Last night, Trump delivered his first joint address to Congress since his election, and it was of course insane. While he mostly rattled off his victories — as well as a long list of embarrassing programs identified by DOGE — Democrats, clad in strange pink outfits and holding goofy signs, shouted through most of the speech. Even before Trump had the chance to say something crazy, one congressman had to be removed. A few moments later, Trump broke the fourth wall, and asked the Democrats to come together with him for one special night. (they declined). But don’t you get the sense they actually kind of find this thrilling? After all, it’s way better to be shouting and crying and getting kicked out of congress than it is to be defending a corpse. A win-win: the right gets their policy pivots, and the left gets to be alive again. I think that’s beautiful.

Trump’s tariffs on Mexico and Canada went into effect yesterday, despite an initial 30-day delay agreement, alongside new tariffs on China. And the motivation for tariffing our neighbors varies wildly based on who you ask. Officially, this is a response to fentanyl trafficking, with Trump’s commerce secretary calling it a “drug war… not a trade war” before suggesting tariffs could be rolled back as soon as today (?). But fentanyl entering through Canada is a rounding error, and Mexico was already deploying 10,000 troops and cooperating with the CIA on cartel takedowns in order to avoid these tariffs (measures now deemed insufficient). Trade reciprocity likely plays a big role here, and it’s possible that fentanyl rhetoric is political marketing. But my guess is Trump is only hitting buttons to see what lights up, because he’s learned that when he pushes, people cave. The question is, what is left to gain, and who will blink first?

Following Jacked Bezos’ decision to change its opinion pages, the Washington Post has “lost 75K subscribers,” according to The Post’s loser cousin The Hill. Judging by how many outlets are picking up the story, the media really wants everyone to think “focusing on free markets and personal liberties = less money,” but assuming we take them at their word, who are these 75K exactly? Bots? USAID spend? Manhattan Democratic Jewish heiresses à la White Lotus that wanted to win the favor of Bezos’ growth-hormone-enhanced hands? Maybe The Post really is hemorrhaging cash, but the thing about traditional “market forces” arguments isn’t just that they’re disingenuous (they are) — it’s that they're relics of a bygone political climate, and no one cares anymore. MAGA doesn’t care. Steve Bannon doesn't care. Younger generations don’t care. The only person who cared was Bezos, and it sounds like he's finally grown some balls. God Bless TRT.

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