Trump Isn’t Taking the News Well
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What was the court ruling that stopped Trump’s name from being added to the Kennedy Center?
September sixteenth, twenty twenty six. Yesterday, US District Judge Christopher Cooper of the District of Columbia refused to permit the Kennedy Center board, stacked by Trump with his own loyalists, to return Trump's name to the facade of the building. Cooper reiterated that Congress had prohibited such an addition and would have to change that law in order to make the addition of Trump's name legal. The board of the Kennedy Centre promptly appealed and voted to close the venue for two years for renovations. Then Trump posted on social media that those renovations couldn't take place unless the court approved the addition of his name to the building. Without that, he posted, unfortunately, the building is destined to doom.
Isn't that too bad? Although the Kennedy Center Board insisted that only Trump's name on the building would restore donations, in fact, the Washington Post reports that ticket sales and fundraising plunged when Trump added his name to the building in the first place. Nonetheless, Trump posted that he is the only one who can save it, because I have the ability to raise the money and the ability to construct that few others have. I also have the strength and power of the presidency, which will be needed to do what must be done, and give it a strong shot at greatness again. As George Conway of the Bulwark noted, to destroy things he can't possess or control is his essential nature. It's also as if Trump is self-soothing by celebrating his core identity, even as his incompetence and greed have driven the United States and the world into crisis.
How did Rep. Joyce Beatty confront Trump during the Kennedy Center board meeting?
But even that is not providing him comfort these days. Representative Joyce Beatty, a Democrat of Ohio, an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center Board, and the member who sued over his takeover of the center, explained to Simone Sanders Townsend of MS Now that Trump called into the board meeting after the court decision and went into a tantrum. While most people appear to have refused to confront Trump to his face, Maine Governor Janet Mills's We'll See You in Court was so rare it made headlines, Beatty took him on. She recounted, it was the most unprofessional thing that I've ever witnessed or been a part of. But after he called her an obstructionist and dumb and said he thought she was incompetent, she retorted, I know you're incompetent.
Beatty appealed to the chair to stop Trump's unprofessional behavior, but when he continued to berate her, claiming it would be her fault if someone were killed at the center, she responded, You're already killing people. We're at war. And when he talked about what a great developer he was, she reminded him that he had more bankruptcies than anybody in the room. I mean, it really went there, Beatty told Sanders Townsend. I was not going to let him bully me, intimidate me. And the facts stand for themselves that Indeed, these days facts across the board are challenging Trump's image of himself.
Why are oil prices spiking and what’s the threat to global supply?
Panic is sounding across the US about oil prices. The Houthis in Yemen, backed by Iran, are threatening the Bab El Mandeb Strait at the outlet of the Red Sea on its way to the Arabian Sea in the Indian Ocean, threatening the delivery of another four percent of the world's oil supply to global markets. Saudi Arabia had diverted oil shipments from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea through the East West Pipeline across the country, but officials have closed the pipeline after airstrikes. Today, senior executives from Shell and Ecuador warned that the world is looking at tightening supplies of oil and price volatility as the industry is losing the ability to offset the disruptions. On X, Patrick De Hahn, a petroleum analyst at Gas Buddy, charted the rise of diesel prices in the US this week.
Diesel jumped eighty two cents a gallon in Fort Stewart, Georgia, eighty two cents a gallon in Moorhead, Minnesota, seventy five cents in Athens, Georgia. In the twelve hours before one thirty this afternoon, Eastern time, gasoline jumped thirty cents a gallon in Lawrence County, Ohio, and Edwardsburg, Michigan.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What was the court ruling that stopped Trump’s name from being added to the Kennedy Center?
0:06–1:58
2
How did Rep. Joyce Beatty confront Trump during the Kennedy Center board meeting?
1:58–3:30
3
Why are oil prices spiking and what’s the threat to global supply?
3:30–5:39
4
How is the Federal Reserve’s rate hike affecting Trump’s response and the market?
5:39–7:08
5
What new evidence is emerging about the damage to U.S. bases in the Iran war?
7:08–8:53
6
What are the eight impeachment counts Thomas Massie filed against Defense Secretary Hegseth?
8:53–11:15
7
Why is Trump angry about the Supreme Court’s decision on USPS ballot‑screening rules?
11:15–13:29