Today is Wednesday, July 23, 2025. The Epstein imbroglio is not going away and it seems that this president is losing support from many of his own die-hard supporters, and one of them famously came out today to denounce Dump as a “piece of shit.” This erstwhile acolyte’s name is far-right activist Jake Angeli, more commonly known as the “QAnon shaman.” Angeli’s denunciation of his Supreme Leader appears in an online article for AlterNet by Carl Gibson entitled ‘What a fraud’: QAnon shaman publicly trashes Trump in profanity-laden post.”

The actual post Angeli tweeted came today on X in which he wrote “Fuck this stupid piece of shit.” Naturally, he was referring to the Orange Turd. The Onion CEO Ben Collins observed on Bluesky that Dump has lost Angeli as his most ardent fan.

Though Angeli didn’t state his reasoning for why he called Dump a “fraud” and a “stupid piece of shit,” it’s most probable he split with the president over his administration’s continuing refusal to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. Even after he was sentenced to more than three years in prison for his participation in the January 6, 2021, insurrection, the far-right conspiracy theorist continued to insist while incarcerated that there was a “storm” taking place that would result in prominent Democrats being jailed over their connections to Epstein. But this is not going to happen and Angeli and so many of his stupid far-right conspiracy pals are disappointed in what’s going on now in the Dump administration, which is a total coverup of what truly is in those files.

Even the prestigious newspaper The Wall Street Journal unflinchingly reported today that senior Department of Justice (DOJ) officials found Dump’s name in a “truckload of documents” pertaining to the Epstein investigation. The paper can do no more since it is already being sued by this perennial litigant. So why should it care now that the truth has been revealed.

ABC News reported earlier this month that the FBI’s index of Epstein evidence includes a logbook of visitors to Epstein’s “Little Saint James” compound in the U.S. Virgin Islands, along with a log of boat rides to and from the island. Also included in the Epstein evidence is a “document with names” which could be the fabled “client list” that followers of the Epstein scandal say may implicate multiple wealthy and powerful people who associated with the convicted pedophile, and it’s these names that Chump is most assuredly trying to protect – along with his own besmirched name.

In a far-ranging interview with actor Jeff Daniels, who is essaying the role of another Republican president, Ronald Reagan, in the upcoming movie called Reykjavik, had some very hard words for the current toddler in chief. I am in awe of Daniels’ most famous clip of him responding to a college student who thinks the United States is so great, and Daniels reels off some sobering statistics on how this country is definitely not very special anymore; it’s actually very low in terms of standard of living, health care, and other societal measurements. I’m not sure where this clip is from. I know he was in a series recently on the newspaper industry; it could be from that one since he’s on a panel and is responding to questions from the audience.

Here is what Daniels said that is spot-on in regard to not only this president but to the tenor of these dire times. “We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. We’ve normalized verbal abuse. We’ve normalized bullying. Out the window goes character, integrity. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America, but being a human being.” Here, here. This is exactly how millions of us currently feel at this moment.

Well, tonight is my last entry until next Wednesday since we come home late on Tuesday, July 29. The Disney cruise is on Friday, July 25, and it ends on Monday, July 28, my son’s actual birthday. So let the party begin!

Have a great next few days. Also have a wonderful weekend.

And so it went!