Monday – August 18, 2025

The President has a pretty busy Monday

National Pinot Noir Day

National Fajitas Day

National Ice Cream Pie Day

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1872 – Montgomery Wards published the first mail-order catalogue (it was one page)
1920 – The 19th Amendment is ratified 
1953 – A tornado picks up four cows in Stearns County, MN, sets then down unharmed
1988 – The GOP nominates Bush/Quayle at the convention in New Orleans
1991 – Soviet hardliners launch a coup against Gorbachev 
2011 – Gold hit a record high of $1826/oz (its around $3413 today)

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– PRESIDENT TRUMP TELLS HANNITY, ‘THE MEETING WAS A VERY WARM MEETING’

  – SOOOO, WAS THERE A DEAL?

– HANNITY ASKED TRUMP WHAT WAS THE #1 REASON FOR THIS SUMMIT

– WHAT’S NEXT? TRUMP SAYS IT’S UP TO ZELENSKYY

– FOX NEWS’ JACQUI HEINRICH’S REPORT ON THE MEETING RAISED EYEBROWS

– MOMENTS LATER, HEINRICH GOT FACT-CHECKED AND SEEMED TO CHANGE

– SEC RUBIO GIVES A PREVIEW OF TODAY’S MEETINGS AT THE WHITE HOUSE

– MARCO RUBIO VS CBS’ MARGARET BRENNAN – MY MONEY’S ON THE SEC OF STATE

– RUBIO VS BRENNAN, PART 2

– SEC OF STATE RUBIO VS ABC NEWS (THEY DIDN’T LIKE THE B-2 FLYOVER)

– RUBIO WAS EVERYWHERE — HE EVEN POPPED ON MTP

– HILLARY CLINTON STILL CAN’T ADMIT THAT TRUMP BEAT HER IN 2016

– NY TIMES’ DAVID BROOKS COMPARES TEXAS REDISTRICTING TO USING MUSTARD GAS

– CNN’S SMERCONISH MOCKED MEDIA THAT CRITICIZED TRUMP’S PUTIN SUMMIT

– SMERCONISH ALSO SUPPORTS NOBEL PRIZE FOR TRUMP IS PEACE HAPPENS

– VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON THE COLLAPSE OF THE DEMOCRATS

– VDH ALSO SHARED HIS STORY OF MEETING ‘FANG FANG’ IN HIS OFFICE

– DON LEMON (‘MEMBA HIM?) APPEARS ON MSNBC TO TRASH TRUMP

– SCOTT ADAMS HAS NO LOVE FOR HILLARY CLINTON (THERE’S A C-WORD IN THERE)

– ADAMS ALSO HAS SOME WORDS FOR HAKEEM JEFFRIES

– GROCERY SHOPPING WITH SWALWELL (HIS FRIENDS SHOULD TELL HIM)

  – AND THEN, THE CONGRESSMAN VOWED TO ‘BURY THEM (GOP) BELOW THE CAPITOL’

More News From DC

– THE FIRST LADY’S LETTER TO PUTIN (THAT SIGNATURE…)

– PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS ZELENSKYY CAN END THIS WAR

– DC SUES TRUMP ADMIN OVER CLEAN-UP EFFORTS

General News

– BACK IN 2011, GAVIN NEWSOM WANTED TO MAKE CALIFORNIA GREAT AGAIN

– AND JUST LIKE THAT, IT’S HURRICANE TIME, NC EVACUATIONS ORDERED OVER ERIN

– NY GOV PARDONS CONVICTED KILLER TO PROTECT HIM FROM DEPORTATION

– THE VIKINGS’ MALE CHEERLEADERS HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY

Other News Catching My Eye

– JAMES COMEY RELEASED A FIVE-MIN VIDEO ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT & TRUMP

– DECORATOR’S LIST OF 5 THINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE IN YOUR HOME (5 FOR 5 HERE)

– MOVE OVER RABBITS WITH HORNS, HERE COME THE ZOMBIE SQUIRRELS