Drumpf Passes Cost of His $600 Million (and climbing) Playroom to American Taxpayers

He lied to your faces Ma and Pa MAGA.

He told you that it wouldn't be you and your families paying for his 'big beautiful' gold-trimmed ballroom and dictator hideout bunker.

He looked every one of you right in your beady MAGA eyes and straight up told you that you need not worry about the cost of this monstrous gold-trimmed party venue because his wealthy billionaire pals and corporate CEO "friends" would pay for it ALL:

 

Link:  GOP leader confirms taxpayers on the hook for Trump's ballooning $600M ballroom - Raw Story

 

"Senate Majority Leader John Thune acknowledged on Tuesday that taxpayers will help foot the bill for President Donald Trump's $600 million White House ballroom.

Trump has promised since July 2025 that the project would cost taxpayers nothing. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that internal contractor documents tell a different story.

Thune, speaking at a Capitol press conference, didn't dispute it."

  

One can only assume that Drumpf's defenders enjoy being lied to, and enjoy being manipulated by the dirty old mobster.

I am beginning to think that they derive some kind of perverse pleasure in being conned and taken advantage of, and shit upon so routinely by their celebrity cult leader.

But yeah folks - no money to shore up social security.  No money to save Medicare and Medicaid.  No money for Head Start.  No money for schools, healthcare, or any other social service program that serves Americans and betters the lives of Americans.

Nope.

And now DonOld wants you Ma and Pa MAGA, and the rest of us, to fork over $600 million of yours and our tax dollars to fund the construction of a "ballroom" that he had no legal right to build in the first place.

Believe this - the original price tag for Donny's ballroom was $200 million.  That amount currently stands at $600 million.  It's a sure bet that once all is said and done and all the bills come due, Donny's gold-gilded "ballroom" will equate to well over $1 billion being added to the debt of American taxpayers.

What can truthfully be said of people who keep falling for the same bait & switch lies and deception by a greasy old con man over and over again?

Simple.

SUCKERS!

 

 

 ---TFG

Don the Con Gets Taken to the Cleaners by Iran

Cartoonist Michael de Adder accurately sums up the 'big beautiful' deal that Drumpf claims he has agreed to with Iran:

 

 

Drumpf's Iran "deal" is a deal to reward Iran for hanging tough against a much bigger, much stronger bully than themselves.

And the American people get to have the honor of helping to pay for Donny's deal to rebuild Iran's 'obliterated' military. 

 

 

---TFG 

Drumpf Has FAFO'd Average Americans Into Long-Term Economic Hardship

Drumpf fucked around where he shouldn't have been fucking around and now we tax paying Americans get to find out by bearing the economic burden of DonOld's fucking around where he had no business fucking around.

And when I use the term "tax paying Americans" it doesn't include guys like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, and other billionaires who are siphoning wealth from the underclasses like Daniel Plainview slurping Eli Sunday's oil wealth through a straw like it were a milkshake, while simultaneously deploying battalions of billionaire-bought lawyers to help them attain practically tax free status.

No, the burden of finding out about Drumpf's fucking around will be borne by the same taxpaying Americans who are being battered right now by the failures of Drumpf's inflationary governing decisions.

 

Link:  Trump, Iran agree to MOU opening Strait of Hormuz: What is in the 60-day deal?

 

"President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance both signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran, which would cease fighting on all fronts for 60 days and is expected to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to all traffic, a senior administration official said Monday.

The official said the signatures were done digitally and that a formal signing will happen in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday.

While the official said the details of the agreement will be released within the next 24 to 48 hours, Trump on Monday said the text of the memorandum of understanding would be released "pretty soon," but sometime after Friday."

 

 Hey folks.  For anyone that is interested in simple reality.

Re: Drumpf's bold announcement of an Iran "deal."

(clears throat)...

There is no "deal."

It is an MOU.

That's right.  For those of you old enough to remember:

M-i-c

k-e-y

M-O-U

s-e

🐹

Uh-huh-hum... (clears throat again).

Anyway - Drumpf's "deal" is in actuality a 'Memorandum Of Understanding' - an understanding for the terms of a future, actual "deal." 

Undoubtedly, in the understanding agreed to by DonOld and the Iranians, it likely means that the United States military will be forced to turn tail and go home, Iran keeps their uranium, Iran keeps control of the Strait of Hormuz, and DonOld's administration is going to be sending American ships to Iran loaded with shrink-wrapped pallets stacked full of hundreds of billions of US taxpayer dollars.  Those pallets full of US taxpayer money will be used to rebuild the obliterated infrastructure of Iranian cities that DonOld spent $100 billion of those same US taxpayer dollars to blow up with American bombs and missiles.

That $100 billion and climbing price tag accompanying those pallets of cash will be a cost passed on to every non-billionaire taxpaying American in this country, and it will be the price Americans will be forced to pay for dipshit DonOld rejecting the advice of his more respected military and intel leaders about getting the US involved with Bibi Netanyahu's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure.'

It is all the more galling because this is the same administration that canceled funding for pediatric cancer research, is trying to throw people off of the social security and Medicare rolls, and actually wants to eliminate social security, medicare, and medicaid because gosh darn it there's just no money in the MAGA budget.

But somehow in addition to the $100 or so billion pissed away so far on Bibi's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure,' they also found a $1 billion for a gild-trimmed ballroom/bunker that nobody was asking for.

There was the $20 billion they found to bail out Argentina's economy to save the political ass of Argentina's right-wing president who's a Drumpf pal.  Nobody was clamoring for that "critical" expenditure either. 

Then they found another $20 million to repaint the floor of the D.C. reflecting pool swimming pool blue, another project that absolutely nobody was asking for.

And of course I would be remiss in my duties as a Gadfly if I failed to mention the $1.776 billion slush fund DonOld wants taxpayers to absorb to pay off the thugs who got sent to prison trying to help him overthrow the 2020 election.

Here's the straight up thing with Iran.  There is no "deal."

There is only a "digitally-signed" memorandum which matter-of-factly states that there may be a deal in 60 days, and meh, there may not be a deal in 60 days, and aside from temporarily and conditionally opening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping traffic, that is about all it says.

All of this because dipshit DonOld listened to the unsound advice of Pete Hegseth and Lindsey Graham, and fell hook, line and sinker for the lies and bullshit from wanted war criminal Bibi Netanyahu about how easy it would be to topple the Iranian regime in just a few days with bombs and missiles.

And now Joe and Jane Sixpack-American are just going to have to get used to $4 and above gas and higher grocery costs for the long-term future in order to help pay for that colossally buffoonish DonOld stupidity.

 

 

 

---TFG

The Growing 'Nuisance Neighbor' Problem Facing Canadians

After Drumpf's Bud Light sponsored, bloody cage fights on the White House lawn last night, our Canadian neighbors to the north have got to be wondering what the fuck has happened to the North American neighborhood:

Cartoonist Dave WHAMoND - 

 

 

 

 

---TFG

The Laughable Myth of Republican Men Being the 'Tough' Guys

JfC.

I mean -- what does it say about the so-called 'manliness' and 'toughness' of these white, conservative men in the Republican party that they are so unexplainably terrified of attracting Drumpf's angry attention and incurring his childish, vindictive wrath that they would rather allow time and natural causes to take its course than put a merciful end to his criminally corrupt, catastrophically incompetent presidency right now, today?

 

Link:  Republicans now believe Trump 'is going to croak' — and are vying to replace him: insider - Raw Story 

 

"Republicans have made a dramatic U-turn on the 2028 presidential election, with dozens of contenders now expected to enter the race to succeed Donald Trump as president, an insider told Raw Story.

And while no candidates have officially announced their campaigns yet, Rick Wilson, former Republican operative and co-founder of The Lincoln Project, told Raw Story in an exclusive interview that he was tipped off about the development by strategists.

“The number of Republicans who are planning to run in 2028 is growing by the minute,” Wilson told Raw Story.

“I would say a year ago, there was the presumption that Trump was trying to run again,” Wilson said.

But now it’s different.

“They think Trump is going to croak,” he said."

 

Lol.  These "dozens" of potential challengers to Drumpf's throne all believe that he's going to "croak" soon, yet they all, every one of them, are deathly fearful of publicly announcing their intentions of running for POTUS in 2028.

In a sane world, all of these Republican/MAGA enuchs who are cowering in fear before an old, diapered, slowly decomposing, mobbed-up con artist, fraudster, and sex criminal who is highly suspected of being a child rapist, would be recognized by equally sane voters as a clear sign of the manifest unfitness of the Republican party to competently and trustingly govern this nation.

Sadly, sanity has departed the minds of many of the supposed adults in this country, which is how we wound up with a business bankrupting, tax-defrauding, failed TV show host and kiddie diddler in possession of the nuclear codes in the White House and a bunch of sniveling, cowering, gutless lick-spittle Republicans catering to his every corrupt, America damaging whim while prostrating themselves at his feet like craven dogs.

 

 

 

---TFG 

Drumpf's Trashy White House Birthday Party is Over - Too Bad the Same Can't be Said of His Corrupt Presidency

So, Drumpf had his tacky, lowbrow 80th birthday party on the White House lawn last evening and he literally turned the American people's White House into a festival of knuckledragging, vulgar assholery.

According to some attendees, there were just as many (presumably) drunken brawls on the White House lawn as there were on the UFC fight card:

 

Link: Post by @aaronblack.bsky.social — Bluesky

  

All in the shadow of the nation's historic presidential residence.

And, to add injury to white trash insult, one of the intellect-challenged, roid-raging UFC fighters that little Donny booked on his fight card openly insulted the wife of former President Barack Obama by calling her a 'man' on stage as DonOld looked on approvingly.

That a sizable percentage of the hardcore MAGA's actually believe the bird-brained conspiracy that Michelle Obama is a trans person, truly exposes how MAGA has attracted some of the stupidest sons of bitches in this country to their child molester worshiping movement.

 

Link:  Trump caught smiling after UFC fighter drops shocking remark about Michelle Obama: report - Raw Story 

 

"President Donald Trump was captured on video “smiling” Sunday after an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter dropped a shockingly "offensive” and false remark about former First Lady Michelle Obama during the UFC event at the White House, CNN reported.

Mixed martial artist Joshua Hokit, 28, defeated his opponent Derrick Lewis Sunday night at the White House UFC bout, and after his victory, shouted an inflammatory and false claim targeting the former first lady.

“Michelle Obama is a man! Am I right, America?” Hokit said, eliciting both cheers and boos from the crowd, CNN reported."

  

I mean - this is one of many reasons why I have never felt one iota of regret or remorse for trashing the MAGA movement and Drumpf's supporters so relentlessly.  They really, truly are some of the shittiest, most morally bankrupt citizens of this country and I don't need any more evidence to back that statement up other than the FACT that the leader of that movement is very likely a child rapist.

So yeah - the trashy show that took place on the lawn of the American people's White House last evening by a suspected child molester and his "friends" was not surprising or shocking.  It was just more unassailable proof that our White House is occupied by a bunch of uncultivated, America-hating assholes and criminal squatters.

 

 

 

---TFG

The World's First Trillionaire Mass Murderer? That's What the Stats Say.

One of the other hallmark traits of the right-wing MAGA movement's complete rejection of anything resembling morality, is their undying love for Elon Musk and his vast, obscene wealth.

The right-wing conservatives in this country who like to pompously profess their worship of a simple, poor carpenter from Nazareth sure do have a penchant for ignoring the core teachings of that carpenter and embracing and venerating the very kind of people whom the carpenter had warned them in their sacred scriptures were Hell-bound infidels.

Anyway, to make a long harangue short, Elmo is not one of the good guys.  In fact, he's a pretty fucking evil guy and now he's about to become a trillionaire evil guy and that does not bode well for the world.

  

Link:  The world’s first trillionaire is a killer | The Verge 

 

"Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet. And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully.

This is not a serious person, but his abuse of the world is deadly serious. In the first months of President Donald Trump’s second term, the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) destroyed the US Agency for International Development, whose mission was a boon to public health around the globe. Musk called the lifesaving agency a “criminal organization” and blithely celebrated spending a weekend “feeding USAID into the wood chipper.” It was a good reference if you want everyone to think you’re the killer in Fargo. Mission accomplished, Elon.

In the months that followed, public health models would indicate Musk was a killer, at a far greater scale than any Coen brothers villain. A tracker co-created by Boston University professor Brooke Nichols projected over 780,000 deaths — mostly of children, many of infants — due to the Trump administration’s early-2025 USAID cuts, caused by malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and more. These deaths were widely predicted from the beginning, a direct, known, and undeniable consequence of DOGE’s actions. We don’t know the precise number of deaths, but multiple experts working on identifying the scale of the tragedy have generally agreed it’s in the hundreds of thousands."

 

MuskRat joins Drumpf (with his Covid response) in the upper echelon of mass murdering sociopaths.

Is it surprising to anyone that Elmo's name also shows up prominently in the 'Epstein Files' and that he literally bought the White House for Drumpf in 2024?

Two evil, putrid, suspected pedos combining forces to hijack the American people's government and transform the land of the free and the home of the brave into the land of fascist assholery.

I don't begrudge Elmo's right or the right of any other wealth seeking person to become wealthy.  What I do fucking begrudge is when they use their wealth to deliberately take away wealth from those in need and purposefully harm others.  And that is exactly what MuskRat and the rest of these Tech-bro pricks like Thiel, Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. are doing with their wealth.

Elmo has a battalion of lawyers who have literally provided him with a tax-free, American lifestyle for himself and his businesses.  Allowing him to compound his wealth while he gives NOTHING back to the country that provided his South African immigrant ass the opportunity to amass that wealth to begin with is treason in my book, which of course makes MuskRat the perfect bedfellow for the January 6th traitor in the White House.

 

 

---TFG

The Law Puts an End to Drumpf's Vandalism of the Kennedy Center

They say you can't put a price on true beauty.

I completely agree.  Seeing Drumpf's name ripped off the facade of the Kennedy Center and unceremoniously tossed in the trash where it belongs is absolutely priceless beauty:

 

Link:  WATCH: Workers finally tear Donald Trump's name off Kennedy Center - Raw Story

 

"Workers began tearing Donald Trump's name off the Kennedy Center Friday, carrying out a federal court order his own lawyers had scrambled overnight to block.

A federal judge ruled last month that the renaming was flatly illegal. 

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said Trump's hand-picked board never had the authority to put the president's name on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts — because Congress created it and only Congress gets to rename it. The lawsuit was filed by Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat who sits on the center's board as an ex officio member.

"Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it," Cooper wrote in his ruling, giving the administration 14 days to strip Trump's name from the building."

 

I bet the old despot wannabe is beside himself with rage watching his execrable, fake family name being removed from the iconic Kennedy Center building.  God, I sure hope so.  Maybe it will be enough of a rage provoking incident that his Big Mac and KFC clotted arteries become overloaded and finally collapse, and the filthy old kiddie-diddler will finally leave us and the rest of the world in peace.

 

 

---TFG

Donald Trump Will Never Outrun His 'Epstein Files' Crimes

Two new stories that shine a bright light on the ongoing cover-up of a cabal of wealthy elitists raping children and believing that they are going to get away with it.

 

Link:  Blanche hit with major Epstein accusation as he's accused of witness tampering - Raw Story

 

"“Todd Blanche's involvement with the Epstein case is disastrous. He actually went and met with Ghislaine Maxwell, took her out of a heavy security prison, gave her a sweetheart deal,” Lynch told CNN’s John Berman.

“She never agreed to cooperate. [Blanche] put her in a much more permissive environment [that] has given her extensive privileges. I believe that is witness tampering on his part – he interfered with the investigation! She is less likely to talk to us now since Todd Blanche got involved with this case.”"

  

That was the whole point of Drumpf dispatching 'The Wolf' to intervene and 'fix' things, so that Maxwell would be less likely to talk and share her horrifying secrets with the world.  

  

Link:  Donald Trump Launches ‘Massive’ Leak Hunt After Humiliating Revelations

 

"The Trump White House is on the hunt for the source of a leak after the details of sensitive conversations between senior administration officials were exposed in a new report.

On Wednesday, the New York Times published an excerpt from the forthcoming book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by its White House reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

In the excerpt, Haberman and Swan describe secret emergency meetings in the Situation Room between the president’s aides, without the knowledge of the president, in which they sought to contain the scandal that erupted as a result of the administration’s botched handling of the release of the Epstein files."

Sounds like JD Vance and Drumpf's inner circle knew he was implicated in child sex crimes in the Epstein files.  They fucking knew it.

And how did these supposedly responsible, Christian Republicans respond to this knowledge?  By holding a bunch of "secret" meetings to plot ways to deceive the American public about what they now knew to be true about the dirty old, kiddie-diddling mobster they work for. 

I'll let Hawk explain in more detail what the bombshell report in the New York Times is all about, and how JD Vance and Drumpf's inner circle were desperately trying to keep a lid on a whole lot of ugly truths from the 'Epstein Files' coming to public light, and the implications that cover-up effort portends:

 

 

The evidence is pointing more and more toward the sad reality that the American president is a pedophile, and he has many powerful, wealthy pedophile "friends." 

Seriously - where the fuck is QAnon when you really need them?

 

 

---TFG

Marjorie Taylor Greene Labels Drumpf and His Elitist "Friends" Pedophile Cover-Up "Traitors"

Yikes!

Something tells me that Marjorie Taylor Greene has decided that she has no more fucks to give when it comes to Donald Trump and his 'Epstein Files' problem:

 

Link: Marjorie Taylor Greene stuns Kaitlan Collins with staggering claim about Trump - Raw Story

  

Former MAGA congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene shocked CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins with a strong claim about President Donald Trump.

Greene detailed how Trump called her a "traitor" because she urged the release of the Epstein files, but she turned the tables by saying Trump and "pedophiles and rapists of the elite class" are the real traitors.

"They should be considered traitors," Greene said. "They're traitors. The ones that refuse to release the Epstein files want to cover up for pedophiles and rapists, and all sorts of disgusting things in these files. Those are the traitors to the American people, and they should be ashamed of themselves."

"Are you saying that that applies to the president himself?" Collins asked Greene.

"I'm saying exactly that," Greene said. "He told me on the phone that his friends would get hurt, and that's why he's against releasing the Epstein files."

"It's pretty remarkable to hear you say that," Collins said. "You think the president is a traitor."

 

When Drumpf excommunicated Marge from the MAGA movement for having been one of only four Republicans to have voted in favor of releasing the 'Epstein Files,' DonOld's flying monkey MAGA supporters went straight after Marge, sending death threats to her and her family.

Marjorie Taylor Greene wasn't going to take that lying down and slink away quietly into obscurity though.  'Obscurity' simply isn't a word in Marjorie Taylor Greene's dictionary. 

Anyway, the death threats from MAGA's goons were enough for Marge to see the light about Drumpf and his motives for wanting to get rid of her, in addition to his continuing to expend ever greater efforts to keep the Epstein Files from being released to the American public.

Now, before I say what needs to be said regarding Marge calling Trump and his friends pedophile traitors, I will preface that with the stated fact that I have long, long been a vocal critic of Marjorie Taylor Greene and I still think Greene is a right-wing extremist who has terrible ideas for the governance of this nation.

On this specific matter as it relates to Donald Trump, however and the subject of the child rape and child sex trafficking acts depicted in the 'Epstein Files,' Marge is absolutely right.  Drumpf is a traitor elitist who is clearly and overtly protecting a bunch of wealthy, child-raping pieces of shit from being held accountable for their crimes against children, and quite probably also protecting himself from being outed as one of those pedophiles.

I sincerely hope Marge continues to speak out, and speak out loudly about the cabal of pedo "traitors" who are currently occupying the American people's White House.

 

 

 

---TFG