TOM and Musky consciously uncouple

 

May 30, 2025 (130/1461)

Well here’s one I never thought I’d see. Musky with a black eye, in the Oval. Sounds like the beginning of the solution to a Clue game. But there it was. In his presser with TOM, he claims he was horsing around with X and got it. Ok. I’ll give it to him as at least a good quick response. But I might lean more toward the ketamine and psychedelic schrooms he consumed all along the campaign trail last year. This was the weirdest “conscious uncoupling” moment in recent history. Definitely an awkward kiss-kiss, pat-pat situation. We may never know what really went down between the two. But I’ll buy the tell-all when Musky gets bored and finds a ghostwriter to do it.

If TOM isn’t careful he might be next in line for a pop to the puss. “As he crisscrossed the country in 2024, Donald Trump pledged to supporters that voting him back into the presidency would be “our final battle.” “With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state,” he said repeatedly on the campaign trail. “We will liberate our country from these tyrants and villains once and for all.” Seems some of his biggest backers are now calling him to task on that very issue. Where’s Waldo? is echoing on the airwaves. “His Justice Department has not yet arrested hordes of “deep state” actors as some of his supporters had hoped it would, even as the president has been posting cryptic videos and memes about Democratic politicians. “People are tired of not knowing,” conservative commentator Damani Felder said on podcaster Tim Pool’s show last week. “We actually demand answers and real transparency. It’s not that hard to deliver.” The narrative has gained momentum on the right because of allegations that Biden’s aides covered up his mental and physical decline. Presidents have used autopens for years to sign certain documents.

“Whoever used it was usurping the power of the Presidency, and it should be very easy to find out who that person (or persons) is,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

At least one user of his platform was unimpressed and questioned why Trump and his allies, holding all the power, still didn’t have any answers.

“IF IT’S EASY,” the commenter posted. “WHY HASN’T YOUR ADMINISTRATION FOUND THESE CRIMINAL’S ALREADY.” Uh ohhhh. Sounds like the one-eye-glassed squinting emoji is on a few keyboards more than before.

And since it’s officially summer (Memorial Day weekend now past), take note of this little gem. Expect to see higher rates this summer from heatstroke. And that would be because TOM fired everyone who oversaw the program that provides subsidies for heating and cooling to those who can’t afford it. “Case in point is the relatively low-profile Low Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program, known as LIHEAP. Created by Congress in 1981 as a means to help people afford the costs of heating and cooling their homes, it currently helps some 6.2 million people pay their bills. In early April, the Trump administration fired the program’s entire staff of fewer than 30 people, whose jobs were housed within Robert F. Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services. As temperatures continue to rise, however, all policy is climate policy. Cuts that make people poorer also make them more vulnerable to baking in their homes; programs that keep people out of poverty help them avoid meeting that fate. In the short term, especially, LIHEAP, SNAP, and Medicaid are arguably as important to surviving a warming world as any of the programs that Democrats might advertise as being a part of their climate agenda. If Republicans take an ax to all of the above, they’ll have blood on their hands.” Watch the news reports this summer, folks. The number who die of heat is going to be criminal.