It’s Catching On June 22, 2026June 22, 2026 But first . . . In response to President Obama’s remarks linked to Friday, Carl — who constantly defends Trump — sent me a truly nasty opinion piece about the new Obama Presidential Center. He’s upset that it has cost $850 million, paid for mostly by generous donors who’ve asked for nothing in return. Contrast that with Trump’s $600+ million gold ballroom. One is a 19-acre campus that has rejuvenated a neighborhood and will help to educate and inspire millions of visitors each year; the other, a space to be enjoyed by just a few thousand of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful . . . funded at least in part by people expecting, and often getting, enormous financial rewards. With Strait of Hormuz held hostage, Trump’s Iran deal is worse than Obama’s. Duh. And now . . . LEAVING MAGA From Spokane to Mar-A-Lago, Lancaster or Des Moines, it’s catching on. People are making their own signs. A citizen someplace posted this one to Facebook: Consider: He said he’d bring prices down, end the war on Day One, start no new ones, provide “great health care at a tiny fraction of the price,” rid the country of the “worst of the worst” — it had undeniable appeal. But people beginning to have doubts. Did he really win the 2020 election in a landslide, as he insists? (And was the crowd at his 2017 inauguration really larger than Obama’s?) Is there really nothing to the 38,000 mentions of his name in the heavily redacted Epstein files thus far released? Were the two juries really wrong in finding against him in the E. Jean Carroll trials (and was the judge really wrong in characterizing what he did to her as “rape”)? Are his tariffs really paid by foreign countries rather American importers and consumers? Was it really right to pardon all the convicted January 6 felons? Was it really right to move Epstein’s accomplice to a more comfortable prison and wish her well? What about giving Elon Musk a chainsaw, which he then handed to a 19-year-old named Big Balls? What about setting back the medical research that could have one day saved your life or mine? Or cutting health care in order to ease the tax burden on billionaires? Is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., really the right man to override the scientific community on vaccine policy? Is a cage match on the White House lawn really the way to celebrate what’s best about America? Is insulting our allies really the best way to win friends around the world? Was it really wise — or humane — to cut off aid to starving children and, in other ways, jettison the “soft power” we had accumulated over 80 years? Was the 2.7% inflation rate he inherited from Biden really “the worst inflation in history?” Was the Biden economy — termed “the envy of the world” by The Economist — really “a disaster?” Is climate change really a hoax? Was it really a good idea to use taxpayer dollars to halt privately-funded projects that would have provided clean wind energy? Is a Fox News weekend co-host really the right choice to lead the Pentagon? What about his firing top officers for no reason, seemingly, other than their being women or black? Is it really okay to make billions off the presidency . . . to use the Justice Department to attack people your enemies . . . to demolish part of the White House without consulting Congress . . . to watch for hours as your most ardent fans attack the Capitol, ignoring urgent pleas to call them off? Do we really want our children growing up seeing this president as a role model? People are beginning to have doubts. You’ve by now seen the SNL skit, I’m sure: the mom who’s beginning to have doubts. We should welcome these moms and dads warmly and without judgment. Some will stick with their leader even as he walks down Fifth Avenue shooting people. He said so himself. Others have begun to have doubts. And some of those folks are leavingMAGA.