Trump's Sexual Comment About Sons Raises Fitness Questions

The GOP is floating a ban on pregnant foreigners, Jared Polis fired two officials who disagreed with granting clemency to an election fraudster, and Trump still gets $77,808 a year for Home Alone 2

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Trump told a North Dakota crowd he wanted to give the Medal of Honor to himself and his sons and “have a threesome.” Republicans are floating a ban on pregnant foreigners, and one Federalist co-founder suggested sterilizing all foreign visitors. Colorado Governor Jared Polis fired two clemency board members who disagreed with his decision to grant clemency to election fraudster Tina Peters. And Trump is still collecting $77,808 annually from the Screen Actors Guild because he appeared in Home Alone 2.

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Trump Says He and His Sons Will ‘Have a Threesome’

Go ahead and read this section twice. It’s not going to get less weird.

At the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, Trump spent an hour riffing before landing on the Medal of Honor. He said (incorrectly) that Arthur and Douglas MacArthur were the only father-son pair to earn it in wartime, then looked at his two eldest sons.

“I think I’m going to give one to myself, one to them, and we’ll have a threesome,” he told the crowd. The audience gasped. He pivoted quickly.

None of the three men have served in the military. Trump suggested awarding his sons the medal for their “genius at hunting” and one for himself for “taking on Russia, Russia, Russia.”

It was the second time in a few hours he’d joked about giving the honor to himself. Earlier that day he admitted he’d dropped the idea only after his own sons told him they couldn’t think of a single thing he’d done to deserve it.

Experts note that losing your filter is one of the earliest behavioral signs of dementia or cognitive decline. Neurologists call it disinhibition: the prefrontal brake that keeps most people from, say, making a sex joke at a Medal of Honor ceremony starts to wear out. This has been presented without further editorialization.

MAGA Considers Banning or Sterilizing Pregnant Foreigners

The party that lectures single women about the falling birth rate has found a group of pregnant women it would like to remove.

After the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding birthright citizenship, the MAGA response was not to accept it. It was to propose banning pregnant foreigners from entering the country at all.

Stephen Miller told Jesse Watters on Fox that Americans must “think very carefully about who you let into your country,” warning about “birth tourism.” Watters, laughing, asked if they were now banning foreign pregnant women. Miller did not say no.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called birth tourism a “booming industry.” Representative Lauren Boebert demanded the State Department “IMMEDIATELY cease to give out visas to pregnant applicants.”

Then it went further. Federalist co-founder Sean Davis floated denying entry to all female foreigners, or requiring sterilization of all foreign visitors before entry.

From “every life is sacred” to “sterilize them at the border” in about one news cycle.

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Colorado Gov. Fires Officials Who Opposed Clemency for Election Denier

The first rule of clemency board is: you do not talk about clemency board.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis fired two members of his clemency advisory board, Hannah Seigel Proff and Azra Taslimi, after they publicly criticized his decision to free election criminal Tina Peters. His office said they “breached the required duty of confidentiality by publicly divulging board members’ votes.”

What they divulged was that the board unanimously voted twice to recommend denial of clemency for Peters. Polis ignored them and freed her anyway.

Peters, the former Mesa County clerk, was convicted of four felonies for giving a Mike Lindell associate access to the county’s voting system. She was sentenced to nine years. Polis commuted it in May, and she was released June 1.

Since her release, Peters has toured conservative media pushing election conspiracies and met Trump in the Oval Office, where he claimed she “caught the Democrats cheating.” Rehabilitation is going great.

Trump Still Gets $78k a Year for ‘Home Alone 2’

Trump resigned from SAG-AFTRA by telling them “You have done nothing for me.” They are still cutting him a monthly check.

His 2025 financial disclosure shows he received $77,808 in pension funds from the Screen Actors Guild last year, about $6,484 a month. He became eligible in 1992, the year he appeared in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

He also collected an $8,724 annual pension from AFTRA and residuals worth under $201 each for cameos in Zoolander and Sex and the City, among others.

Trump resigned from the union in 2021, right as it moved to expel him over January 6. The union had voted overwhelmingly that there was probable cause he violated membership terms through a “reckless campaign of misinformation” that threatened journalists, many of them union members.

His resignation letter was brief. “Who cares!” he wrote to the disciplinary committee. “I no longer wish to be associated with your union.” Under federal labor law, vested members keep their pensions regardless. So the man who called the union worthless is guaranteed its retirement benefits for life.

Macaulay Culkin, the actual star of the film that made Trump eligible, has endorsed digitally replacing him with a 40-year-old Culkin. The union checks would still clear, but imagine the Truth Social post.

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