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November 19, 2025 12:52 pm EST Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
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It’s Wednesday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

11/19/2025:

The day kicks off with President Idiot playing statesman at the U.S.–Saudi Investment Forum, delivering a set of remarks that will absolutely be spun as visionary leadership even if he barely stuck to the script. It’s the latest stop on his “everything is fine, ignore the smoke” tour.

That little performance folds neatly into the mess he left behind yesterday, when he parked himself in the Oval Office to ramble through another round of self-congratulation and revisionist history. And as if that wasn’t enough, he wrapped the night in a “state dinner” that wasn’t a state dinner, but absolutely wanted you to think it was.

Before the photo op could fully congeal into propaganda, one reporter managed to cut through the choreography and ask the only questions that actually mattered: the Trump family’s business ties in Saudi Arabia, the Crown Prince’s role in a journalist’s murder, and why any American should trust either of them. What followed was the usual tantrum masquerading as leadership.

Show more =’s Q: ABC News TRUMP: Fake news

Reporter:
Mr. President. Mr. President. Is it appropriate for your family to be doing business in Saudi Arabia while you’re president? Is that a conflict of interest? And, Your Royal Highness, the U.S. intelligence community concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist. 9/11 families are furious that you are here in the Oval Office.
Why should Americans trust you? And same to you, Mr. President?

President Rude:
Who are you with? Who are you with?
Who are you with?

Reporter:
I’m ABC News, sir.

President Rude:
You are with who?

Reporter:
I’m with ABC News, sir.

President Rude:
Fake news. ABC fake news.

Reporter:
But the question is legitimate, sir.

President Rude:
One of the worst in the business, but I’ll answer your question.
I have nothing to do with the family business.

Before we even get to the next clip, let’s be clear about what’s happening in that room. Jamal Khashoggi wasn’t just “a journalist” in the abstract. He was murdered and dismembered by the Saudi government, according to the CIA. This is not disputed. This is not fuzzy. This is not “things happen.”

So when Trump decides to brush off Khashoggi’s killing by calling the dead man “extremely controversial” and shrugging that “things happened,” it’s not just tone-deaf. It’s obscene. It’s the leader of the United States minimizing a state-ordered assassination to avoid upsetting a man whose government carried it out.

Show more =’s You don’t have to embarrass our guest.”

President National Embarrassment:
He’s done a phenomenal job. You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happened, but he knew nothing about it and we can leave it at that.
You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that.

The Crown Prince responded to the question over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud:
About the journalist, it’s really painful to hear anyone losing his life for no real purpose or in any illegal way, and it’s been painful for us in Saudi Arabia. We did all the right steps of investigation in Saudi Arabia and we’ve improved our system to be sure that nothing like that happens again. It’s painful and it’s a huge mistake, and we are doing our best to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

Before anyone could pretend this faux–state dinner was about diplomacy, The Personal Profit President used it as a stage to hand Saudi Arabia a gift they’ve been chasing for years: major non-NATO ally status. He treated it like a party surprise, but the reality is a lot uglier. This wasn’t about American interests or national security. It was about what benefits him and his family. Full stop.

President:
So that’s why tonight I’m pleased to announce that we are taking our military cooperation to even greater heights by formally designating Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally, which is something that is very important to them. And I’m just telling you now for the first time, because I wanted to keep a little secret for tonight.

I just heard him say, “Ooh, that’s nice.” [laughter] That’s another point you won today. And we’re signing a historic strategic defense agreement, which we just signed a little while ago. So congratulations. [applause].

And because he can’t help himself, President For the Trump decided to riff on how he’ll be around for “three and a quarter years.” He said most people wouldn’t think that’s a long time, but for the Trump it’s “an eternity.” Cute. The reality is that for the majority of Americans, the next three and a quarter years are absolutely going to feel like an eternity with him parked in the Oval Office pretending every room is a branding opportunity.

President For the Trump:
So I look forward to working with you and will be here for three and a quarter years. For the Trump, that’s like an eternity, you know? For somebody else, that doesn’t sound long, but we love doing it. We have an expression: make America great again, and that’s what we’re doing beyond what anyone even thought possible.

That does it for today’s tour through Oval Office obsequiousness and the faux–state dinner where The Personal Profit President handed out favors like party mints. We hit the Khashoggi whitewash, the “major non-NATO ally” giveaway, the family-business foreign policy, and the grand finale where President For the Trump announced that the next three and a quarter years will feel like an eternity.

He’s not wrong. Just not in the way he thinks.

Flash News

Former FBI Director James Comey was back in court on Wednesday. This appearance follows last week’s court appearance where a Judge seemed for skeptical of the governments case brought against James Comey.

Politico reporter Kyle Cheney says…

But wait there’s more…

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AG Pam Bondi held a presser today to announce…whatever it was. During the Q&A, she was asked about the impending release of the Epstein files, especially now that President Is-Currently-Saying-Stupid-Things-I’m-Trying-to-Ignore is about to get the bill on his desk.

Preview on the stupid shit being said right now…

The dude is mentally insane.

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