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This is Lesley Stahl asking Trump in an interview why he keeps attacking the press and claiming that they’re reporting fake news: “At one point he [Trump] started to attack the press and I said, ‘You know, that is getting tired. Why are you doing this? You’re doing it over and over and it’s boring and it’s – it’s time to end that. You know, you’ve won the nomination and, uh, why do you keep hammering at this? And he [Trump] said, ‘You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.’ He said that. So, put that in your head for a minute.” ~ Lesley Stahl (“Deadline Club”, May 21, 2018). Excerpt from “Kasie DC”, May 27, 2018 (VIDEO)

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1. From COMMUNITYIMPACT[.]COM — City of Fulshear denies incentive agreement with Home Depot; By Bradley Dountz | COMMUNITYIMPACT.COM | Published August 6, 2026 at 4:04 p.m. CT. TAGS: Fulshear, Home Depot, Government, Incentive Agreements,
   1. The city of Fulshear will not move forward with a performance-based incentive agreement with Home Depot.
   2. The proposed 134,000-square-foot Home Depot store near FM 1093 and FM 1463 — which brought resident concerns about traffic at a May 12 meeting — would include a roughly $38 million investment from the company and is expected to generate at least 40 full-time jobs, according to agenda documents.
   3. … At an Aug. 4 meeting, Fulshear City Council voted to deny a Chapter 380 economic development agreement in a 5-2 vote with Home Depot, with council member Richard Russell casting a dissenting vote. Council member Abhijeet Utturkar was absent.
   4. A Chapter 380 agreement allows cities to provide sales tax incentives to developers in exchange for the project hitting performance thresholds, according to the city’s website. It also assists in offsetting costs related to construction and infrastructure.
   5. The proposed agreement equates to 25% of 1% of the city’s local sales tax created by the development for a five-year period or when a maximum reimbursement of $2 million has been attained.
   6. Though the limit is set at $2 million, the total rebate is expected to be closer to $500,000 based on estimated taxable sales, per agenda documents.
   7. … Agenda documents show a traffic impact analysis was sought by the city to be included before a site plan was approved.
   8. Assistant City Manager Kelsee Lee said a traffic analysis is generally required for developments, but Home Depot is not obligated to complete one due to existing development agreements for planned future commercial development in the area and how many improvements have already been completed. 

   9. [Lee said,] “If Home Depot chooses to just come without any sort of incentive agreement, they will still not be required to do a [traffic analysis] just because we cannot require them to do it per the development agreements. … It was only something that could be negotiated as part of an incentive agreement.”
   10. Lee said most of the potential issues center on Flewellen Way and how the increased amounts of traffic from passenger and commercial vehicles could affect residents.
   11. Lee also specified conservation efforts are in place for Home Depot to install and utilize a rainwater harvesting and/or water reuse system for irrigation use, but said those proposals are not mandatory in the agreement for the garden center.
   12. … After the decision was made, Home Depot representatives present at the meeting declined to comment.
   13. Though council denied the agreement, it does not mean Home Depot will not be coming to Fulshear.
   14. [Council Member Sarah B Johnson said,] “We do want Home Depot in Fulshear. … You are a great company and we want you here. Similar to how we want a Target here. At the moment, it’s just how do we make it work for both of us and I think a 380 [agreement] is probably just not the right way to go.”
   15. However, Russell said he believes the city “made a commitment” to approve the agreement and that it was important to follow through with it.
   16. [Council Member Richard Russell said,] “This decision will have lasting implications for future economic development opportunities. … The manner in which we handle negotiations and commitments sends a message to businesses and developers considering investing in Fulshear.”
   17. MIKE: On my July 19^th show, using Corpus Christi as an example, I broadly discussed governments that incentivize corporate investment with tax breaks as a means of attracting business that might go elsewhere, and how those deals often come back to bite them in the butt.
   18. MIKE: I doubt that anyone on the Fulshear City Council heard my comments on that show, but their decision would seem to align with it.
   19. MIKE: If Home Depot wants a store in Fulshear, they’ll build one. The only qualification here that would justify a tax concession would be if Home Depot built road and other infrastructure for their store and for access to their store.
   20. MIKE: However, the tax deal that Fulshear rejected would, according to the story, only include a “traffic analysis”. That strikes me as an insufficient return for a tax incentive, and the Fulshear City Council apparently agreed.
2. I’ve been discussing water supply and infrastructure issues a lot on recent shows, and here are two more stories about present and future water supply planning. From COMMUNITYIMPACT[.]COM — Pearland secures long-term water supply, applies for additional funding; By Catherine White | COM | Published July 30, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. CT. TAGS: Pearland, Water Infrastructure, Gulf Coast Water Authority (GCWA), Texas House Bill 500, Texas Water Development Board, Pearland,
   1. Pearland will continue to expand its water infrastructure and [will] plan for future supply needs following City Council approval of a state grant application and an updated water agreement with the Gulf Coast Water Authority, or GCWA, at its July 27 meeting.
   2. … Under House Bill 500, passed during the 89th Texas Legislature, the Texas Water Development Board received funding for water supply and infrastructure projects, allowing eligible public water systems serving populations between 10,001 and 150,000 to apply for up to $21 million in grant funding, city documents show.
   3. [MIKE: The way that statement was framed on population, and given the Texas Legislature’s tendency to target Democratic-led cities, it made me curious if HB-500 was written in such a way as to exclude Democratic-leaning cities with very large populations like Houston and San Antonio.
   4. [MIKE: According to Google AI, “the Texas Legislature passed sweeping bipartisan measures designed to aid communities across the entire state — including major metropolitan areas like Houston and San Antonio — in developing new water sources and repairing infrastructure. [1, 2, 3]
   5. [MIKE: Rather than singling out specific political jurisdictions, the state enacted a massive, statewide financial plan overseen by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB).
   6. [MIKE: “Senate Bill 7 & House Joint Resolution 7 Passed during the 89th Texas Legislative session. This legislation laid the groundwork for a historic $20 billion investment over two decades to secure the state’s water future. [1, 2]
   7. [MIKE: Following the legislative session, Texas voters approved Proposition 4, a constitutional amendment to dedicate $1 billion annually from state sales and use tax revenue directly into the Texas Water Fund through 2047.”
   8. [MIKE: So, I think that concern can be laid to rest. Continuing …]
   9. Following [Pearland] council approval, the city plans to apply for around $9 million in water and wastewater projects that meet the grant criteria, city staff said.
   10. If awarded, the grant would not impact the proposed water rates for fiscal year 2026-27, but could reduce future water rate increases by about three-quarters of a percent in the years those projects would otherwise be funded, city staff said at the July 27 budget workshop.
   11. … The updated agreement with GWCA guarantees the city access to 10 million gallons per day of untreated water through 2056, according to city documents.
   12. It also preserves the city’s option to secure an additional 10 million gallons per day through 2044 if more water is needed to support future growth, city documents show.
   13. The agreement moves Pearland’s optional water supply to the same delivery point as the city’s surface water treatment plant, eliminating the need for a future canal connection project, city documents show.
   14. City staff noted that avoiding the capital investment and associated debt could help reduce pressure on future water rate increases.
   15. Additionally, the agreement provides flexibility as the city evaluates potentially serving as a regional water supplier, city staff said.
   16. … The city is expected to learn its grant award status in fall 2026. If selected, the city would finalize the grant agreement before the state’s May 2027 deadline, according to the Texas Water Development Board.
   17. MIKE: The only concern I have here is that the GWCA is guaranteeing this water to Pearland, but I don’t see mention of where the GWCA is getting this water, sooooo … I looked that up.
   18. MIKE: Apparently, the GWCA “gets the vast majority of its water from the Brazos River Basin.”
   19. MIKE: So the good news here is that the GWCA is not using ground water, so its sourcing doesn’t contribute to subsidence or ground water depletion.
   20. MIKE: The “but” here — and it’s not necessarily bad news, it’s just news — is that surface water supplies can perhaps be predictable on average, but as the American Southwest is learning in the Colorado Rover basin and elsewhere, droughts happen.
   21. MIKE: Some droughts are temporary weather variations, but some droughts are increasingly turning out to be related to long-term climate change. So I asked Google, “how does the Gulf Coast Water Authority plan for droughts?”
   22. MIKE: According to Google, “The Gulf Coast Water Authority (GCWA) manages droughts through a formal Drought Contingency Plan aligned with state guidelines.”
   23. MIKE: So, questions answered.
3. Meanwhile, from HOUSTONPUBLICMEDIA[.]ORG, there’s this story from August 4^th — Proposed Galveston Bay desalination plant clears initial TCEQ review, enters public comment period; By Julianna Washburn, Galveston County Bureau | HOUSTONPUBLICMEDIA.ORG | Posted on August 4, 2026, 4:48 PM. TAGS: Environment, Galveston County, Local News, Bacliff Bayshore Desalination Facility, birds, community meeting, draft permit, environment, EPCOR, fish, Galveston Bay, Oysters, preliminary decision, public comment, residents, Texas City, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ),
   1. A proposed desalination plant that would sit near Galveston Bay in Texas City is now one step closer to reality.
   2. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) issued a public notice on July 24, informing residents that officials had finished the initial review of the proposed Bayshore Desalination Facility permit application. Officials issued a draft permit and made a preliminary decision stating that the current proposal meets set requirements.
   3. Residents have 30 days after July 24 to submit public comments to TCEQ or request a public meeting about the permit before officials make a final decision on the project’s wastewater discharge permit.
   4. The proposed plant is meant to help water security in the region by removing salt and minerals from seawater to produce 24.5 million gallons of drinking water a day for a region that’s home to nearly 8 million residents, according to Canadian-based utility company EPCOR Utilities Inc.
   5. EPCOR previously filed a wastewater discharge permit application with TCEQ in October 2025, which is a required step for the state’s approval to develop and operate the seawater desalination facility near the south shore of Galveston Bay.
   6. The application and recent news from TCEQ were met with some disdain from nearby residents who are worried about the impact the desalination plant could have on the environment.
   7. Robin Burke, who lives near the proposed site of the facility, said her biggest concerns were the shallowness of the water in Galveston Bay and how much salinity would be added to the water through discharge.
   8. [Burke said,] “I just don’t see how they can put enough mix to not damage oyster beds and fish and birds and creatures in general. … I’m just wondering what happens to all our hotel owners, our convenience store owners, our fishing captains, what happens to all of them if it gets too salty out there to where it starts killing all of our fish?”
   9. Burke also said she’s been dissatisfied with the lack of communication from EPCOR. She said while they attended one meeting, officials did not appear at two other planned community meetings.
   10. EPCOR officials have repeatedly assured residents that the plant would have a minimal impact on the environment.
   11. According to EPCOR, one study on the proposed plant found that the company’s excess saltwater from the treatment process has little to no effect on waters within half a mile of entering the open bay. The second study found that the discharge’s average salinity level falls within the optimal range for species such as fish, oysters, crab and shrimp to thrive, according to previous Houston Public Media
   12. In response to the cancelled meetings, EPCOR spokesperson Matthew Atwood said they were unable to attend a Bayshore Town Square community meeting in April due to a scheduling conflict.
   13. [Atwood said in a statement to Houston Public Media on [August 4^th,] “However, our project team was pleased to participate in a community town hall in late March at the Bacliff Volunteer Fire Department where we fielded questions from nearly 100 local residents on a wide variety of topics.”
   14. Still, [Bacliff resident Robin] Burke believes residents need more information about the desalination facility and thinks there are better-suited places for it.
   15. [Burke said,] “Most of us moved here ‘cause we want a calm, quiet retirement life, and most of these people spend their whole day fishing. That’s what they do. That’s why they moved here. … So, to come and have a possibility of us losing being able to catch a 400-pound grouper out there is not the lifestyle that we came here for.”
   16. Resident Tony Poynor, who also lives near the proposed site, has a different perspective. He thinks the desalination plant is necessary to keep up with population growth and droughts in the area.
   17. [Said Poynor,] “I’m coming from two sides of it … [S]omebody that’s on the water board of Bacliff and then, two, as a citizen, that we’re going to need drinking water. We’re going to need something here. … We have this major blessing of a Galveston Bay that’s right in front of us, and this corporation wants to come in on their dime.”
   18. Poynor said he looks at situations such as those in Corpus Christi, which have faced extreme drought conditions.
   19. [Said Poynor, who reiterated that TCEQ would be monitoring the facility,] “I want to make sure that we are not putting our heads in the sand and saying ‘No’ to this just because we think that it’s going to ruin our environment.”
   20. According to TCEQ documents, after the deadline for public comment, officials will consider the comments and prepare a response. The response to comments, along with the decision on the application, will be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments or who requested to be on a mailing list for the application.
   21. Public comments can be submitted on the TCEQ website.
   22. MIKE: I actually submitted two questions to the TCEQ website. Namely, “Will the Bayshore Desalination Facility make any effort to up-cycle/recycle desalination by-products in order to minimize what is injected back into the bay?” And, “Since some of the byproducts of desalination have potential market value, is EPCOR doing any research into how this might be accomplished in order to minimize the plant’s environmental impact as well as its net operating expenses?”
   23. MIKE: Having done some cursory research into desalination and it’s waste by-products for a previous discussion on my July 5^th show about Corpus Christi’s water problems, I asked those questions both to get on their mailing list and because I was genuinely curious to see if those questions would be addressed in any way.
   24. MIKE: I’ll be interested in seeing how this project consideration progresses.
4. Along the same theme of water shortages due to drought, from BBC[.]COM — Romania shuts only nuclear plant as heat causes huge drop in Danube River level; By Jaroslav Lukiv | BBC.COM | August 13, 2026. TAGS: Romania, Nuclear power, Hungary, Heatwaves, Climate, Europe, Finance, Grid & Infrastructure, Nuclear, Climate Change, Climate Solutions,
   1. The second of the two 706-megawatt nuclear reactors at Cernavodă [PRON.: cher-nah-VOH-duh] was disconnected just before midday on Thursday
   2. Romania has shut down its only nuclear power station because of extremely low water levels in the Danube river caused by prolonged hot weather affecting much of Europe.
   3. The Cernavodă plant, where two reactors produce about 20% of Romania’s electricity, is not expected to be restarted within the next 10 days.
   4. Earlier this week, authorities tried to increase the water flow to the plant – which uses the Danube for cooling – by sinking barges loaded with rocks in the river.
   5. Neighbouring Hungary has so far avoided a shutdown of its only nuclear plant in Paks, which also uses the Danube. The waters in Europe’s second-longest river have fallen to the lowest levels for 30 years in several countries.
   6. The second of the two 706-megawatt reactors at Cernavodă was disconnected from the Romanian electricity grid just before midday on Thursday.
   7. “We do not foresee a restart within the next 10 days,” plant director Romeo Urjan told the AFP news agency.
   8. The first reactor had already been shut down in July.
   9. Until now, Cernavodă had only been shut down once before in 2003.
   10. The shortfall in power is usually covered by solar and wind during the hot, windy daytimes – but traditional coal- and gas-powered generation will have to be supplemented by imports during the evenings.
   11. Romania also has huge hydropower capacity, although that has been heavily cut by the same low river levels that caused the nuclear shutdown.
   12. In Hungary, Prime Minister Péter Magyar warned last month that the Soviet-era Paks, which has four nuclear reactors, could be forced to shut down entirely for the first time.
   13. Plant officials said that levels in the Danube were so low that the suction nozzles used to take in water could not reach it.
   14. Climate change is driving up temperatures around the world – but particularly in Europe.
   15. It is the fasting warming continent, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to the Copernicus climate service.
   16. This is causing increased summer heatwaves, greater pressure on Europe’s waters and more intense wildfires.
   17. The Rhine – another of Europe’s key waterway – is also suffering low water levels, which is severely limiting traffic.
   18. The continent’s agricultural sector has also taken a noticeable hit.
   19. Italy’s largest agricultural trade association, Coldiretti, said climate-related damage – such as hail, drought and wildfires could exceed €3bn (£2.6bn; $3.5bn).
   20. France’s Environment Minister Monique Barbut warned that data from the country’s national statistics agency suggested the recent heatwaves could rack up €10bn to €15bn in direct and indirect costs.
   21. The Dutch bank Triodos said the extreme heat and its consequences could wipe out much of the projected economic growth for the EU.
   22. The European Commission had forecast growth of 1.1%, while the IMF expected the euro area to grow by around 0.9%. In Greece, more than 200 people – mostly tourists – were evacuated on Friday from the popular resorts of Siviri and Fourka in the northern Halkidiki peninsular because of a raging wildfire.
   23. Meanwhile, as many as 80 departments across France are now on a heatwave alert, as temperatures are expected to exceed in some places 40C (104F) on Friday.
   24. The country has already been devastated by fires in recent weeks, with the blazes causing more damage this year than at any time since World War Two.
   25. Spain – which is also still recovering after recent deadly wildfires – on Thursday recorded temperatures as high as 37C in central areas.The UK on Thursday saw its hottest day of the year so far, with the Met Office reporting a provisional recording of 38.1C in London’s Kew Gardens.
   26. Multiple fires were burning across the West Midlands, with several people reported injured and four homes destroyed.
   27. Rain is expected to arrive in more places of the UK over the weekend, but the BBC climate and science team says it will take more than showers to bring the UK’s widespread drought to an end.
   28. MIKE: This story relates back to my story comments regarding Pearland. How reliant should we be on the constant availability of flowing water to satisfy our needs to cities, factories, and energy generation in an era of global warming and climate change? Even Hungary’s government plans interventions on the Danube River to keep its nuclear plant running. On Friday afternoon, Hungary sank two barges near their nuclear plant to raise Danube levels to ensure adequate cooling.
   29. MIKE: This will be a thread of ongoing stories.
5. Have you ever been curious what Trump’s problem is with renewable energy? Here are two theories. One is mine, and another is by Nate Hegyi from New Hampshire Public Radio. TAGS: President Trump, Wind Farms, Scotland Golf Course, Renewable Energy, Bribery, Graft, Campaign Fund Raising,
   12. MIKE: On a segment of the NPR radio show, “The Indicator from Planet Money”, Heygl explained his theory, that he believes it goes back to the time when Trump was building his golf course in Scotland. [This audio starts at about the 2m 15s mark in the show audio (1M 12.7S)]:
   13. WONG: President Trump’s beef with wind farms is personal. It goes back nearly two decades to when he began building what he called the world’s greatest golf course in Scotland.
   14. HEGYI: But there were also plans to build an offshore wind farm nearby, and Trump was not happy, mainly because he thought they would ruin the view. And he still hates the way they look today. Last summer, when he was Europe, he said this to reporters.
   15. [AUDIO PLAYBACK] DONALD TRUMP: Stop the windmills. You’re ruining your countries. I really mean it. It’s so sad. You fly over, and you see these windmills all over the place, ruining your beautiful fields and valleys and killing your birds, and if they’re stuck in the ocean, ruining your oceans. [END PLAYBACK]
   16. SEVERIN BORENSTEIN: He has, from the very beginning of his political life, railed against wind power in general, saying many things that aren’t true and many things that have a grain of truth.
   17. WONG: That’s Severin Borenstein. He’s the faculty director of the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He points out that wind farms do have some environmental impacts.
   18. BORENSTEIN: They bother some people. They have killed birds. When you put that in the context of what most other energy sources do, it’s pretty minimal.
   19. SEVERIN BORENSTEIN: He has, from the very beginning of his political life, railed against wind power in general, saying many things that aren’t true and many things that have a grain of truth.
   20. WONG: That’s Severin Borenstein. He’s the faculty director of the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He points out that wind farms do have some environmental impacts.
   21. BORENSTEIN: They bother some people. They have killed birds. When you put that in the context of what most other energy sources do, it’s pretty minimal. [END AUDIO CLIP]
   22. MIKE: I do remember Trump making those sorts of remarks about wind farms when he was in Scotland, even while he was president, as he was in this audio clip.
   23. MIKE: But that reason wasn’t the first one that came to mind for me, and it doesn’t explain Trump’s hatred of all forms of renewable energy and storage. I believe it was more the one I remembered from his 2024 presidential campaign
6. This is a story from POLITICO[.]COM published May 9, 2024, that reports what I remembered. Because it’s an old article, I’ll be heavily excerpting it, but I’ll have the link to the full story in this show’s blog post at ThinkwingRadio[.]com. It’s called — Trump pressed oil executives to give $1 billion for his campaign, people in industry say; By Ben Lefebvre | POLITICO.COM | 05/09/2024 07:29 PM EDT. TAGS: Energy, Donald Trump presidential election 2024, Trump charges and court cases, Donald Trump, Campaign Finance, FEC, Oil and Gas,
   1. Former President Donald Trump asked oil industry executives [in April 2024] to donate $1 billion to aid his campaign to retake the White House, three people familiar with the conversation told POLITICO — a request that campaign finance experts said appeared troubling but is probably legal.
   2. The request, first reported Thursday by The Washington Post, occurred during a meeting of industry executives at the former president’s home in Palm Beach, Florida.
   3. The oil industry has a long list of policy actions it would want Trump to take, including dismantling parts of President Joe Biden’s green agenda and rolling back pollution regulations that threaten to crimp their profits. As POLITICO reported Wednesday, oil executives are also preparing some highly specific requests for Trump, including executive orders they hope he would sign if reelected.
   4. At the very least, the $1 billion ask points to problems with laws governing money in politics, said Erin Chlopak, senior campaign finance director at the watchdog group Campaign Legal Center. …
   5. The April dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club was described as a roundtable discussion on energy security, according to one person familiar with the event who was granted anonymity to discuss the private gathering. It included executives from oil companies Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Continental Resources as well as from natural gas producer EQT and gas exporter Cheniere Energy, and the trade association American Petroleum Institute.
   6. One person not at the dinner — Dan Eberhart, chief executive of the Denver-based oil company Canary LLC — said participants told him that Trump asked the attendees to contribute a combined $1 billion for his campaign. …
   7. Trump’s request is “shocking,” but it would almost certainly not break the law, said Meredith McGehee, an independent expert on government ethics and campaign finance. Unless Trump wrote on a napkin during the meeting an exact amount of money he wanted deposited in a specific campaign vehicle in exchange for a specific policy goal, there’s little chance it would violate bribery laws as currently interpreted by the Supreme Court, McGehee said….
   8. Another campaign finance expert [also] expressed doubts that Trump’s behavior violated the law. …
   9. Trump could be liable for violating rules against candidates asking individuals to contribute more than the federal limit on campaign contributions, Chlopak said.
   10. Campaign finance laws limit individual contributions to $3,300 per election to individual campaigns and $5,000 to political action committees. Super PACs can take unlimited donations, but candidates aren’t allowed to solicit funds for them. …
   11. Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist at the watchdog group Public Citizen, said violating the law would have to involve a clear quid pro quo in which Trump offered to take an action because of the donation. …
   12. Oil executives want Trump to end the Biden administration’s pause on new natural gas export permits and expand the number of offshore drilling lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico made available by Biden’s Interior Department.
   13. At the April dinner, Trump also promised to slash the Biden administration’s tax credits for electric vehicles and spend less government money developing wind power, according to The Washington Post. Those are both major themes he’s sounded repeatedly in his public rallies and stump speeches. …
   14. [Erin] Chlopak, from the Campaign Legal Center, said getting so much money from the oil executives would make him essentially indebted to them if he wins. …
   15. MIKE: The NPR discussion talks about Trump’s anger about a windfarm spoiling the view at his Trump International Golf Club in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
   16. MIKE: On the other hand, in my opinion, this ‘Billion Dollar Boys Club’ story from POLITICO explains why Trump has done everything in his power to stymie or slow the adoption of all forms of renewable, carbon-free energy, both at its source such as solar panels and windfarms, as well as anything that benefits from it as an end user such as electric appliances and vehicles, and including residential or utility-sized battery installations.
   17. MIKE: Trump is not only the most transactional and buy-able president in American history, he’s probably the most buyable politician of any sort in American history.
   18. MIKE: President Warren G. Harding’s Interior Secretary Albert Fall, Leader of New York City’s Tammany Hall political machine William “Boss” Tweed, and Richard Nixon’s first vice president Spiro Agnew don’t hold a candle to Trump in terms of profiting from political corruption, either individually or even combined together.
   19. MIKE: Trump not only can be bought, I don’t think there’s any question that he has been bought. May times by many people and entities.
   20. MIKE: This scandal-that-should-have-been brings to mind this quote from the TV series, “REAPER” [PLAY CLIP, 1m 12.7s]: “Did you know, beginning in the late 19th century, corporations were granted all the rights of the individual, but none of the annoying responsibilities. They lack, almost by design, any kind of moral compass, conscience, or compassion. Basically, corporations are a way to enact sociopathic behavior on a grand scale. In short, they’re what makes this country so damn great.” ~ The Devil (played by Ray Wise), TV Series “REAPER“, Season 2, Episode 30: “Business Casualty”, Aired May 19, 2009. FULL EPISODE
7. Trump — America’s would-be Nero — is again attempting to put his vile, grubby hands and his odious, loathsome name on everything. And that — again — includes The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. From THEATLANTIC[.]COM — Trump’s New Plan to Get His Name Back on the Kennedy Center; By Janay Kingsberry | THEATLANTIC.COM | August 13, 2026, 4:38 PM ET. TAGS: Donald Trump, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts,
   1. Donald Trump just won’t let go of his plans for the Kennedy Center.
   2. Less than three months after a federal judge ordered the president’s name stripped from the national arts center, Trump’s handpicked trustees have found a new way to try to put him back on the building. During a board meeting today, they voted in favor of a resolution that would return the president’s name to the building’s facade. It would read:
   3. The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts
      Restored and Renovated by President Donald Trump
   4. [This Reporter] obtained a copy of the resolution, which contains one more edit to the Kennedy Center’s marble edifice. Once an obscure endowment known as the Trump Kennedy Center Fund reaches $100 million in donations, the resolution would expand the proposed signage’s language to include a third line: Endowed by the Trump Kennedy Center Fund.
   5. The vote, which was not included on the agenda distributed before the meeting, will likely drag out a legal fight over Trump’s transformation of the center and deepen an institutional crisis that has repelled audiences, artists, and donors since his takeover.
   6. Participants voted 20–3 to adopt the resolution, one person familiar with today’s proceedings [said] on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the matter. The three “no” votes were from ex officio members of the board, who are not appointed by Trump but serve by dint of their federal office. Most members of the board are general trustees appointed by Trump. (The board elected Trump chair in February 2025.)
   7. There is also still the matter of the center’s renovation plans. A main item of the meeting was to resolve a problem that has dogged Trump’s plans for the Kennedy Center for months: how to make a convincing case that the center needs to close. A federal judge had previously ruled that the board had failed to sufficiently examine the consequences of a full shutdown when it signed off in March on Trump’s surprise plan to close down the center for two years for a glow-up. Critics, including some ex officio trustees, accuse Trump of using the renovation as a cover for the center’s operational failings under his leadership. This time, board members reviewed a new trove of materials before — once again — voting for a full closure.
   8. [This reporter] obtained the report, assembled by a consulting firm and a construction-management firm, which presented two scenarios.
   9. The two-year-closure plan favored by Trump, which would displace ensembles such as the National Symphony Orchestra until the center reopened, would be covered largely by the $257 million appropriation from Congress that Trump asked for last year.
   10. A $560 million plan would extend the renovation to four years, but allow programming to continue inside the center. Arts administrators generally try to avoid full shutdowns of major arts venues for fear of breaking audiences’ attendance habits. The uncertainty has deepened a crisis faced by the orchestra, which has been unable to announce its next season.
   11. Paolo Zampolli, a general trustee who also serves as the Trump administration’s special envoy for global partnerships, says he strongly supports the plans to close. [Zampolli said in a phone call after the meeting,] “It doesn’t make sense to keep it open. … It’s going to take the double of time and cost the double of money.”
   12. [MIKE: That’s exactly how the quote was written. Continuing …]
   13. At one point, Trump joined the meeting virtually, delivering a tirade of “epic proportions” about the center’s disarray, the person familiar with the proceedings told [this reporter].
   14. Kennedy Center leaders under Trump have long claimed that the building is falling apart and that the president helped turn around the institution. Today’s naming resolution honored his “existential and unprecedented contributions” to the center.
   15. [Zampolli told this reporter,] “It’s very normal that when people do good things, there’s going to be some kind of recognition,” adding that he would support Trump’s name being included “everywhere that it could be possible” at the center.
   16. Zampolli, a longtime friend of Trump’s, also said he planned to use his own international business relationships to solicit donations for the institution. [He said of the general trustees,] “That’s why we’re there. … That’s why the president chooses us and has confidence in us.”
   17. In a statement, one of the ex officio trustees, Representative Rick Larsen of Washington State, criticized the name resolution. [He said,] “The courts have already determined that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the memorial to the late President, and that the current president’s name cannot be used in the public spaces of the memorial. … If and when the renovations are done, let’s talk about an appropriate recognition. Until then, let’s get the necessary renovation work done.”
   18. The Kennedy Center did not immediately respond to … requests for comment, and it has yet to communicate with staff about its renewed plan to close the building, according to two staffers who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal.
   19. One of them said employees had suspected leadership would try to proceed with a shutdown, but news of the name resolution was not expected. [The person said,] “The inscription on the wall is them testing the limits.”
   20. The proposal, as well as the renovation plan, could face pushback from the federal judge assigned to the lawsuit over the center’s future, which was filed earlier this year by Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio, one of the ex officio trustees.
   21. The name resolution will likely renew speculation about why a tarp is still draping the Kennedy Center’s facade. The covering, fastened tightly to a towering system of scaffolding, has obscured John F. Kennedy’s name since June, when leaders say they complied with U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper’s order to remove Trump’s name from the building. So far, they have not provided a compelling reason for why the tarp is still up.
   22. A spokesperson previously [said] that it would remain up “as crews address maintenance needs of the marble and soffit panels.” But the center will have to elaborate on that reasoning in its filing next week, if the tarp is still up.
   23. When Trump took over the Kennedy Center, he promised to make it “hot” again, accusing the former leadership of allowing the building to crumble and the finances to wither. But if his tenure was meant to prove the thesis that he could make the Kennedy Center great again, the evidence is lacking. For many patrons and artists, the center has simply become too politicized to go anywhere near. The latest design tweak almost certainly won’t change that.
   24. MIKE: I get that Trump is like a juvenile vandal who feels compelled to metaphorically spray paint his odious name all over the place in a pathetically grandiose bid for recognition. His attempt at national ubiquity is almost like he’s imitating the classic WW2 graphic, but now it says, “Trump was here” everywhere that has a blank space, enabled by his cult-like sycophants.
   25. MIKE: But like spray painted vandalism, it will only last as long as he does. Then, these heretical disfigurements should and must be promptly and permanently removed.
   26. MIKE: The celebrations of that day will reverberate like the famous WW2 film of the Nazi swastika atop the grandstand of the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg, Germany being blown up by U.S. Army troops on April 22, 1945.
   27. MIKE: As a sidenote, this story was originally written in the first person, using pronouns like “I” and “me”.
   28. MIKE: I think it’s kind of ironic that in a story about how Trump’s vanity requires him to slap his name on anything that has a blank space, the writer of this piece felt it necessary to personalize it with their own first-person pronouns.
   29. MIKE: When I’m reading an article, either for you or for myself, I find this distracting and unnecessary, as well as showing a bit of unwarranted vanity.
   30. MIKE: Writers have bylines. That’s how we know who they are and that they wrote a thing.
   31. MIKE: This recent and increasingly common habit of writing stories in the first person is really annoying, and is itself suggesting a bit of both insecurity and grandiosity on the part of the writers.
   32. MIKE: But what shocks me most is that editors let that kind of writing through. As the King of Siam says in the play, “But … is … a puzzlement!” [“A Puzzlement” – Yul Brynner – The King and I 1984 National Tour]
8. I don’t know how many of you have ever heard this anecdote, but I thought I’d share it. “Did Adolf Hitler once pull alongside a troop train and close his shades?” I’ll refer back to this anecdote in my comments at the end of this story. From AXIOS[.]COM —Trump shrugs off concerns about dismal conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln; By Donica Phifer | AXIOS.COM | Aug. 14, 2026. TAGS: President Trump, USS Abraham Lincoln, crew Members’ Families Are Concerns, US Navy, Iran War, Middle East Deployment, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Adolph Hitler,
   1. President Trump said Friday that he isn’t concerned about the state of the USS Abraham Lincoln, despite calls from lawmakers to investigate reports of mental health issues for those onboard.
   2. … The San Diego-based aircraft carrier has been deployed for nine months, and numerous reports have indicated that crew members’ families are concerned about a lack of food and other basic supplies.
   3. At least one sailor has gone overboard, prompting the Navy to launch an investigation and The Military Times reported that other crew members have also tried to go overboard.
   4. … Speaking to reporters Friday, Trump said he didn’t think the ship had been deployed “nearly long enough.”
   5. He also disputed that the family members of the 5,000-plus crew were concerned about their well-being, and pointed toward the USS George Washington coming to relieve the Lincoln from its Middle East deployment.
   6. While taking questions from the press Friday, a reporter mentioned families were worried, to which Trump replied, “no they’re not.”
   7. … The Navy Times, The Military Times, and Stars and Stripes were among the first to report on conditions aboard the carrier.
   8. The ship hasn’t made a port call in at least 200 days. Generally, those occur every 30 to 45 days unless operational demands interrupt plans.
   9. Family members of those aboard told The Military Times that the crew lacks basic items like hygiene products and faces other quality-of-life issues, including contaminated water.
   10. Low morale and exhaustion are also rampant among the crew, several families said.
   11. … Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said in a statement that there has been no loss of life on the ship and that “a small number of mental health cases were treated.”
   12. Cao said that meal plans on the carrier “were adjusted when fresh resupply was unavailable, without a single meal being missed,” but he did not address allegations of other supply and quality-of-life issues.
   13. … [Cao’s statement said,] “There is no question our young men and women have been pushed to their limits — but they have never broken. They are rightly tired — but have never been out of the fight.”
   14. He also pointed blame at the media for its coverage of the USS Abraham Lincoln, saying outlets, “are trying to paint our warriors as victims. Not only is that dishonest, but it takes away the focus on the enemy and the threat it poses against our nation, people, and way of life.”
   15. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also called the conditions on the carrier “completely misrepresented.”
   16. [He told reporters Thursday,] “Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody. What they do in those high seas and those austere conditions with less port calls, it’s incredible.”
   17. The White House referred Axios to Trump’s comments.
   18. … Lawmakers from both parties have called for investigations into how conditions on the carrier deteriorated.
   19. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) have both publicly called for probes, with Gallego requesting to visit the ship to see conditions for himself.
   20. … The situation with the USS Abraham Lincoln reflects a broader pattern among US aircraft carriers, which have gone on longer deployments in recent years than they otherwise might.
   21. With the war in Iran still going on, resources have been directed into the Middle East and extended time at sea. Another carrier, the USS George H. Bush, deployed on March 31 and has spent at least four months at sea.
   22. The USS Gerald R. Ford deployed in 2025 and visited the Mediterranean and the Caribbean before deploying to the Middle East. It was at sea for 326 days — a new record — before returning home in May.
   23. MIKE: I wanted to bring up the Hitler anecdote before reading you the article from AXIOS[.]COM. To determine its veracity, I asked Google Ai: “Did Adolf Hitler once pull alongside a troop train and close his shades?”
   24. MIKE: Google Ai responded, “Yes, Adolf Hitler did order his window shades pulled down when his special train, the Führersonderzug, stopped alongside a train of wounded German soldiers. The incident occurred later in World War II, specifically as the war turned disastrously against Germany on the Eastern Front.”
   25. MIKE: “Historically, this incident is well-documented by his inner circle and historians as a striking example of Hitler’s complete refusal to face the physical devastation of his military decisions.”
   26. MIKE: I know that suggestions comparing Trump to Hitler make people roll their eyes, but I want to discuss two points here. First, beginning with the relationship I see between Hitler’s refusal to see or acknowledge what his war decisions wrought on Europe and Germany versus Trump’s frequent dismissal of the war experiences and injuries of US military personnel injured or killed while he was their Commander-In-Chief.
   27. MIKE: “On October 4, 2017, during Trump’s first term, a joint patrol of 11 U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets) and 30 Nigerien troops was attacked by roughly 50 ISIS-affiliated militants near the village of Tongo Tongo, Niger. The firefight resulted in the deaths of four American soldiers and four Nigerien soldiers. …”
   28. MIKE: During at least one of his condolence calls, to the widow of U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson, it was reported that Trump not only struggled to remember her husband’s name, but Trump reportedly said to the widow that her husband “knew what he was signing up for.”
   29. MIKE: Do you remember when Trump was planning his Washington, DC military parade? According to a story in TheAtlantic, “In a 2018 White House planning meeting for such an event, Trump asked his staff not to include wounded veterans, on grounds that spectators would feel uncomfortable in the presence of amputees. “Nobody wants to see that,” he said.”
   30. MIKE: Following a 2020 Iranian missile strike on the Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, Donald Trump minimized traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) sustained by U.S. service members during Middle East conflicts as mere “headaches” when over 100 troops were ultimately diagnosed with TBIs. Trump asserted the injuries were “not very serious” compared to battlefield losses.
   31. MIKE: During the current conflict, there have been reports that Trump and Pete Hegseth have tried to minimize and even conceal injuries as war related.
   32. MIKE: One story said, “The Trump administration and Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are facing significant backlash and accusations from wounded soldiers, lawmakers, and media outlets for allegedly downplaying, misclassifying, and concealing American troop injuries during the ongoing war with Iran.”
   33. MIKE: And much earlier than all of these stories, in a 2008 interview on The Howard Stern Show, Donald Trump recounted a story about a wealthy 80-year-old guest who fell face-first off a stage and bled onto a marble floor at a Mar-a-Lago charity event. Trump admitted turning away in disgust rather than help because he disliked blood. [1, 2, 3] [PLAY AUDIO CLIP, 1m 21s]
   34. MIKE: There are more stories, almost too many to list here.
   35. MIKE: I see all of this as a pattern, and it’s a pattern that, in my very lay understanding, strongly suggests sociopathic tendencies in Trump that go far beyond the narcissism that I think all politicians have to one degree or another as a prerequisite for running for office.
   36. MIKE: This brings me back to the Hitler anecdote, with the 2008 story making the clearest connection, and it brings me to a question that needs to be asked in all seriousness: Does Trump use our military the way a sociopath would? Making decisions not only with no understanding or appreciation of the consequences, but like Hitler in the anecdote, with no desire to see or contemplate the consequences?
   37. MIKE: That brings me back to the original story’s central topic. Namely, conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, and why two carriers — the Lincoln and the USS Gerald R Ford — have now consecutively overstayed normal deployments, and the morale and maintenance problems that created for both.
   38. MIKE: I’ve discussed in the past that our military forces generally, and our Navy Fleet particularly, are no longer equipped for sustained military actions against a peer or near-peer competitor. We now see that we’re barely equipped for prolonged conflict with a nation that’s scarcely a regional power: namely, Iran.
   39. MIKE: And why are we spending as much as the next ten militaries in the world on ours, and have fallen to this state?
9. That brings me to a story I found at NATIONALINTEREST[.]ORG from August 6, 2024 that discusses this in some depth. Note that everything stated in the article about carrier readiness is still true. The story is titled , The U.S. Navy’s Aircraft Carrier Fleet Is ‘Spread Too Thin’; By: Peter Suciu | NATIONALINTEREST.ORG | August 6, 2024. TAGS: Aircraft Carriers, Ford-Class Aircraft Carriers, Navy, Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carriers, S. Navy, Security, Americas,
   1. … The U.S. Navy Has Too Few Aircraft Carriers These Days.
   2. Aircraft carriers remain the largest capital warships in the world today – and there are actually quite a few of the vessels in service. Including amphibious assault ships (LHA), there are now 47 active aircraft carriers in the world, operated by fourteen navies. More than a third of the flattops are in service with the United States Navy, which maintains eleven nuclear-powered [Catapult-Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery (i.e., “CATOBAR”] carriers, including ten Nimitz-class and one Gerald R. Ford-
   3. In addition, the U.S. Navy operates two America-class [amphibious assault ships (LHAs)] of a planned 11; as well as seven Wasp-class ships – while an eighth was seriously damaged by fire and subsequently decommissioned in 2021.
   4. [MIKE: BTW, that 11^th ship was the USS Bonhomme Richard. Dozens of sailors and naval officials were disciplined. A sailor was charged with arson for causing that fire, but was later acquitted at a military trial. Continuing …]
   5. The current U.S. fleet of Nimitz-class carriers will also be followed into service, and replaced on a one-for-one basis, by future carriers of the Gerald R. Ford-class, which are more automated as part of an effort to reduce the amount of funding required to maintain and operate the vessels. In its 2018 report to Congress, the Navy stated its intention to maintain a 12 CVN force as part of its 30-year acquisition plan.
   6. … Yet it is also just as likely that the United States Navy will never actually replace each of its Nimitz-class carriers and instead could seek to develop smaller warships that could still do the job.
   7. Are There Enough Aircraft Carriers?
   8. The question likely being considered by U.S. naval planners is whether there are … enough carriers in service right now. The short answer is that the U.S. carrier fleet – despite its size – is spread thin.
   9. [At the time this article was written 2 years ago,] The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) has remained in the Middle East engaging the Houthi rebels in Yemen, while the first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) saw its deployment to the Mediterranean extended twice. The latter carrier is now undergoing maintenance availability, primarily to address software upgrades and other general touch-ups.
   10. [I’ll note here that the USS Ford is still at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia 2 years later. Continuing …]
   11. Such post-deployment overhauls and refits are routine and necessary. The longer the carrier is deployed, the longer it then spends in port. And as it stands, just three carriers are now able to respond to developments in the Indo-Pacific.
   12. In other words, while the U.S. Navy may have 11 nuclear-powered carriers on paper, it would seem that only half are ever fully available – leaving the sea service stretched thinner than it would like.
   13. … The next obvious question would be to build more carriers. Yet, there are several factors why that isn’t even close to an option.
   14. As Brandon J. Weichert noted for The National Interest, “Today, the average cost for building a nuclear-powered, aircraft carrier — ­a supercarrier — such as America’s new Gerald R. Ford-class is upwards of $13.3 billion. It costs an additional hundreds of millions of dollars to maintain. Previous models are only slightly less expensive.”
   15. Weichert added, “Their complexity and exorbitant cost make them not only tempting targets for rivals, but if they were to be destroyed or seriously damaged in combat, it would effectively make them a wasting asset. Billions of dollars would be lost, and the US Navy’s power projection abilities would be seriously degraded.”
   16. In other words, the United States can’t afford to lose such a high-value target in a war, but it also can’t afford to build more. And this only factors in the monetary cost. The United States Navy – like nearly all the branches of the U.S. military – is struggling to meet recruiting quotas.
   17. It barely has the sailors needed to operate the current fleet, which is at the smallest it’s been since the First World War. Yet, short of conscription, it is doubtful the U.S. Navy would have the sailors for even a few more supercarriers.
   18. [Further,] America Can Barely Build the Current Carriers
   19. The final consideration is that today’s supercarriers take years to build, and even if the U.S. suddenly had the money and the manpower, it lacks the facilities to build any additional carriers.
   20. In January, the Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition (ACIBC) warned that rough waters lay ahead following a survey it conducted [in November, 2021]. The trade association represents about 2,000 vendors from across the country that make up the supply chain for Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), the largest military shipbuilding company in the United States.
   21. Those companies provide parts and services for the construction and maintenance of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, and according to the survey, it is a critical moment for the industry as 95% of the vendors have faced challenges due to rising costs from inflation, while 79% have experienced raw material cost increases of at least 7%. More than one in 10 (91%) of vendors surveyed said they faced challenges as a result of material availability or delivery, and 76% said they directly experienced an increase in the amount of time it takes to build and deliver their products.
   22. Workforce issues also remain a serious problem, as 85% of the firms said they continue to face challenges in hiring, training, and retaining their respective workforces. Moreover, 32% said that workforce-related challenges have had a detrimental impact on their ability to fulfill contracts.
   23. … The takeaway is that [The U.S. Navy is Spread Thin, Get Used to It. The] future Ford-class carriers are already running behind schedule, but hopefully, they won’t be as over budget as the lead vessel of the class. The Navy is also scaling back on its mid-to-long-term projects to focus on the near term.
   24. That will mean relying on the carriers it has, and hoping that there aren’t multiple crises and that no carrier is suddenly lost to overseen circumstances.
   25. MIKE: According to one source, Operating a continuous carrier deployment model generally requires a 3-to-1 ratio (one ship deployed, one training and/or reconstituting, and one in deep maintenance).
   26. MIKE: What we are seeing with the USS Lincoln and what we saw with the USS Ford are two concrete examples that a navy that’s spread too thin has already arrived.
   27. MIKE: It has been said that “quantity has a quality all its own”. This is something that the US Navy may have to look to as it contemplates what a future naval force may have to look like. While China is building aircraft carriers, they are also building a vast fleet of small naval, coast guard, and auxiliary ships.
   28. MIKE: According to WIKIPEDIA, “China’s navy—the People’s Liberation Army Navy—is the largest in the world by total number of ships, with an active fleet of roughly 370 to over 400 total battle force ships (and around 787 total craft including minor and auxiliary vessels)…”
   29. MIKE: The link I’ve cited in this show post at ThinkwingRadio[.]com has a breakdown of the Chinese fleet for this who may be interested.
   30. MIKE: For most of the Cold War, the US and NATO have built their forces based on quality while the Soviets always built their forces based on the premise of quantity.
   31. MIKE: In the future, we may confront a peer adversary — namely, China — that has built a force based on both quality and
   32. MIKE: And we are closing in on “the Davidson window”, when China may feel ready to take Taiwan by force, if it judges that it’s necessary and time to do so.
   33. MIKE: I’ve talked about the Davidson window on this show a number of times over the years, and, in fact, we are within the Davidson window right now.
   34. MIKE: Because of decades of both political division in this country, and a hubristic and almost laissez-faire attitude toward the state of our defense readiness, we may now be reaching a crisis point in the event that we are suddenly confronted with a major military emergency.
   35. MIKE: I’ve included a large number of links in today’s show post at ThinkwingRadio[.]com for those who want to investigate these topics further.

There’s always more to discuss, but that’s all we have time for today. You’ve been listening to Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig from KPFT Houston 90.1-HD2, Galveston 89.5-HD2, Livingston/Goodrich 89.9-HD2, and Huntsville 91.9-HD2. We are Houston’s Community radio. I hope you’ve enjoyed the show and found it interesting, and I look forward to sharing this time with you again next week. Y’all take care!