A Closer Look …
The Daily Show …
Jimmy Kimmel Live …
The Tonight Show …

reflecting pool debacle…

A Closer Look …
The United States just defeated Australia for their second straight victory. They will advance past the group stage. In military international affairs, Douche Bag Trump is an Israel First guy, but he’s not able to root for them now because the last time they qualified for the World Cup was back in 1970. Here’s what you can expect from the Orange Sleazeball: He will take credit for Team USA’s wins, especially if they go on to win the entire tournament! Also, he will jump ship if/ when they get knocked off! That’s his MO!!! Take credit when he had nothing to do with success, and blame others (especially Joe Biden) if things fall short! Oh! There’s a bonus! Don’t be surprised when he tries to steal the physical medals of any of the players who win the championship, and it doesn’t matter which country they come from…
6/19/2026 Israel Bombs More Women and Children. Trump looks like a Total Buffoon as the supposed ceasefire collapses yet again. Netanyahu has him by the balls…
6/19/2026 Pinocchio Trump Sounds Like a Retard In Interview …
6/18/2026 All four former presidents gathered today for the opening of Barack Obama’s library. For the record, none of these former presidents went to Trump’s UFC birthday bash this past Sunday. They don’t like him. Fewer and fewer people like him with each passing day. This includes right-wing War Hawks who thinks he’s too much of a pussy to nuke Iran’s people, and left-wing Liberals who think the war was illegal to begin with and he should’ve just stuck with the JCPOA. Of course, there’s always a side story. The “American flag blue” Reflecting Pool isn’t blue at all. It’s murky green …
6/18/2026 Iran Update, part III …
6/18/2026 Iran Update, part II …
6/18/2026 Iran Update, part I …
6/18/2026 Besides looking haggard, Trump looked lost and out of place at the G7 in Europe. This is what happens when you’re a dick to all the World leaders, then you want their affirmation for optics …
6/17/2026 Trump Has Had Many, Many Blunders. The stupid tariffs raised costs for importers which were passed to American consumers and paved the way for inflation. The illegal Iran War killed school children and shut down the Strait of Hormuz. But the Reflecting Pool? In a strange way, this particular blunder shows just how retarded Trump is as a person. Let’s think about his “qualifications” to be president. He was gifted a boatload of money from his dad, he wound up investing in Atlantic City casinos, then he bankrupted them. Somehow, in between A and B, he had a ghostwriter pen a book, The Art of the Deal, which became popular and created a myth that he knew what the fuck he was doing businesswise. He parlayed this myth into becoming the host of The Apprentice, and though he never won an Emmy, he parlayed that into the 2016 Republican nomination. He was always brash, brazen, and talked a lot of shit. It was a mystery and a social experience. Could his grandiose rhetoric be true? Will he make Mexico pay for a border wall? Would China pay tariffs instead of American importers? Though he campaigned he’d be a peace president, could he be a decent commander in chief if the United States went to war? The social experiment was a disaster! Inflation spiked because of his trade wars and ignorance of international markets. But what could you expect from a guy who bankrupted casinos and whose best qualification was that he portrayed himself to be a competent businessman on a reality show? He started an illegal war against Iran without consulting Congress, NATO, or other American allies. By now, it’s no surprise that it turned out to be a disaster because Trump has shown himself to be a moron in so many other ways! But the Reflecting Pool?? This one is a head scratcher. Not to us at Never Trump Blog, but to the goons who still trust him. Even though he bankrupted casinos, you’d think he knows something about pools! He’s lived at Mar a Lago for years, and he’s surrounded by extravagant swimming pools in all directions when he’s in Florida. He allegedly handpicked some personal pool guy to take on the Reflecting Pool project, but there were budget overruns and a change of plans. Still, this is the one, single area people thought Trump might know what the fuck he was doing! He promised a beautiful Reflecting Pool which would be “American Flag blue” and he showed charts and graphics of how wonderful it would look. Then reality set in. Trump campaigned that he would drain the DC Swamp, and he originally was talking about the Deep State and other forms of corruption. Days after the Reflecting Pool was re-opened, we can see what’s actually happened. Trump didn’t drain the Swamp in any type of figurative way. Nope! All he did is create a new one! The Reflecting Pool is a gross green color and is infested with algae! On the Fourth of July, it won’t be surprising if a swamp creature crawls out of it …

lies, lies, lies…

trump & his goons are known for lies, lies, lies, yeah …
6/17/2026 Trump Looks Old and Haggard …
6/17/2026 Love on the rocks between Bibi & Orange Clown …
REFLECTION: Sir Robin Ran Away …
6/17/2026 Trump Ran Away …
EXPLAINED: The Senate Has the Constitutional Authority to Ratify International Treaties. Since coming back into the White House, Orange Clown has treated Congress like an orphanage of retards …
EXPLAINED: Quacks Like a Duck Idiom. On January 6, 2021, Trump riled up a crowd & told them to fight like Hell in Washington, DC. They proceeded to storm the Capitol. Trump later called it a lovefest. Recently, Earlier this year, he had the military kidnap Nicolás Maduro and seize Venezuela oil. He called it a spectacular assault and a military operation, but he shied away from calling it a war. Same with Iran. He liked to call that one an excursion. These are semantics, though. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it’s a duck! There are neutral, arbitrary definitions for insurrections and wars. It doesn’t matter if you call the riots in DC a lovefest! If ordinary, sane people witness an insurrection, then it’s an insurrection! “War” as a word has a million meanings and is used in playful and serious ways so in 1949, Common Article 2 of the Geneva Conventions defined International Armed Conflict. When you bomb the leadership of a foreign nation, this is an act of war. When you bomb a school of young girls, this is an act of war. You can call it an excursion all you want, but ordinary, sane people will see that it’s war! And now we get to the supposed peace deal. Apparently, there’s a “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) where the Strait of Hormuz will be re-opened, and leaks suggest that Iran might receive $300 billion. Once again, this is semantics. Congress has the authority to declare war, and Orange Clown circumvented this. Now? John Thune hasn’t been briefed on the “MOU” and he’s the leader of the Senate. The Senate has full authority to ratify international treaties, but Trump thinks he can unilaterally make a final, binding agreement with Iran. If it looks like an Orange Clown, and talks like an Orange Clown, you can guess what it is …

Chat With AI

Question:  Tell me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t the Senate have the power to ratify international treaties? There are leaks about the supposed Iran “memorandum of understanding” but John Thune said he hasn’t been briefed. Isn’t that important? There are leaks that Iran could receive $300 billion in damage reparations, but doesn’t Congress have to approve this?

Answer:  Under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, the Senate possesses the exclusive power to approve international treaties by a two-thirds majority vote; however, the administration is bypassing this by structuring the current agreement as a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MoU). Because an MoU is classified as an executive agreement rather than a formal treaty, it can be signed directly by the President without requiring Senate ratification.

The developing diplomatic situation between the Trump administration and Iran features several key legal, political, and financial dimensions:

🏛️ The Role of Congress and John Thune’s Briefing

Lack of Initial Briefing: Senate Majority Leader John Thune stated that he and other top lawmakers had not yet been formally briefed on the specific text of the MoU. He emphasized that Congress urgently needs the administration to send senior officials to Capitol Hill to clarify the details, especially regarding the enforcement of nuclear restrictions.

The Importance of Congressional Oversight: Thune’s lack of a briefing is highly significant because Congress retains considerable statutory oversight. Even if the administration bypasses a formal treaty vote, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA) requires the President to submit any nuclear-related agreement to Congress for a mandatory review period.

💰 The $300 Billion Reconstruction Fund vs. Congressional Approval

Source of Funding: While Iranian state media initially framed the leaked $300 billion figure as direct “damage reparations” paid by the U.S., Vice President JD Vance clarified that the money is an international investment and reconstruction fund. Crucially, Vance noted that this fund is slated to be financed primarily by a coalition of Gulf Arab states—not U.S. taxpayers—and is entirely conditional on Iran completely dismantling its nuclear weapons program.

6/16/2026 Tuesday Update, part III …
6/16/2026 Tuesday Update, part II …
6/16/2026 Tuesday Update, part I …

Lots of talk about peace with Iran

but to understand the Bigger Picture better, people ought to know about The Greater Israel Project…

6/16/2026 The So-Called Iran Deal, part III …
6/16/2026 The So-Called Iran Deal, part II …
6/16/2026 The So-Called Iran Deal, part I …
6/16/2026 More Belief That Trump Is Mentally Impaired & How Legacy Media Sane Washes His Psychotic Actions …

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