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Trump, 80, Fantasizes About Dead President in Bizarre Posting Spree

As sailors endure grueling conditions aboard a carrier in his Iran war, Trump has been busy posting bizarre AI-generated fantasies on Truth Social.

President Donald Trump spent his Saturday living it up in a Truth Social fantasy world while thousands of American sailors continue to endure brutal conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier serving in his Iran war.

In four of his wild posts, Trump, 80, imagined himself showing off his new White House ballroom to the nation’s first president, George Washington, who has been dead for 227 years.

Trump’s tacky $400 million construction project is currently on hold after a federal appeals court ruled that the administration lacked the necessary congressional authority to move ahead with it.

Trump followed that up with a photo of him with the nation’s first president, both on horseback. Trump, wearing a suit and tie, sits astride a black horse beside Washington and his white mount.

In another AI-generated image, Trump and Washington are shown writing together on what appears to be a map.Trump also posted a shadowy photo of himself wearing a “TRUMP 2028″ hat with the caption “We are going to win.”In another message, Trump fondly reminisced about the time he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un enjoyed each other’s company, though they decidedly did not look that way in the photo. “Despite the unfriendly look on this particular picture, there are many where we’re smiling,” the president wrote. “Kim Jong Un and I get along GREAT!”

Trump furiously crammed several endorsements for Republican candidates into his twisted trip through history, as the party grows increasingly fearful of the midterm results.

When asked on Friday whether sailors’ family members were worried about conditions aboard the ship, Trump, who has never served in the military, flatly replied: “No, they’re not.”

When he was asked whether the deployment had gone on too long, given the conditions and mental health risks, the president responded: “No, no, no. Not nearly long enough.”

The wife of one of the crewmen on the ship told Jake Tapper in a phone interview on CNN on Friday that her husband’s experience was like being “stuck in a floating metal prison in the middle of the water, eating prison-like food with the same people in the same bunk beds in the same small quarters for 200 days, 250 days. You start to go a little insane.”

At least two desperate sailors have attempted to jump overboard, while another soldier actually did (and was rescued).

Regarding Trump’s callous dismissal of the conditions the sailors are enduring, the woman, whose identity was not revealed, said: “I don’t think the man thinks before he talks. Try to redeem yourself at least a little bit,” she said of Trump.

“Have some sympathy, some empathy, take some accountability for what’s going on with your military, your ship, your war,” she continued. “It’s infuriating.”

On Friday, Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao said the USS Abraham Lincoln will “return home soon as part of its scheduled rotation.” He didn’t specify the timeline.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-80-fantasizes-about-dead-president-in-bizarre-truth-social-posting-spree/?

ps:What a joke!!!!!

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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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Top College Calls BS on Trumpy Justice’s Self-Pitying Smear

A Supreme Court justice’s claims were swiftly shut down by an elite university.

A George H. W. Bush-appointed Supreme Court justice claimed that a prestigious university was “off limits” to conservatives like him—but quickly got shut down.

Clarence Thomas, 78, suggested that places like Stanford Law School are unwelcoming to him. He made the remarks at a forum hosted by Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank at Stanford University.

“You know, I have never been to Stanford Law School,” he said. “Never been. That’s the reality. That’s the world we’re in. Because there’s certain places that are just presumptively off limits. This is the way it works.”

“I mean, I’ve been to Yale Law School, but that’s the way it works. And to say it isn’t is to lie, okay? So you don’t get [in], and even if you do, it comes with all this attendant animosity and negativity,” he continued. “In other words, to make it unpalatable. So this person, we’ll allow here, but this person’s views are unpalatable. Whereas if you’re agreed with, it’s sweetened up and it’s rose petals and, ‘This is presumptively the right idea.’”

Thomas claimed that the ideas of thinkers like the economist Thomas Sowell, who were critical in shaping his views, would never reach the younger generation if it wasn’t for YouTube. The forum centered around the legacy of Sowell, a prominent Black conservative intellectual.

“What these kids are getting is all that stuff [that] is not there,” he said. ”It’s just on YouTube. It’s available to everybody, and they get to make up their own mind. The five of them or whatever can sit together and decide whether they agree without all this negative trapping.”

But the high-ranking university was quick to call Clarence’s bluff.

“We would be honored to host Justice Thomas at Stanford Law School,” a Stanford spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

“The Stanford Constitutional Law Center, directed by Professor Michael McConnell, former Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, regularly hosts members of the judiciary on campus,” the spokesperson added. “Our students and faculty would welcome the opportunity to hear from Justice Thomas and engage with his perspectives on the Court, the Constitution, and the law.”

Editor’s note: This post has been updated to make clear which president appointed Thomas.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stanford-university-calls-bs-on-supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-self-pitying-smear/?

ps:How pathetic!!

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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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Trump to Splurge Billions on Deranged 1940s Obsession

The president’s aesthetic preferences are stalling the rollout of a naval carrier class.

Donald Trump, 80, is demanding changes to the Navy’s new aircraft carriers that could cost billions of dollars and delay the rollout of the much needed vessels.

Officials told The Washington Post the Navy has been forced to consider changes to the Ford class aircraft carriers because Trump doesn’t like their current “look.”

The changes would constitute a major ship redesign that would involve moving the tower that serves as the carrier’s command center closer to the middle of the ship, officials said, in order to “resemble older vessels,” like those used in World War II.

The potential redesign is estimated to cost billions more and take years longer than the current budgeted Ford class rollout.

The change was attempted during the first Trump administration but never carried out due to a study that warned of the high costs and subsequent delays.

“It came back that the cost and time to do so would just be extraordinary,” a former official said.

But according to the officials, the president is determined to have his way and has again asked for a review.

The Navy’s most recent shipbuilding plan is for 10 Ford class ships, at a cost of $22 billion each.

There is currently just one Ford class carrier in service—the USS Gerald R. Ford, but there are three more in various stages of construction—the USS John F. Kennedy is undergoing sea trials, and two more are being built.

On Thursday, Trump signed a national security memorandum that also called for reverting the catapult on the carriers that help propel fighter jets off the ship’s deck back to the previous steam-powered design, another change that will cost time and money.

The USS Gerald R. Ford has an electromagnetic catapult, one of many new technologies that contributed to the 17-year build time for the ship.

According to the Navy’s own website, Naval Air Systems Command, the electromagnetic catapults are more reliable and efficient than the steam powered ones, and make for a “quieter and cooler work and living spaces for Sailors.”

They are also cheaper over time, allow for “expanded operational capability” and “higher launch energy capacity” than the old steam catapult.

According to the Post, changing the placement of the island is also seen by officials as an unwanted throwback to a less safe and efficient time.

The Pentagon referred The Daily Beast to the White House, and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-to-splurge-billions-on-deranged-1940s-obsession/?

ps:Pathetic!!!!!

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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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Trump’s Own Aides Admit He’s Lost Interest in His Job

The president’s aides say he does not like hitting the campaign trail unless it’s to get himself elected.

President Donald Trump’s aides admit that their boss has little interest in traveling across the country to prop up weak GOP candidates for the midterms, a new report alleges.

Anonymous aides tell CNN that Trump will finally embark on a long-awaited tour to energize MAGA voters—but that traveling across the country to stump for other politicians is not a part of the job he enjoys.

“He loves to travel, but he hates to travel,” an aide told the outlet.

They added, “Once he’s traveling, he’s like: ‘Why am I doing this? I want to be doing other things.’”

The report on Trump’s reluctance to hit the campaign trail comes as he finally gave the OK for Republicans to use millions from his personal PAC to support vulnerable Republican candidates in November, as fears grow that the GOP will lose its majorities in both chambers.

“Without a doubt, we’ve got to make sure we get some of these voters who show up for Donald Trump in presidential elections to show up for these congressionals,” an adviser told the network.

Yet, GOP lawmakers also worry that Trump could become a liability heading into the midterms, as Republican voters are increasingly frustrated with the president over the war in Iran and his lack of concern for the affordability crisis and rising gas prices.

Reached for comment, White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told the Daily Beast that “President Trump is the unequivocal leader of the Republican Party who is committed to maintaining Republicans’ majority in Congress.”

Despite Trump’s high disapproval ratings over his handling of the economy, the president has told Punchbowl News plainly that he will not take the blame if his party loses in November.

“The question is, will they vote?” he said, before supplying his own answer: “They’re angry at Republicans, but they’re not angry at me.”

Trump spoke in Long Island, New York, on Friday in an effort to boost his party’s chances in the elections, including those of his gubernatorial pick, Bruce Blakeman, who is challenging New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

But during the law-and-order rally with New York police officers, Trump repeatedly fixated on the “young, beautiful girls” he sees at the White House rather than focusing on domestic policy. He also appeared to forget the name of Saritha Komatireddy, the Republican candidate for New York attorney general—whom he has endorsed—as the woman he had “just met.”

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has reportedly told staffers to keep steering Trump back to the issue voters find most important: affordability. Staying on topic has proven to be difficult for Trump, who is often more interested in discussing his construction projects—such as the so-called Arc de Trump, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and his White House ballroom.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-own-aides-admit-hes-lost-interest-in-his-job/?

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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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🐘 Trump's GOP erosion
 
Illustration of a red neck tie forming a downward trend line.
 

Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios

 

High prices, a persistent war and anxiety about corruption are eroding President Trump's support among some Republicans with just 78 days until midterms, Axios' Mike Zapler and Ben Berkowitz write.

📉 An Economist/YouGov poll out Tuesday had Trump's approval rating among Republicans at a second-term low of 79% — down 12 points since he took office.

  • In that time, the share of Republicans who "strongly approve" of Trump's performance has dropped 20 points, from 68% to 48%.

⬇️ In a poll on the front page of today's Financial Times ("Most US voters feel worse off under Trump"), 23% of Republicans said they're worse off since Trump's term began. Another 37% said the economy is headed in the wrong direction.

💰 Republican consumer sentiment fell 9.5 points in August from July in the University of Michigan monthly survey released Friday — one of the biggest declines ever recorded by the decades-old survey.

The intrigue: Trump's political strength has long derived from outsized loyalty among Republicans, so even a slight slippage could be consequential.

  • In Trump's first term, his approval among GOP voters averaged 88% (Gallup).

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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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Trump, 80, Screws Up Attempt to Insult Female Fox News Host

The president’s venomous Truth Social post lost him the argument—and the spelling bee.

Donald Trump bungled an online tirade torching a Fox News host who dared question one of the D.C. vanity projects sucking up all the president’s time.

“Why didn’t Shannon Bream, ‘Milktoast’ to her friends, show the updated pictures instead of ones that were so old and irrelevant?” the 80-year-old raged on Truth Social after the network mainstay’s Sunday comments about his White House ballroom.

The word “milktoast” does not exist. “Milquetoast,” which Trump presumably meant, comes from the comic strip character Caspar Milquetoast. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as a “timid, meek, or unassertive person.”

Bream, 55, however, enraged Trump by being assertive as she interviewed the newest Senate-confirmed member of his Cabinet.

She pointed out during an interview with Attorney General Todd Blanche that the president is charging ahead with construction despite a D.C. District Court ruling earlier this month that he must either stop or get congressional authorization to continue. The White House is appealing that decision rather than taking the issue to the House.

“Why not just go to Congress?” Bream asked Blanche. “We don’t believe we have to go to Congress,” Blanche, a former personal attorney to the president who’s now the nation’s top prosecutor, shot back.

Trump’s post was the second part of a one-two online attack after Bream’s show aired on Sunday morning. In his first post, he moaned that “watching Fox News with Shannon Bream is always like watching the Worst of Fake News CNN” while falsely claiming that her ratings had started to “fall.” In his second, he went even further, bizarrely suggesting that “her show, Fox News Sunday, is so biased against MAGA, ‘TRUMP,’ and Republicans, that it is ridiculous!”It’s not the first time Trump has gone for the host—nor lost the spelling bee in doing so. He similarly attacked her as “Milk Toast Shannon Bream” in a vitriolic June Truth Social post for supposedly not doing enough to defend his record on immigration enforcement.

He also doesn’t reserve it exclusively for her. He’s used it to go after Bream’s fellow Fox mainstay Kayleigh McEnany, who served as his press secretary during his first term. Both women are only two targets in a wider pattern of attacks on female journalists that has included calling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins “the worst reporter” and telling Bloomberg News correspondent Catherine Lucey to be “quiet, piggy.”

Trump’s continuing fixation with the project and other MAGAfication efforts around the nation’s capital, all deeply unpopular with voters more concerned about his war with Iran and the soaring cost of living at home, has left pundits and pollsters wondering what the president actually trying to lose GOP control of the House and Senate at midterms might look like.

The Daily Beast contacted the White House for comment on Trump’s Truth Social tirade about Bream. It declined to provide one.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-80-screws-up-attempt-to-insult-female-fox-news-host-shannon-bream-by-calling-her-milktoast/?

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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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Trump, 80, Insults His Own Goon in Unhinged Ragepost

Top prosecutor Jeannine Pirro is quickly becoming President Trump’s least favorite person.

Donald Trump launched a thinly veiled dig at his own handpicked MAGA prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro, in a Truth Social ragepost.

Pirro, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia since May last year, is in the president’s bad books for her failure to prosecute former U.S. Olympian David Hearn for alleged vandalism to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Pirro, one of many former Fox News hosts in the Trump administration, initially gunned for Hearn, blaming him for ripping up some of the lining Trump had laid to try to meet a July 4 deadline for his $16 million renovation of the D.C. landmark. Soon, though, she dropped the case and said the damage was due to a botched job by Trump’s own contractor.

Trump publicly said he was “disappointed” with Judge Jeannine, who “folded like an umbrella.” He urged her to “revisit” the “hastily made decision.”

Now, he’s taken another potshot. Writing on Truth Social on Sunday at 11 p.m., he complained about more damage inflicted by “VANDALS.”

“Look what VANDALS did to the grass connecting the vandalized World War II Monument and the vandalized Reflecting Pool, which will be opened again, and better than ever, shortly,” the 80-year-old moaned, sharing a picture of worn grass on the lawn near the memorial that looks like regular wear and tear, caused by footfall and high temperatures.

It is also the same spot where Trump hosted crowds for a Fourth of July celebration, with a large bandstand and seating areas. After the structures were removed, photos showed the same browning grass Trump now blames on bad actors.

Even still, Trump used it to swipe at Pirro—who got her JD from Albany Law School—adding, “Anybody who thinks the Reflecting Pool wasn’t vandalized should go back to Law School!”

His digs come despite U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche’s insistence that Trump supports Pirro. “I absolutely support U.S. Attorney Pirro, as does President Trump,” Blanche said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” just hours before the president’s Truth Social broadside.

Blanche also risked Trump’s ire, saying, “That’s different than whether ultimately we have the proof... I think judging her on a single case because of the evidence that we had is not fair.”

Sources told Reuters last week that the White House asked the Department of Justice to explore new vandalism charges related to the pool, whose botched renovation cost nearly $15 million.

“U.S. Attorney Pirro is doing a phenomenal job enforcing that, going after anybody who’s doing it,” Blanche said.

Pirro began her legal career in 1975 as a Westchester County assistant district attorney and became the first chief of the county’s Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Bureau in 1978.

She was elected to the Westchester County Court in 1990, becoming the first woman to serve as a county judge, then won election as Westchester County district attorney in 1993 and served three terms through 2005.

Her growing profile turned her into a television regular, particularly during the O.J. Simpson case, and she later made unsuccessful runs for New York attorney general and the U.S. Senate.

She moved fully into television in 2008 with Judge Jeanine Pirro on The CW, followed by Justice with Judge Jeanine on Fox News from 2011 to 2022; she then joined The Five as a co-host. In 2025, she left television after President Trump appointed her U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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Trump Pulls Rug From Key Ally to Suck Up to Brutal Dictator

The president made the shock decision at the last minute.

President Donald Trump has claimed he will “substantially reduce” imminent joint U.S. military drills with South Korea while bragging about his “very good relationship” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

The military drills between the U.S. and South Korea, as part of Ulchi Freedom Shield, were due to start on Monday and run until August 27.

The drills, which happen twice a year, were expected to involve around 18,000 South Korean troops, alongside U.S. forces and personnel from 11 of the 18 member states of the United Nations Command.

However, in a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump said that he was “not happy” with America’s participation in the drills “based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un”.

He added that the exercises were costly and that they “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been president, has been unthreatening and respectful.”

His post stated that because it was too late to completely cancel the drills just hours before they were due to begin, he had ordered Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” them.

Trump then appeared to criticize South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, adding, “While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, `No thanks!’”

On Friday, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry threatened unspecified action against the U.S. and South Korea, describing their joint military drills as “a rehearsal for an aggressive war” that are triggering greater instability in the region.

“It is our consistent principle of ensuring security to respond to a new level of a threat with a new level of a deterrent,” the statement said, as reported by Politico. North Korea also said the drills would be of a “more serious provocative nature and dangerousness than last year.”

When asked about Trump’s Sunday evening post, a spokesman for South Korea’s defense ministry said: “We will proceed as previously notified and scheduled,” according to the South China Morning Post.

The Daily Beast has contacted South Korea’s defense ministry and the Pentagon for comment.

On Saturday, Trump shared a photo of himself with the North Korean leader taken in June 2019, with the caption “Despite the unfriendly look on this particular picture, there are many where we’re smiling, Kim Jong Un and I get along GREAT!”

The 11-day military drills were designed to strengthen South Korean soldiers’ readiness against North Korean threats. The joint practices aim to “fortify the combined defense posture” and enhance Alliance response capabilities against a “spectrum of security threats.” The drills include live, virtual, constructive and field-based training, engaging personnel from various military services.

Trump has long flaunted his “very good” relationship with North Korea’s supreme leader.

Speaking in the Oval Office last August, Trump said, “I know him better than anybody, almost, other than his sister, his sister knows him pretty well.”

He added, “I’m not supposed to say I really like him a lot, because if I do then I get killed in the fake news media, but I got along with him very well.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-pulls-rug-from-key-ally-to-suck-up-to-brutal-dictator-kim-jong-un/?

ps:Pathetic!!!!!!!!!!

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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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How Trump’s Women Twist Themselves to Please Him

“He’s a full-on misogynist, no question about that,” the president’s former adviser Anthony Scaramucci said.

The women in President Donald Trump’s orbit have to lavish him with praise if they want him to treat them well, the president’s former adviser Anthony Scaramucci has claimed.

Speaking on The Daily Beast Podcast, Scaramucci, who infamously lasted just 11 days as communications director during Trump’s first administration, described the women the 80-year-old president wants around him as having to be “subservient” and “more or less a lackey of his.”

“Remember, people are transactions to Donald Trump—they’re not people,” Scaramucci told author Nell Scovell and host Joanna Coles, explaining that the president sees the women around him as “transactions in his field of vision.”

Speaking to the Daily Mail this week, several MAGA women appeared to confirm Scaramucci’s assessment of how Trump views women, revealing that the president’s relentless pressure to keep up with the latest beauty standards—including daily blowouts and regular Botox treatments—can grow tiresome.

The women spoke to the outlet after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, 28, announced that she was stepping down to spend more time with her young children. But Leavitt was also reportedly fed up with Trump’s constant demands, a frustration the MAGA women who spoke to the Mail said they couldn’t blame her for.

“You have to be exceptional at your job, which is a given, but if you’re a woman you have to look a certain way, dress a certain way and be available 24/7, because this is a President who barely sleeps,” one MAGA woman said of working for Trump. A woman Trump has increasingly appeared to like having by his side is his personal assistant, Natalie Harp, 35, who, according to the bombshell book Regime Change by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, would leave gushing letters for Trump to find in his “personal spaces” during the 2024 campaign, including one that read, “You are all that matters to me.”“If you were saying something nice about him, he would be flattering to you,” Scaramucci said of the president’s behavior, adding that if someone said something negative about him, Trump would make some type of “AI rendition” of the individual.

Scaramucci referred to a “joke” the president made about CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, 34, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where he singled out the journalist and said she looked like transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who prompted a Bud Light backlash a few years ago after appearing in an ad for the popular beer.

During the speech, Trump also said Collins should smile more and suggested she did not deserve an award she received that day.

Collins isn’t the only female journalist the president has treated rudely. Trump has had multiple incidents of lashing out at female reporters, including telling Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey “quiet piggy” last year.The president has also made a point of criticizing women who disagree with him on Truth Social, even dragging the wives of political candidates he dislikes into his attacks. Last week, he targeted Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and his wife in a post that appeared intended to compare their marriage with his own.

But Trump doesn’t always hide behind social media when attacking women. During the 2024 presidential campaign, he called his opponent Kamala Harris “mentally impaired,” while in 2016 he repeatedly branded Hillary Clinton “Crooked Hillary.”

“He’s a full-on misogynist, no question about that,” Scaramucci said about the president. “I look at him, and I say, this guy is weird about sex. He’s weird about women,” he added.

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-trumps-women-twist-themselves-to-please-him/?

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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2

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