MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2026
On horseback with General Washington: By now, it's a regular weekend event, and who really knows? It may be intended to draw attention away from everything else!
At any rate, there the president(s) went again! On Truth Social, you could see our nation's father(s) on horseback:
Trump Rides Horses With George Washington and Floats Big 2028 ‘Win’ in AI Posting Spree
President Donald Trump went on a bit of a posting spree on Saturday afternoon, with the flurry including the president posting multiple AI pictures of himself alongside George Washington. Trump also trotted out one of his go-to troll moves by hinting he will win the 2028 election—a claim which his liberal critics loathe and often point out can’t happen because of the Constitution.
The report by Sean James continues from there, with a trio of pictures included. One picture shows the sitting president back in the saddle again, riding next to General Washington.
This has become standard weekend fare. Who knows? It may be intended to draw attention away from headlines like this headline concerning the latest crazy presidential conduct concerning a major policy issue:
GOP Senator Absolutely Destroys Trump’s Recent Comments Casting Doubt on Vaccines: ‘That’s a Crazy, Stupid Thing!’
A Republican Senator is lashing out at President Donald Trump over his recent claim that “nothing bad can happen” by splitting up the childhood vaccine schedule.
Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) ripped the president for comments made during an executive order signing Tuesday in which he said he wants to split the MMR measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into separate shots. Despite vehement objections from top physician organizations, Trump falsely claimed the combined MMR shot could be “quite lethal,” and added that “separately, it looks like they are not at all lethal.”
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“You’ve said someone needs to stand up to ‘crazy, stupid things’ being said that undermine faith and immunization,” Tapper told Cassidy. “Is President Trump saying some of these crazy stupid things?”
“Yeah,” Cassidy said. “That’s a crazy, stupid thing!”
Way back in 2001, Crazy/Beautiful was a generally well-regarded film about teen culture. This past week, we moved on to "Crazy/Stupid" in the realm of child health care as a pair of men with fairly obvious mental health issues pushed their peculiar beliefs and ludicrous claims on a rapidly failing nation.
It was "Crazy/Stupid," Cassidy said, finally finding his voice. Of course, he was hardly the first observer to express that general view.
Earlier in the week, the editorial board of the Washington Post had described Trump's claims about the MMR vaccine as "irresponsible, possibly deadly." Live and direct from Murdoch World, the editorial board at the Wall Street Journal had offered this:
Trump Jabs at Vaccines for Children
The U.S. is enduring its worst measles outbreak in years, but that isn’t stopping President Trump from spreading vaccine skepticism. He overruled his advisers, press reports say, by issuing Monday’s executive order urging Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. to limit proven childhood immunizations.
The President’s declaration of “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations” largely follows a much-disputed HHS report in January that advised fewer vaccines on the childhood schedule. Mr. Trump likes to paint a golden sheen on everything, but his proposed regimen isn’t based on rigorous science, or really any science at all.
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The order also proposes splitting the MMR into “three separate single-disease shots,” to be administered at separate medical visits. Mr. Trump claimed without evidence Monday that the MMR vaccine in its current form could be “quite lethal.” Is he trying to scare parents into not inoculating children?
And so on from there.
The New York Times has largely taken itself out of the editorial business. That said, the Times provided these punishing fact-check pieces:
Fact-Checking the Trump Administration’s Claims About Vaccines
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling for scaling back the number of vaccinations American children receive. At an Oval Office event announcing the order, Mr. Trump suggested falsely that vaccines were linked to autism and that the combined measles, mumps and rubella shot could be lethal, among other claims.
While it is not clear yet whether the order has any legal power, experts said they were concerned that the statements from Mr. Trump, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others at the event would sow further doubt and confusion about the safety of immunizations.
(For full report, click here.)
Should the M.M.R. Vaccine Be Split Into Three Separate Shots?
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In an Oval Office signing ceremony, the president made a frightening and unsubstantiated claim about the combination shot. “Together, there could be a possibility they’re quite lethal.”
Researchers have not linked the combination M.M.R. shot to a risk of death, and there is no evidence that it is dangerous or that splitting it into its three components is any safer or more effective, vaccine experts said. Combination shots for the diseases have been used in the United States since 1971, and were introduced only after careful comparison against individual shots. They have been given to hundreds of millions of children.
What’s more, separate vaccines for measles, mumps or rubella have not been available in the United States for many years. Vaccine manufacturers said it would take a minimum of five to 10 years for them to be tested and made available.
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“It’s just simply more confusion for the poor parents,” Dr. Edwards said. “And it’s just showing the world that our health system and our H.H.S. and our president are totally uninformed,” she said, referring to the Department of Health and Human Services.
(For full report, click this.)
We don't like to use the word "stupid" here. That said, how "Crazy/Not So Beautiful" were the Trump/Kennedy remarks?
Major news orgs don't like to report the astonishing size of the president's apparent mental / cognitive disorder. You may have to go to a site like Mediaite to get a report like this:
Trump Compares Common Vaccine to a Nuclear Weapon
President Donald Trump compared the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine to a nuclear bomb being set off inside a kid’s body during a Tuesday interview on Real America’s Voice.
The president championed the new childhood vaccine guidelines he and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. debuted Monday, with Trump claiming the old schedule was “too big” and “too much” at one time. He then talked about the MMR vaccine.
“If you give them separately — the M, the M, and the R, it’s fine,” Trump said. “When you put them together, they’re sort of like a nuclear weapon, according to some. So why wouldn’t you give them separately? What’s hurt by giving them separately?”
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Trump told Root the government had previously recommended “pumping this massive amount of fluid” into kids which looked “like a Coca-Cola bottle.”
“I don’t care if it’s water, it’s too much,” Trump said.
According to the sitting president, an amount of vaccine "like a Coca-Cola bottle" is currently being pumped into each child's arm. The shots are "sort of like a nuclear weapon," he added.
What was the source for these remarkable claims? What else? His source was "according to some!"
The lunacy of the president's claims might almost seem to suggest the possibility of a major cognitive problem. In our view, a different set of mental disorders is put on display by the major news orgs which still refuse to report and discuss the obvious fact that something seems to be wrong with this man—with a man who will remain in office, surrounded by his nut-ball staff, for more than two years even after the mid-term elections.
Is something wrong with President Trump? It's pretty much as you like it! Speaking on Long Island on Friday, there he (not so beautifully) went again:
Trump Boasts ‘Young Beautiful Girls’ Come to White House to Thank Him for Lowering Crime
President Donald Trump repeatedly boasted Friday that “young beautiful girls” have been showing up at the White House to thank him for lowering crime.
The cringeworthy comment came as Trump spoke to law enforcement officials on Long Island while touting his administration’s crime record...
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“These young, beautiful girls, these young, beautiful girls, these young, beautiful girls in the White House,” the president repeated. “You know, they come in. Now, I’m not supposed to say ‘beautiful,’ but what the hell?
“These young, these gorgeous, beautiful girls, they’re young. They wanna be safe, and they come, ‘Mr. President, may I speak to you?'”“Yes,” Trump said, referring to how he responds to these “young beautiful girls.”
“Thank you, sir! Thank you!” the president recalls them saying. “I said, ‘Why are you thanking me?’ ‘Because a year and a half ago, I was afraid to leave—I was afraid to open the door of my apartment, and now I walk to the White House every morning, and I have absolutely no— Thank you, sir!'”
There the president (not so beautifully) seems to have gone again! Is it possible that something's wrong with this rather powerful guy?
At this point, we're barely scratching the surface here of the points of concern which may get swept away by AI pictures of the commander in chief riding along, on a charger, next to General Washington. But, for whatever reason, our major orgs in Blue America are going to duck the question of mental illness / cognitive decline "until the last dog dies."
That said, Blue America is also struggling as we start our week of reports.
"Woke One was crazy," AOC said. What could she have meant by that?
Tomorrow: We've wondered about this ourselves
