Issue 8 Apr 20 – Apr 26, 2026
Week of Apr 20
Shots were fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and Trump turned the scare into a Lincoln comparison and a ballroom demand. The Iran war ground on with Hormuz still shut, Netanyahu disclosed cancer, and the profiteering, pardons, and grift kept piling up.
Gunfire at the WHCD, and Trump made it about him. Trump was evacuated after shots fired at the correspondents' dinner in the second security scare in as many days, footage confirming the abrupt Cabinet evacuation. He promptly refused to leave, compared himself to Lincoln, and MAGA accounts astroturfed a White House ballroom demand off the back of it.
Hormuz is Trump's toy, and he admits it. He bragged about personally killing a reopening deal his own advisors backed, ships took fire in the strait, and Iran carved out Spain specifically, rewarding the ally that broke with him. Meanwhile he blamed Canada for closing Hormuz.
Netanyahu has cancer, and Iran's leader is a ghost. Netanyahu [disclosed a prostate cancer diagnosis](/l0r0... )disclosed a prostate cancer diagnosis as Iran's new incapacitated Supreme Leader hasn't been seen once. The BBC called 800 dead Palestinians a "ceasefire", and Israeli-linked actors built a fake AI rape survivor for propaganda.
The grift is now openly institutional. Trump's pardon list is a billion-dollar fraud hall of fame, Tesla parked $18B in Singapore to dodge taxes, a $77M tax break created one job, and the Gold Card visa went from 1,000 sales to one: Nicki Minaj.
Science is being gutted for grievance. Trump [fired the entire National Science Board](/q4z... )fired the entire National Science Board, while 11 nuclear and space scientists are dead or missing and Congress calls it a crisis. His generals, meanwhile, locked him out of the Situation Room as too erratic.