Today is Tuesday, December 23, 2025. As I type this, the newly renamed Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is broadcasting a show on now-despised CBS featuring Demented Don as the host honoring such far-right icons of performing arts like Gloria Gaynor, Michael Crawford, Sylvester Stallone, KISS, and others. I’ve already written my comments on watching this show on another forum tonight in which I urge people to boycott the show altogether. After this, I will not be able to enjoy Gaynor’s gay theme song, “I Will Survive” anymore. I will not enjoy my Michael Crawford CDs either anymore. As for Stallone, I’ve never been a fan of his anyway, so I won’t run to see him in anything new either. As for KISS, I now “kiss” them off my list.

For those who want to understand why this pathological, psychotic madman is rebranding everything and stamping his horrible name on everything from the prestigious Kennedy Center to boats, there is an online HuffPost article that answers that question. The article is entitled “Mary Trump: Trump Renamed The Kennedy Center For 1 Reason, And It’s A ‘Tragedy.'” The piece is written by Elyse Wanshel.

The analysis for this obsession by the current president to put his name on almost anything that generally doesn’t move is provided by his critical niece, Mary Trump. In this article, she provides the reason why her uncle slaps “his name on everything.”

During an episode of the Daily Beast’s podcast last Thursday, host Joanna Coles asked Trump’s niece about why she thinks the president decided to change the name of the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center. As you might know, the Kennedy Center was named in honor of President John F. Kennedy in 1964, months after his 1963 assassination. Mary Trump is a psychologist and outspoken critic of her uncle’s policies.

Stating, “I’m trying to contain my contempt,” Trump called the movie “obscene” and “illegal” by noting that in order to change the name of the institution, it needs to be approved by Congress, but as everyone sadly knows by now, Congress has abandoned its Constitutional duties ever since Drumpf was reelected.

“Also, last I checked, you’re not really supposed to be naming things after living presidents, current or former,” Mary Trump observed.

After saying this, Mary Trump pivoted to give her opinion on why her uncle decided to change the name.

“He wants to turn every public space in America into some version of WWE or Ultimate Fighting,” Mary Trump said, referring to the president’s low-brow taste in culture. “And it is just grotesque that he thinks that somehow this legitimizes him or gives him the same stature and standing as somebody like President Kennedy. But that’s partially why he’s doing it – for himself.”

Trump continued, “But here’s the thing, it’s never going to be enough. Ever.”

Then the outspoken, critical niece provided the real psychological reason for Dump’s constant grab of legitimization here: it was his terrible upbringing by his father and mother in which he was, basically, unlovable. Mary Trump said the reason Demented Don puts “his name on everything” from steaks to Bibles and buildings is “all in service to filling a black hole that is unfillable.”

Here Dump’s niece really unleashes her wrath on Drumpf by saying how “obscene” it was that someone as uncultured as her uncle would want his name emblazoned upon a center for the arts. Trump emphasized that Kennedy’s relationship with the arts was so profoundly different from that of her uncle who probably has never attended a play or even read a book. He would not be able to distinguish Chekhov from Dummkopf. She skewers her boorish uncle, saying, “Donald cares nothing for the arts. He and his administration have underfunded or defunded them.”

Trump is correct here, as the Chump regime has moved to eliminate federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Contrast here Kennedy’s articulate vision for the arts in which he said, “I look forward to an America . . . which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft” and this statement, “I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens” to what Trump has said about the arts, —————————-. This means he’s said fucking nothing!

Now that we might know a little more about the psychological reason for Dump’s need to put his name to everything, it still doesn’t justify the obsceneness of the action he took in renaming a true cultural institution as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts which should have never been renamed after him at all – ever!

The show is over and I hope the ratings for it were in the toilet!

I will be away for the next three days visiting friends in Easton, Pennsylvania. I hope to post my blog on Friday if I don’t get home too late.

Have a merry Christmas or not.

And so it went!

Today is Wednesday, December 17, 2025. Tonight the convicted felon who is occupying the White House right now is supposed to address the nation to “celebrate” his first year of accomplishments, but those of us with any common sense, know that his entire delusional address will be bathed in lies, lies, and more lies, so I’m determined to avoid it at all costs. He is doing this because he knows his party is fracturing presently and he’s losing the narrative. In this speech, he hopes he will be able to change that, but I hope a majority of Americans will tune to something else that is more genuine than this fabulist bloviating for an hour or so about nonsense. I mentioned on an anti-Dump message board that I’d rather subject myself to being waterboarded than be forced to watch the spectacle of the old man making a fool of himself.

But those who hunger for the truth of what’s happening right now in our benighted country, here are the facts as supplied by Democratic Wins Media today in a piece devoted to Demented Don’s speech. Right off, the writers of this piece say that “If the speech runs long [and usually they do for no sane reason], it won’t be because Trump has much to say – it’ll be because he’s trying to spin his failures into fiction.” Again, this liar in chief will try to change the narrative because his “own base is fracturing, his approval numbers are falling, and even his allies are openly questioning his leadership.”

For those masochists who listen, expect Mr. Piggy, as I’ll now call him, among other epithets, to begin with the economy. “He’ll brag about his tariffs, claim prices are going down, and insist he ‘inherited a mess’ from President Biden.” Of course, none of this is even a scintilla true.

The true facts – Dump inherited a strong economy from his predecessor – one with record-low unemployment, rising wages, and a recovering middle class following Mr. Piggy’s disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. And what did Mr. Grump do with it? He destroyed it. His reckless tariffs have sent prices spiraling, raised costs for working families, and crushed American exporters. “The unemployment rate has skyrocketed to its highest level since Trump’s first term ended in chaos during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

In this particular instance, Mr. Piggy cannot gaslight the American public out of what they actually feel and see. His economy is in shambles and Americans know exactly who is responsible. And it isn’t Joe Biden. Or Kamala Harris.

On the subject of immigration, Mr. Piggy will certainly try to declare victory on immigration – saying that the border is secure and that he’s restored “law and order.” Instead what he’s really done is unleash chaos and friction within our borders.

Never before has an American president unleashed a private arm of enforcement agents like the much-hated ICE agents who are presently terrorizing immigrant communities – people like my fabulous cleaning woman, “Lareto” – creating fear rather than safety. “His policies have done nothing to make Americans safer – they’ve only divided neighbors, separated families, and made our country feel smaller and meaner.”

On the subject of Venezuela, our new “hot spot,” this embarrassment of a president will almost certainly invoke this new ongoing conflict and call his policy here “toughness.” What we should really do is call it for what it truly is: “a potential new war near our own shores, motivated by oil and ego.”

And all of the bullshit that Drumpf promised earlier to be a “peace president.” Instead, he’s leading us into another needless conflict that risks lives, destabilizes our hemisphere, and raises global energy prices even higher.

The bottom line then is that this cold-hearted, soulless human being will not be able to spin his way out of his coming-apart presidency. His immigration policy is cruel and chaotic; his foreign policy is explosive; his party is splintering, and his base is breaking away. Finally!

Tonight’s speech will not change the reality of what is actually happening under Grump. “It will only confirm what Americans already know: the country is weaker, poorer, and more divided under Donald Trump’s failed leadership.” I would add, “more cruel” under his damn lack of leadership, actually.

This is the clincher: “The only thing Trump will be celebrating tonight is the sound of his own voice – and even that won’t drown out the reality that he’s losing.”

Another thing about not listening to him tonight is that I can’t stand hearing his whiny, little complaining, much-mocked voice anyway. His putrid comments about the death of a true American patriot are still reverberating in my mind and I would rather watch paint peel than listen to him.

As I indicated in yesterday’s blog, tomorrow Elliot and I will be dining at Peter Luger’s in Brooklyn tomorrow. I will then head toward Manhattan to see Oh, Mary. It’d better be good, that’s all I will say. Everyone I know says it’s a continuous laugh riot, but I’ll be the judge of that.

On Friday, we’re seeing my newish friend “Harry” also in Manhattan. But we still don’t know what we’ll be doing. I should post my blog that night, but I don’t know for sure.

Anyway, enjoy your Thursday.

And so it went!

Today is Tuesday, December 9, 2025. Today there was a revolt orchestrated in the House by several prominent female congresswomen against the frightful leadership of MAGA Mike Johnson. In an online USA Today article written by Natalie Neysa Alund, this rebellion receives center stage. The article is entitled “‘Hard truth:’ Nancy Mace says Pelosi was a better House speaker.” Oooh, that must hurt!

The Republican congresswoman who offered the bitter truth about Johnson’s horrible House Leadership was Republican Nancy Mace of South Carolina who said, Rep. Nancy Pelosi “was a more effective Speaker than any Republican this century.” She argued that her own traitorous party should learn from her leadership and she claimed that the party is marginalizing rank-and-file members, including women. That’s not hard to believe considering their awful handling of the Epstein files and the inescapable fact that their Supreme Leader is a raging misogynist.

Mace recently published an op-ed for The New York Times yesterday in which she wrote she came to Congress five years ago “believing I could make a difference for my constituents, for South Carolina, and for a country I love deeply.” She unfortunately learned “the system in the House promotes control by party leaders over accountability and achievement.”

Mace, 48, became the first Republican woman elected to Congress from the state in 2021 and has criticized the toddler in chief over the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Regrettably, she has since become one of his staunchest allies.

The South Carolina congresswoman asserted in her op-ed that there are so many obstacles placed in anyone’s way that “any member who came to Washington with noble intentions [must] ask: ‘Why am I even here?'”

Nancy Pelosi, who served as a former House speaker, announced her retirement in November, serving two stints as the highest-ranking member of Congress, first from 2007-2011 and again from 2019-2023. She was a staunch opponent of the Orange Turd when he was first in office. Who could forget the time she shredded the madman’s State of the Union address in front of cameras throughout the world when he finished his speech?

Pelosi’s time in office led to two impeachments of Drumpf, organized efforts to convince former President Joe Biden to drop his bid for a second term, and pushed through the Affordable Care Act, the biggest expansion of health care in a half-century.

Mace called her claims about Pelosi and House control “a hard truth Republicans don’t want to hear.” On August 4, Mace launched a campaign for the South Carolina gubernatorial race. So here it seems as if she’s looking for a graceful exit from Congress by pursuing the governorship of her state.

Mace was quite ruthless when it came to criticizing her party, saying, “When Democrats hold the majority, they ram through the most progressive policies they can. They deliver for the coalition that elected them while they are in power.”

Republicans, on the other hand, Mace deplored, do the very opposite.

“We get the majority, then become petrified of losing it. We pass the most moderate policies we can pressure conservatives to accept, betraying the coalition that delivered us here. Ms. Pelosi was ruthless, but she got things done. The current House is restrictive and ineffective, control with barely any results. Republican leadership seems intent on replicating her model of consolidation without her bold vision to push through the policies that won us the majority.”

Mace cited a meager statistic when it comes to introducing bills on the House floor this year. She said only 5 percent of the bills introduced this year have seen a floor vote.

She concluded, “What we have now is the worst of all worlds: little accountability, transparency, and results.”

The entire unworthy GOP should truly heed her words here; they cannot continue to go down the rabbit hole of ineptitude, but indeed, if they do, they will easily lose their supermajority next year in a tsunami of Democratic wins. It will just demonstrate to them that just winning elections to retain power without delivering to constituents isn’t enough to maintain control of Congress. Supermajorities are not permanent, as Rep. Nancy Pelosi stated in response to Mace’s criticism of her party.

This just in: coming on the heels of Nancy Mace’s openly critical takedown of her own party, today Democrats flipped the Miami mayor’s seat, electing the first Democrat in 30 years. This cannot be good news for the party of Johnson. The Democrat, Eileen Higgins, defeated the red hat repugnican who was endorsed by the liar in chief, and that loss really says something about the cachet of this lying, psychopathic president. Higgins gave Democrats a boost in one of the last electoral battles ahead of the 2026 midterms.

The only thing I’ll report about today is the brief conversation Elliot and I had with our Guatemalan house cleaner, “Lareto.” We scheduled her to work in the apartment around 10, so we had to wake up earlier than usual: 8:30. She arrived actually a little earlier than 10, around 9:45, and we welcomed her into our cozy abode. At some point, the conversation steered itself to her fears about going out because of what the Dump regime is doing with immigrants. She indicated she doesn’t like going out to Long Island where ICE agents have conducted recent raids.

Lareto’s fears are sadly well founded since the Orange Menace retook office and has embarked on a very un-American campaign of terror against undocumented immigrants. This is just one example of how the regime’s policies have affected someone close to me. Now I can’t say I don’t know anyone who has been touched by the cruelty of this regime’s agenda.

And so it went!