Maybe the first assassination attempt broke Trump's jellybean brain so he gave his two moronic sons actual power. I saw online comments that said Vance as VP was his sons' idea. I never googled to learn if that was true but it tracks. It was a very unTrump-like pick because Vance will always steal some of the spotlight. Pence was clearly a Trump pick. 100% of the time Pence was about exciting as fencepost. I assume Vance wasn't in Trump's top five VP picks before that first attempt. First - haha. How many more?

Folks... Folks... They hate me so much they wanted to stop my crypto!

near an Israeli consulate

So was it actually coincidence that Matt Nelson who set himself on fire did so near an Israeli consulate?

But to blend in - you have to wear golf clothes.

I hope it was a riding mower.

a hand-made weapon

Anime Taylor Special

The Anime Taylor Special
Got a barrel that's shiney and bold
It ain't good for nothing but puttin' men six feet in a hole

Song

That was so weird for me. I expected angry and bombastic Trump who maybe was even ranting like a disturbed person. Instead - it's standup Trump doing a "lemme tell ya something" aside. His voice even gets thin at the end because he's amused himself and he's almost chuckling.

News from the future

"Trump was uninjured after Secret Service agents pushed him to the ground for safety after a loud 'explosions' were heard." Sometime later "It has been determined that children were setting off fireworks in the vicinity..." And they interview some MAGA doofus. "They say it was fireworks like bottle rockets. I know what I heard. It wasn't fffffffttt it was fffffffgrtt. It was Iran."

Imagine if somebody actually shoots at Trump and says "I did it for Taylor."

The New York Post said it was an AK-47. I don't know why that makes it funnier for me but it does.

There are currently four corruption investigations into the mayor. She managed three of them.

Mayor Eric Adams’s counsel and chief legal adviser, Lisa Zornberg, abruptly resigned — a major departure from the administration announced late Saturday night as the mayor and his inner circle face an onslaught of federal investigations.

Ms. Zornberg, a former senior Manhattan federal prosecutor in the office that is currently conducting three separate corruption investigations into the mayor and some of his senior aides, has been a fierce defender of Mr. Adams over the past 10 months. She encouraged New Yorkers not to rush to judgment after the first investigation — into the mayor’s campaign fund-raising — came to light.

“It has been a great honor to serve the city,” she wrote in a brief letter to the mayor on Saturday. “I am tendering my resignation, effective today, as I have concluded that I can no longer effectively serve in my position. I wish you nothing but the best.”

[...]

The U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn is conducting the fourth.