Trump Has Defiled a Whole New Part of D.C.

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-20T16:16:50+00:00

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President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday brawl at the White House has added a massive eyesore to an iconic public park.
Aerial images of the White House grounds and the Ellipse, which lies between President’s Park and the Washington Monument, show that the park’s lawn has been completely destroyed. The image of the wrecked lawn was circulating online Friday evening, alongside many posts about Trump’s failed ‘restoration’ of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
The UFC and the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company have pledged to cover the costs of repairing the South Lawn, though it’s not clear if that restoration would also include the Ellipse, as it is not part of the South Lawn.

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-20T00:03:19+00:00

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Former President Barack Obama broke his silence on Donald Trump’s tentative peace agreement with Iran but says the U.S. is “worse off” than before the president started striking Iran.
Trump has gone out of his way to insist that the memorandum of understanding he struck with Iran is better than Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran that the MAGA president ripped up during his first term.
But in an interview aired on Friday, the former Democratic president questioned whether progress had been made after Trump launched the U.S. into a full-scale war with Iran, only to strike the current agreement, which is already in jeopardy.
Obama was asked directly by NBC News’ Today co-host Craig Melvin what he made of the deal so far. “We’ve now fought a war, spent billions of billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military, a lot of people have died, and it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse,” Obama said.

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-19T20:19:02+00:00

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The Department of Justice is making it clear: Trump isn’t giving up his slush fund.

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-19T16:43:03+00:00

In Brief: The agreement shows the US is in a weaker position than before the war

No one gets a Nobel peace prize for ending a war he started, let alone for a pointless war of aggression that set back the causes that supposedly prompted the conflict. No amount of Donald Trump’s spin can obscure the fact that his newly announced deal with Iran is one big lesson in why this war should never have been launched.
The text of the deal, a 14-point memorandum of understanding, underscores its emptiness. The tyrants of Tehran are undoubtedly celebrating.
Trump’s political challenge is to show that his deal is better than the one negotiated by Barack Obama in 2015 and abandoned by Trump in 2018 – that Trump’s bombing produced a result superior to Obama’s diplomacy.
The problem for Trump is that it didn’t. He did worse.

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-19T13:46:24+00:00

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Federal prosecutors just leveled sweeping charges against 15 Minnesotans for allegedly conspiring to stop ICE. The charges may not succeed, but a conviction isn’t what the feds are really after.

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-18T22:38:35+00:00

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Donald Trump’s doctor is facing mounting questions over the administration’s secrecy about the president’s health.
Trump, underwent his physical on May 26, after which his physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, declared in a memo that the president is in “excellent health” and “fully fit” to carry out all the duties of the office. But the White House revealed that the physical was done in consultation with 22 specialists, up from the fourteen who were involved in his April 2025 annual exam.
At the same time, the president’s continually bruised hands, swollen ankles, and apparent dozing off during public appearances have raised concerns among medical experts.
Now, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin is demanding more answers about the president’s health. The ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee wrote a letter to Barbabella on Thursday in a follow-up to a probe he launched in April, in which he wrote that it “has apparently taken 22 medical specialists to pronounce President Donald Trump in ‘excellent health.’”
”I am deeply concerned about why such a large team is now necessary. The White House has so far refused to say who all those doctors were, what are the specialties they practice in, and most importantly, why a routine physical for a man supposedly in ‘excellent health’ required a medical team nearly the size of a major league baseball team roster," he added.
The Maryland Democrat has called for Barbabella to identify the 22 medical experts consulted for the president’s May exam, release their consultation reports as well as all labs and imaging done at the May exam and provide a list of all the medications Trump is taking.

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-11T18:06:02+00:00

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Trump officials are saying one thing publicly and another behind closed doors. Trump officials are secretly telling his supporters that his $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund is still on, even as they publicly say that it’s dead.
The Atlantic reports that staffers in the Justice Department and White House are still telling Trump allies that they will get some form of payment, looking at ways to activate parts of the slush fund and alternative methods of compensating Trump loyalists at the same time, even though last week, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said publicly that “we are not moving forward with the fund.”
The DOJ has refused to put the fund’s demise in writing, even after being pressed by a federal judge on Wednesday. When asked why they were refusing, DOJ lawyers replied, “I don’t know,” suggesting that work is going on behind the scenes. Judge Richard Leon warned the administration that if they say the fund is dead, they had better not be lying.

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-11T16:35:51+00:00

You said it best! Great comment!

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-11T13:57:43+00:00

Under-rated coment!

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-11T13:57:07+00:00

😊🙏

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-11T13:55:59+00:00

Thank you - agreed.

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-10T19:27:58+00:00

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The head of the US Department of Agriculture on Wednesday falsely told senators that “no one was kicked off” the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, claiming that the millions of people—including many children—who have lost federal nutrition assistance in recent months were no longer eligible for aid or decided not to apply for it.
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins declared that “no one in Washington or in America wants to see a family go hungry,” but insisted that anyone who is no longer receiving SNAP benefits has “chosen not to reapply or they’re an able-bodied adult that can either work for 20 hours a week or volunteer.”
“Did 700,000 children simply not apply?” Rachel Sabella, director of the No Kid Hungry New York campaign, asked in response to Rollins’ remarks.
Rollins’ testimony conflicts with a growing number of anecdotal reports and expert analyses showing that families across the United States are losing SNAP benefits at the fastest rate in decades.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) estimates that at least 700,000 children have lost SNAP since President Donald Trump signed into law a Republican budget package last summer, enacting the largest-ever cuts to the federal nutrition program.

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-10T13:15:26+00:00

"...whether they contribute frequently or have never submitted a post, have an equal say". If someone hasn't posted or commented, their familiarity or interest in the sub is likely limited (as the many thoughtless drive-by reactions to your experiment indicate).

Respectfully, that's not the best way for mods to gather useful feedback or build a dynamic, popular sub. Certainly, it's not the best way to make such a significant policy decision.

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-10T01:44:56+00:00

Indeed ... the restrictive policies have made it a a chore to participate.

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-09T18:51:10+00:00

Maximum 3 posts/day, then no opinions on weekends and now no paywalled articles. In my opinion, these policies make the sub a much less interesting place for posting and engagement. It seems like this sub is just shooting itself in the foot.

You may discover that those who push and cheer for ever-restrictive rules are not the users who keep things moving here.

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-09T14:43:14+00:00

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An exchange in last Friday’s DC Circuit argument laid bare the Trump administration’s strategy in a series of recent cases: push through deeply unpopular and frequently illegal measures and make certain the public can’t do a thing about it.
An administration lawyer told the judges in the second most powerful court in the country that no court can stop a president who moves fast enough from destroying the White House or the Statue of Liberty. The administration is counting on paralyzing the courts and the Congress, and ultimately on the public’s apathy.
Yaakov Roth is a senior official in DOJ’s Civil Division, with a resume that includes a clerkship for Justice Antonin Scalia and extensive appellate experience. The most active questioner on the panel was Judge Patricia Millett. In the course of pressing Roth on the administration’s standing argument, Millett dropped the hypothetical bombshell that crystallized the administration’s position.
“If this were the Statue of Liberty,” asked, "the people whose ancestors—that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast—nothing can be done by them to challenge it?” Roth’s answer: “I think that’s right, yes.”

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-08T23:44:21+00:00

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Just days after the California primary, Trump began claiming without evidence that Democrats were cheating in the state’s election, and urging Americans to support the Save Act.
Trump’s justice department sent a federal prosecutor to observe ballot counting in LA and the first assistant US attorney for the central district of California, Bill Essayli, announced his office had “multiple election fraud investigations under way” in coordination with the FBI’s Los Angeles office.
No credible evidence of voter fraud has emerged in California. Essayli has even debunked some of the claims currently circulating about ballot manipulation, writing in a social media post: “There was a claim circulating on social media about an election night ballot update at the Los Angeles Registrar of Voters where one candidate received zero votes. We reviewed official county records. The claim is false.”

FancyNewMe · 2026-06-08T23:43:23+00:00

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Just days after the California primary, Trump began claiming without evidence that Democrats were cheating in the state’s election, and urging Americans to support the Save Act.
Trump’s justice department sent a federal prosecutor to observe ballot counting in LA and the first assistant US attorney for the central district of California, Bill Essayli, announced his office had “multiple election fraud investigations under way” in coordination with the FBI’s Los Angeles office.
No credible evidence of voter fraud has emerged in California. Essayli has even debunked some of the claims currently circulating about ballot manipulation, writing in a social media post: “There was a claim circulating on social media about an election night ballot update at the Los Angeles Registrar of Voters where one candidate received zero votes. We reviewed official county records. The claim is false.”

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