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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Jun. 12, 2026

Greetings. Number of the day: 80.  Donald Trump turns 80 on Sunday.  Other prominent personalities will also celebrate their 80th birthday later this year including Sylvester Stallone (July 6), former Biden Sec. of the Treasury Janet Yellen (August 13), Bill Clinton (August 19), Tommy Lee Jones (September 15), Laura Bush (November 4), and Steven Spielberg (December 18)…VP JD Vance will parachute behind enemy lines on Tuesday, June 16.  That’s when he’s set to appear on ABC’s liberal-leaning yakfest “The View.” He’ll be  promoting his new book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, which drops early next week. NewsBusters has the details….Scott Pelley doesn’t matter. That’s the conclusion of this essay published in Lyceum, which I had never read before.  But Trump obviously does, because he linked to the article in a Truth Social post last night…Weekend Watch: Let’s get ready to rumble. UFC 250 is slated to be televised Sunday at 8 p.m. (EDT) live from the lawn of the White House in honor of the nation’s 250th birthday and the president’s 80th birthday.  The desecration of the White House grounds will be streamed live on Paramount+.  If I were a TV programmer, I would immediately schedule a screening of the 2006 Mike Judge film Idiocracy, which essentially foretold the idiotic low-brow instincts of the Trump administration a decade before The Donald took office. Available on Tubi for free. Also worth watching: Game 5 of the NBA finals featuring the miracle NY Knicks vs the San Antonio Spurs. Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EDT ABC…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard