Shitshow’s public schedule for…
There’s no information on what exactly he’ll be signing during “Signing Time,” because apparently that would ruin the surprise. I did find this about the event being held later this afternoon:
Happening today:
— FLOTUS Report (@MELANIAJTRUMP) August 20, 2026
4:00 PM EST – President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participate in a Fostering the Future Announcement in the Rose Garden https://t.co/ZZyn3G1EiJ pic.twitter.com/pkw3XuKhlp
Stupid Shit Puddle Said Yesterday
Tells the world that North Korea has fifty-seven nuclear weapons.
Puddle:
Thank you everybody very much. Thank you.
(Q: my summary it’s not transcribed and the audio is low: Are you exchanging letters with your bff Kim Jong Un?)
Can’t tell you that.
But I get along with him. And you know what? The fact that I get along with him, that’s a good thing, not a bad thing. He has 57 very powerful nuclear weapons. Should have never allowed it to happen. They should have never allowed it. If I were president, I wouldn’t have allowed it.
But he’s got him. I get along with him very well. You can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon. And I know Kim Jong-un very well, and he’s going to be fine. As long as we have a smart president, he’s going to be fine. If we have a dumb president, then he’s probably not going to be so fine.
(Q: I couldn’t hear it)
Yeah, I will be.
White House YouTube autogen transcript. 08/19/2026.
He was asked about his earlier comments during his afternoon remarks with the tech bros.
Reporter: Mr. President, earlier today you said North Korea has something like 57 nuclear weapons. They’ve been expanding their nuclear program. Is your goal in trying to reengage with Chairman Kim still denuclearization? And what makes you think you could be successful now when you weren’t?
Puddle: Well, I don’t want to talk about that, but I do have a good relationship with Kim Jong-un, as you know, you’ve seen. He didn’t like Biden, he didn’t like Obama, he didn’t like anybody, but he likes me and I like — you know, I just got along with him very good. We had great meetings, we speak. And I think our nation and I think other nations, frankly, whether it’s Japan or South Korea, they’re a lot safer if I’m president than if somebody else is president.
Now, I didn’t like the fact that we’re doing these massive military exercises really against North Korea. It was, you know, an exercise against North Korea. When I’m friendly with him, when we have — I don’t see anything happening for certainly two and a half years, it’s not going to happen with me, but I don’t see anything happening.
And I was not happy when South Korea said, no, they’re not interested in helping us with the Hormuz Strait, and yet they get 60 percent of their oil from the Hormuz Strait. I said would you like to help us He said, no, thank you. I said that’s nice, please, thank you. He made us a lot of money; I didn’t like that.
So, I felt that to do a massive — we were doing a massive war exercise. I thought that was very insulting to somebody that frankly has been, during my term at least, very well-behaved yeah.
RollCall.com. 08/19/2026.
Puddle can’t tell us if they are exchanging love letters, doesn’t want to talk about whether his goal remains for North Korea to give up its nukes, but can tell us how many nuclear weapons North Korea has…
He was asked about the economy. I can’t stress enough how much I’d really like to day drink after having listened to the words coming out of his mouth…
Good numbers cause interest rates to spike.
The question asked:
Reporter: On the bond market, has the administration done enough to stabilize the bond market after [Crosstalk]
Confuses bond yield rates with Federal Reserve interest rates.
Puddle: Well, I think it is, but I mean, it’s very sad. Every time we do great, we announce great numbers, the interest rates go up. And they go up because they want to stop inflation. They should go down because the country is strong. You know, I see countries like Switzerland where they’re the number one lowest interest rates, a half a percent, and we pay 3.5 percent.
RollCall.com. 08/19/2026.
Narrator: Puddle is wrong. I know shocking. Federal Reserve interest rates do not flex daily. They are not moved by the markets. The Fed has not raised rates since 2023.
Threatens to cut off business with *checks notes* Switzerland.
And yet, if we stop doing business — for instance, I have the absolute right to cut off all business with a country like Switzerland, like anything. So, why are they prime if I can cut off the business and they are no longer functional, and yet they’re considered to be like an elite country? And I don’t want to single them out because there’s 60 countries like that; they live off the United States.
RollCall.com. 08/19/2026.
Narrator: CNBC News (08/20/2026): Trump also complained about where the U.S. stands compared with some of its global competitors. Specifically, he cited Switzerland, which has its benchmark rate anchored around zero as the nation battles the opposite problem that U.S. has faced — very low inflation rates and an unusually strong safe-haven currency.
Wonders aloud how come our interest rates are higher than other countries. Since, you know, we feed the world or something…
So, why are we paying higher interest rates than them? You know, in the old days, we used to pay the lowest interest rate, no matter how we were doing, because we sort of generate for the whole world. And I want to see it where interest rates — and I have to tell you, we have a wonderful chairman, I think he’s doing a great job.
RollCall.com. 08/19/2026.
Narrator: Tariffs and the war Puddle started is how come we pay higher interest rates than Switzerland.
Oh now he understands the Fed has voting members.
The problem is he has a board and it’s a political board, people put in by Obama, Biden and me. And there are quite a few members still left, as you understand. And so, they vote to raise interest rates. I don’t know if they’re doing it because they think they’re doing a good thing or because they like the politics of it. But my point is, years ago, 25 years ago, when the country announced good numbers, interest rates went down because we had a stronger country.
Now, when we announce good numbers, the better they are, the worse it is for interest rates.
Narrator: Interest rate from FRED Data. Mortgage Rate from FRED Data. They voted to raise interests, comes from the Federal Reserve releasing July’s meeting minutes yesterday: Voting against the monetary policy action were Beth M. Hammack, Neel Kashkari, and Lorie K. Logan, who preferred to raise the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point at this meeting.
I could add more, he said a lot of stupid shit yesterday…
But I’m running super late and my will to live is questionable…
