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Miles Archer

Miles Archer's Journal
Miles Archer's Journal
May 30, 2026

We need to stop looking for any "utilitarian rationale or justification" for Trump's "ballroom plans."

Trump's biggest "TELL" in ALL of this is when he refers to his vanity projects as a "gift to the American people."

You have to filter that through TRUMP'S CONCEPT OF "GIVING."

THIS is the guy who used funds from his "charity" to buy himself a portrait of himself and an autographed Tim Tebow helmet. Then, Eric Trump conducted a little "creative bookkeeping" to re-direct funds raised for kids with cancer back into daddy's pockets.

So you make the assumption that TRUMP IS DOING ALL OF THIS for HIMSELF and NO ONE ELSE, then you ask "why."

And if you know Trump well enough, you can answer those questions.


Aaron Rupar

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Trump posts an image of his “drone port” on top of the White House, which raises the question of who they’re planning to drone in and around DC

Trump posts an image of his “drone port” on top of the White House, which raises the question of who they’re planning to drone in and around DC

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-30T21:07:13.768Z
May 30, 2026

Trump gets his revenge on Nancy Mace for signing discharge petition to release the Epstein files, endorsing her opponent

Ron Filipkowski

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Trump gets his revenge on Nancy Mace for signing the discharge petition to release the Epstein files by endorsing her opponent.

Trump gets his revenge on Nancy Mace for signing the discharge petition to release the Epstein files by endorsing her opponent.

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2026-05-29T21:58:53.242Z
May 30, 2026

Elizabeth Warren explains how Grampy's stock market antics are more than just simple "insider trading."

Elizabeth Warren

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Donald Trump is trading stocks in companies his government affects through policy decisions.

He’s holding the stocks while pulling the levers that determine their value.

It’s corruption, plain and simple.
10:26 AM · May 30, 2026

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Donald Trump is trading stocks in companies his government affects through policy decisions.

He’s holding the stocks while pulling the levers that determine their value.

It’s corruption, plain and simple.

Elizabeth Warren (@elizabeth-warren.bsky.social) 2026-05-30T14:26:33.368Z
May 30, 2026

Trump's sporting that "Former Prince Andrew" look in the back of his limo, on the way to taxpayer-funded golf fun.

Aaron Rupar

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Trump looks dazed as he's driven to his golf club today

(Roberto Schmidt/Getty)

Trump looks dazed as he's driven to his golf club today

(Roberto Schmidt/Getty)

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-30T18:04:13.957Z
May 30, 2026

Here's why Martina McBride's Trump cancellation meant more to me than anyone else on that roster

I'm a country music fan. NOT the LOATHSOME "bro country" crap from guys like Luke Bryan and Jason Alden, or Lee Greenwood's jingoistic horse droppings.

And while I realize and respect the fact that a lot of people don't like Country, I'd say Martina has such a pure, sweet voice that there might be songs on her albums that people who don't like Country would enjoy.

But she also seems to be an amazing human being. Check Wikipedia...this is not the resume of an average "Trump supporter," and I am EXTREMELY happy that her career and reputation won't be taking a hit from being roped into that fiasco.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina_McBride#Charity_work

Charity work

McBride works with a variety of charities. She has served as a spokeswoman for the National Domestic Violence Hotline as well as for the National Network to End Domestic Violence and national spokeswoman for the Tulsa Domestic Violence and Intervention Services. Every year since 1995, she has hosted Middle Tennessee's YWCA, "Celebrity Auction", and it has raised nearly $400,000 so far. McBride was awarded the "Minnie Pearl Humanitarian Award" in 2003. In 2004, she worked with "Kids Wish Network" to fulfill the wish of a young girl dying from muscular dystrophy.[46]

McBride explained that educating girls and women on domestic violence is something she works on at home with her own daughters, stating:

A lot of teenage girls will be first dating and they'll think, 'Oh he doesn't want me to see my friends. He just wants me all to himself. Isn't that sweet?' Or 'Oh, he's just being protective. Isn't that sweet?' And then it turns into something else and it's controlling. They don't recognize that until it's too late. So it's an ongoing education that you have to give young girls, I think.[47]

McBride has also teamed up with Loveisrespect, National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline, working with them on a new program called, "My Time to Shine".[48]

McBride appeared on the Stand Up 2 Cancer Telethon in September 2010, where she performed "Unchained Melody" with Leona Lewis, Aaron Neville, and Stevie Wonder. Also in 2010, she hosted the YWCA for the 16th consecutive year, raising over $50,000. It totals over $500,000 raised so far.

McBride also has a charity initiative called "Team Music is Love". Speaking about Team Music Is Love, McBride stated "It started a few years ago as a group of fans that asked me if they could wear a T-shirt with my name to walk in a breast cancer walk, and I said 'of course' and it has grown from there. Last year, we decided we wanted to give it a better name, a name that sounded as important as it is, so we changed it to 'Team Music is Love,' since it's about spreading love through music. We have done some amazing things over the past few years and we continue to grow and keep giving back."[49]
May 30, 2026

Trump seems more interested in "handsome, beautiful, male model guys" these days than in his Slovenian sex worker wife.

George Takei

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I didn't know the name Jaxson Dart before, but now sadly we're going to hear a lot about him I bet.

I didn't know the name Jaxson Dart before, but now sadly we're going to hear a lot about him I bet.

George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2026-05-30T16:48:01.048Z
May 30, 2026

Really, he's not batsh*t certified f*cking insane: Here's Trump's solution for the artists bailing on CircleJerk 250



I understand Artists are getting “the yips” having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J. TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate “Artists,” and give a major speech, rallying the Country forward like I have done ever since being President! Two years ago, the United States was DEAD. Now we have the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World. I don’t want so-called “Artists” that get paid far too much money, who aren’t happy. I only want to be surrounded by Happy People, Smart People, Successful People, and People that know how to WIN. So, by copy of this TRUTH, I am ordering my Representatives to look at the feasibility of doing an AMERICA IS BACK Rally on Wednesday, Washington, D.C., same time, same location. Only Great Patriots invited — It will be a Wild and Beautiful Celebration of America! President DONALD J. TRUMP
May 30, 2026

MAGAt Moses Mikey: "We don't need to take away the authority from the commander in chief and the Pentagon right now."

Johnson: "The war powers act on the House floor is being forced. They're going around the speaker with a discharge to bring that to the floor. I don't believe it'll pass and I hope it doesn't, because we don't need to take away the authority from the commander in chief and the Pentagon right now."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-30T14:17:52.162Z


Aaron Rupar

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Johnson: "The war powers act on the House floor is being forced. They're going around the speaker with a discharge to bring that to the floor. I don't believe it'll pass and I hope it doesn't, because we don't need to take away the authority from the commander in chief and the Pentagon right now."
May 30, 2026

Spoiled butthurt little rich boy Trump says 'no interest' in Kennedy Center overhaul after judge orders his name removed

Trump says 'no interest' in Kennedy Center overhaul after judge orders his name removed

https://abcnews.com/Politics/federal-judge-orders-trumps-removed-kennedy-center/story?id=133430502

President Donald Trump says he has "no interest" in continuing his overhaul of the Kennedy Center after a federal judge ruled he couldn't rename the Washington, D.C., performing arts venue or close its doors for lengthy renovations unless Congress approves the plans.

In a social media post Friday evening responding the judge's ruling, Trump said that he wants to turn decision-making about the future of the center over to Congress.

"Unless I am free to do what I do better than anyone else, bring this Institution back, physically, financially, and artistically, I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey into "NEVER NEVER LAND," Trump said in the post.

"Therefore, based on the fact that the Radical Left Democrats care more about opposing your favorite President, ME, than saving a dying Performing Arts Center, almost all of which lose large amounts of money throughout the Country, we are going to be working with Congress to transfer this failing Institution back to them so they can make a determination as to what to do with it," Trump said in the post.

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Name: Miles Archer
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