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‘His Dementia Is Showing’: Fox News Pulls the Plug on Donald Trump As He Spirals Into Bizarre Speech About Washing His ‘Beautiful, Luxuriant Hair’
Posted byBy Grace Jidoun | Published on: August 26, 2025 CommentsComments (0)It’s been nearly a decade since President Donald Trump entered the national stage as a serious presidential contender — and introduced the world to his unfiltered, rambling speaking style. There have been so many head-scratching moments since 2016 that the rants have almost become expected.
However, a recent spate of concerns, including mysterious bruises on his hands, wobbly walking, and verbal slip-ups, has critics reevaluating the past with fresh eyes, searching for early warning signs of decline.
One moment from a campaign rally last year stands out. During a June 2024 speech, Trump went on a mini rant about “washing machines to wash your dishes,” “no water in faucets,” and “rain,” without making a clear connection between the three.
In the speech, Trump was discussing flow restrictors, which typically regulate water on showerheads in homes, but that logic became lost in the rambling. Trump made the remarks at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, and Fox News provided live coverage until they abruptly cut away, interrupting Trump’s musings on water mid-sentence.
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A shortened version of the unflattering clip circulated in the news at the time. In it, Trump told his audience: “There’s so much water you don’t know what to do with it. You know, it’s called rain. It rains a lot in certain places,” he stated the obvious before launching into a perplexing word salad. “But uh, no, their idea, you know, did you see the other day. I opened it up, and they closed it again. I open it, they close it. Washing machines, to wash your dishes. There’s a problem. They don’t want you to have any water,” he said. He was presumably referring to the Biden administration.
Earlier in the speech, Trump slammed Biden’s $2 trillion proposal to address climate change — a less ambitious version of the Green New Deal — calling it “wasteful” and the “green new scam.” Trump went on to complain about not having enough water to wash his “beautiful, luxuriant hair.”
“You turn on the water and it goes drip, drip… You’re trying. The worst is your hair,” he said. “I have this beautiful, luxuriant hair, and I put stuff on. I put it in. Lather. I like lots of lather because I like it to come out extremely dry because it seems to be slightly thicker that way. And I lather up, and then you turn on this crazy shower and the thing drip, drip, and you say, ‘I’m gonna be here for 45 minutes.’ What?”
Trump’s tips for thick-looking hair aside, the blunder sparked concern. Despite his long history of speaking off the cuff in a boastful, flamboyant style, many found it hard to blame age alone.
“President Joe Biden’s campaign, allies and defenders called the moment ’embarrassing’ for Trump and claimed the former president is ‘senile,'” read the caption by The Daily Mail.
“Why is he talking about washing machines and it raining a lot?” someone recently wondered on Instagram. “His dementia is showing,” stated one. Another agreed: “Incoherent, Trump! This is who people voted for?”
Inaugurated at 78, he was the oldest president to be sworn into office. Prior to 2024, the median age of U.S. presidents on the day of their first inauguration was 55, according to the Pew Research Center. The study also found that most Americans prefer their presidents to be in their 50s, which has historically been the case. The U.S. has certainly been in uncharted territory with Biden and Trump back-to-back.
Don't forget Marilyn Mosby.
Ain't that a bitch.
After right-wing backlash, Cracker Barrel says it will get rid of its new logo
The Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo is displayed on a large rooftop sign in Mount Arlington, New Jersey, on August 22, 2025. Cracker Barrel has a special place in the hearts of many Americans, offering country cuisine in a folksy "Old Country Store" setting complete with rocking chairs and occasional country music performances. But an attempt to rebrand the storied US chain has sparked a firestorm of opposition online and opened a new front in the culture wars around legacy brands seeking to update their corporate images (Photo by Gregory WALTON / AFP) (Photo by GREGORY WALTON/AFP via Getty Images)
SOURCE: GREGORY WALTON
Updated: 6:43 PM CDT Aug 26, 2025
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN
After days of intense backlash, most recently from President Donald Trump, Cracker Barrel is scrapping its new minimalist logo.
“We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen, and we have. Our new logo is going away and our ‘Old Timer’ will remain,” the company said in a statement.
“At Cracker Barrel, it’s always been – and always will be – about serving up delicious food, warm welcomes, and the kind of country hospitality that feels like family. As a proud American institution, our 70,000 hardworking employees look forward to welcoming you to our table soon.”
A deputy White House chief of staff posted on X that he received a call from Cracker Barrel earlier on Tuesday, saying “they thanked President Trump for weighing in on the issue.”
Last week, Cracker Barrel received a barrage of criticism when it unveiled its modernized logo, which got rid of the namesake barrel and the “old-timer” figure. Some loyal fans feared the 56-year-old chain was drifting too far from its bucolic roots, and the company’s shares (CBRL) nosedived more than 12% days after the announcement.
On Monday, the struggling country-themed restaurant chain and roadtrip staple signaled that it had messed up with the minimalist logo, saying, “We could’ve done a better job sharing who we are and who we’ll always be.”
The company noted that its “old-timer” figure would return, a major point of contention online. Many people over the years believed the company’s ambassador Uncle Herschel was the figure seen leaning against the barrel in the logo. (The company refers to the figure as “our old-timer” in the logo created by Nashville designer Bill Holley on a napkin in 1977.)
Hours before before Cracker Barrel walked back the minimalist logo, Trump posted on Truth Social that Cracker Barrel should return to its previous logo.
“Cracker Barrel should go back to the old logo, admit a mistake based on customer response (the ultimate Poll) and manage the company better than ever before,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Tuesday.
After Cracker Barrel announced its initial logo change last week, a social media firestorm began and the debacle quickly became another culture war topic stoked by right-wing influencers.
“WTF is wrong with @CrackerBarrel??!” Donald Trump Jr. posted on X. Right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk posted a side-by-side comparison of Sydney Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle ad and the original Cracker Barrel logo, with the new minimalist one and a woman who weighs more than Sweeney.
The drama was a setback for the chain’s $700 million transformation plan. The 56-year-old chain has new TV commercials, a redesigned menu and several new fall-themed foods.
“The way we communicate, the things on the menu, the way the stores look and feel … all of these things came up time and time again in our research as opportunities for us to really regain relevancy,” said Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino in 2024.
Shares of Cracker Barrel rose more than 3% in after-hours trading Tuesday upon the announcement.
“They got a Billion Dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right,” Trump continued on Tuesday. “Very tricky to do, but a great opportunity. Have a major News Conference today. Make Cracker Barrel a WINNER again.”
Much respect to her not abusing her power. If she wanted to she could have been a millionaire by now.
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President Donald Trump’s orbit took a messy turn online Monday after Katie Miller gushed that working with Elon Musk was “the most fun I’ve ever had,” a line that quickly triggered a wave of social media snark.
The remark came during an Aug. 25 appearance on “The Scott Jennings Radio Show,” where Miller was promoting her new project, “The Katie Miller Podcast.”
Elon Musk, of the Department of Government Efficiency, leaves a lunch with senate Republicans in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. DOGE aide Katie Miller appears at left. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
In the conversation, she described serving as Musk’s “chief Elon wrangler” during his time at the White House, where she didn’t have an official title but did “whatever needed to be done.”
Miller described, around the 40-minute mark, an exchange she had with Trump in the Oval Office when he inquired about the role.
“Do you like working with Elon?” Trump asked with Musk present in the room.
Miller didn’t hesitate. “Mr. President, it’s an honor of a lifetime and the most fun I’ve ever had in this job,” she told Jennings she replied to Trump.
On its own, that kind of flattery might have gone unnoticed. But Miller isn’t just any aide. She served as press secretary and then communications director for Vice President Mike Pence, and she’s married to Stephen Miller, Trump’s current deputy chief of staff and architect of the administration’s immigration crackdowns.
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After following Musk out of the unofficial federal Department of Government Efficiency earlier this year to join him in the private sector, she caused a wave of speculation when Musk unfollowed her husband on X, putting her directly in the middle of Trump and Musk’s nasty breakup that played out in the press daily.
Tensions boiled over in June when Musk posted then quickly deleted an explosive message on X. “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
The post was taken down within hours, but not before screenshots spread widely.
“It’s such an honor to have seen both men in these high powered roles, and it’s really shaped the person I am today,” Miller said as she continued to gush over Musk and Trump. “We all can agree that when they’re working together, it is good for our country, it’s good for America, and that’s what you want.”
Social media didn’t waste much time drawing tawdry conclusions over Miller’s comments.
“Is she going to have a Musk baby,” one Threads user asked.
Another wondered, “So she’s doing him?”
“Getting pegged ‘maybe’ or IVF’d by Elon is the thrill of a lifetime? Ewwww!” another wrote.
“You know that dude f…d…,” a third chimed in.
Some even took time to criticize her looks. “What do you expect. Look who she’s sleeping with,” one wrote.
“She really is as unattractive as her husband,” added another.
“That is such the beauty of our democracy,” she said of Trump on Truth Social and Musk on X, arguing that both communicate in public so “you don’t need to ask me what happens behind closed doors.”
Miller is hoping to grab the attention of conservative women with her new podcast which she launched after leaving Musk’s company last month, Axios first reported. The podcast already is booking guests like Vice President JD Vance and former ESPN host Sage Steele.
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Posted byBy ABS Contributor | Published on: August 26, 2025 CommentsComments (0)President Donald Trump’s orbit took a messy turn online Monday after Katie Miller gushed that working with Elon Musk was “the most fun I’ve ever had,” a line that quickly triggered a wave of social media snark.
The remark came during an Aug. 25 appearance on “The Scott Jennings Radio Show,” where Miller was promoting her new project, “The Katie Miller Podcast.”
In the conversation, she described serving as Musk’s “chief Elon wrangler” during his time at the White House, where she didn’t have an official title but did “whatever needed to be done.”
Miller described, around the 40-minute mark, an exchange she had with Trump in the Oval Office when he inquired about the role.
“Do you like working with Elon?” Trump asked with Musk present in the room.
Miller didn’t hesitate. “Mr. President, it’s an honor of a lifetime and the most fun I’ve ever had in this job,” she told Jennings she replied to Trump.
On its own, that kind of flattery might have gone unnoticed. But Miller isn’t just any aide. She served as press secretary and then communications director for Vice President Mike Pence, and she’s married to Stephen Miller, Trump’s current deputy chief of staff and architect of the administration’s immigration crackdowns.
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After following Musk out of the unofficial federal Department of Government Efficiency earlier this year to join him in the private sector, she caused a wave of speculation when Musk unfollowed her husband on X, putting her directly in the middle of Trump and Musk’s nasty breakup that played out in the press daily.
Tensions boiled over in June when Musk posted then quickly deleted an explosive message on X. “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
The post was taken down within hours, but not before screenshots spread widely.
“It’s such an honor to have seen both men in these high powered roles, and it’s really shaped the person I am today,” Miller said as she continued to gush over Musk and Trump. “We all can agree that when they’re working together, it is good for our country, it’s good for America, and that’s what you want.”
Social media didn’t waste much time drawing tawdry conclusions over Miller’s comments.
“Is she going to have a Musk baby,” one Threads user asked.
Another wondered, “So she’s doing him?”
“Getting pegged ‘maybe’ or IVF’d by Elon is the thrill of a lifetime? Ewwww!” another wrote.
“You know that dude f…d…,” a third chimed in.
Some even took time to criticize her looks. “What do you expect. Look who she’s sleeping with,” one wrote.
“She really is as unattractive as her husband,” added another.
“That is such the beauty of our democracy,” she said of Trump on Truth Social and Musk on X, arguing that both communicate in public so “you don’t need to ask me what happens behind closed doors.”
Miller is hoping to grab the attention of conservative women with her new podcast which she launched after leaving Musk’s company last month, Axios first reported. The podcast already is booking guests like Vice President JD Vance and former ESPN host Sage Steele.
If the idea is I shouldn't go to Africa because they are corrupt and they don't believe in the rule of law, how should I approach this administration?
“If We Let FEMA Die, Americans Will Die With It.”
Greg Palast
Aug 26, 2025
A note from Greg Palast: I need you to read this before Friday, the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It’s by a Coast Guardsman assigned to pull the dead from the waters. Now, as Supervisor in a small town in Illinois, he’s concerned that Trump will drown his town next. And do watch our film, All Washed Away: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans and Texas on YouTube and Substack. It’s an entertaining hour — who needs a horror film when we have Trump howling in the attic?
No One Else is Coming: From Hurricane Katrina to Villa Park, Illinois | by Kevin Patrick
Coast Guard officer Kevin Patrick, serving his country as a first responder in Gulfport, Mississippi in the wake of Katrina. All photos: © Kevin Patrick (2005). Used with permission by the Palast Investigative Fund.Imagine your town flattened overnight. No power. No water. Families trapped in rubble. For days, you wait for help that never seems to arrive.
The first thing that hit me in Gulfport, Mississippi, wasn’t the sight. It was the smell. Raw sewage from flooded treatment plants. Rotting seafood from capsized shrimp boats.
Diesel and gasoline spilled across the water. All mixed together in water so thick with debris it didn’t move like water anymore.
One of my shipmates handed me a jar of Vicks VapoRub. “Put it in your nose,” he said. “It’ll help.” It didn’t help enough.
Whole neighborhoods wiped out in the wake of Katrina.A World Washed Away
What I saw looked like a scene out of an apocalyptic film. Whole neighborhoods gone. Homes ripped from their foundations and carried into the bayou.
Those that remained were filled with mud several feet high. I went building to building on search-and-rescue, marking walls with spray paint — an “X” and a number telling the world how many people, alive or dead, had been found inside.
It was devastating. It was lawlessness. And at times, it felt like we were the only ones left.
The days were brutally hot. The sun beat down. There was almost no bottled water to give away. We handed out what little we had to people who hadn’t had water in days. I saw capsized vessels with bodies inside. I helped recover them — putting on biohazard gear for the first time outside of training.
Face shield, gloves, protective suit. This was no drill. This was death, and it was everywhere.
Homes ripped from their foundations were carried into the bayou.The Faces I Can’t Forget
I remember two pregnant women. One was stranded on a broken pier, living under a plastic tarp. No food, no water, nowhere to go.
She asked us for help and we got her out. The other didn’t make it. We found her in a capsized vessel. That image still haunts me.
Some memories hit like a punch even twenty years later. Seeing a diver bring up a recovery bag with the zipper open.
The arm of the deceased was visible. Reaching to pull them aboard, and feeling the skin slide away in my hands like meat from a chicken bone. We didn’t stop. We couldn’t.
I was in my early twenties then, on my first deployment, eager to prove myself, eager to help. I had no idea what I was walking into.
A half-sunk shrimp boat, marooned under a bridge.A Crack of Light
Most of what we did was about loss — pulling people from wreckage, marking homes, recovering the dead. But every once in a while, we got to save something instead. One of those moments was the Katrina dolphins.
When their enclosure was destroyed, these trained dolphins were swept into the Gulf. Our mission was to help recover them alive.
For a few hours, instead of pulling bodies from the water, we were part of saving life.
It reminded me of being a kid at Brookfield Zoo, when I was once picked out of the audience to pet a seventeen year old dolphin named Stormy.
For the first time in days, I felt human again. It didn’t erase the devastation. But it gave me just enough to keep going.
For the first time in days, I felt human again, helping save a life, rather than dealing with death.Twenty Years Later
It’s been twenty years, and I still carry these memories. Some of them shaped me, others haunt me.
They taught me how fragile life is, how quickly the thin line between order and chaos can break. And they taught me why preparation matters.
After Katrina, America promised to never again leave first responders without support.But today, I worry those lessons are being forgotten. After Katrina, America promised itself it would never again leave communities so unprepared, never again leave first responders without support.
FEMA was supposed to be strengthened — because when the unimaginable happens, there has to be someone ready to come.
With cuts to FEMA, and talks of it being dissolved, I worry we’re moving backward. I hear the same arguments people make when times are calm: that it costs too much, that states and towns can handle it alone.
But I’ve seen what happens when “alone” is all you have.
Kevin Patrick on duty in Gulfport, Mississippi in the wake of Katrina.Why it Matters Here
I’m not writing this from Washington. I’m writing this from Villa Park, Illinois. A small town. The kind of place people mean when they say, “local government will handle it.”
But if a freight train derails in the middle of our village — spilling hazardous chemicals into our streets — local government can’t “handle it alone.”
If a tornado levels half the town, or if flooding wipes out our neighborhoods, we’ll need help. Not someday. Not after a board meeting. Right then.
That’s what FEMA is for. Not just for hurricanes on the Gulf Coast. Not just for wildfires in California. For towns like mine. For places like yours.
No One Else is Coming
Katrina taught me something I’ll never forget: in the worst moments, you look around and realize no one else is coming. You are it. You are the only hope people have.
That’s what FEMA is meant to be for America. The backup when no one else is coming. The safety net when your town is underwater, or on fire, or blown apart.
If we cut FEMA to the bone, or dissolve it entirely, we’re not just undoing bureaucracy. We’re leaving millions of Americans with no backup. We’re telling them they’re on their own.
I’ve seen what “on your own” looks like. And I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
An American flag flies amidst the devastation of Katrina.Sounding the Alarm
I don’t write this to relive old nightmares. I write it as a warning. Because if we dismantle FEMA, we are dismantling America’s last line of defense.
Disasters aren’t slowing down. They’re bigger, faster, and less predictable — hurricanes that sit for days, wildfires that turn suburbs to ash in hours, floods that hit places that thought they’d never flood.
Small towns. Big cities. Red states. Blue states. It doesn’t matter. When that happens, you won’t care about politics. You won’t care about budgets. You’ll care about who shows up.
If FEMA is gutted or gone, there may be no one left to show up. That’s why I’m sounding the alarm. Because I’ve seen what it looks like when no one comes. I’ve carried the weight of knowing help arrived too late. And I know what it costs in lives when we gamble with preparedness.
We can’t wait until the next storm, the next fire, the next derailment, to realize what we’ve lost. By then it’s too late. If we let FEMA die, Americans will die with it. And no one else is coming.
To understand the effects of eliminating or privatizing FEMA, stream the film, All Washed Away: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans and Texas by investigative reporter Greg Palast which includes a note about my town, Villa Park, IL. Available for no charge on YouTube or Substack.
Fema staff warn Trump’s cuts risk exposing US to another Hurricane Katrina
Robert Tait
25 Aug 2025
Fema staff warn Trump’s cuts risk exposing US to another Hurricane Katrina
Workers say president’s attacks on the agency and lack of qualified leadership could lead to deadly catastrophe
Donald Trump’s attacks on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) risk exposing the US to another Hurricane Katrina, staff at the agency have warned Congress in a withering critique that also takes aim at its current leadership.
Writing in the run-up to this week’s 20th anniversary of the devastating 2005 storm that killed 1,833 people and caused widespread destruction in New Orleans and the Gulf coast, more than 180 current and former Fema employees say the Trump administration’s policies are ignoring the mistakes that led to it.
The letter, sent to members of Congress and a council formed to examine the agency’s future, follows months of criticism of Fema from Trump and senior administration officials, who have threatened to close it, prompting more than 2,000 staff – about one-third of its permanent workforce – to depart, leaving it short of institutional expertise in key positions.
It comes after last month’s deadly flooding in Texas that left at least 135 – including 37 school children – dead. Experts said the death toll may have been inflated by the upheaval at Fema, claiming it diminished its capacity to respond quickly.…
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