AMERICA(S) THE BEAUTIFUL: After Omar appeared on Face the Nation...

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2025

...The Five engaged in an act of fraud: The madness within which our America(s) dwell—what used to be called the "mental illness"—is surely there for all to see in this New York Times news report.

The madness is there for all to see. The language is apparently disfavored now, but this used to be known as "mental illness:" 

National Parks Drop Free Entrance on M.L.K. Day and Juneteenth

The National Park Service will cut Martin Luther King’s Birthday and Juneteenth, two holidays honoring Black history, from its list of free entrance days next year.

Visitors will instead get free entry on June 14, which is both Flag Day and President Trump’s birthday.

The changes follow previous moves by the Trump administration to take down materials mentioning slavery at national parks and come as part of a broader effort by the White House to erase or play down Black history at government sites.

The Interior Department, which oversees the park service, said in a news release that the changes reflected the administration’s “commitment to making national parks more accessible, more affordable and more efficient for the American people.”

And so on, though briefly, from there. But believe it or not, the Times doesn't seem to be making this up. As best we can tell, this is the way it works:

In the current year, 2025, all National Park Service sites that charge an entrance fee have been offering free admission on six (6) special days. This was this year's list:

Free admission days, 2025
Monday, January 20: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Saturday, April 19: First day of National Park Week
Thursday, June 19: Juneteenth
Monday, August 4: Anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act
Saturday, September 27: National Public Lands Day
Tuesday, November 11: Veterans Day

All six free days have come and gone; the year is almost over. Starting in January, the list of free days will be different.

Starting in January, visitors will have to pay on King Day, and also on Juneteenth. As of next year, those days are gone from the special "free admission" list. 

That said, there will now be eight (8) special "free admission" days instead of the previous six. One of those days, straight from the annals of what was once known as "mental illness," is the birthday of the glorious President Trump, the reigning American monarch:

Free admission days, 2026
February 16: Presidents Day (Washington's Birthday)
May 25: Memorial Day
June 14: Flag Day/President Trump's birthday
July 3–5: Independence Day weekend
August 25: 110th Birthday of the National Park Service
September 17: Constitution Day
October 27: Theodore Roosevelt's birthday
November 11: Veterans Day

The monarch Trump will now be honored. Dr. King (and Juneteenth) will both be happily gone.

Full disclosure! It isn't obvious why Dr. King's birthday was a free day in the National Parks. Nor is it obvious why Juneteenth would have been so observed.

In Red America, decisions like those will be regarded as our own Blue America's force-feeding of
"the woke." We'd say there's a tiny element of plausibility to that reaction—but with the reigning monarch's birthday now honored, we'd have to say that something strongly resembling "mental illness" is there for all to see.

That said, no one will talk about this "mental illness," whether using that old terminology or under some new language regime. In Blue America, our journalists and our academics have largely agreed to play by a debilitating rule:

No one will admit to seeing what's sitting right there before them. The ongoing "Madness of Monarch Trump" will continue to be ignored, disappeared, unmentioned, lost, unfailingly cast away.

Long ago and far away, denizens of the British Isles were dealing with The Madness of King George, or at least so Hollywood said. The film appeared in 1994. It dealt with the alleged mental disorder of King George III, the monarch who reigned from October 1760 on through his death in 1820.

As luck would have it, that span included the tumultuous years which contained the American Revolution.

Two weeks ago, a 12-hour film by Ken Burns et al. was broadcast by PBS. The film was called The American Revolution. Along the way, several historians vouched for the King George III of the revolutionary years as an admirable species of monarch, especially as judged by the norms of the time.

How crazy were that king's demands? At one point, we had to chuckle at one assertion. According to the first episode of the Burns film, at issue was London's attempt to police colonial expansion into Indian lands:

NARRATOR: After abandoning his dream of serving as an officer in the British Army, George Washington had married an enormously wealthy widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, and had made himself still wealthier speculating in western lands. He saw no reason to stop.

The law was only a temporary measure to "quiet the minds of the Indians," he said, and he directed his land agent to defy the Proclamation and "secure [for him] some of the most valuable Lands" beyond the Appalachians. 

PHILIP DELORIA, HISTORIAN: I think the American Revolution was all about land. It's easy to make the political kinds of arguments, but I think underpinning all of that was the possibility of expansion was the conflict with Indian people.

NARRATOR: Now, to enforce the hated law and to police the frontier, the British government resolved to station an army of 10,000 men in North America. The cost would be enormous—some 360,000 British pounds a year.

London did not have the money. Years of war on four continents had doubled the national debt. Britain was in the midst of a postwar depression, and British consumers were already burdened with higher taxes than were the subjects of any other European monarch.

The average British subject paid 26 shillings a year in taxes. The average New Englander paid just one. So, some bright spark has the idea, "Well, let's tax the American colonists."

According to that presentation, London was trying to police the frontier—was trying to stop the invasion of Indian lands west of the Appalachians. Short on cash, King George joined parliament in seeking new taxes on the colonies as a way to finance this attempt—and here's the part which made us chuckle:

The average British subject paid 26 shillings a year in taxes. The average New Englander paid just one.

Or at least, so the narrator said.

George Washington was enormously wealthy. Before helping to trigger the many deaths and sexual assaults to come, we might have advised him to go ahead and pay the second shilling! 

That said, he wanted to add to his western holdings. And so, to borrow from Lincoln's language, "the war came."

More on all that to come. For today, we offer that financial advice to the wealthy future general only as a bit of comic relief.

The Burns film describes the way the American population divided into two warring tribes during the revolutionary years. We're in a somewhat similar situation today, with America Red and America Blue butting heads on a 24-hour "information" battlefield, all while inhabiting two different epistemic worlds.

It's the reigning king of Red America who now sits in the White House. Two days ago, on Sunday's front page, the New York Times tried to address the way that monarch, with his now transparent madness, actually managed to end up there again:

How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration
The Democratic president and his top advisers rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to the White House.

Did we Blues, through our tribal foolishness, help return President Trump to the White House? That's what the Times was attempting to say—and that lengthy analysis piece will be disappeared (ignored, cast away) by every host on MS NOW and by every other "influencer" within the America which is Blue.

In our view, the Times was also providing a service with this front-page report on Sunday, November 30:

How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
Prosecutors say members of the Somali diaspora, a group with growing political power, were largely responsible. President Trump has drawn national attention to the scandal amid his crackdown on immigration.

Did Minnesota's Blue establishment play a role, in any way, in the large fraud described in that front-page report? (For the record, prosecution of that fraud began under President Biden.) 

Were Minnesota's Blues at fault? On Sunday, Margaret Brennan (CBS News) invited Rep. Omar onto Face the Nation. Let the word go forth to the nation(s)! This was the first Q-and-A:

BRENNAN (12/7/25): And we're joined now by Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Welcome to the program.

REP. OMAR (D-Minn.): Thank you, Margaret.

BRENNAN: We have a lot to get to with you, but I want to pick up on where the treasury secretary just left off. He alleged that people who were tied to you or your campaign were involved in this broad, brazen scheme to rip off the Minnesota state welfare system.

Do you want to respond to that? Do you know what he is referring to?

REP. OMAR: I really don't, and I don't think the secretary himself understands what he's referring to. We obviously had people who were able to donate to our campaign that were involved. We sent that money back a couple years ago. And actually, I was one of the first members of Congress to send a letter to the Secretary of Ag asking them to look into what I thought was a reprehensible fraud that was occurring within the program.

So said Rep. Omar on Sunday; her presentation continued from there. Yesterday, inside Silo Red, the clown-car rolled up to the set of The Five and dumped these mutts on the street:

The Five: Monday, December 8, 2025
Kayleigh McEnany: Harvard Law School graduate
Harold Ford: former congressman (D-Tenn.)
Jesse Watters: co-host, The Five
Dana Perino: co-host, The Five
Tyrus: former professional "wrestler"

The former professional "wrestler" was there. So was the harlequin Watters.

This clown cadre proceeded to pretend to discuss the Minnesota fraud matter. As it did, it engaged in an imitation of human life—in a substantial act of journalistic fraud.

Blue America's elites all look away as a corporate group in Red America commits these ongoing acts of journalistic fraud. The fraudsters serve a monarch who is plainly "mentally ill" (outmoded language) as they stage their fake discussions and as they cash their corporate checks.

On two successive Sundays, the New York Times has discussed 1) the fraud in Minnesota and 2) President Biden's border debacle. This very morning, the paper is attempting to serve again, with this additional front-page report:

Building Chip Plant Takes an Ocean of Approvals
AMERICAN INERTA
Unintended Costs of Regulation

There it sits on today's front page. Has Blue America tended to create a smothering culture of regulation—a smothering culture which has made it irrationally difficult to move the economy forward? 

Different people will answer that question in different ways. But we see the Times perhaps saying this:

It's time for Blue America to start confronting the substantive discussions. It's time for Blue America to confront its own possible errors—to stop focusing on our undying dream of getting someone who's Red locked up.

(More on that dream this afternoon.)

Brennan had interviewed the animatronic Secretary Bessent before she spoke with Rep. Omar. You need to see what he said. Also, you need to see what Rep. Omar said in reply to Secretary Bessent's animatronic attempts at critique. 

We'll be providing that service tomorrow. Most of all, we Blues all need to do this:

We need to be served by some news org which will report the endless acts of fraud perpetrated by the mutts who perform on the Fox News Channel. Yesterday afternoon, on The Five, Watters was the king of this latest fraud, but Perino will always play along, as will that former "wrestler."

Fraud took place in Minnesota. A second fraud took place years later, on yesterday's The Five.

On the brighter side, the monarch's birthday is now free of charge. We've advised Blue journalists to pity the child, but also to go ahead and report what's there for all to see.

Tomorrow: Journalistic fraud