Trumpiana: No beardos, no weirdos, no fatties — and no mosquitoes!

The all-in-chief is in a tearing hurry to tear down historic edificesDonald Trump, the self-styled builder-in-chief may be in a tearing hurry to tear down historic edifices to erect his own. But he draws the line at the storied Oval Office that he has so lovingly drowned in a sea of gold.The Secret Service had suggested the president’s office be “taken down,” to build a more fortified one, but he pushed back at the idea claims the man who tore down the East Wing to make way for his $400 million big beautiful ballroom.“I see the Secret Service looking, and I say, ‘What are you guys looking at?’ ‘Sir, we think the Oval Office should be taken down, and we’ll build a new one, sir,'” he told Time magazine in an interview.“I said, ‘My a–, you can’t build a new one. This is a special place.'”But Trump refused to promise not to tear down the iconic Kennedy Center for Performing Arts after a judge refused to let his handpicked board to put back his name on its facade as its restorer and renovator.“I’m not committing to anything,” Trump told Time. “We’re going to see how it plays out in court.”Trump has argued that the Kennedy Center was structurally unsafe and needed to be closed to undergo a two-year, $250 million renovation, but he won’t allow renovations to start unless he can put his name on the building.But to ensure “that nobody should be allowed to rip down this beautiful room,” after he leaves the Oval Office, Trump is mulling making it a federal landmark.During the interview, Trump also ranted about judges, showed off pictures of his White House renovations, and constantly made a litany of complaints about the ‘unfair fake’ media.And as with 56 appearances on Time’s cover, Trump surpassed Richard Nixon, who held the record for more than half a century, he posted a collage of them all crowning himself “TIME’s cover king.”Earlier, after privately huddling with 20 tech titans at a White House lunch, Trump continued to push back on calls for new safety regulations for artificial intelligence.“There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that,” said Trump, flanked by tech and government leaders. Among them was Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, whom he playfully introduced as “a monster.”“What a great life! To be a Monster and not have to go through this. All you have to know is – sundarr! Sundar is his name,” he joked leaving Pichai to respond sheepishly, “Hopefully a better tagline than ‘I’m a monster’.”Trump also unveiled America.gov, a website that features an AI-powered tool meant to serve as a “one-stop shop” for Americans navigating government services.But to his chagrin the chatbot, which draws upon 29,000 government websites to formulate its answers, tells the truth ever ready to debunk his false claims on all sorts of things from who won the 2020 election to whether windmills drive whales “loco.”“Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 U.S. presidential election,” says the bot without hedging its bets, and “U.S. federal science agencies do not find that windmills are “driving whales insane.”Would it be next on Trump’s chopping block?Meanwhile, Trump’s secretary of offense (oops war), Pete Hegseth, who according to a new book got the job because he looked good on TV, trumpeted his own plans to slash the Pentagon.“We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that: No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors,” Hegseth said delivering what was touted as a “State of the Force” address.Then for once acknowledging he’s “done a very bad job of explaining how good the country is doing,” Trump set out on a punishing tour of 17 states for 36 events in 30 days, to energize Republican voters ahead of the crucial midterm elections.With his own record low approval ratings amid an unpopular war and rising prices, Trump no longer wants voters to just pretend he’s on the ballot, he also wants to tell them in person,“We’re worried.”During a rally in Oklahoma, he once again promised that “if the Republicans win, you will each have $5,000 in your pocket and the economic success for our country like you’ve never seen before” — a promise that critics have called a bribe.But brushing aside ethical concerns, the White House expanded a taxpayer-paid ad campaign boosting Trump. In the latest ad brought to you by Uncle Sam, Trump is seen staring into the camera as he vows to drive his political enemies from power.But a little old woman scored a victory over the world’s most powerful man with Trump finally agreeing to end his court fight against $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case.As Carroll has already received the payout with interest in the 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against Trump, the decision revealed by a U.S. court of appeals puts the final seal on the case.Yet a spokesperson for Trump’s legal team again dismissed the whole affair as another ‘witch hunt’ stating, “The American People stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes.”Back in Washington, Trump signed an executive order targeting mosquitoes in the capital. It directs the Interior Department to “develop and implement a campaign” within 60 days to reduce certain mosquito species in D.C. by 90 percent.The edict stipulates that only “common sense, non-chemical technology-enabled measures” can be used — but does not specify whether it also covers annoying pests of the media kind!(By arrangement with The American Bazaar)You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.