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Trump Truth Store temporarily closes on account of low sales amid Iran war
Yesterday, TexasTowelie posted a video about Lisa Fleischmann, who moved her "Trump Truth" Store to Crystal Lake, IL, after being evicted from her previous location in another town and has now had to close due to a lack of business. If you missed the post, it can be found here:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/03/trump-truth-store-closes-war-sales/
No paywall link: texashttp://archive.today/brqa3
The video was based on a story in the Chicago Tribune. I got curious and went and found it:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/03/trump-truth-store-closes-war-sales/
No paywall link: http://archive.today/brqa3
Here are a few choice excerpts that I think show how delusional this woman is:
She said she hopes to host a grand reopening in a few weeks and plans to come back bigger, better and stronger. Her goal has always been to create a local gathering place for like-minded Trump loyalists, and she hopes to one day offer recreational activities such as Trump-themed bingo, crafts for kids and a mock Oval Office where visitors can pose for pictures at a replica of the president’s desk.
She said she’s certain the president will regain favor and business will pick up again, noting that the Trump administration “wants everybody to celebrate the 250th anniversary of America in style,” which is coming up in July. “They don’t want people in a hurting economy,” she said. “They want everyone to celebrate that we’re America and we’ve had 250 years of freedom. So it’s going to start getting better.”
The article goes on to quote supportive messages posted by fans on the store's FB page, as well as messages posted by detractors. It ends with this:
He's more insecure than any of us could ever imagine.
That's what happens when someone is as profoundly narcissistic as he is. As much as I loathe him, I also see him as pitiable, because I believe he has never experienced true joy. He can derive pleasure from things like winning an election or increasing his wealth, but that's not the same thing.
I can't quite bring myself to feel sorry for him after all he's done, but I also can't see him as anything other than a pathetically petty little man. He's been married 3 times and has 5 kids and 11 grandchildren, but I don't believe he has really ever loved another human being. Not once.
Trump does get humiliated...although he doesn't respond to it the way most of us us would.
Anything that makes him look bad (i.e. weak) causes what's called a narcissistic injury.
A narcissistic injury is a deep emotional wound or insult experienced by a narcissist when their inflated self-image or grandiosity is threatened or exposed.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/what-is-narcissistic-injury.html
A narcissistic injury can be triggered by anything from a major event like losing the 2020 election to a petty slight most of us wouldn't even notice, and his reaction is to fly into a rage. His fragile ego won't let him admit his own mistakes even to himself, so he blames anyone else he can and attacks them savagely. Narcissistic injury is what all the insults in his Trash Social posts are about, and it's what fuels his thirst for revenge. Any time he starts going off on someone, you can bet your bootie that person has been the source of a narcissistic injury to him.
Running from trans rights could cost Democrats
This worries me.
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/05/running-from-trans-rights-could-cost-democrats/
“The backsliding shows voters exactly who’s willing to fight and who isn’t,” said Tyler Hack, the founder and executive director of Christopher Street Project, a political action committee that endorses candidates with commitments to protecting trans rights. “Some Democrats soften or side step trans rights. It do8esn’t read as strategic. It reads as hesitation in the face of coordinated attacks. Voters, especially young voters and folks in the party space, can tell the difference between leadership and retreat.”
Democrats’ messaging on transgender policy has only become more abstract as politicians gear up for the November midterms and the 2028 election cycle. Democrats in the Senate last month blocked an amendment of the contentious voting identification bill, the SAVE America Act, that sought to bar transgender athletes in women’s sports. Nonetheless, politicians — especially potential 2028 candidates — are still evading questions around trans rights issues.
*snip"
As high-profile Democrats like Newsom waiver in their transgender rights advocacy, the landscape for trans Americans grows increasingly hostile. In March, Kansas retroactively invalidated IDs and birth certificates of transgender residents, while last year Iowa struck down anti-discrimination protections by removing “gender identity” as a protected class under the state Civil Rights Act. Utah even considered a bill seeking to ban public funding for gender-affirming care for both adults and minors earlier this year. On March 31, which is International Trans Day of Visibility, an Ohio Republican introduced a broad-reaching state bill that includes bathroom restrictions, name and pronoun restrictions
It sounds like at least some Democratic politicians are afraid taking a strong stance on trans issues might make them look too "radical.". I hope they can find a way to navigate this without throwing the trans community under the bus.
Makes sense to me.
I'm sure Miller's days in the White House will be numbered once anyone other than Trump is in the driver's seat.
If he does die in office and Vance takes over, I think things could get very interesting in some good ways and some not so good. I don't think any of us has seen the "real" JD Vance yet. When he became Trump's running mate, he totally made himself over to Trump's specifications, but I don't think he's ever been a true believer. He's just a power hungry guy who was willing to sell his soul for a chance to become veep, and I suspect he's not at all happy having to spend his days apologizing for Trump's bloopers and trying to convince people that everything is okay despite the evidence they can see with their own eyes.
On the positive side, I think that he'll likely do a complete makeover of the cabinet in addition to making changes in the White House staff. He'll probably replace the current clowns with much more competent people (not that that's a very high bar lol), and he won't be a completely unhinged, dementia-damaged lunatic. On the negative side, one thing we do know about him is that he's extremely anti-abortion and probably anti-birth control as well, so he'll no doubt suck where those issues are concerned. But whatever happens, he won't just be a continuation of Trump. He'll be his own man, whoever that is. 
Pam Bondi gets news on [potential] disbarment.
Note: I inserted a word (in brackets) in the title because I felt it was a little misleading.
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Brian Tyler Cohen and Glenn Kirschner discuss possible legal troubles that may be awaiting Bondi in Florida now that she's no longer AG.
None of us understand it. 😵💫
I've heard a lot of pundits say that he chose his cabinet members like he was casting a TV show, picking people for how they look and sound on camera and ignoring factors like experience and judgment. I think that theory checks out.
I also think he has an unconscious aversion to smart, accompiished people, because they trigger his insecurities and make him feel inferior. Competent people also tend to have opinions of their own about things, which he finds highly inconvenient. This time he has surrounded himself with people who are as stupid as him in or worse and who pass his "loyalty" test of being willing to obey his orders without question.
Rember how Jeff Sessions got fired as AG back in 2018 because he recused himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election? Whatever else you can say about Sessions, he did the right thing in that instance, but he went against Trump's wishes in doing so. The Orange One finds that kind of "insubordination" to be intolerable, and this time he made sure to pick people who will ask "How high?" When he tells them to jump.
Unfortunately, that "strategy" (if you can call it that) has backfired on him, because it has culminated in a clown car full of clowns who are utterly incapable of doing their jobs. I hope and pray that this will lead to his downfall, or at least play a big role in it.
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