Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth both marked D-Day in their own equally offensive ways. Here’s everything you need to know about today in Trumpworld
Donald Trump hosted a roundtable on agriculture in a barn in Wisconsin last night.
He didn’t say or do anything during the event that was new information, so it hasn’t made much of an appearance on today’s roundup. He did his weird flex about how long the Lincoln reflecting pool is (referring to it as the “reflecting pond”). He forgot the name of the Washington Monument, which was a bit odd. He said Elon Musk had had a “bad moment, but now he’s a friend of mine again. He had a very bad moment.” But the most notable thing about the event, where Trump sat and addressed the crowd in front of a couple of tractors, was how little he said about the stated subject of the roundtable – agriculture. And I mention that mainly because of how much I adore Wisconsin. Every time I’ve been there, everyone’s been so welcoming and friendly and chatty, and the food’s great if you like cheese, which I really do. And I guess I just feel like the lovely people of Wisconsin deserve better.
Meanwhile, in Trumpworld
- Trump marks D-Day with AI slop
- Hegseth marks D-Day by likening refugees to Nazis
- Blanche is putting roadblocks up to stop Trump getting prosecuted
- Trump lawyers say he could tear down the Statue of Liberty and nobody could do anything about it
Here’s everything you need to know
Trump’s first post on D-Day was an AI slop video about how much everybody loves him
Not a great deal to add to this one. File it alongside the video of him flying a jet and dropping poop on people, and the Gaza music video.
Meanwhile Pete Hegseth marked the day with an offensive reference
Pete Hegseth was in Normandy to commemorate D-Day – when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in 1944 – and he gave a doozy of a speech. Not only did he think it appropriate on a solemn day of reflection to pepper the speech with barely disguised attacks on European allies for failing to join Trump’s embarrassing war in Iran, he linked immigration to the legacy of the landings. “Sadly, today different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies,” he said. “In Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late?”
The operation 82 years ago led to the recapture of France from the Nazis.
Todd Blanche says he’s installing ‘roadblocks’ to prevent Trump being prosecuted in the future
In an interview with News Nation, which I assure you is a real TV news channel, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said he’s installing “roadblocks” to prevent Democrats from prosecuting Trump after 2028. “Do I believe it’s a possibility that the democrats will go after the President, his family, anyone who knows him, anybody that worked for him? I think they’ve proven that to be true,” he said, without a hint of irony. “What can we do about it? We can just keep exposing what we learned about the weaponisation that happened for many years, we can keep on exposing it and putting roadblocks in place so it never happens again.”
Trump lawyers argue he could tear down Statue of Liberty
Trump’s lawyers have been in court defending the demolition of the East Wing of the White House – and arguing that courts are now powerless to stop the construction of his vanity ballroom and dictator bunker complex. According to Politico, Judge Patricia Millett quizzed Yaakov Roth, a Justice Department lawyer, over the administration’s view of its power to “move fast and break things” without legal challenge. “If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty – the people whose ancestors that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast – nothing can be done?” the judge asked. “I think that’s right, yes,” Roth said. Top notch.
Erika Kirk stares down a particularly articulate heckler
Erika Kirk, the widow of slain far-right agitator Charlie, was heckled during a speech at a Turning Point event last night. Ordinarily that wouldn’t be enough to make the daily roundup. She gets heckled quite a lot. But this one gets upgraded first because of how crystal clear and articulate the heckler’s voice s in the video, and also because of the quality of the glare Kirk shot back in response.
Man of the people latest
Trump has made it known that on Monday he’s going to be attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden in New York, the cheapest tickets for which are $8,000. And if you’d told me five years ago that people would be paying eight grand to see the Knicks I’d have laughed pretty hard. Nevertheless, here we are, and Trump was asked about the cost of attending the event on Air Force One. And his response had something of the Marie Antoinette about it. “You can watch it on TV,” he said. “It’s sort of semi-free to watch it on TV. That’s the way life goes.” And in a way, that’s true. The finals are broadcast on ABC. But he still shrugged off the concept of an $8,000 minimum ticket price a little casually.
Buyer’s (lack of) remorse
As predicted earlier in the week, Trump has bestowed a pardon on Republican former congressman Steve Buyer, who served just under 2 years in prison for insider trading. He was ordered to forfeit more than $350,000, representing the amount of the illegal gains, and pay a $10,000 fine. He was released in 2025. The Supreme Court in May rejected Buyer’s appeal without comment or noted dissent. In granting “a full, complete, and unconditional pardon,” Trump cited Buyer’s career as a judge advocate general in the Army and in the House that was “distinguished and highly productive.” The pardon was dated Thursday and released by the White House late Friday. Buyer said the pardon “corrects a politically motivated prosecution” and that it was “horrific to be imprisoned for a crime that I did not commit.” He maintains that he is innocent
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