![]() ![]() It still stuns me that this of all things is Trump’s Achilles’ heel. While speaking in Iowa Thursday, a voter spoke to Trump from the crowd: “We have lost people because you supported the jab.” Trump: “Well, you know, everybody wanted a vaccine at that time, and I was able to do something that nobody else could have done. . . . There’s a big portion of the country that thinks was a great thing.” The “DeSantis War Room” team quickly posted the video as a gotcha. Trump’s biggest liability among his base remains his great success rolling out the Covid vaccine so fast and effectively. → Conservative intellectuals turning on Trump, who turns on all: Trump this week sold out his former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, even giving her a new nickname: “Kayleigh ‘Milktoast’ McEnany” (not his best, but you know what? Not his worst), adding that “Fox News should only use REAL stars!!!” Dave Rubin, who endorsed Trump in 2020, called it “Trump’s latest unhinged meltdown.” (The convention itself chose to do this to follow the new DeSantis rules.) I don’t know enough about furry conventions and how much sex is or is not involved to weigh in here. Meanwhile, in DeSantis’s Florida, kids are now banned from attending furry conventions, and the furries are upset. A pageant star who seems at ease on the biggest pageant stage of them all. The real campaign winner so far is Casey DeSantis: she’s got the big hair she’s got the gloves (and the glove takedowns). Anyway, if a young would-be soldier is debating his options, I just doubt too many nonbinary gunners is the issue as much as the idea of being sent to a miserable pointless war in a miserable pointless place. Explaining why military recruitment is struggling: “We look at our military now and we see them getting caught up in political ideology, gender pronouns, talking about global warming. . . . People don’t want to be part of a woke military.” DeSantis is a man with a woke hammer and everything he sees is a woke nail (you get what I mean). → Casey DeSantis on the trail: Ron DeSantis is barnstorming Iowa, talking about how we’ve all gone too soft and too woke. I’m talking about the stuff city workers give out in San Francisco, the stuff gay men use to stay up all night, the good stuff. Between Biden and the continued sad situation of Dianne Feinstein’s refusal to retire, my recommendation is that Dem leadership track down some drugs. His age is going to be the number one topic come 2024, and Biden is not looking as spry as DeSantis (44) or even as robust as Trump (the age of a very old leather chair). He had just finished giving a commencement address to the graduates of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs when he tripped over a sandbag, which, let’s be fair, could happen to anyone. → Biden falls: The president tripped and fell Thursday, needing two men to help him get back up, a stumble so bad even The Times covered it. Tonight, we all made history.” Every once in a while there’s a panic over The Debt, and I find that nodding and saying, Well, we should pay down that debt, no one likes debt gets me out of most conversations on the subject unscathed. Kevin McCarthy said of it: “I wanted to do something no other Congress has done, that we would literally turn the ship and for the first time in quite some time, we’d spend less than we spent the year before. The GOP wanted it to be $4 trillion, but they compromised. The bill will cut the deficit by $1.5 trillion. It seems like a good deal: it requires that spending next year be flat and go up only 1 percent in 2025. → Debt ceiling deal: Congress passed a deal to suspend the debt ceiling for two years to narrowly avoid default. And next week I’ll be on vacation-you’ll find the lovely, the handsome, the Great Nick Gillespie in your inbox. Two housekeeping notes: Remember to get your local high schoolers to submit to the Free Press essay contest by June 12 (there’s even a prize of $2,000). If you think every congressional term should be followed by six months of jail time just to be safe, then come with me. If you are a superfan of a political figure or another, if you have Casey DeSantis tattooed on your arm or AOC on speed dial, you’re not going to like what happens here. Hello and welcome back to the week, reviewed by me. ![]()
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