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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· 28d

It took Trump using the word himself, but yeah, finally:

NYT headline: “U.S. and Iran Reignite War Over Strait of Hormuz”

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· 29d

Angry federal judge rules that Todd Blanche's grant of immunity to Trump from IRS audits violates 26 U.S.C. § 7217. "Acquiescing to any such demand is wholly incompatible with the duties of DOJ attorneys." YOUCH! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

These facts lead to the inexorable conclusion that the “settlement” terms, the individuals who signed the “settlement” as well as the putative beneficiaries of the “settlement,” demonstrate a shared, unitary interest. And the unilateral revision and renunciation of the “Fund” component of the “settlement” demonstrate the fact that all Parties were aligned, and ultimately, undifferentiated. This action was never about a party seeking judicial resolution of a legal issue or a factual dispute. The nature of the suit itself and the conduct of the Parties and counsel from its filing make plain that this was an attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law. The President may be the functional “dominus litus” of the Executive Branch, but as a party to a civil suit, he, as well as all the parties and lawyers before a court, are bound by the rules. Ensuring that our courts are used only for the express purpose created by the Constitution is the obligation of every judge and an obligation that this Court must discharge in light of the matter before it.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· 29d

Same guy:

Trump Truth Social post from March 21: "If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jul 10

Progress! NYT calls it war in its homepage headline. (The article was more mealy-mouthed, however, saying "the United States and Iran appeared to edge closer to a return to full-scale war.")

NYT headline: 2-Day Wave of U.S. Attacks on Iran Is One of the Heaviest of the War

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jul 9

But wait there's more! Tarps are going up outside the North Portico today.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jul 9

Trump ruins everything he touches. Before; After.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jul 9

Harmeet Dhillon swears in new civil rights division lawyers. The white stuff.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jul 8

HuffPost gets it

HuffPost home page: TRUMP AMOK
IRAN CEASEFIRE 'OVER' — THREATENS HELL 'TONIGHT'
THROWS NATO TRANTRUM
REPORTS: ALLIES EYE EXITS

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jul 6

Jeff Bezos’s diminished and pathetic Washington Post abases itself by quoting Trump’s preposterous crowd-size numbers without any caveats. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Trump said the crowd at 7 p.m. was 422,000 people and that at least 150,000 returned after evacuating. Officials did not provide immediate confirmation of those figures.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jul 3

That’s tomorrow. There’s also a bunch happening now. Ridiculous. https://wtop.com/fourth-of-july/2026/07/whats-that-noise-what-you-need-to-know-about-d-c-flyovers-friday-and-saturday/

Friday's schedule of flyovers and demonstration rehearsals along
the National Mall and Washington Monument
• 10 a.m.: Golden Knights, Leap Frogs
• 10:15 a.m.: Army Helo Flyover
• 10:20 a.m.: USMC V-22 Osprey Demo
• 10:35 a.m.: USMC F-35B STOVL Demo
• 10:50 a.m.: USN F-18F Demo
• 11:10 a.m.: USN F-35C Demo Team
• 11:30 a.m.: USAF F-22 Raptor Demo
• 11:50 a.m.: NASA F-5s
• 12 p.m.: HUGE (1) Formation
• 12:05 p.m.: USAF Thunderbirds
• 12:55 p.m.: USAF Tri-Bomber

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jun 30

Trump's financial disclosure statement includes hundreds of millions of dollars of crypto, some of which he got in return for access. So much corruption. gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Token Sales See line 405 N/A
Net proceeds
from Token sales
distributed by
World Liberty
Financial LLC
$ 236,250,000
Cryptocurrency Wallet Virtual USD Key (held in cold
wallet) See line 405 N/A $100,001 to $250,000
Proceeds from
Token sales
distributed by
World Liberty
Financial LLC
$ 42,250,000
Cryptocurrency Wallet Virtual USDC Key (held in cold
wallet) See line 405 N/A $1,001 to $15,000
Proceeds from
Token sales
distributed by
World Liberty
Financial LLC
$ 56,036,445
Cryptocurrency Wallet Virtual USDC Key (held in cold
wallet) N/A Interest Income $ 6,995
Cryptocurrency Wallet Virtual Ethereum Key (held in
cold wallet) See line 405 N/A Over $50,000,000
Proceeds from
Token sales
distributed by
World Liberty
Financial LLC
$ 150,606,931
Etherium staked (Coinbase staking agreement) N/A Validator rewards $ 1,821,628
Cryptocurrency Wallet Virtual Bitcoin Key (held in cold
wallet) See line 405 N/A Over $50,000,000
Proceeds from
Token sales
distributed by
World Liberty
Financial LLC
$ 33,462,160
Cryptocurrency Wallet Virtual Link Key (held in cold
wallet) See line 405 N/A $500,001 to $1,000,000
Proceeds from
Token sales
distributed by
World Liberty
Financial LLC
$ 2,754,61

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jun 30

Gaslighting from the NYT:

“Supreme Court halts Trump pushed to end birthright citizenship”

Trump social media post after ruling pursuing an end to birthright citizenship

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jun 30

Looks familiar

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jun 23

Here is the paragraph in which the New York Times, in its own words, sums up why Trump has created "a whites-only path to life in the United States". Apparently his lifelong history of racism had nothing to do with it. What cowardice. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

Under Mr. Trump, the program has effectively become a whites-only path to life in the United States, a culmination of the president’s longstanding antipathy toward immigrants and his embrace of the concept of “reverse racism” as a guiding principle in his administration.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jun 23

This made me lol. By @paulwaldman.bsky.social. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-reflec...

Imagine that President Trump pooped his pants, right there in the Oval Office. Then imagine that rather than simply not talking about it and moving on — it’s pretty embarrassing, after all — he sent out a series of angry late-night Truth Social posts about how not only didn’t he poop his pants but actually delivered into his pants a serving of the finest beluga caviar, and no one has ever seen pants so delicious. Then imagine that in the face of incontrovertible evidence that he did in fact poop his pants, he kept talking about the pants-pooping, moving on to spin a deranged theory claiming that a dark conspiracy of leftists had snuck into the White House and planted the poop right there in his pants.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jun 23

Now they've taken the fence back down?

Screengrab of man removing a length of fence.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jun 21

Stop putting whatever Trump says in the headlines, I say. presswatchers.org/2026/06/stop... Washington Post says:

Washington Post headline: Vandalism, alleged in Reflecting Pool damage

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jun 19

Very good to see the NYT leading its website with an article about JD Vance’s lies today. Fact checks are not sidebars for these people; they are the main story. The NYT should do the same for Trump almost daily. Also “misleading claims” is a cop-out; they’re called lies.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin· Jun 17

Paragraph 1 is a lie. A "permanent termination of military operations on all fronts"? Trump is already threatening to restart the war. Including Lebanon? Israel hasn't agreed to anything. And if paragraph 1 is a lie, what does that tell you about 2-14?