Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump is Cleaning Up and Beautifying Washington DC

... in anticipation of the 250th anniversary, and Democrats can't stand it. Apparently dirt and bums are what the city ought to look like.  Don Surber, Making DC worthy of our greatness. 

People outside of DC don’t realize what a transformation this is. Union Station used to be packed with drugged out zombies shambling around screaming at passersby, and barefoot, piss-soaked homeless people passed out on the floor. Columbus Circle right outside used to be a gross… https://t.co/THnYayRwVb pic.twitter.com/QtDKrsiKoF

— Payton Alexander (@AlexanderPayton) May 28, 2026

Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "More fascism" Quote End Wokeness @EndWokeness, "Trump just restored Columbus Circle in DC. It hasn't flowed in 2 decades." At Althouse, "But blue is a color we associate with injury: Think of the mottled black and blue of a bruise. It is the color of authority and stereotypical masculinity..." ""... of depression, but also tranquility; of cleanliness; of cold; of winning first prize. And so we must ask: What is American Flag Blue?" I'm reading "Did Trump pick the right blue for the Reflecting Pool? We asked a pool guy. Old Glory Blue? American Flag Blue? Let’s reflect on all the shades, while a federal judge mulls 'aesthetic injury' in the president’s latest decorating flourish" (WaPo). Also Althouse, "Trump administration officials have pressed the office responsible for printing the nation’s money to design a $250 bill featuring the president’s portrait..." "... according to four current and former employees, in what would be the first appearance of a living person on U.S. currency in more than 150 years.... The employees spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. The Washington Post reports. Gift link." I don't think it will happen. I believe it's "stray voltage", an outrageous idea floated to keep libs distracted.

Beege Welborn at Hat Hair noticed It Was Scott Bessent's Turn Behind the Press Podium and Oh, My. From Ace, Judge Clears Way for Trump to Tighten Verification for Mail-In Votes; Scott Bessent Touts New IRS Rules to Identify Antifa's Funders; OMB Director Russ Vought Acts to Make Sure That Federal Grants Go to US Citizens Not Foreigners and Illegal Aliens. Nick Sortor @nicksortor, "WOW! Scott Bessent just revealed the IRS has moved to make NGOs LIABLE for violent activity committed by their grant recipients like Antifa George Soros has been put on NOTICE. "The IRS is now giving guidance on the Form 990, which nonprofits they have to file. We are going to DEMAND that nonprofits know their grant recipients." "So if a grant recipient is violent, if they are suppressing people's rights, then YOU are responsible for that." As for the for the investigation into who is funding Antifa terrorism: "We made substantial progress. And I think in the weeks and months ahead, we are going to have a lot to report.""

News Wax shares a Report: Trump Shares Draft Iran Peace Agreement With Israel, Allies. Atop Da Hill, Trump in Iran leaders’ ‘head’ says a Retired US general. WSJ reports on The High-Seas Black Market That Keeps Iran’s Illicit Oil Flowing, "Despite U.S. sanctions, the regime has managed to sell billions of dollars in crude to China using a clandestine network of aging tankers. Our reporters paid a visit." I suspect we're looking the other way for China.

News Wax hears Carney Seeks New US-Canada Partnership to "help make America great again." Fine, but remember, you're the junior partner. Defence24com @Defence24eng, "Guatemala has reportedly agreed to joint military strikes with the U.S. against drug trafficking groups inside its territory. Washington is also reportedly pressuring Honduras as part of a broader regional anti-cartel strategy."

C3 @C_3C_3, "So… In the past year 50 NFL players have been arrested. 3% of the league. None have caused the outrage Jaxon Dart did just introducing the Duly Elected POTUS. Who won the Electoral College and Popular Vote. Think about that."

CNN whines Republicans are poised to finish this year’s redistricting war 10 seats ahead of Democrats. “The Supreme Court has effectively announced that the adults have left the room,” he said. “What you see is what you get when you reward bad behavior, which is a lot more bad behavior.” Toni Constantini at Am Mind asks Can Anyone Stop JD Vance in 2028? Rubio has his followers. Frankly I wouldn't mind 16 years of a Rubio/Vance co-presidency. That would get me through. I&I argues Yes, Today’s Gas Prices Are ‘Peanuts’, but it still wouldn't hurt to bring them down.

Matt Vespa at TownHall, Here's What Joe Biden Told Jill After He Got Wrecked by Trump in That Disastrous Debate “I really f**ked up, didn’t I?” Althouse, "As the president walked off the stage, he whispered to his wife, 'I really f**ked up, didn’t I?' she writes. '"Yes, you did,'" I whispered back.'" "I'm reading "5 Revelations From Jill Biden’s Upcoming Memoir" (Intelligencer). I don't believe any of it." And "Jill Biden is now out there finally admitting that she did NOT know what went wrong with Sleepy Joe during our spectacular, and highly rated, 2024 Presidential Debate..." ""... where Joe was not exactly performing to the highest level of debate standards. She said that she thought he was having a 'stroke,' and various other really bad things, and yet never rushed onto the stage to help her troubled husband, as any good wife would do. The only thing she failed to mention was how well I was doing prior to his near total collapse... Writes Trump, just now, on Truth Social." At PJM Erick Florack wants to enjoy The Imminent Democrat Party Civil War. Kevin Killough at JTN reports Michigan Gov. Whitmer says she won't be running for president in 2028. "Whitmer said that she'd received advice on the importance of "taking a break and not jumping right into something.""

Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg, "This is the best piece yet at distilling what the Spencer Pratt phenomenon is all about. His rise represents the shattering of the honesty taboo in Los Angeles and other poorly governed big blue cities like it." Quote Mike Solana @micsolana, "for people dumbly blinking at the moment while they wonder why pratt is climbing up the polls: he's literally just telling the truth. and in a one-party state, anyone brave enough to break the honesty taboo commands the stage." John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte @NolteNC, "No. What this polls shows is that 1) Pratt ‘s losing the run off, 2) even if he squeaks through the left has 51% of the general election vote. Pratt’s at 22 percent. Love the guy, but he’s at 22 percent." Quote Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "JUST IN: A SHOCK POLL just released finding the LA mayoral race getting RAZOR TIGHT, Karen Bass has only 26% 26%." I can't say I really expect him to win. Even if he had the votes, which I instinctively doubt, they wouldn't let him. But he is making a dent in their armor. Insty at his substack, Bringing Back Normality, "And striking fear into Democrats" Normality is a low priority in California. At Hollywood in Toto, Is Kimmel’s Pratt Assault Start of New Late-Night War? "Far-Left host uses personal attacks to slam candidate offering L.A. hope." Jillian Michaels @JillianMichaels, "Did climate change also drain the reservoirs, defund the fire department, allow the utility companies to avoid updating dilapidated spark happy infrastructure, and veto forestry management bills?" Quote Ian Miller @ianmSC, "Jimmy Kimmel says Spencer Pratt shouldn’t win the LA mayoral election because he doesn’t believe in “climate change” after his house burned down Meanwhile the fire was started by an arsonist and destroyed his house because of widespread LA incompetence." Sarah at Insty, THEY WOULDN’T, WOULD THEY? "Rolling Stone Calls Spencer Pratt the ‘Quintessential American’ and They Didn’t Mean It As a Compliment."

Cathy Salgado at PJM is outraged California Gives Illegal Aliens ‘Free’ Fridges, Solar Panels. Ace, Gavin Newsom: The State Will Tax the Enemies of the Democrat Party at a 100% Rate to Save Democracy, "Seizing the estates of political enemies. Sounds very democracy-savey. He says they will change California law to seize 100% of recompense paid to Californians from the weaponization fund for Biden Regime abuses." Joel Pollak @joelpollak, "“The whole point of the fund is to make victims whole after the federal government was weaponized against political opponents, pro-life activists, and parents at school board meetings, and Newsom never had a problem with any of that weaponization when it was actually happening.” Quote Mike Netter @nettermike "So California Governor Gavin Newsom flew to Washington, took some meetings, hopped on a plane home, and during the flight back he had himself one of those big airplane epiphanies. The kind where a governor decides he is going to act as Congress, the state legislature, and the IRS all at once..." News Wax, Bessent Rips Gov. Newsom's Plan to Tax Trump Fund: 'Stupid'. 

Shooting News Week, Breaking: Virginia’s Expanded Regulation Punishes Gun Owners, But Does Nothing to Stop Crime. So, a typical gun control measure? Cam at BA is outraged, Spanberger Spokesperson Says Background Checks on Private Gun Sales Resume Despite Court Order. So it's OK for her to ignore the court?

Anila Ali

TownHall's Amy Curtis is gratified Hundreds Protest Zohran Mamdani Outside Gracie Mansion. Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "JUST IN: A huge crowd just STORMED outside Ugandan Mayor Mamdani's Gracie Mansion to oppose the pro-Hamas Islamist wave sweeping NYC NYC has been overrun with foreigners and gullible liberals! Wake up, or your city is COOKED." Insty likes an “EROTIC POET.” ‘May Allah Condemn You to Hell’: Erotic Poet on New York City Council Damns Fellow Muslim Woman Who Dared Criticize Mamdani’s Treatment of Jews: Shahana Hanif was angered when Muslim activist Anila Ali expressed solidarity with Jews and protested Mamdani’s weak response to antisemitic incidents. "Good for Anila Ali."

From Twitchy, ‘This Can’t Be Real’: James Talarico's 'Top vs. Bottom' Mailer Ignites Endless Mockery on X. 

Ace sees Fidel Castro's Daughter Doesn't Deny That Blackface-Wearing Gay Canadian Justin Trudeau Might Be Her Bastard Half-Brother. "He looks like Castro, and he's a stone-cold authoritarian communist bitch. Almost as if he was trying to impress the man he knew to be his father. His mother was said to be enamored of Fidel Castro and would visit the country a lot. Whether her cuck husband Pierre Trudeau approved or objected impotently, we don't know. Apparently this rumor has been "debunked." Allegedly Trudeau's mother did not meet Fidel Castro until 1976 -- allegedly -- and Castreau was born in 1971. So this could just be a bunch of hooey. But Castro's own daughter seems to accept the possibility of the "conspiracy theory" being true."

Ace, Muslim Man Shouts Allahu Akbar as He Stabs Three Citizens In Switzerland; a Leftist SWATs Amy Coney Barrett to Get Cops to Kill Her; a Man Threatens to Kill Erika Kirk and Blow Up Every TPUSA Event. Dave Manney at PJM, Swatting Justice Barrett Was a Threat, Not a Prank, and she's already too squishy.

The College Fix finds a Growing numbers of legal scholars support Trump’s order on birthright citizenship. But it doesn't matter if they're not on the Supreme Court.

Herr Professor Jacobsen at LI reports the SPLC Wants Indictment Thrown Out For “Vindictive Prosecution” “latest manifestation of a top-down, retributive campaign in which [Trump] directed his Justice Department to go after those individuals and groups he deemed his political enemies, including the SPLC” Ben Weingarten at Da Fed counters DOJ Takes On Leftist Attempt To Punish Any Lawyer Who Disagrees With Democrats. Ace, on DOJ considering perjury charges against E. Jean Carroll, DOJ Now Investigating Obvious Perjurer For, Get This, Obvous Perjury, "My first reaction to hearing about the DOJ investigating the perjurious elderly lunatic whore was negative. I didn't like the "optics" of the DOJ investigating Trump's enemies. But then I remembered the context: The Democrats turned the entire prosecutorial network, state and federal, into a machine for prosecuting Trump and his allies and even the lawyers defending Trump and his allies from their prosecutions. Let me posit: It would be criminal to not use the prosecutorial resources of the country to prosecute Democrats and their lunatic fabulists. We have been told many times that "No one is above the law." Matt Margolis, Now We Know Who Was Really Behind E. Jean Carroll’s Bogus Allegations Against Trump "As PJ Media previously reported, tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, a virulently anti-Trump donor, bankrolled the whole operation. Yet Carroll testified under oath in October 2022 that no one was paying her legal fees, calling it "a contingency case."

Dave Strom at Hat Hair, Uh, Wut? CIA Senior Official Stole $40 Million in GOLD BARS, and That's Not the Worst Part. "Now I have a better idea why Democrats keep promoting former CIA agents as their rising star political candidates. Not only are they skilled at pushing color revolutions, but apparently, the CIA is a great place to commit financial fraud, which is another key part of the Democratic Party's reason for being."

Ace hears Toxic Incompetent Radical Leftwing Propagandists Are Finally S-Canned at 60 Minutes, and the Left is (You'll Never Guess!) Hysterical. Dave Strom at Hat Hair, The Democrats' X Account Is Kinda Scary; UPDATE: They're Proud of Being Nasty.

At the Martin Center, Academic Armageddon Advances "Even at top schools, leaders must cut needless costs." Ben Greenfield @benzgreenfield, "The Nazi book burnings were famously led by ... The Germany Student Union. Many university students are moral morons. https://x.com/matzar3lla/sta..."

Helen Mirren In 1969's 'Age Of Consent'

From NYPo, Dame Helen Mirren, 80, called ‘evil Zionist b—h’ by anti-Israel nut in sick attack on the street. From Ace, Formerly Beloved British Series "Doctor Who" Is Now So Toxically Woke and Unpopular That No Actors Are Willing to Step Into the Role, Formerly Beloved British Car Brand Jaguar Loses 99.4% Of Its Profit Year-Over-Year." "Who can say why. It's all a mystery. The role has been cursed by wokeness, and now no actors want to play Doctor Who, because they don't want to be associated with the "baggage" of the previous seasons of woke poison."

John Sexton reports Three Women in Maine Prison Join Lawsuit Alleging Harassment by Trans Inmate.

Still plenty more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.27.26 and In The Mailbox: 05.29.26 (Very Early Morning Edition).