Trump to Taxpayers: 'You Got Venmo?,' Powell's Face Says It All, & Is J.D. Doing Trump Dirty on Epstein?

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If there was ever a week that perfectly captured the chaos, cowardice, and cartoonish cruelty of the Trump era, it was this one. In Arizona and Oregon, wildfires rage across the land, while Trump’s gutted Forest Service leaves firefighters to clean toilets and beg for gas money. At the White House, the President faced bombshell reporting that his name appears in the Epstein files — so he did what any narcissist cornered by consequence does: he accused Barack Obama of treason.

Then came the kicker: The Treasury Department added Venmo as a way to “help reduce the national debt,” as if crowdfunding could undo decades of tax cuts, wars, and corporate theft. Meanwhile, Trump picked a fight with Jerome Powell over imaginary budget overruns, only to fold once the Fed Chair did the math in real time.

Every story this week reveals the same pattern: hollow out government, weaponize grievance, and scapegoat your enemies. Nothing is too small to politicize and nothing is too sacred to destroy. Whether it’s frontline workers or democratic norms, the goal is always the same — discredit the system while demanding its obedience.

Welcome to The Lincoln Logue — the part of your week where we pull back the curtain and light up the lies.

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1. Crowdfunding the National Debt? OMG! (LOL)

I'm going to reach here and ask if anyone remembers a movie back in the 80's that had a theme (or at least a scene) similar to this. I think it was called "American (something).." I want to remember John Ritter being in it. Anyway, they did a fundraising event on TV for the U.S., much like a March of Dimes Marathon. I thought then, "How ridiculous!" But look here where we are, now in 2025 with trump at the helm of government. So many old movies were almost prescient in how they saw our future (like Idiocracy!). Too bad no one made the connections! LOL!

I remember this movie only because of that one fundraising scene, and probably only then because I HAD to see some sort of stupid comic movie after having seen Amityville Horror at the theater. Just couldn't shake the feelings that movie left me with, and insisted to hubby we see something stupid to try to shake the horror. Little did I know the comedy was presaging the horror in which I'd be living my elder years! ARGH!