Flotsam and Jetsam - Zelenskyy, EU Leaders Visit Trump

At Hat Hair, from Beege Welborn , Quite a Day on the World Stage: The White House @WhiteHouse, "President Donald J. Trump hosts Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and European allies at the White House for a multilateral meeting on peace talks. "We have had a very successful day so far. We are all working for the same goal. We want to stop the killing and resolve this."" John Sexton, Trump Meets with Zelensky at the White House. Fox, Zelenskyy returns to White House flanked by European allies as Trump pressures land deal with Putin. Sundance at CTH is all over it, with President Trump Hosts Media Availability During Ukraine Peace Summit with EU Leaders, President Trump and President Zelenskyy Hold a Short Press Availability in the Oval Office, President Trump Hosts Ukraine President Zelenskyy and EU Leaders at the White House – 12:30pm ET Livestream and The Missing Element – What Do the Ukrainian People Want? Matt Vespa at TownHall asks Did You Catch What Trump Said to Zelensky When He Arrived at the White House? Breaking911 @Breaking911 "REPORTER: "You look fabulous in that suit." POTUS: "That's the reporter that attacked you last time." ZELENSKYY: "I remember...He's in the same suit. I changed. You are not."

From the Chronic, The Ugly Truth About a Necessary Ukrainian Peace. Nothing is free or easy. Scott Morefield @SKMorefield "Secretary of State Marco Rubio masterfully responds to critics who think that Trump somehow elevated Putin by negotiating with him with all the pomp and circumstance of two heads of state. "He has the largest tactical nuclear arsenal in the world and the second largest strategic nuclear arsenal in the world. He's already on the world stage. When I hear people say that, oh, it elevates him, all we do is talk about Putin all the time. All the media has done is talk about Putin all the time for the last four or five years.""You're not going to end a war between Russia and Ukraine without dealing with Putin. That's just common sense. I shouldn't even have to say it."" Ace, Trump Expects to Have a Three-Way Trilateral Summit With Putin and Zelenskyy "If Everything Works Out Today." Scott Pinsker at PJM looks at The PR War Over War: Ukraine, Russia, and the Danger of ‘Snow White’ Peace Deals. Virginia Kruta at Da Wire, Trump Thrashes Media Over Russia Summit Critiques: ‘It’s Incredible’ "I had a great meeting in Alaska on Biden’s stupid War, a war that should have never happened!!!" From Althouse, "I am totally convinced that if Russia raised their hands and said, 'We give up, we concede, we surrender..." ""... we will GIVE Ukraine and the great United States of America, the most revered, respected, and powerful of all countries, EVER, Moscow and St. Petersburg, and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles, the Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners would say that this was a bad and humiliating day for Donald J. Trump, one of the worst days in the history of our Country.' But that’s why they are the FAKE NEWS, and the badly failing Radical Left Democrats. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!"Trump is on a roll on Truth Social this morning. That may be his best written work — most absurdly comic and yet too true — maybe ever." The National Security Journal asserts China Will Never Let Russia Lose the War in Ukraine "China is the primary strategic beneficiary of the protracted conflict, which drains U.S. resources and solidifies Russia’s status as a dependent junior partner."

Althouse catches "Play to WIN, or don’t play at all! Thank you for your attention to this matter!" "Writes Donald Trump, at Truth Social. Full text: "We will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!! The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be. Remember, I was the one who negotiated and got hundreds of hostages freed and released into Israel (and America!). I was the one who ended 6 wars, in just 6 months. I was the one who OBLITERATED Iran’s Nuclear facilities. Play to WIN, or don’t play at all! Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT""

From ET, More Than 300 Arrested in Washington Amid Federal Crackdown on Crime: Bondi. It'll take more, but it's a start. From the Pop Times, Donald Trump Slams “Phony” DC Crime Stats as Federal Takeover Begins. Nick Arama at RedState says There Goes That Dem Narrative: D.C. Police Union Posts Numbers About Change in Crime Since Trump Action DC Police Union @DCPoliceUnion "DC crime since the announcement of federal control versus the 7 days prior: Robbery down 6% ADW down % Carjacking down 83% Car Theft down 21% Violent Crime down 22% Property Crime down 6% All Crimes down 8% While federal assistance gives us a boost, we must repeal the misguided Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Act in order to make these changes permanent." Grabien, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Says Trump Addressing Crime in D.C. Is ‘Going After Young Black & Brown Youth.’ Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter "The choice is simple. Democrats want to prioritize hobos, druggies and perverts, and Republicans want to prioritize normal people. Choose wisely." Quote Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal, "Clearing encampments and throwing people in jail does NOTHING to actually get Americans off the streets. Homelessness is not a personal failure, it’s a policy failure. Congress must pass my Housing Not Handcuffs Act with @RepMaxwellFrost." DC_Draino @DC_Draino "I’m starting to notice a pattern here Why is it always white liberals protesting to defund the police and it’s always black people in city neighborhoods saying they want more police? Seems like Democrats of today are just like Dems from the 1800s They really don’t want black people to be free" Quote C3 @C_3C_3 "Almost 44% of the population in Washington, DC are black. Almost 100% of the protestors in Washington, DC are white. Another paid protest with shipped in liberals." Insty, OTHER THAN THAT, HOW DID YOU ENJOY THE PLAY, MRS. LINCOLN? Brianna Lyman at Da Fed can't help noticing 6 Days After Calling DC Crime Crisis ‘Nonexistent,’ NYT’s Peter Baker Complains Trump Isn’t Fixing Crime.

From Fox, Texas Dems end weekslong quorum standoff in redistricting fight "Texas Democratic leaders said they would return for the 2nd special session on Monday." From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, Who Says You Can Redistrict Mid-Decade? The Supreme Court. Dave Catron at Am Spec wonders Will Newsom Rig His Redistricting Referendum? "The voters of California don’t support his gerrymandering scheme." He will if he can. From Spiked, Gavin Newsom: the chameleon who destroyed California. "The Democratic presidential frontrunner has turned the Golden State into an economic and social disaster." At Da Fetched WATCH Newsom Freak Out Over ‘Trump 2028’ Hat: Warns President Could Run a Third Term and Is Kamala Harris Drunk? Slurred, Bizarre Rant on Texas Redistricting Goes Viral – WATCH. Matt Margolis at PJM hears Trump Is About to Go Nuclear Against Mail-in Voting. Fred Lucas at Da Signal signals How Trump Vows to Reform Voting to Bring ‘Honesty’ to 2026 Elections. Althouse, "President Trump said on Truth Social on Monday that he would 'lead a movement' to get rid of mail-in ballots and would sign an executive order..." ""... to help bring what he described as honesty to the 2026 midterm elections. Mr. Trump has long opposed mail-in voting, though Republicans made electoral gains in 2024 by embracing the practice." Says the NYT. I'm skeptical of the implication in that last sentence, that mail-in voting is better for Republicans than it is for Democrats. I think the 2024 gains only show that if there is mail-in voting, Republicans will do better if they encourage their supporters to use that method, rather than to wait for Election Day and to vote in person. But I would imagine that if general mail-in voting is eliminated and most people can only vote in person, Republicans might be even better off. Why would that be?" 

Insty at his NYPo gig, Democrats demand a new Constitution — maybe America should take them up on it

VodkaPundit at Insty, LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND BLS NUMBERS: zerohedge @zerohedge "Funny how once you actually start digging, you find all the bodies" zerohedge @zerohedge "Why 1 million jobs will be quietly removed from the payrolls? Because as noted below, 57% of all YTD jobs are statistical fakes from Birth/Death adjustment which assume the same new business vibrancy as just after covid (which was mostly to facilitate PPP fraud) x.com/zerohedge/stat…"

Sundance posts Outline #4 – Key Criminal Conduct in The Russiagate Operation and Beyond, Mary McCord and seems satisfied Missouri AG Andrew Bailey Resigns to Accept Federal Role as Co-Deputy FBI Director. At Hat Hair, James Comey Is...Weird Breaking911 @Breaking911 "GET SOME HELP! Former FBI director James Comey posts bizarre video revealing how he idolizes Taylor Swift & uses her music to cope with the Trump Presidency." Ace figures it out, James Comey, On Eve of Being Indicted for High Crimes, Makes a Pitch to the AWFLs That Will Be On His Jury: I Hate Trump and Love Love Love Taylor Swift "Hey AWFLs, I'm just like you. I'm also a rapidly-aging elderly white socialist obsessed with a thinly-talented white woman." Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter "Understand where we are when @baseballcrank - as old school GOP as still exists - has had it with the skin suit institutions. Not a diss on Dan. He thinks what he thinks. But the fact that he is sounding more like me than a Bushie is a huge data point." Quote Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank, "Seems clear in retrospect that Jim Comey's pre-2016 reputation as a sober, upstanding lawman was entirely the product of the institutions around him & the respect they once had. Textbook case of crises revealing character."  Matt Margolis, Ed Martin: The Russia Hoax Is About to Blow Up, Schiff and Biden’s DOJ Are Next. From Drew Berquist, New Evidence Emerges in Adam Schiff’s Mortgage Fraud Case [WATCH].  

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson "BREAKING: Former AG Bill Barr testified under oath today that President Trump is not connected to the Epstein files, and if he were, Biden would have already leaked it: “He said that he had never seen anything that would implicate President Trump in any of this, and that he believed if there had been anything pertaining to President Trump with respect to the Epstein list, that he felt like the Biden administration would probably have leaked it out.”"

At Twitchy, BUT SHE'S AN AG! Arrest of R.I. Assistant Attorney General Is Your Feel-Good Video of the Day. Ace, Drunken Democrat Assistant Attorney General for Rhode Island Plays the Karen Card: "But I'm the AG!". "I don't know what precipitated this, but this drunk woman and her drunk AWFL wing-woman were asked to leave a restaurant and refused. The cops were called in to escort them out of the place, and they continued insisting they had the right to stay. The "Assistant Attorney General" insisted that she was an AG 12 times. She also lied about the law, telling the cop he had to turn off his bodycam if she demanded." The video is a classic. 

Sarah Arnold at TownHall, Assassination Plot Against President Trump Foiled. Katie Jerkovich at RedState, Indiana Woman Finds Out the Price for Threatening to Assassinate President Trump.

Cathy Salgado at PJM, Portland Antifa Riot at ICE Facility—Again. At NYPo, Texas ICE shooting suspects tied to secretive far-left anarchist group formed during violent 2020 BLM protests.

Ace, Illegal Alien Kills Three Making Wildly Illegal U-Turn in Truck on Highway. "Trump tried to deport this scumbag in 2018 but he "claimed fear" at being returned to India, and a scumbag judge gave him a free pass for remaining in America to murder three good people." At Hat Hair Duane Patterson asks How Many More Illegal Aliens With California Commercial Driver's Licenses Are on the Road? At Insty, THIS SHOULD HAVE A NOTABLE DETERRENT EFFECT: Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security has just confirmed to me that ICE is seriously considering immigration enforcement at Truck Weigh Stations across America. This follows a criminal alien truck driver killing three Americans in Florida when he executed an illegal u-turn. Harjinder Singh entered the country illegally and was handed a Commercial Driver’s License from California. He’s being charged with manslaughter after killing three American Citizens. DHS spokesperson tells me ICE enforcement at Truck stops and DOT Weigh Stations are “on the table.” “Secretary Noem and DHS is keeping all enforcement options on the table to keep Americans safe. This should have never happened.” “Three innocent people were killed in Florida because Gavin Newsom’s California DMV issued an illegal alien a Commercial Driver’s License—this state of governance is asinine. . ."

Now, where was I before I was rudely interrupted by a root canal. Oh yes, Dapper Detective @Dapper_Det "NEW: Shots fired after an Illegal Alien strikes two ICE Agents with his vehicle to evade arrest. San Bernardino Police located the criminal alien but refused to arrest him—another terrible example of California's sanctuary policies in action shielding criminals from deportation." At PJM Cathy Salgado reports ICE Arrests Creeps, Killer Among Other Criminals and Vicky Taft claims an EXCLUSIVE: DHS Investigating 'Laughing' Tow Truck Driver Who Illegally Towed ICE Vehicle in L.A. From LifeZette, NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Secretly Pardoned a Convicted Killer to Shield Him From Deportation, after all, every vote counts. 

Driscoll at Insty says IT’S COME TO THIS: From Variety, MSNBC Rebrand to ‘MS NOW’ Draws Derision, Confusion "Name retains the 'MS' even though Microsoft exited the partnership in 2012." Not surprisingly, the denizens of X (itself of course a rebrand of Twitter) are having loads of fun with the new name: MSNBC Undergoing ‘Lamest Rebrand Since ‘Lean Forward’ (the New Logo’s Already Getting Mocked). . . Clay Travis posits that “MSNBC’s brand is so toxic that they won’t even let them use the NBC brand any more.” Beege Welborn, How's That Big MSNBC Rebrand Going? Peacock Gone, Multiple Sclerosis Trending. Ace, MSNBC Rebrands Itself "MS NOW," Which Stands for, Stupidly, "My Source for News Opinion World". "Somehow I'm thinking that they just decided to call themselves "MS NOW" and worked out what those letters could stand for later. Even basket-case propaganda network NBC is embarrassed by the association with MSNBC and wants them to change their name."

Dave Strom at Hat Hair is sad They Can't Let Sydney Sweeney Be Hot. Julianna Freiman at Am Spec, sees the NFL Tries Male Cheerleaders. That’s the Left’s Plan to Win Back Men? "Ultimately, this moment isn’t about cheerleaders. It’s about holding on to the last vestiges of collective non-politicized entertainment." Stacy McCain lectures on Peer Pressure and Morality: Or, Why Do ‘Girls Go Wild’ in Daytona Beach? "What got me thinking along these lines was watching YouTube videos by Jedediah Bila. Most of y’all will remember her from Fox News, but in the past four years, Jedediah has moved to Texas with her husband and son and is now doing her own thing online — and it is awesome! A lot of her content is about “gender dynamics,” and she’s laying down the cold truth about the self-defeating nature of what passes for “empowered” behavior among young women. Here she is with guest Andrew Wilson examining the phenomenon of grossly slutty behavior by girls on Spring Break in Daytona . . ."

Timur Kuran@timurkuran "On college campuses, wokeness is very unpopular. Most students resent it. A college administration that eliminates woke policies will please the vast majority—though the unhappy minority will make a lot of noise." Quote Paul Graham @paulg "A study of 1452 undergrads at Northwestern and Michigan between 2023 and 2025 found that 88% pretended to hold more left wing views than they actually had in order to succeed socially or academically." The Tax Prof reports Alleged Anti-Israel Discrimination At University Of Oregon Law Review. Good advice from Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays "Stay away from this guy." Quote Kevin Bass PhD MS @kevinnbass, "Medical school lecture by Dante King, UCSF and Mayo Clinic professor, last year White people are “psychopaths” and all white people are racist."

Mary Chastain hears the State Dept. Revokes 6,000 Student Visas Over Terrorism Support, Assault. "Between 200 and 300 people lost their visas for supporting terrorism." 

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: The Last Champion of Cracker Barrel and FMJRA 2.0: Preparing For The Draft up at the Other McCain.