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It’s not a gift, it’s an order.

March 9, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

WSJ: Trump Is Obsessed With These $145 Shoes—and Won’t Let Anyone Leave Without a Pair

“Today I’m in the Oval Office with the president,” Vance recalled to party goers. “And we’re talking about something really, really important. And the president kind of holds up his hand and says, ‘No, no, hold on a second, there’s something much more important.’

“He peers over the resolute desk, and he says, ‘Marco, JD, you guys have shitty shoes,” Vance said. “We got to get you better shoes.’ So he goes out and grabs a catalog.”

“The president is giving us four pairs of shoes,” Vance recalled. “And he’s actually asking our sizes in the middle of this conversation.”

It’s imposing for the big boss to buy shoes for his staff, but to be fair, a lot of guys do have shitty shoes.

Trump is trying to fix everything.

March 8, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Sports Illustrated: Everybody Wants to Save College Sports. But From What, Exactly?

This is extraordinary. Apparently there is a problem in college sports that may ruin some schools.

Like him or hate him, how does President Trump have the time and effort to host a conference to address the issue? Along with President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Education Secretary Linda McMahon, are attending.

That is a lot of firepower for a two hour meeting about college sports, while there is a hot war going on in Iran, restructuring of Venezuela, a new Homeland Security secretary, and a ‘Shield of Americas’ summit with the leaders of a dozen Latin American countries.

Operation Absolute Resolve is serious business.

January 6, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Advice to Democrats Regarding Maduro Arrest: Resist Reflexive Opposition

Knee-jerk opposition to anything Trump does, puts Progressives in awkward positions. In this case, they sound like they support a dictator or prefer a prolonged war. Many Progressives have made statements encouraging action against Maduro, and now sound like hypocrites.

Advanced notification to Congress would have been leaked, and gotten Americans killed.

The “Donroe Doctrine”, a play on the Monroe Doctrine, sounds stupid. This is serious business.

Bombing the Iranian nuclear facility and this operation, were bold and complex. Conservatives have to be prepared for one of these swift and decisive operations to fail catastrophically.

We finally get a war for oil.

January 4, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Trump: U.S. Oil Companies Will ‘Fix’ Venezuela’s ‘Badly Broken’ Oil Infrastructure

We tried everything else, may as well try a war for oil.

More historic events

January 3, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Blowing up drug boats was working out, but after doing that a few dozen times, it gets boring. This was one way to shake things up.

I do appreciate the symmetry.

Congo and Rhodesia have a chance for peace.

December 5, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

NYT: Rwanda and Congo Sign U.S.-Brokered Peace Treaty

Bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo, oh no, no no no.

Rolling back the CAFE standards for cars.

December 4, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

CBS News: Trump administration moves to roll back fuel economy standards set under Biden

If finalized, the plan would relax fuel economy standards by setting the industry average for light-duty vehicles at roughly 34.5 miles per gallon through the 2031 model year, lower than the 50 miles per gallon outlined by a Biden-era rule.

For fifty years, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) set fuel economy standards that car companies had to meet. It was a type of magical thinking. The NHTSA would issue a new fuel economy standard, and like Captain Picard on Star Trek, say, “Make it so.”

The NHTSA didn’t have to worry about physics, they just had to wish for it. The engineering teams had to figure out how to pull another rabbit out of the same old hat. The rabbits were getting smaller and harder to find.

Trump now has a crown.

October 30, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

South Korea gives Trump golden crown, medal conferring highest honor

Will the “No Kings” protestors get all wee-wee’d up that Trump now has a crown, or will they never learn that South Korea presented President Trump with their highest civilian honor?

Watching the Congressional Secret Service Hearing

July 22, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

I’m watching a portion of the Congressional hearings on the Secret Service and the Trump assassination attempt.

If the Secret Service Director, Kimberly Cheatle, was ever going to resign, I bet she wished she had resigned yesterday. Every congressman is ripping into her. For the most part, it isn’t possible to distinguish between a Democratic or Republican congressman. They are all personally pissed off that people died and a presidential candidate was shot. They all ask for her resignation. It’s gratifying to see.

Surprisingly, Ocasio-Cortez did a good job. She isn’t a quick thinker or smooth talker, but she was informed, had good questions and was impressively indignant. A couple of congressmen tried to make some unrelated political points, but it was a soft-sell. Several congressmen are grandstanding by demonstrating their personal knowledge, but that makes the hearings less repetitive.

Most congressmen imply that 20 year-olds are insipid morons and that makes the Secret Service look even worse. Cheatle isn’t answering many questions, fewer questions than in the ABC interview, and that makes her look terrible.

Cheatle should have resigned, she doesn’t have a friend on the Hill. She won’t remain in that position.

WSJ: The RNC is a pro-America party, and Noonan doesn’t like it.

July 20, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

WSJ: Noonan on RNC

Peggy Noonan was a speech writer for Ronald Reagan, and then was an insightful commentator until she got Trump Derangement Syndrome. After the 2024 RNC Convention, she can’t quite come around.