The new Trump target is Native Americans. Just when we thought it couldn’t get more racist and ridiculous. He’s now after the NFL Washington Commanders and baseball’s Cleveland Guardians. In his twisted sense of history, Trump thinks the name change back to the offensive nicknames the Redskins and Indians the will restore Native Americans’ pride in their hertiage. Both teams and their fans have basically responded with stay out of our business and do your job. Trump’s response has been to threaten to stop a new stadium from being built for the Commanders in Washington DC. We’ve seen these threats before. In these cases, Trump has no standing or right to interfere.

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It’s the iconic symbol of the current president. The red MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN hat WITH 45 and 47 on the side to indicate what number president he is. He first wore it on a trip to the Mexican border in July, 2015. It was blue. Trump started wearing it while campaigning in the 2016. He wore it constantly, outdoors, indoors, getting on his plane. It became a symbol. It was one of the ways Trump wanted to break tradition. Look, I’m just like you and can wear a baseball cap like a teenager, a vet, a farmer, and one showing my favorite team. I have not seen him wear it backwards yet. This hat is a huge break from presidential tradition.

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It’s been a history making week. The United States bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities using 30,000 pound bunker busting bombs to dive hundreds of feet underground to destroy Iran’s ability to produce a nuclear weapon. It is the first time in history these bombs have been used. After the raid was completed last Saturday night, Trump came out to announce the US had “obliterated” Iran’s ability to make a bomb. He said a cease fire was being put in place between Israel and Iran. It was violated within hours. Israel claimed Iran fired a missile, which Iran denied, so Israel fired one back. No injuries and little damage. The cease fire is back on as of this writing.

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This past weekend was the perfect picture of the state of the country. Parades marching in the opposite directions, thousands mostly marching peacefully in hundreds of cities for No Kings Day protesting Trump’s abuse of power. Police and National Guard troops in Los Angeles battled with demonstrators protesting the mass arrests of illegal immigrants that has been going on for over a week. A man with a gun shot and killed a demonstrator in Salt Lake City. A man in West Chester, Pennsylvania was arrested with a gun and ammunition at a No Kings march.

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This is the story of a library like no other. A rich widow Martha Stewart Haskell had the idea to build a library right on the border of the United States and Canada to serve small communities in southern most Quebec and northern Vermont. It opened in 1904. The Haskell Free Library and Opera House became a symbol of friendship and provided equal access to both Canadians and Americans. There is a 400 seat opera house on the two upper floors. When I say on the border, I mean sitting on the border. There is a black tape running through the center of the building with the US on one side and Canada on the other. Sounds like a great idea.

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Pete Rose had to die to finally get a shot at the Hall of Fame. He’s been trying to get off the permanent ineligible list for 36 years. He broke the cardinal rule of Major League Baseball. He bet on Cincinnati Reds games while he was the manager. He says he only bet for them to win. After he got caught and banned in 1989, he continued to deny the gambling until his 2004 autobiography when he finally admitted it. There is a sign in every Major League clubhouse which warns against betting on baseball. Rose knew it was wrong, but did it anyway. Rose died in September 2024. He was 83.

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Interviewing a president is one of toughest assignments for any reporter especially one whose called the press “the enemy of the people.” Let’s not forget the often used “fake news” for any news remotely critical of him. ABC News correspondent Terry Moran got the big assignment. I worked with Terry back in the 1990’s when I was Executive Editor of Court TV and Terry was one of the anchors. He is a first-rate journalist. He recently covered the death of the pope. He’s covered the White House and the Supreme Court. He’s been ABC’s Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent and anchored Nightline. He’s an experienced reporter. I was initially concerned when the interview started with Trump sitting behind the Resolute Desk and Terry standing next to him asking about being back in the Oval Office. Terry asked about the different portraits of presidents on the wall. Trump didn’t have the courtesy to stand up while speaking with Terry as they admired the large portrait of Ronald Reagan. The president who wouldn’t enter the Oval Office without his suit coat on.

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You can feel it. You can almost smell it when you wake up every morning. The fear of what he will do next. He has taken another step closer to being the dictator he always wanted to be. We all know about the 238 alleged Venezuelan gang members who were shipped off to a house of horrors prison in El Salvador with no due process. The Trump stacked Supreme Court has ruled it’s too late for them, but in the future illegal migrants have to have their day in court before they  are shackled and herded on to plane probably never to be seen again. An investigation by the New York Times today found most of the migrants are not gang members and have no links to the gang.

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Did anyone think it would be this bad? The first couple of months of the crazed Trump take over of America has been stunning and terrifying. His twisted fascination and misunderstanding of tariffs has crashed the stock markets costing people trillions of dollars. For the Baby Boomer generation, they see years of investment savings evaporate in two days. Younger people have years to recover. Almost  every economist sees prices for everything going up substantially. Trump says he’s not changing his mind and he’s going to make everyone richer in this “Golden Age” of America. After he dropped the tariff bomb and had the country reeling, he flew off the Florida to play golf.

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It’s clear that Donald Trump thinks he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. There are currently fifteen appeals pending in courts around the country challenging how he wants to bend the government, and therefore, all of us to his will. Trump has made clear he craves power and revenge. He has surrounded himself with yes men and women whose first objective in loyalty to Trump. He has reduced the Republican Party to a personality cult terrified of crossing him. His latest battle with the courts is his blatant refusal to comply with US District Judge James Boasberg’s order to stop the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members he has deported to El Salvador without due process. A three judge court of appeals is hearing the government’s argument defending what it has done.

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