Is that spotlight for me?

While it is nice that Vance went to Hungary to endorse Orban, it is even better that it was as effective as most people would have believed. I haven't visited Hungary in a few years, but can't see them thinking the that couch lover Vance is a good endorsement. Couches are not considered conservative.

Also not generally considered conservative is starting a war for no apparent new reason, though rumors of Israel telling Trump it would make him look powerful are reasonable enough to believe, since the man loves his ego stroked. Speaking of stroking, early drawings of the Trump Presidential Library and Phallic Symbol have been released. For someone reason it will have a recreation of the ballroom he is building next to the White House inside. Tacky is as tacky does, and he just can't get enough of gold spray paint.

With all this going on, you would think Trump doesn't need much more spotlight, but then he went trying to upstage Pope Leo during Easter weekend with a rant about war. Anyway, as expected the Pope wasn't keen on Trump's violence or his violent rhetoric. Oh well, that mess is still going on, with Trump succeeding in his efforts make the United States a laughingstock of a super power. 

No real surprises.

Gallup has decided their US government contracts are work more than measuring and reporting the current incumbent President's popularity, especially when said incumbent dislike bad news, like approval numbers that are moving in the wrong direction.

After a January where Noem couldn't find good press, it seems she passed the baton to Bondi, who is continuing the status quo of people wondering why Trump chose these people for his Cabinet, as there is no way anyone would consider them the best the country has to offer. Nothing says a good photo op like the AG sitting in front of and ignoring Epstein's victims while the AG commenting on the Dow Jones when asked why no  one has been prosecuted. It seems her testimony was a game of non sequitur bingo, with praises of the President, the Dow, and anything else should could think of aside from details on issue at hand (the Epstein file).

Two more weeks of Bondi's BS and then we can see who gets the baton for March.

Talk about a Vanity Project - Melania, a New Film

Generally I don't pay that much attention to First Ladies. Sometimes they are in the news frequently, like Hillary Clinton, and with others, like Laura Bush, they keep lower profiles. Until this week, the current First Lady, Melania Trump, actually had what seemed to be a low profile sort. This week though, to prove that wrong, Amazon showed everyone that they were hoping to buy a bit of White House favor by reportedly paying $40 million for the film, and promising another $35 million in promotion for it. In all honesty, I was perfectly happy with her remaining in the background, no tacky jackets or overdone hats, but in that way of events, the government is killing citizens and the White House is doing a movie release, so the thing got far more press than it should have, since they chose to keep the release schedule, regardless of the general consensus that doing it now just adds more negative press than the film would have earned anyway.