Paint it black

 "Now if you look at the structure that's behind me, it's tall, which makes it very, very difficult to climb, almost impossible...and today we are going to be painting it black.  That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here, when something is painted black, it gets even warmer, and it will make it even harder for people to climb..."

In a crisp Border Patrol uniform shirt open to her cleavage, Kristi Noem stood before a section of WALL and gloated about how it will burn the skin of anyone who tries to climb it (in the daytime, without gloves), and thousands of miles away Trump moaned with the kind of pleasure only a child rapist can feel or understand.  It was a proud moment for sadists.  Any non-sadist could have ordered the black paint without a press conference but the sadists want you to know they're in charge.

In occupied Washington the Kristi Krew are grabbing food delivery people at random on the grounds that they must be doing something wrong, on mopeds.  A man awaiting his order on Sunday went outside and found the deliverer being questioned by "eight or nine ICE officers," though one or two probably could have handled it.  Asked how he came to the land of the free, the man struggled with his second language, English, and was arrested while the customer suggested they just use Google Translate.  He's lucky they didn't nab him, too.  Despite Trump's lies, business is down by almost 40% at Washington restaurants.  It's entirely possible that the ICEstapo were ordered to disrupt Door Dash and other services in order to drive hungry Washingtonians back to these establishments.  (One resident reports that even street vendors have become scarce.)

Although ICE is still trying to recruit unemployables, it has a cavalier attitude toward assigning officers.  When former Bondi Department worker Sean Dunn threw a Subway sandwich at one of them, it took twenty others to arrest him.  Bondi instantly and publicly fired him and DC federal prosecutor Jeanine Pirro put down her glass long enough to say, "We're going to back the police to the hilt.  So there, stick your Subway sandwich somewhere else."  She's such a lady.  I can't find any details about the weapon but if it was tuna, well done.

Trump went to Alaska to distract from Epstein and now he needs to distract from the distraction.  All but the most deluded MAGA agree that Putin was the star of the show complete with Air Force flyover salute and American soldiers on their knees to unroll his red carpet.  Apparently the only concession was an agreement to meet with Zelensky in Budapest where he can't be arrested, Hungary having withdrawn from the International Criminal Court.  So today Trump announced that Netanyahu is a "war hero" and "I guess I am too."  Together they ordered other people to risk their lives bombing Iran.  Don't bother searching for other examples of hijacked heroism.  It's just another attack on Israel's legal system for having the effrontery to try "to put him in jail on top of everything else" instead of dropping the charges and naming Ben Gurion Airport after him.  There may be no honor among thieves but the war criminals are a cozy brotherhood.

If you can believe it, the felon/rapist/tax cheat is looking for immigrants who display "good moral character."  The US Citizenship and Immigration Service bases this on "behavior, adherence to societal norms and positive contributions."  It's deliberately vague so that Trump appointees can size people up and weed out the wretched refuse (anyone woke, LGBTQ, childless cat ladies, or with a darker skin tone than RFK Jr.).  White South Africans will continue to get a pass.  And some Slovenians.

Blasting his favorite 50-to-70-year-old tunes, Trump proudly conducted a tour of the sidewalk cafe that has replaced the Rose Garden at the White and Gilt House.  He's especially happy with the tatty yellow-and-white umbrellas imported from his Palm Beach palace of suburban glory.  "We've got great reviews." he boasted, citing none.  Putting the presidential seal next to a drain was a nice touch.

Meanwhile his fellow war hero launched a military takeover of Gaza City to force the 2.3 million Gaza residents to move south.  Don't call it genocide, you'll upset Lindsey Graham.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture forgot about Snyder's First Rule (Do not obey in advance) and removed Harriet Tubman's hymn book from display months ago.  Since they have been ordered to stop talking about slavery, what does that leave?  Motown?