SINCERETALK

Donald (“pretend-I’m-on-the-ballot”) Trump has made this election into a referendum on him. Good. He is a historic anomaly whose election to the highest office in the land — twice! — will forever be a stain on the judgment of the American people. A president who lies incessantly; who generates fear and fuels hatefulness; who viciously attacks the free press, political opponents, and all who disagree with him; who uses his office for personal gain; and who cozies up to dictators such as Vladimir Putin while turning against our historic friends, such as Canada. For the sake of our democracy and our future, we must send a clear signal on Tuesday that we find Trump repugnant. A rejection beyond mere repudiation. A clear vote of no confidence. While Trump and his Republican enablers have manufactured false threats to America — Americans who are Muslim, Mexican Americans, Latino Americans, transgender Americans, fraudulent voters, “globalists” — they dismiss the real threats to America that...

At a Cleveland rally last weekend, former President Barack Obama went viral for a joke that Donald Trump has given the White House an overhaul look, as if Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. Anita Chabria of the Los Angeles Times says the president took the bait. “Trump lost it,” she writes. Chabria argues that if there is anything we have learned about the president in recent years, it is that he is as fond of gold as he is of hating Obama. Adding, “Roll them together in one moment, and the leader of the free world can’t help but freak out.” Chabria also draws attention to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who is worth at least $500 million, visiting a Cheesecake Factory , where he had no trouble calling out Obama for elitism over the restaurant reference in his joke about Trump. In her view, Obama was not just cracking a joke but was “masterful at political strategy” in eliciting a response from the president. “It was rage-bait, crafted for engagement,” she says. She obser...

Former White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, who was removed from her role after only five days following a shaky maiden voyage and inconsistencies concerning her legal background, said she is still surprised at the Sean Hannity interview that may have been the final nail in her short career at the White House “I'm just as perplexed about what happened specifically with Sean Hannity,” Zacharia told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty Tuesday night . She added that even though Hannity’s fatal scrutiny of her legal background may have been the break-point where Trump reconsidered her hiring, she said Hannity's team had made overtures to her about a job spot earlier in the year. “I got a phone call from them asking me if I would consider being Sean's California man on the street, basically asking Californians what they thought of Gavin Newsom ahead of potentially a presidential run that Gavin Newsom might make,” Zacharia said. “So Sean Hannity's team, after being on with hi...

A shrimper in deepest red Mississippi was begging President Donald Trump to lower diesel fuel prices before the whole shrimping industry goes kaput. “Whether he wins midterms or not, we need you,” said Mississippi shrimper Maynard Dubuisson, a longtime Trump supporter who says soaring diesel costs are pressing fishermen and small shrimp-related businesses to the edge of disaster. “We voted for you. We put you in office and we depended on you. We have no other choice. There is no other choice.” Dubuisson said marine supply stores, like shrimping vessels, are not “ moving products .” “The supplies for these boats cost a lot of money because of the high cost of shipping. Everything's very expensive, and they're not selling anything. Those stores are just about to go out of business also,” Dubuisson told Bulwark editor Will Sommer . He added that the same doldrums are hitting everything from processing plants to local grocery stores. “Let me school you up on this: Baylor, Alabama ...

President Donald Trump's attempts to bribe voters into supporting his Republican Party during the 2026 midterms is backfiring on him, at least according to his own niece, psychologist Dr. Mary L. Trump. "Among all of the nonsensical things that have come out of Donald’s mouth, we’re starting to see some real desperation," Trump said on Tuesday . "I wanna show you a collection of some of the outrageous promises Donald has been making to his crowds, also kind of known as bribes, about how much money they’re going to get if they simply vote Republican. Let’s take a look and we’ll talk about it on the other side." The niece's supercut showed Trump saying, on various occasions, "They just sent out nearly one million refund checks for $500 each. 20 million seniors on Medicare will soon be receiving a deposit of nearly $100 directly into their bank accounts. I am going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000. It’s only if we win, don...

President Donald Trump was just humiliated in court – by a judge who invoked Dr. Seuss in order to do it . "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President," Judge Ana C. Reyes said in her ruling on Monday. She referred to how Trump's Department of Justice is urging her to not interpret the president's own statements about destroying historic cherry trees to renovate the East Potomac Golf Links as literal truth. "Not to believe him that a cabinet secretary has 'developed' a federal land project," Reyes continued. "Not to believe him that the secretary’s agency will destroy a historic golf course already on the land. Not to believe him that 'Restoration work' will begin 'IMMEDIATELY!' Not to believe him that the course 'will be closed' for over a year. Not to believe what the President has repeatedly told the American public. And yet, here we are....