Greetings! Donald Trump isn’t the only head of state suing media outlets.  Emmanuelle Macron and his wife Brigitte are suing ultra-right podcaster and provocateur Candace Owens for alleging that France’s First Lady was born a male.  The suit, filed in a Delaware court, asserts that Owens aimed to ridicule France’s first couple “to promote her independent platform, gain notoriety and make money,” per Deadline. Owen’s podcast, “Candace,” ranks No. 33 on The Righting’s list of most-subscribed political shows....Christian Toto, founder of the right-wing Hollywood in Toto, has charged that the influential entertainment industry website Deadline is not allowing his comments to be posted.  Toto concedes his comments are often critical of Deadline, which has not responded to his inquiries, per Toto...The Western Journal” mocked demonstrators who lined the streets of Nantucket Tuesday to protest the arrival of VP JD Vance who landed on the ritzy island for a fundraiser.  “The rich morons freely protesting on the side of a road imagined themselves in an authoritarian hellscape,” observed the Journal’s Michael Swartz. “Like all good, rich, white liberals, they pretended to love immigrants. And by ‘immigrants’ they meant ‘illegal immigrants.’”...There appears to be a “get Pete Hegseth” movement gathering steam in the Pentagon, according to the Daily Mail.  For the past two months a letter has been circulating among military brass to “let the American public know this guy has no clue what he's doing,” a source confessed to DailyMail.com. SteveGruber.com describes the story about “Hair Gel” Hegseth as nothing more than  “cowardly Pentagon loose lips.” Sure....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Trump on the warpath, part I: Last night he dropped an ominous warning to legacy media outlets  on Truth Social.  He wrote, “The Wall Street Journal, The Failing New York Times, The Washington Post, MSDNC, CNN, and all other Mainstream Media Liars, are ON NOTICE that the days of them being allowed to deceive the American People are OVER.” He didn’t elaborate what being “on notice” meant and what happens next, but it’s a chilling note nonetheless. And it comes a week after I received an offensive email from Truth+, the nascent streaming platform from Trump Media.  It was pushing me to sign up for the Patriot Package that includes hard-right TV outlets Real America’s Voice, Newsmax, OANN “and other pro-America news channels that risk being cancelled for refusing to suppress the truth in favor of woke propaganda”...Trump on the warpath, part II: He accused Barack Obama of “treason.” His crime?  Allegedly rigging the 2016 election, per ABC News. Worth noting: in some jurisdictions treason is punishable by death...Sour news about sweets: prices for chocolate are rising due to several factors unrelated to tariffs.  Costs for coffee and orange juice have also increased because of tariffs....Experienced lawyer looking for work: contact Maurene Comey, former Assistant United States Attorney. Available immediately. See LinkedIn profile....Experienced late night host looking for work. No discernable skills except ability to make people laugh and think. Available June 2026. Contact Stephen Colbert...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard