Greetings! Asleep at the wheel while steering the free world: Mainstream media took note of Trump nodding off at his cabinet meeting yesterday, the second such incident in recent days. Predictably, almost all of right-wing media ignored the story.  If it happens again, I’m calling him the Dozing Don...What’s that horrible smell in my inbox? It’s an email from Trump Fragrances offering a Cyber Monday deal of 20% off on The Donald’s Victory47 fragrance which normally sells for $199. Who’s brave enough to take whiff?... Trump family news: Kai Trump, the president’s granddaughter, will be attending University of Miami next fall.  She will also be a member of the women’s golf team, class of 2030.  Her golfing career got off to a rocky start last month.  Playing in her first LPGA event, she finished last in the Annika tournament among 108 participants in Florida and missed the cut by 17 strokes. (USA Today).... The NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas blew it last night. The broadcast characterized Trump’s racist tirade against Somalia yesterday as merely “fiery rhetoric.” Such anodyne language normalizes the unhinged and divisive language that Trump routinely uses...The Daily Caller gives a big thumbs down – like much of mainstream media – to Trump’s jaw-dropping pardon of cocaine trafficker Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former Honduran president. The Caller said the pardon “was an irony that beggars belief”...Who needs a laugh, besides me? Billboard has compiled a list of the top 25 comedians of this century, which will be published in increments of five this week.  Number 25 is Jon Stewart, btw...If  you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! American Canto, Olivia Nuzzi’s tome detailing her cringy affair with Health & Human Services chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drops today. This head-snapping NY Post headline says it all: “Inside RFK Jr’s needy love, drug use and cringe poetry as Olivia Nuzzi book reveals how he hid his bad behavior.” My weather forecast today for the RFK Jr. home he shares with his wife Cheryl “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Hines is stormy with a 90% chance of screaming and a flood of tears. I imagine the RFK Jr./Nuzzi imbroglio is clouding the HHS Secretary’s future with the White House too...Yet another Trump administration cabinet cast member is also having a bad hair day. Sec. of War Pete “Hairgel” Hegseth is in the Congressional crosshairs as lawmakers begin questioning the legality of deadly air strikes that have killed dozens of alleged drug smugglers off the Venezuelan coast. (NYTimes)...Wacky headline of the day: “Will Marjorie Taylor Greene land at ABC’s daily morning show ‘The View”? Seems like a long shot, but Blaze Media just published this provocative headline: “Did Ana Navarro just float Marjorie Taylor Greene jumping ship to ‘The View’”?...Our newest contributor Randall Rothenberg offers up this essay focusing on two kinds of sinking ships: the Trump presidency, which is rapidly taking on water; and the vessels that are being targeted by Hegseth’s Dept. of War.  As Rothenberg eloquently puts it, “(W)e’ve now reached The Terror phase of this Revolution, where the MAGAtts are devouring each other”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard