9-12) that the corporate media launched a jihad against Trump for deporting illegal immigrants out of Los Angeles. The media and Democrats even attempted to blame the two-term president for the violent, left-wing riots in Los Angeles that were encouraged by elected Democrats and only brought under control when Trump sent in the US Marines after federalizing the National Guard.”

Yeah, so Breitbart doesn’t actually link the numbers or the crosstabs or anything like that and it appears to be paywalled on Rasmussen’s site and no fucking way will that happen. Suffice to say it’s unlikely Rasmussen actually polled Black and Latino voters in absolutes proportionate to their share of the voting population. The fact that even it’s just a one percent difference, it’s 54 percent Black support to 53 percent Latino support is actually inverse to the fat fuck’s shares of each in the 2024 election: 16 percent Black voters to 43 percent of Latino voters, per AP VoteCast.

Convicted felon President Trump was less than kind to his old buddy Tucker Carlson on Monday, batting away a reporter’s question about Cucker’s isolationist unease over Donald’s backing of Israel’s attack on Iran, correctly calling it a sin against America First “principles.”

“For me, the purpose of our ‘No Kings’ gathering was to try and get the rest of The Villagers to understand that our democracy is in jeopardy; our Constitution is under attack. What happened in return? The sprinklers were turned on… possibly to keep us safe by not crossing over to the other side of the street. Unfortunately, I don’t think that may be the case. People were ticketed ($75 fine) while Trump supporters were assisted to get across the street by the police,” writes Villager Sandra Evans to the editor of Villages-News describing some controversy to their Saturday demonstration.

“Trump supporters stood behind us with a large sign ‘Democrats Suck.’ Little do they know the demonstrators were not only Democrats but also Republicans and Independents. Trump supporters drove by with the finger up (guess which one) while others tried splashing us with water. The demonstration was to raise awareness that Trump is off the rails and that the Republican Party is doing nothing to stop him. Trump supporters drove by with the finger up (guess which one) while others tried splashing us with water. The demonstration was to raise awareness that Trump is off the rails and that the Republican Party is doing nothing to stop him,” continued Sandra.

The actual reporting on the protest from the sunwashed Floridian golf cart maze’s website of record makes no mention of the $75 fines but does quote a Jeff Evans – possibly Sandra’s husband – as saying “I too wondered about why the sprinklers were running. A calculated move by The Villages’ powerbrokers to make things uncomfortable for the protesters? That wouldn’t surprise me.”

After a one-year interregnum from some bullshit ban over an endorsement of off-brand vegan hot dogs, the pretty-much uncontested world champion of competitive eating Joey Chestnut will return to this year’s 4th of July Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island, ESPN reports.

Chestnut spent last Independence Day crushing four US Army soldiers 57 to 51 in five minutes, arguably defeating actual Nathan’s winner Pat Bertoletti who downed 58 hot dogs in ten. Chestnut went on to best his longtime rival Takeru Kobayashi 80 to 66 in a Netflix special on Labor Day.

Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who reported on issues like human rights violations and corruption by the royal family until he was arrested and imprisoned in 2018, was executed most likely via beheading by a scimitar, a large, thick sword wielded by a public servant, Middle East Eye reports.

There’s no official acknowledgement of al-Jasser’s beheading from the United States government, who weren’t shy about decrying false reports of a white genocide in South Africa or the designation of the Neo-Nazi AfD party as an extremist group in Germany. Yet this one will slide.

Tiny west African country Togo President Faure Gnassinge’s government has banned French broadcasters RFI, and France 24 for not being fair and balanced in covering his ongoing attempt to install himself as dictator for life through some constitutional fuckery, the Associated Press reports.

“This measure follows repeated failings, already reported and formally recalled, in matters of impartiality, rigor, and fact-checking. Several recent broadcasts have relayed inaccurate, biased, and even contrary to established facts, undermining the stability of republican institutions and the country’s image,” said the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication in a statement Monday.

“Freedom of the press cannot be synonymous with disinformation or interference,” they added.

Gnassingbe, who has ruled since 2005 after the death of his father, was appointed last month to the powerful and completely made-up title of “President of the Council of Ministers,” a council that he holds sole power to appoint and whom has sole power to reelect him indefinitely.