Trumpiana: Punch, pivot and play — a genius act!

God saved him. Jesus is his greatest adviser. And the friendly neighbourhood Supreme Court keeps enabling him. POTUS was on a roll notching win after win and sending the opposition scurrying — but for some pesky frenemies, from MAGA maniacs to pushy Putin and of course the ‘fake news’ media.

“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’” Donald Trump mused aloud on Truth Social asking his ever indulgent MAGA supporters to end their obsession with the infamous Epstein files about the disgraced financier, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting an underage sex worker.

“We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and “selfish people” are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein,” he wrote.

But as some Congressional Republicans too joined the chorus for the files’ promised release, The Wall Street Journal added fuel to the fire by printing “a FAKE letter, supposedly to Epstein,” including a drawing of a naked woman, an expression of friendship and a reference to secrets they shared.

“These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures,” an angry Trump countered on Truth Social warning Rupert Murdoch, founder of the paper’s parent company News Corp., that he was “going to sue his ass off, and that of his third rate newspaper.”

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Less than 24 hours later, making good on the threat, a lawsuit was filed “on behalf of your favorite President, Me” against “everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS ‘article’ in the useless ‘rag’ that is, The Wall Street Journal.”

“We have proudly held to account ABC and George Slopadopoulos, CBS and 60 Minutes, The Fake Pulitzer Prizes, and many others who deal in, and push, disgusting LIES, and even FRAUD, to the American People,” he boasted in a not so veiled threat to others who may fall out of line.

Trump’s Justice Department also requested the release of Epstein-related grand jury testimony “subject to Court approval” after months of pushing back against “U.S.A.-hating judges” and the courts, as the New York Times put it.

White House quickly brushed aside Times’ “apples to oranges comparison” of Trump’s “well-warranted criticisms of out-of-control district-court judges” as a “false equivalence,” made “to fuel their narrative of the day.”

Then in a stroke of genius, Trump Friday signed the Guiding And Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act passed with a bipartisan 308-222 vote with a few Republican lawmakers voting in favor after publicly criticising it.

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As Trump signed the landmark legislation demonstrating once again his total control over the Republican base, he acknowledged the party “worked hard” to flip holdouts and joking “they named it after me.”

In another legislative victory, both houses allowed Trump to claw back $9 billion from foreign aid programs and public broadcasting after overcoming resistance from some Republicans unwilling to surrender the Congressional power of the purse.

If Trump was unhappy with his MAGA base, he was equally “disappointed” in Russia’s Putin. “My conversations with him are very pleasant, and then the missiles go off at night,” he said announcing arms for Ukraine and a deadline for his pushy pal.

The U.S. will send weapons including more advanced Patriot missile defense batteries to Ukraine through NATO, which will pay for and distribute them, Trump said warning Russia would be hit by “very severe tariffs” if there was no peace deal in 50 days, as he cautioned Kyiv not to target Moscow.

In squeezing Putin, Trump ‘escalates to de-escalate,’ suggested the Washington Post, but New York Times thought the threat of tariffs is unlikely to have much of an impact as Russia sells little to the U.S. The Times also doubted that Trump will stick with his threat to impose secondary sanctions, which are penalties imposed on other countries or parties that trade with nations under sanctions.

Meanwhile, the ever reliable SCOTUS, with three of his own appointees, handed POTUS another major victory by allowing his administration to move ahead with plans to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of Education blocked by a federal judge.

“The Federal Government has been running our Education System into the ground, but we are going to turn it all around by giving the Power back to the PEOPLE,” posted Trump, who had campaigned on closing the department, thanking the top court. The majority’s opinion was slightly longer than an Instagram caption, with just four sentences focused solely on legal procedure.

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Over the past few months, the Supreme Court has issued 15 rulings on emergency requests from the Trump administration through what’s called the “shadow docket.” It has offered little to no explanation for seven of those decisions. Similarly terse rulings cleared the way for the administration to prohibit transgender troops and pushed through mass federal layoffs.

After another such green light from SCOTUS, Trump resumed deporting migrants to countries other than their own, sending five people to Eswatini, in southern Africa.

Amid efforts to quell a brewing MAGA rebellion and usual rants about Uncle Sam being “ripped off on TRADE (and MILITARY!), by friend and foe, alike, for DECADES,” Diet Coke-loving Trump struck a deal with Coca-Cola for “using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke” — just like Mexican Coke— “You’ll see. It’s just better!”

He also plugged a “powerful new book” about the assassination attempt on him last year. “I WAS SAVED BY GOD TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. I BELIEVE THAT,” he proclaimed in one of several posts.

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A fan named PipeHitter 76 echoed with a meme of Trump with Jesus Christ saying “Hallelujah! PRESIDENT TRUMP’S GREATEST ADVISOR”

With God and his son on Trump’s side, who dare take on the Don of DC!