The big news of the day is the  longest presidential address to Congress in history .  President Donald Trump talked for a little more than 100 minutes.  I watched the whole thing, and wonder why. Many Democrats did not even show up, and  some just left during his speech , with  Rep. Al Green  (D-Texas) being booted out.  Several held small signs.  Women wore mostly pink.  Others wore blue/yellow in support of Ukraine. He mostly bragged about doing so much. He repeated his assertion to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal. Assailed the Biden Administration a lot, calling Joe the worst president in American history.  One of his lies/exaggerations, for polls have  Trump as the worst .  In that survey, Biden came in as the 14th greatest president. Here is  one example : “Over 130,000 people, according to the Social Security databases, are aged over 160 years old,” Trump asserted. He then added there are 1,041 people over ...

But first, more Trump madness, bribery and assorted hijinks: His  diversity equity inclusion (DEI) attack  is more and more alienating those misguided middle to low class voters who previously supported him.  His cabinet met for the first time today. Elon Musk was the first speaker.  That says a lot.   EPA secretary Lee Zeldin plans to cut 65% of his agency. According to Trump, President Zelenskyy has caved-in to one Trump piece of blackmail.  Ukraine has agreed to "share" their rare earth minerals with the USA.  What this means will be disclosed on Friday when Zelenskyy meets with Trump in the White House.   Ukraine has   deposits of nearly half   of the 50 minerals the U.S. Geological Survey lists as critical for America’s economic development, including titanium and lithium .   Trump said that while he wants to expand his immigration program, nothing wrong with selected individuals entering the country, and predicted hi...

The most vulnerable nominated Trump secretaries testified this week.   Kash Patel ( right ) for FBI director is the most likely to be confirmed, for he played the game.  Tossed in one anti-Trump position to show some minor independence ( didn’t think violent Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted law enforcement   deserved a break ) and soft-peddled his MAGA flamethrower persona. Tulsi Gabbard for national intelligence head could not say Edward Snowden was a traitor, and this could hurt her.  Plus, did not quite provide satisfactory answers to softball questions by Republicans.  But her reputation is not severely toxic like Pete Hegseth, and she was reasonably composed. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services, continued to show a controversial position on vaccination, has a general personality which is flawed ( he looks guilty all the time ) and confrontation with committee chairman Bill Cassidy (who is a physician) make RFK Jr. the most like...