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Tourists Flock to Gawk at Trump's Slimy Green Pool – The Friday AM Quickie 6/19/26

By Corey Pein —

Happy Juneteenth! Find a celebration near you here. I'm off, Whitney's back Monday. - Corey

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THE BIG NEWS

Trump's Swamp Overfloweth

The Trump regime has never failed to supply painful visual metaphors for its many outrages and failures, from the portable McDonald's that follows him on overseas trips to sell out his own country to the televised gladiator fight on the White House lawn. The latest sorry spectacle to captivate the country is the swampification of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which Donald Trump promised to clean up and turn a pristine "American flag blue" – but which, since the completion its costly renovation this month, has turned a garish green with out-of-control algae blooms. Though few may now remember his 2016 campaign promise to "drain the swamp," the fascist dotard has delivered the garish opposite.

As the Washington Post reports, the slimy green pond has become Washington, DC's hottest tourist attraction. MAGA faithful are speculating that Deep State "bureaucrats" seeded the algae in the pool to sabotage Trump yet again, but some experts say the dark blue coating Trump had applied to the bottom of the pool is raising the water temperature, causing the algae to thrive. As HuffPost reports, that blue epoxy coating is already peeling off, with loose chunks floating to the water's surface.

As with everything Trump does, there's a corruption angle. The New York Times reports that Trump's friend, neighbor, and donor, John J. Cafaro – a "fantastic man" who looks like The Penguin in a toupee – was the beneficiary of a $1.7 million no-bid contract to "purify" the water in the reflecting pool. Cafaro, incidentally, pleaded guilty in 2001 to bribing the late Ohio Democratic Rep. James Traficant, Jr. Since 2016, Carafo has given more than $300,000 to Trump's political committees. Not a bad return on investment!

Meanwhile, the Post reports that the regime has pilfered $352 million from the Secret Service's training and recruitment budget to pay for Trump's White House ballroom boondoggle, which he repeatedly claimed would be entirely privately funded. Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley tells the Associated Press that the misspent funds are potentially illegal. "Trump has proven that he can't be trusted to follow the law," Merkley says. “He only cares about wasting taxpayer money on his vanity projects." That's unfair. He also cares about revenge.

Iran Wins: JD Vance Set to Take the Fall as Republicans Sour on Peace Deal

  • Vance Warns Israel Over Criticism of Trump's 'Catastrophic Capitulation' to Iran "If I was in the Cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world," the vice bootlicker told reporters yesterday. via HuffPost, the New York Times, and NBC News.
  • Iranian Delegation and Vance Cancel Trip to Switzerland for Talks Over Israel's Occupation of Lebanon Meanwhile, Donald Trump may have already violated one of the terms of his surrender deal by saying "he was prepared to resume 'shooting at [Iran], dropping bombs on their head.'" via the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Associated Press.
  • Democratic Senators to Block Pete Hegseth's Travel Funds Until He Releases Pentagon Report on Iran School Massacre "Asked about the strike Wednesday, specifically whether he would hold anyone in his [regime] accountable for it... Trump said, 'Mistakes are made; war is nasty.'" via the AP and NBC News.
  • US Surrender Immediately Brings Gas Prices Below $4 for the First Time Since March "With the planned reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the specter of a prolonged crunch in energy supplies has faded, and with it the risk of a severe downturn in the global economy." via NBC News, the AP, and the Wall Street Journal.

Elections Roundup: Democratic Socialists Rack Up Victories as Janeese Lewis George Wins DC Mayoral Primary

  • Zohran Mamdani and AOC Endorsements Diverge Ahead of New York's Tuesday Primary New York City Mayor "Mamdani, who must work with Albany powerbrokers for his city's budget, is avoiding run-ins with state leaders, while [Rep. Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez, who is seen as a potential presidential candidate, isn't alienating relationships with her congressional colleagues." via NOTUS and Politico.
  • SEIU Offers Compromises With Gov. Gavin Newsom and Other Billionaire Tax Opponents The coalition behind California's one-time wealth tax proposal says it is willing to lower the rate to 2 percent down from 5 percent, but the billionaire-backed opponents aren't satisfied. via the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
  • Absent New Jersey Republican Rep. Tom Kean, Jr., Sets Date to Show His Face Again, But Democrats Likely to Flip His Seat "Reporters have staked out the missing lawmaker's house, with one even traveling to a Kean family vacation home on an exclusive island in Long Island Sound after hearing rumors that they might find him there." via the New York Times and Politico.
  • 'King of the North' Andy Burnham Trounces Reform Fascist in Parliamentary Election, Setting Up Challenge to Keir Starmer for Labour Leadership "Burnham, a former government minister who quit Westminster nine years ago to take the Manchester mayoralty, has pitched himself further to the left of Starmer, but his policy platform remains vague." via NBC News, BBC News, and Politico.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • ICE Beat and Shackled Minneapolis Protester for Days; Prosecutors Drop Charges After Reporter Takes Up Case Meanwhile, a federal judge in Wisconsin ordered the release of the state's largest mosque from immigration detention, "finding that Salah Sarsour has raised a “substantial” claim that he was being targeted for speaking out in favor of Palestinian rights." via the New York Times, the Associated Press, and the Times (again).
  • Ukraine Launches Biggest Air Raid on Moscow Since Russia Invaded "We do not want this war and never did," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says. "But if Ukraine is going to burn, your Moscow will burn too." via the Guardian, NBC News, and the Financial Times.
  • Flu Outbreak Fells 160 Air Force Troops in Texas After Pete Hegseth Kills Vaccination Requirement "In the weeks since Mr. Hegseth's vaccine policy took effect on April 21, only about 40 percent of Air Force trainees have opted to take the vaccine, which had long been mandatory." via the New York Times and the Washington Post.
  • Celebrities Flock to Obama Presidential Library Opening in Chicago in Implicit F-You to Trump "Residents said they had mixed feelings about the museum: hope that it will bring more development to the neighborhood, but also fear that it will usher in so much gentrification that their rents will go up." via the New York Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Guardian.

SOME NUMBER

49 percent

That's the share of American adults in a new Gallup survey who are "cost secure" in terms of health care, "meaning that they had access both to high-quality, affordable care and they had recently been able to afford the care and medicine they needed." As the Associated Press reports, the share of cost secure adults is down from a recent peak of 61 percent in 2022, when Joe Biden was President; the numbers have since then kept getting worse especially for younger adults, older adults and women.

Meanwhile, lawyers for the accused UnitedHealthcare executive assassin Luigi Mangione told a court that they were withdrawing a planned mental health defense.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

6/19: MR is off for Juneteenth but will air a pretaped interview hosted by Sam. The guest will be Eddie Glaude, Jr., distinguished professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University, publisher of A Native Son on Substack, and author of America, USA: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries.

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PARTING WORDS

"He specifically said, 'It's your fault, and you deserve it.' So Donald Trump said it was my fault and I deserved for my son to be murdered."

-- Former Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene telling a podcast host this week about how her ally-turned-nemesis Donald Trump gloated over "credible" death threats against her family following her support for the release of the government's files on Trump's late pal, the elite sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Greene claims she has text messages proving that Trump approved of the death threats.

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that Trump has a new favorite line he deploys against the growing number of MAGA defectors in his own party: "I'm the president and you're not."

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