Greetings! Best anti-Trump speech in years. Be sure to watch the entirety of Illinois Governor JB Pritzer’s 14-minute “Do Not Come to Chicago” speech that he delivered yesterday. It was in response to alarming reports that Trump is considering sending  federal troops to the Windy City to fight crime and undocumented immigration.  Worth noting: A Washington Times opinion piece by Cal Thomas comes out against Trump sending in troops to Chicago.  The deployment “tackles the symptoms not root causes of urban crime,” argues Thomas...There’s increased chatter about adding Trump’s mug to Mt. Rushmore, which NBC News covered last night.  (Spoiler alert: not possible.) But Jon McNaughton, self-described as America’s foremost conservative artist, is already selling lithographs of his paintings of Trump carved into South Dakota’s most famous landmark starting at $29.95...The National Review votes thumbs down for the U.S. government’s stake in Intel.  “It doesn’t need to take on the difficult and nongovernmental task of turning around a struggling semiconductor company,” according to the editors...Once again, Donald Trump sticks his beak where it doesn’t belong.  Over the weekend in a Truth Social post, Trump demanded that Roger Clemens should be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.  Clemens was suspected of using anabolic steroids. (USA Today)...The podcast “Ruthless” is right-wing media sensation, according to Mediaite, which calls it “a cheerfully mischievous, lib-triggering show that has become a destination for prominent Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance”... Shocking (but accurate) headline of the week courtesy of the right wing Victory Girls: Donald Trump – In the Name of All That’s Holy, Shut Up...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! John Bolton counter-attacks! Just days after the FBI raided his home, the Washington Examiner published his op-ed blasting “Trump’s utterly incoherent Ukraine strategy.”  He’s really poking a stick at the Oval Office bear and you have to admire his guts standing up to the Trump administration...Speaking of Bolton, the Wall Street Journal votes thumbs down on the FBI’s raid on the former NSA Advisor’s house Friday morning.  “The real offender here is a President who seems to think he can use the powers of his office to run vendettas,” the editors wrote. “We said this was one of the risks of a second Trump term, and it’s turning out to be worse than we imagined”...As if Trump didn’t have enough on mind with major conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, he suggested in a vile one-sentence Truth Social post yesterday, that Governor Wes Moore (D-MD) lied about receiving a Gold Star after his deployment to Afghanistan nearly two decades ago...Jon Karl’s bad hair day (according to Trump): In a post last night on Truth Social attacking former NJ governor Chris Christie after his appearance on ABC News, POTUS slimed the respected ABC anchor.  After calling Christie sloppy (cheap shot!), Trump wrote, “By the way, what the ‘hell’ happened to Jonathan Karl’s hair? He looks absolutely terrible! It’s amazing what bad ratings, on a failed television show that was forced to pay me $16,000,000, can do to one’s appearance”...For TheRighting’s latest original article, contributor Michael Lovito profiles the American Spectator’s Young Writer’s Program where editors are training the next generation of right-wing journalists.  It’s especially relevant now, Lovito explains, because “the once reliably progressive youth vote seems up for grabs”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard