Trump is planning to redesign Lafayette Park to contain exactly 47 maple trees — his favorite tree — to honor himself as the 47th president. Nobody knows how many trees are currently there, so someone has to go count them. Tommy Vietor put it simply: no narcissistic stone will go unturned by this man.
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With the fair rained out Sunday, Trump spent the morning motorcading around the Capitol. He toured the East Potomac Golf Links and plans to start renovation of the federally owned public course September 1st despite a federal judge threatening 'serious consequences' without approval. He's also redesigning Lafayette Park to contain exactly 47 maple trees — his favorite — to honor himself as the 47th president. Nobody knows how many trees currently exist there, meaning someone has to go count. Meanwhile, the Atlantic's Michael Scherer revealed that Trump's new White House colonnade — made of polished African granite carved in Italy, and which Trump claimed to have personally paid for — was actually charged to taxpayers for approximately $690,000 [1] — Jon Favreau "Trump's new White House colonnade, made of polished African granite carved in Italy, was claimed by Trump to have been personally paid for.…" 15:15 , with additional hundreds of thousands spent modifying the adjoining wall to hang Trump's own photos. The hosts also mock a limited-edition U.S. passport bearing Trump's photo that he described as saying 'Welcome, but be good' — language that appears nowhere on the document. Jon Lovett's response to all of it: he'd rather have Trump occupied with vanity tree projects than doing real damage, but the double standard is jarring — if Biden had wandered around discussing renovations in his final year, the right would have been calling for the 25th Amendment.
Trump's new White House colonnade, made of polished African granite carved in Italy, was claimed by Trump to have been personally paid for. The Atlantic revealed it cost taxpayers roughly $690,000. Add another couple hundred thousand for wall modifications to hang his pictures, and Americans are footing the bill for Trump's personal redecorating.
The new White House colonnade walkway made of polished African granite carved in Italy, which Trump claimed to have paid for himself, was actually charged to taxpayers at a cost of about $690,000.
Ten years ago, 90% of tech media coverage was relentlessly negative and Kalanick felt he couldn't speak freely. Today, the rise of independent podcasters and Elon Musk buying Twitter has fundamentally changed the game — and it's why he's finally willing to talk.
Kay Classman, 28, was arrested for repeatedly posing as a 16-year-old and enrolling in Bronx high schools across multiple districts. She wasn't a predator — just someone so sad and lonely she wanted her lost childhood back. That's somehow sadder.
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
One cheap fake documentary made by a teenager in his mother's basement convinced 16% of Americans that 9/11 was an inside job. Social media didn't invent conspiracy — it just gave it a rocket engine.
A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.
The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.
Andrew Wilson publicly offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her theory that Israel and TPUSA murdered Charlie Kirk. She refused. He argues that flat-earthers will debate anyone, but Kirk conspiracy theorists won't defend their claims under scrutiny.
Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.
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