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  Israel and Lebanon agree to 10-day ceasefire in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah "Who the hell wrote that?" Trump stops mid-speech to ask what a "corner store" is The guy who's somehow managed to convince an alarming number of Americans that he's a real "man of the people" is so fundamentally out of touch, so disconnected from reality, so unfathomably privileged, he stopped mid-speech — about tax cuts for small businesses! — to ask outloud what the hell a "corner store" was. Donald Trump, born in New York City in 1946, doesn't know what a bodega is. Let that sink in for a second. We shouldn't really be all that surprised, to be honest. This is the same man who declared "groceries" an old-fashioned word a few months ago. Champion of the people and voice of the forgotten Donald Trump finds both the concept of groceries  and  the buildings in which they're sold to be foreign mysteries. Beyond parody. Take Action:...

  Today in Politics, Bulletin 302. 2/6/26 Ron Filipkowski Feb 6 … Trump posted a racist depicting  Barack and Michelle Obama   as apes last night. There was immediately backlash and outrage overnight and throughout the day, while the press began contacting the WH for an explanation or response. … Finally,  Karoline Leavitt   issued this statement: "This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the  Lion King . Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public." … But Trump didn’t post the full meme video that was created by one of the repulsive MAGA accounts he has posted in the past, he just clipped the part of it which depicted the Obamas as apes. No, Leavitt did not say it was being taken down, she did not deny that Trump posted it, and did not apologize. Then Republican senators started weighing in: … Sen.  Tim Scott...