Politics Break - 03 September 2025

FOX News did not cover the news conference on the Capitol steps by the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Instead it covered a presser held by Trump in the Oval Office, supposedly because his meeting with the president of Poland was SO much more important. 

So, important, in fact, that Trump organized a "spectacular" military flyover to "honor" a Polish army F-16 pilot. Oh, a war hero? No. Um,  he died in an August crash during a rehearsal for an airshow in Radom, Poland. 

So Trump held an air show of military jets of his own. Right over the Capitol. The noisy fighter jets performed a missing man formation and other ceremonial acrobatics. ALL deliberately planned to coincide with the Epstein victims' outdoor news conference. 

Inside the Oval Throne Room, Trump was asked by reporters what his response was to the testimony by Epstein's sexual abuse victims, both before Congress yesterday, and on the Capitol steps today. 

He was already obviously on the defensive. He was in full grouchy old man mode, insulting reporters and ignoring the President of Poland, except to gesture to him occasionally, and bark, "RIGHT?" at him, manipulating him to nod in agreement, like a prop he was. 

"IT'S A HOAX," Trump blustered. "A DEMOCRATIC HOAX THAT NEVER ENDS!" 

A hoax, he said, to detract from the best 8 months in office ANY US president ever had. A hoax to detract from the GREATNESS of America, thanks to him and him alone. 

Wait. How does an international sex scandal detract from the greatness of America? In any way? 

It doesn't. It only detracts from the "greatness" of HIMSELF.

So he started RANTING about the "greatness" of himself. That he stopped 7 wars (he didn't). That his tariffs are bringing in TRILLIONS of dollars (they aren't.)  That his military incursions into LA and DC SAVED those cities (oh, by guarding empty federal buildings and picking up trash?) 

He claimed people were afraid to go to restaurants in DC because they were even getting mugged IN the restaurants (they weren't) but now his Republican friends are able to go out to eat "4 or 5 times" a week. 

Gee. Wouldn't YOU like to afford to go out to eat 4 or 5 times a week? 

And as for LA, thanks to him, protesters didn't burn the whole city down in June. Otherwise, he said, there would be no Olympic games. 

Wait. Hold on. What? His ONLY concern about LA getting destroyed is that HIS Olympic Games, THREE YEARS from now, would be affected? That's IT? 

He doesn't care about the PEOPLE who would be killed? About the social, and cultural, and yes, economic tragedy of losing such a major American city? It's only about HIS Olympic Games? 

And of course he had to mention "opening the tap" to send water to Southern California instead of the ocean - IT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY. The reason is to divert water during certain seasons so that it does not flood vital farmland in NORTHERN California. Where a lot of REPUBLICANS live, work, and own farms. That water does not make its way down to LA, ANYWAY. That is NUTS. It makes him look stup!d. But he keep repeating it - why?

He went on and on and on just the way he did at his rallies, with his latest "greatest hits", talking louder and faster, about his plans to turn the military on Chicago and other cities throughout the US, red and blue cities alike. 

Then he pivoted to brag about blowing up a small speedboat off the coast of Venezuela, killing 11 people aboard, because they were "bringing drugs to the USA to kill thousands of people and now they won't anymore."

Killing foreign nationals, without an arrest, or a trial. Even if found guilty, they would not have received the death penalty. And going to America? In a small boat? With Cuba in the way? REALLY?

The drugs most likely came from Colombia. The people in the boat most likely were Colombians. But Trump ranted on and on about Venezuela, acting like it is an enemy country attacking the US on a level comparable to Pearl Harbor.