Mike McCready

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  • No One Believes Trump Anymore—And the World’s Acting Like It

    No One Believes Trump Anymore—And the World’s Acting Like It

    Last night, Israel struck deep into Iran—over the quiet objections of the White House. Think about that for a second.

    It was a direct rejection of Donald Trump’s promise to negotiate a new peace framework with Iran. Netanyahu didn’t just doubt Trump’s ability to get it done—he didn’t even think it was worth pretending anymore. He moved without permission, and without Trump.

    This is what it looks like when the world stops believing the U.S. president has any real pull.

    Europe’s Not Waiting Either

    Across the Atlantic, European leaders have authorized Ukraine to use Western-supplied weapons inside Russian territory. That’s a massive policy shift—one that would normally require careful alignment with Washington.

    But there’s no alignment. Because there’s no trust. Trump said he alone could end the war in Ukraine. NATO waited a while for that offer to play out and decided they’d rather take their chances without him.

    Putin Is Publicly Mocking Him—and He Doesn’t Even Notice

    Russian state television aired nude photos of Melania Trump as part of a grotesque propaganda stunt. A few years ago, that would’ve triggered diplomatic retaliation. Under Trump 2.0? Crickets.

    Either he doesn’t realize he’s being mocked, or he doesn’t care. Maybe he still thinks Putin respects him. Maybe he’s just afraid to break up with his last remaining bromance. Whatever the case, the message from Moscow couldn’t be clearer: we don’t respect you.

    Markets Are Screaming It, Too

    Gold is on a rocket ride—not because the economy is overheating, but because confidence in Trump’s economic leadership is melting like a popsicle in Mar-a-Lago. His trade policies shift by the hour. His tariffs are threats without timelines. His “art of the deal” these days seems to be: promise big, deliver nothing, move on.

    He said he’d sign 90 trade deals in 90 days. We’re on day 70-something. So far, we’ve got two vague “frameworks.” That’s political lingo for: everyone smiled politely and agreed to get back to each other. Someday.

    DOGE Was Supposed to Be the Fix—It’s a Punchline Now

    The Department of Government Efficiency was Trump’s shiny new hammer to smash waste and fraud. Musk was going to run it. Budgets were going to shrink. Swamps were going to drain.

    Instead, the whole thing is collapsing under its own irony. Cuts that were supposed to save money are actually costing money. Programs got slashed only to be reinstated under lawsuits or emergency exceptions. And Musk? He’s out. He quit DOGE, slammed the spending bill, and said he’s done being a political shield for broken promises.

    The Musk Breakup Says It All

    Trump once claimed Elon Musk would be a key partner in reshaping government. Now he’s threatening to revoke Tesla and SpaceX contracts, and Musk is saying—on record—that Trump can’t be trusted to manage a budget, let alone a country.

    It’s one thing to lose your enemies. But when you start losing your allies, your enablers, and your billionaire yes-men? That’s when the walls start closing in.

    The Big Picture: Nobody Thinks He Can Do the Job

    Israel ignored him. Europe bypassed him. Putin humiliates him. Musk walked. Gold’s spiking. Trade deals are MIA. And the big-budget reforms that were supposed to show “Trump means business” have turned into another bloated mess.

    This isn’t strength. This isn’t strategy. This is what weak leadership looks like on a global stage. It’s not that the world is in chaos despite Trump—it’s that the world no longer sees him as someone worth coordinating with at all.

    He promised to bring peace, prosperity, and power back to America. What we’ve got instead is confusion, rejection, and gold at $3,400.

  • Hey MAGA: Let’s talk about Hamas and Israel—and then about what’s happening right here in the U.S.

    Hey MAGA: Let’s talk about Hamas and Israel—and then about what’s happening right here in the U.S.

    In Hamas-run schools, kids are taught to hate Jews from the time they can walk. It’s not subtle. It’s in the textbooks, in the songs they sing, in the lessons drilled into them every single day. It’s the foundation of their education. And that has always been a roadblock to peace.

    During negotiations, Israel has repeatedly asked Hamas for a simple first step: stop teaching children to hate Jews. Just stop making it part of the curriculum. Hamas never agreed. Because when you spend decades shaping entire generations to believe the other side is their mortal enemy, peace isn’t really on the table.

    Now, let’s talk about America.

    I’ve noticed a disturbing parallel. Increasingly, the right sees the left not as the other half of a shared country—not as people they argue with but ultimately respect—but as the enemy within. Not political opponents, but traitors. And sure, people can go back and point fingers about who started it—just like they do in the Middle East—but at some point, we have to decide to break the cycle.

    I’ve seen people on the left contribute to this toxic divide too. But the glee, the joy that comes from “owning the libs”? That’s overwhelmingly pushed from the right. And it comes straight from the top.

    Just the other day, Trump sent out an email hawking t-shirts with insults about the left, saying something along the lines of:

    “Imagine how fun it will be to walk down the street in this shirt while loony liberals give you nasty looks.”

    This isn’t leadership. This is a guy whose entire strategy is division. He does it during national disasters—hurricanes, wildfires, plane crashes. He does it every single day.

    We have to come together. We have to start somewhere. And I believe a lot of people on the right are waking up. They didn’t vote for a dictator. They didn’t vote to align America with Russia and North Korea. They didn’t vote to throw democracy out the window.

    But that’s exactly where this road leads.

    It’s time to decide: Do we keep playing into the divide? Or do we step back and ask what kind of future we actually want?