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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

May. 19, 2025

Greetings. Trump had a busy weekend unleashing an eclectic batch of tweets on Truth Social aimed at a broad range of targets.  First, he attacked two rock icons with a barrage of juvenile insults that read like they came from the pen of an angry14-year-old boy.  After Bruce Springsteen criticized Trump at a concert in Manchester, England, the rock-critic-in-chief wrote on Truth Social, “I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK…This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country.” He added ominously at the end of the tweet, “Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!” On Friday, he slammed Taylor Swift, writing, “Has anyone noticed that, since I said “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,” she’s no longer “HOT?” Way to keep it classy Donny.  Also, late last week on Truth Social, Trump posted this link to a press release announcing that the right-wing TV news outlet One America News Network, home to the disgraced Matt Gaetz, will now be available to Spectrum TV customers. Not a good look for the president of the United States to be promoting a highly partisan news channel (and that’s putting it mildly).  Finally, last night Trump sounded a rare note of empathy writing on his social platform that he and Melania wished Joe Biden a “fast and successful recovery” from his recently announced diagnosis of an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Didn’t think the Mad King could hit that note…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard