
Trump, 80, was covered in bruises this weekend
Good morning and Happy Tuesday! Welcome to all our new friends who joined in the last few days! Trump completely melted down over the weekend. It’s past time to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove him from office.
We’ll get into that, plus:
Trump’s bruising is getting worse
Republicans are panicking about November — and their convention
Elon Musk takes a victory lap in Germany — like he did with Trump
James Talarico turns Trump's nickname taunts into a campaign moment
And: Trump’s bonkers hot dog grift revealed
1. Natalie was right by Trump’s side for his weekend of AI slop ragebait posting
The president of the United States spent his Labor Day weekend posting AI-generated slop images of himself launching nuclear strikes from outer space, standing in front of robot armies with captions reading "give them nightmares" and "they will never sleep again," and draping the American flag over a map of the entire North American continent.
He posted an AI video of himself renaming New Mexico "New America" and then doing a little dance about it.
Then he claimed the U.S. owns the moon, and threatened to sue the Center for American Progress over a months-old report.
Natalie was by his side all weekend. Trump deleted several posts without explanation.
Online, the reaction to Trump's AI posting spree was "The President Is Absolutely Insane."
Meanwhile photos from this weekend, taken at Trump’s golf course in New Jersey, show visible bruising on the 80-year-old's arms, and his niece Mary Trump — a psychologist — said publicly that he is "decompensating in real time."
Calls to invoke the 25th Amendment are growing.
The president is not well. That was clear before this weekend, but over Labor Day weekend it has somehow gotten worse.
Trump's mental faculties are rapidly failing and he cannot be allowed to continue as president.
Please sign our petition to invoke the 25th Amendment — help us hit our goal!
2. Republicans are panicking about November — and can't even fill their own convention
GOP strategists and lawmakers are now openly telling reporters that Trump's approval ratings and his refusal to address the cost-of-living crisis are setting the party up for a wipeout in November.
Giving us hope: a new analysis from Axios finds that even with Republican gerrymandering giving the GOP an eight-to-nine seat pre-election advantage, Democrats are on track to overcome it if current momentum holds. The party is already expected to potentially lose both the House and Senate.
To underscore the point: organizers for the "Trump-A-Palooza" midterm convention in Texas — designed to project Republican energy — have resorted to a public lottery, unsolicited "FREE TICKETS" text blasts, and begging GOP operatives to hand out passes, as lawmakers and candidates quietly stay away.
They can’t even give seats away to their own pep rally. In Texas.
3. Elon Musk takes a victory lap in Germany — like he did with Trump
Germany's far-right AfD party won a landslide in Sunday's election, and candidate Ulrich Siegmund wasted no time thanking Elon Musk on Twitter for his "clear and highly important perspective on the political developments of our time."
Musk's reply: "Gut gemacht." Good job.
Musk has boasted more than once that his money and his platform delivered Trump the presidency. He's been boosting AfD the same way for over a year, headlining a virtual rally where he told Germans to move past their "past guilt" over Nazism, then writing a German newspaper op-ed endorsing the party outright.
Online, people are already noticing the pattern: the richest man in the world backs the far right, then takes credit when it suddenly wins.
4. James Talarico turns Trump's "Talafreako" taunts into a campaign moment
Donald Trump, apparently threatened enough by the Texas Democratic Senate candidate to our $10 million into his opponent and give him a nickname, has been calling James Talarico "Talafreako" — and when asked about it on CBS Texas, Talarico's response was surgical.
“I think a lot of people in our state voted for President Trump in the last election because they thought he was gonna lower prices,” he said.
“They thought he was gonna end the forever wars. They thought he was gonna release the Epstein files. They thought he was gonna drain the swamp.”
“It’s why a lot of people in my family voted for President Trump,” he said.
“But just a year into this administration, prices are up because of these crazy tariffs. There’s a new forever war in Iran. The Epstein files have not fully been released and the swamp is bigger than it’s ever been before.”
“So, there’s a lot of people in our state, including a lot of the president’s former supporters, who are feeling disillusioned,” he added.
Getting a Trump nickname in a midterm cycle is free media, a base-energizing moment, and proof that Talarico is being taken seriously enough to be targeted.
5. Trump blows up his favorite lie with one post
Trump posted on Truth Social Monday that oil prices would drop "when we WIN the war with Iran" — which is a problem, because he has claimed to have already won it at least 66 times since launching strikes in late February.
"We won. In the first hour, it was over," he said in March. "We're the winner. We won," he said in April. The war is now six months old, has cost $37.5 billion by Hegseth's own estimate, killed 18 U.S. service members, and wounded more than 750.
Trump promised gas would hit $1.85 a gallon once the war ended. The national average is currently $4.15 — nearly a dollar more than last Labor Day. Diesel just hit a record high, too
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What the algorithm buried:
Trump’s bonkers (but not surprising) hot dog grift revealed
South Park uses Emmy win to troll Trump with the award he’s always wanted
Rudy Giuliani says he’s ‘offended’ by Mamdani attending 9/11 memorials in city
Meanwhile, on Labor Day, Mamdani launched this city’s first Office of Worker Power
Thieves break into Renoir museum in France and steal millions in art
Rick Wilson says there's a better way to "torture" Trump than impeachment
An ex-Air Force Secretary was asked what he'd do if he were still serving under Hegseth
Republicans and Democrats in New Mexico united against Trump's plan to rename their state "New America" — a rare moment of bipartisan agreement
How to answer yet another dumb question about Hasan Piker
Federal investigators probe Amazon cargo jet crash that killed five in Miami
Susan Sarandon says support for Palestine has cost her film roles
Dolly Parton once turned down $7 million for a major superhero movie role
Nathan Fielder’s surprise Elizabeth Holmes documentary debuts at Telluride
NOTICE POLLING
Yesterday, we asked: Will SCOTUS cave to Trump on mail-in ballots?
71% OF YOU SAID YES:
“I think it's 50-50 that the Supreme Court will refuse to support the mail-in ballot scheme that Trump is pushing. If the court does decide to kill the idea, I expect that the vote will be 5-4, with John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett voting with the three Liberal Justices against the plan, and they will cite the Constitution on the power of the states to regulate how voting is handled. If that happens, Trump will have a meltdown like never seen before!”
- cdmalin
“I will give the Supremes the benefit of the doubt because I believe that they realize that if they give this to him, all hell will break loose among Americans who believe in the value of one's vote.”
- lorifabritius
“Of COURSE they will. 😡 We need to bring ALL CAPITULENT SUPREME COURT JUDGES up on charges, as well!”
- michaelhogshooter
“They will cave because they are nervous about being held accountable for their own actions.”
- dalesallybaldwin
“They are bought and paid for their decisions. They stand for Supreme Corruption, not Supreme Court. ”
- callajr.jc
“I responded with no with the earnest hope that someone in SCOTUS shows some integrity, doing the job for the people of this country.”
- mfgarrett
That’s all for today — thank you so much for reading. We’ll see you tomorrow!

