It’s Monday…
Shitshow’s public schedule for…
Like always, there is no information yet on what the “Healthcare Affordability Event” will actually focus on. We can probably assume the usual suspects, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz, will make an appearance so America can once again enjoy the thrilling experience of getting medical advice from a guy who spent years selling miracle supplements on daytime television and another guy who thinks raw milk is basically a personality trait. What could possibly go wrong.
Speaking of Affordability…
I Don’t Care doubled down on not caring about Americans’ financial situation during an interview he gave just after his “nothing was accomplished” China trip. Apparently soaring prices, rising debt, and people struggling to pay bills are just background noise while he collects participation trophies for meetings that produced little more than awkward handshakes and vague talking points. Meanwhile, Americans are staring at grocery receipts like they just opened a ransom note.
Bret Baier: What the numbers are. You can imagine Democrats and political pundits jumped…
Don’t Care: The people get it…
Bret Baier: Jumped all over this statement you made the other day. You were asked when you were leaving.
[plays clip: Reporter: to what extent are American financial situations motivating you to make a deal? Out-of-Touch Asshole: Not even a little bit. It, the only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran, they can’t have a nuclear weapon. I don’t think about American financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing. We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon…]
Don’t Care: That’s right. That’s a perfect statement. I will make it again.
Bret Baier: Can you imagine how many people stopped the soundbite at “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation”? What is your response to that framework?
Don’t Care: It’s very simple. When people hear me say it, everybody agrees short-term pain–it’s going to be short-term pain. The pain is much less than people thought.
Fox News YouTube. 05/15/2026.
Senator Lindsey “Parasite” Graham called the statement Don’t Care’s “his Churchill moment”.
KRISTEN WELKER:
[All right. Let me turn to the economy and the economic effects of the war which are being felt here at home.] Inflation has climbed to the highest annual rate in three years. Gas prices are at a four-year high. Grocery prices are climbing. President Trump was pressed on how all of these factors impact how he views his negotiations with Iran. Take a look.
[BEGIN TAPE]
PRES. DONALD TRUMP:
I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing, you cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all.
[END TAPE]
KRISTEN WELKER:
Do you agree with the president that he shouldn’t be taking Americans’ financial situation into account when dealing with Iran?
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM:
That’s his Churchill moment. When Churchill came into power, he promised “blood, sweat, toil, heartache until we deal with the Nazis who are an existential threat to the British way of life.” And if Hitler had taken charge of the planet, it would have been the darkest hour in humanity.
I believe Iran wants the nuclear weapon. They would use it. So does President Trump. And they would use it for their religious agenda. They would destroy the Jewish state. They would eventually hold us hostage. So his audience, the Iranian regime. Do I worry about gas prices? Yes. But President Trump’s right. The biggest threat to the hostility in the world is a nuke-armed Iran. And whatever price we have to pay, we will pay. What did Churchill say? Whatever price we have to pay to beat Hitler, we will pay. Same with Iran.
KRISTEN WELKER:
You just —
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM:
The good news, we’re inside the ten-yard line. I think if we go back to military activity, weaken them further, then we can end this thing pretty soon.
NBC News. 05/17/2026.
I found the first quote Parasite got wrong; To form an Administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself, but it must be remembered that we are in the preliminary stage of one of the greatest battles in history, that we are in action at many other points in Norway and in Holland, that we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean, that the air battle is continuous and that many preparations, such as have been indicated by my hon. Friend below the Gangway, have to be made here at home. In this crisis I hope I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today. I hope that any of my friends and colleagues, or former colleagues, who are affected by the political reconstruction, will make allowance, all allowance, for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act. I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
The second attempt to quote Churchill gave me two other speeches he gave; We Shall Fight on the Beaches, 1940 and Their Finest Hour, 1940.
Executive Time…
Executive time has been wild and unhinged.
I hope to have something on that tomorrow.
Preview…
He has two sort of “normal” posts from today…
The media is mean to me…
Attacks Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) ahead of the primary tomorrow.
It’s been reported that the House race in Kentucky is the most expensive House race ever.
Axios reported on 05/11/2026: The fight between Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and President Trump-backed rival Ed Gallrein is now the most expensive U.S. House primary in history — and it’s one of the nastiest, too. By the numbers: All of this is backed up by more than $25.6 million in ad spending, according to AdImpact, which makes the fight between Massie and Gallrein the most expensive U.S. House primary in history.
Speaking of the primary…
Wannabe Action Movie Star Pete Hegesth join Gallrein at a rally today.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will campaign with Rep. Thomas Massie’s Trump-endorsed primary challenger Ed Gallrein in Hebron, Kentucky today #KY04 https://t.co/NqO9vDfFUP
— Julia Manchester (@JuliaManch) May 18, 2026
The Department of Defense says Hegseth is paying his own way to the rally…
I call bullshit:
DoD: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will travel to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, tomorrow to preside over a ceremony to award Purple Hearts to 101st Airborne Division Soldiers wounded during a 2003 grenade attack in Kuwait and to administer the oath of enlistment to 190 re-enlistees.
It means we are paying his way to the rally.
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