Burning Hats and Broken Promises

Inside Trump’s chaos economy: MAGA’s Epstein meltdown, vaccine sabotage lawsuits, Texas flooding deaths, and a president who can’t stop embarrassing himself on the world stage

Good morning! Thank you for the kind wishes yesterday. After a solid 14-hour nap (and a brief flirtation with becoming a pillow influencer), I’m on the mend. Just in time, because it’s another day in America, where the chaos economy is in full bloom, the Trump regime is sprinting off the rails, and even MAGA has finally noticed the grift.

Let’s start with Trump’s glorious diplomatic debut on the African stage. There he was, surrounded by five African leaders, ready to showcase the steady hand of American leadership. Instead, we got a long, confused ramble about how Trump read about a 30-year war in Africa and therefore solved it, because that’s how foreign policy works, apparently. He then paused to brag about selling weapons while ignoring questions about peace and stability, took a victory lap on tariffs that no one asked for, and turned the entire event into a weird, needy performance art piece.

Nothing quite says “diplomacy” like telling the President of Liberia, “Wow, your English is so good,” as if Liberia’s official language isn’t, well, English. Then, when the President of Sagal (whose name Trump didn’t bother remembering) tried to pitch building a golf course in his country to attract U.S. investment, Trump perked up like a toddler offered an ice cream cone. “Nice, that’s a long trip to show off my skills, but that’s really nice,” he cooed, proving once again that foreign policy under Trump boils down to whether someone flatters him or not.

The Trump regime’s chaotic incompetence is not contained to photo ops. The MAGA base is currently lighting their own hats on fire over Trump’s Epstein coverup. For a decade, they believed the Epstein files would nuke the Democratic Party. Now, nothing. No arrests, no accountability, just Trump’s DOJ slow-walking everything while he brags about tariffs against Brazil to protect Jair Bolsonaro. Even Elon Musk is unfollowing MAGA influencers, while Rasmussen, Trump’s beloved pollster, warns of an impending “mutiny” within the GOP. MAGA influencers like Catturd and Gunther Eagleman are finally asking, “Wait, are we the marks?”

They are. They always were.

And while the base is distracted by Epstein betrayal cosplay, Trump’s health sabotage team under RFK Jr. has removed COVID vaccines for healthy kids and pregnant women from CDC schedules, without evidence, against FDA guidance, and based entirely on RFK Jr.’s “common sense.” Now, top medical associations have filed suit to stop this anti-science insanity, pointing out that the administration gutted the vaccine advisory committee, ignored clinical data, and announced the rollback on X with NIH’s Jay Bhattacharya cheering them on like a teenage podcaster.

Speaking of X, Elon’s Grok chatbot, trained to “fight wokeness,” declared itself “MechaHitler,” praised genocide, and got itself forcibly shut down. Linda Yaccarino, X’s CEO, resigned amid the meltdown. Musk is promising Grok 4, because if there’s one thing this world needs, it’s another Nazi-friendly chatbot learning to meme.

In the background, WestJet, Canada’s second-largest airline, just dropped all winter U.S. routes due to a collapse in travel demand under Trump, instead sending planes to Cuba, Mexico, and Panama. This is what happens when your country’s brand becomes “authoritarian circus” and tourists decide they’d rather sip rum in Havana than explain to CBP why they’re visiting Disney.

Meanwhile, over at the FBI, Trump’s quiet purges continue. A top Norfolk field office deputy was forced out simply for being friends with Peter Strzok, reinforcing the message: loyalty to Trump or lose your job. But it’s worse than just purges. Under Trump, FBI resources are being pulled away from counterterrorism and organized crime work and redirected toward rounding up migrant farm workers and carrying out ICE raids, all to feed the regime’s obsession with televised crackdowns. That’s your “law and order” president in action: dismantling career law enforcement, gutting counterterrorism capacity, and turning the FBI into a deportation police force while claiming to “defend democracy.”

Not to be outdone, the Pentagon decided to halt weapons shipments to Ukraine without telling Trump, reportedly because underlings were afraid to brief him. Pete Hegseth, a man described by insiders as “not too bright,” was blindsided, which meant Trump was blindsided, which meant the CIA director had to roll his eyes on camera while Trump flailed about asking why no one told him. MAGA, for all its isolationist chest-thumping, is finding out the hard way that Trump’s promise of “no new wars” is about as solid as his promise to “drain the swamp.”

And then there’s Texas, drowning in floodwaters, with 109 dead and 160 missing. Trump’s cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service left emergency offices understaffed. Kristi Noem delayed FEMA’s deployment by 72 hours because she was too busy posting Instagram selfies asking which cowboy hat looked best for her portrait, while FEMA teams waited with swift boats and search-and-rescue equipment they weren’t allowed to use.

All of it, Trump’s embarrassing golf diplomacy, Grok’s Nazi meltdown, MAGA’s Epstein heartbreak, vaccine sabotage, the tourism collapse, the FBI purge, the Pentagon chaos, and preventable Texas deaths, paint the same picture: an incompetent, unserious, authoritarian clown show that is costing lives and credibility every day it continues.

MAGA is finally waking up, burning their hats, and realizing they’ve been had—but not because Trump gutted Medicaid, sabotaged vaccines, or let hundreds drown in Texas while he posted tariffs by vibes. No, it took the Epstein files, or rather the lack of them, to crack the illusion. It took their favorite conspiracy collapsing under its own weight for them to finally glimpse the grift. The rest of us already knew.

Thank you for sticking with me and for the kind words while I rested. Let’s keep moving on, one chaotic day at a time. Carpe Momentum!