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Day 250: Donny's Descent into Dictatorship: Firing Lines and Foreign Aid

Friday, September 26, 2025

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Donny Promises to Release The Files

That's right - Donny has committed to releasing files that until now have been classified.

Oh not those files - not the files everyone is asking him to release. The files that has his name all over it.

What Donny has announced is the declassification of… wait for it… Amelia Earhart files. Yes, the man who has spent years stonewalling on the Epstein documents has suddenly discovered a burning public interest in a mystery from 1937. According to Donny, “many people” cornered him on Long Island to demand answers about Earhart’s disappearance. Because, of course, that’s what people are really worried about right now.

This is classic Donny misdirection: toss out some shiny historical trivia while burying the stuff that actually matters. Epstein’s files? A “hoax.” Questions about corruption in his own administration? Fake news. But Amelia Earhart? Now that’s where presidential focus belongs. Forget inflation, foreign wars, or the fact that democracy is clinging to life support—Donny’s got his sights set on a pilot who vanished before his parents even met.

Nobody asked for this. Nobody cares. And yet, here we are, with the Mad King pretending he’s striking a blow for “transparency” by unlocking the secrets of a case better left to the History Channel. The Epstein files would scorch him, so he’s dangling Amelia instead, like a cheap magician palming the card he doesn’t want you to see.

It’s a distraction, pure and simple. Donny’s desperate to look like the truth-teller while keeping the truth that actually matters locked away. Amelia Earhart deserves respect, not to be weaponized as a presidential prop. But for Dozy Don, history is just another pawn in the endless game of hiding his own sins.


Donny's Pal's at SCOTUS Side with him yet Again

In a move straight out of Dictatorship for Dummies, the Supreme Court, stacked with Donny’s handpicked cronies, handed him the right to sit on $4 billion in foreign aid Congress had already approved. A lower court had ordered the money released, but the Supremes decided, once again, that their job is to rubber-stamp whatever whim the Mad King fancies.

The funds were meant for UN peacekeeping and democracy-promotion. You know, boring things like stability and preventing coups. Instead, they’ll now evaporate because Donny would rather let the world burn than lift a finger for democracy.

The 6-3 conservative majority delivered exactly what he wanted, proving the Court isn’t an independent branch anymore, it’s just an extension of his fragile ego in black robes. Forget separation of powers; this is separation of spine.

Donny's pals can literally be all but guaranteed to side with Donny on any ruling that lands at their feet. The highest court in the land is permitting the destruction of the constitution.

This undermines US soft power and strengthens rivals like China and Russia. Donny doesn’t care. Global order doesn’t earn applause at rallies, but flexing raw power does. This is not about foreign aid, it’s about showing that he can bend every institution to his will.

The Don’s autocratic project rolls on, unchecked and unbalanced, with the Court cheering from the sidelines.

As always, here's our reminder of Supreme Court rulings to date:

SCOTUS Rulings

Watchdog Agency Head Firing Delayed - February 21, 2025
Details: The Court postponed action on removing the head of the Office of Special Counsel, delaying Trump's attempt to fire the watchdog agency head.
Policy Area Significance
Whistleblower Protection / Agency Independence Supports stability in independent oversight amid executive pressure.
Foreign Aid Payments Upheld - March 5, 2025
Details: The Court declined to allow Trump’s administration to withhold payments to aid organizations for work already performed.
Policy Area Significance
Foreign Policy Funding Affirms obligation to honor contracts and grants despite budgetary policy shifts.
Teacher Training Grant Cuts Allowed - April 4, 2025
Details: The Court lifted an injunction requiring reinstatement of teacher training grants promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Policy Area Significance
Education Funding / DEI Undercuts DEI-focused teacher support programs at state level.
Reinstatement of Fired Federal Employees Blocked - April 8, 2025
Details: The Court blocked an order requiring the reinstatement of thousands of probationary federal employees.
Policy Area Significance
Employment Law / Federal Workforce Strengthens executive discretion over staffing decisions.
Reentry Ordered for Wrongfully Deported Salvadoran - April 10, 2025
Details: The Court directed the government to facilitate return of a Salvadoran man who had been mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
Policy Area Significance
Immigration / Errors & Due Process Emphasizes accountability and correction of government errors in deportation.
Transgender Military Ban Allowed - May 6, 2025
Details: The Court permitted enforcement of Trump’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military by lifting a nationwide injunction blocking discharges.
Policy Area Significance
Civil Rights / Military Policy Expands executive authority over military personnel policies, raises equal protection concerns.
Limits on Alien Enemies Act Deportations Maintained - May 16, 2025
Details: The Court upheld a block on deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, requiring due process and halting immediate removals.
Policy Area Significance
Immigration / Constitutional Law Reaffirms judicial oversight even in cases invoking wartime statutes.
Termination of Venezuelan TPS Allowed - May 19, 2025
Details: The Court allowed the administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan migrants, by lifting a lower court’s order blocking the termination.
Policy Area Significance
Immigration / Humanitarian Status Undermines protections for migrants from crisis-affected countries.
Labor Board Officials Removal Allowed - May 22, 2025
Details: The Court allowed the dismissal of two Democratic members of federal labor boards by staying lower court orders preserving their posts.
Policy Area Significance
Administrative Law / Labor Further erodes independence of labor-related entities.
End of Immigration 'Parole' Upheld - May 30, 2025
Details: The Court put on hold a lower court’s order blocking revocation of temporary parole status for hundreds of thousands of migrants, allowing the administration to proceed with ending the program.
Policy Area Significance
Immigration / Status Protections Potentially exposes many to expedited removal, reducing avenues for relief.
Access to SSA Data Permitted - June 6, 2025
Details: The Court allowed Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency to access sensitive personal data from the Social Security Administration.
Policy Area Significance
Privacy / Government Access Raises privacy concerns regarding government surveillance power.
DOGE FOIA Record Disclosure Block Extended - June 6, 2025
Details: The Court paused lower court orders requiring disclosure of DOGE’s records under FOIA by staying production.
Policy Area Significance
Transparency / Advisory Bodies Reinforces executive control over advisory entity transparency.
Third-Country Deportations Allowed to Resume - June 23, 2025
Details: The Court lifted a lower court’s injunction, enabling Trump’s administration to deport migrants to countries other than their origin without offering them a chance to claim potential harm in those destinations.
Policy Area Significance
Immigration / Due Process Limits procedural safeguards for migrants; emphasizes executive authority in deportation decisions.
Birthright Citizenship Injunction Scope Narrowed - June 27, 2025
Details: The Court narrowed the scope of nationwide injunctions blocking Trump’s executive order restricting automatic birthright citizenship, without ruling on its legality.
Policy Area Significance
Immigration / Citizenship Clarifies limits on judicial power to issue nationwide halts on executive actions and underscores tension between executive authority and judicial oversight.
Limits on South Sudan Deportations Lifted - July 3, 2025
Details: The Court clarified that its June 23 decision also applied to lifting injunctions protecting eight individuals from being sent to South Sudan.
Policy Area Significance
Immigration / Human Rights Extends resumption of controversial deportations to politically unstable regions.
Mass Federal Layoffs Cleared - July 8, 2025
Details: The Court allowed nationwide government job cuts by staying a lower court’s injunction against sweeping reductions across federal agencies.
Policy Area Significance
Labor / Administrative Action Gives the administration broad leeway to reduce federal workforce despite legal challenges.
Education Department Dismantling Permitted - July 14, 2025
Details: The Court allowed Trump’s administration to proceed with dismantling the Department of Education by lifting a lower court’s block on layoffs and transfers.
Policy Area Significance
Education / Administrative Reform Signals support for sweeping structural changes to major agencies.
Removal of Consumer Product Safety Commissioners Allowed - July 23, 2025
Details: The Court upheld the administration’s ability to remove three CPSC members by lifting a lower court’s order blocking their dismissal.
Policy Area Significance
Administrative Law / Independent Agencies Signals weakening of tenure protections for regulatory agency officials.
NIH Grant Cuts Allowed - August 21, 2025
Details: The Court lifted a block on cuts to NIH grants for research focused on racial minorities or LGBT individuals.
Policy Area Significance
Research Funding / Diversity Initiatives Challenges DEI-related funding and scientific autonomy.
Immigration Raids Proceed in Southern California - September 8, 2025
Details: The Court allowed federal agents to carry out immigration raids in Southern California, putting on hold a lower court’s order that barred stops based on race, language, or accent.
Policy Area Significance
Immigration Enforcement Reaffirms executive discretion in immigration enforcement; raises Fourth Amendment concerns regarding profiling.
FTC Commissioner Removal Stayed - September 8, 2025
Details: The Court issued an administrative stay preventing the firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter while considering the legality of the removal.
Policy Area Significance
Administrative Law / Agency Independence Raises questions about limits on executive power to remove independent agency officials.
Foreign Aid Withholding Pause Granted - September 8, 2025
Details: The Court temporarily paused a lower court order mandating spending of about $4 billion in foreign aid, allowing the administration to withhold the funds pending further review.
Policy Area Significance
Foreign Policy Funding / Congressional Appropriation Heightens separation-of-powers dispute over control of spending.
Supreme Court allows Trump officials to freeze billions in foreign aid - September 26, 2025
Details: The Court lifted a lower-court injunction and allowed the Trump administration to freeze over $4 billion in foreign aid that had been appropriated by Congress, siding with the executive branch’s request to withhold funds pending further review. The majority did not rule on the ultimate merits but emphasized that the harms to U.S. foreign policy weighed more heavily in their view than potential harm to aid recipients. A dissent by Justice Kagan (joined by the other liberal justices) criticized the use of the emergency docket for such high-stakes cases and warned of separation-of-powers consequences.
Policy Area Significance
Foreign Policy / Appropriations / Separation of Powers This decision strengthens executive control over congressional appropriations in the foreign aid domain, at least as an interim remedy, and highlights how the Court is increasingly willing to engage in high-stakes emergency rulings affecting core powers between branches.


Indictment of Dozy Don’s Enemies List Grows: From Comey to Schiff, Nobody’s Safe From the Mad King’s VendettaJames Comey

Dozy Don is no longer pretending. He’s not even bothering with the usual fig leaf of justice or due process. On Friday, before jetting off to the Ryder Cup (because of course golf takes precedence over governing), Donny made it clear: more of his “enemies” will be hauled before the courts like dissidents in a banana republic.

“It’s not a list, but I think there’ll be others,” the Mad King muttered on the White House lawn. Not a list? Please. The man’s been working off a laminated enemies list since 2016, tucked in between the Big Macs and the ketchup packets.

We’ve already seen what his revenge looks like: the Department of Justice, now fully house-trained, obligingly indicted James Comey for the crime of—wait for it—saying something in 2020 that contradicted Donny’s fever dreams. The case is so weak that even prosecutors originally laughed it out of the room. Don’s solution? Fire the U.S. attorney who refused to play ball and replace him with a loyalist aide with zero prosecutorial experience. Lindsey Halligan promptly marched into the grand jury and scraped together just enough votes to make it look official.

But Donny’s appetite isn’t sated. Oh no. Next on his hit parade: New York Attorney General Letitia James, who had the gall to sue him for fraud; Adam Schiff, whose crime was leading impeachment; John Brennan, who once told the truth about Russian election meddling; and John Bolton, his former mustachioed national security adviser who dared to write a book instead of a love letter.

This isn’t justice. It’s vengeance—petty, performative, and profoundly dangerous. Donny is running the DOJ like it’s his personal enforcer, a goon squad in suits. Pam Bondi, his attorney general-cum-loyal poodle, is publicly egged on via Truth Social posts that read less like presidential proclamations and more like ransom notes written in ketchup.

The spectacle is grotesque: democracy twisted into Donny’s personal vendetta machine. He doesn’t just want to punish his critics—he wants to grind them into dust while the rest of us watch, slack-jawed, as the Constitution is shredded one indictment at a time.

But hey, at least he still has time for golf. Priorities, right?


FBI fires agents kneeling in protest

The FBI has just purged as many as 20 of its own agents, most of them tied to a 2020 moment when agents dared to kneel alongside George Floyd protesters in Washington, D.C. What had once been treated as a savvy act of de-escalation is now being recast, under Donny’s second term, as heresy. Fifteen of those fired were directly connected to that single kneeling incident, according to people briefed on the matter.

The decision comes after a so-called “review” by the bureau’s inspection division and its general counsel. The FBI won’t comment, of course, but the Agents Association blasted Director Kash Patel’s leadership, saying the firings trampled due-process rights and weakened the bureau’s ability to retain talent. “Patel’s dangerous new pattern of actions are weakening the Bureau… ultimately putting our nation at greater risk,” they warned.

It’s hard not to see the purge for what it is: political theater masquerading as discipline. Back in 2020, the kneeling worked. It defused tensions in the streets, sparing what could have been a bloody confrontation. At the time, top FBI brass reviewed the incident and concluded no rules had been broken. But under the Mad King’s second reign, that kind of nuance doesn’t fly. Loyalty is the only policy.

This round of firings is part of a broader Trump-era effort to “root out” so-called woke or politicized elements. Translation: anyone who doesn’t salute Donny’s crusade. The Justice Department is now reviewing the conduct of over 1,500 agents whose cases crossed Trumpworld. Just last month, two senior officials were axed, one for the sin of resisting efforts to identify agents tied to Jan. 6 investigations.

So let’s call this what it is: an ideological cleansing. Twenty careers ended, not for corruption, not for incompetence, but for kneeling, literally kneeling, in a moment of conscience. That’s the bar now.


King Don’s Firing Fetish

In his endless quest to prove that everything in America belongs to him, from the courts to the weather, Donny has now set his sights on corporate HR. His latest tantrum? Demanding that Microsoft immediately terminate Lisa Monaco, their President of Global Affairs, because she’s had the audacity to be a persistent thorn in his bloated side.

Retribution as Policy

This is less about “corporate accountability” and more about Donny’s favorite pastime: score-settling. Forget governing. Forget policy. Forget the economy teetering like one of his casinos circa 1992. What really matters is making sure anyone who ever so much as raises an eyebrow at the throne gets publicly flogged. It’s transparent, it’s petty, and it’s exactly the kind of political theater the Mad King adores.

Authoritarian 101

The move is classic Trumpism: punish the critic, dress it up as patriotic duty, and dare anyone to call it what it is — a grotesque abuse of power. Once upon a time, leaders at least pretended to separate politics from private enterprise. Donny doesn’t bother. He wants you to see it. To know it. To internalize the lesson: dissent equals unemployment.

The Message Behind the Madness

The chilling part? It’s working. CEOs are already learning that survival in Donny’s America means nodding like dashboard bobbleheads while he dismantles democracy one vendetta at a time. Lisa Monaco’s only “crime” is refusing to play along. And for that, the full weight of the presidential ego is crashing down on her.

This isn’t just petty. It’s corrosive. It’s another thread pulled from the fabric of democratic norms, another reminder that Donny isn’t content ruling the White House — he wants to micromanage the boardrooms too. What’s next? An executive order dictating who gets the corner office at Google? A loyalty oath for baristas at Starbucks?

One thing’s certain: in Donny's America, your job security is only as safe as your last compliment to the King.