President Ronald Reagan called it nearly 40 years ago.
Sometimes the best strategy in a negotiation is convincing the other side that you are crazy.
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) April 3, 2025
Now that would legitimately be Trump playing 3D Chess.
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Despite the fact President Donald Trump likely believes a good number of the untrue things he says, I'm convinced there's another facet to his ramblings. Specifically, he'll say something that is so outlandish that not even he believes it but he knows it'll get a rise out of his top adversaries in the prog media.
Hence the headline from an NBC News story this past Sunday:
Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so.
All the media would have to do in this case is roll their collective eyes and cite the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Instead, several "think pieces" and prog podcasts have wasted countless words on how Trump is some authoritarian mad man hellbent on upending our Constitutional order. And it wouldn't shock me in the least if Trump himself were sitting back and laughing his orange arse off at all the leftist flailing that has ensued, as if that were his endgame all along.
As Erick Erickson notes, this collective freak out just underscores the left's lack of faith in our institutional controls.
New York Mets at Colorado Rockies - April 26, 1995.
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In their third season of existence, the Colorado Rockies christened their new stadium in grand style. In the first ever game at Coors Field, the Rockies won on a walkoff home run by Dante Bichette.
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Closing out March with another power-packed edition of my radio show The Closer. Today's 2-hour festivities get started at 1:00 PM Central Time.
In the first hour I'll weigh in on "Signal-gate" and how leftists' outrage is hypocritical and kinda hilarious. Speaking of leftists, their preferred political party is still an absolute mess.
In the 2:00 hour, former Crystal city councilman and current political observer Jeff Kolb will join the broadcast to discuss all things Minnesota politics.
The Trump administration is withdrawing its nomination of Representative Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) to serve as the next Ambassador to the United Nations to help protect the slim Republican majority in the House.
“With a very tight Majority, I don’t want to take a chance on anyone else running for Elise’s seat. The people love Elise and, with her, we have nothing to worry about come Election Day. There are others that can do a good job at the United Nations. Therefore, Elise will stay in Congress, rejoin the House Leadership Team, and continue to fight for our amazing American People,” President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social.
This ensures the Republicans will keep a majority, regardless of what happens on Tuesday in the Florida contests. But if the unthinkable happens and the GOP drops both races, that puts Trump's agenda in grave danger given Thomas Massie (R-KY) isn't afraid to go rogue. And since the opposite party of POTUS typically gains seats in the House in the midterm elections, it's a safe bet Dems will regain a majority in 2026 despite the fact they're completely nuts right now.
Long story, short - there's a nonzero chance that Trump's entire second term (from a legislative standpoint) could be a lame duck session.
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- With Minnesota State Sen. Justin Eichorn (R-Grand Rapids) having resigned last week, his seat in MN Senate District 6 is now up for grabs. Given it's a safe GOP area, there are a good number of Republican candidates looking to vie for the party nod in an upcoming special election. Included among that group is the current mayor of Nisswa who also happens to be a former mutli-term chair of the Republican Party of Minnesota.
I’m not sure the best way to move on from a guy who was charged with federal sex crimes against minors is to elect a lady who had to resign as MNGOP chair for her friendship with a guy convicted of federal sex crimes against minors. https://t.co/t06zGvW5wT
— Jeff Kolb (@jpkolb) March 24, 2025
Yet Carnahan dismissed that connection in the video saying that convicted felon Anton Lazzaro was merely a "past Republican donor, who was one of over 30,000 (donors) to the party and gave to Republican candidates all over this country." Well, unless all the other 30,000+ donors to the MNGOP attended her 2019 wedding to Jim Hagedorn or co-hosted a podcast with her, that rationale ain't gonna cut it. And I'm certain GOP voters in SD 6 will agree.
- Update: the Democrat party remains a raging dumpster fire.
Top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest hole in nearly 50 years — and they fear things could actually get worse:
- The party has its lowest favorability ever.
- No popular national leader to help improve it.
- Insufficient numbers to stop most legislation in Congress.
- A durable minority on the Supreme Court.
- Dwindling influence over the media ecosystem, with right-leaning podcasters and social media accounts ascendant.
- Young voters are growing dramatically more conservative.
- A bad 2026 map for Senate races.
- Democratic Senate retirements could make it harder for the party to flip the House, with members tempted by statewide races.
- There are only three House Republicans in districts former Vice President Harris won in 2024, a dim sign for a Democratic surge. There were 23 eight years ago in seats Hillary Clinton won.
- And, thanks to the number of people fleeing blue states, the math for a Dem to win the presidency will just get harder in 2030.
Other that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
- If the media reported on Republican presidential administrations like they do Dem presidencies, the headline regarding the latest saga involving Team Trump would be something along the lines of "Democrats pounce on Trump's national security team texting out plans of a military strike."
But in all seriousness, this was a major screw up.
Maybe you've seen this already. It seems to be everywhere today so we might as well talk about it. Just over a week ago the Trump administration announced a series of strikes on the Houthis in Yemen.
Planning for the strike had been carried out secretly the week before but in this case something appears to have gone wrong. Mike Watlz, the Trump administration's national security adviser, accidentally added Atlantic journalist and editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat where the strike was being discussed. Today Goldberg wrote about the experience, describing in detail how he was added to the chat and initially thought it was a hoax.
Unfortunately, it was not a hoax. And to his everlasting credit, Goldberg removed himself from the chat as soon as he ascertained that fact. The frightening thing is what if this had gotten into the hands of one of the plethora of lefty journalists infected with TDS to the nth degree? People like that would be willing to go all scorched earth even if it only slightly dinged Trump.
This incident also underscores a bigger problem in that high ranking government officials are so wary of the susceptibility of telecommunications being intercepted by China that this caused the National Security team to use a messaging app to communicate. Granted it's a totally secure app, but adding someone to the chat who shouldn't be seeing such sensitive information kinda renders that moot.
In the end, the lesson here is simple: always assume online chats are susceptible. In this case, use code for military operations and then if specifics need to be discussed, meet in person at an undisclosed location.
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Opening Day of the Major League Baseball season is set to occur this week! Yeah, I know, it technically happened in the Tokyo series last week with the Cubs & Dodgers squaring off for two games. However, it feels more legit with games on North American soil.
Anyhow, let's go back to Opening Day 1973 when the Cleveland Indians hosted the Detroit Tigers.
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The 74,420 fans in attendance marks the largest opening day crowd in MLB history.
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