Trumpiana: Shaken, not stirred!

POTUS wasn’t shaken, maybe just a bit, but certainly not stirred by the great temblor that came rumbling down to play spoil sport on the “Happy Anniversary” of “one of the Greatest Presidential Victories in History.”

But a “very stable genius,” as Donald Trump fancies himself, quickly figured out what the USA Today called “a ‘proof of life’ sweep” from New York to California for the embattled Democrats in a splash of off-year elections.

“Trump wasn’t on the ballot, and shutdown, were the two reasons that Republicans lost elections tonight,” according to pollsters,” he proclaimed on Truth Social in all caps neatly absolving himself of all blame for the hurting economy.

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@realDonaldTrump then went on a posting frenzy on Truth Social to drown the drums of doom with 33 posts in less than three hours offloading everything on his mind from the dawn of Golden age to his recent meetings with Chinese and Japanese leaders to Walmart lowering the price of its Thanksgiving meal, and more.

The “United States has the STRONGEST ECONOMY, the STRONGEST BORDER, the STRONGEST MILITARY, the STRONGEST FRIENDSHIPS, and the STRONGEST SPIRIT of any nation anywhere—This is the Golden Age of America!” tooted the LOUDEST president on his mouthpiece.

One video had Trump criticizing Obamacare for being “really bad healthcare” and a “disaster.” Another called Democrats “crazed lunatics” blaming them again for “38 days of Democrats putting illegal aliens over Americans.”

He again exhorted Republicans to “Just say NO (Nuclear Option!). TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER!” that pesky Senate rule that requires 60 votes in the chamber to pass most legislation, to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history – surpassing the 34-day one in his first term.

“If Republicans kill the Filibuster, they sail to Victory for many years to come. If they don’t, DISASTER waiting to happen!” Trump posted.

Pepped up by Trump, Senate Republicans quickly swatted down Democrats’ “simple compromise” offer to scale back their shutdown demands to a one-year extension of expiring health care subsidies as a “nonstarter,” suggesting “They’re feeling the heat.”

As hundreds of flights were canceled with staff reductions at 40 high-traffic airports, Trump asked the Senate not “to leave town until they have a Deal to end the Democrat Shutdown.”

But Trump and his MAGA followers’ real fury was directed at that “Commie” democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, Uganda-born son of Indian filmmaker Mira Nair and a Gujarati Muslim academic, who had turned his beloved Big Apple into “the Red Apple,” as pro-Trump New York Post put it, of the Marxist variety.

Trump, who had before the mayoral election threatened to withhold federal funds from New York City if Mamdani won, reminded the new mayor-elect to be “nice” to him because he had to “approve a lot of things coming to him, so he’s off to a bad start.”

But rather than striking a tone of conciliation, Mamdani in what Trump called “a very angry speech” challenged  him directly. “To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us,” Mamdani said. “So Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up!”

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Trump who indeed was watching, in an uncharacteristic low key response told Fox News, “You know, I’m so torn because I would like to see the new mayor do well because I love New York. I really love New York.”

Meanwhile, A federal judge blasted Justice Department prosecutors several times for what he described as an “indict first, investigate later” attitude in the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey. A Washington jury found the famous ‘Sandwich guy,’ who had chucked a Subway sandwich at a federal officer in August, not guilty.

And a federal judge in Rhode Island rebuked Trump to find the money to fully fund food stamps for 42 million low-income Americans in November by Friday before the Supreme Court temporarily allowed Trump to curtail the aid. Earlier, the top court handed him another 6-3 victory reviving for now his policy requiring the sex designation on US passports to align with a traveler’s biological sex.

But would the friendly neighbourhood Supreme Court be as indulgent with Trump tariffs was the question as at an oral hearing Wednesday, a majority of justices asked skeptical questions about his use of emergency powers to impose far-reaching tariffs without Congressional approval.

Trump has described the case, which could be decided within weeks or months, as “one of the most important and consequential Decisions ever made by the United States Supreme Court.”

“If we win, we will be the Richest, Most Secure Country anywhere in the World, BY FAR. If we lose, our Country could be reduced to almost Third World status — Pray to God that that doesn’t happen!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Meanwhile, unfazed by the Democrats’s big night at the hustings, Trump continued his quest for eternity, if not on heaven on earth, by remaking the White House in his own image during a government shutdown.

After paving the Rose Garden, redoing the Lincoln bathroom in marble and gold and razing down the historic East Wing to make way for a new $300 million “big beautiful ballroom,” he added another golden sign to his gilded executive mansion.

Written in cursive gold script, “the Oval Office”sign affixed beside its door, prompted California governor Gavin Newsom, riding a high after winning a tit for tat gerrymandering war, to poke some fun. His social media team posted a doctored photo changing the writing on the wall to read “Live, laugh, LOSE.”

But with the wily occupant of the White House already plotting a revenge – “by means fair and, more often, foul,” to borrow a phrase from the Guardian, the question is who will have the last laugh.