Trump's Weak Week Great For Democrats
The only thing "obliterated" was Trump's lie about Iran
Happy Friday, my friends, and congratulations on surviving yet another insane week during the illegitimate Trump regime. So many different things happened this week that it reaffirmed my wish to live during uninteresting times.
A Muslim Democratic Socialist won the Democratic nomination for Mayor in New York City, so of course MAGA melted down over Zohran Mamdani’s meteoric rise to the top-ranked choice.
The MAGA response has been fully racist and xenophobic, with Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeting this bit of shitassery to add to her list of shameful acts while in Congress.
But Tennessee’s Andy Ogles wins for his dangerous targeted harassment of Mamdani, threatening to have him deported for *checks notes* Campaigning While Brown.
As someone who’s been targeted and harassed by Matt Gaetz and members of Ted Cruz’s staff—including one who also worked on Trump’s campaigns—I posit that any member of Congress harassing an American citizen should at least be censured, if not bounced entirely a la George Santos.
Ogre Ogles, Still-At-Large Marge, and the rest of the MAGA minions have been emboldened by “Daddy” Trump (puke), who seems to be molting at this point because he’s rotting from the inside out.
Meanwhile, the fallout from Donald Trump’s arbitrary attack on Iran continues to spread. Donny Thin Skin’s attempt to distract the world from his name being all over the Epstein Files, along with Elon Musk’s confession that THEY STOLE THE 2024 ELECTION (put a pin there, we’re coming back to this), resulted in Iran’s retaliation on a US military base in Qatar. But it’s fine, it turns out Cadet Bone Spurs knew about it ahead of time and was all, “Yep, a 1 o’clock bombing is fine because I’ll be golfing anyway.”
I don’t know why this isn’t the biggest story right now, because it should be. The sitting POTUS* (such as he is because he stole both the 2016 and 2024 elections, and again, we’re coming back to that) shouldn’t be giving anyone permission to bomb a US military base, because that’s literally treason.
This isn’t how you get a Nobel Peace Prize, dumbfuck. More people need to mock him just like the Dutch Queen at NATO.
Trump is embarrassed by the response to his non-obliteration of anything except the truth when it comes to his arbitrary bombing of Israel’s enemy to make his co-war criminal stepbrother Bibi happy. While his compromised Clown Cabinet continues to insist that they did something, what they really did was make Americans less safe.
Instead of revising any statements already made to the press, Trump attacked anyone in the media who dared to ask questions about what really happened in Iran. As I’ve written more times than I care to link to, Trump will scapegoat anyone who dares to put him on the spot by doing their jobs. Since he can’t answer any questions, he redirects by calling news networks “fake” and telling journalists they’re rude people.
We spent a lot of time around this on Thursday’s episode of THE TARA SHOW, because Trump’s increased attacks on the media are designed to distract from the evil he’s doing. I mean, if he doesn’t want to be asked questions, why does he keep talking to the press?
Trump repeatedly calls CNN “fake news” and refers to MSNBC as “MSDNC” with zero pushback. But after he specifically targeted CNN’s Natasha Bertrand, her network actually stepped up and protected her for having the audacity to report accurately on Trump’s failure in Iran and his subsequent lies about it.
Started:
Going.
Everyone who works in both the mainstream AND independent media should be standing up for Natasha Bertrand. There are ways to hold Trump accountable on camera during press conferences, and the best way to do that is to use his own words against him.
Trump will attack the media again at his next press conference, and when that happens, the entire gaggle needs to stand with that person. There needs to be unity in the ranks, with follow-ups to the question that triggered him.
Example: Let’s say April Ryan asks him a question about Iran, and he decides to berate her. Another reporter needs to stand and say, “I’m So-and-So from [News Outlet] and I’d like to know the answer to that as well.”
And then another one stands and says the same. And so on until they get an answer or King Baby storms off to cry on the toilet with his phone.
As the great Helen Thomas often said, JUST ASK THE QUESTION. And then more people ask the question, just so that more people get curious about what the answer is.
As for me, I’d get more ballsy, because Trump blocked me in August 2015, which means I’m getting close to the 10th Anniversary. The exact date is August 28th, which happens to be a Thursday, so you can expect a special celebration on THE TARA SHOW.
Anyway, I’d ask him a real gotcha question if he said the words “fake news” in front of me: “So, when CNN was doing live coverage of the Palisades fire, was that also fake news?”
And he’d probably come back with, “Who are you?” So I’d say, “I’m Tara Dublin, you blocked me on Twitter ten years ago and never unblocked me, not even after you were ordered to unblock everyone by your own DOJ.”
He’d then say something like, “Who do you work for?” and “I’ve never heard of the Political Voices Network before, they must be fake news.”
And then I’d ask my original question again, with “So fake news is just stuff you don’t like hearing about yourself? Which is why you blocked me, by the way.”
I’m sure I’d get the Natasha Bertrand treatment immediately after that, but I’d emerge the winner of that particular battle because I’d show the world what a tiny, petty, thin-skinned convicted felon adjudicated rapist Epstein Bestie who still owes E. Jean Carroll $100m he is.
Lost in all of the everything else this week was another attempt by Rep. Al Green (D-TX) to impeach Trump a third time. Democrats who voted to table the vote are on notice.
I’ve only scratched the surface of what went down this week, but none of it was good for Trump. Punch-Drunk Pete Hegseth got the Whiskey Weeps at a morning press conference because he’s been on a bender since January. Call him the Secretary of Defensiveness from now on.
I’m also going to be keeping an eye on Gavin Newsom’s $787m lawsuit against Jesse Watters and Fox News because everything about it is what all Democrats should be doing.
AND THE ELECTION FUCKERY CONTINUES, as I said above. I’ve only been screaming about this since November, we can keep screaming next week, I guess.
Meanwhile, try to have a weekend where you spend some time away from the garbage fire. Find some live music and go hang out with friends, like I did this week with my beloved Low Bar Chorale, aka my group therapy. I wish I could make everyone feel as good as we do when we sing together.
Take care of yourselves, and I’ll see you Monday with our pal Hal Sparks and then again on Tuesday and Thursday on THE TARA SHOW with my co-Tara at 2 pm ET/11 am PT!