How Much Is He Going To Destroy? May 4, 2026 How much is Trump going to destroy? asks Dina Doll with specific reference to our criminal justice system. As has been oft noted, Everything Trump Touches Dies — and in the years since Republican strategist Rick Wilson wrote that book, it’s only gotten worse. Much worse. He is destroying our alliances with the wonderful people of Europe and Canada. The only European country he liked was Hungary because until last month its leader was a democracy-destroyer alined with Putin, blocking aid to Ukraine. He has destroyed our role as the leader of the free world, a beacon of hope for freedom. The stock market is sluffing this off, but the Buffett Indicator would suggest we’re “playing with fire.” Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is itself sitting on some $400 billion in cash, presumably waiting for the kind of periodic crash we’ve always had, thereupon to step in when others are desperate to sell. Lithuania Says It Broke Up Russian Sabotage and Murder Plots. Trump’s special friend Vladimir Putin: blowing things up from England to Bulgaria. Trump — first in is class at Wharton (even though he was 147th) — knows genius when he sees it: calling Putin ‘genius’ and ‘savvy’ for invading Ukraine. Russia wound up crippling itself and seems now to be losing the war; but it was the kind of bold, manly, savvy genius Trump admires. Like murdering Navalny. No bone spurs on his heel. BONUS Josh Helfgott likes AOC’s Answer to TMZ’s question of which we’ll have first, a female president or a gay president. (The comments that follow are fun, too.)