It’s Friday.
President Shitshow’s public schedule for…
12/26/2025: He has no public events.
Merry Christmas from President Warmonger
President Warmonger announced on Christmas Day that, under his orders, the U.S. carried out a military strike against what he described as “ISIS terrorist scum” in Nigeria.
Meanwhile here at home…
Meanwhile, in the immigration space, deporting persecuted Christians back to harm is perfectly fine. https://t.co/xMv2z5jPTO pic.twitter.com/4ynczHRGaM
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) December 26, 2025
The image snip comes from this Washington Post opinion piece: Don’t sell out persecuted Christians and activists to a diabolical dictatorship (12/25/2025):
The Department of Homeland Security has announced the end of temporary protected status for a group of nearly 4,000 Burmese nationals — mostly persecuted Christians and democracy advocates. This action will send them back to a junta bent on punishing them.
[snip]
Many of the Burmese nationals protected by TPS are long-suffering Christians. Burma’s junta has a strong streak of Buddhist nationalism. As a result, the junta has targeted Christians as enemies of the state, hitting them with airstrikes and burning their villages. Since the 2021 coup, more than a hundred Christian religious buildings and churches have been destroyed in Chin state alone. The junta has also arrested, indefinitely detained and shot pastors and aid workers helping civilians — the killing and mutilating of Baptist pastor Cung Biak Hum is a stark example. Returning Burmese nationals who have fled junta violence, whose churches were shelled and whose pastors were targeted is unconscionable. It places them directly in the path of an anti-Christian military government that is fighting a conflict that is worsening not easing.
Don’t sell out persecuted Christians and activists to a diabolical dictatorship (12/25/2025).
Merry Christmas from President Projection
*Flashback*
Trump in 2002:
— Paola Poot (@PootDibou) November 14, 2025
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
🔗…
Nymag (10/28/2002): Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery “Terrific guy,” Donald Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with.”:
Epstein likes to tell people that he’s a loner, a man who’s never touched alcohol or drugs, and one whose nightlife is far from energetic. And yet if you talk to Donald Trump, a different Epstein emerges. “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
Nymag (10/28/2002): Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery “Terrific guy,” Donald Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with.”:
*End flashback*
In related news…
Apparently, DOGE cancelling Adobe Acrobat’s contract with the government was a bad idea.
It turns out being able to copy and paste “blacked out” portions of the Epstein files into a notepad to reveal that it’s just color blocked text has a very publicly available and obvious root cause. pic.twitter.com/cJWI7DMu6I
— bsky.app/profile/space-ghost.com (@spaceghost) December 25, 2025
Speaking of canceled tax payer funded subscriptions.
Agencies across the Trump administration have taken out subscriptions in recent months to news organizations that officials had very publicly cut off this year, reversing an earlier decision to cancel them. https://t.co/iqdrZdTYf6
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 24, 2025
Agencies across the Trump administration have taken out subscriptions in recent months to news organizations that officials had very publicly cut off this year, reversing an earlier decision to cancel them that Elon Musk, senior White House aides and President Donald Trump had declared was necessary to end what they called a scandal.
The administration canceled subscriptions en masse in February after Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service posted copies of contracts with news sites. Trump said government contracts for media subscriptions “COULD BE THE BIGGEST SCANDAL OF THEM ALL, PERHAPS THE BIGGEST IN HISTORY!”
Washington Post (gift link). 12/24/2025.
But the White House, State Department, Department of Homeland Security and dozens of other agencies are still spending tens of thousands of dollars to access paywalled news sites, including Politico, Bloomberg and The Washington Post, according to federal contract data posted publicly and reviewed by Post reporters. (The Post’s news staff does not have access to internal data about subscribers.)
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement that “unfortunately we are forced to read the Fake News so we know what lies we have to debunk.” A White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal decisions, said the administration “has made efforts to decrease the amount spent on media subscriptions.”
Washington Post (gift link). 12/24/2025.
That’s all for today. See ya Monday. Have a great weekend.
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