Greetings! Turkey Day: Trump flew to Turkey last night for the NATO Summit where he’ll peacock before the cameras while henpecking NATO member companies to spend more for their own defense instead of relying so heavily on the U.S. (Reuters)...FrontPage claims it ran the first exposé on Graham Platner last September.  The September 8, 2025, article called him a “fake, working-class oysterman,” and pointed out his privileged background. However, there was nothing about his Nazi tattoo or allegations of sexual misconduct or worse...Speaking of Platner: Maine’s favorite literary son, author and horror master Stephen King, still supports Platner despite the new rape allegation that dropped yesterday. In a post on X, King wrote that he hopes the Maine Senate candidate won’t drop out of the race...Dept. of Corrections. The boss of FIFA is Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino. I omitted his last name in yesterday’s newsletter...A woke-related controversy may be brewing over the July 17 release of the epic adventure film “The Odyssey,” one of 2026’s most anticipated films. According to the right-wing blog Hollywood in Toto, actress Lupita Nyong’o, who plays Helen of Troy, mocks Homer in “needless pandering to modern Left”...Washington Post architecture critic Phil Kennicott has been one of the Trump administration’s fiercest and most vocal critics.  Yesterday’s article in the Jeff Bezos-owned media outlet, which blasted the White House’s vile Smithsonian report, was no exception.  He calls the 160-page report, “a relentlessly tendentious piece of trash.” The White House report accused the National Museum of American History of having a radical bias...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Fiddling with FIFA: Trump stuck his snout into the World Cup controversy involving U.S.A. soccer star Folarin Balogun and the horrifically bad call against him last week that would have banned him from tonight’s game against Belgium. As a fan of our nation’s soccer team, I’m glad the ruling was overturned by FIFA president Giovanni Vincenzo after a conversation with Trump. But if Team U.S.A wins tonight and its remaining World Cup games, its victories will always be tarnished by Trump’s meddling in the eyes of the world. Memo to Democrats: don’t condemn POTUS's pushy tactics. Your harsh words will be positioned as unpatriotic....Is Melania Trump 2026’s most successful documentary filmmaker? According to Donald Trump’s financial disclosure report unveiled last week, she earned nearly $11 million in licensing fees for her shallow, one-sided documentary “Melania” in which she not only starred, but was executive producer. She also earned more than $500,000 from her 2024 memoir. (Business Insider)...The Wall Street Journal panned the movie “Young Washington” about you-know-who. Liberty Paige of the right-wing outlet SteveGruber.com urges her readers to ignore the critics and see the film...I stayed up late July 4 to watch about 20 minutes of Trump’s rain-delayed speech. Not the speech I would have wanted from my president on the nation's birthday, but not as bad as I feared...The American Conservative questions whether Rep. Thomas Kean (R-NJ) is well enough to resume serving in the U.S. House of Representatives.  He just returned to work after a four-month absence after being treated in a hospital for depression...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard