Greetings! Lake America? Trump signed an executive order yesterday renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. He did it because he’s feuding with Canada over tariffs, although it’s a head scratcher over what that name change accomplishes. To me, it’s just another example of the petty POTUS’s pathological need to put his stamp on anything. Worth wondering: What are middle school students of U.S. geography going to be taught this year about the smallest of the Great Lakes on our northern border?...Dept. of Modesty: Last night, Trump posted an image on Truth Social of the headshots of 35 presidents.  They are ranked by by their competence. (The ranking wasn’t sourced in the Truth Social post, although the Daily Caller cites a post on X alluding to an almost identical 1948 ranking from Life magazine.) It will surprise no one to learn that Biden and Obama were at the bottom of the list, while Donald Trump took the prize as the single greatest American president, even ahead of FDR, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington...It’s news to me: Trump posted another list on Truth Social last night spotlighting 10 U.S. territories including Puerto Rico, the Marshall Islands and – wait for it – the Strait of Hormuz...Yesterday may have been Karoline Leavitt’s last day as White House press secretary, but it’s possible we’ll still be seeing a lot of her every day.  According to an exclusive story in the Daily Mail, the sassy 29-year-old MAGA mouthpiece is being considered for a role as a regular on ABC’s popular daytime talker “The View” joining a panel of mostly liberal ladies like Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar...Weekend watch: Netflix’s The Whisper Man just dropped today. It sounds like a generic thriller about a widowed crime novelist (Adam Scott) seeking help from his retired cop father after his young son is abducted. Because it stars Robert De Niro and Michael Keaton, I’ll give it a chance tonight....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Trump is once again sticking his beak into places it doesn’t belong. He’s upset about pitcher Roger Clemens’ omission from the baseball Hall of Fame.  Clemens, who won more than 350 games in his career, had his legacy tarnished by serious accusations of drug use that may have enhanced his performance on the mound.  Trump wrote in a Truth Social post last night that he’s not in the Hall “because a bunch of jealous people with far less Talent, voted that he shouldn’t be there.” (Memo to Natalie Harp, Trump's ghostwriter:  perhaps you can explain at some point why you decided to capitalize “Talent.”) My suggestion to Trump is that he should spend more time trying to solve his Middle East quagmire and let MLB and baseball scribes worry about the far less consequential Hall of Fame... Crash! Far-right conspiracy theorist and Trump buddy Laura Loomer reports that Angie Nixon, described by Loomer as Florida’s communist state representative, crashed her car four times between 2009 and 2013. Nixon is running as a Democrat for a Senate seat in November.  It appears that the opposition research is just beginning to heat up......DSA the Movie: That's what the conservative entertainment blog Hollywood in Toto is calling the upcoming theatrical movie “How to Rob a Bank."  “The trailer all but screams DSA, the radical wing of the modern Democratic party that doesn’t believe in law enforcement, let alone capitalism,” writes editor Christian Toto.  “Here’s betting New York’s own Zohran Mamdani will likely be first in line on opening day.” The film opens September 4....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard