Greetings! Trump TV,  the official White House YouTube channel, launched last night apparently partly in response to the press pool boycott of Trump’s major publicly facing activities. I tuned in this morning and it’s a mess.  I was subjected to a one-minute promo (set to the music of  the 1979 hit “Video Killed the Radio Star”) filled with snippets of shows like “Seinfeld,” “The Simpsons,” “Friends” and the movie “Home Alone.” My two immediate thoughts to the pre-roll video: so annoying, and did the White House secure the rights for the videos from the copyright holders? The channel didn’t provide live coverage of Trump’s UN speech this morning (carried by Fox News, MS NOW and Newsmax). It’s another embarrassment in a month of failures for the increasingly on-the-ropes president.  Worth noting: The channel already has more than three million subscribers....Four questions about Don Jr.’s wedding grift gift. (1) Exactly how much did Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev pay for the island rental where the May wedding was held and cost of the after-party fireworks? (2) Can we really trust Trump’s word that the money was repaid? After all, he fudged it by saying, “As I understand it, he paid it back.” (3) If there was nothing wrong with Don Jr. accepting the gift in the first place, as Trump claims, why was the money repaid? (4) According to various reports, Trump raked in at least $2 billion in 2025 through his various schemes. Why didn’t Papa pick up the tab? It's pocket change for him....Stupid but revealing Trump fact: When he’s being interviewed on television, he prefers to be shot from the right side so the thinning part in his ridiculous hairstyle doesn’t show, according to this NY Times article today. Memo to Trump: you’re not fooling anyone. Your thinning hair is a stylistic disaster no matter which side you’re presenting to the cameras...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Dept. of Surprises: The conservative Not the Bee casts a skeptical eye at Sen. Mitch “MIA” McConnell’s shaky return to Congress this week in a transport chair and suggests it might be a case of elder abuse.  “If someone is struggling to perform the responsibilities of an enormously demanding public office, the compassionate response isn't to figure out how to keep him in the chair and manage around his limitations,” argued the Bee’s Peter Heck. “It's to ask what is actually best for him, and whether continuing in that position is best for the country too”...Fox News calls Sophie Cunningham, the Indiana Fever’s guard, the WNBA’s most sane player.  And she’s applauded by Fox for supporting Sydney Sweeney’s saucy near-naked gambling ad which has been criticized for sexualizing women....Weekend watch: Since it’s the second week of the professional football season, I’m recommending the 78-minute Netflix documentary Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young.  The program tells the all-too-familiar story of a phenomenal college athlete – in this case, University of Texas QB Vince Young – who went pro in the aughts with some early success only to quickly flame out after drowning in too much booze and adulation. It’s an emotional, compelling story that will grip any football fan. Weekend Whiff: The Daily Wire’s latest feature film, Run, Hide, Fight: Infidels is an uneven piece of political propaganda masquerading as an action film. It’s about Muslim terrorists who invade a woke college campus and take hostages.  Here’s what I wrote about it for MS NOW.  Available on the Wire’s streaming platform. Worth noting: the  American Spectator called it “a fun action movie”....In observance of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, there won’t be a newsletter Monday. Back on Tuesday...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting (and fasting). Howard