Day 241: The Authoritarian Circus: A Clown Show of Censorship and Scapegoating

Donny’s Terrorist of the Week: Antifa

The fascist campaign rolls on. In his latest authoritarian flex, The Mad King announced via a post on his shitty app, naturally, that he intends to brand antifa as a “SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER.” He went further, vowing to “strongly recommend” investigations into their financial backers, because when you can’t solve real problems, you invent shadowy enemies.

Of course, minor detail: antifa isn’t an organization. It’s a loosely connected movement, more a mindset than a membership list. You can no more designate “antifa” a terrorist group than you can slap sanctions on “punk rock” or “people who don’t like Donny’s tie.” But in Trumpworld, due process and legal precedent are optional, reality bends to whatever plays well with the base.

The White House has offered no clarity on how this designation would work, because it isn’t meant to. It’s performance politics, a shiny object tossed out while The Don embarrasses himself abroad on his UK state visit. Call it distraction by demonization: when the diplomatic blunders pile up, shout “ANTIFA TERRORISTS” loud enough and hope the headlines follow.

The danger, though, is real. By pretending antifa is a monolithic terrorist group, The Don lays the groundwork to suppress dissent, monitor activists, and criminalize protest. Police brutality? Racial injustice? Rising authoritarianism? Forget it. The enemy is antifa, conveniently defined as “anyone who opposes us.”

It’s the classic authoritarian formula:

• Find a vague, frightening scapegoat.
• Label them an existential threat.
• Use that label to crush opposition and consolidate power.

And while he plays dictator cosplay, the country gets dragged further into division, fear, and paranoia. This isn’t about national security, it’s about narrative control.

The Mad King’s war on imaginary terror groups isn’t just laughable; it’s dangerous. Because today it’s “antifa.” Tomorrow? Anyone who boos at Yankee Stadium.

The Joke’s on Us

ABC has shamefully pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air after Kimmel dared to speak the plain, unvarnished truth about Charlie Kirk’s death. His crime? Saying:

“The MAGA Gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

That’s not mockery. That’s not even edgy late-night comedy. That’s just… reality. And for telling it like it is, Kimmel is now silenced.

Meanwhile, The Don is basking in the glow of censorship like a cat in the sunbeam of authoritarianism. On social media he called it “great news for America” and praised ABC for its “courage.” Courage? Only in the same way that torching books was once called “cultural renewal.”

He couldn’t resist throwing in some middle-school jabs too, calling Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers “two total losers on Fake News NBC.” This comes hot on the heels of Stephen Colbert’s show getting axed — a purge of late-night critics dressed up as “broadcast standards.”

The not-so-hidden hand here? The Trump-appointed chair of the US broadcast regulator, who waved around broadcasters’ licenses like a loaded gun and warned that action had to be taken against Kimmel. ABC dutifully fell in line, proving once again that corporate media will bend the knee when threatened by state power.

What’s happening is bigger than one comedian. The boundaries of acceptable political discourse are being redrawn in real time. Narrowed to exclude anyone who dares point out that the emperor is strutting around in golf pants with no clothes. We’re watching dissent get muzzled, satire neutered, and the Overton window shrink until it’s the size of Donny’s attention span.

Kimmel's exit is even more of an affront given Fox’s Brian Kilmeade seriously broached the subject of killing homeless people only last week and has had no more than a slap on the wrist for it.

It's beyond disappointing to see so few standup and resist. We know where this path leads. Every capitulation is another nail in the coffin - and we know, it will never be enough.

It’s history 101: authoritarian regimes always silence the jesters first. Not because the jokes hurt, but because they reveal the truth. And the truth terrifies them.

Donny vs. Democracy: Round ∞

Donny’s war on democracy continues to roll across multiple fronts like a circus tank driven by sewer clowns. The latest battlefield? His eternal grudge match with the media.

After ABC’s John Lyons had the audacity to ask a perfectly reasonable question about Donny’s financial gains since crawling back into office, the Mad King responded in his signature style: petty, vindictive, and thinner-skinned than a wet tissue. He yanked ABC’s accreditation for his upcoming UK press conference, citing — wait for it — “logistical reasons.” Translation: I don’t like being asked awkward questions, so no questions for you.

Sure, ABC’s London bureau can still attend other events, but the press conference — the one that actually matters — is suddenly off-limits. Selective transparency, authoritarian chic.

In just nine short months, Donny and his band of sewer clowns have managed to dismantle democratic norms at a rate that would make an actual dictator blush. It’s not enough that he incited an insurrection, pardoned terrorists, and turned the Supreme Court into his personal fan club. Now, he’s busy smothering the free press with a pillow labeled “fake news.”

This isn’t just a tantrum about one journalist. It’s part of the larger pattern: silence dissent, punish critics, and control the narrative. It’s the same tired playbook used by autocrats the world over — just with more golf trips and ketchup stains.

Make no mistake: democracy is hanging by a thread. And Donny, gleeful scissors in hand, is snipping away strand by strand.

Donny’s Big Day Out: State Visit 2.0

The main talking point of Donny’s unprecedented second state visit to the UK wasn’t his limp gushing over the “special relationship” or the billions in tech deals being quietly inked behind the scenes. No, it was Melania’s utterly ridiculous lamp-hat, which looked like it had been stolen from a Marriott conference room. The royals, masters of the tight smile and subtle side-eye, looked positively aghast at the buffoonery unfolding across the banquet table.

Donny, meanwhile, lapped up the pomp like a kid at Disneyland, declaring the visit “one of the highest honours of my life.” He cooed over King Charles, called the Anglo-American bond “irreplaceable and unbreakable,” and managed to sound about as convincing as a used-car salesman flogging a clapped-out Ford Fiesta.

Donny gave a dull and uninspiring speech. Reactions around the table were clear that everyone knows the man leading the US is an actual clown. But they all pay lip service to him.

Of course, the pageantry was meant to distract from the awkward fact that thousands of protesters in Windsor and London were loudly chanting “Fuck Off Donny” while waving mini Trump Baby Blimps and banners denouncing his climate denial, authoritarianism, and alleged role in enabling genocide in Gaza. The UK government worked overtime to shield Donny from embarrassment, staging events well away from central London, but the protests still bled through — including activists projecting giant images of Trump arm-in-arm with Jeffrey Epstein across Windsor Castle’s walls. Subtle.

Inside the banquet hall, Rupert Murdoch popped up like the ghost of bad decisions past, mingling with the royals he’s spent decades manipulating, though mercifully placed several seats away from the Don he’s currently being sued by. Tech billionaires like Sam Altman and Jensen Huang tucked into watercress panna cotta while King Charles gamely played his part, praising the “new era of partnership.”

But outside, the mood was far less deferential. Thousands made it clear that the UK’s red carpet for Donny was not rolled out in their name. Protesters saw him not as a visiting dignitary but as the spiritual figurehead of a global far-right movement bent on dismantling democracy, one tantrum at a time.

And yet, Donny grinned through it all, oblivious to the jeers and headlines. After all, nothing feeds his ego more than being the centre of attention — even if half the country is booing and the other half is laughing at his wife’s bedside-table chic.

Donny v. The Fed: Rate Cuts for Grown-Ups

The Federal Reserve has trimmed interest rates for the first time since December, lowering them to 4%–4.25%. Jerome Powell, who must now qualify as America’s most patient man, explained that the move is meant to steady a labor market looking a little shaky around the edges.

Of course, this won’t satisfy Donny. Nothing ever does. For months he’s been screaming at Powell to slash rates like they’re the price tags at one of his gaudy golf resorts. In Donny’s mind, the Fed isn’t an independent central bank but just another tool in his economic playset — right there alongside tariffs, tantrums, and televised threats to Canada.

Powell, trying to maintain a veneer of sanity, admitted that Trump’s beloved tariffs have already baked in a “one-time shift” in prices, the polite economist’s way of saying your little trade war is screwing with inflation, Mr. President. But he also warned those effects could stick around longer, making life harder for businesses and households alike. Translation: Donny’s economic genius looks a lot like self-inflicted wounds.

The Fed’s balancing act here is clear: support the economy, stop inflation from going full bonfire, and do all of this while ignoring the howling toddler on Pennsylvania Avenue. Meanwhile, Donny will keep spinning this as Powell’s personal betrayal, because in his head, monetary policy exists for one reason only: to make Donny look good.

The irony? The adults are still trying to keep the ship afloat while the Mad King keeps drilling holes in the hull.

Vanishing Truths: DOJ Memory-Holes Far-Right Terror Study

The Department of Justice has pulled a classic authoritarian trick: when the facts don’t fit Dear Leader’s narrative, make them disappear.

Days after the assassination of Donny’s golden boy Charlie Kirk, the DOJ quietly scrubbed a study from its website that inconveniently pointed out the obvious — far-right extremists have killed more people in the U.S. than any other domestic terrorist group. The report, “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism,” had dared to commit the ultimate sin: speaking truth. Since 1990, far-right extremists have been responsible for more than 520 murders across 227 incidents — a number that dwarfs the combined body count of far-left and Islamist extremists.

Now? Poof. Gone. Archived, hidden away like the Epstein files, never to be found by the casual reader. The timing is almost too on-the-nose: just as The Don and his court jesters crank up their “radical left” hysteria in the wake of Kirk’s death, the DOJ takes out the digital trash — the kind that contradicts the fairy tale.

Of course, no explanation has been given. Why bother? Transparency is for losers. Accountability is for other countries. In Donny’s America, the only “truth” allowed is whatever The Don barks out at 3 a.m. on his shitty app that no one else uses.

What this really underscores is the rot at the heart of the administration: political expediency above public safety. Rather than confront the very real, very deadly threat of far-right extremism, they’d rather gaslight the public and pretend it doesn’t exist. Because acknowledging reality would mean admitting that The Don’s biggest fans — the militia cosplay crowd, the conspiracy theorists, the violent zealots — are part of the problem. And that is something the Mad King can never, ever do.

The DOJ can scrub its website all it likes, but the blood on the hands of far-right extremism doesn’t wash off so easily. And no amount of digital whiteout can erase the truth that America’s greatest threat isn’t coming from “the radical left” — it’s festering in the Mad King’s own base.