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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Mar. 9, 2026

Greetings! President Trump’s youngest son is the target of a new parody website called DraftBarronTrump.com. Here’s its tagline:  “Barron is more than ready to defend the country his father so boldly commands. Service is honor. Strength is inherited. Dog (sic) Bless Barron.”  Created by former “South Park” writer Toby Morton, Western Journal gives the site a thumbs down….Looking for something to watch after work? Melania, the $40 million dollar documentary about you-know-who, hits Amazon Prime tonight. Here’s what I wrote about the fawning First Lady doc last month in an MS NOW op-ed…Trump administration cast member Pete “Hairgel” Hegseth was all over television this weekend. The amped up Sec. of War was the butt of jokes in the  Saturday Night Live cold open, featuring Colin Jost as Hegseth. The joke that best captured mucho-macho Hegseth’s false bravado was when a reporter asked him if there would be boots on the ground. Hegseth/Jost responds: “Yeah, your mom’s next to my bed after I bang her.” In last night’s 60 Minutes sitdown, Hegseth was his usual smug self, sucking up to Trump at every opportunity…. Get ready for another aggressive right-wing media outlet. The Wall Street Journal reports the powerful German-based publisher Axel Springer has a $770 million deal to buy the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph. According to the Journal,  Axel Springer, which owns Politico,  wants to “turbocharge” the Telegraph’s stateside footprint as “the leading center-right media outlet in the English-speaking world.” In other words, Rupert Murdoch, who controls the WSJ, Fox News and the NY Post, should watch his back…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard