Today’s notice: Trump answers the question no one asked, and then does it again. Inside “the box” at Alligator Alcatraz. ACA subsidies run into trouble in the House Republican Conference. A scoop about the Senate race in Minnesota. A scoop about the fight over language at the NIH.
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‘This is NOT the appropriate response’ was the take from Jenna Ellis, a former attorney for Donald Trump after the president blamed the killings of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, on “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Ellis was not alone, with retiring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and consistent Trump critic Rep. Thomas Massie topping the list of Republicans who publicly posted condemnations of Trump’s response to the deaths.
Lest you think that was a staffer with Trump’s Truth Social password, the president doubled down in the Oval Office yesterday. “He was a deranged person, as far as Trump is concerned,” Trump told reporters. “He was bad for our country.”
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Hypocrisy feels like a key feature of our time, but it is important to remember that refusing to mourn, or mourning the wrong way, was worthy of taxpayer attention after Charlie Kirk’s assasination. The government pressured television shows off the air, combed through social media posts and revoked visas over public comments deemed politically incorrect.