On this day in 2023, Donald Trump had his mugshot taken after surrendering in Fulton County, Georgia, on charges arising from his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Trump monetized the mugshot. The case eventually collapsed.
We made it to Monday! Itâs Swin again. If youâre living in the U.S., you woke up this morning to our nation very much at war. No, Iâm not talking about that war. Or that one. Or that other one. Or this war⌠Nope, not that one, either. Iâm referring to the other insanely stupid war that President Donald Trump is forcing his fellow Americans to go along with â the one heâs waging on our neighbors to the north.
In todayâs âFirst Draft,â weâll get right to the point about Trumpâs latest endless war; just because the bombs arenât falling in this one (yet?) does not make the damage any less substantial or consequential. Plus, Hakeem Jeffries takes more fire over a secret meeting with Jared Kushner and the Trump administration prepares for its âEconomic D-Dayâ with Iran. Letâs read in.
DONâT Blame Canada
What happened this weekend wasnât just folly and âIdiocracy.â It was a scandal â an imperialistic disgrace thatâs been going on far too long.
Donald Trump and his administration are waging a full-blown economic war on Canada. We are living in 2026 and in the real world, not in 1995 and in a poorly reviewed Michael Moore movie, or in 1999 in the âSouth Parkâ movie. So why, then, is the U.S. at âwarâ with Canada?
The simple but correct answer is that for the past year and a half, America has been ruled by an astonishingly violent airhead who likes starting wars that pretty much no one asked for â even if those wars mangle the U.S. economy.
Almost right after he stepped back into the White House last year, the tariffs-obsessed Trump unleashed economic warfare on our longtime Canadian allies, for self-destructive and made-up reasons. Trumpâs attempted strong-arming led to Canadaâs leader declaring an end to the U.S.-led global order as we knew it. That warfare reached its latest, deranged state this past weekend, when trade talks imploded in spectacular fashion.