Alternet: Trump’s clown car cabinet is driving off a cliff | Opinion

UPS, the United Parcel Service, just announced that it is laying off 20,000 employees and closing 73 of its buildings by the end of June. It attributes the downturn to reduced shipping volume from its largest customer, Amazon, due to Trump’s tariffs.

When a division of Amazon considered telling consumers the truth, by posting the costs tariffs added to the price of each imported product, the mere possibility set the White House on attack mode. Trump immediately called Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, who reassured him Amazon would never do such a thing, while Karoline Leavitt accused Bezos of a “political and hostile” act just for thinking about it.

When a presidential team of incompetent egoists calls truth-telling a “hostile act,” we’re in trouble.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-clown-car-cabinet-is-driving-off-a-cliff-opinion/ar-AA1E5ReC

Raw Story: ‘Open hostility’: Reporters despair at what Karoline Leavitt [Bimbo #1] has done to the White House

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt [Bimbo #1] has created an atmosphere of hostility, mockery, and disparagement in the briefing room, a veteran reporter told Politico.

In a lengthy profile, correspondent Adam Wren quoted Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent with The New York Times, who has covered 17 press secretaries over his career.

Wren wrote, “He told me that the current tension ‘goes beyond anything that is traditional to the point of open hostility, and mockery and disparagement in a way that’s meant for the larger audience, not for the people in the room.'”

Baker continued, “They don’t view the briefing room as a way to impart information. They don’t even view the briefing room as a way to shape reporters’ stories. They view the briefing room as a theater for the MAGA audience.”

Wren wrote that Leavitt [Bimbo #1] “relishes dispatching mainstream reporters’ hardballs with dismissive quips and, increasingly, welcomes right-leaning influencers’ softballs.”

What do you expect in a White House run by an orange-faced clown surrounded by a collection of suck-up sycophants, failed right-wing fringe politicians, and Fox celebrities looking for a better gig?

https://www.msn.com/en-in/lifestyle/smart-living/open-hostility-reporters-despair-at-what-karoline-leavitt-has-done-to-the-white-house/ar-AA1DCymq

Daily Beast: Kash Patel Quietly Removed as Acting ATF Director After Ghosting Gig

Great! Now fumigate the FBI and exterminate the creep there, too!

FBI Director Kash Patel has been quietly removed as the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives after he stopped showing up to work there, according to a report.

Patel, who remains in his FBI role, had not been “seen inside an ATF facility for weeks”  …

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kash-patel-quietly-removed-as-acting-atf-director-after-ghosting-gig/ar-AA1CCihn

The Guardian: Mike Waltz left Venmo account public in further security breach – report

National security adviser faces new scrutiny after adding journalist to group chat discussing Yemen attack plans

If at first you don’t succeed, fail, fail, again.

Maybe some day he’ll get it down.

Perhaps.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/mike-waltz-venmo