Narva Triumphal Arch. It's green, just like Trump's Arch of Defeat should be. By Florstein - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19091231
Donald Trump, who can see the grim reaper at the door, and besides him when he goes to sleep and wakes up in the morning is desperately seeking a legacy that he won't achieve, that being some sort of serious man. As part of that, he seeks a monumental arch, while actually having just lost a war.
It ought to be algae green, just like the reflecting pool.
L'arche De La Défaite. The first monument to spectacular defeat ever erected by the loser. A fitting, if temporary, monument to the loser himself, Donald Trump.
Trump's second, and illegitimate, term is even two years old. With amazing speed, everything Donald Trump is touching is turning to shit.
Usually with dictators there's progress at first, simply because they tend to come in during a time of crisis and address that immediate thing before everything starts to fall apart, which it inevitably does. Arguably, in Trump's case that one thing was illegal immigration. Decades of high immigration had angered blue collar and lower Middle Class Americans in general, and Joe Biden lost control of the border with Mexico in his term, his failure to act in part brought about by a sense of humanity which unfortunately didn't carry over to his policies on abortion. Aided chiefly by that, but also fueled by anger over social changes that people simply didn't and don't support, Trump did the one thing he is good at, sold Trump.
But Trump was never popular with the majority of Americans, and, having no real existential or even political philosophy himself, he came with a pack of extreme ideologues will to advance their own agendas, as dictators always do, who don't care of people suffer as long as that extreme agenda is advanced. Trump's idealogues, however, actually come from two different camps to start with, far right wing Evangelical Christians and National Conservatives, who really don't see eye to eye on everything, while agreeing on some things.
And then there's Trump himself. Eighty years old and in declining mental and physical health, and unable to accept what he was, and is.
Sic transit Gloria Mundi.
Царь хороший, бояре плохие*
Giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea, I think the president, unfortunately, is receiving bad advice on this deal.
Ted Cruz
These fools, who think I haven’t been tough enough on Iran, when the Stock Market Just Hit A RECORD HIGH, and Oil prices are ‘tumbling’ down, are either jealous, bad people, or stupid. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! President DJT”
Donald Trump, once again displaying his understanding of the world that if the stock markets are doing good, everybody is doing great.
The United States lost the war with Iran. It was not a war that the US should ever have been in to start with. Donald Trump was told by some of those in his own administration not to do it, but convinced by those who saw it as some sort of Evangelical Christian crusade, and coaxed along by Bibi Netanyahu, we went to war, illegally, with no plan on how to win it.
Iran won. They came out of the war stronger than they went in it, and now we're going to make them wealthier than they were before.
Some Republicans are finally actually reacting. They can see the Trump era ending and don't won't to be remembered as the men and women who paid radical Islam. Some can't quite bring themselves to do it, such as the cowardly Ted Cruz, who blames it on advisors.
Trump's not letting them do that. He's sticking to his actions and embracing the GOP with the stench of the illegal war and the dimwitted settlement to it. He's also trying to shove the final heavy lifting and excuse making off on J. D. Vance who is known to have opposed the war in the first instance. A person has to wonder about that.
Vance was supposed to go to Switzerland to sign the formal instrument of surrender. Something happened overnight, and now he's not.
Monuments to ignorance
I'm doing a great job on the Reflecting Lake. I got so into it. I've upgraded it like you wouldn't believe... It's going to be beautiful. It's going to be waterproof. It's going to be reflecting again.
Donald Trump. It's a pool, of course, not a lake. And, um, waterproof?
Algae came back to the reflecting pool immediately. It was predictable that it would, but the dark blue Rhino Lining probably increased the temperature of the water and made the water even more conducive to algae than before.
Pretty predictable.
The entire cost of the effort grossly exceeded what Trump claimed it would cost, going from seven digits to low eight digits. When the algae immediately appeared excuses were developed (it was the pipes), and the moronic MAGA conspiracy theories erupted. The algae was planted by Democrats, some truly ignorant people maintained.
Nope, it just grows in hot water.
Now, compounding the disaster, gallons of hydrochloric acid have been poured in the pool. It's removing the Rhino Lining.
That can't be ignored.
Hopefully, it's just accepted and the Tide-E-Bowl blue lining will just be allowed to rapidly peel off. A real solution that isn't something they'd use on cheap Texas hotel pool can be left for the next administration.
Perde i colpi**
She’s probably happy I talked to her. I didn’t have to talk to her. She begged me to take a photo with her. She wanted a photo with me so much. I wouldn’t have even done it, but I felt sorry for her.
Donald Trump.
Donald Trump's statements are completely made up. I am frankly astonished. I don't know why the president of the United States behaves like this towards his allies, after all, it's not the first time it's happened.I can only say it is disappointing that he does not show the same determination with the enemies of the West and of the United States, whose leaders he instead treats with far greater indulgence. There is one thing he should remember: neither I nor Italy ever beg.
Giorgia Meloni
The serious and offensive words of President Trump towards Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni offend all of Italy. For this reason, I have decided to cancel my visit to the United States scheduled for the next 21 and 22 June.
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.
Trump's at the G7. They should have sent Vance to that.
Trump's mental decline is frighteningly apparent to anyone who cares to see it. He gets angry easily and says anything that comes into his declining mind. Included in that has been an increasing number of statements to and about women that are common amongst senile old men.
He has the deluded belief, it seems, that people really like him. They don't. And now people are making that plain to his face.
He probably doesn't notice. The moronic things he says on a daily basis are probably often things he really believes.
Which takes us back to the first entry. Death is hanging around Trump, but like many an old boomer for whom the Reaper is sharpening his scythe, he just can't accept that that means, but others can. Republicans are starting to finally move on. The Europeans not only have, but are starting to say "Va' a farti fottere"***.
He's not needed, except by the people who need him, and we should all be frightened by that.
June 20, 2026
On the white flag of surrender:
Military action continues on between Hezbollah and Isreal in Lebanon.
On the green reflecting pool:
On the latter, an administration tweet endorsed the insane conspiracy theory that Democrats are secretly putting algae in the pool. A person would have to be a complete moron to believe that.
Cont:
Well, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for the ongoing Israeli campaign in Lebanon.
The comedy of errors in this, keeping in mind that violent death is not comedic, just won't end.
Footnotes:
*"Good Czar, bad Boyers". This was a popular excuse for Imperial loyalist as to stupid Romanov decisions. It couldn't be the Czar, it must be the Boyers.
It was the Czar.
Fanatic adherence of lunacy continually do this. "It's never been tried" is the popular one for Communist on why Communism has never worked. Not really related, but on the Communist theme, during Stalin's early reign The New Republic wrote him to inform him that some bad things were going on in the Soviet Union.
Um, Stalin knew that.
**"His shots are wasted." Applying to mental decline in Italy, a similar phrase in English for a lost cause would be "his bolt is shot", which refers to a crossbow bolt.
***"Go fuck yourself".
Cont:
Yikes.
June 21, 2026
Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz and J.D. Vance is back on the plane to Switzerland, after cancelling earlier.
June 23, 2026
Both houses of Congress have now voted to end the war.
This puts Congress and the White House on a clear collision course.
June 26, 2026
Iran fired on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, for being outside the lanes it established.
This emphasizes that Trump's disastrous war made Iran a more powerful nation in the region, not a less powerful one.
June 27, 2026
The war is now 120 days old.
The US hit Iran with air strikes.
Iran hit Bahrain with drones.
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