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.