Donald Trump unveiled his plans for an ‘arc de Trump’ in DC, mused about more of his political enemies being investigated and is apparently considering launching missiles at California
Donald Trump gathered the media in the Oval Office last night to tell them all how great his crime crackdown is going.
FBI director Kash Patel gushed with praise for the dear leader as he and Trump took credit for already dropping violent crime figures.
Memphis, for example, was already at a 25-year low of overall crime before Trump’s task force was deployed.
Yet Patel kept glazing, telling Trump “You did that in SEVEN MONTHS because you let good cops be cops.”
A figure that has, indeed gone up is the number of arrests made in the areas Trump has targeted – but the quality of these arrests, and whether they can be turned into convictions remains very much to be seen.
Nevertheless, Trump has got a taste for it. After chinwagging with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi over the weekend, he waxed lyrical on Air Force One about how low the often brutally authoritarian regime’s crime figures are.
And he and Patel promised – or warned – there would be more to come.
“Now it’s like a passion for me,” Trump said, and that his actions were “many many steps above” what he’d pledged and “we’re just at the start.”
He’s started calling it – and we will too – “the surge”.
So buckle up, San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans, New York…you’re probably next.
Meanwhile in Trump world
- Trump is ‘planning to launch missiles at California
- Stephen Miller’s ‘true feelings’ might be a little too much for prime time
- Mamdani sent a defiant message to Trump on his home turf
- Pam Bondi says Antifa is real because people have the same placards
- The kids who beat up Big Balls got sentenced
- He unveiled the Arc De Trump
- And he said he “hopes” more of his enemies will be investigated…while standing right next to the Attorney General
Everything is fine. Here’s what you need to know.
The surge
1. Trump is ‘planning to launch missiles at California’
According to a startling report from Meidas News, Donald Trump is planning to order portions of a major road to be shut down on Friday and Saturday, because he wants to launch missiles at California.
Plans are reportedly being finalised for two days of events, under the pretext of celebrating the 250th anniversary of the US Marine Corps.
As well as a “vanity parade”, it’s claimed Navy warships will shoot live missiles into a military camp, Camp Pendleton, as a “show of force”.
JD Vance is expected to attend, and the parade is thought to have been timed to coincide with the No Kings protests planned for cities across the country this weekend.
2. Stephen Miller’s true feelings might be ‘too much’
During the Oval Office Q&A last night, Trump gave a telling shoutout to the White House’s deputy prince of darkness, Stephen Miller.
“I want to thank Stephen Miller,” he said. “I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far.”
If you’d like to learn about some of Stephen Miller’s truest feelings, I can recommend the book “Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda”, by Jean Guerrero. It’s excellent, and chilling.
3. Mamdani sent a defiant message to Trump on Fox News
Many were confused to see New York mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani pop up on Fox News yesterday.
But then mid-interview he looked down the lens and his reasoning became pretty clear.
“I just want to speak directly to the president,” he said.
“I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won’t be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own. I will, however, be a mayor who is ready to speak at any time to lower the cost of living. That’s the way I’m going to lead this city. That’s the partnership I want to build.”
4. Pam Bondi insists Antifa is real because people have the same signs at protests
The administration is gearing up to condemn a planned “No Kings” rally planned for Washington DC on Saturday, and organised by a collection of Democrat-leaning and anti-Trump groups, as an “Antifa rally” – and branding the tens of thousands of peaceful Americans expected to attend it ‘terrorists’ and ‘criminals’.
The latest to come out with this kind of language – the kind of language the Trump administration has been loudly complaining about from the left following the assassination of Charlie Kirk – is Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“That’s one of the things about Antifa,” she said on (where else?) Fox News.
“You’re seeing people out there with thousands of signs that all match – pre-bought, pre-put together – they’re organised and someone is funding it.”
First of all, Antifa isn’t a thing, as Pam Bondi well knows. It’s a boogeyman invented by, among others, Republicans and Fox News.
Second of all, if you want to see a group of people waving pre-bought, pre-put together signs around, Trump rallies are a pretty good place to start.
Also, anyone who has been to a protest will tell you that the people who cause trouble are seldom the ones holding signs.
5. The kids who beat up Big Balls got probation
In a crushing blow for the “surge” – and probably a signal of things to come – the teens who jumped former DOGE staffer Edward ‘Big Balls’ Christine were sentenced to probation and no jail time.
A 15 year old boy was sentenced to a year’s probation after pleading guilty to four counts split between two incidents that took place in August – the attempted robbery and an assault of Big Balls – and a felony assault and robbery at a nearby petrol station earlier the same night.
A 15 year old girl pleaded guilty to one count of assault for pepper spraying someone at the petrol station. For pleading guilty a secon assault charge was dismissed and she got nine months probation.
The judge’s sentence reflected prosecutors requests, and the DC attorney general had not asked for jail time.
“That’s terrible,” Trump said last night in response. He added: “The judge should be ashamed.”
Trump’s health
6. Trump got Iran and India confused
In what will be seen by many as another sign of his failing mental capacity, the elderly President got India and Iran mixed up.
“I was in the midst of negotiating a trade deal with Iran and Pakistan I heard they are shooting at each other. Two nuclear powers.” he said.
By the by, Iran is not a nuclear power. Trump launched air strikes to make sure that remained the case. But we think he meant India, because Pakistan and Iran haven’t been shooting at each other recently.
“I said here’s the deal: You go to war and I’m going to put a 200% tariff and stop you from doing any business in the United States. Within 24 hours the war ended. That would have been a nuclear war.”
For what it’s worth, India’s leaders have denied an intervention from Trump had anything to do with the ceasefire between the two countries.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said in July that it was “completely incorrect and baseless to say that the military action was stopped because of pressure”.
“India halted its operation because all the political and military objectives studied before and during the conflict had been fully achieved,” he added.
General authoritarianism
7. Trump admits he only managed to “stop wars” by threatening tariffs
Trump openly admitted in the Oval office last night that “5 or 6” of the “wars” he stopped were a result of him threatening all parties involved with 200% tariffs.
Now you may think, well, it’s an unorthodox method of international diplomacy, but if it works it works.
But historically the threat of conflict only truly subsides when differences between foes are actually settled, not under duress from external threats…which theoretically have a three year time limit.
On which subject, if i was a President who wanted to be President for life, I’d probably want to have an argument like “if I leave office wars will break out all over the world” in my back pocket.
8. He showed off the Arc De Trump
As eagle-eyed viewers of Oval Office Q&As will have worked out already, Trump is planning to erect a huge marble arch in Washington DC to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of America.
It’s been branded the “Arc De Trump” – although some critics have likened the design to the work of Albert Speer, the Nazi-era architect known for designing grand structures in Germany – and who long planed an arch in Berlin that never came to fruition.
Critics also argue the monstrous structure would disrupt the line of sight between the Lincoln memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
Sight lines from Lincoln are a big deal in DC. When the World War II memorial was built in the mid-2000s, it had to be sunk six feet below ground level to prevent blocking Mr Lincoln’s view of the Capitol building.
9. He said erecting a statue of a racist traitor who waged war to keep slavery legal would be “ok with me”
Discussing his proposed arch, Trump noted it was near to location where in 1902 there had been plans to erect a a statue of Confederate General, traitor and racist Robert E Lee.
“Would have been OK with me,” he smirked. “Would’ve been OK with a lot of the people in this room…”
10. Trump said he “hopes” more of his enemies will be investigated…standing right next to the Attorney General
Donald Trump isn’t even bothering to accidentally post his DMs to Pam Bondi on main anymore.
Last night at his oval office Q&A he openly mused that he’d like to see even more of his political opponents investigated while she and FBI director Kash Patel were standing right next to him.
11. Trump lies again and again about the 2020 election loss
Trump lies about the 2020 election all the time, but the vigour with which he pushed his false narrative about the race being stolen from him – particularly in Georgia – was something notable.
“I won Georgia three times,” he lied.
“But they say twice. I won it big the second time but we had criminals that didn’t allow…”
Still standing next to Patel and Bondi, he added: “I hope they’re gonna go into that. I hope they go into the votes which are being stored in Fulton County and take a real look at those votes, because I won it the second time too.”
12. Also, this guy again
Come for the lies, stay for “reporter” Brian Glenn immediately glazing the President, saying: “Mr President, by the way, you won Georgia three times.”
Say it with me, three, two, one: Brian Glenn is not a journalist. We’re not sure what he is, but he’s not a journalist.