Saturday, April 25, 2026

There are worse things than being compared to Carter

Khaleda Rahman (NEWSWEEK) notes:


President Donald Trump has long invoked the late President Jimmy Carter as a cautionary tale.

In Trump’s telling, Carter embodied weakness at home and embarrassment abroad.

And though wildly different in their political beliefs and personal lives, recent polling data suggests Trump may now be dealing with a dynamic that has long been associated with Carter’s presidency: a widening split between how voters feel about him personally and how they think he is governing in office.


Chump being compared to Carter?  There are certainly worse things that could happen.  A shooting at the White House Correspondents Association's Dinner, for example.  At any rate, the Iran War continues and you can thank Chump for that.  He started it, he continues it.  Josh Wingrove and Galit Altstein (BLOOMBERG NEWS) report:


President Donald Trump canceled a planned trip to Pakistan by his top envoys for negotiations over the Iran conflict, raising questions about the durability of the current ceasefire.

The president on Saturday told his son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff to skip the trip, adding in a social media post that there has been “Too much time wasted on traveling.”


So he called off the trip.  David McAfee (RAW STORY) quotes Chump saying, "I just cancelled the trip of my representatives going is Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet with the Iranians. Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work!"   Annabella Rosciglione (THE DAILY BEAST) observes, "The canceled trip is the latest sign that the U.S. and Iran are far from reaching any sort of agreement."  And Josh Marshall (TPM) observes, "Everything that’s happening today and for weeks has been focused on breaking Iran’s hold on the Strait of Hormuz, something it didn’t have before the war started. That’s the definition of failure: fighting a war and continuing a war to clean up the mess the war of choice actually created. By this measure, the best way to achieve what is now the central war aim -- opening the Strait -- would have been simply not to start the war in the first place."


In other Iran War news, Gordon Lubold, Courtney Kube, Mosheh Gains and Natasha Lebedeva (NBC NEWS) report:


American military bases and other equipment in the Persian Gulf region suffered extensive damage from Iranian strikes that is far worse than publicly acknowledged and is expected to cost billions of dollars to repair, according to three U.S. officials, two congressional aides and another person familiar with the damage.

The Iranian regime swiftly retaliated after the Trump administration attacked on Feb. 28, hitting dozens of targets across U.S. military bases in seven Middle East countries. Those attacks struck warehouses, command headquarters, aircraft hangars, satellite communications infrastructure, runways, high-end radar systems and dozens of aircraft, according to the U.S. officials and an assessment by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

In the initial days of the war, an Iranian F-5 fighter jet bombed the U.S. base Camp Buehring in Kuwait, despite the base having air defenses, a rare breach that marked the first time an enemy fixed-wing aircraft has struck an American military base in years, according to two of the U.S. officials.


So the government's been lying to us about the war.   Kind of like Ka$h Patel's been lying about his drinking?   Jennifer Bowers Bahney (MEDIAITE) notes:


Politico’s Dash Burns reported Saturday that FBI Director Kash Patel will be the next Trump official to have his head on the chopping block.

Burns posted to X, “A top White House official tells me that Kash Patel is likely the next Cabinet-level official to go. ‘It’s only a matter of time,’ the official, who was granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, told me.”

Burns added, “There are several reasons, the official said, but top among them is the number of negative stories centered on Patel is ‘not a good look for a Cabinet secretary,’ and Trump is fed up with the level of distraction.”


Click here for Dash Burns's POLITICO piece.  Meanwhile, Rudro Chakrabarti (MONEYWISE) notes:


Americans absorbed a year of tariff-driven price hikes on groceries, electronics, clothes and shipping — costing families $1,700 per household on average, according to the Joint Economic Committee (1).

Now the federal government is paying the money back. Just not to you.

On April 20, 2026, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) opened a portal allowing businesses to claim refunds on roughly $166 billion in tariffs that the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in February (2). Only the companies that filed the customs paperwork are eligible. Consumers — who absorbed the price increases — are locked out entirely.

Democrats, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and Ed Markey, have demanded direct refunds for households. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced his American Worker Rebate Act in July 2025, and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) introduced the Trump Tariff Rebate Act in December.

On April 20, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X that Americans aren't getting tariff checks and are instead paying interest on the tariffs already collected, taking direct aim at Trump and "his lackeys." So far, none of those checks exist.


Chump destroyed the economy with his tariffs and when forced by the courts to give back the money, he makes sure to not include the American people -- the ones who paid the tax -- a tariff is a tax.  Chump pretended otherwise but the results are in and what people warned about ended up being exactly true.  


The following sites updated plus Rebecca's "chump did netanyahu's bidding and general hospital:"



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