**Donald Trump is down in the polls. Gas is up at the pump. MAGA candidates are stumbling. **What’s Trump’s closing message for the midterms? He’s channeling Sir Mix-a-Lot: Trump likes big butts.
It’s hardly a good sign for Republicans when the leader of their party seems more obsessed with staring at butts than lowering gas prices and ending an unpopular war, right before an election. Last week, President Donald Trump announced that he had recently checked out Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH)... and liked what he saw. “I looked at his ass, and then I looked at his legs,” Trump
said at a rally. “I said, ‘His ass, shit, it’s like, it’s like a pile of muscle.’”
A one-off? A misstep? Hardly. It’s a big new theme in Trump’s stump speech (or shall I say,
rump speech). As if to erase any doubts about that, Trump re-upped this blatantly inappropriate line of commentary during a rally in Michigan last night, when he was joined onstage by recent MAGA convert Nicki Minaj.
“I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before: Nicki Minaj,” Trump
𝕏said, with the MAGA-pilled rapper sitting nearby. “That’s hard to miss. Stand up! That’s hard to miss.”
Trump’s fascination with the human physique isn’t anything new. But this is just one example of how his latest comments on the campaign trail and social media — at a critical moment for the GOP’s future — are becoming increasingly unhinged, as if he doesn’t care about winning over voters, and just wants to keep the nation’s eyeballs on The Trump Show.
Take his latest 1,300-word post on Truth Social. He could have posted a plan to end the war with Iran, bring down gas prices, or fight inflation. Instead, he posted a screed long enough to be a CVS receipt on an
even morepressing topic: His relationship with comedian Bill Maher. Trump apparently got madafter Maher pressedKaroline Leavitt, the former chief White House propagandist, about Republicans possibly losing the midterms on his show.
“Let’s talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher. He’s got a Low Rated Show on equally Low Rated HBO, which was once, long ago, a Network of Quality and Excitement — But that’s all gone. It’s not ‘HOT’ anymore!” Trump posted last night. “Bill: Don’t call anymore. It’s useless.”
Don’t you have more important things to care about???
**Some of the president’s screwloose musings are simply unserious. **Others could have dire consequences for Americans.
Gas still averages well above four dollars per gallon across the country, thanks to Trump’s war in Iran,
according to AAA. The average price of diesel, which the administration has been desperately trying to lower, remains at $6.34 per gallon.
At the rally last night, however, Trump dismissed concerns about the high cost of gas. “It’s a small price to pay,”
𝕏he said, for his incredibly awesome war in Iran.
Most of the things that Trump spews have no immediate repercussions — but some do. One such example also came on Sunday, relating to Iran: “I have a decision to make: Do I finish it off, which would be very easy to do, or do I make a deal? That’s all,” Trump
told Fox News.
The suggestion that Trump might “finish off” Iran
sparked widespread concernamong diplomats that the U.S. and Israel might actually launch a fresh wave of attacks, despite Trump’s previous comments that he would hold off on new strikes until after the midterms.
His seemingly offhand comment about renewing a war
less than two weeks away from Election Dayshowcases Trump’s delusion and arrogance. “Trump continues to seemingly believe that he holds the strategic advantage,” a dumbfounded geopolitical analyst𝕏tweeted.
**Why is Trump acting so weird? One theory: He genuinely thinks he’s incredibly popular. **“I don’t believe I could be beaten by anybody,” he recently told a right-wing outlet.
** The Department of Justice charged former** FBI Director James Comey for a third time today, moments before we hit “send” on this newsletter. He was charged with “transmission of national defense information and conspiracy to transmit national defense information,” NBC News reports. We’ll have more details on this soon. In the past, Comey has repeatedly denied all wrongdoing.
** The Trump administration is laying the groundwork** to potentially treat millions of veterans struggling with PTSD and other mental illnesses with psychedelic drugs. Government regulators haven’t yet declared psychedelics, like magic mushrooms or MDMA, to be safe or effective for treating mental illnesses. Regardless, Trump signed an executive order earlier this year to speed up testing on psychedelics, and there’s
** GOP campaigns and PACs have spent about $3 million** at Trump’s businesses since he started his second term, according to a
** Two Catholic bishops who posed for a prayer photo **with Trump and other bishops in the Oval Office last week said they regret their participation, blaming the administration for using the photo for political gain. “I wish I had been more shrewd and less simple, like those who exploited our meeting for partisan political purpose,” one of the bishops wrote in a statement.
** Trump went on a racist tirade against **Abdul El-Sayed during a rally last night, describing the Michigan Democratic Senate candidate as a “jihadist” who should “have to go through a metal detector before he’s allowed to go into the Senate.” El-Sayed hit back
** Trump also lashed out at Norway for not giving him** the Nobel Peace Prize during that rally. “Norway sucks. Norway has become a shithouse country,” he said. A shithouse country? What does that even mean? Did he
** A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration **illegally fired Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor and daughter of the former FBI director.
** Punk band Turnstile drew an estimated 60,000 people** to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for a benefit concert to raise money for crisis efforts in Palestine, Sudan, and Lebanon on Saturday. The
** The SS United States ocean liner is expected to be sunk off** the coast of Florida next month, becoming the world’s largest artificial reef. Artificial reefs provide shelter and food sources for local fish communities, while also generating money from scuba-diving tourists.
** A California man who works as a systems engineer **at a cybersecurity company has an alter ego: he’s the Picasso of Pumpkin Carvers. The man, who also goes by Farmer Mike, has been carving ghoulish faces, seasides scenes, dragons, and other images into giant gourds for four decades — and he doesn’t have any formal art training. We all have hidden talents!
** Talk show personality Andy Cohen reflected on his **famous friendship with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and how their party days may be behind them. “I would say that our friendship — with no offense to him or me — has become a little more boring,” Cohen said. “Look, we’re both going through the same periods at the same life stage with our kids, so we’re talking about that and not, you know, ‘Did you go to Horse Meat Disco?’”
** With Halloween right around the corner, get a load of this: **Sugar doesn’t actually make kids hyper, according to decades of research. This
