The goal of these diaries is to remind the American people just how terrible the felonious president is.
By elevating these stories, we weaken his hold on our country.
The MSM, mostly owned by billionaires who are bowing to him, is not reliable — although of course some stories break through.
Note I am traveling during much of the next two weeks. I can’t possibly produce a diary for Feb 18th, and Feb 25th is also kind of shaky.
TACO
He did not go because he knew he would be booed. He was booed last year, and this year he’s way more unpopular.
To be fair, presidents have not usually gone to the Super Bowl, but this means that the felon is no longer popular with the NFL
Then the felon put up the racist stuff about the Obamas, but then he took it down. Because it was unpopular! Because there was pushback!
EPSTEIN
There’s so much stuff here, it’s hard to concentrate on any one thing. But finally the dam is breaking.
Seems even more likely that he was murdered. Oh, and who was the president at the time! The felon!!
From the Daily Beast (Olivia Ralph) article:
A review of the records shows multiple versions of similar statements with inconsistent redactions—some leaving phone numbers or names visible, others blacking out nearly all identifying information.
One draft bears a date of Aug. 9, 2019, the day before Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. ✂️
Epstein’s former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, claimed in a pardon petition filed last summer and recently obtained by the Daily Beast that Epstein was deliberately left unprotected in federal custody.
Tartaglione, a former police officer convicted of multiple murders, alleged that prison officials knowingly housed Epstein with an accused mass murderer despite earlier reports that the disgraced financier had raised concerns about his safety weeks before his death.
Note I saw another CT saying not dead at all, but was whisked away to Israel. If so, again: who was the president at the time?
The felon’s name is all over the files that were released
38,000 times in the case files they released. What the F*** is in what they have not released?
Oh, it’s more than 1,000,000!
We know this because some of the Congress people have gotten to take a look:
As more comes out, we are learning just a whiff of how disgusting these people are:
And the cover-up continues in such a way that they will always be believed to have done much, much more:
ECONOMY
Farmers
The felon’s policies are really hurting farmers. He’s telling them he’s giving them 12 billion of the tariffs but that’s not actually true!
John Boyd Jr. was especially screwed because he was black and was not allowed to attend the rally (gosh, not a surprise that the felon is losing more of the black vote these days).
Here’s more information on the farm crisis Rick Wilson, Substack, Jan 30, 2026
In 2024, rural America didn’t just vote for Donald Trump—it formed a suicide pact with him. In the nation’s 444 farming-dependent counties, Trump pulled in nearly 78% of the vote. Those same counties are now watching multi-generational family farms get fed into the woodchipper of MAGA-nomics. It’s the purest Leopards Eating People’s Faces moment yet, and the leopards are ordering seconds.
The first blow came from Trump’s trade-war obsession. By early 2025, the administration invoked emergency powers to slap double-digit tariffs on everyone from Beijing to Berlin, driving the highest effective tariff rate since 1946. For farmers, this wasn’t “winning”—it was a state-sponsored execution. China, once the buyer of half of all U.S. soybean exports, walked away entirely. By 2026, major crops were bleeding red ink: corn down $169 an acre, soybeans $114, cotton nearly $400.
Net farm income is projected to collapse by $41 billion this year—a 23% drop and one of the sharpest declines in decades. Farmers aren’t tightening belts; they’re checking whether the barn rafters will hold.
If tariffs were the heart attack, immigration policy was the stroke. MAGA demanded mass deportations and got them—only to discover that Stephen Miller’s raids didn’t inspire local teenagers to pick blueberries in 100-degree heat. With roughly 70% of farmworkers foreign-born, the labor force vanished. In New Jersey and California, fruit rotted in the fields; one grower alone lost $5 million simply because no one was left to harvest.
Hard to get workers these dayss!
Oh, and the cattle ranchers are not happy, either:
Didn’t we also prop up Argentina by sending them 20 or 40 billion dollars?
The Labor market sucks: (one reason they wanted a little shutdown was to delay some of the statistics — more numbers are coming out today)
Weaker dollar. Actually this is on purpose:
Normally a weak USD would encourage tourists to come to the US, but this is not happening, because (a) he has been such a jerk, threatening Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, and (b) ICE is happy to put people (especially non Americans) into concentration camps.
Another advantage of a weak USD could be that people in other countries will buy more US goods. BUT the felon is such a pariah that the rest of the world is making sure they don’t do that. For example:
CORRUPTION & INCOMPETENCE
The felon is suing the IRS (which he controls) in order to steal 10 billion of our tax money
Yes, I have brought it up before but it needs to be brought up again.
Jen Rubin has listed the ten biggest corruption scandals of the felon’s administration The Contrarian
And we can’t forget Bezos!
WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALITY
Detention centers — which are really concentration camps (I’m so impressed at how many communities are rising up and saying no F***ing way) — are not popular.
Even groups who are most MAGA hate ICE! Greg Sargent The New Republic
The demographic breakdown of this data, provided to me by Marquette, is eye-opening:
- An overwhelming 58 percent of Americans without a college degree—a proxy for the working class—disapprove of how ICE is handling enforcement, while only 42 percent approve
- 50 percent of rural Americans disapprove of ICE’s handling of enforcement, while 50 percent approve
- 75 percent of men aged 18 to 29 disapprove of ICE’s handling of enforcement, while only 25 percent approve
- 54 percent of non-college Americans oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs and no criminal records, while only 46 percent favor it
- 51 percent of rural Americans oppose those deportations, while only 49 percent are in favor
- 73 percent of men aged 18 to 29 oppose those deportations, while only 27 percent are in favor
So a lot of people in MAGA-friendly constituencies oppose what they’re seeing. That includes working-class and rural Americans and young men (who defected to Trump in big numbers and are a key target of pro-ICE propaganda). These are small subgroups, so we should be cautious, but other polls find the same
And, who is being detained?
OTHER
One thing I’ve been seeing is that people who are waking up are finally realizing he lies all the time! So here are some of his lies that don’t really fit anywhere else:
MAGA is losing the culture war! It’s not just Bad Bunny. It’s hard to complain about drag queens reading books aloud when your leader is a pedo in the Epstein files:
Amanda’s Mild Takes (π© Ocean Rain)
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UNPOPULARITY
A new YouGov poll just dropped.
According to people at the Bulwark (link to video), the 37 is a new low in this poll for the felon. Also, there has been a significant drop in Republicans. I know, I know, 82% approval is too high, BUT this is a low for the felon. And these are people who still call themselves Rs despite the fact that the GOP is run by the felon.
The felon and his minions are hated pretty much everywhere. This is good because we don’t want fascism to spread.
HEALTH & COGNITION
Didn’t see much news on this. As far as I know, there have been no new symptoms. And although he is always saying things that are untrue, it’s hard to know if that’s due to (1) dementia (2) he always lies (3) he’s lazy. Still, his health is dicey, and we want to make the most of it after what the MSM did to Biden.
Some think he’s got FTD (frontotemporal dementia) Alex Bollinger LGBTQ News
Gartner pointed to Trump’s increasingly unbalanced walk, something noticeable during his recent trip to Switzerland.
“On the red carpet at Davos, you may have noticed him weaving,” Gartner said. “That relates to one of the signs of what I think he has: frontotemporal dementia. That walk is called a wide base gait where he swings his right leg in kind of a semicircle, and that drives him to the left.”
“That seems to have gotten dramatically worse recently. It may be related to the stroke I think he’s had on the left side of his body,” Dr. Gartner added.
Gartner also discussed Trump’s “confabulation,” or making up stories based on memories of events that didn’t happen, such as when he claimed his uncle taught the Unabomber at MIT, even though the Unabomber didn’t go to MIT and his identity was made public well after Trump’s uncle died.Gartner also cited Trump’s increasing aggressiveness. Trump has engaged in either physical attacks or saber-rattling against Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, and Nigeria just in the past month, and has become more vindictive with his rhetoric against his political and personal enemies. Gartner noted that Alzheimer’s “does produce tremendous disinhibition of behavior because it’s the frontal lobes that are the brakes of the brain. So that’s what inhibits us from acting out.”“He’s deteriorated since his last administration noticeably, but now we’re seeing deterioration almost week over week. The rate of decline is accelerating,” he said, adding that a “high-pressure job can also accelerate cognitive dysfunction.”
The felon is worried about his legacy. That’s why he’s trying to leave his mark on the White House, the Kennedy Center, and is trying to get more stuff named after him from Chuck Schumer (I’m ok with the Trump Concentration Camps, or something along those lines). But the legacy concerns are because he is concerned with his own mortality Times of India. That’s why he wants prizes and things named after him.
There’s no way he would be this concerned about his legacy if he didn’t have super bad news from some doctors.
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