We’re a year and a half into the second term of the Cheeto in Chief. How’s it going for you? Grocery prices? Gas prices? Affordable housing? Peace?

Donnie’s dumped more than $100 billion down the gold-plated toilet for an unwinnable war, which also shut down a key shipping route. It’s wreaked havoc across the world. And here were are in 2026, worse off than when the Obama agreement was put in place more than a decade ago.

And some costs can’t be measured in dollars and cents, because they’re senseless.

Meanwhile, on the home front, Deranged Donnie has “fixed” the Reflecting Pool. Or “pond” as he keeps calling it. It seems more like a fetid swamp at the moment. Why? Because he had a “pool guy… the best!” and awarded a no-bid contract. And he picked “American Flag Blue” as the new paint color, and a darker color creates a better environment for algae growth. And then the “fix” (dump hydrogen peroxide into the water) will kill some algae, but it also peels paint.

Pure genius, Mr. Perfect Score on the Cognitive Tests that they keep giving you. No notes.

It’s not an aberration, it’s a pattern. It’s his M.O.

Jeff Tiedrich summed it up quite nicely in his Substack post from June 22:

He’ll never learn. So it’s up to us.

“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

And if you voted for DJT, please take some time for a bit of reflecting. Uh, you’ll have to find a different pool.