Day 288: The Age of Tantrums: King Don's Crowning Disgrace

The Mad King’s Warning Shot: Donny Threatens to Starve New York if Voters Defy Him

In yet another tantrum disguised as policy, The Don took to Truth Social yesterday to issue a barely veiled threat against New York City — all because voters might not fall in line.

“If Mamdani wins, New York will get minimal federal funding,” he raged, as if public infrastructure, education, and food programs were his personal playthings.

The timing wasn’t accidental. With the mayoral election looming, this was The Mad King’s not-so-subtle way of telling New Yorkers: vote blue, and I’ll make you pay for it.

It’s the political equivalent of shaking down a city for loyalty — governing by grudge.

This isn’t even subtext anymore. It’s outright blackmail, broadcast on his vanity platform for the world to see. Donny’s message is clear: he doesn’t serve the country; the country is supposed to serve him.

He even doubled down later that night on CBS’s 60 Minutes, where he reiterated the warning with his trademark mix of menace and martyrdom, pretending it was about “fiscal fairness.” In reality, it was about revenge. Because in The Don’s America, federal funding isn’t a matter of need — it’s a matter of obedience.

New Yorkers have heard this kind of threat before. From his tower to his Truth Social feed, Donny has always viewed the city as something he owns — not something he owes. But this latest outburst reveals something deeper: he’s afraid.

Afraid of losing. Afraid of rejection. Afraid that voters might finally call his bluff.

And so, in a moment that perfectly captures his authoritarian reflexes, he’s threatening to use the federal purse as a weapon — to punish dissent before a single vote is even cast.

It’s desperation masquerading as dominance.

So when the ballots are counted, whether or not New York defies him, one thing is certain: The Don has already shown his hand — and it’s empty of both empathy and principle.

Let Them Eat Nothing: Senate Republicans Tell 42 Million Hungry Americans to Starve Quietly

Today, Senate Republicans, led by Majority Whip John Barrasso, just torpedoed a Democratic proposal to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during Donny’s never-ending government shutdown.

Their reasoning? Barrasso called it “an empty political stunt.”

Empty. That’s an interesting choice of word from a man whose decisions just ensured that 42 million Americans’ stomachs will be exactly that.

The sheer audacity of this move would be almost impressive if it weren’t so grotesque. These are the same people who caused the shutdown, who blocked every attempt to reopen the government, and who now have the gall to sneer at an effort to keep millions of families from going hungry.

But under The Mad King, cruelty isn’t just tolerated — it’s policy.

The administration’s plan, if you can call it that, is to patch the hunger crisis with $4.65 billion scraped from the Department of Agriculture’s contingency fund — barely half of the $8 billion needed to fully sustain SNAP benefits. It’s like tossing a life jacket to a crowd of drowning people and calling it “fiscal responsibility.”

Barrasso and his Republican colleagues are so desperate to appear “tough on spending” that they’re perfectly content to starve their own constituents, all while The Don burns through hundreds of millions to build his gilded ballroom, fly private jets, and hold vanity rallies for his cult of grievance.

This isn’t governance. It’s a moral failure on parade.

Democrats called the vote for what it was — a test of conscience. The GOP, predictably, failed spectacularly. They could have chosen compassion. They chose cruelty. They could have chosen competence. They chose chaos.

And through it all, Donny continues to play emperor, barricaded in his marble-covered White House, posting deranged rants about “fake hunger statistics” while real families ration canned beans and formula.

“The economy is booming,” he brags — as though that matters to a single mother staring at an empty EBT balance.

The modern Republican Party has become a grotesque parody of leadership — a coalition of ghouls and sycophants more interested in waging ideological warfare than feeding their citizens.

They’ve stopped pretending to care. And the American people should stop pretending to forget.

Come election time, voters would do well to remember this moment — when the party of “family values” looked 42 million families in the eye and said, “You’re on your own.”

Because while The Don feasts, America starves — and the GOP calls it “governing.”