Trump calls his own VP a "DISASTER"

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The collapse of the America 250 concert series has entered self-parody territory. Five of the nine announced artists dropped out within 48 hours of the lineup being revealed — a roster so uninspiring that a Republican congressman was reduced to publicly begging for musicians "willing" to perform.

Trump's solution? Himself. He proposed replacing the concert with a "major speech" from "the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime... DONALD J." By Saturday night he'd gone further, calling on Truth Social to cancel the whole thing in favor of "a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY."

He neglected to mention that Freedom 250 — the organization he founded — had booked the acts he was now calling "third rate."

Meanwhile, a UFC arena has been erected on the South Lawn, towering over the People's House, for a birthday fight night that cost taxpayers a functioning FEMA and a concert no one wants to headline. Happy birthday, America.TODAY’S QUESTION

Trump spent Sunday in what can only be described as a dissociative episode: 26th golf outing of the year, a Truth Social meme bender featuring "longest-running obsessions," and a self-declared announcement that he scored "perfect" on a cognitive test and possesses "extreme intelligence." A cardiologist has already delivered a public reality check on those claims. He also flubbed the name of his own America 250 project during a softball interview with his daughter-in-law and claimed — in a direct contradiction of weeks of his own rhetoric — that the U.S. has "actually left [Iran's] military alone." The incompetence never ceases to amaze.

The New York Times reported Sunday that more than 10,000 lawyers have left federal government since late 2024 — attorneys who handle everything from antitrust enforcement to veterans' benefits to environmental regulation. Trump's response was to call them left-wing "lunatics" whose departure proved the deep state was being purged.

What he didn't mention: those lawyers are the ones who know where the bodies are buried, who understand the regulations that protect workers and consumers, and who, in many cases, were the last institutional check on agencies that no longer have any. You don't fire 10,000 lawyers because you want good government. You fire them because you don't want any.

The thing about ruling through fear is that eventually people stop being afraid. Trump posted an AI-generated attack targeting Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and other MAGA critics who have questioned him — calling them losers, dismissing them as irrelevant. That was the same night a MAGA host went on air to beg him directly: "People who voted for you three times, who would walk over Legos covered in hot coals to vote for you, are broke.”

A Republican strategist issued a blunt 30-day warning this weekend, cataloguing the "self-inflicted" damage piling up inside the coalition. The clock is ticking, but it's unclear anyone in the White House can hear it over the UFC announcer.

Meanwhile the Trump-Vance relationship is reportedly deteriorating badly, with Trump privately calling his own vice president a "disaster" as a potential 2028 heir.

And Ken Paxton — Trump's own endorsed Senate candidate in Texas — walked straight into a television trap, comparing his own scandal-plagued record to Trump's. The circus is eating itself. Genuinely watch for whether any named MAGA figure actually fires back at Trump publicly in the next 24 hours. That would be a story.

The small town of Social Circle, Georgia is invoking a "public nuisance" law to fight a planned ICE detention center — a novel legal strategy that scholars say could be replicated by other localities nationwide. While the Biden-era playbook leaned on federal litigation, this approach hands a tool to local governments — including ones in red states where ICE facilities are being fast-tracked over community objections. Markwayne Mullin's separate proposal to ban major airports from accepting international flights has drawn bipartisan backlash, suggesting that even within the administration's deportation apparatus, the wheels are not all turning the same direction. The people being detained don't have time to wait for the legal playbook to mature, but the playbook is being written.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced he will not attend the annual Celebrate Israel Parade, making him the first NYC mayor in recent memory to publicly decline. He's under intense pressure from pro-Israel donors and a New York political establishment that has made attendance a virtual requirement of the job, and he is not blinking.

Mamdani, who ran explicitly on Palestinian human rights, is doing exactly what he said he would do — delivering on his affordability agenda for working class people — which is, in the current political climate, a form of radicalism.

The move will cost him in some quarters and cement him in others, and the fact that it's generating this much noise is precisely the point. Elected officials who say what they mean and do what they said are still, apparently, newsworthy.