Greetings! Christmas came early for big bucks foreigners looking for an expedited path to the U.S. residency. Yesterday, The Donald announced the Trump Gold Card, which affords a relatively quick way  to live in the USA.  There’s a nonrefundable $15,000 processing fee, and then a $1 million “gift” requirement after the applicant is vetted…The Washington Free Beacon has Maryland Governor Wes Moore, a rising star in the Democratic party, in its crosshairs. “As he positions himself as a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, the governor...is likely to face mounting scrutiny for repeated exaggerations and falsehoods regarding his athletic, academic, and military achievements,” posits today’s lead story on the Beacon’s website...Assuming Donald Trump doesn’t blow past all constitutional guardrails and stays put in the White House, the Wall Street Journal predicts that “2028 is MAGA’s expiration date.” (That sound you hear is me clapping.) “The first and most obvious thing to be said about Mr. Trump’s Make America Great Again ‘movement’ is that it isn’t a movement,” writes the WSJ’s  Barton Swain. “MAGA, as I am not the first to observe, is Mr. Trump and nothing else. When he changes his mind or reverses course, as he often does, his enthusiasts do the same. That isn’t a movement”...Trump’s Truth Social platform was the only right-wing news outlet to post a rise in November traffic. All other news outlets on the right, left and center cratered, according to TheRighting’s exclusive analysis...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Time magazine’s Person of the Year should be slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.  So says the Washington Examiner....Cringe alert. At yesterday’s political rally at a casino (yes, a casino) in Mount Pocono, Penn., Trump alluded creepily to the physical characteristics of his 28-year-old press secretary Karoline Leavitt.  “That beautiful face and those lips that don’t stop like a machine gun,” he said. Here’s the video that was posted on X. Worth noting: At the same rally, Trump referred to his chief of staff Susan Wiles as Susan "Trump," according to the NY Times (7th graph)...Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just unveiled a website highlighting what it terms are the worst criminal aliens arrested in the United States. The site includes the names, photographs and offenses of nearly one thousand people swept up by the DHS...Trump has been using Truth Social to promote the late Charlie Kirk’s new book “Stop, In the Name of God.” What’s noteworthy is that he’s encouraging his audience to buy the book at the conservative Winning Team Publishing (and provides a link) which was co-founded by Don Jr. The book is available “anywhere books are sold,” as Trump adds without providing links...The controversial full-length play “October 7” will be staged at DC’s Kennedy Center in January and Hollywood in Toto says it never would have been shown there before Trump was president. “This isn’t your Biden-era Kennedy Center,” writes editor Christian Toto of the play which features verbatim dialogue from Israeli survivors of the murderous attacks on October 7, 2023.  Worth noting: Toto refers to the Kennedy Center as “the Trumpian KenCen.” That's the first time I've seen it described that way...Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) has introduced articles of impeachment against SecDef Pete “Hairgel” Hegseth.  Here’s the press release. One of the charges is “Conspiracy to Commit Murder”....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard