09/24/25
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, September 24th.
National Cherries Jubilee Day
We did this last year, too, and I didn’t know what it was, and I still don’t know what it is. But it looks good, I’d eat it, and that’s good enough for me, I guess. You come here for the news, not recipes.
And now, the news.
Trump v the UN
-via PBS, AP News, The Hill, and CNN
Starting with the UN. The U stands for United. Which I mention because it appears that some people forgot. And by some people I mean… the president. The president seems to have forgotten.
On immigration, he said: “Time to end the failed experiment of open borders. End it now. I can tell you — I’m really good at this stuff — your countries are going to hell.” Really man? On the day of the Rapture? Wowzers.
Actually, all jokes aside, he said: “Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies from being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before, with different customs, religions — with different everything.”
Oh no Trump’s not a white supremacist. Why do people keep saying that?
“Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies from being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before, with different customs, religions — with different everything.”
It is on record that the only person he doesn’t have a problem with in the White House is Stephen Miller, who told once said that if he had it his way there would only be 100 million Americans and they’d all look like him and if that happens I… will not be one of those 100 million. By choice.
I just – I know I bring that up a lot but not enough people are talking about it and then he says stuff like that and while he said a lot of outrageous things at the UN, hardly anyone covered that quote.
He called climate change tech “suicidal energy ideas” and added that they were, “The greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” and called the recognition of a Palestinian state, “A reward for Hamas.”
He even questioned the point of the UN, repeating again his (unfounded) seven-war claim, saying: “I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal. All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that, on the way up, stopped right in the middle.”
That’s fairly mild, so he dug in further: “That being the case, what is the purpose of the United Nations? The UN has such tremendous potential. But it’s not even coming close to living up to that potential. For the most part, at least for now, all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve war.”
He later said: “I think the potential of the United Nations is incredible, really incredible. It can do so much, so I’m behind it.” I’m shocked to hear that Trump doesn’t know how to appropriately show support. I wonder where he learned that from.
Not even the escalator escaped the wrath of Trump!
The White House then opened an immediate investigation into the escalator, by the escalator, with Caroline Leavitt saying: “If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately.” Meanwhile, the shopping cart escalator at Target stops every three days and no one says anything about that.
The speech lasted nearly an hour, making it the longest speech by any US president ever. Dude was doing crowd work in the room, basically! I see Germany is here. Germany, you focused too much on green energy in the past. Who else, who else? China and India – too much finding of Russia in Ukraine because I am very wishy washy there and once took to Temu Twitter to say “Vladimir, STOP!” He insulted everyone! He complimented Brazil for a second and then said, “But also in the past, Brazil — can you believe this? — unfairly tariffed our nation.”
Dude, you tariffed penguins. Literally – you tariffed a country that is just… penguins, basically. Was that fair? I’m sure the penguins weren’t thrilled. Nor are most of the countries that are forced to play your weird tariff games right now because someone taught you the world in the last year but not the definition.
Later in the day, he also said NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircrafts if they enter their airspace.
Okie doke. Some of the countries are trying to have a more measured response but uh… that is definitely AN option. Maybe not the best one but you can’t argue that it’s not some sort of option.
The biggest news came later in the day though, when Trump switched sides and said he now believes Ukraine can win back all of the land that Russia has attempted to steal from Ukraine.
How did he come this stunning change of mind?
“After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form.”
Crazy what a little bit of education will do for ya!
He will learn nothing from this.
Meanwhile, Zelensky knows how to play the game and told reporters: “Trump is a game changer by himself.”
We’ll see where we go from here.
Ryan Routh Found Guilty
-via NPR
Moving to Fort Pierce, Florida where a federal jury has found Ryan Routh guilty of last year’s assassination attempt of Donald Trump while he was on his Florida golf course.
He was found guilty on all five counts, which included weapons violations and, as noted, attempted assassination.
After the verdict was read, Routh attempted to stab himself in the neck with a pen before US Marshals subdued him.
The big question of the case was whether he still had the intent to kill, although he did not fire his weapon. Is the thought the crime? That was the defense’s defense.
While the prosecution said… yeah I’d say when a gun’s pointed at someone, the thought is probably the crime. What are you supposed to do? Wait until the gun is fired? Wait until the president is shot?
No no. Come on now. I mean, there’s more nuance to be had but still.
He will be sentenced on December 18th and faces life in prison.
Trump Cancels Meeting with Dems
-via The Guardian
Also on Tuesday, Trump canceled his meeting with Senator Schumer and House Rep Jeffries to talk about what they need for democrats to be able to vote to yes on the Republican budget and keep the government open.
Looks like it was a classic case of “don’t wanna.”
“After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for their Votes to keep our thriving Country open, I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive.”
The monsters in question have demanded changes to the Republican-led Medicaid cuts, which are expected to cost millions of people their healthcare. They’re also including an extension of subsidies for the costs of healthcare plans under the Affordable Care Act, as well as restoring funding to PBS and NPR.
The government has until the 30th to get their act together. Well, let’s not go that far. They have until the 30th to get a budget signed off on.
And that’s it. That’s the news.
Alright listen, we’re stepping things up here at Here’s What’s Happening. I’ve got the YouTube. I’m back on Substack. (Oh, I forgot to tell you – I’m back on Substack). I’m a professional. So I can’t just leave you hanging like that about cherries jubilee.
It is, according to Jeeves, a “elegant” (his word) dessert with cherries, sugar, and liquer (which, quite frankly, if someone had told me that ahead of time I would have come running to this much sooner!), that are flamed and served over vanilla ice cream.
That sounds baller and, honestly… elegant as all get out. Which is good because a jubilee is a celebration of an anniversary (which you would know if you saw that one episode of The Crown all that time ago… is The Crown over? I’m not looking it up. Someone just DM me or text me… is it done?) and this dessert was invented to honor Queen Victoria’s Diamond (or 60th) Jubilee.
And so I’m proud of cherries jubilee. Jubilees of all kinds, really.
But more than that, because every single thought of you is the world’s jubilee, frankly and don’t think too hard about it because it makes sense to me and I do mean it. It makes sense to me. You make sense to me. You’re my jubilee… I’m proud of you.