Coffee Talk with Tiff

July 25, 2025 12:41 pm EDT Tiff Editorial (Open Thread) Comments Off on Coffee Talk with Tiff
Coffee. Photo by Jonathan Thursfield.

It’s Friday.

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Friday, July 25 2025
7:00 AM
Out-of-Town Travel Pool Call Time
Out-of-Town Travel Pool
7:30 AM
In-Town Pool Call Time
In-Town Pool
8:00 AM
The President departs the White House en route Turnberry, Scotland
The White House 
Open Press
3:20 PM
The President arrives Turnberry, Scotland
Out-of-Town Travel Pool

Scotland greeting Trump like he’s the world’s worst golf-themed supervillain. This front page is a masterclass in not giving a single damn.

The world sees him clearly—even when we pretend not to. Scotland understood the assignment.

I found The National‘s website and, of course, the article titled “Timings of Donald Trump visit to Scotland revealed” was paywalled (boo, hiss). But this gem—“Glaswegians send a message to Donald Trump as he visits Scotland”—wasn’t. And let’s just say, the message was… very Glaswegian.

They posted the ones that went on camera to YouTube Shorts.

Since the short wouldn’t unroll, I take images of the people.

This next person was surprised to discover he was coming to Scotland. She says “Why are we allowing him?”

She closes out the short by saying “It’s shouldn’t have been Ozzy Osbourne, it should have been Donald Trump first”.

He had one supporter in the clip…

He says “as a statesman and leading the free world, he’s talking a lot of sense.”

This morning The National released an 11 second video with paper’s front page visible, asking a simple question for those MAGA supporters upset and angry over it: Which part is factually inaccurate?

Meanwhile back in the States on Thursday…

President Silly looked—well, silly—trying to one-up Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who very clearly knows more about monetary policy than President Silly ever will. The best part? He previewed his big “gotcha” moment hours before the visit… on Lies Social, of course.

Using the shitty auto-generated transcript from YouTube

President Silly: Well, thank you very much. We’re looking at the construction and we’re here with the chairman, as you know. Come on over—we’re just taking a look at what’s happening. You know, it’s a tough construction job. They’re building basements where they didn’t exist before or expanding them. A lot of very expensive work—there’s no question about it. Tim has been with me for a long time, and you’re in charge of the committee.

Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) Indeed, one of the reasons I wanted to see it was because of the expense overruns. I wanted to figure out why.

President Silly: So we’re taking a look, and it looks like it’s about $3.1 billion. It went up a little bit—or a lot. The $2.7 billion is now $3.1 billion.

Fed Chair Powell: I’m not aware of that.

President Silly: Yeah, it just came out.

Fed Chair Powell: I haven’t heard that from anybody at the Fed.

President Silly: Yeah, it just came out.

Senator Tim Scott (SC): I know about $3.1 billion as well—$3.12 billion.

Fed Chair Powell: This came from us?

President Silly: Yes, I don’t know who does that.

Fed Chair Powell: You’re including the Martin Renovation—you just added in a third building. That’s a third building.

President Silly: Yeah, but it’s a building that’s being built.

Fed Chair Powell: No, it was built five years ago. We finished Martin five years ago.

President Silly: It’s part of the overall work.

Fed Chair Powell: It’s not new.

President Silly: So we’re going to take a look. We’re going to see what’s happening. And it’s got a long way to go. Do you expect any more additional crossovers?

Fed Chair Powell: Don’t expect them. We’re ready for them, but we have a little bit of a reserve that we may use. But no, we don’t expect to be finished in 2027. We’re well along, as you can see.

President Silly: Nice to take these off [the hardhat] every once in a [while–not in the video clip].

After getting publicly shown up by Fed Chair Jerome “I’m smarter than you, Donald” Powell, his aides rushed to brush it off like it never happened. Shocking, I know.

I did attempt last night to look up the information they swear they got from the Federal Reserve website; I didn’t find it. I did find that yes, they added a building; the Martin Building that was finished five years ago.

Narrator: that’s not how accounting for current costs work.

His Royal Silliness held court this morning before departing to Scotland…

When asked what he expected his personal lawyer—cosplaying as the Deputy Attorney General—Todd Blanche, to gain from meeting with Maxwell, he launched into a defense of “a great lawyer” and then, in true form, pivoted to remind everyone not to forget about former President Obama, who, according to him, “led the coup!”

When asked if he plans to pardon convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, he responded, “I haven’t thought about it, I’m allowed to do it,” before immediately repeating, “I haven’t thought about it.” Because nothing says definitely not thinking about it like bringing up your absolute power to do it.

In a now-familiar attempt to steer us away from EpsteinFileGate, he took to his “Lies Social” media last night to dismiss the Epstein files as “just a scam” and, with a wave of delusional confidence, reassured everyone that the release of the grand jury transcripts will make the whole scandal go away. Because clearly, transparency totally erases decades of uncomfortable questions… right?

This is an open thread

PS.

This clip is for you Gretchen R. Weep with me…

I hate it here.

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